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Area news Remember, today Then Want do to live not dangerouslygu 1970 automobile registration sticker until after today's midnight deadline. Lack of the red adhesive rectangle could prove costly, though. State and local law enforcement officials plan stringent checks and inspections for untagged cars beginning at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. BRISTOL E.

M. Smail, president of United InterMountain Telephone Co. here, reacted over the Easter weekend to the denial by the Tennessee Public Service Commission for rate and charge increases by the utility. Smail said that he felt disappointment to say the least," in reacting to the Commission's decision. thought we presented considerable expert testimony to show the seven and one-half per cent rate of return allowed is inadequate under today's economic conditions," Small continued.

He said, "We must compete in the money market for the debt and equity money so necessary for our construction program. "Failing to compete to offer the -purchasers of our bonds and common stock the same returns they could receive by investing elsewhere could restrict our construc- tion program and in that event, it be the customers and the connunities we serve who would suffer. "After we have an opportunity to read the Commission's order to determine the bases for the denial, we will be in a better position to evaluate what further causes of action might be appropriate. United Inter-Mountain was granted certain increases effective last August after a hearing by the Commission early in 1969 The company then requested and was granted a rehearing last December 17 and 18 to plea for additional increases. It was 'the additional request which was denied week.

United exec responds to PSC ruling Nachman to head ROA chapter Lt. Col. Bill Nachman was recently elected president of Watauga Chapter 16 of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States. Nachman represents the Army Reserve: branch. The local group has a membership of over 75 reserve officers from the Army Navy, Air Force and Marine CorpsReserve Programs.

Included in the charter granted the association by. the Congress, there is a specifie provision that the ROA shall promote the development and execution of a military policy for adequate national security, according to group officers. Also elected were Col. Jim Lewis, vice-president" (Air. Force); Cmdr.

Raymond Brock, vice president (Navy); Captain Howard Steed, vice-president (Army) and Lt. Larry Lingerfelt, Secretary Treasurer. Quarterly meetings are held by the local ROA contingent. Civitan International officer visits Jimmy Jobe, Civitan International vice-president, was the guest speaker at yesterday's meeting of the Nativic Civitan Club. Jobe, a member of the Johnson City Civitan Club, told the club a little of Civitan's history and urged the club to be more aware of its responsibility to the young people in the United States.

Jobe mentioned Junior Citivan Clubs and Collegiate Civitan Clubs as one of many ways that Civitan can work with young people. The vice-president also reported to the club on newly developed Civitan Clubs in Europe. Decision to locate here pleases Hammond chief "We haven't had a single negative on anything which we were told we could expect." David Kutner, president of Hammond Organ thus reported yesterday that his firm was well pleased with its decision to locate a plant in Johnson City. The new plant, located on Roweland Drive in the Watauga Road Industrial Park, is running about three weeks behind schedule, Kutner said, but should be in a stage for final production by the first of May. Kutner was in Johnson City to present a new X77 organ to Science Hill Hign School.

He was to address the Rotary Club today. After seeing Science Hill Kutner commented, "I don't remember seeing a high school with facilities so perfect as yours." The Hammond president, from Chicago, said he was "happy, excited and thrilled" with the reception Hammond had received in Johnson City since its decision last fall to locate a plant here. The product to be manufactured here has not yet been unveiled to the public. A musical instrument, it will be introduced in June in Miami Beach, Kutner said. The new product entails a "completely new Kutner also had additional words of encouragement for Johnson City.

"It is entirely he said, "that as our program develops here, Hammond will find Johnson City the proper manufacturing home for additional new products." Sale ordered of Bristol Mead DAYTON, Ohio (AP) The Mead Corp. of Dayton will divest itself of 23 of 27 Meadowned paper distributors in 19 states. Knoxville and including Bristol, operations Tenn. in The company agreed to the sale of the outlets under a consent decree filed with the U.S. Justice Department.

Mead President James W. McSwiney said Monday the Justice Department agreed to terms of the agreement. He said the sale of the outlets would leave Mead with at least 31 wholly owned paper merchants. He said the company expects those houses that are sold to continue their Mead franchise. McSwiney said Mead does not violation of antitrust laws.

Neave fight to free Hess By TOM CULLEN NEA European Correspondent LONDON (NEA) By a peculiar twist of fate, the Englishman who served the indictment on Rudoff the Nazi war criminal, now leads the fight to free Hess from prison in West Berlin. He is Airey Neave, 54, Conservative Member of Parliament, and once a wartime prisoner of the Gestapo. As assistant secretary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuernberg after the Allied victory, Lt. Col. Neave (as he was then) served the war crimes indictment on Hess in his cell.

Today Neave has received support from all three political parties here for his demand that Hess be freed from Spandau prison, a move which the Russians oppose. "No one can accuse me of being declares Neave, who escaped in 1942 from Colditz, one of Hitler's top security prisons. "I have suffered at the hands of the Gestapo, and I hate everything that Hess stands for. "This' is not a question of politics, but of compassion. Hess is now 75 years old, and the last 28 years of his life have been spent behind prison bars, much of the time in solitary confinement.

"His continued imprisonment can serve no earthly purpose, except to reflect on us as civilized nations." By "civilized," Neave makes it clear that he refers: to the Americans, the British and the French, all of whom "are party to the four agreement under which Hess is imprisoned as Spandau. "As for the Russians," he says, "I'm convinced that they intend that Hess shall die at Spandau." At the moment Hess, who was Hitler's deputy, is in the British military hospital at Spandau, where 'he was taken on Nov. 24, 1969, suffering from a stomach ulcer. But already the Russians are insisting that he is cured and that he be. locked up again in Cell No.

7 of the huge, empty, barrackslike prison. No other prisoner is there. Meanwhile, 190 members of Parliament from all three political parties have signed a House of Commons motion demanding that Hess be freed immediately. The signers include Czech-born Robert Maxwell, a Labor MP who lost all of his family in Nazi concentration camps. With the sight of a centarian Mrs.

Newton Howell, Boone, N. 7 they built where she still lives with busies herself with quilting on her her son Glenn and his wife. Her fam100th birthday Saturday. Mrs. Howell ily has counted her descendants as still quilts without the aid of glasses.

seven children, 19 grandchildren, 47 She and her husband, who died in great-grandchildren, and more than 1947 at 77, have raised seven sons and 50 great-great-grandchildren. (UPI one daughter in the old homeplace Telephoto) 'Friendship truck' may soon arrive in Ecuador WASHINGTON, D.C. The the American Embassy in garbage truck given to the Quito, Ecuador, has been re- good citizens of Guaranda, Ecua- quested to obtain clearance edly dor, by Johnson City's down- for the USS Graberse County ship town Optimist Club is expect- LST for arrival in Puerto ened ed to arrive in the small South Nuevo, Ecuador, with the gar- to American town between April bage truck aboard. the 17 20, almost a year to the "This is certainly good 16, day since it began its trouble- news, but I don't want to get been plagued journey from the too excited for fear something left United States, else might occur before the The Congressman James ship reaches its final destina- its Quillen has been notified that tion," Quillen said cautiously. came a 'Clazzy' organ recital marks donation to SHHS The organ a musical instrument from days of old, generally connected with churches, and other aged Don't you believe it! Science Hill High School's juniors and seniors found it mighty easy -yesterday to identify with the organ, proven to them as a versatile, modern musical instrument.

The occasion was the presentation of an organ to the school from Hammond Organ Co. through Martin-Snader Music Co. Hammond is one of Johnson City's newest industries with a plant on Roweland Drive off Watauga Road. It vill begin final production stages about the first of May. David Kutner, president ot Hammond, made the presentation of the organ, an X77 Hammond has been affected by the national economic situation as have other industries, Kutner said.

"But we think the worst is over. We see a period of leveling off, then an upturn in the middle of the year." Kutner said, however, that while Hammond had been affected by the tight money situation as have other industries, it is a "stable, old-line" company which has fared well. He said that the company had a good first quarter. Kutner cited the growth in the music industry as a positive factor for Hammond. He pointed out that amateur musicians in the United States went from 20,000,000 in 1950 to 46,200,000 Annual per capita expenditures in the music industry went from $1.60 in 1950 to $4.73 in 1968, Kutner said.

More pertinent to his industry, Kutner said, the number of organists went 1,200,000 in 1957 to 4,700,000 in 1967. Organ sales $195,000,000 in 1968 up 000 from the year before. model, to Mrs. Nat Sizemore of the City Board of Education in ceremonies attended by the seniors and juniors, school board members, City Commission members, Industrial Commission officials, and other guests. Kutner said as a "token of gratitude," Hammond was pleased to present the organ to the Board of Education.

He also presented Mrs. Sizemore with a plaque commemorating the occasion. She said the organ would not only enrich the lives of present students "but also to come." She "a generations of students, yet splendid addition to the cultural life of the In turn, she presented the plaque to Jerry Jones, SHHS student body president, and Principal Paul Slonaker. (Staff Photo) Sweet music Science Hill High School yesterday Hammond. Mrs.

Nat Sizemore, City received a new organ from Hammond Board of Education, accepted it while Organ Co. Making the presentation Jerry Jones, president of the SHHS was David Kutner, right, president of student body, looked on. Tennessee News Briefs WASHINGTON (UPI) The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to consider a case which would establish how far small coal companies must go in order to prove antitrust violations against labor unions. The case.

originated decision by U.S. District Judge Frank Wilson of Chattanooga, who the 14 small companies charging unfair competition had to, present "clear proof" that the United Mine Workers (UMW) had conspired with large coal companies. KNOXVILLE (UPI) Criminal Court Judge Joe D. Duncan said yesterday he plans to go ahead Thursday with arraignment of 22 persons charged in a Jan. 15 demonstration at the University of Tennessee.

Duncan noted that no injunction had been issued in connection with a federal court suit by six students challenging the grounds for indictments against the demonstrators. The students are challenging laws pertaining to disorderly conduct, interfering with normal activities in campus buildings and facilities, obstructing the ingress egress at campus buildings and entering the campus to incite public disturbances or riots. A three judge federal panel at Memphis already has ruled the state's disorderly conduct statute unconstitutional: Charles Hicks Stafford, 6, died of smoke inhalation when fire broke out in his family's home yesterday, police said. Investigators from the Joelton Volunteer Fire Department said the child, a son of Carl Stafford, was sleeping and his older brother was watching television in a downstairs room when the fire started. The older child said he was unable to get to his brother.

Stafford, who was at work across town when the fire broke out, said he borrowed a car and rushed to the scene to find firemen "standing around doing He rushed into burning home to retrieve the body of his son. JACKSON (UPI) Morris Crocker, local builder and developer, was named yesterday to head an 18-man committee that will aid a threeyear, $5 million fund raising campaign for Lane College. Crocker said his group would contact foundations, industries, alumni, churches and other organizations in an effort to raise $750,000. The fund raising drive is the first phase of a 12-year development program that will eventually cost $20 million. NASHVILLE.

(AP) Bids will be opened here today on $8.8 million worth of highway construction and repairs in 27 counties. Most of the projects are for repaving and installation of highway signs. The mileage involved totals 225 on the 32 projects. The biggest single project on which bids will be taken is for construction of eight bridges along 7.98 miles of Interstate 65 from Millersville to near Tennessee 76 in Sumner and Robertson counties. The highway department estimates the project will cost $4,951,000.

Another project includes installation of nilepost and exit signs along 56 miles of interstate in West Tennessee. KNOXVILLE (UPI) Sam Gann went to court yesterday plead guilty to larceny of a rented TV set and to ask for parole on a. sentence of 11 months and 29 days. But Criminal Court Judge Joe- Duncan got to asking questions. "Did you take this TV.

set and dispose of it and convert it to your own use?" Duncan asked. "I can't say that," Gann said. He told the court that he and his wife had come back to their apartment one day to find the TV set and several other items missing. All the prosecution could claim was that the TV set had been rented and never returned. "Case dismissed," said Duncan.

MORRISTOWN (AP) The City of Morristown will offer for sale a $900,000 bond issue today for street improvements. City council has specified that the interest rate on the bonds must not exceed 6 per cent. PARIS (UPI) Mrs. Irene Rogers, 45, died yesterday at Henry County General pitar after being In fur ed a "a weekend traffic mishap near State, troopers said accident apparently happened Saturday night shortly after Mrs. Rogers left work.

She was pulled unconscious from the wreckage on U.S. 641 about nine hours later. DAYTON Ohio (AP) The Mead Corp. will divest itself of 23 to 27 Mead-owned paper merchant distributors states under a consent agreement submitted to the Justice Department. Listed as among- those to be sold are Mead houses in Knoxville and Kingsport.

president W. McSwiney said yesterday the Justice Department agreed to terms of the agreement. He said the sale of the outlets would leave Mead with at least 31 wholly owned paper merchants. He said the company expects those houses that are sold to continue their Mead franchise. McSwiney said Mead does not admit any violation of antitrust laws.

KNOXVILLE (UPI) An 18-year-old service station attendant shot and killed a robber who held a butcher knife to the attendant's throat. Sunday, police said. David Lester Howell, 20, of Knoxville was shot twice in the head with a pistol. The attendant; Roger. Stinnett, said two men came.

to the Direct Oil Co. service station and asked for a gallon of gas and a' pack cigarettes. When he opened. a box. to get the cigarettes, Howell forced him against the wall with a butcher knife to his throat, Stinnett said.

Patrolman William Baker, driving by the station at the time, noticed the disturbance. "I could see a man trying to strangle the night attendant," he said. "The man then pushed the attendant into the back office. I heard two shots and the attendant ran out of the station. Congressman Quillen has reason for being guardoptimistic.

The "FriendTruck," at it was christwhen it was presented Ecuador's ambassador to United States on April 1969, in Johnson City, has stymied twice since it Norfolk, Va. garbage truck ran into first trouble when it at sea" aboard vessel. the ship was reported Congressman Quillen inin matter and consequently the truck was in Panama, where it accidentally been unloadwhen the ship pulled into the meantime, the truck stored in Panama for weeks awaiting the of another Navy veswhich later picked up the and once again headed South America. truck encountered its problem when the ship down at sea and had return to Panama for re- story of the truck began two years ago in JohnCity, chosen as "Sister for Guaranda as part people-to-people projan experiment in interunderstanding. BETTER LESS THAN MORE Consistent with the emphasis on "naturalness" in the new decade, women may profit from reexamining their make-up application technique.

If you think you're wearing a little too much blusher, foundation or whatever, remove it. It's better to be under- than over-made-up. from being shot Research team making progress COLLEGE STATION, Tex. Texas A University: research team "is making progress on a project to keep horses with broken legs from having to be shot. Dr.

Douglas Bynum, a 35- year old structural engineer who heads the team, is working on the problem from the business end of a slide rule. "It you want to look at it coldly, the bone is just another he, said in an interviews Bynum believes the answer lies- in the use. of slightly flexible fixation plates that screw to the broken ends of bone. "There is no way now that a horse with a compound fracture can be Dr. Bynum said: way a horse is constructed, he has to maintain his weight on four With a broken leg, he is great pain and tries to lie down.

"If horse has. to lie down, he gets bed sores in. two or three days. It takes a human two or three months to get. bed sores.

A horse's digestive apparatus also is disturbed if he l'es down long." (AP) Doug McCarthy, 23, Memphis has been named editor of the Daily News, a Memphis legal and financial publication. McCarthy was appointed by Mrs. T. G. Haynie, president of the publishing company.

She said he brings a varied news and public relations background to the post. In was several arrival sel truck toward The second broke to pairs. The almost son City" of the ect, national I All kinds of stainless steel plates are available for bad human They will not work on horses. The reason is that a horse with a steel plate holding a break gets nervous and dances about. The bone bends slightly but the steel plate is inflexible.

The stainless steel screws that affix the plate to the broken bone ends are forced The broken bone ends shatter, so they cannot be put back together a second time and" the horse has to be shot anyway. Dr. Bynum's research team includes a specialist in materials research, a veterinary medicine and surgery professor graduate student. anthe researchers have. tested in 18 months more than 700 screws and fasteners for plates to broken attaching, studied hundreds of technical, papers on fasteners.

They believe that Fiberglas -a. trade name for strands glass reinforced with epoxy may be the answer to the unyielding fixation plate probI KNOXVILLE (UPI) Dr. R. L. Leffler, pathologist at Baptist Hospital here, was killed yesterday afternoon when the tractor he was operating at his South Knox County farm overturned on top of him.

Leffler, 48, was digging out a section of his property to create a fish pond, according to Knox County Sheriff's Department officers. Officers said he was driving up a steep embankment when the accident occurred. He was apparently killed instantly. Jim McLin, product planning manager of Hammond, a West Tennessee native, told the audience that the organ "is an instrument of the '70s." He then illustrated the versatility of the X77, duplicating the sound of various musical instruments and, playing several numbers. But Don Lewis, a professional entertainer from Denver who also represents Hammond, really sent the students into clapping enthusiasm.

McLin introduced him as playing "clazz," a style a Chicago critic called a mixture of classical and jazz music. Lewis drew a standing ovation at the conclusion of a 45-minute concert which featured jazz and pop with liturgical treatment. Lewis praised Science Hill as a progressive facility." He said he was delighted to see "people who think progressively and do something about To prevent horses NASHVILLE (AP) Two prisoners holding trusty status fled from the power-house at Tennessee State Prison here yesterday afternoon. The warden's office identified the two as John Lucas Reed, 27, who was sentenced to two years from 'Nashville for petty larceny and attempting to commit a felony, and William D. Edwards, 19, of Montgomery County, who was serving a of 5-10 years for Neither considered dangerous.

MEMPHIS (AP) Charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor were dismissed in Memphis yesterday against Joseph Heflin, 24, a Neighborhood Youth 'Corps worker identified as the son of the board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Va. Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth Turner said it appeared to him Heflin had the best interests of a runaway boy at heart when he sheltered the youth for three weeks. against Heflin when the youth, Police en placed charges 15, a runaway from St. Louis, came to the attention of officers when he was robbed by a group of other youths. NASHVILLE (AP) The body of a man whom police say was the victim of a holdup execution was found near municipal airport here yesterday.

Police Capt. Paul Gill said the man's head was almost severed from his body by a shotgun blast. The victim was identified tentatively as Lester Cockrell, 67, a retired employe of the DuPont Co. here. The man had been killed with a shotgun from almost point-blank range.

"Somebody just brought him out here and shot him he wasn't only killed, he was executed," GIll added. Police- ted the man check stub and a grocery bill listed Cockrell's name were found near the, body..