Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 11

Prefixes to again counties JOHMSQN-OHP WHAT THE PEOPtE KNOW WILL HURT THEM FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 1971 When the new license plates go on sale in March counties will again be identified with a prefix number based on JL960 census figures Washington County will again be just as it used to be And Sullivan County will again be -used to be will be Carter County moves up from the old to Unicoi and Johnson counties both dropped one number Unicoi formerly will be Johnson which used to be will be The following is the complete list if you want to know what county the Tennessee cars you see are from clip it and save it: Pickets accent But there are changes will be Shelby County not Davidson And Greene County which Assembly report on state union 1 Shelby 2 Davidson 3 Knox 4 Hamilton 5 Sullivan 6 Washington 7 Madison 8 Anderson- 9 Blount" 10 Montgomery 11 Rutherford 12 Gibson 49v Marion 50 Cumberland 51 Claiborne 52 Dickson 53 McNairy 54 Hardin 55 Marshall 56 Henderson 57 Rhea 58 White 597 Scott 60 Unicoi i- Jhf NASHVILLE (AP) -The report of a special legislative committee on unionization of public employes in Tennessee in the next 10 days will be accented by the pickeling of state prison employes at the Capitol Ten pickets were present at the Capitol entrance yesterday with promises from the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employes that the efforts to gain recognition of the union as the representative will be intensified The pickets have been at the Capitol nearly every day for the past month and Municipal Employes representative 'Joe Paisley has met with Gov Buford Ellington However Hudley Crockett press secretary said last month that the governor is not allowed by state law to recognize the union as the bargaining agent Representatives of 56 labor unions in Middle Tennessee promised Wednesday to give their support to the efforts to gain recognition of the AFSCME as their bargaining agent A subcommittee of the Legislative Council was named last year to report back to the General Assembly during the first three weeks of this session on their findings and recommendations on unionization of public employes arbitration the right to strike and compulsory arbitration The members of the committee are Sens Tom Garland of Greeneville Ray Albright of Chattanooga and John Dugger of Morristown Reps Harold Bradley of Nashville and Robert Bilbe of Kingsport jit vyr £4 I vU li il (Stiff mate by Vaat) Messy mishap Things got a little messy out on the Erwin Highway last night when a tractor-trailer rig carrying slaughterhouse by-prpducts overturned near Rose Lawn Memorial -Gardens The i driven by Russell Griffith Asheville was hauling a cargo for By-Products Co Asheville from Sells and Lingo slaughterhouses when it overturned -Wrecker drivers and' officials were working late last night to upright the vehicle according to THP Trooper Newt Littleton who investigated Area News JohnSOll hurley sales to end Hationwide lectureship program which has a three-fold pur- (P-C Mountain City bureau) MOUNTAIN CTTY The Mountain City Burley Tobacco Market is about ready to close Sales Wednesday averaged $7122 on 213868 pounds for $15225478 Little hurley is left on hand market officials said and sales will probably end in a day or so to strengthen and stimulate the mathematics program of colleges and universities to provide the mathematics staff and mathematics majors with an opportunity for personal contact with productive and creative mathematicians and to aid in the motivation of able college to consider careers in mathematics and in the teaching of mathematics Both of Dr lectures are open to the public without charge By FRED PALMER REFLECTING back on 1970 I believe the police most open and shut case of the year was solved last summer right in the middle of the watermelon and ice cream season And it involved ice cream ice cream and two persons who were trying for a super discount on the goods One hot night one of the local dairy bars was robbed of several gallons of ice cream The police rusned to the scene got on the trail and soon found the culprits The evidence was overwhelming They had three or four gallons of ice cream each and believe it or not they were carrying spoons! Naturally they were arrested Personally I think a better punishment would have been to make them eat all the ice cream never steal any again! Lawyer referral plan soon ready County Court to meet in Johnson (P-C Mountain city B'-reau) MOUNTAIN CITY Johnson County Court meets Monday morning in its regular January meeting Magistrates meeting at 9 am will elect a county chairman a vice chairman a three-member highway commission a service officer a budget committee and an agricultural committee Fred Jones present county chairman is seeking re-election The court will also discuss rights of way for a new road on Creek and amend the county school budget Two sought in Erwin theft (P-C Erwin Bureau) ERWIN Clyde Blevins- operator of the Phillips 68 Service Station Unicoi reported to the department Sunday someone had stolen his billfold containing between $1200 and $1500 from behind thjsounter Approximately $880 in checks have been recovered and warrants have been issued for two local men sought in connection with the robbery Washington Bar Association lawyer referral plan is ready to swing into operation The bar voted in December to establish the referral program here to provide the public with access to a legal service is a public service" Bernard Cantor chairman of the three man committee named to set up the plan said yesterday for those who have no funds for an advice and for those who have funds but do not know what lawyer to Circuit Court Clerk Tommy Dillow will be the person to- contact Cantor said either in Jonesboro or here If the person has a lawyer in mind but does not know how to contact him Dillow will direct the person to the office If the person simply wants a lawyer Dillow will take the name of a lawyer from a complete list of county lawyers and send a written notice with the pSrson to the lawyer If ajjersoncan-affordit he wilLpay $19 fat-a Math lectures set at ETSU OUR TV usually gets turned on about noon every Sunday' Ten minutes later it gets turned invariably It usually happens like this: CLICK first and ten on the Cleveland 23 But I usually care less So I select one of the' other eight or nine channels subscribed to For our pre-game interyiew today we have coach No I never listened to coaches in high school so why start now? Next channel please A commercial Some football player selling aftershave Next channel I get a quick musical weather report and now fans Oakland has pulled -ahead- Two who came to watch are charged "KINGSPORT Two young men who came to Session Court to watch a friend stand trial tor robbery landed' in jail while their friend went free Robert Hardy 333 Carver St and a 17-year-old Lewis Street resident were charged with burglarizing the River-view Elks Lodge the night of Jan 1 The two were arrested inside the Safety Building and a third suspect William Henry Stokley 21 340 Wheatley St Dr Billy Bryant chairman of the mathematics department of Vanderbilt Uinversity will give two lectures at East Tennessee State University at 8 pm Wednesday and 4 pm Thursday first lecture will discuss Four-Color Problem and Related The title of his second lecture is Banaches Contraction Principle and Some of Its SieNburndfalr Science Foundation His visit to' the campus is part of a WVy 1 6 ftf 1 i i gjfthttfi'fti Jt 8 I a j'rfrr 7:7 7 I 'A Appy Highway segment completed The section being completed today was constructed by Burns and Baker Inc and the McKinnon Bridge Co tat a cost of $3917138 in Kingsport have been completed too As you approach Gray another big green sign shows Drive Gray exit 1 the white letters say At Gray the way toward Kingsport is blocked by barrels black and white striped Detour signs mark the up-ramp at the interchange near North Electric Co On the return trip another green highway sign is passed City As near the Boones Creek Jonesboro -Road again detour signs again appear Another row of black-and-white barrels directs us to the offramp From the city limits of Johnson City on the Kingsport Highway it is now 6V4 miles On the earodometer to Gray" From Boones Creek School to -the segment of the new highway is 14 miles who will drive the highway have not before seen On the way to Gray the highway passes over three bridges and under two others Another green highway sign appears it informs But this way to Kingsport will not be ready for some months yet From Gray to Fordtown a segment of the highway was completed months ago but it is not ready for traffic since it runs directly into the extensive construction of the huge clov-erleaf where Interstate 81 and the Appalachian Highway intersect Highway Department spokesmen have indicated that this interchange will not 'be' completed until sometime this summer Segments be-yond the construction area to John Dennis Highway By TOM HODGE For the highway-starved Washington Countian sheer delight In store tomorrow From Boones Creek to Gray in slightly more than three minutes Impossible you say? Not so The segment of the Appalachian Highway the new US 23 between the Boones Creek Jonesboro Road and Gray will be completed today State Highway Department officials said the segment which measures 33 miles on the car odometer will be finished today Workers -are putting final touches to some minor matters Two gleaming ribbons of pavement curve gently across some of Washington prettiest farmland carrying two lanes of traffic in both directions Since the speed limit on the limited access highway is 65 miles an hour in daylight hours you can legally cover the distance from Boones Creek to Gray in slightly more than three minutes a sharp contrast to the present narrow overburdened uphill-downhill road from Boones Creek to Gray and it brings the growing community of Gray much closer to Johnson City for the driver The npramp of the highway at the Boones- Creek Jonesboro road is marked with a big green sigrt and an arrow lettered in white Already sodded sown' with grass the right of way passes through a section of the county that most people The segment from Gray into Sullivan County was constructed by Summers-Taytor Paving Co at a cost of $1-896959 Malone Brothers of Greeneville is the cot tractor for the segment of the highway from Boones Creek to Princeton Road in Johnson City That 32-mile segment to be bijilt at a cost of $3448483 is expected to be completed sometime this year The portion of the highway from Princeton Road to the south side of Johnson City is expected to be put to bid sometime' in 1972 The cost of that portion of the highway is estimated to cost $179 (Staff Photat br Ombuff) UNLICENSED UNTAXED VEHICLES Goats Find Highway Advantageous 4 'I 4 I i.