Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee (2024)

November 13, 1969

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Johnson City Pressi

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Johnson City, Tennessee

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Thursday, November 13, 1969

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13

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ir JOHNSON'' CI-W-PR ESS- WHAT THE PEOPLE KNOW WILL THEM THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 13 1969 Schools open Giles pupils (AP) er sex education is a the home church and school 7 and joint effort -of all three the Knox County Councillor Parent-Teacher Associations was told yester- 7 -1 "panel composed of a min- istei psychologist and a atrician discussea the ques- tioh children get sex education and when should it The Rev Bob Phillips elated pastor of Second Pres-' byteriap Church said 'the question was irrelevant and- added are living in a society infiltrated with sex They- are being seduced in a -negative The Rev Mr Phillips said the church has not followed suit on what the Bible says about sex never heard' a sermon about he declared is something the church shies away The minister said it was his belief that sex education should be within the work of the family and home with the church and school as supportive institutions OAK RIDGE (UPI) Special containers for the National Aeronautics and Space use in ing 'moon samples have again -been developed by- Union Carbide here (For the Appollo 12 mission special bags and a' dispenser unit have bee deve loped to bring back lunar soiPand rock samples which will be selected collected' and documented in a manner similar to a geological field trip on earth The dispenser unit consists of 35 numbered Teflon bags and a hollow cy- linder to house the bags with side supports to hold the bags while they are being filled On the moon the unit will be mounted on a tool carrier designed by NASA Each bag PULASKI (AP) Giles school- children return to class Thursday for the first time since Oct 24 following state release of $126800 in October school funds Classes resume in time to get in the required 25 days of school before Christmas necessary to meet state requirements for a 175-day school year When the schools closed for lack of funds parents expressed con- cern that the 175-day-requirement could result in students failing to get credit for the current school year School 'officials were poised at the starting gate for state Education Commissioner Warf to release the October funds -Warf -in turn reacted to a signed pledge by 14 members of the county court to ap- prove a $29 million construction bond issue at a called meeting Nov 22 If the funds are actually ap-roved Warf said he 'will release November funds due the county: State funds account for 75-80 per cent of the county school budget The bond issue will be used -to build a new consolidated -high school ajiew junior high school and refurbish the existing seven high schools for use as i e-grade elementary schools Warf originally stopped state funds when the county court under pressure from "rural residents who opposed 'consolidation refused 13-9 to approve the bond issue- to counterfeiting Discount Store here has been (Stiff Photos by Durham) On either side of the gate and dairy products deliveries to city merchants schools and hospitals No progress was made in negotiations between' the union-and the dairy company vgsterday Pet said milk deliveries would continue to schools and hospitals and on a limited basis to retail outlets! :7 girls would be excluded from examinations if they pay their fees 1 Dr Sam McConnell county superintended said County School Board policy states that principals may withhold grade cards and transcripts if a satisfactory arrangement jn fees has not- been made and obligations to the school have not been met Dr Jack" Lawrie city superintendent said that the city system has no definite policy on the matter but sajd he spoke at a groundbre may either withhold exam privilegesor report cards as an inducement for fee collec tion Warf' who made his statements in an interview after he spoke at a groundpreak-ing ceremony said that school systems could authorize collection of fees MEMPHIS (UPI) City Court hearings were continued yesterday' until Nov 26 for 52 of the 53 persons arrested Monday night at the -beginning of a civil rights demonstration led by the Rev Ralph Abernathy City Judge Bernie Weinman delayed the hearings on disorderly conduct charges for all of those arrested including Abernathy except for one juvenile The 17-year-old was remanded to juvenilq court The defense attorneys ask--ed for dhe delay in order to better prepare their case The1- group was arrested by prearrangement after dark Monday when a group of more than T000 Negroes assembled on a downtown street for a march in defiance of police orders CHATTANOOGA (AP) Criminal Court Judge Tillman Grant today set Nov 28 for the arraignment of Mrs Helen Recor whose second-degree murder conviction was overturned by the Tennessee Court year sentence CHATTANOOGA (AP) -US District Court Judge Frank Wilson has issued a temporary injunction barring the induction into the army of 20-year-old 'Ashley Lyle Claiborne of Chattanooga As a strike of Teamsters Union drivers at Pet Dairy passed the third day activity on either side of the gate took on an unusual look yesterday A picket at left stands before a warming fire at the post outside the gate while two manage-ment personnel on the premises ready a truck for milk Businessmen SMC would up to Vietnam issue through rallies A non-violent protest is the onlyineath the flag at ETSU and also By DAVIIi FALLS le onlyinea news kind that the silent majority at Science Hill High School will listen to and ROTC on both campuses Jury says guilty GREENEVILLE A co*cke County beer tavern operator w'as found guilty for selling $300 woith of counterfeit bills by a US Court jury yesterday Judge Charles Neese referred the matter to the probation department for a presente-nce investigation i-mmy'O w-anby- operator of the Plantation Club near Newport did not testify in his ownbehalf He was charged on two counts of selling bogus bills to Roger Price in October 1967 will be removed from the of Criminal -Appeals penser by the astronauts The appeals court ordered filled sealed and then stored a new trial for Mrs Recor in boxes for the trip because of late filing of a trial back to earth transcript The moon rock boxes She was convicted and sen-veloped here- are similar to tenced to 10 years in the 1966 those used during the Apollo slaying of a teenage girl from II mission Chattanooga Her husband Alfred Recor-received a 75-- New Gibson Store for Bristol A new Gibson We would like to really wake up the to the true facts ab)ut the Vietnam This comment said Jim Miller chairman of the Student Mobilizatiorr Committee at East Tennessee State University sums up the meaning- of the Nov 14-15 Vietnam Moratorium The SMC has planned a campus rally to be held Friday at 10 am between the library and the administration buildings TheTfally will consist of speakers from the area as well as from the university community A fact explaining the SMC and its position on the war will be available to all attending Miller said purpose of the Miller said to get the and faculty to ask themselves why we are really in the war and to let the people see the real of focaLSMCare-planning to make the trip He also said several-students-are plahning to go to Knoxville Friday afternoon to hear Sen Charles constructed here by Howard Brothers Discount Stores of Monroe La The new facility contains 60000 square feet and includes a grocery department and pharmacy Other Gibson Discount Stores are located in Johnson City and Morristown The store is expected to open' next week 7 Future plans include new stores in Kingsport Greene-villeand i' MEMPHIS (AP) Police said a 16-year-old youth who was showing p*rnographic pictures to girls in a predominantly Negro high school classroom fatally stabbed a -1 classmate who objected yesterday Robert Brown 17 was killed just as the homeroom teacher began calling the roll: J7 and his jugular vein apparently was severed Blood was spattered throughout the classroom and 20 yards down the hall Pa1u iM ttinM The SMC has also received support from several departments and faculty members at State Miller said According to Miller faculty members from the sociology science and English departments have expressed opinions favoring the student movement Many are glad that someone has finally come out either for or against the war effort Miller said The committee is circulating a petition at ETSU seeking an end to mandatory ROTC Miller said there are 1100 names on document Many groups on campus and throughout the state do not agree with the Student Mobilization Committee or its goals The 'veterans clubs the American Legion and Tennessee Gov Buford Ellington have all come out supporting President Nixon's enthisi- asm-dignity-and pridedf- monies across the state and have come out against the MoratoriumDay rallies Local groups Tuesday supported the Vietnam War policy of Nixon in Veterans Day ceremonies across the' nation Locally wreath was placed be- Cldibofii who on grounds of coikIS wmen wasj Gavrf Ellington wholes been IV- eanizational erouD- have been inducted yesterday the mobilization conmutee mhaman nf thp Wdr poiicy7 A'mdng these and tir Gicffli'saiu and Wilson issued the injunction late Tuesday attorneys contend 4ftat the local draft wna tou -ine wcai qraa which was ouu establisbed-miliiary policy Gov- E'lington who has been day that he is confident that the vast majority of Tennesseans from all walks of life has become voiceful in their sons are film star Paul Newman and his equally famous wife Joanne Woodward New was appointed agent by the or- the application was made on the basis of selling 20000 shares of $10 par value stock at a price of $25 per share This would BIG STONE GAP This community is one of 40 small towns chosen by the U'S Department of Housing and Ur- ban Development for a special research project Carl Rasnick local planner for Lenowisco tola the town council Tuesday night a Oiicagcr management conailtant firm will study the physical social economic and governmental needs ofsmall communities to develop )a program of federal quent by Juvenile Court MayScs' classification 21 and was on probation with flIscls? classmcatKn- jft )t America in these cere monies- Many these patriotic organizations have tried to rally support for the President and his policies since his speech on Nov 3 These organizations favor supporting the president in these times of conflict and keeping troops in Vietnam until the war ha reached an honorable settlement Calls to the local veterans organizations and to the Johnson City Elks Lodge indicated that no plans of countering Moratorium Day activities lave' been made The organizat presidents generally agreed that patriotic services during Veterans Day would counter the effects of moratorium demonstrators 7 i There a mi'nority--of-l-the American public- 4hat York Mayors John Lindsay former Indian ambassador and Kennedy-'Family advisor John Kenneth- Galbfaith Dr Benjamin Spock and the Rev Ralph David Abernathylcivil rights'" activist These' persons have expressed their support of the Moratorium Day and many of them have actively campaigned for it according to sponsors of the' rally Board will meet (P JAnoboru BurMU) The Jonesboro Board of Mayor and Aldemlen will meet 7:30 pm today at City Hall I A He urges Tennesseans to support the President in his present policy of gradual withdrawal of American troops from Viet- Goodell' R-NY7 speaks in aninani- in Johnson plan bank MOUNTAIN CITY Application: for a new bank- here has been filed by a group of local businessmen according to Sidney Vaught and Dr Robert Glenn- cochairmen of a group seeking to form a new national bank According to Vaught Glenn the application has been accepted by the Regional Administrator of -National Banks and an investigation will be made in the near future by the office The proposed -First National Bank of Johnson County will be located at 321 Main St Some of the local businessmen who are in the organizational group are: C- Muse Jr Cable Jr Billyv Peek Rambo Snyder Butler A Rambo al of Johnson County and Blevins of Johnson City Wil-IjamJB Greene Jr of Eliza-he thton! an exeprjenced banker mean the prophsed new bank would "have a capitalization of $200000 in capital $200000 in surplus yand $1007000 in-undivided profits -t-v- 7: '7 The two said the response by the public has and a new bank in Johnson County would be a great economic value to all its people Many deposits will return to Mountain City that are now in surrounding cities they said If the Is granted by the office construction will start immediately on thebank "building" It should be 1 for business within six or seven months I -A (SUN Plwta) ar)J Gerald James held in Koe death ABINGDON Va Bobby Gerald James 28 Tenn has been charged with murder in the death of antr-Vietnam rally on the Uni- The Americatl gjon and versity of Tennessee campus the Veterans' of Foreign Wars While encouraging student both supported patriotic Freddie Roe whose skeleton was found Oct 31 according to Sheriff George Kite' 7: The sheriff said James is serving la sentence for reckless driving and leaving the -scene of ah accideht at the Bland County Farm hear Wytheville He said James was taken to the county pail yesterday and a-preliminary hearing is tentatively set for Nov 25 Rose whose remains were found near a railroad track In Washington County was last seen six months ago in the- company of James and Linda Wise Love a suspended sentence to the state training school Police" said their prelimin-investigation indicated ary Draper was showing p*rno- graphic pictures to some girls when Brown objected Brown slapped the pictures out of the other hands a fight developed and jhen Draper pulled a knife Both were Negro 'City school said the slaying: at South Side High was the first slaying ever ih a city school South Side has an enrollment of 1800 all but four of them Negro $()( jf KNOXVILLE (UPI) Vector Corp officials said yesterday that construction will begin within ten days on an million convention center and hotel here Goldberger a spokesman for the firm said financial and legal arrangements for the complex have been worked out The hotel 'named the Regency of Knoxville will L2 million project in the rallies Miller also wrote in the news-letter that should stand up for what they believe on Moratorium Day but no matter how they feel about the war they- should expressJtheir views in a non-violent' manner 'I KINGSPORT A contract -for the construction of the new building for the Kingsport University Center has been signed with Cassel Brothers Kingspojd for $1267000 Bids for this construction were opened in September but Cassel low bid -of $1358200 overran the allotted appropriation In the meantime adjustments were made resulting in the new contract price Dryden and Drydien also of Kingsport are the architects Groundbreaking for the center will be at2 pm tomorrow The center will be a -three-story structure and will contain 63000 square feet MEMPHIS (UPI) Three burglary suspects who escaped from police in Greenville Miss Tuesday night were captured here by police yesterday Detective Chief Joe Gagli-ano said local officers were alerted the three fled' while 'being transported from the police station to the county jaiHn-Grenvillp-- Gagliano identified the three as Nathaniel" Harris 28 Chicago Willard Frederick Manuel 51 and Oscar Oliver Nelson 40 both of whom refused to give home addresses He said officers spotted the auto driven by the men at a' local motel and made the arrests d)c dc NASHVILLE (AP) City Court Judge Bennie Harris of ChaUanooga urged Ten nessee State University students yesterday to the whole knowledge men are said Harris the must have knowledge Harris a former school teacher spoke during -'an American Education Week convocation sponsored by the School of Education must give every child a deep feeling of com- petency security and a feeling of belonging said Harris should equip the student to find that which he can do and to become-something of Harris referred to what he called a mad race between the social application of education in a democracy and for education in P-C received a graduate fellowship Basketball featured first Negro to be named to be owned by Hyatt Corp of the bench in Chattanooga Burlingame Calif and will can be led into slavery include 425 rooms with ban- believing that they are in free-quet facilities for more than dom In order to safeguard 2k000 persons and parking for ancj to protect freedom men basketball time again and featured in Johnson City Press-Chronicle is the annual edition carrying stories pictures predictions and what have you on the 1969-70 season Stories begin on page 21 7 WWjI' Rotary fellowship for Miss Wofford EVANSTON HI Florence Wofford Llewellyn Wood Llyn Johnson City Tenn has 500 cars CHATTANOOGA1" (AP) State Education 1 Cimmission-: er Howard Warf said Tuesday that public schools can- not seek to collect fees by such methods as barring students from exams or with holding report cards Thls ruling would touch virtually every school in the Chattanooga city and Hamilton County school systems according to the Chattanooga Post The newspaper recently reported that a father of two girls attending a county school complained that school au- np Mobilization committee at work from the Rotary Foundation to study abroad during the academic year Under the grant she will seek admission to the University Grenoble in Grenoble France where she plans to study French literature art and civilization A graduate of Converse College Spartanburg SC Miss Wofford holds two masters degrees from Middlebury College Middlebury Vt and Duke University Durham NC One of more than 275 young men and women who have received educational grants from the Rotary: Foundation this year Miss Wofford was sponsored in her application by the Rotary Club of Johnson City Lee Andrews Is president of the club one of nearly 14000 Rotary clubs located in 148 countries and geographic regions tion from veterans organizations and other patriotic groups They are Sheldon Lawrence left Wanda Woodby and Jim Miller right chairman of SMC The committee is circulating petition at ETSU asking that mandatory ROTC be abolished Three members of the Student Mobilization Committee at East Tennessee State University meet in the Student Union Building The students hope to draw support from the of Americans in a rally against the United policy in the Vietnam War The organization has met opposi thorlties hgd warnedthat the 1 I3 tr.

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