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The Knoxville News-Sentinel Tuesday April 16 1991 AS FROM PAGE ONE State court hear ex-sherifPs appeal Milton Bacon had sued Sevier County to collect i Dogwood Ceatlnned from page At lecting her as left the particulars to her "I wanted more than just a string of dogwood blossoms I wanted something that said art as wen as dogwood 1 sketched first in pen and ink visualizing the colors It was like writing an important letter that had to be worded Just right I balled up a lot of pa- settled on the final the disability benefit following a heart attack on Sept 26 1986 Bacon wu 60 years old at the time The trial court concluded that Bacon wu a regular member of the law enforcement department and that the heart attack wu due to job stress In ruling that Bacon wu not a regular officer the high court pointed out that Bacon wu paid by the clerk and master of the Chancery Court did not a uniform never had occasion to use the weap The Tennessee Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal from former SulUvan County Sheriff Mike Gardner who wu convicted in 1989 of 10 charges of abusing county funds Gardner who wu ousted from office wu convicted of using on-duty deputies to help build his house and of billing the county $1500 for a pleasure trip to Florida He wu placed on probation for three years Gardner had been sheriff for 13 years before Ming forced from office on April 1 1989 the day he wu convicted In other action the court reversed and remanded bade to Sevier County Law Court a decision that a Chancery Court bailiff wu entitled to workers compensation because of a heart attack alleged to have raBURM vran joo on he carried and had no police training Testimony from a heart specialist wu that heart attack wu "precipitated by the natural history of the disease (coronary artery disease) If he had retired if he hu been in Florida or if he had been in surgery I think the same thing would have happened" says she wu somewhere Lee hu also decorated the windows around Market Square MaU with dogwood blossoms "I love to paint windows My motto there is your window is a pane let me at it' "she says Lee and Beshears met in the choir at Central Baptist Church of Bearden Their first projects were hand -painted dresses and shoes Now business hu expanded to include athletic shirts for a school in Colorado cartoon drawings for business executives in Italy and posters for the Knoxville Nativity Pageant Beshears says she is "the mouth" of the outfit while Lee aU the artwork Beshears en-selling and meeting people Lee hu to admit that she rather be home in her studio "Sometimes I work all night my feniily just passes food un-: the door" Lee says She tells a story about the time wu at the grocery store wearing a aweat shirt with one of own silk screen designs on it the checkout line a woman over for a closer look "Is a Gale Lee?" she asked Lee said it was love her work Pm going to her and see if she hu any other designs" the woman replied sure she would Uke that" Lee Based on safes so far Beshears expects to sell L000 to 4000 souvenir shirts Top photos are named in festival Nearly 400 amateur photographs were entered In the Dog-Wood Arts photographic competition Most are on display at West Town Man through Sunday Winners included the best of show Clouds" by John Munroe Color and black-and-white winners respectively in the various categories were man-made objects Ken Culbertson and Brad Rayson landscapes and sea-1 Rick White and RT Sim-(both cdor) and Ken Car-r animals Joe Castillo (no r) abstracts and special ef-' facts John Munro and Laura Riester plants or nature Randy Russell and Harold Smith candid events people and sports Peggy Blankenship and Lee Ann Vaughn Winners in color or black-and-white categories were dogwood Kathy Fahey Knoxville now Rick White portraits Bobby Walker photos by young folks Austin Fahey photos by Gene Grant Search continues for missing couple believed slain Lewis Chapel Mountain AiitHormea suspect the cou were issued against Wooten On Sunday Wooten said that both he and ms wife shot the cou-then dumped their car and pie then ple's niece and her husband He hu been arrested and charged By Tbs AwodUd SOUTH PITTSBURG Tenn Authorities from two states searched the Tennessee River on Monday to the bodies of a mu and woman believed to have been slain last month in Sequatchie between a flower child and a hip- does pie during her student days at the joys Ringllng School of Art and Design but in Sarasota Fla Now in her late 40s she says she's no longer "a bohemian" but her philosophy about art is sky Is the limit6 "I grew upon the Dogwood Trail out off Chapman Highway so seen a million blooms I wanted a fresh look for the festival shirts one that had a Bicentennial as wen as an arty flair to it and I wanted vivid colors" She says the right design evolved after mulling over a lot of different ideas and testing them on paper There wu one other she likedjust about much what she finally selected but "it wu too arty You wouldn't know it wu a dogwood unleu someone told you That wouldn't do at the festival" does it would der she her At leaned that call said County with murder The niece is missing On March 7 the Harveys' niece Cheryl Holland Wooten 28 of Rouville Ga wu reported mining after her pickup truck wu found abandoned at a truck atop in Greene County Investigators arrested her husband Edward Arnold Wooten 30 on Thursday and charged him with two counts of murder and aggravated robbery in the deaths Similar warrants bodies at a ferry site near Bridgeport Ala about four miles downstream from South Pittsburgh Shelby Rhinehart bridge The bodies apparently were dumped in the river on a night when spillgatu on the Gunters-ville and Nickajack dams were wide open "I shudder to think of how far that car could have drifted" said District Attorney General Bill Pope not found anything yet" said Maridee Minton a dispatcher to the Sequatchie County Sheriffs Department Authorities believe Clarence Harvey 57 and his wife Mattie Harvey 54 were slain on March 2 at their home on Schools CMdaued frem page A1 Hoffmeister defended magnet schools saying they are the only yhnnhi that can draw white students to schools with large minority populations: He said magnet schools are foe only racially identifiable schools OCR will allow In December 1989 OCR found Knox County schools in violation MTHAT EXPENSIVE SUITA COMPLEMENT Ask your tailor what to wear with that fine suit he making and chances are hell tell you a pair -ofAHen-Edmonds For neatly seventy years AUen-Gdmonds has pursued the highest levels of taste fashion and workmanship And die shoes certainly show it These meticulously crafted beautifully finished dues bring out die voy best ins suit ablazeievenapairof II making a radical move here I feel wb don't have to make)) Knox County CommMonsr fact the next time putting you may want to start with the shoes and wotk your way up of Title VI of the Civfl Rights Act of 1964 specifically because of teacher assignments and student transfers The school board got OCR approval to postpone revoking transfers to a year in exchange to drafting a comprehensive desegregation plan The board missed a Dec 31 deadline but it persuaded federal officials to grant another time extension A complete plan must be in place by August while the first part of the plan desegregating and equalizing high schools must bTwmbitted to OCR by Mayl The school board meets at 5 am today in Room 351 of the City County Building mdttkta IIS" Is Tim TIme Right Tb Refinance Your Home Mortgage? Here What Business Week And Riot American Sat rates on 30year conventional mortgages are now (at)their lowest level In four years" Business Week Magazine If your home mortgage is four years old or older now is the time to look at the money-saving advantages of refinancing your mort- gage at a lower interest rate Not only will you reduce your monthly house payment but the interest you save over the life of your mortgage could be in the thousands of dollars lopping $200 of so a month from fixed expenses can be quite a stress Business Week Magazine Ifyour budget is a little or you need cash for another project refinancing could be just what you need to put extra cash in the family it could be as good as getting a raise! those who are comfortable with their present mortgage payments should remem-ber that just one percentage point makes a big difference in the long run Business Week Magazine Perhaps heard that it doesn't pay to refinance unless your interest rate goes down by two points and you plan to stay in your home at least two years That may not be true in your case A First American banking representative can show you whether it is to your advantage to refinance based on your short-and lorgterm financial objectives and the Federal Resme Board an economic turn- are already promising an economic uerA Downtown Gay at Union Quality Gothien Since 1912 You are invited to a public information and comment session on a proposed Remedial Action Plan for Bn cleanup of a waste storage site atthe Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant turn-around by 1392 so If may be years before mortgages look this good again" ft- Business Week Magazine i 4 i 13 I i The time to act is now First American offers a variety of refinancing opportunities as well as first-time mortgages and refinancing for shorter terms at extremely competitive rates and it only takes a few minutes to determine which is right for you Stop by any First American office to take advantage of today's lower interest rates and put extra cash in your pocket The United Nuclear Corporation (UNQ storage ate is located on die Department of (DOT) Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant site During die early contaminated waste in drums and boxes was brought tom the UNC facility in Rhode Island to this site Ovct the years the drums have dftfriorillwi wiMng fa potential human health and environmental risks DOT is proposing to clean up the site by placing a over the area This activity is part of Environmental Restoration Program The public is invited to review die proposed plan and make comments now duough April 30t The public comment session provides you the opportunity to ask questions of DOT and Martin Marietta Energy Systems staff regarding this proposed plan Copies of die proposed Remedial Action Plan are available for public review at Intonation Resource Center 105 Broadway Oak Ridge first American! businss Where banking is still a nxc Exceroted from Business Mteefc March 18 1991.