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1 Tiffi TENNE Friday Dec. 29, 1972 Page 17 iL, Friday's Sold fo New York Chain Kuykendall Says Farmers Need Action By TOM GILLEM TGI Friday's, a Nashville restaurant which opened its doors to youthful crowds and instant success 14 months ago, has been sold to its parent firm for $400,000, a former stockholder said last night. Mark Clark Bates, who was one of four stockholders in the restaurant, located at 2214 Elliston Place, said the business was purchased last week and is now being managed by TGI Friday's of New York. BATES SAID the original investment in the restaurant, which opened in September 1971 to woo primarily the under 30 crowd, was $75,000, Other stockholders were Dr. Joel Berlin, Nashville dentist, Alan Stilman, originator of the New York Friday's and Carl Kantor of Nashville, the restaurant's general manager.

"Friday's is now in complete control of the New York owners," said Bates, who added that Kantor is remaining as general manager a few more weeks to assist in the transitional period. Bates said other Friday's are located in Memphis, Little Rock, and Houston. "I'M SURE they (the New York investors) plan to open more Friday's in other cities," he said. "And I think they want to own all of them." Each of the other outlets is operated on a franchise basis. The Nashville restaurant, however, was considered a partnership with the New York organization because of Stilman's investment capital.

Friday's, which Bates said has never failed to show a profit since the day it opened, has become extremely popular with young Middle Tennesseans. RICHLY DECORATED in a casual, Gay Nineties atmosphere, Friday's specializes in hamburgers, the most popular of course, being the Friday Burger. The menu also includes steaks, salads and omelets, fortified with a full array of mixed drinks served from a bar reminescent of an old saloon. Bates, who is president of Tex Ritter's Chuck Vagon System is also a stockholder in Mozart's Square, a collection of three restaurants, a theater and a penny arcade located at Broadway and Division Street. His brother, William Buford Bates, a Nashville attorney, is president of Mozart's Square.

Included in the square is Mozart's, a Viennese restaurant, Figaro's, an Italian restaurant, and the Cumberland Valley Jockey Club (Jock's), which is designed to appeal to the same clientele as Friday's. Count To Be Used By Planners By KIRK LOGGINS State Planning Office representatives and planning directors from development districts across the state agreed yesterday to use Tennessee Valley Authority population projections i future plans, rather than figures prepared by the University of Tennessee's Center for Business and Economic Research. The TVA projections, released Dec. 21, showed 92 Tennessee counties gaining population and only three declining over the next three decades, while the figures released on Thanksgiving Day, had shown 51 counties gaining and 44 coun 90 Years Worth of Living Rape SUSpedS Retiring Churchman Sees Ciange Held in Sumner; MEMPHIS Emergency congressional action is needed and expected to aid farmers facing both ruin from ex-, cessive rains and a halt to Related Story Page 38. further emergency loans from the federal government, a Memphis congressman said yesterday.

Rep. Dan Kuykendall, R- contacted in Pennsylvania where he is vacationing, said he expects an emergency bill will be submitted shortly after Congress reconvenes Wednesday. REP. JAMIE L. Whitten, chairman of the agriculture appropriations subcommittee, probably will introduce the measure, Kuykendall said.

The Agriculture Department revealed Wednesday that the Farmers Home Administration has been directed to quit making emergency loans to farmers in disaster areas in order to counteract inflation and to adhere to its budget. Farmers, meanwhile, were caught in a dilemma. "The only people who One Wounded Training Union Board, an agency of the National Baptist Convention, USA, since 1951, said he will go to his board meeting in Hot Springs, and ask to be released from his duties. AMONG HIS duties for 21 years has been directing the publishing of four quarterlies By W. A.

REED Ttnntutan Rtligion Nwi Editor A 90-year-old Baptist church executive, Dr. Countee R. Williams, said yesterday he will retire in September 1973 because "when you reach 90 years you are in a different world." Dr. Williams, executive secretary of the National Baptist for the church training of young people and young adults. They include the "Highroad" quarterly for young adults; the "Counselor" quarterly for junior high Union members; the "National Baptist Youth Quarterly" and the "Junior Union" Quarterly.

Director of publications for the training units is Mrs. Vada P. Felder. The Baptist Training Union Board is an auxiliary of the convention like the Sunday School Board that is based here in Nashville. "WE HAVE the task of training Baptists in thousands of churches," Williams said yesterday.

Channel 2 May Be 8 By Summer Robert Shepherd, general manager of WDCN-TV, Metro's educational station, said yesterday he hopes to conclude a pioposed "channel swap" with WSIX-TV and begin broadcasting over Channel 8 "by this summer." The Federal Communications Commission has finished hearing arguments for. and against the proposal and has taken the case "under advisement." IF THE FCC approves the channel swap, both stations will benefit, according to Shepherd, who explained that his station badly needs new facilities, color equipment, and a new transmitting tower. Wednesday, the Metro Planning Commission gave its approval to the proposed issuance of $1,344,300 worth of school bonds, pledged against the sales tax. Shepherd said the money will be used for construction of a new birilding somewhere near the present WSIX-TV tower. The school board had already approved the proposal and it will now come before the Budget and Finance Committee of the Metro Council.

weren't planning on applying are the farmers who don't know about the program," said M. V. Williams Jr. of Friendship, Tenn. Williams is president of the West Tennessee Tributaries Association and a large landowner in Tennessee.

"EVERYBODY'S affected," he said. "At least 65 of the soybeans are still in the field and a lot of the cotton was never picked the first time." "A lot of our boys are going to be in pretty terrible shape here," said Obion County Agent Joe Martin. "It's a little bit early to predict what will happen, but we still have 50,000 acres of goybeans in the fields," Martin said. "We've lost a whole lot already and I don't know what's going to happen to the rest of them." 'f jf CV'Vih 5S- 141' d-Ms ties, mostly rural, losing population during the same period. "WE JUST want to get some uniform population projections around the state, so that everybody is working under the same assumptions," Nile Schoening, director of the state planning division, said after yesterday's meeting.

"The TVA figures took out all the high spots and low spots and evened out the edges, whereas, in the UT projections, there were real peaks and valleys," Schoeining said. The UT figures projected more rapid growth in most of the counties surrounding Nashville than did the TVA report, but both showed substantial growth i Davidson County and its suburbs, with the only major difference being in Robertson County, where TVA predicted a 43.98 growth rate, compared to 7.3 foreseen by UT. AGREEMENT on one set of figures is necessary for dealing with federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, a dispenser of water and sewage treatment grants, another participant in yesterday's discussion of the projection problem said. "If there is any reason for an agency like ours to deviate from the projections we use i in applying for grants, we have to show why we are making the change," said Larry Rayburn, planning director for the i -1 erland Development which serves Davidson and 12 surrounding counties. Following release of the UT figures, many political and business leaders in counties with projected deficits were sharply critical of the figures, saying the study was not based on a broad enough range of local factors.

THE UT Center said its findings were based on medium fertility, migration and death rates, while TVA said it consulted local and state officials over a three-year period in preparing its projections. "These projections should not be thought of as predictions of the future, but as baseline numbers," Schoening said yesterday. "If a planner for a given county, especially in a rapidly growing suburban area, feels that growth there will be faster than had been projected, he should show in his plans why he feels this will take place." Schoening said he felt EPA and other federal agencies "will allow some latitude in this area." GALLATIN Two Westmoreland men charged with rape remained in Sumner County Jail last night one recovering from a shoulder wound suffered as he fled from police Wednesday night. Larry Clark, 25, was recovering from a pistol wound in the left shoulder inflicted by patrolman Harold Perry near a tavern here when Clark reached into his pocket "in a threatening manner," according to the officer. CLARK AND Sherman Driver were charged with the alleged rape late Wednesday of a Bethpage woman after she gave police a description and license number of the car of her purported assailants, which was registered to Clark.

The suspects, who were held without bond, face a preliminary hearing before General Sessions Court Judge George Hamilton at 9 a.m. Jan. 8. Police Sgt. Ed Felts said officers Perry and Caldwell Jenkins spotted a car, matching the description and license plate number given by the woman, i the tavern.

FELTS SAID the two officers entered and asked who was the owner of the car outside. Though no one would admit ownership of the vehicle, two men left the establishment quickly, he said. Felts said Perry and Jenkins followed the men outside. Jenkins remained at the car while Perry followed the men across the street where they stood by a closed restaurant. Perry asked Clark for his identification, notified the two men they were under arrest, and Clark ran, Felts said.

Police declined to comment on details of the alleged assault. Tass Says 1972 Important Year MOSCOW (UPI)r-The Official Soviet news agency Tass said Tuesday history would recall 1972 as "the year of important diplomatic initiatives." Tass, in an annual report, cited the normalizing of relations between West and East Germany as "one of the greatest achievements toward improving the European climate." The agency said it was the Soviet desire to see the improved climate spread to other continents that made the Kremlin decide to hold talks with President Nixon in May. Williams who was born on March 2, 1882 and has been a Baptist preacher since 1906, discussed his view of the world and his personal philosophy yesterday. "This world is a new world," he said, "because as a youngster I never dreamed of automobiles, airplanes, radios and television sets." WILLIAMS SAID he believed the airplane has been man's greatest invention since it brought men of the world together. "I remember when I used to get excited watching the steamboats of the Lee Line come by Fulton, on their way to Cairo, 111., or to Memphis.

"I worked on those boats as a waiter when I was young, and I remember my first train ride and how we waved at people as we pulled into or left a town." DESPITE HIS age Williams' philosophy about the world around him is an optimistic one. "I think the world is turning in a better direction because someone is being converted every day and I believe the prayers of the good people of the world keep us in a good direction." Williams recalled how he became a Baptist pastor: "I went to see the late Dr. T. O. Fuller, then pastor of the First Baptist Church Memphis, and instead of talking about the business he kept telling me I was called to preach.

"1 DIDN'T want to be a preacher for my father was a poor preacher and we lived in a two-room house in Covington, Tenn." Williams said after he left Fuller's office he had a strange feeling that stayed with him for days. "I've never had such a feeling since but the feeling stayed with me until I got my first church in Arkansas." He said yesterday he attributes his longevity to one fact: "I always honored my father and mother, and the Bible says if you do that your days will be long." THE TOTAL cost of relocating WDCN in a new facility and outfitting it with new equipment is expected to be $2,985,703. The school bonds make up 45 of that total. The rest will come from a federal grant ($886,403) and WSIX according to Shepherd. WSIX-TV is anxious to make the channel swap because it is presently at a technical disadvantage in competition with channels 4 and 5.

The higher range of channels (8-13) cannot be broadcast as far as the lower range (2-7). WSIX hopes to increase the size of its audience by using channel 2 just as WDCN hopes to increase the size of its audience by broadcasting with modern equipment and a better lower. THE SITUATION Is the same for cotton and soybean farmers across the Midsouth, with scores of counties having sought disaster aid. Two months of nearly steady rain has turned fields into quagmires, preventing harvesting, and damaging the crop. In addition, Martin noted that many farmers "booked" their crops during the summer, selling them for $3 to $3.25 a bushel and guaranteeing to deliver this fall.

NOW. HE SAID, the beans are spoiling in the fields and soybeans are selling for $4.25 a bushel. Either the farmers will have to get the beans in, or come up with the price difference to the buyers. He said one large grain dealer told him farmers had yet to deliver 100,000 bushels of beans booked in the summer. A spokesman for a large grain dealer in Memnhis.

whn Staff photo by Robert Johnson He Brought Me Through' Dr. Countee R. Williams, the 90-year-old executive secretary of the National Baptist Training Board, talks with his secretary, Miss Dorothy Cibbs. Conventions Level Off After Hike 27 conventions met here with a total attendance of 13,504. The report said 1971 was the best convention year for Nashville of the 7-year period surveyed.

The figures for that year are: Number of conventions 200. Attendance 78,844. Biggest month October with 28 conventions and total attendance of 12,080. The report said records for July, August and September of 1966 were not available and estimates for those months were made on the basis of figures for corresponding months in other years. The August 1966 estimate of two conventions and 8,100 attendance reflected the Southeastern Shrine Convention that met in the city that month.

Kinney said he would guess that the Shrine conclave was By ALEX BONTEMPS The number of conventions with attendance exceeding 100 has nearly tripled since 1966 according to a report released yesterday by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Correspondingly, the report said the number of "first class hotel rooms" in the city has more than tripled during the same period from 2,513 in 1966 to 5,768 in 1972. COMPARISON of 19 7 1 figures with 1972, however, showed a 10 drop in the number of conventions and total attendance. Richard M. Kinney, vice president of the chamber's convention and visitors section, said the schedule of conventions for 1973 indicates that "we will probably continue to hold at the 1972 level." If his estimate for 1973 proves correct, Kinney said Nashville will continue to be a major tourist destination, but will "remain a relatively minor convention center." The chamber's report only listed conventions with an estimated attendance of 100 or more.

Attendance figures were then computed by taking 80 of the estimate because, the report said, most convention planners tend overestimate anticipated attendance by that amount. IN 1966 the total number of people attending the 64 conventions held here that year was 25,176. In November 1967 liquor by the drink was legalized and by 1972 the number of conventions had risen to 179 with a total attendance of 69,832. The biggest single month for conventions here, according to the report, was in April 1972. In that month Liberality Can Gof WILLIAMS SAID he is driven to work now by his wife, Mrs.

Elnora W. Williams, and by another "lady chauffeur." "I read the Bible daily. I believe there is a God and a better place than this, and when we part here it is not forever. "I have been in so many difficult situations in my life and in many of them I had to give up and say 'Let God's will be done' but He brought me through." He said he eats a good breakfast, a glass of milk for lunch and does not touch pork in any form. "I tried to retire last year but they re-elected me again, and now I am going to Hot Springs and tell them to let me go." Too Fan Br i ley Mayor Beverly Briley said yesterday recent the largest convention ever held in Nashville.

Unofficial estimates indicate that 10,000 Shriners attended the meeting in addition to their families. THE SHRINERS are scheduled to again meet in Nashville between Aug. 22 and 24, 1974, Kinney said. Trade shows were not counted by the report nor were events such as the National Quartet Convention and International Country Music Fan Fair, which, the report said, are a series of musical performances rather than a convention. Of the 1972 conventions held here, the report said, approximately 60 were statewide in nature, 20 were regional and 20 rational or international in scope.

KINNEY explained that a slight increase in regional and national conventions occurred starting in 1969. "This probably is attributable to such things as an increase in new hotels and motels, normal growth of the city's economy which has resulted in more groups interested in sponsoring conventions, nationwide interest in Nashville because of our growing 'Music City' image and, course, legalization of liquor by the drink," he said. The chamber's schedule of events and conventions for 1973 includes: The NCAA Mideast Regional Basketball Tournament to be held at Vanderbilt University from March 15 through 17; the Tennessee Baptist Youth Evangelistic Conference from March 30 to 31, and the Tennessee Education Association from April 11 to 13. asked not to be identified, said his firm is trying to work with the farmers. "WE'RE ACCEPTING beans with up to 2 0 moisture, which normally we wouldn't do, and taking other action to try and help farmers performing contracts," said.

The man warned that farmers need to be careful in trying to store beans, since the excessive moisture can cause them to spoil in storage. John Butler, chief grain inspector for the Memphis Board of Trade, predicted that prices will go even higher as planting season approaches. MARTIN SAID some farmers are seeking to buy back their contracts now, to avoid paying the higher price later. Butler said there is expected to be a shortage of seed beans at planting time in the spring, although the problem may be eased by bringing in seed from the Carolinas and other parts of the Southeast where harvesting weather was better. "Things are getting worse by the day for farmers," said Kuykendall.

"He has got to live and what he's interested in now is a loan to pay his bills, carry him through winter and get his new crop planted in the spring." IN ANNOUNCING freeze on loans, officials said the Nixon administration has been alarmed by a recent sharp increase in emergency loans made by the FHA, with an estimated potential backlog of between $200 million and $600 million for the fiscal year ending June 30. raids on two nightspots in Printer's Alley resulted from complaints "from some very liberal people that their wives were embarrassed." Interviewed after a speech to members of Junior Achievement, Briley disputed a statement by Acting Police Chief Hugh Mott that he was not consulted prior to the raids. Dickson Shopping Center To Be Built on Highway 46 of the development president firm. "HE (MOTT) was consulted," Briley said, adding that the acting chief was consulted about the complaints but not about the actual raids, jj The mayor described Nashville as a "somewhat 5 liberal city. But liberality can go too far." He said he has been receiving complaints in 5 his office "as much as six or eight weeks ago, and (Acting) Chief Mott had them in his office." Jt Asked when Metro will a a permanent police chief, Briley said he plans to appoint one "within another 30 days." A few minutes later, when a television reporter asked for confirmation of the quotation "within another 30 days," the may-4 or said, "I think so." Asked if the permanent chief will be from Nashville or from out of town, Briley replied, "I A don't know." Plotter Against Iran's Dictator New Envoy TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Ardeshir Zahedi, who 19 years ago engineered the revolution that overthrew dictator Mohammed Mossadegh, is becoming Iran's ambassador to Washington.

The appointment was announced last night. Zahedi, 44, was educated in the United States. He has served previously as ambassador to the United Spates and Britain and as foreign minister. For several months he has been vacationing in Switzerland. of January 1974," S'orey said.

"Our company is negotiating with several major tenants for the center at the present time," he added, but declined to elaborate. The Storey firm has developed some 30 shopping centers in five Southern states, including several in Nashville and one in Plans for a proposed $1 million shopping center, to be built on an 11-acre tract on Highway 46, near the southeastern city limits, were announced here yesterday. Carl Storey Nashville, has reached a tentative agreement with the R. P. Beasley heirs for the purchase of the land at a price "over $100,000," said Carl Storey, THE PROPOSED shopping center, which would be the second here, is to have about 75,000 square feet in floor space and parking for 600 cars.

"If all agreements are reached as planned, construction should start between now and February and will be completed by the end.