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00 0 00 Kingsport Times Monday, September 5, 1960 Deaths, Funeral Notices: Mrs. Lena Bridwell Mrs. Lena Blanche (Blannie) Bridwell, 65, Kingsport Route 10, was pronounced dead on arrival at Holston Valley Community Hos pital at 12:07 a.m. Sunday, Death was attributed to a heart attack. She was born in Sullivan County, daughter of the late' Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Wexler and had lived here most of her life. For the past nine years she had made her home with a nephew, Mr. and Mrs. J.

C. Wexler of the Pactolus Community. She was a member of the Pactolus Methodist Church. Her hus band, J. N.

Bridwell died. in 1950. Survivors include several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Methodist Church.

Rev. Roland Light, Rev. Leon Lane, Rev. Joel Mc Murray, and Rev. Leland Smith be in charge of services.

Burial will be in the Pactolus Cemetery. The body will be removed from the Carter-Clamon Funeral Home 1 to the home of the nephew, J. C. Wexler, at 3 p.m. Monday.

Pallbearers include, Delmar Clark, Ellis Wallen, J. W. Lisenby, Godsey, Paul Godsey, Nat Shipley, Alvin Neil and John E. Wexler. Winston S.

DeFreece Winston Stewart DeFreece, 43, a former resident of Kingsport, died at 6:45 a.m. Saturday in Mountain City, Ind. He is the son of the late Arthur DeFreece. He was a former employe of Borden Mills. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Mandy Delpe DeFreece; two sons: two sisters, Mrs. Nadine Condry and Mart Harless, both oi Kingsport: three brothers. Kenneth and Chester DeFreece of Kingsport, and Obrey DeFreece of the United States Air Force. Funeral services will be held at the Storch Funeral Home in New. Madison, Ohio.

Virginia Near Safest Labor Day In History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Virginia, appeared headed Monday for one of its safest Labor Day week ends with the report of only three traffic deaths the holiday period began 6 since Friday. The three traffic fatalities plus the death of a man struck by train put the holiday toll at four. compared with 14 highway deaths alone over the same week end in 1959. This sent Virginia's 1960 traffic toll to 483, compared with 541 recorded at the same time last year. An unidentified 18-year-old was killed instantly Sunday when he was struck by a hit-and-run vehicle while checking some car trouble on an approach road 1 to the Hampton Roads bridge-tunnel.

The driver of the hit-and-run vehicle was later apprehended. A state' trooper, Charles Camden. who stopped to the accident. was also struck but returned to duty after brief hospitalization. Windon L.

Mitchell. 23, of (Rt 2) Saltville. was killed Sunday when his convertible car crashed about three miles west of Saltville on State Rt. 613 in Washington County. Two others injured in the crash are listed in satisfactory condition.

James Kenneth Crosswhite, 31, of Meadowview was killed Sunday when struck by an eastbound Norfolk Western Railwav passenger train. Authorities said trainmen saw Crosswhite, a laborer, lying with his head on a rail but the train could not be stopped in time. Crosswhite's death was listed as a miscellaneous one for the holiday. The first fatality of the holiday period was a 73-year-old Chincoteague man, Joshua Birch. He was killed Saturday afternoon when he was struck by an automobile at Chincoteague street intersection.

Plane With 16 Aboard Is Safe SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)An Air Force reconnaissance plane with 16 men aboard landed safely at its home base early today after flying 500 miles over the Pacific Ocean with two of its four engines feathered. The RC121 (Constellation) landed at McClellan Air Force Base at 4:02 a.m. The plane developed engine trouble about 500 miles west of Los Angeles while returning from maneuvers over the Pacific. The crew feathered two engines, but decided to continue to McClellan.

Sen. Albert Gore Gore To Speak At Ninth District Democratic Rally MARION, Va. -Tennessee Senator Albert Gore will speak at the opening of the Ninth District Democratic Campaign in Hungry Mother Park here Saturday. The opening, includes both Democratic rally and barbecue, begin at 3 p.m. It is a disTrice event and attendance from each county and city is expected.

Congressman Pat Jennings, who announced Gore would be the principal speaker, said the rally would kick off his campaign for re-election to the House from the Ninth District. "I am very pleased that our friend and neighbor from Tennessee, Senator Albert Gore, will join in the opening of our Democratic campaign in the Ninth," Jennings said. Jennings will address the rally. Senator A. Willis Robertson, candidate for re-election to the Senate from Virginia, is expected to make brief remarks.

Initial plans the "rally and barbecue call for to form the various counties and cities in the district. They will drive to Hungry Mother Park. which is located just off Route 16 outside of Marion. The Young Democrats of the district are in general charge of the occasion, with the Smyth County Young Democratic Club handling local arrangements. Interior Designer Makes Television For Bathrooms By PATRICIA McCORMACK NEW YORK (UPI) Michael Greer's one designer ready to give television its dew.

That is if you're willing to call condensation that develops from a hot bath a form of dew. The dew from such condensawould cover the front of a television equipped with windshield in the family Serpens bathroom which is the place Greer figures television now has a rightful place. But as Greer sees it, the television in the bathroom ideally should be placed in a spot where it would have a reasonable chance of escaping the steam from a hot bath. Fact is he recently designed such a setting 1 for a bathroom television hereabouts. He got around the dew by placing the TV set in a niche off the bath room a niche nicely carpeted, floor and walls.

The carpet, he said in an interview, absorbs some of the condensation, leaving the screen relatively clear. It also soaks up sound. Greer is chairman of the board of the National. Society Interior Designers. His model room, featuring TV In the bathroom.

was among new designs featured at a Westinghouse "World of Home Entertainment Exhibit' at the national design center. His design was one of twenty settings by seven of imaginativethe nation's foremost interior designers. Seeded throughout the room designs were TV and ste. reo units keyed to home fashion styling. Greer, now the other side of 40, served as a personnel officer In World War li and In the Korean He is a major In the Air Force reserve.

He studied designing under the Gl bill of rights. Siamese Twins 'Fair' CHICAGO (UPI)-Three-day-old siamese twin boys born to a South Bend, couple remained in condition today in an incubator at Children's Memorial Hospital. Physicians have ruled out suc. cessful surgical separation of James Joseph and Russell ert Woznicki, who share a single heart. and liver.

The twin boys, joined at the abdomen and chest, were Saturday. AT LAST IT'S HERE! GUARANTEED LEAK- ALL-ALUMINUM CARPORTS with, built-in guttering made' YOU ARE INVITED to any size and choice To. Stop By The porch colors. They are store Ideal fronts for BLUE CIRCLE and patio covers, covers. DRIVE- IN RESTAURANT Free estimates located on Center Street and F.H A Financed see one of our installations Up to 60 months to pay American Aluminum Awning Migrs.

999 Lynn, Gd. Dr- Kingsport Ph Day C1 6-2251 Night C1 6-4867 Announce Door-To-Door (Campaign Drive WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Democratic National Committee has announced a door to door "Dollars for Democrats" campaign to help raise $6 million to finance the campaign costs of Democratic candidates this fall. Matthew H. McCloskey, party treasurer, said the drive would be held Sept. 9-19, with doorbell ringers seeking modest contributions from householders.

He said the second half of the "Dollars for Democrats" campaign the would consist of 16 across nation, including presidential nominee John F. Kennedy's first nationwide TV radio broadcast, Sept. 20, "before an 'assemblage of party big-wigs." Other dinners will be held at Portland, Sept. Phoenix, Sept. 14; Las Vegas, Sept.

Harrisburg, Sept. 15; Baltimore, Sept. 16; St. Louis, Oct. Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct.

New York City, Oct. 12; Detroit, Oct. Philadelphia, Oct. 31; Oklahoma a City, 3. Four more dinners, for which dates have not been set, held at Albany, N.Y.: Chicago; Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

English Duke, War Heroine Are Married WOBURN, England (UPI)-The Duke of Bedford slipped out of his stately home in a grocery truck Sunday and married a wealthy cigar-smoking French. divorcee while six of their children by previous looked on. The Duke, 43, and Nicole Milinair, 40, a leading French television producer, wartime resistance heroine and blonde, mother of four children, were married in the drab little registry office at the village of Ampthill, five miles from Wobury Abbey, the Duke's estate. The couple and the six children avoided hundreds of tourists and a large number of newsmen and photographers. by climbing into the rear of the grocery truck and speeding out through one of the estate's 26 gates.

"It was, just us and the other vegetables in there." joked the duke. It was the third marriage for the duke who divorced his second duchess last year and the second for Nicole who arrived Saturday with her children and a huge engagement ring she referred to as a "nice piece of glass." The duke, first of the British nobility to open his stately home to tourists, has enhanced the attraction by adding a 700, hotdog stands, expresso coffee bars and juke boxes. The duke once even hosted a nudist rally on the estate where Queen Victoria once slept in order to boost his business. He has remarked that being a duke is one thing but being a solvent duke 1S better. Ike Winds Up Week End Of Fishing, Golf LEONARDTOWN, Md.

(UPI)President Eisenhower wound up a Labor Day weekend outing of cruising, fishing and golfing 10r day and prepared to return to his White House desk. The Chief Executive and members of his family spent their third night in a row aboard ship anchored smooth waters just off the lower Potomac River. about 60 miles south of Washington. They planned to begin the trip back to the capital today, arriv1ng sometime this evening. Whether they would cruise the entire way up the Potomac or use a helicopter for the last leg of the journey was uncertain.

The outing, which began Friday night, was designed primarily for the President's grandchildren the four children. of his son, Lt. Col. John Eisenhower, and John's wife, Barbara. The children spent their week! end fishing with their and father, swimming and waterskiing with their parents.

They appeared to enjoy the weekend thoroughly. The Eisenhower party traveled in two cabin cruisers, the BarAnne and Susie. named for the grandchilren. Lindsay Has Son HOLLYWOOD (AP) Bing Crosby's son Lindsay is proudly passing out cigars. Lindsay's wife.

Barbara, gave birth to a son Saturday. The baby, their first-born, will be named David Lindsay. (AP Phototax) WEATHER FORECAST -It will be generally fair throughout the sissippi valley. It will be cooler in the upper Mississippi valley nation Monday night with precipitation limited to scattered show- and the central Plateau, warmer in the Great Lakes area and the ers in southern Florida, eastern goastal Texas and the upper Mis- middle Mississippi valley. Kennedy Pleased Over New Additions To Democratic Ranks By ALVIN SPIVAK ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI)Sen.

John F. Kennedy said Sunday that' a drive to draw new voters into Democratic ranks is "going better than we expected it would" and he predicted that between 10 and 20 million more voters of both parties will be registered this year. The Democratic presidential candidate based this -report on word he said he had received from Rep. Frank Thompson, D- N.J.. chairman of a nationwide registration drive by the Kennedy forces.

Kennedy said Thompson "thinks 10 million is the rock bottom' figure of new registrants to expect this year and he added "it is fair to say that Democratic registration been higher than the other, party. However, Kennedy would not forecast that success of the reglistration drive would be sufficient to put him over the top In the November elections. He described it as "an element of success but not the key to Kennedy commented at a news conference, before taking off from huge but thinly populated Alaska for the more potentially profitable Democratic hunting grounds of industrial Detroit. The Democratic candidate will deliver a Labor Day address at 5, 1960, U.S. WEATHER LOW a Until Low Temperatures Harold Overbey.

Harold Overbey Harold Overbey, 53, 2105 Hemlock Lane, died at 9:45 a.m. Sunday at his home after a short illness. He was born in Scott County. son of Mrs. Minnie Gooden Overbey and the late D.

B. Overbey and had been a resident of Sullivan County most of his life. He had been an employee of Tennessee Eastman Company for 27 years in the Department and was a member of the First Baptist Church. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Eva Davis Overbey, two daughters.

Mrs. Gordon D. Dorian of Wichita, and Mrs. Arthur. W.

Wilson of Kingsport; three grandchildren: his mother, Mrs. Minnie. Gooden Overbey; three sisters; Mrs. R. E.

McConnell, Mrs. Emory C. Bevins and Miss Maggie Overbey of two brothers, Buster Overbey of Fall Branch and David B. Overbey of Kingsport; several neices and nephews, Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church.

Rev. Dr. E. Gibson Davis and Rev. J.

L. Trent will officiate. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery. The body will be removed from the Carter-Clamon Funeral to the residence at 1 p.m. today.

and will be taken to the church one hour before time of services. Pallbearers include, Clyde Hill, Jack Breeding, Bruce Austin, Lloyd Barr, Sam Hamilton, Clayton Lane, Glenn Callahan, Charles W. Cox and Cal Sebastian. pallbearers will be Honorary, the Men's Bible Class at the First Baptist Church. Mrs.

LeAnna Hamer Mrs. LeAnna C. Hamer, 77, died at 7:30 a.m. Sunday at Holston Valley Community Hospital after an illness of about one year. She came to Kingsport to visit her son.

Phillip Hamer, from Vero Beach. Fla. She was born in Amboy, N.Y. Survivors include the son, Philip, 1216 Morningside Circle: a sister, Mrs. Helen Duffy of Arlington, one niece; two nephews; two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hamlett Dobson Chapel. Rev. Collier S. Harvey, Jr.

will officiate. Burial will be in Oak. Hill cemetery. The body will remain at the funeral home until time for services. Pallbearers will be E.

L. Gustafson, John W. Thompson, Charles Lambert, Grover Underwood, R. H. Morrison, and F.

L. Lilley. Hugh M. Addington Funeral services for Hugh M. Addington who died Saturday after a short illness, will be held at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at the Copper Creek Primitive Baptist Church. Rev. James Boatwright and- Rev. N. P.

King will be in charge of services. Burial will be in the Holston View Cemetery. Pallbearers include Harold, Fletcher, Clarion Fletcher, Kyle Smith, Sutro K. Addington, Willie Dougherty, Lester Blankenbeckler, Ezra Porter, Wayne 9. Omer Addington B.

Fletcher. The body will be removed from the Gate City Funeral Home to. the residence at 4 p.m. today and will be taken to the church one hour before the time of services. Infant Hagey The infant son of Mr.

and Mrs. Marvin C. Hagey 3229 Ridgeview, died at 8:15 p.m. Sunday at Holston Valley Community Hospital. Surviving besides the parents are three brothers, Marvin C.

Hagey William Wade Hagey and Phillip D. Hagey of Kingsport: four sisters, Mrs. Carroll Hicks of Knoxville, Beverly Jean, Margaret Linda and Betty Sue Hagey of Kingsport: the paternal grandmother, Mrs. King Hagey: the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Conley C.

Torbett both of Bristol. Graveside services were held at 2 p. m. today at Oak Hill Cemetery, Father Ned C. Elliott had charge of services.

MOVING? DIAL Circle- 5-7441 TOM STILL TRANSFER CO. Good Weather On Tap For Most Of U.S. By United Press International Picnic weather was on tap today for most of the United States. The U.S. Weather Bureau said few exceptions would cloud generally fair skies.

Exceptions included the Florida peninsula and the Gulf Coast. Eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota were due for scattered showers. Isolated rainfall was forecast for Arizona and New Mexico mountains and the northwest Pacific states. Northern Maryland and Pennsylvania-Ohio thunderstorms diminished as Labor Day began. Earlier Toledo, Ohio, had reported 1.87 inches of rain in less than an hour.

Cool air spilled over' heated and produced a band of low clouds and fog from eastern Minnesota across the Great Lakes into Pennsylvania. Lightning accompanied storms in the northern Great Plains from Wyoming and Montana into the Dakotas and western Nebraska. Some early morning temperatures were: Boston. 60 degrees; Miami, 77; Detroit, 65; Minneapolis, 75; Kansas City, 80; Atlanta, Phoenix, 83; San Francisco, 57; Seattle, 53; Anchorage. Alaska, 45, and Honolulu, 78.

13 Killed In Alabama Over Long Weekend By United Press International At least 13 persons have lost their lives in Alabama accidents during the long Labor Day holiday weekend, a United Press International survey showed today. The death count ends at midnight tonight. A three car collision just before midnight Saturday claimed the lives of three persons. Mrs. D.

Cooper, 67, of Opp, her daughter Mrs. Audria Whaley. 48. of Mobile, and Earl Nelson Soloman. 21, of died In the wreck.

Simmie Walker, a 39-year-old York Negro woman, was killed Sunday night when the car in which she was riding was struck by another one mile north of Bucks on U.S. 43. A 42-year-old Melvin Negro, Sammy. Kirksey, was killed Saturday night when he was struck by a hit driver in Choctow County. Two Birmingham teen agers, Nancy C.

Frick, 16, and Robert M. Mastin, 15, died shortly before midnight Friday when the car in which they were riding struck a tree in suburban Mountain Brook. Frederick Joseph, Fuller, 47, of Birmingham, was killed Saturday when his car overturned on Union Grove road near Adamsville. A Thomasville woman, Jena Ella Goodman, 31, turned from her mailbox on U. S.

43, Saturday and walked into the path of a car. She was instantly. Tommy Ray Sims, a 20-year-old Trussville man, died Friday night a when his automobile smashed into the rear of a lumber truck. Lodge Resumes Campaign With 'Copter Tour the annual union-sponsored rally in Cadillac Square in Detroit Monday and then stump through Flint, Pontiac and Muskegon, after which he will fly back to the northwest by way of Pocatello, Idaho. In discussing, the registration figures, said an additional voters had been signed up in California at a rate of 7,000 to 10,000 a day.

said a "particularly vigorous had been done in California and elsewhere in the west to enroll Spanish-Americans. In California, he said, there is a goal of 100,000 new American registrants and "over) 53,000 have already been Kennedy said his camp expects to register 350,000 new voters in New Jersey. Although he said the figures were "without regard to party" he said that "a higher percentage have a commitment to the Democratic party." Emphasis is being placed, he said, on registering persons between the ages of 21 and 31. "Since 1956 nearly 10 million people entered this age group and are eligible to vote," he said. "We are anxious they make a special effort to register.

have the longest life investment in the future of their country." Three Forfeit Bonds For Setting Tombstone Near Hotel Pool Three Kingsport men, who police say set up a tombstone near the swimming pool at the Downtowner Motor Inn this morning. forfeited bonds on disorderly conduct charges in City Court. One of the men, Harold Holland 23, of 1408 Belmeade Place. also forfeited a $20 bond for public drunkenness. Holland and his two companions.

Jack Reed Kilgore, 23, of 1432 Vallev and Leslie Lawson Reams, 20. of 1316 Linville forfeited $25 bonds- -on the disorderly conduct charges. City Patrolman Tom Barnett said he spotted the men as they removed the tombstone from the trunk of a car parked in an alley Ambassador Stunned By Son's Death BERN, Switzerland Ambassador Henry J. Taylor was stunned today by news of the death of his only son. ScrippsHoward correspondent Henry N.

Taylor, on assignment in The Congo. He could only say: "I cannot make a statement now. Taylor learned of his son's death In a telephone call early today from Washington. Taylor was killed by machinegun bullets while covering a battle near Bakwanga between Congolese army troops and Baluba tribesmen. Young Taylor, who recently covbothered the Powers trial.in.

Moscow, stopped off here briefly last week en route to his new assignment in the Congo. Embassy officials said the ambassador had cabled the Congo requesting that the body be flown the United States for burial possible." They said the ambassador was making arrangements fly to the United States with 'his wife for the funeral. STORM DOORS WINDOWS Doors $2950 up Window '12' 50 up 3 CHANNEL, SELF STORING WOVEN WOOL-PILE WEATHER SEAL ALL AUMINUM POSITIVE INTERLOCKS 36 MONTHS TO PAY NO DOWN PAYMENT. FREE ESTIMATES-FHA FINANCING, SHAW SHEET METAL WORKS 1765 Fort, Henry Drive. Phone C1 5-6911 NEW YORK (UPI)-Henry Cabot Lodge resumes his.

campaign today as Republican candidate for vice president with a helicopter tour Coney Island and other New York City area beaches. His Labor schedule calls for his appearance this morning at a breakfast meeting at the Hotel Roosevelt where he will discuss international problems, including American relations with Israel. Lodge, who opened his. campaign Saturday with a seven-hour tour of the Catskill Mountain resorts. said he regards campaignas "great fun," and was looking foward to his trip the beaches, where he will meet thouto, sands of people enjoying the holiday.

The vice presidential candidate will be accompanied by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller on the trip along Long Island's waterfront. At noon, Lodge and his party were to take off in a helicopter from Manhattan's heliport for Jones Beach, where he will spend an hour. This will be followed by an hour's visit to Rockaway Beach and from there Lodge will fly to the popular Coney Island amusement center.

Before leaving for the beaches, Rockefeller was- slated to review an AFL-CIO Labor Day parade at New York City's public library on Fifth Avenue, and Lodge may gO there with him. Rockefeller was at Lodge's side throughout the trip into the Catskills. behind the hotel about 1:30 a.m. today. He said the three were stopped by a police cruiser on Cherokee Street after they fled in their car.

Barnett said the men told him they took the tombstone from a grave in the Linville Street cemetery. In other City Court action, Charles Larkins, 20, of Bloomingdale, was fined $20 on charges of fighting and resisting arrest. Patrolman Robert Dickens said he arrested Larkins and another man Sunday night on Cherokee Street. The fighting charge against the other man was dismissed after testimony showed Larkins had started the The other defendant in the case said Larkins and another man, who managed to escape police, attacked him with knives near the Union Bus Terminal. The other man said he was cut twice, on the right arm and on his right side.

Aussies Want Disney SYDNEY. Australia (UPI) -A seaside suburb of Sydney will try to persuade the Walt Disney organization to build. an Australian Disneyland. Marvyn Paine, former mayor of the suburb of Manly, will leave next week to discuss the proposition with officials of the Disney studios. THREE DIE IN FIRE BOSTON (UPI) A young mother and three of her children were burned to death early day in a fire that damaged three-story Boston building.

Maddis Morris, about 40, of Jasper, was killed Friday night when an Illinois Central train went over him near the Frisco depot at Jasper. Jessie James Williams, a 9-vear-old Birmingham boy, was killed when he fell beneath the wheels of a railroad car. MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME Under management, otters to our friends privacy and comfort where funeral service may be held in out chapel Dignified in keepine with your wishes 24 hour ambulance service 446 Lin coin -St Kingsport Tenn Office Phone C1 5-5931 If 00 answer call C1 6-2911 We Help Keep Your House Clean! World's Most Efficient Cleaner. Capacity Greater Than 200 Lge. Portable Furnace Cleaners.

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