Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

'V 62 71 rK I i 'U- A i I 'll JL iiiiU-' TTWT T1 ipO 1 jJL JLL Ly 1- 77 7 i WISE Wlae Countys election tangle apparently wont end until the voting begins if then These developments Friday and Saturday assured the continuation of a long-time feud between "outs and 0 The Democratic County Court Clerk filed suit against the Republican County Registrar demanding that a list of persons who have requested absentee ballots be posted publicly 0 A parade of witnesses filed through county offices to testify that they had been illegally denied ballots by a "purge" of the voter rolls 0 Judge Long while refusing to order the names restored announced he would remain in the courtroom until Ef 2-Party Status At Stake (Po 7S Ef Independents Spark Scott (Pig 66) Ef Lee Outs Want In (Pig IB) New Faces In Wise (Page SB) election day If necessary to rule on disputed ballots The suit was brought by County Court Clerk Mullins Saturday after he said Registrar Cecil "Jack" Bolling had failed to post a list of persons who have requested absentee ballots Virginia law requires that the list be posted publicly live days before election and a copy be given to the board of county supervisors or their executive representative in this case Evan Norton the county executive secretary Mullins said he kept the clerks office open Friday until after 5 pjm the legal deadline for the public list to be delivered to him for posting He said he waited until 1:30 pm Saturday before filing the court action and obtained a warrant for Bolling asking that proper notice be filed by a Wise County deputy sheriff Earlier Judge Long had indicated he would rule on the individual cases Friday but Hugh Kline of Norton attorney for the registrars office said he felt the cases had been presented out of the proper order Kline said the supervisors could not properly bring suit on behalf of the purged voters But an attorney for the supervisors and the purged voters argued that since the ten-day period had expired before a list of those purged was made available the action was the only available recourse More On Page 10A Col 1 mj Mi 'ixzrcsTjsosNOsri VOLUME XU NO 42 PHONE 248-3121 (CIRCULATION CALLS 8 TO 11 AM SUNDAY 248-8129) KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37660 SUNDAY OCTOBER 31 1971 7 SECTIONS 94 PAGES 25 CENTS Chill Local Homes By MARY KISS Times-News Staff Writer Coal for household heating is so scarce that a sudden cold snap could leave many Kingsport families without heat for their homes a local dealer said Saturday Henry Bellamy owner of Kingsport Coal Yard said he had been able to obtain only 120 tons of coal this week "enough to last a couple of days A quick temperature drop could mean a "serious problem for families who heat their houses with furnaces warm morning stoves or fireplaces he said Theres just not going to be enough coal" He advised that somebody set up an emergency procedure to take care of people who may be without household heat this winter Bellamy said his workmen Saturday morning began bagging the remaining supply of egg coal for sale to families who need it for heaters and furnaces "on an emergency basis" Several factors combined to produce the crisis Bellamy said Supplies from union mines have been shut off since the beginning of the United Mine Workers strike September 30 However he said large union mines produce mostly crushed coal for industrial boilers Sellers of domestic coal for household use depend mainly on small mines which produce lump egg and stoker coal Normally Bellamy buys his domestic coal from small non-union mines around Harlan Ky The threat of union picketing has closed some small mines in that area and others have shut down because of recent government health and safety crackdowns he said Last week he sent trucks 40 miles further away to the Hazard fields In Perry County Ky Bellamy said Compounding his problems are the added transportation costs and the price freeze he said He cant raise coal prices because of government regulations (lump coal now sells for $22 a ton stoker and egg coal a little less) "Its a serious question whether to stay in business or not" said Bellamy "Unless something changes theres not going to be any coal for people who normally depend on lump or egg coal for their furnaces the coal dealer said "A lot of people in Kingsport are not aware of the strike or a More On Page 10A Col 1 Nixon Will Try Senate-Slashed To Salvage Foreign Aid WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon and the State Department stunned by the Senates surprise death sentence for foreign aid held emergency meetings Saturday in a search for ways to salvage the program that has showered $143 billion around the globe since World War II Secretary of State William Rogers said the 41 to 27 Senate vote Friday night to kill $29 billion in authority for another year of foreign military and economic assistance will have a profoundly adverse effect on our relations in the rest of the world and on our national security" Shortly after he bade farewell to Yugoslav President Tito the President called in Dr Henry A Kissinger his national security affairs adviser to discuss the implications of the Senate vote At the same time Undersecretary of State John Irwin II met with aid agency director John A Hannah and other top State Department officials Rogers in a statement promised to "work diligently and closely with Congress in restoring foreign aid But Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he considered foreign aid dead in its present form and that he would oppose any efforts to revive It Sen George Aiken of Vermont the Senate's senior Republican and Sen Edward Kennedy D-Mass charged that the White House had only Itself to blame for the vote that saw antiwar senators joining longtime conservative foes of foreign aid in killing the program Aiken ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the administration "over-lobbied to defeat the Cooper-Church amendment that would have cut off all funds for US military operations in Indochina except for troop withdrawals He said this lost "quite a bloc of votes on the liberal side Aiken also deplored what he called the "utter lack of compromises" in the struggle between the White House and Senate critics The administration he said "will have to come down to earth" and treat senators as "equals" instead of "hostile" opponents Kennedy said Nixon himself invited the stunning Senate defeat last week when he appealed to the worst Instincts in the Senate and the American people" in denouncing UN delegates who cheered the ouster of American-backed Nationalist China "It comes with especially ill grace now for him to criticize the Senate for taking him at his word and killing foreip aid" Kennedy said Aid director Hannah said after the State More On Page 10A Col 1 Deputies Break Into High Stakes Game GRIT FIREBOMBED IN DOPE PROTEST WILLIAMSPORT Pa (UPI) The building housing the prominent national tabloid newspaper "Grit" was fire-bombed Friday an action police linked to threats made during a narcotics raid Shortly after 2 am three firebombs were tossed through a window at the Grit Publishing Co and the subsequent blaze partially gutted a shipping room in the press complex According to detectives an informant gave them a tip that led to a raid Thursday on an apartment occupied by Michael Smith 20 Wayne Walters 24 and Dorsey Buckholder 22 Three one-pound bags of what was believed to be marijuana were found and the men were charged with possession The Lycoming County district attorney said that while policemen were in making th raid about ten other unidentified persons came to the apartment and threatened that if accounts were made available to the press they would retaliate by firebombing a newspaper HAPPY HALLOWEEN It was treats galore for Tod and Stacy Fleenor and Vicky Lester making the rounds on Ashley Street last night while indoors at Dobyns-Bennett other costumed characters did their cavorting at the annual Kiwanis Karnival From the garden of MaKamey Lebanon Drive a vegetarian greeted the neighborhood gang His pumpkin head had a pepper tongue his eyes ears and nose were gourds he had cornsilk hair and squash for a hat Mary Elizabeth Way and Jon Woods found him a very friendly fellow (Times-News Photos Gary Fields) Deputies Carl Eastridge Boda Lawson Clarence Reed and Bill Chapman Bishop said neighbors had complained that Ketron was operating the game all weekend and players were blocking the road with their cars and coming and going at all hours Some people complained that relatives were losing entire paychecks in the game he said Aware that the game was being held in the basement (he had raided the home before) Bishop and Deputies Eastridge and Lawson battered at the basement door with a four-foot steel bar while Deputies Reed and Chapman entered the front door and slipped down the stairs The basement door barred from the inside withstood the pounding but Reed and Chapman were inside before players could remove the evidence Bishop said A warrant was obtained for Ketron after Bishop informed Sheriff Bill Wright of the complaints and was told to raid the home Bishop said The six will be tried in Sessions Court at 9 am Nov 9 Sullivan County deputies raided what they termed a high-stakes poker game on Long Island late Friday night arresting six persons on gambling charges Sullivan County Sheriffs Investigator John Bishop said more than $1100 was found in players' pockets The men were able to scoop up most of the money before deputies got inside the home but $11 and the cards were still on the table he said The game was allegedly being held in the basement at the home of Ransom Ketron 1509 Island Dr who was charged with operating a gambling house Charged with gambling were Charlie Bishop 1412 Island Dr Robert Prater GlenburnRd Johnny Bernard 208 River St and Stanley Clendenin East Carters Valley George Fugate Jr Lone Star Rd was charged with aiding and abetting the operation of a gambling house The raid was conducted by Bishop and Triclc-Or-Treater Hit By Car As Vandals Keep Police Busy Demos Reject Squire Slate normally pull the trash out of the roads themselves requested that heavy equipment be sent to clear the road Gasoline was poured across Newland Avenue and Orebank Road and set afire temporarily stopping traffic on those streets The Sullivan County Sheriffs Department reported trees and rocks and trash" across other roads in Bloomingdale East Carters Valley and Sullivan Gardens Roadblocks inside the Kingsport city limits were few and police reported that most of their problems were with fireworks shooters Despite a police warning to wet down leaves a resident on Watauga Street failed to do so and someone set them afire They were quickly extinguished by the Kingsport Fire Department A motorist was reported driving on the wrong side of the road in Fall Branch running other cars off the road State troopers searched for him in vain Kids threw apples at glass storm doors on Bell Ridge Dirve but apparently didnt manage to break them Sullivan County Sheriffs Investigator Fletcher on patrol in the Sunnyslde Community radioed to headquarters that someone had chopped down a tree -which fell across the road behind him It was the usual hectic Halloween for police and deputies here with the most serious incident being a trick-or -treater hospitalized after a car struck him Gary Hill 12 1924 Netherland Inn Rd was hit by an auto near his home early Saturday night and suffered a broken right leg He was admitted to Holston Valley Community Hospital where his condition was not immediately available A number of county roads were blockaded with various materials including a fiery pile of debris across West Carters Valley Road Deputies who WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm today Highest temperature in mld-70s ParUy cloudy and mild tonight Low In mid-50s Monday mostly sunny and warm Saturdays high 82 low 52 Precipitation none total tor the month 375 inches Relative humidity Saturday 57 per cent Sunrise today 6:52 am (EST) sunset 5:34 pm TODAYS TIIE DAY Daylight Saving time started at 2 oclock this morning If you forgot to do It last night turn your clock back one hour i jf political demands" Stomer said Sullivan County magistrates both Republicans and Democrats may go on record at the next meeting of County Court as being opposed to the Republican decision County tradition of non partisan election of magistrates school boa members and constables was broken las month when the party voted to change its by-laws to allow section of candidates for the August 1972 election One magistrate Bodle Scott of Kingsport told the Times-News today he would try to talk to all his fellow magistrates in the hope of comlng up with some plan to thVurt the move (2) measures the value of county city and school decisions with a political yardstick and (3) puts the decisions now made by friends and neighbors into the hands of big time politicians Stomer emphasized that "only a clearly expressed desire of the voters of this county to abandon the non-partisan election of local candidates a method that has served us well will force us to field a slate of candidates should the Republican party elect to do so Even then we will not field a full slate but will support the candidacy of independents known to place community needs above The Sullivan County Democratic Executive Committee has declared itself opposed "without any reservations to the partisan selection of candidates for various city and county offices as recently provided in the revised by-laws of the Sullivan County Republican Party The Executive Committees stand came today following a meeting of the group at Blountville According to chairman Ray Stomer if the Democrats were to follow suit "we would be supporting a Republican scheme that: (1) attempts to replace many fine candidates willing to serve their community with party hacks.