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The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 7

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THE KNOXVILLE JOUSNAL Sunday November 30 '1952 Clinton High Exchange Teacher Likes England dates nearly every night but has gone with her mother to most of the English plays as well as the American importations Mil- she writes "They are forbidden make-up and Mrs 17-year-old daughter Martha Lou is studying to be First a teacher at Furzedown College and "Call Me Streatham London "She knows more about London that I the niother says Martha Lou has Living at a London hotel she travels to school by bus and underground takes 35 minutes and seems strange not to be going by automobile but getting used to she says There are 1400 girls at Peck-ham School between 11 and 16 years Peckham is an experimental school run by London County Council where girls of working class homes are given a practical education for jobs are bigger than back home and they all wear blue and white For Easter they will go to land and Scotland Along with the other teachers Mrs Emmons is invitation to be Woman Burned A woman was burned yester- And she says she is "in" love day and her husband received London Darks for Lon- expecting an presented to Queen Elizabeth at a Buckingham Palace garden party with the London parks for PH Londoners really know how to use She often listens to concerts there A Clinton High School teacher now teaching in London under the Fulbright Plan likes the ex- change idea is looking forward to 1 being presented to Queen Eliz-! abeth II but writes home that she has somewhat disappointed her English teen-age girl students She is Mrs Mary Margaret Emmons of 112 West Norris Road Norris wife of TV A Engineer Waiter Emmons now teaching at IXckham County Secondary SchooL The first day she walked into her class the girls asked Mrs Emmons "Do you know any movie She said Then they asked you chew Again they were disappointed- But they got over it she writes Mrs Emmonsjs one of 100 Fulbright exchange teachers now in Britain For this year she took over the mathematics and American geography classes of the London teacher Edith -Cooper at Peckham Miss Cooper has her classes at Clinton High School They met when Mrs Emmons arrived in London cuts on both wrists breaking out a window of their home to escape a fire that swept through three rooms Mrs Susie Bates 25 suffered second and third degree burns to her arms hands neck and face as the fire roared through three rooms of a building where she and her husband live at 901 East Church Avenue Mack Bates 31 cut both wrists breaking a window to escape the fire Mrs Bates was admitted to General Hospital and he was treated and released Her condition was listed fair Asst Fire Chief Roy Conner said cause of the fire was Two Charged Two persons were charged at City Jail with driving while drunk yesterday afternoon and last bight Edgar West 28 of 1507 Virginia Avenue was charged by Traffic Officers Paul Newberry and Stuart after the car he was driving collided with a mail truck The accident occurred on Virginia Avenue near Hooker Street Also charged with driving drunk was Noah Lee 1240 Blount Avenue World's lorgost fort Control Co The first link of Magnolia Avenue Expressway has been Com pleted and officially accepted by the federal government and the city Homermiller' senior resident engineer of the State Highway Department disclosed last night "There win be no formal opening" he said He said that vehicles have been utilizing the expressway a half-mile span built between Tulip and Unaka streets at a contract cost of $660660 since road construction was finished Nov 14 All other work including seeding and Sodding has now been completed he disclosed and only one maintenance worker remains in compliance with the 60-day maintenance clause in the contract Homermiller said that an inspector from the federal government had inspected and accepted the project which was a joint state-county -city' endeavor the state and federal governments footing all costs but one-third of the right-of-way which was paid by the city He said that City Engineer Leonard Bailey had made his inspection and found the work satisfactory He pointed out that the city will become responsible for maintenance Michael Co of Memphis was contractor The resident engineer reported that the landscaping is being damaged by children teen-agers and careless motorists Children he said are sliding down the seeded banks on the protecting straw Vehicles have been running off the four-lane highway into and in Some cases across the center strip which has been sodded chewing it up "I know what we can do about it but happening the engineer said He said he thought some of this which resulted from confusion as to which lanes to travel would end since the city and state posted signs indicating the routes to travel The expressway is being used by many vehicles as a short-cut and by others who merely come out to see it he added When completed the expressway as planned will run about five miles from Gay Street at Magnolia Avenue through to Kingston Pike near Lyons View Pike at a railroad overpass The next link is the one from the western end of the one just completed to the eastern terminus It has -been reported that because of a personnel shortage the state is not now preparing plans and drawings for this part of the project which includes a large viaduct The ardor could have been cooled by the city virulent criticism of expressway-style construction By 1960 South Africa will have completed 5396 miles of new roads for $280000000 Phone 5-8171 BOTTOMS UP The Air speedy all-rocket jet interceptor the Lockheed F-94C Starfire flips a streamlined belly toward the camera during a flight maneuver in the wild blue yonder The radar-equipped plane designed for day or night flight at spjeeds of more than 600 miles an hour is asigned the mission of protecting the US coastline and borders from invading bombers Electronic gunsights and controls aim the two dozen rockets which are fired from the nose of the plane 1 9 PM iToys For Tots Drive Open Here This Week NEWEST DEPARTMENT StORE ON GUARANTEED REDUCTIONS! contributing them can if he desires gift-wrap the toy and indicate on the outside whether it is for a boy or girL and the age at which it would be most enjoyed Details of tjie program were announced yesterday by Maj Mack Blackburn commanding officer of the Sixth Engineer Company and by Capt William Southwood of the Salvation Army post here "Anyone who has an abundance of they said "and does not have transportation can have their contributions picked up by calling Sixth Engineer Company headquarters at 7-5151 or the Salvation Army at Blackburn pointed out that all work done by Marine Reservists during the "Toys for campaign will be entirely voluntary The Salvation Army will have charge of distributing toys to go to families of underprivileged chil- dren and to institutions i in the area The "Toys for campaign was started by Marine Reserve units in California in 1948 and the success of the idea caused it to spread to other units the following year i The annual for drive will start here this week with its objective to gladden the hearts of underprivileged Knoxville youngsters Christmas morning The drive will be conducted by the Knoxville Marine Reserves and the Salvation Army and the Knoxville Fire Department through Chief Johnson has offered Us assistance in collecting the toys Marine Reserve units over the nation will join together this season in the for Christmas program Knoxvillians can say to underprivileged children by dropping their toys by any of the for collection centers The location of the collection centers: 1 for headquarters 407 North Gay Street 2 Any Knoxville fire station 3 Salvation Army Headquarters at 413 Wall Avenue SW 4 Naval Marine Reserve Training Center Alcoa Highway The toys can be either new or else used ones that are in good condition or that can be repaired If the toys are new the person NEVER BEFORE AT THIS AMAZING LOW PRICE! 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Hurry! Regular 79c CQ sq YARD GOODS at yd ft A P-9 GUEST $35 wV iis-f'i STREET FLOOR i 't BRAUD IS 17 J'' Vv-fcAJ' PLASTIC AEJ-O-TILE WALL COVERING CHINCHILLA MODERN For Your BEDROOM 80 Come see the new shoded chinchilla finish on walnut veneers the modern lines the '1 Knoxville Tenn Attroctive border is part of complete design nothing extra to buy Has appearance of genuine ceramic tile Choice of six gleaming colors 54" from top to bottom-including border design Each tile-like square measures 4 Vz" sturdy construction the hardwood interiors the dovetailed boxed-in drawers Save today! Regular 10488 Value 2 PC SUITE DOUBLE DRESSER-BED Bar Bed 3488 KNOX 4TH FLOOR Cosh Charge Money Order COD Free postage up to 1 50 miles Tnn resident edd 2 Stxte Tsx Add 20 Fed Tsx where indicated.

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