Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

rTrJ'-1 viZZ 2 1 1''' -v r'5? vk ZZ' X- A -4 zzZ4 V'- moke flM mm GATLINBURG (UPI) Heavy mist in the Great Smoky Mountains early today blocked the use of helicopters ferrying men into the search area for seven-year-old Dennis Martin of-Knoxville missing since Saturday afternoon Park officials transported hundreds of rescuers across the Jeep road over Bote Mountain and A detachment of 100 Green Berets on maneuvers in western North Carolina joined the searchrlate Monday with helicopters and communications units The search was to be expanded today Thejunspoken fear of the searchers is of the bears One stole a loaf of bread from a search shelter Monday Snakes abound in the rhododendron tangles andjunder--brush iVW Ov-'-t' DENNIS martin lost three days ft -i -I lost while at play sent other crews on foot up drainage areas toward SpenceFielcLwhere the-boy was Jast-seenJabont 4 pm Saturday Hundreds of others stood by for a break in the weather and one army helicopter explored the skies over the park searching for a way through the overcast were on hand at dawn today about double Mondays search party The youth7son of Mr: and Mrs William Martin SUBIC BAY Philippines (UPI) The officer in charge of the USS Frank Evans when it collided with an Australian aircraft carrier refused today to testify before a board of inquiry without full constitutional rights Lt (jg) Ronald- 24 of Long Beach Calif informedthe board of his decision through his' legal counsel Lt Frederick Tilton of Mariemont Ohio on the eighth day of hearings into the cause of the crash that killed 74 Americans Tilton said he advised Ramsey not to testify because his requests tosee the testimony of VTou witnesses torecall witnesses and to cross-examine witnesses had been denied Mr Ramsey after careful consideration of this advice declines to make a statement at this time reserving of course the right to testify before any board or formal board hereinafter convened which has the authority to grant him his full constitutional rights Tilton said The board of three US Navy and three Australian navy officers called to determine the facts and- not guilt adjourned for -a closed meeting A spokesman said no more witnesses would he Dennis son of Mr and Mrs William Martin became with his brother Douglas 9 at camping site-along -the --Appalachian-Trailonther-borderof--Tennesse 4 Column 1 vanished while at play with his brother Douglas 9 at Spence Feield a favorite camping site along the Appalachian Trail on the Tennessee North Carolina border Squire Strait Costs County $32000 Spence Field a favorite and North Carolina More On Page By BOB SMITH Times-News Staff Writer -called-today The board Saturday said it: did' not" have the authority BIG BALLOON The Goodyear to gfanrmsbyTnuestffrrr'BHffip fsafTri-Cify Airport" this" The court passed his request "25" to 16 GA I TennT a majority by only one vote despite (UPI) Under different -CountyJudge-LonV Boyds admonition ci rcu ms tances -theres- they would raise the tax rate by one romance and adventure just in so doing- Boyd said he had -no in the names hereabouts the where the money will come from landmarks of the Great "-Oppositiomto -Zimmermans -proposal-came Snioky Mountains National-from magistrate-state senator Hayden Baker Park Kingsport who said Zimmerman should taken it before the board of education as required of all resolutions pertaining schools Zimmerman retorted that Baker never voted for anything to improve but all rides are booked up for the week Page' 77(T imes-News Photo Charles Dean)' blimp Fourteenth District Squire Paul Zimmermans swan song in Sullivan County Court Monday cost taxpayers $32000 Appearing-for-the last 'time-after 39 -years--as a magistrate Zimmerman asked for $26000 to build ball fields at three schools in other districts and one in his district He got it despite cries of district favoritism and violation of court rules against bringing -school business -before the body without first has that cent idea of have first to week through Saturday can carry six passengers The at a time ressmen this county (Baker disagreed) Magistrate Jack Cloud of Kingsport tried unsuccessfully to table the request he then threatened to demand $6000 for each of Jiis districts four schools if Zimmerman got his money Zimmerman told Cloud he was a little surprised that Cloud refused to support his request Ive bent over backward over xl-a foaln vnii caiH Yfl yours later youre coming back1 But you wont-be here to help me noted Cloud Magistrate Hawk said he could not condone -selection of certain schools for improvement while other schools such as Holston Junior More On Page 4 Column 1 presenting it to the board of education After Zimmermans request made in a quiet hat-inband manner (If youll pass this Id greatly appreciate it) a Sullivan Gardens magistrate demanded and received $6000 for a dressing room addition at his own districts school Sullivan High But an attempt by Squire Powell Hawk to obtain $6000 for a ball field for his school (Holston) Jailed Hawk- said he made because otherwise he couldnt go back and face the voters of his district who raised $10000 on their own for the field Zimmerman asked the court to appropriate funds to help build fields at Colonial Heights and Bluff City Junior Highs Avoca Elementary and Ketron High School WASHINGTON (UPI) -House' members angered at the Supreme Court ruling tfiey had no right to exclude Rep Adam Clayton Powell irately vowed they wouldnt foot the bill for the Harlem -Democrats back pay even if the court orders them to pay' it Well never pay it was the defiant world around the House Most members argued hotly the Supreme Court had no business considering the case of Powells 22-month exclusion from'the 90th Congress They said the Constitution gives the House the exclusive right to judge the qualification of members But the court said the Constitution sets the qualifications for nzzmembers and Powell was eligible Off In County Purchasing Post and warned him he was suspected -of negligently hazarding the Evans in the collision Ramsey was within his rights -in-refusing-to- testify The fact-finding board cannot force him to give'his account of what happened in the minutes before the June 3 tragedy in the South China -Sea Ramseys decision came as a surprise because his assistant on the Evans bridge" during the collision Lt (jg) James AHopson-- of Kansas City Kan had testified fully for three days Hopson too had been warned ho was suspected of negligently hazarding his ship More On Page 4 Column 1 Morelock -To Be ested By Psychiatrists ROGERSVILLE Harold CMorelock 32 charged with the murder of Sue-Compton Davidson as well as shooting at two state troopers has been committed by court order to Central Psychiatric Hospital Nashville Two local doctors were appointed by Criminal Court Judge Conway Smith to examine Morelock and make a written report to the Court The doctors said that in their opinion Morelock should be examined by psychiatrists to determine his mental condition and his ability to advise counsel and stand trial- The earliest date that Sheriff Anderson can enter Morelock is July 9 Until that time he wilLbe kept in the maximum security cell at Hawkins County Jail Morelock is accused of killing Sue Compton Davidson of Church Hill after state troopers stopped the car in whichthe two were riding Carmel last April in Mount State 1 By BOB SMITH Times-News Staff Writer Appearance tone Theres Bote Mountain seven miles of rugged jeep trails soaked with rain and so deeply rutted by the churning wheels of trucks and -jeeps hauling men and supplies that the road to Spence Field threatens to become impassible after three of rain -1- Theres Defeat Ridge and Cold Water Knob Little Bald and Numa Ridge Eagle Creek and its watershed Big Grill Ridge Anthony Creek and Thunderhead Mountain They all figure in the search area a heavily wooded" wilderness whose undergrowth this time of year closes about a man with oppressive- density In such country Chief Ranger Lee Sneddon had a -double concern He wanted to find the boy and that calls for able men to man the" search At the same time he wanted no lost rescuers on his hands' and an experienced mountain man can become lost easily in this wilderness -One search group lost their way Monday and had to follow a stream into familiar country What we want are organized -groups but not stragglers who come in to volunteer Sneedon said And we want men who are able to to go into some rugged country Because of organizational problems some offers of manpower had to be turned- down during the early part of the search It was a matter of how much and how many could be hauled to Spence Field then assigned in such a way that none of it was lost to complicate the task further- Israeli and Jordanian forces across the Jordan River an Israeli spokesman said The spokesman saidthe dead tourist was a US woman but declined further identification At least one of the injured also was an American identified only as -Eileen Bonnett 27 of California Another was said to be a 39-year-old taxi driver but his nationality was not immediately known Officials said it was the first time so far as they knew that a tourist had been killed during Arab-Israeli fighting since the end of the 1967 Middle East War -According to the spokesman the tourists had stopped for refreshments at the Arabowned Lydo cafeteria: A More Oa Page 4 Column After five months of screening 42 ap- plicants for the -office of purchasing agent a Sullivan County Court com- mittee Monday told magistrates it- had decided that Charles Williams of Rock Springs an accountant with a Bristol firm was the best man for the job But then Magistrate Earl Jones of Mixon Keeps Calm Under Napalm Attack surprise to the committeemen but other magistrates apparently knew all along he would get the job In a series of behind-the-scenes maneuvering which would do credit to his training as an Army secret agent Minga had contacted influential people including his nominator Jones weeks before Mondays meeting and had asked them to support him I know a lot of people in the county said Minga They know me or know my family I think that was the key Over the months I ran into people I knew and asked them to support me I rwent-to school with Earl (Jones) years ago and so I asked him Some people said they would others said they didnt know1 they hadnt made a decision yet Lloyd Barr chairman of the which chose Williams over Minga worker was under serious for the post and was high but that the committee had Williams29 mainly because he had in accounting and had" had experience had good credentials too On Page 4 Column 1 employes of the House such as the sergeant-at-arms could be defendants but not members themselves But since the members would have to direct their employes to issue any eventual pay order for Powell they do in effect: hold" the purse strings that legal both court appeared because of various appeals left open- to sides any eventual order for payment might not corns until well into next year The case could even wind up in the" Supreme Court again by which time there would be a new chief justice Warren Burger and a replacement for Abe Fortas The color of the case and could be the court as well changed by then several members of a group calling itself Womens International i st Conspiracy from Hel 1 (WITCH) who wore black witches costumes and put a hex on her in a chorus: Mrs Nixon: Millions die but you dont cry they chanted This hex on you will all come true -A huge hannerheld up by protestors also read: How manjujieople have you killed today? How many-have you allowed to starve? $70 million a day spent in Vietnam The demonstration came as a surprise -and Mrs Nixons wary- Secret Service guards cut short her visit Later the Presidents wife said of the protestors that she did not get a good look at them But her daughter Julie a bit perturbed said she thought the pickets were out of place I In the evening Mrs Nixon and her party toured a tense black ghetto area that has produced a rash of fire bombings and disturbances in recent days Mondays 7 to 1 ruling whiclV also sent to the lower courts the question of Powells right to back pay cleared up the last of the legal problems that have beset the Harlem lawmaker since 1960 and that figured heavily in the March 1 1967 House vote to exclude him And it threatened to put the House itself in the contempt of court role that dogged Powell for years after he refused to pay a slander judgment- against a Harlem widow he called a bag woman for police bribe takers Under the courts decision members of the House themselves could not be subject to any eventual court order- that might grow out of the case The court said nationally local volunteer programs to help the needy Before departing at 2:50 pm PDT Mrs Nixon planned -to motor 20 miles to a farming area to visit a day nursery for the children of migratory workers and a Jewish temple where the blind are taught Braille by volunteer tutors she- ilrnniimv-vih i civ described at outset lighthearted trip as was when marred protestors Monday showered down paper from a top-floor window -The slips read: If his were napalm you would be dead The confrontation with demonstrators occurred when she arrived at the headquarters of a 24-hour volunteer emergency service in an old ghetto neighborhood church Many anti-war groups had their headquarters in the same building Mrs Nixort looked pale and startled but chose to ignore placard-waying memebers of the Portland Chapter of the Resistance a national antiwar group Later she was beset by TODAYS Fair and -cooler tonight Wednesday sunny a pleasant High today 78 lowl tonight 52 high Wednesday Kingsport sprang to his feet and nominated county welfare worker Joe Minga 40 and when the roll was called it was Minga! Minga! Minga! on court members lips Minga got the job 35 to 8 Only the five committee members and three- other squires voted for the committees choice Mingas election came almost as a complete PORTLAND Ore (UPI) -Pat Nixon who kept her cool during a mock napalm bombing by anti-Vietnam war protestors tours day care and Braille centers today before flying to Los Angeles The First Lady and her married daughter Julie Eisenhower were on the secondleg oL a four-day West Coast safari to spotlight Arab Shells Rill American Anotlier Kingsport School OfficiaLResians Position JOE MINGA welfare worker The two women had been in Kinshasa the Congo where they had been working at the American community school for the past two years and had paused in Israel during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on their return to the United States Also wounded in the attack was a 39-year-old Arab taxi driver who drove the two girls from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea The women were changing for a swim when a Russianmade 122 millimeter shell slammed into Qalya Beach on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in what is now occupied Jordan Shrapnel riddled the cabana in which the two women were changing and set fire to two taxis parked neWby Officials said it was the Magistrate committee said the welfare consideration on the list -chosen" a BS degree some accounting He (Minga) More first timeatourist had been killed during Arab-Israeli fighting since the end of the June J967 six-day war Qalya is only 15 miles from Jerusalem and barely three miles from the Abdullah bridge spanning the Jordan River An Israeli spokesman said the tourists had stopped for refreshments at the Arabownel Lydo cafeteria near Qalya when the shell slammed into the parking lot as they were changing Officials first said two buses were set afire but later identified the vehicles as taxis An American -iourist was killed and four other persons were injured today When they were taught in an artillery and mortar duel between By United Press International A 25-year-old American woman tourist and an Israeli -civilian were killed today and four other persons including an American were wounded when they were caught in an artillery and mortar duel between Israeli and Jordanian' forces near the Dead Sea She was the first tourist to be killed in the border warfare The Israeli army withheld names of the victims of the three-hour border clash but Hadassah -Hospital in Jerusalem identified the dead woman as Shirley Anderson of New York and her 81 The outlook for Thursday companion as Eileen Bonnet is partly cloudy and warmer Ynteraav'l h'grt 71 low 59 High year go tl low ts Average high IS km 1 2 WEATHER James Davis assistant superintendent of Kingsport schools has resigned effective July 1 the Times-News learned last night Davis who has been with the school system 14 years and who has been assistant superintendent for one year reportedly is in line for a position with the Kingsport University Center Davis said last night that his resignation which came about a week ago has absolutely no connection with recent administrative changes in the school system During his 14 years with Kingsport schools Davis served most of the time as chairman of the science department at Dobyns-Bennett High School Davis resignation leaves the city with only one other assistant superintendent of Schools Dr Elery Lay The board of education recently refused to renew the contracts of assistant Dobyns-Bennett Principal Ralph Erwin and student activity manager Ralph Kennedy D-B Principal William Neal hasbeen suspended -pending triat -on4wa charges of embezzlement and last week Jim Andrews president of the D-B PTA resigned to support an investigation of school policies V- ii'.