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Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 3

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Man Can Fight On GI Chow But Couldnt Live On It Rancher Role Court Puts Wrecked By Hines On Drunk Charge Probation CHESTER HI (jP) Progress On TVA Projects At Ft Henry And Boone Twenty thousand cubic yards of concrete has Been placed in the spillway section at Boone Dam bringing most of the blocks to near crest elevation the Tennessee Valley Authority announced Saturday In the switchyard construction of footings for the 154-kv structure has been completed the TVA said At Fort Patrick Henry Dam clearing has been completed at the dam site in the construction plant area and on the islands in the river Grading now is under way for the construction plant area and a parking lot rudiments of cooking a steak but the facts of diet nutrition balancing and some morale factors Their first lessons are in personal hygiene insect control mess sanitation and the care and storage of rations Morale said Capt Daniel Stoudemire director of the school Nine times out of ten when morale is bad in a unit you can trace It directly to the kind of chow theyre getting He said the ideal Army cook is almost as concerned with the morale values of food as the way it tastes The students learn all the tricks of cooking in the field under' tents or with the most primitive equipment By RELMAN MORIN FORT KNOX Ky July 7 (P) A common I comment on Army rations is that a man can fight on this chow but he couldnt live on it Too often that is true In the field a soldier is frequently too busy to linger lovingly over his can of c-ration He gulps down the meat and beans and if he had the forethought to scrounge one he opens a can of fruit salad which is thirst-quenching as well as sweet And thats it Sometimes it has to be that way But if brains and hard work can change the situation the day may be near at hand when a I in a foxhole will be getting better food than he could buy at his favorite hash house Thats the Armys present objective Heres an example: The other day at Fort Knox a company of Infantry was far out in the field on a training maneuver For dinner the men ate braised beef mashed potatoes buttered lima beans sliced tomatoes and chilled cantaloupe With it they were served bread butter lemonade and hot coffee The meal was prepared in the field under conditions that would slmultate corqbat conditions That is all the installations had to be set up in a hurry the food brought in then prepared and finally transported Seven soldier cooks with an instructor Sgt Lester Johnson of Champaign 111 did the work These men are students at the Army Food Service School They go through an eight weeks course About 50 a week are graduated During that time they learn more about food than the average housewife ever suspects They are taught not only the A bridge across Reedy Creek for the proposed by-pass road along Holston River will cost the state $62111 if 'the low bid opened Friday is accepted That amount was quoted by the Oman Construction Co of Nashville the Associated Press reported Friday night The road proposed would provide motorists a route between State Highway 81 near the Tennessee Eastman Company plant and Highway 11-W at Old Kingsport without going through the business district Under an agreement reached last year the city and county are to build the road and the state the bridge A Nashville dispatch said the State Highway Department opened bids Friday on 58 miles of general road projects and 278 miles of rural roads Low bids totaled $4526007 just over the preliminary- estimate of $4513-077 by the department Washington County Rural Road project 3458 a 92-mile link from Route 34 to Bailey Bridge was withdrawn before the bid taking Rural Roads Director Swain said it will be let another time or constructed by a state crew In addition to the bridge here upstate projects on which bids were opened Friday included: Hamblen County 45 miles of road Claiborne Construction and Supply Co low bidder at $29696 Cocke County 92 miles on Secondary 2418 near Newport Malone Brothers $172176 Sevier County 44 miles on Secondary 2421 Griffiths Bell Paving Co Knoxville $103834 32 miles on Secondary 2422 Griffiths Bell $45107 79 miles on Secondary 2419 Young and Sons Johnson City $74151 KriSx County 75 miles on State Route 71 from Knoxville city limits toward Sevierville Griffiths Bell $477746 five-tenths mile including two bridges for grade separations Unaka and Euclid to Tulip Avenue on State Route No 1 in Knoxville Michael arid Co $660660 ABINGDON (Spl) Carl Hines owner of the Lee Drug Co of Pennington Gap was put on probation for a two-year term by Federal Court here Friday with the provision that within 30 days he enter the public health center in Lexington for treatment Charged with illegal dispensing of narcotics for his own use Hines hadj? entered a plea of guilty on April 9 through his attorneys since he was in the hospital at that time recovering from an operation Howard prosecuting Gilmer attorney presented a report by a narcotics agent which charged Hines dispensing one-fourth grain morphine tablets in an improper way using many for himself Two escaped corivicts both juveniles from the Natural Tennessean Gets Study In Sweden DYERSBURG Term July 7 (P) John Gordon Jones 17 left here last night enroute to Uppsala Sweden to make a study of that country under a scholarship offered him by the Swedish government Jones son of Mr and Mrs Newman Jones of Dyersburg won the scholarship for his excellent scholastic record and extra curricular activities He will board a plan for Europe in New York tomorrow Strikes May Idle 7000 On Project PADUCAH Ky July 7 (JP Nearly 7000 workers at the a-ducah Atomic Project and Joppa 111 Steam Plant may be idle Monday in the wake of labor walkouts McGraw and Company major contractor at the Paducah plant posted notice today informing workers that the $500-000000 project will be shut down Monday unless operating engineers away from their jobs since July 2 have returned to their jobs The atomic plant force numbers about 5500 Ebasco Service Company contractor on the steam plant Job at Joppa stopped operations today after a walkout yesterday of operating engineers Late today there was no report of settlement LUCKY THE TROUT which might be snagged by this pretty Wise County fisherwoman She is Shirley Kivett of Wise The locale is Clear Creek near Norton And this is all by way of presenting statistics that nearly $3000 worth of fishing licenses were sold by' the county clerk at Wise the two days before the Fourth of July Officials said the record purchase of permits probably was due to the coal miners vacation (Photo by Addington) DIES OF INJURIES Carpenter 72 Becomes Father For 26th Time MEMPHIS July 7 (JF) An auto-train crash here Monday night has claimed its second victim Mrs Clara Muth 61 died yesterday of injuries received In the crash Mrs Muths death was the 21st in Memphis traffic this year against 25 at the same time last year SATIN FINISH JEWEL BOX Tenn Family Escapes Injury In Ark Crash OConor Offers To Take Warren estimony In Fla WASHINGTON July 7 (t The HEAVY LAKE NIMROD Ark July 7 (JP) A Tennessee physician his wife and child escaped injury in a crash of their light airplane in Lake Nimrod yesterday Barns engineer in charge of Nimrod Dam said Dr Joe Johnson Chattanooga nosed the plane into the lake about 15 feet from shore to avoid a land crash when the motor failed The three occupants swam ashore Dr Johnson and his family were flying from Amarilla Tex to Little Rock Boyles Column Only 1 25 Week tkuifbme aThcUt HIRES OUR CANDIDATE FOR FIRST HONORS IN THIS SENSATIONAL FRIEND-WINNING CAMPAIGN foey real cook Ing and food economy with this amazing ALL-PURPOSE Sot IT COOKS BOILS FRIES BAKiS ROASTS TOASTS BROILS GRILLS 1 1 Retains all natural juices and vitamins 1 Capture the delicious flavor ot Grandma's cooking In about half the time with as high as 90 less drudgery All that you could ask for in UTILITY BEAUTY and EFFICIENCY packed Into this one Vegetables and meats made juicier mere tcodec ff ON WOl(l Faster cookmg IB No scrubbing Me polishing tfl-LUSTHE FINISH 12 PIECE SET INCLUDES: DUTCH OVEN IS qt) and COVBt 2 piece FRYING FAN HOVi ")l pioa TRIVET I place 3-QT SAUCEPAN and COVER 2 pieces 2-OT SAUCEPAN and COVER 2 places l-OT SAUCEPAN and COVER 2 pieces DON'T MISS THIS BARGAIN OFFER! Hove It Charged At Your JEWEL BOX Evangelist Milburn Morelock Rev hred Cole TENT REVIVAL FALL BRANCH Tent Located In Front of Fall Branch Post Office BEGINNING Monday July 9 7 :30 pm Evangelist Morelock Is Heard Each Sunday ai Over WFHG 986 On Your Dial.

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