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Chuckle extremely important that parents with small children save something for a rainy day their patience Bristol Herald Courier Your amily Newspaper or More Than 100 Years Weather BRISTOL AREA: Cloudy with a chance of showers today and tonight Details on page 2 107th No 25923 Bristol Virginia Tennessee Wednesday November 2 1977 15 48 Pages Good Morning Quick Look At The News BOTH INCUMBENT EARL LEENOR and challenger Jimmy Smith seeking election to the Washington County Board of Supervisors from the Wilson District talk about the issues of the race as they see them Page 5 RESIDENTS A SECTION THE Lowry Hills subdivision are pressing their efforts to secure street maintenance as another troublesome winter approaches Page 11 THE NEW HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELARE Building was named in living honor of the dying Hubert Humphrey Page 8 DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS THE DICKENSON County Board of Supervisors have been charged with exchanging public services for private individuals in return for political support Page 11 BRISTOL TENNESSEE CITY COUNCIL considered adopting an ordinance limiting and regulating yard and garage sales in the city at their meeting last night Page 11 IN THE WORLD OICIALS DISQUALIIED two national beauty queens from the Miss World contest Tuesday upon learning that each was only 15 years old two years under the minimum age requirement Miss Italy Anna Kanakis and Miss Nalta Janice Galea said they only learned they were too young after competing in their home countries and arriving in London for the final contest King Hassan "AS Mt A' KING HASSAN MOROCCO has accepted the invitation of President Jimmy Carter to pay a state visit to the United States in early December it was an announced Tuesday A White House spokesman said the visit will begin with meetings in Washington on Dec 7 and 8 and is expected to be followed by visits to Chicago and New York in ensuing days This will be third visit to the United States as a reigning monarch He previously visited in 1963 and 1967 IN THE NATION HUBERT Humphrey III who has served four years in the Minnesota Senate has set his sights on Washington in announcing Tuesday as' a Democratic arm Labor candidate for Congress in 3rd District The 35 year old son of Sen Hubert Humphrey Minn said he was anxious to take on Rep Bill renzel Minn the veteran incumbent in a district with strongRepublican tradition MX HH Humphrey Hl LX i So rank Sturgis CONVICTED WATERGATE burglar rank Sturgis was held in $25000 bail Tuesday in New York City on charges of threatening a government witness who reportedly told a congressional committee she went with Sturgis and Lee Harvey Oswald to Dallas three days before President assassination Sturgis 52 was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of attempted coercion and aggravated harassment of a government witness IN VIRGINIA TWO BOYS HAVE filed a federal court suit in Richmond against Portsmouth Sheriff Milton A Owens and several deputies seeking jail officials to seek an injunction to require jail officials to stop assaults on prisoners by other inmates The juveniles who complained that they were beaten and sexually assaulted in the Portsmouth jail asked for damaged of $100000 each Each of the boys claimed he was beaten and forced by other juveniles to perform sexual acts three separate times between late ebruary and early March A 20 YEAR OLD WYTHEVILLE man shot himself to death while barricaded in his besieged home following a high speed police chase Police said George Barry Wolford died Monday night in Roanoke Memorial Hospital where he had been taken in critical condition for treatment of a self inflicted wound The chase began late Monday when a county rescue unit notified police after spotting Wolford who was wanted for aggravated assault said a spokesman for the Wytheville Police Department IN TENNESSEE A DAVIDSON COUNTY grand jury has indicted Donald head of Mutual Insurance Company of Tennessee until it was liquidated by court order for embezzlement grandlarceny and obtaining money under false pretenses Returned Monday in Nashville the indictment said committed perjury by giving state insurance officials an annual report which misrepresented the financial status of the company He is also accused of taking cars wrecked by Mutual policyholders and using them for his own profit by either re selling them or using them as a trade in A $204 MILLION operating budget for Tennessee universities and colleges has been recommended for the next budget year The total is up $30 million from the current appropriation The proposal by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission for the year beginning July 1 1978 would provide for a seven per cent increase in other expenditures In addition the commission has approved $92 million in maintenance for the higher education institutions of which $52 million was recommended for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville Minimum Wage Hike Signed By President Pp i 1 I ft HBHB UPI Telephoto WHITE HOUSE Everyone appears happy Tuesday after President Carter signed legislation raising the minimum wage to $335 an hour by 1981 in a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House The President is flanked by AL CIO President George Meany left and Sen Jennings Randolph WVa right Services Unavailable Clinchport Move Hopes Are Dimmed By Report A new water rate schedule which would increase the cert of water approximately 18 per cent for residential customers and up to 45 per cent for large City Official Under ire Of Citizens A large group of angry Bristol residents appeared before the Bristol Tennessee City Council last night to complain about an alleged land developing scheme involving the city attorney The residents told the council they feared an attempt to rezone an abandoned railroad right of way which would allow the use of the right of way for an access road to an industrial site The abandoned railroad property in question runs along Seventh Avenue near the Volunteer Parkway between Cedar Street and Montvue Road City Attorney Craig Caldwell some residents complained hopes to purchase the old right of way and then resell the land to an industrial concern Such a move the residents fear would lead to a devaluation of the surrounding residential properties Councilman Earl MacCormac assured the residents that any zoning change would have to See CITIZEN'S Page 2 commercial customers is being considered by the Bristol Virginia Utilities Board The board last night received a proposed new rate schedule from the Wiley and Wilson consulting firm of Lynchburg Va The board had hired the consulting engineers to develop a new schedule of rates with proposed water service improvements and inflationary costs in mind Some board members voiced dissatisfaction with sections of the report especially the proposal to raise rates up to 45 per cent for the city's large in dustrial customers The board requested the consulting engineers to draw up alternatives to some aspects of the proposed rate schedule and present them to the board for additional consideration The proposed rate schedule suggested reducing the minimum rate from $285 to $250 a month The board members generally agreed it was more desirable to increase the minimum bill to $3 a month Such an increase board members stated would not cause any noticeable hardships on customers and would bring in an estimated $30000 a year extra revenue City water customers who consume up to 2000 gallons of water a month are presently charged $285 the minimum rate Under the proposed new rates the same customer would pay $336 each month But under the proposed schedule a customer who used only 1000 See UTILITIES Page 2 Extra $9 Billion To Enter Pockets Of Lower Paid WASHINGTON (AP) Pres ident Carter signed into law Tuesday the biggest increase ever in the minimum wage re quiring most employers to pay their workers an annual min imum salary of almost $7000 by 1981 The current minimum is $4784 The law raises the minimum wage from the current $230 an hour to $265 on Jan 1 and then in three annual steps to $335 an hour by Jan 1 1981 Based on a 40 hour week that is $6968 a year Carter said it will pump an extra $9 billion into the pockets of low wage work ers who will it for the ne cessities of life" impact on our economy will be very the president said during a brief ceremony in the White House Rose Garden Among the labor and con gressional leaders on hand were ALCIO President George Meany Sen Jennings Randolph VA and Rep John Dent Pa Each also was there in 1938 when Presi dent ranklin Roosevelt signed a law establishing the first minimum wage at 25 cents an hour Carter noted that each time the minimum wage was in creased it brought predictions of higher inflation and catas trophe for the economy But he added Congress nevertheless perhaps belatedly but wisely in each in raising the ederal pay floor The Labor Department esti mated that 43 million workers would receive increased wages totaling $26 billion from the initial 5 cent an hour increase that becomes effective Jan 1 Subsequent increases will af fect another one million work ers at a cost of $63 billion over the following three years as the minimum wage rises to $290 in 1979 $310 in 1980 and $335 in 1981 arm workers whose present minimum is $220 an hour will receive the same rate as most other workers under the new law Congress approved the new minimum wage law Oct 20 de spite heavy opposition from conservatives and business On The Inside Briefs Page 17 Bridge Page 16 Classified Pages 18 19 Comics Page 16 DearAbby Page 9 Editorials Page 4 Movies Pagel? Sports Pages 12 13 Stocks Pages 14 15 Living Pages 9 10 TV Schedule Page 16 ByJOHNMONGLE CLINCHPORT Va Residents here are selling their flood threatened property to the Tennessee Valley Authority but WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter will address the nation on his energy proposal soon the White House said Tuesday but he has not yet decided whether to postpone a scheduled overseas tour to stay home and lobby for his energy proposals the timing (for an energy address) will need to come fairly soon" Deputy Press Secretary Rex Granum told reporters has been no final decision on when the speech will be he has indicated from the beginning he did hope at some point to have an energy speech to talk to the American people about the need to have an energy Although Granum did not discuss that aspect the White House presumably would aim for a nationally televised speech by the president whose last nationwide address confined solely to the energy crisis came hopes of keeping their community in tact were diminished at a town meeting Tuesday night and citizens are talking about moving out of Scott during his first and only side many months ago Since then his grand design for a national energy conserva tion policy has run into serious trouble on Capitol Hill where the Senate scrapped most of his key taxation proposals and is now in conference with the House in an attempt to reach some compromise Carter planned a supper meeting Tuesday with the congressional Democratic lead ership to get their assessment on whether he ought to postpone an 11 day four continent tour tentatively scheduled to begin Nov 22 in order to stay home and lobby for the energy legislation The president told reporters Tuesday he does not whether he will make the trip as scheduled Presidential Assistant Hamil ton Jordan said a final decision on that would be made after the meeting with the leader ship County and out of the state know if I misled you the Scott County Housing Authority misled you or TVA misled you but sorry I'm as disappointed as you Lee Boggs executive director of the Scott County Redevelopment and Housing Authority told the 40 people attending' last night's meeting Boggs had planned to develop a 97 acre tract of county owned land near Duffield into a a subdivision type residential area with a planned medical center recreation area and commercial district Public housing and lots for churches were also included in the project that was to depend on the Duffield Development Authority and Lenowisco owned industrial waste treatment facility for its sewer service had hoped for sewer service from the (agencies)but it look like Boggs who is also the project coordinator said We were even working with a Duffield Development Authority See CLINCHPORT Page 2 Police Seek ormer World Chess Champ SOUTH PASADENA Calif fg jgaL I A pl I Wt 1s EH 1 W' rO CL i UPI Telephoto BLUMENTHAL IN US Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal left stands at the border of East and West Berlin with Col Jan Critchley chief of staff of British forces Berlin with the Brandenberg Gate in the background Blumenthal arrived in Berlin as the US dollar fell to new lows in Japan Zurich and rankfurt but he voiced his confidence saying strength and stability of the dollar are assured on page8 Bristol Virginia Utilities Board Eyeing Increase By ROBERT ALEXANDER Carter Will Address Nation About Energy NEW SPEEDWAY OWNER Nashville diamond importer Lanny Hester left shakes hands with Senator Carl Moore (center) and Larry Carrier right after purchasing Bristol International Speedway from the Bristolians for one million dollars on Tuesday Km Bristol Speedway Sold To Nashville Investors By DAVE SPARKS Nashville business executives Lanny Hester and Gary Baker have purchased Bristol International Speedway from Bristolians Larry Carrier and Senator Carl Moore for $1 million dollars The new owners will assume control of the 72 acre speedway portion of the Bristol racing complex on December 1 1977 Moore and Carrier who built the facility 17 years ago will retain the Bristol International Dragway and Carrier has bought the Thunder Valley Stables and Auction Arena portion of the Bristol complex "We have decided to sell the speedway in order to give Larry more time to devote to his increasing duties as president of International Hot Rod Association and to allow me to devote more time to my governmental Moore noted Carrier added that IHRA had grown from three tracks to more than 100 and it was impossible for him to continue to split his time between IHRA and NASCAR racing Moore and Carrier of course will assist the new owners for the first year of operation Hester a diamond importer and gemologist and Baker a CPA and attorney will share some of the complex office space and parking areas with Carrier and Moore Carrier and Moore will operate the dragway Hester and Baker the speedway and Carrier plans to turn the Thunder Valley Stables area into an ultra modem horse grounds and show arena Hester will be president and general manager of BIS while Baker will serve as vice president Hester noted he planned to reside in Bristol for four months annually during the summer but did not plan to move his permanent residence here Baker and 1 wish to become a part of the said Hester we plan to have the same type of races as in the past plus some additional Hester noted that his plans should be beneficial to the overall economic picture of the See SPEEDWAY Page 2 (UPI) Police Tuesday sought former world chess champion Bobby ischer on a warrant charging him with forcing his way into the home of a magazine writer and hitting her on the face because of his unhappiness over a story about his affiliation with the World wide Church of God Sgt Lonnie Johnson said a warrant accusing the 34 year old ischer with misdemeanor battery trespassing and dis turbing the peace was issued last riday The warrant is based on a complaint by Holly Ruiz 37 who also has filed suit against ischer in Superior Court seeking damages of $5000 She claimed ischer invaded her apartment and ordered her to sign a statement saying she did not inform him that a tape recorder was being used in the interview for Ambassador Report When she refused ischer allegedly struck Mrs Ruiz on the face and knee WHIM.