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JOA THE TIHHEIStAM MondwMAWCH 3. 1 988 Alexander cancels road. tins 1 expansao nea permission, said one of his partners was James Hasiam UL John Parish, the governor's press secretary, said yesterday the partner is James Hasiam the governor's chief political fund-raiser. Parish also said the cost of Alexander's cabin property was "considerably more" than the $110,000 in the story but that he did not know the total figure. The figure came from a document recorded in Blount County showing a $110,000 loan to Alexander and his wife from First Tennessee Bank that was secured by the property.

Alexander said yesterday's article had the wrong date for the conception of the Pellissippi Parkway. The story stated the governor first sought funding for the Pellissippi extension in 1980; the first formal bill was introduced In 1983, although the project had been discussed extensive ly since 1980. The story also stated the governor had pointed out to reporters that the 1975 legislature had asked for a study of the proposal to tie in the parkway with VS. 321. The governor also said figures explaining proximity of the road to the southern edge of the national park were in error.

The article stated the parkway ex Southern Fried Chicken Wings NowOnThe sponse to questions from reporters. The governor purchased the 991 acres of land for $661,000 within a year after his November 1978 election. The property was recorded in the name of Nashville attorney Joseph N. Barker as trustee. Alexander has listed his half interest in the property on financial disclosure forms he has filed since 1979 but, until an interview Friday, he had never identified his five partners.

They are Samuell (Sandy) Beall James Hasiam Baxter Lee, Tom Harper and Gary Sisco. The exact location of his property, within 7 miles of the end of the proposed Pellissippi Parkway extension and 17 miles from a four-laned state highway that the parkway would feed into, did not become apparent on Blount County property records until January 1985 when the governor's original 1976 option agreement on the property was recorded. The records did not indicate until then that Barker was acting as trustee for the governor. Alexander also acknowledged to reporters that he and his partners had employed a prominent Atlanta resort development consultant within the past year. He said the consultant, after a study that included aerial surveys, recommended several possible uses for the land, ranging from construction of "a large number of cabin sitetf to leaving the property as it is.

The governor insisted there are no plans to develop the property and that it was "preposterous" to connect the parkway extension with his ownership of the land. "I just don't do business that way," he said. "My ownership of the property and a road program meeting the state's needs for the next 28 years are two totally unrelated facts, and any impression that they are in any way related is erroneous." In his statement Alexander cited what he said were several errors. He said an official he had consulted with about setting aside sections of the property bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a nature preserve was misidentified. Patrick Noonan was misidentified as a representative of the National Park Service, rather than the Nature Conservancy, a private organization.

Also, the governor said one of his partners, James Hasiam Jr. had been misidentified. The Tennessean identified Haslam's son as one partner after Alexander, in a Friday night interview tape-recorded with the governor's I From Page 1 addition to omissions, the article has several mistakes apparently caused by rushing into print nine-year-old information: "Patrick Noonan, the former bead of the Nature Conservancy, with whom I talked about giving away part pf the land in order to protect it environmentally, is misidentified. So is Jim Hasiam. "The article had the wrong date for the conception of the Parkway, the wrong price for our cabin.

"Only with a helicopter could you get as the article says from the Knoxville airport to Cades Cove in IS minutes and from 'entering Knoxville' to the Park boundary in 30 minutes-even after the Parkway is finished. "The article refers to the 'lightly jised southern edge of the refer ring to a federally designated route that carries more than a million people a year more than visit the Grand Canyon each year to the most visited national park in the United States. "I know it is the newspaper's Job to help keep politicians honest So I have disclosed my financial holdings and tax returns for nine years, sold stocks to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest and tried to answer any reasonable question about my personal life. I "I am disappointed The Termes-'scan found it necessary to treat its readers to a Sunday breakfast of 10-year-old road proposals mixed up with nine-year-old information about the farm where I go to relax. "The story cooks up an inference about my integrity which must have left hundreds of thousands of readers wondering what their governor is up to.

I "They can stop wondering. If there was a question yesterday about that part of the Pellissippi Parkway, there cannot be one today because there is now no proposal from me to build it The next governor will decide the question, and I am confident that he or she will decide that all Tennesseans will be best served if the Parkway is completed on schedule," The story in yesterday's paper iden-tifed for the first time the price of the 991 acres of land, who the governor's partners-are and how he has financed the purchase of the property. Some of the information came from court records and other details were provided by Alexander in re uincys remem cuts, cheeses, fresh fruits and garnishes. bers how a good country cook could turn a mess of chicken wines Salad Ban What's more, you'll helpyourself to a not and into a lip-smackinq South- tension from Interstate 40 in west Knox County would mean eastbound tourists entering Knoxville could reach the southern end of the park in about 30 minutes, half the time it takes to reach Gatlinburg from the same point The distance from the entrance to the Pellissippi in West Knoxville to the park boundary at Walland is 24 miles on interstate-quality highway. The article also stated the seven-mile extension from the Knoxville airport to US.

321 would bring the southern edge of the park to within 1 5 min-jutes of the airport Finally, the governor said a reference to the "lightly used southern edge of the park'' ignored the fact that more than a million motorists use the state road as an entrance to the national park. The road is used less than several other park entrances and the area around Townsend and Walland on the edge of the park is far less developed than other areas such as the Gatlin-burg-Pigeon Forge area, the Cosby area and the Cherokee, N.C, side of the park. The Tennessean is happy to set the record straight nearly selection UKencn macaroni and cheese, sweet com, peas, okra, squash, fresh-baked corn-bread and more. And, of course, our golden, crispy chicken wings. All for one low price.

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