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The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 10

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J- -s- -f i( 1 P9 10-CUrfcsvtlla Laaf Monday. Nyuwy 14, 1972 i linon UclrauK Colli Obifluarioc 0 'A if" if if rf 7 x- Staff Photos by Soum STATE PATROLMAN B. H. Fyke awaits help in removing victims of a head-on collision Saturday night from the wreckage of their car. The accident occurred four miles south of Clarksville when a 1966 Pontiac, headed north, "straightened" a curve on Highway 12 and hit a 1966 Ford head-on.

One of the victims in the Pontiac is shown in the bottom center of the photograph. .4 "P' cion Continutd from Pigt 1 intersection of 41-A south and the Shady Grove Road. According to reports, a 1987 -Ford truck driven by Raymond M. Robinson of 128 Rader Antioch, overturned when the driver cut to the right to avoid a collision with an unidentified pick-up truck, stopped on the highway to make a left The truck, owned by Davis Cook Inc. of 96 Franklin Nashville, was slightly damaged.

Robinson was taken to Memorial Hospital complaining of a sore left leg and -lacerations on the forehead. State patrolman Marion Sellars investigated. One man was slightly injured in a collision of the car he was driving with a freight truck loaded with dynamite early Sunday morning. Herman L. Majors, 23, of 118 Bluegrass was injured when his 1963 Chevrolet, headed north, veered across New Providence Boulevard and collided with "a 1969 Freightliner driven by David L.

Dossman of 1808 Catherine, Wichita, Kan. The accident occurred at 5 50 feet north of Cave Street. According to the police report, Majors went to sleep at the Chevrolet, owned by-Charles Poindexter of 1228 Gupton Lane, was totalled in the accident. The truck, owned by Tri-State Trucking Co. of Joplin, received about $50 in damages.

Majors was taken to Memorial Hospital with cuts about his face and chest. City policeman Joe Young investigated. Two women were injured late Saturday night when their 1968 Opel skidded into a light pole while traveling north on Madison. Injured was tjie driver, Carol L. Brinker, 24, an Austin Peay Student, and Betty Joe Carroll, 20, of Hopkins ville.

Ky. Both were taken to Memorial Hospital and were treated for cuts about the nose and face. Damage to the vehicle was reported at about $600. According to police reports, when the driver -applied the brakes on her car, she lost control and hit the light pole. City patrolmen Ernest, Carpenter and Wesley Riels investigated.

Local Continued from Page 1 regulate the surpluses and by commodity price support which provides a more odr-derly flow of crops to the 'market. We have reason to be proud of the confidence placed in our agency by the Cost-Of-Living Council, whose Director, Donald Rumsfeld, recognized our contribution Jto Phase I of the wage-price freeze. We have answered close to a 100 public inquiries, assisted numerous citizens in preparing and forwarding complaints to the Internal Revenue Service, and assisted generally in publicizing the program throughout the county. Since there is no IRS office in Clarksville, we are continuing to provide this assistance in Montgomery County for Phase II. reaches from farm to market to home or industry, is research and the hard work and ingenuity of farmers.

Our objective is to make ASCS more responsive to the needs of farmers as well as other rural an urban citizens and to be a model of effective public administration. We have set our sights high and we are confident that by working together we can look forward to building a more modern and responsive government agency. Elm Viil MEMPHIS, Tenn. Entertainer Elvis Presley has added three more appearances to his spring tour. Presley had originally planned one show, April 8, in Knoxville, However, advance ticket sales have resulted in the scheduling of a second appearance there that afternoon.

The other new dates are April 6 In Detroit, and April 19 in Albany, N.Y. from Pigt 1 i briefings on the internal political situation in China. Nixon has available all sorts of advice even down to the Chinese cuisine. While rnem-i bers of Nixon's first advance team were so close-mouthed, they wouldn't even talk to re-j porters about what they ate, they're now leaking a few tidbits. It is learned, for, example, that one dish they) were served included sea slugs.

is "Distinct and was Haig's appraisal of that dish, "it wasn't in any way to me.ir T7T- And a number of Nixon staf- fers ratg the Peking ducic great. Bomb Explode In Belfast By COLIN FROST Associated Press Writer BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Four bombs exploded in the Belfast area today as the outlawed Irish Republican Army pressed on with its battle to end Northern Ireland's links with No one was reported injured in the blasts. -A The bombs wrecked a banker an office building and a furni-' ture store. The fourth, targej. was a paint store.whlch was extensively damaged.

The first bomb was left ht the doorway of the BelfasJ Savings Bank on King Street, a busy shopping and office thoroughfare a block from the center of the city. The banfc manager spotted the bag and raised an alarm. Police quickly cleared hum dreds of early shoppers ancj office workers from the streeti The bomb exploded within 1 minutes, wrecking th Georgian bank building. I blew out windows over a wid4 area but no one was hur( because of the quick clearing of the street- There was sporadic shooting during the night between Brit ish troops and guerrilla gunj men. Marines shot and capture) two men who they said were trying to raid a shirt factory at Ligoniel, west of Belfast.

Onf was reported critically wounded. Three other men es caped in a car that later wa) found abandoned in downtowi) Belfast. Four thousand Catholic staged another illegal buf peaceful march Sunday to demand immediate withdrawal of British troops from the province, abolition of the provincial Parliament and 4 halt to the jailing of guerrilla suspects without trial. Troops and police did not im terfere with the march in En1--r niskillenT a llakeside -resoii town 65 miles southwest of Belfast, and the Catholics, made it a short one. They lielij a rally at which speaker! rejected a compromise that the British government! ij reportedly Catholic as deputy primfc minister of Northern Ireland and a quota of Catholics in thf provincial cabinet.

Crcsk-ln Reported A break-in was reported tp city police at the James Slaty Construction Co. warehousp on Commerce St. According to Detective Bennie Woodson, thieves entered the building through back window, but apparently nothing was taken. 'l Police received the call at 7:17 ajn. today.

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ramlt la adraoaa 4tr tt at th rata of pt tot a parted ef inraa. or tvlra aumtha, Tha toain Chrotiinw will not ba tor atotuy paid la adruusa racvlar anira. It la parauaats la pay awiar rania earriara la, Continued some works of two China scholars at Harvard: historian Johrt King Fair-bank's book "The United States and China" and political scientist Ross Terrill's two recent articles in the Atlantic Monthly. Nixon.has been clued in by his advance-team' members with their personal appraisals from' talks In Peking with Chou. And he has carefully gone over the stenographic transcripts" of meetings Kissinger and his deputy, Brig.

Gen. Alexander MHaig had with Chou. Nixon has been getting what Haig calls "a spectrum of conflicting viewpoints on the various aspects of the China problem." But, when asked what the main problems, are, Halg "I can't get into that." Henry Kissinger has been conferring with Asian scholars since early in the Nixon administration, intensifying his efforts in the past six or seven months since the closely held secret of the China trip was finally let out. On his own staff and in the official party, Nixon has men who have studied China for many years. Two who are going along, John Holdridge, senior member of the NSC staff, and Alfred le S.

Jenkins, the State Department's director for Asian Communist affairs, speak Chinese. One thing his advisers think Nixon has going for him is that the advance learns report every -sign from the Chinese suggests they want this trip to go well, too. And, as one advancer put it: "They're great organizers." Nixon has had the aid of a house expert of his own since last August, when he named Richard H. Solomon, University of Michigan political science professor, as a consultant on the China trip. Among his duties, Solomon said, was preparation of background papers and Knox Symphony Founder Dlos KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

(AP) Mrs. Harold Clark, founder-of the KNOXVILLE Symphony Orchestra and a leader in the city's musical circles for more than a half century, is dead at 89. 1 Mrs. Clark suffered a broken hip in a fall at her home three weeks ago and died in a hospital Sunday. A viola player, Mrs.

Clark organized the orchestra in 1936 and was its conductor for 12 years. Surviving are the husband and a daughter, Mrs. L. W. Bryan, Washington, D.C.

Dofbndants- Continued from Page 1 continued until late Friday afternoon. Plaintiff's attorneys attempted Ur prove" negligence on the part of the city and railroad as contributing to the accident. Wallace's bill of complaint stated that the accident occurred as a result of the "joined and combined negligence" of the city and railroad. The document claimed the bridge was constructed and maintained at an unsafe angle, that it was only 11 feet wide and too narrow to accommodate traffic, that it was unstable, shaky and bumpy making control of a vehicle difficult, and that there were "no warning signs or signals" warning of the bridge. As part of the allegations, the bill also mentioned section 55-1101 of the Tennessee Code Annotated, which states "all persons or corporations owning or operating a railroad in the state, are required to make and furnish good and sufficient crossings on the public highways crossed by them, and keep the same in lawful repair at their own expense." Cervices Cct Ash Wednesday services at Grace Luthern Church at 7:30 p.m, Wednesday Services will be conducted by the pastor, Rev.

Donald Cher ney. Public welcome. Mrs. Doonau Mrs. Charles P.

Boenau, 51, died Sunday at 7 a sn. at U. S. Army Hospital, Ft. Campbell, Ky.

She was a retired teacher resided on Sugartree Lane. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 10 ajn. at Tarpley's Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Calvin Reagan. Burial will be in Lawrence Cemetery, Cadiz, She was born in Trigg March 8, 1920, daughter -of the late Will J.

"and Grace Dunning Cameron. She had lived in Clarksville since 1958. Survivors are her husband, Sgt. Maj. Charles Boenau; four daughters, Mrs.

Wayne Walker, Marshfield, Jennifer, Jill, and Jacque Boenau, all of Clarksville; two brothers, J. W. Cameron, Cadiz, and Robert Cameron, Germany; three sisters, Mrs. Lonnie Watkins, Cadiz: Mrs. Carl Camerifch, and Mrs.

Billy Bush, 'Babylon, NT. three grandchildren She was a member of the St. Bethlehem United Methodist Church. Pallbearers will be Alton Way, Sinclair Jim Casebeer, Kermit Phillips, Jimmy Drye, and George Nyland. A.J.

Jones Arnie Grover Jones, 60, died Saturday at St. Joseph Hospital, Joliet, 111. He was a retired construction worker. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a. m.

at McReynolds Funeral Home by the Rev. Loy Dodd. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Mr. Jones was born March van in ftionigomery son of the late Maryland and Laura Jones.

Survivors are three brothers, Lewis, Clarkville; Ebon, Elizabethtown, and Baily T. Jones," Wilmington, three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Batson, Southside; Mrs. Addie Neblett, Cumberland Fur-nance! Miss Ifnla Nashville. Pallbearers will be Eugene Reuben Batson; Roy and Anderson Green; Roger Jones, and James Brame.

I A.J. Daggott LYNNWOOD, CALIF-Andy J. Baggett, 69, died at 9 p.m. Thursday at Rio Honda Memorial Hospital, Downey, following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services and burial will be conducted at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday in Detroit, Mich. Mr. Baggett was a native of Montgomery son of the late A. B. and Lena Under-' wood Baggett.

He resided in Detroit a number of years before going to California. He was a World War I veteran and member of the Baptist' Church. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Delia Baggett; a son, Ronald A. Baggett, Michigan; three daughters, Miss Nancy Baggett, Michigan, and Mrs.

Joyce O'Neal, Detroit; Mrs. Carolyn Kinsley, California; seven grandchildren; three brothers, Floyd and Esque, Cunningham; Clarence Baggett, Allen Park, six sisters, Mrs. Dudley Powers and Mrs. Ernest Let tltow you our'compjeti election of beautiful monument design made front! cbotcc Ubertoo uruutc and -thoroughly inspected raaraitfAcd. We give a Written Guarantee with each Memorial Sold.

Glcrlicvilla." r.cmcncl Go. Clariuvlll, Ttna. AfHr Hoori fwtday a HolMaya Hayes, Palmyra Mrs. Bernie Wall, Vanleer; Mrs. Joe Bryant, Mrs.

Dossie B. Bryant, and. Mrs. Stayton Black, Cunningham. 1 Mrs.

Dunn HNGSVTLLE, TEX. Mrs. Maggie Jeter Dunn, 91, died Saturday in the Park Manor Nursing Home, Corpus Christi, Tex, after an extended illness of several years. Funeral.lserYices be conducted Tuesday afternoon at the First United Methodist Church of Kingsville. Mrs.

Dunn was born in Gonzales County, Texas, Aug. 5, 1880, daughter of the late Benjamin St ell and Eliza Heskejv Jeter. She: was the widow of the jate Reverend Sidney Cullom Dunn, who was a native of Rutherford County, Tennessee. Rev. and Mrs.

Dunn were members of the West Texas Methodist Annual Conference. Survivors are three sons, Professor Burgin Dunn and Dr. Chester Dunn, Kingsville; Dr. Will-Matthis Dunn, San Antonio, Tex. two daughters, Mrs.

Candler E. Tatum, Birmingham, and Mrs. David Hinton, Clarksville, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. J.G. Pickering NASHVILLE Funeral services for Jesse G.

Pickering 81, of 236 Harding Place, were to be conducted today at 1:30 p.m. at the Woodlawn Funeral Home. Mr. Pickering died Friday at a Nashville infirmary. He was a native of Clarksville but had lived in Nashville 50 years.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Adkins Pickering; two sons, Col. J. G. Pickering III, Whispering Pines, N.C., and Capt.

Charles H. Pickering, Colorado a -brother, Dr. Charles F. Pickering, Clarksville. Mrs.v Proctor MEMPHIS-Mrs.

Carrie Proctor, 78, died at 1 a.m. Sunday at Baptist Hospital following a long illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at the Pentecostal Church with burial in Forest Hills Cemetery. Mrs.

Proctor was a native of Montgomery daughter of the late John W. and Fannie Baggett Rye. Her husband, R. E. Proctor, preceded her in death.

Survivors are a son, Rev. Bernie Proctor, Memphis; a daughter, Mrs. Kitty Nelson, Memphis; seven grandchildren, and four great grandchildren; two brothers, Robert and Roy Rye, Memphis; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Etheridge, Memphis, and Baggettr-Palmyra. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church.

I Cold Front Brings Rain r' By ASSOCIATED PRESS An arctic cold front, stretching across Indiana and Missouri, is moving south and with it will come increasing cloudiness with rain likely by tonight in West Tennessee. The rain will wipe out sunshine, caused by high pressure over most of the south, and reach East Tennessee by Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures will drop between 8 and 10 degrees as the rain crosses the state, with today's predicted highs in the 50s and 60s expected to give way Tuesday to highs in the 40s and 50s. Lows tonight are expected to range from the 30s in East Tennessee to the mid 40s in the west. Suspoct Had No Address The Bobby Jackson mentioned in Sunday's paper concerning arrest on drug charges is not the Bobby Jackson of 333 Conroy owner of the Gulf Station on Madison.

Police records showed no age or address the Bobby Jackson who was arrested on the charges. i A Jy 4. 1 s. A COLLISION with a freight truck loaded with dynamite totally demolished mis 1963 Chevrolet early Sunday morning. According to police reports, Herman L.

Majors, 23, of 118 Bluegrass went to sleep at the wheel, and veered across New Providence Boulevard, colliding with a truck drivenByDavid L. Dossman of 1 808 Catherine, Wichita, Katu Majors was reported slightly injured. Roll Calls WASHINGTON' (AP) Here is how Tennessee Congressmen voted in roll calls in the House and Senate last week: Republican Senators Howard H. Baker Jr. and Bill Brock voted Tuesday against tabling an amendment to a bill aimed at ending the West Coast dock strike.

The amendment, which was tabled by a vote of 42 to 39, would have set up a permanent system of dealing with crippling transportation strikes. Democrat Richard Fulton was the only one of six voting members of Tennessee's delegation in the House Wednesday to vote against a bill to end the dock strike hy compulsory arbitration if needled. Republicans Lamar Baker, John Duncan, Dan Kuykendall and James Quillen and Democrat Ed Jones voted for the bill, which was passed and sent to the President. Democrats Ray Blanton, Joe Evins and William Anderson did not vote. Prcsesthns Plsnnsd MEMPHIS, Tenn.

(AP) A funeral procession for neighborhood schools is planned next Friday by three Memphis antibusing groups. "We will declare a national day of mourning also, in memory of the death of neighborhood schools," said Mrs. Ruth Saed, a member of Citizens Against Busing. W' foots (rom Page 1 The magistrates are also expected to hear i report by Juvenile Court Judge Thomas E. Stamper and a report on the county's rabies control efforts.

TWO VICTIMS of a Saturday night accident lay pinned in the wreckage of their 1966 Pontiac. Two persons were killed in the accident, the driver of the Pontiac and the driver of a 1966 Ford. The deaths were the first of the year in Montgomery County traffic. Three other persons were injured in the accident, and remain hospitalized. Court Continued hold a public hearing and to consider a zoning request to allow construction of a filling station next to Moss' Steak House on Highway 79 north.

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