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A I of of of of of of of of PRESS-CHRONICLE Dee. 17, 1966 Deaths (EDITOR'S NOTE: All death notices the evening edition of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle will be accepted until 10:15 a.m. City edition deadline is 1 p.m. Notice for the State and Sunday editions must be in by 10:30 p.m. the day before.) MRS.

SUE N. HARRIS FAIRFIELD, Ala. Mrs. Sue Beth Nixon Harris, 54, Jonesboro, died yesterday morning at the residence of her father, Haywood Nixon, 677 Maple St. telense.

in Harris Tennessee, had been but a for school the past several months had been living with her father. Other survivors include one sister, Mrs. Virginia! N. Neagher, Fairfield; two nephews, and one great-neice. Angwin Mortuary Center, Birmingham, is in charge.

INFANT COCHRAN The infant son of Capt. and Mrs. Kendall Wayne Cochran, Poplar Woods Court, died at 11:10 a.m. yesterday in Memorial Hospital. Survivers include the parents; two sisters, Kimberly Sue and Melanie Jane, of the home; paternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Hobart M. Cochran; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Claude Burkhart; paternal mother, Mrs. Lina Bailey; and maternal great-grandmother, Mrs.

Agnes Leach. Kiser-Woodall Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Virginia phone rates NORTON, Va. A plan for cutting rural telephone rates on Jan. 1 has been filed with the State Corporation Commission by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co.

Subscribers in Lee, Wis Dickenson, Russell and part of Buchanan counties and other sections of Virginia will be affected. Several hundred rural patrons in Southwest Virginia will be given rate reductions. In all, the new rates will affect some 80,000 customers. Fields hearing set ABINGDON, Va. A preliminary hearing will be held today for Melvin Fields, 19, Holston, charged with murder in the slaying of his father on Dec.

4. The youth is accused of killing his father, Howard Fletcher Fields, 53, at his home with an 8 mm. Mauser rifle. He told officers he shot his father to end abuse of his mother. JOHNSON CARE -CHRONICLE 204 West Main Street, Johnson City, Tenn.

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Dial 926-7911 Funeral notices (EDITOR'S NOTE: Deadline for funeral notices for the Evening edition of the Johnson City Press-Chronicle is 10 a.m., and for the Sunday edition is 2 p.m. Saturday, Your cooperation will be appreciated.) HARRIS, SUE BETH NIXON FUneral services for Sue Beth Nixon Harris, age 54, of Jonesboro, Tennessee, who died Friday morning at 677 Maple Fairfield, Alabama, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Angwin Mortuary Centers Memory Chapel. Dr. 0.

S. Gamble will officiate. Burial in the Elmwood Cemetery. The body will the services. remain in Angwin the chapel Mortuary, throughout Alabama, is in charge of the ararnge LARKIN, ROBERT C.

Funeral ices for Robert C. Larkin, age 87; of Church Hill, will be held Saturday 2 p.m. from the Hamlett Dobson Funeral Home Chapel Kingsport. Officiating will be the Rev. Arthur and the Rev.

Stanley Harrison. Burial will be in the Hawkins Family Cemetery, Hawkins County. The family will receive friends from 7 until 9 p.m. Friday. The body will remain at the funeral home throughout the service: Hamiett Dobson Funeral Home, Kingsport, is in charge of the arrangements.

MASTERS, MRS. PAULINE (POLLY) Funeral services for Mrs. Pauline (Polly) Masters, age 42, of 605 Crestview Drive, who died in Memorial Hospital at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, will be held 2 p.m. Sunday from the Appalachian Funeral Home Chapel.

ing will- be the Rev. Richard Carter. Interment will be in Monte Vista Burial Park. Active pallbearers and flower bearers are to be selected. The body will remain at the chapel throughout the service where the family will receive friends from 7 until 9 p.m.

Saturday. Appalachian Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. PILKIN, GENEVA BELLE Funeral services for Geneva Belle Pilkin, age 45, of Route 3, Butler who died Thursday morning will be held at 2 p.m. Church. Saturday from Officiating the Sugar will be Grove the Baptist Earl Campbell, Rev.

Lawrence -Hagamen and the Rev. Carroll Fletcher. Music will be in charge of Rev. Wood. Burial will be in the Sugar Grove Baptist Cemetery.

Active pallbearers will be Ted Duggar, Lloyd Berry, Gregory Frits, Lucky Duggar, McKinley Rainbolt, Tyler Berry, Fate Duggar. Flower bearers will be friends. The body will be returned to the home at 3 p.m. Friday and will be removed to the church noon Saturday. to await service hour.

Tetrick Funeral home, Elizabethion, is in charge of the arrangements. TREADWAY, JOHN L. Funeral services for John L. Treadway, age 75, of Route 1, Jonesboro, who died in Memorial Hospital 8:45 a.m. Thursday, from iniuries received in an automobile accident, will be held Sunday at 2:30 the Sevier Methodist Church.

Officiating, will be the Rev. Harris and the Rev. John Miller. Interment in the Sevier Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Marvin, Bill, Vestal, Robert and Hobart Treadway, J.

B. Kyker, Harold and Ben McKee. Flower bearers be nieces and friends. The body will remain in the funeral hom chapel where the family will receive friends from 2 "til p. m.

and from 7 "til 9 p.m. Saturday, and will be removed to the church one hour preceding the services 10 lie in state. Survivors include two daughters: Clyde Allen, Johnson City and Mrs. Robert Bolton of Jonesboro; three sons: John, Dennis and Eugene, all of Jonesboro; six, grandchildren and one great grandchild, Tammy K. Buck; four sisters Miss Sally Treadway, Mrs.

Elmer McKee, both of Jonesboro, Mrs. Roy Reed of Johnson City, Mrs. Orville Presnell of Sherborne, New Jersey; eight brothers: Bill, Sherrill, Henry, Berney, Hubert and Ed, all of Jonesboro, Ben and Charlie of Johnson City. Taylor Funeral Home, Jonesboro, is in charge of the arrangements. Alcohol study commission now planning report -NASHVILLE (UPI) The Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Study Commission met yesterday to discuss and put in final form three of five portions of the report it will make to the governor and General Assembly January.

The commission set Jan. 13 and 27 as the dates for its final meetings. Those portions of the study with which the commission dealt concerned the introduction, the study itself a and public hearings held by the commission. A statement released by commission chairman Kenneth B. Schoen during the meeting estimated that the transcript of the entire study would cover "close to 4,000 pages." He said the study, over the past year, has included 20 whole committee meetings and 20 planning committee meetings, 11 days of public hearings in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Chattanooga and the testimony of 97 witnesses in the hearings.

Feb. 1 was set as the target date for submitting the report and the recommendations which it is to to Gov. Buford Ellington. Street regulations KINGSPORT No mention of a proposed change in Kingsport subdivision regulations to require developers to pave streets was made at the port Planning Commission's meeting last night. Alderman Joseph H.

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Then Ruby will get the drug every other day until he shows some benefit from it or until his physicians are convinced there is no point in going on. Ruby's lawyers may discuss getting their client admitted to bail in a conference this weekend. "The truth, is that making bond passes through our minds, but we're not making a concentrated effort in that direction." Phil Burleson, one of the defense lawyers, said. "We're hopeful it's not fatal as some newspapers have speculated and some. doctors have indicted," Burleson said.

Getting bail set and posted for Ruby would make little change except that sheriff Bill Decker would remove two guards from his hospital room at Parkland Hospital. His relatives would be free to move him to another hospital, if they wanted. His treatment would be free, since Parkland does not charge patients who Jobe (Continued From Page 1, Col. 7) Continued from page one Ruby he was in high school. Mosier told Jobe in a press conference yesterday, "I'm goling to lose a good right arm in you, Bobby." The city manager commented that Jobe had been a great help to him in his first days here in his new job as the top city administrator.

Jobe's letter of resignation, sent to Mosier, stated, "I have enjoyed very much work and association with the employes of the city administration and may I wish you the best of success in your tenure as city manager." Jobe said he didn't feel like he could delay accepting the new job which he has been offered and considers as an advancement. Coppolino (Continued From Page 1, Col. 2) normal life. "I will visit the country club, play a little golf, enjoy the and enjoy Florida. sunshine is my home and i is going to be my home for many, many Coppolino said he expected the verdict" in the trial here as he received in the murder trial in murder, New Jersey.

"People believe the truth. I believe in the American form of justice." The 34-year-old anesthesiologist said at the New York airport, before boarding the plane, that he wanted to be tried sooner than scheduled. "If we could go on trial tomorrow, I would like to," he said. Coppolino was arrested in Sarasota after Farber's widow, who said she was Coppolino's mistress, told police he killed her husband and she suspected he also killed his first wife. Farber's.

widow went to the had remarried after, a wealthy police shortly Coppolino Florida woman. tight." When he returns to Sarasota he plans to "resume everyday Smasher (Continued From Page 1, Col. 5) "a breakthrough for the Midwest in our efforts to return to the region our fair share of major federal scientific and technological activity." Sen. Paul Douglas, who was defeated for reelection in November, said the AEC. had been "dubious" about Weston because of race relations but that Kerner had assured the Special flights set for Baker's oath of office NASHVILLE (UPI) Tennesseans who go to Washington next month to see Republican Sen.

-elect. Howard H. Baker Jr. take office will find two special flights and two receptions have been scheduled. A flight is scheduled to leave Memphis Jan.

9 with stops at Jackson and Nashville. A second flight will depart from Chattanooga the same day with stops at Knoxville and Tri-City Airports. Baker and George Ed Wilson, Harriman, a former state GOP chairman, have scheduled separate receptions in Washington, Jan. 9. MORE MORE YES TE YOU PASTE Holiday SMARI Beautifully GIFT IDEA Packed gourmet MEATS Gift Wrapped For King! GIFTS Fit and A Delivered or Shipped to your order.

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The AEC said 1,200 construction workers would be on the job the year around. The AEC said it would be the largest and most complex instrument ever built for fundamental scientific research leading to a "deeper understanding of the basic forces that govern the universe." By building larger atom smashers, physicists hope to solve the mystery of what universe is made of and the forces that hold it together. Beats (Continued From Page 1, Col. 8) was treated and dismissed at Memorial Hospital yesterday for injuries to the forehead and scalp, received when a car fell off a jack. T.

J. Williams, 30, Wheeler was treated at Memorial Hospital for injuries to the left side of the face. He reportedly received the injuries when he fell from a wrecker working at Tennessee Motors. China expels three of SIX Red writers TOKYO (UPI) Communist China Friday ordered three of the six. Soviet correspondents now Peking to leave the country by Christmas for spreading "rumors and slanders about China's great proletarian cultural The revolution." Foreign Ministry in Moscow was unable to confirm the report that the Russian reporters had been expelled.

The New China News Agency said Soviet Charge d'Affaires Y. N. Razdukhov had been officially informed of the move in Peking. Expulsion of the Soviet correspondents will choke off some of the most graphic reporting coming out of Peking. American diplomats and correspondents abroad have been generally pleased with the Peking coverage provided by Tass, the Soviet News Agency, by Pravda, Komsomol Pravda and other Moscow newspapers concerning the so-called "cultural Three Communist Chinese correspondents are accredited by Moscow.

All three reside in the Chinese Embassy and, apparently on orders, seldom mix with either Russians or other foreigners. The Peking directive cited the fact only three Chinese, report ers were in Moscow as another reason for the expulsion of the three Russians. New China quoted Deputy Information Director Chen Weifan as saying the three Soviet correspondents "had done all they could to spread rumors and slanders about China's great proleterian cultural revolution" -the purges now sweeping the Chinese mainland. "We aboslutely can not tolerate such deliberate activities to show discord and undermine the friendship between the peoples of China and the Soviet Union, not tolerate these brazen vocations against our country." Chen declared. Vietnam (Continued From Page 1, Col.

8) throughout the capital Friday night as U.S. and South Vietnamese troops continued a push to sweep Communist units from the capital's doorstep. B52 bombers pounded two target triangles inside the Demilitarizing one (DMZ) separating Northorn, and South Vietnam. Vietnamese 324B Division was reported rebuilding in the buffer zone after the Operation Prairie licking it took from U.S. Marines two months ago.

A. B. Grindstaff faces charge in traffic, fatality (P-C Elizabethton Bureau) ELIZABETHTON A. B. Grindstaff has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Romney.

Blevins. Grindstaff's bond has been set at $1000 by City Judge Charles Crockett. Blevins died as a result of injuries received when he stepped from the curb at the corner of Riverside Drive and Broad Street last Saturday afternoon and into the path of Grindstaff's car, according to what Grindstaff told the officers who investigated. The trial has been set for Jan. 3 1 p.m.

in city court. Long range plans for Kingsport work KINGSPORT Major portions of the long-range planning program may begin in 1967, or at least, City Planner Robert Clear hopes so. Federal funds totaling $90,606 were made available for defraying a portion of the studies to be undertaken by Eric Hill Associates, a consulting firm of Atlanta. Major portions of the program to cover a 25-year period were discussed at a session of the Kingsport Planning Commission last night. Big Stone annex BIG STONE GAP, Va.Members of the Town Council et Wednesday night in a closed door session to talk over the proposed annexation of Big Stone Gap fringe areas.

A spokesman who attended the meeting said the council decided on a definite establishment of "meets" and bounds" of areas to be annexed. RAID GOES OVERBOARD MURRAY, Ky. (UPI) -About 400 students at Murray State University staged a noisy, rockthrowing demonstration here early Friday in what began a as typical panty raid and ended on a note of destruction, police said. Police were called to quell a boisterous swarm of male students heading toward the women's dormitories in a demonstration that lasted for about four hours. COURSE FOR SISTERS DUBUQUE, Iowa (UPI) Thirty-nine postulants of an order of Roman Catholic nuns plan to learn about charm from a group of airline stewardesses.

The classes for the thirty-nine postulants at the mother house of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be held Jan. 4-8. The teachers will be hostesses from Continental Airlines. An aide to the convention's mother superior, Mary Frances, said she thought the course would help establish the graciousness and thoughtfulness which she thinks women should have. Army in for TFX-type congressional probe By GEORGE C.

WILSON The Washington Post is in for a TFX-type congresWASHINGTON The A Army sional investigation of what was to be its biggest single buy of helicopters. Chairman Porter Hardy Jr. (D-Va.) said in an interview that his House Armed Services investigating subcommittee will start the probe soon after the new Congress organizes. The helicopter at issue is the Hughes OH-6A light obeservation helicopter. The army orig.

inally talked about buying 4,000 of them and has already contracted for over 1,000. Hughes offered this first of helicopters to the Army at such a low price $19,860 each -that Rep. Hardy said he wants to determine if the company intended to block out competition and raise its prices later. $48,000 Each What prompted the sub- committee's investigation of this possibility was the price the Army considered paying for a new batch of the same helicopters about $48,000 each. The figure came out earlier this year while the Army was justifying its request for more fiscal 1966 helicopter funds.

Congress approved the Army's request for money at the time but said it would investigate the whole Light Observation Hellcopter (LOH) competition. This investigation has been going on since adjournment. The Army since broke off negotiations for buying more of the helicopters at the $49,000 MIGNEST WEATHER OUTLOOK Today rain and showers will occur over the Northern Pacific Coast region, and most of the Southern portion of the country. Fair to partly cloudy skies WEATHER vail over the Northern Plateau and the Eastern Gulf, while warmer weather is expected for the Southern Plateau, Southeastern Plains, and the Middle Mississippi Valley. Little will dominate the remainder of the change in temperature anticipated nation.

Cooler temperatures will pre- elsewhere. United States, allies pledge to seek better relations between East, West PARIS (UPI) -The United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners pledged Friday to step up the drive for better East West relations. No was made of Vietnam NATO mention, foreign ministers completed a two-day meeting. The NATO Council of Ministers issued a lengthy communique ending the session, but made no mention of any U.S. appeal for increased Allied aid for South Vietnam.

about this omission and why there also was no reference Carter Demos meet today to reorganize (P-C Elizabethton Bureau) ELIZABETHTON Carter County Democrats, todav in a mass meeting will reorganize. The group is scheduled to name a new chairman. P. P. Bain, chairman the last 34 years, has resigned for health reasons.

J. I. Cornett, a local contractor, is a candidate to fill the post. The group will also name an executive committee. to Communst China, NATO Secretary General Manlio Brosio explained this was "simply because Vietnam and China are not- in the NATO area." For the first time the closing communique formalized the public split between France and the 14 other NATO countries.

The communique noted that France did not participate in talks by the other 14 ministers Wednesday on the eve of the full council session and did not associate itself with the decisions reached then. As the ministers ended talks, informed sources disclosed that Canadian External Affairs Minister Paul Martin had discussed with Secretary of State Dean Rusk efforts to start Vietnam peace talks. Martin himself would not confirm he had discussed this with Rusk. But he did say they had "made progress" in three private talks during the past three days. U.S.

officials disclosed that Rusk appealed Thursday to other member countries for more aid to Vietnam and that some had asked was For General Assembly Assembly State GOP delegation begins mapping plans NASHVILLE see's beefed-up Republican legislative delegation held its first meeting yesterday to begin mapping plans for the 1967 General Assembly. The GOP house members voted unanimously to offer W. E. Michael of Sweetwater as a candidate for speaker. of the State House of Representatives, appointed a temporary steering committee, and heard from three candidates for aninority floor leader.

On hand for part of the threehour session were Congressmen James H. Quillen of Kingsport and William Brock of Chattanooga, all but three of the 41 Republican house members and all eight GOP senators were present. Making brief speeches on behalf of their candidacy for house floor leader were Reps. William Jenkins of Rogersville, Ronald Webster, of Knoxville, and Leon Cox Johnson City. Named to the steering committee were Reps.

Hal Carter of Huntingdon, Joe Kissinger of Chattanooga, Jenkins, Webster, Cox, and Thomas Avery of Memphis. No decision was made on whether the Republicans will offer candidates for the two constitutional offices, st at treasurer and state comptroller. Naming of caucus chairmen was put off until the delegation holds its first official caucus two hours before the legislature formally convenes Jan. 3. That caucus was set for 10 a.m.

at the Andrew Jackson Hotel. Michael said he annreciated the honor of his nomination, needed without promising any aid. Brosio told a news conference it was primarily Rusk who mentioned Vietnam during the session. council. communique stressed at considerable length the desire of all NATO members for improved East-West relations.

But it glossed over a U.S dispute on this question. Decision in Georgia to be delayed admitted that there was little likelihood that a Republican could win the house speakership despite a gain of 16 seats. "I realize the hardships and the improbability of us electing a speaker," he said, "but one should get up there to state the posture of the Republican Party as one which will back good Rep. James Cummings of Woodbury has been assured of the Democratic nomination for the house speakership. Democrats of the 99 seats in the house.

Presiding over yesterday's meeting was Cox, GOP caucus chairman during the 1965 legislative session. "We want to have a good he said, "'We want to act as Republicans but we wantto render a service to the people of Tennessee." Sen. Marshall Nave of Elizabethton said he thought Republicans a an "excellent chance" of electing a house speaker. He said the Democra'3 have had to settle on a "compromise candidate" and are now trying to "close their ranks." Nothing that Gov. elect Buford Ellington has said he will present his program to the legislature during the last half of the split session, Nave said he thought the delegation should go on record as requesting Ellington to present the program during the organizational session which begins Jan.

3. If formal action is taken alor.g these lines, it will probably come at the official caucus next month. ATLANTA (UPI)-Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton indicated Friday he would delay for some time a ruling on whether the General Assembly can call another election for governor, if he ruled at all.

The request for an official opinion came from Sen. Paul Broun of Athens, who said the election of a governor should be left up to. the people rather than the General Assembly. The U. S.

Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, refused to overturn a provision of the Georgia constitution that allows the legislature to select either Lester Maddox or Howard (Bo) Callaway for govenor. Neither man received a clear majority in the Nov. 8 election. "It's a real thorny problem," said "I don't know whether we will answer him (Broun) or not." Bolton has indicated on other occasions that he was reluctant to rule on 1 issues concerning a body of government such as the General Assembly without a special request from the group itself. Voters Unhappy Broun said that Georgia "voters "are not going to be happy unless we find some way to let them decide who our governor will be for the next four years." Broun also said that there is a growing sentiment among Georgia legislators to call a special election.

Sen. James Wesberry of Atlanta has also asked Bolton to rule on whether members of the General Assembly can simply vote "present" rather for either candidate. If enough members refused to vote for either man, preventing either from getting a majority, Bolton has said the election would probably be a failure and Gov. Carl Sanders would have to remain in office. Wesberry said in a Thursday night speech in Chattanooga, that "the people of Georgia are going to arise and demand of their legislators that the governorship of Georgia be decided by the voters." RECORD BUDGET MEXICO CITY (UPI) -The 1967 budget, at $200 million the highest in Mexico City's history -was sent to Congress Friday for approval.

The city budget, including sums for 1968 Olympic Games construction, was up 20 per cent over 1966. price. "We want to find out whether or not the procurement regulations were followed," Hardy said. "How long this will take I- wouldn't dare guess." This i is the way Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) started out his TFX investigation almost four years ago.

He wanted to find out if the lowest bidder for that airplane contract, Boeing, was rejected for sufficient reasons. The probe is still under way. Bit Of Switch The Army helicopter case is a bit of a switch inasmuch as the lowest bidder was picked. The competitor was the Hiller Air craft Co. Hiller figured the cost of its materials alone for an observation helicopter was over $20,000 but offered to sell it to the Army for $29,000.

The Army's three-year contract with Hughes expires this June 30. Then unless the service changes its previously stated requirements for light observation helicopters the Army must negotiate a new contract for more. The Army would be embarrassed if it had to pay a much higher price for the next batch of the same helicopters. Yet it appears unlikely Hughes would stick with the $19,000 figure in the existing contract or that any other company could duplicate it. If this proves to be the case, the Army will be in for some heavy congressional.

criticism and the Hardy subcommittee will demand that the Pentagon tighten its procurement rules. At foot of Lookout Mountain Gov. Frank Clement dedicates what is probably state's costliest road CHATTANOO (UPI)-Gov. Frank Clement yesterday dedicated what he called "probably Tennessee's costliest road" with the opening of I-24 around the foot of Lookout Mountain, the last link of interstate highway to be built in Hamilton County. The section which cost 998,000 to complete, runs from the 23rd Street interchange in Chattanooga along the foot of Lookout Mountain to the Highway 41 interchange in Tiftonia.

It is about four and one-half miles long. Clement, in dedicating the stretch of highway, said -it "is probably as difficult a roadbuilding feat as you will encounter anywhere in eastern America. 'And I have learned to have a lot of faith in difficult things," he said. "The impossible, just a little longer. "I think that is how we grow, and where we progress -through doing difficult things," the governor said.

Clement noted that a portion the interstate was built in the channel of the Tennessee River "at the foot of one of the most formidable mountains. in the Southeast" and that a quarter of a million tons of rock were dumped into the river to make the fill. "It is probably Tennessee's costliest road, costing just over two million dollars a mile," he said. Clement said the state is now more than one-half way to completion of its interstate system. He said the progress is above the national average.

Clement, showing emotion near the end of his speech, said "This might be the last thing I have the provilege of dedicating as Governor of Tennessee. "So, I am confident there could be no more permanent monument to the years I have been privileged to hold office," he said. Other taking part in the ceremonies opening the new section of interstate were Highway Commissioner David a Hamilton County Judge Chester Frost, Virgil L. Perkinson, regional engineer for the State Highway Department, and Dean S. Petersen, commissioner and vice mayor of Chattanooga.

The highway department reported that with the opening of the new stretch of road running between Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee River gave the state a total of 527.57 miles of lopen interstate..