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fW ft i i-'S-v ii-1ii '-v Jt -ant 1 ilWfaiaiMfcwMi tojlassicryto NFL division showdown B1 EfSsfi -c i -Sentinel aej! lie i 4 Final Edition SATURDAY DECEMBER 20 1986 35 Centa to 9 sixth-graders Optimists by MARTI LEVARY Naws Sentinel HH writer 1 education coordinator for the Optimists and says Fryer been a dispro-co-owner of College Pharmacy The Opti- portionately small number of students who mists hope to add more pupils to the pro- have gone on to college from this gram each year he said The Optimists plan to raise (2000 for Their idea new Six years ago New each of nine youngsters selected for the York millionaire Eugene Lang promised program by the time each reaches college sixth-graders at his East Harlem alma ma- age Funds raised through benefits and do-ter he would pay their college tuitions if nations are placed into an account to earn they stayed in school and made good interest until the students graduate Fryer grades Although the dropout rate in Har- says lem schools is staggering almost 90 per- Fryer proposed the idea to other area cent of the Lang-backed students are get- businessmen last spring after watching biting ready to graduate and most will go on ner-dty children crowd into his shop for to college i candy and sodas He said the smallest chil- "We hope it's an idea that will work dren were enthusiastic about achool but they started to "dull as they got older He was anxious to find a way to keep the enthusiasm going so many people who want to help but there Just been a Fryer says The nine pupils fifth-graders when the program started were recommended by teachers and selected by a 12-member panel of educators ministers and others selected to oversee the Adopt-A-Student program "They said they would put money in the bulk for us every says Lamar Wilson now a sixth-grader at Beardsley Mid dle SchooL Lamar has already decided he wants to be an archaeologist "I like to go on digs and find pottery and study old dinosaur Lamar says also a regular fan of the "National Geographic Explorer" series on educational television Since archaeology offered at middle achool concentrating on social studies about discovering the world and learning how people Lamar says Beardsley classmate April Jones says she wants to be a doctor and Johnnie Wade please see COLLEGE back page Members erf Knoxville! Mechanicsville-lonsdale Optimist Gub believe an investment in young minds is likely to yield a healthy return The dub is encouraging nine inner-city sixth-graders to "think by promising to help pay their college tuition if they maintain a C-plus or better grade average through middle school and high school a long-term commitment but we feel the kind of thing needed to turn this community says Dr James Fryer i IJ Hugs for Hasenfus in his home state Reagan OKs missiles Gideons stop giving Bibles in schools Custom ends in Knox County following complaint by ACLU by JAY DISKEY News-Sentinel staff writer on wheels System would hamper Soviets president says by FRANK MORRING Jr 8crlppa Howard Now Service The Gideons have decided to stop distributing Bibles to Knox County School students after the American Qvil Liberties Union announced it wanted to end the Bible giveaway for constitutional reasons a Gideons spokesman said Friday Friday afternoon the Gideons informed Knox County Superintendent Earl HofTmeister that the Nashville-based religious organization would stop giving away Bibles to students during the school day said WW Vardell a spokesman for Gideons International John Montgomery a local member of the Gideons said he assumes the decision also will apply to Knoxville schools Late Friday city school officials said the Gideons had not informed them whether the organization would stop distribution to city students Vardell declined to say why the Gideons ended the distribution A USL District Court in Iowa last year ruled it was unconstitutional for the Gideons to distribute Bibles in public schools said Hedy Weinberg executive director of the ACLUfe Tennessee chapter "We have withdrawn our offer to provide Testaments to the Knox County school Vardell said really all we have to Before the announcement Friday Weinberg said she would ask Knoxville and Knox County school officials to forbid the Gideons from distributing Bibles to students during the school day Weinberg said the practice violates the section of please see BIBLES hack page WASHINGTON President Reagan whose arms control negotiators have proposed a ban on mobile intercontinental missiles said Friday he wants to develop ways to put both the MX missile and the new single-warhead Midgetman missile on wheels Reagan told the Air Force to design a "rail system that would scatter 50 MXs around the 200JX)0-mile railroad network in times of international crisis to make it harder for Soviet missiles to find them He also approved hill-scale development of the Midgetman a 37000-pound mobile I CBM mounted in a heavily armored launch vehicle designed to fan out across the Western deserts to survive a Soviet attack Brig Gen Charles May head of the Air ICBM modernization program stressed that Reagan's decision involved only development of the two systems "The total quality of systems to be produced and the extent to which the missiles are to be deployed will be dependent upon the size of the Soviet threat and progress reached on arms control said a White House statement on the decision The Soviets have rejected a US proposal to ban mobile missiles and have started deploying two new mobile missiles the SS-24 and the SS-25 in the past year "If they were to accept our proposal we would be prepared to dismantle anything we had said LL CoL Robert Shields a spokesman for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency please see MISSILES back page Eugene Hasenfus is reunited in Green Bay Wis with his sons Adam who was 7 on Thursday and Eugene Jr10 Hasenfus was pardoned and released from Nicaragua this week See story on page A2 I-: V- Pellissippi plan surprises some Adrian Burnett pupils write that ESF is special by LOB REAGAN THOMAS Nears Sentinel urban affaire writer I i i i i I i i i i by BILL MAPLES News-Sentinel staff writer changes are planned for four locations Kingston Pike Northshore Drive Topside Road and Alcoa Highway in addition to one atI-40275 The state DOT is reviewing the new proposal Community sentiment and the possibility of delaying completion of the parkway will be major factors in deciding whether to approve it said Transportation Commissioner Dale Kelley A large development that could include both residential and business projects is reportedly planned for the turkey farm property Representatives of the Atlanta engineering firm which has been working on the interchange and on the development project met Friday with staffers at the Metropolitan Planning Commission land use plan they sketched would require zoning said Sue Adams MPC executive director "but my feeling is that if there is to be an interchange at that location we would need to review the land use plan for the area There would be some obvious if there's to be the level of public investment that the interchange would call for it would require a more intensive land use The area now is classified as rural residential which significantly limits the number of dwelling units that may be built per acre However Adams said that even if Beall's family property were developed to its fullest under the present zoning classification it would cause more traffic than Toole Bend Road can handle She also noted that the MPC last week approved low-density development of a large tract of land just west of the turkey farm on Toole Bend and that there will have to be road improvements if the area continues to develop Empty Stocking Fund because we get all kinds of toys and they get' one or two toys for Christmas and that is not fun at all I know it" Heather Sands wrote: "I think the Empty Stocking Fund is a good idea because while everybody else is having fun opening gifts some children are Just sleeping or something they do on any other day This way at least they Will have one or two Greg Ivey put it' in' his own words: "We put money in the Empty Stocking Fund because we have a good Christmas every year while some people even have In nickels dimes and quarters the pupils gave (30 to a cause they understand and consider good' What is more they wanted the gift signed a certain way You see Ryan Browning a fifth-grader broke a leg in a fan near his home the Sunday after Thanksgiving He has been out of school and in traction The class wanted Its' donation signed: "In honor of Ryan Brown- ing from Ms class at Adrian Burnett Elementary" The success of the program de- Many Toole Bend area residents were surprised by a proposal that would alter the route of the Pellissippi Parkway extension to add an interchange at Toole Bend Road a community spokesman says "Right now our position would have to be we have no comment about whether we support or oppose it but we are very much concerned and will devote considerable attention to said WQ Gulley of Cove Point Lane Gulley said community residents have been promised a copy of the proposed route and interchange plans and will review them this weekend He said the proposal surprised community residents who learned about it only shortly before it became public The proposal was submitted Thursday to the Tennessee Department of Transportation by Samuel Beall IU president of Morrison's Inc and Jane Bailey his mother-in-law Their family owns a large tract of property known as the "old turkey off Toole Bold site of a proposed major development project "We had become substantially reconciled to the Pellissippi running through the Toole Bend area because the present alignment is such that it probably win result in minimum adverse impact" Gulley said "We believe any other route could have been selected that could do less However Gulley said the community wants to "try to be as objective and as fair as The parkway has been planned as a limited-access highway between Oak Ridge and Blount County meaning that it has few interchanges Presently inter Barbara fourth- and fifth-graders at Adrian Burnett School sharpened their pencils squinted out the window for inspiration and wrote some letters The subject? Why they had given to the Empty Stocking Fund and why they thought it was a good idea Angela Heatherty wrote: "I keep thinking about it because they (needy children) need some toys love and caring also If they have a nice Christmas I either" An inspiration struck Angela and she wrote: Rases are red Violets an blue If you have a good Christmas I know I will too Jack Byerly wrote: "This is what I think the Empty Stocking Fund is for making people happy on Christmas and to help them have a good Christmas dinner and make the children be happy because they get a present on Christmas Todd Foster put it bluntly: glad I am giving money to the pends on reader contributions Donations are tax-deductible and can be brought to The News-Sentinel offices at 208 Church Ave or mailed to: The Empty Stocking Fund The Knoxville News-Sentinel PO Bex SM3I Knoxville Tenn 37950-9038 List of donations page A8 i 'V y-i by Associated Press Partly to mostly sunny and cod today High 48 See weather back page 1 White House spokesman Larry Speakes said welcome this as a personal victory of courage for the principles of human rights that the two have publicly exemplified in the Soviet -Speakes added however that the system of abuses of human rights continues in the Soviet Union "There are countless others who remain incarcerated for no reason other than their desire to express their viewpoint It is these infringements of human rights that we call upon the Soviet Union to correct" he said At the State Department spokesman Diaries Redman expressed hope that Sakharov will be allowed to settle down to a normal life in Moscow and to resume his scientific career In Newton Mass relatives were elated to learn that Sakharov and Bonner were being freed from internal exile is probably the nicest Christmas or Hanukkah or New Year'S gift had wonderful" said Tatiana Yankelevich Bonner's daughter Yankelevich who lives in New-ton said her mother and stepfather received the long-awaited news directly from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday Just one day after the Sakharovs were per- please see SAKHAROV back page of not observing the 1975 Helsinki agreement's human rights provisions Dubinin said the agreement signed by 35 nations reflects rights that are guaranteed in the Soviet constitution He said Sakharov would be free to return to Moscow "without any restrictions as to the rights of a Soviet 1 The Soviets often grant scientists permission to attend conferences abroad Sakharov has never indicated that he would not return home from such meetings' The White House welcomed release and called on Moscow to respect the rights of other citizens detained for speaking out against the Soviet system WASHINGTON Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin indicated Friday that Andrei Sakharov whose internal exile was ended by the Soviet government earlier in the day may be free to travel abroad and to publish "There are no exceptions for him as to the rights of a Soviet Dubinin said at a news conference at the Soviet embassy The Kremlin lifted the Nobel physicist's internal exile in Gorky and granted his wife Yelena Bonner a pardon Sakharov was banished from the capital after he supported dissidents who accused the government 0 tBmssszza Dow Jones 2082 Issues traded Dow ends session up 1603 See stock listings business news pages B5-9 For temperatures and forecast call The News-Sentinel at 521-6300 For sports results call The News-Sentinel at 521-6200.