Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - July 19, 1972, Kingsport, Tennessee Kingsport Times VOLUME LX NO 329 PHONE CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37660 WEDNESDAY JULY 19 1972 44 PAGES 5 SECTIONS City Urban Renewal Gripes To Be Aired PEELING PAINT faulty tile and poor workmanship were among the defects in construction work in the Highland Park Neighborhood Improvement Project according to residents whose homes were involved The problems are to be discussed at a meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen Tuesday night Here close-up shots show details and Highland resident Mrs Henry Coats displays loosened floor tiles Photos Earl Carter Night City Editor A joint meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the Kingsport Housing Authority Board has been set tentatively for Tuesday night July 25 to discuss urban renewal problems Among topics to be discussed to do about complaints from residents of the Highland Park Neighborhood Improvement Project area about poor manship on the part of contractors engaged to improve their homes engineering firm to engage to plan first year improvements in the Neighborhood Development Project which began officially about the same time the Highland Park project closed out at the end of June Meanwhile the council Tuesday night finally sold the house at 2325 Ashwood Ave which the city acquired at the beginning of the Highland Park project had fixed up and used as headquarters for the project Two weeks ago the council had rejected the sole bid of Bishop M K Forbes acting as agent for the Assembly of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as too low This time Bishop Forbes again was the only bidder but the council accepted his offer of about more than his previous bid Details of the complaints were first made public in a feature story on Sunday July 2 Sullivan County Magistrate Tommy Hulse brought up the Highland Park problem Tuesday night asking what the city in- tended to do about such complaints as a roof that was put on upside down Mayor John J Cole's first reaction was that the problems were up to the residents their contractors and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to solve The housing improvements were a federal project and inspected by federal inspectors he said The city's part was in street water and sewer and park improvements But then the mayor thought it over and decided if the city's housing standards have not been met it is a problem for the city He suggested that the building department in- City Manager Charles K Marsh said one contractor has been notified that if he does More On Page 8 Col 1 MORE ON COUNCIL Page Meet our Sister City Passing lane for Mall Apartment delayed Parking ban plan talked Historic zoning OK Two reappointed Exodus Front Egypt By United Press International Soviet military advisers poured out of Egypt today in a mass withdrawal which Cairo political sources said President Anwar Sadat ordered becaise Russia failed to deliver the weapons it promised As the Russians left they took with them gifts presented to them by Egyptian comrades Customs agents searched them to make sure hy were not carrying excess gold out of Egypt Sadat expelled the Soviet military to total some Moscow never came up with the war material it had pledged Specifically the sources said The Soviets reluctance to give Egypt offensive weapons prompted the decision which was made after Prime Minister Aziz went to Moscow last week in an at- tempt to get Kremlin leaders to change their minds The pullout by air and sea followed a reception Monday night for leading Soviet sers with Egyptian War ter Lt Gen Mohammed med Sadek thanking them for their services As they boarded their planes and ships for home Egyptian military comrades presented the Russians personal souvenirs from Cairo bazaars the sources said The Russians were then searched by customs officials looking for any excess gold they might be carrying The Russians have been eager patrons of the Cairo gold market und customs procedures were ordered after a recent dispute at an Egyptian airport involving a group of Soviet advisers and their families going home on rotation the sources said The Russians at first refused to be searched but when they did undergo frisking customs agents found large quantities of gold on them The incident led to tighter regulations There was little visible evidence of the withdrawal in Cairo where Soviet civilian advisers in such fields as oil industry and electricity went about their work unaffected by the military pullout As the Soviet military left Egypt a Beirut More On Page 8 Col 1 Dunn's Ruling Gives Bowen 30 Years NO Elizabeth Coll tries on necklace and bracelet gifts from Albert DeSalvo who claims to be the Boston Strangler Mrs Coll met DeSalvo at outing at Walpole Massachusetts prison where her husband is director of Revitalization Corps a poem accompanied the gifts from DeSalvo who claims to have strangled more than a dozen Boston women Staff Writer Yes Fred is here with us said State Corrections Commissioner Mark Luttrell It was a very humane statement He is ob- on a basis with his prisoners Yes Fred Bowen is there at the State Prison in Nashville and Fred Bowen is going to be there for awhile too Bowen who was convicted of the murder of Betty Jean Necessary of Kingsport in 1970 was given the death penalty at the time of sentencing If it hadn't been for the U.S Supreme Court's decision last month that the death penalty constitutes cruel and inhuman punishment Fred Bowen might not have been around the State Prison very long But it looks like a long stay now Gov Winf ield Dunn announced Tuesday that the 21 Tennessee death row inmates would have their sentences commuted to terms as a result of the Supreme Court decision By the men to terms Dunn said he was inflicting the most severe penalty we can and that those convicted murderers and rapists should have to serve 30 years of their sentence before being eligible for parole Luttrell said that the governor's ruling does not mean that he the death row in- mate can't go back to the court to seek a new trial Some of them may say the governor doesn't have the authority Luttrell although he had not been in direct contact with the prisoners on Tuesday said he assumed that death row inmates would have preferred new trials Under Tennessee law 99 years places a convict in confinement longer than any other sentence No convict receiving such ment can be paroled for 30 years but one receiving a life term can be paroled after years Gov Dunn announced his decision after a session with David Pack state attorney general at which they discussed the ramifications of the Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty A FAMILY'S FAREWELL Tearful Adrianne Schoenowitz 9 gets hug from foster brother as foster parents Mr and Mrs William Cahn look on at Wantagh A long court custody battle came to an end when the Cahn's surrendered Adrianne to her natural mother Mrs Elaine Schoenowitz shortly after this picture was taken UPI Photo Millions In Profits Nothing In Will Secret Meeting Mean New BELFAST secret meeting between British op- position leader Harold Wilson and Irish Republican Army i IRA leaders increased hopes today of another Ulster truce despite a new outbreak of violence Political sources said Wilson would probably meet today with William Whitelaw secretary of state for Ulster to report on his talks Spokesmen for Wilson's Labor party declined to give details on the five-hour meeting secretly held in Tuesday but political sources speculated that it could give thrust for a new fire Gunfire and bombs while remained a constant theme of life in Northern Ireland Gasoline tombs struck a Belfast lumber yard early today setting off a fire that threatened a major British army outpost Police said firemen fighting the blaze at the lumber yard came under heavy sniper fire from the adjacent district but managed to bring it under control before it reached the army outpost Shortly before the flames flared on Belfast's western horizon Belfast gunmen shot and killed a British soldier He was the 100th soldier killed in Ulster strife The night chman at a box factory also was found slain The two first in more than 24 the toll to 448 persons killed in Northern Ireland in three years of civil strife In the Estate gunmen also fired more than 200 rounds WASHINGTON UPI Five huge corporations with profits totaling million in 1971 paid no federal corporate income taxes last year without violating the law a congressman said today Rep Charles A Vanik D- Ohio a crusader for tax reform presented Congress Joint Economic Committee with a detailed study of cor- tax payments to back up his contention that the tax laws make it easier for big firms to escape taxes and give them an unfair advantage over smaller competitors Although the corporate tax rate is a flat 48 per cent on profits over none of the 100 largest corporations in the country pay taxes at that rate list showed Instead he said it showed that six firms with profits totaling billion paid taxes at a rate of less than 10 per cent He said five firms paid nothing He listed the firms and their taxable profits Con- Oil million McDonnell Douglas lion Gulf Western In- million Aluminum Co of America million and Signal Companies million Vanik said the chief devices by which corporations reduce their U S tax liability are the foreign tax credit the in- vestment tax credit and depreciation rules The foreign tax credit mits firms to subtract from their U.S tax taxes paid to foreign governments Tax reformers often charge that foreign governments cloak oil royalties as taxes thus allowing U.S oil firms to reduce their taxes by charging off oil royalties from their tax bills Vanik said he had great difficulty collecting his data from financial statements firms are required to issue to stockholders and to file with government agencies He said the statements are often deceptive and violate Securities and Exchange Commission rules requiring firms to spell out their federal Uix liabilities We are in a vicious he said We cannot change or remake the tax laws without we cannot obtain essential facts because of laws that shroud and conceal the truth Vanik said in 1969 the nation's largest corporations paid taxes at the rate of 26.2 per cent of income while the smaller corporations unable to take advantage of loopholes paid at the rate of 44 per cent This he said gives the giants the resources to take over the little firms reducing tion International Telephone Telegraph he said paid taxes at a rate of over 14 per cent in 1969 when it had a profit of about million Two years later its profits rose to million but the effective tax rate it paid fell to 5 per cent Great public concern and indignation have been focused on those Americans who received more than in income last year yet paid no federal income Vanik said Kissinger Reds Talk In Secret WASHINGTON Presidential adviser Henry A Kissinger is holding private talks in Paris today with North Vietnamese negotiators Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy the White House announced In a joint announcement with the North Vietnamese the White House said that the President's national security affairs adviser is expected to return to Washington today He flew to Paris Tuesday for the private sessions in an attempt to get the Paris peace talks moving again This was the first time that Kissinger's private meetings with the Communist negotiators have been an- while the sessions were under way He last met in Paris with Le Due Tho on May 2 The United States and South Vietnam resumed talks with their Communist counterparts last Thursday Tho arrived in the French capital last weekend and said he was ready to consider any new U.S offer Ten days ago Kissinger told reporters in San Clemente Calif that there were in- that Hanoi was ready to resume negotiations with a new and responsive attitude At the time Kissinger said he was hopeful but not op- Speculation arose that Kissinger was on another mission for Nixon when the President arrived back from the Western White House in California Tuesday without Kissinger The two men frequently travel together Earlier disappearances by Kissinger preceded Nixon's trips to China and the Soviet Union He also has made several trips to Paris for secret talks with the Communists over possible ways to settle the Vietnam war Lightning Hits Woman Burned A woman restaurant worker was burned at Pal's Drive-In on Memorial Boulevard early Tuesday night when lightning apparently struck a wire leading to a fryer A restaurant spokesman said Ruth Durham 37 3000 Glen Alpine Rd was burned when grease in the cooker flamed up and spilled over onto her legs The spokesman said one of the other girls working in the kitchen knocked Mrs Durham out of the way keeping the flaming grease from striking her face One Indicted In Island Arson Partly cloudy and continued warm and humid today and tonight with a chance of late afternoon and early nighttime Thursday continued partly cloudy and becoming rather hot with a chance of a few laic afternoon again High today upper low tonight low high tomorrow low Probability of rain Is 10 percent today 10 percent tonight and 20 percent Thursday High yesterday 87 low last night M JUST A PEEK MA'AM British soldier spot checks a woman's basket along Divis Street in Belfast as a measure to keep Belfast's City Center and traffic bans along various streets in the center has proved to be an effective device against terrorism although in- convient to the residents UPI Photo Clarence Manis of Long Island was bound over to the Sullivan County Grand Jury from Kingsport Sessions Court Tuesday for allegedly burning down the home of a woman with whom he had been living Witnesses said Manis left the home as it first began burning then returned later and tried to help extinguish the flames telling one man It's all my fault Sullivan County Deputy Johnny Robertson said the fire which destroyed the home of Jean at 1708 Circle Drive was one of several that he and other officers had been investigating on Island That fire occurred in July 4 said Robertson In a statement to deputies Manis denied starting the fire either accidentally or deliberately and said he had no idea how it began According to Robertson the man said he started into the home and the flames hit him in the face Manis also denied throwing clothes into the yard there the officer said Mrs who said Manis had been living at the home with her and her son testified that she and he had had a few words about some drunks he was bringing and that she had left a couple of hours later on a trip to the Smoky Mountains When she returned the house was destroyed Six months before she said Manis had threatened to burn the More On Page H Col 1
