Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - October 18, 1967, Kingsport, Tennessee Kingsport VOLUME No 205 Times TENNESSEE 37000 OCTOBER 18 1967 44 PAGES 5 SECTIONS 10 CENTS Russians Put Radio On Venus MOSCOW UPI An mi- manned Soviet space capsule landed softly on the surface of Venus today and radioed that he planet was too hot for human life The capsule named Venus 4 detached itself on command from earth from ils carrier rocket and plopped down softly on Hie hot surface at a m the Tass Agency reported Western UF Has 3 nations reported he landing Britain's Jodrell Bank Ob- said capsule relayed to earth 86 minutes of coded radio information about the planet Tlie Russians scored a ing space success as an American planet probe Mariner 5 nc a red Venus on a course that would take it several thousand miles past surface of planet on Thursday Signals from the Soviet Venus 4 package were being received by Russian monitors and on invitation by Bank's huge antenna in England Jodrell Bank Director Sir Bernard Lovell said data the capsule was of ble The surface of Venus ed by a layer of gases thai Win Goal Pledged to dale Still Needed Percent Pledged Days to Go 81 3 With days remaining in the campaign Kingsport's 1967 United Fund Drive today needed lo meet its goal Wednesday's report covering first seven full days of drive showed total pledges as This is 81 par cent of the goal of The increase today was or about 14 per cent of the goal This was the second best day of the drive Saturday's report showed an increase of more than The more than 409 volunteer workers in the drive were making their rounds today effort to collect tlie remaining The drive which started last Tuesday ends Saturday The Industrial Division continued to increases today a gain for a of The Commercial Division reported more for a total of The Professional Division increase to More On Page Col 1 Lay men Rap Pope's Birth Control Ban VATICAN CITY noring a warning by Pope Paul VI not to intrude on his authority Roman Catholic men today approved a tion containing an attack on the church's ban on artificial means of birth control After a bitter debate in the World Congress of Catholic Laymen delegation heads voted 67 to 21 lo approve a resolution on world development that includes an explosive clause urging that control be left the conscience of parents The Pope who has been wrestling with this problem for the past four years Sunday warned against Catholics who boldly turn away from tion This was interpreted as a caution against liberals in the lay congress and in concurrent Synod of Bishops who are seeking a change in the church's contraception ban Catholic teaching allows use of he method and then under limited ces Calling for a clear ment by the church on the resolution noted that the world faces an anguishing problem of demographic expansion It said even Pope Paul had admitted the population sion threatens the harmonious development of peoples holds in heat as in a greenhouse is believed lo Iw as hot as 800 degrees enough to melt lead Jodrell Bank was unable lo break code by which Russian package soul tion back to earth Die Soviets let Jodrell fiank a march on them by announcing details Not until later did Tass make a deadpan announcement The Soviel automatic station Venus 4 which for the first lime on Hie surface of Venus today has dala on the planet's it said Tass said the details received from instrument package showed atmosphere on nearest planet was almost entirely carbon dioxide Temperatures ranged from 40 More On Page Col 1 top form a wedge into crowd of ets shortly before a charge left eighteen persons injured from a crowd of some who gathered in front of Oakland's Northern California In- duction Headquarters Police moved in swinging billy clubs and firing cannisters of liquid ing the melee One demonstrator below is shown bleeding from the head It was the second day of a planned week of nationwide anti- draft demonstrations UPI Photo JOAN BAEZ JAILED raft Mobs Mass By United International The planned of anti- draft sentiment today into its third day following two days of demonstrations arrests anil violence Demonstrators at Oakland Calif where 22 persons were injured and 22 were taken inlo custody Tuesday in a melee at the Northern California School Chief Says He Canh Curb Clul Hazing o City school authorities have no control over hazing practices among clubs Dr Dana F Swick Kingsport Cily school superintendent said Tuesday Dr Swick out that recent reports of bizarre initiation rites have no direct connection with any school in the city Although some members may be at a particular Swick explained the clubs are not and art not under our jurisdiction He said he understood that social groups of the type which practice hazing are not allowed in high schools under slate Jaw school officials would be quick to put a slop to such if they occurred in academic clubs he declared Meanwhile city police have fumed the hot potato of what to do about a youth spotted running naked across the Hammond Bridge over to authorities on the grounds the boy was only scon on the end of the bridge The nude run was in initiation rile the told police Sheriff Kill Wright said he would the case himself before placing any charges lion Center said hey planned fo limit their protest today to peaceful picketing Police waded into more llian demonstrators Tuesday with billy clubs and tear gas evoking complaints of police brutality from protesters and newsmen A sit-down in front of an induction center al Los Angeles resulted in 19 arrests The demonstrators apparently were trying to bar the of inductees Four men and three women were arrested as 250 to 300 demonstrators picketed an in- duction center at Seattle Wash The nationwide is being mobilized largely through the efforts of a group calling itself the and the National Mobilization tee to end the War in Vietnam The is lo end Saturday with a mass demonstration in Washington Officials in the nation's today to handle the expected crowds The National Guard will furnish military policemen to help district police patrol streets At Oakland U.S Ally Cecil Poole said The law is not going to lie down and not do its job because or persons are opposed to the war Folksinger Joan Bacz and more than 100 other antidraft were sentenced Tuesday lo jail terms in connection with a demonstration held at the Oakland induction center Monday Miss Baez did not contest the charge In many of the where demonstrations were held lers watched the protesters Independence Hall in Philadelphia Monday night shouted at 150 yellow and Why don't you stand lip in At Madison Wis sity of Wisconsin students began a three-day war against the Doiv cal Co manufacturer of napalm used in Ibc war WEATHER OUTLOOK For aid can Cloudy windy and cool afternoon with rain ending early but continued and cool High May 55 tow tonight 41 Thursday continued cool ing the becoming and continued Friday ally fair milder in after- noon High A Ago Yfltcrday'l Lew Uw K Year Ago City Won't Reveal What Raises Are Kingsport city policemen will gel an increase in salary effective Nov 1 but cily manager Charles Marsh today refused lo disclose tlie amount Alderman Tom Divine said however that the raise would be substantial At present the wage scale for city patrolmen lias been from a low of to a high of a month Marsh would not say what the new range will be because it wouldn't be fair to the policemen to read about it in the paper before we tell them and it might cause jealousy among them Marsh repeated his belief that Kingsport residents place undue emphasis on policemen's salaries and pointed out that the wage voted last night by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen affects all 431 city employes not policemen policemen's boss Safety Director Jim Eisenbise said Marsh has not even told him the amount of the new wage scale I didn't know anything about this until o'clock last Eisenbise said Marsh told me we'd have to sit down and work this thing out Heretofore city firemen have received the same pay as city policemen Is this matching salary Three-Pronged War On Crime A three-pronged war on crime was launched by Board of Mayor and Aldermen Tuesday night The Voted to increase salaries of policemen and other city employes effective Nov 1 Authorized advertising for bids for three additional police cruisers Adopted a resolution calling upon courts schools churches and individual citizens to join in a determined continuing effort to reduce crime Amounts of the pay raises for policemen were not revealed publicly City Manager Charles K Marsh reminded council members they had been supplied privately with copies of recommended pay scales and urged that these be adopted effective Nov 1 ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY Mayor Joseph H Lewis then read aloud the proposed lution approving he increases and inserted that effective dale in it The resolution was adopted unanimously Advertising for bids for five police cruisers was authorized with old cruisers to be traded in for two of them Tlie other three would be a net increase in the police department's fleet Asked if additional men would be needed to man them Marsh said the additional cruisers would not be put inlo full use They would provide reserves for special occasions such as football games and when extra men are put on duty he said Copies of he resolution on crime were distributed to representatives of news media after the meeting Tiie full text The board of Mayor and Aldermen has approved pay increases for employees of the Cily of Kingsport effective Nov 1 MOKE EFFECTIVE The board is also considering what positive action can be laken lo provide conditions under which the police department's function will be made more effective In taking these steps fo assist police lie board recognizes that Kingsport has been experiencing an increase in lawlessness as have most other cities in the United States H also recognizes that a bigger and force of CMV law enforcement officers is not the whole answer to the problem The Board is keenly aware nf an acute public concern not only about the crime problem of today but about the threat of what may lie ahead if the present dangerous I rend to lawlessness and immorality is not reversed More On Col 1 effective under the new I don't care to comment on said Marsh Wages for all city employes will be based on a merit system determined by individual department heads and foremen Marsh said and there will be a slight variation in the present policemen's bracketing He refused to say if the policemen would receive compensatory time off or overtime pay for the off-duty hours they spend testifying in court cases a major grievance of the patrolmen But it was a he said in drawing up tlie new plan Divine said he understood that Marsh was willing to open the wage record books to anyone interested after Nov 1 when the increases take effect But Marsh would not confirm this Divine said he thought Marsh should tell the the total figure of the proposed increase but Marsh refused to do this also because we may be wrong in our estimate To this a reporter suggested that Kingsport taxpayers might like to have at least some general idea how much all this is costing them Marsh said he wouldn't give out any financial information and rebuked the reporter for asking You obviously don't know anything about how city government he said How Much Just Ask Your Aldermen City policemen got a raise last But they won't know bow much until gel their paychecks Nov 20 And the taxpayers who foot the may never know City Council last night voted to increase the salaries of all cily employes Nov 1 neither the council members nor City Manager Charles Marsh would say how much money was involved or what percentage the increase amounted o or what was going to happen fo the individual salaries of patrolmen At least they wouldn't tell the If YOU want o know how they're spending your money and what you're paying for police protection why don't you ask the aldermen Here are their telephone City Manager Charles K City Hall Mayor Joseph H Vice Mayor T M Alderman Fred Alderman John J Alderman C B Duke Crime Up Down Here Police Say Kingsport Cily Police handed a formal declaration of war on crime by City Council Tuesday night may have lo do a lot of scouting to determine where the lines should be drawn The Council cited an increase n lawlessness in delivering a charge lo policemen and calling or the public's help Figures from the Department of Public Safely show no ing trend in the growth of crime bul do reflect over the past five years in nine In releasing figures the department said the totals are known offenses In 1066 as compared to 1965 there was a downward trend in four of Hie nine categories Here arc the Murder Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Burglary Grand Larceny Petty Larceny Auto Theft Public Drunkenness 1963 1964 1965 1966 1 1 10 17 131 36 4615 44 9 3 8 13 163 45 468 35 2 1 8 5 211 39 493 51 1 1 2 10 147 44 40 3 0 5 17 167 62 347 27 1030 1110 1184 1255 1248 Bootleggers DEW Line Breached By Deputies For months Sullivan County officers raids on Island had been unsuccessful it almost as if bootleggers had a Distant Warning system Then Tuesday night deputies decided to sneak onto Island using police radios They found whal they believed was the Island DEW line Sheriff's Investigator Athan Buster Brown said he and Deputy John Bishop slipped onto a porch at home of Charles Leslie Collier 400 Mason Rd and started to enter house when they heard u familiar voice from Car -I Signal 8 a subject out behind Sullivan Gardens Man wants lo talk o an officer The deputies found Collier lying on a bed listening k a police radio which had been fo the Sheriff's Department frequency Brown said Collier apparently had been monitoring police broadcasts and then tipping off bootleggers by phone when raids were due Brown said He was charged with using a police radio for illegal purposes a gallon of moonshine whisky and possessing lewd and indecent movies Others in on the raid Deputies Don Clyde Baldwin and Fred Vance
