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THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES CHATTANOOGA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1949. SPRING CREEK SPAN Dinner to Honor Bead Of KitcanU International OMR FOUGHT BY HARGRAVES Directed by Schoolfield to Pay Into Court $170 He Accepted From Waldie CLAIMS IT'S ALL POLITICS A I ARROW FORMAL SHIRTS -Hyi linIlu "-mmmZT 4 ii ii it- IP for itepping out ittp ond sta owr Arrow formal shirts good-tooklng, comfortable and Impeccably styled In the Arrow manner. FOR TUX wear the Arrow Shoreham TOR TAIlS-wear the Arrow Kirk $4.50 FIRST STEP The first load of rock waa moved yesterday at Chickamauga Dam as construction began on approach ramps to a bridge across the dam. County Judge Thrasher, pointing, who has spearheaded the movement for the bridge. Is shown discussing the project with Construction Foreman Harry E.

Plyley. The earth fill section, on which the crane is working, must be widened for the high ramp. The bridge, which will be completed in about 18 months, must clear two cranes (background) on top of the dam. Timei SUf Photo by Bob Ispy. Style Headquarters for Men and Young Men 809 Market Street Thru to 810 Broad Street Monday and Tuesday Special Maple Bedroom Grouping 1 i i -J 'r mmsf tf v.

j. 4, mr-TimT 4 'i -A ANOTHER OUTSTANDING VALUE FROM WERTHEIMER'S Includes VANITY OR DRESSER VANITY BENCH PANEL BED ROOMY CHEST CO Pay Only $1.00 Week CC IS SLATED FOR BIDS Work on Ringgold Road Also Among 29 Plans for 183 Miles Set by State from rime NathvOl Bmrtau. NASHVILLE, Nov. 21The state highway department today called for bids to be submitted Dec. 16 for completion of the Spring Creek Bridge on Spring Creek Road; connecting Ringgold and Brainerd roads, just outside Chattanooga.

The highway department also asked for bids for- widening and resurfacing the Ringgold Road from the Bachman Tubes to the Georgia line, a distance of five miles. These were two of 29 projects covering 183 miles of construction on which bids were requested. Total cost of all the construction was estimated at $8,500,000. As usual, the highway department did not release estimates on individual projects. Hlwassee Bridge Another major project on the list was rebuilding of the Hiwassee River Bridge on U.

S. 411 six miles of Benton. This is the bridge which collapsed last December under a loaded truck, resulting in the death of two men. An official report has blamed that accident on lack of maintenance of the 40-year-old span. A temporary bridge put up by the highway department last spring has been handling traffic on the highway from Benton to Etowah pending construction of the new, permanent span.

The first step toward completion of a newf road from Dunlap to Pikeville was included. This was a request for bids on 16 bridges on a new road between the Sequatchie-Bledsoe County line and Pikeville. i The major portion of a project canceled by the Browning administration when it took office last January was reinstated in today's bid notice. This was widening and resurfacing with bitumi nous materials of 22.15 miles of the NashviUe-Lewisburg highway, extending from Farmington, nine miles north of Lewisburg, to Kirkland in Williamson County. Similar Project Bids on a similar project cover ing 18.12 miles of the same road were received Nov.

19, 1948, when former Gov. Jim McCord still was in office. Ralph Rogers Company Inc: of Nashville at $390,038 submitted the apparent low bid. But State Highway Commissioner E. W.

Eggleston termed the project unnecessary and canceled contract. Some Browning administration leaders hinted the contract had been included in a final effort of the McCord administration to provide a new road from Nashville to McCord's home town of Lewlsbursr. The Mother half of the project, extending on into Nashville, which had been included by McCord's highway department, was not among those on which bids were requested for next month. Plans to award a contract to a private builder to erect the Spring Creek Bridge in Hamilton County apparently assured completion of a project delayed for nearly a year by a labor dispute. Commissioner Eggleston and Hamilton County Judge Wilkes T.

Thrasher discussed a plan for the state to contract with the county for completion of the bridge an important link between Ringgold and Brainerd roads. This idea, Eggleston recalled, was blocked by the state attorney-general's office, which held the state had no authority to contract with a county. Completed Work Approaches and piers for the bridge already had been completed by the state when the Iron Workers' Union demanded that its members be given jobs erecting the superstructure. The state had planned to do this with its own bridge-building crews and declared the highway department wage scale was too low to permit employing members of the Iron Workers' Union. The construction work stopped right there and has been at a standstill ever since, despite efforts by both county and state officials to work out an agreement.

The request for bids from private contractors covered only the bridge superstructure, which is the roadway and supporting beams. It will be 124 feet and 9 inches long. Like the Hiwassee River Bridge, this one collapsed under a loaded truck. It was used See Page Nineteen, Column One Auto Club to Help Improvements on Assistance of the Chattanooga Automobile Club in getting improvements on 'the Jimmy Price Highway from Whitwell to Chattanooga over Suck Creek Mountain was sought yesterday by a delegation from the Whitwell Lions Club who met with the auto cluh board. The board was told that Improvements are needed to abolish 70 "blind" and four oneway bridges.

Resurfacing is also necessary, the Whitwell citizens said. -p' According to O. P. Graysonj the road has not been improved in many years. He estimated that 500 trucks use it daily, and at least 50 automobiles drive' to Chattanooga and back to Whitwell.

He also cited the great use of the highway from McMInnville to Chattanooga via Whitwell. In the delegation were Grayson, Jimmy Price A. Condra and D. R. HalL T.

R. McAfee, president of the club here, assured the delegation that the organization will co-operate in every way possible to secure the Improvements. S. R. was nominated president.

Thare were no other candidates and his election will take place Dec 19 at the monthly meeting. Robert R. Nixon and Frank Herron were nominated vice-presidents, and Harry Mc-CooL treasurer. Charles McD. Puckette, chairman, made the nominating committee report.

1 I JT. HUGH JACKSON J. Hugh Jackson of Stanford, president of Kiwanis International, will be guest of honor at a dinner meeting at the Read House Dec. 8 at 6 :30 o'clock. Thirteen Kiwanis clubs in the division of the Kentucky-Tennessee district will be represented at the meeting.

James B. Cole, president of the Chattanooga club, has offered a prize of a 25-pound turkey for the club having the largest percentage attendance. Jackson is dean of the graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Mrs. Jackson will accompany her husband to Chattanooga-He was elected to the international presidency at the annual convention.

A graduate of Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, he received his master's degree from Harvard University. He is a contributor to business and professional publications and is the author of four volumes on accounting. NEW BOOKMOBlCE OH EXHIBIT TODAY Latest Enlargement of the Library to Be in Front of of Building Chattanooga Public Library's new bookmobile will be exhibit today from 10 to 5 o'clock in front of the Chamber of Commerce on Broad Street. Fully stocked with books, of which 2,500 are brand new, the traveling library invite? inspection from. all.

A city map on which prospective stops are marked will be shown with the bookmobile, and all suburban residents who want to add requests for neighborhood service are asked to do so. Trial trips will be made on Friday and Saturday, and regular service is expected to start next week, says Miss Elizabeth Edwards, city librarian. However, for several weeks, each day's journey of the will be subject to change, as new stops are tried out and maximum service Is attalnea. Visitors at the book fair last week at the library had a preview of the bookmobile, stationed on the driveway there while the sign-painter finished his work. The books were on display inside the library, the new ones cased in cellophane jackets and the older books refurbished and relettered for bookmobile use.

Converted School Bus The big bookmobile, a converted school bus, is painted in two shades of green and the lettering is in golden yellow. A painted circle of readers, designed by Florence Hull, complements the side signs. Librarians drew up specifications for the bookmobile, Incorporating features found efficient in bookmobiles used in various cities throughout the country. I The school bus was bought by the city purchasing department, a bargain found by Mayor Wasson, who has been most Interested In its preparation. The conversion job was done by A.

Fassnacht St. Sons. The book shelves, sloping Inward and covered with rubber mats to keep books from jolting and slid ing off, were made at Kirkman Vo cational School. There is a built-in desk and chair for the librarian, and a coat closet in one corner. There is ample space for walking between the shelves, so that book distribution may go pn in all kinds of weather.

Fluorescent lights are provided, these ready to "hook In" at a See Page Four Whitwell Obtain Jimmy Price Road 1 A ei S. R. FINLEY A letter from the Dubuque (Iowa) Automobile Club announced that all winter travel to the South is being routed from Nashville to Chattanooga over U. S. 41 exclusively Heretofore the routing has been through Birmingham, avoidtag Chattanooga.

But Judge Says It's Proper to Turn In Any Fees Taken if Lawyer Quits a Case Attorney Jesse M. Hargraves aid he "will resist to the fullest extent" Judge Raulston School-field's order of yesterday that Har graves pay $170 Into the court for court reporting expenses of Willie Waldie, given the death penalty last month on a first degree murder conviction. Attorneys Malcolm McLean and E. B. Baker, now counsel for Waldie, filed a summary motion Saturday demanding that Har-graves return $200 paid him by Waldie.

They claimed that Har-graves performed no legal services for the money and cited the fact that he had withdrawn from the case last summer. Schoolfield ordered Hargraves 'to -pay 1170. Instead of $200 because the attorney' books showed be had paid $30 to McLean, associated with his firm last spring, for work on the case. McLean denied having received the money, but Schoolfield said he would order payment of $170 "in order to be absolutely certain" no injustice were done Hargraves. Lawyers Watch Case During the hearing yesterday morning more than a dozen attorneys were Interested spectators.

Hargraves admitted having received $150 from Waldie and his friends, but agreed It was probably $200 when Waldie produced a receipt showing a friend had paid Hargraves $100 in addition to the $100 Waldie himself Taking the witness stand, Wal die, 28-year-old gambler, spoke in a whisper and appeared nervous. He said, "I told Mr. Hargraves I didn't know what I'd do if he withdrew from my case. I told him I didn't know where I'd get more money for another lawyer." Schoolfield explained he was re quiring payment of the $170 be cause he assumed when he per mitted Hargraves last summer to withdraw from the case that no foe had been paid him. "When I vaa in practice and withdrew from a case, I always told the court if I had received any money and al ways turned it in to the clerk to be paid the attorney appointed to represent the defendant," he explained.

Schoolfield said, "It Is not fair to ask a member of the bar to take a case In which another attorney has already received a fee." jUrfrgraves said he had had other expenses In connection with the ease. "I sent two Investigators to Alabama and it cost about $35," he claimed. He said one investi gator was Waldie'a cousin, but declined to identify the other when asked to do so by Schoolfield. "It la your privilege to remain mute on this if you wish," said School-field, "but you are an officer of this court, and I think it would be better if you did not remain mute." Says He Wanted $1,000 Waldie'a case was heard first in May, two weeka after Hargraves had a heart attack. McLean, then associated with Hargraves, was defense counsel.

He told the court that the association was not a real firm and that each attorney received money for cases on which he worked. During the summer, Hargraves withdrew from the case because of his health, he said. Waldie said the attorney withdrew because no more money was avail able. "He wanted $1,000, with $500 In cash," said Waldie. "I got $100 and a friend gave him an other $100.

That'a all I could get." Hargraves waa represented by James Cooper. After Schoolfleld'a decision, Har- Jrraves claimed, "The whole thing motivated by politics, pure and simple, more simple than pure." He asserted that had he been asked for a donation to aid Waldie'a defense he would gladly have given it, but "I do not have a cent for tribute or politics, and I intend to resist this order to the fullest extent of my powers." Replying to Hargraves allegations, McLean stated, "It is very necessary to support our conten tions (that Waldie should have a new trial) to have a full ond com plete record, which, as proved in open court, wiu cose aoout sauu. "Waldie has a legal and constitutional right to appeal, and un fortunately this state has no pro vision to furnish records for in digent prisoners, even in capital cases. "I feel It needless to reply to any scandalous remarks made by Mr. Hargraves, as tney nave no relation to this case.

We have both been practicing law here for any number of years. Our records are See Page Nineteen, Column One In Traffic Lanes Arr(te4 ekarc rlrt drlvinc: Herman Bitten. ITOS Williams Strwt Arrotod a eharr ol rtckleaa drivlnc: Carl Saten. RouU 1. Rossville.

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32 li 'h'Sd 'ih vioiatimr the ti drivers li- law iai w. 400 UNITS PLANNED IN NEGROJOUSING Thomas Reveals Project for Riverside Drive, Requests Zone, Area Exceptions Norman A. Thomas told the Chattanooga-H a i 1 1 County planning 9 commission yesterday that he plans a 400-hbuse subdivision for egroes on Riverside Drive and asked for ease of subdivision regulations. Regulations passed recently require that a dwelling shall De built on not less than 10,000 square feet of ground. Thomas reported that the subdivision has been laid, out in lota of 60x120 feet, or 7,200 square feet each.

He said each house would have four rooms and path and would be electrically, heated. He also said that they will have FHA approval. The property is the site of the old airfield development between Riverside Drive and Amnicola Road. i In addition to the subdivision request, Thomas asked that the zoning be changed from agricultural to rural residence. It is thought that the zoning change will presentno problem, but the planning commission took under advisement the subdivision problem.

No member of the planning com mission committed himself on any changes, but all recognized the need and desirability of a subdivision for Negroes such as Thomas is proposing. Reronlng Approval The commission approved the following zoning changes: Property of T. R. McAfee at Fernway and Hixson roada from two-family dwelling to high-grade apartment classification. Property of John P.

Lee in St. Elmo from two-family dwelling to apartment classification. Property of C. P. Kelley, Lots 12, 4, 5, 6, Block 9, Belvoir Park, from two-family dwelling to high-grade apartment classification.

Property on Dayton Boulevard and Wickley Road from rural residential to local business, and property behind that from agricultural to urban residential to permit development of subdivision by Red Bank Development Company. Blocks 18, 19, 20 on Clio Street to permit erection of trucking warehouse at request of Carl GiDbs Smith. The commission deferred action on the petition of Ben O'Neal for industrial zoning. of Block 25 on Dodson Avenue and the petition of VV. L.

Seay and R. E. Conley for high-grade apartment zoning of property on the north side of Brainerd Road between Crestone Circle and Woodlawn Drive and Lots 12, 14 and 15 on the east side of Woodlawn Drive. The commission recommended to the TV A that it not turn over to the state a narrow strip of land on the southern side of the south inlet to Booker T. Washington Park, suggesting that the atrip remain a public access site.

JUDGE DARR TO RESUME FEDERAL COURT TODAY I 1 1 1 1 .1 Federal Judge Leslie R. Darr, who went to Knoxville yesterday on business will resume the November term of the Federal court this morning. Jurors selected last week for duty with the court are expected to be in court this morning when the session opens at 9 clock. RAMP WORK BEGINS FOR BRIDGE AT DAM Thrasher 'Thrilled' as First Dirt Is Moved -Project to Require 18 Months The first load of rock on the southwest side of Chickamauga Dam. was lifted yesterday at 3:20 p.m.

to begin actual construction of the east approach ramp to a bridge across the County Judge Wilkes T. Thrash who has spearheaded work to get the bridge, was present and de clared, "This is a real thrill. It's the best Christmas present I ever got, even though it is a little early for Christmas." Work on the bridge itself will not begin until next spring. Thrasher has been to Washing' ton six or eight times since 1947, when he became county judge, In the interest of the bridge. He has been to xvasnviue many times and has a thick file of correspondence on the matter.

Ken G. Whitaker of the Chatta nooga Electric Power Board said yesterday, "The bridge across the dam nas Deen of great public inter est in Chattanooga since the dam was completed in 1939. Judge Thrasher has worked tirelessly in bringing about this much-needed and he is to be con gratulated." "I've got an investment In the bridge," Thrasher said. was referring to hia many trips taken at his own expense. Three-Way Finance "It's not an easy job to get three units of government together on such a project," he explained.

"The state is financing construction of the ramps, the Federal Government is paying for the bridge itself and the TVA has drawn the plans and is doing the construction as con tractor." Steel for the bridge will be fabricated by a private company, Thrasher expects TVA to have the finished plans ready early next month so that bids on the steel fabrication may be taken diiring the winter ana that work beeun, The whole project is expected to take 18 months for completion. Construction Foreman Harry Plyley was pleased yesterday to observe that limestone being lifted oy a crane am not break up, The limestone covering the earth fill dam will be moved, dirt will be added to lessen the approach angle for the ramp, and then the limestone cover will be put back in place. The earth fill section must be widened to hold the high ramp. The approach ramp on the East Chattanooga side will begin more than a quarter of a mile from the bridge over the dam. The bridge itseir must oe nigh enough to clear two giant rolline cranes which raise and lower the spillway gates.

A crew of five men was at work yesterday, but more will be added as the work progresses. Book Week Prog-ram A quia program, "Battle of the Books," waa one of the features of Book Week observance at Cen tral High School last week. Participants were Tommy Buff, announcer; Ronald Farris, master of ceremonies; Ann Ritchie, Janice Millican, Jean Gilbreath, Jeanette Mullis, Kay Hoffmeyer, winner of the individual prize; Marilyn ueets, Barbara Hill, Mildred Grif fith, Ray Harmon Jane Hyre, Pat Larkin, Gay Harris, Mabel Mc creary and Gary Nash. -Elt-htr-Flrst Tt Elgin 1 and Hamilton Watches We have a good stock now, but as we get closer to Christmas the selection will be less. ischer Co.

Jewelers 8 West Eighth Street Lowest In Chattanoog 4-9S16 -I- CAPT. WILLIAM BLAIR AIR FORGE AWARDS DFC TO CAPT. BLAIR Highest Peacetime Medal to Be Given Widow of Heroic Pilot in Crash Here The Distinguished Flying Cross, the country's highest peacetime award, will be presented posthumously to Capt. William E. Blair of Torrance, who went to his death here Sept.

30 to prevent his flaming B-25 from crashing into a thickly populated area. Bill Hagan, resident of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, was notified yesterday by Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenburg, air force chief of staff, that Capt. Blair's widow would receive the award at Nan early date from the commanding general of the Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Base, Calif.

The Jaycees, through their national security committee, had written Gen. Vandenburg of Capt Blair's heroism. The letter, and others written by city officials and citizens, described the crash on Missionary Ridge In which Capt. Blair and another of the nine men aboard lost their lives. The City Commission cited Capt.

Blair for heroism and Ridgedale residents are considering a monument to the man who died in his successful ef- See Page Nineteen, Column One POWER INTERRUPTION DUE TO HEATING LOAD Electric power service waa Interrupted for 30 to 40 minutes early last night in the Spring Creek section and to some residences in the area of SL Marks Avenue and Brainerd Road. J. J. Renan, system operator for the Electric Power Board, explained the stoppage came when a line "opened" at the Shepherd substation. This called for considerable switching of lines because of an overload due to heavy home heating by electricity.

The switching of lines required approximately 40 minutes for restoration of service near Spring Creek and 30 minutes for the SL Marks area. Olglati discussed the new Mc-Callie Avenue tunnel plans with Eggleston, reporting that the state is making progress In studies of the project. He also talked with tha state official on the prospects of obtaining state and Federal funds for aid a the proposed separation' of the street and main line railroad crossings on Main Street, 23rd Street and Rossville Boulevard. That project is a part of the plans of the Chattanooga Terminal Authority board, of which Olgiati is chairman. Olgiati said that he and Eggleston had no opportunity, because of the present status of the project, to do more than discuss the possi- lity ox state and Federal aid.

Prices GOAraoteed 1108 McCollie Ave. the Tha II EPPIE WHITE fed C3 B3R.9 Hsctsr fey mm Willi JaLrfcrMar! i YV ''A State Promises to Pave Hixson Pike From Barton Avenue to City Limits The state highway department will resurface Hixson Pike from the city limits to Barton Avenue, commissioner Olglatl announced last night after returning from Nashville State Highway Commissioner E. W. (Ned) Eggleston agreed In a conference with Olgiati yesterday to add the stretch of Hixson Pike inside the city limita to the paving on that road that is already under way outside the city limits. Olgiati said that Eggleston was most co-operative in agreeing to the request.

The commissioner said that he doesn't know what the exact cost will be but added that "I think if ia the neighborhood of 15- COMPLETELY INSTALLED, READY TO OPEBATTJ S179J5 INCLUDING 220-GALLON STORAGE TANKS PIPING, TUBING. AND STATE TAX NO DOWN PAYMENT ONLY $5.83 PER MONTH DILL PEOIM IDE 9. 1401 DODJON AVE. PHONE 2-1112.