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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 17

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The Tennesseani
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Nashville, Tennessee
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m' Governor Bends Ears of Senators Murfreesboro Plans Park Fund Drive f1 HASHVIUI TiWNtSaiAN, Ttmrsfry Mrmt. Ayrit 23, State Presents Case In Columbia Murder Witness Says Sho Saw Mrs. Kelley Shoot Mrs. Nolcn With Automatic Patterson Tears Into Rights Bills Says They're Fruitless Attempt To Force integration on South By JERRY T. BAULCH WASHINGTON W) Alabama's A "dawn-to-dusk" drive will he MURFREESBORO Plans were held Mav 15.

made yesterday for a campaign to Money raised in the drive wilt be spent for a swimming pool, tennis courts, and baseball fields at the 28-acre city park. Kavcrni riviri clubs are raisine 1 A little later, they left, tot Into raise $75,000 to build and develop recreational facilities for Murfreesboro and Rutherford county. Businessmen and civic I representatives met with officials of the Murfreesboro recreation department at the James K. Polk hotel. Details for the fund drive were outlined.

Tommy Martin, chairman of the COLUMBIAN Tenn. The Ut Yesterday finished presenting tU Gov. John Patterson denounced Mrs. Kelley's car with an uni money for part of the development through their own club projects. The park, bought by the city last year, is part of the property testimony in the murder trial of federal civil rights legislation yesterday as a fruitless effort to "ram integration down the throats of dentified 8-year-old boy and drove to Joe Richardson's cafe, on South Main street, about a half block from the courthouse here.

Mrs. Irene Kelley without asking for the death penalty. The defense begins presenting Its side this morning in circuit court here. The case Is expected to eo to the jury, completed at Shots From Storeroom drive, said the group hopes to raise $30,000 from an advance cam the Southern people. Such legislation, be said, "will be as Ineffectual as trying to sweep the ocean back with a broom.

"The citizens of Alabama will Mrs. Adams testified that she paign beginning tomorrow. Letters To Be Mailed and the little boy went to a booth granted to Col. Haray wuriree lor his services in the Revolutionary The Oaklands association is planning to restore the two- story mansion on the property as part of the program. Martin said yesterday the group will start raising funds for that part of the project next week.

11 a.m. yesterday, during the aft- while Mrs, Kelley stopped to talk Martin said letters asking for at the bar. Shortly thereafter Mrs. Kelley went into a store room in donations will be mailed tomorrow the back and then three shots to about 400 individuals and busi rang out, she said. nesses that have given substantial contributions to past drives.

ernoon. From its questions to the pros pective jurors, the defense Indicated it would claim Mrs. Kelley shot Mrs. Gladys Haskins Nolan in self defense. The shooting occurred the night of Oct.

25 in a csfe here. It Js understood that District Attorney General William Har Dieticiahs To Go Manners Make Friends scrap their public school system rather than submit to integration of the races," Patterson said. Ripping into what he called federal interference with the public schools, the governor said it had caused race relations in his state to deteriorate "to a sad state." "If the federal government continues its present course of trying to force integration of the races in public schools in Alabama and In other states of the South." Patterson said, "the relations between the races will grow worse and our public school system will be 10 vuumuuiy About a dozen Nashville dieti well, and his assistant, Sam Ken-j fef A'ifri I luu mmmmSmAmmiim UPI Telephoto cians will attend the spring meet, in of the Tennessee Dietetic asso ciation at the Mountain View hotel WASHINGTON Gov, John Patterson, center, confers with Alabama's ens. Lister Hill, left, and John Sparkman prior to testifying before the senate subcommittee on constitutional rights. in Gatlinburg, Tenn.

today and to nedy, of Columbia, will ask the jurors for a first degree murder conviction, Stats Calls 4 to Stand The state called four witnesses yesterday. They were Claudie Nolcn, husband of the victim and nominal prosecutor; Mrs. Dorothy Adams, Mrs. Nolen's companion on the evening of the shooting; G. T.

Morton, operator of the cafe. morrow. A fpatura tit thn nieetinar will be chances for speedy passage of at Macon, said the 1957 Mrs. Adams said that when she got to the back room, Mrs. Kelloy was holding a .38 automatic pistol and Mrs.

Nolen was lying on the floor in the door way of a rest room. When Mrs. Kelley was at the bar, she had asked where Mrs. Nolen was, Morton, the cafe operator, said. He testified he told her Mrs.

Nolen was in the rest room, Mrs. Kelley then left the bar headed for the rear of the cafe, but stopped to talk with her father for a minute, he said. Witness to Shooting The last witness to testify was Mrs. Haskins the victim's sister. She said she was in the rest room with Mrs.

Nolen whfn Mrs. Kelley entered and said, "Gladys you sent for me." Mrs. Haskins said Mrs. Nolen answered she had not sent for Mrs. Kelley, who then pulled a gun and shot three times.

Defense attorneys Lon MacFar-land and Jerry Colley asked Mrs. Haskins why she told them before act was unconstitutional in giving ministration proposals in the civil gion's industrial growth. The new leadership, he said, would open new and better schools instead of closing them. a discussion of "Space Nutrition" and the compact, yet complete, diet that will be necessary for the world's first spacemen, This will "How long it will take, none may The Aiaoama cnier executive, backed by other Southern witnesses, led an assault on civil rights legislation now before congress. He appeared first before a senate judiciary subcommittee, then before a similar house group.

In his appearance before the Ben- and Alice Haskins, Mrs. Nolen's da aiscussea oy jmish jane cuds ui Wnshine-ton. sDecial feedine and nutrition advisor for the U.S. Quar say for sure," he said. "Years will pass, perhaps a few, perhaps many, but that leadership in a time of intercontinental missiles, of machines which think and of If a boy Is old enough to have dates he should be old enough to know that he should stand up the attorney general power to seek injunctions against private citizens.

Ralph McGill Says South To Shelve Old Cultures NEW YORK (UPD Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, predicted yesterday the South eventually would break away from old cultures and traditions and turn to a new political leadership more in tune with the re rights field. Rogers referred to dismissal of the first two voting rights cases brought by the justice de- partment under the 1957 civil rights act. Last month, a federal district court in Montgomery dismissed a suit against 'voting registrars in Macon county, Alabama, holding the action was killed by resignation of the registrars. Last week, a federal district termaster general's office. when his dates mother comes great concentrations of popula Also on tne program win oe talk by Miss Edith Jones, chief of nntritinn aprvirea flt the National ate subcommittee, Patterson sharply criticized the Civil Rights Commission, which investigated alleged denial of Negro voting rights in into the room.

Saying "Hi" and not bothering to get up isn't just Informal, it is downright rude. Institute of Health in Bethesda, tions, will not consider the greatest issue to be where a colored man shall sit In a streetcar, or where his child will go to school." Alabama, and a panel discussion on community health care. that Alabama officials had discriminated against Negroes the trial that Mrs. Nolen had a knife, but did not mention this in seeking to vote, the governor said the Investigation had seriously damaged race relations in the testimony. Mrs.

Haskins answered because Mrs. Kelley had been so South. Also, he said, it has "fur ister. Nolan testified that he knew nothing of the facts in the shooting and. said he and his wife were separated at the time.

His testimony mainly concerned his wife's character, Nolen1 testified that on one occasion she struck him with an ice pick and at another time attempted to cut him. Nolen said he usually provoked her attacks by running around with other women and one time had shotiat her. Prs-Shooting Events The testimony of Mrs. Adams, who lives near Portland described events leading up to the shooting. She said that she and Mrs.

Kelley began the night at Irene's No. 1, one of Mrs. Kelley's two beer taverns, known as Irene's No. 1 and Irene's No.) 2. ther injured the already strained nice to her, Riven her a job three weeks after the shooting and driven her around town.

She then tes tified Mrs. Nolen ftot have a knife. She also testified she had relations between the federal and state governments." Meanwhile, Attorney General William P. Rogers told a news conference two recent court setbacks the federal government suffered would Improve, rather than hinder. married Mrs.

Kelley's nephew a few, weeks ago. Want Ads save time. UT Expels Ex-Nashvillian In Monday's Panty Raid She testified that during their conversation at Irene No. 1 she heard Mrs. Nolen's name men tioned, whereupon Mrs.

Kelley said, Til kill that when I find her." as a result of a two-hour panty raid Monday night. KNOXVILLE Pete Prince, 23, a former Naahvilllan, was one of seven students expelled from the University of Tennessee yesterday Later, she and Mrs. Kelley went to Irene No. 2, Mrs. Adams said But Prince, a graduate Journalism student, said ha had nothing to do with the noisy demonstrations outside the girls' dormitories on the UT campus.

"I was lust there takintr pic tures for the Orange and White, the campus newspaper," he said. Prince said Assistant Dean Charles Burchett accused him of Down Delivers tr THIS SOFA-BED Oompare fit 79s5 i I JtJMSF?" i a waving his camera to urge on other students in the raid. In fact. Prince said, he was waving the camera to get students out of the way so he could make his picture. University officials said three of the dropped students would have to apply to the administrative council for readmission, while the others were dropped only for the current quarter and may return to the university for the summer session.

They de-dined to name the students, but it was learned that Johnny Smithson, a freshman from Pu-laski, was among them. Prince volunteered the Informs-tion to newsmen that ha was one of thoss expelled. Prince said he Is one of those who may return In the summer and that he plans to do so. "I'm out mv tuition is lost, my grades are 'Ff for this quarter, but I'll try lo go back," he said. Prince, a graduate of Peabody college, did free lance work for Peabodv publications while in Nashville.

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