The Memphis Press-Scimitar from Memphis, Tennessee • 21

Memphis Press-Scimitar SECOND SECTION PAGE THURSDAY APRIL 20 1967 Comics Classified Ads Bridge Column Obituaries For Faster Way Into Town New X-Way Segment Opens By ORVILLE HANCOCK '-j -7 jh I CONFER OF PROBLEM OF STRAY DOGS From wit Mrs Dorothy Durr Commissioner James Moore Mis George Miles president of the Memphis Humane Society and Inspector Otis Caldwell of the Memphis Humane -cimitarwf pt County Demands Pets Be Kept Up Commissioner James Moore announced today the county government will launch a crackdown beginning May 1 against dog owners who fail to keep their pets up and will take the owners to court statement came at a meeting at the Courthouse with representatives of the Humane Society Memphis Humane Shelter Board Health Department officials and other persons concerned Memphians tired of fighting traffic got a break with the opening of a 16 mile section of Interstate 55 at 7 am today This reporter discovered by making the drive that a motorist can get on the Will Fowler perimeter expressway at Summer Avenue and skirt the city all the way around to Riverside Drive and motor up to City Han in less than half the time it takes to make the trip through the city The new segment makes it possible for the first time -It is a little over twice as far via expressway but there are no traffic lights and no construction obstructions or detours OPENED Five minutes after the barricades were taken away on the section from South Parkway to the Memphis Arkansas Bridge 103 cars had zipped past at a 70-80 mile dip 21 cars per minute As the traffic began to get heavier Paul Daniels general superintendent of A Hadley Construction Co of Humboldt builders of the interstate section said: "I know how they ever did without Using the old conventional route and observing the traffic signs and stopping for all red lights this reporter was able to drive from downtown to City Hall in 40 minutes This was by using the best available city route down Summer to Parkway TIME-SAVER Starting at the same point Summer at the expressway it took 18 minutes to drive on the freeway around the city and come off the expressway onto Riverside Drive and drive right up to City Hall Driving at the 75-mph speed limit and slowing at busy exits and entrances the 22 mile trip was made CARS ROLL ON NEW 1-55 SEGMENT FOR FIRST TBIE TODAY with the problem of stray dogs in the county "After completion of the Health vaccination program starting this Saturday we are going to start picking up stray dogs the truckload' Moore said Former Judge Robert Kinkle suggested that authorities at the Millington Naval Base be asked to help will be allowed to park on the superhighway The overpass in tiie background goes to Colorado Street with a walkway for children living west of the expressway to reach Wisconsin School Prm Scimitar Hoff Photo by Tam Sortw Using new expressway segment these cars are headed north for Riverside Drive and downtown Memphis Construction workers newsmen highway patrol- men and state highway Inspectors are parked along the new expressway leg for the opening but after this no one Housing Code To Get 01 By brown Alan flynn Ui glH WTBW County Commission today voted to adopt a housing code for Shelby County County building officials and county attorneys have worked on the new code for over a year A housing code is a requirement for participation in many federal aid programs The code which must also be passed by the County Court will govern maintenance of property primarily said assistant County Attorney Hem TidwelL It will allow the county to act against owners of delapi-dated or unsightly property said Tidwell The new code is similar to the city's code but exempts farm buildings and residences Tidwell said the primary purpose is to provide minimum standards for property maintenance in more heavily populated areas such as Whitehaven The code provides for en-forcement through the courts Property found in violation of the code would be declared a public nuisance and 'die owner prosecuted on that basis The housing code is the fourth step' made in recent years in providing uniform building standards throughout the county Since 1959 county building electrical and plumbing codes have been adopted In other action the Commission voted to: Accept a bid of $6450 from National Bedding and Furniture Industries for 300 hospital-type mattresses for Shelby County Hospital approximately $2700 for fire extinguishers and first aid kits for each of the county's 225 vehicles Furnish Penal Farm labor to help construct a tower for the Vietnam village display during Cotton Carnival Week CoDpolino Dpf by to be ripped up and replaced because it was defective The expressway leg makes it possible for through traffic on 1-40 from the east or 1-55 from the south to enter Memphis on freeways and skirt the city going directly to the bridge into Arkansas or to Riverside Drive leading downtown: Motorsts coming out of Mississippi can enter Tennessee and be around Memphis into Arkansas in 11 minutes Those coming outofTennessee from Nashville can take the perimeter expressway at Sum-' mer and skirt Memphis and be across the bridge into Arkansas in 17 minutes rather than Riverside so he thinks McLemore may have to be given the right of way where it crosses Riverside At present Riverside has the right of way The new $88 million segment just opened permits motorists to travel on a continuous freeway from Grenada Miss through Memphis and Arkansas and up to near Hayti Mo or from Nashville Term Into Arkansas and Missouri EARLY Daniels said the project begun Sept 11 1964 was completed 40 days ahead of schedule despite the fact that a 125-foot segment had no red lights until you get to Front Street at City Hall It will he few seconds slower in few weeks however when new traffic lights -are put up on Riverside at Beale Union and Jefferson to take care of the increased traffic flow REGULATOR Another light will be placed at Riverside and Adams but will be used only to regulate traffic from a parking lot during rush hours said Robert Fos-naugh city traffic engineer The drive from Whitehaven on the expressway to City Hall took eight minutes It is nine miles 4 More Arrested In Cotton Case A bribe scandal that has rocked Memphis' cotton row broadened today as the FBI announced it has now arrested 10 persons in connection with the case Latest arrests include four Negro porters who are accused of accepting bribes from a former cotton dasser at the Board of Cotton Examiners office at 4841 Summer The four are Willie A Johnson 26 of 1143 Bammuel George Norman 30 of 3039 Johnson Apt Robert Hendrix 18 of 657 Fifth and William I Claxton 21 of 838 Seventh -The complaints state that they received $15 each from Van Boyd former cotton dasser on April 3 OTHER ARRESTS Others arrested in the scandal to date are: Hugh Connel Day 54 of 4061 Navaho Ralph Freeman 34 of 1454 Alamo Horace Sims 43 of 80 Mendenhall owner of Sims Cotton Co 96 Front Boyd 27 of 2S1 Claudette James Capell 42 of 315 Williford Frederick Ray-ner 66 of Galveston Tex executive dee president of Kemper Galveston Purpose of the bribes the FBI says was to obtain a lower grading on certain cotton so that it could- be bought at a lower price than its worth then sold again at a higher price all to defraud the federal government RECLASSIFIED It was learned that 1000 bales of Commodity Credit Corp cotton sold to the Galveston firm is being reclassified as a result of the disclosures William Welte special agent in charge of the Memphis FBI office said he has Cotton Co of solve dog problems which result from dogs being abandoned by Navy personnel who are transferred Otis Caldwell Humane Shelter superintendent said the Shelter would be glad to accept- animals from any place in the county if the owners can't care for them and will attempt to place them in homes no information as to any losses the government may have suffered as a result of downgrading of other lots The four porters appeared before UJ5 Commissioner Robert Drewry yesterday and were released on $500 bonds which they were allowed to sign- Traffic Death No 19 Reported The Memphis traffic fatality toll for 1967 rose to 19 today compared to 20 et tills time last year with tiie reported death of Joe Holmes 77 of 2301 Hunter who was injured on April 8 Traffic Judge Bruns Mc-Carroll said Holmes died Tuesday at John Gaston Hospital but police were not notified until today Holmes was struck by a car driven by Alfonie Cunningham 24 of 3300 Chapel Road as he was walking across Eldridge near Treze-vant at 3:30 pm Cunningham has not been charged Commissioner Pete Sisson along with State Troopers and construction officials 1 were present for removal of the barricades SIGNALS Sisson said most of the traffic going under Crump off the expressway onto Riverside was traveling too fast and he plans to ask the state to put up flashing lights and additional warning signs minute are speeding along on the freeway and tiie next you are on Sisson said -He said most of the traffic going to Presidents Island will now be leaving the expressway onto McLemore taking the mentally ill person out of his community environment putting him out in the sticks somewhere to be He said patients are treated in the hospital on a short term basis and then worked with on an out-patient basis FREEDOM "Most of our patients in the hospital go home for the week rad go bowling are given a great deal of freedom after their initial few days of treatment Is com-' pieted Some need medica-ton and help for the first few days of their psychos- More Freedom Is Urged For the Mentally III I I i ii i ii i 1 Special Day For Queen: She's 21 By CAROL KELLY PrmldmllwSMIWrttw American Airlines will be flying a regal queen to Memphis tonight a queen who today is celebrating her 21st birthday really so that queen said today before die boarded the plane to come to Memphis "Fm really no different from anyone else except to those who But tonight Queen efficient to collect patients Blanche Crump Humphreys in one place where they Her Majesty of the 1967 If we had such places here' as half-way houses many of our patients could go to a facility like this Dr Mendel said "We have found taking a patient into a psychiatric hospital further complicates his disorganization and in no way prepares him for resuming his life in the community "Hospitals are primarily a convenience for the physician who chooses to organize his life in such a way that he finds it useful and Mild Heart Attack NAPLES Fla (UPI) Dr Carl A Coppolino on trial for his life for the second time apparently suffered a mild heart seizure in the courtroom today but his wife said be all Court was adjourned 15 minutes early at the request of lawyers The defendant who retired from the practice of anesthesiology in 1963 because of heart disease was expected to return for the afternoon session The first- indication of Suffers without stopping There are County Creates New Office The County- Commission today created a new department the Shelby County Coordination Office to coordinate county and federal spending projects Cliff Tuck assistant personnel director and part time coordinator has been relieved of his personnel duties and assigned as head of the new department He will also work with Mark King county information director and industrial development coordinator Chairman Jack Ramsay who has also been working on a regional coordination project said: think their efforts and will result' in our getting back more money than we are sending to Ramsay has arranged for meeting for Shelby Crittenden and DeSoto county officials and town mayors to discuss ways they could work together in Increasing the amount of federal contributions to various projects Ramsay said such a regional intercounty planning group could increase federal contributions by 33 per cent on various projects For example Ramsay pointed out that federal grants up to 60 per cent are made for approved projects such as airport development libraries mass transportation and improvements and highway contribution even 5 per cent return on such projects is considered good and 10 per cent almost Kuykendall said "a return of 13 per cent is i tremendous And the responses are still coming into Washington office we had to call a halt at some point to get on with the Kuykendall said Over 80 per cent of the Memphians responding favored "a stragegically sound effort for military in tifc war with 57 Seniors on ClassTour: Do a Little Stealing MANCHESTER Tenn (AP) Fifteen Central High School seniors who made a class trip to Washington DC have been placed on probation by school officials because of alleged thefts at a gift shop in Jamestown Va Joe Frank Patch principal said the 15 were also given demerits in deportment because of the incident which resulted in the senior class being stopped by a group of highway patrolmen after visiting Williamsburg and Jamestown After arriving home the 119 seniors who had been on the trip were called into a meeting where the guilty parties were asked to confess Patch said 16 pairs of earrings and money for two hats were returned to the gift shop He estimated that $40 worth of merchandise had been taken lty the students await his Over three out of four of those responding favored tax credits for parents supporting students in college And six out of 10 favored removing altogether the ceiling on outside earnings allowed recipients of Social Security for veterans pension payments The questionnaires apparently stirred some lively discussions in Memphis households Kuykendall said he received a number of requests for extra answer forms because the wife or the husband wanted to express an individual or different By KAY PITTMAN BLACK Let the mentally ill roam free? Yes says a prominent California psychiatrist With certain limitations says a prominent Memphis psychiatrist -The Californian Dr1 Werner Mendel has concluded after five years of research -that all psychiatric hospitals should be closed "Mental illness is never -well treated in a psychiatric says Dr Mendel director of adult- in-patient services in the psychiatric unit of Los An- geles County General Hospi- taL would be better treated in their own homes with occasional brief there- -py in community TESTIMONY Dr Mendel believes even-' tually all psychiatric hospitals will be abolished He testified before a California State Assembly subcommittee on Mental Health Services Dr William Godsey clinical director of Tennessee Psychiatric Hospital ft Institute said he agreed basically with Dr philosophy "But always going to have a percentage of those who are mentally ill who need to be protected from themselves and from others" He said TPHI operates on the modem approach of not per-cent preferring "our present 62 per cent favoring' Immediate with- and 76 per cent opting to "hold key positions and try to negotiate a set Asked "do you think the War on Poverty has been worth the some 945 per cent of the Memphians answered Only 31 per cent of those answering Kuykendall's questionnaire favored the proposed 6 per cent surtax proposal while 24 per cent advocated federal wage (price and tack and was carried from the courtroom to a stretcher ON STAND The seizure today came during testimony of the first defense witness John Crispin Smith a New York biochemist who said he had studied the distribution of lethal amounts of the drug sucdnylcholine in the bodies of rats Judge Lynn Silvertooth granted the request that the state suspend its case long enough for several defense witnesses to testify Bailey asked that they be taken to the witness stand out of turn -because they had to get back to their Jobs Britain to Apply Says Report LONDON (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilson formally will apply for British membership in the European Common Market highly reliable sources said today For tiie official record Wilson still has not made up his mind But the sources said he actually has decided to make application no later than May 15 Cotton Carnival will arrive here for the weekend to be feted by a round el enter-tainment befitting a truly royal ruler RECORD Queen Blanche the daughter of Mr and Mrs George Humphreys 147 Goodlett will probably build up a travel record during her reign that would rival real-life monarchs A student at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton Va the young queen has had to make frequent tripe from Virginia to Memphis to attend the announcement of her queenship for costume fittings and to other parties The young queen has another reason to excitement her 21st birthday today OLDER "I already feel 10 years she jested by phone from Virginia before flying to Memphis really fun she added more seriously "1TL go to a few more classes today come back to my room and finish packing get on the plane end then be in Memphis by tonight" Queen Blanche will attend the traditional Spagetti Luncheon tomorrow at noon a party given in her honor and then Saturday night she will host the annual Top Hat Party where all the guests except herself will be men She will fly back to Mary Baldwin for classes Monday Bigger War Wanted Kuykendall Poll Shows trouble came when defense attorney Lee Bailey leaped up end said honor may we have a RUSHES TO HIM Coppolino is accused of murdering his first wife Carmela with an overdose injection of a muscle relaxing drug His second wife Mary whom he wed 40 days after Carmela's death rushed from her seat in the spectator section to a chair beside him As the rest of the crowd in the courtroom filed out Cop-poll no dark-tanned and healthy-looking remained in his seat for 10 minutes Then he was able to walk to the elevator supported by his wife and a defense assistant His left hand was clenched and slightly trembling He took no medication to the courtroom Coppolino had a similar seizure during Us trial to Freehold NT last December in which he was found innocent of murdering his friend and neighbor Ret Lt Col William Farber to 19SS Court was adjourned only briefly then and he was given medicine During preliminary hearing on the wife-murder charge to Sarasota to September Cop 'polino suffered a heart at credit controls The rest 945 per cent said they preferred to "eliminate unnecessary' foreign "aid and domestic Defense Secretary Robert proposal that afl American youths be drafted for two years of federal military or civilian service won a surprising 57 per cent approval in the poll But the suggestion that 18-year-olds be allowed to vote was turned down by those responding with 576 per cent opposed By POWELL LINDSAY TIN rmrtcMtar imi WASHINGTON Memphians who care enough to write their congressman want to escalate the Vietnam war de-escalate the War on Poverty end want any tax increase Those ere some of the findings of Rep Dan first poll of his Ninth District constituents Rep Kuykendall said he received more than 16000 answers to the 123000 questionnaires he sent to every residence in the Ninth District "When' you consider that.