The Greeneville Sun from Greeneville, Tennessee • 1

TV bomb or ANDREW JOHNSON CAPITAL STATE OF FRANKLIN BKmPLACE OP DAFT CROCKETT SINCE 1ST GREENE BOMB NEWSPAPER nJLS Combination of Democrat 1879 Sun 1895 arcblight 1905 VOLUME NUMBER 227 AP FEATURES GREENEVILLE TENNESSEE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 10 1957 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS qpmai air pi House Looks Hopefully -For Break In Logjam Immobilizing Rights Bill fcr'f Jt Lt- fcrv--' 1 -Hr 'T-v TVA Money ill Heads House There Is Some Doubt Thai It Will Go To Ike Senate Passed Bill Friday Night Probers To Call Doria devoted to tobacco and the advantages and disadvantages of the different varieties growing in this area This was the 23rd mual field day held at the Experiment Station Staff Photo by Bobby Burn LARGE CROWD ATTENDS FIELD Some of the approximately 500 people attending the Greene-ville Experiment Station Field Day are shown above looking over one of the many different varieties of tobacco growing at the station Most of the day was Bertha Ends Threatened Reign of Terror Fizzles Inland Over Texas Winds To Subside Today NEW ORLEANS Tropical storm Bertha ended its shortlived threatened reign of terror along the Gulf Coast today and fiz zled inland over eastern Texas The Weather final bul letm on the storm at 4 a (CST) located it about 20 miles north west of Beaumont Tex wit! highest winds estimated 30 to 4f mph Bertha was moving northwest ward at about It ph the bul letin said and its remains would night There was little threat of appreciable flooding the Weather Bureau said although locally heavy showers were likely near the center of the storm and in east Texas bulletin said winds and seas along the Louisiana aijd Texas coasts would subside today but warned small craft to remain in port Bertha emerged from infancy and grew into a full-blown hurricane for a brief period Friday as it rumbled in from the Gulf of Mexico The southwest Louisiana coast where hurricane Audrey claimed more than 500 lives in late June was evacuated in the face of swelling tides and buffeting winds Heavy rains and locally strong winds were predicted for the east Texas area as Bertha moved out of the gulf Friday night The advisory said the storm woud weaken progressively as it moved inland The area around Cameron La devastated when Audrey hit June 27 felt winds of 65 miles an hour but most of the hardy coastal residents had fled at first wanlngs to Red Cross refuge centos in Lake Charles Tide of five feet about four feet above normal washed the Louisiana coast but diminished today with the heavy aeas also subsiding along the Texas coast Continued on Page 2 House Approves 337 Million Dollars In Atomic Construction Projects WASHINGTON Uft-A bill to giy the Tennessee Valley Authority self financing authority headed for the House today after Senate passage But there was doubt whether a try would be made to send it to President Eisenhower this session The Senate passed the disputed measure 61-20 Friday night after debating It for 11 hours The bill would authorize TVA to Issue 750 million dollars In revenue bond to meet its needs for new power facilities in the next few years Sens Gore and Ke-fauver (D-Tenn) told newsmen they hoped the House would act on the measure promptly because they said TVA needs the new authority this year However Rep-Clifford- Davie-(D-Tenn) after expressing delight at tiie Senate vote said "That will put us in a much better position when the bill comes up jn the House In Eisenhower asked for a self-financing TVA plan when Congress met Congress for some years has refused to pass appropriations for new TVA steam plants The bond bill Is an effort to end that deadlock Lwmakers from the TVA area say there will be a power shortage there- by the wintef of 1959-60 Unless pew plant are built -t To Question Him About Job As Sec-Treas By MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON Iff) The man who allegedly brought racketeer Johnny Dio into the labor movement' has been ordered to appear Monday before the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee The committee announced it has served a subpoena commanding Anthony Doria to appear for questioning about his conduct as secretary-treasurer of the old AFL Auto Workers Union now renamed the Allied Industrial Workers (AIW) Doria has been ousted from post with the AIW Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) said he also intends to ask Doria about testimony that the AIW agreed to pay Doria $80000 and buy him a big automobile in re-urn for his resignation Earl Heaton the retiring president testified yesterday the union agreed to pay $80000 to Doria to get rid of him Doria was involved in welfare fund scandals Heaton said Doria has received $25000 and a car but that Doria is suing to collect on union notes for the balance of the $80000 Doria sent word he intends to answer any questions the committee asks Two days ago Dio invoked the Fifth Amendment 140 times in refusing to answer committee questions which included some about his afiedged relationship with Doria Lester Washburn former head of the UAW-AFL has testified it was Doria who helped to engineer Dio's entry into the labor movement as head of that Local 102 in New York in 195L Washburn also said Doria was instrumental in keeping Dio in the union when officials of Dio-controlled locals started running into trouble with the law The committee is exploring par-icularly for evidence McClellan says will show that Dio and James Hoffa Midwest Teamsters Union boss entered into a corrupt alliance McClellan says Hoffa hoped to use this alleged tie-up to gain new labor power and that Dio sought to fatten his income through racketeering Morris Weintraub South Newport Kyt lawyer who served on the UAW-AFL executive board from 1951 until July 1956 named Doria in connection with a deal in union real estate which Wein-traub said brought a quick $35000 profit to others Weintraub said the Badger Reality Co -of Milwaukee in 1955 bought the union headquarters building in that city for $80000 and resold it a few weeks later for $115000 Refuses To Order Building Of Reactors For Power Groups WASHINGTON UP) The House has approved 337 million dollars but it refused to order the federal government to build atomic reactors for public power groups By a rollcall vote of 382-14 the House passed the atomic authorization bill i a sending it to the Senate Appropriation of actual funds will be made in a subsequent bill Most of the funds would go for military projects Before final passage a scattering of Democrats joined forces with Republicans to strike from the measure authorization for two experimental reactors to produce electric power That same coalition voted to delete a provision which would have directed the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to build reactors to produce steam for sale to public power installations The two prototype reactors would have cost about 55 million dollars One would have been a natural uranium gas-cooled unit The other would have been a plutonium recycle reactor Democrats on the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee maintained the reactors were necessary to keep the United States in th lead in development of atomic power But same Republicans on the committee had said the plan was power run Authority for the two reactors was deleted by a rollcall vote of 281-188 But the House left in the bill by a 201-197 vote three million dollars for preliminary work on a reactor to produce special materials for the weapons program The House voted 213-185 to remove the provisions which would have directed AEC to build reactors to sell steam to these public power groups: The Public Power District of Nebraska the Elk River Minn Rural Co-Operative Assn the Hersey Mich Wolverine Electric Co-Operative the City r- a -)(: jof Piqua Ohio and the Chugach Electric Assn at Anchorage Alaska Thus the commission retains its present authority to negotiate with co-operatives and other public power supplies Rep Hoiifield (D-Calif) protested that killing the co-operative provision might bankrupt some Hoover Sees Possible War SAN FRANCISCO (flt Former President Herbert Hoover 83 today sees two clouds on the horizon clouds of possible war and the cloud of possible He refused to prophesy on either at a news conference Friday in his hotel suite Puffing at a pipe which went out twice in the half-hour interview Hoover appeared hale and hearty Reporters who have seen him frequently since he left the White House almost 25 years ago said they had not seen him looking so well in many years On war Hoover said "the West has grown definitely stronger but military values are changing You can evaluate ground armies but you evaluate where nuclear weapons are concerned when we know noth ing about our major enemy and he added Hoover said eh views the current spurt of inflation as But he commented: administration the federal reserve and various financial agencies of the government are unquestionably bringing the thing to Hoover said his greatest hope for the world was for peace that makes for peace is the overriding need right now" The man who was president from 1929 to 1933 termed juvenile delinquency a Growth" He said teenage crime is in- Seven such mills are now known to have existed in this five mile distance It is more than probable that older mills have served in earlier times and have disappeared from the local scene as have the accounts of their existence been lost with the passing generations So it is that many fascinating and picturesque historical accounts of our past aspects both important to their day and interesting to posterity have disappeared forever Unrecorded by those of whose lives they were a vital part forgotten by those who learned of them by oral traditions unknown to later generations they have thus become irrecovably lost In surveying the picturesque scene of the development of Jearoldstown the following interesting and characteristic features stand out: the concentration of mills the organization of a brass band and the flowering of a citadel of higher learning and enlightenment for this and surrounding communities EARLY LAND OWNERS The original owners of the exact spot where the village of Jearolds-town is located is evidently not known to present day citizens The earliest known records state tha the land surroundin' the village was sold on December 15 1849 First Move Due To Be Made Tuesday When It Reconvenes By LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON -House leaders looked hopefully today for an early break in the logjam immobilizing civil rights legislation The first move is due to be made when the House reconvenes Tuesday Rep Keating (R-NY) announced he will move then to take the controversial bill off the speaker's desk and send it to conference with the Senate The main controversy revolves around a far-reaching jury trial amendment written by the Senate into a bill designed to protect voting rghts The House bill contains no such amendment Presi dent Eisenhower opposes the jury trial amendment in the Senate bill on grounds it would endanger the power of federal courts to enforce their orders Keating said the bill ought to be sent to the House Rules Committee and cleared to conference immediately we can get on with The Democrats had other ideas They planned to try to bypass conference procedure and bring a compromise bill directly to the floor for a vote The idea is to send the bill back to the Senate without a conference and -thus eliminate the possibility of a lengthy deadlock While the confused parliamentary situation could snag the bill indefinitely Rep Celler (D-NY) predicted the jam would be possibly quicker than an ticipated Backstage maneuvers meanwhile strengthened the belief that House Democrats expect the Senate to go along with a proposed compromise solution limiting jury trial guarantees to voting right cases only Both Senate and House bills would empower the attorney general to seek federal court injunctions to halt violations or threatened violations of voting rights Anyone violating such an injunction could be prosecuted for contempt of court The Senate wrote in a requirement that a person chrged with criminal contempt can demand a jury trial Under the Senate amendment the jury trial guarantee would cover not only voting rights cases but a wide range of other federal cases in which judges now try violators of court injunctions without juries Democrats Plan Hearings On Tax Revision WASHINGTON Democrats were off to a running start today on the politically popular subject of income tax cuts House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) and Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee agreed yesterday to begin bearings on general tax revision when Congress returns in January Hughes were the only Republican voters in the 17th overwhelmed by a Democrat landslide Just when or why the tide turned for the GOP seems to be a mystery EDUCATION The history education at Jearoldstown is a picture of sporadic progress intermingled with disappointment and misfortune In a survey of the development of education in this community two periods of great progress are visible against the background of the usual common school history found throughout Greene County The first of these pictures is the bright image of the old Presbyterian Academy which flourished for the last two decades of the previous century the other the reflection of the Jearoldstown High School a beacon of enlightenment for about half that length of time Over other periods of the history of education in this community has been cast a darkened shadow under which the people have lived hoping always for the return of a brighter day in education A developing village such a 'Jearoldstown is bound to have had old field schools but actual accounts of such pre Civil War schools have evidently disappeared JEAROLDSTOWN ACADEMY In thinking of rducation the people of Jearoldstown are inclin ed to liv in a melancholy dream co-ops forcing their sale to priV' ate utilities He said small co-operatives have tried unsuccessfully make a deal" with AEC The also added tblhebill research finds for a fast breeder reactor near Monroe Mich Development Co a combination of private utilities Two Inflation creating faster than the teenagers themselves with juveniles stealing 66 per cent of the stolen cars committing more than 53 per cent of the burglaries 24 per cent of the robberies over 50 per cent of the larcenies and over 16 per cent Continual on Pag 2 Motorist Found In Creek After Truck Accident A motorist was hospitalized with injuries suffered in a one vehicle accident on Highway 11E around 10-15 pm Friday Greene County Tax Assessor James Shaw who was at the scene of the accident right after it happened stated that a pickup truck driven by Theodore Hensley South Central left the highway approximately 2 miles west of Chuckey Sahw said that the truck went several feet down into a field and finally came to a stop after hitting a creek bank According to Shaw the impact of the truck hitting the bank threw Hensley out into the creek and he was found completely submerged in water Hensley was taken to Laughlin Clinic and according to the attending physician his condition is list ed as fair this morning the present village Two years later December 7 1850 the land was purchased by Jearolds TRADING CENTER For many years Jearoldstown has been the largest village in the North eastern section of Greene County and as such was the principal shopping center for a large area including parts of Hawkins County since early days As with any self-sufficient farming community the commerce was largely and was so called by those who took farm produce to the stores to be exchanged for the staple groceries and other necessities which could not be produced on the farm Some of the merchants which have operated general stores Tobacco Growers From 3 Slates Attend Field Day Tobacco growers from three states inspected disease-resistant strains of burley developed at the Greeneville Experiment Station yesterday at the 23rd annual Field Day About farmers from TennesserfTNorth Carolina and Virginia heard John Ewing director ofJ the University of Tennessee experiment stations speak at a barbecue lunch Ewing said that of the thousands of burley varieties developed at the station in its 26 years only five varieties have been released for general growth The figures indicate he said the difficulty of such research The tobacco men also toured the experimental field plots and heard a report on a pasture grazing project directed here by animal husbandry and veterinary science departments Though development of cheap er feeding practices and disease-resistant varieties and fertilization methods costs a great deal of money Ewing said the research had been organized so that the costiy experimenting is done in a central location with only a few hundred cattle a few thousand chickens or several thousand cotton corn and tobacco plants concentrated in a research he concluded worth many times over in practices that are later adopted by you farmers over a statewide Ewing spoke after a barbecue luncheon following tours of the station with tractors and long tractors serving as taxis for the visitors Hugh Felts station superintendent presided A highlight of this field day was a progress report on the first 112 days a pasture grazing project was conducted In the experiment cattle gained an average of two pounds per day The tests are being made at the sta tion by the UT animal hus Continued on Pag 2 the heavy mill stones was a basic industry throughout the development period of our history This w'as one essential industry which passing generations left almost unchanged during a period of more than 100 years so that an early pioneer would have found the old grist mill of 1900 almost exactly like the ones of a century earlier With the numerous natural falls and cataract? on Gear Creek many grist mills were centered in the vicinity of Jearoldstown Prior to the turn of the century seven mills were being operated within a distance of five miles of the village These mills were known by the following names: Mart Bowman POLITICAL CHANGE Although Jearoldstown is the voting precinct for one of the strongest Republican districts in Greene County this is a complete reversal of form from the days of Reconstruction following the Civil War In 1865 when Lieutenant James Ratcliff was mustered out of the Union Army and came to the 17th Civil District to live for a numbes of years he and Archie BOBBY FISCHER 14 of New York junior chess champion studies his next move as he awaits a visa so that he can compete with Russian players The Chess Federation has cabled Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev a reminder of his TV statement urging cultural exchange along with a request he speed up visa for Bobby and Edmar Mednis who is intercollegiate champion Husband Sees Train Kill Wile Two Children 4S HURON Ohio A speeding train hit a baby carriage here Friday killing a woman and two children while her husband and three other children watched The dead were Mrs Ernest Ball 42 Mary Ann 3 and Ruth Arlene 8 weeks all of this Lake Erie resort and fishing town "We figure that when she heard the train she tried to turn the baby carriage around and the wheel got stuck in one of the crossing said Police Patrolman Sylvester Duty Mrs Ball was taking her five children across the six-track crossing to where her husband was helping a friend wash his automobile Ruth Arlene was in the baby carriage Conductor Freeman of the New York Chicago-to-Cleveland mail express and passenger train said they were moving 80 miles an hour when the engineer Moylan saw Mrs Ball and her brood crossing the tracks The engineer applied the brakes but it was too late Fireman De Falco said he saw Mrs Ball struggling with the carriage while the other children stood and watched Just before the collision one Mary Ann to her side and was killed too formation it appears that the Academy was started as a private venture by local citizens and was then transferred to the control of the Presbyterian Church USA On February 4 1885 the Trustees of Jearoldstown Academy transferred to the Trustees of the Jearoldstown Presbyterian Church the building used and owned by the Trustees of the Academy stands for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred dollars to us in hand paid (Deed Book 49 22) A brief history of Presbyterian schools and churches of East Tennessee written by Rev Alexander contains the following data concerning this school: The Jearoldstown Academy located near the northern corner of Greene County Tenn is yet in the first stage of its existence In midst of a good agricultural region and having around if a wide field unoccupied by any similar institution it will doubtless become a flourishing school It is under the care and control of the Holston Presbytery Two-thirds of its Board of Trustees are Presbyterians For several years the Presbytery has had a small Presbyterian Church organization and a comfortable house of wprship at Jearoldstown They now have also a new Academy 75 30 feet and two stories high which has cost about $2000 The aim of the Presbytery is Ceatlouei on Pag Jearoldstown--A Cultural Trading Center Of NE Greene County Friends Aiding Widow Whose Home Burned Wed Friends and neighbors of Mrs Edith Hamaker whose home on Bernard Avenue burned thi week are endeavoring to help her set up housekeeping again They ask that anyone who would like to donate furniture clothing or similar items to call 6658 Large items will be picked up however anyone wishing to bring their articles may leave them at the home of Jack Fry 124 Bernard Ave Mrs Hamaker Is an elderly widow and lost everything in the fire Wednesday morning 'Industry' Is Theme Of Greene County Fair Plans are being made for a bigger and better Green Cbunty Agriculture Fair this year beginning August 28th thru August 31st The theme will be One major attraction in tha past has been the tractor pulling contest This year rules and regulations are being drawn up and there will be classes according to weight horse power etc These rules and regulations will be available to those wishing to enter thia contest at an early date Prince Too Young I To Drive But Does LONDON Ufi British newspapers today reported 15-year-old Prince Michael queen is driving around without a license Newsmen at Cowes fashionable yachting center on the south coast told of seeing the young prince zip around town in a big black sedan without a word of protest from police The prince is two year below the legal driving age The Weather TENNESSEE -Generally fair through Saturday Not much change In temperature The low tonight from the 60s east to 70 west WEATHER READINGS (Flpra Frtm Exyertmeet High 90 Low 60 Monday's City Court Docket Was Heavy A large docket was heard In1 Monday's City Court by Judge Armitage Jr with a very light one being heard in Disposition of the cases heard is as follows: Dean Payne charged with park Ing in a restricted area cited warrant issued Bullen charged with driving while intoxicated and driving without drivers license forfeited $110 bond Abner Richards charged with public drunkenness and possessing whiskey forfeited $55 bond John Fillers charged with loud exhaust dismissed exhaust repaired Luther Smith charged with carrying arms forfeited $55 bond Don- Name tl persons listed hi City Coert stories are takea (nil Am City Court Docket which doe not give addresoe far farther identification The Sun regret any duplicate name aid Lloyd charged with speeding reckless chiving and driving without drivers license forfeited $55 bond Johnny Williams charged with public drunkenness and dis orderly conduct set for August 12th Raymond Logan charged with driving while intoxicated and driving without drivers license forfeited $85 bond Joe Cephus Bales charged with kmd exhaust set for August 12th Arrington charged with loud exhaust fined $10 Donald Stone charged with public drunkenness and carrying arms forfeited $70 bond John Weems charged with driving while intoxicated and driving without drivers license forfeited $80 bond WDls charged with disorderly con duct continued until August 22nd Buddy Kite charged with loud ex? haust fined $10 Henry Williams charged with possessing whiskey set for August 12th Dean Oren Elliott charged with possessing whiskey fined $30 Virgil Dean Jackson charged with driv ing while intoxicated driving without a drivers license and possessing whiskey forfeited 140 bond In oases held over from earlier dates David Cutshaw charged with driving while Intoxicated con tinued until August 12th and Marshall Rader charged with driv ing while intoxicated was fined $35 Obituaries FRED EISENHOUR Obituaries on Page 2 By HARRY ROBERTS Located in the north eastern section of Greene County on Clear Creek in the Seventeenth Civil District is the village of Jearlds-town an important center of trade and culture for a large rural area Although it is often difficult to determine the local geological conditions which influenced the loca-tion and development of towns and villages usually the important factor such as an adequate supply of spring water a pass through a ridge or mountain the crossing of trails or roads etc are quTle obvious In the case of Jearoldstown it appears that the important physical features which resulted in the establishment of the village was a series of natural water falls in Clear Creek conditions facilitating the construction of grist mills one of the most essential of the early industries As a mill would of necessity result in a gathering place for neighborhood farmers it also became the most desirable location for stores blacksmith shops tanneries and later post offices and other industries catering to the public As such spots became the centers of population it was here that churches and schools were inevitably located Since pioneer days grist mills hqve been concentrated along the cataracts of lower Gear Creek of the faded glory of their Pres- byterian Academy the period! when this community was one of the educational centers of Greene County According to local tradition following the Civil War the Presbyterian Church USA established a church in Jearoldstown near the site of the present Evangelical United Brethern Church and that they operated a school in the church building for several years The only known teacher of this early institution was a Mr Ramsey who doubtless served as both minister and teacher This idea of organizing both church and school was the custom usually followed by the Presbyterian Church which was the dominant influence in the establishment of early education west of the Appalachian Mountains In any event on August 1 1881 Jearolds made a deed to the Trustees of Jearoldstown Academy "for one acre of land for church and school purposes lying north of Jearoldsown for which said Trustees agree to put up a house that will be chartable the said Jearolds paying charter fees (Deed Book 48 433) This transaction was duly made and the Academy chartered by the Secretary of the State Tennessee on August 15 1883 (Acts of Tennessee Book I pag 161 Index Act of Tenn 1885 356) According to avfafa A George Mays Captain Allen (con- Jearoldstown include John Ball vertecj to a roller mill) Jim (in the whose store a i Miller Hiram Swanay and Wil-near the home of Will Bright I iiam walker near the west end of the village The Mart Bowman mill located Jim Moore Jim Simmons near the Mack Charlton home was Bright Edd Allen John Mow operated by Frazier Allie Lucas Jearolds JEAROLDSTOWN operated a store in the old Odd Fellows Hall Sam Mathes in the old Simmons store and Crawford who operated store about 1-4 mile west of the village This was the site of the last post office at Jearoldstown GRIST MILLS One of the first Industries eeb-lished by the early pioneers was by Hiram Smith Andrew and the grist mill for grinding the Fethias Woolsey partners in a corn or Indian maize into meal tannery located somewhere nearThe overshot water wheel turning 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