Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 8

Page 8 BRISTOL HERALD COURIER Saturday ebruary 28 1981 tato By Daw Grace gOaMaBssOaSSa feui "few I Ayrl igKSSk 1 XX MW 77 v'X SiwWI XXXv77' i' '7 '''L'j bxXX7 XXX fxXxxX'X rXXXX'XXXX IW'" nyBX: 7X r' rzXi fZ 7 Xj X'v' i'Z' '''cvX 7XX'''7 4' X' A XXX '7X" 7 7X 7777 7 77 7777 7777777 Zftfe I 'V 7 Support Continued rom Page 1 major enemy (inflation) under Cooper urged the UMW to under what the new administration is propos ing which he said is to reduce fraudulent claims under the black lung program But Kennedy said the UMW has think ing about it (memorial period) for some and that the bargaining counsel sup ported Church 100 percent in his call for the two day work stoppage 1 Kennedy in Washington as a member of the bargaining counsel said he is along with it for the purpose called The memorial period which union leaders emphasized was not a strike is allowed under the contract with the Bituminous Coal Association Kennedy said adding he will participate in a march in front of the White HouseMarch9 Kennedy estimated there are about 5500 black lung pensioners in Southwest Virginia and about 400 union miners 'or less currently out of work Asked how many non union miners there were in Southwest Virginia Kennedy replied darn The district president said he does not know if miners in this area will hold a rally similar to the one at the White House adding might 7 if a pretty day just go Kennedy declined to comment on whether the union miners would get paid for the two day memorial period Some coal operators in Southwest Virginia asked if they would shut down for the period re plied According to the office in Washing ton more than 4000 miners die each year from the of the disease which is progres sive and can not be stated coal sust kills with great agony We cannot in good conscience allow the Black Lung benefits gains for coal miners to be tossed a UMW spokesman in Washington said Tuesday 7 Robbery Suspect Charged A 27 year old unemployed Bristol Tennessee man who al legedly robbed employees of two city grocery stores at gun point during separate instances last December and January was jailed in Blountville riday on charges of armed robbery authorities said Marshall Wayne Batts a Kentucky native who not have a regular address in Bris according to Capt Eddie Wampler was arrested at noon yesterday by city police and charged in connection with the alleged robbery of an employee of Discount ood Store on Pennsylvania Avenue Dec 3 and the manager of the Thrifty Market No 5 on Volunteer Parkway Jan 16 Hurt's store employee Junior Henry identified Batts as the al leged thief from a photographic line up Thursday Wampler said The suspect was arrested at a hide at 900 lorida Ave and arraigned on' two counts of armed robbery in General Sessions Court yester day Wampler said Judge Gil bert Torbett set bond at $25000 and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for 9 am March 10 Conviction of armed robbery carries a sentence of 10 years to life on each count Both of the robberies were similar in that they allegedly occurred during daylight hours in a parking lot and the store employees had just completed transactions at local banks The employee of was allegedly robbed at gunpoint at 9:45 am Dec 3 at the parking lot of Tri City Bank and Trust Co Southside Shopping Center' just after he had picked up the deposits Bruce Huffine manager of the Thrifty Market struggled with a masked gunman at 2:30 pm Jan 16 at the park ing lot following a trip by the manager to the irst National Bank of Sullivan County near Shopping Center Wampler said Huffine reported that a shot was fired during the struggle but no one was injured The bandit overpowered Huffine and reportedly escaped in the automobile The car was found abandoned later in the day at ood City on Bluff City Highway The amount of money taken in the robberies has never been disclosed by police nor recov ered However' several checks and food stamps allegedly taken from the store employee were recovered in plastic bags floating in South Holston Lake by fisherman several days after the heist Wampler said SHARP PRINTING CALCULATORS DESIGNED WITH YOUR PROBLEMS IN MIND ALL MODELS A VAILABLE AT TYPEWRITER SALES SERVICE CO 836 STATE ST BRISTOL TENN 615 764 3181 Attend this informative fact filled seminar on interest rates and in vestments Wheat irst Securities Inc in Bristol is present ing an interesting seminar that covers the movement in interest rates and how it affects stocks bonds and other interest rate sensitive in vestments Topics will be discussed in an easy to understand manner with a question and an swer period following When Where: Tuesday March 3 at 7:30 pm in the 1606 Euclid Avenue office of Wheat irst Securities Bristol Speaker: Pamela Mcarlane Account Executive Registration: Admission is free but seating is limited Reserve your seat(s) by calling 466 6221 Wheat irst Securities Members New York and American Stock Exchanges Member SIPC 1606 Euclid Avenue Bristol Vo (703)466 622 1 SPRING IS NEAR CC Burwell enjoys the unseasonably warm weather riday many persons like CC discovered they did not need the cold weather clothes they during his walk home from school on Oakview Avenue in Bristol Virginia As tem had grown accustomed to peratures rose into the mid 60s and blue skies promised of warmer days to come Brush ire Continued rom Page 1 shad fish which have died as a result of the drawdown The reason for the winter drain is to permit the lake bottom to and Exposing the bottom will it Henderlight said The city has been in violation of a state Public Health Department order for not starting the cleanup or eliminating the use of the pump station sooner Using the high water level diversion technique of draining the waters at the suggestion of the health department has resulted in no odors being detected at lake Henderlight said we would have done this in 90 degree weather it proba bly would smell like a septic tank out he said Design plans for the new sewer line are presently under review by the state health department and contract bids to build the line are pending the appro val according to Hurlbert unding from the Environmental Pro tection Agency has been earmarked to fi nance 75 percent of the costs of the con struction work while Bristol Tennessee and Bristol Virginia must pay the remain der An investigation at Steele Creek in June 1971 indicated that occasional over flows from the pumping station next to the lake created the presence of raw sewage in the stream flowing into the lake The Parks and Recreation Commission voted to close the lake's public swimming area in March 1974 after widespread pol lution and contamination problems were revealed in a professional staff renort An estimated 96000 fish were killed at the lake last September from an apparent accumulation of sewage in the water Budget Continued rom Pagel the states in 1982 with the total costs for all 40 programs cut to 75 percent of 1981 levels The fuel assistance program provides extra money for peo ple to meet their home heating bills Under the proposed change each state would de cide how to allocate its grant among the 40 programs Higher spending on one program than under the present system would force cutbacks in spending on other programs Meanwhile a government in dicator of future economic ac tivity pointed downward in Jan uary for a second consecutive month suggesting the economy will be slowing in the months ahead The Commerce Department said its Index of Leading Indi cators fell 04 percent in Jan ment economists said the index did not mean that the country was headed for another reces sion The economy has recovered from the recession of a year ago faster than had been ex pected growing at a healthy 5 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter of 1980 Controlled In County A brush fire riday burned approximately 10 to 15 acres of land in Sullivan County before firefighters got the blaze under control according to authori ties irefighters had the blaze under control by 6 pm riday after it burned a section of land near Central Heights Elemen tary School on Route 11W a spokesman for the Sullivan County ire Department said The fire burned near approxi mately 10 to 15 houses and two to three barns in the area irefighters had trouble con trolling the blaze because it was on a hillside the spokesman said However they finally managed to form a break around the blaze The cause of the brush fire had not been determined last uary after declining 09 per cent in December The index had registered a gain for six months in a row prior to De drop Although the latest decline pointed to sluggishness gover President Reagan contends night his package of spending and tax Sullivan County firefighters cuts together with a slowdown responded to the blaze backed in the growth of the Up by units from the Piney money supply will reduce in lats Avoca Bluff City and flation and restore strong Bloomingdale fire depart growth in 1982 ments Kingsport TV Station Proposal Is NASHVILLE Tenn (AP) A proposal by WKPT TV in Kingsport to operate the East Tennessee educational television channel like just a little better deal for WKPT than it does for the a state education official said today Darrell Rowlett assistant education commis sioner in charge of the educationaal TV system told a reporter he is taking no stand on the proposal by Holston Valley Broadcasting Corp which operates WKPT TV a commercial station He said the license for the educational chan nel in question is issued in the name of the state Board of Education although legislation is pen ding to turn the educational television network over to non profit corporations in the Questioned communiities they serve On Tuesday George DeVault Jr exec utive vice president and general manager of Holston Valley Broadcasting said his company was willing to provide $15 million to build a completing educational television station for channel 41 The ederal Communications Commission has set aside 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