Traffic Changes Sought In City
Residents urged the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to study citywide traffic changes. The session covered hiring traffic experts for a city survey, restricting commercial trucks on residential streets, widening or converting streets to one way, and installing larger night-visible stop signs at Watauga and Lamont. A radar count on Watauga showed speeding with no arrests. The board plans to review maps and decide by the next meeting.
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Bill Barnett
Watauga Street
Board of Mayor
Aldermen
Kingsport
Lhosel
Watauga and
Lamont Streets
Walauga Street
Gibson Mill Road
Lamont Street
Healy
Watauga
John Winnerly
Center Street
D. W- Mouttaui
Harris Avenue
Waianga
East Center
Bristol Highway
Wimberly
Sullivan County Road Bids Sought by State Department
Sealed bids due July 30 at 10 a.m. for three Sullivan County projects. Surfacing Route 2454 near the Washington County line to Sullivan Gardens, Route 3560 from Highway 41 to Route 6, and grading drainage and a concrete slab bridge on Route 2412 near Tri City Airport. Kingsport will be the lead for the first two projects. Fordtown for the third.
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Nashville
State Department of Highways and Public Works
Sullivan County
Washington
Sullivan Gardens
Rock Springs
Tri-City
Blount
Vile
Kingsport
Fordtown
Ee Uwe
County Gels Lease From TVA For Park
County officials announce a 19 year lease from the Tennessee Valley Authority for 101 acres along South Holstett Lake to create a public park. The area has been used for camping since the lake’s impoundment in 1951. Initial development funds of 94000 will fund utilities, pathways, and camping facilities as planners build picnicking, boating, and hiking amenities.
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Blountville
Suilivatt County
Tennessee Valley Authority
South Holstett Lake
TVA
Tant
Cnierly
Ptmos
Baltimore Girl Kidnapped and Fatally Injured Near Bayshore Drive
Judith Ann Roberts, seven, daughter of a Baltimore attorney, was abducted from her grandparents’ home and found fatally harmed in a Biscayne Bay area woods near Bayshore Drive. Police believe strangling occurred with a gauze, and ransom was not evident. FBI statewide search followed the disappearance before the body was found.
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Judith Ann
Roberts
Baltimore
Bayshore Drive
Bisczyne Bay
Ben Sheppard
Sheriff's
Allite
Shirley Roberts
Harry Rosenberg
3. I. Whitman
Charles Sapp
James
Anti Red Mayor Seeks Volunteers in Hanoi Crisis
The anti Communist mayor of Hanoi appealed for civilian volunteers as Vietminh divisions encircle French positions in the Red River Delta. One Red-led division has begun infiltrating Franco Vietnamese positions around Hanoi and Haiphong.
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Aanolins
Hanoi
Red River
Haiphong
Moonshine Case Heard In Criminal Court
In Blountville a jury heard testimony in the moonshine case of Claude Dykes 28 of Long Island with deputies testifying about liquor found at his home and adjoining lot. The defense argued the path led to a toilet. The case went to the jury after Judge Rogan’s charge. Hartgrove received a year and a day on a property theft plea and will serve in a veteran’s hospital with treatment. Childress was fined 100 dollars for possessing whisky and wine. Voter registration for the August primary is at the Civic Auditorium instead of City Hall as listed.
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Paul Williams Blountville
Lie Staty
Defense Lee
Claude Dykes
Long Island
Shen G. D. Lane
Thomas H. Rogan
Geeif Hartgrove
Kingsport
Hartgrove
Veteran's Hospital
Kingsport City
J. M. Broyles
Dobyns-Taylor Hardware Company
Ininimum
Donald Childress
Childress
Eisenhower warns on Red China U N role and Oak Ridge strike
President Eisenhower opposed letting Red China into the United Nations under present conditions but reluctant to call for U N withdrawal. He warned a strike at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky would force the nation into an embarrassing position. He praised Congress on flexible price supports and expressed confidence in Allen Dulles and the Hoover Commission’s CIA review.
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Washington
Eisenhower
China
United Nations
U.N
Senate
Knowland
California
United States
U. S Io
Peiping
Oak Ridge
Enn
Paducah
Tie
CIO
Congress
Himelf
House
Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Executive Branch
Sen
McCarthy R-Wist
CLA
McCarthy Investigations Subcommittee
McCarthy
Hoover Commission
Executive Department of Government
Dulles
CTA
Capital Hill
CIA
Mark W. Clark
Walkey and Quillen Enter Race for State Posts
Kingsport candidates James E. Quillen and David Walkey qualified for Tennessee General Assembly seats in the Sullivan County Republican Primary. Quillen seeks a trifecta as representative from Hawkins and Sullivan Counties, Walkey runs for direct representative from Sullivan County. Both veterans. no State Senate candidate qualified. Other August 3 Republican primary names include Ray Jenkins for US Senate and several candidates for Congress and party posts. <rest of readable items> WEBER CITY Va council set for 7 tonight at American Legion to hear citizen views on new town administration announced by Mayor Carter Tiller.
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David Walkey
Kingsport
Sullivan County
Suesday
Tennessee General Assembly
Quillen
Hawkins
Sullivan Counties
Walkey
Navy
Army Graime
State Senate
Scott Roller
United States
Ray Jenkins
Tassel Tvans
Carroll Reece
A. E. Miller
Walter B. Gatland
Frank W. Hawkins
George R. Shepherd
Republican Executive Committee
W. T. Householder
John P. Ipayis
Roy Campbell
Martha Lans Anderson
Hazel Sproles Tiale
George FE. Dageys
Henry Butler
Weber City
American Legion
Carter Tiller
Texas Pilot Wins Powder Puff Derby
Ruth Deerman of El Paso Texas wins the 8th Powder Puff Aviation Derby after judges set handicaps on the 27 women who completed the flight from Long Beach California to Enaville. The deadline for completion was yesterday and handicaps were based on elapsed times between checkpoints.
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Knoxville
Ens
Ruth Deerman
Fl Paso
Texas
Long Beach
Calif
Ennaville
CIO and APL Workers Strike Uranium Plants at Oak Ridge and Paducah
About 4,500 CIO and APL workers walked out at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky facilities producing uranium-235 for atomic weapons. Pickets blocked gates while plant supervision kept some operations running. The strike challenges Taft Hartley injunctions and follows wage disputes unresolved by a presidential fact finding order.
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CIO
Oak Dallas
Dewkens
Oak Ridge
Paducan
Tein
Paducah
CLO Chemical Workers Union
A.m
Carbide and
Carbon Chemicals Go
Atomic Energy ‘Commission
Pollce
Eanslrielian
APL Atomic Trades and Labor Council
Jess Hamnan
APL
Eisenhower
Knowland Says U S Will Use Veto to Bar Red China
Senate GOP Leader William F Knowland warned the United States will do everything possible, including a veto, to keep Red China from United Nations membership. He spoke after a conference with President Eisenhower and said the record shows strong Senate opposition to recognizing or admitting the Communist regime. He added he may resist UN withdrawal unless China is excluded and asked for a legal review on withdrawal if needed.
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Washington
INS
Senate
GOP
William F. Knowland
United States
United Nations
California
Eisenhower
China
Knowland
Ihs
John Foster Dulles
U. S
State Department
Herman Phieger
Congress
Witl
World Fence Organization
Kerr Forces Tur ner Runoff In Oklahoma Senate Race
In Oklahoma City Sen. Robert Kerr D Oklahoma lands in a runoff against former Gov. Roy Turner after the Democratic U S Senate primary results show Kerr leading but not by a final margin. State Sen. Raymond Gary and William Coe advance to July 27 runoffs in the Democratic governor race as Gary maintains a slight lead through tabulations.
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Oklahoma City
Robert
Kerr
Turner
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