Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - October 6, 1967, Kingsport, Tennessee Times MI No 107 KINGSPORT TENNESSEE OCTOBER 0 2 SECTIONS 24 PAGES 10 CENTS fire Found Sound Asleep THIS WAS THE SCENE last night while firemen and rescue squad workers combed the ruins of a home on Crooked the body of an ly woman believed inside this morning ti THIS MORNING the missing woman reads about her supposed death in the paper Photo Earl Carter TALLAHASSEE Fla tiuU lie pines were Marine Maj Clifton C plunged to his death in a The crash appeared o be a plane Thursday the collision with astronaut to die on said Maj Oxygen has been a factor Johnson an Air Force half tlic deaths i investigator The A team of investigators known as radioed that i headed by astronaut Alan he had an oxygen deficiency America's first man in his trainer during a flight I space and now second in From Cape Kennedy to the Air Force Case near Mobile corps was to inspect the Ala wreckage today He must have blamed Williams a native of Mobile from a lack of was a of the informed source who asked not i Apollo to he identified The but his exact mission must have nosed over and hit i was not clear because of the ground at almost following the flash fire that killed astronauts Virgil The plane plummeted onto Roger Chafee and plantation about 15 miles j Edward White in their northeast of Tallahassee craft during a ground test at ing a crater in the center of Kennedy Jan 27 triangle of three tall pines Tiie 1 capsule was fall was so straight witnesses More On rage 10 Col 7 U S Jets Tangle With MIGs To Hit American warplanes battled swarms of Communist MIC jet today In previously unto u c h e d fuel dumps destroy a living and silence it 20 sites in one of Iho heaviest raids of oa the Vietnamese port of Haiphong A huge 20.1 feel inlo the sky from one of oil and thick black curled up two miles The raids in air war came on the heels of 134 missions Thursday hat also included strikes in Ilie of as writ as for third consecutive day l and rail tins the Communist border 1 Pilots Mid they dashed Hie in ii swirling planes were reported damaged one of Iho was hit I lhal Air Force down by to the piano lost over North Vietnam Cmdr Richard A 38 nf Mich lying a More On 10 Column 6 s A way Didn't ant To Go Bess Penley didn't burn up in that fire last night thank tho Good This morning she was sitting on the porch at her house in and she was saying how everybody has to go sometime but that's one way she sure doesn't want to go when her Firemen spent three hours sifting tlie ashes of a home on Crooked Road last night looking for what they feared was Bess she was sleeping like a baby a couple blocks away at a friend's house in Long Island FIREMEN COMBED the rubble after Crooked Road residents said they had seen Bess around the house But that was early in the day Late in the afternoon Bess went on down to Long Island and slopped in to see Mrs Ollie Clark She told Ollie she was hungry All I got is said Ollie But you're welcome to share em Later when it got dark Bess told Ollie she didn't have any place to sleep that night had no way to get to her house in and she'd freeze to death in the weeds if Ollie didn't give her a bed Ollie BRIGHT and early Bess was out walking up the street past houses where people were saying wasn't that a terrible thing that happened to good old Bess last night She ran into Herb Murray and once he got over the shock lie started kidding her about it But Bess it hard She was all shook up Got to shaking and couldn't slop Bess headed hen for just about the time her nephew came looking for her Sack on he front porch at her house they showed Bess the paper and she felt so bad she could hardly read the story SHE SAID she just wanted everybody to know she's alive as she ever was and that she's not 61 she's only 57 Well The Fire Truck Is Painted Red COEBURN In case of fire call the Fire Department ff you call when the police chief isn't at the fire hall the firemen will respond But if the police chief's there at the time well to blazes with it ft is to Coeburn firemen who turned in their equipment this week because of disputes with City Council the fire chief and police chief The firemen later cooled down a bit and to answer calls on a conditional basis a Council meeting called for Oct 17 to iron their protests including poor equipment pay and a request for more say-so in fire department matters But under 110 conditions the firemen say will they answer a call if Police Chief Wiley Moore is around lie fire hall The protesting firemen charged Moore used abusive language in talking to them earlier this week and called WEATHER OUTLOOK r-w And ull Cloudy anil mild tonight with a tow of Saturday in Die morning becoming parity cloudy nnd warmer In the afternoon High Saturday Sunday mostly cloudy and cooler with possible thunderstorms A Uiv A Year Asa A woman o have burned lp death in a house fire last oil Road was not on scene when the broke out the learned today Word that the woman might have in brought a stream of spectators to the site this morning All hey found were two tall brick chimneys and a pile of debris Everything in Hie tall frame dwelling was Cause of the flash fire which whipped through the house firemen arrived has not been determined Officials from Sullivan County Fire Department were summoned by the sheriff's department shortly after the blaze started about p.m They and members of the Colonial Heights Fire Department later called to the scene sifted through hot coals for the woman's body There is a large weedy area round the house and search fanned out for more than three hours This morning a Long island man who had seen liess walking down the street met sheriff's deputies at the fire scene and told them she was OK They had been trying to find licr relatives they said Neighbors had reported seeing Bess around ihc house but she spent llw night at a friend's house on Long Island Tiie owner of he house Doris Light was Ml there cither Doris is a man He spent the night in Jail being arrested on a drunk charge earlier in the day Frenchman Found Slain In Sullivan Left Beside Road With Bullet Hole BLOUNTVILLE Who killed Jean Paul Nourisson and why? The young cook from France who came to Canada a year ago apparently was hitchhiking across the United States on his way to Mexico when he rnet death near here Two children found Nourisson shot in the back lying face down in a creek near Bethel Drive here Thursday We don't know yet who shot said Sheriff Wright this morning but we're doing our best to find out WRIGHT SAID he has assigned his investigative staff to the case and lias other Sullivan County deputies searching for clues Authorities where Nourisson last lived also are helping to gather information about the Frenchman Nourisson left Marseilles on May 6 1966 to come to Canada He worked for over a year as a cook in Montreal restaurants but apparently did not make many friends In September of this year Nourisson obtained a visa to enter Mexico from the Mexican consulate in Montreal and a passport permitting him to re-enter Canada He crossed into the United States on Sept 29 at Plattsburg Notes found on body indicated that he may have passed through Virginia and had to spend some time standing out in the cold Wright said NOURISSON apparently had either hitchhiked or ridden buses to Tennessee the sheriff said We checked with Montreal authorities and they said there was no record of him owning a he said An anonymous tipster told the sheriff he saw Nourisson standing near McDonald's Restaurant in Bristol hitchhiking toward Kingsport on Highway last Monday Residents of the Bethel Drive area reported that on a car with out-of-state license tags came up at high speed However no shots were heard fired in the area Two children saw body lying near the creek Wednesday afternoon and told their parents but the adults believed he was just a drunk On Thursday the children said the man was still there so the parents called the sheriff's office THE BODY WAS found about 6 p.m Thursday The creek which runs along a desolate section of Bethel Drive is about 30 or 40 feet from the road It's possible the Merc On Page 10 Col 6 Viet Drafted In Military Crackdown SAIGON ment announced today it had drafted about a dozen student demonstrators into the army in a new get tough policy against protests It also warned that future would lose their civil Lt Col Nguyen Van Laun Saigon police director said that of 33 students arrested last Monday about a dozen of draft age had been drafted into the army and the rest released after being reprimanded He said one of the student leaders might be tried before a court Laun said Be CHIC of several students arrested last Saturday when they attempted to tear down a billboard proclaiming Gen Nguyen Van election as president was still being held by police and that a military trial was under consideration Police said Kien Be had recognized his errors In a statement distributed to the press he was quoted as urging students throughput the country to stop all activities the government and as saying a cooperative spirit serves the majority Thieu flexed his muscles as the government moved ahead with plans for today's kickoff of the official campaign for the nation's house of representatives And at the same time there was signs that the currently ebbing protest led by militant Buddhist chiei Tri Quang may be headed for a compromise The government warnings future de- were issued in Da disorders in 1966 verging on civil war as well as in Saigon One of the things prompting the get lough decree was leaflets apparently by followers of Tri Quang in his former Hue stronghold urging a general by shopkeepers and bus taxi and cyclo drivers Violators would JEAN PAUL NOURISSON Du Pont Will Pay Ransom For Coins MIAMI Millionaire Willis Harrington du Pont today offered to pay in cash to ransom his million Russian coin died ion taken by five bandits who forced their way into his estate Du Pont said he has hired private detective William ton to act as a go-between in to recover the coins The FBI in charge of investigation of the theft early Thursday had no comment A sophisticated infrared ing system guarding Du Font's 53 million estate on the Coconut Grove was not in operation when the robbery took place Du Pont said he elaborate electronic burglar alarm had not been on for several weeks but he refused to say why The coin collection may have been an unexpected bonus for five hooded gunmen who invaded the Du Pont mansion early Thursday and made off with the largest haul in Miami history Tiie bandits were Du Ilis beautiful be mili ar Spanish wife son and two servants at while courts for sentencing a much harsher measure than civil courts And draft age violators were warned that they would be promptly put in the army and sent to fight the Viet Cong no matter what their status Tri Quang 44 entering the ninth day of his personal down protest on dence Palace grounds outside office munched on American mint candies and drank watery rice soup today servants at gunpoint while spending two hours ransacking the showplace estate Another son a year old slept through the robbery While rounding up rare U.S about half a jewelry and and Hue scene oil and said he was feeling tired coins valued at million dollars other valuables the bandits ran across material describing the Russian collection Du Pont said he believes the bandits did not know about colleciton and thought up the ransom scheme as they went More On 10 Col 7 ANSWERS CONGRESS Freeze Follows Squeeze WASHINGTON UP ideiil Johnson is mounting a massive squeeze play on Congress down on politically popular spending projects in get the lawmakers to make cuts they talk about pass his tax increase The President laid down what amounted In a challenge Thursday during a hastily organized news conference in his White House office He said that every day's delay on liis proposed 10 per cent lax surcharge was costing government iSO million in rising prices and interest rales The House Ways Means Committee voted Monday to shelve the lax measure until Johnson and Congress could gel together on cuts in federal spending But the Chief Executive said he could not exercise an intelligent decision on spending reductions until Congress decides where it him to t r i m appropriations He said il was up to Army Corps of Engineers Defense Secretary S McNamara citing the uncertain stale of federal first announced a freeze on contract awards for all new military construction starting Monday Affected in- mediately would be an mated million in projects approved by Congress List year and in prior budgets but for which contracts have not been recorded froze applies to construction of housing barracks and other installations in scores of c 1111 g r c s s i o n a 1 districts those involving new weapons systems or directly affecting the Vietnam war Depending on how long the a billion military construction appropriations hill for the current fiscal year that Is still in Congress also may he Later Army Stanley II Hesor halted until notice all new contract awards in the billion civil works program familiarly known on Copilot Hill as Die program
