Elizabethton Star from Elizabethton, Tennessee • 1

If I UNnEDSRIND 'V 'T Tr I (Elizabethton An Independent Newspaper Devoted To The Upbuilding Of Carter Johnson Counties Weather EAST TENNESSEE Clear to partly cloudy with mild days and cool nights through Tuesday Mostly cloudy and not as cool Tuesday night with a slight chance of showers XXXVII NO 289 MEMBER I ELIZABETHTON TENNESSEE 37643 MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1968 SIX PAGES DAILY 10 CENTS SUNDAY 15 CENTS George Wallace Speaks In Area Ok Jio LwjW' 1H I pKoyjPip? ofTOOti jKaj JSriEL AaZf 3 1 BJL jHWm Mk IIbI '4" "rL jp Rwi A Ll4kt i a sksskU 1 tfrffx jp JEss vjB b' bI BgkX BESk JBw ULl IgS jBJk gflffrjaMklMB ISMT AIRPORT SPEAKING George Wallace speaks from atop an automobile to a portion of the 4000 who were on hand to greet him at Tri Cities Airport yesterday He delivered a major campaign address today at noon at the Bristol International Speedway 4000 Persons Greet Candidate At Airport BRISTOL Third party presidential candidate George Wallace accused his opponents and the news media Sunday of telling the public that his support is away let that worry he told an enthusiastic crowd in an impromptu speech from Humphrey Predicts Victory NEW YORK (UPI) In the 16 till election day Hubert Humphrey expects to perform a miracle on Main Street Stumping the largest city for votes and money the vice president said today he will win the White House because the people do not trust hrs rivals Republican Richard Nixon and third party candidate George Wallace atop a car talk about Wallace slipping slipping right into the White House An estimated 4000 persons greeted him at the Tri Cities Airport on his arrival from Washington and many more waved to him on the drive to a motel where about 250 fans waited Today he was addressing a rally at the Bristol International Speedway before departing for appearances in Davenport Iowa and Moline Ill this evening While in Washington Wallace met with his running mate retired Air orce Gen Curtis LeMay recently returned from a trip to Vietnam In a television interview (NBC Meet the Press) Sunday Wallace said LeMay had advised him the North Vietnamese were taking advantage of restrictions on bombing to build up their war supplies north of the Demilitarized Zone Transportation of supplies (Continued on Page 6) 7 tf Xn 7 xl I ML 1 kj Bhk Al '4 ill WALLACE ARRIVES George Wallace third party candidate for President of the United States waves to a crowd of approximately 4000 on his arrival at Tri Cities Airport yesterday After Wedding Yesterday Jacqueline On Honeymoon SKORPIOS Greece (UPI) Aristotle and Jacqueline Onassis began their honeymoon today on his $3 million yacht off a paradise island where they were wed during a rain that Greek mythology says will insure they live happily ever after The 39 year old widow of President John Kennedy and the 62 year old Greek Argentine multimillionaire will sail the 325 foot white Christina down the Ionian Sea in search of Mediterranean sun in a day or so aides said ollowing their 45 minute wedding ceremony in a 13 by 30 foot Greek Orthodox chapel on private island of Skorpios off western coast the couple went aboard the yacht and toasted each other and fortune with champagne and red wine Crewmen said the newlyweds left word they would be sleeping late Among their first tasks of married life was saying goodbye to Mrs two children Caroline Kennedy 10 and John Kennedy Jr 7 The late children were expected to fly back to their private schools in New York City Children In Ceremony The children held thin white candles during the Greek Orthodox ceremony Sunday John emerged holding his mother hand and with his head hanginglow He shy a family friend said There was no official word on whether Caroline and John would keep their name of Kennedy or be given Onassis as a surname Their mother (Continued on Page 6) Paris Talks Called Off or Today PARIS (UPI) North Vietnam today canceled a regular news conference that might have indicated feelings about efforts to de escalate the Vietnam War The North Vietnamese delegation to 27 week old talks here with the United States gave no reason for the sudden cancellation of their weekly Monday news briefing Diplomatic observers said Hanoi possibly called off the session usually a platform for bitter denunciation of American Vietnamese policy in order not to rock the boat in a time of delicate negotiations Also they said the North Vietnamese may not have wanted to face questions about increasing speculation the United States has proposed a plan designed to tone down the war and get the talks here off the ground Muskie Campaigns In Massachusetts SPRINGIELD Mass (UPI) Sen Edmund Muskie is making a campaign swing across Massachusetts today in what may be the Democratic national last direct bid for the votes The Democratic vice presidential nominee plans stops in Springfield New Bedford all River and Boston His schedule includes a talk to a club as well as a number of rallies The Maine senator once a shy youth who preferred books to people will be campaigning in the style he likes best direct contact with the voters During Weekend ive Children Burn To Death the Astronauts Court Near End Of Orbit Three Interstate Highway 66 near Deaths in at tied earth from said even they was of will children ranging in one to six years was her the more had did the it MRS BLANCH WINTERS Route 4 Elizabethton MRS JOSEPHINE JACKSON Jonesboro the burning house The bodies of the were found in a JONESBORO Washington County deputies were to resume a search today for two men who raided a two table card game Saturday night and shot one man to death while wounding another The masked gunman escaped with several thousand dollars in cash and jewelry gnd a late model outside was George Phelps 58 ot most is peace in CAPE HATTERAS (UPI) Hurricane Gladys which claimed four lives and drove more than 76000 persons from their homes in a multimillion dollar damage swath through Cuba and lorida whirled across the New York to Europe shipping lanes today The seventh tropical storm no longer a threat to land pushed its 85 mile an hour winds further into the open Atlantic The latest report issued at midnight EDT placed it about 200 miles east southeast of Cape Cod Mass Gladys boasting 100 mph winds slammed ashore near the gulf resort of Homosassa Springs la about midnight riday cut a 30 mile wide damage path across central lorida and went into the automobile parked Johnson City Clyde Carter 38 of Jonesboro was wounded tn the side and in poor condition at Joi City Memorial Hospital The card players were up by the thieves PARIS Tenn (UPI) ive young death Sunday father frantically played a garden hose on his blazing five room frame home The Paris ire Department did not respond to the alarm after receiving a second telephone call saying the house was far The caller a neighbor was unaware that the children were still inside chair on the side of a road killed Saturday when husband driving to pick her up lost control of his car and ran over her Mrs Mary McKinney 60 was pronounced dead on arrival at a Memphis hospital Two Chattanooga men were killed in a two car head on crash in Hamilton County riday night The victims were identified as Peter Martel and Thurman Smith The UPI weekend death toll began at 6 pm local time and ended at midnight Sunday Washingtou County Deputies Searching or Two Gunnel Atlantic It went inland again Saturday near Hatteras strafing the famed Outer Banks with high winds and rain before slipping back out to sea Sunday morning Very little damage was recorded in North Carolina but lorida was expectd to ask for federal disaster funds for ravaged areas where damage was estimated at $55 million lorida Gulf Coast beaches suffered the worst erosion in 1 5 years as storm tides shoved oceanfront homes off their foundations and winds blew off roofs windows communications snapped and water was waist deep on some coastal roads and smashed Power and lines were children burned to while their NASHVILLE (UPI) Three sections of Interstate Highway all in East Tennessee will be opened during the next few weeks The State Highway Department said Sunday that a 256 mile section of 1 75 in Campbell County from Caryville to the Kentucky State line at Jellico will be opened Tuesday The project was built at a (Continued on Page 6) Sections To Open In Next ew Weeks is involved would have gone insurance or no a ire Department spokesman said children corner bedroom where they shared the same bed Killed were Nancy Mae Millikin 6 Robert Earl 4 Howard 3 Carrie Sue 2 and Jasper Edward 1 Millikin his wife Mae and two other children escaped the blaze but Mrs Millikin and a daughter Amita 20 months were hospitalized with minor burns ire officials said they not know the cause of blaze but speculated centered in a wood burning stove used to heat the home The home was located in the Cottage Grove Community of Henry County about 10 miles from Paris Paris firemen will answer calls from outside the city if the structure is covered by a local subscription fire insurance or if personal injury The Carter County Quarterly Court in regular session today which was concluded before the lunch hour approved the official reports of county judge trustee superintendent of schools and superintendent of roads and adopted the appropriation docket The Court upon recommendation of the Elections Committee elected Richard Winters magistrate of the 1 6th District to the Industry and Temperance Committees to take the place of the late James Brady Ellis (Continued on Page 6) Humphrey admits the one thing that can help him the Vietnam before Nov 5 He said in a broadcast interview (ace The Nation CBS) Sunday night he is of such a move but said there were sensitive negotiations going on am being very very restrained in anything I say This restraint indicates I do have Humphrey said The vice president also is hopeful of overcoming frontrunning Nixon SPACE CENTER Houston (UPI) The three Apollo 7 astronauts irritable with itchy beards and running out of their favorite foods hurtled into the final 24 hours of their flight today on the 1 1 day shakedown cruise for manned moon orbit by Christmas Space officials mission has been successful than hoped Astronauts Wally Schirra Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham prepared today for another of their increasingly popular television programs from space planned for 8:20 am EDT The astronauts are scheduled to splash down in the western Atlantic at 7:12 am EDT Tuesday 45 million miles and 163 orbits around the since their launching Cape Kennedy Oct 1 1 major test another planned blast mighty engine It be a 78 second the next to last test of the engine designed to lift the ship into lunar orbit and kick it back toward earth again By United Press International Accidents claimed at least 14 lives in Tennessee during the weekend Traffic mishaps claimed nine lives Rose King a Nashville secretary was killed at Nashville Sunday when she was struck by a car which jumped the curb and knocked over a parking meter before pinning her against a concrete rail at the steps of the main Post Office Jimmy Atchley 22 of the Kodak Community in Sevier County was killed Sunday when he lost control of his car on State Sevierville The five age from perished near Paris Sunday Authorities said their father Jasper Milligan Jr Negro laborer was awakened to find his four room frame home afire in the Henry County Community of Cottage Grove Milligan his wife and two other children managed to escape from the blaze which destroyed the dwelling The bodies were found one corner of the home Traffic mishaps claimed least seven lives An 18 ear old Clinton youth died Saturday night at a Knoxville hospital from injuries suffered Tuesday at an Oak Ridge traffic mishap Officers said Vernon Eugene Taylor was critically injured when he was thrown from his car as it went Out of control and skidded several hundred feet One man was killed and Hurricane Gladys Hits Shipping Lanes Cleat to cloudy weather with mild temperature during the daytime and cool 1 tonight is predicted by the Weather Bureau at Tri City Airport for today Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and not as cool at night with a slight chance of showers the weatherman said high temperature is expected to be 72 degrees and 76 The low tonight is estimated at 42 degrees The outlook for Wednesday is for considerable cloudiness and mild with a chance of showers Approves Reports CENTER OPENS Approximately 210 students attended the opening of a Youth je acnoot gymnasium Saturda nv mpbell president of the di me nrosram aiano wnn bss iw nnnmn success and commended the teenagers for their cooperation behavior The Center will be open again this Saturday night when music will be furnished by All students 1 3 to 19 years of age are invited another seriously injured in a grinding two car collision Saturday night on Highway 1 1 by pass at Athens Dead on arrival at an Athens hospifal was William Nunnally of Riceville Seriously injured was Wayne Cagle of Sweetwater William Wooten 41 of Nashville was killed Saturday in a one car accident on 41 in Davidson County Lucian Anderson 81 of Hendersonville was killed Saturday in Sumner County in a two car mishap A woman seated in a lawn Traffic Mishaps Claim Nine Lives In Tennessee 1 Wr ft Hi y' i 4m 41 I it.