Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 1

s' Your amily Newspaper or More Than 87 Years 33 87th No 20807 Ten Pages Nine Children Perish Stove Explosion THOMAS GATES JR Kills 10 Persons Navy Planning be Atlantic leet Program Picks Up Speed Six More Children ind Santa Pals iW 1 uuchi viiiiu 5vuvtu ny not me fee North Arnencar said the an lzed free city was alcA tri I hn ahla tn fv fnr i i The Country Parson to stop Highway property which consists (UPD A Army pilot parachuted into East Ger many from his crippled plane on Wednesday and is being held by the a boyie vice president and Loudy secretary treasurer Satur Army lunar Satur the motor firm has been located since 1923 In the sale agree ment States Motor Company was given a year to vacate Bakery will use the Shel by Street property for expansion of its facilities At the time Trayer and Ault pur chased the Blountville 1 Highway property a lot at the rear was pur chased by Bristol Memorial Hos pital and is being used as a hos pital parking lot Officers of Motor Com 52 54 43 59 24 er all stages fired properly was i held back for 30 minutes after the firing To ground observers along the and there were hundreds strung out on the sand below the the launching seemed to be perfect The Army fired Juno II exactly on its previously planned sched ule indicating that there were ap parently no major hitches or de lays of any kind Some idea of the complexity of the aiming problem involved in putting Pioneer III near the moon was the fact that the missile was fired from a the earth is whirling at a speed of about 900 miles an hour at Cape Canaveral aimed at a target that is moving about 2390 miles an hour and had to achieve a peak rocket velocity of more than 36 000 feet per second CLINTON Tenn Dec 5 tf) A federal grant of $45510 today in creased to $144000 funds available for the rebuilding of dynamited Clinton High School The Anderson County Clinton) School Board has received $73000 iri settlement of insurance claims and $2334824 in private donations Supt James A Newman said Detroit Raleigh Miami Spokana argo rancises if Tucson 31 47 53 27 4 44 77 47 Reds Claim Moon Could Be Reached ire Commissioner Threatens To Close New York Schools Kingsport Hikes Teachers' Salaries Reds Holding American Pilot water as it pased He seemed to want to comfort each parent indi vidually: A priest said as though he had lost 87 of his own The 1958 Santa Pal Program gained new' speed yesterday after slowing momentarily Thursday Reports at 5 yesterday showed six more children had Santa Pals The new Santa Pals and the number of children they chose from lists provided by the Welfare Departments of Bristol Virginia and Sullivan County include: iMS ja': Seamless Dept Grey Hosiery Mill two Mrs Hathaway' Homa MOSCOW A Russian sci entist said riday the Soviet had the moon within reach But there was no indication when they might try a moonshot i The Communist Party newspaper Pravda quoted Prof Yuri Pobedon ostev a Stalin prizewinner as say ing that with instruments and power plans developed by Soviet scientists "the task of attaining the moon is already technically feasible Sheriff May Drop PlansToSue Knoxville Officers CLAYTON Del Ten persons nine of them children tween four months and 12 years old were burned to death riday when an exploding kerosene stove leveled a four room rural shack which housed 16 persons Only two adults and a child escaped the two story frame building which had no electricity or plumbing1 before it was enveloped in flames The head of the household was at work and two other children were enroute to a store for more kerosenefor the stove All were WASHINGTON day (UPD The launched its first probe rocket early day and it was announced 15 minutes later that ev erything apparently had gone successfully A spokesman at the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) made the announcement He said official verifica tion was expected within minutes that the four stages of the lunar rocket dubbed Juno II had fired successfully The official word on the rocket's progress was being relayed from Cape Canav eral la where it was launched by Maj Gen John Medaris Army bal listic missile commander To Return Base SOUTH RUISLIP England The Air orce will close its operations at Burtonwood Air Base and turn the station back to the British Air Ministry late in 1959 Air orce officials an nounced riday' The theft of more than $300 in cash and checks from the Beauty Cottage here touched off an inten sive investigation yesterday by Bristol Tennessee police Investigator Charles Cowan said officials of the Beauty Cottage re ported the safe contained $220 in cash and about $103 in checks Cowan said the safe weighing ap proximately 180 pounds apparently was lilted from a cabinet table in the rear of the beauty parlor and dumped out the window The break was discovered early yesterday morning when an atten dant went to the rear of the build ing to open the safe for change for the cash register The thieves gained entrance by smashing a window in the rear of the building where the office is lo cated 1 i At present police are still search ing for clues Nothing else was reported miss ing or disturbed police said Sputnik III? NAHA Okinawa (UPD Two American airmen riday reported sighting what might have been the dying rocket of Sput nik III irst Lt Julian Miller 24 of Mt Sterling Ky and Airman rank Waters 22 of Denver said they saw a brilliant flash and an' orange pink fireball at very high altitude early riday morn ings'O pany are Waller Adams president reeled but potentially dangerous jin their attempt to force the Wet U7 tSniriA trisia nrAfizI) am 'I ti 1 i cunaiuuns in aimosi au ouna ern powers into recognizing the German Conununist reginv Strike Paralyzes Washington Star WASHINGTON (UPD Members of the AL CIO American Newspa per Guild went on strike riday against the Washington Evening Star The newspaper using non striking employes published a single limited edition of 14 pages The Star said in a front page an nouncement that the abbreviated edition stemmed from the ingness of some members of the Star's mechanical union to cross picket of the Guild The Star said it hoped io resume mihlicatinn nf a full nawsnarwr "at 58725 square feet and a two story house was not revealed The property has a 261 foot front age and extends back from the highway a distance of 225 feet Trayer said the property was pur chased two years ago with antici pation that he would use it as site for the Holiday Inn motel but it proved to be too small for the mo tel The motel location was changed to the State Street and Gate City Highway site on which preliminary work has started In July of this year Stales Motor Company sold to Hecht's Bakery its property at 720 Shelby Street where States Motor Company has pur chased from Jack Trayer and Carl Ault property on the Blountville Highway just east of Memorial Drive to erect new company show and sales rooms parts and service departments In announcing the purchase Wal ter Adams president of States Motor Company said yesterday that plans for the new building were yet to be made but he expects it Negroes iremen said the fire started when the kerosene stove a portable square type without any smoke pipe leading to an outside apparently became over heated vaporizing the fuel The surviving child said the stove ex 3 ploded 3 3 The flames raced throughout the combined living dining bedroom which occupied most of the first floor then spread to a kitchen shed and the two bedrooms on the second floor The dead were identified as red die Wilson 9 and his youngter brothers and sisters Earnest 8 Thersa Ann 3 bonja Regina 2 portable square type without any months their unde William Archer 12 their cousin Lidia Elaine Archer 10 Levie Cuyler 5 and Margaret Bessix 22 the adult Mrs Callie Wilson 28 head of the household and mother of the Wilson children was working in a Smyrna restaurant at the time She is separated from her husband who is believed to be in Georgia George Pullings 34 who was on the first floor with the Wilson chil dren grabbed the flaming stove and rushed outside Another Wilson child Valorie managed to stumble after him although she was burned seriously Mrs Levenia Cuyler mother of the dead Cuyler child Clinton Tenn Gets $45510 ederal Grant 7000 Persons Gather At Where Mass Services Are Held CHICAGO The children of Our Lady of the Angels happy ijoungslers who looked up from their school desks into the face of death were buried riday On a cold bright day when children should be dreaming of Christ mas the heartsick city of Chicago said goodbye to the 87 innocents who died with three nuns in the smoke and flames which swept Our La'dy of the Angels School Monday Archbishop Albert Meyer assisted by rancis Car lash Of Life PORTLAND England (UPI) Escaped convict Edmund Downton gave himself away Thursday by asking what time the next train left for Weymouth The Portland Weymouth service was dosed six years ago dinal Spellman of New York cele brated a solemn Requiem Mass at a National Guard armory for 27 of the children Three nuns and five of the chil dren were buried Thursday The heartbroken parents of other chil dren preferred to hold private serv ices in parish churches dotted throughout the North and West sides unerals Criss Cross The funeral processions criss crossed each other in the afternoon fellow doesn't have worrying to have peace of mind the worry is concern for oth ers instead of Thieves Enter Beauty Salon nd I 22 41 64 215 45 BRISTOL VIRGINIA TENNESSEE SATURDAY DECEMBER 6 1 958 Daily 5c Sunday 15c he feared an accident might spark out a secon floor window trouble in that divided city which Russia wants the West to leave think that war over Berlin is he said I would not say that it is impos sible" Temperatures NEW YORK riday's high low temperatures Io various cities: BRISTOL New York Boston Washington Chicago Minneapolis The gleaming solid white and delicately tapered rocket rose from its launching pad into a clear star lit lorida sky at 12:45 am est Trailing a white hot cone of flame it rose steadily straight up for a full minute and a half before the flame turned to red and purple Three minutes later watchers on the beach saw what appeared to be the burn out of the first stage booster The rocket then whizzing at a steadily increasing speed continued to be visible for another two or three minutes Just before its gleam vanished among the stars there was a faint flash that could have been the igniting of the later propellant stages i The Air orce released an an nouncement immediately saying the vehicle had been launched Chicago Buries I Victims Of ire A Mother Throws Herself On The Casket Of Her Daughter At Services (UPl acsimilt) CHATTANOOGA A lone fireman swings out over the smoke and flames of a burning automobile agency al Chattanooga yes terday which caused approximately $75000 damage The fire iss believed to have started in a paint shop at the rear of the building 35 41 34 37 15 i YU4U ovuaiu up and follow their little boy or little coffin as it was pushed down the aisle Husbands some with tears streaming down their cheeks put their arms around mothers who were huddled in grief Brothers and sisters even sleeping babies were with them A 1 A ST A AI A I I A nf a ph at altitudes abov 70000 1 dd chiIH snhhpf) nnt me Vftrtk Amoripan coin thft Sir I craft also will be able to fly for1 long distances without refueling Under the dispersal plan two destroyer squadrons and one submarine squadron will be moved next March Gates said that other units will be late next year and in 1960 The plans for next year call for Charleston to get two more destroyer squadrons and one sub marine squadron When the plan is completed 16 more destroyers and 12 submarines will be relocated at Charleston and eight destroyers at Mayport North American did not give the precise' amount of its contract award to Boeing But it said the award had the Air orce's ap proval Humphrey Calls Berlin Plan 'Phony' LONDON (UPI) Sen Hubert Humphrey (D Minn) said riday night he believed that Soviet Premier Nikita plan to make West Berlin a demilitar Burley Prices Remain High Area Burley tobacco prices re mained high yesterday as sales continued strong at all three mar kets 3 1 sK A At Abingdon 591 148 pounds I brought $39050080 for an average of $6606 This brought the sea total to 5411744 pounds for $360806173 at an average of $6187 Sales Monday in Abingdon will be held at Virginia New Dixie Co No 1 Parks and Vann warehouses Pennington Gap sales at Warehouse moved 359028 pounds for $24758570 for an average of $6896 Sales Monday will be held at A and Warehouse Weber City reported 108343 pounds brought $7065648 there for an average of $6521 KINGSPORT Tenn Dec 5 (AP) teachers will get a sal ary increase Jan I Li puuucauon a iiui newspaper ai Stone chanman of the the earliest The School Board said today the board delivery of the bobtailed edition was has approved a new teacher salafy carried out by circulation drivers schedule calling for increases rang are independent contractors ing from $120 to $286 a year not organized into any union 1 Weather BRISTOL AREA: Partly cloudy windy and cold today with high in lower 30s Sunday: Cloudy and cold with chance of snow High yester day 52 low 35 Precipitation 01 READINGS ROM 4 RM 4 6 8 9 10 44 39 36 34 HEW YORK (UPI) ire Commissioner Edward Cava nagh Jr threatened riday to close all 1500 public private and parochial schools in New York for one day house cleaning unless fire dangers are eliminated Cavanagh issued the warning after ordering the closing of five more schools including a Catho lic grammar school in a continu ing effort to avoid a disaster such as the parochial school fire in Chicago last Monday I Communists it was disclosed ri The fire commissioner who at day)? dered a cellar to rooftop inspec Western authorities: expressed tion of all New York schools the fear the Communists might try to day after the Chicago fire said use the pilot 1st Lt Richard Mao his men had found cor 1 kin of Washington as a nawn estimates on repairing the school) An announcement saying wheth range irom $70000 to $210000 Three dynamite blasts last Oct 5 wrecked the interior of the build Secretary of Welfare Arthur lemming announced the federal grant Washington He said the funds are being pro vided under a law authorizing grants for construction of buildings needed because of increased school enrollments resulting from fed eral activities' Parents of many children enroll ed at racially integrated Clinton High are employed in the atomic plants at Oak Ridge six miles west of here are very happy to' receive this Newman said i course we were hoping to get the full amount of $71000 we thought we were entitled to But we cer tainly can put this money to good Newman said that in addition to money the school board had received several offers of mate rials to be used in rebuilding the school Lsiidd 1 't Clinton High's 850 pupils includ ing eight Negroes now are trans ported by buses to Oak Ridge for classes in a vacant school build ing there SL'ftj L5 Sfafes Motor Company Buys New Building Site the church and school for 22 years Humphrey on his arrival here stood in the center of the aisle and by plane did not give details of sprinkled each coffin with holy his lengthy talk with Khrushchev no II i i in Moscow Monday But the sena tor spoke freely with newsmen the Berlin situation "Mr Khrushchev has committed himself a long long way" Hum phrey said of the free city plan must temper determination with prudent Hum phrey Khrushchev is a clever man with a kind of cun ning manner that puts people off their guard But I think that his proposal is Humphrey who visited Berlin before going on to Moscow said Room Virginia High School one Junior Civitan Club WHS one Helping Hand Bible Class one and Shamrock Garden Club In addition Mrs Mary Alice eathers contributed $10 to the Santa Pal und Meanwhile a spokesman forthe' Herald Courier said tentative plans call for completion of the 1958 Santa Pal Program on Dec the Sat urday before Christmas the very he said must have the program com pleted by Monday or Tuesday Dec 22 or That means he explained that a heavy increase in support for th program will be necessary AIT persons and organizations picuuiiug ueuujue odnia rais ar urged to contact Miss Helen Nuss baum at the Herald Courier office on Moore Street today or early next week if possible The telephone number is NOrth 9 2181 Miss Nussbaum will be bn duty from 9 am to 5 pm Monday through riday" and from 9 am to 1 pm bn Saturdays Persons who wish to aid the pro gram but who can't become Santa Pals are urged to contribute to the Santa Pal und Contributions may 'be delivered to the Herald Courier or mailed to The Santa Pal und Bristol Herald Courier Bris tol Va Checks and money orders should be made payable to The Santa Pal 22 of the little caskets to the Holy Innocents Shrine of the Queen of Heaven Cemetery where two gap ing holes awaited them Others were buried in family plots The heartbreak of the dead chil goodbye was more than the living could bear Seven thousand persons gathered at the armory center of the mourning which had been turned into a cathedral because no church was big enough Their grief was held in check during the Requiem Mass But there was no staying the tears I when at the end National Guards WASHINGTON (UPD Navy (o hears Secretary Thomas Gates Jr riday announced plans for a Read Off Names wider dispersal of the Atlantic) A chaplain would read off the leet to cut down the concentra iname of a dead child and ask tion of ships in any one port and 'his family please to improve the combat) The parents hard working peo readiness jPle most of them who had lived At the same time the North j01 their children would stand up American Aviation Corp said it has awarded a multi million dollar contract to Boeing Aircraft Co to manufacture the wing of the B70 a hypersonic bomber under development for the Air Strategic Air Command The new bomber will be able to) fly at speeds greater than 2000) 4rmy Reports Launching Apparently Successful' CHATTANOOGA Dec 5 (AP) 1 Hamilton County Sheriff James) Turner said today he may drop plans to file a $100000 damage suit againsttwo Knoxville police officials His threat had grown out of the riot that followed the upset football victory by Chatta nooga over Tennessee Turner had said his lawyers were instructed to file a libel or slander suit against Safety Director David Garrison and Police Chief Joe Kimsey as a result of some verbal crossfire after the Nov 8 riot' is no personal ill will on my part toward these Turner said don't have any malice in my heart and I am seri ously considering dropping t0 be ready for occupancy by mid The sheriff added that summer of next year he was little fast on notifying Price paid for the Blountville my attorneys to taxe me action ESN EWSHO mA uz a A 7 1 i 4 MliWOf r' I 7 AT MOON hHhMkz wf Mil Dispe 4'7 7 alaa 8 I zS? fit 41.