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Children Beauty Pageant Sparks Dispute Over Directors7 Influence our Girl only to parents and contestants who asked The Johnsons also complained that the judges talked with contestants when they supposed to However Mrs Knight said they never exchanged more than short greetings with the girls Several participants and parents defended the Little Miss pageant "I didn't get in the top five but Fm not going to my death bed because I didn't said Lisa Hixson Chattanooga who competed in the 13-15 age group "Overall it was fair I felt that It being the first state pageant they did the best they could" Ruth Jeno Hixson whose daughter Michelle won first place in the 10-12 age group said because it was the first state pageant "There are going to be mistakes But there were no mistakes in judging It was fair" Mrs Knight said that despite the Proposed Hotel-Convention Center at Site of Brookhaven Farm Plans Stress Nature's Gift Tennessee Partners and Associates Inc which is marketing the development said house will be converted into a private restaurant and dub The condominiums range in price from $70000 to $150000 and will have one two and three bedrooms Watkins said They will be clustered in groups of from four to eight units The project cost of $50 million is based on retail sales values Architects for the project are Kaatz and Binckley Architects Knoxville Artz 44 is a developer and manager of hotel and convention centers He was formerly vice president of International Capital Institution San Diego Other investors in Marseilles Corp are David Epstein an attorney with offices in Knoxville San Diego and Philadelphia and CC Ford a developer from Denver Colo ties and condominiums scattered throughout the farm will have exteriors of mountain stone and wood to complement the natural setting Nature trails tennis courts and swimming pools are included in the plans The popular restaurant and country ham plant on the farm will continue Artz said He said the prominence of Brookhaven and the 1982 Fair contributed to the decision to develop the property World's Fair in Knoxville has made it possible for us to move more quickly" Artz said ready to meet the influx of visitors to the area looking for luxury accommodations in this scenic community" The land apparently was purchased from Harry Brooks for more than $17 million according to the transfer of two deeds in Blount County Ron Watkins of 13 Applicants Seeking License for Channel 8 By STEVE SANDERS VwfelgMIRW Wnfot MADISONVILLE A rather ugly dispute has sullied a beauty pageant for children that was held here this week The judges say the directors tried to influence their decisions The directors claim the judges were recruiters from another pageant Most of the losing mothers say the show was poorly run Several of the mothers agree but others say the complaints are just sour grapes And as always the kids are caught in the middle The squabbles center on the Tennessee finals of the Little Miss America pageant held Wednesday night at Hiwassee College Thirty-four girls ranging from 3 to 15 years old divided in five age groups participated "We judged it and we feel it was a dishonest said Olga Knight one of two judges from Tampa Fla who had been invited by the directors "They (the directors) did not like our selections to begin with and we were completely Mrs Knight and Edna Barber the other judge threatened to walk out of the pageant after claiming the assistant di- raOCk Biwrr LMUIIUIlJ UK MMBUMlt rector who tallied the scores Rose John- son was trying to alter the results son was trying to "She (Rose Johnson) was saying we should not score a certain girl high because she was too mature" Mrs Knight told The News-SentineL "There were instances when there were deliberate indications of trying to change our scores "They know I had been keeping track (of the scores) and when they found out the house nearly fell in I said that either they call them as we scored them or walking "We feel that this is not the way a pageant should be run" Before leaving for her home in Tampa yesterday Mrs Barber said the pageant was one of the worst she had seen in her six years of judging "It was a shame the mothers had to pay the money and they (the directors) didn't do it right" she said Several of the mothers estimated they had spent between $200 and $300 per child in entry fees and other expenses Many complained about not receiving program books and rosters for which each had paid $45 because the directors had not picked them up from the printer on time Judging disputes apparently started Wednesday afternoon after five finalists had been picked in each age group and Row Johnson suggested disregarding the results She said all the girls should recompete because the results in some of the age groups had been too dose "one or two points apart" and that it fair to some contestants After the judges protested a vote was taken among the parents All but two elected to go with the original choices Some parents said yesterday that the judges told them of attempts by the directors to influence results "I think they (the directors) tried every way in the said Kathy Marsh Linden Drive Alcoa whose daughter Stephanie participated in the 7-9 age group "The judges tokl us they had never been treated so rudely in their lives" "They tried to tell the judges what to do and when to do it" said Marilyn Thoria Dayton whose daughter Michelle was in the 10-12 age group not unhappy about the winners no mother is unhappy about the end results It (the pageant) just well-organized" Another mother added "The directors are saying there are only four or five (mothers) that are unhappy with the pageant not true a bunch of them" Row Johnson and her stepmother Marcia the director of the pageant denied any attempts to influence the results and dismissed the complaints of the mothers "That happens in every pageant you go to The only people who do this are the sore losers" said Marcia Johnson yesterday as several contestants and mothers standing nearby agreed "Sure we have our personal favorites but we let that influence the derisions" said Row Johnson "We do run an honest pageant system" Confronted with the complaints the directors made accusations of their own Marcia Johnson charged that Mrs Knight who is a director with Glamour Girl pageants in Florida favored some girls over others because she wanted them in the Florida pageant Mrs Knight denied the accusation saying she gave information about Glam- i 'ti Mrs Knight problems she was satisfied with time who emerged as the winners "We want the children she said "The girls were outstanding and the talent was outstanding" 9 111 KldnaDDinQ 1 A third defendant James Everett Cogdill 17 Old Sevierville Pike Knoxville was found delinquent and sentenced to an indefinite term in a juvenile facility In presentencing arguments yesterday Fletcher Erwin court-appointed attorney for Snodgrass said his client was contacted about the kidnapping job by Huskey and Cogdill Erwin said Snodgrass and Cogdill bungled the kidnapping because they had no experience and were lured into the operation by the prospect of big money attorney Ralph Harwell of Knoxville said his client was a friend and business partner of the mother Mrs Evelyn Taylor Harwell said Huskey had a romantic interest in Mrs Taylor and was trying to use the kidnapping to frighten Mrs Taylor from living in Cocke County so she would move to Knoxville and marry him DisL Atty Gen A1 Schmutzer said however any feelings of affection were one-sided Federal Prison he said Bishop said that Bradley is for But Bishop would not elaborate on motives for the decision not to move him to a Federal prison Bradley was unavailable for comment Ray 53 required 77 stitches after a fellow prisoner attacked him with- a homemade knife in the law library of the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary early this month He was transferred against his will from the Petros facility to Nashville early Wednesday morning for his own safety Bradley said earlier Ray serving a 99-year sentence for the 1968 slaying of Dr Martin Luther King Jr is isolated in a single cell in a maximum security unit Bishop said He is checked regularly by physicians he said in Bomb Attempt According to the indictment the group the Confederate Vigilantes of the KKK conspired "to maliciously and unlawfully destroy or damage by means of an explosive" The Temple a Nashville synagogue The indictment also charged the group intended to bomb the WSM-TV transmission tower and a Jewish-owned pawn shop 2 More Paving Firms Agree To Repay State NASHVILLE (UPI) Two more paving companies convicted of rigging bids on highway construction contracts have agreed to settlements with the state Atty Gen William Leech announced yesterday Wright Brothers Construction Co of Charleston has agreed to pay the state $200000 during the next four years while HH Stephenson Contractors of Fayetteville has agreed to pay $125000 Leech said More than 30 companies and individuals have been implicated in an investigation uf Md rigging on state highway eon tracts irs A -iv rv 5 Artist's Conception of Brookhaven Plans for construction of a 149-unit hotel and dozens of clusters of condominiums were announced today by developers who plan to turn Brookhaven Farm into a $50 million resort community The farm is in Knox and Blount Counties near Seymour -The first in a series of more than 400 femdominiums expected to be the largest Complex of its kind in the area will be i ready for occupancy by November according to Roger Artz president and one of the founders of Marseilles Corp which the 292-acre farm in ApriL He 'Said construction on model units will be- in August The hotel which will feature a three level atrium a large observation deck and i -'convention facilities for 800 people is scheduled to open in April 1982 Site -'preparation is completed The hotel planned recreational facili-r Expelled Gay Scouts Have Say LOS ANGELES (AP) The Boy Scouts of America can kick out homosexuals because most Scout meetings are held in living rooms and "some people want certain people in their homes" a lawyer says But a lawyer representing Tim Curran an Eagle Scout and avowed homosexual says the organization is too big to be considered a private dub and Curran should be readmitted "The Boy Scouts expel a person because they like the color of his hair or his sexual lawyer George Staff said yesterday during a preliminary hearing in Superior Court Judge Robert Weil said he would decide later whether to hold a full -hearing on Curran's attempt to be reinstated into Troop 37 i Curran a 19-year-old student at the University of California in Los Angeles attracted attention last year when he insisted on taking a male date to his senior prom at Skyline High School Curran claimed that he was expelled from Troop 37 last fall after Boy Scout council executives saw an article in The Oakland Tribune de- scribing him as an "outstanding gay youth" The former Scout filed a civil suit -in April seeking more than $500000 in damages for -defamation charging that Scout leaders branded him immoral -Woman Killed 5 Hurt in Collision A Missouri woman was killed and five other people were injured yesterday when two cars collided at the intersection i of U3 411 and US 129 near Maryville Blount County deputies identified the victim as Virginia Faye Leach Lees Sum-mitt Mo She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband Estel Leach 58 Leach was treated at Blount Memorial Hospital and transferred by ambulance to Lees Summitt Mo A granddaughter Staci Riggs 15 Yakima Wash was ad-mitted to Blount Memorial Hospital where she was listed in satisfactory con- dition today The other car was driven by Willie Bibee 44 Trenton Mich Bibee and his wife -Bernice Bibee 41 also were admitted to Blount Memorial Hospital and were listed in satisfactory condition today A daughter Carolyn Bibee 22 also of Trenton Mich was treated at the hospital The accident occurred at 9:30 ajn "Deputies said the car driven by Leach pulled from US 129 onto US 411 in front of the car driven by Bibee No charges have been filed $150000 Awarded in Death of Painter ALCOA and its subsidiary Tapoca Inc will have to pay $150300 to the widow of a 35-year-okl Alabama painter who was eletrocuted last Aug 6 hile painting a steel structure in the South Plant high-J- tension yard at the Alumnium Company of America (ALCOA) Mrs Cordelia Loretta Ikner who asked for $175 million in her suit was awarded the money as damages in the death of her husband William Ikner -who was employed by Vulcan Painters Inc Birmingham Ala which was doing subcontract work for Westing house Corp While Ikner was painting 13300 volts of electricity from an uninsulated "pig-lad" passed through his body killing him The six-man jury returned its verdict yesterday afternoon Youth Drowns Near La Follette LA FOLLETTE A 17-year -cld La Toilette boy drowned yesterday at the Powell Valley Marina near La Folletre The Campbe3 County Sheriff Department identified the victim as Darrell Myers son of Mrs Jo Ann Wakien La Foifette The incident occurred about 530 pm mm as WO Get 25 YeOrS fmli VW9a9M1mM 8KIV Rgfll NEWPORT Two Knoxville yesterday were sentenced to 25 years in prison for their role in the kidnapping last February of 6-year-old Zachary Kent Taylor Sam Huskey 34 756 Tamiami Trail and Charles Snodgrass 19 450 Watauga Ave pleaded guilty in May to the charges of aggravated kidnapping and armed burglary Cocke County Criminal Court Judge Kenneth Porter sentenced the two to 25 years each on the kidnapping charges and 10 years each on the burglary counts The state had asked for consecutive sentences giving the men total terms of 35 years in prison However Porter said the two apparently did not intend to harm young Taylor when they took him kicking and screaming from his home Feb 11 The boy was released unharmed the next day when the kidnap scheme fizzled The kidnappers had demanded $200300 in ransom Ray Won't Go to NASHVILLE (AP) Prison Commissioner Ray Bradley has ruled out moving confessed assassin James Earl Ray to a Federal prison state correction officials said However Ron Bishop the Correction institutional programs director said yesterday that the commissioner has yet to decide where Ray should be kept permanently The decision came one day after the U3 Supreme Court ruled that states have almost unlimited authority to move problem prisoners to Federal prisons that will take them Bishop said that the prison hospital at the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville where Ray is recovering from 22 stab wounds is in a very secure area is no pressing need to decide US Jury Indicts 6 NASHVILLE (UPI) A Federal grand jury yesterday indicted six members of a militant splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan on six charges related to an alleged Memorial Day attempt to blow up a Nashville synagogue The six were charged with two counts oT transporting explosives across state lines two counts of using the explosives to maliciously destroy property one count of conspiracy and one count of aiding and abetting If convicted each member of the group could be fined $50300 and receive a 45-year prison sentence Named in the indictment were: Gladys Girgenti a 50-year-old Madison widow who allegedly ran the bombing plot out of her home Charles Boyer a Madison musician William Foutch a Madison art dealer Bobby Joe Norton of Murfreesboro James Nellums of Lavergne and David Garrett of Spring Ala London Crime Rate Jumps LONDON (UPI) crime rate hit record levels in 1980 with the number of muggings and robberies up 20 percent from the 1979 figures said an annual report issued yesterday by the metropolitan police commissioner Vv f'-S-K k- irt' it's a Giant Grand Flag vice president: and Bemadine Layne of East Point Ga as secretary COMMUNITY BROADCASTERS OF KNOXVILLE INC The company is based in Seymour Tenn with Dale Alan Richman of Seymour as president and chairman of the board In January 1980 Richman was production manager of Patent Molding Co in KnoxviHe a button manufacturer He is also former general manager in 1977 of KPAZ-TV in Phoenix Others involved in the application are: Stephen Fulton Smith of 1436 Woodahire Dr in Knoville vice president Michael Battershel! of Raccoon Valley Road in Knoxville treasurer and Cheryl Ann Richman of Seymour secretary LE CONTE BROADCASTING CO -The Atlanta company lists Herman Russell of Atlanta as president end treasurer with 45 percent of the company's stock Russell is president and chairman of the board of a construction company bearing his name Other officers are Martin Seretean of Pompano Beach Fla vice president with a 45 percent interest and James Coclin of Atlanta secretary with a 10 percent interest KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE TV INC The company's application shows its address in Rochester NY The president and 100 percent owner is Malcolm Glazer of Pittsford NY He is owner of Fabri Development Corp and Elba Development Corp Elba is the licensee of KQTV-TV of SL Joseph Mo He also is president and director of Illiana Telecasting Corp the licensee of WTWO-TV of Terra Haute Ind which is owned by Fabri Development Corp Glazer also is connected to WRBL-TV in Columbus Ga He also is trying to start new stations in Orange Park Fla Irving Texas and Salt Lake City HHS INC Harold Stream III of Lake Charles La is president of the company in his hometown He is chairman of Stream Broadcasting Inc and licensee for KBIU-FM in Lake Charles SOUTH CENTRAL BROADCASTING CORP The Evansville Ind company holds a license for Channel 26 in Knoxville and is seeking to modify the license for the new designation of Channel 8 The director John Engelbrecht owns 743 percent of the stork and Betsy Engel-brechL the secretary-director owns 247 percent South Central also is the licensee of WIKY AM and FM in Evansville and WEZK FM Knoxville Two other applicants for the Channel 8 license are: Knoxville Broadcasting Co the first applicant for this license and Tennessee Telecasting Inc Joint Olympic Team Proposed SEOUL South Korea (AP) South Korea today proposed forming a unified national team with Communist North Korea for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles Volcano May Be Oozing Lava VANCOUVER Wash (UPI) Scientists said today they think lava is oozing out of Mount St crater in a nonexplosive eruption but the volcano was socked in by clouds and they could not be sure "We do thmk that something is happening" said Kathy Cash man a scientist with the U3 Geological Survey Scientists for the USGS and the University of Washington geophysics lab said increasing earthquake activity at the mountain and swelling of the crater floor detected by instruments pointed to a quiet eruption They said the event was probably adding to the size of the huge lava dome inside the enter but not triggering mudflow fiash floods or significant ash fallout like the spectacular May 1950 Mast that left a0 people dead or missing Mis Casnman made the announcement about seven hours after the scientists warned an eruption was likely within 12 hours After that earlier prediction the Fores Service imrtedate'y closed its and zones which form a 15-miie radius around the mountain WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission received 13 applications for a VHF broadcasting license for the newly designated Channel 8 in Knoxville by the Monday filing deadline The detailed applications which vary in length from about 50 to 100 pages now will be studied by FCC staff members in preparation for a later commission meeting at which only one application will be approved FCC files showed the following information about the applicants: TENNESSEE TELECORP INC Donald Bagwell 39 manager of information services for the Tennessee Valley Authority since 1979 is the corporation's president Bagwell served as a special assistant to UJL Sen Jim Sasser from 1977-79 and was an information director for the Public Service Commission in Tennessee from 1973-77 Other partners in the corporation are: Sue Carr Walker of Johnson City Ralph Boston of 3301 Woodbine Ave in Knoxville and Earl Taylor of Johnson City CITIZENS COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC Thomas Moore of 4703 Westover Terrace in Knoxville now president of Tam Inc a food service custodial and construction firm is president of the new TV corporation and would hold 57 percent of its stock George Thompson III of 2512 Shreeve Lane in Nashville a United American Bank vice president for two years is vice president of the TV corporation and hold 29 percent of the stock Ann Browder Wilde of Morristown an investor in commercial and residential real estate Is secretary-treasurer with 14 percent of the shares LOCAL SERVICE TELEVISION INC Listed as a San Diego corporation the applicant has Charles Woods of Dothan Ala as president and 100 percent owner Woods is affiliated with WTVY Inc of Dothan Ala a television and FM-radio station EDWARD JOHNSON ft ASSOCIATES INC The firm at 531 Gay SL in Knoxville lists Edward Johnson of Crossville as owner of the television corporation EAST TENNESSEE BROADCASTING The Knoxville-based company lists its general partners all in Knoxville: Ann Baker Furrow of 6831 Glen brook Dr James Martin of 1029 Scenic Dr Cowan Rodgers III of 1801 Rudder Lane Pat Wood of 3930 Topside Road Dr Walter SE Hardy of 2241 Brooks Road Robert Harvey of 4000 McDonald Rd Herbert Howard of 1724 Hills Dr Bemeeze A Ward of 1934 Da nd ridge Ave and Dr Lee Williams of 2500 Parkview Ave KNOXMED1A INC The Bethesda Md company shows Dr Horace Ward of Bethesda as president with 45 percent of the stock Michael McKinley of Washington DC as vice president James Clark of 1509 Parkridge in Knoxville as vice president with IS percent interest Gilbert Francis Jr of 5211 Holston Dr in Knoxville as another vice president: Everett Wallace of Washington DC as a Helicopter Pilot Finds S5 Million Pot Patch DAYTON An isolated mountain field of marijuana worth an estimated $5 million was destroyed by police yesterday after discovery by a Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter pilot Deputies with the Rhea County Department moved into the area with a four-wheel-drive truck to decimate the crop Agents of the state Alcoholic Beverage Commission (ABC) said the contraband crop had a street value of about $5 million Highway Patrol pilot Mike Dover was credited with finding the field Dover who has acquired a reputation as a specialist in finding marihuana patches from the slate helicopter has discovered several other fields -thin recent years remote areas of Tennessee The field was in a rugged area along the border of Rhea ard Bledsoe Counties about 50 miles north of 0a'tar-crga I contained an estimated 10003 plans three feet high or la'Ier poiire said The Great American Flog said to be the world's largest is stretched across HecLscher Softball Field in New York's Central Park Four hundred volunteers worked two hours to unfurl the 21 -story-high 133-yard-long Flog weighing seven tons ever the field Stars in the banner's blue field ore 13 feet wide In center background ti Gulf ond Western Building (UPI TelepKots.

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