The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 2

A2 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Sunday Decamber 4 1988 is' A'- i- FROM PAGE ONE -WJ-W- Temperature forecasts improved r- WKXTs debut Rawed antenna blamed for delay trust drive meteorologists up the! walL almost impossibls to determine how an ana will get at 100 weather stations nation- wide And if you agree with the way the NWS scons its precipitation predictions weather service meteorologists come within 3 per- cent of their proba-fbracasta maximum and temperatores isn't too difficult in this age of computerized weather analysis Precipitation forecasts in con- By DON K1RKMAN Soflppe Howard New 8endoe The National Weather Service patting itself on the bade about it but its meteorologists have improved their forecasts Aided by improved computers weather satellites and other technological innovations NWS forecasters usually come within three degrees of toe daily maxi-nd minimum temperatures ALCOA Centiaued from page A1 members win be conducted before the ratification vote officials said Major elements of the contract include: A profit sharing plan that is retroactive to January 1 1988 It A1 sent to The News-Sentinel Empty Stocking Fund Teresa Lenear said possibility of making it Chrkmas Just a brighter win make my days er to the Empty Stocking Fund are used to purchase food baskets and toys for needy families at Christmas She and her brother worked at -the same Magnolia Avenue fast-' food restaurant Teresa Lenear had worked the morning shift and was at home when her brother an assistant manager called their mother Mary Lenear and told her he had to work late to count money: It was the last tone they spoke By ERIC VREELAND iwmsiimisi mn writer The good news to that the old WJVK-TV antenna came down from atop a 1000-foot-tall tower on Ridge Saturday afternoon without a hitch ''The bad news supervisors at the scene said is that WTVKIs successor new -station WKXT-TV Channel 8 wont be broadcasting Monday as previouslyplanned Lewis Cosby WKXTs general manager said Saturday that WTVKIs switchboard has been lit up with hundreds of calls from CBS viewers who have had trouble picking up programs WTVK is broadcasting on low power during the interim as it switches over to WKXT The delay came with the discovery that some connecting pieces on the WKXT antenna were flawed and required replacement The new antenna with the corrected connector likely win be placed atop the tower Monday Td like to apologize to viewers" Cosby said "This is necessary so that we can taring Channel 8 onto the air and everyone can get a better -The general manager predicted the switch will occur or Wednesday could have gone on the air Monday as planned Cosby aaid but that would have meant the faulty connectors would have broken down the station's signal sometime in the future WTVK is a UHF-frequency station but WKXT will broadcast with a VHF frequency UHF signals do not reach as hr as VHF signals so with the switch to a VHF frequency WKXTs signal should pene trate East Tennessee'S rugged terrain better than WTVK1 Audit Ceatlaas4 freer page A1 is City and court officials have been worlv'g for months on streamlining the record-keeping ryorun- process after the discovery i paid court costs and fine forfeited bonds that were never followed up on and some cases that trere never resolved Last Tuesday dty officials re- teased a report showing a prelimi nary paid estimate of $U2J)00 in un costs and fines on approximately 700 state The dty has i not yet reviewed indetaiL cases include misdemeanors and felonies like shoplift- City i State tag rape and burglary City include traffic violations such as Speeding and dty ordinance violations such as constructing building without a permit The maximum fine on a city case is $50 When work on city court is completed the University of Ten- weather aodies 1 annually through 1991 Ittaestimated that each em- pioyee would receive an average for' 1988 based on AL- COAIs anticipated financial performance this year officials said A cadi signing bonus of $1000 in 1988 and lump sum bonus payments of $500 November 1990 and 199L An increase in monthly pension payments totaflng $4 for with him His Ford Escort over turned on Ruggles Ferry Pike on bout llriO pm the way home at about He was thrown from the car and knew that road Hke the back of Us hand but it had rainsd and the road was his sister said Teresa Lenear21 said it is hard to accept the loss of her "big little Tm Just 5 fast tall and he was 5-foot-9 I would have to stand on the couch to trim our Christ- mss tree John would usually trim the top and I would trim the bot- She said i-'-- Mary Lenear said her children dose and that her seems to have aspe-been hard on her daughter making a donation to the Empty Stocking Fund makes her feel a Uttle bit T-VY I PUlandComiaC Mr sw Mra JcSs a IsinpU MaMMI Supply Col TmMaw Horta Supply Inc oig sono 1000 Workman Jimmy King top and Greg Hershey ride to the top of WTVK's television tower on 8harp'a Ridge That will mean better reception for CBS viewers Meanwhile a six-man crew from a Marietta Ga-based removed antenna Sat-l operation said 'Doug iStaUard WKXTs transmitter supervisor Stallard who I 4K-ton antenna descended lJMO-fbot-taQ tower WKXTs new 'equipment cost about $16 million said empty stocking fund donations With that in mind the NWS gives mg i itself wide latitude on scor? its precipitation forecasts- They say the forecast is right if any amount of rain tails a tiny one-one hundredth of an inch or 10 indies on a day toe forev caster predicts rain each year of service This represents an average increase in pension benefits of approximately 2d percent For example after ton econd year an employee with 30 years of service with ALCOA will receive an increase of $120 peit month in pension payments A 50 cent an hour general increase in base wage rates ginning the first Monday in No-' vember 1989 would usually get John a gift every Christina and it (the do- nation) makes me feel Hke there ta still someone there for me to give gift she said She said this is the first ton? aha has given to the fund but her had always and her brother to "Every year before an would take us into our toy room and tell us to each pick out five toys we didn't want any! more She would take them down -to the fire department to give tq needy kkV ahe said -V A donation to the ESF will help many children in Knox- County have a lumpier Christmas than they would otherwise Please send your donations toe' PJXBaxB98S8 KaravOI Teni -s Jvi 1000- MrahdMra JolnOiMuSaiajrJi'-'f solOo' TOM Sf1J111 THMSCVOU 1 i irV- rrfrv ta a A feft 3 the Cosby being completed McNees ssid the auditors basically are finding what has already been known and detailed public 1 costs and fines ly suchss However lie said since they have obviously conducted these kinds of audits before showing city and court staff how to go about the review more efficiently i what has been done (by the dty) is good and they win ha for improvement he said Just a new computer was installed McNees said that will allow dorks to print out any aspect of a case including a receipt for having paid cost Before a receipt was handwritten That has already increased efficiency in collecting court costs and fine he said i Also he said they have decided to install a microfilm system that will store and printout 100000 document summer of next year we win have a new room real carpet microfilm and new computer i Municipal Technical Assistance Service which is prepar-' ing a manual on municipal courts since none exist is interested in using the court as a state modeL Ramsey said ths basis for the auditors' initial findings is that in at least one case money is not on deposit and that certain supporting documents are missing Last week the auditors reviewed 6500 city cases dating between January 1987 and November 1988 Of those case preliminary findings show approximately 810 case or 8 percent remain unresolved Several reasons could explain that Ramsey said hke recent cases not yet coming to court or a more serious explanation of cases Just getting lost far the shuffle With a printout of the 810 case the auditors did a sampling of the first page and from that sampling estimated that about 92 cases in which officers wrote tickets never made it to court Rameey said The auditors also projected based on the sampling that some 300 cases were never noted as forecast Tonight i Nokand Jml woo 1 mao 2500 Mr and Mn McTUnd Os 05 and Qanrd S00 Mrs lUi MoCupbuS Jr hi memory of my Mhor Or ML BMoh ftrom Mr KK OvorooMi In momory of aur paramo tam Mr and Mrs Hortort Craig 200 700 Qaorgi gnd MAO ArmOranQ Corrections Amplifications 7 I IT you Ond a mistake in The Newt-Sentinel call Associate Editor Harold Harhw 521-1848 so we can comet the error The News-Sentinel 521-6300 knoxvllle four-day 24-hour forecast high and Monday's low) Monday iTuetday (Wednesday (Today 3 Sunny to partly doudy breezy chilly High 48 Clear and odd Low 22 High aftamoon: Sunahina mild High 56 Low Sunahlna 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