Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 12

THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES CHATTANOOGA. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1951 DAYTON SCHOOL HIT HEW SCHOOL ASKED BY $100,000 BLAZE is AFTER Wjm FIRE 2 Wings of Elementary Unit County Board Seeks Power. id to Sell $300,000 Bond Issue for Buildings 4. Are Saved Some Classes to Meet Feb. 26 in Church Special to The Chattanooga Timet.

By Timet Corretpouitnt. ATHENS, Feb. 17 Th DAYTON, Feb. 17 Fir of undetermined origin swept through the Dayton Elementary McMinn County board of education will seek a legislative enabling act for sale of bonde totaling $300,000 to replace faculties of McMinn County High ocnooi xaie last night, destroying 11 classrooms and their equipment and causing damage estimated by 5 School, which was partly destroyed by fire Friday, and for other school construction In a iayor u. a.

Morgan at $100,000. Volunteer fire fighters from Dayton and Spring City managed to save two wings which housed the cafeteria and auditorium of f' proposed building program, Supt. Harry Brown announced today. ua school The alarm was sounded about 10 p.m. by a neighborhood grocer who reported that two young children ft 1 came into his store and reported that they had seen "a light in the choolhouse." A large crowd assembled in the streets nearby, but only hampered the firemen In their work, officials reported.

$50,000 Insurance Mayor Morgan said cause of the fire could not be determined definitely, but said there was positively i Supt. Brown said classrooms and the auditorium in the rlmain-ing wings of the county high school were badly damaged by the fire and would require extensive redecoration. A committee on arrangements for the bond fund is composed-of John Hoskins, chairman of the board; Lynn Small and Floyd Simpson, who will work with Supt. Brown and J. Will Foster, principal of the high school.

New Sit Studied McMinn County has a plot of ground on Park Avenue, purchased several years ago, on. which to erect a high school building. It is the consensus that the high school may be erected on the new plot and the local high school converted into a junior high. The band instruments were stored in the rear of the auditorium and were not damaged. The no indication that it was of In cendiary origin.

"It could have been defective wiring," he said. He ATHENS FIRE DAMAGE Shown Is the Inside of a classroom on the first floor of the McMinn County High School, which was swept by $200,000 fire Friday afternoon. Flames razed about half of the building. Smoke and water damage to the auditorium was extensive. The gymnasium, in the background, was not damaged.

Photo by wrdi studio. Athens. if and City School Superintendent NEW SCHOOL BONDS VOTED FOR CATOOSA $199,000 Issue Authorized Carroll Tallent were agreed that It was unlikely the fire would have started from the furnace, since the heating system had been turned off for the week-end. The mayor said the building was Insured for only $50,000, but added that the loss would run "close to $100,000." Supt. Tallent and Principal C.

Wesley Hicks were In conference most of today in efforts to work out ways of continuing school work for the elementary students. public transportation, health, welfare or hospital services. "Discrimination is almost completely in hotels and restaurants, as well as in housing. In fact, Negroes and whites live together without conflict in many sections of the city. "There is no discrimination or segregation at any college, public, SOUTH BEND WINS RELATIONS AWARD Described as a City With No Racial Discrimination in Most Public Services in Unofficial Returns Special to The Chattanooga Timet.

ROOF FALLS IS This spectacular photograph by Bob Ivory, William Jennings Bryan University student at Dayton, shows a section of the Dayton Elementary School roof falling in as flames swept the building lat Friday night. Two wings of the building were saved by Dayton and Spring City firemen. Damage was estimated at $100,000. We have decided to suspend Officer Spurns Prisoner Handcuffs; RINGGOLD, Feb. 17 Unofficial returns from four of eight precincts in Catoosa County tonight gave 1,018 votes for the $199,000 county-wide school bond issue and 128 against, County Supt.

John Embers reported. The four boxes out are small precincts and will not change the election outcome, Emberson said. classes for one week," Tallent an new band uniforms were In the homes of band members. The class rings for the seniors were in the depot here. Damage to the school building was estimated at $150,000 to $200,000.

The county had $200,000 insurance on the old section. Supt. Brown stated arrangements had been made to hold classes in the local state armory, and Keith Memorial Methodist Church has offered the use of the NEW YORK. Feb. 17 UP) The nounced tonight.

"Work will be resumed Monday, Feb. 26, with Vity of South Bend, was an some classes probably meeting in Sunday School rooms of the First private or parochial school in South Bend." Dr. Clinchy noted that "newspapers and radio stations in the community give wholehearted support to all of the city's efforts to better group relations." Thorington on Dean's List Chilton Thorington of Signal Mountain made dean's list at King College, Bristol, for the first semester of the current college Found Slain in Cross-Country Ride MOBILE, Feb. 17 UP) Sheriff William H. Holcombe identified the bullet-punctured body of a middle-aged man found here today as that of Luther T.

Hardison, a Coral Gables, constable. The large, heavy-set man was found on a country roadside cov Methodist Church. We can use the remaining wings of the grammar He expressed appreciation for work of school leaders, who canvassed all communities in support nounced tonight as winner of the 1951 community human relations award presented by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. This was the third annual award to a city "for outstanding improvement In relations among its school for at least two of the grades." ered with a blood-soaked blanket. Coroner Tom Henderson said he Mayor Morgan and Supt.

Tallent had been shot five times with a aid city officials would meet with the county court Monday for a dis pistol, once in the head year. He is a graduate of Chat church annex. With the armory, the annex and the classrooms remaining at the school, students will be able to complete this school year, he said. Supt. Brown said, however.

It will take several days to get ready for the reopening and classes will not be resumed this coming week. Further notice will be given. tanooga High School and is a of the program. The Ringgold vote was 259 for and 90 against. In Lakeview the bonds won a thumping majority of 624 to 16, Emberson said.

Northern pike will spawn when the water reaches 60 degrees in the spring, bass at 65 to 70. cussion of school problems, made more acute now with Jpss of the junior this year at King. and four times in the right side. Holcombe said he talked with Coral Gables authorities and felt sure the dead man was Hardison. Holcombe said two tatooes on the man's arm, a missing finger at the joint, a watch and all other Thorington is the son of Dr.

and Mrs. W. S. Thorington of 616 James Boulevard. city grammar school.

CITIES, COUNTIES MAY TAX BEER 10 and pen set were still In his pockets. Friends of Hardison at Los Angeles said he left there Tuesday with Mullis. They said he did not handcuff the prisoner, saying, "There is no such thing as a bac boy. I have four children of my own. Los Angeles authorities said their records showed that Mullis walked into the central police station there last month and said, "Lock me up.

Something is wrong with me." They said he admitted burglarizing a Coral Gables home of $50 in cash, a revolver and a jeep. MEMPHIS PEROXIDE UNIT TO BE BUILT BY DU PONT MEMPHIS. Feb. 17 IJP) E. I.

du Pont de Nemours Co. today announced plans for an additional unit to its new $7,500,000 sodium cyanide plant here. The unit will utilize a newly developed and improved process for the production of hydrogen peroxide, widely used in textile, paper and rubber industries. The company said the unit would be the first hydrogen peroxide plant to be built in the South. religious and racial groups." The award was presented In 1950 to Portland, and in 1949 to the twin cities of Minneapolis and St.

Paul. South Bend, widely known as the home of Notre Dame University, was described by Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, national conference president, aa a typical American city with usual categories of racial and religious groups found in an industrial center. Noting that the Ku Klux Klan once flourished in Indiana includ physical features of the man checked with descriptions given on Hardison.

Coral Gables officials said the county road and dumped out. The body was found about a half-mile off much traveled U.S. Highway 90, which is a southern route linking Florida with the West Coast. A receipt from the Rosslyn Hotel at Los Angeles was found on the victim. It showed payment for lodging at the hotel from Feb.

9 to Feb. 13. Hardison's associates at Coral Gables said he stayed at the Rosslyn while in Los Angeles. The victim was about six feet tall, weighed about 200 pounds, and was wearing brown slacks, a tie and a blue sports coat. A tourist court operator and hi? wife found the body early today as they were en route to pick up domestic help for the tourist court.

The dead man's wallet and money was missing, but a watch Hardison was on his way to Miami from Los Angelas with Prisoner Harris Mullis 23, wanted on an auto theft charge. ing South Bend, Dr Clinchy said Hardison was reported to be driving a 1951 Mercury, and was traveling alone with the prisoner. Mobile police have found no trace of the automobile. the city citizens deserve praise "for giving the nation an example to follow" in fighting discrimination. "There Is no discrimination or segregation," he reported, "in any public recreation, local churches, Investigators said the man was probably killed elsewhere, wrapped in the blanket, and brought to Chattanoogans Already Fay, but Others May Be Hit From Timet NathviUe Bureau.

NASHVILLE, Feb. 17 All Tennessee cities and counties now have authority to levy a 10 per cent retail sales tax on beer. Gov. Browning today signed Into law a bill to that effect sponsored toy the Tennessee Municipal League. It will have no effect upon Chattanooga beer drinkers and a number of other East Tennessee towns In which tha beer tax was authorized by private act two years ago.

But it may hit suds lovers living outside the city, if Hamilton County decides to levy the tax, too. Under the new law, all cities and counties may levy the tax, although If they do so, they cannot also collect inspection fees which may have been assessed In the past on beer dealers. Also the law protects those living in incorporated towns from being hit by both the county and citj tax. Without a provision prohibiting counties from collecting the tax rv7 whispers while giving you (t2J CQ-ffclAWcL inside incorporated towns, city-dwelling beer drinkers might have been forced to pay a 20 per cent sales tax on suds. Gov.

Browning also signed an act doubling hotel and restaurant Inspection fees and providing for Increased Inspections by the hotel and restaurant division of the state conservation department. I .11 .1 1 I III llll I I If aiX" i I Ky't ytf I 1 rf) I I I 1 I I 1 I vV TA; FPl fer ih I li 1 1, ii lib. I 1 e. I iilfet? kti The division will be required to make two Inspections, instead of one, a year of each of the state's II, approximately 10,000 eating and sleeping establishments. Local health officers may have their authority over restaurants impaired by the new law.

It provides that in differences of opinion between local health officers and conservation department inspectors, an arbitration board shall be established to iron out the trouble. BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY SEGREGATION ORDER HIT BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 17 UPt Hydra-Matte Drive it now available on all Hod ton Horn! and Commodore Cuttom Sponsors of a concert by the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and a Negro high school chorus said today the program will go on as scheduled despite an announced boycott by Negro Baptist minis Important today perhaps VITAL tomorrow ters here. WMM All UnrlcAnt The Rev. J.

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