Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 21

JOHNSON PRE3S-CHRONICL8r Thunday Mamlnj AprH 1971 Pop 'll' fey Wo tr Tenn-Alina News Briefs 1 CAW OWUf -SLSP-rOW mV sipfc LVn to i SAV-AJtfNAH (APJ 'An unidentified man was killed late Tuesday night when his tractor-trailer wrecked and caught fire on winding Tenn 69 five miles south of here 'Authorities said the truck loaded with wood cabinets sinks' and steel- items was leased to a Birmingham Aim firm State itifgh wayOf fft fa Is Beverly Briley mayor of Metropolitan Nashville CHATTANOOGA (AP) Railroad passenger service in Chattanooga ends April 20 when Louisville find Nashville Railroad'd makes its finaLiim in A aY NZZ- officials said the Mfr yi Carolina native honored A North Carolina native George foavis handicapped from a war injury has been by the US Civil Service Commission in a booklet for Davis was noted for his 30 years of federal service at Fort Holabird Baltimore Re worked his way yp from truck driver to maintenance foreman assistant -He is married to the former June Miller daughter of Mr and Mrs Clyde Miller 'Rt 6 Jonesbpro ETSU qwardcd $31OO grant WASHINGTON East Tennessee State University has been awarded a $33838 grant for improving the quality of the educational program Congressman James Quillen and Sen Howard Baker announced yesterday Allowable expenditures include salaries of professional and supportive staff associated fripge benefits purchase of -supplies and equipment and allowable costs of minor aitera-tions and renovations Merchant assessment deadline -inM-MrWV'ascMitied'1 tvs hjr UM Some 1200 Washington County businessmen have failed to file their merchants ad valorem tax assessment forms according to Tax Assessor Charles Miller Miller said-300 business establishments in the county have returned assessments wnjiich were due April 1 If the remaining 1200 do not file assessment forms by April 20 Miller said he will set an assessment for each business which has failed to comply with the state law Miller said any business with a net Inventory of more-than $800 must file the assessment sheet GSMD when the National Railroad Passenger Corp Railpax begins May 1 will operate daily 'runs between and Montgomery Ala as part of the Railpax Chicago-Miami Route MEMPHIS (AP) A 20-year-old AWOL soldier has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on a charge growing out of the kidnaping of the wife of a Memphis lawyer A-cnminaf'courtr'Jurjr-dctib-erated about one hour before returning the verdict against Eddie Lee Harris Harris tried on an armed robbery charge also has a state kidnaping charge pending against him Mrs Thomas Lail Jr testified that Harris armed with a rifle forced his wayjnto her car last April 18 and took her on a ride of terror over Memphis-streets She saidjhat during the drive at speeds of up to 80 pules an hour- Harris drove around the downtown police station several times and dared her to scream lor help After an hour and a half the witness said Harris stopped at a liquor store got out and Ladies think how convenient banking at bur new1 branch in The Mall will be for you Just combine your banking with your shopping trips to The Mall This new branch provides a full range of banking services Judge will Hear suit in case MEMPHIS (AP) --'US Dist Court Judge Harry Wellford hasagreed toTiear a suTt Tor damages brought by Renfro -T Hays a private detective in the James Earl Ray case The suit was brought against Dist Atty Phil Cagfele and Criminal -Court Clerk A Bfackwell Judge Wellford denied their motion to dismiss the suit Hays charged Canale and Blackwelj to- him of his property rights The property in question is a rifle and a white Mustang automobile which Ray allegedly used in the slaying of Dr-Martin Luther King Jr Hays said Ray gave them to him as payment for his investigative work in behalf KNOXVILLE (AP) Sale of radio station WATE to Hall Communications of Con-h i I -was announce Wednesday by George Campbell vice president of Nationwide Communications Nationwide also owns WATE TV which is not affected by the transaction Campbell said Robert Hall is president of Hall Communications which operates radio stations in New 'York Massachusetts Pennsyl t-vania-- adCormeeticut" ROCKWOOD (AP) -Jimmy Ibey 31 of Rock- wood was killed 'Tuesday night when struck by a car "as he walked aIong4 a highway near here Police said car ran out of gasoline as he was en route to work at a service station He was struck -as he was walking toward the station to get some fuel WASHINGTON (AP) Clyde York Columbia Tenn was sworp in yesterday as a member of an advisory board which oversees operations of the' Commodity Credit Corporation in the Agriculture Department York 62 succeeds Milton Morrison Salma Kan who resigned last December The advisory board reviews general policies of the Commodity Credit Corporation including -purchases sale and storage of agricultural commodities in the operation of crop price support -programs IBANK I AT THE Area case rulings upheld in Appeals Court GREENSVILLE The'sixth Circuit Court of Ap- peals Cincinnati Tuesday upheld the decision of the Greeneville Federal District -Court in two cases involving area men The higher court confirmed the conviction of Sidney A Jllauney Mountain City who had been found guilty of transportation of firearms in interstate He had been -sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Charles Neese In another case George Holt Sullivan County was awarded $19000 from Continental Insurance Co Holt claimed the 'company acted in bad faith in a $35000 judgment which tfas assessed against him in an earlier case The company had paid only $15000 Air Force Band Day proclaimed in city The United States Air Force Band and Singing Sergeants -will present a concert at the A very High School Newland on 17- and at East High Bluff City on April 19 Johnson City Mayor Richard Machamer has declared April 17 as Air Force Band Day in the city Hamilt NATIONAL BANK OF JOHNSON CITY IN THE MALL FOR Town! Country es -YOUNG WOMEN WHO JUST LOVE warned her not to leave Instead she said she grabbed the rifle off the back seat jumped out of the car and began screaming The man fled and police said Harris captured the next day hiding in the attic of 'his home MEMPHIS (AP) Police were -investigating yesterday the disappearance of $1041 license plate receipts from the county court office money apparently was Court Clerk Robert Gray said are-no sus pects under arrest at this time Gray said the money was discovered to be missing when cashier checked her figures on April 1 for receipts from the day before frequently have cashiers coming up a few dollars over or a few dollars under but this was -obviously more than bookkeeping Gray said the figures were checked and rechecked I decided to call police The cashiers put their incom ing license' tag money in steel money boxes as it accumulates during the day The Gray said are placed in a vault overnight ant their contents are recheckec the next day before the money is deposited in the bank MEMPHIS (AP)--A Swarm of patrol cars sped to the Whitehaven area early yesterday after police received calls saying a plane had crashed there When officers reached the scene they found an automobile perched against the guy wire of a utility pole Its woman driver was charged with driving while intoxicated We know where the I NASHVILLE (AP) William Kendall president of the Louisville Nashville Railroad was among three per-sons elected yesterday to the board of directors of Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co The company operates what it terms the largest bi- cycle in Lawrenceburg Others named to the board at the annual stockholders meeting are Donald Pittman engineering vice president and Cromer Smotherman per-' sonnel vice president MURFREESBORO (AP) Members of United I Rubber Workers Local 779 have rejected a settlement proposed by federal mediators in an effort to end a 44-day strike against the Samsonite Corp plant here Don Lam local president 'said 235 members voted against the proposal and only 44 favored it adding will continue to Terms of the proposal were not announced The workers are striking to gain a new contract wage increases and other benefits Sources said main objections to the mediation proposal was the suggestion -that the charges against 10 union members act cused of violence during the strike go to arbitration Nine of those charged faee action by the Rutherford Coun-ly Grand Jury ApriL2f plane- our-switch-board got three calls on Insp John Barger said HARRIMAN (AP) -Roane-State Community College -has received a $966979 federaLgrant to help pay building construction costs The grant -from- the SDe-partment of Health Education and Welfare help pay for facilities costing an estimated $35 million CHATTANOOGA (AP) Hamilton County Manager Ray mond Proctor and County Maintenance Supervisor Stewart Crowe jsubmitted one-line resignations-yesterday to the Hamilton County Council It was believed they resignec at the insistence of three counted members The resignations were turned id to County Judge Chester Frost during an executive session of the council KNOXVILLE (AP) A 50- year-old truck driver was shot to death yesterday at his home and his wife was charged with murder in the slaying homicide detective-David Mase said Jack Jones -Jr was shot three times with a 22-caliber pistol during what Mase described as a domestic quarrel wife Mildred 49 was charged with murder and held to the Knox County Grand Jury at a city court hearing Prison escapeesL back in custody NASHVILLE (API- Two Tennessee StateJPrison inmates who fled the prison while working on plumbing detail out- CHATTANOQGA(AP) Dr Joseph Pajsons Jr 38 chief staff surgeon at Emerald Hodgson Hospital at Se-wanee Tenn died Tuesday night in a Chattanooga hospital Parsons was injured Saturday in a steeplechase accident at Tryon NC and was trans ferred here Sunday- Parsons president' of the Middle -Tennessee 'Medical Association is survived by hrs widow and four daughters KNOXVTLLEMAP) -The classically oriented University oP Tennessee radio station is now broadcasting more jazz to meet a special request The plea for more jazz and less Brahms and -Beethoven came from- 237 inmates -of Brushy Mountain Prison at Petros As a result -the university station WUOT-FM- has added one hour of jazz music on Fri-dav night to its regular jazz concert and is contemplating additional hours In addition station announcer David Wood tapes special jazz Hrams and sends them to am Allen a Brushy Mountain inmate who operates a sort of closed-circuit disc jockey program in the prison (AP) The state highway commissioner- Robert Smith will be one of the" speakers at the 53rd at nual Tennessee Highway Con-- ference here April 15-16 The cbnference will be held at the University of Tennessee Other speakers include AE Johnson executive director of American Association of side the prison Tuesday back in custody today Cookeville police appre-' bended Glenn Richardson 32 of Bradley County Tuesday night and Berry Hill officers caught Billy McCormick 36 of Davidson County later in the evening harden' Weldon Cox Richardson was serving a 3-4 year sentence for burglary and was serving a 10-year tern) for robbery with a deadly weapon i Tendons tightly against foot bones produce the unusual -Sound caribou-make when walking 1.