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TRAGEDY struck in her back yard, and the Happy Valley plane crash above, that claimed four uves Wednesday is something Mrs. James Tester says she'll "never get over." Earl Carter) (Times-News Photos-PLANE CRASH IN HER YARD She Was Fixing Soup When All Of A Sudden--WHAM By ELLIS BINKLEY Times-News Political Editor Congressman a II. iJimrny) Quillen, of Kingsporl, and most of the stale's other members of Congress are opposed to higher income taxes which President Jolinson lias indicated he will seek. Instead, tlicy favor cutting non-defense spending as an anli- iiflation move According lo Frank Van Der Linden, Wash- ngton correspondent for the, Nashville Banner, Sen. Al- bert'Gore and Rep.

William! Anderson, both Democrats, are! the only Tennessee members wlio will say (hey favor a lax increase. He quotes Anderson as. predicting "the President will request a 5 to 7 per cent increase in income faxes," possibly within the next several weeks, if prices continue to rise at their present clip. "If (he tax proposal by Hie By ERBIN BAUMGARDNER Times-Newi Staff Writer ELIZABETHTON It was a couple of minutes after 7 o'clock Wednesday night, and Mrs. James Tester was standing at her kitchen sink peeling The five kids were perched on chairs in the living room directly behind her watching a movie on television.

Her husband, James, was working at a near-by plant in Elizabelh- ton. It was just an ordinary night for the Testers in their modest house, on Judge Litlle Pike. "I WAS right here at the stove fixin' to make a pot of potato soup," said a very nervous Mrs. Tester, "And (hen I heard (he motors of a plane and said to myself, 'Thai plane's awful close to the ground'." The woman heard the explosion and saw the flames. AND THEN all of a sudden Happy Valley wasn't happy anymore, and the tragic news spread through the community almost as fast a's the flames ale up the metal airplane fuselage.

"I panicked," said Mrs. Tester. "I ran to the phone and screamed for the operator, but I couldn't get her." From thai time until well after midnight, Mrs. Tester kept pacing the floor and glancing out the window at the smoldering wreckage which claimed four lives, and she took another tranquilizer to calm her nerves. "I'LL NEVER.be the same living here.

"They said we'd get some money out of it and that everything would be paid for, but I couldn't take money for something like that." The twin-engine four-passenger plane crashed about 150 feet from where Mrs. Tester was preparing supper. Aviation fuel sprayed onto a small shed which contained baled Iiay, a pet raccoon, and a pet rabbit. THE WOODEN shed was engulfed by flames, and the family's Terrier, penned beside the shed, began to bark and run the length of the wire cage looking for a way out. "A neighbor let Spot out," she said, adding, "I don't know what we'd of done if he'd burned up he's just like one of the family." The Tester home turned into a communications station for rescue squad workers, news reporters, television camera-men all trying to get a chance at the wall phone connected to a party line with eavesdroppers spreading the tragic news through the community.

"I don't think I'll ever get over it," Mrs. Tester said, exhausted. "This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me." MRS. JAMES TESTER She 'panicked' Quade, who works nation's nurses in EARLY EYE CHECKS HOUSTON (UPI) Ann Me with connection with the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, says parents should consider eye examinations for their children long before they are ol school age. SPEAKING OF YOUR HEALTH What Causes Ear Blockage? WHAT causes a blocked sensation in the ears? A large accumulation of hard, impacted wax can cause this.

If, after the wax is removed, the. full feeling is still present, the chances are that the blockage is due fo some disorder of the Euslachian tube. This tiny tube runs from the back of the nose to the middle ear. If this opening is blocked a i swelling, infection, a a polyps or adenoids, air fails fo enter it and causes the blocked feeling. The same mechanism is at work when a temporary, fullness of the ear happens during a rapid descent in an elevator or in an airplane.

The treatment is simple and must be unhurried. The anxiety of people to seek rapid relief can be more injurious than beneficial. Can people ever regain their speech after a stroke? If the part of the brain that has been damaged by a stroke is small, speech may return after a few months. The center of speech in a right-handed person is on the W. J.

McAULDTE Mac's Window If you hear a great sound like million people all sighing in unison, that is just what it will 'be; coming all the way from Los Angeles. Koufax and Drysdale have signed their contracts. Without Mr. and Mr. the Los Angelinos would really be Lost Angels this summer.

The movies must make a sacrifice for baseball. Every spring sees a lot of publicity about some star baseball player threatening to quit the game if he does not gel a belter contract. And all the fans nave the jitters. In spite- of the fact that nc- body ever heard of a star player actually quitting while he was still good. Said Mr.

to Mr. We put it over nice, Okay? Said Mr. to Mr. That we did I quite agree Said Mr. Bavasi to D'and Good ball you two had better play To you Mr.

and Mr. That is all I've got to say! Baseball is a funny game. It won't be long before we see tome second division team i i knocking a $100,000 pifcher out of the box. It is rumored that having agreed fo pay big figures for the services of their two pitchers the club had to turn around and pay out fancy figures to insure their services from being interrupted by injuries. Speaking of baseball what does a seven-foot basketball player do when the basketball season is over? And while we are on the subject of ball, there is the story that a football coach points out that football players cannot be dumb because learning the various plays is a form of mathematics.

Okay. And It Is a form of mathematics for which the teachers get much better salaries than teaching the regular kind of Crime does not pay? If the payment for crime is punishment, very often It doesn't. a pro- Breaking the law as fession Is a sound practicality As long as it is easy to gel by with il, Through legal technicality! left side of Ihe brain in a spot called Broca's area. The speech center in a left-handed person is on the right side of the brain. If the blood supply to this area is temporarily disturbed by a spasm or small stroke, the speech can return and can be benefited by speech training during the rehabilitation proc- ss.

Can a chronic lung condition affect the heart? Chronic bronchitis, emphysema and olher respiratory conditions add a definite burden fo the heart. The heart muscle itself needs a great deal of oxygen in order to function properly. If the lungs are in poor condition, the blood is lacking in its normal amount of oxygen and (lie heart then is deprived of its oxygen needs and can be affected. The heart and lungs are a unit whose capacily io function mutually depend on each other's health. What is blood fest? the sedimentation A small amount of blood is removed from the vein in the arm and poured info a tall, thin glass tube that contains an anticoagulant.

The red blood cells then settle fo the bottom, leaving clear plasma on top. The speed with which the red blood cells settle to the bottom is called the sedimentation rate. The sedimentation rale is more rapid when (here is active infection in the body. Often serious diseases and some cancers reflect themselves in a rapid "sed rate." A I OF YOUR HEALTH Color blindness is a handicap which often goes unnoticed. An eye examination, especially in children, must include a color blind test.

Dr. Coleman welcomes lelfers from readers, and, while he cannot undertake to answer each one, he will use questions in his column whenever possible and when they are of general interest. Address your letters to Dr. Coleman in care of this newspaper. Vandalism And Thefts On Blotter City police Wednesday night investigated (he (heif of an elcc- Iric motor from the rear of Kingsport Armature and Electric Company on Market Streef.

The motor was valued at $20. A Kingsport woman reported her car was sprayed wilh blue paint while she was attending night school at Dobyns-Bennetl High School, police said. James E. Price, 1345 E. Sullivan Slreet, lold officers a rock had been thrown through the windshield of his car.

A boy's bicycle was stolen from a carport at the home of Mrs. Pricher Rice, 218 W. Wanola police said. Friday, April 8, 1968 KINGSPORT NEWS 3-C POLITICAL PICTURE Most Will Fight Tax Increase President is a reasonable one and balanced by an effort lo slretcli oul sonic expenditures for construction work, yes, I'll vote for it," the Wavcrly congressman told Van Der Linden. "II is nol a pleasant task to vole for a tax Increase, 1 Anderson said.

But Ire argucc il may be necessary lo help pay for Ihe Viet Nam War and curb inflation. Gore, a member of llic Senate Finance Committee, will proba hly renew his fight lo suspem tlw business investment tax credit. He estimates the crcdl cuts llio average corporation's income lax bill by about 3 per cenlage points. Tennessee's senior senator was defeated 75-10 wlien lie proposed a two-year suspension the investment credit as an amendment to the President's recent bill raising excise taxes on telephone calls and nev automobile sales. Gore and Sen.

Ross Bass voled against tlw tax bill wliich the Senate passed last month They contended the excises yveri sales taxes throwing an unfair burden on low-income people One Twin Shot, Another Jailed One Harrison twin got shot and the other went to jail on serious charges Wednesday night. Dana Harrison was treated at Holslon Valley Community Hospital for a gunshot wound of his left hand. Hospital attendants quoted the youth who gave his address as East Center Slreet, saying he was cleaning a gun when it went off accidentally. However, Harrison later told police lie became involved in an argument with a colored man at the "Sugar Shack," 814 E. Sevier and the man blasted him with a shotgun.

Harrison refused to identify the man and said he did not wish to prosecute, police said. The incident occurred about 8:30 p.m., according to officers. Shortly after midnight, Patrolmen Ralph Gamble and Jack Hunt arrested the second 18- year-old twin, Danny Harrison, at the Blue Circle Restaurant on Center Street, charging him wilh public drunkenness. Harrison was also charged wiiH resisting arrest after he struck the officers with his fisls "fo inflict injuries and effect an escape," according to the warrant, At (he rear of the Safety St. Paul Woman Hurt In Hit-Run ST PAUL One woman was ilightly injured in a hit-run accident near here Tuesday night.

Mrs. Alice Kiigore Flannagan of St. Paul, received siighl injuries lo her left arm when the car in which she was riding was hit by an unknown driver. Mrs. Frances Lee Searcey, of St.

Paul and Mrs. Flannagan were enroule to a PTA meeting when Mis. Searcey's car was swiped by the hit-and-run driver. The mishap, which occurred on Route 63 near St. Paul, was investigated by Virginia State Trooper H.

E. Vicent. Didn't Know It Was Loaded DENVER (UPI) --Mrs. Earlene Loven couldn't resist the call of the Wild West when she heard the song "The Ballad of Irving." When the music got to the part about the "142nd fastest gun in the Wn.st, the 25-year-old housewife got her 22-caIiber revolver and fanned it in true cowgirl gashion--until she shot herself in the hand. NEW GATE CITY LIONS CLUB President Hayward Peters is armed with broom for the annual house-to-house campaign.

(Times- News Photo--Gene McClelland) Gate City Lions Elect, Plan Sale GATE CITY New officers have been elected by the Gate City Lions Club, to take office in July. They are Hayward Peters, president; James McConnell, first vice-president; Nat Smylhe, second vice president; Darreil Boiling, third vice-president; James L. Q. Moore, secretary-treasurer; Bill Lindamood, i tamer; and Echo! Stout, tail twister. Elected to the Board of Directors for two year terms were Frank Brown and Stan Baleman.

Remaining on the board for one more year are Lcc Baker and Bill Lindamood. Mops and brooms liave arrived for the annual broom sale, and plans for a house campaign are being made. Building, as Harrison was being scorted to jail, fhe youth pullec straight razor and attempt cut Gamble wilh it, police aid. The youlh was disarmed am harged with felonious assaul vilh a deadly weapon and car arms. Bond for Danny was set Thurs lay at He is sched iled to appear in General Ses ions Court next Monday at 1 i.m.

'OiORVlSION MOVIE KONSTEIIS COME ALIVE! INVADE AWttNCE HI yiir typm iki tki i HIT! tlllS Saturday, April 9th 2 Shows Only Maiineo 11:00 Evening SiOO p.m. Children Admitted On Malinoe Onlyl STRAND Rep. Quillen and the stale's llier two GOP congressmen all einand drastic reductions in pending. Even before he returned to Washington for the-current ses- 'on, Quillen was hopeful of ccing a reduction in Ihe spcnd- ig programs "ramrod'Jed" trough Congress last year. He also opposed fo Hie big for- Ign aid appropriations.

However, the Kingsport con- I'cssman is nol rcluclanl lo pcnd money Hie Viel Nam 'ar effort. "I won't say we liould be til ere, bul since we re there I will do all in my wiver to support our men over lore," lie says. Quillen and the olhcr Tennessee Republicans, John Dun an of Knoxville and William irock, Chattanooga, want to lasli excessive costs of the 'anti-poverty war." For instance, Hie high sal- iries of top officials in (he )ffice of Economic Opporlun- "We should cut back (he Johnon administration's domestic chemes rather than raise taxes," the GOP members say. Brock also called for reducing oreign aid, which Senate mi- rority leader Everett Dirksen, wants to slice by aboul a billion dollars. "The working people, and old- persons Hying on fixed pcn- ions are pinched by higher prices on food and olher nc- lessities," tire Chattanooga Re- lublican said.

The Republican also note 'that higher deductions for So- ial Security benefits and Medicare have already taken one lie out of the wage earner's check this year. Democrats realize a second bite, through an ncome tax boost, slwuld not iclp tlicir re-election prospects his fall." Sen. Bass Is reported lo be 'withliolding comment" on the ossible new lax increase measure "until I see what proposals are made by llic President and what allcrnalives can be taken." Hep. Richard Fulton, a Nashville Democrat, said that be- 'ore Ire commits liimsclf for or againsl a tax increase he will for "extensive hearings" jy UK House Ways and Means Committee, of which lie is a member. Rep.

Joe Evins of Sinitlwille and a Democrat, said he would "give careful consideration to legislation proposed" on higher taxes, in view of "the situation at the time, Ihe budgetary needs, and inflation pres- FIX BROKEN DENTURES A IN MINUTES to UM! No ipecial look r.tcdctl. Xo eosltydfnlal Works eve Lack. Accept no aubatitules, Ktayi ait for I QUIK- Kit I FIX WANTED ALIVE! Several Hundred Couples To To Music Of THEMONZAS APRIL 9th Civic Auditorium (Sponsored by Explorer Scout Post 48 "Passport To Europe Committee) As an Appropriations Committee member, Evins also said he is seeking every possible way of cutting non-essential spending projects. The same opinion was expressed by Rep. Robert A.

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