The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 11

i Scout fate may rest on 1 965 conversation by STAN DcLOZIER News-Sentinel staff writer Neiler said she has heard the site has been appraised at $140000 which is 10 times more than the Highland Rim Council paid for it in 1958 with proceeds from Girl Scout cookies It was acquired from the Atomic Ener- gy Commission The Tanasi Council has proposed to close Camp Friendship and three other camps in East Tennessee to concentrate money and efforts at Camp Tanasi a 461-acre tract in Union County near Anderson- ville i Council in Nashville Tanasi also got Camp Friendship The conversation in question included among others Eileen Neiler who was then on the board of the Highland Rim Council and Mary Jean Faulkner who was executive director of the Tanasi Council It took place when the deed to Camp Friendship was transferred Neiler testified Thursday Faulkner said Camp Friendship would remain for use by Girl Scouts and would never be sold Defense attorney Jim McDonald tried to prove the comment was made in a casual conversation and was not binding Neiler said someone in the group said ever sell the property would she said Faulkner replied Friends of Camp Friendship contend those words formed an Marian current executive director of the Tanasi Council said the idea of selling Camp Friendship surfaced in a task group report in 1982 McDonald refused to say how much Camp Friendship is worth or if there is a buyer for the property which took the matter to Anderson County Chancery Court Comments made in December 1965 may be the key to the decision Chancellor Allen Kidwell must make Camp Friendship on Oak Ridge Turnpike was under the jurisdiction of the Highland Rim Council However a reorganization took place and Highland Rim was dissolved Some of the scouts under that council were placed under the jurisdiction of Tanasi with headquarters in Knoxville and others placed in the Cumberland Valley CLINTON The fate of Camp Friendship may turn on a interpretation of whether a conversation held 20 years ago was casual or binding The 10-acre camp in Oak Ridge has been used for 35 years by Girl Scouts but it came under the jurisdiction of the Tanasi Girl Scout Council in 1965 The Tanasi Council is considering selling the property an idea that spurred the formation of Ftiends of Camp Friendship Inc Teiecorp wins new TV license i for Channel 8 In granting Tennessee Teiecorp the license and denying South Central application the FCC also denied applications from Knoxville Broadcasting Corp Community Broadcasters of Knoxville Inc East Tennessee Broadcasting Knoxville Tennessee TV Inc Citizens Community Television Inc HHS Inc and Le Conte Broadcasting Co Inc as well as the application of Tennessee Telecasting Inc to use the channel at Maryville The commission judge was critical of Citizen application because it did not disclose that a principal of Citizens George Thompson had broadcast interests He also was critical of Citizens failure to mention in its initial application that another principal Thomas Moore held a directorship hi a bank owned a pharmacy in Knoxville and had an ownership interest in a security services firm Mims Inc The commission favors applicants who can devote as much time as possible to running a station The judge said Community failed to show it was financially qualified to operate a station The commission said Tennessee Teiecorp got the nod because its owners promised to spend a great deal of personal time running the station and also because the principals held no other media interests The decision becomes effective in 50 days unless someone challenges it within 30 days The general manager of WTVK-TV Channel 26 said today he cannot say whether his company will appeal a decision by the Federal Communications Commission to allow another company to operate the new television Channel 8 here Tennessee Teiecorp Inc was given permission by the FCC on Thursday to start building a TV station to operate on Channel 8 in Knoxville will have to hold out on any statement about an appeal until we know what Teiecorp is going to said Duane Eastvold WTVK general manager WTVK had applied for the license as South Central Communications Corp Eastvold said it is now up to Teiecorp to make its peace with the other applicants He said getting a new station on the air is about years down the A file in the secretary of office in Nashville shows Tennessee Teiecorp Inc was chartered Jan 23 1981 The incorporating agent was listed as Donald Bagwell 5709 Lyons View Drive Another incorporator was listed as Lewis Cosby no address given Bagwell works for the TV A Information Systems while Cosby is an accountant The FCC filing also indicates the corporation stockholders will include Sue Walker a private investor along with attorney Earl Taylor and Ralph Boston a former Olympic athlete and Knoxville insurance agent Michael PitrickNewi-Santinal staff FBI agent Mike Murphy gathers some of the money left behind after a robbery at the Solway branch of First Tennessee bank FBI agents comb parkway area for bank robbers by TODD COPILEV1TZ News-Sentinel staff writer other with a semi-automatic pistol witnesses told agents About an hour after the robbery agents found one clothes behind a house off Sparky Lane which borders Melton Hill Lake They said they believe the suspect had shorts on under his clothes Knoxville police dogs were being called in to aid the search through the dense undergrowth The bank's videotape system did not get good pictures of the pair FBI agents said It will be some time before pictures from the still camera can be processed they said Officers said they suspect the car found in the lot was stolen The license plates belong on a 1973 pickup truck and a hotwire device was found in the ignition in the money apparently went off Knox County deputies said Officers found a bundle of $5 bills and a couple of $100 bills stained from the dye in a white 1964 Nova left in the parking lot of the bank Also in the car which had been painted white with a brush was a red and white ski mask and a small-caliber handgun The men apparently were getting ready to leave in the car when the dye bomb went off one agent said People in the bank told the FBI the pair fled noth on Pellissippi Parkway toward Oak Ridge on foot The suspects were both described as white males about 5 feet 10 and in their early 30s One was armed with a small handgun the Two gunmen are being hunted along Pellis-sippi Parkway by the FBI for the armed robbery of a branch of the First Tennessee Bank The pair wearing ski masks and armed with handguns robbed the Solway branch of an undetermined amount of cash at 1 1:20 am Thursday First Tennessee spokeswoman Estell Jackson said Two tellers and a pair of customers were ordered to lie on the floor by the duo who announced it was a robbery as they came through the door Jackson said The men then proceeded to empty the cash drawers she said As they left the bank a red dye bomb hidden Medic blood shortage may postpone surgery United Way chairman wears tag of $4 million man A local blood shortage may cause the postponement of elective surgery scheduled at area hospitals next week an official of the local blood bank says An urgent appeal was issued today by officials at Medic blood bank the sole supplier to area hospitals Medic issued a similar appeal Thursday Donors of all blood types but especially O-negative are being sought over the weekend to avert any surgery postponements said Jean Drennen director of program development Monica Willis director of technical services notified Knoxville hospitals today about the threat to non-emergency surgery if enough blood is not collected by Monday The shortage was caused primarily by the cancellation of blood drives at three major businesses Drennen said The drives would have involved 1500 donors but were canceled because of scheduling problems The demand for blood is increasing because of new therapies that use blood components in addition to whole blood needed for transfusions Drennen said 1 Since the blood bank is required to do extra blood tests to detect any signs of AIDS blood processing now takes 24 hours rather than about five hours she said Blood donation itself only takes about five minutes Anyone wishing to donate blood can come to the center at 526 Summer Place across from the downtown fire station The center will be open until 630 pm today but will slay open as long as donors are there It also will be open from 8 to 1130 am Saturday and from 1 to 4:30 pm Sunday meet the goal set each year It is made up of selected businesses who agree to run a model campaign as an example to all United Way volunteers Companies involved in the pilot campaign also must agree to shoot for a 25 percent increase over the amount the firm raised in the previous year The United Way campaign runs through Oct 31 know we can meet the Martin told audience we will be able to achieve the $4 million goal" The United Way will have little trouble reaching its fund-raising goal this year if the 1985 chairman lives up to his nickname of the million James Martin president of Plasti-Line Inc was dubbed the $4 million man in a comical three-minute video produced by WBIR-TV and shown at today's United Way breakfast that kicked off the 1985 campaign More than 600 volunteers company coordinators and United Way staff members attended the Hyatt Regency breakfast Money raised by United Way goes to 57 agencies in the Knoxville area Last year more than $36 million was raised This year's goal is 10 percent over the amount raised last year 1985 pilot United Way campaign which began in February raised more than $258000 an increase of $60J)00 over last year's pilot campaign said Philip Schemer University of Tennessee vice chancellor and the 1985 pilot campaign chairman The pilot campaign is designed to inspire campaign workers to In the video Martin passes out when James Hart WBIR general manager and 1984 United Way campaign chairman says the goal this year is $4 million But a team of rescue workers revives Martin turning him into the million who is able to work miracles and meet the campaign goal is more money than ever raised Martin said a greater increase than ever been asked to raise" Martin said that amount will only the surface of the real needs in our Notch one up for the big people 2 Sam Venable Dk little about electricity he cannot change the batteries in a flashlight on first try let alone know what they are Perhaps they'd better explain it to the people at Revca They know what batteries are either Alter I ridiculed baseball fans on Aug 8 Mrs David Hall of Sweetwater said gone from pre to meddlin' Who was she wanted to know for calling fans and Was 1 not just as much a slave to my own recreational pursuits? Me? A slave? Me who gets up at 3 am to climb mountains and hoot like an owl and try to fool a turkey? Me who slays up all night fishing for lu when thereY an important interview early the next morning? Me who sits in snow and toots on a duck call and calls it fun? Me an addict? Perish the thought Oh and then there was FM Nordeen who rapped my 'bucks for dabbling in economics in my Aug 13 treatise on the Young High Cass of the column where I talked about how cheap prices were 28 years ago Not soi says he Despite the ravages of inflation many items take a smaller chunk from the worker's paycheck than ever before He gave several examples to back up the Updates comments criticisms and other mail about columns past: Sometimes the little man wins Or in this case the big man You may remember 375-pound Julian Hursey Jr from his appearance here on March 28 This was shortly after police in Daytona Beach FLl had arrested him for sleeping in his truck It was his third such charge in three months Julian suffers from Pickwickian Syndrome an affliction of fat people During periods of inactivity their oxygen intake is reduced and they nod off Hursey vowed to take his case to the US Supreme Court But he have to go that far A few days ago a Florida circuit court rated Daytona ordinance which prohibits sleeping in public places does rot apply to people in legally parked vehicles The city says it may appeal Bat for the moment score one for rotund Knoxvillian Keith Richardson was one of several who took me to task for my July IS parody of the proposed DoUvwood devek prrcrt in Pigeon Forge (The others who wroe protests fussed at me for pc-kmg fun at most obvious features I no one had exploited Doily more than Doliy herself but that I was ahem they'd gotten it off their chests) wrath was not directed at my awful puns Rather he was upset because I had not done my homework you had investigated Dolly's background before rushing into print you would have discovered she had already tried to develop one theme park That attempt was in Milwaukee and it was a total Just to prove his point Richardson sent me a picture from the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Including the two huge greenhouse domrw Raymond Henry of SevierviHe whose business card says he is into broadcastcommunications engineering was among three who boxed my ears for not knowing (on Aug 27) hat a battery is Or was Raymond and the others tried their best to explain this to me It has something to do with vacuum tube principles But they did not realize they were talking to a man ho knows so $135 a week Shuck we're up a $1 12V) r--w Sam Venable 'e cabana a pee ere an Tbe Nrae-S entinel an lendeye Thuredjfe and Fiaday theory Ard the more I thought about it the more 1 realized Nordeen was correct In 1965 when milk was 73 cents a gallon and dress shirts $1 eah the average Knoxville newsman's salary was.