Ryder Buys Hoover to Create Nation’s Largest Trucking Firm
Nashville based Hoover Motor Express merges with Ryder System of Miami making Ryder the biggest trucking company in the United States. The deal, valued in the millions, becomes effective with temporary ICC approval and Hoover will retire as president on Sept 5 while 1,400 Hoover employees keep their jobs as Hoover becomes a Ryder division.
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Nashville
Hoover Motor Express Co. Inc
Ryder System Inc
Miami
Fla
Interstate Commerce Commission
E .F. Hoover Jr
Ryder
ICC
Hoover
Dea!al
Birmingham
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Memphis
Louisville
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Chicago
Roever
Obituary notices and death reports from Gate City area
Obituaries announce the death of Cora Lee McClain at her Gate City residence after a short illness with services set at Nottingham Methodist Church and burial in Gardner Cemetery. Survivors include husband Whit McClain and daughter Mammie Daugherty, plus multiple siblings and grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gate City
Cora Lee McClain
Mammie Daugherty
Whit McClain
Ellen Doran
Kingsport
Libbie Wilson
Blountville
Peggy Derting
Marinda Junford
Hilton
Ward Gardner
Andrew Gardner
Nottingham Methodist Church
Fark Austin
Carl Jones
J. Ww. Gott
Gardner (Family
Whit
Ballard Campbell
Hazel Lindsay
Tazewell
Clinton
Clarence Davis
Noah Razor
Arthur Carr
Calvin Looney
Lewis Looney
Benjamin Fred Charles
Edward Charles
Read
Charles Valentine
Henry Waterfo 4S Ophaelae
Peel Chesnut Mountain
Virginia,West Virginia
Stanford
John R. Morrell
Nora Lee Morrell
W. A. Bradlley
Charles, R. Morrell
New Rochelle
N.T
W. N. Shipley
George L. Wesler
Johnson City
J. C. Neil
Guy E. de Vault
Stanford Funeral Home
Jonesboro
William Thomas Nichols
Unicoi
Route 1
Johnson City Memorial Hospital
Unicoi Baptist Church
Clinchfield Railroad Co
Sallie Nichols
Navn Sons
Avery Nichols
Fall Branch
Ivan Nichols
Cleveland
Ohio
Arthur Roberts
Phillips Fletcher
City
Dillon-Taylor Funeral Home
Salyers Hearing Delay Prolonged In Local Court
Benny Salyers charged as the infant’s presumed father has hearing continued to Tuesday Sept 5 in General Sessions Court after a move to the new Safety Building. Mrs. Gwendolyn Mason alleged paternity and said birth occurred July 26 in Louisville Ky.
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Benny Salyers
General Sessions Court
Sessions Court
Gwendolyn Mason
Salyer
Louisville
Weekend Toll in Tennessee Accidental Deaths Reported
The Associated Press notes three accidental deaths in Tennessee over the weekend. Kenny Frankie Lyles, 4, drowned near Fort Loudoun Dam after wading into water at a picnic area. Debra Jane Davis, 4, died in a Sevier County crash, her father Walter Davis injured. Jasper Sintmans, 22, of Seymour was killed Friday night when struck by a pickup in Knox County near Sevier border.
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Teinnessee
Sevier County
Kenny Frankie Lyles
Sundey
Picnc
Fort Loxdoun Dam
J. J. Lyles
Lenare City
Debra Jane Davis
Walter Davis
Walland
Cay Knoxside
Jasper Sintmans
Seymour
Mead Manager Addresses Kingsport Teachers on Education and Economy
Vince K. Shannon, manager of Mead's Kingsport Division, spoke at the Chamber of Commerce Business Motivation Day at Ridgefields Country Club before more than 300 teachers and officials. He highlighted Mead's education support, noting more than 70,000 dollars donated to U.S. higher education last year and the company's role in Tennessee colleges, plus Mead's regional production capacity and inputs. In Sullivan County, county savings bonds officials reported July sales around a given figure, with changes in Treasury regulations allowing extended holding of maturing Series H Savings Bonds for 10 years at a higher rate.
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Mead
Vince K. Shannon
Ridgefields Country Club
Shannon
Kingsport
Chamber of Commerce
S. S. Benedict
Chamber
Morton Duffer
Dana Sick
TL MM. Dine
R. J. McHaney
PTA
Elery Lay
Dobyns-Bennett Sligh School
Waldo Smith
Kingsport Teachers’ Association
Aldermet
U. S
Tennessee
National Merit Scholarship Corp
Fsound
Pau
U.S. Savings
Sullivan County
Nat Copenhaver
County Savings Bonds
Saint
Copenhaver
Treasury
Itas
Starved gunman captured ends Wisconsin manhunt
William J. Welter Sr. 23, unarmed suspect in a deputy sheriff’s killing, surrendered near Lyndon Station Wisconsin after a weeklong hunt that involved 20 counties and Chicago. Welter was found near a village dump semi conscious. Nutley and Nickel had already been captured. The arrest followed a hunch and bloodhound help from Polly and King.
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Lyndon Station
Wis
Wisconsin
William J. Welter Sr
Lake Nelton
Jefferson County
Lenny Bauer
Welter
Madison
Lawrence Nutley
Chicago
Nutley
Richard Nickel
Sauk County
James Jantz
Baraboo
Lake Detton
Eugene Kohl
Nickel
Little Ginmen
Nutley l
Bauer
Jerome Yelk
Fort Atkinson
Yelk
Polly
King
Feuer
Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration Opens at Shelbyville
About a thousand horses paraded for the 24th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville. Judging runs through Friday night to crown the grand champion as 1,114 entries set a record amid new barns and expanded grandstands. Top 1960s walkers like Mack K Handshaker and Mister Sedation vie for the title before a crowd exceeding 70,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
Mack K
Mister Sesa Ltion
Mighty Sun
Spur
Sshadow
Headman
Sun
Fair Warning
Waltzin
Matilda
Rodger
Black Supremacy Rally In Harlem Draws Militants
New York officials confirmed the New York National Guard approved renting the 396th Infantry Armory in Harlem for a Black supremacy rally that drew about 5 009 militant followers. Governor Rockefeller, away in Seattle, declined to comment on the Sunday gathering and a speech by Elijah Muhammad urging Negro self rule.
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New York
UPI
New York National Guard
Nelson Rockefeller
Seattle
Wash
Newgro
396Th Infantry
Harlem
Rockefeller
Elijah Muhammad
Chicago
Muslim Movement
Boat Capsizes as Six Die in Swedish Lake
Six men drowned when their motorboat capsized near a crowded lakeshore in central Sweden on Sunday. Authorities reported no survivors among the six aboard as temperatures and rain dampened a pre ceremony crowd awaiting prize announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
APJ
Yacht Burns Near Chattanooga Sinks After Explosion
The 40 foot yacht Paperdolt, a veteran craft from Chickamauga Lake, burned and sank near Harrison Bay State Park after an explosion at the dock. Three men, Thomas Mitchell, Billy Mitchell, and Joe Hogue, were hospitalized with burns. Dock manager Bill Burdette steered the vessel away from shore, and investigators say gasoline vapors ignited during refueling. The boat’s value was not immediately known.
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Bill Burdette
Mitchell
Virginia 4-Hers Set For Electric Congress
Virginia 4-H delegates from 38 counties prepare in Richmond for the 11th annual Electric Congress. The event, sponsored by electric utilities, is organized by Virginia Tech Agricultural Extension Service and highlights county 4-H electric programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Congress
Richmond
Fleete
Agricultural Extenaan Servare
Virginia Polytechnie Inesature
Ways To Stop Soil Erosion Demonstration Held
Nickelsville Virginia hosts the first soil erosion control demonstration in the Natural Tunnel Soil Conservation District at the J Mitchell Dougherty rater near Culbertson s Chapel. It features bulldozer controlled gully closure followed by disking seed bed prep and grass seeding with mulching and other methods. C H Culbertson, chairman, urges farmers to attend as ACP cost sharing is available through the County ASCS office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nickelsville
Natural Tunnel
J. Mitchell Dougherty
Culbertson
C. H. Culbertson
Soil District Board of Supervisors
County Agricultural Stabiliztion and Conservation Service
City Court Hears Drunkenness Fines and Traffic Citations
In Torrance California four men were fined 20 pounds each for public drunkenness and a man paid 1 dollar for leaving the city work pang. Motorists faced various fines including 20 dollars, 5 dollars and 7.50 for traffic offenses. A bond of 5 dollars was forfeited for passing a stop sign and another for running a red light. Illegal parking cost 3.50 and fifteen people forfeited bonds for overtime parking. Also in Torrance four green plants were uprooted at Harbor General Hospital and given to an administrator amid officials’ concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torrance
Calif
UPN
Harbor General Hospital
UT Economist Predicts Strong Burley Market
Knoxville notes say burley price prospects are excellent says Eugene Gambill UT agricultural economist. Record high utilization and demand for burley in domestic and export markets amid rising cigarette production and export highs. Supply slowly improves for barley and fine cured types due to production restrictions, with a likely new record high average price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Eugene Gambill
University of Tennessee Agricultural Economist
Winter Barley Set for 1962 Feed Grain Program Details
Sullivan County ASCS outlines 1962 barley diversion plan with payments for winter barley producers. Contracts run five months from September to November with half the diversion payment at signup and the rest after compliance checks. Maximum diversion limited to 40 percent of base or 20 acres plus 20 percent of base, whichever is smaller, with base acreages and yields established from 1949-60 data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. R. Jones
Sullivan County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Humcys
Jones
ASCS
Wave Watcher Sees No Tropical Storm Forming
The Miami Weather Bureau tracked an easterly wave off the central Bahamas but found no signs of tropical storm development. Hurricane forecaster Raymond Kraft doubted the wave would reach South Florida and bring heavy rain. In Plymouth California Amador County faced a water shortage, borrowing from Drytown. In Rougham England a prize weed weighed 42 pounds and stood over five feet tall.
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MIAME
UPI
Miami Weather Bureau
Bahamas
Raymond Kraft
Kraft
South
Florida
Insurance talk on income protection and disability risks
Jim Lonely discusses insurance gaps with a client highlighting disability risk and costs of illness. Monpre & Walker Inc promotes income protection and advertises as independent agents serving clients on Broad Street under the National Association of Insurance Agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Jhin
Fet
Rencles
Jam
Jin
Monpre &A Walker Inc
Btoad Street Insurance
National Association Insurance Agents
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Grave
B. Hargis Sr
Ward
Ben Browning Hargis Sr
Angleton
Texas
Lebanon
Viola Ruth Hargis
App Liariesy
Hare
William T. Nichols
Thomas L. Dennison
Thomas Leonard Dennison
Ind
Robert and
Ida Winegar
Dennison
Murphy Funeral Home
David Walkey
Kingsfor Lumber CO
E. Tenn
el Commerce St
N.Y
Lake
Nooga
Naval Passage
UT Economist
Storm
Plymouth
Amador County
Drytown
England
Frank MecGlaughow
Tfidipesdon Ageat
Alyan
Piedmont
Piedmont Airlines
West Center Shell Service
Kingsport Oil Company
Jobber
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