Kingsport Times-News (Newspaper) - February 17, 1963, Kingsport, Tennessee Warmer M KINGSPORT VOL 7 Mill KINGSPORT TENN SUNDAY 17 INI PAGES CENTS Cincinnati Drop First Season Game Story on Pip Planes Fire Rockets At Ship U.S Navy Intercepts Hijacked Ship Five Hopefuls Seek Nod By Demos April 6 Nominating Convention Set In Virginia BRISTOL Political moved swiftly day in the Fifteenth Virginia Senatorial District which sprawls from North Carolina to Kentucky Two candidates announced for Democratic nomination to the House of Delegates from Bristol and Washington and Scott Counties April 6 was set as the date for House and Senate nominating conventions Fred C Buck of Abingdon declared he will seek a fifth term in the lature He has represented Washington County and Bristol for eight years He is dent of the Farmers Exchange Bank of Abingdon Delegate James B Fugate of Gate City also announced as a candidate for nomination from the newly created dis- He is completing his ond term in the House from Scott County The Democratic chairmen of Washington Lee and Scott Counties and Bristol met here yesterday morning Ralph G Gunter of Abingdon was named chairman The group fixed April 6 at John Battle High School near Bristol as the date and site of the House and Senate nominating con- beginning at p.m Representation at the con- will be based on one delegate for 50 votes cast for Rep W Pat Jennings in the 1962 general election The announcements by Buck and Fugate brought to five the number of candidates seeking three seats for which tions will be made on April 6 George M Warren Jr year-old Bristol attorney and U.S Commissioner for the Western District of Virginia announced Friday night he would seek the Senate Bradley Roberts one of two incumbents in the House from Bristol and Washington County has announced for the Senate nomination in the newly ated district He is finishing his first term in the House and is a former wealth attorney of Bristol Hubert Wheeler the bent senator from the old Lee and Scott District announced last week he would ask an- other term from the new senate district In another development the district Robert S Orr of Lee County has an- for another term in the legislature Redistricting has combined County with Wise County for two delegates and it is reported that both Wise County incumbents James Camblos of Big Stone Gap and Orby L Cantrell of Pound will ask nomination from the new dis- If this happens then it will be a three man fight be- tween Orr Camblos and trell Rev Dr Dale Oldham Five Local Men Held In Break-In Five Kingsport area men Saturday were charged with breaking and entering in con- with the break-in of a Gray Community store early Friday morning according to Washington County Deputy Jess Allen Two of the men Sherrill and Vernon D Webb were ed when the store owner awoke and fired a pistol at them VERNON WEBB 27 Route B remained in good con- dition at Holston Valley Com- munity Hospital and Sherill Webb 19 1207 Bell Ridge Drive was listed in fair condition Sherill was trans- ferred to Friday from a Johnson City Hospital Roger Stapleton 16 was at the scene Two more men were ar- rested in Kingsport Friday JAMES BELLAMY 25 Church Hill Route 4 was ar- rested at Cloud Apartments by city Detective Brady Lane and Albert Fletcher and Sullivan County Detective J C Fletcher Jarvis Morelock no address given was arrested at a house on B Street by county of- A YOUNG local woman also was arrested in connection with the case Brenda Woliver 21 was charged with being an sory before the fact W S Keller owner of the Tri-Cities Food Center at Gray said the men entered the ing at about Friday He said he grabbed a pistol and fired when one came toward him armed with a tire toor Leon Owens Urges GOP Party Unity By GENE DISHNER T-N Stuff Writer GATE CITY Va More than 300 enthusiastic Republicans turned out for Scott County's Lincoln Day Dinner here last night Guest speaker Leon Owens a former ninth district congressional candidate was interrupted by applause as he stressed the principles of the Republican Party and urged party unity at all levels All Republicans are dedicated to the same sound he said but to win elections they must be united and working gether He added that to have a strong national organization a strong local organization must exist He urged unity at the precinct level as a necessary step toward unity at the state and national level Owens told the candidates to be successful they must be both a statesman and a politician as was Lincoln He said that in the past the Republican Party had elected presidents who were statesmen but that the Democratic Party now had a president who was a politician It takes he Mid Rufus Home Scott GOP man introduced the who have announced for offices in the November elections He urged the delegates to he convention which will be held March 2 to for the candidate of their choice hul lo support the candidate nominated awards were presented last night to the Johnson City and Kingsport VFW posts Jim Cowan center department senior vice commander and membership Photo by Souders man of Dixon congratulates J C Wilcox Johnson City left and Art Buchanan commander of Witt Post 3382 of Kingsport VFW Mid- Winter Wow Termed Successful Here The annual mid-winter pow wow of the Veteran's of Foreign Wars was a resounding success here according to con- vention chairman Fred Grills Over 500 delegates from all over the state participated in the festivities that began day afternoon at the Kingsport post on Fort Patrick Henry Drive A significant fact concerning the pow wow is that the two highest offices of the state are held by members of Kingsport's DeWitt Byrd Post No 3382 John C Woolen is com- mander of the department in Tennessee and Wanda Grills is president of the state VFW auxiliary Both Wooten and Mrs Grills share the honor of being the first two such of- fice holders from the same post in Tennessee Purpose of the pow wow was to take inventory of what transpired during the last eight months in stale VFW circles were then made by the delegates in order to assure the tion a booming year which ends each June Awards during tjie convention included one to the Kingsport post for maintaining 100 per cent membership The port post has members and is one of the ten largest VFW posts in the nation Grills said the convention delegates were well pleased with the hospitality provided by DeWitt Byrd Post and many asked to be back for other meetings The next stale of will be in June in Nashville The officers for the new year will be installed at that meeting Troops Sent To Panama WASHINGTON company of special forces paratroopers from Fort Bragg N C has been sent to the Panama Canal Zone to form the nucleus of a new ing unit the Army disclosed Saturday It will be maintained there on a permanent basis A company is usually less than 200 men The Army said the number will be doubled soon and will gradually be built up to men highly trained in commando and tactics Warm Today Increasing cloudiness and warmer weather are forecast for today with both the clouds and higher to remain through Monday Kingsport dipped to a low of 7 degrees early Saturday morning rose to a high of 38 in the afternoon then dropped back to 21 late night Today's highest is to be in the range Good Book Reviews Classified Editorials Financial House Plan Military News Movies Obituaries Sports 4 Sections Page Section C Theater Music Art Women's News Section D God's Majesty Told At Service By BARNETT T-N Stiff Kingsport Preaching Mission listeners Saturday night were shown new vistas of God's majesty and then warned to beware of the little foxes of pettiness gnawing at their souls Rev Dr Paul Worley pastor of Church Street Methodist Church Knoxville led his audience through an oratorical panorama of the vastness of the universe and the infinity of eternity which he said new discoveries of science are con- enlarging Recent scientific discoveries Dr Worley said have so added to man's knowledge of himself and tiis surroundings that God is more majestic and more mighty and more meaningful than ever be- fore The Earth now is known to be one of the smaller planets re- around one of the smaller of billions of suns but it has one unique distinction Dr Worley said It is the visited the one God came down to and took on himself the form of one of its lowly order to offer man salvation It is only few thousand man has de- into a thinking being Dr Worley said Before that man lived in a hole in the ground for a million years concerned only with finding enough food to pre- serve his physical body And now he said the human experiment on this planet is ly ended unless man can find a way to live at peace with his fellow man Science has found Dr Worley said that every level of reality finds its meaning in the level above it To find the higher level is the mission and calling of Christians But scientific progress has brought with it an obstacle of terials Most of us are incapable of loving because we've wasted our love on things A Cadillac or television set cannot return our love and it becomes perverted And so we need to open our lives to the love of God Rev Dr George Vick secretary of the Board of Annuities and Re- lief of the Presbyterian Church More on Page FINAL SERVICE Rev Dr H Carl Adkins Oldham Atkins Speak Tonight The Kingsport Preaching Mission will feature Rev Dr Dale Oldham and Rev Dr C Carl Atkins for the final night of the mission Sunday at p.m in the Civic Auditorium Dr Oldham is a native of Ripley Oklahoma He attended Anderson College and cal Seminary and United inary He has held pastorates in Akron Ind Lima Dayton and Anderson Ohio Since 1947 he has been chairman of the directors of The Gospel pet his church's official cation He is author of five books of sermons and an inspirational book He is also a speaker for the Christian Brotherhood Hour of the Church of God Dr Adkins is pastor of Dauphin Way Methodist Church at Mobile Ala In 1937 and 1950 he traveled in Europe with the Sherwood Seminar In 1960 he preached in England and Scotland in an exchange gram He is past president of the Mobile Council of Churches past president of the Mobile Safety Council and former chairman of the Town Meeting Speakers Bureau In college he was a athlete He was selected captain of his col- all-time all-star football team Six-Year-Old Finds It Hard To Stay Lost Six-year-old Timmy Doane learned Friday it is hard to stay lost for long At p.m B N Doane 409 Manderley called city police and reported his son had not returned home from Lee Elementary School Seven minutes later Dispatcher L M house marked the report cleared The youngster described as had been spotted on West Sullivan Street and was being taken home Police records did not list the name of the sharp-eyed officer Bay Of Pigs Vets May Join U.S Forces WASHINGTON AP Cuban veterans of the Bay of Pigs sion will be allowed to enlist in the U.S armed forces the De- fense Department announced Some will be trained as officers and all the volunteers will have the choice after training of com- two years in service or be- ing released A Pentagon spokesman said to of the gade which failed in an attempt lo topple the Castro government in 1961 are expected to volunteer Approximately of those captured by the Cuban armed forces were released and sent lo United States last Christmas Eve members of the Cuban Brigade succeeded in caping during the sion The Pentagon spokesman said the invasion veterans would not be used as a special unit For practical purposes they will be- come members of the U.S armed forces assigned to their various units In a similar program other refugees from Cuba are permitted to volunteer for military training and then choose between ing in service or joining the in- active Reserves Grief-Stricken Mother Tells Her Story By FRANK CREASY Editor I did not leave home with another man I left with my husband and I wish you would please put that in the grief-stricken Mrs Ruby Pierson calmly requested from her bed day afternoon Mrs Pierson 32 wan the mother of five children who were killed by their father early Tuesday Daught C son M then took his own life with I shotgun In note Pierson wrote be- fore tho tragedy at the home at IPS Woodmont Avc he said My wife ran off with a man Mrs Pierson was at the home of friends in Weber City when the quintuple murder and suicide look place Kingsport Detective Capt Jim Broyles said Tuesday after- noon that she went into a state of hysteria when told what had happened Mrs Pierson not asked for any statement for the press concerning the tragedy but she was informed on day any statement she might voluntarily make would be published Mrs Pierson according lo one of her closest friends chose to wait until after the mass funeral to make a ment The funerals were con- ducted Thursday and she had a relative call the Friday afternoon Mrs Pierson said her band took her and their two youngest children to the home of Mr and Mrs W G er on Sunday Mr Fletcher is like a ther to me My father died when I was real small and he practically raised Mrs Pierson said He Fletcher works for the railroad and doesn't get home much except on week ends He called and wonted to sec me and the children before he had to go to South Carolina Sunday Mrs son explained obviously at- tempting to choke back tears which wouldn't stop Her husband a guard at Tennessee Eastman went lo work at 11 p.m Saturday and returned home shortly after 7 Sunday she scid I woke him up about I o'clock fixed him some breakfast and had the children ready lo go She said her husband was to have worked the p.m shift Sunday Capt said his in- showed that son did go to work at 3 p.m Sunday but left after ing a telephone call between 7 and 8 p.m Broyles said Pierson telephoned his ors at TEC later Sunday night and requested a week's gency vacation The vacation was granted Mrs Pierson said she did not know anything about the vacation She said he came to the Fletcher residence in Weber City Monday morning and got the and that was the last lime she saw him or any of the children Mrs Pierson was not asked and did not elaborate on any marital difficulties she might have been having with her husband However she did say thai when Pierson got the Iwo children Monday morning lie pushed them the door in front of him and made it clear he did not want me to come back home Capt Broyles indicated his investigation is closed and said that what Mrs Pierson said is backed up by six or eight people I have talked with The would have ob- served their 15th wedding an- in September and had been living 155 for 12 years Their csl child was 12 and the youngest was Tammie Communists Hold Steady On Course PORT OF SPAIN dad Navy planes intercepted the hijacked Venezuelan freighter An- Saturday and fired rockets across its bow in an effort to make it turn for Puerto Rico But the ship's captors re- fused to change Course The gray-white freighter riding high in the water held firmly south-southeast at 15 knots as it steamed down the coast of South America its hijackers apparently intent on haven in Brazil The hijackers ignored two sages from U.S naval forces ordering the ship to turn back As one of three planes which found her started shooting rockets across the bow the pirated vessel radioed Being attacked by North American aircraft The vessel was 140 miles north of the French Guiana coast when intercepted about dawn Seven hours later two elan bombers were reported en route to the area Their mission was not known but it was pre- to be to aid in surveillance and possibly attempt to turn the ship back Two Venezuelan destroyers also were reported pursuing the jacked freighter but a source close to the hijackers ment terrorist organization in Venezuela predicted the warships would be unable to catch the freighter if she maintained her course In Washington a Pentagon spokesman said he had no mation about U.S Navy planes firing rockets but he added The planes might have fired the ets merely to attract the ship's attention They have had difficulty communicating Asked if the rockets could have heeh fired in an effort lo make the ship change course he said No they probably were trying to get a message to he ship They probably were trying to at- tract attention The ship is merely under surveillance and it probably will be kept under surveillance all The Brazilian navy ordered its warships to seize the pirated ship if she turned into a Brazilian port A high Brazilian government source indicated however that the hijackers would be granted political asylum in Brazil and the ship returned to Venezuela The leftist newspaper Clarin put out an extra addition in Caracas asserting that the Anzoategui was bound for the Brazilian port of Belem The Clarin the first to re- port that the ship was headed for Brazil claimed the Venezuelan destroyers would not be able to her A U.S Navy patrol plane sighted the vessel ly after dawn churning a course at 12 knots about 180 miles off the coast of Surinam Dutch A Defense Department man said in Washington the ship's captors had ignored an order from the plane to turn about and head for San Juan Puerto Rico U.S territory At the time the Anzoategui was about miles southwest of Puerto Rico and about 800 miles northwest of the nearest Brazilian port at the mouth of the Amazon River The Venezuelan government shipping company owners of the vessel said she had enough fuel for 15 days when she left Venezuela Tuesday Her top speed is said to be 15 knots Steering clear of U.S ships and planes guarding the approaches to originally to be the An- appeared to be following the course of Portuguese rebel Capl Henrique Galvao He seized the Portuguese luxury liner Santa Maria two years ago to tize his opposition to Portugal's strong man premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar The captors of the have said in several messages they arc members of a guerrilla detachment of the Armed Forces for National Liberation a Venezuelan organization en- gaged in terrorist activities in hopes of upsetting the liberal anti- Communist government of dent Romulo Betancourt The seizure of the Anzoategui apparently was also part of an at- tempt to force Betancourt to cel his visit with President in Washington week In Caracas the Venezuelan navy remained silent about its for chasing the But one source Mid two ers were heading full speed the fugitive vessel and hoped to intercept her by noon Sunday
