To help me understand the situation I am creating a page of reminiscences and links to pages that might help me. I do this so I can occasionally look at it and reflect.
  • Why is it that Venezuela will welcome HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARS - It all has to do with SHIPPING LANES during WWII.

    Where were you Howard Hughes when we needed you?

  • The Papers of Miss Frances G. Knight
    Marquette University The Papers of Miss Frances G. Knight and correspondence with F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover and John D. Ehrlichman - received 04/04/2008 - After reading through the more than 250 pages I find that most of them are between the dates January 1970 and March 1971 and all concern the harassment of Miss Knight by particular parties within the State Department and ultimately from the Nixon White House but not realized until the final correspondence with Hoover from her home in Washington, D.C. and signed with her maiden name Mrs. Wayne W. Parrish. I am suspecting that Miss Knight finally realized that the Nixon Administration may not have been the friends that she had expected. A wonderful lady who lived until September 11, 1999.

    A colleague of Miss Knight:

    Robert D. Johnson was listed in Who's Who in the CIA:
    "Born: October 7, 1926, Languages: German; 1944 to 1946 Captain in CIC of U.S. Army; from 1951 in Department of State; 1955 Chief of Intelligence Reporting Section, Department of State. Opa: Washington." The State Department Biographic Register indicated Robert D. Johnson became Chief of the Passport Legal Division in 1957. In 1962 he became the Chief Counsel of the Passport Division. Robert D. Johnson told Frances Knight: was not satisfied with the implication in Mr. Rando's (I knew Mr. Rando fairly well - Joe Payne) memorandum that we did NOT have a catch card on OSWALD. No one knows for sure whether we did or did not, and the making of the flat statement has caused many more questions than it has answered." [DOS RDJ to FGK 3.27.64]

    For years I have tried to remember the man that sent me with an "Eyes Only" package to the U.S. State Department from 1425 "K" Street. While going through volumes of testimony to the Warren Commission I found his name. Henry F. Kupiec was one of the Passport Office Division Chief's. This trip took a special pass to reach the eighth floor of the State Department where I entered the executive suite and handed the package to then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's executive secretary. Funny how you remember trips like that. And I could have sworn that the people at the Passport Office referred to him as General and I seem to remember they called him Tony.
    (These were people I worked with for over two years)

  • Four research files No. 1 - No. 2 - No. 3 - No. 4 - Names are - Frances Knight - Marv Gentile - John Noonan - George Payne - Jay Taylor, Walentynowicz and Watson are just a few of the names that I have found in the amazing The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Another U.S. State Department site that will give you a history of how Terrorism has found a friend by FLYING THE FRIENDLY SKIES
  • Miss Frances G. Knight's June 1970 Resume to F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover upon her resignation as Director of the U.S. Passport Office.
  • Frances G. Knight is mentioned several times in the book "The Ordeal of Otto Otepka"- Gill - Chapter XVI - Open Sesame - IT IS, PERHAPS, ONE OF THE CROWNING IRONIES OF THE LONG STRUGGLE between totalitarianism and democracy that a group of United States senators sought to alert the nation to its rapidly deteriorating internal security at almost the precise moment that America was faced with its most critical public confrontation with the Soviet Union in the 1960's.

  • The Ordeal of Otto Otepka
  • Al Payne's Postal Department Grievance and why it all begun
  • Joe Payne's State Department Correspondence
  • Some nonsense - A Modern Day Silkwood
  • Wire Taps and Otto Otepka
  • Why was I crossed off Shindler's List?
  • November 2007 - A Time-line of Events
  • Two years with the F.D.I.C.
  • Zack's Famous Frozen Yogurt
  • Depleted Uranium
  • Pakistan
  • Evergreen Air
  • Conspiracy or Not
    Talbots.
    My cousin Amy Payne Potts, Aiken, South Carolina had me do her a favor. She was interested in knowing if the new development, the property that my family always called the "Old Doc Greer Place" had been given Planning Commission approval and if the right-of-way had been resolved. This property will soon become Shenandoah Springs. Well everyone that is concerned with development in Claiborne County will be glad to know that Owen Payne has granted to sell the owners of the development a right-of-way into the property. Doc Greer managed to own that by marrying Ethel Payne, daughter of Robert W., son of Anderson, son of Hiram. In my opinion, as a whole, the entire Payne family has been gracious enough, granting ROW, etc., working hard to see that this little spot on the map that I was borned in is still my home, at least until something better comes along, grows with times, such as they are. So again, if I look at you and laugh or don't even speak to you at all then you must understand I'm a Payne and damned proud of it.

    My wife Amy was excited to see that the NBC Today Show was being broadcast from the same building off Nebraska Avenue, Washington, D.C. that her dad worked during the 1960's and 1970's and where she used to go with him to work.

    Little Flower Parish just off Massachusetts Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland where Amy grew up and went to school, almost through High School. I plan on creating a few pages on Amy's mother's very strong Irish Catholic, HARTNETT, New York family. It includes pictures and drawings from a small area in Pennsylvania called Laurel Lake and the summers she spent there as a child.

    For people with the stamina and money to live in the Washington, D.C. area the Burbs around Northern Virginia would be the most affluent area. I found Burke, Va very affordable when looking for rooms to let. I have talked to several who say that Southeast and the Anacostia area of Northern Maryland has become more and more affluent with new apartments and affordable housing within subway and busline reach of downtown D.C. a smart investment. Probably a lot different than it was in 1972-1973 when I played flag football there.
    Newscaster Mel Goode was the first African-American news journalist seen on TV when he broadcast from the United Nations for ABC in August, 1962. Max Robinson later became the first black "anchorman" for a major network when he joined ABC news in 1978. Between 1969 and 1972, Mr. Jim Vance worked at WRC-TV, Channel 4 with Glenn Rinker, my wife Amy Marie's father. Between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Jim Vance worked as "co-anchor" with Glenn Rinker, who had been at WRC-TV Channel 4 since December 1966. Between 1976 and 1980, Mr. Jim Vance "co-anchored" with Sue Simmons, a pairing that resulted in one of the first, if not the first, African-American co-anchors of a major market newscast, except for his previous co-anchor job with Glenn Rinker. Before that Mr. Rinker hosted WKYC, "Three on The Town" in Cincinnati. Among the many notables that Amy and I have pictures are Joe Williams and Harry Belefonte that appeared on the show that Mr. Rinker hosted along with Linn Sheldon in the late 1960's.

    I hope to someday put together a book on my Grandfather Joseph Phillips. I saw a special on the History Channel over weekend of Jan 14th, 2006 that recalled Rumrunning and Moonshinning throughout the country. I have only a small part of my Grandfather's scrapbook scanned HERE. One of my grandfather's raids was in the infamous Cocke County, TN area. Read about the 1921 capture of "Wild Bill" Gosnell. If anyone would like to help me put the clippings and stories together in book form please email me at joe@joepayne.org
    Here is a HODGEPODGE VIDEO regarding the location of my brother's vault in Arlington National Cemetery and also an INTERVIEW with Paul Phiilips and Irene Sobadosky Baker at Paul Phillips house in Helenwood, Tennessee

    I will always be ashamed of having turned down an opportunity of a lifetime. After finally getting two friends, JJ Paciorca and Jerold Jacaruso of, Network Communications Department, U.S. State Department to offer me a position as a Staff Officer, U.S. Foreign Service, as a Communications Officer at the Consulate, Addas Abba, Ethiopia, I turned the job down. I will never forgive myself for that. This was mid to late 1975. I again tried returning to the State Department in 1983 and won the approval of my work from John W.S. Channell, Office of Communication.
    Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips gives the Enron and Kenneth Lay connection to the Tennessee Valley Authority's past director Glenn L. McCoullough, Jr. on page 164. He tells how the Bushs' promises to Enron's chairman Kenneth Lay included the naming of McCoullough as chairman. Up until this point Enron and TVA were huge enemies. And the most recent headlines - TVA Puts Lock on Gate (TVA Land Sales) Which I have renamed When Camels Fly
    American Dynasty    , by Kevin Phillips.
  • Page 98 - This is how extremely influential the Republican machine is, and how "vote tampering" is a part of what they do best - Kevin Phillips, a former Republican White House strategist in his book American Dynasty has given me insight on a converstation I had in 1982 with one of the hostages held at the American Embassy in Iran in 1979, Lloyd Rollins - General Services Admin. Officer - U.S. Embassy - Ottawa, Ont. - He was refused permission to write a book that accused the Reagan Administration and the C.I.A. of "playing politics" with the Iranian Government and the students holding 52 (53?) American hostages for 444 days 1979-1981 (Iran Hostage's Diary / Robert C. Ode). Mr. Kevin Phillips in talking of the Florida recount in 2000 and a 1991-1992 accusation says "George H.W. Bush, twelve years earler, had participated in the Reagan-Bush campaign's arrangements to have anti-American Iran hold its U.S. hostages, seized in 1979, until January 1981, instead of releasing them in November 1980 in a deal that could have reelected Democrat Jimmy Carter. The elder Bush and the 1980 campaign manager, Bill Casey, were alleged to have worked with an anti-Carter faction of present and former C.I.A.operatives, some of whom had broad international experience in election tampering." He expands on this futher on in the book. Listen to the Extended Interviews of Kevin Phillips on the NPR Web Site.
    Mr. Lloyd Rollins converstation with me while in Canada wit my brother in late 1982, now makes a whole lot more sense. US Charge d’Affaires in Iran Bruce Laingen, a friend of my brother the late George Payne, expressed his desire on C-SPAN November 2007 coming upon the anniversary of their release, that normal relations with Iran should be the focus of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Listen to the dicussion: The National Cathedral, Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation held a panel discussion on �The U.S. and Iran: A Difficult History.�) Also Just Foreign Policy News blog.
    Unless you live in BUSHWORLD you must have known that the sovereignty of Iraq has always been in question
    Now speaking about "Who Done It". Let's just hope that our Top Cop's have a clear mind when investigating major crimes. Should they be guilty of wrongdoings you know that may "cloud their judgment in other matters".More of what I think
    Now I may have to commend the Mayor and/or the Road Superintendent on the recent paving of Forest Hills Drive and then the remainder of Harmon Road. Although it is probably not going to be enjoyed by myself and wife very long. We have decided to either sell or rent our house in Forest Hills Subdivision because of our inability to find work in Claiborne County. I have very fond memories of growing up in Old Tazewell but for some reason just haven't found my last three years here all that pleasant.
    What does need to be done to balance Affirmative Action? It is possible that in an majority office, be it by race, gender or age that a person can be discriminated against and not be able to prove it. Just how would you go about proving it. One Caucasian man's attempt made it all the way to the Supreme Court.

    United Steel Workers of America v. Weber
    [443 U.S. 193]
    Burger Court, Decided 5-2, 6/27/1979

    Early in my career I found that Affirmative Action was not my friend. I worked in an racially unequal office very early on but I held fast my belief in racial equality. In mid career I worked in an office where I gender effected my career but I held firm my belief in gender equality. Now, late in my career I am finding that my age causes a problem in selection for certain jobs, but I still hold fast that my age and experience is a plus when being selected for jobs that require some knowledge of the importance of punctuality and detail. The following was one person's disagreement some of the policy of Affirmative Action. Wouldn't you agree with the socio-economic situation so unbalanced today that Affirmative Action should be redone to protect those being discriminated against because of their socio-economic standing and not just primarily race? I am hopeful the new administration will recognize this.

    Citizens Group for Public Access to Breastworks Cemetery.
    If elected as President of the Claiborne Historical Society I promise to work for Federal funding to have the Breastworks Cemetery declared a site of Historical Significance and have a permanent public access road constructed.   Since elected Secretary I have brought this up and it is in the interest of the Society to form a committee.  Will keep you posted. I have some pictures to post of Love Cemetery that is in very close proximity of Breastworks Cemetery.

    CODE BREAKERS CONTINUES - PARALLELS


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    The above documents are the results of my complaint to the Knox County Fire Prevention Bureau. Click on Picture for More.

    Well I have gone back to work for Jewelry Television. I went back very soon after I left Commercial Furniture Group, Morristown and while I was still drawing severance pay. I was called in for two interviews. One for Purchasing Agent and another for IT Technician. Although I was qualified for both I feel their explainations were sufficient and am happy to be working back in the "call center". I have been studying and do plan to test for both the A+ Certification and on taking the "required" National Institute of Governmental Purchasing that they say are required for both jobs. Most recently new developments within the ranks of Jewelry Television lead me to believe that their hiring practices may not be what it should be. Theft by trusted employees has been discovered. I have heard that this may just be the tip of the iceburg.
    Although I will say that Jewelry Television has been a redeeming grace to many in Knoxville I have to look at their promotions and their policy of interviewing, as with many company's is the only way they have of "feeling a person out", so to speak. Unethical selling practices are always a danger when in retail sales, especially when training employees. An example of an early experience I was part of was when, as a licensed Securities salesman for a company known as American Centennial Insurance during the nations 200 year centennial in 1976, I along with many other unsuspecting men and women received unethical training regarding the sale of a first offering of Insurance Stock, this particular false prospectus selling technique brought the company under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and brought charges of both False Prospectus Practices and Money Laundering by the corporation executives. Now if that don't put the fear of God in you then nothing will. Jewelry TV to refund customers in "false advertising" case


    CODE BREAKERS and WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM

    Also when interview with Jewelry Television in October 2006 for both IT Tech and Purchasing Agent I was told I qualified for both but was not chosen. I was told that it was soon going to be required to be certified through the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP), so I began studying for the certification and have been accepted through previous experience qualified to take the test. I noticed that in an April 2007 ad for Purchasing Agent that the NIGP qualifications are not now needed. Here are the qulifications:

  • Bachelors degree in a related field required - I have
  • 2-3 years experience in all aspects of purchasingo including development of product specifications, establishing supplier relationships, Price negotiation
    • - I have
  • Must have experience working in or communicating with other cultures especially companies in Asia
    • - I have
  • Excellent communication skills
    • - I have
  • Must be proficient in MS Word and Excel
    • - I am
  • Proficiency in procurement software including Oracle I-Procurement APICS, AAP or CPM certification a plus
    • - I am and studying for NIGP CPPB Certification
  • Ability to respond to changing needs
    • - I have that
    In Novmeber 2007 I obtained my CPPB Certification
    Facts about my brother
    A Great Man George Payne, while Regional Security Officer in Kenya, South Africa delivered supplies when he should have taken her guns and ammunition. Rwanda honors mountain gorilla researcher Fossey Rodney Dangerfield was a friend of my brothers.

    Fact, my brother was Regional Security Officer West Germany 1968-1972, for U.S. State Department during which time my sister and I spent a month visiting and traveling throughout Western Europe with he and his family. We spent several days in Munich, staying at the Ambassador's apartment. He left before September 1972. To see the Movie Trailers click on the link or picture.

    A man who goes out looking for a murderer in Africa, William Bradford Bishop, an ex-Diplomat, who he may have known while on assignment at the Washington Field Office. He took his two sons on this hunt and the double barrell, 12 guage shotgun that he had borrowed from his father. This hunt was the hunt that met the Lion on the Bridge and caused him to use the shotgun only to frighten the Lion off the Bridge. Click on the picture for more information on the continuing hunt for this man. Or you can Click Here

    After his retirement as Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Bureau of Diplomatic Security in 1983 he retired to Arizona where he coordinated a training facility for Diplomatic Security. He solicited the help of a cousin, Charles McLaughlin, who was nearing retirement age with the National Security Agency, (NSA), to contact the NASCAR Training facility near his home in Franklin, North Carolina to obtain what my brother called his CRASH and BANG CARS. These cars would be fitted with bullet proof glass and steel beams down the interior side body and used to run across the runway at the Marana Training Facility to simulate terrorists trying to take hostages. The automatic wepons that were used were the Israeli Uzi�s. These he showed me. He formed his own private Security company called Intersect and worked at least two major sporting events, 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Ca., and the 1986-1987 America's Cup in Perth, Australia. My brother would alway tell me of his many trips overseas - most were missions for which he was either working for the State Department or another government organization. A couple of the stories I can remember about his trips to TelAviv, Israel.

    My wife Amy. Halloween 2001 Brendon Park Apartments - Bldg 9001
    Although in my remembrances of Presidents I can say that being close enough to two to touch them, Nixon in a reception for the Shah of Iran in the White House Rose Garden and Kennedy in the parking garage of the U.S. State Department that the only one I have met, shook hands with and had a brief conversation was Jimmy Carter. That was when he was Governor of Georgia at a Convention in Atlanta in 1972.
    My cousin, Judy Watts Breckenridge was writing speeches for Gov. Carter and I was working for the U.S. State Department. I drove to Atlanta and we went to the Hyatt Regency, downtown. We sat with several important black leaders as Judy being from Union, South Carolina felt much like Carter in her views of racial prejudice during the integration era, late 60's and early 70's, in the South. We, Judy and I had talked of this growing up close during those years when we weren't out walking the railroad tracks at Lone Mountain or swimming four, yes four miles in Norris Lake.
    Well back to the conference. After just a few minutes most all the black leaders in the room abruptly got up from not only our table but from every table in the room. When I turned to Judy and asked what the reason for this was she pointed toward the main door and asked if I knew who that was. I said no and she said, George Wallace, Governor of Alabama had just entered the room. I remember there was one maybe two left at our table and soon after finishing we made our trip over to meet Gov. Carter.
    The next day I returned back to Washington, D.C. where I was living on Connecticut Ave., NW. and working for the U.S. State Department. Strangely enough not too many months after that in Chevy Chase, Maryland Governor George Wallace was shot in the parking lot of a grocery store while making a speech.

    I hear that noted News Journalist Walter Cronkite today (1/16/06) called for immediate withdrawal from Iraq by our Troops. I am hopeful that his statement will make a great difference in President George Bush's policies. Cronkite's speech regarding withdrawal from Vietnam, some say was a major turning point of our policies there. Former Senator and Ambassador Jim Sasser spoke to me in 1993 & 1994 of the situations in Yugoslavia - The Balkins and also in Iraq after George Bush, Sr.'s attempted assassination.

    Where were you when our nation came under attack on September 11, 2001?

    Just as many Americans will remember where they were when our beloved President Kennedy was killed all of us alive now should remember where we were when the "9/11" attack took place. Well, I was sitting in the lobby of United States Cellular, Knoxville, Tennessee. I was waiting for what I thought was my final interview to begin work for the cellular company. My interview was scheduled for 9:00 a.m. and I was 30 minutes early, something I am famous for. I sat until 10:00 a.m. admiring the lobby in the West Knoxville building. It was a very nice open lobby with a garden and skylights. The pictures on the wall were, as I look back on it the most fascinating feature of all. It showed many service industries using cell phones. Especially interesting was the picture of a fireman, dressed in his yellow suit scaling a ladder with a cell phone in his hand. I stared at it and thought how much I was going to enjoy the job I was being interviewed for. Although in retrospect, since I didn't get the job, and was only briefly told that my interview was being canceled around 11:00 a.m. I realize I was part of a very bad time in not only the history of the United States, but in the cell phone industry. As I went back to the parking lot and tuned the radio to my favorite radio station, 98.7, The River did I realize what was going on. I quickly got back to my apartment and called my girlfriend, Amy Rinker, who was working at Shannondale Nursing Home, not far from there. We both watched as both towers collapsed. Something that will affect not only us but every American and lover of our American way of life for a long time.
    Five Years After September 11, 2001

    SOME LOST LINKS

    My old Football Coach Billy Vern Boggs always wanted me in the center of the field. On kickoffs and returns and as offensive center and defensive nose tackle. I guess I had pretty good reflexes and was used to people moving as I moved. I found out later in life that didn't always happen.
    1. Agent Floyd Boring, who signed the V.I.P. Pass that I and my family used to the White House in 1961. Also some Bruno family members and breaking the Mafia code of omertà
      Before someone takes some of this the wrong way let me say I don't know whether or not the assassination of President Kennedy was a conspiracy or not but that there were mistakes that lead to his being assassinated. My brother, George Payne spent the rest of his life assuring that those he protected followed the procedures set forth for their safety. Had President Kennedy done this perhaps he would not have been killed that day in November in Dallas, Texas.
      With that said some interviews that I consider worth listening to. Without actually giving the interpretation that the Secret Service may have been lax because of Kennedy's extramarital activity, Vince Palamara does a good job of proving that Kennedy had lot's of extramarital chances. The most interesting of all President Kennedy's assassination and hearing first hand interviews, you need to listen to those of Vince Palamara. Although he is not a trained investigator he made an effort to contact all the living Secret Service Agent's assigned to Kennedy. He has about 20 YOUTUBE presentations and if you have the time and are interested in investigative assignments you must watch Vince Palamara Presentation 1-4
    2. 2006 Movie staring Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland - A disgraced special agent to the White House (Douglas) endeavors to foil a conspiracy to assassinate the U.S. President. The Sentinel.
    3. My Chance Face to Face with Patrick Kennedy, June 2006
      Trailer of the movie Bobby about assasination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
      Also Three Other Videos that make you think about the assasination. Was it a conspiracy??
    4. PLEASE FIX THE ROADS
    5. Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal regarding his being the "Lone Survivor" of a mission called "Redwing" in the Afghanistan mountains, Born to Serve
    7. Detective Sargent E. Wren, Scotland Yard Letter
    8. We all remember our first real job when we made that first .50 cents, well actually $14.00 a week was mine. It was as a paper carrier for the Knoxville News-Sentinel
    9. My job as Assistant Weighmaster at Centre Brick Warehouse New Tazewell was probably another job that helped me learn about How Things Go in small town USA.
    10. Work Hard to Save the Environment
    11. Intersection of Harmon Road and Forest Hills Drive May Soon See Three-Way Stop
    12. Dangerous Intersections in the Area
    13. Intersection of Highway 33 and Harmon Road needs Street Light and more
    14. Sloppy Construction on Claiborne - Grainger Bridge, U.S. 25E
    15. Some experiences I had with the Butcher Banking Family during the 1970's and 1980's.
    16. 1935-1940's during a trip by my Grandfather Joe Phillips there.
    17. The Christmas of 2006 OH-HOW WAS MY CHRISTMAS
      CLICK ON THE INVOICE BELOW TO SEE
      - This saga continued up until April 6, 2007. My 1999 Volkswagen, with the transmission out now resides in Knoxville. No, I still own the car and no I haven't gotten the transmission fixed but I did win a $2700.00 settlement in court on April 6th. First time I have ever had to sue anyone, it was not a pleasant experience. And now as of January 2009 my 10 year old Volkswagen is running like a dream. Thanks to an honest mechanic (fingers crossed). Eurotech of Knoxville
    18. Black Marketeering or selling Bootleg Beef during World War II was something that went on right here in Claiborne County. Who would have thought that.
    19. I thought it IRONIC that after we moved to New Tazewell that not long after a fellow moved in with our next door neighbor, who worked for Union Concrete. The fellow became involved in what became several DEALS that culmanated in RINKER Concrete (No Connection to My Wife) being acquired by CEMEX. Read more of a 2008 story of what has transpired.
    20. Here are some bits and pieces of my brother Geroge Edward "Eddie" Payne's career.
    21. Some reasons why I would make a wonderful candidate for your Claiborne County Historical Society President.
    22. Some pictures from my Grandfather's Trunk .
    23. Was there ever an attempt to form an African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tazewell, Tennessee.
    24. Were you worried about going into the Twenty First Century and the Y2K scare? Securities Service Network sure was. I helped them out during their time of need and was rewarded with good pay, good evaluations and a hefty severance allowance when they told me they didn't need me anymore.
    25. The Claiborne County Progress - February 1963. The Progress print appeared to be closer to that of other newspapers then than now. Don't lay it on anything that you wouldn't want ruined. It bleeds ink. In other words I think the Progress hasn't made much. A lot of "Payne" on the front page.
    26. Mistakes like THIS ONE causes PAIN to local family
    27. Rinker Concrete BIG DEALS locally.
    28. My most Interesting Job Interview was with Nippondenso before it lost it's NIPPEN
    29. Grandfather Joe Phillips and my intent to investigate his life after retiring from the U.S. Treasury Department and returning to Scott County, Tennessee
    30. How much did the Phillips family of Scott County, Tennessee know about old Tobias Phillips, Slave owner of Scott County, VA? Did Obelee (Tobe) Phillips change his name to Tobe because of Tobias? Was Arzo Carson's real name Alfonzo? The two James Chitwoods, one a hero at Kings Mountain and the other Hung at Kings Mountain, which one are you kin too? All those answers to come.
    31. Have you ever had one of THESE JOBS!! COMMUNICATIONS - WHAT IS THAT??? and WHAT GOOD IS IT!! I compare it to Don McLeans song "STARY, STARY NIGHT" when he talks about not listening now and perhaps they never will!! (:< ) (Be sure and scroll all the way to the bottom)
    32. Is this the right stuff??? Letters to the White House 1978-1979 - John Glenn Friendship 7 Astronaunt
    33. Invitation to Blair House, Washington, D.C.
    34. Northridge Quake
    35. President Reagan Card
    36. My Afgan Pistols given me by my brother in the late 1960's.
    37. The 1960 fire that destroyed Tazewell Soldiers Memorial Junior High School
    38. In 1974 I took a Civil Service test for the U.S. Post Office in Knoxville, Tennessee, making a 96% on the exam and went to work for the Post Office in Knoxville. Mr. C. Edwin Graves and Mr. Jack Taylor were two men that were Supervisor and Personnel Manager of the Post Office at that time. My father, Al Payne had filed a Grievance with the Postal Carrier's Union and was fighting for backpay for years of Heavy Duty route assignment known as RETRACE for much of his nearly 100 mile a day route. I want provide the National Rural Letter Carriers Association determination of his grievance. Along with this, have a look at some 1974 pictures of Rural Route 3, New Tazewell, Tennessee.
    39. With the XX Winter Olympic Games coming to an end in Torino, Italy I would like to share my Olympic experience years ago. In memory of my big brother George Eddie Payne please visit my Games of the XXIII Olympiad 1984 Los Angeles, California
    40. Before the Olympics in 1984 a trip twenty years before had been just about as exciting. My memories of the 1964 New York Worlds Fair
    41. Before Chernoybl the greatest environmental disaster caused by man was at a Uranium Mine in Churchrock, Arizona - That Uranium from UNC's Site in Church Rock is a major cleanup site for the NRC. If the mined and milled uranium was sold to Russia as I suspect then Russia has made a very wise move. In January of 2006 a resolution by Russia that is supported by President Bush is as follows: Joint venture in Russia, Moscow hopes to persuade Tehran it has no need to make its own enriched uranium.
    42. My idea of how Numbers have played a part in my life.
    43. How I almost met the Kennedy's in McClean, Virginia.
    44. Looking for the plan for the Lost Big Sycamore Recreational Area and more regarding what might have been a perfect place for a State Park in Claiborne County
    45. New Marinia comes to Claiborne County. TVA Finding of No Significant Interest
    46. Pictures of Big South Fork Barnstorming
    47. My BLOG on BLOGSPOT.COM The Republicans are Always Right?? NOT
    48. My father Al G. Payne was a member of the 1946 Democratic Victory Club.
    49. Democrates are sometimes the big VILLIANS TOO
    50. Midland District Texas Railroad Commission
      The EYES OF TEXAS for your Royalty Rights
    51. Al Capone Letter, Part of Joe Phillips Scrapbook

    YEAR: 1934

  • MARYVILLE HISTORY: Blount National Bank opens in former First National Bank building
  • Aluminum plant closed by August 10 strike, idling 1,900 workers; reopens September 10
  • Work begins on runways of new McGhee Tyson Airport
  • Gen. John J. Pershing, WWI hero, visits Maryville, site of his mother's birthplace (just east of town)
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    Bruce's Unit will be back in Arizona in September 2007


    Competition is fierce in the family now for space on my family site.

    Summer Lynn Stanton is the second Niece this year to send in pictures of a new addition to the family. Preston Aulton Harris was born May 9,2007.

    Another Key West Christmas, nice and Peaceful for the first born of the Glen and Nancy Rinker family. Brother-in-law Kevin has enjoyed another summer without being swept up to OZ on his house boat at Molasses Reef Marina. Born on Christmas Day. How bout some Buffett for Kevin.