Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee (2024)

JOHNSON CITY, PRESS-CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 22, 1954 Section A Circling The Globe With Press-Chronicle HEADLINE BRIEFS Whisky Load Is Intercepted CLEVELAND, Dec. 21 tP ported today at Bradley. County -State highway patrolmen last night intercepted a Knoxville bound automobile containing an estimated $1,425.25 worth of bonded "whisky on west Lee Highway, it was re- Two County Men Hurt In Wreck Near Jonesboro automobiles were considerably damaged, streets they said, Icy roads Two county men were given emergency treatment at Memorial Hospital Tuesday afternoon as the result of a two-vehicle crash four miles west of Jonesboro near the Bailey's Bridge Road. Dan Byrd of Rt. 4 received sevfacial lacerations and N.

B. eral Rt. 1, Jonesboro, the driver Sliger, vehicle, received a leg inof one jury, according to hospital attaches. Highway Patrolmen Lee Justice and Leon -Capps, listever" Vaughan Hensley, vehicle. They said he reof the other ceived no apparent injuries.

1 Both blamed with causing several other Washington County automobile accidents. No serious injuries were reported. FOR 1950 model sedan, driven by Sam Gotskind, 49, Atlantic Bell, skidded and overturned on the New Jonesboro Highway Johnson City at 4:30 p.m. Monday. Gotskind escaped injury but the car was a total loss, according to Corporal Harry Montgomery and Patrolman Leon Capps of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, who investigated.

Icy streets were cited as the cause of a day on West underpass. models driven Taylor, 304 David Sherfey, No one- was biles sustained Deputy Sheriff gated. Street A street boxes at the view Avenue were knocked collision at 8 a.m. TuesWalnut St. near the Cars involved were 51 by Mrs.

Ruth. Cox Delaware and Paul Rt. 5, Jonesboro. hurt but both automoheavy Ed Phillips investi- Marker Hit marker and two mail corner of East Fair-, and Crown Street down about 11:55 6 p.m. Monday when a 1950 model car driven by Howard McQueen, 1811 East Fairview, skidded on ice and went out of control.

Police, said the car was heavily damaged about the front but no one was injured. Carter Children's Party Set Wednesday ELIZABETHTON, Dec. 21-A preChristmas party for Carter County and Elizabethton youngsters under 12 years age will be held at the Veterans of Foreign Wars No. 2166 at the Post home, Rio Vista, at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Entertainment will be furnished by members of the Elizabethton High School Band, according to George Edens, Post commander. KILLED IN WRECK DOVER Dec. 21 (P) Raymond' L. Hooper, 26, Montgomery County, was killed today when his automobile crashed into a tree about nine miles west of Dover. FOR ANY EVENT GIVE FLOWERS From TEILMANN FLORIST $18 E.

Main St Phone 511 Authorized Dealer ROCK of AGES FAMILY MONUMENTS LOON REMINE MEMORIAL CO. For 112 Years jail here. The driver of the Knox County car was booked as Albert G. Meadows of Knoxville, who posted $500 appearance bond for a preliminary hearing, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday before Squire Frank McClure.

Gets Appointment NASHVILLE, Dec. 21 Frank Clement announced, the appointment today Sam Wilson of Loudon to the State Board of Education. Mrs. Wilson succeeds here late husband for the "term which expires May 15, 1957. Senator's Son Wed HARTSVILLE, S.C., Dec.

21 Miss Nancy Morse, daughter of Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind-Ore) and Mrs. Morse, and Charles Hugh Campbell Jr. of Hartsville were married here tonight. Christmas Parking were RIPLEY, Dec.

21 UPHoliday shoppers don't have to feed the parking meters here this yule week. Paper bags, bearing the city's printed Christmas greetings, were placed over the meters yesterday. Cold Weather Continued From Page One last Sunday's snow, but were able. mercury stood between 20 and 28 in the Asheville area. The temperature dipped to 21 degrees in the Tri-Cities area Monday night, but -in some of the mountainous areas, it went much lower, some to near the zero mark.

At Banner Elk, N. where a 14 inch snow has blanketed the area, the mercury dipped to eight degrees. Snow was falling in Carter County early Tuesday morning, and at Roan Mountain where a 10-inch snow was reported the temperature dipped to near the same mark. High temperature Tuesday was 30 degrees, with the mercury expected, to dip to 15 or 20 degrees Tuesday night. National Weather It was cold over most of the eastern half of the nation Tuesday but the western sections had comparatively mild weather, the Associated Press reported.

Temperatures dipped to the 20s as far as northern Florida while in of the Midwest it south, was below zero. One of the coldest spots was Pellston, with a low of -10. It was 5 below at a Flint, Mich. The mercury skidded to 29 above at Daytona Beach, while Birmingham, shivered in a low of 26 above. Freezing drizzle and light fog covered much of the middle and upper Mississippi Valley while snow flurries were reported over the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes region and southern New England.

Bristol Chamber Head Accepts New 'Position BRISTOL, Dec. 21-Charles Crawford, director of the Chamber Commerce here, has resigned to eept the position of executive vice president of the Trenton, N. Chamber. Crawford, sumes his new duties on Feb. has been with the local Chamber since July, 1949.

Burley Continued From Page One trailed with $42.43 on pounds. Unofficial sales by markets: Market POUNDS MONEY AVG. Greenville 758.576 $383,260.11 $50.52 Knoxville 324,418.93 49.55 Newport 59.674 29,717.17 49.80 N. Tazewell 376.420 193,780.30 51.48 Rogersville .348,730 173.568.92 49.78 Sparta 14.636 6.210.43 42.43 NORTH CAROLINA Asheville 154,348 78,492.93 50.85 a MORE NEST REST ABSINS IS BE SARS AES DICKENS' CHRISTMAS CAROLLERS WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU IN THE LOBBY OF HOME FEDERAL SAVINGS 321 Main St. Johnson City BE Deaths (EDITOR'S NOTE: All death notices for the afternoon Press-Chronicle will be accepted until 1 p.m.

C. Howington and Rev. Ralph Sneed. Pallbearers will be Nick Russell, Jim Murray, Luther Hart, Gene Mottern, Robert Cane, Charlie Davis, Jack Dennis and Parrott Cole. The body will remain at Hathaway Percy Funeral Home until time "of services.

Burial will be in Calbaugh Cemetery, Deaths Elsewhere NORTHFIELD, Dec. 21 (P- Retired Army Col. Frank Tompkins, 86, commander of Boston's famed 301st Infantry during World War I and a trustee of Norwich University for the past 22 years, died today of a heart attack at his home. 1, German Beauty Continued From Page One told the court. "Her primary mission was to get acquainted with, and report on, Americans serving in Berlin." The prosecutor gave this further? account of her activities: She appeared at the U.S.

Tem- pelhof airbase and identified herself as an agent of the Russians, but expressed willingness to supply secret information about the Communists as a double agent: More Than Professional Two U.S. officials investigated her carefully. Then a U.S. military Intelligence officer "unfortunately took more, than a professional interest At the end Miss of Schmidt." 1953, the officer a and the girl agreed to date, They met on the a fashionable West Berlin boulevard. From then on, she had frequenting dates with him.

She got a secretarial job in a U.S. Intelligence office here, but was fired for taking too great an interest in filing cabinets, safes and a secret papers." Her. friend interceded and got her another secretarial job at Tempelhof. It was there that she 'contacted a German in the employ of U.S. Intelligence and promised to marry him if he would give her vital, information.

He tipped off his superiors, who decided to pass along harmless tips. She Was arrested Dec. 1 while riding a bus en route to the Soviet sector with this information. She fought and screamed as U.S. agents hustled her off.

HEADS HOSPITAL STAFF KNOXVILLE, Dec. 21 (P)-Dr. George G. Henson, Knoxville, was elected chief of staff at East Tennessee. Baptist.

Hospital tonight. He succeeds Dr. Albert W. Diddle. MEETING RESCHEDULED A regular, meeting of the Johnson City Power Board, scheduled Tuesday, was not held for lack of a A said.

quorum, Next Secretary regular E. session J. will Quillen be on, Jan. 18, he added. Hammarskjold Will Confer With Nehru Before Peiping 'UNITED NATION, N.

21 -U. N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold will hold up his arrival in Peiping until early January SO he can first with Prime Minister 'Nehru of India. This was reported in informed quarters here today as Hammar. Man Printed His Own Checks MEMPHIS; 21 -Sheriff Ed Reeves today announced the arrest of a former Illinois man who, Reeves said, admitted passing more than $10,000 worth of bogus checks in 14 big cities.

Laurin Raines, 31, formerly of Quincy but a resident of Memphis for several months, was arraigned, before a U. S. commissioner today on a charge of interstate tr transportation of fraudulent checks. Raines waived preliminary hearing and was held in $5,000 bond. The sheriff told this story: Raines used a portable printing press to print payroll checks out-of-town contractors.

"The checks would run between $90 and $129-just as though he had drawn a week's pay. He would drive or go by train to the city, and cash his checks at liquor stores and places like that, always making a purchase and getting change." Raines, he said, admitted passbad checks in Chattanooga and Nashville, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Louisville, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston and Ft. ENLISTS IN RESERVE UNIT Vance C. Shepard, a Science Hill High graduate and a State College student has enlisted in the Johnson City Marine Reserve Unit.

Shepard resides with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shepard of 807 East Maple Street. Decalskjold took off from Stockholm for a return flight to New York. He is scheduled to arrive tomorrow and will plunge immediately into level conferences about his mission to Peiping.

He is trying to enlist the support of all neutral countries in this mission. Hammarskjold will fly to Peiping to seek the release of 11 American aviators jailed by Red as spies and to do what he can about repatriating reported still unaccounted Americans and U. personnel the Chinese Communists.It was reported he would depart from the U. N. some time next week and would talk with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in London.

Britain gave the United eStates strong backing Washington's plan, to have the Assembly condemn Red China for jailing the aviators and asking Hammarskjold to work for their release. Because of this teamwork, the resolution was approved 47-5. From London, Hammarskjold will fly to New Delhi, on RECORD FOR CHICKS RALEIGH, Dec. 21 (P) North Carolina's commercial hatcheries produced an estimated 5,357,000 chicks last month, the highest production on record for November, the North Carolina Crop Reporting Service said today. R.J.McBride ErwinRecorder ERWIN, Dec.

21 R. J. M.cBride, Jr. was reelected City Recorder of the Town of Erwin at a meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

His term is for the years 1955- 56. In other action the board voted to pay current bills, and to buy a uniform for Roy Cooper of the Fire Department. The next meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. Jan. Train Knocks Man Off Trestle NARCOTICS SUSPECTS HELD -Brothers Cecil (left) and George Nappier sit handcuffed to each other in Memphis, as Bob Crabtree, Bureau of Narcotics supervisor in Kentucky, and J.

C. MacDonald, Memphis Chief of Police, look over four packets of heroin alleged to have been found in their possession. The two men were arrested and the drugs- estimated at a half-million dollar's worthseized by Federal narcotics agents. County Man Hurt In Timber Mishap T. Branch, H.

was Kite, 51, admitted of 1 to Rt. 2, Memorial Fall Hospital in -fair condition Tuesday afternoon, following a timber-cutting mishap near his home. Hospital attaches said Kite told them a heavy limb fell, striking him in the head. Citizens Continued From Page One that they had made access to his property available according to policy, In regard to the street paved adjacent to the Keystone Housing Unit Ricker stated that it was a 20-foot street instead 30-foot street in the rest of the project, and that existing curbs. were used.

Both delegations objected to the price they were assessed as their share of the cost of the project. There appeared to be some confusion as to understanding on the part of the residents that an open hearing on all projects was held by the commission prior to final approval of them. City Manager E. J. Quillen said that notice of the estimates and open hearing had been published in the Press-Chronicle prior to the hearing date as required by law.

Mayor George Oldham told group that the purpose of the meeting Tuesday night was to hear any complaints and urged those present to speak up. "If we've made mistakes, we'll do our very best to correet them," he said. The commission listed all complaints and agreed to visit, or to have visited, each property owner and attempt to work out an agreement. Earth Quake Continued From Page One said the level of Lake Michigan today is, about three-fourths of a foot higher than a year ago and no unusual fluctuation of the lake level was observed. One of Mrs.

Martin's predictions was that a tidal wave would engulf the center of the North American continent from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico.) Mrs. Martin reiterated that "no place have we been misled, at no time have we been misled. Who are we to question what has been foretold?" She set no specific time in her latest statement for disaster to oc-. cur, "but I have no doubt that it will come as a thief in the Dr. Charles Laughead, who lost his job on the student health staff of Michigan State, College through ecies, was among those acceptance of Mrs.

Martin's proph-; home throughout the night. He was not available for comment, she said. SEC To Check Continued From Page One ing advanced through insurance companies and banks through longterm loans. The SEC chairman commended attorneys on both sides for what he called a "well conducted" se. lies hearings.

The Dixon-Yates application was opposed by the State of Tennessee and a number of public power organizations. Kellogg testified that after talkaling to Bryant he wrote recollections -of the conversations, in longhand and later had them typed, with the longhand notes bethrown away. Dulles Continued From Page One real clue to the force and direction of the current underneath. Again, he said, the West must avoid the three pitfalls of being (lulled into false security, frightened- into paralysis or provoked into ill -considered action. Dulles emphasized that NATO's decision to plan with nuclear weapons "assumes a unity that includes Western He predicted that the 14 NATO nations shortly would approve the Paris agreements to rearm Germany as sovereign NATO member.

Stores For Liquor Sought CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 21 (P) -A member of the Hamilton County delegation to the State legislature told the Chattanooga Times tonight "a lot of people are asking me to introduce a bill for state-owned liquor stores." The legislator, who asked that he not be identified, said "the rural people want state-owned stores and I understand there is support for that plan in many parts of the state." BELMONT, N.C., Dec. 21 (P- Police searched the frigid waters of the Catawba River today for the body of a Southern Railway bridge foreman, knocked from trestle by a passenger train. The victim was Lester W. Chapman, 58, of Maiden.

Workmen repairing the trestle over the river near the CharlotteGastonia highway bridge said tried to the Chapman, train approaching on the double-track trestle, but was struck by the locomotive. His body was hurled over telephone lines beside the trestle and into the river's main channel. Southern Railway officials said that the train was No. 11, a passenger train bound from Danville, to Greenville. S.C.

Hunting, Fishing License Boost Asked Of Solons MEMPHIS, Dec. 21 (P) Shelby County state legislators were asked today to support a raise in price of the Tennessee hunting and fishing license from $2 to $3.50. The request came from Franking M. Grout, president of the West Tennessee Sportsmen's Association, who said the increase would pay for more game and fish protection. Grout said the cost of supervising field and stream sport has in.

creased since the two dollar fee was set about 15 years ago. "Other states charge as much as five to seven dollars for the privilege and sportsmen in those states are now enjoying hunting and fishing," Grout said. at GUMP'S AUTO LOANS DEAL DIRECT UP TO LOW 36 FINANCING MONTHS RATE ON NEW CARS and SAVE! ALL-AROUND INSURANCE PROTECTION OFF 105 STREET FINANCE Wilson Ave. PARKING GUMP Phone 2860 FOR A REAL XMAS FEAST AT PRICES YOU CAN AFFORD MINCE PIE BUY YOUR MEATS AT GREEN VALLEY FIXINS FOR PASS SE A A MIST NICE MA MAGE MA A AS AND FANCY WESTERN SAVE! READY SAVE! TO STUFF CHRISTMAS, AND PLACE IN THE OVEN TURKEYS FEASTING TOMS HENS 16 Lbs. And Up 15 Lbs.

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