Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

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Discovery Clouds Lays TT Calls Election Of Mayor station is in the works Kingsport and city preparing plans for renovating CivicAuditorranr71-B)7" concerning the application-of the statute of Dr Lays case Meanwhile the council also authorized the filing of a declaratory judgment suit as previously planned to clarify the question of- whether the -city can legally- pay- two salaries to Dr Lay This action previously had been advised by the attorney generals office The case is expected to come up at a court session that begins July 21 the council was' told Two regular meetings of the new council are scheduled before that time Dr Lay has contended his occupation is teacher and that the courts have upheld the right of school teachers to hold elective More On Page 6-A Column 1 By BELL BARNETT Times-News Night City Editor New doubt about whether Alderman-Elect Dr Elery Lay can tke his seat on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen next month "was introduced at thelast regular meeting of the old council Tuesday night Up to now the city's legal department -had said the only question so far as the city was concerned was whether the city could legally pay Dr Lay two salaries one as assistant school superintendent and the other as alderman But City Atty W'E Weber told the council Tuesday night Jhat 'in further researching the matter he had come upon but if he holds any other remunerative stater county or city office he must resign that other office before he can accept the new one The only exceptions listed are for notaries public and members of the National Guard Thus it would appear that for Dr Lay to prove his eligibility he would either have to prove that the position of assistant school superintendent is not an office in the meaning of the statute or that since the Kingsport government was established by private act the general rules for the city manager council form of government would not apply here Weber was authorized to seek immediately opinion from the attorney general the 'Tennessee Codejust that dealing specifically with office the city manager-council form (Section 6-3106) states that who is eligible to vote and a resident of the city for year is eligible for city office Mayor Joseph Lewis: His last session Order Gun Down Lindsay By WILLIAM EATON Chicago Daily News Service city affairs committee in the New York legislature is a quiet quick-smiling descendant of Florentine aristocrats He is proud of his "civil rights record dating to the early 1950s and sponsored a bill to enroll more' black' students in the states colleges But as it might be said in the accents of New York More On Page 6-A Column 1 A Green Berets from Fort search for Dennis Mar- western North Carolina during June from its Fort Bragg base is commanded by Lt Col Howard Kinney Dennis son of Mr and Mrs William Martin was lost five days ago while on an outing with his father brother and grandfather The customary early-mormng mist 'and haze lifted earlier today than Tuesday as about 400 searchers began what may be the critical day of the rescue operation Helicopter flights to Spence negligently hazarding a vessel of the armed forces the board recognizes Lt (j Ramseys right to terminate his interview as to that matter at anytime and for any reason i Bowler was the (senior officer on -the Evans bridge on the night of June 2 and it was he who turned over the ship to Ramsey Bowler said he did not believe he had any trouble receiving ynAcgaggg that ni0- -again raised the mystery-inf why the Melbourne and the Evans were operating different courses new fire for downtown council is the a section of afternoon holders under of government The provision any citizen who has been at least one NEW YORK (CDN) Mayor John Lindsay jolted by a Republican primary lossto conservative John Marchi came out slugging today against the forces of reaction and backlash- to try -and win a new four-year term on the liberal ticket in November Lindsays hopes for-acomeback were boosted by the-upset victory of comptroller Mario Procaccino over former three-term Mayor Robert Wagner in the frantic five-man Democratic primary race Both Marchi and Procaccino aimed their campaign appeal at New Yorkers who are deeply concerned about street crime and violence in colleges and high schools PROUD OF RECORD Lindsay 47-year-old glamor boy of the liberal Eastern Republicans made semi-concession speech shortly before 3 am in which he sounded the theme for his uphill campaign By picturing both his opponents as apostles of repression Lindsay openly appealed to Republicans and Democrats to forget about party labels in the November showdown Even though he narrowly lost renomination the mayor is assured a place on the ballot because he received the nomination of the small but often decisive liberal party Marchi who also has the support of the burgeoning conservative party indicated that he is not going to allow' his opponent to label him as a GOP dinosaur I think that my record is that of a mainstream republican with which conservative Republicans can identify Marchi -said inan interview I think Fiorello La Guardia wes a great mayor LINDSAY has hopes PROCACCINO Demo upset JOIN SEARCH Army Bragg joined the tin 7 missing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park since Saturday (UPI Photo) Shoeless Hijacker A New GATLINBURG Tenn (UPI) -Jungle-trained Green Berets went off at dawn today searching the Eagle Creek area of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park for lost seven -year-old Dennis Martin of Knoxville Tenn Chief Ranger Lee Sneddon quoted the units commanding officer as saying just give us an area and turn us loose When we report on a block and say the boy aint there he aint there The unit on maneuvers' in 1 MARCHI GOP pick Sets Record wanted to go to Havana she said The plane was over Wilson Creek Nev at the time 2:10 pm EDT Tuesday She informed Capt George Behnke the pilot over the intercome-and he admitted the man to the cockpit He said I want to go to Havana' Behnke said He didnt give any reason why he wanted to go except that he was a very desperate man He had a gun on one of the hostesses and I wasnt about to let her get hurt While the man was in the cockpit-some crew members went through his leather bag in the passenger section It contained a knife razor blades clothing a picture of a woman and children a gift and a note apparently written by a child to the effectTell the family hello and that were okay The bag also contained a paperback book on the Black Panthers a militant Negro group The plane was detained in Cuba about three hours before it was allowed to leave The Cubans served the passengers sandwiches and lemonade The were questioned by immigration officials and FBI agents when the plane landed in Miami JUMPS ON OFFENSIVE Asked if helped by backlash sentiment in" tne middle-class white neighborhoods of Queens Brooklyn and his native Staten Island Marchi replied: The trend 'is away from-a permissive attitude thats apparent at every level of government There might have been a backlash to a flaccid response to disorders Marchi a state senator who has been chairman of the Teenage Fishermen Find Body Of Missing Girl One Network Confusing For Ships Officer Says Field near where Dennis wandered off Saturday began bringing in men and supplies to the mountain top near Cades Cove early today A second unit of Green Beret troops numbering about 40 men was standing by and njay swing into operation before noon according to park rangers A set of one-shoe-off one-shoe-on footprints plus the introduction of bloodhounds gave searchers some hope Tuesday However scarcely a trace of the youth has been found since Saturday We "found the footprints one 'shoe on and one shoe off about 2:30 in -the afternoon said James Harmon a member of the search crew working the Eagle Creek area south of Spence Field where the boy disappeared We followed the prints about -300 yards Harmon said and lost them in a branch that feeds Eagle Creek in western North Carolina eventually runs into TVAs Fontana Lake some 10 miles soutlL of Spence Field Another ray of hope was anc I Rain mists and fog have plagued the searchers from the outset The Green Beret unit about MIAMI (UPI) A polite but very desperate1 gunman Tuesday hijacked a transcontinental jetliner carrying a top-level physicist among its 87 occupants and forced it to fly 2700 miles to Cuba The Trans World Airlines plane returned to the United States from the longest hijack flight in US history late Tuesday night with everyone aboard except the hijacker identified as Davis a tall Negro who boarded at Oakland Calif The physicist Dr Wallace i a uu of Berkeley Calif said the FBI was quite concerned that he was aboard the hijacked plane Birnbaum president of Physics International Inc refused to comment on his work He said he was flying to New York for a board of directors meeting -The gunman commandeered the Boeing 707 on a nonstop flight from Oakland to New York City so the planes 84000 pounds of fuel were "more than sufficient for the trip to -Havana Neatly dressed in ax brown suit the man approached hostess Nan Schwakger 29 of St Paul Minn making her last flight before retiring to marry The man came out of the forward restroom and fold me to tell' the captain that he Found 40 men from the 6th Special Forces group from Ft Bragg NC arrived at the base camp late Tuesday afternoon Chief RangerLee Sneddon gave permission to friends of the Martin family to bring in bloodhounds despite park rules against dogs But Sneddon said there was little chance the dogs' could help since some three inches of rain have fallen on the rugged mountains since Saturday afternoon 'probably erasing any scent -'a 1 MARY MOUNT body found 7 was found is off Route 106 and the quickest access to it is via the partially -paved Old Huckleberry Road Route 106 is referred to by local residents as the highway to nowhere because it travels from New Canaan to Wilton in an indirect way Old Huckleberry Road itself may yield a clue to Marys abductor It is a country road way off the beaten track a road likely to be used only by someone familiar with the area Mrs Cogswell reported seeing a white man in a white car shortly after she spoke to Mary and her brother Billy 12 who left the park before Mary to go to a Boy Scout meeting in New Canaan a wealthy commuting suburb of New -York City The two boys who found Marys body were looking for a feeder stream into South Norwalk reservoir Alphonse said they smelled the body He said he could see no wounds or any blood He also said the childs clothes were not in disarray WEATHER WILTON Conn (UPI)-The body of a little girl tentatively identified as 10-year-old Mary Mount missing since May 27 was found by two teen-age fishermen Tuesday not far from a road dubbed the highway to nowhere Wilton police who made the tentative identification said that as yet no members of the Mount family had seen scheduled for today The body was discovered against a rock and in a decomposed state in an almost inaccessible pine grover about six -miles from the New Canaan home of Dr Joseph Mount father of the missing blue-eyed blonde girl whose abduction touched off a massive manhunt We walked up and stopped dead in our tracks said Alphonse Cotoia 16 a sophomore at New Canaan High School and member of the football team He and Gary Brown also 16 a classmate and fellow athlete" had been looking for a stream to fish i The area where the body TODAYS SUBIC BAY Philippines (UPI) A young American Navy officer testified today that there was a potentiality "for confusion in the USS Frank Et Evans communication system on the night it collided with the Australian carrier Melbourne Lt (jg) Bowler III 24 of Annapolis Md told a sixman US-Australian board of officers investigating the crash that there were two task 'groups operating on the same tactical radio network that nighty When two task groups operate on the net there certainly is potentiality for confusion he said Seventy-four US sailors were killed in the June 3 collision which occurred while both ships were participating in Southeast Asia Treaty Organization exercises in the South China Sea Bowler testified after the board conferred for four hours in-closed session on the refusal of Lt (jg) Ronald Ramsey 24 of Long Beach Calif to testify Ramsey officer of the deck on the Evans at the- time of the crash asked to be excused on constitutional grounds Rear Adm Jerome King the senior American officer on" the board announced the panel's" agreement to Ramsey s- request He said in a statement: Having advised Lt (j g) Ramsey that he is suspected of -the offense-of Ways Committee OKs Extension Of Surtax Moon Rocket Takes On Fuel CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) Technicians begin fueling the Apollo 11 moonship today to start final preparations for the launch four weeks away 6f mans first moon landing mission i The go-ahead for the ticklish and time-consuming spacecraft fueling operation came from project officials after a daylong review Tuesday of all aspects of the historic lunar Bight Astronauts Neil A Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldnn were pronounced in excellent health by Dr Charles A Berry the director of medical operations for the spacemen Chief astronaut Donald Slayton said the pilots wdl work 10-hour days six days a week for the final four weeks He said he expects them to be adequately brained and adequately rested at launch tune 9:32 am EDT July 16 Observers expected the bill would be passed by the House Rep Hale Boggs D-La acting chairman of Ways and Means warned however I expect it to be a very hard fight i The bilLwoulch continue the surcharge on individuaand corporate income at the 10 per cent rate from June' 30 until Dec 31 It would then drop to 5 per cent until June 30 1970 before expiring Estimated revenue: 276 billion It would repeal effective last April 18 the investment tax credit a tax break begun in 1962 which allows businessmen to subtract from their taxes $7 for every $100 they spend in business purchases The total is WASHINGTON (UPI) A House committee has handed President Nixon a preliminary victory by approving an extension of the income tax surcharge cqu-pled with other tax measures designed to dampen inflation during the next 12 months The House Ways and Means -Committee approved the surtax extension at the rate and for the length that Nixon had requested but not before it took away a $3 billion annual tax break from businessmen The $92 billion revenue measure goes before-the full House next week and must stdl go through the Senate The surtax expires June 30 but Congress vcould dtways pass it later and makeitTetroactive Thursday 80 The outlook for Friday calls for cloudy and cool weather with thundershowers Yejtwdsy't high 12 tow High a year ago 3 low iS Average high 05 low 42 Variable cloudiness tonight with mild temperatures and scattered showers Thursday continued mild with thundershowers High today 84 low tonight 84 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