Dayton Phillips Addresses Rural Letter Carriers Meet
Congressman Dayton E Phillips spoke to the First District Rural Letter Carriers Association at the Kingsport Civic Auditorium about postal wage bills and Civil Service retirement laws. Kingsport Postmaster Howard Long and City Attorney Howard Wilson welcomed members from 14 East Tennessee counties. A Dobyns-Bennett quartet and Virginia Slaughter's piano solo preceded a business session led by Oscar C Duncan of Sullivan Gardens.
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Dayton E. Phillips
First District Rural Letter Carriers Association
Kingsport Civic Auditorium
Kingsport
Howard Long
Howard Wilson
Uppers
East Tennessee
Congress
Dobyns- Bennett
Virginia Slaughter
Iistrict
Osear C. Duncan
Sullivan Gardens
Kingsport Civic events week schedule and bids note
Kingsport today lists civic auditorium baton twirling practice and various club activities from Tuesday to Friday including Georgia Tech Club, Holston Rifle Club, Douglas School softball and baseball, teen club, band practice, and community chorus. A separate item reports Frankfort Fiscal Court deferring bids until June 8 for courthouse addition and jail with McGraw Engineering Company lowest bid at 1566,500.
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Civic
Georgia Tech Club
Holston Rifle Club
Douglas
Civile
Kingsport Rifle Club
Douglase
V. m. Community Chorus
Theater Guild
Mille Range
Civie
Douglass School
Merble Tourayment
Np. Mt
Frankfort
McGraw Engineering Company of
Lexington
Man Overcomes Rheumatic Pain With TRU AID
A man with years of muscular rheumatism suffered swollen muscles and leg stiffness preventing walking. After taking TRU AID, the pain and swelling vanished by the second day, and he could walk normally claiming to feel like a new man. Sold by all drug stores in Kingsport.
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Kingsport
Bicycle Safety Parade in Kingsport on June 19
A Kingsport event promotes safer cycling with a June 19 parade starting at Montgomery Ward at 9 25 am. Sponsored by Montgomery Ward Co Chamber of Commerce and Kingsport News, prizes for best decorated bikes, judges named, route down Broad Street to Railroad Station and back, then Center Theater for prize ceremony. Police urge broad participation.
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Kingsport
Montgomery Ward & Co
Chamber of Commerce
Kingsport News
H. W. Cane
Montgomery Ward
Wards
Broad Street
Center Theater
Buddy Club
C. J. Still
Reserve Officers Name Palmer To Denver Meet
Memphis and Tennessee delegates to the Reserve Officers Association national convention in Denver were announced by State President John W. McGoldrick. The list includes McGoldrick, Lt. David W. Feltus of Memphis, Col. Frank T. McCoy Jr. and Col. Frank J. Cherry of Nashville, Col. E. W. Palmar of Kingsport, Col. Herbert P. Dunlap of Chattanooga, and Col. Howard J. Thomas of Knoxville. The keynote will be national security.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Reserve Officers Association
Denver
John W. McGoldrick
McGoldrick
David W. Feltus
Frank T. McCoy, Jr
Frank J. Cherry
Nashville
E. W.palmar
Kingsport
Herbert P. Dunlap
Chattanooga
Howard J. Thomas
Knoxville
Gordon Jordon to Receive B S Degree at VPI June 14
Gordon Jordon of Blountville will earn a B S in electrical engineering as 791 candidates receive degrees at Virginia Polytechnic Institute on June 14. Dr Walter S Newman president will confer the largest single mass of degrees in the school’s history. Louis V Sutton of Carolina Power and Light Co Raleigh will deliver the graduation address. Rev Theodore Adams of Richmond’s First Baptist Church will preach the baccalaureate sermon. Cadet Corps formations and General Alumni Association meeting are planned for the weekend.
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Blacksburg
Sps
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Gordon
Jordan
Blountville
Walter S. Newman
Louis V. Sutton
Carolina Power and Light Co
Raleigh, N
Theodore Adams
Richmond
First Baptist Church
Army Reserve Corps
VPI Corps of Cadets
General Alumni Association
Poll Tax Payments Law In Washington County
Less than 4000 poll tax receipts have been issued by the Washington County trustee’s office leaving thousands of voters unqualified for the August 5 election. Civic groups press for qualification and Trustee Stanley Hilbert has visited organizations to accept the tax as an accommodation to voters.
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Johnson City
Washington County
Stanley Hilbert
E R Jackson Receives Heavy Drunk Driving Sentence
In Sullivan County Circuit Court at Kingsport City Hall Judge Shelburne Ferguson sentenced Edward R. Jackson to 11 months and 29 days in jail and a $50 fine for drunken driving tied to a February 22 crash that killed Raymond Rainwater. The case was appealed with two other related verdicts. co-defendant Daniel P. Guy remains at large in Florida.
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Sullivan County Circuit Court
Kingsport City Hall
Shelburne Ferguson
Edward R. Jackson
Jackson
Blountville
Daniel P. Guy
Florida
Ferguson
Guy
Bondit Jackson
Raymond Rainwater
Vergugon
Bridge collapse injures 13 at Carter Cave Park
In Olive Hill Kentucky a bridge at Carter Cave State Park collapsed injuring 13 people from Huntington West Virginia. The party crossed the span minutes before failure and several were tossed onto rocks 30 feet below. Two most injured were Mrs. Lawrence Watson with chest injuries and Wanda Connelly with a concussion and ankle injury. They were hospitalized at Grayson Hospital.
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Olive Hill
Carter Cave State Park
Fifth Avenue Church of God
Huntington
W. Va
Lawrence Watson
Wanda Connelly
Grayson Hospital
W. Nesses
W Faulkner Former State Senator Dies
Walter S. Faulkner 78 author and former state senator died at a Lebanon hospital on Monday. He served as presidential elector from the fourth district and district attorney general for the eighth judicial circuit for 16 years before election to the state Senate in 1941. He published The Lebanon Banner for 23 years and wrote A History and Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, adopted by the State School Textbook Authority. There were no immediate feuds.
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Lebanon
Senn
Walter S. Faulkner
Faulkner
Fourth
Eighth Judicial Circuit
Senate
United States
Radio Station WFHG Suspends Operations
Bristol station WFHG owned by Blanfox Radio suspended operations at sign off time Monday. FCC granted suspension effective through June 28 with undisclosed reasons and no details on future air return were given. station units WNVA Norton Virginia and WHLN Harlan Kentucky are also part of the same group.
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Bristol
WFHG
Blanfox Radio Corporation
WNVA
Norton
WHLN
Harlan
Federal Communications Commission
Stewart Opens Campaign Saturday
Nashville senatorial race heats up as Stewart opens reelection bid in Gallatin at 1 30 p m Saturday. Kefauver plans a Madisonville kickoff at 3 p m same day. Mitchell previously opened in Lebanon with Crump backing.
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Nashville
Enn
Tom Stewart
Winchester
Gallatin
W. D
Pete) Hudson
Estes Kefauver
Chattanooga
Stewart
Madisonville
John A. Mitchell
Cookeville
Lebanon
Mitchell
Mermphis
H. Crump
Reserve Group To Hear Coffin On Armored Division
Lieut Col Arthur G Coffin of the Armor-Reserve will discuss Communications in the Armored Division at 7 30 tonight during the June meeting of the 104th Composite Group at the Armory at Ares B Holston Ordnance Works. After instruction, the Kingsport Chapter Reserve Officers Association will meet at the Armory with Beij as president.
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Arthur G. Coffin
Armor-Reserve
Armored Division
Slocle
104Th Composite Group
Ares "B
Milligan Faculty Edges Down as Seventh Resigns
Johnson City Milligan College sees faculty shrink with the seventh resignation. A. T. Boyadjis, Greek professor, said his own resignation was mailed after two years at the college amid heavy workload and friction between faculty and the board of directors. Recent resignations include college president Dr Virgil Elliott athletic director Red Yancey and others, leaving 18 faculty members.
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Johnson City
Milligan College
Joe McCormick
A. T. Boyadjis
McCormick
Virgil Elliott
Red Yancey
Constance Mynakt
Gretchen Smith
Sidney W. Rice
Fred Smith
First Christian Church
Elizabethton
Fourth Division Marines Set Kansas City Reunion
About 500 Marines of the Fourth Marine Division plan a Kansas City reunion Saturday and Sunday, the first for the unit. Organizer Robert K. Ryland says the event will be nonpolitical with Maj. Gen. Franklin A. Hart and Gen. Clifton B. Cates attending to represent the division’s war years.
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Kansas City
Marine Division
Robert K. Ryland
Fourth Marine Division’ Association
Clifton B. Cates
Tinian
Iwo’ Jima
Ima
Arso
Franklin A. Hart
Hart
Namur
Marshalls
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Palmer
Gordon Jordon
Aree
E.R. Jackson
State Park
Dees
The
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State Theater
W. Faulkner
Milligan
Marines
Marshall Islands
Roi-Namur
Teka Alona
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Vailee
Att Tarmi
Electric Appliance & Furniture Co
Lincoln
Lincoln Cosmopolitan
TOM Yancey, Inc
Thomson
Upper Circle
Bristol Highway
Copeland
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