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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1960
Page
1
Edward E Ramey services set for 2 PM. Kennedy Nixon race nears final unofficial tally near 69 million ballots with Kennedy leading by about 149 thousand. Other obituaries include E R Calloway Sr of Lenoir City and Kate Parsons of Dryden with funeral plans announced.
In Elisabethville, two evangelical missionaries were killed in north Katanga last week. Elton George Berent Knaus, 50, from New Plymouth New Zealand, and Edmund Hodgson, 62, from Blackpool England, were said to be victims of cannibalism. U N soldiers had been searching for them without success.
Ernest E. Robinson, 69, director of the power production division in TVA's office of power in Chattanooga, collapsed of a heart attack on a sidewalk near TVA headquarters in Knoxville and died at a hospital. He joined TVA in 1996 as superintendent of Norris Dam, and served in Chattanooga since 1943. Survived by widow, a son Kenneth Robinson, two daughters Dorothy Hultgren and Marie Swanson, all of Kewanee, Ala, and a sister Florence Mullen of Wichita, Kan.
Washington AP report says NLRB trial examiner C. W. Whittemore urged Tennessee coal firms Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co and Grundy Mining Co to stop requiring employees to retain membership in the Southern Labor Union. Companion recommendations targeted the United Mine Workers of America. The case was heard in Chattanooga on October 2 and awaits full board approval.
Athens Tennessee McMinn County officials probe another mystery blaze in recent weeks as Deputy Sheriff John Ellison reports a Wednesday fire of undetermined origin may have destroyed an unoccupied tenant house on Cedar Springs Road owned by farmer Rush Hands. Firemen were not summoned and damage is not yet estimated. The fire marshal's office may join the investigation.
Federal Bankruptcy Referee Clive Bare extended the Tennessee Burley Tobacco Growers Association case hearing by one day in Knoxville as lawyers requested more time. the session will resume Wednesday amid the complex proceedings and anticipated rulings.
A freshman Austin Peay State College football player, John Wallace, 22, of Massachusetts, died after a gunshot wound suffered Monday in Nashville. Police say Floyd Raymond Cooper, 26, is charged with murder. Wallace was Clarksville’s leading scorer last season with 36 points.
Knoxville AP report says Knox County Grand Jury indicted mother Tilman Raby sister Helen Raby and Lida Mae Mashburn for aiding Clarence Raby in escape attempts by slipping him a pistol. Raby died during a jail escape attempt while charged with two slayings.
In a downpour crowds watched Willian T. Johnson, 43, claim a teenage assailant forced him to drink vodka during a San Francisco Municipal bus run No. 71. The youth then robbed Johnson of 16 dollars and fled, while passengers urged the driver to stop.
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