The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 16

Th Knoxville News-Sentinel Sunday Morning March 14 1982 Fog B-2 WTVK Plans Daily Shows at Sunsphere A local television station has signed a contract with the builders of the Sunsphere to broadcast a live daily television show from the Sunsphere Restaurant The half-hour program at the 1982 will be based on a show format said Emily Yarbrough promotion manager for WTVK-TV It will air for the first time April 5 at 11:30 am on WTVK and win run Mon- day through Friday throughout the fair The show will describe what is happening at the fair that day and will feature interviews with fair officials and visiting VIPs Mrs Yar- brough said Live reports from other areas on' the fair site are to be televised on the program WTVK also will have -a at the base of the Sunsphere The NBC affiliate may expand the program to one-hour when the fair begins Mrs Yar- brough said and it may continue after the fair WTVK also is planning live coverage of the Sunsphere grand opening April 2 when a benefit banquet will be held under tents at the base of the Sunsphere Signs of World's Fair Time Leon Downey displays first Oak Ridge sign to guide fair visitors Tours self-guided and otherwise will begin May 1 American Museum of Science and Energy along with Energy House rear will provide free admission Atomic City Has Its Own Energy Theme Biggest Excursion Boat 'Becky Thatcher On Its Way to Fair gers will be able to stroll along the deck Bernstein said He said would cost about 313 million if it was built at cost The other boat 90-passenger craft called Good Ship arrived at Fort Loudoun Lake March 6 Both boats will offer hour-long rides for tourists during the fair Tickets will cost $450 for adults and $150 for children The company is considering using for after-hours group charters Bernstein said has one snack and beverage bar while has three in addition to a gift shop During the rides tourists can hear commentaries about the Tennessee River which will be tori cal regional and Bernstein said The narrations are being produced with assistance from drama departments at UT and the University of Cincinnati BB also will operate a two-barge dining and cocktail area that is being prepared in Chattanooga It will feature a Orleans-style" seafood bar with shrimp oysters clams Alaskan king crab legs and steamers of mussels and clams The barges should arrive this week he said A third barge will house crew members and company offices BB also win operate Buckeye a ferry boat that win carry passengers from parking areas across the lake to the fair site Shirley a tow boat will assist in safety and maintenance work Bernstein said BB has hired 94 people here and will bring 16 people from its Ohio River operation to run the boats By MARTA WARNICK -The second and largest excursion boat for the 1982 Fair is chugging up the Mississippi River en route to Knoxville Becky will '-reach Fort Loudoun Lake between next Saturday and March 25 after it switches to the Tennessee River at Paducah Ky The 400-passenger riverboat left New Orleans March 5 where BB Riverboats of Tennessee (BB) re-' cently purchased it A tugboat is pulling up the Mississippi but the boat will travel the Tennes-tsee River under its own steam said Ben Bernstein BB president a three-deck steel -boat is 100 feet long and has a 36-Vloot beam The bottom two decks rare enclosed and air conditioned The top level is open and passen A- Family for Historians To Cherish: they Never Threw Anything Away on the quality of accommodations Private housing guidelines set by the bureau range from $25 to $40 per couple with up to six persons in three bedrooms to pay between $60 to $90 nightly The Visitors Bureau will mail free information upon request telephone (615) 482-7835 address PO Box 160 300 Tulane Ave Oak Ridge Tenn 37830 Between 12 and 15 shuttle buses operating during 10 am-10 pm fair hours will carry passengers seven days a week This means flair visitors can catch a shuttle either in Knoxville for an Oak Ridge visit or in Oak Ridge to attend the Knoxville fair Oak Ridge government has rejected a temporary campground proposal which means cannot overnight here But nearby campgrounds such as those at Cove Lake Norris Dam and Big Ridge State Parks are available on a first-come first-serve basis Private campgrounds along 'Melton Hill' Watts Bar and Norris Lakes also are available Seven Oak Ridge groups have scheduled extra performances during the fair and will share in time' at the fair's Festival of Entertainment Center from the start to finish Oak Ridge Community performances will include the musicals and An Oak Ridge kiosk at the fair will make fair visitors aware of the Atomic City The June birthday party will include a symphony comcert bicycle' races dancing on the tennis -courts as was done in and auctions of memorabilia such as 25th anniversary commemorative coins and 1942 photographs as Oak Ridge appeared in raw construction days Thirty-one Oak Ridge restaurants that can seat more than 4000 diners are preparing for the onrush of visitors offering Chinese Vietnamese American and other foods Anderson County will relie largely on its natural attractions its museums and such landmarks as the Graphite Reactor Historic Place to lure fair visitors The major gateway is 1-75 The Oak Ridge Science and Energy Museum is installing $800000 in new exhibits expects up to 6000 visitors daily and has extended visitation hours The museum as are most Oak Ridge places is free By WILLARD YARBROUGH OAK RIDGE Most Fair events in Anderson County will happen here where townspeo- -pie firmly believe the Atomic City preempted the energy theme Up to 10000 Knoxville fair visitors are expected here daily! Hospitality and entertainment are planned around such great expectations The logo will emphasize Oak contribution to the nuclear age a heritage Ridgers proudly acclaim Oak Ridge now a town of 28000 people will overlay its Fair connection with its own celebration its 40th founding anniversary Home kitchens will bake countless birthday cakes which will be sold at auction World's Fair-related activities here start May 1 and continue through Oct 31 but the birthday party will be staged primarily June 12-14 The three-day party will have a festival theme More than 100 citizens are on the Committee for the Fair and the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Oak Ridge Committee President Ben Ad- a ms says objective is to show visitors that just normal Americans unafraid of nuclear en- ergy living proof that it is Signs will go up directing Visitors on a 20-mile trip that will include scientific installations a 250-acre arboretum and a Government-built city of homes churches schools and a half-dozen commercial areas designed to avert a single downtown district Looking toward the fair City Council created the Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau last year The Center in a $150000 Energy House as an annex to the popular American Museum of Science and Energy complex will host visitors distribute a four-color brochure plus a tour map and handle room reservations when asked Tours will start from the center itself a Department of Energy (DOE) example of American energy advancement Fair-related events here range from athletic events to music arts and crafts theater and varied entertainment Four modem motels some being expanded and renovated have 450 rooms A fledgling program to handle the overflow of overnight fair guests by private home lodging is barely off the ground But Leon Downey the first executive director of the Convention-Visitor Bureau says requests-fbr accommodations are mounting and he expects Oak Ridge residents will respond to the challenge Some Oak Ridge motels have joined Knoxvisit in booking reservations but are keeping some rooms available otherwise Some motels are going it alone Room rates for couples start at $65 per room The rate climbs depending WEST0WB WORLD TRAVEL CEITERJMC WEST TOWN MALL Yoor Tnvol Spotiolbt PI M34511B 4834511 A fair spokesman said yesterday that representatives of NBCk show and ABCs Morning America" have shown an interest in broadcasting live from the fair Ate on opening day May 1 and may televise some of the last-minute site preparations on April 30 Season Pass Photo Sites Are Scheduled Identification pictures for season passes to the Fair can be made Monday through Friday this week at United American Bank United American Plaza on Gay Street from 10 am to 4 pirn In addition to permanent cameras stationed at the operation center and West Town Mall pictures can be made: Monday Millers on Henley Street noon to 5:30 pm Parks-Belk in Morristown Plaza noon to 7 pm Tuesday Millers on Henley Street noon to 5:30 pnu Sears in Johnson City noon to 7 pm Wednesday UT Student Center room 239 9 am to 5 pm United American Bank in Burlington 10 am to 4 pm Thursday UT Student Center room 239 9 am to 5 pm First Tennessee Bank in Fountain City 10 am to 4 pm Friday Proffitts in Alcoa-Maryville noon to 7 pm Next Saturday Proffitts in AlcoaMaryville noon to 5:30 pm JC Penney in Oak Ridge noon to 7 pm College Fun In Bermuda- Umtl rTwH RIWnMIlMI Bermuda is ready to welcome an army of invaders Starting this spring they will arrive in one- and two-weekly waves setting up command posts on beaches and in discoth deques and fanning out across the island on mopeds and bicycles And in a fashion they will be treated like conquering heroes for the Department of Tourism will up the tab for much of their ftin In doing so it will be maintaining a tradition established in 1948: the island's spring College Weeks program which attracts thousands of vacationing students (The visitors do have to pay for their airline tickets and accommodations) For six consecutive weeks the action will start each Sunday night with a disco party at one of the hotels During the week there is live reggae and rock music games and contests on various beaches com- plimentary lunches and soft drinks and free cruises in Hamilton Harbor with a band aboard Students or anyone else can get a free walking running and bicycle riding map of the island by writing to the Bermuda Department of Tourism 630 Fifth Avenue New York 10111 Homes Villas On the Beach 8320 to $1050 panwak In SC call 1786-3817 CALL OR WRITE FOR FREE PICTURE BROCHURE OF OVER 100 RENTALS LANCASTER LYNHAVEN REALTY RENTALS PO Box 5007 Hilton Head SC 29938 restoration won Erddig 179 miles west of London at least five awards And the house has other stories to tell Its earliest history was bound up with Elihu Yale founder of Yale University Since at least 1606 Yorke sons were named alternately Simon and Philip so they are known as and as if they were kings Yet they were never even titled just local squires intimately involved with local roads local schools and churches and with the well-being and happiness of their own servants Erddig in its heyday was like hundreds of stately homes though more human than most Now it is unique a living lesson in everything a stately home used to mean Worlds Fair BRIEFS Delta Giving Travel Agents Area Tours Delta Airlines the official airline of the 1982 Fair is providing free tours of East Tennessee to travel agents around the country Twenty-six of the travel agents took the tour Friday and Saturday and two more tours are scheduled in coming months They visited Oak Ridge Gatlinburg and the site of the 1982 Fair The tours are to familiarize travel agents with the area and to encourage them to book tours to the area during the summer Travelhost Magazine To Feature Fair and Area Travelhost Magazine is planning a special issue on the fair on May 2 one day after the fair opens Articles in the World's Fair issue will describe the fair tell about tourist attractions elsewhere in the state and will analyze the motives behind international and corporate participation in the fair gerel verse by successive lords of the manor he was at drawing says the verse about butler Thomas Murray in 1852 a good hand at knife and Below the portrait of aged gardner Thomas Prichard a Yorke wrote in 1830: gardner old and run to seed was once a tall and slender These kindly poems run on line after line giving complete biographies and pinpoint details of nearly every servant at Erddig for 300 years The closest they come to criticism is an occasional couplet like the one describing dairy maid Sarah Davies in 1887: every thing she well did please save in the art of making Servants' portraits and poems about them are scattered now in the rooms where these below-stairs people worked and ate The rooms themselves are a marvel For the Yorkes confine hoarding to the grand They preserved everything in the kitchens the pantries all the sheds and workshops needed to turn every great English country house into a self-contained world The National Trust which took over the house in 1973 capitalizes on this fact by turning Erddig upside down are not treated like friends of the Squire and welcomed at the front the Trust says are first brought through the estate stable and laundry So the first thing you see is the most perfect survival in Britain of the complex underpinnings of a grand house and its estate The 18th century shop still smells of wood The sawmill moves from manual saw-pit to steam boiler to oil engine all working together again The shop is ready to shoe horses the limeyard ready to mix mortar the bakery delicious with the odor of fresh bread Victorian underwear festoons the dry laundry Under the frescoed motto Not Want antique saucepans and copper pots are ranked in the unchanged kitchen The National meticulous WREXHAM Wales (UPI) -Most opulent stately homes of Britain show you how the lord and lady of the manor lived By a kind of miracle Erddig turns things upside down What matters here is Downstairs not Upstairs One result is that this miraculously rescued mansion is perhaps -the most fascinating and certainly the most extraordinary grand house in the British Isles A few years ago the stately home called Erddig was a total wreck Half the house had sunk six feet Rain poured through hundreds of holes in the roof Philip Yorke III the last of his line lived alone in two unheated rooms without even trie light used to find him picking up scraps of sodden paper from the $qors and putting them into a a guide recalled during a tour turned out to be this priceless unique hand-painted Chinese wallpaper which was just reeling off in I The rescue and brilliant restoration of Erddig makes an heroic tale More astonishing still is what the j-estorers found In 1771 before the American revolution the first Philip Yorke of Erddig wrote orders to save everything wish nothing should be )arted For six generations the Yorkes obeyed him to the letter They never threw anything away No incoming generation cleared away the rubbish of the last Everything was saved and everything is still there Every bicycle the Yorkes ever owned is still stacked in a shed No early automobile was scrapped and 'some still await restoration One room was literally hip deep in letters estate records bills of sale receipts The Yorkes also preserved relics of their servants Generation after generation of Yorkes shared an uncommon concern for the servants they employed in armies of 60 at a time commissioned more photographs and portraits of their staff than of their own a guide Said more the humblest servant was immortalized in dog- A CONDOMINIUM HOTEL 1 2 3 badroam auitoa with compiato kitchanc Piccolo's Aaataurant an main Private rooftop pool ipa 4 patio 1 Restaurants loungat and IW Iraa within waking dHtanca Indoor tacurad vaUt parking limawtina aatvica avaAablo ONE BLOCK FROM THE 1982 WORLD'S FAIR 509 Union Ave Knoxville 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