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Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 3

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Kingsport Timesi
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Kingsport, Tennessee
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inree The Kingsport Times Kingsport Tennessee Sunday July 7 1940 MONDAY--TUESDAY It will pay you to visit our store every day for greater values! CITIZENS TO HEAR PLANS OUTLINED FOR T-B CONTROL "Tuberculosis control in Sullivan couiity is Insufficient and something needs to be done about it" said directors of the Sullivan Coun- ty Tuberculosis Association as they urged all citizens of the county to join with medical institute physicians in a meeting Wednesday eve ning to plan a concerted drive against the disease State and local funds are being spent here to curb tuberculosis but in nothing like sufficient amounts leaders of the Sullivan County Tuberculosis Association declared The public meeting to be held Wednesday at 7:30 pm in the Civic Auditorium is designed to publicize the need for anti-tuberculosis education and to arouse an effective demand for the expenditure of more funds here to fight the disease they said Two of the leading authorities on tuberculosis will be speak ers Wednesday at the Holston Valley Community fifteenth medical institute of which the public meeting is a part They are Dr Gass director of the division of tuberculosis control and Dr Hubbard state director of tu berculosis hospitalization A clinic and film demonstration will be held at 4 pm at the hospital for members of the association Dr Schram chairman of the program and education com- mittee of the hospital will be in charge of the institute Physicians I from all over East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia are expected to attend Women's Handkerchiefs REDUCED Fine woven cottons and pure tinen hand rolled hems and embroidered want several First Floor SLIPS A Real Value Tailored rayon satin Sizes 32 to 14 miss this value First Floor 37c Sheer DRESSES attractive prints in all the new and fetching styles Kiri several you see them Second Floor leicmng that love 1 )) want ff when as gm WOMENS BATISTE GOWNS A spe- 44c Puerto Rican Hand Embroidered cial purchase First floor i 0 11th District Registration Colorful Turkish TOWELS PLAY SUITS Above is shown a map of registration boundaries of the 11th civil district for voters who intend to participate in the August 1 county election and state Democratic primary The map reveals the place registration is to be held in each of the three voting wards of the city Registration books will be open at each place for three days beginning Tuesday Tours will be from 9 a until 9 pm Fancy stripes and colored Sizes 17 by 28 A real value Buy a supply 6c Colorful cotton prints in a variety of cunning new styles Sizes 7 to 14 Second Floor Kingsport Qualified to Cast One-Fourth of County's Votes 37c Each $701250 IN FINES COLLECTED BY CITY The quarterly report of fines as sesscd and collected as a result of activities of the Kingsport Police Department during the months of April May and June amounted to $701250 according to city officials A marked increase in payment of delinquent licenses also is shown Fines collected during the three month period boosted the total ma terially since strict enforcement of the city order that fines secured must be paid within The 30-day limit city officials said The amount collected was placed at $549005 Credit given citypris oners at $1 per day in the work house amounted to $1107 and an item of $28850 classed as remitted as a result of some prisoners being released before all of the fines are paid shows only $12695 still remaining unpaid The report reveals that delinquent special privilege licenses collected amounted to $107622 and that new special privilege licenses collected amounted to $67248 Delinquent privilege licenses and ad valorem taxes collected amounted to $341487 New privilege licenses collected amounted to $9738 or a to of $351235 Balcony The 11th civil district of Sullivan New COTTON PRINTS police court Saturday morning by City Judge Napoleon Bond as a result of police activities Friday night An Old Kingsport resident listed as Frank Cloud pleaded guilty to possessing two pints of liquor and was fined $2750 Three others arrested in connection with the same offense were acquitted For traffic violations Judge Bond fined Dr Massengill $350 on a charge of parking in an alley Adams forfeited $350 on the same charge and Mrs Honey forfeited $350 for overtime parking Patrolman Bill Fletcher reported to authorities that be recovered a stolen car belonging to Mills Motor Co which had not been discovered as lost until the officers notified the company the car had been found Fletcher said the car was abandoned at the rear of Slip-Not Belting Corp Deaths JOSEPH CATRON RITES TO BE HELD Gate City Va (SpL) Funeral services for Joseph Catron 24 Tennessee Eastman Corporation employee who died Saturday of self-inflicted gunshot wounds at his home on the Hiltons highway will be held at 3 pm Sunday at the home of his father in the Moccasin Gap community The Rev Frye and the Rev Craft will conduct the services Burial will be in the Holston View cemetery Survivors are? the widow Nancy McGahey Catron Mrs Catron j' three broth-and one half-brother Gibson all of Gate City one sister Sylvia Catron of Gate City and one half-sister Opal Hamilton of Kingsport Pall bearers will be Robert Me-David Walker Smith James Curtis Mack Poff Carlos Parker Leonard Harris Fred Whited Robert Morehouse Ralph Bray and Charles McDavid Flower bearers and honorary pall bearers will be associate workers at Tennessee Eastman An exceptionally low price for colorful wash-fast cottons 36" wide Grand for dresses and things Balcony riod Only those who have changed residences or who have moved into the district since the last registration need register Unregistered voters of 11th dis-: trict living in the south ward will register at Lincoln school on the Bristol highway east ward at Washington school on Watauga street and those in the west ward at the Center street entrance to the city hall i Fain said that the number of eligible voters will number approxi-! mately 15000 including those who have paid poll taxes and those who are not required to pay poll taxes because of age Whether poll tax payments are required or eliminated according to age all voters must be properly registered in order to be eligible to vote There is no charge for registration In leading the entire county in poll tax payments Fain said Kingsport is followed by Bristol with approximately 2000 on the certified list Although figures were not available it i3 believed the 12th district will be third on the poll tax payment list county (Kingsport) will be eligible to cast approximately 28 percent of the total county vote in forthcoming elections If the voters are properly registered according to County Trustee Worley Fain On the basis of payment of 9700 poll taxes largest number in the history Fain said that list includes 2700 voters who need only to be properly registered in order to take part in the county general election and state Democratic primary scheduled Aug 1 In order that voters may become eligible in the 11th and 17th civil districts (Kingsport and Bristol) the county and primary election boards have set next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday as days for holding supplemental registration in each of the three voting wards of the two cities 700 May Register As in the past registration will be held between the hours of 9 am and 9 pm for those voters who are not properly registered It is estimated that 700 voters will be registered here during the three-day pe BEACH CHAIR RECOVERS Waterproof Awning Stripes Cord loop slip- 33c Ea on style Balcony From Our Curtain Dept Net Tailored Pairs Extra Value SHEETS In County Race- llillenberg well-known resident of Kingsport announced Saturday he would be a candidate for election to the office of tax assessor subject to the Ang 1 election He is opposed by GO Hicks Democratic nominee Experienced Vote For Walter Moody 1 V-f I s-" 79c rCT INTI WEAVES I Imltd qua tltr Be e-re ed qhte Mai telae 39c Good quality of un-b 1 ea ed torn sheeting Sizes 881 by 89 Balcony Pair Balcony Boys LAST ROGERSVILLE VETERAN FORMER MAYOR SUCCUMBS Rogersville JP A Huffmas-ter 92 last veteran of the War Be- MRS SARAH STEFFEY Dante Va (Spl) Funeral services were held at the Hamlin Baptist church for Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Steffey 82 wife of the late Steffey who died Wednesday morning after a long illness at the home of her son Steffey of Dante Interment was in the Nick-elsville cemetery Mrs Steffey was a lifelong resident of Russell county She is survived by three sons and Steffey of Dante and six daughters Mrs Holbrook of St Paul Mrs Harris of Coeburn Mrs Steffey and Mrs McConnell of Kingsport Mrs Henry of Snowflake and Mrs Addington of DAIRY INSPECTION BEGINS IN CITY The Sullivan County Health Department announced Saturday that regular! inspection of dairy products purchased from producers and inspection of local milk plants HUGE GUNS REACH GUARDSMEN HERE Maj John McLendon of the 191st field artillery National Guard announced yesterday that the final shipment of 155-millimeter guns had been received by batteries and here Eight of the new guns weighing approximately eight tons each were assigned to the local batteries with their transfer from the 115th regiment to the 191st The 75-millimeter guns formerly in use here have been shipped to Memphis for use by batteries of the 115th there Battery already has its four guns which have a part in guard drills using dummy shells The guns assigned to Battery are now at the railroad station ready to be taken to the guard quarters in the Civic Auditorium Major McLendon said Thirty-two trucks have been assigned to the local batteries to be used in pulling the guns and transporting troops ammunition and equipment Guardsmen will have their first opportunity to use real shells in the new guns when they go to camp Aug 4-24 The battalion composed of two Kingsport batteries and the battery at Greeneville will maneuver from Camp Shelby through the Sabine Valley of Texas WASH PANTS Hillenberg Enters Tax Assessor Race Hillenberg resident of Sullivan county for the past 30 years announced Saturday that he will be a candidate for election to the office of tax assessor subject to the county election to be held Aug 1 Mr Hillenberg is well known in this section and throughout the county having been in the hardware business here for 15 years He was in the real estate business six years and the insurance business four years I am elected tax assessor" he declared "it is my solemn pledge to check every assessment in the county so that a fair fend equitable assessment may be made I believe this is what every intelligent citizen of the county should demand for his Light cool cot tons Strongly made Fast color and Sanforised shrunk 77c has been started in Kingsport under tween the States residing in Hawk-standards as set up by the United ins county and former mayor of States Public Health Service milk Rogersville died today commission Too y0ung to become a soldier Glen Kilday county health offi- when he joined the Confederate cer in the Kingsport area said the forces as a boy of 13 Huff master purpose of inspection is to deter- served as messenger for his brother mine from samples collected the Capt Joe Huffmaster whose corn-amount of bacteria in milk and I pany was stationed near Kingsport the quality of milk being sold on He was admitted to the bar In Basement Dept BOY'S KNITTED SHIRTS 25c So low priced mothers will buy several Basement Boys Department For TRUSTEE Sullivan County Honest Qualified Nine Persons Pay City Court Fines Nine persons were fined in city RUFUS DILLOW Cooks Valley Tenn (Spl) Funeral services for Rufus Dillow 82 who died at his home in Cooks Valley Friday at 8:40 will be held at 2 pm today at the home Burial will be in Pyle cemetery Mr Dillow was a life-long resident of Sullivan county and had lived in Cooks Valley for the past 58 years Active pallbearers and flower bearers will be selected from friends and neighbors I Survivors are five sons John Bruce Lee and Dillow all of Kingsport and Walter Dillow of Akron Ohio and two daughters Mrs Moody and Miss Mary Dillow of Kingsport His wife died one year ago Boys OVERALLS Men a Buy! WORK SOCKS the market "Kilday said that Kingsport now has become one of the leading milk distributing points in East Tennessee and that each of the six plants in the city markets only grade bottled milk During the first 1 ni months of 1840 Kilday said one new(T eStlVEll I 1211111001 dairy products producer has been admitted for selling milk to pas- At KOail MOlUltain teurization plants Elizabethton A Formation of the Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival Association by a group of the past year including an entirely Elizabethton citizens was announc-new pasteurization plant now under ed here today construction while major improve- The organization having 14 char-ments are contemplated by another ter members will sponsor a festival company I here designed to give wide publicity to the rhododendron gardens atop 44c Triple stitched a ackec to a kind of wear! Sizes 2 to 16 YOU DON'T NEED THIS tough cot-an work socks Built for rough dear save on these 5c Pair Basement Pali Basement B03V Dept When You Send Your ''f INFANT BALL Funeral services for Wanda Marie Ball infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Ball will be conducted at the parents home today at 2:30 pm The Rev Dan Graham will officiate I Besides her parents the cfiild is Roan Mountain Tenn The articles of incorporation were filed June 11 First of the proposed annual fetes will be launched next summer survived by a brother Harold Lee Ball paternal an4naternal grandparents and several aunts and uncles PRESCRIPTIONS TO FREELS! We Trust Your Life To LUCK! and Boys1 CANVAS SHOES You afford to miss this value A limited quantity Come early We have all sizes First Floor PLAN PROGRAMS AT PLAYGROUNDS Activities on local playgrounds will center around music and dra ma this week and will culminate in programs to be presented to the public at Lincoln Thursday at 7 and at Lee and Douglas Fri day at 7:30 A hike to Holston Tunnel planned for last week and postponed because of the rain will be taken Wednesday leaving at 10 a A tournament 'in paddle tennis will be run off week Handicraft and music will meet on alternate days at 2 Dolls of all sizes shapes and degrees of attractiveness were displayed at the doll shows held on ail three playgrounds Friday night The smallest doll was hardly an inch in length while the largest was -a match for a healthy year-old baby At Douglas playground the doll show was one feature of a carnival held in connection with the Fourth of July First prizes went to Virginia Phipps Barbara and Almeretus Bond Blue ribbon winners at Lee were Helen Neeley Dorothy McGuire Betty Lou Hawk and Kay Barrett Lincoln winners 'were Kathleen Ring Ann Massengill Betty Jo Frady Joan Vicars Ruth Moore Virginia Morrow and Jack Vicars Robert Conley and Charlesye were winners In a croquet toOtna- 'tt week How Can I Make My Home More Beautiful? Where Will I Gel Mote Value for My Money? How About Terms? Will They Flf My Income? sure of getting your Prescriptions accurately compounded when you bring them to Freels we have a completely modern scientific laboratory we use only the purest ingredients and an experienced registered pharmacist is in charge at all times Try us with your next presription! Men's All-Purpose Shirt Wash Ties Made of fast color cottons Attractive patterns 10c 25c All white knit cotton for work or play want several First Floor First Floor It Pays To Shop At FOT44 RNfUJCRf TO ALL QUtmONJ I GO TO DOBYNS'TGYLOJl FURNITURE VPT on FREELS DRUG STORE More Than Time In Just 5 Years".

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Years Available:
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