Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

npo L-JLJL Li tZ5 gjf jUjJ i I) (I il VOLUME LI No 202 KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37660 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12 1966 28 PAGES FIVE CENTS -u gMV'Wl OllEBOn Welfare Hike Dig In On 1 Holston Valley Community Hospital at a breakfast here officially opening the Hospital-United Fund drive while Gardner general chairman of the campaign looks on WELCOME DONATION Campbell right chairman of the Scott County Community Fund Drive presents a check for $20000 to Divine left president of Died For Wrong Job LONDON (UPI) A judicial report into the famed British crime riddle of the murders of Notting Hill Gate concluded today that Timothy Evans died on the scaffold 16 years aeo for a crime he probably did not commit But he was a murderer just the same Evans 25 an illiterate truck driver was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine The judicial inquiry the second into the case expressed belief today the murder was committed in fact by mass strangler John Reginald Halliday Christie The summing up by Judge Daniel Brabin reflected his own perplexity but said he said Evans apparently strangled his 19-year-old wife Beryl one of the crimes for which Christie a former policeman was hanged Both were pathological liars both were stranglers and both lived in the same house It was Christie who became known as the murderer of Notting Hill Gate for at his house at No 10 Rillington Place he murdered person after person and sealed them in a wall When that place became full he buried them in the backyard under an elderberry bush The inquiry was ordered last year in hopes it would clear up once and for dl the doubts that Evans execution may have been a miscarraige of justice Instead it added to the mystery and left unsolved perhaps forever the true story of the crime within a crime I have come to the conclusion that it is more probable than not that Evans killed Beryl Evans Justice Brabin reported I have come to the conclusion that it is more More On Page 6-A Column 1 Reward Is 6 Satisfaction Fund Workers Are Told Hike Social Security By 10 Per Cent BALTIMORE (UPI) President Johnson said today he would ask the next Congress to make major changes in the Social Security system including a 10 per cent boost in benefit payments to the nations 22 million pensioners The Chief Executive outlinet his proposals in a speech prepared for ceremonies at Social Security headquarters in Baltimore honoring employes who helped launch Medicare last July 1 Johnson stopped off in Baltimore while on his way to New York for his last purely political stumping trip before leaving on a Far East tour next Monday Today Social Security and Medicare stand as two of the most historical programs ever enacted by Congress Johnson said They stand as two of the most far-reaching programs ever carried out by a government agency But the President added far too many Social Security beneficiaries today not only older citizens but widows and orphans and the disabled are trying to live on too little income Far too many citizens on More On Page 6-A Column 1 3 Divisions SAIGON (UPI) -The United States has moved nearly three divisions near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) to meet an expected major monsoon offensive by the Communists and plans to saturate the zone with the heaviest bombing of the war if the attack materializes it was reported today Military sources said the Air Force hit targets in the zone and supply routes in the North Viet Nam panhandle just above the DMZ Tuesday and that the monsoon offensive comes is ready to hit North Vietnamese troops with the most intense prolonged bombing of the war Recent US Marine operations are believed to have slowed the North Vietnamese plans but Marines today discovered a North Vietnamese company probing their positions just south of the zone and killed 16 in a five-hour battle While 4000 more US troops landed today south of boost US troop strength South Viet Nam above 325000 mark Defense Secreta ry Robert McNamara flew to Da Nang to review US plans to meet the expected Communist thrust Military sources said Gen William Westmoreland commander of all American forces in Viet eNam and Marine commander Gen Lewis Walt have ordered the Marines to dig in and prepare for the assault Thev said the US military is determined not to budge an inch from the southern fringe of the DMZ In the past Tew days twoTut Marine divisions have been shifted in the northern provinces closer to the six-mile-wide zone dividing North and South Viet Nam and for the first time American paratroops have joined the 1st Corps buildup which previously was left only to the Leathernecks US jets struck inside the buffer zone Tuesday and destroyed a large fuel and ammunition dump The flight of B57 Canberras was led by Maj David Vanyo 36 Layton Utah and $100000 from the drive Even before the breakfast was over Campbell chairman of the Scott County Community Fund Drive announced a donation of $20000 to the local drive In presenting the check to Divine president of Holston Valley Hospital Campbell said: This is l-25th of what you need You shouldnt have any problems getting the rest Gardner general chairman of the campaign told the group that we want to get 99 per cent of the people in Kingsport to give during the drive White pointed out at the breakfast that continued growth of Kingsport and surrounding areas served by the hospital necessitated More On Page 6-A Column 1 Some 120 volunteer workers in the combined Hospital-United Fund drive opening officially today were told at a kickoff breakfast at the Downtowner this morning that the success of the campaign depends on what they do This is the group that will have to do the work if it is done James White chairman of Tennessee Eastman told the group that will lead the way in the combined drive to raise $600000 You won't get any personal gain out of what you do in this drive but you will get said Holston Valley Community Hospital will get $500000 of the $600000 expected to be raised in the current drive but White pointed out that the chest would be able to give depending agencies funds from reserve funds WAIST-DEEP in water a US Marine holds his pistol at the ready as he wades along a creek near the demilitarized zone in Viet Nam today The Leather-necks were hunting down Communists who broke away from an engagement near Hill 484 (UPI Photo) Border 1 '-K x' Is I I I shot down but both crewmen were rescued by helicopter Scattered showers drenched the jungled slopes today arid the full fury of the monsoon rains was expected to hit within the next few days The last 4000-man contingent of the US 4th Infantry Division came ashore at Vung Tau south of Saigon today and was quickly loaded into transport planes and shuttled to its base camp in the Central Highlands Their arrival boosted total US fighting strength in Viet Nam to about 325000 American jets again hammered the southern panhandle of North Viet Nam striking war supplies being assembled to support the feared offensive and hitting bridges barges and transportation routes Communist North Viet Nam took note of McNamaras visit today by filing an official note of protest to the International Control Commission As is well known each visit of McNamara to Saigon is always followed by stepped-up war in Viet Nam the note said The present visit of the US defense secretary to South Viet Nam has clearly exposed the US imperialists scheme for new and extremely serious military adventures in stepping up the war of aggression in Viet Nam in the hope of recouping their defeats and extricating themselves from the bog it said It concluded with the usual demand for immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Viet Nam McNamara accompanied by Gen Earle Wheeler chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and several other top military and civilian leaders arrived in Saigon Monday on the spot tour hand-held camera on the first Apollo flight scheduled for a mission of up to 14 days tentatively in early December Subsequent missions includ ing the first American landing on the moon also call for the use of television The Russians have had live television on several of their manned space flights BERNARD OBRIEN Backlaslier Enters Race JPor Governor KNOXVILLE (UPI) Nashville businessman Crowder got his gubernatorial campaign underway Tuesday at a press conference saying he believed the white backlash in Tennessee was strong enough to get him elected in November Crowder was joined at the meeting by Raymond Anderson Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee who said he was one of Crowders staunch supporters I want to be what George Wallace is to Alabama and Lester Maddox to Georgia Crowder said When I am elected governor of Tennessee I will do everything in my power to drive the Communists out of Tennessee starting with the Highlander Center here in Knoxville After seeing Mrs Wallaces victory in Alabama and Mr Maddoxs in Georgia I believe I can be elected in Tennessee he said I think the white backlash is strong enough Crowder a home builder and developer is running against Democratic nominee former Governor Buford Ellington and Knoxville educator Dr Charles Moffett who is also running as an Independent because his petition was filed too late to get on the Republican ballot in the August primary OBriens Wife Will Testify V-Jii r' LANSING Mich (UPI) -The wife of a lame-duck state senator accused of solit icing college coeds to pose for nude pictures aid erotic films planned to testify in his behalf today "I know he's innocent I have faith in him said Mrs Mary Louise OBiien Tuesday her husband Sen Bernard O'Brien was pointed out by three women as the man who approached them with lewd suggestions Mrs! O'Brien has been married to the Detroit Democrat for five years and is expecting her fiftn child The first witness called to testify for the 21-year-old lawmaker Tuesday was Air Force Capt Donald Osterhout 34 of Lockboume Air Force Base in Ohio He told the court he was intimate with Marion Lukens a coed from Santa Ana Calif who brought the charges against OBrien He said Miss Lukens had gone with him voluntarily to a Columbus Ohio motel for a tryst but later accused him of criminal assault If the charges were true my commanding officer would have put me in jail for 20 years the jet fighter pilot testified "She didn't say no OBriens lawyer said Osterhout was asked to testify "to More On Page 6-A Column 1 Times-News In NLRB Charge McNamara Skips 6Death Pit For Army Briefing A flight of F105 Thunderch-iefs led by Capt Donald Hodge 33 Beatrice Neb destroyed six buildings in a military storage area southwest of Thanh Hoa in the area just north of the DMZ First Lt OKeefe Jr 23 Cuero Tex led a Thunderchief flight that destroyed a bridge and its approaches near Vinh Another flight led by Maj Douglas Brenner 36 Seattle hit another bridge 15 miles southwest of Vinh and destroyed two barges used to ferry supplies to the South In the Mekong Delta Air Force Supersabres and Phantom jets streaked through heavy ground fire and smashed a fortified Viet Cong battalion base camp 42 miles southwest of Can Tho A Supersabre was of fighting the khaki-clad McNamara visited American troops in a field hospital at Qui Nhon and then flew to Da Nang There he boarded a plane to fly to the 7th Fleet carrier Oriskany to spend the night At the Cavalry command post McNamara was shown pictures of tne Communist butchery at the jungle prison camp Before fleeing advancing American troops North Vietnamese guards manacled 19 prisoners together tossed them into a pit and sprayed them with machinegun bursts and hand grenades Seven survived Pickup 4th pgh: McNamara spent McNamara spent about an hour at Phu Cat about 290 miles northeast of Saigon before flying north of Da Nang headquarters for US Marines operating along the demilitarized zone the wars other hotspot DA NANG (UPD Defense I forward command post for Secretary Robert McNamara Operation Irving which has toured one of the wars hottest virtually wiped out the Commu-battlefronts today to learn first nist 610 Division in three weeks The Atlanta office of the National Labor Relations Board has issued an unfair labor practice complaint against the Kingsport Publishing Corporation publishers of the Kingsport Times-News stemming from the dismissal by the newspaper of a composing room employe in June 1965 The company has served notice that it will resist the complaint A hearing has been tentatively scheduled for Nov 22 1966 The complaint is an outgrowth a series of eight charges hand from American ills whai is needed to win the conflict McNamara spent so much time at a briefing at the field headquarters of the US 1st Air Cavalry at Phu Cat he was forced to cancel an intended visit to the Communist horror camp discovered Tuesday by Cavalry troops From Phu Cat" the cavalrys Ask Change In Sheppard Trial Site CLEVELAND (UPI) Arguing that local prejudice will prevent a fair trial in Cleveland attorneys for accused wife-slayer Dr Samuel Sheppard today will ask that the osteopath's second murder trial be moved to another city Lee Bailey Sheppards chief counsel was expected to move for a change of venue on grounds that any jury drawn here would necessarily be biased as a result of local publicity The 42-year-old doctors conviction for the 1954 bludgeonslaying of his pregnant wife Marilyn was set aside last June in a precedent-setting decision by the nations highest court Judge Francis Talty named to preside at the trial scheduled to open next Tuesday also will preside at todays hearing for a change of venue Talty 46 who had been a judge for less than two years banned all but 14 reporters from the hearing and forbade interviews with the Sheppards witnesses attorneys the coro-' ner police sheriff deputies and court personnel THIS IS HUFFY (H-UF for Hospital-United Fund get it?) Huffys been puffing on that balloon for the last two months Now the balloon is starting to go up Want to see it hit the top of the page? Your pledge will help vC -X-X n-A 4k JUDY CRAWFORD made against the company by Kingsport Local 940 I nternational Typographical Union one of several unions which have been on strike against the Kingsport Press for over three years The union complained to the NLRB that the Kingsport Publishing Corporation had refused to submit the discharge of Ivil Lytz a printer to the grievance procedure under its former expired contract The company claims Lytz was discharged for just cause and that it was not bound by the grievance procedure under a contract which the ITU had terminated eight months prior to the Lytz discharge The NLRB refused to take action on the other seven charges but based its complaint only on the Lytz discharge In other counts the union charged that the company had installed new processes including computers without negotiating for their installation with the union had refused to hire union personnel to operate the new equipment had hired More On Page 6-A Column 1 Weather Fair and not as cold tonight with a low of 42 Thursday generally fair and not as cool with a high of 76 Friday increasing cloudiness and moderately warm with a chance of showers YeitftrdRy'i High 68 77 6 38 47 43 Average High High A Year Ago Yesterday' Low Average Low Low A Year Ago New Route 23 Work Begins In December The Appalachian Regional Commission Tuesday approved an appropriation of $6781000 for right of way acquisition and construction of a new four-lane highway between Kingsport and Johnson City Congressman James (Jimmy) Quillen in announcing the appropriation in Washington said the money represented half of the expected cost of building a new Route 23 from Route 81 south of Kingsport to the Johnson City city limits the STATE is to match the federal grant bringing the total outlay to $13562000 Quillen said the grant based on the states own estimate for construction gives the green light for construction The Appalachian Regional Commission said right-of-way acquisition will begin in December and actual construction of the road will begin in June 1967 The stretch will be approximately 157 miles Additional money must be appropriated to carry the new Route 23 north through Kingsport and south to the North Carolina line THE SECTION of rdad is part of a new 23 proposed to run from Asheville to Ohio under the Appalachian Progress Program a setup designed to obtain new access highways into underdeveloped areas My Fair Garbageman: Problems All Over LONDON (UPI) Enter 200 garbagemen singing: "The rain its plain is mainly worth a claim $1793 per man to be precise The Lambeth South London town council replies: Its true so true but how long did it rain? Four hours the councilmen add Or $1482 worth The garbagemen protest: "Not true not true Six hours did it rain did it rain THE COUNCIL REPLIES: Just four no more Exit angry garbagemen chanting: With a little bit 'o strike with a little bit strike we shall get our proper weather pay Nine days ago today Lambeths garbagemen went on strike over rainy day pay picy get extra wages for completing their 'chores during rainstorms A week ago Monday it poured But for how long? Six hours $1793 worth said the garbagemen Four hours $1482 worth claimed the town council Meanwhile trash is piling up in Lambeths streets Enter the Beatles singing: 'Help!" First Apollo Will Carry TV Lens Broadcast Live WASHINGTON (UPI) -Television cameras will accompany the first three-man crew aboard the Apollo spaceship to give American home viewers their first live pictures from space the federal space agency said today A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the crew would take along a small Precipitation I.