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Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 2

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Kingsport Timesi
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2 KINGSPORT TIMES Monday June it 1972 Too Much Water Means Too Little For Richmond 1 I- 'r 5k i 5 RICHMOND Va (UPI) Home water service was back In operation for sane 100000 residents of Virginias capitol city today but officials warned against drinking any of toe flood -contaminated water The citys filtration plant knocked out Friday by the record flooding of toe James River resumed its normal functions Sunday night But residents had to continue boiling spring water or hauling in water from distribution points for drinking purposes Brick Rider city public relations director said it was not known when the plant again would produce potable water Geanup operations were unde way throughout Virginia as homeowners and businessmen shoveled mud and debris left by rampaging waters spawned by Tropical Storm Agnes Floodwaters continued to recede in most parts of the state The Appomatox River threatened to flood some low-lying areas of Petersburg just south of Richmond The river was expected to crest at toe city Monday night State officials said at least 17 persons had died in Virginia and 32 others were injured during the floods Property damage was expected to exceed $160 million In Richmond National Guardsmen and police maintained a ring around a 120-block area of toe city still without power Police officials said Sunday they had arrested two looters in toe flooded area Employes of businesses inside the flooded part of toe city were allowed into the area for the first time Sunday to begin cleanup operations Among those cleaning up was Bernice Roeler an employe of toe Watkins Cottrel wholesale warehouse a jumble of smashed crates glass and furniture This whole first floor was flooded she suid pointing to a watermark inches from toe ceiling KM Vt i kitJ' I 1 I fl-rj- 1 -r -i' a Richmonders line up to get drinking water from army tanker trucks Thiird Mideast Gunfoattle Gunfight Disrupts Party Convention In 4S Hours Off Lebanon several trips here in recent years to sound out toe political situation and try to keep the Peronists united in toe absence of their leader Gen Alejandro Lanusse the current president scheduled the election next March to return Argentina to constitutional government after seven years of military rule He lifted toe ban on toe Justicialista party and opened the door for Perons return of his 17 years in exile there Campora told reporters at toe airport Peron who ruled Argentina with an iron hand for 12 years before he was ousted by a military revolution in 1955 would return to start campaigning in due time Party spokesmen said Peron wants his third wife Isabelita to be nominated for vice president of toe party during the current convention She has made hospitalized with what police said were minor injuries The convention of200 Justicialikts delegates from across most of the country was disrupted a second time when a recess was called to await the arrival of Perons personal delegate Hector Campora who returned from a meeting with Peron in Madrid The 76-year-old former strongman has spent most BUENOS AIRES (UPI) -The once-outlawed Justicialista party Sunday nominated former dictator Juan Peron as its candidate to run in toe March 1973 presidential election The convention of toe party banned by the military government that overthrew Peron in 1955 and which had not met legally since then was marred by a gunfight between two groups Two youths were on the eve of toe Security Council vote? In Cairo toe semiofficial newspaper A1 Ahram said Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is making intensified efforts to make certain Palestinian guerrillas are not thrown out of Lebanon The paper said The president held urgent contacts in that connection after reports from Beirut indicated that toe position of the resistance in Lebanon has become very critical as a result of heavy pressures by the Lebanese government to get the guerrillas out of Lebanon and Lebanon In Tel Aviv Israels largest selling newspaper MaAriv criticized Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Alton today for making the first Israeli admission that air force planes mistakenly bombed a Lebanese village last week Alton Sunday night told a farm audience that because of a technical error aboard one of the attacking warplanes toe village of Hasbiya was hit which I must say was a mistake MaAriv said Alton's remark was a shot in the back to Israels UN Ambassador Josef Tekoah at todays Security Council session Ministers must talk toe newspaper said but it is better to think about the implications of what they are going to say before they talk Even if Allonthinks that toe village was not a target why did he have to bring toe disclosure out now especially By United Press International Palestinian guerrillas today reported their third battle in 48 hours with Israeli gunboats off the coast of southern Lebanon and Israeli gunners dueled with Syrians on the Golan Heights Military sources in Tel Aviv said a number of shells were fired from Syrian territory at Israeli army positions on the Golan Heights early today and toe fire was returned at the sources of the attack' In Beirut the An Nahar newspaper reported today that Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon have agreed to suspend operations against Israel There was no confirmation from the guerrillas who have been the object of a number of Israeli retaliatory attacks Guerrilla sources in Beirut said four Israeli boats approached the Rashidieh refugee camp near Tyre 50 miles south of Beirut late Sunday night The guerrillas opened fire with machine guns and the Israeli boats withdrew firing as they went toe sources said Earlier the guerrillas reported they fought an hour-long rocket and machine gun battle with Israeli patrol boats and helicopters off Israels northern coast but both Israel and Lebanon denied toe report The first sea battle came Saturday morning when Israeli and guerrilla boats clashed in toe Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lebanon Both toe guerrillas and Israelis claimed they damaged toe others craft In light of the flare-up in toe Middle East the United Nations Security Council was meeting in New York for toe third time to discuss the situation and pass a resolution US Ambassador George Bush said he would ask for a fair and balanced resolution dealing with the charges and countercharges between Israel Hawaiian Longshoremen Delay Potentially Paralyzing Strike table today to work out a settlement The threatened strike would have paralyzed Hawaiis commerce and would have been the first dock tie-up since 1949 The union has been involved in negotiations for a new contract for more than a year A stalemate reportedly developed concerning money items a guaranteed 38-hour work week and a $500 monthly pension Israel has made it clear it holds Lebanon responsible for toe acts Palestinian guerrillas living in Lebanon commit In Jerusalem Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Alton in a speech Sunday urged villagers in southern Lebanon to demand their government remove Arab guerrillas camped in toe area A negotiator reported after Saturdays session Both sides are still very far apart The union is asking for a 42 cent wage increase the first year to be supplemented by an additional 4 cent hike toe following year ILWU regional director Robert McElrato said We have said repeatedly that we would settle for a package that would provide less benefits than those recently negotiated on toe West Coast HONOLULU (UPI) The International Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union agreed to a one-week delay in its threatened Hawaiian dock strike just three hours before more than 900 dockworkers were scheduled to walk off Hawaiis docks today Gov John A Burns said toe ILWU and Hawaiis stevedoring industry had agreed to stop the dock and continue intensive negotiations for another week The new deadline is 12:01 a jn Monday July 3 The governor told a Sunday night news conference he has every reason to believe that a contract will be reached during toe one-week extension The longshoremen have been working without a new contract for nearly a year They said Friday the strike would be called for Sunday midnight (6 ajn EDT) an! ess a new contract was reached The governor said he had called both sides to his home at 8:15 pjn Sunday after learning that negotiations were deadlocked Burns said he suggested that both sides agreed to an 82 cent wage increase The proposal was toe same formula used to settle toe recent West Coast dock strike The governors suggestion was that 42 cents of toe pay hike be made retroactive from Dec 25 and that toe 40 cent additional increase be granted July 1 Both sides agreed Bums said to return to toe bargaining Typhoon Ora Heads For China After Killing 21 In Philippines beaching at least five ships knocking out telephone and electricity lines and leaving five deat The ILWU was reported to have trimmed its wage requests during negotiations as well as have reduced demands for a retroactive settlement State emergency food committee chairman Fred Erskine implored Hawaiis consumers Dont hoard Although there was no significant rise in shopping habits many store managers reported a run on rice which Is Hawaiis primary staple diet constituent the China coast about 120 miles west of Hong Kong Tuesday morning First sketchy reports indicated heavy damage in toe Philippines rice-growing Laguna province 40 miles south of Manila The high winds temporarily knocked out water lines and electricity to portions of toe US Clark Air Scattered areas of Manila were still without electricity 24 hours after toe typhoons winds began toppling signboards trees and power lines Driving a bulldozer in a race against death The Kingsport Times (Evening excepf Saturday and Sunday) The Kingsport Force Base 50 miles north of6 News (morning except Sunday and HONG KONG (UPI)-Ty-phoon Ora moved toward the China mainland today after battering populous Luzon Province in toe Philippines Unofficial reports in Manila put toe death toll at 21 with at least 19 injured The casualty list was expected to gorw as communications are restored with some of the worst flit areas of southern and central Luzon Hong Kong still recovering from the worst rainstorms in nearly a century braced for a buffeting by the fringe winds of toe storm A storm warning was issued at mid-afternoon today and officials warned the four million residents of this British colony to take all precautions While the storm approached resuce workers searched for toe bodies of 79 persons still missing as a result of four days of destructive rains a week ago The number of confirmed dead stood at 102 with one other person presumed dead The latest report from toe Royal Observatory said toe storm was centered about 230 miles south of Hong Kong at 2 am EDT It was moving northwest toward the South China coast at 12 knots with center winds in excess of 75 miles an hour Winds up to 39 knots were recorded in outlying areas of Hong Kong in mid-afternoon They were expected to iiv crease as the typhoon moved closer Royal Observatory officials said up to four inches of rain could be expected if toe storm maintains its present course If it stays on course it will hit Manila but no casualties were reported Bobby keeps em guessing The worst single tragedy appeared to be in Obando 10 miles north of Manila where a house collapsed and crushed to death a family of four SPRING CITY (UPI) A land developer was shot at least four times Sunday and then drove a bulldozer about one mile to a lakeside cottage where he collapsed and died The victim was identified as Earl Ray Owenby 42 president of Crystal Waters Co of Athens Mr and Mrs Paul Bumpus of Chattanooga said Owenby came roaring up to their summer cottage on Watts Bar Lake about 9:30 ajn halted toe machine motioned for help and slumped over dead in the seat Rhea County Sheriff Oley Harris said Owenby apparently was shot while working at a land development site about a mile from toe cottage Monday) Kingsport Times News (Sunday' only) published by Kingsport Publishing Corporation 70) Lynn Garden Or Kingsport Tenn 37660 Heiberger Publisher issued Sunday and New Year's Day independence Day Labor Day and-Thanksgivmg No issue on Christmas Second Class postage paid at Kingsportr Tennessee 37660 Home delivered subscription prices Mormng and Sunday or Evening and-Sunday one week 70c Single copies Daily 10c Sunday 2Sc Mail daily only within 100 miles S23 40 per year News services United Press lnv ternational Chicago Daily News Newspaper Enterprise Association Republication of all matter herein is prohibited without the express consent of the owner The typhoon passed a few miles to the northeast of Manila shortly before noon Sunday flooding wide sections LOS ANGELES (UPI) When Bobby Fischer didnt show up imReykjavich Iceland as expected Sunday there was concern he had changed his mind about meeting Russian Boris Spassky in the world chess championship there July 2 But Fischer in seclusion here has every intention of playing Spassky a chess source said today like his game however toe exact time toe American champion will make his move is uncertain Fischer and wold chess officials have been at odds over the conditions under which toe $125000 world championship match will be played EVERY TUESDAY Weekend Toll Among Worst Of Year By United Press International HOMEMADE MEXICAN FOODS PREPARED BY CHEF HOWARD KENDRICK Ford in surgery today At least 17 persons died in accidents in Tennessee over toe weekend in what was one of toe worst seekend tolls of toe year TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU car wreck in Knox County late Friday James Tumbbelson 18 of Brooklyn NY died in a one-car wreck on Kingston Pike at Knoxville James Davis 62 of Knoxville died Saturday of injuries received when he was hit by a car Friday night in Knoxville The toll began at 6 pm local time Friday and ended at midnight Sunday HOUSTON (UPI) Heart specialist Dr Michael DeBakey says todays operation on Kentucky Gov Wendell Ford for removal of a tumor from an abdominal artery should be standard and not take much more then an hour KKsOABB'S Sunday in a one car accident on Highway 58 four miles north of Chattanooga Andrew Holbert 39 of Smithville was killed Sunday after a tire on his car blew out and it overturned on US highway 70 in Dekalb County Gordon Clark 25 of Tullahoma died when his car careened off US Highway 41 near Tullahoma Robert Brandenburg of Ft Campbell Ky was killed Saturday when he was struck by a car while walking along a road near Clarksville Lawrence Long of Orlando Fla was struck by a car and CHICKEN SHOPPE-1 CORNER OF WILCOX DR AND EAST SEVIER PH 246-9451 FORMERLY FOREST GRILL 738 EASTMAN ROAD PH 247-7311 The toll included 13 victims of traffic accidents two drownings one fire victim and one man killed when a tractor overturned on him Clarence Gorman 9 of Memphis drowned Sunday while swimming in a lake in Memphis Billy Freeman 28 of Soddy Daisy was killed nine miles south of Sneedville David Mazanec 8 of Portland was struck by a car while riding his bicycle north of Portland Saturday Danny Gilland 3 of Lavergne was killed when fire swept through a house trailer Karen Denise Griffiths 8 daughter of Mr and Mrs Bob Griffiths of Hairman drowned in Ft Loudon Lake Saturday She reportedly fell into the water from a dock Sam Robert Gill 36 died Saturday when the grass mowing tractor he was riding overturned and crushed him He was toe father of 12 children Rickey Olan Brooks 18 of Ardmore died when the car he was driving overturned on a Giles County road Saturday John Franklin 80 of Knoxville died in a two-car crash Friday night in Knoxville Michael Webb 19 of Knoxville was killed in a one The Kentucky governor flew to Houston Sunday to be examined by DeBakey A Methodist Hospital spokesman said the 47-year-old Ford was expected to be in intensive care for about three days and should be dismissed from toe hospital by late next week Special Holiday Schedule Retail and Classified Display FORD a killed Saturday as he walked Anybody Lost A along toe Lee Highway in Chattanooga White Turkey? Julian Peeples 80 of Detroit Mich died when his car was Fords tumor an aneurism of the ab dominal aorta was discovered June 15 when toe governor was examined for a back injury he sustained during toe Governors Cup Hydroplane Regatta in Owensboro Ky four days before rtisTCi struck by another car in Monroe County on Saturday Johnny Edward Hospon 16 of Morristown was killed Saturday after he lost control at his car on a country road The joys of children VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope Paul VI says some of Ws happiest moments are spent with young children LONDON (UPiy Police today tried to trace the owner of a white turkey found wandering in toe Euston area Alfred Blooman said lie could hardly believe his eyes when he saw the bird waddling along near his apartment There was a string around its neck Blooman led the turkey back home and called police It is an immense pleasure for us when we are surrounded by these innocent happy jubilant noisy children the Pope said Sunday in a message to pilgrims and tourists in St Peters Square We want to take time to occupy ourself a little with such beauty and such joy Advertisement Below deadlines must be strictly enforced to allow time for proper processing Ads reaching the composing room past deadline must be rescheduled to run in the following edition within the deadline schedule PAUL Watch Your IFAT-GO For Home Improvements EDITION DEADLINE TIMES EDITION WEDNESDAY JULY 5 4 PM FRIDAY JUNE 30 When you first start to think about adding a room or other home improvements rtiake your first stop First National From the first nail until the job is done we save you money with low bank rates plus first rate financial advice Thinking first of First! 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