Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - February 1, 1963, Kingsport, Tennessee A KINGSPORT TIMES Bristol Vol No 24 lit fife WM 16 Hvt CMHS There Once Was A Doctor's Kit And Then Came A Curious Guest And Curiosity's Prying Hands IN DOWNTOWN AREA At Least 60 Die In Air Collision T-N Photo by Morton WILL HE OR WON'T the big question tomorrow Groundhog Day Most folks here at least those who believe in that type of be eager to find out if the groundhog sees his sign that six more weeks of winter are in store This fellow in the picture is all set for his big day He belongs to Margaret Dyer of 543 Sequoyah Drive Yes Sir Lady I Believe You ROCK ISLAND 111 must be a baritone and a con- vincing one at that Mrs Marie Catherine Fuller 63 was in jail today after the latest in a series of escapades which once caused a judge to call her living proof that num was right Mrs Fuller is awaiting trial on Kingsport Girl Hurt As Car Flips At Bristol Janice Jordan 21 of 2304 wood Road Kingsport was injured and her automobile completely demolished this morning about 3 miles west of Bristol According to Highway Patrol Trooper Fry Miss Jordan was attempting to pass a vehicle at the intersection of U.S Highways and 81 when she apparently lost control of her car She was admitted to Bristol Hospital with a dislocated right hip Hospital attendants said her condition is fair charges of bilking a businessman out of She allegedly as agent Foster of the Federa Bureau of Investigation and toll her victim that FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover had been and was being held for ransom She told the businessman tha all but of the ransom had been raised He came up with the Her other schemes have been equally incredible She was convicted on charges that she collected from i man for making him an FB agent A jury found that she posed as a Mr Morgan of the FBI and administered the oath of office to her victim over the telephone In 1951 a farmer contended he paid Mrs Fuller to pay off former President Harry Truman Sen Scott Lucas anc Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to get the million Ford Motor Co estate out of the courts and into the hands of the heirs The farmer said he was to be mid back with more than a half million dollars During one trial her attorneys argued there was no fraud in- because her stories were so her victims couldn't possibly believe them Local Law Court Jury Awards Boy A Sullivan County Law Court jury yesterday awarded damages to an boy and mother The judgment was believed the largest ever handed down in Law Court here The award was to Rodney Pierson and Mrs Pauline Pierson of suit said the boy suffered serious injuries including brain damage in September when he was by a cfu Tht judgment included in punitive damages Defendant In the suit was Lynn Frazier of Kingsport named driver of the car At Least 70 Others Are Hurt In Turkish City ANKARA Turkey UPI Middle East Airlines Viscount air liner with aboard col in flight today with i Turkish plane over Ankara aircraft fell into the most populated part of the capital killing many persons City officials said at least 6 bodies were found in the debris spread over a area They said at least 70 other per sons were rushed to hospitals from the disaster area where fires broke out Witnesses said both planes caught fire after they collided anc crashed onto the roofs of two Istanbul Bank and th Guaranty Bank Turkish authorities said all 1 passengers and four crew mem bers aboard the Middle East Air lines plane were killed in thi crash It was not known how man persons were in the plane a military transport that was reported to have been on an instrument flight In London a Middle East Air lines spokesman said one of thei Viscounts collided with a Turkish Air Force freighter or cargo air craft He said the dis integrated over a wide area after the collision But he saic first reports his office had re indicated the Turkish car go plane later landed safely U S authorities in Ankara sail no Americans were believed in- Giant Storm Lashes Western Third 01 Nation By United Press International A giant Pacific storm lashed he western third of the nation day with high winds and heavy snow The swollen swirled through the streets of Reno Nev Torrential rains sent massive snow slides roaring down ain slopes blocking highways ml rail lines The Truckee surged out of its today at Reno sending wa er feet deep pouring through he streets of the gambling city Thirty square blocks of the city were under water and the City Jail was surrounded by nearly hree feet of water A civil defense spokesman estl the flood will be more evere than the million 1955 lood which sent water five feet leep around resort hotels Reno was virtually isolated ay Highways and railroad racks were blocked the airport was closed and many telephone nes were down National Guardsmen and civil workers packed sandbags night but the river rushed vcr Ihc barricades No more were available Photographer Glen ders captures the mood of a novel hide-and-seek game his children were playing with a doctor's kit Little Vicki's prying hands kept unveiling the face of brother Larry inside the bag Trapeze Artist Flees E Berlin Sliding Along Hot Power Line BERLIN along on the seat of pants an East man trapeze artist fled over the heads of Communist border guards into West Berlin on a power cable I could hear humming and hac a tickling sensation in my said Horst Klein 36 One slip and Klein would have to a crisp A professional trapeze artist had been to work n East German circuses because le was an outspoken munist I couldn't live any longer out the smell of the circus in my he said On the night of Dec 27 he climbed a steel power pylon on the Communist side of he Berlin wall and leaped to the big ain insulator on the cable I knew that if I touched the and cable at the same I would be turned to le told newsmen Thursday night From the insulator Klein eased down onto the cable and slid 70 yards on the seat of his writs to another insulator then he jumped to a second tower His hands were numbing fast in he cold Below him two East German guards patrolled the wire Flashing Ball LANGLEY AFB Va he federal space agency Mid night astronaut Gordon Cooper will place a small with a flawing light in orbit ng his space night in April Cooper will photograph the sphere about the site of a with a movie camera o lest a ability to observe in space whilt in orbit cades facing West Berlin's Tellow Canal Klein was above the beams of the border searchlights Past the second tower Klein slid another 30 yards then hooked Inside Today's Times 2 Sections Classified Club Events Comics Crossword Editorials Obituaries Sports Logs Weather Women's News Page 4 3 1.1 15 4 8 14 8 3 his legs over the cable and began to work a rope he had coiled around his chest He threw the rope across the cable in an effort to lower himself down into the Western zone But his numbed hands missed the rope and he plunged 40 feet to the canal towpath in the West only a few feet beyond a clump of bushes marking the border Klein came to three hours later and shouted for help A woman heard him and called West man police A fire brigade look him across the canal in a rubber boat In the fall Klein broke his arms His story came out after it be- came known that the East Berlin police had learned of his escape route JC Man Kills His Wife Says He Fled To Miami As Child Died By DICK MOORE Staff Writer A baby was dead this morning allegedly strangled by his young father for crying too much The Johnson City trailer home of John David Samol 23 East College student was the scene of the tragedy described by the child's mother as a series ol beatings ending when wrapped a blanket around the child's face to stifle his cries The child was pronounced deac by a doctor at a Johnson City pital this morning wife was quoted by Johnson City police as saying the young East Tennessee State Col lege student hit the baby three times last night knocking him from the crib each time She said the father then wrapped a around the child's head to stifle cries Upon hearing the doctor's verdict this morning Samol leaped into his 1958 model sports car and raced toward Florida his wife said Other relatives said Samol ran to Florida when in trouble He Js reportedly a native of Miami Flo Mrs Samol is the former Janice of ville Mrs Samol told Evans and other officers that when she and her husband awoke this morning the baby was not breathing She said Samol drove her and the child to a hospital and roared away toward when tors said the child was dead Officials filed murder charges against Samol and ordered an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death The couple has two other dren a girl Terry 2 and an- other son Roy 14 months College officials said the dren and Mrs Samol probably would go to Greeneville where her parents live College officials said Samol had never given the school any trouble They called the whole affair un- believable and said the entire faculty was shocked Officers said Samol was ing blue jeans and a blue when last seen His car Tennessee license tag mol was described as 11 inches tall weighing 165 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes A spokesman for the college said Samol was a model student who had recently applied for ad- mission to an academic honor ciety Samol had been the operator of the college bowling alley and ed at various other jobs around the campus to supplement his school income Records at listed him as a senior student majoring in raphy Instructors held Samol in ligh esteem and considered him a very worthy student both from the standpoint of grades and acter Samol was maintaining a high academic average at the school winning plaudits from the faculty and also the students He was considered an outstanding student n all respects DEAN RUSK Rusk Says U.S Tests To Resume WASHINGTON Kennedy is ordering resumption of preparations for a new under- ground nuclear test shot in vada following breakdown of talks with Russia on a treaty Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a news conference today that the President's decision was taken after Soviet representatives gave notice in New York Thursday they wanted to call off further discussions Until the re- opening of the disarmament con- ference at Geneva Feb 12 Rusk also made two other jor points at his first meeting with reporters since before 1 The United States regrets any offense it may have given Canada by its statement day on Canada's nuclear weapons policy But the statement was re- quired Rusk insisted because of public debate at Ottawa of issues in secret discussions between the two countries 2 If Soviet troops dig in in Cuba instead of pulling out the United States will have to consider carefully whether to apply dent Kennedy's warning that a prolonged Russian military ence in Cuba would not be Mohammed Easy Boy NASHVILLE Tenn Here There's a pretty verile hunk of loose between town Ky and Huntsville Ala according to owner G W Rogers A card from Rogers of ville to Nashville Postmaster E Moore described the part and Angora torn as a vigorous tough vile completely vaccinated black male cat with outstandingly long bushy tail Rogers said the cat was lost in and asked that the descriptive card be posted for children family friends congregations schools employers em- The card Do not harm he cat Do not corner med Do not gang up on him Do not let him harm you Gain his if possible Good Reading For You Sunday's Kingsport will give you full details of the port Preaching Mission coming up this month The mission usually stirs considerable interest in Kingsport So read the schedule of events and make your plans to attend the week-long mission CONTRARY to weather conditions spring is in the air where women and fashions are concerned Betty Bishop T-N women's editor shows a preview of what the Kingsport women will be wearing this spring in Sunday's women's section 6 ON THE ARTS page you will find a Kingsport painter's preparations for a one-man show at the Manor Gallery in MORE THAN 50 U.S servicemen have been killed in South Viet Nam helping the Vietnamese fight Com- Viet Cong guerrillas Read about the more than cans serving in that war in Sunday's ft ALSO THERE will be this country's plans to put a man on the moon by seven years away ALSO ON the arts page the story of another Moria Did Leonardo de Vinci paint more than one? 6 TENNESSEE Williams has a new play on Broadway Is The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More as good as Williams early kit the UPI drama editor's opinion in the Sunday
