The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 27

525 The Knoxville SSI) News-Sentinel A SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWSPAPER Residents upset over vandalism before this happened" Bailey said vandals scorched five barns and burned down one building on her property in the past month She estimated the -damage at several thousand dollars The bridge spanning Fort Loudoun Lake is part of the Pellissippi Parkway extention prqject designed to link Anderson Blount and Knox counties by 1991 Resident in the area Sty that the crux of the problem is the access road that workers on the highway built to connect the bridge with Tooies Bend Road The access road is not for public Members of the homeowners association said the access road and Tooies Bend Road is being used by speeding drivers One resident complained her car was forced off Tooies Bend Road and into a tree She was not injured but her vehicle was totalled said Quinton Gulley president of the homeowners association The problems began in the fall after the bridge was completed and the contractor completed his i BRIDGE page BCI JMMW CgyNw SenUndfW Graffiti mars the Blount County side of the yet to be opened Pelltesippl Parkway Bridge Area residents tay the bridge has brought vandalism theft and general rowdiness Candidates begin campaigning in earnest as time winds down Croquet tourney nets funds for orchestra By MIKE WILKINSON Nws-6tntM Blount County burasu of the Blount County Democratic Party said candidates will now begin the assault on the ballot box There will be many more candidates canvassing the county this year than in previous ones With the Democrats fielding IS candidates their largest showing in decades the Aug 2 ballot will provide voters with choices Blount County traditionally has been predominately Republican Republican candidates are still unopposed in the three county school board races and some of Please see CAMPAIGN page BC2 Republican county ex-live candidate Charles Powell said Saturday as he looked for votes at the New Midland Plaza The campaigns will now start in earnest Powell said candidates) have got Aug 2 on their minds he sida the Fourth of July it win pick In Just the past week more and more lawn signs have been erected billboards rented and door knocking begun opponent Democrat Robert Fling has recently appeared on billboards around the county Imogene Wheeler chairwoman By MIKE WILKINSON NMm-Senflral Blount County bureau The Ions hot summer is here 1 and with it the campaigns for county races are beginning to heat tux With the Fourth of July holiday allowing candidates to dear the cobwebs from their signs and to break in their walking shoes voters may expect to see and hear a lot more from the men and women who want their vote Aug 2 So for candidates have been taking their vacations as they waited for the last month of the Access road is crux of problem they say By RAY McALPIN NwNf6nttnd staff writer It is meant to be a shortcut Butitl working too well say residents on the Knox County side of the new Pellissippi Parkway Bridge ey the bridge has theft and eral rowdinesa and the even open yet The Tooies Bend Homeowners Association made up ofprop-erty owners along the Tooies Bend area between Fort Loudoun Lake and Northshore Drive has met twice to discuss solutions to the problems Jane Bailey whose 400-acre property sits a throw from the new bridge said most of the incidents involve her property always found it was a quiet little community a dream community until the bridge and the road brought in more people up she said the bridge we had no trouble at alL We were a paradise community 3 Inmate solicits donations with ad When Rodger Lee Acuff placed an ad asking for donations he truthfoUy said work" What he mention is the reason for his predicament he is charged with murder and staying at the Hawkins County JaiL AcuiTS classified ed ran in the June 19 edition of the weekly Mountain which is based in Talbott He paid $4 for the ad to run two weeks but the paper run it the second week after finding out about Acuff laid Jerry Baldwin owner of the trader The ad asks that donations ba sent to Acuff 150 Washington St Rogenvilla That ia the address of the Hawkina County Jail where Acuff ia being held on $500000 bond has received no money to my LL Alan Kidd of the sheriffs department said If Acuff had received any money he could have been prosecuted for fraud according to Kidd Former Knoxville 8 Ives Clark lighland Stakes Tournament Saturday to John Kidd found his croquet victory Saturday afternoon most enjoyable -t love this Kidd said as he basked in the warmth of the sunshine and his 13-6 destruction of noted croquet players Elton Jones and Bill Ettling Noted at least in these parts as two amateurs who had done well in previous tournaments But in the first round of the Highland Staines Invitational Croquet Tournament Jones and Ettling were reduced to mortality by Clark Post and the beginner Kidd They did a good Job indeed The true winner however was the Maryvilte-Alcoa College-Community Orchestra for which the croquet tournament lawn party and silent auction served as a major fund-raiser The mostly volunteer orchestra has been playing concerts in the community since it formed in 1936 The orchestra adopted its current name in Harry Harter chairman of the board of governors for the orchestra society said the group hoped to raise $1000 at the tournament Saturday The money will go toward offsetting the cost of the six concerts the 50-member orchestra performs each year he said About 35 companies contributed to the fundraising event either donating items for the auction or providing refreshments for the third annu- Please see CROQUET page BC4 pay to depend on age of bus each bus Thoee buses between six and 10 yean old will be paid $1800 a month felt it was not a fair situa- tion to award teds on (the previous) basts" said Mike Dalton schools superintendent Dalton said the school board1 plan to ted the bus contract caused the administration to study how the pay system could be improved so owners of newer buses would not be penalized 1 Fbture tedders cm Maryville City Schools bus contracts will foce a new pay rate bssed on the age of buses Maryville school board members Friday agreed to change the method of paying bus contractors so those with newer vehicles will get paid more Under the pay plan adopted by the board owners of buses that are lees than six years old will earn $1985 each month for restaurateur Annie DeUsle Post a heartfelt welcome at the Invitational Croquet held at Maryville College benefit the Maryville-Alcoa College-Community Orchestra BLOUNTAREA BRIEFS rrODAYJN HISTORY! it The city system contracts for nine large school buses a special education bus and a vocational schoolbua One local bus contractor however questioned another board decision on the special education bus Dwayne Flynn who operates seven buses said he thought the school system was going to renegotiate his contract to Please see BUK page BCI 4th of July parade begins at midnight Parade lovers may want to get a root along the Parkway in Gatlinburg Wednesday evening for the traditional midnight July 4th parade The para he parade steps off at 12:01 ajn at Winery Square on UJ5 321 North and will roll and prance through the city officials say A new attraction the Pint Kentucky Cavalry and the First Kentucky Salt River Artillery Civil War re-enactment groups will parade in full dress costume riding hones and pulling a cannon "The parade win again feature lighted super-floats and the popular Shriner motorized units plus a lot of other exciting items" said Gene Lambert -director of the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce The Rev Ed Taylor will perform a wedding on a float along the parade route Country music entertainer Del Reeves will be the grand marshsL 911 system getting new satellite dish Members of the Mil board Included funds in the 1990-91 budget to purchase a $2000 satellite dish for the emergency dispatch system Officials said the dish will allow communication canter employees to work on -taiecontarancaa and training seminars beamed acroea the United 8tateaBC2 Weather The weather In Blount County today Is supposed to be mostly sunny and not as hot or as humid The high Is expected to reach 88 and the low should faN to 60 Tonight -is expected to be dear TueSday should be sunny and very warm with a high or 90 and a low of 66 Blount County residents may expect Wednesday to be mainly sunny hotter and more humid The high la expected to reach 94 and the low should fall to 72 Thursday should be partly sunny and an afternoon thunderstorm la possible 1 Complete weather News-SentineiA2 Deaths 20 Years Ago in Blount County Congress overrode a presidential veto of a poHtt-caity popular $276 button hospital construction but adding new fuel to tha election year debate over Inflation This was the first veto override In 10 years Fashion for men moved further away from gray flannel suits and Into colorful now clothes Men were discovering the knit way of Ufa with leisure suits Seven scouts want to Philmont 8cout Ranch In Cimarron NM for a 12-day rugged camping axpo- ice The scouts were Ed win Btoffham Tom Jolly Andy Lane 8tave Hatcher Lee Daniels Chuck Herron and Dan Ray Remodeling of the Blount County courtroom was completed at a coat of $8000 $34 million headed to veterans hospital The US House of an $14 Veterans Administration Medical Center in Johnson City I UAf aid the funds will and warehouse complex who has tried for four years to fund the project said the current laundry is antiquated especially in light of the new demands placed on it existing warehouse is also badly antiquated and even dangerous for the employees to work Quillen R-Temu said simply adequately do the Job now that such tremendous growth is occurring Construction contracts totaling nearly $32 million have been awarded since February toward two projects at the A hoepitaL A 600 600-bed domiciliary the largest in the VA system will provide educational capabilities as well as an improvement to patient care conditions UT plans to switch to paper products University of Tennessee students will be eating off of biodegradable paper plates soon UT Is In the process of giving up plastic foam and replacing it with paper products seamed the right thing to do" said Norm HW director of food sarvtcaBC2 Index TMs Week In BtountBC2 8portaBCf Blount County MARYVILLE: Floyd Cannon 87e Outsido Area PITTSBURGH PENN: Ruth I laaid (fiaaMa JBfo hwtmTi Torvii0My ov MaryvMa For Meet death Met and obite-aeo page C8 In.