Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 3

4 1 JOHNSON CITY PRESS-CHRONICLE Wednesday Morning September 23 1970 Appy road projects ft nearing completion U' in a "few months bringing the! 1 BB8g entire system much closer to mpl (P-C Nashvlll Bureau) NASHVILLE One of three Appalachian Highway projects In Washington County is sched uled for completion Charles npioh in onnpnn nc sam 01 H113 I18ure inai more wittr Natinnnf-Tiirinrnv-Wppir 8701111 jonhas-gone-for withr NationarHighwayTVeek that during the past year more than $200 million has been placed under contract for construction of new highways and improvement to older roads He said of this figure that more wit Interstate highway construction Wlttrdr additional $105 million being spent for improvements on the primary- highway Another section expected to I be opened this year is 337 miles of 1-24 in Davidson-Ruth-erford Counties between Old Hickory Boulevard in Davidson County to near the Bedford! County line at Beach' Grove This leaves only 79 miles be-1 tween Beach Grove and Manchester to be completed This section is already under-construction and is expected to be opened late next year A 10-mile section of 1-65 ini Robertson County was opened in June this year well ahead of it scheduled opening date This section gives Tennessee an across the state line connection with 1-65 in Kentucky The remainder of 1-65 north of Nashville is under construction and is expected to be complete in about two years With the opening of 70 miles I ofInterstate this year Tennessee will have 770 miles of its 1044-mile Interstate Highway! System completed and in everyday use This will leave only 274 miles to be completed State Highway Engineer i Pete) Long said that some type I of work is under way on all the remaining mileage left to be completed He said that 153 miles of Interstate are now either under contract for construction or is advertised for bids Right-of-way is presently being acquired on 118 miles and plans are being prepared onj 63 miles released-a -constfuetiotMeport as of August on all highway construction in the state Three Appalachian Highway projects are included for Washington County One from Gray into Sullivan County is due for completion the report says as of Oct 5 Contractor is Summers-Taylor Paving Co of Elizabethton This is a nortion of the new US 23 a four-lane controlled access highway The -project- cost is 95939 Another Appalachian Highway project from Gray to Boones Creek is 725 per cent com plete Commissioner report says Burns and Baker Inc and McKinnon Bridge Co are contractors on the project which is scheduled for completion in early December The contract on this project is for $391713847 The third Appalachian Highway project under way is from Boones Creek to Princeton Road in Johnson City Malone Brothers of Greeneville is contractor on the $344838314 project A total of 275 working days was allotted for the project As of August the report says the project was 217 per cent completed Commissioner Speight said Commissioner Speight echoed the words of Gov Buford Ellington who said as he signed the Highway Week Proclamation that highways are the greatest bargain anc that he could think of no other government program that bene fits the entire population as much as highway jjnprovement Speight said $206 million spent this year on highways in Tennessee will return in the form of user benefits far greater than the expenditures These returns come in the form of safety in highway use shorter travel time between given points savings on automotive insurance Decause of increased safety factors built into the roads and addition of new industry attracted to Tennessee by our highway access to other business centers of the Midwest and Southeast Jan 1 1970 94 miles of Interstate have been opened to traffic with another 60 miles expected to be in use by the end of Speight said first Interstate link across the City of Nashville on the east-west routes will be opened over as Bryn Mawr head Once concealed Harris Wofford Jr will dent for four years of the Charles Bowles in the-early be installed as president of State University of New 1950s Bryn Mawr College on Oct experimental college Then he returned to educa- 17 at Old Westbury tion earning law degrees ZXMemBerOHuOglHflYJllZri Johnson City have been academics with -vited to attend the ceremony since he was 16 As a junior After years of law MrrandMrs Allen Scarsdale-fNY) practice in Washington he Mr' and Mrs CharlesP' 'Wof- School? he wasthe firsTprestwenTto- theNotre'Dame'TTM- ford- Mr and Mrs AlleiTHar- StMeriTFederal- versity Law School as an ris Trr and Dr and Mrs ists Wofford later married 7 assistant professor in 1958 gallon still de- rJnfdaange -Wofford is the grandson Creek Park yesterday by state and officers Hm ff" -it I i i Lfi 0 4 ni Staff Photos by LeSueur i dent the former Clare Lind-gren They have three children After serving in the Air Force in World War and writing a book entitled Up to Wofford earned his degree from the University of Chicago He traveled to India with his wife producing another book before becoming special assistant to US diplomat "of the late Mrs George Wofford of Johnson City He will be the fifth dent of Bryn Mawr succeed- ing Dr Katharine Mc-i Bride president of the Penn-: sylvania college for 28 years Wofford is a lawyer and was a special assistant to the late President John Ken- Wofford 44 has been presi The box-type still-was well concealed dug back into a bank -on a creek about V2 miles above Rock Creek Road near the Unaka Mountain Road counsel to the US Commis--sion on Civil Rights In 1959 he- helped edit the report to the late President Dwight Eisenhower In the same year Wofford edited for for John Kennedy He took his civil rights experience to the White House in 1961 as a special assistant to President Kennedy He headed a sub-cabinet level body that coordinated civil rights in federaL agencies Wofford also became a deputy to Sargent Shriver first director of the Peace Corps In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson named his associ-ate director of- the -Peace Corps a post he held until he took the Old Westbury college position arrests were Tennessee NewsZBrwfs The still found by officers -coming down -the creek was dynamited by officers: Unicoi County Sheriff Phillips said it was one of the larger found this'1 ago a newspaper executive said Monday act of reading is the United Montgomery Curtis executive vice president of Knight Newspapers Inc told a workshop of newsmen a totally disgraceful Curtis said r- CHATTANOOGA (AP) I Americans can tolerate no talk of peace or withdrawal from Vietnam without absolute assurance of release or humane treatment of Amer- ican prisoners State Sen La-i mar Baker said yesterday a the Republican nominee in the 3rd District Congressional race said he area i greatest week State ABC Agents Curtis bs and Robert Rhea of John- ever that far transcends journal-A nation ism A nation which quits son City Sheriff Phillips Chief Deputy Ray McKinney and Trooper David Ray participated in the raid NASHVILLE for winning the nomination the week was the greatest experience ever That is Winfield reaction to his official kick-off week a tour which took him from East First-Congressional District to West Ninth District in Shelby County Tennessee House Speaker William Jenkins of Rogers-ville arranged a dinner meeting with leaders from six counties to the tour I of upper East Tennessee Dunn is one of the finest most capable men I have ever Jenkins said at the dinner is our kind of man Tennessee cannot afford to elect his The agents saic snakes are more plentiful in the area than in several years making it dangerous to search along cxee reading is a nation which is ft CHATTANOOGA (AP) -The chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority questioned last night whether it is in the public interest for a few large corporations to control the major raw energy -sources coal gas oil and uranium Aubrey Wagner said eight of the 10 largest coal mining companies in the country are owned by firms engaged in oil and mineral activities and otherwise concerned with the energy field The TVA chairman spoke at a dinner honoring states rights Finley retired manager of the Chattanooga Power Board Wagner reviewed the current shortage of coal which TVA uses to produce 80 per cent of its power MEMPHIS (AP) Representatives of nine church denominations will open a two-day conference in Memphis tonight on the proposed union of the denominations The plan calls for uniting the denominations into a single body whose proposed name would be Church of Christ hoped the special session of Congress yesterday would demonstrate the North Vietnamese the concern of the American people for the safety of theAmericans held in a communist He said the- United States should insist on proper of American prisoners of war before talking any with the North about the withdrawal of US troops from South Vietnam KNOXVILLE (AP) Buck-'ing a national trend among Negro colleges Knoxville Col-lege reports an enrollment 0f 1290 students a 45 per 'cent increase over last year President Robert Owens in reporting the gain said national surveys had warned that private Negro colleges could expect a 4 per cent de- cline in enrollment this year Owens credited the students and alumni -for its growth Students from 33 states and 12 foreign coun- tries are biggest recruit-ing he said -i The described faculty as the in the country representing people all over the He said 53 per cent of thd faculty is white and 48 per cent Negro Forty-two per cent of faculty members' have a doctorate degree which is 7 per cent more than needed for ac- creditation Owens added Memphis (ap) The Unjted States is in the midst of an instead of a great cultural ft rust foreseen a few years Anyone knowking oi a violation of the law involving manufacture of white whiskey is asked to call the ABC office in Johnson City 928-8451 the agents said or the Unicoi County Office 743-4711 All information will be kept' confidential Jenkins is going the last mile in this campaign and I am delighted and Dunn said has served his county state and country with distinction and it is obvious what his neighbors think of More than 2000 attended a kick-off rally in Municipal Auditorium Knoxville Among those attending were US Sen Howard Baker US Reps John Duncan of Knoxville James Quillen of Kings- port Dan Kuykendall of Memphis and Bill Brock of Chat MEMPHIS (AP) The Shelby County Election Commission will employ 50 deputy commissioners to oversee the voting in the November third election The Executive Director Jack Perry said about 50 deputy commissioners were used in past elections to check complaints as they occur at the polls and also to make'spotchecks tanooga the Republican nominee for the Senate all area nominees for the General Assembly Harry Wellford campaign chairman Lamar Alexander campaign manager Kenneth Roberts chairman' of the state advisory committee Jenkins and Claude Robertson two of primary opponents and many other dignitaries A.