Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 1

Today's Chuckle ggifi i Yon have to admire the man who can still be enthusiastic about scientific progress after he has been caught speeding by radar nii Weather BRISTOL AREA: Cloudy and cold today with occasional snow flurries high 38 Monday cloudy and warmer READINGS ROM 4 PM 4 8 8 10 47 42 39 37 38 tn 1 1 i 1 4 jV Bristol Herald Courier Combined Sundays With The Bristo Vi rg i i a Tenn essean 94th No 22984 BRISTOL VIRGINIA TENNESSEE SUNDAY DECEMBER 61964 Daily Sunday 15c orty Eight Pagel BI Refutes Neshoba Sheriffs Claim our More US Defense Drive Nears Goal 1250 1500 Entries tem Bem Santa Pal und Ignores Word Of Treasury Department UHUglMlUiHUUll IMw SB and will have a return road 20 feet There will be seven 34 39 18 33 70 to 34 SO 45 BRISTOL Aterte Chicago Jacksonville iMAngeteo Loulsvllla embankment 13 Beckley dead on arrival hospital were Dwight Russell 34 80 50 38 45 JI I Budget Cut Is Indicated Agents Offered Money or Information About selected a little girl and Mrs Joe Brown and Mrs Harold Carter'9 who also chose a little Memp Miami New Orleans New York Richmond VWimvTUn WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of Defense Robert Mc Namara said Saturday prelim inary estimates of next defense budget indicate it will be slightly below $50 billion McNamara spent two hours at the White House going over: budget figures with President Johnson He said recent econo mies in the Department of De fense will permit a substantial cut in new spending authority requested for the fiscal year 1966 which begins next July 1 The most recent estimate of spending for the present year is $498 billion McNamara said and the new budget should be pretty close to the same level At present plans call for the track to open for inspection of entries Tuesday May 11 Time trials will be held the following Thursday and riday with final eliminations scheduled for Sat urday and Sunday The at Indianapolis this year drew about 1300 entries and more than 120000 fans according to Parks and at present is the event in drag racing Parks and speedway officials estimate the Bristol event should attract about 100000 spectators The NHRA sanctions events at more than 115 strips across the US and Canada Included are classes for machines ranging from 10 year old stock models to radically designed slingshot dragsters some of which can accelarate to speeds of more than 200 miles per hour in a quarter mile covering the 1320 feet in less than eight seconds from a standing start During the first nine months of 1964 the NHRA sanctioned 1633 events A total of 249099 cars entered the events and some about three million specta tors paid to watch them com pete The NHRA plans to sanction about 2000 meets in 1965 and expects some three and a half million fans to attend them House of the Week 4C Classified 5 6 7C News Section Newspaper's Annual Drive Ends 1st Week 'Long Wdy To Go' 'The first full week of the 1964 Santa Pal Program ended yes terday with four boys and girls finding personal Santa Pals and $70 in contributions helping to swell the Santa Pal und New Santa Pals include David and Kevin Kelly who chose two boys from the Herald Courier list Mrs Martha Marshall who Total At 93 Mark Tuesday Is Deadline United und cam paign reached 93 per cent of its goal yesterday assuring the 20 agencies it supports of funds to carry on their activities in the fields of home and medical aid and child welfare rank Spaulding Jr execu tive director of the fund said officials hope to eclipse the $240440 objective by Tuesday closing date for the campaign loyd Turner general cam paign chairman has called for a breakfast Monday to push the last minute drive to meet the goal yv this breakfast he said will be made for a swift wind up We want all re ports in all firms called upon Employment Gain NASHVILLE (AP) Manu facturing employment has in creased nine per cent in Ten nessee in the past four years the State Department of Em ployment Security reports The figure compares with a one per cent hike nationally Over the state the total em ployment was nearly 40000 with manufacturing accounting for 10000 of the jobs By RUSS DeVAULT Legalized drag racing on a scale unheard of in this area is coming to Bristol Planypfe construction of a $700000 drag strip and a National Hot Rod Association national event will be an nounced today at Detroit Mich by officials of Bristol International Speedway The announcement will come from Larry Carrier track pres ident Carl Moore vice presi dent and Hal Hamrick gen eral manager who are in De troit to confer with NHRA of ficers about final plans for the strip and event Plans call for construction of a mile long strip adjacent to the back parking lot of the present speedway on the Bluff City Highway Construction now getting un der way is expected to be complete in time for a event to be held here beginning May 11 and lasting for six days The sprawling facility will be built on a 500 acre plot just purchased by the speedway and will extend more than a mile up a valley just east of the half mile oval track In addition plan call for a Nuclear Test Staged 1 WASHINGTON (AP) An us derground nuclear test was con ducted Saturday at the Nevada test site of the Atomic Energy Commission the commision an nounced The range was described as low intermediate or between 20 and 200 A kiloton is the equivalent of 1000 tons of con ventional TNT The Christmas Basket und of the Virginia Tennessean got off to a dur ing its first week and a spokesman for the und said the situation could unless generous Bristolians give it their sup port Thus far only $10 has been contributed $5 from Mrs Ola Shoaf and $5 from an anonymous donor The und is designed to provide a minimum of 50 bas kets of food at Christmas to needy individuals and fam ilies RESIGNS Mrs Eugenie Anderson file only woman chief of a US 'diplomatic mission behind the Iron Cur tain said yesterday in Vienna Austria she has resigned as minister to Communist Bul garia and will return home Mrs Anderson 55 from Red Wing Minn said she plans to continue in the diplomatic service (AP Wirephoto) Seen Racing Here In May The first event scheduled for of the greatest events any Bristol International Dragway will be sanctioned by the Na tional Hot Rod Association re cognized as the biggest and best organized drag racing sanction ing body The NHRA presently sanctions two events the at Pomona Calif in late January or early ebruary and the at Raceway Park Indianapolis Ind during the Labor Day weekend national event will be known as the Nation and will leave the NHRA only one event away from hav ing the four annual events it would like to schedule Wally Parks president of NHRA estimated that between 1250 and 1500 entries will prob ably enter the initial event here Bristol Parks said be one of the largest and finest in the world Early Winter Grips Large Area Of US By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow sleet and plunging tem peratures brought an early winter to wide portions of the country Saturday with accom panying misery and inconven ience to thousands of persons At least 36 deaths were attrib uted to the slow moving storm The snow and sleet storms which came from the Rockies into the Great Plains states at midweek moved through the Midwest then curved into the Northeast with devastating In eastern Maine a new fall piled snow on the ground to a depth of 29 inches Old Town Maine was covered by 15 inches of snow and Houlton had 17 inches on the ground More snow was forecast this weekend in northern Maine and freezing rain and snow in the southern portion' Snow and sleet over upper New York state felled utility lines serving communities with more than 50000 homes The death toll covered these states and sections: New Eng land states 14 dead Missouri 9 Illinois 8 Indiana 4 and New York 1 The heavy snow and lbw tem peratures were not confined to the Midwest and Northeast Austin Nev got 3 more inches of snow Saturday bringing its total on the ground to 10 inches At Alamosa Colo the perature dropped to 25 International alls and idji Minn had 24 Christiansburg Store Thieves Clean Out Safe CHRISTIANSBURG Va (AP) described by police as profession broke into the office of the Mitchell Sales Co here early QafurHav and ntaanad nitf fhn Mac Mitchell the owner said more than $3000 in cash was taken along with $500 in checks The thieves gained entry to the building by prying open a window They then knocked the dial off the safe and took the! door off its hinges IWe will be able to present one News In Brief Turner said a select group 'of workers would meet for break fast at Jack on Moore Street receive assignments anc to finish the cam Turner said a victory celebra tion is being planned for Tues day night in the dining room a Virginia Interment College will be an awards and victory he said worthy firms and individuals re ceiving William Neal who is in charge of the Awards and Vic tory Night said the affair will have a football theme and that the United und organization would choose its und All American Spaulding said the 93 per cent of the goal reached represents $225000 promised or collected and is a little under total pledges for last Slayings Rainey Says PHILADELPHIA Miss (AP) Sheriff Lawrence Rainey claimed Saturday BI agents told him they had eyewitnesses to the murders of three civil rights workers and offered him money for information about the brutal slayings The BI called claim and would not comment on the eyewitness report Rusk Meets Gromyko UNITED NATIONS (AP) of State Dean Rusk and Soviet oreign Minister An drei A Gromyko probed issues splitting the two super powers Saturday in a two hour session both diplomats called They agreed to meet soon again in a further effort to lower East West tensions Scientist Dies OAK RIDGE Tenn (AP) Orlen Camp Dean a scientist at Oak Ridge National Labora tory collapsed and died riday while returning from lunch with associates He was 57 A native of Oshkosh Wise Ttoan camp to Oak Ridee in 1952 He was a member of the Pal 'Bristol Herald jAmerican Chemical Society Courier Moore Street Bristol American Nuclear society ana va uiecss ana money wueis the American Society of Chem should be made payable to the ical Engineers Santa Pal und Occasional snow flurries are expected today in the Bristol area according to the Weather Bureau at Tri City Airport The forecast for today calls fnr etonriv skies with an ex pected high of 38 outlook is for continued cloudy skies with warmer tempera tures in the afternoon high was 50 with an early morning low of 36 Recorded rainfall was 08 Inches The sun will set today at 5:14 and will rise at 7:28 Mon day orecasts EAST TENNESSEE: Cloudy Md ald er early today with periods of drizzle becoming mixed wffl freezing drizzle or light snow mainly the mountains Lit tie or no show accumulaflon expected except to an Inch to tt Partial clearing and continued cold lat er today Highs mid 30s to near 40 Mostly fair and tonigh Lows upper teens and low 20s Outlook tor Monday partly cloudy and not quite es cold SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: Ctoudy and colder today with scattered snow flurries In the mountains High 33 to 38 norttie ty winds 10 to 15 mph jOitaok tor Monday mostly cloudy and cold with scattered snow flurries Temperatures SO 50 27 74 49 35 There were no copper pennies minted that year only zinc pennies He may have one of those cooper Spadone insists that a handful of copper pennies were minted in 1943 He said he has three' other 1943 coppers and knows of four more in existence Spadone said the treasury department denies that any copper pennies were minted that year because it does not want to be bothered by persons who possess zinc pennies that have been copper plated by novelty companies and think they have rare coins The penny sent to arris was accompanied by a lab oratory certificate that certified the coin as genuine ac cording to Spadone The coin was purchased by Spadone four years ago for $500 from Richard Pavosev North Haledon Spadone said Pavosev turned the coin over with a certifi cate from the North Jersey Industrial Laboratories Inc of West Patterson Dick Walters chief radiographer of the laboratores said coin was rayed and adjudged' authentic Nov 7 1960 ijere ind Santa Pals I Bristolian In $1 5000 Coin Deal J1 A Bristol Tennessee man has exchanged $15000 worth of rare coins from his lifetime coin collection for a single a 1943 copper cent which the US Treasury De partment denies exists Walter anis Jr 25 1030 Columbia Road has sent about 100 coins ranging from rare Indian head pennies to a $20 gold piece to coin store operator rank Spadone East Orange in lieu of $12000 in cash The transaction was reported by the New York bureau of the Associated Press Efforts by the Herald Courier to contact arris who is listed in the city directory as a student were unsuccessful The AP quoted anis as saying the penny completes his collection of coppers have one penny for every year since they were first 'minted in a complete set from three arris told an AP newsman no coin book even contains a space for 1943 copper A treasury dartment spokeATian however said ar newly acquired penny is counterfeit if got one LYING CLOSE TO A pair of Turkish Air orce 84 jet fighter planes serving as an honorary military escort fly close to a wing of the airliner carrying Pope Paul VI over Turkey on his way heme Saturday from India The photo was taken through a window of the plane by AP photographer James Pringle who accom panied the Pope on the Roman Catholic spiritual trip to India for the Eucharistic Congress Story on page 5 (AP Wirephoto) 27000 Seat Grandstand Pound Sailor Companion Die In Auto Crash BECKLEY Va (AP) Two sailors on leave were killed and a third was injured in an' automobile accident on the West Virginia Turnpike riday night They were traveling north in a car which went out of con trol on a slight curve and ram med into an miles north of Two victims at a Beckley identified as Behner 22 of Wheeling and Harry Phillips 20 of Pound Va Admitted to a Beckley hos pital where he was listed in fair condition yesterday was Ronald Sack of Mound City Ill A funeral home said the sail ors carried papers indicating they were on leave from their base at Little Creek Va Inside Today's Newspaper BARKING If Bristol Va moves toward more strict dog laws somebody is going to bark But if the city act then going to be bitten The whole problem is as nagging as a bag of fleas See story Page 3B PAPAL HISTORY Pope Paul has returned to Rome after his historic trip to India See story Page 5C Editorials 4A Columns and Comment 5A Sports 1 2 3C fail to run properly or stop be fore going the full distance A four foot retaining wall and the campaign finished by Tues guard rail will be installed the day length of the strip At the starting end of the strip will be three impound and work areas for the cars In addition a four story tower will house track officials press rep See DRAG STRIP Page 2 The sheriff 'was one of 21 white men arrested riday on federal conspiracy charges 'in last triple murder The arrests climaxed a five month investigation BI sources said the gov case was built by in filtrating the Ku Klux Klan and interviewing more than 1000 residents of Mississippi includ ing 480 Klan members There was no confirmation niblished reports that the BI has a statement from an eyewit ness of the killings and will us? it in court 153 Agents On Case BI sources said 153 agents had worked on the case almost without let up since Michael Schwemer Andrew Goodman and James Chaney disappeared near Philadelphia last June? Their bodies were found in an earth fill dam Aug 4 Schwemer and Goodman were white New Yorkers Chaney a Negro lived at nearby Meridian The Neshoba County charge came Mississippi awaited the next legal step in the massive BI roundup that included the husky sheriff his deputy Cecil Price a rural preacher and several business men Intense interest centered on next preliminary hearing in nearby Meridian Government attorneys will have to show enough of their hand to convince the com missioner the men should be held for federal grand jury ac tion The question of whether any of the 21 men would be charged with murder in the slayings was still unanswered Murder is not a federal crime unless it is com mitted on federal property Nineteen of the men are charged with violating the civil rights of the three murdered workers The other two men area were charged as accessories Eyewitnesses Claimed Rainey made his remarks about the BI in an interview in his office He and Price buckled on their gunbelts again Satur day and returned to duty after their arrest and arraignment riday The sheriff said two BI agents who picked him up at his office urged him to give them whatever information he had about the triple slayings started telling me 1 knew everything about the Rainey said I told them no They said got three to five eyewitnesses and See MISSISSIPPI Page 2 i 1 Murder Suspect At Richlands Listed Critical RICHLANDS Va Leland Clifton who is charged in the death of his wife was reported a critical condition last night at Clinch Valley Clinic here Police said Clifton shot him self twice with a high powered rifle once under the shoulder and once under the chin He is the operator of a small coal mine in neighboring Buchanan County Police said last night they were still trying to determine how Clifton was able to shoot himself with the1 rifle Police Chief Gardner said it was a ase of murder and attempted suicide He said Clifton wounded himself with two shots from the rifle that killed Mrs Clifton i Murder charges were placed against Clifton Slain was Mrs Patricia Joann Clifton mother of one child and stepmother of three others Officers Said last night the in vestigation is continuing Contributions to the Santa Pal und included: The Three Arts Study Club $25 Boyle $15 Guy Arnold $15 Tanaxi Club $10 and Carol and Mary Jo Rich ards $5 While the first full week of the Santa Pal Program was a successful one it was pointed out by a spokesman for the Herald Courier that still have a long way to and the days will pass He emphasized that the pro gram designed to make certain that Santa miss any little boys and girls on Christ mas Eve will need the help it can get between now and Dec The initial lists provided the Herald Courier by the Welfare Departments of Bristol Virginia and Sullivan County contained the names of 300 350 boys and girls between the ages of two and all needy children who might be by Santa but for the generosity of Bristol and area residents Prospective Santa Pals are urged to contact Mrs June Dulaney at the newspaper office on Moore telephone 669 as soon as possible Mrs Dulaney will be from 8:30 am to 5 pm Monday through riday and from 8:30 am to noon on Sat urdays CX2 1L T1 voninuuuons iv uie odiiid raiiddiui und which will aid children safe who do not find personal Santa Pals may be delivered to Mrs Dulaney or mailed to: Santa $700000 Drag Strip To Be Built In Bristol I two and three eighths mile road The strip will be 60 feet wide course to be added in the near future strip proper will be cut off roads along the strip to a mile in length but only the provide an exit for cars that iirst quarter mile will be used for acceleration racing After the measured quarter mile the strip will be built on a 10 per cent grade to help slow the cars and provide a better view of the action for fans A 27000 seat grandstand will be built into the ridge on the north side of the track The grandstand will be angled away from me strip to increase visi bility and safety I Snow lurries Likely Today In This Area i Occasional snow flurries area according to the Ill iiiiMliiB llilH I I Si ill! ma! i Ul a 4' iwwBTim mrnia inm ui umniiM rji in nm TOnimn iii nn nnim ni mij.