Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

I -v-- r- 4 fc'VWAW''VfW i 41 I 4 i i- rijpo yIZ5 L-J uEUU A VOLUME LI No 77 KINGSPORT TENNESSEE TUESDAY APRIL 19 1968 18 PAGES FIVE CENTS PLANS PILGRIMAGE TO BORDER jnooker os Road Gaps Here Politics? Democratic primary candidate John Hooker Jr launched the 1966 gubernatorial campaign in Kingsport today with a free-wheeling attack on stalled area highways Hooker told the Cosmpolitan Kiwanis Club at a noon luncheon he intended to go take a look at the Virginia end of Interstate 81 before con ture that can be ours with a modern highway program Why has Interstate 81 been postponed in Tennessee for so long? Who knows what politics are involved? Who can say what pressures are at work to delay highway construction? Who can say what political leaders seek to gain because of our states delays? For over a decade our road program has been controlled by patch -it -up promise-it-later put-it-off politics The road program of this states leadership in the past has led to a dead end I am told that Virginia has already completed 286 of its 325 miles of Interstate 81 Tennessee has completed none-zero Not one inch of Interstate 81 has been built in Tennesee I understand that not before 1972 will the people of Kingsport be able to travel to Knoxville on this vital highway which was first available to us in 1961 From 1961 through 1972 how many families in Kings port will be spared the threat of tragedy from injury or even death to a kinsman or a tinuing bis campaign swing Over in Virginia there is a highway completed and being traveled he said attracting industry and tourists helping fanners and providing access for the people of that state to each other But on the Tennessee side there is no sign of preparation or progress no indication that this state is looking to the fu friend on Highway 11-W? I am not interested in the old-fashioned political dealings which perpetuate this terrible hazard to the lives of our people and the commerce in Tennessee Its time in Tennessee to move this state forward over highways that will lead us to a future that competes with other states with Virginia North Carolina and Kentucky in every phase of government service in road-building in education in attracting industry and in helping the farmer Tennessees future lies down highways not yet built I intend to see that they are constructed that they are neither a dream nor a nightmare but a reality It I JOHN HOOKER eeak Attack hatters TED i anofs oweHMam 5 A I Johnson are Scott Deputy Starnes and State Trooper Clifford Cunningham (Times-News Photo Richard Titley) IIAGAN JOHNSON (white shirt) charged with the murder of his wife ducks from cameraman outside Scott County Court House With Two Indictments In Two Murders In Scott County GATE CITY The Scott County Grand Jury Monday indicted Hagan Johnson and Charles (Chad) Franklin for murder in two separate slayings which occurred last year Johnson of East Carters Valley was indicted in connection with the Nov 26 death of ids wife Imogene Johnson Franklin 53 of Route 2 Gate City was indicted for the pistol slaying of Ballard Riner 47 of Hiltons which took place in a Gate City cafe a little over a year ago BLOWS CAUSE CLOT The Scott County Circuit Court will convene here this morning with Judge Joseph Ctidlin presiding Mrs Johnson was found dead the morning of Nov 27 in her bed after Johnson and his brother summoned funeral home attendants to the East Carters Valley house An autopsy revealed that Mrs Johnson 33 had died of brain hemorrhage from a blood clot caused by blows to the head inflicted two or three days before she died Scott County Medical Examiner Dr Griggs reported The autopsy further showed the woman had been beaten on the head and shoulders Dr Griggs said NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE Johnson told Sheriff Vernon Clark his wife had not been feeling well and that she had risen from the couch and fallen to the flow He told authorities he carried her into the bedroom and put her on the bed He said he checked on her early in the evening and before midnight but couldnt arouse her either time and so went to sleep in the living room He said he went to check on her again about 3 am and found her body cold Johnson was not arrested in connection with his wifes death but was charged with possessing a half-pint of whisky without a Virginia tax stamp Scott County Commonwealth Attorney Roy Wolfe Jr said earlier this year no arrest were made in the death case because there was not enough evidence to charge anybody Franklin was released on a $5000 bond shortly after the April 13 1965 pistol shooting In Kelleys Grill According to witnesses Virginia State Trooper Cunningham said Riner had walked into the resturant and had More On Page 6 CoL 1 TURNABOUT IN HUE Students Like Us A HAPPINESS is a little statue called Oscar for English actress Julie Christie who won the Best Performance by an Actress award at the 38th Annual Academy Awards Presentation for her role in the film Darling (UPI Photo) Its Christie Two Jets Pop Up At Night SAIGON (UPI) Two Navy jets struck Into North Viet Nams industrial heartland blasting the vital Uong Bi plant which furnishes about 30 per cent of the power for the Hanoi-Haiphong area a military spokesman said today The jets from the USS Kitty Hawk encountered only light antiaircraft fire as they screamed in low in the dead of night to within 14 miles of the port at Haiphong as close as any American attackers have gone' It was the fourth raid against the power plant in four months The pilots hit it just about every time the Communists get it working again In ground action US forces reported killing 52 Viet Cong The biggest kill was made by elements of the US 25th Division sweeping an area about 30 miles northwest of Saigon in Operation Kahala They accounted for 28 of the enemy dead Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and elements of a Royal Australian regiment killed 15 guerrillas in Operation Denver about 75 miles northwest of Saigon and Marines in the northern provinces killed nine in a series of small actions Other Navy planes from the Kitty Hawk and the USS Ticonderoga hit military and communications targets in North Viet Nam near Vinh Dien Bien Phu Dong Hoi and several other Communist cities One A1 Skyraider was shot down by automatic weapons fire near Tiger Island just off the North Vietnamese coast but the pilot was rescued The intruders slashed In low over the power plant just before midnight Monday and then performed a pop up an abrupt climb to release their tombs Pilots said the plant immediately went dark and the sky was filled with showers of sparks Two huge secondary explosions were observed indicating severe damage to the facility Military intelligence sources said the plant had supplied about 15 per cent of the nation's entire electrical output V' arvin second supporting actress award for her part in A Patch of Blue" She won previously in 1959 for The Dairy of Anne Frank Martin Balsam won the best supporting actor award for his doleful characterization in A Thousand Clowns It was his first nomination and award Robert Wise was awarded the Oscar for his direction of the sugarplum musical The Sound of Music He previously won an Oscar for West Side Story in 1961 The award for the best song went to "The Shadow of Your Smile written by Johnny Mandel and Paul Frances Webster Miss Christie wept as she attempted to make her thank you speech She managed to say I want to thank everyone This is the most wonderful thing on earth She quickly fled to the wings holding her golden statuette More On Page 6 Col 1 SAIGON (UPI) -Anti-government students in Hue pledged support today for the United States in the war against the Communists In Da Nang rebellious forces released 13 or 14 political prisoners seized at the height of anti-government demonstrations The easing of the political crisis followed a barn-storming tour of rebellious areas by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to hold elections in three to five months Tri Quang appeared to be scoring some successes Release of the political prisoners was announced at the headquarters of Gen Ton That Dinh commander of the 1st Military Region who said by side with Americans ask the United States to continue aiding South Viet Nam give thanks for American aid do not join the Communists thank all religious leaders who in good faith have attempted to resolve the present situation and demand an election of a parliament The change of tone between todays rally and those of the past five weeks appeared to be the result of the influence of Thich Tri Quang and other Buddhist leaders who had extracted from Ky a promise for elections to be held in three to five months Kys pledge was accepted by the Buddhist leaders and students in Saigon but students and dissident soldiers in the northern provinces especially in the cities of Da Nang and Hqe continued to demand the immediate resignation of the military junta On Monday Tri Quang went north to urge the students to accept Kys pledge and refrain from demonstrations One leader Nguyen Huu Giao president of the Student Struggle Committee urged the resignation of Ky But he tempered it by suggesting that the military government be immediately reinstated as an interim government until the elections Observers said Giaos statement appeared to be a facesaving device Radcliffe Girl Seeks A One-Year Marriage And SANTA MONICA Calif (UPI) Julie Christie Englands electrifying blonde newcomer won the Motion Picture Academys best actress Oscar for her portrayal of a woman of loose morals and extelevision star Lee Marvin won the best actor award playing a drunken gunfighter The Sound of Music was acclaimed best picture of 1965 one of five Academy Awards it received Its closest competitor Doctor Zhivago" also won five Oscars at the film academys gala presentation ceremony Monday night Miss Christie won the coveted Oscar for the title role in Darling" an amoral girl who races through a series of squalid love affairs Marvin played a hilarious double role as tin-nosed killer and drunken gun slinger in Cat Ballou It wag the first nomination and the first Oscar for both Shelley Winters won her I The Hilton IFas Never Like This HAU NGHIA South Viet Nam (UPI)-There is a posh hotel in Honolulu called the Kahala Hilton Pfc Brandon Brown 22 of Bristol Tenn never stayed at the Kahala Hilton but he made operation Kahala in the rice paddies of Viet Nam Brown probably couldnt swing the Kahala Hilton anyway With the hours he works on an operation like this his pay figures out to about 35 cents an hour During a break Brown sat leaning against a palm tree in a village watching some Vietnamese women draw wa- ter from a crude well Look at those people over there he drawled They really lead a rough life He looked as if he meant it I demonstrations and arrests will not happen aa of now The release apppeared to mark the end of five weeks of unrest However there were several disturbing incidents in the area within the past 24 hours A Nationalist party member was beaten in Hue and a number of Catholics were beaten in Da Nang Dinh blamed both incidents on the Viet Cong More than 1000 students whose five weeks of demonstrations against the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky had grown increasingly anti-Ameri-can held a rally 15 miles north of Hue They adopted a statement which said: Students should struggle side would be expelled said she didnt expect many answers and probably no serious ones But on the first day she received more than a dozen replies One read simply: Well? with a mans name and address -Another replied: I was about to advertise for a female roommate but Im not sure of a one-year marriage though I need a cook but you'll have to cook a test dinner etc of course The coed said a lot of her girl friends at Radcliffe knew about the ad and think its kind of funny She said her parents however think she is nuts" Miss Classified Ad insists she is completely serious about the matter and just wants to find "someone I can get along with for a year But she confesses the more likely it becomes the more scared I get Outlook precipitation tonight and Wednesday 59 per cent Ytiturday'i high Avcrtgg high High yr ago Ywtgrdgy'i low Avoragg low I Law a yaar ago Praclpltahoh to 43 31 nona Additional Waathar ad Pago Sales Tax Could Win (Or Lose) By Default CAMBRIDGE Mass (UPI) The classified advertisement in the Harvard Crimson read: One year marriage? Seems to be the only way for a Cliffie to get out of the dorm Ill share expenses am a good cdok Other details? We can work it out Contact Crimson box 2000 The ad was placed in the universitys student daily newspaper Monday by an attractive Radcliffe coed who is sick and tired of living in a dormitory The girl a 20-year-old junior says she has just learned she will not be one of the 30 Radcliffe seniors granted pep mission to live off campus next year I really Intended the thing as a protest against Radcliffes policies but Im serious she said I have to get married or I dont have a reason for living off campus The coed who asked to remain unidentified for fear she Weather Mostly cloudy and mild and becoming windy this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers throughout the area High today to range from 76 to 75 low tonight 69 Probability of measurable not exceed five dollars ($500) on the sale or use of any single article of personal property And there is excepted from the tax levies by this resolution the sale purchase use consumption or distribution of electric power or energy or natural or artificial gas or coal and fuel oil THOSE IN FAVOR will flip the voting machine lever over for the Resolution Those opposed will flip the one over Against the Resolution" All that verbiage simply means should Sullivan County levy an additional 1 per cent sales tax on all items subject to the present 3 per cent sales tax with the exception of electricity gas fuel oil and coal and a $5-ceiling would be placed on all purchases It is estimated that the proposed tax would result In $1400-000 a year In additional revenue for the county Of this amount Kingsport and Bristol would share More On Page I Col 1 By ELLIS BINKLEY Times-News Staff Writer Sullivan Countians vote Saturday on a one-per-cent sales tax referendum To date there doesnt seem to be an organized campaign either for or against the tax and this could result in one of the lowest voter turnouts in recent years With the exception of a fact sheet compiled by the League of Women Voters of Kingsport little interest has been shown by most citizens in the county The league takes no position on the Issue but urges everyone to vote THE DEADLINE for absentee ballots passed yesterday There were exactly 14 ballots cast In the Democratic primary 77 absentee ballots were cast A total at 6399 Democrats voted In their party primary If absentee ballots are a valid Indication of voter Interest as they usually are the sales tax could be passed or rejected by a vote of two or three thousand of some 55000 county resl- dents eligible to vote With the exception of the residents of Bristol the balloting will be county-wide for all voters who were registered by March 24 Of this years six elections Saturdays referendum will be the easiest In which to vote It will be a simple For or "Against proposition IN FACT the voting will be a lot easier than reading the proposition on the machines: Shall a resolution passed by the Sullivan County Quarterly Court on February 14 1966 become operative by which resolution there Is levied a tax in the same manner and on the same privileges subject to the Retailers Sales Tax Act under Chapter 30 Title 67 Tennessee Code Annotated as the same may be amended which are exercised In Sullivan County Tennessee? The tax is levied at the rate of one-third (1-3) of the rates levied in the Retailers Sale Tax Act codified In Chapter 30 Title 67 Tennessee Code Annotated Provided the tax shall it.