The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 2

Th Knoxville Nows-Sentinel Friday November 4 1988 FROM PAGE ONE Knoxville gets $45 million in HUD money Knox Briefs By ROGER HARRIS IBVWa-eOTTffl HOT wnwr Cancer center tops $15 million goal The Thompson Cancer Survival Center has raised $15 million a goal set in 1985 James Haslam campaign chairman for the fund-raising drive announced Thursday The contribution which pushed the campaign total $6000 over the top was a $250000 gift from Elk River Resources Inv -a coal company based in Knoxville The gift was given in memory of Ray Thompson a philanthropist who founded Elk River Resources and for whonT the cancer center is named The $15 million mark was reached just two weeks before the grand opening of the new home across from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for Nov 17 The cancer center is dedicated to the survival of cancer 4 it' patients and offers research education prevention services sntfi: treatment to cancer patients Woman sues U8 over death A Knoxville woman Thursday sued the US government claiming it was negligent in the operation of a Department of Energy facility where her late husband was exposed to an unshaded radiation source Vr- Carolyn Carabia said her husband's death on April 27 1987 from lymphoblastic leukemia was a result of his being exposed to 8JM0 curies of cobalt-60 gamma rays on Feb 4 1971 Her husband Julius Carabia was a research technologist employed by the University of Tennessee and working under oj contract at the Variable Dose Rate Irradiation Facility at the Comparative Animal Research Laboratory in Oak Ridge He was exposed to the radiation the lawsuit says while performing reseed irradiation experiments v- Pellisaippi State adopts team name Students at Pellissippi State Technical Community College have selected the name for the college's athletic teams The name received the most votes from a list of 10 choices developed by the student body Pellissippi State tjj officials project that the college will field athletic teams beginning in the fall of 1989 Among the programs being discussed are basketball tennis and softbalL Pellissippi State was formerly State Technical Institute at -Knoxville State Tech did not field athletic teams However when the state chose to elevate the school to a community 1 college the past summer it expanded its curriculum and began to plan for athletic programs Mayor Victor Ashe accepted $45 million from federal officials Thursday that will be used to finance parts of a downtown improvement plan city that is on the move has to have a downtown that is on the move" Ashe said after accepting symbolic checks from Nancy Sil-vers deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development One check was a $4280000 loan and the other a $220000 grant The money will pay for side-walk and crosswalk improve-v ments tree planting and landscaping new street lights and a new street signinformation sys-tern for parts of the central ness district Laurens Tullock the director of community development said part of the money will be used to continue the Gay Street improvement project up to Summit Hill Drive The street and sidewalks will be done similarly to the work completed on Gay between Church and Clinch ave- nues "What this money win enable i us to do" Tullock said "is to do more downtown right away with-i out taking money away from Some of the money will be used to buy land near the Third National Blink budding for construction of a "visitors and parking garage Tullock said The city will use $550000 a year from Its annual federal block grant to repay the $4J million US Rep Jimmy Quillen R-Kingsport announces a federal grant Thursday In Knoxville Knoxville he was instrumental in helping the city get the money Quillen said be helped the city because of his friendship with the Duncan family li rn difJiPF Areas along Jackson Ave-nue and Central Street Ashe said the public improve-' menu will be the glue that binds the recent privately fended con-: struction projecU in downtown He said there are $240 million worth of private projects under way now Joining the mayor at the press conference were UA Repi Jimmy Quillen and Lois Duncan the wife or the late Rep John Duncan Ashe said even thouf district does not loan over 12 yean Tullock said the same amount from the block grant that the city is now spending on downtown improvements he said Other downtown areas targeted for improvement are: Clinch Avenue from Gay Street to the World's Fair site Church Avenue from Mar- ket Square to the Gvic Coliseum Main Avenue between Henley Street and Gay Depot Avenue near the Southern Railway terminaL Some 20 years after the dty buried First Creek the Metropolitan Planning Commission is considering a plan to bring it back to the surface AS vi 1 Market would not rate it an acceptable compromise arguing that White Pine is more centrally located -when considering both upper East Tennessee and Knoxville fanners'- 1 "You need to 'put i Knoxville and let like that in Hearing set In perfume-spraying case Charges against a Norwood woman accused of shoplifting after spraying perfume on herself in a grocery store are to be heard court Dec 1 The case against Betty Wilson was scheduled for Thursday Gty Sessions Court but was reset Wilson 52 of 4700 Schubert Road is accused of spraying a "large quantity of a product" on herself Sept 28 at a Kroger store on Clinton Highway Her daughter Gndy Wilson said her mother picked up a sample-aize bottle of Impulse body spray and sprayed it on her arm and neck three times Her mother set the bottle down walked outside the store and was arrested Cindy Wilson said' 1 Group fo mark battle annivemiy The Knoxville Civil War Round Table will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sanders Nov 12-13 with a variety of events1- V- Ceremonies commemorating the battle are scheduled from l' to 4 pjn each date at Fort Dickerson Park near Chapman Hishwiv -w1 utive Dwight Kessel also are optimistic McWherter noted that Knox County envisions a larger facility than proposed at White Pine and that could be a selling point-Ziegler said Knox County submitted a list of six locations I-40 at Strawberry Plains Pike I- 640 at East Towm 1-40 at Asheville Highway -1-75 at Emory Road off 1-40 in West Knox County and the Forest Avenue area where there are already 17 wholesale produce dealers Although Fly declined to say which sites could be considered front-runners Lawson acknowl--edged that the 1-40-Strawberry' Plains site promoted Ire state Rep Jimmy Kyle Davis and Knox County Commissioner Joe McMillan among others could be viewed as a be- -cause it is on the northern edge of the countv Lawson quickly added that he something it he said: -v Phase one of the plan calls for -building open-air sheds farm- era and truckers to set up shop 'and sell to consumers mi a seasonal basis along with an enclosed building for year-round sales that could include such wares as crafts and houseplants The second phase would pro-svide for a restaurant farm and garden center and a wholesale building that would be "the backbone" of the operation Fly none" or tne operation Fly says center with craft offerings mesh well with the state proposal McWherter said he was sensi- tive to concerns about comped- tkm with existing markets He originally had hoped to put the first of three regional mariiets in the Memphis area but an outcry of protests from existing dealers there prompted a shift in interest to East Tennessee With such facilities Fly said the state hopes to dramatically improve the amount of Tennessee products purchased by Tennessee consumers Presently only about 8 percent of the products pro- duced in Tennessee are consumed within the state while the rest are sent elsewhere to market With the long-range outlook for tobacco sales now a major cash crop for Tennessee farmers growing dim the need for moving into other crops is growing he said 'V' i1' Csetlnsed from page A1 alternative However McWherter in an interview characterised as "an excellent site" the location on Interstate 81 at White Pine pushed vigorously by counties to the northeast State Rea Lynn Law-son R-Jefferson City says 16 counties have endorsed the location i The push for the White Pine site included a trip to Nashville for a meeting with -Agriculture: Department officials on Wednes- day Lawson also a candidate for the sUte Senate attended the meeting and said afterward be was optimistic about chances At the same time Melissa Ziegler director of the Knox County Development Depart-' ment said she and County Exec The Civil War Round Table will have living I demonstrations which will include tours of Fort 1 the firing of muskets There will also be a demonstration of Qvff War medidne- "f- For more information call Dorothy Kelly immediate prat Hi? president of the round table at 688-0883 IjiH there should be 10 bays for wholesalers to buy produce in bulk1 -s'-i -l 1 Ziegler said Knox Count plans which call for a tourism Bulletin Board WKXT tion Bagwell already has said he will be news director Cosby will be general manager' and Earl Taylor another principal of Ten-p will be i nessee Telecorp license ended when two companies agreed to form the partnership The station will be managed by the principals of Tennessee Telecom headed by Don Bag-well a forma TV A offidaL 1 Cosby and Bagwell are keep- ing quiet about other changes viewers will see involving the: WTVK switch to WKXT "We will make an announcement as it gets a little Bagwell said 1 Both refesed to discuss what personnel changes might be made- not going to be any wholesale firings good people up there and we need them" Bagwell said He noted that his company neither: owns nor operates WTVK and can have physical at the sta Is the sub- pants may bring a sack lunch Cost Is S2 jset ot a aartss of dlsoussliina xWch bsgan par asaalan or tor tha aariaa! 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