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Ford is expected to announce new decisions in U.S. policy toward South Vietnam and Cambodil "THERE is no question in my mind but that they (Turn to Page 8, Column 1) Browns Ferry Fife Wasn't See Campbell cartoon on Page 6. gle," and termed the fleeing of Vietnamese troops in the face of the enemy "sickening." In Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu vowed to hold onto power after a lone South Vietnamese air force plane bombed his palace. Opposition leaders saw the attacks as a warning to Thieu to change his policies or leave office. "I am determined to continue leading this country," said Thieu, who is widely blamed for the military debacle that haslost three-fourths of South Vietnam to Communist-led forces in a month.

Hours after the palace attack Maj. Gen. Nguyen Van Hieu, deputy commander of the 3rd military region that Fram Wire Rtporb Army Chief of Staff Frederick C. Weyand said yesterday South Vietnam can-not survive without additional U. S.

military aid. Weyand met privately with the Senate Armed forces Committee. He was asked by newsmen following that meeting if South Vietnam could survive without additional military aid. Weyand said, "No, they cannot." SEN. HUBERT Humphrey, however, called military aid requests for South Vietnam "a boondog- Witness Stays With Connally Case Charges By CLAY F.

RICHARDS WASHINGTON (UPI) -John Connally's lawyer stacked $10,000 in cash before prosecution witness Jake Jacobsen yesterday in an attempt to discredit his testimony that Connally accepted the money in bribes. Under final cross examination by defense lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, By DWIGHT LEWIS Correction Commissioner Herman L. Yeatman may complete naming his independent board to investigate grievances of inmates at the Tennessee State Penitentiary by the end of this week, it was reported yesterday. "The commissioner wants to set the board up as fast as possible," said Jim Gilchrist, director of public information for the correction department. GILCHRIST added that the board will probably be named the "Commissioners' Review Board." Yeatman announced Monday he would appoint the board after 11 inmates at the West Nashville facility took four counselors hostage and presented prison officials with a list of 11 grievances which ranged from wanting several other inmates released from the prison's maximum security unit to wanting the institution to be inspected by federal officials.

Yeatman said he will appoint himself chairman of the independent board that will meet on a permanent basis at least once a month. He added that the board will include a prison inmate and a former inmate in addition to other persons. GILCHRIST SAID the prison inmate who will serve on the independent board will be named by the general prison population. "We hope to do this by Friday, and not later than Monday," Gilchrist said. "The inmates will have an election to decide who the person serving on the board will be." He added that the election will be held as soon as Yeatman writes a letter to the ftrison population stating the unction of the independent board.

"WE WILL HAVE a paper ballot in each cell block and each inmate will write the name of the person he is voting for and also his own prison number on the paper First: TVA S-H ttmf kr Mmm Wit Silliman Evans Bridge Span Open Cars and trucks move along portion of Silliman Evans I The southbound lanes at right were then closed for Bridge (1-65 and 1-24) which was opened to traffic Sundoy. extensive repairs. Bribe Probe Seeks Name includes Saigon, was killed in his office at Bien Hoa. A Saigon command spokesman indicated that Hieu accidentally shot himslef but he said the case is still under investigation. The spokesman said Hieu had shown fellow officers a 38-caliber pistol he had repaired and after they left the room they heard an explosion.

They returned, the spokesman said, and found Hieu fatally shot. TO THE South and East of Saigon, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces continued heavy shelling and sapper attacks in what appeared to be efforts to close the circle around the jitterey capital. In Cambodia, battles raged in thre center of a key provincial town west of Phnom Penh as Premier Hong Boret returned from a reported meeting with Khmer Rouge leaders. "We will never surrender," he declared. Asst.

Sec. of State Philip Habib said South Vietnam might survive given more U.S. military aid. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Frederick Weyand said it could not survive without it.

ATHENS, fire which shut down the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant followed by less than two days a similar blaze, also caused by workmen using candles to check for air leaks, TVA has confirmed. TVA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) teams investigating the fire which idled the $815 million plant March 22 are trying to determine why the use of candles in leak checks was not halted after the first, much smaller fire, 38 hours earlier, Chris Eckl of the TVA information office said yesterday. "THE PROBLEM was put in the log, but whether or not it got to the proper person's attention, I do not know," Eckl said. "We don't know of any action taken as a result of this (the earlier fire), but this is a part of the information we are attempting to correlate in our investigation of the entire incident" he said. The first fire, reported (Turn to Page Column 4) Jacobsen stuck by his statement that he paid Connally two installments of $5,000 each in return for help in obtaining higher price supports for raw milk.

Jacobsen said Connally returned the money and conspired with him to cover up the payoffs. JACOBSEN was followed on the witness stand by milk producer lobbyist Bob A. Lilly, who testified he raised the $10,000 which allegedly went to Connally. Chief U.S. Dist.

Court Judge George L. Hart twice admonished the jury that Lilly's testimony was only evidence that the (Turn to Page Column 1) By JOHN HAILE A Senate investigating committee agreed yesterday to recall Sen. Carl Koella to seek the name of the person who allegedly pledged campaign contributions in exchange for Koella's vote on whisky price fixing laws. KOELLA HAD appeared before the committee last Thursday and testified that "a friend" led him to believe that he would receive "substantial" campaign contributions from Knoxville liquor dealers if he would vote against repeal of the price fixing laws. testified voluntarily when called on by the committee.

Even yesterday Baird, D-Lebanon, questioned whether Koella would want to disclose the name and said he did not know what they could do to persuade him. Baird, at times shaking with anger, defended the committee against news columns saying that the committee's inquiry had been incomplete. But Koella, a Maryville Republican, said after yesterday's hearing that if the committee insists that he (Turn to Page 8, Column 5) so none of the boxes will get stuffed," Gilchrist said. "After everyone has finished voting, three inmates from each cell block unit will help (Turn to Page 4. Column 2) its investigation further and, specifically, call Koella back before the committee and find out who had made the alleged offer.

THE COMMITTEE also questioned Capitol Hill reporters Drue Smith, a freelance broadcast correspondent, John Parish ot the Jackson Sun and Fred Travis of the Chattanooga Times. Each was placed under oath and asked about the quality of the committee investigation. The reporters had been in the hearing room to report on the investigation and they New Bishop Says Priority Is Helping By W. A. REED TeueiMU BrtUfiaa Nem Editor The Rev.

Msgr. James D. Niedergeses, the newly elected bishop of the Nashville Catholic Diocese, said yesterday his priority will be to help people of the diocese grow into a greater community of love and service. "We have the finest group of priests and laity in the U. and I look forward to working with them and being their servant," Bishop Niedergeses, a former Nashvil-lian and native of Lawren- (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) See editorial, "Senate Has A Solemn Duty In Bribery Probe," on Page 6.

At that time Koella did not volunteer the name of the person who allegedly made the offer and the committee did not press him for the name. The decision to recall Koella came yesterday after the committee abandoned its investigation to quiz Capitol Hill reporters about whether they believed senators have taken bribes and the sources of past rumors of vote buying. ALTHOUGH THE questioning of the news media representatives was purportedly to seek advice about the committee's investigation, the three senators focused on getting the reporters to state under oath that they did not believe the investigation had been a "whitewash." Sen. Bill Baird, one of the committee members, complained about a column in Sunday's Tennessean by Larry Daughtrey which Baird said "left the impression with the public we're all a bunch of crooks up here. This isn't a coverup deal.

We want to do it right." Despite Baird's com-plaints, Daughtrey and Bra-rey Campbell, a reporter for the Nashville Banner told the committee they believed the committee should pursue em 'Godfather, II' Wins Top Award By BOB THOMAS LOS ANGELES (AP) The Godfather, Part II, the continuation of the fictional Don Corleone Mafia family story, was selected as best film of 1974 at the 47th annual Academy Awards last night. Art Carney, the retired teacher on a cross-country trek with a cat in Harry and Tonto and Ellen Burstyn, the housewife on the lam in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, won the best acting acting awards. THE CARNEY VICTORY was a surprise and a welcome one for the Music Center audience, which rose in tribute to the television veteran. Carney went through the ritual of thanking his director, writer, wife and longtime agent, who told Carney to play the aging traveler, saying, "Do it: You are old!" Godlatber II was the grand winner of the 1974 films, (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) 600 Summer Teacher Pacts Terminated move, saying first that Brooks did not have the authority and, secondly, that such an item ought to be negotiated with the MNEA. Swd phot by j.T.

PMUpi Brooks questioned the usefulness of some of the contracts, saying some teachers are continuing to draw supplemental pay or extended contracts even though their job may have been completed. The Metropolitan Nashville Education Association challenged the legality of the contracts may be renewed before this summer, but there were no guarantees. THE BOARD'S action confirmed a move taken last month by the director of schools, Dr. Elbert Brooks, who terminated the contracts in a memorandum issued March 11. By FRANK SUTHERLAND Tnneiieai Education Newt Editor The Metro Board of Education terminated summer contracts for some 600 teachers yesterday, incensing teacher representatives who tried to delay the action.

Board members emphasized that some of the 600 Reporter Questioned THE MNEA filed a formal grievance with the board on this issue and also on Brooks' (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) whicky. Other members of the select committee ore Sen. Leonard Dunavant, sitting next to Baird, and Sen. W.J. Davis.

Tennessean reporter Lorry Daughtry is questioned by Sen. Bill Baird, D-Lebanon, during an inquiry yesterday into allegations of ottempts to buy votes during last week's consideration of legislation repealing price fixing laws on.