Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - December 1, 1955, Kingsport, Tennessee Deathless Days I City County 374 6 Driving car U u of personality KINGSPORT TIMES Vol XLI No 240 Tenn Thursday December 32 Pages Five Cents The Of Any Newspaper In Southwell Virginia East Tennessee WOMAN HELD FOR AIDING JAIL BREAK S-D Day Has Fine Start In Kingsport Area 10 Known Dead In Early Traffic Across Nation DON'T LET HAPPEN TOMORROW ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 10 persons were killed In the early hours of Safe Driving S-D Day Shortly after the loll by Mates Ohio 4 Michigan 5 and Illinois Indiana Louisiana Few York 1 each In Indiana a car police without lights smashed into the rear of near killing Robert M 44 of Centerville Ind He died tt as he was being extricated from the wreckage Less than 90 minutes after the of S-D in Illinois Gerald Grow sailor was killed when struck by a truck The dent occurred at CST L T Ball of Plymouth Mich was i killed CST when he lost control of his cur and hit a culvert In Canton Township a Detroit suburb The third fatality reported was Donald Mosher 23 of Glens Falls who lost his life when his car left a highway and struck a tree near Glens Falls about 2 Today was the nation's second at- tempt to go through 24 hours out a traffic death Few persons expected complete But President er's Committee for Traffic Safety which designated today to tize the Idea that driving and careful walking can save lives hopes for a sharp reduction in fic accidents Eisenhower called on cans to help show that we by our own personal re- City Has No Mishaps Area One In 12 Hours Safe Driving Day was off to an excellent start in the Kingsport area with the Tennessee Highway Patrol reporting only one minor traffic mishap in Hawkins County to mar the record City police have reported no accidents within the city limits during Kingsport Area S-D The fallowing Is an hourly re- port of automobile accidents re- ported to City Police and Division Five of the see Highway Patrol duce accidents on our and ONLY The Kingsport hopes this will be the only automobile it will publish today highways photograph of an accident taken from und published as All across the United SUtes are wearing urging safety In many cities banners are across streets urging ists and pedestrians to be extra careful lice cars are the streets In Chicago nn amplified voice booms across a tercet In the The man in the gray over- Get back on the sidewalk until the light changes One hundred and one persons died in traffic deaths each day during the first 10 months of -1955 This one-day effort Is to show that the casualty toll can be cut down If everyone makes an extra effort day like today Since the average daily figure of 101 includes holidays when more motorists are on the roads and persons who die a day 10 several months later of Injuries suffered In accidents today's toll cannot be used as a basis for figuring success of S-D Day The Associated Press made It Is reminder thai this is S-D Day Safe Driving Motorists pre asked to watch obey traffic laws and practice sane driving Demos Make Plans To Play GOP Foreign Policy Big In 1956 Race High School Students Area Leaf Salts Upland Day Both Rogersville and Weber City markets reported Increased sales of hurley tobacco during second In City Offices Friday on Thursday Nov 17 a I day sales yesterday comparable found that 69 j Prices climbed to an average of persons were killed on the yesterday nt Rogersville and ways That figure Is used as a measuring stick today when The AP again is tabulating deaths across the nation traffic The National Safety Council will keep a count of traffic fatalities during the period 10 days before and 10 days after S-D Day to determine the effectiveness of the safety drive over a broader period the average at Weber City was re- ported to be In Rogersville sales went in progress today at Growers house No -3 and tomorrow sales will be held at Growers No 5 At Weber City sales were held today nt the Farmers Warehouse tomorrow sales will be at Big New GOP Farm of Benson today outlined to Star pounds were sold at Rogersville yesterday for a total of Alton Boswell supervisor of sales nt Weber City snid A total of to growers yesterday tobacco sales continued brisk on Tennessee markets today with prices generally high and ume strong Kingsport high school students will take over city offices Friday as part of the Americanism gram of the American Legion The day will begin with city court at with Johnny Sherrill as city judge and Shirley Hairston attorney Following city court a Board meeting will be held at which D W Moulton city manager and Charles K Marsh city engineer city talk the government operation of The Board will consider als of one kind or another made out by organizations at the schools Following arguments pro and can the judges will decide winners and prizes will be awarded the group submitting the best proposal Luncheon will follow at the American Legion Home Com- mander T R Bandy will preside After luncheon the boys and girls will go with their counterparts on a tour of inspection list of city officials for the day will Chocky Kassem alderman James Davis alderman Britts alderman Nina Car alderman and Phyllis ray alderman Richard Latimer city manager Phyllis Barnett city recorder Bob Dobyns superintendent of schools Johnny Sherrill city judge Shirley Hairston city attorney Virginia Denton director of lic works city en- gineer Mike O'Neal police chief Barbara Hovis water works en- gineer Robert fire chief Priscilla Smith assistant director of recreation Alice King librarian and Sandra Poole assistant city manager Only two out of 16 markets re- price Republican leaders a GOP farm program which he had President Eisenhower's Most of up program Benson said in hundredweight speech prepared for a Saln meeting of the Republican per Committee will be presented to Carthage Congress in January up from It will be no nostrum no Greeneville remedy no Benson In French Election Campaign Starts PARIS UR France's election campaign got off tb a booming start today only a few hours after Premier Edgar I volume handling pounds at ment decided to dissolve the average price of 158.67 laid It will be constructive He said farm proposals of Demo leaders Adlai Stevenson The State Agriculture Oov Averell of New ment said official figures showed former York have reached ludicrous opening day sales totaled France portions pounds nt per hundred for their drive for votes In the The Democrats he added have a total of expected to be set picked agriculture as the major for Jan 8 They turned their domestic battlefield for unofficial sales by heaviest propaganda artillery tional Assembly The Socialists and backers of Premier Pierre lost no time in opening s It was smart politics The agriculture secretary said Eisenhower approved the program t a recent meeting It is being prepared but is not ready for dis- cussion in detail A n However he said the plan j I Stepped up surplus disposal and expansion of exports ly 2 A vigorous purchase program to remove gluts Money against Faure and he dissolution J Enlarged soil conservation and Mt Incentive payment programing in drought Expansion of the rural program for low-Income families 5 Stepped-up research sizing lower production costs uses for farm products and ex- Penn Gnp Weber City of markets K A speedup in a Great Plains program to make better use of wheat and grazing land IWest 401 688 974 99 Cabinet decision to dissolve 52 53 he the fira such move 53 93 tlle history of tile postwar 164 000 54 58 Fourth Republic announced 187 620 57 00 Wednesday night It gives Faure 58 67 hc election the Assembly 56.64 had denied him 57.80 The Assembly handed Faure a 59 07 i vote of no confidence Tuesday largely because of Its opposition to campaign for early elections vote however use of a clause in the 1946 providing dissolution Assembly by the Cabinet if 55.55 two governments were defeated on votes of confidence by a majority 349876 55.49 of Hie House in period 55.551 received a no- NORTH CAROLINA confidence vote lost February 56.27 with more than half deputies against him VIRGINIA 302 336 474 The Weather Kingston nnd Increasing ness and mild with temperatures In tlie 30s Snow and Meet tonight with high In 20s Partly Friday with ruin cloudy and warmer TEMPERATURES 11 28 Midnight 12 Noon 31 1 1 P.M 33 2 2 P.M 35 3 3 P.M 4 4 P.M 32 5 5 P.M 29 fi P.M 27 7 7 P.M 25 I P.M 24 6 t P.M 23 10 in P.M 21 11 P.M 21 Last 24 None This month This TODAY'S SKIES Sunrise P.M P.M quarter 1 Saturn Hinted will bf a atar until next Mirch and an evening star through the spring and summer of 1956 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT Help Ti Cites GOP Moves By WILLIAM WASHINGTON INS The laid the groundwork today to make the handling of foreign affairs a major 1956 issue President Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other administration and GOP leaders have urged in the past week that foreign policy be kept out of political debate The Democrats an- swered with a fact sheet of quotations from Republican the 12 hours from midnight until noon The Virginia Highway Patrol also reported no highway accident ing the morning hours All law enforcement officers are on full-time duty durinc the al observance of Safe Driving Day proclaimed by President hower An Douglass student reported she struck hy a driver at the shool nt the Intersection nt Main and East Sullivan Streets Police were unable to verify the accident by any witnesses at the intersection The child was taken to Holston Valley Community Hospital for treatment but hospital officials were unable to find any visible Injuries and x-rays failed to re- veal Internal injuries V O Dobbins principal at Douglass said the child reported the accident when she arrived late for school He made the statement that accident must have happened shortly before 9 when there were no policemen on duty at the school crossing He said that he had made re- quests to the city to furnish more police protection for the ings near the Negro school Tennessee generally motorists are being urged to exert extra highway safety as the state Joins the nation in the observance State Safety Commissioner W W Luttrell said in Nashville every available patrolman and hicle will be used on the He said he has instructed all of- to make maximum use of saturation and visibility con- c a r a on dangerous stretches of road and parking the cruisers in conspicuous places The department said 800 deaths been reported this year In Tennessee through 8 day a 17 per cent increase over the 604 road deaths listed for the corresponding period of 1954 Kingsport has had but two fic fatalities since September 1051 a period of days van County has had only six fic fatalities this year compared with 14 last year nt this time Both of the city's fatalities were elderly men pedestrians walking late in the evening The six in the county were drivers and passengers Tlie city does not plan a big drive to prevent traffic accidents but Charles K Marsh assistant city manager urged drivers and pedestrians to continue in the sound manner that has such a wonderful traffic record for the city Capt Frank K Williamson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said the unit will continue its all-out fort with the manpower and ment n vailable here to prevent 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 Hour noon p.m p.m p.m City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Patrol 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bulletin ST LOUIS if Three men Including tun former ment who nerved ing the administration were Indicted by a federal grand Jury on n charRe of to defraud he m ent Named In the Indictment were 1 Connelly former appointment secretary to for- mer President Truman Caudle former of the Justice Department's tax di- vision who was fired hy Truman and Harry I Conner Kansas City lawyer previously indicted hy Ilia Rrand Jury on a perjury Federal School Aid To Be Asked WASHINGTON Wl Tile While House Conference on Education seemed almost certain today to go strongly on record In favor of eral aid to schools particularly for buildings table chairmen ting In two teams of eight until 2 simmered down the views of 166 round tables which had dis- traffic accidents We try nil the Lime by every means to prevent traffic he said That's our job Snow Or Sleet Forecast Here A warning In local drivers on this S-D Dny came from Weather Bureau Mils morning ns the snow or sleet In the area early tonight The snid the will bo in the 30s nnd that snow or will fall in the nt approximately 8 p m I The other practical nurse The snow nnd sicot is expected A in favor the Alabama escaped to change to rain Friday The construction aid by her home briefly high expected is 10 degrees Partly 3 A narrow Nov cloudy nnd warmer Saturday will federal nid for school He her a leather temperatures in the lower 50s nre which would include purchase of purse which he said he made while textbooks nnd teachers pny recently In Cincinnati during the two tennis cussed school finance evening Each of the designated one of its members to refine the findings further for final presentation to the conference night Team No 1 1 More than sentiment participants nt 83 In of some I increase in nid Practical Nurse Admits Helping Escaped Convict By PAUL WILLIAMS A Kingsport practical nurse mother of three children confessed today she helped bama convict Ralph lino escape from the ville County jail Oct 20 The smartly dressed Holston Valley Community Hospital employe said she passed saw blades to and drove ilm from Blountville Kingsport on the night he broke out The woman Mrs Eugenia Dykes Thomas Addition will be charged with assisting the escape of a felon Attorney General Lacy West said Her statement climaxed an in- tensive investigation of the jail break by the attorney general in cooperation with county officers Eight other prisoners all in for minor offenses shinnied down a rope of bed sheets to escape with Cozzolino Four have been recaptured I felt sorry for Mrs Dykes said in an explanation here today She said she first met zolino when he was in the hospital here receiving treatment for an ankle broken during a at- tempt after robbing the Wiggly supermarket In on July 9 The statement by Mrs Dykes and another Holston Valley Com- munity Hospital employe revealed Cozzolino was back In port on Nov 20 or Nov 21 Both women snid they had the convict several times the Blountville Jail Mrs Dykes was In after she admitted her assistance Sheriff Ham Hurd nnd Constable J E church assisted in the questioning I knew she said un- Nobody told me to do this I knew I'd get caught She expressed concern over the story getting Into the newspapers nnd sold it hurt her children 1 believed if he got out he wouldn't do anything Mrs Dykes said nt one point in the He promised me that If he Rot out he'd live the right kind of life The first break In the in the admission of one of two prisoners who escaped with Cozzolino they had all ridden In a car from Blountville to The practical nurse in her ment said Cozzolino had sent word for her to see him at the city Jail the his escape Ho hurl been there after ing treatment for his Injured leg Mrs Dykes snid the convict gave her some money and asked her to buy two hack saw blades nnd pass them to him in a magazine She said she bought blades put them in the nnd handed them the bars of the city jail cell which faces i driveway The snid then on day night acting on in- she drove immediately to Blountville getting off work nt the hospital nt 11 p.m There she snid she picked up Cozzolino and nt his insistence two other prisoners Mrs she then drove back to Kingsport letting the other two men off near Rond nnd taking Cozzolino to erwood Bridge where she left him The practical nurse said she was against the idea of taking the other two prisoners She also said she had refused several times ly to help the husky Alabama brenker to escape Mrs Dykes stylishly attired in a brown tweed suit nnd orange sweater nnd hat She showed con- cern several times over the effect of news on her children 22 years old 17 nnd 10 The said Cozzolino drove by her house either this past day or the Sunday previous and her n leather purse for herself nnd her child speeches statements and from 1948 through 1955 hitting nt past Democratic ad- ministrations conduct of tional The sheet was released without comment However it to back up Democratic tional Chairman M Butler's challenge to the administration to drop all claims on achieving world peace or debate on for- eign policy Meanwhile the candidacy of New York Gov for the Democratic presidential nation was given a further boost by Carmine New York's secretary of state and Democratic lender in the Empire State told the National Press Club yesterday that nors of New York normally exert strong influence on party tions He said his state would pose at Chicago next August He recalled the fact Thomas E Dewey twice for presidency by the or That may dis- pel the Idea that Governor NEW YORK CIO went leader lold a reporter hns same UMW messenger who de- man Is only n token or son today with plans for a quick got three brass balls hanging out- Lewis note a copy of a candidate merger with after re- side his CIO pamphlet reviewing the But he said It Is too early a dunning note from Lewis whose rich miners union year story of the CIO It gives to predict who will receive the L Lewis for alleged reportedly controls the National Lewis full credit for forming the nomination Bank of Washington wrote nnd helping organize its charged Hint the Lewis president of the United Wednesday night that Rejects Dun From J Lewis Merger Meeting With AFL Starts the and UMW nucleus in the steel and auto in- licans have scuttled bipartisan iMine Workers nn independent had the CIO and contended organization not a party to In the Intc Lewis has been left completely there no foreign policy nt all prospective merger sent is still due in of the merger plans He has in the demand on the eve criticized the prospective joining of until the Democrats captured and CIO Carey of the the two labor groups Into a single called to ratify the when Lewis its president Lewis is n maverick in the still holder of that office fired movement who In the past n reply telling Lewis that been a lender in both the CIO owes you no money and CIO Wednesday night he de- Where Lewis hnd written that federation as a rope of sand that could not last The group of unions Lewis led a including the the CIO before CIO is being liquidated of the AFL in 1935 to trol of Congress In 1954 The Tammany leader that while Americans do not want to make foreign policy a political not and should not close the door to honest criticism and open action pay up to with the larger AFL found the CIO Then he the discussion which ho claimed to be the CaVcy flatly denied that too in 1940 nnd went back to tha The Democratic fact sheet In- ance owed the UMW from You have only to leave that group eluded quotations from President CIO organizing days Lewis Lewis the momentary in 1947 Eisenhower's 1952 the CIO at that time pie of publicity which you Lewis aides refused to say speeches as well as many Why he's got the second to relieve boredom of your the UMW planned any past attacks on bank in Washington and lalton from the democratic recovery action if the CIO dling of international affairs in us lo help him make it the movement to come across with trie debate and advertising James B Carey a CIOi Carey sent by payment
