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i I Weather- Football fat 147 and MMdiT b4 Mifli ehni la Umpiri tmr Virrtitiaaiinr ant Mty i Mndav fair caa tfa4 ratfetr tL Sullivan playing tta first (ime under Coach Jim Norton defeated Lynn View 6-0 last night See details on page 14 VOL XI NO 37 AP and INS KINGSPORT TENN SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1956 60 PAGES Phn8rcl FIFTEEN CENTS (Hi 1 21 o) ft)ip uftN Id) ft ft ft ru Officers On Aler CLINTON Tenn (AP) Sheriff Glad Woodward Saturday declared a state of emergency in Anderson County and began recruiting a force of nearly 200 trained low enforcement officers to serve after the National Guard leaves The Guard ordered in here whenthe integration of Clinton High School touched off mob violence is expected to pull out early next week f'S The sheriff's recruitment pro- jlQTFlQHt gram called for I Placing on a standby basis 0 0 -m the 89 officers who hold deputy -m commissions under the sheriff 1 i Lw These include Oak Ridge pollce- men Atomic Energy Commission 717 patrolmen and Tennessee Valley Ul lyCGCl Auhoriy officers- 2 Deputizing 50 auxiliary police men trained by the National NASHVILLE (W Gov Frank Guard here Clement agreed today to leave 3 Deputizing all former sheriffs detachment of National Guards- an(j saiarjed deputy sheriffs still men in racially-tense Clinton but living coUnty warned Anderson County Sheriff 4 A request Tennessee Gov Glad Woodward to take over fuU Frank clement for 10 additional protection of his own county Bshlgnay patrol carg-quickly as possible 5 A request to Atty Gen BEST BOY honors went to JOHNNY HOYtARD CARTER 2 also named Best All 'Round entrant at Fair Babv Contest Saturday Johnny la shown with his mother Mrs CARTER Daddy Is a technical sergeant with Air Force In Korea DOUBLE DELIGHT Mrs THEODORE MEADE of 1017 Oak Drue Circle stands between her twin sons TERRY LEfc left and JERRY LEN (right! after the boys received First Place at East Tennessee District Fair Saturday THREE TIMES WINNER Contest winning has become a habit to ALICE WINIFRED BOGGS two and one-half years who has taken grand prize in her division for third straight Fair Alice shown with Mother Is daughter of Mr and Mrs Boggs Route 3 Sunnyside Brownell for Fire Razes Clement also accused local ofEl marshals cials of having called for state Called To Service help last week before local lawj The Oak Ridge TVA and AEC and order had broken down officers along with the auxiliary 'While there no Question Pollce and f0er sherdfs and deputies were being served with about the fact that law and order sunmonses today did eventually break down In to report to the sheriff by derson County before ordered 6 pm Sunday "to receive Instate forces to move fa -l-ihe instructions and necessary equip-governor said "It has been lid- ment (for service) as long as nfitted that the first certification1 needed BLOUNTVILLE A four-room! that law and order had broken Sheriff Woodward made his re-with a big rally and barbecue at Featured speaker was Rep Har-t Cooley blasted the Republican important issues which came Up block house burned to the ground down was erroneous and was the Quest for the state troopers In a Hungry Mother Park old Cooley iD-NCi Chairmanof Administration with big salvosiin Congress He mentioned his near here Saturday evening while result of understandable excite- letter to the governor He also Jennings Ninth District Demo-! the House Agricultur Committee aimed at- the farm program' and stand in favor of a federal pro-1 a shotgun brandishing resident of ment and frustration" asked: ressman Hits GOP Blountville House Auto tpn US deputy That the governor designate Bnr rotv-w -risi-h-- per-omwho cnnbe "moment's notice and would B4LPH RASVttCIC Frm llrfltit Rtmt MARION Va Sept 8 Rep Pat Jennings officially opened hiscrat ii opposed by WMianu CjJenntnga It a member of-Jbat com campaign for re-election today 1 Wamplrt Bristol Republican jiniuee i 1 creiary of Agriculuire Benson Jennings related his stand on the 1 the toorae Torbgde firemen to put out tfiebla'ze Dispatcher Adams Sulli-1 van County Sheriff's Department! said he received a call at a bout 6 pm from an unidentified woman I The woman the officer said told him a neighbor's house was "a Jromthe Road the anene-n-0f" and the Blountville Fire ere con- ficers Department members fronted by a reachedOTr- have authority to order adequate state reinforcements Into Clinton should another emergency arise The National Guard be with- drawn gradually and a token force remain until any 85 per cent of the some 800 students Hf clashes (Attendance about gram to- create new jobs iq dis tress area's Social Security 'Act and lower taxes Rep Jennings called for a hull of the "mass exodus from the family-type farm and the trend to factory-in-the-field and coopera- ti e-type farming He called fort conservation continuation of the ur mlLTT' land cut the read between fh farmer prices and what he pays operating costs 1 Advocated "realistic tax adjust-1 iments Klvu? flrst consideration i() indlVidual taxpaver and to small business Coolev said America has Jack- son Dinners Jefferson Dinners'1 and Roosevelt Dinners but asked did you ever hear of a Hoover dinner? "They speak of cleaning up a1 mess" he said but Benson has lost over $900 million on dairy products alone" Demos Name Candidate In a telegram to Woodward There- was no immediate am- wr- r- is pllfication bn Jus "point "from the governor's office The governor also said in his sharply-worded telegram: Tn view of your doubts as to your ability to prosecute the af-' fairs of your office with a suffi- clent degree of diligence to pre- sprve peace ad tranquility wlthm JcUon I am detachment and as I again Insisted when the National Guard came Into your1 country that the preservation of law and order is a function of the sheriff and his associates' Kefauver At Crewe CRFWE Va Sept I (IB-Sen Estates Kefauver opened the pre- Identlai campaign in Virginia to- day by charging the Elsenhower administration with "an insidious The Republicans accused Democrats todav of "smearing" The Democrats cameJjack withi attemenU their National rfUliated with Dew blasts at GOP Committee claiming labor support GOP Charges Demo Smear WASHINGTON Sept (INS) Truman will be answered "with mjn wielding a shot- gun He reportedly warned thelServa 'or Peace yu must day- firemen not to try 'to put out the Prepare courageously and with "Adequate transportation fire determination to discharge the for the emergency force partic- Earl Clark resident of the house' duties of your offlce such a ularI' Armored cars and person- held officers and firemen at bay manner that you will be able tonel carriers until the house was totally de-lfulfl11 our dut? t0 maintain law Only 2 THP Cars Stroyed Adams said and order in Anderson Countv I The Highway Patrol headquar- Also destroyed in the fire the "I must Insist again as I did ters at Nashville said only the officers said was a 1951 model the verv moment the Highway two patrol cars regularly assign- car which was parked beside the Patrol entered Anderson County' ed to the district were now is the temporarily leaving a of National Guardsmen in Clinton 1 Conslder my duty t0 you int as the pnncipai con- was 33 per cent at the beginning of jt week and gradually rose to a little over 50 per cent by Fn- The blue-ejed southern beauty Secre-j talented dramatic student and AFL-CIO J7500 during her years reign termed majority favor the and ballot a 3-to-l agriculture ac-1 throwing hls flanking attack" against the Rural campaigners Electrification Administration Kefauver Democratic vice pres-'Jamf charges made against the Eisen- Idential nominee did not mention hQJr adminjstraft0 bv Adiai gtev-' In hla address the Issue of lnte- enson and ex-president Harry leader George Harrison gration of the races in schools which has the Virginia Legislature In special session but be discussed It guardedlv In a press conference He spoke before a crowd estimated at 7000 by the sheriff's office attending the annual meeting of the Southside Electric Cooperative He as introduced by Rep Wat- While House News Secretary and lambasting Agriculture The first sUtement by "pure bunk" claims that of union members re-election of Mr Eisenhower said a nationwide straw shows Stevenson enjoys preference among them The second by ex secretary Claude Wickard cused Benson of bin She quickly lrnTy Kitchte'" outgoing reigning queen Bulletin ATLANTIC CITY NJ Sept (INS) Miss South Carolina a pert blonde-haired college student from Manning SC was crowned Miss America of 1957 late tonight The decision of the 11 judges stunned dimpled Marian Ann Mcknight who sat speechless for a few seconds and 1 th'JtlTrtt'nK! I then started sob- recovered to re- Chiefs of Staff MT Compare Notes But can bet your last Con federate flag that privately they be comparing a lot of notes on proposals for handling their men reached the scene but that Clark forbade them to act until the home was completely de-1 stroyed Deputv Sheriffs Chester Clark! and Kvle Weaver challenged Clark 1 and at this the man threw- down his shotgun the deputies said ROGERS VTLLE Sept 8 Aand ned toward a wooded section group of Hawkins Countv Demo- the burned house crats meetire at the cour house The officers caught and subdued A WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS kins Abbitt (D-Vai a vigorous svenn took "the "Democratic hberatelv making statement1 WVa' ept 8 If-Southern gov-opponent of integration as -an d-iprf idential campaign Into the which cannot be supported" about frnors a fouJr'9y umeeUn8 voca'e defender and protector offarin belt Saturday with assur- (arm conditions here tomorrow and nowhere on nZim added The sheriff In a prepared statement said that "as a southerner it goes without saying what my personal feelings are as pertains to issues involved In segregation versus integration "However as sheriff of this county I will leave no stone unturned to maintain proper law and order "I feel strongly that this ls not a local situation but that it is Fair cool weather will prevail setting a pattern for the rest of through today and Monday the the state as well as the nation forecaster sajs i Clinton High is the first state The Weather Bureau at Tri-City supported high school to Integrate Airport predicts it will be a little' in Tennessee milder this afternoon but cold the sheriff said he was asking again tonight Little change in the three former Anderson Countemperature is expeetd in this sec- ty sheriffs still living the area tion Monday to serve as his assistants Kingsport temperature got up to 0ne of the ex-shenffs Bernard The accusation of "smear" was TZl hurled against the Democrats byientl0n burnmg issue before their Hn thn their official program do thev the Tennessee Valiev Authority" and one who knows the problems of rural people Seated on the plati here nominated Frank Stroupe a jl candidate for Flotenal presenta from Hawkins and Sullivan Counties i home A spokesman for the fire depart- ment said the building was be- 'ginning to collapse before fire- the man after a short chase Adams said Clark was jailed at Blountville on charges of public drunkenness Robertson 43 343 Mae St told police investigators that he was cut in a fight at Five Points downtown Kingsport "The wound started below the left ear and followed the jawline to the center of the mans chin Robertson said he would file charges as soon as he was released tfrom the hospital police said form was Gov James Folsom off cans consider obsolete Alabama Andt Stevenson said the Demo-J ment replying to Truman's allege- nation now that Suprm'i agent and farmer who was not pre-i Clark was said to be the only Kefauver told- the electric co-crat insist things can be done to ions Court decision on public schQMsented at the mass meeting said occupant of the home at the time operative crowd that manv REA pive the small businessman a President Elsenhower was re-aeB8aon is starting to take ef- he had not decided whether to ac-iof incident cooperatives may not be able to -reasonable chance of surviving ported eager to begin firing his fect- I last another four years under the in the world of giants 1 opening shots In his political battle' Pu Eisenhower administration Hej He called for stabilization of for reelection icuss blS but relatively non-con- said no onejn the administration farm Income at "full parity" and! He will let loose his Initial salvo troversial subjects civilian uses has the courage to "risk the wrath for tax and credit aid for small Wednesday with a pep talk to GOPjof atornic energy and water con-of millions of farmers by a frontal 1 businessmen (leaders from throughout the nation servation in the South And they attack" on REA but were seeking! BUms Republicans (who will gather at his Gettysburg will listen to Adm Arthur to hinder and impede it through- The presidential nominee spoke Pa farm to formally launch the Radford chairman of the Joint GOP National Committee state- lapPea Southern edu- gtroupe Rogersville insurance1 ran Rep James 'Quillen ofifrom Holston Valley Commumty'73 iHncnitai lost nitrht nfter twoivmcr for investigation for arson janrM ot Democratic help-Mart- Jan 20 for th feam- jjig next tjv farmer he said the Republi-1 up at the Ohio State Democratic Convention He accused the Re publicans of callousness and neglect of the farmer and small businessman of viewing their problems with little concern and no distress at the warmest Saturday aft-'Vandprgrlff said 'T am in busi-Kmgsport i vanaergriii saia i am ousi- ernoon after dipping to a lowofjness here and hat t0 take sld 52 early Saturday tfforning The on the issue But) 1 wlI1 8erve out the country and to stifle creation of new federal power resources What the (private) power companies want he said "the administration makes every effort to that he has rlght to 8ummon Vandergnff who operates a small loan agency went out of four years ago after serv-generally ex-Jink ibe maximum of six years The others Joe Shoopman and me temperature late Saturday night 1 nights low in East Tennessee 'expected to be about 42 was 56 and the KnovlUe Weather) Bureau predicted lows of 40-48 In 1 East Tennessee before dawn 1 Highest temperatures today are expected to be about 75 in the Tn- City Area 72-77 In East Tennessee 1 and 70-75 In Virginia cept 65-70 In the mountains T0-1 consent He said he was not a traditionally hold it in the fall Solcendlda(e it's just a coincidence that their manv school problems This will be the Southerners 22nd annual meeting and -they Clinton area Clinton authorities previously announced that six fulltime police officers and six deputies had been lsJoe Owens could not be reached 'for comment If the sheriff needs I believe Canal Authority an act which would yirtuallyclose the canal Washmgton reports today played down the-possibility of British-French use of force but most Egyptians expressed the belief that only firm US action could hold back British and French troops poised on Cyprus Without official confirmation observers said Menzies promoting the British-French line was ready to write eff the mission as unsuccessful That would clear the decks for the next move by London and Paris who are massing armed forces in the eastern Mediterranean even while considering such steps as an appeal to the Security Council Henderson tried to nurture faint hopes that the mission might find an 11th hour formula for negona- Flying Saucer Funs Away From God Fearin Farmer Suez War Talk Persists 4 Committee Leaves Egypt conference opens at the start of a school term hen you only need to skim the headlines to see some of their troubles Draw a line across the map from Maryland to Texas Each state It touches has had either a MONEYMORE Northern Ire-isaid Hutchinson It was brightlster rose and It hearly pulled mymajor or a minor flareup over inland Sept 8 UB A "level-headed red with two dark red marks at husband off his feet when he tried begration These states-Maryland to hold it West Virginia Kentucky Tennes- God-fearlng Irish farmer says the end and three dark red stripes1 1 Asked by police what she did see Arkansas and Texas the Rep Clarence Brown (D-Ohio' tn 1956 campaign 1 His political strategists are con- fident the Wednesday meeting with! 500 Republican campaign workers wtll make up for any head start hisj Democratic rival Adiai Stevenson has gotten In the presidential race nearbv Aldergrove said he wasi "nearly certain" that the strange object was an escaped weather balloon that had broken'' away from some station "These balloons are almost identical wltlf the shape of the object that Hutchinson saw he added "It could have dropped to the earth when it encountered some change In the air currents And it could have gone up again Mrs Hutchinson vigorously shook her head in disagreement The Hutchinson farm is located in a bleak boggy land near Loch Neagh where leprechauns ghosts and witches have been sighted through the ages But never a flying saucer Gloomy Menzies PARIS Sept 8 JINS) There were gloomy predictions uf Paris tonight that-a war with Egypt is Inevitable within six months unless President Gamal Abdel Nasser is stopped now The predictions by French and other Allied diplomats were part of the tremendous pressure on Washington for a firmer line against Nasser In the Suez dls- 1 Canal Committee has failed on its It had a saucer-shaped base them she-zepl led kicked it over but it returned toj started to panic and then I ably the integration its original position" home and praved" Iwill be tougher When he got down on his knees' A high ranking RAF officer at1 Stanley Too Busy -1 rest of -Ihe Pouth where ring presum difficuities Already one governor Thomas Stanley of Virginia has report- ed he will be tardy maybe absent altogether because of the school problem The Virginia Legislature is in a special session wrestling over proposed school legislation Another governor James Coleman of Mississippi has said he will be unable to attend due to previous commitments This leaves 14 governors to fret over regional problems and talk politics Among the Southerners are two Republicans Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin of Maryland and Caleb Boggs of Delaware Their states went for Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election as did Virginia Tennessee Oklahoma Texas and Florida mission to Cairo ad will bid Delegate- Loy-Henderson a President Nasser goodbye late tomorrow The Egyptian Middle East News Agency reported the meeting will be at 7 noon EST 1 Although the official committee spokesman Noel Deschamps Insisted the talks had not ended State-Department troubleshooter had Wen reported at opposite poles on the situation The mission has not seen Nasser as a group since Wednesday when the talks broke down after failure by either side to make any ert Menzies the chairman and substantial concessions Nasser presented his views to the committee and told them he was ready to meet them again at any time they chose It was clear however that Nasser had refused to budge on the point of International control the heart of the plan laid before him by the mission Failure of the talks brought into focus again the question of What next? Already rumors spread he was hunntng to the -police sta-tion with a captured flying saucer in his arms yesterday but it escaped I had difficulty in holding it down Thomas Hutchinson explained today 1 1 A Royal Air Force officer said what Hutchinson picked up must have been a weather balloon but police preferred the farmers Version "Thomas Hutchinson is a levelheaded God-fearing chap" said the desk sergeant at Moneymore headquarters "Hes not the sort of man who would Imagine he seized a flying saucer if in fact he didnt have one Hutchinson said he and his wife Maud saw- a flying saucer drop from the clouds Into a bog 200 yards from his front door shortly after lunch yesterday It was egg-shnped about 3 feet high and 18 inchep tn diameter for a closer examination he went on It began to spin So he put a hammer lock on it and mused: "The police station ls the only place for such a wicked looking thing as this He started to carry it there Then Mrs Hutchinson took up the tale: "Ah it was a terrible thing My husband warned me not to go near it but you know a woman's inquisitiveness I just couldnt keep back" She said she walked along with her husband when he tried to haul the fearful object to the police station at the village of Loup and stood there staring at It when he put It on the ground for a moment to negotiate a hedge "Then all of a sudden the mon- sources ci0se to the delegates said It was all over but saying goodby This was confirmed by reports from Washington where diplomatic officials admitted the talks had failed to resolve the conflicting views and by sources close to the Egyptian government who as long ago as Thursday were saying bluntly the "talks have failed" The delegates reported divided among themselves ovgr interpretation of their mandate will meet tomorrow morning before their final call on Nasser Australian Priihe Minister Rob pute The argument was that only America can halt Nasser and if the fails then Egypt will pursue piecemeal encroachments into foreign territories like Hitler until war is the result Then they add the wests position would be weaker than it Is now The warnings were voiced despite sons lingering hope that Nasser would avoid a flat rejection of the western proposals and leave the door ajar for a possible compromise on the Suez problem 9 Meanwhile the five-nation Suez I1' that British and French pilots in the canal plan to present-a max resignation to the Egyptian Suez' 1 1 tion with Nasser on control of the "anal which Nasser vow will be kept in Egyptian han 1 i.

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