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PO RTS Upgrading US phasing out its civil service tests A8 Detours is movie magic Inside Living Yanked Steinbrenner again fires Billy Martin Cl 3BB ryjipgiiyi i ipujpp fjMwmiMm The Knoxville News -Sentinel A Final Edition JUNE 24 1988 rA-3SCqta9 nationworld Family friends mourn 0 uncart Joe Duncan conviction reversed Late son gets new trial By ERIC VREELAND and KAYE FRANKLIN VEAL Nnw-ftantinai staff writers Hours before funeral began Thursday night for Rep John Duncan a federal appeals court in Cincinnati threw out the tax-charge conviction of son and an accountant The three-judge panel of the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Joe Duncan and Michael Downing are entitled to new trials on a single count stemming from the filing of Joe Duncan's 1982 federal income tax return Downing prepared the return "My dad was always confident that this would work out and I would not go to prison" Joe Duncan said really glad to have this behind me I only wish my dad had lived to hear this Steve Oberman Joe Knoxville attorney who argued the appeal predicted that both defendants will be acquitted if the case is tried again only regret is that it come out Oberman said referring to the coming after Rep Duncan died Tuesday night following a long battle with cancer of the prostate and upper body Oberman said the May 1987 conviction and the pending appeal had worried the congressman who consistently and vocally argued his innocence The appeals court heard arguments Feb 23 and the four-month wait for a decision was lengthy due to the complexity of the case Oberman said The court ruled that US District Judge Allan Edgar erred in giving the jury its instructions Please see SON back page Sen Albert Gore Jr and Gov Ned McWhorter are among the dignitaries who filed in to the funeral service for Rep John Duncan i 1 A Patriotic lawmaker fondly remembered 1 rjf I "'T term knew John for more than half a said Baker played together as boys in our native Scott County served our country together and tried to be good Americans no matter said the White House official focus was always what was good for the 2nd District First and last he was a Tennessean and proud of it" Baker said Duncan a country boy who grew up to serve as mayor of Knoxville before run-' ning for Congress not much in fashion quiet patriotic a Republican in a Democratic Congress when he first went to HV 1 On Thursday night the body of Duncan 69 lay beneath one of those massive flags as family friends and national lawmakers said goodbye to him at his funeral at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church in West Knox County is hard to lose such a man as John Duncan" said Howard Baker Jr former Tennessee senator and White House chief of staff Baker flew in with a large congressional delegation from Washington for the evening service congressional seat By KAYE FRANKLIN VEAL Newt-Sentinel etaff writers US Rep John Duncan loved big American flags During his nearly 25 years as a congressman he toted home on weekend trips to East Tennessee hundreds of the huge Stars and Stripes that once flew over the US Capitol in Washington where he worked He made it his personal patriotic project to deliver the flags to the children in rural and city schools throughout the 2nd District WBIRrTV drops CBS for NBC Sen Jim Sasser talks with his East Tennessee coordinator Gene Hartsook before the service was the one held by fa- and the one held by ther who died in the early 1960s mother who filled out her late Please see DUNCAN page A2 By REON CARTER News-Sentinel entertainment writer farm help 10 governors seek Centers available as heat shelters Fans air conditioners sought By REBECCA PERL News-Sentinel staff writar Drought hot line loans available From wire reports Record temperatures Television station WBIR-TVs hop to NBC could start a round of musical chairs for other Knoxville stations and bring confusion for viewers The announcement by WBIR-TV Channel 10 that it is ending its partnership with CBS necessarily mean that WTVK-TV the present NBC affiliate will join CBS Tony Malara president of the CBS affiliates' division said the network is checking possibilities with the Knoxville ABC affiliate WATE-TV Channel 6 as well as with WTVK Channel 26 During the past season NBCs prime-time schedule finished in first place as it has for the past three seasons ABC finished second mainly with help from its coverage of the 19S8 Winter Olympics CBS finished in last place for the first time in its broadcast history still just in the process of Malara said concerning the CBS situation in the Knoxville market way it works is had telephone I 1 The weather eased in parts of the Northeast however In SL Louis the medical examiner's office said Thursday that a 99-year-old woman whose bod was found in sweltering bedroom the previous day had died from the heat A worker who collapsed and died Wednesday at an un-air-conditioned Chrysler Carp plant in nearby Fenton Mo was found to have died of heart disease unrelated to the weather officials said Thursday The death had prompted others at the plant to walk off the job for a time but work resumed Thursday Chrysler said In Chicago Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng told Midwestern governors that the federal government would what is to aid farmers Governors discussed steps to so Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe is urging those suffering from the record-breaking temperatures such as Thursday's 100 degrees to go to one of the city's air-conditioned recreation centers or one of Knoxville's Community Development Corps community rooms Five city recreation centers are open and air-conditioned to help people cope with the heat wave At least one common area in each KCDC development also is open Transportation may be arranged through the project managers The John Senior Center also welcomes those who need a break from the swelter The Community Action Committee's energy program has called on area residents to donate fans and air conditioners as well as money to help the needy pay utility bills Those who most need to keep cool are the elderly those on medications and young children Governors from 10 parched states held an emergency meeting Thursday to plot steps to help farmers survive the worst drought in 50 years while forestry officials said the hot dry ground was increasing the danger of fires Temperatures once again hit the middle 90s to around 100 degrees from the central High Plains through the lower Missouri Valley into the Tennessee Valley and mid-Atlantic states The devastating combination of extreme heat and record low rainfall also continued to Stan barge traffic in the nation's midsection increased the threat of forest fires and even raised the possibility of higher beer prices Kansas City Mo (1973 record Paducah Ky (1952 record Richmond Va (1911 record Tied records Downtown Baltimore (1965) Chattanooga 999 (1944) EvansviHe Ind (1944) Nashville 100 (1944) Washington OC (1874) I Please see DROUGHT page All Please see WBIR back page Soiin VMTW Swvc sail Please sec HEAT page All INDEX Former defense aide says Weinberger East Tennessee A3 Living BM Sports CM Want Ads C9-24 Sam Venable A12 Comics 87 Editorials AQ Obituaries CS Tdeuun BS NationWorid Plus Detain as serious for the United States as diug trafficking and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome epidemic have institutionalized a bad said Godwin 66 who worked with Weinberger at Bechtel before President Reagan's election in 1930 Godwin said he accepted the job as the first undersecretary of defense for acquisition in 1936 with the understanding that he would stay only as 'Bad apples' theory hurt reform he says By Assooated Press WASHINGTON Caspar Weinberger former colleague in private life brought to the Pentagon to get control of procurement says he quit in frustration last fall because Weinberger and President Reagan failed to support his management buys weapons Both Weinberger and Reagan have characterized a current far-flung investigation of defense contract fraud as a matter of a few dishonest peop taking advantage of what is generally a good procurement system Authorities are looking into allegations that defense contractors obtained classified information through their consultants in order to get billions of dollars of defense contracts Godwin called the Pentagon procurement process a crass ffer 100 percent with the (former) secretary of defense who said the system is fine but we have a few bad said Richard Godwin the former undersecretary of defense for acquisition who was brought into the Pentagon to carry out reforms recommended by another Californian industrialist David Packard Godwin the former president of Bechtel Civil and Minerals Inc also said Weinberger the former defense secretary was percent wrong" in defending the way the Pentagon STOCKS 1934 issues traded Dow Jones ends session down 391 stock fisting business news C5-L THE WEATHER FvSy sunny end boL Hit 92 Low: 63 Complete earner A2 Please see AIDE page All.