The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 9

Obituaries Knox Happenings Editorials TVRadio The Knoxville News-Sentinel Friday February 24 rst Harm Routes Offer Pluses and Minuses Parkway Foes by JAN MAXWELL A VENT by BARBARA ASBURY News-Sentine! staff writer News-Sentinel alaff writer ment and four subdivisions Blasius said Subdivisions fall-: ing inside the 2000-footcorridor would be Oakmont Tan Rara and Farmington in Knox County and Mimosa Es- tates in Blount County The east route runs parallel to 1-40 then generally- follows Ebenezer Road and Tooles Bend Road south It crosses the river farther east than the west route and in- tersects Alcoa Highway at the same place This route- passes near a greater amount of commercial property and-nine subdivisions Hanna Place is the only subdivison that falls in the right-of-way The subdivisions in the 2000-foot 1 -corridor are Hansfield Hanna Place Echo Valley Bex Hill Farrington Kensington and Cove Point in Knox' County In Blount County Mimosa Heights and Meadow- land fall into the 2000-foot area The combination route which is the north part of the west route and the south part of the east route would travel through a moderate amount of commercial devel- opment and six subdivisions Subdivisions in Knox County a that fall into the 2000-foot corridor are Oakmont Tan Rara Farmington and Cove Point Blount County subdivi- --sions in the 2000-foot area are Meadow land and Mimosa Estates The Ferry route which follows the east route for part of the length then branches east to Ferry Road travels near a large amount of commercial property and 10 subdivsions Three subdivisions fall in the right-of-way: Hanna Place Kensington and Ferry Landing all in Knox County Those railing in the 2000-foot corridor are Hansfield Hanna Place Echo Valley Farrington Kensington and Ferry Landing in Knox County In Blount County those in the 2000-foot path are Meadowland and Mimosa Estates The proposal to improve Alcoa Highway instead of building the Pellissippi Parkway extension would affect mostly institutional and commercial development along the present highway However improving the highway i also would involve three subdivisions: Lakemoor Hills DC Chapman and Martha Washington Heights' MPC already has voted to support the extension in concept justified by the transporta ion problems in the area But MPC has not endorsed a particular route and has said it supports an extension only if the environmental' concerns can be resolved Hsiang-te Kung assistant professor of geography at Memphis State University Kung who researched the area in 1978 indicated the parkway could turn the Ebenezer Road area into "Lake Ebenezer "The state has not even begun to address the problems you are hearing about CAPPE attorney Dean Rivkin said the environmental impact statement due in early summer must address (them) The state can-1 not hide these defects without being in opposition to the John MacReynoids a lawyer who formerly worked with the state transportation department in condemnation proceedings explained the legal complexities of condemning property After the state claims your property he said "You can prevent them from moving you out for six to nine months but you cannot prevent them from taking your MacReynoids home is within 50 feet of one of the parkway's proposed routes and he said if the road were built he might be able to sue for inverse condemnation on the claim that his view was ruined the law is vague and open to he said can say how important it is for me to see a sunset rather than a i CAPPE has proposed several alternatives to the parkway all of which they say could be accomplished for less than the estimated $130 million the state-says the parkway would cost Among their suggestions are upgrading area collector roads building a bridge from Northshore -Drive- to Alcoa Highway in the Jones Bend-WrighCs Ferry area adding a second bridge beside Buck Karnes Bridge on Alcoa Highway and expanding Alcoa High- way near the airport with flyover lanes Sam PStterson CAPPE president says his group does not oppose the Technology Corri-: dor or present parkway only its extension south of Interstate 40 All four routes suggested for the proposed Pellissippi Parkway extension would reduce traffic on the existing' streets in the area and boost commercial property values but reduce the value of single-family -homes-near the parkway according to studies by Metropolitan Planning Commission MPC found that the proposed routes for the extension into Blount County would affect from four to 10 residential subdivisions Improvements to Alcoa Highway an alter- native to the extension would affect only three subdivisions MPC conducted the studies for the state Department of Transportation The information collected in the study was discussed last night at MPC dinner meeting MPC Planner Wayne Blasius said MPC did only part of the total studies on the issue so planners cannot recommend the best route In general he said the extension would increase property values for commercial development and apartment complexes but decrease the value of homes in the subdivisions The property values of those range from $36000 in Pershing Woods to $148000 in Tan Rara both in Southwest Knox County UT and the state conducted other studied MPCs studies concentrated on land use in the areas and the effect on-traffic the economy and drainage in West Knox County The areas near the proposed routes include mostly rural homes or subdivisions Blasius said the area most directly affected by the extension Would be the land on the right-of-way of the chosen route: The next most signifi- cant area would be 1000 feet on either side' of the route That 2000-foot-wide corridor he said would be within sight of the new road and likely would absorb sound and air pollution from the traffic According to the MPC study: The west route runs roughly parallel to Fox Road crosses Westland Drive and Northshore' Drive before crossing the Tennessee River Then it crosses Topside Road as it runs eastward and connects with Alcoa Highway north of McGhee Tyson Airport This route would travel near a moderate amount of commercial develop- Roads collapsing vast areas flooding water supply contaminated' Those are examples of the ruin the Pellissippi Parkway extension would bring to West'! Knox County say area residents' who oppose' the proposed highway At Bluegrass Elementary School last night nearly 300 people listened to speakers give lessons in geography geology and law that were far from elementary The meeting was called by Citizens Against the Pellissippi Parkway a group which for several years has been quietly gathering scholarly ammunition to fight the parkway extension Speakers said the parkway if built would be unstable and likely to collapse because of the numerous sinkholes and limestone forma tions in the land in the Ten Mile Creek-SJnk-big Creek area Moreover they said the expected accompanying industrial development with its acres of paved 'land would create additional problems' suph as flooding and contamination of water In the Keller Bend area alone brhefe one of the proposed parkway routes would cross Fort Loudoun Lake there are limestone 1 caves said Dr Barry Beck directortof the Sinkhole Research Institute at University of Central Florida Since the waterway is iso nar-' row at the bend Beck said the Coast Guard will not permit the bridge supports to be built in the water therefore "the main supports would have to be built on the unstabld land In his presentation Beck used slides and information from a 19S2 report prepared by Harry Moore a geologist with tne slate Department of Transportation He cy lleq the re- port well done and very valuable" to the CAPPE cause' The proposed parkway is "sitting more or less on a honeycomb said Dr Prepares To Close Store in Midland Move to Foothills Mall 3 "1 by JANE GIBBS DuBOSE News-Sentinel stall writer Zoltan Rozsnyal Zoltan Rozsnyai To Resign ALCOA DK Smith is overseeing the emptying of the 19-year-old JC Penney Co store here the second large retailer to fly from the once-suburban frontier of Midland Shopping Center The retiring manager 59 paces the well-wom floors glancing over dwindling displays of clothing "You never make any sales in the office You've got to be around the customers and merchandise as much as he says Several miles away at the new Foothills Mall workers make Penney sales and place athletic shirts onto waiting racks The $9 million JG Penney store officially opens at the year-old regional mall March 7 It will be the third location for JC Penney in Blount County possibly the epilogue to the earlier chapters in downtown Maryville and in Midland Center has grown with the Smith says The new store has neon designer clothes jewelry and plenty of clean good looks IF what the retailer is calling a store emphasizing high fashion affordability and sleek merchandising "We never had the space to give the customer all of that in Maryville said Bob Mouser district manager for Penney stores Privately local officials wondered about the wisdom of waiting a year to open the store at Foothills But they say the decision was made by executives who based their master marketing plan on the double whammy of Penney openings at Foothills and at the East Towne Mall later this year "1 would have liked to have seen the store open when the mall Mouser said "Fortunately during the last 90 days (a period of consumer sales) the store has done really Mouser said of the Midland store "Before that we "Penney operates under the idea: of not going into hock" Smith said "Their appropriations are done three years in advance and they do things as money becomes The closing of the Midland store March kUll photo by Micftaal Paine Penny McCurry dresses a mannequin at JC new Foothill Malls store scheduled to open March 7 tra in 1981 The orchestra has increased its performances of regular subscription concert from one to two nights during the 1983-84 season Since 1978 the number of performances and its ensembles has increased from 32 to 120 a year and annual season ticket sales for the major series have almost doubled Rozsnyai said the recent demands on his time include concerts with the Irish Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra in Dublin concerts and recordings with the London Symphony and the English Chamber Orchestra and a tour and five new digital records with the Philharmonia Hungarira which he founded in 1956 TVA Director Richard Freeman president of the Knoxville Symphony Society said Rozsnyai has brought quality music to Knoxville and expanded the audience in the community "Since Zoltan Rozsnyai has been instrumental in attracting world-class artists to the concert stage we ran all look forward to the season he has planned in celebration of the orchestra's SO years of progress" he said Zoltan Rozsnyai music director and conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for six years has announced he will resign after the 1984-85 season which begins in October He will serve as artistic adviser and principal guest conductor for the 1985-86 season and as principal guest conductor for the 1986-87 season The upcoming season will be the symphony 50th anniversary "When I agreed in 1978 to serve as mu-sic director my immediate task was to build the orchestra to a higher level worthy and ready for the 1982 Rozsnyai said He said he has accomplished many of the goals he set for the orchestra and that recent increased demands on hi time by other orchestras contributed to his decision to resign Rozsnyai succeeded Arpad Joo as mask director He had served as music director of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra for five years before coming to Knoxville Under his encouragement the orchestra now has 16 frill-time musicians withwhich he founded the Knoxville Chamber Orches County Now we need some major retailers Bentley said Bentley said the city is anxious to see replacements for the Proffitt's and Pent spare so that next par's budget can be prepared with some degree of certainty The new JC Penney will double the space of the old store from 42000 to 84006-square feet Leon Rhea new manager of the Font-: hills store said JC Penney is employing about 175 persons including the 84 em-l ployees from the old operation Smith has worked at nine stores and: managed five since he began his retailing career with the national chain 10 days after he graduated from college a span of 36 years Rhea a Maryville native is returning to-his hometown after a hiatus as assistant for' David Miller president of JC 1 Vnney and: as manager of other stores: 3 comes a year after Proffitt padlocked its store in the center also to move to Foothills Mail One of the center's owners Life Casualty Insurance Co of Tennessee does not have a new tenant for the JC Itonney space but spokesman Sidney coble said "we have some 'Cameron Downing Co a Knoxville firm representing the other owner of the center would not comment The Proffitt's spare is represented by Cameron Downing The Petmey move has hit the city of Alcoa hard Mickey Bentley Alcoa city manager said the city desperately needs a major draw to'the renter to help recoup some S600600 in sales taxes Alcoa has lost to Maryville'S Foothills Mall and the surrounding shops "At one time Midland Center was the major shopping center in al of Blount I action line metro briefs different schools statewide are expected to participate in Bearden High School's Math Bowl to be held at 930 ajm tomorrow The bowl sponsored by Mu Alpha Theta the national math honor society will have seven different categories and 110 trajpies will be given to winners Students ill compete in algebra geometry and caRuIUS thing ran be done Mrs Queen says she is satisfied with that offer Request for Traffic Lights Dr Albert Ebenezer Weisgarher Medical Center wrote to Action Line requesting a traffic light far the intersee-' linn nl Mabry Hood Road and Kingston 1 Pike and for the intersection nf Mabry Hand Road and Pellissippi Parkway He feels traific lights at those Intersections would make them safer Action Line spoke with Authur rie -in the Tennessee Traffir Deportment has sent a letter requesting a traffic sur-' vey be done at the locations requested by Dr Ebenezer Hy de says the slate wili be happy to do the survey and send-a copy of to Action lane If traffic flow merrs nstjllj' of li's the state w1 approve the I uhtxKr County is mpmvliie for buy mg and in- sta'-Tg them Anderson GOP Party Andersra County Republicans ill have a "Campaign "S4 Kickoff party at 7 pm rhl Friday at the Oak Rifce FJks LodgelStar candidates and local elected official will attend Hays Memorial Agricultural Scholarship Fund in honor of their parents 9 FFA Officers Visit Nine officers of Tennessee Future Farmers of America are visiting in Knoxville today as part of a goodwill tour of the state East Tennesseans among the group are John Houston of Spring City and Judy EKerburg of Mosheim The group toured the UT Agricultural Campus yesterday They were breakfast guests today of the Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Council and lurched with the Optimist Rub before touring Tom's Foods Docent Classes Set Docent training classes for Know 7 oo Volunteers will be-gm Mj'i Sl The classes instruct volunteers in g-mg walking lours and cart town (if the and slide pregrams for area I re for the six (hwre llkVol-'iw wiu complete the classes hero-ne mro-'icc of tie Docent Ctvrl al -t be wiro of te Appalachian 7c'- Sra-v For ul cad 522-1 Jvi Gore Plans 2 Talks Here U5 Rep: Albert Gore Jr ill address area groups Sunday and Monday -Gore will speak at the 40th annual convention of the Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts at 4 pm Sunday at the Hyatt Regency in Knoxville Approximately 1000 participants from throughout the state are expected at the meeting The association includes volunteer groups of community and local government leaders who promote conservation and development of natural areas On Monday Gore will speak on "Arms Control and US Security" at Mary vii College's Great Decisions 84 program Gore win speak at 11:16 am in the Tine Arts Center Auditorium Central Grads To Reunite The Central Hgh School class of I9T4 wt3 hoVJ its 16-year reunion Jure IS-lfc For more information call 658-6172 or 694-6344 750 Due in Math Bowl Approx rrrit r'y 750 students from 33 Pool Problem Betty Queen 5621 Ridgetsp Read hut satisfied with work 4m for her by Kaos Quality Pools aad Patio Supplies Inc She U)i the company didal finish filling in dirt behind the pool's retaining wall which has a bowed place in it and I section of concrete around the pool stands la watrr Her pool was finished last spring hat the problems haven't been salved B3 Campbell president of the company says he has tried to work with Mrs Queen the past without success He extended the normal one-year warranty on the waa to five years and has ef'errd to put money mto an escrow acro-nt to re pax the wall within gerund should the compeny no be business He 'irairta-rs the maH is staNe Howevrr he teid Action line that when wea'her p-e-miTx he wili tear e-t the hewed irriro of the rrtaxiirg sra gVcn ami ut more d-rt brmnd it to assure the will is sound funce Canpreri cre-jv-s rvln! the pool rc-'pu-y his pxevd seps lead to t-e area of the lee the waer v' He say would (mre it iV'ccm re 2 Give Scholarships A LUK jt from two Johnson Cny sslers to the UT College cf Agnruhure provide ichn-'a for Upper la Tennessee Nancy Margaret Hays 1926 UT piiluitf and her v--ter Sarah Rath 152' era d-w established the am and I rrj Haro a vtuwt a nwrimri act le( Fare Heal 00 Boa OX Raoa 10111X01 taaewlecM.