Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

Tl-W- Jtawgn I Traffic In 57 MM 4 'Kit 4 4 4 mil City Deaths 0 County II A Injuries 46 57 "1 i i i Bo as good a driver as YOU think YOU are i Vol XLII No Ill Kingsport Term Tuesdday June 4 1 957 14 Pages Five Cents I I 4 i wlcin Republicans Having Trouble Cnli American Faces Japanese Court In Murder Case Owe Sam Case Obtaining Funds WASHINGTON The Republican high command told President Eisenhower today the party la experiencing some difficulty in obtaining funds because some previous large contributors feel the administrations budget Is too high Meade Alcorn chairman of the GOP National Committee informed newsmen that he and a group of colleagues gave Elsenhower that report at a 40-mlnute White House conference As for the difficulty in obtaining funds from some large contributors Alcorn said the President remarked that he had heard that too" Asked just how serious the situation seems to be Alcorn replied i In the long run 2 dont think it will make any difference" He went on to say that in his opinion the now-reluctant large contributors will come to realize that there is no alternative to the administrations 71800000000 spending program for the fiscal year starting July 1 The GOP leaders exuded optimism over chances of recapturing control of Congress But some party men say those who visited Elsenhower are more concerned over the budget revolt than they are willing to admit publicly Alcorn said Monday that he had had reports from party chairmen to some areas of the country that raising money has become more difficult because of resistance to the Presidents spending plans The money is not flowing in ad rapidly as we would like he said He added however that Republicans still have a nest egg In the bank and the party is not "broke House Republicans were hopeful meanwhile that a forthcoming series of White House breakfasts would be more productive politically than was a luncheon session with Eisenhower Monday The half-hour luncheon sponsored by House Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts and held in the old House Office Building was pronounced a social success by most of the 175-odd Republicans who attended it But there was no chance for any down-to-earth political discussions Martin said it waa intended as a friendly get-together" Eisenhower in a One-minute speech disclosed plans for a senes of five breakfast meetings to give party members in the House a chance to exchange ideas and unload any complaints Mon Indicted In Slabbing OfCarlWade JONESVILLE Va' IM Clyde Martin of St Charles was indicted Monday by the Lee County grand jury for murder to the May 26 stabbing death of another man during an argument about union "scabbing Martin is charged with stabbing Carl Wade 33 also of St Charles Wade died from loss of blood while en route to a hospital Harry Rowelette Lee County commonwealths attorney said Martin and another man had been drinking with Wade and his wife st the Wade resident when the argument started Jt reportedly involved the price Martin a mine operator was charging for coaL Twenty Children 4 Escape Injury A Department of Labor hearing was held here this morning for two Virginia coal companies charged with violating US safety standards Hearing Examiner West Parkinson of Washington presided at the hearing in City Hall It began at 10 am and lasted intil noon The Government sought to prove that Litton Coal Sales Company and Banner Fuel Company operating mines at Cranes Nest Va had violated the safety and health standards of the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act Iliff McMahan field information representative for the Department of Labor said the two companies are charged with not providing minimum safety standards to their operation He aald five men had been killed at the Banner Fuel Company within the past 23 months as the result of mine cave-ins Two died last Jan 16 he said A total of 14 exhibits were presented in evidence by the Government most of which were reports by mine inspectors Several persons said that roof falls are the No I mine killer to the nation and the Government appeared to base much of its case on the Inspection reports which stated that mine officials had been repeatedly Informed that the mine ceilings were unsafe A Counts superintendent of the mine testified that mine owners had not been negligent to their operations He said he had been engaged in the mining industry for 30 years and the conditions about which the Government inspectors complained were present in most of the mines he had ever worked in He also stated I am a native of this area (Southwest Virginia) and a personal friend to 'most of the miners I would do everything in my power to prevent any sort of injury to them and certainly would not neglect anything which I thought might bring death to them Parkinson gave Government attorneys 20 days in which to file briefs The defense was given the following 20 days to file its briefs and the Examiner said It would probably be about 60 to 75 days before a decision can be rendered The Labor Department waa represented by Jeter Ray and Carmack regional attorneys out of Nashville The defendants were represen t-by the law firm of Drear By LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON (B There is stiU zip in the nations economy but not sufficient to warrant hasty Income tax reduction This was the virtually unanl mous opinion of economists and businessmen whose testimony Monday launched a two-week probe of the state of the nation's business health and what to do about tax cuts and monetary policy Another group was to appear today Of the first day's testimony be fore a Senate-House Economic subcommittee Chairman Mills (D-Ark) aald The conclusion reached is that the economic situation does not offer justification for immediate tax reduction He said it was significant that both the extremes of business and labor were in agreement that Inflation posed a troublesome problem in fixing future monetary and ntx policies The testimony clearly indicated that the buoyancy of the economy is somewhat reduced but there is enough zip left that the relaxation of monetary policy (credit curbs) or reduction of taxes would only serve to inten slfy Inflationary pressures he told a reporter Commenting on the careful opinions of a panel of six experts Mills summed up his conclusions tills way: 1 Inflation for the next year or two may be the No 1 economic problem of the government a result of spiraling prices wages and living costs 2 A reduction to government spending of a billion or two will Health Officers Condemn School 7 AfSurgoinsville ROGERS VILLE A report condemning the Surgoinsvllle Elementary School was handed to Board cf Education Chairman George Rogers during the County Court session here yesterday The report signed by County Health Officer Cowles and Sanitarian Eddie Abernathy recommended that the school be abandoned and a new modern building be constructed The present school building was described as a fire trap and a health menace It was pointed out that the building is overcrowded to the extent that it exceeds the state minimum requirements and that the majority of rooms fall to meet prescribed standards in lighting ventilation floor space and seating capacity The report stated that the building was constructed in such a way that it was impossible to utilize natural light and that artificial lighting was not distributed uniformly throughout the rooms An improvised cafeteria in a separate building was described as Inadequate and Imposed a hardship on the students during cold weather that the entire school and playgrounds was Inclosed to two acres of ground while state regulations require four acres for the first 100 students and an additional acre for each 100 pupils thereafter Toilet facilities were tagged inadequate and below state requirements Sewage disposal facilities were listed as practically non-existent with the ground saturated with effluent to the extent that drainage was blocked Incidents were cited when the students had to wade through the sewage on the school playground The report stated that not enough land was available around the school to Install an adequate disposal system County Health officials stated that the state Health Department bad been contacted on the conditions and that it was the states recommendation that the school be abandoned Board Chairman Rogers said that his organization was powerless to correct the Surgoinsvllle school conditions unless monev Is appropriated by the County Court Algerian Death TollSefAt9 I 4 ALGIERS Wl The death toll climbed to nine today from explosions that ripped apart three lampposts in downtown Algiers and sent jagged chunks of metal tearing into evening rush hour crowds Six persons died Monday night when time bombs placed in the cast iron bases of the big lamp-posts went off almost simultaneously They included five Europeans among them two children and one Algerian More than 80 persons were injured to the crowds of terrified thousands Two Europeans one a year-old boy and the other a young soldier and a Moslem died today of their wounds The outburst was the first serious bombing incident to this capital of rebellious Algeria since 15 persons were killed and 80 wounded when two time bombs explod- ed in crowded football stadiums have little effect on the economic picture 3 Only with budget cuts of substantial nature somewhere between three and five billion dollars would present high interest rates have to be reduced or taxes cut The panel of businessmen and economists Monday agreed that easing of the governments tight money" policy or substantial tax reduction would be dangerously inflationary in the present economic situation They were equally agreed that business activity was nearing a "plateau with future economic advances likely to be limited City Commission Studies Proposal CHATTANOOGA (D City Commission is studying a recommendation that automobile hubcaps be numbered at the city safety lane to reduce thefts of the wheel accessories A record of the cap numbers and the owners would be kept at police headquarters Commissioner Dunlap suggested yesterday Court Fails To Set Date For Referendum By DOYLE HOWARD Timea-Newt Writer ROGERSVILLE The Hawkins County Board of Educations fight for an improved public school system was banded to the people here today by a special decision of County Court Plans for a proposed million and a half dollar modernization program for the county's 82-school educational system will be approved or disapproved by the qualified voters to referendum action The 22-magistrate County Court voted 17-4 in a roll-call ballot to place the controversial issue before the public 1 Declines Te Vote Court Chairman John Williams strongly in favor of the improvement program declined to vote No date was set for the special election although Chairman Williams said that it would be scheduled shortly The squires bad been asked to approve or disapprove the school board's plan to use (800000 to modernize the educational system and to match the money with a like amount The request was made by Board of Education Chairman George Rogers shortly after the meeting convened at 11:30 sm Cites Former Request Rogers prefaces his request with a reminder that the Court had set the date and purpose of todays meeting at the April term He reminded the magistrates that the Court had been asked to approve 1400000 in school bonds at that time but action was delayed He said that the Board of Education had changed their request and that now they were proposing to pledge 40000 per year for a period of 20 years toward the payment of 800000 to school bonds This marked an increase of 5000 over the original pledge The chairman requested that the County Court appropriate an additional 800000 for a total of 1 600000 Would Finance Program Rogers said that tills amount would adequately finance the modernization program advocated in a recent survey completed by the University of Tennessee The report made at the request of the school board listed 41 schools to the county as obsolete He pointed out that a UT spokesman had completed a more recent study of changed conditions to the countys schools end had met with the school board and the County Court to make his report Rogers said that at the time the spokesman recommended that the following amounts be spent on designated schools High Schools Rogertvilie (1560O0ft Surf olntville 500060 Elementary Schools Church Hill 1006000 Carters Valley 1400006 Rock Hill 1030000 Clinch 700000 McPheeters Bend 12000000 Rurfolnsville 250000 Koplar 8000000 Rogersvllle 27000000 Mooresborg 6500000 St Clair 2700000 Bulla Gap 10 00000 Total 18380000 Bedlam Breaks Loose As Rogers completed his report bedlam broke loose in the courtroom Several magistrates rose ta succession to demand additional amounts for their particular districts The parade was led by Alley Harper of Church Hill who saked 50000 for his schools Demands of 38000 50000 and 200000 followed Harpers opening bid -H Pierces motion to table all bids for additional money was carried by a 13-0 roll-call vote Minor Voice Motion Fourth District Magistrate Jim Minor voiced the climactic referendum motion as the 'Squires recoiled from the defeat of the demands for additional funds Minor told toe group that the Court has a pretty big order to fill and we want to do the best we can But'11 he emphasized to the crowd since it will mean a sizeable increase in taxes I would like to see the people decide the issue Minor's motion was seconded by Squire John Dalton of Moore burg Rogers said that these amounts had been recommended as the absolute minimum ta each case and concluded his request with the statement that the money was badly needed He added later that th proposed bond would mature at the rate of 180000 per year over a 20-year period and would bear interest at a rate not to exceed 4 25 per cent This total was 30 000 teas than tiie amount recommended ta the survey At the recommendation of arm ty Attorney Jim Phillip th Ci-rt agreed te issue fusd'ng bone the amount ef 48 O') tar sslart owed to teachers 7 fee bond mature to five years States Uncle NevAnli-Trust Laws Predicted By O'Mahoney By STERLING GREEN WASHINGTON MW Sen OMa honey (D-Wyo) predicted today the court-decreed separation of Du Pont Co from General Motors Corp will give fresh impetus to antitrust bills pending in Congress The senator who presided over a long inquiry into General Motors I Vi years ago also told a reporter that his 1956 suggestions for dismembering GM the worlds biggest manufacturing firm 'should be followed through I think this decision will be a memorable one in the history of the Supreme Court and the interpretation of the antitrust laws he said The high courts 4-2 decision Monday set off arguments on Capitol Hill and created some apparent confusion in industry Sen Frear (D-Del) said the ruling could in my opinion have an adverse economic effect on the country at large It seems to me the court has gone far and wide and found only the thinnest possible basis on which to reach its majority opinion he said The court ruled that the huge chemical firm must give up its commanding position in General Motors It ordered the case returned to a district court in Chicago for determination of Just how that should be accomplished The process was expected to be a long one Du Ponta 23 per cent stock interest in GM the Supreme Court decided results in violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act Du Pont started buying GM stock 40 years ago and says it now holds 63 million shares Other sources put the total at more than 64 million Justice Brennan speaking for the four-judge majority said Du Pont purposely employed the stock to pry open the General Motors market to enrich Itself although he said top officials of both firms acted honorably and fairly in behalf of their respective firms without any design to overreach anyone With Brennan on the majority were Chief Justice Warren and Justices -Black and Douglas Justice Burton in a dissenting opinion in which Justice Frankfurter Joined protested the Supreme Court had disregarded factfinding made by the trial judge in its conclusion (hat the evidence fell within the Supreme Courts theory of Illegality" Justices Clark Harlan and Whittaker did not participate in the case The decision reversed Dist Judge Walter LaBuy in Chicago After a seven -month trial LaBuy said the government had failed to prove conspiracy monopolization restraint of trade or any reasonable probability of a restraint Brennans opinion stated We hold that any acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of another corporation competitor or not is within the reach of the section (of the Clayton Act) whenever the reasonable likelihood appears that the acquisition will result in a restraint of commerce or in the creation of a monopoly of any line of commerce The Weather (Im Vi Weather Banra at Trt-Ciir Atrpert) Kinesport and vicinity Considerable Cloudinese UrniKbt with a lew light boner Lon temperature In the middle 60s Wednesday partly cloudy and a little warmer with widely scattered afternoon and early night thundershowers High tempera-lure in the upper toe Outlook (or Tiiur-dar partly cloudy and continued warm with showers and thunderstorms to the afternoon and night TODAY'S SKIES Sunset 7 15 Hi Moonset Wednesday 1J 34 a First quarter Wednesday lUis MORNING STAR Mercury Sow ta the east Just before sunrise Is the smallest planet It ta bow about (1 million aiUes Irons the Earth -u TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY TODAY 11 am 12 noon 1 pm 2 pm 2 pm 4 pm Spa pm IP tpm P-l in-11 MtECIFTTATKIsr Preclpltettow lest 34 hours Frecipttstmn this month 3 es Precipitant! ttus year 22 ST WASHINGTON Wl The United States surrendered to Japanese pressure today and agreed to turn over to Japan for trial the young American soldier accused of killing a Japanese woman gathering scrap on an army firing range The Joint announcement of the decision by Secretary of Defense Wilson and Secretary of State Dulles set off immediate outcries in Congress and posed a threat to the status of forces treaties the United States has with many foreign countries The case already had been tak- en up as a cause by most Japanese newspapers and leftist politicians Thus no matter what the outcome it is certain to be a disturbing element in 8 international relations for a long time Involved in the incident is Army Specialist 3 William Girard 21 of Ottawa-LaSaUe 111 The woman was Mrs Naka Sakai 46 one of many Japanese who eke out a living scavenging for metal on the firing range at Somagahara The woman was struck by an empty 'cartridge case fired from a grenade launcher last Jan 30 Girard sayd he may have fired the-shot but he denies he i intended to hit anyone He says he intended only to warp scavengers away from the area he had been directed to guard The status of forces agreement involved provides for trial in Jap-anesecourts for offenses committed by servicemen not in the performance of duty In- the Girard case for the first time in more than 14000 incidents of alleged infractions of local law the Japanese claimed their treaty right to be the Judges of whether an act fa carrled'out'6n'dutyT' That was the controlling issue ta the Girard case and the decision apparently hinged on the precise nature of Girards orders The officials agreed that Girard had orders from his platoon commander to guard a ma-chlnegun and other equipment in the area But they accepted the Japanese contention that Girards action in firing the shell case was out-aide the scope of his guard duty and was therefore not done in the performance of official duty The commandmg general of Girards division certified that the action was done in the performance of official duty But the Wilson-Dulles statement said the firing of empty shell cases from the grenade launcher was not authorised The Cabinet officers noted that others stated but Girard denied that empty shell cases were thrown out to entice the Japanese to approach The Japanese Embassy hailed the new rnlingand expressed belief the unfortunate affair will be amicably settled through it Minister Takeso Shimoda said of course Japanese authorities will take the utmost car so that the trial will be conducted With the utmost fairness But reaction among American lawmakers made it clear the matter is not finished Before more than bare outlines of the decision were generally known Rep Bow (R-Ohio) was denouncing it and demanding treaty revision Sen Butler (R-Md) issued a statement demanding congressional re-examination of ail status of forces agreements Bow told reporters Girard is 'being sacrificed to Japanese nationalism and said he will push for early adootion of his resolution for renegotiation of the agreements on servicemens trials The House Foreign Affairs Committee has scheduled for June 13 a hearing on the Bow resolution calling on President Eisenhower to cancel 'or renegotiate the agreement Sen Bricker CR-Ohio) described the Girard ruling as the sacrifice of an American soldier to appease Japanese public opinion Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Armed Services Committee announced be has called for a complete report from Wilson Vinson said he would not decide on committee action nor comment on the case until that report is in hand Rep Mason R-H1 said the Girard decision is an excellent example of why the status of forces treaties should be canceled Mason's district includes Girards home Sea Douglas (D-Ill) said he was disappointed by the ruling He has supported the status of forces treaties but said the provision did not apply in the circumstances of the Girard case Sen Dirksen R-H1 was not immediately available Although the announcement of the decision was made in the names of Wilson and Dulles it appeared that President Eisenhower had a personal hand in the deliberations After the announcement today Murray Snyder assistant secretary of defense for public affairs said Eisenhower Was fully aware of the ruling WASHINGTON Twenty-six states hsve owed Uncle Sam 28 million dollars for more than 100 years Rep Steed (D-Okla) reported today He figures the time has come to try to collect it But he added with a laugh that a bill he is Writing to accomplish that probably will get nowhere The debt dates back to 1836 in the administration of President Andrew Jackson At that time the big worry was not How can we collect more money? It'was- How can we get rid of this surplus? So it was finally decided to distribute 28101644 91 among the 26 states in the Union at that time according to population However the money technically was repayable to the federal government The states Including Kentucky apparently werent too worried over that Maine for Instance just took its 955638 25 and gave it away to its citizens Others paid various expenses I cant imagine the bill has too much chance at all Steed conceded There are so many states involved their delegates here would block if What Id like to do is have Congress once gnd for all insist on having the money or by official act cancel it out After ail the Treasury has had to keep these debts on its books all hese years The Treasury Department figures Tennessee owes 1433757 39 Scientists Cite Fall-Out Danger By DOUGLA8 CORNELL WASHINGTON CD Three noted geneticists told Congress today radiation from nuclear weapons tests can be measured in shortened damaged lives for thousands or perhaps millions of people in coming generations Radioactive fallout at the present rate will add only a fraction to the total of human death and misery they said But they added irreparable harm has been done to hereditary materials which constitute the mold in which the human race is cast And any increase in fallout the scientists agreed will increase the damage proportionately because from the standpoint of genetics there is no safe dose of radiation In statement prepared for a Senate House Atomic Energy Subcommittee exploring fallout hazards these views were unfolded by Dr James Crow of the University of Wisconsin Dr Bentley Glass tit the Johns Hopkins University end Dr Hermann 3 Muller of the University of Indiana Crow summed up his conclusions: 1 With the present levels of fallout the amount of genetic damage in future generations from this cause will be a very small fraction of the total human death disease and misery On the other band the number of persons exposed to fallout is as large as the world population and therefore we can be sure that several thousands or perhaps more persons will be diseased or deformed or will die prematurely or be otherwise impaired as a consequence of fallout if the present rates of testing continue Muller said the number of lives that will be seriously curtailed or Injured" over the world in future generations as a result of tests already held is in all probability in the hundreds of thousands or millions and is therefore enormous" But since the injured will be scattered over the entire earth for hundreds of years he said they would be relatively few in comparison to those damaged from other causes including natural changes in human genes and chromosomes which pass on traits from one generation to another Glass testified that studies on the fruit fly indicate about one-fourth of all changes in genes and chromosomes are lethal or semi-lethal while 15 to 20 per cwit produce sterility in one or both sexes and nearly all the rest reduce vitality He added: Less than one to a hundred mutations probably nearer one to a thousand Is definitely advantageous under existing conditions Tesf Set Wednesday ATOMIC TEST SITE Nev (fi-Explosion of the United States first balloon-suspended nuclear device postponed 24 hours now Is set tentatively for Wednesday morning Planned yield of the shot is well below nominal 20 kilotons Bowen Mullins and Winston of Norton Va If the mine owners are found guilty of violating the rules they uP on th Governments ineligible list or blacklist" and deprived of any future Govern-iwmt contracts for a period of three year BusinessSlow i At Driver's Permit Booth Business is slow at the drivers license counter in Kingsport June is the month drivers must renew their licenses July I is the deadline After that date a driver must take a driving test to have his license renewed Mrs Rebecca Buckles deputy clerk said there has been no rush for renewals She urges all drivers to avoid the long lines which win start forming as the end of the month deadline draws near Each driver must bring his old license and each individual must sign for his new one Twenty children escaped serious injury this morning to a bus-truck collision at Carolina Avenue and Midland Street Two were slightly Injured Connie Vickers 6 and Johnnie Vickers of 18 Robert Lee Apartments were examined at the Hol-ston Valley Community Hospital and released The children were riding 'in A bus en route to Vacation Bible School at Glenwood Baptist Church Driver i of the church-owned bus was Paul Sexton 1627 Street The bus collided with a Craft Motors truck driven by Samuel Drlnnon Route 4 Church Hill According to Sexton the brakes on the bus failed when be attempted to stop at the intersection He said he was going north of Midland and the brakes failed at the stop sign The truck loaded with refuse from the garage was going east on Carolina and turned over twice from the Impact Neither Drlnnon nor Gordon Ticker who was riding with him was injured Drlnnon told Capt Taylor and Patrolman Dykes be saw the bus couldnt stop and attempted to avoid being struck but was unsuccessful The children suffered only slight cuts and bruises to the accident According to Mrs Mary Anderson who was also a passenger on the bus the children were all seated and orderly when the accident occurred She said the bus was picking up children to various parts of the city and taking them to the Bible school at the Highland Park church Sexton was given a citation to appear to City Court on a charge of running a stop sign Both vehicles were insured f-n sun mat SCENE OF ACCIDENT At tens intersection at 8: 15 a to today 20 children escaped serious injury -They were riding to this tots when it collided with a truck The debris to the foreground is the cargo the truck was hauling i I 1 7 i 44.