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Monday, October 31, 2016His skills have led to wide fame. He will hunt bear and boar as a guest of the local club while in this area, Abel stated. The party will leave Sunday afternoon for Tellico Plains for a two-day hunt.Abel operates a hardware and sporting goods store at Five Points and handles sporting equipment made by a firm headed by Pearson and bearing his name. All area sports enthusiasts are invited to see two exiting color films with sound at the new YMCA building tonight at 7:30.The movies will star Pearson and Howard hill, another top archer. The films are entitled “The Arrow is for Lion” and “Hunting Boar, Rabbit, Gar and Goat.”L.J. McCool, an expert archer with the Pearson firm, is in town today and will give an archery exhibition following the movies. He is at the Abel store today until 6 p.m.———Is Your Family Worth $30? For $30 and a little hard work, America’s foremost authority on radiation and fallout, the Nobel prize winning scientist, Prof. Willard F. Libby, built himself a practical shelter from fallout.Do you want to invest that much on behalf of your family and your country? See Professor Libby’s articles on “You Can Survive Atomic Attack,” appearing in this newspaper daily, and write for his complete 50-cent booklet on the subject. The series starts Nov. 6.———Military News:Ernest W. Eaves, fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Eaves of Route 2, McDonald, is serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Ranger which arrived in Yokosuka, Japan, on Oct. 23 for a 14-day visit. Since the Ranger joined the powerful Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific in September, it has visited such Japanese cities as Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Nagasaki.Airman Third Class Donald R. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas of Providence, Ky., is being assigned to McClellan AFB, Calif., following his graduation from the technical training course for aircraft engine mechanics at Sheppard AFB, Tex. He is married to the former Judy L. Green of 1816 Forrest Ridge Drive, Cleveland.———A record chill hits area, with frost again tonight.Arctic air moved southward into the Cleveland area early today bringing a record chill with it. However, the “cold wave” may be short lived, weather observers believe. Nashville’s low during the night was 26.7 degrees and Crossville had a cold of 22. It was 29 at Knoxville and 21 here in Cleveland. Our 21 was the lowest in the state. Frost coatings were fairly general over the state.Tonight will be fair and not as cold, but frost is likely again. Saturday will be mostly sunny and warmer. Little or no rain is expected during the next five days. The high here Thursday was 65 and today’s noon temperature was 54 degrees.
Monday, July 25, 2016William Ray Foster, 84, died Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at Ben Atchley State Veteran's Home in Knoxville after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.Ray was born in Cisco, Ga., and raised in Tellico Plains, Tenn., where he enjoyed the outdoors with his brother, Wayne. He graduated from Tellico Plains High School, where he played basketball.After graduating, he proudly served as a United States Navy Corpsman during the Korean War. He was stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he met his future wife, Yvonne, who was a lieutenant in the Navy Nurse Corps. During his service as a Corpsman on the USS Tanner cargo ship, he traveled to Thule Air Base in Greenland and Puerto Rico. He was later stationed at Cheatham Annex in Virginia (ammunition depot).Ray and Yvonne were married on Oct. 13, 1952 and shared the next 63 years together.After serving in the military, he graduated from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville with a bachelor's degree in education. Ray taught 7th grade social studies in the Oak Ridge City School System for 30 years. Other interests included being an Oak Ridge Boys Club basketball coach, celebrating his Cherokee heritage as a former member of the East...
Tellico Plains News
Monday, October 31, 2016His skills have led to wide fame. He will hunt bear and boar as a guest of the local club while in this area, Abel stated. The party will leave Sunday afternoon for Tellico Plains for a two-day hunt.Abel operates a hardware and sporting goods store at Five Points and handles sporting equipment made by a firm headed by Pearson and bearing his name. All area sports enthusiasts are invited to see two exiting color films with sound at the new YMCA building tonight at 7:30.The movies will star Pearson and Howard hill, another top archer. The films are entitled “The Arrow is for Lion” and “Hunting Boar, Rabbit, Gar and Goat.”L.J. McCool, an expert archer with the Pearson firm, is in town today and will give an archery exhibition following the movies. He is at the Abel store today until 6 p.m.———Is Your Family Worth $30? For $30 and a little hard work, America’s foremost authority on radiation and fallout, the Nobel prize winning scientist, Prof. Willard F. Libby, built himself a practical shelter from fallout.Do you want to invest that much on behalf of your family and your country? See Professor Libby’s articles on “You Can Survive Atomic Attack,” appearing in this newspaper daily, and write for his complete 50-cent booklet on the subject. The series starts Nov. 6.———Military News:Ernest W. Eaves, fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Eaves of Route 2, McDonald, is serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Ranger which arrived in Yokosuka, Japan, on Oct. 23 for a 14-day visit. Since the Ranger joined the powerful Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific in September, it has visited such Japanese cities as Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Nagasaki.Airman Third Class Donald R. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas of Providence, Ky., is being assigned to McClellan AFB, Calif., following his graduation from the technical training course for aircraft engine mechanics at Sheppard AFB, Tex. He is married to the former Judy L. Green of 1816 Forrest Ridge Drive, Cleveland.———A record chill hits area, with frost again tonight.Arctic air moved southward into the Cleveland area early today bringing a record chill with it. However, the “cold wave” may be short lived, weather observers believe. Nashville’s low during the night was 26.7 degrees and Crossville had a cold of 22. It was 29 at Knoxville and 21 here in Cleveland. Our 21 was the lowest in the state. Frost coatings were fairly general over the state.Tonight will be fair and not as cold, but frost is likely again. Saturday will be mostly sunny and warmer. Little or no rain is expected during the next five days. The high here Thursday was 65 and today’s noon temperature was 54 degrees.
Monday, July 25, 2016William Ray Foster, 84, died Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at Ben Atchley State Veteran's Home in Knoxville after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.Ray was born in Cisco, Ga., and raised in Tellico Plains, Tenn., where he enjoyed the outdoors with his brother, Wayne. He graduated from Tellico Plains High School, where he played basketball.After graduating, he proudly served as a United States Navy Corpsman during the Korean War. He was stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he met his future wife, Yvonne, who was a lieutenant in the Navy Nurse Corps. During his service as a Corpsman on the USS Tanner cargo ship, he traveled to Thule Air Base in Greenland and Puerto Rico. He was later stationed at Cheatham Annex in Virginia (ammunition depot).Ray and Yvonne were married on Oct. 13, 1952 and shared the next 63 years together.After serving in the military, he graduated from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville with a bachelor's degree in education. Ray taught 7th grade social studies in the Oak Ridge City School System for 30 years. Other interests included being an Oak Ridge Boys Club basketball coach, celebrating his Cherokee heritage as a former member of the East...
