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-1 J5t rv ''t SStS-CH 6j 1 CITY WHAT THE PEOPLE KNOW WILL HURT THEM JOHNSON CITV TENN 37 601 WEDNESDAY EVENING J1JLY-31965 2 Sections 24 Pages Daily 10c Sunday 20e Phone 928-2141- Sections 20 Pages lIMOfrOrA VSto vmwwwxx kes-heav-ier Sawf -ws- 1 Marine Plane GIs return I -Tsr r-s'5rT No Soviet air space violation pilot says '-ssjraw: Ssj bjftffk tom iirrriniTtri Russians falsely accused him of flying in their air space and that a MIG fired its machine guns in forcing him down onto a Soviet island YOKOTA AIR BASE Japan A US airliner carrying 231 Americans flew out of Soviet custody today The pilot later said here that Uie s- W'MffpW HI GM WWF UI1DS 've AT WORK Y0 UR 'V 6 J37 TfHU 6 Shotgun wedding Young gunman marries hostage APPAIACHIAH HIGHWAY FUNDS STATE-HIGHWAY trUHUS SGdbOO Binfof H1CHOYS 11325000 wiped out SAIGON The war took a savage upturn near" the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) today US B52 bombers and jet fighter-bombers struck in the heaviest non-stop raids of the war and the Communists wiped out a helicopter-borne Marine patrol probing new Red infiltration In file Mekong -Delta far to the south Viet Cong snipers fired on a helicopter carrying US Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman on an inspection trip but missed and helicopter gunships went after the snipers have been shot at Freeman said bother me at SL- spokesrpea -said fighter-bomber flew 149 missions against North VietnamTuesday the strikes'-sK 155 were- flower last '22 meant an attack by 450 to 600 planes but the exact number was not disclosed Two were shot down It appeared to be one of the heaviest non-stop aerial onslaughts of the war with the big B52s flying over North Vietnam for the third consecutive day today in an effort to slow down the growing Communist infiltration Many of the raids were directed against huge Communist artillery and antiaircraft sites just across the border The North Vietnamese in protecting their wholesale infiltration into the south have bombarded US Marine positions almost daily and tlit Allied ships at sea The Communist guns roared and the nine members of the patrol and the four helicopter crewmen were killed The action apparently happened Monday In Houston pp TRUfPOnTATldf FEDERAL filSHSAY hhm BUREAU 0F PUSLIC ROADS rr tp work under way This phase of the work is in the Gray community area and is about 10 per cent complete There she blows! And now tinder way is this section of the Appalachian Highway which will connect Johnson City and Kingsport with a new four- Two sections Appy highway in area say Appy road bids are processed NASHVILLE Bids were opened here yesterday on two sections of file Appalachian Highway between Johnson City and Kingsport One section of 44 miles is in Washington County another section of 36 miles is in Sullivan County The bids totaled $6 699947- This brought to four the number of sections of the highway on which the State Highway Department has taken bids Two projects were let to contract earlier this year in the Gray area and toward Sullivan County Other bids amounting to $362010 were opened for highway work in Washington Carter Greene and Johnson counties The $4 million contract for the Washington County section was the largest of 80 projects on which the department opened bids involving construction in 62 counties at a total cost of $20243850 Commissioner Charles Speight said the department as customary had taken all bids under advisement and that contracts will he awarded within a few days Gov Buford Ellington expressed pleasure that two more of the Appalachian segments were ready to go to contract The governor has told Upper East Tennessee groups particularly Johnson Citians that his administration was speeding test as we know The governor said he was pleased too for Rep James sake he said of the Johnson City legislate pressed us almost daily to get these projects started And we have told Rep Carter that we hope to start acquiring rights-of-way for the University Expressway project in the next couple of The governor referred to an access route to East Tennessee State University Appalachian projects and the low bidders: Washington County The grading drainage and construction of 44 miles of the Appalachian Highway the new (See ROAD BIDS Page 10) heart kept alive 24-hours 24th transplant patient gunfire two police who had come to serve a warrant charging him with burglary He then vowed to kill the mother the baby and himself unless he married Miss Muddle He also threatened the killing if police tried to force him out Police said Miss parents okayed the shotgun marriage Police Commissioner Norman Allan got a court order permitting the hurried wedding He witnessed the ceremony along with Don Ferguson detective superintendent of criminal investigation branch mother Mrs Ida Mellish 59 said hey son had been released from-jail-five months after serving a term for burglary She said he had been under psychiatric care while in jail Miss brother Reg said his sister and Mellish had been friends since childhood nil lungs and heart were still operating One sons said Tuesday his father once re marked he he could help someone even in Debord suffered a- heart attack 11 days ago and had been in constant pain since Two-Hour Operation Tuesday morning Dr Cooley told Debord a heart transplant was the only thing that would save hiiti The operation started 9 killed to date in county 5 in1967 for same period Drive carefully 4 a 4 '4 A 4' ita' felt that if I go down they might shoot us said Capt Joseph Tosolini pilot of the military charter flight intercepted north of Japan kept on the Russian island two days violate their he told a news conference But Tosolini said he signed a Soviet-prepared statement saying he Violated their air space He said he signed because he wanted to get his plane and Vietnam-bound US servicemen out olSovieLI hands---s Lawsuit blocks annex Johnson annexation of the Section just west of the city passed in final form June 6 and to have become effective this week was blocked by a suit filed in Law Court today The suit filed against the city and its governing body by a group of citizens living in the sprawling 1800 acre territory effectively blocks annexation of the area until the case is disposed of in court The suit is likely to be aired at the November term (See LAWSUIT Page 16) at 2:35 pm EDT and lasted two hours -Cooley said as far as he knows 50-year-old heart may have been kept functioning longer than in any other transplant operation and it may have been oldest heart ever transplanted Ray lawyers prepare appeal fight LONDON (UPI) Attorneys for the accused assassin of Dr Martin Luther King losers in the first round of an extradition went1 to work today on an appeal to a British higher court If the appeal faiis legal sources said -escaped Missouri convict James Earl Ray coiitd be on his way to Memphis Tenn by the end of the month Chief Justice Frank Milton of Bow Street Court ordered deportation to the United States Tuesday Fair skies for Fourth Fair skies and a low of 58 are forecast for tonight following cloudy to partly cloudy weather and high near 82 Tomorrow is expected to he generally fair with a high of 84 Thr outlook for Friday is for-partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures The record high for this date was 07 in 1954 the record low 57 in 1957 Weather guide TRI-CITIES AREA Cloudy to partly cloudy and mild today high mar 12 Fair tonight low SI Gomrally fair to morrow high 14 Outlook tor Friday partly cloudy and warmar High ygs-torday waa 14 low thla morning IS Precipitation to a 11 Inch tha total lor tha month Humidity at a 90 par cant wind from tha northoeat at mph barometric preaaurg 3021 and riling LAKE' ELEVATIONS Full Root Today Tam Watauga 1959 t9Sl I Pall I South Hollton 1729 1723 3 Fe 4 Boont 1385 1380 NHa 1 Fort Henry 1213 1210 7 Fall 1 TODAY'S TEMPERATURES (US Weather Bureau) i i 7 47 47 44 47 49 7 74 Nlgtre year aao TO TODAY'S SKIES Sunset today I J1 Sunrlie tomorrow 14 am Tha moon at First Quarter today Mta tomorrow at 1 31 am The bright star noarait the moon tonight Is Salta Next December tha planet Mara now too near the sun to be aaan will appear mar Spice reve DNE'f milA young gunman today married the teen-age mother he vowed to kill unless she became his wife The police commissioner whose men the bridegroom had kept at bay for 32 hours before the ceremony served as the wedding witnesses After the ceremony during which bridegroom Wallace Mel-ish 23 set aside his automatic shotgun and two automatic rifles police served him Coca-Cola and cake They told him that if he now gave himself up as promised they would carry him off to a mental hospital Mellish told the police to give him an hour ana a half of married life and then he would surrender The Rev Clice Paton of Long Bay Jail performed the ceremony that ended the long police siege of the house where Mellish had held Beryl Muddle 18 and her U-week-old baby Leslie was in satisfactory condition to day Anderson of Lufkin Tex died Monday a day after suffering a stroke He was transferred from-Veterans Administration Hospital to St' where Dr Denton surgical team has performed more heart transplants than any other group of doctors in the world Severe Brain Damage An autopsy showed he suffered irreparable brain damage Cooley who has said before he has many potential recipients but a lack of donors had a donor but no recipient Three possible recipients were tested but their tissues did not match A respirator kept heart and lungs functioning until a recipient could be found The three black lines on the paper marked his progress One line ran nearly straight showing the -absence of brain activity The other lines ran on an up-and-down pattern His 4PI- h-I" x- in (Stiff Photo! Hugh Newton of the Air Transport Association of America (ATAA) said have been seeking a device that would detect But airline officials argued that devices now are unable to distinguish between guns and alarm clocks dictating machines electric razors and countless other items Slow Process wind up checking every a spokesman for one of the major airlines said the new 406-passenger jets just around the corner never get them in the air if you had to check the people out Ripps added that a person-byperson search also would have a bad psychological effect on passengers Airline officials are leery of having armed guards aboard planes When a guy grabs a stewardess and puts a gun to her head what are you going to do?" William Osmun of the ATAA asked "If you start a scuffle in the cabin these things are pressurized you put "a hole through the fuselage -at 30000 feet you could have a major tragedy We need gunplay hi the On the -news beats Mr and Mrs Spencer Simmons Neva were treated at Memorial Hospital for injuries received in a car accident at the corner of Brbadway and Watauga yesterday according to police and the hospital chuckle A henpecked husband describes his wife: such a formidable woman that when she enters a robm the mice get on CAMILOT Svk Divlito In North Mm-mhi city I mw in tar yavr In-Mtlta ha MprtntnNal call tu-Ml (Mv) HOUSTON (UPI) For 24 hours Maxie Elwood hopes of helping someone in death were written ui three black lines on a roll of paper He was medically But a team of surgeons at St Hospital kept his heart functioning long enough Tuesday to implant it into the chest of Henry Debord a 46-year-old Texas contractor in the 24th heart transplant operation The hospital reported Debord Newspaper offices closed tomorrow The Johnson City Press-Chronicle will operate cm a holiday schedule tomorrow A combined edition will be published for the July 4th hol-day just like file Sunday edition No offices of the newspaper will be open tomorrow until 5 when the newsroom will again be staffed Regular schedules willbe resumed on Friday 1 1 FAA airlines WASHINGTON (UPI) The Federal Aviation Agency and the airlines said today there is no way to prevent a man with a gun from hijacking a passenger jet and taking it to Cuba an 'impossible problem short of searching every FAA spokesman Irving Ripps said got a man aboard that wants to to Miller now seeking his 33rd term Charles Miller is today announcing his candidacy for re-election as Washington County Tax Assessor He is unopposed for the office Miller served two years as constable six years as a member- of the County Court and School Board four years as deputy tax assessor and 32 years as tax assessor Miller said happy to live in a country where people are free to vote'and their sentiments and I do not hold any ill will towards my opponents during the past 50 years because some of them were the best men in the county and I respect them" 1 I CHARLES 5 MILLER Havana and he has got a gun all he Several congressmen angered by hijacking of a Northwest Orient the fifth US plane diverted to Havana at gunpoint this criticized the government for failing to take steps to prevent piracy in the skies Sen George Smathers D-Fla and several government criminal investigators noted that devices such as fluroscopes and metal detectors have been used with great success in screening persons entering defense plants and prisons Suggests Screening Devices see no reason why similar devices be Installed at airport check-in gates to determine whpther passengers are Bells will toll for a free nation independence was proclaimed 192 years ago to- morrowr 7- And Johnson Citians' being urged to participate in the July 4th observance tomorrow by Mayor Hal Littieford The mayor has signed a proclamation urging all Johnson Citians commemorate this solemn occasion by the ringing of bells sounding of sirens and blowing qf boms for one at high noon tomorrow Mayor Littieford also urged all citizens to display the (See BELLS Page 10) Deaths Mrs Bertha Byrd Burnsville Mrs Sudle Hobbs Jonesboro 1 Raymond Hopper Atlanta Ga Mrs Neoma Ramey Portsmouth Ohio Rev John White Sulphur Springs carrying guns or other weapons ust prior to Smpth-6T8 said But both the-FAA and the airlines contended that is no foolproof system at present that will tell whetrer passengers are carrying there was a system which would work be all for House seat -sought hy Blevins Lloyd Hal Blevins a resident of Jonesboro and a veteran of Navy service in the Vietnam War announces that' he is a candidate for direct representative to the Tennessee Legislature Blevins 27 is unopposed for Democratic nomination for election-to the seat now occupied by Leon Cox Blevins is a graduate of East Tennessee State University He las studied law at the University of Tennessee He is a graduate of University -High School Blevins is a director of the Jonesboro Nursing Home He is the son of Mrs Sells Blevins (See BLEVINS Page 10) LLOYtTBELVINS Legislative Race I (llaH total Lakeside resort? And when the rains came they really said a drain on nearby Althea Street "came to the home of Mrs Richard always backs up crying the small Seepe 1101 Ronald Lane Mrs Seepe lake shown here in ftei backyard a I 't I 1 I i 'hi I 1 1.