Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 8

Times Friday, Feb. 7, 1975 Servant Admits Killing Wrigley Chewing Gum Heir NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (UPI) discovered "trussed up like a ham" in A burly Lebanese servant admit- a 55-gallon oil drum filled with 270 ted he beat to death the wife of an pounds of cement in an auto heir to the Wrigley chewing gum wrecking yard in Sun Valley, Calif. fortune ans stuffed her body in a The cement had been improperly cement-filled oil drum found in a mixed and only a six-inch thick crust junkyard, police said today. on top had hardened and had to be broken through.

Police said they were under a court The wrecking yard is owned by gag order forbidding them to discuss other Lebanese friends the motive for the slaying, but might immigrants, of Bedelian's, who said he left the oil be able to reveal it "in a few days." drum there. Daniel Garbis Bedelian, 40, was The coroner's office said Mrs. booked on suspicion of murder in the Atwater had been killed some time death of Nancy Fuller Atwater, 50, before dawn Wednesday by a "blunt wife of A.G. Atwater retired force" blow on the head, and may also Wrigley executive and heir to $10 have been stabbed in the head. million of the Wrigley fortune.

Newport Beach detectives and Atwater's sister is married to Orange County sheriff's deputies Philip Knight Wrigley of Chicago, began searching for Bedelian after who owns the Chicago Cubs baseball Atwater's day attendant became team and most of Santa Catalina alarmed at Mrs. Atwater's disapIsland off the coast of Southern pearance. Detectives said they found California. Wrigley's son William is bloodstains on the walls of the president of the chewing gum family's $500,000 Corona del Mar company on which the family fortune mansion, which someone had tried to is founded. obscure by painting over them with Bedelian had been hired as a night yellow and black paint.

nurse for Atwater, a mentally Atwater, 67, who sleeps in another incapacitated invalid. bedroom, was apparently unaware of Police said Bedelian led them the beating death of his wife in her Thursday to Mrs. Atwater's body, room, police said. ME DE IN Chuck Gurlekian, wrecking yard owner in Pacoima, looks over scene where Mrs. Atwarter's body was found in a steel drum with concrete.

House Rebate In contrast, the committee approved a bill that would send 85 per cent of the $8 billion rebate to taxpayers with incomes under $20,000 and 62 per cent of the sum to those with incomes of $15,000 or less. The $8.3 billion reduction in 1975 taxes is also geared to help those at the lower end of the earnings scale. Under the plan, taxpayers generally would get 10 per cent of their 1974 tax payments in a single-shot refund in late spring, with some exceptions. -Those who paid less than $100 in taxes for last year would get their entire payment returned, from $99 to $1. -Everyone who paid $100 or more would get slightly less than $100 back from the federal government.

-The payments would be capped at $200, with this maximum amount generally going to those in the brackets. Those earning from $10,000 to $16,000 would get from $100 to $200 and those in the bracket would receive $200 to $100 as the benefit phased down. -Those who earned $30,000 or more would get the standard rebate, estimated to be slightly under $100. The committee directed its staff to work out a refund plan on a $100-minimum, $200-maximum basis with a revenue loss not to exceed $8 billion. If necessary, the staff was told, the $100 should be reduced to get within the limit.

This "Mikva Concept," as it was called in debate, after Rep. Abner Mikva a new member of the panel, the approval of Liberals and Conservatives because it provided a sizable minimum refund to low-income and gave at least $100 to those in the highest brackets. "If you want to make us look ridiculous, give somebody $8.75 and say you're gingering up the economy," commented Conservative Rep. Phil Landrum in an acid comment on the rebate plans offered by Ford and others. After wrangling over other methods to help the home-owning family in the middle income brackets, the committee quickly settled for Mikva's approach.

Five congressmen voted against the bill. They Republicans Bill Archer Guy Vander Jagt James Martin (N. L. A. Bafalis (Fla.) and Democrat Omar Burleson Rep.

Philip M. Crane (R-Ill.) was absent. Archer said the measure discriminated against taxpayers in the category. Adoption of the measure with $4 billion more in tax cuts than Ford had asked climaxed three long days of work by the 37-member panel under Ullman's prodding for fast action. In a significant departure, the Committee adopted a form of the negative income tax for America's "working poor" as part of the 1975 tax cuts.

Under this provision, anyone earning $4,000 or less would receive a payment of 5 per cent from the government, with lesser benefits paid as earnings rose from $4,000 to $6,000. The aim is to return, at least in part, the Social Security tax of 5.8 per cent that is collected on every dollar earned until the ceiling now at $14,400 in reached. In other changes, the committee increased the low income allowance from $1,300 to $1,900 for single persons and up to $2,500 for joint returns. The percentage for the standard deduction also was raised from 15 per cent to 16 per cent and the maximum amount increased to $3.000 for joint returns and $2,500 for single people. The major business cut was an increase in the investment tax credit from tax 7 per cent to 10 per cent for most corporations and from 4 per cent to 10 per cent for utilities.

Small businesses also wuld get a $600 million tax break under another provision of the bill. Jobless Rate Continued From Page 1 recorded in the construction industry; 10.5 per cent in the manufacturing industry and 10.2 per cent among agricultural wage and salary workers. The bureau reported that blue collar workers "bore the brunt of these employment reductions" with some 1.7 million of them losing their jobs between September to January. The January unemployment rate for adult men reached 6 per cent and the rate for heads of households was 5.2 per cent. Unemployment for nonwhites was 13.4 per cent, and teen-age nonwhites experienced a 41.1 per cent unemployment rate.

Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, said the new unemployment figures are "just further evidence that the administration's policies are not adequate to deal with the rising tide of unemployment." "There are some things that need to be done immediately," he said, and called on the government to increase public service employment and release more money for construction and housing. He said Ford's proposed economic programs were mistakenly geared to an unemployment rate of 6 per cent. Ford predicted earlier this week that the employment situation would begin to show a slight improvement sometime next year, when he intends to seek election to a full term.

A persistently high rate of unemployment could hurt Ford's stated ambition, probably more than any other single economic factor. The average duration of unemployment also increased in January to 10.7 weeks and about 1.5 million unemployed persons had been out of work for 15 weeks or more. As the economy contracted, the average work week for all production workers declined 0.3 hours in January to 36.1 hours. Average hourly earnings rose 2 cents to $4.40, up 35 cents from a year ago. Weekly earnings averaged $157.08 January, down $2.79 from December but up $10.06 from January, 1974.

The gain has been wiped out by higher prices and higher taxes. Motel Deaths Continued From Page 1 Continued From Page 1 Roscoe (Flora) West of Weston, and Mrs. Irene Voleiki, Kansas City, five lived in Kingsport for the past 20 years. brothers, James and Charles Collins, both Survivors include her Evelyn of Kansas City, Glen Collins, St. Paul, Millett Bone, Kingsport; her six Kenneth Collins and Lynn Collins, daughter, Mrs.

Mary both of mother; sisters, Jackson, Helen Kingsport. Honeycutt, Mrs. Ruby Eisenring, Miss Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home is in Linda Collins, all of Lansing, Kansas; Mrs. charge. Norma Goode AREA DEATH NOTICES BRISTOL- Mrs.

Norma C. Goode, 78, mother of Mrs. Wanda McJunkin of Kingsport, died at Richmond Manor Nursing Home at 10 a.m. Wednesday after a lengthy illness. Her home was at 105 Mary Bristol, Va.

Widow of T.O. Goode, she was a lifelong resident Bristol and was a member of the First Christian Church of Bristol and the Women's Circle of the church. In addition to the Kingsport daughter, survivors include another daughter, Mrs. Frances Hicks of Bristol; sons, Edward 0., West Palm Beach, William Lakeland Park, and Lt. Cmdr.

James G. stationed in North Africa; 13 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. The body is at Akard Funeral Home. Oscar H. Crumley AFTON, Tenn.

Oscar H. Crumley, 79, of Route 2, Afton, died Friday at 12:40 a.m. in a Greeneville hospital. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. William H.

(Mary) Davis of Kingsport: one son, Robert S. Crumley of Afton; three grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren. Kiser Funeral Home of Greeneville is in charge of arrangements. Nath E. Archer SEVEN VALLEY, PA.Nath E.

Archer, 56, died Tuesday evening at his home here. He had been in ill health for about two years. He was a native of Kingsport and had lived in this area for about 25 years. He retired from Pechtel Corp. where he was a carpenter about two years ago.

He was in the Army during World War II, serving in Germany. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna M. Archer: two daughters; Mrs. Lawrence B.

Blevins, and Mrs. Lane Thomas, both of Seven Valley; five grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ilean Phillips and Mrs. Clara Phillips, both of Kingsport. Goodling Funeral Home, here, is in charge of arrangements.

Herbert McConnell GATE CITY Herbert Price McConnell, 61, of Route 2, Gate City, Midway Community, died at the residence of a son, 565 Rich Drive, Kingsport at 7:30 a.m. Thursday following a long illness. He was a life long resident of Scott County, a retired farmer and a Baptist. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Goldie Gillenwater McConnell of the home; two daughters, Miss Louella McConnell, Gate City, and Mrs.

Joe (Vivian) White, Nickelsville; two sons, Gene McConnell, Gate City, and Odell McConnell, Kingsport; five brothers, Sebert McConnell, Henry McConnell, Vernon McConnell, Lawton McConnell, and Corbet McConnell, all of Gate City; seven grandchildren, one greatgrandchild. Arrangements will be announced later by the Gate City Funeral Home. Bessie Milburn GREENEVILLE Mrs. Bessie A. Milburn, 89, of the Milburnton Community, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

I.J. Hensley, Thursday at 7 p.m. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. I. J.

(June) Hensley, Greene County, Miss Mattie A. Miland Mrs. Luther (Freddie) Johnson, both of Church Hill; three sons, Elbert, Leslie and Rev. Glen Milburn, all of Greene County; five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren. Jeffers Mortuary in Greeneville is in charge.

Mrs. Ida Mann JONESBORO Mrs. Ida Mann, 81, of Route 6, Jonesboro, died at 5 a.m. Thursday in the John Reed Nursing Home of Limestone, Tenn. following a long illness.

She was a native of Pound, Va. but had been a resident of Johnson City for the past 10 years. She was a member of the McKinley Church. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Elmer (Imogene) Rexrode of Bristol, Mrs.

Donald (Mary Louise) Peterson of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Elmer (Ruth) Hensley of Knoxville; one son, Russell H. Mann of Jonesboro; two sisters, Mrs. Julia Jenny of Wyoming and Mrs. Docta McAlister of Texas; one brother, Ted Brummit of Jenkins, three grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren.

Carter's Chapel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Raymond Erwin Erwin, 77, of 455 Opekiska died in Unicoi Memorial Hospital Wednesday afternoon after a short illness. He was a retired employe of the Clinchfield Railroad and a member of the Ninth St. Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Ruth Ray Erwin; five sons, R. T. Erwin of the home, Bill Erwin, Anderson, S. Gene Erwin and Harold Erwin, both of Kingsport, and Charles Erwin, Seattle, three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Congdon, Erwin, Mrs.

Eunice Morris, Johnson City, and Mrs. Lois Auman, High Point, N. one sister, Mrs. Myrtle Whitson, Erwin; 13 grandchildren and three great grandchildren and two step-great- ERWIN, Raymond T. Erwin is in charge.

Miss Sallie Richards Miss Sallie Emily Richards, 75, of Kingsport, was dead on arrival at the Holston Valley Community Hospital late Wednesday night. She was a native of Hawkins County and had made her home with a niece, Mrs. Leota Wacks, of 432 Gaines St. for everal years. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews.

Colboch-Price Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Funerals BONE, IDA NORENE COLLINS Funeral services for Ida Norene Collins Bone will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Hamlett-Dobson Chapel with Captain Joseph Knobel officiating. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7-9 p.m.

Sunday. HamlettDobson in charge. MANN, MRS. IDA Funeral Services for Mrs. Ida Mann, age 81, of Route 6, Jonesboro, Tennessee, will be conducted at 11:00 a.m.

Saturday at the Pyle Memorial Church, Pine, Virginia with the Rev. Leonard Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Mullins Cemetery. The body will remain at Carter's Chapel where the family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Friday night.

Carter's Chapel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. GOODE, MRS. NORMA C. Funeral services for Mrs. Norma C.

Goode will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday from the First Christian Church, Bristol. Dallas J. Beck, Minister, will officiate. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemtery.

The body will remain at Akard Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Friday. Akard Funeral Home, Bristol, Tennessee, is in charge of arrangements. SAMPLES, ALLEN C. Funeral services for Allen C.

Samples will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Wood Mortuary, 300 West Poinsett Street, Greer, South Carolina. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Wood Mortuary, Greer, South Carolina in charge. ERWIN, RAYMOND T.

Funeral services for Raymond T. Erwin will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church, Erwin, with Dr. Melvin G. Faulkner and the Rev.

Donald Sigmon officiating. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Ledford Curry Funeral Home, Johnson City in charge. BROWN, WORLEY H.

Funeral services for Worley H. Brown, age 78, Piney Flats, Route 1, who died at 5 a.m. Friday will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Poplar Ridge Christian Church with Minister J.E. (Ed) Hayes and Thomas Shepard officiating.

Burial will be in Church Cemetery. The body will remain at the funeral home where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Friends are welcome to call at the home at any time. The body will lie in state 30 minutes prior to services.

Dillow -Taylor Funeral Home, Jonesboro, in charge. RICHARDS, MISS SALLIE EMILY Funeral services for Miss Sallie Emily Richards of 432 Gaines Street will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the ColbochPrice Chapel with Rev. Jack Sturgill and Rev. Charles Long officiating.

Burial will be in Dykes Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. ColbochPrice Funeral Home, Rogersville in charge. MCCONNELL, HERBERT PRICE Funeral services for Herbert Price McConnell will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday in the Gene Falin Memorial Chapel of the Gate City Funeral Home with Rev. Fletcher Frazier and Rev. G.W. White officiating. Burial will follow in the McConnell Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be James White, Bobby Gillenwater, Bobby Frazier, H.J. McConnell, Durad McConnell, H.L. McConnell. The body will remain at the funeral home where the family will receive friends Friday night. Gate City Funeral Home in charge.

CRUMLEY, OSCAR H. Funeral services for Oscar H. Crumley will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from Doty's Chapel United Methodist Church. Interment in the church cemetery with Rev.

Charles Davis officiating. The body will be taken to the church to lie in state 30 minutes preceding services. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the funeral Home. Kiser Funeral Home, Greenville in charge.

MILBURN, MRS. BESSIE A. Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie A. Milburn, 89, who died at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

I. J. Hensley, Thursday at 7 p.m., will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Jeffers Mortuary Chapel with burial in the Milburnton Cemetery. Ministers are Rev.

Thurman Littreal and Rev. Harry Fleenor. The body will remain in Jeffers Mortuary where the family will receive friends Saturday evening from 7-9. Jeffers Mortuary, Greenville, is in charge of arrangements. Miners Ready Campaigns For District 28 Elections NORTON Nominations of United Church as executive board member, will Mine Workers District 28 candidates for seek re-election after their four-year the court -ordered district elections in May terms were cut short by Widener's call for will take place this Saturday and next a new vote.

throughout 52 local unions across the sixcounty southwest Virginia district, union Opposing the Owens slate in Saturday's leaders said Friday. nominations will be the team Marshall of Tazewell County for president, The balloting will precede a new district Douglas Arrington of Dickenson County convention to be held Feb. 22, tentatively for secretary-treasurer, and Bud Clark of in Richlands. Wise Courty for board member. The convention, also ordered by a federal court last month will bring a redefinition of District 28 by-laws after the Aug.

6 convention was overturned by Acting District Judge Emory Widener in Abingdon. By late Friday, two team slates declared intentions to seek nominations for the posts of district president, secretarytreasurer and international executive board member. Nine candidates seek the five district field worker posts, while one other secretary-treasurer candidate and two hopefuls for the executive board have announced independently. The incumbent Tom Owens slate, with Owens as District 28 president, Fred Wilson as secretary-treasurer, and Elmer Scout Plan Special Events For Weekend Area Scouters this week announced plans for two special events, the Annual Scouters Recognition Banquet for Warriors' Path District, and meeting of the Order of the Arrow. The Recognition Banquet is scheduled for Thursday, Feb.

13, at 6:30 p.m. at First Broad Street Methodist Church. Guest speaker for the banquet will be John Robert Bell, physical education and athletics director for the Sullivan County Schools. HIGH 30.48 29.77 NEW YORK I $30.12 30.00 SAN FRANCISCO DENVERI LOB 30.18 LOWEST TEMPERATURES NEW ORLEANS LEGEND RAIN SNOW AIR W2 SHOWERS FLOW UP WEATHER FOTOCAST During Friday night, snow is expected over parts of the northern Rockies while rain falls in upper California and lower Florida. Fair to partly cloudy elsewhere across the nation.

Very cold air is predicted to push across the East from the central valleys. Minimum temperatures include: (approx. max readings in parenthesis) Atlanta 25 (49), Boston 19 (32), Chicago 5 (17), Dallas 37 (60), Denver 16 (40), Duluth -20 (-6), Houston 37 (69), Jacksonville 30 (58), Kansas City 13 (27), Los Angeles 52 (63), Miami 49 (70), New Orleans 31, (70), New York 19 (33), Phoenix 42 (74), San Francisco 44 (61), Seattle 36. (43), St. Louis 13 (28), Washington 22 (38).

Bids Accepted On Washington Vocational Education Wing JONESBORO The Washington County School Board approved the acceptance of a low bid of $373,000 from the Coolidge- -Johnson Construction Company City for the construction of a vocational education wing at Daniel Boone High School Thursday night. Bids opened at the January board meeting, with Coolidge -Johnson low bidder, were sent to Nashville for approval by officials before the state, agreed to give the contract. State officials approved low bid also and sent the bids back to the board. Architect William, Ambrose was on hand to explain the bid to the board, members and told the board, that the contractor had agreed to supply some of the equipment the state had thought would have to be supplied by them. In other action, the board approved the letting of bids on a vocational addition for David Crockett Bids were schedulech to be opened at" the March 20 board meeting.

Persons should call 245-0134 or 247-4511, not 247-4711 as reported Thursday. Netherland Inn To Receive $10,000 Research Grants Kingsport's Netherland Advisory Committee as the Inn Association will receive result of applications made $10,000 in federal funds by the association last year. from the National Historic Each grant is Preservation Act during represent 50 per cent fund1975, the Tennessee His- ing for the research torical Commission has an- projects, to be conducted nounced. over the next three years. The funds, two $5,000 The grants are to be adgrants for research at ministered under the Netherland Inn Pres- guidelines of the National ton Farm, were awarded by Park Service, United States Tennessee's Historic Sites Department of Interior.

Deputies Recover Property Sullivan County Sheriff's The items were found in officers recovered stolen a junked auto near the site car stereo equipment of the burglarized car. shortly after the theft oc- Officers said the thief apcurred at 9:10 a.m. Thurs- parently climbed over the day. fence with the stolen goods The sheriff's department and stored them in the car. was notified of a burglary in No arrests have been made progress on the Long Island in connection with the side of Tennessee Eastman burglary.

Company in a parking lot. The stolen items included 43 eight-track tapes valued Name Omitted at $240, two speakers A name was omitted valued at $40 and a tape from the list of nominees to player worth about $140, a attend U. S. Service tape box and a coat. Academies, announced by Congressman James H.

Quillen's office in ThursSelected day's Times-News. Also nominated was Stocks Walter Earl Wininger Thursday's Closing Prices 220 Maple Church Hill.BANKS BID ASKED Compiled by J. C. Bradford Co. Wininger was a principle First Amer.

Natl Bank nominee to the U. S. Naval First Tenn. Corp. United Tenn.

Bankshares 5 Academy and an alternate INDUSTRIALS nominee to the U. S. MiliASG Industries General Shale tary Academy. Lowes Company Piedmont Avaition 6 Lincoln American Life INSURANCES Wrong Number Nationwide Corp. 9 U.S.

Life Life The Northwestern National al Ins. misprinted telephone LISTED STOCKS Arcata Natl. connection with Baker Oil Tools persons trying to get hold of Cenco Instruments the Crisis Center or VolunCarolina Clinchfield Chemical Bank N. Y. Trust 36 teer Kingsport for Holiday Inns McDonald Corp.

unemployment counselling. Manufactures Hanover Tr. Pet Milk Revco Drug Stores Seaboard Coastlines Sherwin Williams J. P. Stevens 12 Vulcan Materials Don Kennedy of Dickenson County and Rufus Keene of Scott County will also seek the executive board post.

David Dotson of Dickenson County is an independent candidate for secretary-treasurer. Field worker candidates include Carl Cobb of Appalachia, Henry Shortridge of Vansant, Junior Long of Oakwood, Clyde Lambert of Council, Roger Barker of Big Stone Gap, Willy Smith of Richlands, San Church of Appalachia, Jackie Hill of Clintwood, and Arvil Sykes of Grundy. Nominations close Feb. 15. Nominations for seven district executive committee members and two safety department offices will be opened at the convention for elections, according to district spokesmen.

Tickets for the banquet, at $2.25 each, may be obtained from Scout commissioners or from Kendell Butcher, Joe Paul Reedy, Tom Haskins, Yantz, Charlie Byrd or Bob Jones. The Natopolis Chapter of the Order of the Arrow will meet Sunday, February 9, at 3 p.m. 2 p.m. for officers) at the Waverly Road Presbyterian Church. The Order of the Arrow is an elite fraternity of the Boy Scouts of America and has limited boy membership.

When words fail. Flowers express how you really feel. And we can help with sympathy flowers and plants. Stop by or call. Because flowers are as beautifully alive as a memory.

Groseclose Moral Company 108 W. Charlemont St Ph: 246-6108 VI HOP TO IT! PLACE YOUR FLEA BARGAIN AD For the month of February, there will be a special classification under Merchandise For Sale. It will be "'FLEA Designed especially for you, it will offer the opportunity to bring in extra selling those items you no longer need or use, at a very low cost to you! Limited to merchandis for sale (no boats, autos, cancellable, not refundable. Get going! Make your move to the "FLEA BARGAINS'! 3 lines 6 days 3 246-8121 Scott County, Va. Gray-Jonesboro 386-6961 929-2197.