Sullivan County Wheat Referendum Ends in Tie
Sullivan County wheat growers voting in the first AAA referendum in the state ended 23 to 23 with 17 ballots challenged. Votes from growers in districts other than their farms must be canvassed before final totals. About 180 growers were eligible, needing over 15 acres to qualify. Washington reports showed strong support for marketing quotas on the wheat crop with large statewide margins in several states.
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City Playgrounds Open June 9 for Ten Week Summer Program
The city announces the sixth annual summer playground program to run ten weeks starting Monday June 9. Paul Elliott supervises with staff at Lee School Lincoln School and Douglas School for a separate negro playground. Activities include softball paddle tennis badminton and volleyball with swings slides see-saws and sand piles. Special instructors offer handicrafts music and students are urged to join marching bands singing and folk dancing.
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Lincoln School
Douglas School
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Fireside Chat and News Reel to Headline Paramount Show
The Roosevelt Fireside Chat with an unlimited national emergency will headline the Paramount News feature this Sunday at midnight and again Monday and Tuesday at the State Theater. The German battleship Bismarck sinking is highlighted in the news portion, scheduled during intermission of the main feature Love Crazy.
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Roosevelt
Paramount News
State Theater
Bisharck
Professor Memory Demonstrates Uncanny Mnemonic Flair
Reporter meets Sigmund Blomberg a memory expert who quit the university and joined the army then studied memory training. He claims memory is linking to prior memory and demonstrates by recalling details from a newspaper and town populations. He will host a WKPT radio memory program this week at 11 45 a m with quizzes and training tips.
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Dobyns Bennett Opens Summer Business Classes
Summer session begins at Dobyns Bennett High School with courses in typing bookkeeping shorthand and office practice under Miss Grace Bruce. Registration is June 7 for classes running through July with sessions in English history Latin mathematics and more.
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Castle Heights Military Academy
Bill Todd
John S. Cox
James Ratliffe
Robert Zimmerman
Robert Cross
Ralph Steadman
Ciphas Sloan
Guy Alley
Tom Shipley
Hugh Rule
Jim Brockman
Kingsport Patriotic
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Church Hill High Schools
Dobyns-Bennett High School
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Grace Bruce
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Miss Bruce
Leroy Sprankle
Grace Elmore
Ruth Ramer
Diplomas Awarded to Jackson School Graduates
Superintendent Ross N. Robinson awarded certificates to 31 Jackson school pupils at graduation exercises featuring an all student program. The class 6A members will enter Junior high next fall. Barbara Gammon won the Eastern Star spelling prize. other certificates recognized good writing. Participants include Phyllis Ann Breeding, Mary Ellen Starnes, Christine Larkins, Christine Chadwell, Catherine Rollins, Ruth Tipton, Betty Riddle and Barbara Gammon among graduates Oscar Arnold, Raymond Bunn, Max Counts, Louise Danielson, Lucille Danielson, Joan Falin, Cecil Frye, Lydia Gardner, Clyde Groseclose, Robert Hayter, Marie Hickman, Samuel Hurt, Jo Evelyn Jennings, Peggy Jessie, Jack Lavinder, Charles Lineback, Thomas McConnell, Jack Monaghan, Mary Frances Perry, Jeanne Potts, Jack Quillen, Katherine Rollins, William Shanks, Robert Tipton.
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Ross N. Robinson
Jackson School
Barbara Gammon
Phyllis Ann Breeding
Mary Ellen Starnes
Christine Larkins
Christine Chadwell
Catherine Rollins
Jean Falin
Jeanne Potts
Ruth Tipton
Betty Riddle
Oscar Arnold
Phillis Breeding
Raymond Bunn
Max Counts
Louise Danielson
Lucille Danielson
Joan Falin
Cecil Frye
Lydia Gardner
Clyde Groseclose
Robert Hayter
Marie Hickman
Samuel Hurt
Jo Evelyn Jennings
Peggy Jessie
Jack Lavinder
Charles Lineback
Thomas McConnell
Jack Moneyhan
Mary Frances Perry
Jack Quillen
Katherine Rollins
William Shanks
Robert Tipton
Women League to Promote Public View of Production Problems
Mrs. T M Taylor of the Tennessee League of Women Voters announces a nationwide campaign to build intelligent public opinion on production amid wartime effort. The kickoff is a June 3 NBC radio round table featuring William Knudsen Sidney Hillman and Margaret Wells. Mount Kilimanjaro note follows.
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Tennessee League of Women Voters
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Sidney Hillman
Margarete Wells
League of Women Voters
NBC
Taylor
League
Roosevelt
Death Notice for Clarence Cecil Marshall
Clarence Cecil Marshall 18 son of Mr and Mrs Harve C Marshall of near Coeburn died Tuesday at Clinchfield Hospital after stomach disorder surgery. Survived by parents and several siblings funeral home service Thursday Gouge cemetery Wise County burial.
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Harve C. Marshall
Coeburn
Clinchfield Hospital
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Wise County
Funeral held for Roosevelt Austin in Copperidge
Roosevelt Austin aged 28 who died in a state fall near Bartley West Virginia was buried Saturday at the Austin cemetery in Copperidge. He leaves a widow and parents Mr and Mrs John Austin a brother Roy Austin of St Paul and three sisters Mrs Martha Cassel English WV Mrs Minnie Burk Richlands and Mrs Doretta Fralley St Paul.
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Roosevelt Austin
Bartley
W. Va
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Copperidge
John Austin
Roy Austin
Martha Cassel
English
Minnie Burk
Richlands
Doretta Fralley
Funeral for Mrs Victoria H Bellamy in Gate City Va
Mrs Victoria H Bellamy 73 died at her home near Gate City Friday Funeral held at 2 p m Waycross church Rev G C Coldiron officiated burial in family cemetery Survived by two sons Bas com N and Harry W of Gate City RFD 3 one brother I C Wolf of Gate City three sisters Mrs David Spangler Indian Springs Tenn Mrs John Wininger Indian Springs and Mrs Davis Ward Surgoinsville A cougar can spring 40 feet on level ground.
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Victoria H. Bellamy
Waycross Church
G. C. Coldiron
Bascom N
Harry W
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I. C. Wolf
David Spangler
Indian Springs
Tenn
John Wininger
Davis Ward
Surgoinsville
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