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The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 16

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Thursday February 17 1949 Tune In of 990 on your it on Read it in The News-Sentinel Given $3 1-4 Million Estimate Start City Expressways GETS 2 YEARS IN DEATH Special To The News-Sentinel CROSSVILLE Feb Brown Burgess was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Vernon Myer son of Tom Myer Sentence was fixed at two years Statewide Registering Urged as No 1 Reform liam Rees Mayor El-I more Jr City Engineer Leonard Bailey and City Planning Engineer Robert Stewart (STARTS ON PAGE ONE) Squires OK School Jobs Progress of county building program has pleased County educational committee Chairman Cliff White said after an inspection tour Mr White reported his committee found most of the current projects almost completed The squires visited Bearaen Lyons View Farragut Karris Powells Halls Smithwood and Inskip projects Get New Pep Vim Feel Years Younger Oo you blame exhausted worn-out feeling on age? Thousands amazed at what a little pepping up with Oitrax has done Contains tome many need at 40 50 60 for body old Just because low in iron also supplementary doses Vitamin Bt calcium New "get acquainted" siae only 50c Try Oetrex Tonic Tablets for pep younger feeling this very day xwlhimi nn-umunu At drug stores in Knoxville directed Money back if DOt S3t-j Walgreen Cole and Lane Rexall Stores jsjiecj AdV Needs Something Better Than Surface Relief When you are tormented by Itch (Scabies) scratches camp itch or 7-year itch be satisfied with a medicine that can do nothing more than relieve the surface discomfort Use Sanative Wash which actually destroys itch parasites on contact 60 cents at any drug store or sent direct upon receipt of price Owens Minor Richmond Va Use only as Officials by Lochner To (STARTS ON PAGE ONE) come back to earth at Oak Avenue on the other side of the railroad yards At Oak a of ramps would give the proposed short link and other streets an access to the expressway The new estimate is broken down into $455000 for rights-of-way for the Magnolia extension to Fort Sanders and $178249750 for the construction For the short link the estimate is $142600 for rights-of-way and $887970 for construction The Lochner group pointed out that the proposed Magnolia crosstown extension would have two 12-foot lanes and one 10-foot shoulder edged by mountable curbs Officials See Routes After completing their office conference this afternoon the assembled officials were to make a study on the grounds of the proposed routes The group included two Federal Public Roads regional executives from Atlanta Stark urban engineer and Charles Jones bridge engineer three FPRA district engineers from Nashville Burt Freeman designs engineer Perry Learning bridge engineer and Jack French highways supervisory engineer State Highway Assistant Engineer Ferguson Nashville State Highway Division Engineer Ramsey his construction and survey 4-inch high State Surveys Road Up Roan Mountain Special To The New s-Sentinel ELIZABETHTON Feb 1 Surveying began this week for a 14-mile road from the town of Roan Mountain to the scenic Roan Mountain rhododendron gardens Taylor resident engineer for the project said The new road was endorsed by Gov Browning last summer and preliminary plans were mapped by State Highway Commissioner Eggleston here two weeks JdOLD HEARING Sen Charles Fields (left) and Sen Alex Gray of Brownsville are shown as ihey conducted the public hearing yesterday on election revision bills by the Tennessee Press Association Sen Gray is chairman of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee and Sen Fields is secretary ABSORBINE JR WOODBURY WITCH HAZEL CITRATE OF ENVELOPES PAPER NAPKINS DOAN rTTToKTToNEYiNrTA! Ho More Guesswwi mi Hwie ftnuocnt Mavwj posals closely although I have read them all several times But I can tell you that to enact these bills would mean a vast improvement over what we have now you know gentlemen you can never know whose ox is going to be gored Neither of the major parties has a monopoly on Beverly Young editor of the Lincoln News at Fayetteville and I president of the Tennessee Press I Association told of the long I effort and work that has gone into this program approved by all the newspapers of all shades of opinion and said that i is not an overnight thought I on the part of the Like Program of Other Groups i He said that the program was substantially similar to that of the Tennessee Bar Association the Tennessee League of Women Voters the Tennessee Junior Chamber of Commerce American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars William Farris attorney of Memphis representing the state Jaycees said that the Jaycees are happy to join with the Tennessee Press Association in urging action to make our elections He read the resolution adopted by the Jaycees in October espousing five reforms three of which are covered by TPA bills and the other two recommending abolition of the poll tax by constitutional revision and voting machines in all precincts in Tennessee VFW for Reforms Charles Cayce of Nashville representing the state VFW announced the support of his organization for the reforms Mrs Robert Post of the Nashville League of Women Voters said that the league has studied and endorsed all the bills except two the Hatch Act and the prohibition against labor contributions and that the League has simply not acted on these two In addition to Mr Miller Mr Young and Mr Houston TPA representatives present for the hearing here: West general manager of the Kingsport Times-News immediate past president of the TPA Paul Sims editor of the Brownsville States-Graphic John Paul Jones of the Memphis Daily Court News Joe Hatcher managing editor of the Nashville Tennessean John Oliver publisher of the Donelson Dairy Glenn McNeill secretary and manager of the TPA These men are members of either the elections committee the legislative committee or the board of directors of TPA Members of the Clean Elections I Committee who could not be present were Edward Meeman Horace Wells Jr Carl A Jones Jr and Minot Bragg Atkin Introduces City Runoff Killer (STARTS ON PAGE ONE) month the payment to dependent children of such a deceased and upping the age of dependency from 16 years to 18 years Setting the pay of the City Court Clerk Ed Ware at $300 and the assistant clerk at $250 and giving City Court subpena powers held by a clerk of any state court Amending the charter providing that limitations will not apply to refunding bonds issued on or before Dec 31 1952 payable sole- ly from revenues of the gas system providing that they will not be more than five per cent bonds and for not more than 20 years The House delegation passed bills providing sick benefits for teachers fixing a higher pay for teachers having degrees and fixing the pay of the Knoxville parole officer These bills have not been acted on by the Senate Austere Weddings Too By 1 nlted Press GILLINGHAM England Feb 17 Bridegrooms at St Marks Church here must pay the vicar $3 in advance as a guarantee that no one will throw confetti The vicar Rev Dawson Bowling said it was costing the church too much to clean up after confetti weddings the ceremony the $3 is he said no one has tossed DISCUSS BILLS Beverly Young (left) president of the Tennessee Press Association and Loye Miller chairman of the TPA's Clean Elections Committee were pictured discussing TPA's bills during a Senate committee hearing yesterday Mr Young is editor of the Lincoln County News at Fayetteville and Mr Miller is editor of The Knoxville News-Sentinel U-T Will Establish Grace Moore Memorial (STARTS ON PAGE ONE) achievements as a native Tennessean but we are also indebted to her for the University Concerts which were established as a result of her appearance in the first University-sponsored recital on the Knoxville campus Nov 30 1937 Moore agreed to come to U-T for a concert promoted by a group of faculty members and students despite the fact we had no organized agency to sponsor such a Dean Hosier recalled Packed Auditorium The auditorium was packed Knoxvillians and music-lovers from the entire East Tennessee Area from her concert gave us enough capital to create a permanent organization the University Concerts which has since grown to large Dean Hesler added clean election committee was established by the Press Association at the Memphis meeting in 1947 explained the technical points of all the bills for the Senate Elections Committee Wants No Nocturnal Meetings Concerning the bill requiring all meetings of the Election Commission to be public and announced Mr Miller said have been surreptitious nocturnal meetings in the past and we want to make that just another move to take some of the chicanery out of elections in observed Sen Fields Of the law requiring that metal ballot boxes be used in all counties where voting machines are not used Mr Miller said: need seems to be obvious and there seems to be general agreement that this is The law prohibiting office holders and candidates from serving as election officials produced some favorable Senatorial comment Borrowed From Legion think this is one of the most important of our Mr Miller said we even start this one We borrowed it from the American Legion program Beeler (state attorney feenerai) volunteered to me today that he thinks this is one of me strongest things that could be done to clean up Sen Ben West of Nashville volunteered his support saying that another bill is pending to increase the pay of election officials He said that in Nashville there is a tendency to name people to serve whose character is beyond question with the knowledge that they probably will not turn up on election day and that some can be Would Ban All Job Holders one who has a job should be allowed to serve as an election said Sen West thoroughly agree with said Sen Alex Gray of Brownsville chairman of the had some trouble with that down my Concerning the bill to prohibit labor organizations from contributing to campaign funds Mr Miller said that has been brought before the Press Association three times and passed every Explaining that corporations are already prohibited he said: have been shakedowns of labor members as well as public employes My own sister worked for Douglas Aircraft in Chicago during the war and was asked to give $1 each week Sometimes the money is for support of candidates that individual members might not even want to vote Allen Expresses Doubt Sen Clifford Allen of Nashville questioned whether the law it makes everything equal on its face would not in fact hurt the people whose influence can only be exercised collectively while the more affluant can afford to give substantialy sums Sen Allen wanted to know about including the Tennessee Manufacturers Mr Miller said that would be all right with him After Mr Miller had explained the proposed state Hatch Act which prohibits public employes of the state or municipalities from giving to campaign funds Sen Gray asked: it true that the Federal Hatch Act has been more talked about than effective? Do you know of any said Mr Miller there should have been Hooper Offers Proposal Former Gov Ben Hooper of Newport who has made election laws a subject of many years study and who came to Nashville for the hearing proposed a new section in the Hatch Act prohibiting the intimidation or coercion of election officials a certain East Tennessee county in the last election that was Mr Hooper said election officials who had been appointed were so intimidated that they did not serve And tor the relief of most of you gentlemen here Republicans did (Gov Hooper is a Republi- can) Sen I Beasley questioned the time limit of two days in the proposed bill requiring a filing of election expenses Explains Absentee Mr Miller said that absentee voters law would stop processing of and would bring the whole thing into official atmosphere in a formal Gov Hooper observing that this bill does not affect the absentee law for soldiers which he said is good said that the present civil absentee law violence to every precept of Needed One Rotten Member simply leaves the door open for all tort leasers to walk Gov Hooper said absolutely excludes the minority member from any enforcement not accidentally but studiously says he participate Of the two majority members the chairman may do anything he wants to without the secretary knowing and the secretary can do the same without the chairman knowing Therefore all you need is one rotten member a mountain precinct where I live the record shows approximately 70 absentee ballots were prepared on the grounds where the election was being held one day and cast Of those 60 were the votes of absentee soldiers then serving their country across the seas I have heard of crookedness in elections but I have never seen anything more rotten than that Vast Improvement ha' been able to study all these Press Associations pro CREAM OF ROSES CLEANSING CREAM gives you the glow of youth gloriomly aoft for limited time only NOW $00 plat tax with exclusive DIAl-A-WAVE chart yoar goide to the GHI RIGHT WAVE foe your kind of bail tvfifl MM Bradley Men Urged To Succeed Quinn Ptas Federsl special sale! 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