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Dependable Newspaper Working For, The Upbuilding of Rogersville and Hawkins County — ;iXTY-FOURTH YEAR; No. 12 '; rHURSD. - ROGERSVILLE. TENN.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1950 PRICE: FWE CENTS With Our Ramblin' Reporter Four lucky guys over the past nek end were Lance and Tommy togan, Freddy Shanks and Bill ^'instead who got to see the Notre )ame-Tulane football game, played Saturday in New Orleans, La. They eft here Thursday by automobile md returned Sunday night. The fame was a thriller, the Irish win- ung 13 to 9. • And speaking of hair-raising foot- jail, the game Saturday in Knox- trille between Tennessee and Ala- bama should be just that. Our pre- liction is that the Vols will emerge notorious . . . wanna bet? Was talk- ng to Spurgeon Akers, who used to vrite this column several years ago md who always predicted the james (most of them wrong), and le thinks Tennessee will win. Spurg s now in Montgomery, Alabama md he said (over, the phone) that ;he entire state would be in the stands down Knoxville way Satur- day afternoon. He and his family ivill be theer and they may be our quests for one night. • Rogersville Warriors will defeat "opperhill here Friday night by at least two touchdowns. Nothing much is known about this team but we figure our boys will be "ready" at the homecoming game. • Mayor Bible wants everyone to drive out and see the new water ant. which will be completed soon. When finished, this system will be Dne of the finest in East Tennessee. • Hawkins County schools will be dismissed Wednesday afternoon so that the teachers may attend the f City Board Continues With Plans To Finish Water COPPERHILLFRI.NIGHT IN HOMECOMING GAME -® Fred Sifflfh ffe- , Fred Smith To Be Ordained Sunday Raymond Frederick ( Smith, 19, will be ordained to the ministery at the First Christian Church at 7 p.m. Sunday, October 22. Sam L\ Flem- ing, a former pastor of the Rogers- ville church, now pastor of the 17th Street Christian Church, Nasnville, will have charge of the ordination services. Young Smith graduated from the Rogersville High School in June, 1950, and was president of the grad- uating class. He entered Johnson Bible College, Kimberlin Heights, in September of the same year. Last January he was called as ^upply pastor to the Christian Church in Appalachia, Virginia, his former home town, to fill the vacancy caus- ed by the death of their minister. In April he was called as ©ill-time pastor by the Glen Alice Christian annual teachers meeting in Knox- church, Post Oak, Tenn. viUe Class** wijl be resumed. £ $ ^^f* Freedom Bell To Ring Around World Oct. 24 The Kremlin's business of infl- trating the minds of peoples throughout the world with the Big Lie of Communism, which falsifies our country's position and objec- tives in world affairs, is slated to receive a decided setback on Oct. 24. On that date the signatures of 157,788 East Tennesseans, together Local Bells To Ring Church bells and the fire siren in Rogersville will be set in mo- tion at the same time the Freedom Bell in Germany starts ringing. They will beign at 12:03 and will ring three minutes. Mayor Lon Bible will arrange for the ringing of the Rogersville bells. Monday At least one of Rogersville's street corners is rid of loafers. Chief-of- Police Jim Shanks last week put a ban on loafing on the corner of Church and Washington Streets. Shanks said that whiskey was being sold there by pocket bootleggers. e Group I of the Tennessee Bank- ers Association convened at Tuscu- lum College Tuesday afternoon and night Bankers and employees for more than 100 East Tennessee towns attended. Mrs. Edith CKeefe Su- song, publisher of the Greeneville Sun. was the principal speaker at the afternoon meeting. The session was closed with a banquet. Going f >m Citizens Union Bank were: F. [ Gardner, president, Sturm W. ('•'()(>. vice president; Mrs. Joe Brown, Mrs. P. M. Lyons, Mrs. John Ni'lsTm, Misses Florence Armstrong, h- la and Ruth Shanks. • The Warriors football squad and 'aches Jake Pope and Burleigh Davis were given a steak dinner at i. naVy's Grill Wednesday night. Hosts were Horton Feed and Seed C mpany and John T. Walker. e Walk down Rogers St. and get ' whiff of heady orange blossom t fume. The 5-year-old naval i mge tree in the back yard at the ' hn Cupp home is blooming and t"" air in that vicinity is redolent w.th the fragrance. The Cupps I ught the orange tree back with t • m when they were on a trip to California several years ago, and 1 'v have nurtured it tenderly. John avs if he stops breaking off sprays g^frie orange blossoms to give to t: e ladies the tree will bear several i• • •• size oranges. e We think Lois Reeves, 10-year-old 'hth grader at Ebbing and Flowing Spring has some kind of record. In ' recent 4-H Club Fair here she n 9 blue ribbons and 3 red rib- 1 " on her 12 displays. More than at she was awarded the champion <rve on her sweet potatoes. Lois the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John ''••'•ves, Route 3. e All girls are losing their youth— 'mless they can pick on another one ; 'glit away. e K'gersville's lights on Main strt-ot are dandy but we need at 11 it three or four more of the same *• I one at the corner of W ashing - 1 >i and Church Sts., one at the 1 rner of Washington and Depot s ' and one each at the two free p'ikmg lots City Dads, could this "Hanged? e Burning leaves at this time of i! s a must, but be careful where J l how you burn them. rial student is the son of Richard Smith and the late Mrs. Smith of Appalachia. He has made his home with his uncle, R. G. Smith, and Mrs. Smith of Rogersville, Route Four, since 1947. He is a sophomore at Johnson Bible College. On Sunday morning, Dr. Dean E. Walker, president of Milligan Col- lege and former professor of Church History at Butler University, In- dianapolis, Indiana, will be guest minister at the church. Dr. Walker is an outstanding speaker of the Christian brotherhood. Church Hill Wreck Victim Reported In Good Condition A Church Hill man, Joe Marshall, 34, injured Sunday night when his car overturned, was reported as in "good" condition Monday morning by Holston Valley Community Hos- pital attendants in Kingsport. Marshall suffered a possible skull fracture and shoulder injuries in the accident on Goshen Road about 10:30 p.m., Sunday. Marshall had just left a friend's house and was on his way home when his car overturned around a curve and rolled across the high- way, a relative reported. Marshall's cousin, Andy Love, said when they reached the scene, Marshall could ndt be found. They organized a searching party and about 30 minutes later, Love said he found Marshall in a nearby field crawling towards h i s brother-in- law's house. with millions of other Americans, will be in a special vault in the bell tower of the Berlin City Hall when the Freedom Bell first rings out its message of hope and truth to the world at exactly 12:03 p.m. (EST). Oct. 24 is also United Nations Day. The ringing of the bell will be carried to all parts of the world by both standard and shortwave ramo broadcasts. It will be.heard behind the Iron Curtain as well as here at home. Three major networks will air the ceremony, which is scheduled to open with a three-minute address by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, national chair- man of the Crusade for Freedom. The Crusade was conceived by leading Americans as a nationwide mobilization of civilian America in a concerted answer to the Big Lie. It is closely allied with Radio Free Europe, the nongovernment "free- dom station" organized and sup- ported by private citizens to pierce the Iron Curtain from Western Germany with the Big Truth of per- sonal freedom and with messages of hope and encouragement to the prisoner peoples of Eastern Europe and Asia. It has the endorsement of the President of the United States and the active participation of such great Americans as Dwight D. Eisenhower and Cordell Hull. A large etowd is expected to turn out for the Warrior-Copperhill foot- bail game Friday night and for the annual celebration of homecoming for Rogersville High School stud- ents. According to Coach Jake Pope, the game will not be a pushover but he is expecting his Warriors to win easily. All his players have recover- ed from the terrific shellacking they received at the hands of the Erwin Blue Devils last Friday night. He said Doty Laster, stellar left half- back, who received an injured ankle in the tilt with Sullivan a fortnight ago, would see limited play. The stands will be decorated with R.H.S. colors and at the half-time the name of this ' year's football queen will be announced and she will be crowned by one of the co- captains. The other one will present her with a bouquet of flowers. Five girls are in the running for football queen. The four that lose will be -the queen's attendants. Contestants are Shirley Bryan, who last year was prevented from being crowned queen by an emergency append- ectomy, Laura Ann Hall, Mary Ann Stubblefield, and "Maxine Davis. Maxine is the only new contender; the others all ran for the honor last year. The school band will again march at the half, and will play the Alma Mater of Rogersville High School. REECE, KING TO SPEAK ON KINGSPORT FORUM Carroll Reece and Kyle King, Republican and Democratic nomi- nees, respectively, for First District congressman, will come face to face for the first time Saturday night. Both men will speak on foreign policy at a United World Federalist- sponsored rally to be held at 8:30 o'clock in the auditorium of the Dobyns-Bennett High School, Kings- port. The occasion, according to M. L. Gernert, president of the Kings- port UWF chapter, will be the cele- bration of United Nations Week. This week marks the UN's fifth year of operation. The appearance of Reece and King on the same platform will not signal an actual debate, Gernert ex- plained. Both men will present their ideas of foreign policy after which a question period will be held. Two Prisoners Escape Jail Monday Night Two prisoners escaped county jail some time Monday night and are still at large, according to Sheriff Price. The two, bound over for trial at the November term of circuit court were Homer Light of Beech Creeck and a Bullard youth, age 17. Light* was charged with beating and robbing his mother and Bullard was accused of stealing his grand- father's pistol. They escaped by sawing the bars. J ERWIN ROMPS OYER RHS WARRIORS, 40-0 The Erwin Blue Devils did every- thing here last Friday night except use the pitch-fork to defeat the Rogersville Warriors to the tune of 40-0. This is the worst defeat the local team has suffered this season. Left halfback W. A. Wilson was the Devils' most potent star and he really showed his ability in every play. This back was the best seen on the local gridiron in many years. He was ably assisted by the whole Erwin team. J. B. Salts, captain, end, and L. Turner, co-captain, right halfback, were also outstanding players for the "visitors. The two completed pass after pass. Rogersville, going into the game greatly handicapped by • the loss of Guy (Comet) Courtney and Big Doty Laster, never threatened but once. Courtney was out of the game due to the death of his father, Marion Courtney, who was buried on the day of the game. Laster was unable to play because of a bad ankle, sus- tained in the Sullivan game two weeks ago. He also is troubled with a bad elbow which he received in the opening game here with Unaka. Fred Davis and Coy Sizemore, were the outstanding backs for the Warriors, while Tom Cupp, and Bill Price, guards, and Lawrence Walker and Donald Price, ends, showed up good against the big Erwin team. The game was a rough one and at one time a Rogersville player and an Erwin player were ejected (CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN) Another Moonshine Still Is Captured Saturday Sheriff Jesse Price is giving the moonshiners in Hawkins County a hard time. Last Saturday he and his deputies captured their third still since the sheriff took office Septem- ber 1. This still, a 60-gallon outfit, was found in the Beech Creek section, approximately 22 miles east of Rog- ersville. It was in full operation and one man, Albert Crawford, was ar- rested and lodged in jail. Two other operators escaped but Sheriff Price knows their identity and their arrest will toe made soon, he said. Assisting Sheriff Price in the raid were Deputies Homer Yankee, Neil Price and Charles Combs. *® An attempt to - restrain the city council from issuing additional water bonds to complete Rogers- ville's new water system proved abortive Monday when a large num- ber of signers on a petition protest- ing the bond issue had their names withdrawn before 7 p.m., time of the called meeting of the council. The petition, which began circul- ating early last week following the board's action to vote the additional bonds, bore 102 names. Twelve of these signers were not qualified voters, two had signed by* mark without a witness, and by late after- noon Monday enough of the other signers had requested that their names be taken off that the remain- ing names on the petition composed less than the 5% of the voters, or 64 in number, according to C. Worley Richardson, city recorder. AH those who had their names withdrawn from the petition said they, had not been completely informed about what the new water bond issue was for until an explanatory story ap- peared in the Rogersville Review last Thursday, Richardson said. At the adjourned session of the council Monday night a resolution authorizing the issuance of $75,000 in water bonds was passed. The money will be used to complete Division Two of the water works im- provements. This will complete the original program for which bids were received a year ago, and for which plans were drawn two years ago, city officials said. A program for an improved water system for the town has been under considera- tion by officials for more than ten years. Many sections have been without adequate fire protection and this will be furnished when Division II is completed, Recorder Richard- son said. Richardson stated that to bring the bond issuance to a vote of the people would mean months' delay. 3 Hawkins Countians Volunteer For Army Three Hawkins Countians, one a former Rogersville football star, have joined the U. S. Army. John Dewey Booker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Booker of Persia, joined the regular Army, while Thomas C. Elkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Elkins of Rogers- ville, Rt. 1, joined the United States Air Force. These two left for camp Tuesday. Booker was an out-standing ath- lete at Rogersville High School where he was graduated last year. On Thursday of last week, Charles Winkle, son of Ed Winkle of Persia, left for Fort Jackson, S. C. to take duties with the Artillery Corps. He has been assigned to the Eighth In- fantry Division. Si ou at the homecoming game. Varied Career Ends In Death Of W.D.Kenner W. D. Kenner, 87, who grew up with Rogersville, and, who was in- strumental perhaps more than any other man in the shaping of the af- fairs of Hawkins County, has passed from the town's scene, Mr. Kenner died at his home on East Main Street about 3:30 Wed- nesday afternoon, October 11, after an illness of several months. He died quietly, shortly after awaking from a nap. The longtime Rogersvillian had been confined to his home since June. However, he , was up and around the house ami continued to take an active interest in his busi- ness affairs until a few days before he died. He was, perhaps tlw oldest insur- ance agent in the state, having sold insurance for more than 67 years. Although he had not solicited any insurance in the pas* lq years, he maintained the policies he started writing years ago. A member of the (CONTINWia OH M M TW) Reece Say's Phillips Quit G. O. P. Party Dayton Phillips completely lacks I who elected him and who he was a sense of public responsibility and supposed to represent. is not qualified to sit in Congress, Carroll Reece asserted here Satur- day afternoon. Reece, {Republican nominee for First District congressman, charged Phillips had deserted his party— as hit record of four years in Congress proved—long before he bolted to run as an independent after his de- feat in the primary. Reece told an enthusiastic audi- ence that engulfed the lawn of the Hawkins County Courthouse that Phillips had proven time and again he Was not a man the public, or his party, could trust. "Neither Republicans nor Demo- crats respect a man who does not abide by his party's primary," Reece said, "and he is certainly not the type of person fit to represent this district, or any party, in Congress. Most states have laws against that" Reece said Phillips' four-year re- cord—when he was absent on nearly 200 roll calls—proved his lack of a sense of responsibility to the people The "wrong viewpoint" of Wash- ington was blamed by Reece for the United States being caught wholly unprepared for the Korean conflict despite the expenditure of $90,000,- 000,000 for defense—twice as much as was spent for all of World War I. Phillips' utter lack of responsi- bility was obvious, said Reece, when he was absent at the time the Aid for Korea bill was first killed in the House by one vote and in hit voting against it when it was passed in the Senate and returned to the House. Had the Korean Aid Bill passed, Reece continued, it is possible the Korean conflict could have been avoided and the lives and limbs of thousands of young« Americans spared. Reece pointed out that the $98,- 000,000,000 squandered by the ad- ministration represented three times the value of all farms, all machinery and all farm equipment in the Unit* ed States. COMTimilO ON M M TIN Hawkins Team Third In State Stock Judging A Hawkins County team came out third Saturday in the State 4-H Club Livestock Judging Contest at Win- chester, Tenn. The Dyer County team won the state championship, and the right to represent Tennessee in the na- tional contest at Chicago in Novem- ber, with a score of 1241 points out of a possible 1350. Claiborne County's entry scored 1192, Hawkins 1189, Coffee 1167, Carroll 1154, Lawrence 1140 and Henry County 1039. Robert Home of the Hawkins County team scored 415 points in individual judging, out of a possible 450. Fred Tate of Coffee County was high individual scorer with 424. Representing Hawkins County in the contest were Horne of Rogers- ville, Rt. 2; Edward Hagood, Sur- goinsyille; Talby McPheron, Sur- goinsville; and Don Reeves, Rogers- ville, Rt 3. The group was accom- panied by Ralph Testerman, Haw- kins County 4-H agent "a Hospital Treats Boy Kicked By Horse M. C. Robinette. Jr., 17, Route 3, Persia, was admitted to the Holston Valley Community Hospital, Kings- port, Monday night wham he was kicked in the face by a horse. Young Robinette was struck to the forehead and suffered a skull fracture He was admitted to the hospital where his New bids would have to be taken and the town would lose between $10,000 and $15,000 by the delay. He explained that $50,000 of the $75,000 has already been voted on by the people in a referendum held in February of 1949, in which a water system to cost $300,000 was passed favorably. Thus the complet- ed water system, which met the approval of the people then, will cost only $25,000 more than the original $300,000. The city council feels that the completing of the new water system will be a start for a greater growth for Rogersville. They expressed the hope that 1950-1951 would be noted in the town's history as the change from "the old way to the new." A map on page 10 shows complete coverage obtained by the new water system. Lines in Division One have already been completed and that division will be ready for use in another month, according to the resident engineer, Gene Hux. The additional money voted in the $75,- 000 bond issue will be used to com- plete Division II, the engineer said. He also stated that if materials are available that division should be ready for use in i few months. As is shown by the map an 8-inch pipe line is brought from Big Creek to the corner of Main and Brown- low Streets. And from there a 6-inch line has been constructed along Kyle St., to Brummet St. thence to the 250,000 gallon tank near Highway 66. It may be seen by the heavy black lines on the map that Division H will be a 6-inch line along the fol- lowing streets: It will begin at the corner of East Main and Clifton and will go north to Fugate Street turn west there to Reno Street, where a tap goes over to Circle Drive. From the corner of Reno and Fugate it will turn north to Watterson St., turn west there and go along East Watterson St. to the intersection of Watterson and Hasson. From there the line goes to Spring St. and ties in with Division I at the corner of Stanifer and Boyd Streets, the engineer explained. Another line will start at the corner of West Main S t and North Holston. will continue to the corner of Holston and Brummet and will tie In with Division I there Still another line in Division II will start at the 250.000 gal tank and will come along Highway 66 to Highway 11-W, then east to the first traffic light to the corner*of West Main and Armstrong Streets. From there It will go to West Broad- way and turn two ways; one to the west to the city limits and ending at Tuggles Hill road and Broadway, to the to the intersection of Depot gild BroadWay. . construction of Division II .' I i Thomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com
