The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

Final Edition NOVEMBER 4 1988 35 Cento narrows Knox has 2 of 3 finalist sites Fly and other state officials' sssisted by the U5 Department of Agriculture have been screening the sites entered by the com-' peting counties tor weeks and expect to present McWherter with a Hat of three options next week White Pine The selection could be worth millions benefiting both formers with fruits and vegetables to sell and consumers who want to buy them Felix Fly assistant director of marketing for the state Agriculture Department says projections based on what happened after Montgomery opened such a facility in 1986 indicate $7 million to $10 million in annual to as much within "a few as $20 Knox County would appear to than' the County an edge thanks in part to a Commis- have around Morristown From past indications and reports from a briefing with an East Tennessee delegation this week it appears that the three leading sites are: 1 Near the East Towns Mall exit off Interstate 40 at 1-640 in East Knox County Near the Strawberry Plains exit off 1-40 also in East Knox County- Near Morristown at the Jefferson-Hamblen county line at By TOM HUMPHREY MWMminM NMnVMI DwlHI NASHVILLE A state staff study win be sent to Gov Ned McWherter next week and will narrow the sites for a multi- million-dollar East Tennessee market to three The decision by the governor on where $15 million in state money will be spent pits Knox viDe against its neighbors to the northeast especially the ana skm to add up to $25 million in county money to the state fends vs an original pledge of $200000 from eight counties backing the years' MARKET page AJ I' -1 Librarian checks out traffic pinch hits as crossing guard 2 new counts placed on teen suspect Burglary receiving van cited -M By SIBYL JEFFERSON NMwWilllNI KMT WIhi Two more charges were placed Thursday against Terry Roundtree a 15-yew-old West High School freshman also charged with shooting a transient three times The juvenile is charged with being delinquent by reason of burglary of a business and with receiving and concealing stolen property his attorney said Attorney Mark Stephens sakl both of these incidents happened in July and are unrelated to other charges against Roundtree These charges will be added to the charge of felonious assault with intent to commit tint-degree murder in the shooting of Daniel Bolton on Oct 24 Bolton 29 was shot in the face hand and hip near Tyson Park Police also suspect Roundtree of shooting and killing Eugene Jenkins 54 of Sevier Coun- ty on Oct 25 Jenkins and Bolton were shot at locations less than a mile from each other Jenkins whose body Please see TEEN page A4 Computer virus paralyzes huge defense network Librarian and designated crossing guard Helen Taylor halts traffic while Green School pupils scamper across busy Summit HIM Drive -I 1 Employees step forward aid pupils By JOHN MARKOFF PMw Tvs is I RIM PMS MnHOR In an intrusion that raises new questions about the vulnerability of the computers a nationwide Department of Defense data network has been disrupted since Wednesday night by a rapidly mreading virus software program apparently intro- duced by a computer science malicious experiment The program reproduced itself through the computer network making hundreds of copies in each machine it reached and effectively clogging systems linking thousands of military corporate and university computers around the counfry preventing them from doing additional work The virus is thought not to have destroyed any files By late Thursday afternoon computer security experts were calling the virus the largest assauit Taylor had to wait for a break in traffic before she walked into the intersection and started yelling She pleaded with the children to walk but most hit the street running tells them to walk but the kids run because they get scared" said Mary Roberto 24 who escorts her 6-year-old Ahstringna Newman 1 acroas the street each day Taylor said police officers occasionally are at the intersection to assist pupils but the officers often sre called away to other assignments Said Taylor know why they get a guard down here all the time When somebody gets hurt when get concerned trying to do something before a child gets hurt" way to Austin Homes Teachers and employees serve as temporary crossing guards for one-week stints she said The inner-city school have a crossing guard although the fends are available to hire one -city officials said The Knoxville Police Department is in charge offering the guards but fill the position officials said Ousters of pupils drifted down Townview Drive East as they left school and waited to cross the street One group waited almost 10 minutes for traffic to clear Although most cars slowed down few obeyed the 20-mph sign and flashing lights posted 50 yards away on Summit Hill Drive By MARIA CORNELIUS staff writsr librarian stepped out into the Sum-crosswalk in her skirt and dress jer hands up She yelled for cars to Kdont-Want anybody to including myself Smd HelenTaylor in the mtddle of the intersectwa- They need VOmebody i'i Tsylor stood toUiep) ESe MjGreen ElfenentSchoof Thursday and helped almofet 200 pupils cross the street on their i see VIRUS hack page -c Channel 8 debuts? Dec 5 By JOHN ENSSLIN SOfippS HOWBru INM MnwWv tkms Commission granted the license for Channel 8 in October The VHF channels 13 and under are more lucrative because of their stronger signal to non-ca- ble viewers The FCCs action was expected because an other applicants withdrew their requests for the channel as a result of a money settlement with Knoxville Chan-' nel 8 Limited Partnership The partnership includes Cosby and other principals of Telecorp and John just tiiftlcutt! I kid pedpGwho'Bl transition to Channel said Lewis Cosby general manager of the new station and a principal in Knoxville Channel 8 Limited Partnership which owns the sta- tion During the five days while WTVK-TV Channel 261s on low power and before WKXT-TV signs on as Channel 8 on TeleScripps will receive it as1 if nothing has Cosby said Viewers in the Knoxville met- ropolitan area also will be able to receive it over the air Cosby said He said the Federal Communica- -4 4s 1 WTVK drops power in 5-day switchover VByJACKLAIL News-Sentfcwl bulnsse editor newest television station will sign on Channel 8 as WKXT-TV on Dec 5 but most CBS-watchers win not miss any of their favorite shows in the transition the general manager said Thursday 26 win sign off on Nov 30 and will be operating on i low power while we make the itkDiard wwkf she sakvl Ifilid Jtk: jiBtl difficult'to find! ImiqMwhQlddo that kindfof work'and are trained and i SB Control tb Department of Laborfi icertify that shortags of exists fling domestichelp exists' eforej must recruit domestic help forj SddsAnyjjnibser is 60-i iquentjobsj -dayj lUndaMJoiisel I Mountain Plains rifffrlsf Please see WKXT page A2 Dukakis vows heightened drug war sfoducowbojffi Jhat'st-wanto-beivhen-I bodydoe Because they Canti I5helpfjufitti'js tending! of 52 tanchers the federal go vem rlpermkaiondjt Internationally edRobertaa( Ihoursisfeatioqland fcinatureiof the rana he said would rid US schools of' randh atresds drug Cami $150 million added 1 for school battle plan vexecutivel Linda Jones grtwp fe looking-forfri ihsnds fWeVeJoowngitw know about cattle bid havej working conditions to i iakLJihe4tttehands work frjround 1 nd watching Out while livjng in a wagon By ROBERT ENGELMAN 8crippe Howard Wane Sendee require school districts to set up councils" including parents school of-) fidals and police to attack drug use in schools He called for a to drug education beginning in the early elementary grades and I mean the first second and third grade in every elementary school in the nation because Please see DUKAKIS page A7 hasapprovltdlhire': sheepherders a temporary bn dtyMr'eeven-day-k-weekj iiend board'provided11 ideliverif pambe earn $5004 months pius and boardf paigning on his 55th birth- day in Pennsylvania where polls show him in a dead heat with Bush Dukakis said 1 he would launch a alliance against drugs that will set as its -goal drug-free schools inthe 1990s in every community in -r America" Outlining fes drug proposal Thursday Dukakis said he would ULADELPHIA With five left to dose the gap against (a Bush Democratic presi-il candidate Michael Duka-iveiled a plan Thursday that.