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OfficialsFearW or stAsBetty Jean’s Books FoundKy J50B SMITH Times-Ncws Staif WriterIRONICAL? — Su!3ivan County Sheriffs Department investigator John Bishop looks over a Weekly Reader, part of the school paraphernalia belonging to Betty Jean Necessary who was last seen Thursday after schooldismissed entering a wooded area near her Kingsley Ave. home. Ironically the school paper’s cover page was devoted to “War on Crime.” (Times-News Photo—Joan Koesgcn}■ EX-BUC CAGERNEEDS KIDNEYInnocent Victim In\VJOHNSON CJTY — Mel Roberta, 3 : former all-0 VC basketball player at East Tennessee Stale University, is faced with n lifft-or-dealh situation in a hospital in Atlanta.The 2tl-year old former Buccaneer ; forward needs a kidney transplant in order to live, an operation which will • cost $25,000.Mambas of I he ''T’-Cliib, a leUei men’sclub at ETSCJ, are sponsoring a drive to collect money for some of the expenses of the operation, ami will be taking up donations at the Bucs1 home game ; with Eastern Kentucky tonight.John Cathey, sports in forma lion director al ETSU, informs that anyone wishing lo donate to the fund should write in cure of the Sports Information Office, Box 2569, East Tennessee Slate . University, Johnson City. ■ ■Riot Says Local KinThe daughter and son-in-law of a Kingsport couple were caught in rioting near the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California Thursday rigid, awl the son-in-law was shot in the shoulder, the Times-News learned Friday afternoon.saying Tisdel was “a participant in the disturbance.”Twelve-year-old Holly Jean Necessary, who disappeared in Bloom iugdale Thursday afternoon while walking along a lonely gravel road through a wooded area, was still missing late Friday right.A tin id red yards into the trees, her school books were found sen tiered in a gully Friday aftcmoroi. A large footprint was beside them.Sullivan County Sheriff Bill Wright said the way the books were tying — scattered at random — looked “bad,” and llinl lie feared she was molested.The Kingsport Police Department's two police dogs, Satan and Apache, combed a large yrua near where the girl disappeared, but did not find her. Officers said they did find a fresh fire mark al the bottom of the wooded area, however.Apache, down with a cold, was used sparingly, but Satan was allowed to hunt extensively for Betty Jean.She disappeared aboiil 3:40 p.m. only a couple of hundred yards from her doorstep while walking home from Kingsley School, where the pretty blonde girl is a sixth-grade student.Wanda Hickman, a friend, said Betty Jean slopped at her home to see a newborn niece. They talked a lew minutes, and Hetty Jean was in a good mood, laughing'' when she left, said tin: friend.c'Stw begged me to walk up the road with her; she was scared to walk it alone,11 Wanda said.Hetty .lean usually walked home with her sister, Teresa, 14, but Teresa has been out of school with the flu for a couple of weeks.Mrs. Ina Begley, who lives beside the patch of woods, remembers seeing BcUy Jean pass in Use center of the road about that time.Mrs. Necessary didn't ivorry when Bel[y Jean didn't arrive al home on time; she often stayed until supper time at the Hickmans' home.AL dusk Mrs. 'Necessary called a neighbor of iJio Jlickmans and was tohi that H'amfa Hickman had gone to lawn. Thinking Hetty Jenn went with her, the mother did not check further.Merc On Page 8, Col. 4More On Page 8, Col. \UofC FearsISew RiotingThe shooting victim was Winslow C. Tisdef, 35, of Goieta, Calif., a member of I he university drama staff. He was reported in “fair” condition Friday night.Mrs. Nathaniel Woolton, Hi6 Fairidge Dr., said her daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Tisdcl, called her at 5 a.m. Friday to foil her that she was all right and iier husband was not seriously wounded,Mrs. Tisdcl gave this account of the harrowing night, as relayed by Mrs. Woof (cm: The Tisdels were at a dress rehearsal of a play un the campus when ,he rioting broke out. Two hundred high school students interested in drama had been invited to attend the rehearsal.Glass TariffIs DelayedSANTA .BARBARA, Calif. (UPlj-Gov.Ronald Reagan called out the National Guard Friday lo deal with possible renewed rioting near the University of California campus:.Gem Charles A, OU, commander of the 600-man force, told an afternoon news conference, A minimum amount of force w)l he used lo restore order.1’The troops were slalioiKid near the Is la Vista student community adjacent to Ike campus where roek throwing, arson and pitched battles between police and young persons flared tor three flight.Mr. and Mrs. Tisdcl became worried about fho safely of the high school students and left the theater to see ir they could find a safe way to evacuate them.Two bricks were hurfed through the glass of their car, and then came the shot. .Mrs, Tisdcl escaped injury,A United Press International dispatch in the Friday afternoon Times reported that Tisdcl was shot in (he shoulder by a campus policeman ‘ when he attempted fo rim his cor through a roadblock at an entrance (o Hie university facing the troubled area.”Tne UPI dispatch also quoted police asA proposed reduction in tariffs on flat glass imports has been delayed a I least two years, President Nixon informed Sen. Howard Baker Friday,Baker said, following a meeling with the President at the White House, that the postponement should insure the continued Full operation of American Saint Gobuin plants in Kingsport and Hawkins County.*'A total of are employed af Kings port and 700 in Hawkins.“President Nixon has delayed for a I leasttwo years the reduction in tariffs and has ordered a study of the glass importation ritual™, Baker said.I'm highly pleased al Uiis action and conmend the PresidenI for his understanding in a highly sensitive and Jbrai taring situation.1’American Sainl-Gobain has been campaigning against reduced tariffs on imported glass on the grounds that the U.S. industry, including the local plants, would he hard hit by increased competition from low-wage cacht tries.IIE'ITY M'AS NECESSARY •., disappeared ThursdayL.- .IS„C *^.4 .. ... 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Kingsport News
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Sat, Feb 28, 1970
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