Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - February 25, 1957, Middlesboro, Kentucky This Goes Into 6.634 Homes Average January Circulation The BOOM GO Yesterday's Low SO -15 Noon Heading Gl VOL 46 NO 280 FULL UNITED LEASED WLEE MIDDLESBORO KY DAILY NEWS MONDAY FEBRUARY 25 1957 NKA ACME TELEPHOTO 62 PRICE FIVE CENTS Just Don't Understand Lawyer Says Tribell Tells Of Knife Attack By Lewis In County Jail wouldn't have shocked me any more if my brother had hit me with a James Tribell said from his hospital bed yesterday Attorney Tribell was ged in the eye and attacked by his client Fred Lewis in the Bell County Jail Saturday at noon after hs had asked to confer with him in private I just don't understand wondered lawyer During Hie conversation the two there were no words said to provoke such an attack he claimed lie did say however Lewis tions might have been caused lo- calise of gossip started by persons in Pineville and vicinity that have no basis in Ho did not borate Lewis to make any ment about the incident The Four Mile dent has been defended throughout his recent scrapes with the law by Tribell and his brother William The two attorneys al present rave appeals before the State Court of Appeals on Lewis six-year con- viction for false and a denial by Circuit 1 u d g e W It Knuckles on his rape indictment Commonwealth Attorney Farmer Helton snirt Saturday thai he would bring the stabbing incident to the attention of Court of Appeals before they make their decisions Tribell said he didn't think this would have any effect on his on false conviction ing that it would probably be re- versed But he stated they will no doubt deny the bond The Incident ended Lewis I lionship as his client said Tribell Jn staling he was washing his hands of his dealings with Lewis Tribe 11 declared His case is now in the Court of Appeals Professionally I'm not obligated to him in any way 1 am and will be eternally sorry for him sympathized Tribell 1 really thing he's tic He needs psychiatric one of 75 Are Killed In Wrecks On Week End t By UNITED At least 15 persons were milled in weekend Kentucky accidents state ice headquarters at fort reported today The new deaths plus ed reports brought the year's toll to 122 compared to 90 from Jan 1 through Feb 24 1956 A Saturday accident on U S 227 near Winchester snuffed put the lives of four Ohio motorists and injured two others critically Four other persons also died in collisions Victims of the Clark County were listed by slate police John H Hoffman 57 GO and his wife Faye 57 all of Holgate Ohio and Chester 40 of lown Ohio O'Hara and Hoffman w e r e killed instantly in car Apparent New Approach Raises Fresh Hopes For Mid-East Solution collision later of head-on and the Hubbers died injuries suffered in the crash Mitchell Asks State Plans to Seek Road Bids Pay Floor for 2.5 Million WASHINGTON UP Secretary Labor James P Mitchell proposed today that The were passengers in Hoffman's car and O'Hara was a passenger in an automobile driven by Drew Beasley also of Ohio Beasley and one of the accident victims were injured critically One of the weekend accident victims still was unidentified ly today He was found dead in wreckage cab which collided with an near out Slud Farm five miles south of Covinglon on U S 25 Papers found on the body he may have been a sident of Slade Ky the federal minimum law be broadened lo wage cover ATTORNEY Attorney John J James Tribell rests in his bed ut Pineville Hospital after being slabbed and struck in his right eye by client Fred Lewis Saturday in the Boll County Jail physician said he was in good condition and would be released in two or three days I had considered my best friends and was most anxious to get him remarked I h e attorney adding that Lewis must have been emotionally upset over his bond Tribell the event happened like He had gone to ho jail to con for with Lewis and found Lee and Earl Lewis Fred's brother talking through the bars with the prisoner Wanting to talk with him in private away from other prisoners Tribell then culled for turnkey Virgil Cheek to Plane Buzzes Flaming Occupants Write Their Thanks LOCUST Ga Elbert and Betty Seabolt offered an open letter of gratitude today lo an unidentified pilot risked his life to awaken them by buzzing blazing farm home The both heir son Joseph and Mrs bolt's W C Arendale fled in the nick of time after the plane twice roared low over the house They said thai when the plane awakened them they found the roof ablaze The house was For Million in Six Months LOUISVILLE Highway Engineer Dwight H Bray Ion said over Die weekend that state will advertise more than million in road and highway building contracts during the next six and one-half months It the state's million highway bond issue approved by voters last fall is sold by July contract total may reach or million Nearly Volunteers collected nearly 300 in contributions for the Heart Fund yesterday in the Heart day drive in and ville Middlesboro workers raised arid volunteers in Pineville turned in reported Rev f W hart Jr campaign chairman Rev Kephart said the total is expected to be increased as more let Lewis out in the lobby of the jail upstairs They talking about minutes asked for knife to clean The attorney hud been cutting absent-mindedly on a table iie was sitting on Tribell said he hesitated a ute asked the matter are you afraid of The lawyer said he laughed and replied Yes you might cut my head off Lewis look the knife and cleaned his nails for a while lie was shaking and looked nervous and had moved n round lo left lie snid something and as Tribell looked up Lewis struck him in the eye with his fist Tri- bell fell back across the table and Lewis attacked him with the two- inch blade physician at Pineville said his condition was considering the points of puncture He reported the lawyer as stabbed in the back flank and Children See Mother Killed MARYVILLE Term A year old aluminum company worker killed his former wife day their children ed on then shot the woman's nephew sakl today Armed with a 38 pistol and gun Fred Dear their letter gun We want to tell you thai your and daring saved the lives of our whole shol Jc bones but the either hit off He said Tula Stinnett McClanahan 37 with the pistol in the kitchen of her Oak View community home about eight miles northeast of here Sheriff Ed Guinn said he then drove about half a milt to the home of Mrs er Carl Stinnett where he killed Stinnett's son Officers said could give no clear for the ings when questioned Tourist Committee Schedules Meeting Chair m a n Green ha scheduled he first meeting of tin of Commerce T o 11 r i s Committee for tomorrow night a 7 p.m at the Coal House arc looking forward to a active year said Green and bst cd his members as Shelby Brillor Sam Mars Jr Rudy A ily Friday night Our loss was tragedy enough for a young couple just getting started but wo never would have ven had a chance if you hadn't own low and waked us up Thank ic Lord there are people like you Sincerely Elhert and bread company employe nd part-time farmer said he and is wife tried everything we know to find out who the pilot jut no one could give them any elp Coast Floods Peril Homes SAN FRANCISCO eral thousand persons in Oregon arid fled homes day as rivers fed by a weekend of torrential rains a n d snow began flooding lowlands in both states The were born over far west by a of warm air that incidentally commercial Bet now for flights between the West Coast land Hawaii weatherman said the rains would diminish today but he warned a new storm was on its way It was due over far ern California Tuesday The area in the worst appeared lo be Oregon There the swollen River forced 1500 persons in Vale to abandon their homes Sunday night isolated the town of Harper and closed Stale Highway 20 lo the cast All dirt roads in Mal- henr County were quagmires Further 150 families in Enterprise moved to higher ground Wallowa River over- flowed covering half the town with one to five inches of water The raging waters swept a bridge the wrt and and 13 roads were some 2.5 million additional A Senate Labor called Mitchell to give the administration's first concrete proposals to ing the Minimum Wage Act Mitchell's proposals fell far short of organized labor's de- mands that 10 million additional workers be blanketed in under the act The bulk of lie workers -2 linn to be in under Mitchell's proposal arc employed i contributions arc reported in Hie retail trades profession j The happy success of this fund Coverage of these workers drive commented the Rev F W has Iwen cherished by labor chairman is due Mitchell did not in Both Sides Ease Stand On to the splendid of the coverage of two other i women who sacrificed their of workers sought by the afternoon to canvass the city These were million j They cannot praised toa highly workers and another lor their fine to this Bray addressing a group contractors and highway en- here said the department expects to advertise contracts taling million by July The million worth of con- termed possibly by Oct 1 would represent million more lhan the 528 million spent by the Highway Department during all of for regular road contracts Gray said the million to be by July 1 would include an estimated expenditure of for rural secondary roads and some million for bituminous facing of existing highways The remainder of the lion would be spent on grading and drainage other surfacing and bridges S I -a I e Highway Commissioner Robert Humphreys also a er at the meeting said 50 or 60 let by the department by March 1 1 million outside salesmen The secretary also ruled The volunteer 15 callers that He added he was that contracts for two sections of the Inter State Highway System could be awarded shortly We Sheriff's deputies and volunteer worked nightlong to sandbag the out extending the hourly found many people home and left pink envelopes for lose individuals and families to in mailing in their floor to workers employed local businesses banks Explains Doctrine To Mid-East Big Three CAIRO King Saud of audi undertook today to the Eisenhower Doctrine o the leaders of t frankly ilc Syria and a cool and doubling and Jordan Saud sat down with President Nasser President Shukri of Syria and King Hussein of for the second round of their big four talks that were interrupted by stale visit lo Ion In California sheriff's deputies patrolled the levees along the Feather scene of trous floods in December 1955 The river's ominous rise was result of the heavy weekend rains that fell as high as 6.500 feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains melting the snowpack up to that altitude It was the melling of that pack plus days of unceasing rain thru caused the floods of months ago Two More File Papers Two more have filed for the May primary tions They -are W C Crip on the slate for Four Are Held For Fighting men being held in the Hell County Jail arc charged with striking Freddie son of Police Capt Cecil on the head with a 15 automatic pistol here early Sunday They are Hiram Broshear J C Melvin Bolton and Willie Laws County Judge Maurice Tri- bell said an examining trial for them would probably bo held morrow on of assault with a deadly weapon According to police records the four forced a car driven by Ber and containing Charles Harvey Cox Lynn Turner off the road about 3 a m They then jumped out and began fighting with the boys After Crubbs was struck the our reportedly fled in car Pineville They were ar- sted there by Police Chief Homer recn and Patrolman Charley own and the other boys were silting in the B 3 urk Slop on U.S drinking when an argument them and the oilier men hen they left the four men -o girls began to chase them Fuller's car was into r tch after a wild chase Grubbs struck three times will pistol was treated at a hos ital and dismissed were required to close the wounds Tribell will probably he released within two or three days said the doctor Helton will postpone s ex- trial for Lewis until he attend as a prosecuting ness Tribell said yesterday Lewis will be charged with malicious and wounding with intent to II was reported by lon that if Lewis is indicted it will under the habitual criminal act IIj will then be liable for a life sentence Lewis was convicted of murder when lie was in and served four years of M sentence His false arrest conviction was last October In addition he was ed times in the fall session of court He was found not guilty of one of changes In a statement through the County Jail office Tribell said he wished to thank Jailer Harry Rail and his staff and said they were in no way at fault for the Terrell George E 1 m e jailor and Henry J Jones Raker Carl lican constable for the Sixth Dis Ralph Tucker and Glen Greene English Teachers Recommend Spelling Lessons in All Grades The Upper Cumberland Division ing in all schools that students be of Kentucky Council of Teachers of grouped to some extent as to English held their annual ily thai spelling be taught in all shop at Union College with Miss and secondary Rhoda Glass as the principal and also in all subjects that lish teachers be given lime for Teachers said Miss Glass checking and that must require much writing wilh movement toward reducing class careful planning revision and be in the lower grades checking Teaching composition is so that pupils will he belter a labor of love lo which only the pared for high school and college dedicated teacher will give work cient time and effort The theme of the meeting as The discussion groups were lead Teaching ly by Mrs Helen VanCuran of from five counties were Ian High School and Mrs Annette in Bell County High These teachers from Middlesboro groups recommended that schools were Miss their fi Upper Cumberland Area Flood Quota Is Here The Middlesboro Chapter of the American Red Cross has been signed a quota of in the cui disaster campaign the Rev F Jr fund chairman announced today Tli fund drive is necessary b1 cause of the exceptionally heav expenditures made by Re Cross in disaster relief Hie nation tn past few months According lo a report from E Harriman of American Red headquarters over h been spent by the Red Cross in r lief operations in the flood Kentucky Virginia Te and West Virginia in l last month and twice this is expected to be expended bcfon tlic rehabilitation work is com- During the emergency period of the recent floods the Rod Cross served 20.022 providing food clothing WEATHER Mostly cloudy with chance of cw today Cloudy with ain tonight Tuesday rain ending n morning and becoming y cloudy in the afternoon Mild today tonight and Tuesday A liltle cooler Tuesday High low tonight 5S ligh Tuesday 65 Outlook for Wednesday mostly air wilh moderate temperatures Norris Hoiston 1709.7 Cherokee Drink Charge Anna Kate Taylor Lynwood toad will face charges in Police on drunkenness reach of peace and resisting ar- cst for fighting with her sister itling her brother-in-law with a cursing officers and earing their uniforms Police said Mrs Taylor came lo he Police Station at 2 m and carrying a old baby They she ought a warrant for the arrest of ic man al whose home her son vas cards When officers advised her to re- inn at 8 a m and get a warrant the judge she asked if they vould take her home to get her As the cruiser pulled up in front of house she jumped out Ted the baby and began beating ler sister Mrs Roosevelt She next attacked Mrs Duff's band with a crutch Patrolmen Elmer Wyall and in Thompson said that Mrs with tearing their uniforms and cursing them when they attempted to arrest lier She was free on a ance bond signed by Elisha Pratt In other action three men were fined in Police Court this morning for drinking whiskey in tery Red Collingsworth 53 Jones and Jim Monday all paid for public drunkenness Judge Cecil Owsley also fined Otis Pauley 1S Pineville for Hill Rego Pineville for ness and and demons 29 H a r r o g a t e drunkenness Raymond 13 was fined 519.25 for breach of peace on a warrant sworn by Liis wife He was also placed under a peace A bridge across the River in Hardin County and a portion of Kenton County highway from Covington to the Boone County line arc known to have hig way proposals The two proposed projects hav almost been cleared for federa appropriations TUso predicted that million of the 5100 million bond appropriation would ibe sold during 1957 He said he was con- the bonds would be of- for sale by April 1 A suit testing the validity of issue as required by law is set for a hearing in Franklin Circuit Court WASHINGTON UP An apparent new approach by the United States and Israel raised fresh hopes today for solution to the Middle East deadlock Secretary of State Foster Dulles and Abba Eban Israeli ambassador to ington were closeted for 3 hours and 10 minutes Sunday to discuss the question of troop withdrawals froni he Gaza Strip and Gulf pf Aqaba They issued a joint statement at he end of the meeting lope for a solution consistent with rie principles the United ions Apparently both sides have d their stands on guarantees for protecting Israel against possible mure Egyptian attacks Israel had demanded ironclad guarantees ber fore pulling her troops out The United States had promised to seek such guarantees after the Informed sources in Israel said 46 Cars off Rail At Knoxville Southern Railways crews cleared a w a y wreckage today of a ment which tore up some 100 yards of track It was described the worst wreck in the history of John Sevier Yards but no one was injured K V Arnhart terminal master said wreck Sunday occurred as a was moving the cars to tracks in the huge switching yards The officials said 10 of the cars were empties and the other six were filled wilh salvageable go Although cars were piled and one of the new proposals that Eban took with him Washington was that Israeli warships patrol the Gulf of Aqaba to assure freedom of navigation there The sources said this would end the necessity that American ships enter the gulf to guarantee free proposed by Eisenhower A second Israeli proposal the sources said was that Israeli not evacuate Gaza Strip but in- stead share control with the ed Nations But they said there was nothing hard and fast about the two and that Israel would re- main flexible concerning them Today President Eisenhower warned the people of the Middle East to stand of the ace of international Communism lest it smash all their hard-won accomplishments overnight Mr Eisenhower reiterated in a bond for a year DEATHS Tom Hull Middlesboro criss crossed over six switching tracks main line traffic was not hindered Arnhart said Parts of of the IS tracks in yards were ripped up for 100 yards and other tracks were damaged Two the to be finished today or The cars were pan of a train from NT C being hauled to the John Sevier hump where ait made up said were still checking on the of the Sizemore Enters Race T C Sizemore 35 editor of the Manchester is seeking Republican nomination for Sheriff A graduate Bird School and Union College special shortwave broadcast beamed overseas that his Mid-east resolution now pending in Con- gress is designed to help bring stability to the troubled areas We must face the fact that while we are trying to help build a world of freedom and justice among sovereign the President said the masters of international Communism are working constantly to tear down this kind of world Eban headed for York day o confer with U N Dag Hammarskjold The United Nations postponed one session today on the Middle East impasse but scheduled an- other for this afternoon But any chances U N sanctions would be pressed against Israel appeared dead pending the outcome of the U 5 Israeli discussions Thomas A Hansard near came editor of Manchester per three years ago ho sent to all Hall Sewell Esther Hall and superintendents in the Gladys 13 L Finis Mrs H S Adkins Lila Davidson Ar- They recommended that steps ville Wyricks Ruth Conner Cleo bo taken to initiate remedial and shelter The quota of in re- lief funds is being raised in the through voluntary con- chapter tive explained The public and other organizations are in drive On this first anniversary of the tragic flood Rev remarked we hope that everyone will realize with thanksgiving job of the Red and agencies did and continu lo do in the stricken areas ami will to the special aster relief fund of the Red through the local chapter CONE TO Grady Zilligen 34 of Chicago suffered only minoi Injuries when his Cdi struck a pole in Chicago The force of the impact bmke the car in The front section the dashboard right The rear section with the top almost ripped off is at left Death Takes Mrs Lafser Mrs Vera Elsie Lafser resident of Middlesboro since 1929 died Saturday at 7 p.m She lived at 113 S 19th Street She was born May IS in New Albany Ind the daughter of George Albin and the late Mrs Mary Ehalt Albin She was ried to Joe Lafser on November 1922 Al the time of her death she was president of the Altar ciety of St Julian's Catholic Church treasurer of the Bell ty Club and tary and treasurer of the boro Club She was member of the Legion of Mary and past president of National Council of Catholic Women She was an honorary member and very active in the Mother's Club o St j Julian's Church Mr and Mrs Lafser and the Sandwich Shop for years She was n member of Catholic Church The was taken to her home his morning where the Rosary will be recited tonight at S o'clock Funeral services will be hold at tomorrow at St Julian's Catholic Church wilh Father Otto officiating Burial will bo in the St Cemetery ul Jellico She is survived by her husband Joe of ter Mrs Pete Comparoni of Mid- father George Albin of Middlesboro sisters Mrs Pearl Hunt of New Albany Ind Mrs Kd Duffey of Ind Mrs Mamie McCauley of New Albany Ind two grandchildren Cawood Home in charge
