Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 13

-I LOCAL 'JJ Grills Is Given Life Term Int $1 70 Robbery Of Poker Game Pot Friday A I rio I rjil Xe I a 0-JI jf wd 2 KINGSPORT TIMES 13 November 22 13G8 I Action Line solves problems gets answers cuts red tape Write Action Line at the Times-News Kingsport Tenn or call 2108121 I Rumor has it on Long Island that Tennessee Eastman has bought the school building here and will close It down after this year Fact or fiction? Long Island Fiction according to Eastmans public relations director He said the company neither owns nor has plans to buy the school attempted to show that Grills trip to Hie West View home of Sutherland about 27 was not for monetary gain District Attorney Carl Kirkpatrick tried to prove that Grills had gone there in the company of two other men Harold Linebaugh and Virgil Booker to assist in the poker game holdup A total of $170 was taken in the robbery Witnesses were scarce One poker player Livesay died earlier this year of a heart attack and another Eugene Allen has been sent to prison for taking money under false pretenses A third player Elmer Blackie Wagers has disappeared and is reported to be somewhere in North Carolina One alleged bandit Linebaugh was shot to death inside a Dale Street borne at a Christmas party last year two months after the holdup His killer claimed self-defense and was set free Judge John Byers noting the The state contended Marion Grills went to the home of Leroy Sutherland to help rob a poker game Marion Grills claimed be went there to talk to Sutherland about the beating of one of his bootleg employes Yesterday a Sullivan County Criminal Court jury chose to believe the states -version It' found Grills guilty of armed robbery and recommended a life term in prison This was in addition to a 75-year term handed Grills' by a criminal court jury last July for armed robbery The action was the third armed robbery conviction for Grills about 38 Earlier this year he was given a 75-year prison term for taking less than a dollar from Curtis Jones of Kingsport on the night of the i poker game holdup and about five years' ago he was found guilty of armed robbery and maiming in connection with a beating- holdup in Richmond Va Defense Attorney Lon Boyd of Kingsport by Linebaugh and Booker on two players Allen and Wagers Wagers was knocked from a chair by Booker and Allen was pistol-whipped by Linebaugh witnesses said Sutherland said he admitted the three men because he thought they had come to play poker He said Grills stuck a 25-caliber automatic pistol to his stomach and said I ought to kill you for calling me an old man Were you afraid? asked District Attorney Kirkpatrick To tell you the truth I was Sutherland said But he went on to say that he feared only Linebaugh who had killed another man a couple of years before Asked if he had beaten one of Grills employes Sutherland replied that he had fought with two of them but had merely took my part He said Grills had asked him to go outside but he refused because Grills was still carrying Hie pistol backgrounds of those Involved commented outside the presence of Hie jury: Its fairly obvious to me that there werent any church deacons at that game that night One of the surviving poker players Tom light a Kingsport pool hail manager said he and several other men were playing cards in the kitchen of Leroy Sutherlands home at 1716 Charles Street when Linebaugh came in followed by Grills and Booker Light said Lineoaugh had a gun and Grills "appeared to have one He said Grills and Sutherland began arguing and Grills offered to step outside with Sutherland but that Sutherland declined the offer Grills did not take any money from Hie table said Light He said he wasnt afraid of Grills that night and in fact had borrowed money from him earlier to get into the game Another man at Hie home James McMurray of Lee Apartments said Grills had a gun and didnt try to prevent attacks ten Jin Planners Nix Park How do these phony contests get my license number? In the past two weeks Ive won two prizes if Ill sign a sucker contract to buy their products Ive told them to leave me alone but how do I keep them from nsing my license number and who gives It to them? A Colonial Heights 'A L1 Polk Co of Detroit is the only firm that obtains a list of license registrations from the state but Polk uses it only to provide statistical information to government agencies and automotive companies for such things as the Auto Safety Recall Program They assure us the list is not available for promotional or advertising purposes The post office says the contest companies dont have your license at all but that your name probably is on one of innumerable mailing lists compiled from magazine subscription lists city directories etc Under a new law you can require anyone who sends what you decide is objectionable mail to remove your name from the list Just take the objectionable mail to the post office and fill out a form In Sevier Terrace $10000Bond Set For 4 In Slaying Four men charged in connection with Hie murder of Gary Curtis Condry remained in the Sullivan County Jail this morning unable to post 310000 bond each The four were arraigned Thursday before Kingsport Sessions Judge Wythe Edwards who set their preliminary hearing for Dec 3 at 2 pm Charged with first degree murder Is Douglas Swane Shelton 22 Rt 4 Kingsport Held as accessories after Hie fact are Leonard Andrew Crawford 20 Gaude Eugene Crawford 21' and Wendell Mullins 23 Condry was slain about last Thursday officers said His body was dropped off near Morrisons Cemetery in Biairs Gap where it was found Sunday by a farmer together and buy the property themselves and let a garden club make the improvements City parks he indicated should 1 be for active recreational use not just to look at City Building Official Fred Grills said two-thirds of the property is owned by Morrison Sevier Inc and the owner of the rest of unknown No city taxes have been paid on that portion since 1963 he said The petitioners said Hie property because it is surrounded by streets is unsuitable for residences and is grown up in grass and weeds They also asked that the city see to it that the owners clean it up A proposal of seven Sevier 1 Terrace residents for a vest pocket park in their area was denied by the Kingsport Planning Commission Thursday night on the ground the site is not suitable for recreational use The property owners themselves would have agreed with that' They had urged it be developed as a beutification project only not as a playground But that is a misconception of what a vest pocket park is Jim Griffin of Eric Hill Associates said This is the firm that has recommended a program of small neighborhood parks throughout the city in long-range planning for the next 25 years The site proposed is between Stone Drive and Robin Lane running from Fairmont Avenue to Carlisle Drive It ranges from 330 to 360 feet in length and 90 to 110 feet in depth the professional planning staff said Griffin said the long-range planners were aware of the existence of this vacant land but did not include it in their neighborhood park proposals because they felt it was too close to four-lane Stone Drive to be a suitable playground site As for landscaping to improve the appearance Griffin suggested several of the petitioners might go Optimist Of The Year Tom Browder was named Optimist Of The Year by the Downtown Optimist Club at their luncheon meeting Thursday Browder was commended for his work in the annual oratorical contest and youth appreciation week He was charter president of the club and is currently serving as chairman of the Achievement and Awards Cfommlttee of Tennessee Optimists Why hasnt Bloomington Heights been taken into the city? Bloomington Heights It was considered for annexation several years ago when the Stone Drive area was taken into the city according to City Planner Bob Clear He said the Bloomington Heights area was so extensively developed that the city couldnt annex all of it at that time so rather than split it up the city didnt annex any of it Since around 1962 Gear said Hie city has followed a policy of not annexing Hie more developed areas but instead has directed its efforts to providing adequate service to areas already annexed Several Bloomington Heights residents have talked to city planners about annexation within the past year but apparently their efforts to get a petition signed have never materialized The city has not heard from them WVAWiWAWAWViVAVAVAVVA yNAVVVWWAVAV'VVVV GORRELL ASKS Exclusively ISobe'sP" Kingsport '-H 1 MWAVAVWAWAWA'iMV -vV WAVAVVVVVViViVAVV1XIw Is America By CHUCK MORLEY Times-News Staff Writer' Pendleton safe for all One Car Taken i One Misplaced Cool Fashions To Keep You Warm a car owned by Rick Reedy 400 Arbutus St causing between 3200 and 3350 damage Another car belonging to Leonard Jr 347 Clover St was struck by an unknown auto in the Foremost Dairy parking lot causing about $100 damage Prowlers were reported on Radcliffe Road Sunningdale Drive and Swannanoa Avenue early today but police didnt locate them dignity of the home collapsed Next the building of a gigantic army when all the time Hie enemy was inside Rome itself Thirdly religion decayed said Gorrell i Is there a parallel? asked Gorrell Are the same reasons that destroyed Rome and the others destroying our America? Gorrell answered his own questions when he said We would be closing our eyes if we didnt recognize that it is America Is the largest producer of pornography The largest trader in narcotics Cheating in college i nationwide Riots and looting in our cities is dominant said Gorrell America needs guts as well as gum We must have a renewal of the Spirit of Our Forefathers way of life he said National character is the core of our national defense he continued Gorrell said he believes we can train our children to grow in humility morality love of God love of country unselfishness and principled righteous living We must promote Hie qualities of honbty loyalty and goodness to form the character that this nation needs to keep growing closed Gorrell Is America times? i This Is the question Tennessees Lieutenant Governor Frank Gorrell asked approximately 100 members of the East Tennessees chapter of the National Accounting Association last night In their monthly meeting held at the Downtowner Gorrell was a light-heavyweight champion at one time in his home state of Kentucky and a Hneman on one of Vanderbilt Universitys great football teams in the 30s before entering law practice and eventually politics We are entering the Thanksgiving '-season with Veterans Day (recently past It is time for us to begin thinking seriously of what we have here in America and how we are going to perserve it began Gorrell Gorrell went on to tell Hie all-male audience that Hie great China Wall didnt fall from a lead-on attack by the enemy but from a gate keeper succumbing to a bribe Frances Invincible Seigfried Line didnt fall to the Nazis due to a gap in the line but due to a gap in the peoples spirit Two cars were reported stolen Thursday but In one case it was just a matter of parking a small car in a big lot Shirley Jennings Rt Kingsport told police her car had been taken from the parking lot at Tri-State Discount Center Thursday i But investigating officers reported back that she had just misplaced it She later found it A ted 1967 Chevy with Virginia tag VA-83(-053 was taken from Hie Tennessee Eastman parking lot Thursday where it had been left by Judith Wolfe 612 Truxton Dr The car has wide oval tires With red sidewalls 'Newton Ennis 1730 Highland St told police two tires were stolen from a brothers car after it had been left on Truxton Drive He said they were worth more than 3100 A hit-run driver smashed into LT GOV FRANK GORRELL Does America have what China and France lacked? Are we building character as well as Hie will to sacrifice? aSked GorrelL 1 i 1 i Gorrell referred to -20th century' -historian Arnold Toynbee saying that 19 of the last 21 civilizations have died from within There were no bands no flags no cheering when these civilizations died It was a slow process said Gorrell Greece and Rome both fell from within three reasons were given by Gorrell 'First' Hie 'sanctity and the Peiin-Dixie Pays Dividend The board of directors of Peim-Dixie Cement Corporation today declared a fourth quarter dividend of 15 cents per share payable Dec 13 1988 to stockholders of record Nov 29 1968 The board met in New York Penn-Dixie has a major plant in Kingsport s' A the turtle that bring you out of tho cold and Into the reign of a fashion leader' Made by Pendleton in 100 Jambswool of course Tho fabled cabled Shetland mock turtle by Pendleton Full' fashioned 100 virgin wool with a saddle shoulder Sizes S-M-L-XL 21- The slack shirt by Pendleton Pure virgin woo! with square tails perfect to be worn In or out Sizes S-M-LXL from $I4 i i Eastman Board Gets Kingsport Picture Now open Mon night til 8:30 Tuts thru Sat 9:00 'til 5:33 Eastman Kodak Companys board of directors authorized a wage dividend that will mean $15173000 for Eastman employes in Kingsport when the board met here Thursday The directors arrived in Kingsport Wednesday and included a tour of Tennessee Eastman Company facilities in their program1 Members of the board seated left to right are: Edward Curtis retired vice-president of Kodak John Collyer retired president and chairman of the board of directors of Goodrich Company Marion Folsom retired vice-president of Kodak William Vaughn chairman of the Kodak board James White chairman cf Tennessee Eastman Company and a former member of the Kodak board Louis' Eilcrs president cf Kodak Gwilym A Price retired president and chairman of the board of Westinghouse Electric Company and Theodore Achilles vice-chairman of the executive committee for the Atlantic Council of the United States Standing from left are: Harry McNeeley Kodak vice-president and president of Tennessee Eastman Company Norman Beach Kodak vice-president and general manager of the Kodak Park Division William Shepard secretary of Kodak Herman Waggers-hauser Kodak vice president and general manager of the Kodak Apparatus Division Harmer Brereton Kodak vice president and general counsel Allen Wallis president University of Rochester Clarence LA Wynd retired Kodak vice president Gerald Zomow Kodak vice president and John Wright chairman of the board of directors TRW Inc Phone 245-4134 MEN'S STORE COMMERCE AN3 CENTER STREET I I.