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See ull Picture Story Of 'Volunteer 500' On Page Eight gi 8 Weather Herald Con rier off a married face 1 Bl 1 0 itSia 1 Vi 01m from pm 4 8 9 10 Your amily Newspaper or More Than 90 Years gs gi 76 7571 91st Year No 21773 ISTO I I I A EN SEE MO A 3 1 1961 Daily 5c Sunday 15c ourteen Pages To Damascus Police Tazewell Wreck Kills One Automobiles Of Sell Out Crowd Cluster Around Bristol Speedway or Running Of "Volunteer 6837 Per Hour Atlanta Team Wins The 500 eared Kidnaped Smith Left And Allen Embrace Trophies You Said It in Kennedy Would ight Blockade New Airlift Is Considered The Country Parson Harr of Pressmen's Home Huff Cook uneral Home charge of arrangements important political considerations favor this course in preference to an attempted military break through on the ground There is this important political considera tion in such situations: If shots are fired who fired the first one? Advocates of the airlift argue that in an attempt to force West ern supplies through bn the roads to Berlin the West might be maneuvered into a position where it has to fire touching off an ex plosive situation But in an airlift they point out unarmed Western planes would be flying supplies to Berlin in the traditional air access corridors to the city To stop them it would be the Communists Russians or East Germans who would have to fire the first shot It was a massive airlift that permitted the Western allies to break the 1948 49 blockade of Ber lin On the negative side informed sources said are the present lack of adequate landing facilities for big jet planes in West Berlin and limitations on the quantity of sup plies that can be supplied by air for the needs of more than 2 mil lion Berliners MIAMI (UPD One of the two Cuban prisoner envoys who had decided to stay in the United States disappeared from his hotel room Sunday afternoon and Mi ami police said he may have been kidnaped Police radioed all cars the bor der patrol and the BI to be on 76 w7 71 51 74 He said he had no diplomatic immunity from arrest but deter mined officers insisted he go free He told them Saturday when they arrested eight of his companions at a bus station here he was perfectly willing to go to jail Officers Saturday refused to ar rest the youth and a blind white woman Norma Wagner 44 of Rochester when they ar rived here Saturday by train and tried to integrate the white wait ing room at the Illinois Central terminal They were immediately arrested on breach of the peace charges Saturday's arrest brought to 294 those jailed here on similar charges since May 24 Tjokraodisumarto's father a former ambassador to Pakistan is an officer in De partment of State of oreign Af fairs in Jakarta JACKSON Miss (UPD Po lice arrested 15 more here Sunday while the son of an Indonesian diplomat who met them at the train station tried in vain for the second straight day to follow them to jail Widjonarko Tjokroadisitmartb '24 an exchange student at the GO Mirto feelings are apparent as he explains in Miami yesterday why he doesn't want to go back Special To The Herald Courier DANTE Va July 30 rank Harr 63 died at 2 pm Sun day in a Dwnife hospital Mr Harr was personnel man ager of the Olinchfield Coal Com pany and had been associated with the company for the past 43 years He had been chairman of the Russell County Democratic party for the past 30 yeans Survivors include his wife Mrs Gladys Harr a son James Harr of Bristol Va two brothers Wiley Hair of Maywood 111 and Raleigh Harr of San rancisco Calif and a sister Miss Vera Tenn is Employment Improves WASHINGTON (UPD Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg an nounced Sunday that a new na tional survey of employment shows improvement in 90 per cent of 150 major labor market areas Goldberg disclosed results of the June employment survey in a television interview with Rep Emanuel Ccller NY (WOR TV New York) Details of the new study will be made public Monday Claims Th reals Caused Her To Murder Mate Sil "Modern man has lots of worries our fathers have what to do with leisure time" By RON MILLER Johnny Allen of Atlanta Ga relief driving Jack Smith's 1961 Pontiac' turned Bristol Interna tional Speedway at an average of 6837 miles per hour to win the in augural "Volunteer yester day Allen driving's Pontiac for his first time started the race in his 1961 Chevrolet but was forced out of the race with that car when it burned on the 120th lap The fire was caused by a defective rear wheel bearing ireball Roberts of Daytona Beach la also driving a 1961 nation NATO alliance at a NATO council meeting Aug 8 Strong support was said to be rallying behind the idea of an airlift should emergency meas ures be made necessary by Com to prefer the air lift to any at munist interference with allied tempted breakthrough toward Ber traffic into West Berlin lin by land Western military experts are now drawing up various alterna tive emergency plans to meet any Berlin crisis and all will be ex amined by1 Secretary of State Dean Rusk British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and rench oreign Minister Maurice Couve De Murville at their con ference starting in Paris this Sat urday The crisis plans will then be re 1 Nevertheless these sources say LONDON (UPD Tradition bound Britain w'lwh has stub bornly shunned involvement on the coni inert takes a crucial step Monday to move closer toward Europe economically and politi cally Prime Minister Haorld Mac niilbin scheduled an official an nouncement before Parliament which diplomatic sources said will reveal decision to jon the six notion European com mon market on certain terms The move if successful would establish a West European trade bloc of 250 million people and weave it into a closcr knit politi cal alignment Boston 90 Duluth 72 82 New Orleans 88 Miami 87 Sticky Weather To Hang Around Hot sticky weather will hang around the Bristol area today and tomorrow the Weather Bu reau at Tri City Airport said last night The forecast calls for partly cloudy warn and humid days with widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms The high today is expected to be in the upper eighties Thunderstorms brought a trace of precipitation to the area yes terday LONDON (UPD Allied mili viewed with members of the 15 tary planners were reported Sun day to be seriously considering setting up an emergency airlift to Berlin if the Communists should blockade the isolated city The western planners were said Dignitary Visits WILLIAMSBURG Va July 30 (UPD Vice President Chen Cheng of Nationalist China was given a ceremonious sightfeemg tour here today as he awaited his meeting with President Kennedy in Washington tomorrow Cheng with his wife and an official par ty of 20 persons was scheduled to board a plane at a nearby air port tomorrow and arrive in Washington at 10:20 am (EDT) He will be greeted there by Vice President Lyndon Johnson Will Report On Disarmament NEW YORK dis armament negotiator John Mc Cloy arrived home Sunday night and will report to President Ken nedy on his talks about Berlin and disarmament with Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev soon as McCloy who flew to London from Moscow aboard a US Air orce plane declined to comment on his two day informal talks with the vacationing Khrushchev last week at the Black Sea resort of Pitsundc The talks dealt with disarmament' and the Berlin ques tions Disarmament talks in Moscow between McCloy and Soviet' nego ia tor Valerian Zorin were re cessed Saturday when McCloy was the lookout for Reinaldo Pico who left his room at the Alcazar Hotel in Miami about 5:10 pm accompanied by two men dragged or hauled or said a police offi cer are looking for him you might say to explain to our satis faction his unscheduled disappear ance from his hotel room may have been kidnaped We want to make sure he is Police described the two men who left with Pico as Cuban lookinc rnalpis in white I Police said the disappearance university of Western said ha was reported by an unidentified was perplexed over the Jackson man who was staying with Pico 'police refusal to ar in his room as a guard rest him as a man a friend went out to eat and when he got back Pico was Officers said the friend who was not Mirto Collazo the other Cuban prisoner envoy who defect ed gathered information from on lookers in the lobby who saw Pico and the two men leave Pico and Collazo along witth eight other prisoners taken in the Bay invasion in April came to Miami last month to try to revive the tractors for prisoners exchange which collapsed after Cuban Premier idel Castro be gan referring to the tractors as for invasion carnage Although all 10 of the envoys were honor bound to return to Cuba Pico and Collazo decided riday to stay in the US There was wide spread criticism of their action in die Cuban exile colony here Pico and Collazo went into hid ing after announcing their deci sion The other eight prisoner en voys are scheduled to return to Cuba Monday Wife Slays Husband Turns Herself In Great Britain Will Join CommonMarket Three Others Die On Highways Across Virginia Special To The Herald Courier TAZEWELL Va July 3 A 56 year old woman was killed in stantly and a 47 year old man was injured in a head on collision early today on Highway 19 about eight miles west of here The victim was identified as Mrs Minnie Lee Marsh Suffolk Va by Virginia State Police Trooper rank Barton George Miller Christian 47 of Pounding Mill Va was reported i in condition at tthe Mattie Williams Hospital in Rich lands Trooper Barton said the man sustained a chest lac erations of both lips and multiple rank Harr Dies At 63 15 Riders Arrested Temperatures Sunday's high var nit rinw Jacksovtle Seattle San Diego 75 iucson airbanks Honolulu Mrs Marsh was one of four persons killed during the week end in Virginia traffic accidents She was being driven to Blue field by her son in law Dr Joe Milton Adair Richlands after a visit with Dr and Mns Adair the officer reported Traveling West Trooper Barton said Christian was traveling west on Highway 19 attempted to pass another automobile and lost control as he was 'trying to avoid the head on collision with the oncoming Adair vehicle Christian's car went over the left shoulder of the highway spun around several times and smashed into the Adair automobile Mrs Marsh was killed instantly al though Dr Adair recevied only minor bruises No charges have been filed by Trooper Barton State police said Eldred James Higgins Jr 19 of (Route 2) Lex ington Va died shortly after the car he was driving crashed Sun day on Route 60 in Rockbridge County' Arthur armer 64 of Richmond died Sunday of injuries received Saturday when a car in which he was riding lost control and crash ed into a telephone pole on Route 168 near Williamsburg Va Winfrey Lee Althers 24 of Castleton Va died in a Char lottesville hospital Sunday shortly after he was injured in an auto mobile accident on Route 642 Police said Althers was fatally injured when the truck in The door swung open and Althers' ii i i BRISTOL 87 was run over by the rear wheel New York 92 i an ine acciaem nappanea seven 51 miles south of Amissville in Rap chesgo Klatu Hr pahannock County BERLIN The Commu nist East German govanmennt Sunday was departed to be train ing its militia to help queUAlis orders 'in event the current un rest turns into riots Thoroughout East Germany workens fearful of war over Ber lin was reported demanding free elections to reunify Germany The alarmed Communists or ganized forums and meetings to mire East Germans the Soviet plan to end Western allied rights in Berlin would not lead to' war The biggest crowd in Bristol sports history was finding the going rough early last night in re 1 turning from the Bristol Interna tional Speedway but police re ported traffic moving smoothly Not a single automobile mishap had been recorded in Bristol Ten nessee or Virginia Both police departments report ed at 8 that cars were bumper to bumper leaving the speedway on the Bluff City High way but that 'he combination of lights and officers was keeping the traffic moving slowly as the huge crowd left after seeing Bris tol's "Volunteer Traffic was so heavy on the Bluff City Highway between 11:30 a and noon yesterday that cars and buses were taking an hour an one half or longer to negotiate the approximately seven milpc from tho citv Io Ihn Snorri umv Tta Bristol Lifo Savins! Crew reported it handled 67 cases at recalled to the US to report to the track' Most of the cases wore heat prostrations Three mechan ics were treated for minor bums when a racing car caught fire after it had rolled off the track Another mechanic suffered a minor injury when he was hit in the leg by a piece of metal An object was removed from a race eye and one driver was treated for apparent minor in juries when his car slammed into he was riding ran into a ditch I lowpewrfor 66 69 66 55 70 69 81 Road Jam? McCloy Returns Special To The Herald Courier DAMASCUS Va July 30 A 39 year oId Washington County woman was changed with murder this afternoon after she admitted pumping five 22 aallbre pistol shots into the body of her 49 year old husband ree on $5000 bond was Geneva Grim Gentry who gave herself up to Damai cus police at about 4:30 pm Washington County Sheriff rank Edmondson said she admitted shooting Elmer Clar ence Gentry at their farm home hear Damascus between 3:30 and 4 pm Sheriff Edmondson quoted Mrs Gentry as saying her husband had threatened her Officers said a onc yeareld grandchild lay asleep in a bed in the house as the shooting took place They said Mrs Gentry awakened the child got her pock etbook and drove to the police station' The sheriff said Gentry was ly ing dead in the hallway of the house when officers arrived Gentry was an employe of a coal mine in Gary Va Other investigating officers were Deputy Sheriff Bill Siemp and Damascus Police Chief John Henderson Preliminary hearing has been set Aug 18 in Washington Coun ty Court Pontiac came in second Sher man Ulsman of Bluff City finished ninth in a 1961 ord After the checkered flag had fallen on Allen he and Smith rode the victory car from the pits to the winner's circle where they re ceived kisses from Miss Volun teer 500 and Miss irebird i Smith said after the race: deserves a lol of praise but 1 credit my pit crew with the win In my opinion the gang is the best in the A lady asked Allen if he had air conditioning in the car he if the car had been air conditioned would never have gotten out to start Smith and Allen collected $3500 for the victory Over 23000 fans watched 42 cars start the race Only 19 finished The race was slowed down by frequent caution flags When the green flag went down at the start of the race red Lorenzen who had the pole posi tion in a ord grabbed the lead but was caught napping as he entered the first turn Junior Johnson dropped to the inside in his 1961 Pontiac passed Lorenzen and led for the first 118 laps At the end of the 100 lap period I he had built up a 17 sccond lead I over the second place car driven i by Lorenzen The race started at a fast pace with the first 16 cars lapping the I rest of the field at the end of 25 1 laps At the end of 70 laps four driv ers wore eliminated They includ ed Tommy Irwin George Also brook red Harb and Cotton Owens Huck Baber twice Grand Na tional Champion went out at 85 laps with a broken valve in his '61 Chrysler The first real excitement came when Tiny Lund's I '61 Pontiac spun out in the third turn and Larry rank hit him with his ord ifteen laps later Joe Weatherly spun out in almost the same place as Lund Several cars got around the skidding Pontiac but Johnson couldn't quite make it and hit Weatherly The impact tore off the major part of Johnson's door However the pit crew of the "Wild as Johnson is often called went right to work and had him back on the track in a tn nt nr nf cnrAnrk IwTnrn Tin nnnM IIHUIVI 41V VVUIU JIU1VO I'llVIl 11'10 Vttl 01L41 I 11 1 IV VI ill fall into second place (See ROAD JAM? Page 2)) Johnson again ran into trouble' on the 118th lap when he blew his left front tire tlie second turn I Training Militia 11 was men mar nc iosi me icau for the first time Bob Welborn took over in his 1961 Pontiac and led until the 150th lap when he made a pit stop and the lead went to Jack Smith Richard Petty of Randleman driving a 61 Plymouth start ed setting the pace at 161 laps when Smith made a pit stop His lend lasted only for a short time however as he made a pit stop on the 170th lap giving the lead back to Johnson (See ATLANTA Page 2) lacerations and bruises' of Sier to prison in Callezo and Reinaldo Pico two of the ten prisoners sent to the to bargain for tractors rebelled against going back But late in the afternoon Pico disappeared and was feared kidnaped Renegade Cuban 98 82 89 58 87 5 ft yr 'st A i 1 ri' w' 3 Pt '''X Js ni 'J 'Em 1 I ij 'V I it I I 1 'f I wSmTW i r' 4 Wl jrft 'v 4 Ji 3yj'3 rjANi I if I I I 4 ii lk.