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This Is YOUR City Market I J-i Building 4-5 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Heaths IV Bant Ads IV fi ll Mrs Walker Found at Bottom of Paddle Issue KNOXVILLE (2) TENNESSEE SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 15 1959 Pag 0-1 Mountains and Streams No Grass Seed Shortage Foothills Parkway Offers New Beauty for Sight-Seeing Motorists 'of i Jl ArV- 0 A as Jw BY ARSON BREWER One ot the favorable things one can say about the National Bark Service's way of building a highway is that it doesn't spare the grass seed when It comes to prettying up the hanks and shoulder Newest proof of this is Ihe young grass growing on lioth sides of the newly-opened section of Ihe Gallinburg Spur of the Foothills Parkway You see grass growing everywhere except out of solid of which there is a good deal The grass is coming along nicely even under bridges lad's pause and define some terms before gelling hack to grass and kindred means of making a highway attractive The Foothills Parkway will lie a 70-mile-long road which will run parallel to the northern boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park The entire length of it will bo outside the park But all of il will lie close to the from alxiut a mile at some points to around five miles at others The Parkway will cut across west lining of Little Pigeon River and Highway 4-41 where Caney Creek runs into the river This is about four miles north of Gallinburg and about a half mile south of Pigeon Forge When completed Ihe Gatlinburg Spur of the Parkway will be two highways most of the way one on one side of the river and one on the other side linking the Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park The highway on the east side of the river is completed and opened to traffic The highway on the west side (the right side as you drive to Gatlinburg) is yet to be built Generally it will follow' the line of the old road which was closed a few days ago when the new road was opened But the new west-side road will be down closer to the river in many places than was the old road A short stretch of the west-side road was completed two or three years ago It runs from Banner Bridge south a short distance to where it crosses the river on a bridge and joins the east-side road By CARSON BREWER Thi Reason between the Christinas ami Easter vacations must have somethin! aland it which brings out the worst in city school children That is the deduction I make from the fact that City Board of Education voted unanimously last week to ask City Council to repeal that old ordinance which prohibits i teacher from paddling spanking switching or in any other way inflicting corporal punishment upon the students This same request was put to Council In February last year The school people were able to restrain themselves a little longer this year There was a peculiar thing about what happened to that request last year 1 recall that some of the council-men were asked their opinion Their replies certainly led ine lo believe that the city was going to give the paddle back to the teach- but the thing was never put to a vote in Council I don't believe it was ever even discussed in an open Council meeting And now a year later I am finding what hapiiened to that thing last year Mrs Cas Walker happened to it that's what! Mrs Walker is not a person about whom you hear a great deal She usually stays in the background and lets her husband make whatever political decisions he wants lo make But 1 called Mr Walker the other morning for a brief interview on tiie question of whether to paddle or leave untouched the bottoms of students who commit serious misdeeds First I asked him if he got spanked when he was bad at school sure did and 1 needed it he said "And if I went home and told it I got spanked That set him up for the next question which was: you in favor of repealing the anti-spanking He starled chuckling And he said in effect that he favors giving teachers the authority to spank But he said Mrs Walker is per cent" opposed "Shf said she want anybody heating on those Mr Walker laughed the only thing she's ever opposed me the councilman said And 1 learned from other sources that when the shadow of the paddle hung over every young bottom in the school system last year Mrs Walker was right in there battling hard in their behalf At least one councilman other than her husband happened to say something favorable about paddling and he happened to say it in her pres-enee at the Walker home I am told that Mrs Walker did a 20-minute lobby job that turned this paddling advocate into squirming indecision Whatever his convictions may have been after that he decided it was prudent to say no more Councilman Hobart Carey who says he favors giving the paddle hack to the teachers recalled that he got only one whipping when he was a student He said he was a student at Cedar Bluff School and that the teacher was a young man named Ross Hodges who now is a member of County Court After he had done something which the teacher thought he should not have done Mr Hodges sent him out lo get a hickory switch got the switch and cut notches in (to weaken it) Mr Carey said angered Mr Hodges a great deal So he went and got a willow switch and he cut notches in Before leaving Mr Carey I must go back and say he qualified his support of the paddle by saying he wants some sort of control system which will give assurance that "no action wall be taken when people are i Ernest O'Connor who says he Is opposed to the paddle says he got paddled in school and that he got repeat performances when he got home He is a Catholic and got his paddlings parochial schools think if a child goes so lar as In merit rnrporul punishment the responsibility for ad-mlnis'rrliiK it should he left to the Mr O'Connor said "If there Is a recurrence I think expulsion from school would he In order That gels the problem right hark lo the parent where it belongs The fael that the law Is on (he books shows that some (earlier went beyond the limits of I asked Mr O'Connor whether the paddle is still used in Catholic schools here lie said he know Father Shea" he suggested Father Francis Shea who is among other things superintendent of Catholic High School said corporal punishment of students is used only as a "Iasi resort" at that school lie said the decision is leit up to the teacher as lo when the last-re-sort stage has arrived Since he heard much discussion of it lately Father Shea said he thinks very little paddling is done at Catholic these days Roiierl Webb headmaster of Webb School of Knoxville has a system which seems lo me to be about as close to perfect as anybody is likely to find When a Webb student talks when he should he keeping his mouth shut he gets a demerit Or if he throws a paper wad or corn-mils some other sin of schoolroom or school-yard he gets a demerit The demerits accumulate for a week from Thursday to Thursday If a student has only one demerit when Ihe judgment day comes forgiven But if he has two or more demerits they are not forgiven But he is given a choice of punishments For each demerit he can take one lick with the paddle (as operated by the headmaster) or he can stay 20 minutes after school Say got four demerits he can stay two hours after school or take four licks with the paddle or he can split his two licks with the paddle and one hour after school Mr Webb says ihat far the greater choice is for paddling particularly during good spring weather They seem to prefer it to staying he added A word of explanation about why Thursday to Thursday instead of Friday to Friday: If a fellow' gets several demerits and wants to stay in it may take both Thursday and Friday for him to pay his debt to society This system applies only to Webb School for Boys The young ladies who attend Webb School for Girls are deprived of choice They simply have to stay after school when they misbehave Now one last word on this subject from City Schools Supt Thomas Johnston: If Council sees fit to give the teachers the paddle Mr Johnston says he would have it used as a last resort and under controlled The teacher would have to paddle the student in the presence of the principal Or if the principal is the man who wields the paddle the teacher must be present ft COMPLETED SECTION That's old Banner Bridge down there spanning West Prong of Little Pigeon River Beyond the bridge is a short stretch where the Gatlinburg Spur of Foothills Parkway is completed on both sides of the river Back this side of the bridge on the right side of the river is the old narrow section of the road which has served for years between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg The road on the right now is closed It will be opened when the old road is replaced by a new one Then southbound traffic will use the road on the right on the river and northbound cars will use the other side And Banner Bridge will be torn down after new cross-over bridges are built at other points to for a one-highway entrance Gatlinburg line of each of the double highways No billboards may be placed on the right of way The wide right of way and the hilly terrain discourage erection of billboards on private property outside the 200-foot line But not completely There are two or three billboards off the stretch of the west-side road above Banner Bridge The 840-foot-long tunnel through which the new road runs has a new wrinkle for this illuminized paint The interior of the tunnel has the white paint for about 150 feet at either end But the painted portion tapers down to a six-foot-high strip on either side in the middle section of the tunnel Mr Wilhelm says many motorists experience definite light shock when they go into and come out of a tunnel What we're shooting he added to give the driver a means of Now back to the Foothills Parkway for a minute: Every one of its 70 miles will offer a different view of the Smokies It will run though a clutch of smaller mountains which hover around the Smokies like chicks around a mama hen Biggest of these is Chilhowee Mountain The Parkway will run from Chilhowee Lake on the west northeastward across Little River: then on eastward to and across the West Prong of Little Pigeon then across the main prong of Little Pigeon near Pittman Center and on to Pigeon River at about Bluffton south of Newport It will he a 2ft-foot roadway with five-foot shoulders centered in a tremendously wide right of way A total of 125 acres per mile is allowed for right of way This averages more Ilian 1000 feet wide But the right of way will not he of uniform width It may be as narrow as 500 fort along some stretches Then it will balloon to as much as 2500 at other points to provide for picnic areas and parking places where one may view ihe scenery Such an area will be at Look Rock on Chilhowee Mountain The first section of the parkway to be built will be from Little River at a point between Walland and Kin-zel Springs southwest toward Look Rock A contract for that section of construction probably will be awarded after July 1 Here Is First Drawing in Bugs Bunny Contest TUNNEL This is the northern entrance to the tunnel on the newly opened Gatlinburg Spur of the Foothills Parkway The road running under the bridge approach to the tunnel goes up Huskey Grove Branch It's on example of how intersecting traffic is separated from traffic on the spur But there is in the mill a plan which will extend the west-side highway on around that side of the river a few yards farther and then break it to the right away from the river It would follow ClifC Branch a short distance and then climb up inlo the hills and bypass Gatlinburg on the west This Gatlinburg bypass will be about four and a half miles long It will cross the high hills west of the town offering excellent views at some points and then dip down to join existing 441 at Two Mile Branch between Gatlinburg and Park Headquarters but closer to Headquarters About three miles of the bypass will be outside the park and about a mile and a half inside it The slate will buy rights of way for the portion outside the park and turn it over lo the Federal Government Then the Park Service will build the whole bypass While anyone who has driven through Gatlinburg at the height of the summer season knows the bypass would be something wonderful that's not the Federal official reason for building it The reason is that the Gatlinburg Spur of Foothills Parkway must go all the way into the park not just into Gatlinburg go back to the other end of the spur at Caney Creek about a half-mile south of Pigeon Forge: There is a double highway that is one on each side of the river on back to Pigeon Forge But the state built that half mile And you can tell the difference The state have any grass seed A Wilhelm park landscape architect says a mixture of six different kinds of grass seed was used on Ihe road shoulders and surrounding areas of the NPS-built end of the construction But the two grasses he expects to survive permanently are blue grass and Kentucky 31 Fescue You can see how the double highway with the tumbling river between them will look by look- ing at the short stretch already i completed on both sides above I Banner Bridge There will be three crossover bridges between the highways one at Huskey Grove Branch one at Gumstand and the third at North Gatlinburg with the third mentioned to be built last Con- tracts probably will be awarded for the two others before July 1 A contract for the west-side highway between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg has yet to he let It is hoped this side will be completed by the time the new I crossover Nidges are ready Meanw hile the west -side road (the is closed to a'i but local traffic Paints and Crayons Ready? Big Prizes Await Color Contestants Get our your crayons or paints gills and boys and ready to compete for some wonderful prizes in our BUGS BUNN EASTER COLORING CONTEST Every' youngster under 12 years of age can get in on some teal fun! All you have to do is color three sketches that show Bugs Bunny and some of his friends The first sketch appears with this story and it looks as if Bogs is pulling one of his tricks on Petunia and Porky Pig You have any trouble finding plenty of places for a wide variety of colors Just use your own judgment and when the coloring is finished write your name age and address below the sketch Then watch for the next two sketches and have some more coloring fun When all three sketches are completed and you have written your name age and address on each one mail or bring them to the BUGS BUNNY CONTEST EDITOR of The News-Sentinel Pretty simple isn't it? And now for the best you have the same chance as every other girl and boy to win a dandy' prize Just he sure to follow the rules careful lv SMOKIES ROADS This drawing shows the projected Gatlinburg Bypass (heavy broken line) the Gatlinburg Spur of the Foothills Parkway (double line between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg) and section of the projected Foothills Parkway (broken line crossing south of Pigeon Forge) you win first place in the Bugs Bunny contest The next best panel will receive $25 in cash And just think what fun you can have with twenty-five dollars The next 24 best coloring jobs will earn each contestant a handsome deluxe model pen This will I be a pen wou will be proud to own and one that will be useful in your school work So don't waste time boys and I girls get busy today with the first panel and mail the remaining two in promptly after you have col-1 ofed them Remember the deadline to re-! ceive the panels is Monday night March 2-1 Winners will be announced Eas- ter Sunday CONTEST RULES 1 Every girl and hoy under 12 years of age eveept children of the employes of this newspaper is eligible 2 Chp all three Bugs Bunns sketches color them with crayons or paints and then print your name agr and address at the bottom of each one 2 When all three sketches are colored and signed mail or bring them in one hatch to the RI GS BENNY CONTEST EDITOR of The News-Sentinel I All entries must be received by midnight Monday March 2X i Judging will he on the basis of nice coloring and neatness and winner will be announced Easter Sunday Half a Block Destroyed Only One Victim Counted After Train Breaks Loose Name Age OLYMPIA Was tUPI) Wrecking a half-block of dr Mr Wilhelms xavs the spur will he a good example of the riHitntlled-arress dual-lane highway to be built under the Government's superhighway pnv eram iHnwner most n( the superhighways won't base a Invrly stream like this fork of Little Pigen in the middle) March 14 (buildings that were demolished rs clearing found no bodies and Police Chief tion today Roy Kelly said "We probably can stop worrying Kenneth Aaron Dilley about 38 a railroad telegrapher lost his life in the accident when a gondola and 14 boxcars many loaded with plywood slipped away from switching crews about a mile away from Olympia Union Pacific depot DuJey was working in Street or Route No UST OF PRIZES To the hoy or girl who submits i the best colored pan? of the three Roanv sketches The Npvs-Sentmel will award a cash prie of $30 That's right boys and girh fiftv dollar will be your to do wii as you please provided of va the spui he i extends 29Q rom State.