Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

yr I liiiSMj grri 'i' A- V' i i J( it A -v rJU Practically every downtown Kingsport store wiU be open untit 9 jn tomorrow to make Monday night downtown for area shoppers Merchants are counting the wide variety of stores and free parking to bring in the customers And if the plan is successful Monday night shopping may become a permanent- custom according to one store owner 1 Twenty-one downtown stores tested fee idea' last Monday night and merchants reported business was good Tomorrow night according to leaders of fee plan almost every store will be open Monday night wifi also launch fee Christmas shopping- season for two downtown department stares Penney3 and Millers Both stores will remain open every night until 9 from Monday until Christmas City to Kingsport Among stores which wiU operate tomorrow' night are: BaU Brothers Furniture Betty Gay Broadstreet- Furniture Go Dalton's Young Mens Slop Dobyns-Taykr Dollar Discount Freels Drug Store Fuller and HiHmah Glass Electric mid Furniture Co Jewel Box Jordens Jewelers Josephs Musicenter Kress Lotties More On Page 19-A CoL 1 Other stores have varying schedules but a concerted effort is being made to coordinate opening hours a spokesman said New Christmas decorations in the business district began going up Friday The 16-foot red candles will be lighted the day after Thanksgiving in time for the annual holiday parade Saturday Nov 29 As usual the parade will cap the ClincMield Christmas Special train -run from Elkhora ft THIS YEARS CHRISTMAS STAMP Winter Sunday in Norway Mains 78 PAGES 20 CENTS KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37660 SUNDAY s' a PHONE 246-8121 NEWS ROOM CONFERENCE ROOM Promisee! jt: 1 Start On Million-Dollar Newspaper i a I ill U' wb- I Plant carpeted throughout The press itself a Goss Metro will extend-front fee basement level? up through the main floor and into a raised section of fee roof The first three press units to be installed next spring will give fee Times-News a 48 page capacity Foundations will be installed in the pressroom for three more units to 96 -eventually- increasing page -capacity The Mefeo is fee largest offset newspaper press made in fee It features four-color picture reproduction end is designed to allow tabldd-size sections to be printed along with fee M-size newspaper The model ordered for -the Times-News will it wffl 1 well WASHINGTON (UPI) Planners of the Nov 13-15 antiwar march in Washington stressed the words peaceful anT legal Saturday and said even the most militant faction of Students for a Democratic Society is leaving its helmets at home Leaders of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War In Vietnam (New Mobe) said at a news conference they expect hundreds of thousands of marchers and have definite commitments from groups representing perhaps 100000 They said the Nixon administration is crying violence to intimidate planners and that transportation companies are holding back vehicles needed for visits to Washington Coretta King widow of Dr Martin Luther King Jr told the news conference: We are against the war because we are against violence If anyone does attempt disruption and violence by that very act they are not part of the meeting "She spoke of 00 per cent of the expected demonstrators being peaceful then thought" better of that and corrected it later to 99 per cent Dr Benjamin Spock the baby-doctor-tumed--pacifistsaid the march is 'to be a legal and orderly demonstration The surest way to Insure it is peaceful is having the very fundamentally' peaceful Americans here to make it so Spock said planners from New Mobe had consulted with the Weathermen a militant faction of the SDS and They said they would participate on a peaceful basis As a sign of -i of next year end fee building is to be operation by fee fall of 1970 According to Publisher Heiberger fee building has been designed around a central garden court Fronting fee glass-walled court will be a large conference room editorial offices an employe lunchroom and spacious entrance lobby- Most of fee newspapers operation will be conducted on a smgle floor although lower floor built to take advantage of fee sloping site will extend about half the length of fee building Here newsprint and other materials will be 6tored and additional space will be available for expansion The building wili be air -conditioned and More On Page 10-A Col 7 tmnm Reverses VOLUME XL No 45 Vx'iyT Construction To JS The Kingsport T5qies-News will break grouts) next month for a million dollar newispaperbuMiig The plant will be located on five acres of land inside the city limits between Lynn Garden Drive and Truxton Drive facing fee Holiday Inn and Parkway Plaza Shopping Center It will contain 36000 square feet of 1 floor space approximately twice fee size of the companys present building on Market Street Already on order and under construction for the new plant are fee first three units of the largest offset newspaper press in Tennessee Press delivery is scheduled in fee spring Draft Plan Wins Favor KEY BISCAYNE Fla (UPI) -Secretary ef Defense Meivin Laird Saturday predicted final congressional approval of a law to draft only 19-year-olds on a lottery system based on feeir bkfe dates Laird told newsmen at fee Florida White House he now expects- favorable action by fee Senate on fee House passed bIL The defense secretary noted fee Senate Armed Services Committee will begin hearings on fee draft measure Monday and said he was glad to report feat several senators previously opposed to consideration of the bill now bad changed their minds The President considers Iks a' most Important step because of fee inequities feat exist Laird said Nixon is spending a working weekend vacation at his Florida retreat Land said fee present system is unfair because potential draftees are vulnerable for seven years from fee ages of 18 through 25 i- 1 A random selection of fee birth dates of 19-year-olds as passed by fee House Laird said would make youths potential for -fee draft over only a 12-month span The 19-year-olds would be eligible for the draft only until they reached 20 years of Despite his optimism Laird said that even if fee Senate fails to act the President will by executive order invoke fee draft of 19-year-olds first Laird estimated 800000 draftees would be available in fee manpower pool starting Jan 1 under the legislation but he expected More On Page 10-A Col 1 Near- By MARY KISS Tlmes-Newi Staff Writer A move to ehminate two Colonial Heights railroad crossings began gathering steam this week after a schoolbus loaded with children narrowly missed a collision wife a Clinchfield freight train in LakecresL A' railroad official and a state senator told the Timfes-News yesterday they strongly favored construction of a by-pass road which would remove two dangerous grade crossings in fee area And a group of citizens led by Jim Anderson of 429 Woodcrest Drive began passii petitions requesting state in a a '13 I I 5 NOV 9 1969 6 SECTIONS 4 A 'i-v V'vWS -'I A Sf Next- Month include automatic pasting devices making possible to change newsprint rolls without slowing down fee speed of the The newspapers present press hdi requires over three hours with the hew press it be completed in as little as one how The Lyim Garden Drive site at fee intersection of -Routes sod-11-W- wasn chosen to provide rapid access to Kingsports market area in twe states aS as to fee citys expanding west end-Delivery trucks will be able to use superhighways into Southwest Virginia and Hawkins County while bypassing downtown traffic to reach all of Sullivan County and More On Page 11-A Col 1 THE PENTAGON NUMBERS GAME WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sen WHUan -Proxmire D-Wis said Saturday fee Pentagon has repeatedly announced 'the same spending cuts to make them seem 1 larger and more manerous than they actually were Proxmire fee Senates foremost critic-' of Pentagon spending added: The Pentagons budget cutting is both spurious and misleading hi some cases they have given fee Impression that they are' 5 making cuts which in fact have not -been made In other cases small cuts now mean vast spending later In one case he said fee Navy made five separate announcements concerning fee retirement of 100 old ships from the fleet US: Called Arabs9 Foe By United Press International Defense and Foreign Ministers from 13 Arab nations opened an Arab Defense Council meeting in Cairo Saturday by hearing the United States denounced as Arab enemy number one Delegates then drew up strategy for mobilizing Arab world resources In Jerusalem Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that Israel would make Egypt pay so dearly for commando raids like the three incursions staged this week across fee Suez Canal that President Gamat Abdel Nasser would have to halt them In a new oufeurrt of violence In fee Israeli-occupied Gaza strip Arab guerrillas shot and killed a taxi driver and hurled a hand grenade that missed an Israeli patrol car and wounded 10 Arab passer sby The Cairo gathering of high level Arab delegates and Palestinian representatives More On Page 10-A CoL 1 TODAY WEATHER Sunny today with seasonal temperatures cold in the early morning mild this afternoon Lowest temperature tonight about 34 Monday outlook: partly cloudy and mild with little change in temperatures Fir Hntant Him lmnpratw call MS-rm Green Beret Fortress Fights Back SAIGON (UPI) South Vietnamese troops clashed three times Saturday with North Vietnamese regulars trying to surround Due Lap a jungle outpost near fee Cambodian border that has become a focal point of the Communists winter offensive At least North Vietnamese were reported killed They are edging across fee border and trying to set their artillery said Capt Thomas F' Quick- 81 of Orangeburg SC fee Green Beret commander at Due Lap They are trying to get us to circle the wagons Military sources said elements of a 7000-man North Vietnamese force operating in the highlands along the Cambodian border bad been ordered to overrun Due Lap in HE WAS GOING BY THE BOOK PARIS (UPI) After reading a book called how to live beyond your means 80-year-old Henri Brau rented a 3270 a mmfe apartment on a fashionable avenue near fee Eiffel Tower Then heedvertised the apartment at half the rent and distributing duplicate keys rerented the apartment right times picking tip eight checks each for three months rent A siisjrfcious neighbw put police on to Brau who was picked up as he -cashed tha first of the eight checks action on fee problem Anderson told of fee near-aeddent in a letter to fee Thnes-News Friday He said he was driving behind fee loaded schoolbus when ft approached the unmarked crossing at fee entrance to Lakecrest Friday morning The crossing was shrouded in thick fog which muffled fee sound of a train whistle and cut visibility to 50 to 100 feet Anderson said' He said fee bus driver stopped then proceeded over fee crossing Four seconds later Anderson said a fast-moving freight train went through tha crossing Andersons youngest 6pn was riding on the school bus what US commanders view as a' major test of fee South Vietnamese Army No American infantry units operate in fee region Elsewhere US headquarters Saturday reported fee loss of three Army helicopters to groundfire in incidents feat killed one American and wounded three Two crashed in fee jungles northwest of Saigon and the third near Da Nang vi Three other Americans Iwere killed and 19 wounded in 39 rocket or jnortar barrages launched by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong gunners in the 24-hour period ended at 8 am Saturday At Due Lap Green Beret Quick told UPI correspondent Nat Gibson feat South Vietnamese patrols striking out from -the fortress had forestalled a North Vietnamese attack on the camp by at least a week In fee fighting Saturday one South Vietnamese patrol reported killing 10 North Vietnamese in a clash two miles northwest of fee camp One South Vietnamese was reported wounded About a mile southeast of the camp a company of native mercenaries trained and paid by the Green Berets drove off a North Vietnamese force apparently trying to set up rocket positions on a ridgeline The North Vietnamese' left behind saws axes and entrenching tools hi fee third action also southeast of Due Lap a mercenary unit reported killing three North Vietnamese troops on a sweep and then engaged other North Vietnamese soldiers in bunkers Gibson said fighter-bombers were attacking fee bunkers as the action continued late Saturday Bypass A delegation from Kingsport visited Governor Buford Ellington in Nashville last year to ask for the new road which would provide a route from US 23 to Warriors Path State Park The group included Colonial Heights Service Club members Charles TaHman and Mike Witt and Rep Carl Moore of Bristol After the meeting the group reported feat Ellington told them if the legislature approves fee money youll get your road" Tennessee i Rep 1 Robert Bible told fee Times-News he believed no further action Mors On Page 10-A CoL Deciding feat Wayne and Gaines Hensley of Kingsport were not to blame far fee fall which killed Ronnie Hot Shot Ellis three years ago fee Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has reversed feeir involuntary manslaughter convictions and dismissed the charges againrt them The brothers had been facing an 11 month 29 day jail term imposed in 1967 Ellis 26 died in a 10-foot plunge from the carport roof at fee Holiday Dm in September 1966 after fighting wife tile Hensleys at a party in a room there Although witnesses had testified that fee brothers were not near him when he humbled backward off fee roof and feat Wayne Hensley had even shouted a warning to him the jury found than guilty of manslaughter The appeals court in an opinion written by Judge Charles Gaibreath said fee jury bad derided fee Hensleys did not intend for Ellis to fall but convicted them anyway Gaibreath said there was no proof that injuries suffered by Ellis in the fight caused him to fal pointing out feat Ellis had been conscious enough to shake hands with fee brothers just before he stepped off the roof The judge noted that although the indictment in the case charged feat fee Hensleys knocked Ellis off fee roof none of the witnesses testified to such an event Nine people five men and four women were to fee mold room feat night when Ellis who was (frunk staggered off bed and accidentally hit one of fee girls -in the stomach according to trial testimony Witnesses said fee Hensley brothers forced Elks out of fee room and a fight began outside between Gaines now 30 and Ellis Wayne now 28 later poined his brother -against Ellis they said One girl 21-year-old Betty Carley of Weber City said she saw Wayne Hensley kick Ellis in the side and head while he was down Body Of Clintwood Man Found Near Pound Dam POUND The body of Frank Combs 42 of Clintwood was recovered from the north folk of the Pound Dam reservoir at 12:20 pm Saturday by two scuba divers from Virginia State Police headquarters at Wythevile Wise County Sheriff Shdcy Mullins said Combs father of five sons had been missing since Wednesday However he was not reported missing vmtil 7 am Friday when his wife called the sheriffs office A self-employed owner of grading equipment he had been working in fee Flat Gap section near Found Wenesday The sheriffs department Pound Rescue Squad and others began a search Friday Late feat day almost at dark they founds jeep tracks leading to the edge of a diff overlooking Pound Lake The sheriff called fee State Police Department and two scuba divers arrived about 10 am Saturday They found More On Page 10-A CoL 1.