Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 14

But not 1 critical SHELLY W- JOHNSON CITY TINN PRISS-CHRONICLI SATURDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 24 I96t Jail term given man in Carter 1 Paliop mioll outbreak U1 JL Gov Lurleeh Wallace is in serious condition After union accepts 1 iin jn Bcaimit withdraws offer at 4 iK SlbiMMw SsrMO) Jen '(UPIV MONTGOMERY Ala (UPI)j would be able to go back I Gov -Lcrfeen Wal-twkfc Ibce ciTTThliace jnBs teparted4jdw spirits" i In a brief stateemnt th i MeihpriJ used nightsticks land riot control vmiu ui gss to bregk bp AM JO brief but violent battle that Friday night following her third occurred Friday during a cancer operation In two years protest parade by about 1000 Dr Harry Till said it was 'mn aot ELIZABETHTON In Crlhv- I S1 1 Court Carver alias Jlocky Caii charged with armed robbery pleaded- guilty to attehnpt to I commit a felony gnd was sentenced to 11 months and 29 days in JaiT Judge Oris Hyder ordered I that Carter be given-credit for the time be bad been in jail which was about 70 diys John Dooley charged with de-1 stroyiug private property and threatening murder pleaded guilty to simple assault and was sentenced to 11 months and CW thus Idling its 1000 workers union vote on the last offer included lfcent an hour increase in Retroactive to November and an additional 7-cent hourly increase to become effective November 1968 The last also included rfn additional holiday increased hospital sickness benefits and funeral pa The total package is for a 20 month period i i ELIZABETHTON Employes pf Beaunit Fibers plant in Chil dersburg Ala Thursaay by 75 per cent majority voted to accept the last contract offer but an official of the plant said' the "offer has been William Haskins Beaunit Fibers Division Industrial relations director yesterday said "This and any previous offers were made on the basis of sales' projections'Since the plant -was closed by the strike our customers have turned to other sources of supply and products -which are not manufactured at Childersbure or Elizabethton Any reconsideration at this point must be made so! ly on economics and the economic pic- ture at Childersburg has drastically changed since our last Heskins added Company officials announced over a week ago following the strike that they intended to clos do the pi Jit at Childers- a pay 1967 offer paid and which of Union by of New Irwin of amounted to an overall increase 1 29 days in jail All but SUI 23-cents per hour months of the sentence was sus- QUIT GRIPING 'AND EAT DINNER YOU'RE THE ONE WHO WANTED TO UVE OYER A BOWUNG striking garbage workers Only one man was bloodied in the outburst 'hut police punished dozens of others their clubs and several officers were' knocked to the ground The violence broke out following a City Council meeting recede at which the council in effect A small pelvic tumor and a rejfeptedtgarbage workers de-ten-ipeh-seeHoqof Jwwql mands that the- American removed In the eight-hour Federatioq of State County and operation The section of bowe Municipal Employes Union be had been damaged by radiation named as their sole bargaining treatments she had received in agent and that pay scales be her long battle against cancer increased Till explained that the shrun- Started By One hen condition of the tumor that The strikers marching 10 wa? removed i showed the abreast set out from the city fadiafion had taken effect and auditorium where the Council effects would probably had met in order to accommo- continue and cause recession of date that large crowd of the hardened tissue He said spectators and were proceeding there were no plans for any peacefully when a man In the further radiation treatments middle of die half-bLik line "Her condition is serious as suddenly lunged toward a patrol any person would be after such car and began rocking it in an an Till said "I attempt to turn it over say it was Other strikers went to his aid Weight In 90s and police-immediately waded Dr joe Perry said his into the group with dubs flying previous estimate that Mrs During the melee strikers Wallace weighed 77 pounds was tried to kick in glass store probably an error and that her fronts but officers routed them weight likely was in the low 90s with the riot control gas The He said she was still being battle lasted only about 10 fed intravenously as is normal Union members voting at the Hall accepted the offer a vote of 469 to 158 A total 627 employes from 844 eligible voted Yesterday a group of Childersburg civic leaders went to York for a meeting with Meltzer president of Beaunit Corporation in hopes reaching a settlement to resume operations in Skipper says US did notprovoke incident pended He was given credit for one day hehad served in jail A mistrial was declared in the case of Johnny Rav Berry charged with breaking and entering and larceny after jury was unable to reach a verdict The judge set the case for rehearing in June Ruff Lewis charged with robbery by force was found not guilty by the jury Herbert and Glen trial was reset for the June term of court on a charge of transporting unstamped whis- UUUHV-R doctors said Mrs Wallac experienced some discomfQi following the operatibn but thi this was for surgery this "Her doctors say all vitz signs are normal this mornin and her spirits are th statement said It was the third time in tw years that' the 41-year-ol mother" of four had undergod surgery for a malignancy -Cancer of the uterus was fin detected in December 1965 an was treated with radiatior followed by an operation Succeeded Husband Doctors said there was evidence of further malignanc and Mrs" Wallace subsequentl ran and was elected to succeei her husband George Wal laefe as governor Less than six months afte her inauguration however doc tors announced they had discov ered another nalignancy ant she was taken to the Anderson Hospital and Tumoi Institute In Houston where i malignant tumor the size of lemon was removed from he abdomen last July 10 Mrs Wallace who has seldon jeen in her office since then returned to Houston severa times for preventive radiation treatments and examinations and on JaS 4 it was announced another presumably malignant nodule had been discovered ir ler pelvic area It was this tumor shrunken later Betatron radiation treatments which was removed Thursday we (Condoned from page 1 col 7) tlonal purposes to both the Maddox and Turner Joy Other" points made" by the captain: was never any doubt ky after the jury was unable aboard the ships he said that to reach agreement cm a ver- sonar reports showed torpedo showed Tex Ritter Sen Tower to appear at GOP dinner diet Calling at deadline firings The only doubts' he said were over how many torpedoes had been fired occurred to me! that he was acting as a "decoy1 or luring North Vietnamese boats north and he- denied he was Did his ships minutes- after such operations and would probably continue to be for three or four days been out of bed yet but she turns well and moves Till reported He said she would probably be out of bed in a few days Doctors said they hoped she Memphis sanitation workers went (Hi strike Feb 12 t) back up demands for union recognition and increased pay Pay scales presently range from $155 to $210 an hour Several strikers were arrested during the battle and ir rchants quickly locked up their stores although the violence came at the height of the Friday afternoon shoeing rush The City Council met earlier Friday in a surprise executive session and voted along racial May Ross McDowel- chairman of the $100-a-plate Johnson City area GOP Calvalcade of Stars dinner has announced that well-known country and western fliusic singer Tex Ritter will be included on the program' Ritter will join Sen John Tower of Texas and man Jimmy Quillen as featured guests Mrs McDowell said "the addition of Ritter and his wife Dorothy to our Johnson City area dinner assures us of a star entertainer for our Calvalcade of Stars The line-up we have -for Johnson City is second to none for any of the five dinners to be held in the The dinner will be held in the Student Center at East Tennes see State University on March 8 The programs scheduled to be held simultaneously hn five Tennessee cities are another major step of the 'Republican party in gearing for the 1968 elections Mrs McDowell said Speakers at the other dinners include Sen Everett Dirkson Memphis Senator Howard Ba ker and Ray Bliss Republican National Chairman Nashville Sen Roman Hruska and Mrs Shirley Temple Black Chattanooga and Sen George Murphy Knoxville Ritter an active Republican for many years has appeared in more than 78 western movies has sang the background in many other featured films including "High Rutherford court hesitating at all and commenced fire to The captain said torpedoes were fired and observe! one passed close to He said the boats turned under the stern and fired machine guns The planes from the Tcionderoga jvere authorized to open fire and did The incident ended with one boat apparently dead in the water and another of the boats apparently towing the third Second Incident -Capt Herrick said the Aug incident began late in the day The ships had been patrolling along the coast and were heading out into the center of the Tonkin Gulf he said They intercepted a radio message indicating a planned attack They picked up radar contacts which seemed to be some boats to spring a trap on us after The same precautions were general quarters and firing up additional boilers to make more steam And the US ships changed course Darkness was falling and it became a cloudy overcast night From here on what Capt Herrick observed were through the eyes and ears of radar and sonar we changed the course ihe boats repositioned or closed on us and we tracked them on in There seemed to "be some boats which tracked up to 40 knots and others father away at slower speeds (Our) two ships were approximately in column with the Maddox ahead and the Turner Joy astern The lead joat kept closing They got into range about 6000 yards They made a sort of button- GREENEV1LLE Greene County Office said last night that the only thing giving them any trouble was the weather The tempera-matter of fact it started out as ture was 22 degrees at 11 pm a sort of a Sunday cruise in Greeneville the department of the first "attack Aug spokesman said involving only the Maddox Herrick said: The search for the airplane "We got a report of a radar which had been reported as contact I think three PT boats crashed on Gray Mountain in and a small oiler is what Greene County had been discon- appeared to be They proceeded tinued a deputy said Apparent- south We paid them very little ly there was no crash accord- ing to the department spokes- He said that an hour or two man I later the boats appeared to be on an course" BLOUNTVILLE Inside in-speeds of 40 to 50 knots The formation from the Sullivan Maddox sounded general quar-County office is that ters and got up more steam Boone Lake is for fish- Intent ing Supposedly the lake has "They continued to close We that that makes began to surmise that their to reapportion lines to reject a committee (Conamied from page 1 col 8) recommendation that could I tricting jan and at the same have ended Ihe 12-day-old jrno nrJrt that thn eipf'tinn garbage collectors strike The time ordered that the election under the 1967 act be held of the peace elected under the 1967 act will be sworn in atjfhe next quarterly meeting of the county court following the within 90 days The ruling said that justices four Negro members of the Council voted for the adion while nine whites voted against The recommendations that file city recognize and bargain with the union and institute a dues checkoff procedure were dues checkoff procedure were Nashville shooting victim listed in critical condition US Viet opinion noted that the court presently has 54 justices with representation varying from one justice for evenr 2483 voters in the 13thrcivil district to one justic for every 49 registered voters in the second civil district NASHVILLE (UPI Duane Clyde Hurley '27 remained in critical condition in Baptist Hos- formulated by the public T)OllC leSS workers committee Thursday I 1 popular workers committee Thursday following a hectic public hearing in which more than 700 striking the fish want to go after those white horse hair bottom fishing rigs according1 to the dispatcher Cold weather is the only restraining force he said the fish continue to eat but it makes it rough fishing on the fisher- man workers jammed the council chambers PRINCETON NJ (UPI)-A The two issues on which Gallup ipoll released Wednesday recommendations were made snowed 50 per cent of those PIXiet byWohl intent was The Maddox radioed the aircraft carrier which dispatched planes -Capt Herrick authorized the skipper of the Maddox to fire a warning shot if the boats came within 10000 yards They did and the warning savo was fired he said They continued in without Draft call pital here Friday after being shot by a Metro Patrolman Feb 10 Hurley formerly of Johnson City suffered head and shoulder wounds when he was struck by bullets from a high-powered carbine rifle duing a high speed chase He later underwent emergency surgery at Baptist Hos pital tm BV0 overrode seven others in which Americans sampled disapprove the union had made demands the way President Johnson is for higher DavandVbetteri handling the-Vietnam War-in 'the wake of The-- recent working conditions They were On the $rwL KICKING- the two th Mayor Henry Loeb has adamantly refused to consider Metro Patrolman Ray TYot-ter was suspended from the force following the shooting pending an investigation into the incident neivs heats 7 KINGSPORT All District Highway Patrolman have been put on standby due to the brief but violent battle which occurred in Memphis last night in connection with the garbage workers strike At midnight many area Highway Patrolmen had been called of- of saturation campaigns iqto the barracks at Kingsport to be ready to go to Memphis instantly if necessary (Continued from page 1 Col 1) from 39000 to 41000 men The Marines who have been bearing the brunt of the fighting near the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam and suffering heavy casualties at Khe Sanh and Hue will get their first men from the ranks of inductees since March 1966 the end of a four-month period during which they took in 19000 draftees The 4000 Marine inductees in April will represent the number of needed replacements the corps estimates it cannot gain through enlistments which are expected to average about 8000 men a month the first half of this year The Joint Chiefs it was 0 Communist offensive Do you approve or disapprove of the way President Johnsoii is handling the Vietnam the pollster asked 1503 persons in more than 300 localities around the nation Thirty-five per cent approved 50 per cent disapproved and 15 per cent expressed no opinion A similar poll released last month showed 39j)er cent of Myrtle Morris 1207 Holston Ave reported yesterday that a white 1959 Dodge was stolen from her residence rn Nixon warns of growing Red strength Homicide detective Albert Bourgoi said Trotter reportedly fired nine founds from his 30-caliber M-l Carbine rifle during the chase which reached speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour The chase ended when Hurley a vending firm employe Smashed his car into a parked automobile and finally halted in the front yard of a house 1941 by Unltotf Ftefvf y4iM Im By United Press International KINGSPORT Two men were treated at Holston Valley Memorial Hospital last night for injuries received in an accident on Ridgefield Road hook turn away from the Turner Joy- The Turner Joy was convinced she was under tonedo attack and commenced liring at the The Maddox at this time picked up torpedo noises on her sonar For what seemed "a number of he no longer recalls exact Capt Herrick said the boats to make-multipe He said sonar heard number of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has described in testimony before committee how Naval authority ashore had some doubt about the validity of the sonar contacts and sought confirmation Capt Herrick said that as far as he was concerned the only oubts were to- I lad no doubts of the initial ones and I had no doubts that numerous ones were Alder 520 Lamont St reported yesterday the theft of a socket wrench from the trunk of his car The trunk was forced open according to the police report as Wall Street chatter James Earl Monk 21 509 Eastman Road and Robert Glenn Stangler 22 Rt 11 were treated for multiple minor injuries but were not admitted to the hospital learned have proposed mobilizing nearly 50000 men "across the from the National Guard and" from Reserve forces of each service if the President decides to send more than 525000 men to Vietnam Former Vice President Rich- se sampled approved 47 per ardM Nixon warned Friday of cent approved and 14 per growing Soviet naval strength I not exprcss an opinion and a threat that the Russians might equal US strategic the 1 landli ng the military strength within "ar raeK" to vfcars if the 1pariprsviinlan a SUlmST poll conducted U1 1 September Only 28 per cent-is not changed an all-time approved of Nixon a candidate for war policies at that Republican presidential nomma- tion spoke at Portsmouth NH where he is entered in the CHURCHGOING UP March 12 presidential primary ST PETERSBURG Fla The only announced Democratic For the first time in 10 Candidate Sen Eugene Me- years church attendance in the Eugene Hicks 304 8th Ave reported yesterday that tools and tires were stolen from the basement of his home Two tires for a Pontiac Tempest two tires and wheels for an Austin Healey one saw 15 sockets and 15 wrenches were listed as stolen CHINESE BAR SOVIETS wail: a mouse in my lunch pail DEEP-BITE SNOW RETREADS NEW YORK (UPI) Hutton A Co notes stocks have met some support in the 850-855 area of the Dow Jones Industrial Average but says the support has been without the of a traditional selling Some feel the old type climax is obsolete in this market because so few stocks are held on thin margins The firm says there is some chance of a rally even if it is just a contra-trend move since "there has been a plurality of declines on the recently Reds hit Saigon airport MOSCOW (UPI) Chinese officials have refused permission to Soviet diplomats to put flowers on the graves of Russian soldiers killed while fighting to free northeast China from Japanese occupation Tass said Tuesday The Soviet news agency said the diplomats were barred from cemeteries in Harbin Shenyan SCRANTON Pa (UPI) Judge Richard Conaboy of Lackawanna County has issued a divorce on the plea of Edward Foderaro 79 reason: His wife Sophie 56 put a dead mouse in his lunch pail Foderaro said the mouse incident was only a part of a United States increased during 1967 according to The Churchman independent publication of the Protestant Episcopal Church The Churchman says 66 per cent of Roman Catholics and 36 per cent of Protestants attended church in a typical -week last year The Midwest had the best attendance record with 48 per cent followed by the South with 47 per cent and the Far West with 34 per cent Sim thra 750 14 Plu axciia tax Port Arthur and Darien SATISFACTION GUARANTEED course of harassment humiliation and carried out by his wife The couple was married in 1942 46c to 87c Add $695 for ttcel studs FOR STOP AND GO IN ICE AND SNOW! SUPPLY COMPANY Lamont at Boono Street AT BOB HARRELL'S No striped snake native to the United States is known to be poisonous Winslow Cohu Stetson Inc observes the striking feature of the post-1966 stock market has been its extreme selectivity and extreme sensitivity number of performance stocks are suddenly (and temporarily) deglamorized into speculative it says to the simple inability of both professional and amateur investors to differentiate between the general and the The company does not predict how the run will end but it does feel farce does not have too much longerto Kingsport man killed in wreck on Highway 126 (Continued from page 1 col 4) communist trops desperately holding to the imperial city inside the Citadel USr officials estimated about 150 communists were holding onto positions inside the imperial city A US spokesman said at least 18 mortar and rocket rounds slammed into the base and about six rockets hit outside the base to the southeast It was just six days ago last Sunday morning that communists staged a massive attack on file air base which also serves as a headquarters complex for both US and South Vietnamese military operations In that attack which was accompanied by two days of heavy rocket fire the communists used powerful 122mm rockets for the first time around Saigon At Hue Allied troops caught a battalion of communist rein- Carthy told a Berlin' NH audience the American public had been deceived on the Gulf of Tonkin incident McCarthy sided with Sen Wayne contention that the two US destroyers involved in the incident Aug 4 1964 actually provoked a North Vietnamese attack because they were spy ships Oregon Campaign Opened Gov George Romney of Michigan who' left New Hampshire Thursday opened his campaign Friday in the May 28 Oregon primary by challenging Nixon to join him in support of Senate passage of civil rights legislation' Romney wired Nixon who refused to debate the governor face-to-face in New Hampshire urging him to to Senate approval rt a motion to halt debate on the rights measure In a speech in Portland Romney also urged resisting "the reflex urge to take on ant take over each transient threat in favor of initiatives for shared international stability in a world longing for Sen Charles Percy R-IU followed New York Gov Nelson lead Friday by filing an affidavit removing his name from the ballot of the Wisconsin presidential primary April 2 At Portsmouth Nixon said Defense Secretary Robert McNamara predicted five years ago that living Americans would nev6r see the day when the Soviet Union matched the United States strategically "I predict that unless there is a new policy in this administration or new leadership in this country that day trill come within the next 24 Nixon said KINGSPORT A Kingsport man" was killed" last night in an accident on Highway 126 the old Highway 11-W from Kingsport to Bristol near Eastlawn Cemetery according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol Howard Ramey 25 Rt 8 was dead on arrival at Holston Valley Memorial Hospital according to a spokesman TEEN-AGERS ONLY forcemeats trying to slip into the Citadel and killed 223 of theni in a vicious battle 'Sharp fighting broke out all around the walled Citadel Just North of Hue Communist troops ambushed a US Air Cavalry battalion and shot down a helicopter gunship supporting the Americans Two Cavalrymen were killed and 25 wounded before the American battalion shot its way out of the trap To the north along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where the North Vietnamese have massed some 50000 troops for a threatened offensive Communist gunners unleashed a barrage of 669 rockets artillery and mortar shells on allied positions Highway (Continued from page 1 col 7 1 Greene County Grading draining and paving and construction of 15 bridges of various types is included Tillett Broth ers of Shelbyville got the contract at $3855397 Another Greene County pro ect was for 62 miles of grading draining and surfacing of a secondary route a mile north of Southern Railway near Greeneville to Secondary Route 2391 Cost is $240589 Carter County bad one project the grading and surfacing of a half-mile of industrial access highway from Route 91 a Elizabethton to Troy Industries the Watauga River Sum-mers-Taylor got the project at $42529 One Unicoi County project was included 9 mile of McCurry Road In Limestone Road to Secondary Route 2379 Brown Brothers of Zionsville NC was low bidder at $15900 I BUCK WHITE PORTABLE FREE: LAB0R l-YR ON Tessel Paturick A Ostrau Inc says the market in a highly oversold condition there is good reason to believe that a rally which could last two four weeks is in the process of The firm senses that 1968 will be a widely fluctuating market similar to the election year market of 1960 when there were exceptional buying opportunities in although the balance of the list declined AMY By Jack TippW PARTS BOB RADIO A TELEVISION 211 Lamont St 926-5356 1:30 American Band Stand 2:30 Happening The Happening 3:30 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