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i i I A 0 0 00 In a Castle Small EDUCATIONAL TV First' Class Here a Big Hit: 1-B The Cozy Look Chicago Report: 1-F Special Section: 'G' Magazine's Ghost Report TM HUXT Of TV THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Served by Americas Greatest News Agencies At the Crossroads of Natural Gas and Cheap TV A Power Telephone Alpine 5-1221 NASHVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, FEB. 5, 1961 20 CENTS fD)n fo) A VOL. 55 No. 282 Ex-City Re ti res rension Just One Big Happy First 1 i Former Finance Director McConnell Now Holds Post Paying Files Show Variance in Eligibility By WILLIAM KEEL A study of city pension records disclosed yesterday that a former finance director, who retired in 1954 at the age of 42 and now holds a job, is getting $435 per month as city pension. The former official, R.

B. McConnell, is one of many rmTTTT jwh" i 1 jf 'n, ll III IIIISJUI.l I A 7, ,1, r. iMlwlllWt.ii --iim i-irwtiints v- -V'-' i ''mMttMmmmmmtmmmmiiM --mmmmmmmmmmz i I AP Wirephoto seat of the limousine while the First Lady, Jacqueline, holds their small son, John Jr. tightly bundled against the cold. John F.

Kennedy has a word sits on his lap in the back Family Kennedys Unite With Children WASHINGTON (Uri) Caro lina and John F. Kennedy Jr. returned to Washington yesterday to tha arms of their happy parents and a first look at the White House, their new home. The Irrepressible three-year-old daughter and the two-month-old infant son of the first family arrived at Washington National Airport at 3:55 p.m. EST aboard the Kennedy family's private plane, also named Caroline.

The children had been staying at their grandfather's winter home In Florida while the President and Mrs. Kennedy were busy launching a new national administration and preparing the White House for the toddlers. THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Kennedy boarded the plane as soon as It stopped in front of the private aircraft terminal. Caroline ran to the door to greet her mother, who was wearing a bright red Mrs.

Kennedy clutched Caroline and took her back into the plane for a warm embrace. The smiling President followed them into the plane. Kennedy cbaneed his plans for meeting the children twice. He had been reported unable to go to the air- (Contlnued on Page 6, Column 4) Offi icer at 42, former city employe who left city posts, accepted their pensions and went to work at well-paying jobs elsewhere. McConnell.

who is now working as a specialist on industrial de velopment for the city or uaK 2 Pension Reforms Advanced. See the City-County Beat, page 2-B. Ridge, retired from the city on Sept. 16, 1954, after serving 25 years as a city employe. HE HAS ALSO worked since leaving Nashville as finance di rector or Lebanon ana witn tne State Audit Department His pension will cost the city an estimated $103,400.

McConnell's contributions totaled about Net cost to the city for one pension! $93,400. McConnell was one of a number of employes who were quick to take advantage of a change In the pension law in 1953 that permitted an employe to retire after 25 years service OR at age 60. The old law had read that an employe must have 25 years service AND be age 60. THE PENSION FILES abound with records of similar situations made possible by changes In pen sion laws and blanketing in of employe groups en masse without age or service requirements in 1949 end 1953. Another part Is disability clause in the pension law which says that a person must be retired if he cannot perform the job to which he is assigned.

D. L. Lansden, civil service com mission chairman, will meet with the Davidson County delegation Thursday and recommend legislation to correct these abuses. PERSONS KAVE worked for less than three years and have been retired at half-salary. Other employes have been retired on dls ability pensions and are now working at similar Jobs elsewhere, drawing their city pensions.

Park Paradise of 632 Third Ave, cam to work with the city as (Continued on Page 10, Column 1) $435 North Buried By Snowstorms By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow buried the northeastern United States yesterday. The section was virtually immobilized, as highways became blocked and commerce and industry came to a halt. Tragedy struck, and so did comedy as life skidded 114 PAGES Scientist Says Friction To Halt Space Orbiting 1 Listeners Hear 'Breathing', Moscow Denies Life Aboard MOSCOW (AP) A Russian scientist said yes terday that the 7.1 ton Sputnik launched earlier in the day contains no lifef aboard it and that it will burn to a space cinder in a matter of days. In El Paso, Texas, Prof. John M.

Sharp, a Texas Western CoU lege language expert and ham radio operator, said ha monitored the Sputnik radio band and heard sounds that resembled "breathing, like a heart beating." Sharp, who had monitored sounds from previous Russian satellites, said ha heard three sounds yesterday. One was the regular "beep" common to previous Soviet satelr New Polaris Subs Ordered. See story, page 12-A. See editorial "Reds Keep Add-ing Boost Capability" page 4-B. lite.

A sound was "more like a man's breathing than anything else," and the third was measured and quicker, like the pulse of a human. Italian snd German scientists in the West also reported hearing sounds like Morse code and "heavy breathing" over usual Soviet space radio frequencies on Thursday. These reports created some doubt to the Russians' claim of "no life aboard'. The Moscow Radio broke Into Ha scheduled broadcast at 8 p.m. to announce the launching.

President Kennedy was told Washington that the Russians bad launched the sputnik. A WHITE HOUSE aid said Kennedy got the U.S. intelligence report after returning from a movie theater where he saw Spartacus." The movie could not be shown in the White House because it requires a special screen. Prof. Ivan Shevlyakov of Mos cow Planetarium called the apace (Continued on Page 12, Column 1) Russia Accepts Test Talks Delay WASHINGTON CT) Russia agreed yesterday to President Kennedy's request for a six-week delay in resumption of the nuclear test ban talks in Geneva.

U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson was handed a note in Moscow telling of the Russians' agreement The Soviet government was to make the text publie later in the day. Thompson reported Immediately to the State Department Official there said the tone of the note was civil and that it was relatively brief less than 300 words. A first reading indicated no Sot- (Continued on Page 6, Column 5) CI ti a ci a Proteins liegionl II 4 Negroes Cited In Bus Stop Fight By CHARLES COATES Staff Correspondent DICKSON, Term.

Charges were filed against four Dickson County Negroes yesterday as county and state authorities conducted an In tensive investigation into a fight the Greyhound bus station here Friday night. The fight between whites and Negroes broke out after one of the Negroes stashed the bus driver, wounding him seriously. One of the Negroes was shot In heel by a state trooper who was about a block away from the station when the fight started. TWO OF THE Negroes charged flpd the scene, and tension ran high here until their arrest at their homes shortly after 3 a.m. police said.

Two passengers. Miss Jane Bu ehanan, 20, and Mrs. Kay Wat kins, both of Dickson, said the driver and one of the Negroes started an argument when the bus pulled Into the station. The argument was about letting the two women passengers and several others off the bus. The tabbing came after the driver pulled one of the Negroes out of the bus, the two women said.

THE FOUR WERE identified as Roy Lee Holt, 28, charged with as sault with Intent to commit mur der: James Hall 20, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness; Willie Hngan 22, and Douglas Hughes, 25, both charged with public drunkenness. They were brought here from Dickson County jail at Charlotte about 2 p.m. for a hearing before General Sessions Judge Clark Leech of Dickson. He set Holt's bond at $2,500, Hall's at a total of Hogan and Hughes' at $250 each. Hughes made bond last night The driver of the bus, Forrest Darnell.

49. of Memphis, was in good condition yesterday In Bell- Crosby Clinic. More than 100 stitches were required to close his wounds. Here for the hearing and investigation yesterday were District Attorney William B. Lockert (if Ashland City, Tennessee Bureau of Criminal Identification Agent Walter Toon, Sheriff James (Continued en Page 6, Column 3) 4 Persons Die In 3 Midstate Auto Accidents 5 Others Injured In Separate Collisions; Friday Victim Dies Four persons died in three Middle Tennessee traffic accidents yesterday which injured five others.

A fifth person died during the day of injuries received in a two-car smash-up Friday night near Smyrna. The dead are: Ernest Kelley, 36, White Oak Community, Perry County. Norman Manuel Herndon, 28, Eva, Tenn. Robert H. (Johnny) Wells, 57, Charlotte, Tenn.

Billy Ray Spann, 19, Charlotte. Fitzhugh Lee Logan 18, Bu chanan, Va, Logan, a Negro, died in Goodall Clinic at Smyrna, where he was taken after being hurt Friday night In an accident on Highway 41. State Trooper J. C. Ledbetter said Logan was a passenger in a car driven by Malcolm Barnett 18, also of Buchanan, which crashed into the rear of a car pushing an other automobile.

BERT WEAKLEY, 16, passenger in the car being pushed, and Barnett were in good condition at the hospital. Herndon, Wells and Spann died in a two-car collision on U.S. Highway 70 near Dickson late yesterday afternoon. Sgt J. W.

Roberts of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said the two cars apparently collided head-on. Herndon was driver of one of the cars, while Spann was driving the other vehicle. The two survivors said they did not know (Continued on Page 11, Column 3) Special Price: Death, $12.88 By PAT ANDERSON The price of death in Tennessee is often $12.88. For that amount hundreds, perhaps thousands of persons bought pocket-sized, pistols which began to flood the state after a 1959 legislative act legalized the sale of firearms by practically anyone. Attorney General Harry Nichol stopped the sale of the cheap pistols in Davidson County last summer after an army surplus (Continued en Page 7, Column 1) The amazing Umbaugh-18 the push-button autogiro for which a fantastic claim Is made will be publicly demonstrated at Berry Field at 2 p.m.

today. The claim is that the compare tively low-cost flying machine may put America into the air the wsy Henry Ford put the country on wheels. The secret: It is the first civil ian aircraft for which has been planned mass production along the lines of the automobile Industry, and Its operating cost Is that of a car. PRODUCTION is scheduled to begin at Hagerstown, within a few weeks at the rate of one Umbaugh-18 every 20 minutes. Its developer is Raymond Umbaugh, Ocala, executive who at 40 already has earned two fortunei, one in animal husbandry and the other in fertilizer and soil chemicals.

Umbaugh plans initial production of 10,000 and already ha deposit -secured orders from ali over the world for more than 8,000. Total U.S. production of private and commercial aircraft last year was less than 8,000. Umbaugh Is expected to be here himself to narrate the demonstra- (Continued On Page 15, Column 1) and bogged down in the swirling snow. The death toll from the two pronged storm, sweeping in from the Midwest and up along the eastern seaboard, climbed to 70.

The storm centered late yesterday on New York State and aimed a smothering wallop at New England. Up to 30 Inches of new snow fell in upstate New York, piling up atop heavy falls from earlier storms unmelted during the longest deep freeze on record. The city had 12,000 men trying to clear the streets, with 2,500 pieces of equipment But there are 6,000 miles of streets, and the task looked overwhelming. Not counting the new storm, New York City already has spent $12 million this winter on snow removal. More man two reet or snow were measured In many areas.

un tne nearly empty, snow- (Continued on Psge 10, Column 3) WASHINGTON President for his daughter, Caroline, who Educational TV Petition Slated By GARRY FULLERTON Education Newe Editor Nashville and Davidson County officials will file a petition with the Federal Communications Com mission week certifying their intention of building and operat ing an educational television station here. The document, designed to pre vent the FCC from allocating Naohville'e Channel 2 for commercial use by two Hamilton, Ala. attorneys, will list the concrete steps taken so far to put the educational atation on the air. It will also specify that a con tract Is being drafted between the city and county boards of education for joint building and operation of the station, and that an application for a construction per mit will be filed shortly. THE DECISION to file the pe tition of intention was made yesterday at a meeting of city and county school officials in Mayor Ben West office.

West who will be in Washington this week on other city business, said he will file the document with the FCC Thursday. The petition will be signed by West; Davidson County Judge Beverly Brileyi W. H. Oliver and J. E.

Moss, superintendente of city and county schools respectively; and all members of the county and city boards of education. Robert H. Jennings Nash ville city attorney, was assigned to draft the petition In coopera- (Continued en Page 14, Column 3) Cold, Rain NASHVILLE AND VICINITY Cloudy and eool with rain likely afternoon or night. High 32-40. Low tonight 28-35.

Outlook tomorrow Cloudy and cool with rain. TENNESSEE Cloudy west, Increasing cloudinsis mid and. east and slightly warmer with rain west by afternoon or night. High 36-40. Weather map, data on page 14-D.

a Soviet Press Turns New Aircraft OnDisplay Here Tough, Raps JFK snnnnnnacnannncnoDDGnnnnrj Midstate To Get Rain, Sharp Cold The effect of the bitter cold and deep snow in the northern section of the country will be felt here tonight as Middle Tennessee is chilled by rain and sub-freezing temperature. Bill Long, weather forecaster at the U.S. Weather Bureau at Berry Field, said, "We are not expecting snow here. However, If the tem perature should show a marked drop it would not be too much of surprise If we got a snow." HE SAID a low pressure system in central Texas would be the primary cause of rain here tonight. The mercury Is expected to reach a high of 35 to 42 degrees today and a low of 14 to 22 tonight 1 Tomorrow will be cloudy and colder with continued rain, Long aia.

The U. S. Department of the Interior National Park Service reported an additional six inches of snow fell on the higher elevations of the Great Smokey Mountains National Tark Friday. AS CONSIDERABLE snow re mained from the previous snowfall, particularly at elevations above 4,000 feet There is still sufficient snow for wintor sports. Week-end visitors to the Smokies are advised that it is quite (Continued on Page 10, Column 4) fore the end of the year.

Work waji begun on th projects dur ing: the spring or lass. "WE DON'T have a specific date for putting In the jets," said Bass, "but we definitely expect to go Into the new terminal building at the same time we put the jets." Hooper said there Is no specific target date for completion of the work at Berry Field. Nashville officials of three other airlines, Braniff. Eastern, and Trans World, aaid yesterday they all have plans eventually to put (Continued en Page 14, Column 6) iCOLOR For Seventh Year! Index Pf For -Ideas CjG American Plans Jet Service by Summer MOSCOW (UPI) President Kennedy'e honeymoon 7lth the Soviet press came to an abrupt end yesterday. The government newspaper Izvettia eaid his State of the Union speech showed that "tht old line still prevails" in U.S.

policy. It was the first official Soviet comment on the speech. "The meMage testifies that the old force do not wish to yield, and this was reflected In the Preaident's statement" Izvcstia said. UNTIL NOW, the Soviet press and Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev have welcomed Kennedy'e policies as providing a sharp change from those of (Continued on Page 12, Column 4) Wonderful Cafch MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

LTV-Four-year-old Allen fell off a dock Into Blscayne Bay Friday. Philip Davis, fishing nearby, made an accurate cast, hooked' the youngster, reeled lilm in and gave him artificial respiration. Allen la in good condition a hosnltal. Commented Pavis: "Thank goodness this one didn't get Bt a i 3 9m9 ta a a In 1960, for tht seventh consecutive year, THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN ranked among tht nation's top ten newspapers in total color advertising published! THE TENNESSEAN was EICHTH among all newspapers with 1,962,848 lines of color. And tht big Sunday TENNESSEAN was THIRD among all the nation's Sunday newspapers with 665,135 lines of color! Why is THE TENNESSEAN constantly ranked in Media Records TOP TEN? Becaust THE TENNESSEAN pioneered in color and advertisers in Nashville as well as across tht nation now recognise color as the best way to sell their products In Yogi's hero! The Comics Farm Fashion Financial Garden Horoscope House Plane Keep in Trii Medicine Movies 6B Music SF 12D Obituaries IOC Pattern 9Ti 2F Pearson 5B 15D Political 2B iOG Redlo-TV 6, 7F 8F Real Estate 1-12G 8F Sports 1-5E 4, SF Travel IOC Art, Theater 9F Betty Bella 10D Books 15D Bridge 1SD C'pui Capers 2D Crossword 15D Do It Y'rself 3B Don't Q't 6D Editorials 4B By JAMES TALLEY American A i 1 1 a announced yesterday It will inaugurate pure jet service to Nashville before the end of summerif Berry Field's new $11 million terminal building and Jet-age runway are completed by then.

James P. Bass, Nashville manager for American, said the servile is also contingent upon the delivery of medium range modi fied Boeing 720 jets. His announcement came as James W. Hooper, airport superintendent said the. terminal and mnway ehould be completed be- THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Market rlace for fS THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Your COMPLETE Netvspaper If.