Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - February 17, 1966, Middlesboro, Kentucky READ TODAY PAGE TWO U.S Offering Aid To India PAGE Vie Shown To PAGE Continue Blistering Attack PAGE Write The Editor The Home Daily of the WEATHER Fair and cald today Friday today 35 to Low tonight IS to 23 High day in the low Yesterday's High Si Yesterday's Morning's Low 21 Reading It VOL 55 NO 274 WIRE MIDDLESBORO KENTUCKY THURSDAY FEBRUARY THONIJS PRICE SEVEN CENTS Gibson Lane Man Dies In Early Morning Fire Woman Said After Home is Leveled son was sleeping in a front by Smith took his mother and room Mrs Smith and Lula Mac Lula Mae to a neighbor's in one bedroom Jewel Lee age house smothering out a fire on 9 in another room and the h i s mother's dress as they er in the back bedroom by walked the chief said self the chief said By the lime be got back to Away From Home the house lo help his father he Mildred Smith 12 another could not get to A father died about 2 this morning when he was trapped in the back bedroom of his Upper Gibson Lane home after a coal stove exploded setting the house aflame Robert Houston Smith ed in the blare His wife Lizzie is in critical condition at Appalachian Regional Hospital with second and third burns over half of her body Also Lula Mae Smith a year-old daughter has also been d gh cr the said admitted to the hospital for house officials burns on the hands and face When the fire broke out STILL five-room frame dwelling on Upper con was still burning at after claiming a life at 2 today Robert Houston Smith 43 died after be- ing trapped In the back bedroom of the structure The fire ignited when a stove apparently exploded This is the second fire denth in Bell County this week and second In the city in three months Mrs Smith is in critical condition at a local hospital She is in satisfactory condition The Middlesboro Fire De- was called to the scene at 2 but by the time they got there and stretched hose 900 feet to the house the structure was falling in said Chief Ted Yeary A high wind helped spread the flames and there was little we could do to Yeary said Bobby Smith a The chief said several bors tried to help the old father but the heat was too intense The home was un- insured Yeary said The body was recovered at by firemen Smith was unemployed Incomplete Funeral arrangements are in- complete at Sunset Funeral Chapel The second person to burn to death in Belt County this week Smith is the first fire fatality in the city since Last Nov M when Joe Anthony North 19th Stieet died Mrs Pauline a vilie receptionist died when fire struck her home Sunday morning at 1 lances Creek By Gov Scranton Balance Urged In Reclamation ter can be restored to useful purposes accomplish while at the same time insuring the con- ine scars while in- tinned of continued ining industries flle balance of all of these is the key to the state's Scranton said The Pennsylvania governor's report was delivered at sion by Dr H Reecher bury The Keystone Male's of mine and mineral in- and Robert C special assistant to ton Kentucky Gov Edward T told representatives that states are responsible for LEXINGTON Ky UPI Pennsylvania Gov William Scranton called on nil mining today to linth prevent and cure m suring the health of m In a report prepared fnr the National Governors Conference Committee on Natural es here said on the basis of experience in Pennsylvania it seems clear that all states have basic re- in the recovery of mineral resources and its effect on land and water conservation and reclamation Scranton these prevent current and ture destruction of land by exercising ing operations now underway powers to cure the ills of previous tain clean mineral resource recovery op- so that land and wa- broad promote and air police Test Slated For Summer Postal Jobs Middlesboro is one -2 tucky cities chosen as nil center for for summer postal jobs Sen 13 Morton re- ported Civil Service Com- mission notified that cations to take test should he sent to the Board of Civil Examiners N S Post Louisville before Feb 24 Applicants must stale their test site and its ber Middlesboro's number is Other area test sites are Harlan and Pay for the positions will bu hourly Applicants must her 18 years old when the job be- gins High school graduates will be accepted at age 16 was the initial speaker at the conference held prior to the two-day ern Governors Conference on Water Resources and Pollution Representatives of vania Oklahoma Kentucky vada Washington North ta Colorado and Nebraska in the national ence In remarks prepared for de- livery said the slates Accident is Being Probed Patrolman Shumate is off duty this week pending sn in- of an accident day at the comer of land Avenue and 21st Sheet Mayor Chester Wolfe a decision on ligation would be later this week after it is completed No have been pre- sented or pressed and I can't make a decision until facts in the case are completed If a suspension is given it will retroactive to he date he quit Wolfe said Others Working Shumate has been off tince Tuesday Other patrolmen are working shift Shumate was involved in a accident at the corner ot 21st Street and Cumberland Avenue at pan Sunday According to Patrolman doie Russell's accident report Shumate was south ruto 21st Street when he hit a ed car 55 Rl 1 city Th Mason car was damaged i tors These directors would be- in the left rear come assistants to the overall mate's car was damaged director ily in the right front the re- All economic development port said The wreck report programs in Bell and the other said there were no seven counties would be Bell Council Backs Plan PINEVILLE The through the area program proposed by the tor's office if it is approved by per Cumberland Valley Eco- OEO Other counties in the nomic Development Council council are Whitley Laurel which would provide a director Knox City Jackson Leslie and Harlan In other action tors unanimously for the group re- support here yesterday The Board of Directors of the Bell County Economic Council endorsed the gram Chairman William M er indicated the action was needed in an effort to convince the 14 in project Upward Bound by Eastern Kentucky College Will Ask Own Slusher said the project is designed to help children in he Office of Economic Op- low-income families prepare Im- in Washington of the college area's desire to employ one and students in high overall director and initiate the pros ram Others Asked Other county development grouns are being asked to a similar endorsement The has sought approval of its project since last summer Under the proposed project a Jonesville Post Office Bids Asked JONESVILLE Post Office Department has set a March deadline on submitting bids for a new Jonesville post office building The new post office will be constructed under the ment's leasing program Tho successful bidder buys the site constructs the building and then leases it to the department The 3.341 square foot building will be located across from the county courthouse at the corner of Main and Church streets The present post office ing is on Main Street at the intersection of U.S 58 its tion since 1940 school Upward Bound provide these students with academic social or financial problems they need help with in order to attend and succeed in college Slusher Bell County hoped to initiate its own ward Bound program director would be hired to ordinate work in all eight ties Five counties in the to Bob county group have their own j economic development have the knowledge tools and to control scientific the Pat Jennings Standing Alone in Tax Protest The betting was neither party 16 Tohnson would raise billion this fiscal year and another billion in the next starting July 1 by rescinding recent cuts in excise taxes on new cars and telephone bills He also would speed up collection of corporate and income tax withholding ments Jennings approves of plan to take abatement action 12 Killed 18 are Hurt By Bombs in Saigon By MICHAEL T United Press International SAIGON UPI persons were killed and IS injured today when Communist terrorists exploded two plastic Hombs in crowded streets outside the Vietnamese Armed Forces headquarters compound Most of the victims were civilians and no Americans were hurt The blasts occurred within 30 second o other in si reels jammed with lunch hour crowds Both bombs were in declined to identify themselves saying they feared their lies in the United States would become concerned for safety and that the primary for the regulatory control of pollution rests with the local j government and among Rut law Democrats on lhc Ways the earlier the Means Committee federal government to provide the to tax collections but financial assistance lo state and raise an SS billion lor vj the restora local governments for the viet am war of he automobile ation or improvement of air Jennings wants to swap telephone taxes pollution control programs and Johnson's program for his own billion victory tax to fight the war The ax has a fancy name but would merely be an income tax and corporate jr tax bike The Virginian one-time iff of Smyth County arrived at billion figure by cutting in the 106 lax reduction voted by Congress None of the other members of he committee is willing publicly at least to buy it as a footnote Wednesday to the committee's report on the Driving Up Roger Ho well of Atlanta Ga was driving up the street on his to lunch the first homh went off outside the GI 200 yards in front of him Objects were flying through the air and there were clouds of he said Howell stopped in front of the house where the Americans saddlebags attached to bicycles lived and began aiding the parked on Vo Tanh Street in wounded them aboard the western suburb of Phu western Nhuan which tha cily limits from Tan Son Mint Airport The front wall of a house occupied by four U.S men was blown In but none of the three American inside at the time was hurl All Inter his T Ion truck A girl was dead in Ihn street I picked up eight others who were wounded The second blast occurred 50 yards spraying metal pellets inlo he path of crowds running to help at the scene of the first explosion chief executive's tax which was approved last week and sent to he full house Meeting on Job Set Tomorrow PINEVILLE Robert Bell Kentucky of the Parks will visit the Bert T Forestry Building ai p m tomorrow to an meeting nf The Book of Job The public may Plans will be nude for eighth siason at Pine Mountain Slate Park Jefferson Fax Repeal Halt Fails FRANKFORT Ky UPI Attempts lo squash a repeal ol Jefferson County's occupation tax received the personal sistance of that county's two leading Republicans Wednesday while the continued without a Senate vote on passage Jefferson County Judge low Cook and Louisville Mayor Kenneth appeared he fore a Republican caucus Fol lowing the caucus Cook came to the Senate floor to plead his case against the repealer After his address however the senators refused to table and kill the by a vote of Cook said there was a lack of understanding sur rounding he measure and the legislators to allow the courts to rule nn of the that nonresidents must pay the occupation tax if they work in Jefferson County Hembree Dies LEXINGTON Funeral ser have been set for tomorrow at leral Home lor Olho an employee of the tucky Chemical Company Hembree formerly nf ville moved to Lexington eight years ago after operating he New Way Cleaners and Tops Laundry and Dry Cleaners in Pineville Hembree his wife and four children lived in Pineville about 20 years Death was attributed to a heart attack DEATHS Tilman Schultz city Elmer Oakland Calif formerly of Solomon Gunter city Dust Prevention Planned for Trail HARLAN Paving the 36 for the proposed Red Bird miles of the Little Shepherd tension of the Cumberland Trail has been estimated to cost tional Forest The purchases members of the trail are hoped within the next five association were told in Harlan years said Thomas a this week forestry official Tom Prather Pineville Frazier said land being con- sociation president said State included all of Leslie Highway Commissioner Henry County 35 per cent of Clay 12 Ward estimated the cost Pra- per cent of Harlan and two per added that Ward has ex- agreed to work on a vention coating for application this summer Progress Made The group's president also cent of Bell Long-Term Basis The Forestry Service operates national forests as a long-term business including logging watershed management said good progress is being made mation of blighted areas re- obtaining easements property to extend the trail to Pineville thus linking Pine Mountain State Park w i t h Breaks of the Big Sandy park In other business the rail Cation and wildlife habitation To compensate for loss of tax revenue counties divide 25 per cent of the revenue derived from the federal government gives the 25 per group was told the Forestry to the state which Service hopes to buy about ute's it to counties depending MO acres of land in Harlan on the acreage of forest in each Bell Clay and Leslie counties county House Approves Monthly Expense Pay FRANKFORT Ky UPI biennium now goes to the The House passed four major ate where concurrence is not a administration bills Wednesday certainty then voted themselves a a month expense check despite objections from some members that teachers salaries should come first The lower chamber venes at 10 today Administration bills lo control air and water pollution and to convert four state colleges lo universities raised hardly a comment but the pay prompted a number of dotes from the legislators in- a comment that one not smart enough to vote himself a raise isn't smart enough to be up here in the legislature The which could cost the slate up to in the next Sen C W A McCann D- said I knew what f war getting paid when I stood for re-election Gov Edward T Breathitt has said he hopes the will not be enacted until after we've taken care of teachers salaries and other needs in Kentucky Rep Harry M Hoe voted against the pay hike The lower chamber passed the to make Eastern Western Murray and Morehead slate colleges universities The also provides for a layman council on public higher cation to oversee operation of state institutions of higher cation Lost Child Reported Police officials are looking for more leads in iwo incidents reported to them yesterday Pearl Branham Avenue reported her old son Johnnie did not return home yesterday after leaving for school yesterday morning Danny Tribell reported one drove a truck into his car while it was parked on wood Koad yesterday Police are investigating both reports To Appear Two persons are to in Middlesboro Court on charges of public drunkenness after being arrested yesterday Those to appear are George 58 North Street and Flem Toliver 55 Sharps Chapel Tenn In an accident reported day involving vehicles driven by Dr C B Stacy Pineville and Peggy Whittle Pathfork the Whittle car was damaged in the grill hood right front der and radiator The Stacy hicle was damaged in the right door and right rear rear panel The previous report on damages was incorrect HALFWAY MARK Construction on cial Security Administration building on berland Avenue per cent com- Contractor said for occupancy by March 21 weather Social Secur ity workers are In temporary offices in Junction at Street and Exeter Avenue re Dillman shown Johnny of and Hickman Con- crete where In unload The office is across from DM First Baptist Church Machines Outlawed FRANKFORT Ky UPI Gov Edward T Breathitt fixed his signature Wednesday lo a which makes multi- coin pinball machines illegal in Kentucky The machine docs not go as far as the administration would liked The original would banned all pinball machines but this was amended by the administration to exempt el amusement pinball chines and permit up to 33 free games This version of the won Senate approval but later was amended further by the House lo include an exemption for cent amusement type machines However Breathitt felt that the heart of the had been preserved Kentucky joins 11 other states thai have Mimed ibis gambling machine which preys on the young and llin governor said in signing tha
