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-r' r- -y-' U-- v-t- 'JiJ- 1(1 Bwwwfceia -i mi me! uei HOME EDITION PRICE 15 CENTS JLs Served by United Press International Associated Press Scripps-Howard leased Wire Times London Express Newspaper Enterprise Association UPI Telephoto Pictures! Issue No 27068 523-3131 KNOXVILLE TENN 37901 SATURDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 7 1974 14 PAGES ONE SECTION Carmen! Roars Master Stuntman Edgy Tense Thrill Ford Sets Deadline on Inflation Through Gulf for Eve I I- US Coastal Cities Start Evacuating FALLS Idaho A milling carnival of thouaandc of Uirill aeeken Jammed Southwestern Idaho Saturday to see an edgy Evej Knievel master stuntman and self-publicist rocket over the Snake River Canyon An irritated Knievel poked a television' cameraman with his famous cane Friday The Twin Falls County office estimated at least 10000 persons had crowded into the area for Sunday's launch with more arriving by the hour and said all hotel and motel rooms were occupied for at least 50 miles in all directions Thousands more were camped at the jumpsite or elsewhere Convoys of motorcycles campers and cars rolled along the desert highways toward Twin Falls from Arizona Utah Montana California and other states A spokesman for Top Rank Inc promoter of the event said 23000 tickets priced at $25 a head had been sold and it was expected the figure would reach 25000 by launch time JIMMY THE CREEK DROPS ODDS Knievel 34 hobbling off his private Jet plane Friday to make the Jump he has talked about for eight years appeared edgy and depressed He has publicly estimated his chances of surviving the shoot at 50-50 although there is widespread disagreement by experts and knowledgeable observers over just how dangerous it is ranging from of to Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder who previously gave Knievel 3-1 chances of surviving has dropped his estimate to 50-50 Knievel got into a shoving match Friday with NBC television cameraman Jim Watt Knievel ordered Watt to smile and when Watt replied nobody could order him to smile Knievel told guards to throw Watt out In a pushing and shoving tussle Knievel poked Watt with his $22000 gold and diamond-headed cane one of trademarks Knievel carries the walking stick hollowed to contain vials of liquor to help him get around because of his many injuries He had 50 bone fractures in II accidents by his count Fair Booth Winner Ritta community won the community fair booth competition at the opening Friday of the Tennessee Valley Fair along with the S75 prize Riverdale's booth placed second for a S70 prize and Klmberlin Heights placed third with a $65 prize The booths are the show windows of each community's outstanding protect Getting Ready Evel Knievel sitting in the cockpit of his rocket makes a static firing of the steam powered rocket engine Friday in preparation for his leap across Snake River Canyon Sunday CROWD DISGRUNTLED OVER PRICES UPI reporter Roger Bennett of Salt Lake City was roughed up by members of the crowd who made angry remarks about newsmen and were apparently disgruntled over prices at the jump site a $10 camping fee on top of the $25 admission ticket and high prices for parking food and beverages Knievel sat for a while in his steam-powered on its almost vertical launch ramp on the south rim of the 600-foot deep canyon while engineers static tested its engines Knievel's vehicle is not a motorcycle such as he used to make his name by soaring over up to 21 cars and trucks It is a just-basics small rocketship on two wheels powered by steam and designed by Robert Truax former president of the American Rocket Society who helped design the Polaris missile He paid Truax with a $100000 check dated Monday so Truax wont he able to cash it unless KnieveL survives being hurled over the canyon in his rocket Amnesty Board Due Ford Will Set Review Guidelines WASHINGTON (AP) -President Ford says he will establish a national review board to consider amnesty for Vietnam-era draft dodgers and deserters The board patterned after one created by President Harry Truman after World War IL is one of "10 to 15 points" which 'an aide said will be included in an amnesty plan Ford will announce Tuesday The President personally confirmed his intention to set iqi the review board in talking with' newsmen Friday night aboard hia jetliner while returning from where he addressed a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Continental Congress He said he had not decided who would be chairman of the panel White House Press Secretary Jerald terHorst said the review board would be composed basically of nongovernment members He said it would not include military representatives He said the panel would deal with amnesty cases both individually and by categories such ss military deserters young men who left the country to avoid the draft or individuals who refused induction and 1 underwent Federal prosecution 1 1666 FEET ACROSS CANYON According to the plan Knievel will be strapped to the rocket which is licensed as an aircraft but which he cannot control and an 18-second blast of power developing 5000 pounds of thrust will hurl him up a slender 108-foot steel ramp pointed 50 degrees into the sky -V The rocket is supposed to reach 400 miles an hour and an altitude of 2000 to 3000 feet before nosing over on a trajectory to cany it over the north rim of the canyon The distance across the canyon is about a quarter-mile 1600 feet but the trajectory will carry Knievel more than 4000 fee The supposed to float down on a parachute triggered by Knievel and strike nose first on an eight-foot long absorber" that is supposed to take the bounce like a pogo stick It could also tumble in flight smash into the lava wall of the canyon or fell into the swift of the Snake River Six million dollars is the daredevil's reputed guarantee from the closed circuit telecast of the jump Just part of an anticipated $15425 million gross income from all the enterprises associated with the event with the potential of netting Evel about $10 million Tussle With President Calls It Common Enemy of All Americans WASHINGTON (AP) -President- Ford indicating anew that he expects no quick cure has pledged to bring inflation under control before the nation's 200th birthday on July 4 1975 Addressing a dinner Friday night ending a symbolic reconvening of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia Ford said of his still evolving economic policy may seem to move cautiously ami too deliberately" But he said no one should underestimate America's ability to battle tyranny of double-digit which he described as common enemy in 1574" 'An Going After Enemy Ford did not spell out what policies he will adopt in his anti -inflation program but he told the 1500 diners in a yellow-and-white-striped tent set up behind Independence Hall: are going after one and all Democrats Republicans and independents the public enemy of inflation hi 1574 and we will lick him before July 4 Earlier Friday two of the Administration's top economic officials indicated strong reservations about a proposal for loosening up slightly on the Federal Reserve tight money policy The proposal had been backed by most economists taking part in a session with Ford on Thursday Called Only Short Term Alan Greenspan chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers said a loosening of the money supply now would only produce "a short-term sense of well- being" i And in a Dallas speech Treasury Secretary William Simon contended that and monetary restraint must be exercised patiently and consistently for a sustain- Jed period of He said the only alternative to tight leyis' money wugeprice controls The President laid on a busy schedule for Saturday hoping to take three Soviet Cosmonauts and three Ameri- can Astronauts to a pick" a community feast of steamed crabs in suburban Fairfax County Vs Ford was said to be eager to give the Cosmonauts little taste of The Astronauts and Cosmo- nuts ere training for a joint -apace mission to be undeitak- en in mkM97S in Philadelphia Ford noted that at the session of the Continental Congress 200 yqars to the day before he spoke "the colonial delegates wrestled with their common problems of rityrocketing prices shrinking purchasing power shortages hoarding and financial Crudest Kind sf -The chief executive said that men of 1774 were inflation fighters before they -took up arms against the Brit-ish He said that "then as now there were no easy is the cruelest kind of taxation without Ford told hia audi-ence "I have come here to- night to ask your help and the help of our 210 million coun- trymen 'not only in celebrating right about America in 1574 but in cor- reeling what is Patriotic Political Picture on Page By MARK McNEELE Thanks commendations praises all tinted orange prevailed Friday afternoon as an improved fouNaned Neyland Drive was officially dedicated The ceremony was a combination of a sort of state patriotism politics and football fever state is just beginning to be all of the things we know it will said Gov Winfield Dunn from a speaker's stand festooned with orange and white and filled with political and sports dignitaries Dunn Potato Wijh Pride It could have been a pep rally for the opening of the gridiron season It was a pep rally for the State of Tennessee Knoxville end Big Orange Country 4 Gov Dunn recalled meeting four years ago during his gubernatorial campaign when he was asked by a West Knox-villian if he would promise to four-lane Neyland Drive if elected remember treading a little water and backing out with no specific the Evel Knievel tries to elect NBC television camera- man1 Jim Watt from a press conference next to the -Snake River over a hassle about a request to Knievel followed his verbal order with rect action against the cameraman (UPI Telephotos) 1 Hurricane Heads Toward Louisiana and Mississippi NEW ORLEANS Hurricane Carmen packing winds of up to 130 miles an hour and gusts up to 160 mph continued to gain strength and intensity Saturday as it moved up the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana and Mississippi The National Weather Service called the storm "extremely dangerous" It said Carmen was expected to strike the Gulf Coast somewhere along the 125 miles between Grand Isle La and Mobile Ala sunset" An earlier advisory had estimated Carmen would move inland before midnight Saturday The service changed an earlier hurricane watch for the area between Grand Isle and Mobile to hurricane warning Unlike a hurricane watch a hurricane warning tells exactly where the hurricane is expected to hit within 24 hours Nears New Orleans A hurricane watch was still in effect for some 700 miles along the Gulf Coast from Morgan City La to Panama City Fla The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm's center was about 225 miles south of New Orleans Carmen was moving north at 12 to 15 mph and was expected to maintain that speed and direction during the day forecasters said They said Carmen was likely to increase in size and strength High Tides Expected Forecasters said gale winds occurring just off shore and will begin in most of the warning area along the const CARMEN Last Page Weather Forces Game Delay NEW ORLEANS (AP) -The football game Scheduled tonight in New Orleans between the University of Mississippi and Tulane has been postponed because of Hurricane approach Officials of both schools said the game would be rescheduled when a date can be agreed to NMSrty TMIHlMI 1 IfiiM 1am am a (aim s-w- Hut 4 am 41 nhs Ss-m lam 44 laia 7am 47 71 Jo Jo Says: Rain Tomorrow THE DISC0UOAGIMG THING ABOUT HOMING AGAROGNTHE SURPLUS IS RECEIVED By THE NEIGHBORS WITHOUT A UCICOFWDRK KNOXVILLE OAK RIDGE AND MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE: Considerable cloudiness and mild with a light chance of showers to-night' Cloudy and mild with rain tomorrow Northeast winds 10-15 mph tomorrow McGhee Tyson Airport temperatures: Low early tomorrow middle 60s high tomorrow upper 70s low this morning 66 high yesterday 73 Twenty per cent probability of measurable rain tonight and 80 per cent tomorrow Total of 50 of an inch of rain in 24 hours ending st 7:30 a TSNNSSSCB: fcierwilm di nap (Mm agate loGa iaalafeg aide pola fir Mg BMW ION MBRMr WMM twill MM Ian is srisa sos tow Is- MlNs te Isa ate laasaai ONBMKi iO Ml IMf OR TENNSISre-KENTUCKV EXTENO EO OUTLOOK: Ctecs tl toman Mw-sy esrtls dirty Tswisv 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Contest 1 and a Ritta man was named an outstanding Knox County community leader The Ritta contestant in the Fairest of the Fair contest was named first runnenip Opening-day attendance was 13682 down from 16522 at last year's opener Many probably stayed away became of the threat of rain: And the threat continues only 20 per cent Saturday night but increasing to 80 ppr cent Sunday Miss Sandy Merriman daughter of Mr and Mrs Ira Merriman of Thorn grove RITTA Lest Page aca Taut TMamrI Tmmrl MMe kaOaaa Hana Skaai (Cartar Mran AraaaT In IKarr aaWSIasl (Si kaa (Karr Is Orange Other guests included six members of the executive committee of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame from New York here to look at Knoxville as as possible' site for a Hall of Fame museum Held Parking Lot UT Athletic Director Bob Woodruff master of ceremonies for the event held in a parking lot off Neyland Drive end adjacent to Neyland Stadium said of the roadway: "This is the most important stretch In the state to me and -thousands of Big Orange 1 Also attending were Rep John Duncan State Transportation Commissioner Robert Smith Chamber of Commerce President William Fortune and members of the Knox 1 County legislative 1 delegation Members of the UT band performed and orange and white-sequined majorettes presented the colors and participated in a ribboncutting ceremony afterwards The ribbon of course" was orange ml (Jans Taa Tkaakrl ask at aakaaa i Cameraman meeting for a think session and some going outside to run Ricky Townsend was outside The Voi place-kicker tore up his shoe and is back to his barefoot style out of necessity Battle's Tickled tell you the truth I'm glad the shoe tore said UT Coach Bill Battle are certain sounds in life you can't duplicate a big bass sucking in a top-water plug a Louisville Slugger hitting -baseball and Ricky Town- send's bare foot on a football IYn tickled pink he's barefooted BITS PIECES: UCLA has game captains tackle Gene Clark for the offense linebacker Fulton Kuykendall for the defense and Mike Mar-tines for the speciality teams special guests at the game included Hall of Fame representatives and officials from the Sugar Cotton Orange and Liberty Bowls two Japanese journalists qwrtswriter Mori and photographer Kunko Aida covered the game as part of their American college tour New Miss America Crowning Tonight ATLANTIC CITY NJ (AP) A new Miss America will be crowned Saturday night -1 v- Jean Ahern of Hinsdale III Friday joined the state queens from Tennessee and Kentucky as talent winners while Luci-anne Buchanon of Claremont Calif followed Miss Kansas and Miss Texas as swimsuit winners Miss Tennessee is Deborah Kincaid of Humboldt The finals will be televised nationally on NBC beginning at 10 pm EDT (Channel I in Knoxville) Five Held in Heroin Case $75000 Worth of Narcotic Seized Metro Narcotics agents Friday arrested five persons and confiscated four ounces of what is believed to be pure Mexican brown heroin with a street value of about $75000 The five were arrested on Alcoa Highway in three different cars and police chased one of the cars and shot a tire out before stopping it Bulien head of the narcotics unit said several po-lice cars moved in on the three suspect vehicles on' Alcoa Highway near the Blount County line Two of the cars were stopped without incident but the third car nearly ran down Narcotics Officer Larry Everette in an -attempt to escape Sgt Bulien said' s' Sgt Bulien said he and Offi- I cer Everette moved in to atop a station wagon containing a man and woman forced over and cut in front of it and then we got out and went to the Sgt Bulien said he (the driver) put it in reverse and went flying around the back of our car' He almost hit Larry and then Larry popped a few rounds into the tire but it didn't go down right away so that's really when the chase began'' During file ensuing chase Sgt Bulien said the occu-f-pants of the car threw tiro bogs of suspected heroin out of the car before it was finally stopped A loaded small callin' HEROIN Last Page Call After 8 am For readers of Tbs News-Sentinel who may wish te call our Circulation Department yon may now call direct anytime by dialing 1224181 If yon mtayanr Sunday New Sentinel tomorraw morning please call 621-5181 Circulation Department after 5 am In Sunday N-S Sports Staff Converges on Vol Opener 0 READY ON THE firing line! Today's opening of the 1574 college football season has the Tennessee Vols meeting the UCLA Bruins in Neyhuid Stadium in a nationally tele- vised came and the sports staff of The Newa-Sentinel is ready to bring you the best in football coverage college professional and high school throughout the Spots Editor Tom Siler offers his expert analysis of Saturday football action in his Sunday column with weekday columns keeping you informed of happenings in the world of sports Marvin West N-S sports writer reviews the game its key plays highlights and individual performances Sports staffer Ted Riggs adds interesting comments from players and coaches The N-S staff of photographers capture key action plays pictures of celebrities and fans for your Sunday enjoyment And Bill Oyer's DYERGRAM of every play laced with clever carica-' tures and humorous captions' marks the 40th year DYER-GRAM has been a popular1 News-Sentinel feature For first and best coverage age of the Tennessee Vols the Southeastern Conference all college football and the world of sports follow the daily end Sunday qrorts pages of The News-Sentinel BIKEWAYS AND WALKWAYS in East Tennessee get the attention' of Carson -Brewer in his regular Sunday Feature Section column Today's Index Bridge 3 Obituaries 8 Comics 13 Shows 3 Crossword 12 Society 3 Editorials 4 Sports Financial 9 TVRadio 5 Health 13 Want Ads S-12 Horse Sense Women 2 13 World Today 5 By MARVIN WEST look said Dick Vermeil to hit UCLA football squad save a little something The game doesn't start until 4:20" The big bad Bruins (and they are really big) came off 'their charter plane like so many frisky colts They bounced through a brief workout and decided to jog from Tennessee's practice field to -the Neyland Stadium dressing room If the Bruins still feel that spry tonight the Volunteers are in for long hard fal Rain Unlikely The spotlight opener for the 1974 college season figures to attract some 55000 plus multi-million crowd watching ABCs national telecast The weatherman predicted mild temperatures with only a slim chance of rein WTVK-TV has the show in Knoxville and WETE is the anchor station -for the Vol radio network Vermeil talked as if the Bruins are ready to put the pads to the Orangemen He said the high-powered offense of last season hasn't made the transition from wishbone to veer as smoothly as he hoped but the defense has developed faster thanexpectations 4 Nndi Ironed Out "Switching the offense has- -n't been a simple matter" said the coach left the bad lying around on the turf too much I guess you have to run the veer while to get the flaws ironed out" Vermeil pays the UCLA passing gams will be more sophisticated in weeks to come He said offensive linemen had a problem changing from fire-out wish bone blocking to more conventional pass protection Tennessee played around with pre-game practice Friday some working lightly in Stokely Center some just Ml II ML Pep Rally Dedication Governor mused before citing with pride the completion of the project and other local highway programs The final 24-mile portion of the roadway to be widened cost about $14 million and in- eluded filling parts of Fort Loudoun Lake end moving railroad tracks The project started in February 1573 was completed last month Will Reduce Bottlenecks Mayor Kyle Testerman said the thoroughfare was "an excellent example of transportation advancement in Knoxville" He added the completion would reduce traffic bottlenecks for commuters to downtown and UT football 'fens v- "The most important road there is the road in front of your house" UT President Dr Edward Boling said our house will have 36000 students this The ceremony was filled with praise for the state Knoxville UT and Neyland Drive r- Mrs Robert R1 Neyland widow of the name-'sake and Robert Neyland Jr Bristol were guests 4 I --'J 1 av-.