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The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 17

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Child Born To Injured Mother After Fracas ABINGDON, Sept. 3 (P. An Abingdon woman, rushed to a hospital today in poor condition from a brutal beating in a fracas at a nearby farm home, gave birth to a healthy baby girl, but her father was shot to death and her mother and husband wounded. Washington County Sheriff's Yarbrough Pledges Full Campaign Knox County Squire Willards Yarbrough last night promised a fighting, 24-hour a day campaign as the Democrat nominee for Congress from the Second District. Speaking to the Powell Democrat Club, Yarbrough pledged to carry his "message honesty, decency and progress" into every household, every office, every plant and on every street corner.

"This fight is going straight to the regardless of political affiliation, and it's high time the won out over evil, self-serving viola machine he about 65 attending the meeting. Yarbrough said he is pleased that efforts are being made to hold honest elections in Knox County. "My nomination, I can assure you, was free of any election taint," he said. "My nomination was clean, made by honest people. No the nine counties of this district can point a finger in my direction and yell, Yet, fingers are pointed." Yarbrough, who lost to Mrs.

Irene Baker in a race for the seat in a special election, is opposing Mayor, John Duncan, the Republican nominee. He said he was the Democrat nominee because "you gave me the mandate in the primary election." Yarbrough beat two opponents for the nomination although he announced he was a. candidate. "I accept your mandate," he said. "In return I must issue a mandate to you.

I must ask you for your devotion, your untiring work in my behalf, and financial support to get: our message to 500,000 people of the Second District." The nominee pointed out that he had quit his job as assistant city editor of The Knoxville News-Sentinel to make the race. Case Moved By ALCOA Special To The Journal ALCOA, Sept. 3-George Kase, former administrator of training, safety and security for the Aluminum Co. of America's Tennessee Operations, has been assigned to the company's Vancouver. Wash.

works, where he will be personnel manager, it was announced today by D. R. Mader, general administrative manager of Tennessee Operations. An Alcoan since 1950, Kase started with the company's personnel department in Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of Duquesne University with a degree in education and has furthered his training with extensive a graduate studies.

For several years he was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers professional football team and was a high school coach before coming with Alcoa. Since coming here he has been active in Episcopal Church work, has served as a director of the Alcoa Rotary Club, is second vice president of the Alcoten Club and president of the East Tennessee Chapter of the American Society, of Training Directors. He has also been active in the Blount County United Fund. Fire Damages Historic House A Knox County historical landmark, the old residence of Mrs. Eunice McCulley which she now uses as a summer home on the old Carter Mill property, was partially damaged by fire Wednesday.

Capt. Harvey Hamilton, of the Federal Rescue Squad, said damage estimated at about $1800 was caused by the fire, which started of unknown causes in a closet and partially damaged the attic. The fire report was turned in at 3:20 p.m. Captain Hamilton blaze said, out and within firemen an hour. had the building is more than 100 years old and is at four-way intersection on Carter School Road.

Mrs. 'McCulley now lives at 458 Hillvale Turn East and is manager of all the old Carter properties. Fashion Shows Slated At Fair More than 200 Future Homemaker of America members will take part in two -fashion shows at the Tennessee Valley Agricultural Industrial Fair which opens Friday. The shows will be presented on Youth Day, Monday, Sept. 14.

The girls have chosen "Fashion Coloring Book" as a theme. Shows will be presented at 10 a.m. in the Jacob Tent Theater and 7 p.m. in the Kerr Building. The girls will model dress and other garments they made themselves ander the supervision of their FHA instructors.

MPC Still Although the Metropolitan Planning Commission has recently added two new staff members and is in the process of another, it still doesn't hiring, staff. Frank Brutt, 34, a native of New York City, was added to the MPC staff last month. He had previously been senior planner with the MetroPlan of Little Rock. His job here is chief advance planner. Brutt and his wife, Alma, and their son, Ricky, 9, moved into their home at 8009 Gleason Drive last week.

He holds bachelor and master degrees in urban planning from Michigan State University. Tom Crossman, who was Mother, Infant Hurt In Wreck A mother and infant son were night when one car reportedly, struck, the Twenty-second rear of Street and Cumberland Avenue. Mrs. Ronald (Caroline Sue) Seagle, 22, of 706 Inskip Road, was admitted to Fort Sanders Presbyterian Hospital with head injuries. She was rported in satisfactory condition.

Her son, Stephen Douglas, 23 months, was released after treatment of a forehead injury. Traffic Officer John Wood reported the cars were driven by Mrs. Seagle's husband and Joseph Monroe Smallman, 40, of 2104 Cherokee Boulevard. Smallsales manager at Demp ster' was charged with public drunkenness. Wood said Seagle told him he was stopped for a traffic sig.

nal when the Smallman car struck his vehicle from the rear. Seagle and two other Seagle children, Jeffrey Lynn, 9 months, and Ronald Eugene, 3, were taken to the same hospital for examination but had no apparent injuries, THE KNOXVILLE Friday, September 4, Lacking BRUTT formerly with the ner here in April. George Anne Weedman, who Four Fined In DWD Cases Three men submitted to driving while drunk charges and were fined $150 each anwas fined $175 to 30 days in the workhouse. James Bowman, 31, of 247 Bell Street, who registered .34 percent on the drunkometer, according to officer's testimony, was fined and sentenced to the workhouse. He was arrested Wednesday.

Clarence B. Blalock, 46, of 1117 Folsom Street; Alvin W. Pyle, 33, Tuscumbia, and Elmer Jackson Bible 28, of 5229 Webber Road, submitted and were fined. Ruling Sought On Demo List PIERRE, S. Sept.

3 (P South th Dakota Atty. Gen. Frank Farrar was asked today to rule whether names of the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees may appear on the state's general election ballot this fall. A Democratic oversight resulted in an apparently late filing of official certificates of nomination for President Lyndon Johnson and vice presidential nominee Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.

EXPRESSWAY SECTION IN USE- expressway. Arrow at left shows how Barricades and signs have been removed from this temporary connection between Middlebrook Pike and West Expressway, opening the latter to traffic on the section from this point west to the Paper Mill Road interchange, a distance of about two miles. Two ar- change. One lane is now traffic while a barricade Closed" signs are left in lane. The purpose appears open the section of the rows at right show how to get on the NOW IN PARTIAL USE This view of West Expressway is looking eastward near the Paper Mill Road inter- Industrialist To Address Civic Leaders James V.

Carmichael, an At- CARMICHAEL being conducted for the Dulin Gallery of Art in Knoxville. Invited guests also will hear plans for the drive as well as an explanation of programs for the coming years. Carmichael, a lawyer by profession, served as general manager of Bell Aircraft's Georgia bomber plant during World War II. He also is a one time member of the Georgia legislature and was a candidate for governor of Georgia against the late Eugene Talmadge. While he won the largest numfor a candidate for governor up ber of popular votes ever cast to that date, he lost the election because of the county unit system.

lanta industrialist, civic leader and president of the Atlanta Art Association, will speak to Knoxville civic leaders today at a noon luncheon in the City Club. Carmichael, president of the Scripto Pencil will speak in behalf of the third annual member ship and support CARMICHAEL fund campaign Airline Granted Decrease For Excursion Fare Knoxvillians with a yen for weekend excursions are, going to get a break. The Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington yesterday authorized Southern Airways of Atlanta, which operates in Knoxville, to put new reduced round trip fares, good only on Saturdays, and 17. Mondays, into In so ruling, the board dismissed complaints of Eastern and Delta Airlines against the fares, which offer 16 day. round-trip excursions for percent of the one-way, firstclass fare.

After the board ruled. officials of both Eastern and Delta said they will introduce similar fares over routes competing with Southern. The CAB said excursion fares of various types have been offered by various airlines over the last 10 years, and weekend excursion fares comparable to Southern's proposal have been introduced recently by several other local service airlines. These include Piedmont. Airlines which also operates in Knoxville.

Southern operates 10 flights in and out of McGhee Tyson Airport daily. Southern Has Passenger Boost Southern Airways, which serves Knoxville and other southeastern cities, has broken all previous passenger boarding records for the fourth consecutive month, the company announced yesterday. During August Southern boarded 65,712 passengers, an increase of 17.5 percent over August of 1963 and an increase of 5.14 percent over the previous all time high set in July when 62,500 passengers were boarded. U.S. aluminum production during the first half of 1964 was 1,250,000 tons, 14.4% from the same period last year.

1964 JOURNAL 17 Full Staff Deputy, R. T. Eden said the husband, Bill Singleton, 30, ently shot his mother-in-law and father-in-law, beat his wife and turned a gun on himself. He was in a Kingsport, hospital in critical condition from a .22 caliber rifle wound over the right eye, Eden said, and was not charged immediately. Mack Owens, 65, killed, and his wife, Louise, was in fair condition.

Both were shot with a .410 gauge shotgun, the deputy said. Singleton's wife, Bernice, 31, was eight months pregnant. Doctors here performed an operation to save the baby, Eden said, He added she may also have been shot but that had not been determined. The shootings occurred at a farm home on State Highway 58 southeast of here, i in the Crossroads Community, Eden said. Mother, 39, Reports Sex Assault Knoxville detectives were searching yesterday for a man described to them by a 39-yearold mother of two as the man who assaulted her in front of her brother's home in East Knoxville earlier in the day.

The woman told police her automobile stalled on East Fifth Avenue at Williams Street while she was on her way home from work and that the man stopped and offered to push her. When she declined the man's help because a wrecker had been called, the man reportedly pushed the woman's automobile off and it started. The woman said she then drove to her sister's house but the man followed her so she drove on to her brother's and tried to run into the house. The alleged assailant, then caught her and her in the back seat of her automobile, she reported. The woman said her for help were apparently not screams heard and that her brother awakened only after she pounded on the door after the man had left in his automobile.

Dr. Thomas On Faculty At University Dr. Carl Owens Thomas has joined the University of Tennessee faculty as assistant dean of the Graduate School and associate professor of physics. Dr. Thomas, who comes to Knoxville after a year of research study and teaching at the Technical University of Denmark at Copen a will work with DR.

THOMAS Dr. Hilton Smith, the University's dean of the Graduate School and. coordinator of research. A native of Birmingham, the new assistant dean is already acquainted with Knoxville. After earning an AB in Math from Howard College in 1947, and a master's in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1949, he completed requirements at UT for the Ph.D.

De in chemistry in 1957. Dean Smith was his faculty for his doctorate studies. advisor Dr. and Mrs. Thomas are residing at Barclay House, 1631 Laurel Avenue.

Weather Bureau Research Plant Starts At Ridge OAK RIDGE, Sept. 3 tablishment of a weather bureau research laboratory here for the study of atmospheric turbulence and diffusion was announced today. Dr. F. A.

Gifford, chief meterologist of the Oak Ridge weather station since 1955, was named director of the laboratory. Gifford said the laboratory's mission "will be to conduct studies of the fundamental nature of atmospheric turbulence and diffusion, the understanding of which is urgently needed in connections with problems of air pollution, nuclear safety, aviation, agriculture and many others." Marathon Milking Derby Slated At Fair A marathon milking derby is to be held this year at Tennessee Valley Agricultural Industrial Fair lasting 96 hours. The derby will begin Monday, Sept. 14 and continue through Thursday Sept. 17.

There will be two milkings on each day at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The competing cow producing the most milk with 4 percent corrected butterfat will be winner. Ten cash prizes will be offered and top prize is $75. The derby will be supervised by test officials.

Fairgoers may watch the evening milkings in the Livestock Judging Arena. The fair opens Sept. 11 for an "eight-day run through Saturday, Sept. 19, but will be closed Sunday, Sept. 13.

Many of the common plastics and synthetic materials. found in the home give off poisonous fumes when they burn. was employed as senior planis presently working for a Knoxville law firm, will join the MPC staff within the next few days as a technical assistant in advance planning. However, Phil Ogle, an assistant planner, is leaving the MPC staff to continue studies at Georgia Tech. The MPC also has two vacancies on its 15-member commission.

When Archie Weaver took office as sheriff Tuesday he automatically lost his post as a member of. MPC. There also has not been anyone named to replace the late Councilman Ernest J. O'Connor on the commission. The successors of both Weaver and O'Connor will be nominated by Mayor John Duncan.

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