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Vikings give Tobacco Outside Chuckle 125th Year No 23875 Wednesday January 24 1996 Bristol Virginia Tennessean 28 Plus Supplements 50 You should always mind your own business providing of course that you still have a mind and a business i Rockers who lost reedom Holl date coming to Bristol Bristol Herald Courier Tobacco vikings give i sales down coach 300th 40 percent career win Page IB Pagel i a Rain likely with flurries possible as temperatures drop today Page8A Classified 5C 8C Comics Deaths un acts 7 LocalStates 1B 3B: Opinion rh 6A Sports 1C 3C 5C Stocks 4B 5B Weather 8A Jitters over BIR races persist Bristolians who rely on race day dollars nervous By MARK HYLER Bristol Herald Courier While new Bristol International Raceway owner Bruton Smith was busy quelling rumors Tuesday that his long term plans for the 36 year old facility included pos sibly moving one of the Winston Cup race dates the buzzword around the Twin City about the rumors was: would devastate It take a long trip from the gates of the famed speedway to see the role racing plays in economy Just a couple of hundred yards from the half family owned business virtually dependent on BIR Tension was evident in the eyes of 25 year old Chad Orr whose grandfather opened Volunteer Market 15 years ago because of its proximity to the raceway as he talked about acqui sition of BIR and what the future holds Smith has denied any intention of moving ei ther of two Winston Cup dates but ap prehension still persists just hoping that "the man will uphold mile track is a 3 Please see NERVOUS Page 5A Wil fl a leu IL WrI Ilk wb 'f A pi hrftwf 1 a Herald CourlerMike Jackson just hoping that (Bruton Smith) will uphold what Chad Orr of the Volunteer Market in Bristol Tennessee said Tuesday "I hope a man of his word He has top notch racetracks but a super speedway person and that worries Washington OKs funds for COPS project By STEPHEN EVANS The money will be spent on 10 laptop Washington county Bureau Supervisors also agreed to give $21 250 to the Washington ABINGDON Washington County Su COUOtV Volunteer ReSCUe Souad and neiohborino fire pervisors He said the fingerprinting equip pervisors invested in law enforcement and public safety Tuesday night with their ap proval of two funding requests totaling $38000 Supervisors appropriated $16750 for the sheriffs office to get'a $67000 federal grant department for a new addition to the volunteer facility on Lee Highway merit alone could decrease by 30 percent the time deputies spend on paperwork and pro cessing prisoners That translates into more time spent on patrolling the county he said current response time is our chief for computers and other equipment that munity Oriented Policing) grant required a for the COPS MORE program which pays helps cut paperwork The COPS (Com local contribution of 25 percent Please see UNDS Page 8A Race fans i weigh news of BIR sale I By MARK HYLER Bristol Herald Courier The acquisition of Bristol Inter national Raceway by speedway ty coon Bruton Smith was met Tues day with mixed reaction from local race fans Most said they respect the track business acumen but fear the whirlwind expansion of NASCAR racing into larger mar kets will tempt Smith to move one of the events to a mega more ormer track owner Larry Car rier believes the new owner is I being honest when he says he has no plans to move the Win i ston Cup dates from Bristol i Details are on Page 1C speedway being built in the Dallas ort Worth area in Texas i either going to be a very good thing or a very bad longtime race fan Gary Stine said long as he take either of the races away I think it will be good for the track Look at what done at Charlotte But then I like what doing at North Charlotte Motor Speed way is considered perhaps the best facility in motorsports certainly the top racing complex on the NASCAR circuit and he has been lauded for improvements he's made to Atlanta Motor Speedway since purchasing it in 1990 It is his joint acquisition of North Wilkesboro Speedway in rural Please see ANS Page 8A Man pleads not guilty to trying to kill officers By ANDREA ROSE Bristol Herald Courier BLOUNTVILLE A Bristol' Tennessee man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to five counts of at tempted first degree murder for allegedly trying to run over five city police officers in December David Wil liam Smith 20 entered those Smith pleas at his arraignment before Circuit Judge Jerry Beck in Sul livan County Criminal Court Tuesday morning David Smith was indicted on the attempted murder charges last week David Smith had little to say during his brief court appear ance sitting silently next to his newly appointed attorney Assistant Pubic Defender Gale lannery It was lannery who actually entered the not guilty pleas for his client The silence was in contrast to his father Donald vocal complaints to the judge The elder Smith wanted to appear in court on behalf of his son but was told by the judge that he could not because he an attorney son wanted me to repre sent him He gave me his power of Donald Smith told Beck from the front row of the spectator section The elder Smith apparently sent a letter to Beck asking that his bond be reduced David bond was set at $50000 in General Sessions Court short Please see PLEADS Page 8A Associated Press President Clinton hands an envelope to House Speaker Newt Gingrich just before the start of the State of the Union address Tuesday night ex Clinton to GOP: force shutdown By The Associated Press WASHINGTON Delivering his State of the Union address to a skeptical Repub lican Congress President Clinton traced the themes of his re election campaign Tuesday night and confronted the GOP on the budget demanding they shut the government again Democrats rose with loud cheers but Re publicans sat in stony silence at challenge GOP law makers particularly the rebellious House freshmen had been coached by party elders to be on good behavior and not boo Clinton as some did last year The speech was brief by Clinton stand ards 61 minutes less than last record 81 minute marathon Clinton proposed several new in itiatives among them $1000 college scholarships for the top 5 percent of grad uates from every high school and turning the BI loose on youth gangs With Republicans controlling the legis lative agenda Clinton's proposals are un likely to see the light of day especially in an election year President Clinton proposed several new initiatives among them $1000 college scholarships for the top 5 percent of graduates from every high school and turning the BI loose on youth gangs The House chamber overflowed with Senate and House members I Cabinet the Supreme Court justices in their black robes and ambassadors from around the world House Speaker Newt Gingrich yearlong nemesis sat immediately behind the president ap plauding politely on some occasions and sitting in stem silence when the president criticized Congress And criticize he did challenge all of you in this chamber' Please see CLINTON Page 8A By The Associated Press Dole Among comments WASHINGTON Bob Dole responding for Republicans and seizing the chance to help his political prospects accused Presi dent Clinton Tuesday night of dangerously off in welfare educa tion Medicare and taxes do believe we have reached a defining Dole said from his office in a hard hitting Republican response to Presi dent Clinton's State of the Union address outlining his own pres idential themes the front running GOP contender assailed Clinton as chief obstacle to a balanced and the last public de fender of a discredited status Concentrating on the hot button presidential scribe starkly different philosophies Hoping that hell be making future his own vs the State of the Union speeches instead of Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said the president has chosen to defend: A welfare system that is daily assault on the values of self reliance and An education establishment by liberals whose goal is to operate every school in America by remote control from The status quo in Medicare program in urgent need of A tax burden has pushed countless families into their own personal Dole claims Clinton dangerously off MA 1 Speaking as Senate majority leader but issues Dole seized the moment to de vs the Please see DOLE Page 8A Stocks fall in advance of address Page 4B Outside Inside Chuckle more Among comments.