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Final HOME Edition Price 15 Cents eimne Copyright 1980 Th KnoxviHe News-Sentinel Company Knoxville Tenn 37901 Wednesday Evening September 10 1980 Issue No 30163 523-3131 rtciiws-HuallitD 84 Pages Seven Sections Javits Loses NY Test to 44 percent for Javits Miss Holtzman took 41 percent of the Democratic vote to 30 percent for Miss Myerson 16 percent for Lindsay and 13 percent for John SantuccL Javits who suffers from a progressive nerve disease that affects his walking will appear on the ballot as nominee of the Liberal party and he said after his defeat: expect to win re-election in November" In 1970 James Buckley was elected to the Senate as New Conservative party candidate Two congressmen indicted on charges stemming from the Abscam scandal met contrasting fates Richard Kelly a Florida Republican was badly beaten by two challengers his bid for renomination while John Murphy a Democrat from New York won his contest comeback bid fizzled but some other former officeholders fared better Buckley who lost a 1976 re-election bid in New York won the Republican senatorial nomination in Connecticut and will face Democratic Rep Christopher Dodd in November for the seat being vacated by Democrat Abraham Ribicoff who is retiring Meld rim Thomson a former New Hampshire governor and onetime John Birch Society director defeated two opponents to win the Republican nomination for his old office The man who beat him in 1978 Gov Hugh Gallen won over minor opposition in the Democratic primary Howard (Bo) Callaway former Georgia congressman and Army secretary apparently fell short in his bid for Colorado's Republican senatorial nomination Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan led but the margin was so narrow that a recount was likely under state law The winner will face incumbent Gary Hart who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination In Florida Stone who alienated some See JAVITS Page A-2 By TM AmcMM nw In the major surprise among 13 state primaries Alfonse a little-known Long Island politician wrested New Republican senatorial nomination from Jacob Javits forcing the 76-year-old incumbent to seek his fifth term under the banner of a third party Yesterday's results also saw incumbent Sen Richard Stone of Florida forced into a Democratic runoff The only other incumbent senators to face challenges easily won renomination Democrat John Durkin in New Hampshire and Republican Paul Laxalt in Nevada presiding supervisor in the town of Hempstead who had hit hard at Javits1 liberalism age and declining health will face Democratic Rep Elizabeth Hohzman in November She defeated three challengers including Bess Meyerson a former Miss America and consumer advocate and ex-New York City mayor John Lindsay polled 56 percent of the vote Alfonse D'Amato Wildly Happy Debate Door Is Left Ajar for Carter Senator Tastes Defeat Sen Jacob Javits (R-NY) looking as if he is about to burst into tears addresses supporters after losing the Republican nomination to run for a fifth term Javits 76 lost to Hempstead Town Supervisor Alfonse D'Amato (UPI Telephoto) UMTMSMM Ruth Hinerfeld This Is the Way Be Policemen Others Accused in Beating Get New Trial therefore we must respectfully decline" statement said When asked if the League would sponsor a Reagan-Carter debate as the only way to include Carter Ruth Hinerfeld chief of the League's Education Fund said I do not see that we can do so" But the league's vice president Dot Ridings said last night that representatives of the three candidates will meet with league officials today to see if the Africans To Ambassadors and officials of 12 African nations and a representative of the US State Department will visit Knoxville tomorrow to discuss the possibility of a joint African Nations Pavilion in the World's Fair The visitors will be given an update on the progress of the fair and will tour the 70-acre fair site Fair officials hope the response will be a joint pavilion for the 1982 fair Theotis Robinson vice president of economic development for the fair said he is encouraging joint participation by the African countries because "the statement they deliver will be much more powerful" Ole Diamond Ole Diamond who gained worldwide fame first for his orneriness and then as the proud papa of the first African elephants born in captivity in the Western Hemisphere died at Knoxville Zoological Park this morning He was 33 The cause of death of the zoo's most famous attraction will not be known for at least 24 hours and the zoo will be closed until further notice He will be buried on the zoo grounds officials said The huge bull appeared well and was eating and drinking when zoo officials looked in at him at II JO last night He died at 9:35 this morning In 1975 zoo veterinarians diagnosed chronic nephritis and issued a prognosis that gave him two or three more years of life at best But when the elephant's two mates Sapphire and Toto became pregnant in 1977 Zoo Director Guy Smith III said that was a diagnosis" On March 2 1978 Sapphire gave birth to Little Diamond gaining worldwide attention in the process At the time a calving barn was under construction at the zoo and as press reports were circulated around the world congratulations came in from as far away as France and Taiwan Ronald Reagan pumps up energy supplies tells blacks he Is proud of his record over their concerns Page C-L scitppi mH Nwn ferric WASHINGTON The League of Women Voters is leaving the door open for a possible televised debate between President Carter and Ronald Reagan The League decided yesterday to invite independent presidential candidate John Anderson along with Carter and Reagan to participate in the first of the league-sponsored debates scheduled for Sept 21 in Baltimore Anderson quickly accepted So did Reagan But Carter through a statement issued by his campaign chairman Robert Strauss refused Carter had insUted that the first debate which one major television network announced last night it-would broadcast be between him and Reagan as the standard bearers of the two major parties "Since Gov Reagan and the League of Women Voters have refused to even discuss the scheduling of a one-on-one debate we are convinced that acceptance of this invitation would preclude any chance of such a one-on-one debate and reservist Rick Fretr The other defendants are patrolmen Richard Ingram Steven Tinder and explorer scout Christian Castellaw who was in a law enforcement scouting group at the time of the April 1979 incident happy for the men I look forward for the new trial" Robert Watson city-retained attorney for the defendants said following Taylor's decision Norbert Slovis Burner's attorney said "I'm shocked disappointed mad and upset no justification for it" Bruner was injured in an alteracation after police found a man was sitting in a car in front of a school late at night Watson explained Slovis said Bruner was charged with resisting arrest and two counts of assualt and battery but the grand jury failed to indict him City Safety Director Travis Brasfield who suspended the officers following the jury's decision said decision puts "an entirely new light on the A decision should be made this week on whether the' officers will return to active duty Brasfield said Traffic Alert One lane of 1-49 west from Seventeenth Street to Liberty Street will be closed from 6 pan today until 7 aan tomorrow State Department of -Transportation officials said The same section will be closed from 9 ajn to 3 pjn tomorrow Officials said both lanes will be closed at times tonight to allow trucks to cross the roadway Two policemen will be on duty tonight to handle traffic These closings are also 9 ajn until 3 pm tomorrow: One lane of 1-49 eastbound between 1-75 and the Downtown Business Loop one lane of 1-49 east-bound between Asheville Highway and Chilhswee Drive and 1-75 northbound and southbound between Heiskell Avenue and 1-649 the schedule" Elimination of the out-of-town management retreats and training sessions is one way Clement has suggested TVA could cut costs in his self-declared belt tightening crusade Clement also has criticized staff expansions reorganizations and the hiring of new personnel at a time when TVA should be cutting costs Personnel records show the general office the legal staff and TVA's public relations offices have increased their stairs by 60 percent in the last two years The general office spent $100000 of the 5140000 in 1979 and 1980 for out-of-town management retreats and meetings Those included a Valley-Wide Joint Cooperative Conference involving approximately 200 employees in November 1979 in Gatlinburg 524000 a National Management Association Fall Retreat involving 225 employees at Guntersville State Park 532000 a budget officers meeting involving 20 to 30 employees at Fall Creek Falls State Park 53000: situation can be salvaged Asked if she anticipated that there would be a Carter-Reagan debate she replied "I would hope so" adding "We are most hopeful the President will still reconsider his Baltimore decision" She said that the Baltimore debate will include Anderson regardless of Carter's participation But she indicated that the league may agree that one of the two later debates scheduled for Portland Ore-See LEAGUE Page A-2 Ponder Joint Nations represented will be: Democratic Republic of Madagascar Kenya Sierra Leone Zambia Liberia Gabon United Republic of Cameroon Senegal Ghana Sudan Tanzania and Zimbabwe An economic officer of the Bureau of African Affairs for the US State Department also will attend The dignitaries will be welcomed in a brief ceremony in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency at 3 pm and will attend a reception at 5:30 pm at the Beck Cultural Center 127 Dandridge Ave Also attending the reception sponsored by the fair will be the City Council county Board of Commissioners the board of directors of Ornery Elephant Ole Diamond 1947-1980 Donations for the barn came in from around the world also Another baby Hilery was bom May 16 1978 Both babies are doing fine Salt Lake City Utah Charleston Va and Johnstown Pa Duane Eastvold general manager of ultra high frequency (UHF) station WTVK-TV said today he know whether his station will try for the VHF station It did try for years for such a station here but it gave up the fight two years ago WTVK is increasing its power from 1 million to 5 million watts Eastvold said he wants to see how much the increased power will improve the performance of the station before deciding whether to try for the VHF station However he pre Mrs Taylor said Sweetwater was selected as a location for the training sessions because it is about half-way between TVA offices in Knoxville and Chattanooga Another 532000 was spent on "fast track training" personnel seminars in 1979 and 1980 also held in Sweetwater She said fast track training is for tential TVA managers On training programs which started between 1976 and this year and are still in operation TVA spent more than 5900000 for travel and other costs for using other-than TVA facilities the records show The total expenditures for staff meetings and retreats in the last five years is about 5330000 according to the figures provided to Cement Bonine said the costs supplied to Clement are "not but TVA finance officials said the records represent "all we could find" Finance officials said a park of salaries paid during the out-of-town meetings and training is $15 million The cost of some meetings were listed Federal Court Judge-Robert Taylor overturned a $300000 jury-awarded judgment yesterday and ordered a new trial for eight men sued for causing permanent brain damage suffered by Gerald Bruner Six of the eight are city policemen In his order for' a new trial Taylor found the jury in error since proof failed to show five of the defen dents were personally involved in injuring Bruner The five included city officers James Bates Gregory Taylor Wade Dunaway SgL James Humphrey and former police ET Gets Good Rain Cool To Follow General rain showers today gave much of East Tennessee the first good wetting of September At McGhee Tyson Airport the rainfall total by 1 1 am was 75 of an inch The rain was expected to stop this afternoon and cooler weather is to follow Look for a low temperature near 60 by dawn tomorrow and a high in the middle 80s tomorrow high was 92 and it was the 59th day this summer for the temperature to reach 90 or higher Jo Jo Says: Fair Tonight Well vocation High ISEMDEB'lFONLV Yesterday mB SRAM ANP 2 WEEDS MOULD Lew This LTAKEOUG' Morning 79 Lew Expected Tonight Near 66 High Tomorrow Middle 80s Fair and Not Quite So Hot Weather Details on Page A-3 Fair Pavilion the Beck Community Center and other community leaders and world's fair officials The group will attend a presentation wrap-up at 4:30 pm Friday at the fair's training room at United American Bank Plaza They will hear proposals concerning their participation from SH (Bo) Roberts fair president of the Knoxville International Energy Exposition (KIEE) developer of the fair King Cole executive consultant Walter Lambert Energy Symposia director and David Haber producer of the World Festival They also will view an artist's rendering of the proposed African Nations Pavilion Dies at Zoo Ole Diamond made headlines when he became a father but when the first attempts to breed him were made in 1976 there was doubt as to whether he was in breeding condition He welcomed his first mate Sapphire to his enclosure in 1975 by whacking her with his mighty trunk knocking her down an embankment At first it was feared her leg was broken and a portable X-ray unit was summoned from University Hospital to examine her The leg was OK and she obviously made up with her mate and the two shared the same enclosure When Toto arrived in 1976 he whacked her with his trunk but did not give her quite as rough treatment Ole Diamond has always had a reputation as an unruly follow which is why the Ringling Brothers and Bamum and Bailey Circus gave him to Knoxville in 1963 He demolished his enclosure at the zoo ripping out plumbing and worrying city offi-' cials in 1966 to the point they wanted to give him away or have him destroyed "I am not going to be responsible for him killing some attendant" said then-mayor Leonard Rogers at that time He offered the unruly beast to the Ev-See OLE DIAMOND Page A-2 dicted there will be several applications for it The actioh on the four new stations See FCC Page A-3 Tenn-Tom Death Bill Defeated Bulletin WASHINGTON The Senate today led by Southern senators defeated an amendment to kill most of the 5298 million in 1981 funding for continuation of construction for the Tennessee-Tombig-bee Waterway An amendment by Sen John Chafee (R-RL) to delete 5299 million of the funding was defeated 53-38 Clement Says as "undetermined" on the records Those included two staff meetings by the Office of Community Development at the Hyatt Regency in Knoxville one in June 1979 and the other in August 1979 during which time Sharlene Hirsch was manager of the office "While staff meetings retreats and training sessions were held away from TVA facilities prim to 1976 they appeared to become a general practice in 1976 and Bonine said in his letter accompanying the records "In the current year 1980 staff meetings appear to have declined whereas training sessions appear to have On the 60 percent increase in staff and payrolls in the past two years TVA officials said reorganization establishment of new functions and juggling of personnel from inside TVA account for most of the increase Records show the general office staff increased from 21 employees and a 5530000 annual payroll in March 1978 when Aubrey Wagner was chairman See TVA Page A-3 New VHF Television Channel OK'd for Knox USC Tradition Marcus Allen moved from fullback will attempt to carry on the tradition of great tailbacks as the Southern California Trojans play Tennessee Saturday night at Neyland Stadium Marvin West writes Page D-2 There may be a in Tennessee's defensive secondary Saturday night Page D-3 Request Studied The Teamsters union is considering an unprecedented request from the trucking industry for wage concessions Page B-1Q Almost Ready State inspectors find only minor problems in a tour of the controversial Waste Management landfill in Anderson County Page C-12 Petition Dropped The petition by the Dickerson Co of California to develop 765 acres of the Roddy Farm has been withdrawn Page D-l Confess and Repent Iran's prime minister has told Secretary of State Edmund Muskie he will talk with the US if it "confesses and Page C-5 Candidates Get Nod The Tennessee State Election Commission has qualified 10 candidates for president This and other items about Tennessee is on Page 14 Today's Index Astrograph D-l 5 Bottel C-10 Bridge C-U Business D-S Comics D-15 Crossword A-10 Editorials B-8 Emergency Numbers A-10 Entertainment Calendar A-10 Financial D-8-9 Gallup Poll B-8 Health D-15 Horse Sense D-15 Knox Happenings A-10 Living Today C-9-11 Obituaries A-12 People Shows Sports Tennessee Today A-I4-15 TVRadio C-2-3 Want Ads D-10 1416 Marvin West D-2 FCC cracks door for low-power TV stations Page C-4 In a major departure from past policy the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allocated a new VHF television channel to Knoxville and three other cities and a Knoxville group expects to apply soon for a license The station here would be Channel 8 A group which calls itself the Organizing Committee headed by James Martin wants the license Martin is president of Plasti-Line and also is president of the Knoxville Symphony The three other cities for which the FCC approved new VHF channels are TVA Has Spent $13 Million on Out-of-Town Meetings and a TVA Policy Conference Retreat at Fairfield Glade involving about 15 employees 52000 The Office of Engineering Design and Construction had two staff meetings involving 98 employees at Fairfield Glade in 1979 at a cost to the agency of 511000 The Office of Management Services spent 57000 on a public safety meeting involv ing 110 employees at Fall Creek State Park last September The Office of Power spent 55000 on two staff meetings involving about 40 persons at Guntersville and Fall Creek Falls in 1979 The Office of Community Development spent 53500 on a staff meeting involving 27 persons at Fall Creek Falls in July 1979 It cost 52000 for a planning session at Beech Mountain by the legal staff Training sessions for TVA managers held at Sweetwater during 1980 cost the agency 523000 in travel and per diem costs Marilyn Taylor director of personnel said A figure of 590000 included in the information supplied to Clement covers the entire program costs she said By JOHN MOULTON Sioff WVtlSf TVA spent more that 5140000 in 1979 and 1980 on out-of-town staff meetings and retreats at such places as Fall Creek Falls State Park Fairfield Glade and Guntersville State Park records obtained by TVA Director Bob Clement showed The agency spent another 5104000 on training "away from TVA facilities" during those two years and has spent at least 51 million for both training sessions and meeting at other-than TVA installations in the past five years according to the records The expenditures compiled by the Office of Management Services at Clement's request primarily cover transportation and lodging costs as well as payments for use of facilities and training consultants "It was impractical to determine total -costs since expenditures are not accumulated for easy indentification by meetings" Charles Bonine Jr manager of management services said in a letter accompanying the figures "The identifiable costs excluding salaries are shown on I.