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KINGSPORT, TtfNN., MOND/DS SAY ROCKIta Arrives sday For VisitItr DOUGLAS B. CORNELL lP)—From President Eisenhower to the cop on the beat, and with y precautions ever thrown around a foreigner, Washington is just sday's arrival of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.ie greeted with all the proprieties protocol demands for a visiting still there will be an element of apprehension and' caution in s world’s top Communist to the world’s greatest capitalist nation.world’s greatest capitalist nation.rllner will ils official Mr Force ;day. That a busy 13 es tor the : forces ofSetf AFi—Clr-'hatsln will ny on Highlander gle.Sloan filed Aug. 12, ? n rcputa icre people Immoral llces. at' 9 a.m cd utter a ing which gro. educa-:hocl, was possessing rkers were ot public Arrest andiver to theireer—Four Is d warning rliner over day, Cairog the offl s Agency, apparently he airliner 3 make itbuzzed the :d ins true id, but the the signalsSays Union Won’t Retreat In DemandsNEW YORK CAP)—United Steel workers President David J. Me Donald said Sunday his union won’t back down on its demands —no matter how long the nation' wide steel strike lasts.The strike, 63 days old on Sunday, was already the longest Industrywide shutdown In the hr Uon's history. Almost 90 per cent of the country's steel production was affected, and there was lio settlement In sight.The strike has Idled half a mil Hon Steelworkers, and an estimated 175.000 workers In allied fields have been laid off as a result of the shutdown.- McDonald appeared on lelcvl slon Sunday to answer letters ot wives and relatives of strikers. Among other things, he told them the- Steelworkers would not back down on their demands no matter how long they remain out ot workHe told thenu That the Indus-try’s position that tv age and bene, fit increases would foster Inflation is- phony.''That if the union paid out all its money in strike benefits it would amount to only about $62 a man.That the companies seek to change working hours and dictate time and length of vacations with out ndvancc notice.Top negotiating teams sit down opposite each other again Monday as they have done so many times before.Chief federal mediator Joseph Finnegan Friday summed up the progress so far with this conv mcnt, There his been no progress on any basic consideration.Four Die In WreckTOLEDO, O. fUFI) — Eight teenagers hurtled to disaster Sun day when their auto smashed full speed Into a freight train Idled at a crossing in suburban Ross ford Four were killed instantly, three others were rushed to Mercy Hos pitat critically hurl and the eighth was listed In serious con-dltion,Baltimore k Ohio railroad officials and police sought to learn why the car’s driver failed to heed a burning flare, flasher sig nals and a conductor’s desperate warning.Conductor William Leffler said he was standing guard at the otli cr side of the crossing during a switching operation when he heard the car roaring up.I listened and by instinct I fell the car wasn’t going to stop. So I jumped between cars to the other side to warn It off, he said At the last second 1 had to jump out of the way. 'Hiere weren’t even any skldinarics. I took one look into the smashed car and ran and called the railroad and told them to call everybody, police, fire, ambulance everybody.The dead were listed as Clifford Akins Jr., 19, Sylvan la; and Sam Ttampr 14 ft nr m Hue- ti-.Wreck Takes Third Life At AbingdonDamascus Youth Dies Al Hospital Sunday MorningABINGDON — A shattering head-on collision of two cars loaded with young people claimed a third life Sunday as Paul Walls, 19, of Rt. 2, Damascus, died Iti an Abingdon hospital,A single-vehicle crash in Madison County Sunday morning look two lives. The five deaths raised the Virginia traffic loll to 570 — Identical with the county last year.Two persons had died earlier of injuries received in the head-on crash which look the life rf Walls. Nancy Blevins, 18, of Shady Valley, Tcnn.. and J. B. Greer, 21, of Rt. 2. Damascus, had died shortly after the crash' Saturday night on u. s. 19-56 a mile east of Damascus.Injured In the accident and still in critical condition in jhe hospital here were Paul Slengall, 17, of Shady Valley; Wade Lewis, 21, R. c. Lewis, 21, and Edgr Walls, 18, all of Rt. 2, Damascus.The accident happened about 9:50 p. ni. Saturday night on a straight stretch of the two-lane highway.Police said the Steagall hay and the Blevins girl . apparently were the only occupants of one of the cars aud were heading west toward Abingdon. The other car, with the five Damascus youths, was heading east.State Trooper R. L. Kelly said Stegall was the driver of the westbound car and that Greer apparently was at the wheel of the other car. The vehicles ca together in the middle of the road. Stegall and Miss Blevins were pinned Inside their’ auto mobile. Most of the occupants oi the Greer automobile wore thrown out onto the highway.Both automobile.s were demolished in the collision. The young victims were rushed to the hos pi I at here via ambulances and private automobile. Miss Blevins was dead on arrival; Greer riled shortly after admission. Walls died at 2 a. m. Sunday.None of the Injured had re gained consciousness Sunday and police said they had 'been unable to find out what caused the col lixluii, one of the most costly In Washington County history,The Walls youths-were brothers. The Lewises are cousins.The victims of the Sunday crash in Madison County were Franklin Delano Roosevelt Allen, 26, of Ar-oda and Coleman Leroy Lohr, 33, of Radiant.Police said the two were fatally injured when their car ran oft a straight stretch i»f road and crashed about a half mile east of Hood. Shirley Edward Davis, 18, of Ar-oda, listed as the owner of the car, was a passenger when the accident occured, police said. He received minor injuries. Trooper P. C. Dockrell said Davis was asleep In Ihe back seat at the time and could furnish no in form a Lion on the crash.Upper 70s For TodayA temperature reading in the upper 70s is the predicted high for today. Sunday's high in Kingsport was 80 degrees.Tile Tri-Cities Weather Bureau forecast for today Is partly cloudy and mild.The outlook for Tuesday Is fair and a little warmer.Indicates palh of Soviet space rock Moscow said hit the mooti Sunday. Bro)Civil R Drive IWASHINGTON CAP)—A Senate battle over, extending the life of the civil Rights Commission stood SundRy between Congress and final adjournment.The Issue was joined late Saturday night, but a hRlt was called until Monday morning after the verbal fray had been .going onlyabout an hour and a half.Leaders held some hope of winding up the session Monday night despite the civil rights controversy and the efforts of Sen. Wayne Morse ID-Oiei to delay adjournment unlit after Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives herb Tuesday.Posl ready Natlof live C a fail Sen said i as 11 Presit But (R-N1 cious veto’’ for It The Congr as nc that I to mRed China Am Of Two-Faced!TOKYO YAP)--Chen Yi, Communist China’s foreign minister and deputy premier, Sunday accused India of two-faced tactics. He assailed the Indian position In border disputes with Peiping and the freedom granted to refugees from Communist -controlled Tibet.He also rejected an Indian pro-]»snl that Communist troops get out Of Longju, a disputed border post on the Tibetan frontier. But. Peiping radio said, he told the closing session of the standing committee of ihe National People's Congress—parliament — that China was wliv.ng to discuss Long-Red Chinese troops seized that outpost Aug. 26 after routing an Indian border patrol. Last Thursday. the Indian government sug-Bested in a note that Longju be made a temporary no-mans land while ils status Is discussed. The Indians promised not to send their troops Into Longju If the Communist forces withdrew for this purpose.Rut Longju said Chen, is del*Mi;ROCi 22. of ing sir day, m Highw Acclt; had ai break-Scientist!WASHINGTON (AP) — Amer-I ‘’We
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