Tennessee Republicans seek unified leadership amid growth pains
Tennessee Republicans show growth from East Tennessee to Middle and Memphis areas and seek a united leadership structure. Key figures include Bill Brock, Robert James, Sam Claiborne and Ken Roberts as factions strain to form a solid West Tennessee front while tensions persist between old and new guards and calls for a Nashville headquarters intensify.
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Johnson City
GOP
East Tennessee
Memphis
Middle Tennessee
Shelby County
Robert James
Brock
James
Tennessee
Nashville
Harriman
George Ed Wilson
Columbia
Old Guard
New Guard
West Tennessee
Sam V. Claiborne
Claiborne
U. S
Middle
Ken Roberts
Hingsport
Dobyns-Bennett
Vanderbilt University
New Committee Chiefs To Name ASC Members
Newly elected community committee teachers will meet in Blountville at 10 a.m. Friday to elect the Sullivan County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee for the year ahead. Chairman R. Jones announced. Twenty-one community ASC committees have just been elected by mail ballot. The chairmen become delegates. vice chairman and regular members, alternate delegates, will attend the county convention. The ASC administers programs such as the Agricultural Conservation Program, wool and grain programs, acreage allotments and marketing quotas, commodity loans, and storage facility loans. A complete list of the 21 committees will be published on the Kingsport Farm News page next Monday.
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Blountville
Sullivan County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
R. Jones
ASC
National
Jones
Kingsport
Walters urges quick action on Johnson site expansion
Washington Senator Herbert S. Walters urged a Senate interior subcommittee to act promptly on a Kefauver bill authorizing enlargement of the President Andrew Johnson historic site at Greeneville. Walters said quick passage is needed to secure an option to buy about four tenths of an acre and a house for 48120 dollars.
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Washington
Herbert S. Walters
Senate Interior Subcommittee
Andrew Johnson
Greeneville
Walters
Estes Kefauver
Area Students Attend Bluefield College
More than 200 students registered for the fall term at Bluefield College Bluefield Virginia. Dallas William Safriet son of Mr and Mrs S M Safriet Gate City and Dan Edward Goode son of Mr and Mrs J C Goode Hiltons are among those attending.
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Bluefield College
Bluefield
Dallas
William Safriet
S. M. Safriet
Gate City
Dan Edward Goode
J.C. Goode
Hiltons
Kennedy plans Texas trip in mid November foray
White House sources report President Kennedy will travel to Texas around November 20 or 21 for a political tour through several cities. The plan calls for the executive to fly to the Lone Star State in late November as part of campaign and outreach efforts.
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Tackson Hole
Wyo
UPI
Kennedy
Texas
White House
Chis
Lone Star State
Curriculum reforms at University of Tennessee medical college
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine shifts to a new admissions and curriculum plan effective Sept. 30. The school will move from a four quarter system to two cohorts of up to 300 students, with each class admitted in September and January. The change aims to preserve early patient contact and research opportunities while improving efficiency and use of facilities.
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University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Tennessee
M. K. Callison
Bolivian Consul Banks Directs Traffic in Los Angeles
Bolivian consul Duke Banks helped at a busy intersection for an hour directing traffic after finding signal lights jammed and causing a backup as children were dismissed from a nearby school. He said no one else appeared to act, so he stepped in.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Bolivia
Duke. Banks
Banks
Traffle
German Artist Emil Schneider Sees American Landscape
German painter Emil Schneider on his first U S trip admires Tennessee scenery and compares Kaiserslautern land to America. He plans to teach painting here while preferring Germany, cherishing still lifes over portraits, and notes vast unplanted land and distance. His daughter Lieswlotte lives in Albuquerque with husband Air Force sergeant George Lady. He studied in Munich and cites August Miller as a favored mentor while also sculpting in bronze.
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Maxine Cates
Emil Schneider
America
Emil
Brigitte Lady
Lieswlotte
Albuquerque
Kaiserslauteren
West Germany
United States
U.S
Germany
Rembrandt
Franco
Munich
England
Tennessee
August Miller
Air Force
George D. Lady
Albuquer
Dancers to Perform for Emperor Haile Selassie at White House
A company of 20 ballet dancers will perform at a White House dinner honoring Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. The program is set for October 2 in the East Room of the executive mansion.
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Washington
Births Increase in Tennessee During Past Year
71,709 births last year in Tennessee hospitals, 1,243 more than 1967. Daily average 25,219 people occupying 30,591 beds in 154 Tennessee hospitals. Hospital expenditures 160,100,000 with payroll up $8 million. Average length of stay per admission 6.4 days versus 7.6 nationally.
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Tennessee
al Dierks
The
Tennessee Hospital Association
leBonheur Children's Hospital
Memphis
Watt
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