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THI NASH VILLI TINN1SSIAN, MswdVy Mernlng, Aug. 25, 15t Little Bridge, Big And a Silver Lining Your Money's Worth And Now We Have Zipperless Zippers! You'll Be Seeing This New Invention This Auturnn By SYLVIA PORTER NEW YORKThe zipper horror story of my life to date happened about 10 years ago. I had been invited to a formal dinner party for 12 in New York city jn honor of a world-famous British diplomat. 777 if 1 A4UA fj Woman Beaten, lift Tied Up Stripped First; Man Sought Also Suspect In Shooting Case A middle-aged iplnttar was locked in weflhouse near her home yesterday, atripped and beaten unconacioua with a piece of metal pipe, Joywood-Ewlng police reported. Chief Allan and Aatt.

Chief Geojge Collier aaid they wart aeaking Aaron Legg, 29, a Negro who lives nearby, aa a autpect in the cata. The beaten woman, Mia Annla 'E. Meadows, 66, of 2525 Whltea Creek pike, la lilted in aertoua condition at General hospital with head injuries and a fractured finger. Freed Hercules Talley, a Negro who operates a service station next door, said he frepd Miss Mea dows from tha wellhouse about 2 p.m. yesterday after hearing her groaning.

Har clothes wara crumpled In a bloody heap. Blood waa spattered along tha tin side of tha narrow wellhouse. Miss Meadows said she had bean unconscious for several hours. Capt William Breedlove of Joy-wood said the woman told him Legg came to her two-room house "yesterday morning, told tnrhe was going: to rob her and kill her, and forced her to the wellhouse. A warrant was Issued for Lgg charging him with assault with Intent to commit murder.

Ha was atlll at large last night. Shooting Suspect Lt. Ernest Kelley of Joywood said Legg waa also auapected of shooting Howard Denson, 21, of 123 Spring; early yesterday morning. Denaon, shot at a.m. yes terday on Lock road near Whites Creek pike, is in fair condition at i burrs.

Instead of being annoyed, he waa intrigued: Why did burrs stick so to hia clothing? Synthetic Burn In' search of the answer, ha spent four years of research and then, in collaboration with a Swiss loom builder, be created what were, In effect, aynthetio burrs two strips of nylon material, one composed of, tens of thousands of microscopic hooks, the other of tens of thousands of microscopic loops. These two strips are now "Velcro," the zipperless zipper. For when the two strips touch sach other, the hooks engage the loops and form a bond of superb strength. When the strips are peeled apart, tha hooks disengage themselves from ths loops and the closure opsns. De Mestral and the group behind him obtained patents in, Europe and America.

In 1957 Velek Ltd. of Montreal acquired all rights for North and South America, Japan and some other areas. From Velek have coma American Velcro, of New Hampshire and Velcro Sales of New York and these are now handling all production and marketing of the new fastener in our country. ri I 8.. 4 JL I am i i Photo by Larry May Residents of Brentwood Hall struggle to rtmovt wooden footbridge swept away by flood waters from its, location behind a house on Trousdale drive.

The bridge jammed against a culvert on Mill Creek backing flood waters into houses and yards in tha area. Staff photo by Bill Preston Every storm has a silver lining and for the children of the Crieve Hall neighborhood, the silver lining was the fun they have in playing in flood waters backed up in the front yard of Robert H. Dawson of 4920 Briarwood drive. Keeping a watchful eye over the youngsters il Mrs. Ed Cunningham of 4908 Briarwood, a neighbor, Flash Deluge Hits (Continusd From Page One) About 75 feet off the pike, he Fnr thi frosty occasion, I wore a hlgn-necK, iorm-iuung gray silk dinner dress which zlppered been aeated at the table, I heard a tiny sound and then auddenly, I felt uncomfortably more comfortable.

In mounting ter- Sylvia Porter ror, I put my left hand behind my back and felt. Yes, my whole rear. my whole back, from neck down was emerging. Even today, when I recall the Incident, I break out in goose pimples. And thus, lt Is with understandable enthusiasm, that I give you today an exclusive report on this news: A "zipperless zipper" has been invented finally.

The new fastening device which is on my desk aa I type this and which I have been opening and closing, opening and closing for days is in many waya potentially more revolu tionary than was the zipper a Soon on the Market It will be coming on the market this fall and next spring when some of Amerlca'a top manufacturers Including makers of men's, women'a and children's coats, jackets, slacks, skirts, shoes, belts, bathing suits and undergarments, as well as makers of luggage, upholstery, surgical bandages, etc. In- troduce new products using the closure- no when the first upper, less zipper becomes available to you, it is a virtual certainty It will ba towering competition for all other types of closures zippers, buttons, snaps, toggles. Many of you are bound to be curious about its history and the story behind it. So hers goss with a first report. It was back In 1948 that a Swiss inventor, Georges de Mestral, went for a walk in the mountaina near his home in the town of Nyon, Switzerland, and became entangled In a patch of all the way and I mean I 1 all the way I I up the back.

A few minutes f- I after we had il Geenral hospital with a bullet wound ln hla chest. 1 A companion, Paul Brewlngton, 20, of 1002 North Eighth said Uenson waa shot by a Negro who called the boya off Whites Creek plka to offer them a clgaret. Bar lo Study Judgeships Missing Minister Well Imp said, the Negro ahot Denson and ordered Brewlngton to take off his clothes. Brewlngton said ha waa disrob ing when a passing car apparently frightened the Negro, and ha ran awav. Known 7 In this same letter he said the gift from the Glendale chuYch had been applied to payments on a new one-story building at Fort National.

The building contains both a new chapel Rnd washroom facilities for tlie boya home, he said. Graduated in 1951 Griffith received his bachelor of divinity degree from Vanderbilt in 1951. He spent three years at the school, commuting in a green Jeep station wagon from Little Lot and Nunnelly, in Hickman county, where he served as minister. The trip was more than 100 miles each day. Following two more years of study, one In Connecticut and the other in Paris, he went to Algeria.

About a year ago he returned to the United, States on leave and visited Edenton Methodist church in Raleigh, which supported him. Congress Closes (Continued From Pags One) that the compromise figure was In adenuate. "In mv oolnion we're tnkinir 7 atH, morrow by the U.S. westher bu reau, "at least not with such vengeance," forecaster Charlea Self said last night. "The weather Monday will be partly cloudy and mild, clearing up to fair and mild on Tuesday," he said.

High yesterday was 84 and the low waa 70 degrees. Self said the high today will be 80 degrees and the low in the mld-60s. Self said the rain was caused by "a little stationary front" running from Virginia through Tennessse and Into Texas. "There's another cold front in Illinois now, but we expect it to dissipate before resching Middle Tennessee," Self said. Engineera at Old Hickory lake aaid the lake level last night was 444.6.

Before the rain struck with Its full force the lake level was 443.7, they said. Normal pool is 445 feet. 2 Archers Slay 10-Foot Alligator FORT WALTON. Fla. CD Two archers killed a 10-foot long, 250-pound marauding alligator Saturday night with four broad head arrowa.

Dan W. Hatchett and Art J. Kelley shot the big reptile at Pip-pen Lake at the entrance of Choc-tawhatchee bay near a recreation area for personnel of the Maxwell Air Force base, Montgomery. PSOOf, GOROON'S DRY GIN LINDEN. N.

I LOS ANGELES (jD A propo-' sal to remove judicial appoint ments from the "area of political patronage" will be considered by the American Bar association at its annual convention opening today, A resolution will be presented to the delegatea urjring the creation or an independent commission to aid the President in screening candidates for federal Judgeships. The resolution waa prepared by the bar associations comittee on federal judiciary and the commit tee on judicial selection, tenure and compensation. The resolution said "Judicial appointments ahould bo completely removed from the area of political patronage." Another resolution to be considered by tha bar delegates is one proposing a continuation of the association 60- year -old ban on courtroom news photography and broadcasting. Explorer Fails (Continusd From Page One) Ilantly sure and steady liftoff and climb toward the stars. Spurting a yellow flame 100 feet long, the rocket rose vertically for several seconds, gulping its tons of propellent at the rate of 50 gallons a second.

Several seconds after tha launching, when it had attained aerodynamic stability, the rocket started tilting gradually Into ita curved ballistic path towards the northeast. Onlookers at the missile test center and on the miles of beaches facing the launch area aaw the vehicle climb on a tail of fire through the star-sprinkled aky for a full 2Vi minutes. Then the rocket flame flickered out in a puff of white smoke. Ap parently the modified Redstone missile first stage of the rocket had separated from tha upper stages some 60 miles aloft, exact ly as planned. After the first atage burnout, the upper stages could still be followed along their course for 20 or more seconds, by tha red hot lower end of the vehicle.

General Broke News Three hours after the firing, Brig. Gen. John A. Barclay, chief of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, aaid the chances of an orbit for Explorer appeared to be very remote, Barclay said that after an Initial report from Fort Monmouth, no further signals have been received from the satellite although there had been time by then for a complete orbit around the earth. Barclay said the men in charge of the project would have to wait for further information before de termining what had happened.

In Washington, officials of the International Geophysical Year said in a statement that Initial data indicated all four atages fired successfully and that signals were received from the satellite during the first few minutes but not from the later tracking ata-tinna in its orbital path. Rand Araskog, a special consultant to the defense department's advance research projects agency, told newsmen here that it was possible that the next Explorer satellite would repeat the assignment intended for Explorer "or it could be assigned to do other things." Shaped like an oversize artillery shell, the satellite weighed 37Vs pounds, four-tenths of a pound more than the successful Explorer given as oS.lj pounds, to Si.i i pounds. ClamOrina for It Even before production was begun here, several far-alghted Americans who had heard rumors of the invention were clamoring for it. Among them was Louis Kuhn, president of Chief Apparel, one of the top three firms in the men'a and boys' outerwear and sportswear field, and Kuhn ia introducing Velcro on his firm's jackets via a nationwide TV and newspaper promotion In September. Kuhn otmnot he told me that Chief ADParel is "uncondi- tionally guaranteeing Velcro te outlast the life of any garment it is on" and that he ia sure it will "immediately outdate every other type of closure." It's probable that the closure will become not only an Integral part of much that we wear and use but also will stimulate welcome Innovations.

For instance, on diapers and surgical bandages. P.S. No, you can't buy ths stock. I asked too. The powers behind this invention havs a closed corporation.

shop tonight both downtown and Crtsn Hi I la 4 sixes 12-20, Jr and sites M'i-24', to recover gravel and crushed stone which had washed away from driveways and patios. Housewives propped up battered ahruba and made bouquets out of beaten down flowera. A "hot wire" dangled dangerous ly at Chancery lane and Forsythe place in Belle Meade, and telephone cables were burned through by lightning in several places. Debris cluttered sewers and backed water into yards and cellars nearly everywhere. Power Lines Hit Leonard Sisk.

general manacer of Nashville Electric Service, said although several power lines were knocked out, "I've received no report of any unusual damage." Water backed up from Mill creek entered houses along Mar- chant drive. Robert W. Morgan of 5052 Marchant aaid water entered his garage, but did little damage. But it certainly covered the yard," he aaid. "Water waa backed up all around here." James R.

Wesson of 5048 Mar-chant aaid more than four inches of rainwater swirled around his tile-floor den. "I worked for about two hours with some neighbors cleaning that water out," Wesson said, "but it didn't do much damage. The rest ot my house la anout two leet oil the groifnd, but the water had me worried a little. It really backed up around here, he aaid. No rain Is forecast through tO' as 100 NEUIRAl SPIRITS OlSTHLtD FROM CUM, 94.4 1 1, rWHDwW 'Ny l) Meres no know (Continued From Pags One) Wrlgley.

"Everybody at hla ehurchea here la mlghtly downhearted at tha nawa about him, Wa hopa and pray ha will ba found." Martin said Griffith had visited Hickman county while home on leave about a year. ago. "Ha and his family wara Just fina and wa wars all glad to aee him," Martin said. Ha ahowad us pieturss of his work and ha waa doing a good Job over In Algeria." Tha 33-year-old Ohio-born and Vanderbllt-e a a mlflnlonnry waa apparently seized by rebela a week ago aa he whs returning to a remote Algerian missionary post to aea hia wife and three children. Glendale Cables Wife Aa tha search continued, Nashville's Glendale Methodist church cabled ita spiritual support to Mrs.

Griffith. "Glendale Methodist church ts praying for your comfort and Lester's safety," read tha cable aigned by tha Rev, Winfrey C. Link, minister of tha church and Griffith'a classmate at Van-darbilt divinity school. Tha church recently sent Griffith $100 to help In hia work, and had a long-range plan to eventually support him in full. "Lester had the missionary uplrit when we were in school together and that la a reason why we selected him to help aupport," Link said.

"He was absolutely' dedicated and ha wasn't getting much other aupport." Church Gats 2 Letters The Glendale church has received two tetters from him. On April 28, he wrote: "I am responsible for two centers of work here In the Atlas mountains among the Kabvle tribes. Hera at Fort National we have a hoys' home. Some 60 miles away (at Lea Oudhlaa) wa have a dispensary where two McthodlBt nurses from Europe work. "We are able to carry on our work even In these trying times.

We are thankful, yet our hearta are heavy aa many of our frienda, both Kabyle and French, have been killed, wounded, or imprisoned. "Yet we seem to ba respected by both sides and are not bothered in any direct and violent way. The only trace so far of Griffith Is the charred remains of the French-made station wagon he drove dally through the rebel-Infested mountains. It waa found Tuesday. In a letter written Aug.

15, Just three days before his disappearance, Griffith said, "the popula- Andersons (Continued From craft as lt arrives at the Narrows in New York Bay. Hovering over the sub, as lt glidea up the Hudson river to 42nd at on a marine march, will be the naval blimp Snow Goose which made an historic Arctic flight about the time the Nautilua was sailing under the pole. Rear Adm. Hyman C. Rick-ever, the sparkplug in tha development of atomic subs will be President Eisenhower's personal rspresantative at the arrival ceremonies.

Rickover will board tha Nautilus by tugboat off Staten Island, then sail with it up the Hudson, back around lower Manhattan and to its dock at the navy yard in Brooklyn. At the Navy yard, Anderson and hia crew will reunite with their; families. Tomorrow, the Navy yard will be open to the public. On Wednesday proclaimed by Mayor Robert F. Wagner aa "USS Nautilus Day" there will be a big ticker tape parade up Eroadway, civic Ceremonies and a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

The Comtnander'a parents are bere as the puesU of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN and the U.S. Naval Reserve Training center in rvasnviiie. itlon ror we but we we the The Rev. Lester E. Griffith and his family are shown before the tiny mountain mission he serves in Algeria.

With him are his wife, Janice, and their children, Valerie Jean, 11, Forrest, 10, and Eric, 3. Sill -1 'Ik ill Gin Me is under heavy duress all through the Kabyle region, "At the dispsniary this morning I had two firsts for me. I pulled out a tooth for a suffering woman and another woman asked me, 'Ah, teacher, do you have any medicine for I told her that I did not have any medicine for it and auggeitsd to her to trust in God and to pray." Arrive Page One) derson. "Ha thinka we're atill down at Bakersvillel' "We have three hams waiting him when he finally geta down home again," she said. "You know always send him a ham on his birthday, Sept.

26. Well, we had three good ones In the smokehouse, the lock was rusty on lt so 1 moved them Into the pantry before left. We never do lock the smokehouse while we're home, but didn't feci we ought to leave them there while we were away." Trip Followed Frantic Day The Andersons' air trip (their first) climaxed a day of frantic preparation yesterday as they closed up" their 1200-acre Middle Tennessee farm for the trip. rememoerea everything except getting somebody to feed cats while we're gone." said Mrs. Anderson, "but I expect they'll make out alt richt." As they boarded the plans at Berry Field for New York, the Andersons were greeted by a large crowd of relatives and old friends from Nashville, some' of whom they hadn't seen for years chances we ought not to take un-jlV.

The army recently corrected der existing world weight of Explorer IV, initially 1,1 -III RUG GLEANING and BLAZER BROS. Just Naturally Go Together! pretty, floral spray print COAT in smooth, fine count cotton! TL Ilff aassrt a Wieelesworth said. Two bills died when the san-sts adjourned. One of these was a compromise measure designed to modify the impact of a supreme court decision which reversed the conviction of a con-fened rapist because of police delay In arraigning him. It was the last of a series of bills aimed at recent supreme court rulings that went down to defeat in the closing days.

The other measure left stranded was a bill proposing the diversion tern Since convening in January, 1957, the 85th congress has grappled with a business recession, Soviet scientific advances, Middle East crises, and the brand new problems of the sp.ice age. The 83th is sure to be reineirr- hrred, too. (or voting Alaska ns the 49th statr to mlrrrit the fir.n new state in 46 years- and for rs "It was a great send-off." said of additional Lke Michlcan wa-Anderson, "and a wonderful trip, jters into the Chicago sanitary sys- Why? Because you you can depend on Blazer know how gained through 50 Years' Rug Cleaning Experience! "Please tell the people there In tbouRht it would be. In fact, it Nashville how crateful we are for'wouldn't take verv to et this opportunity," Anderson said to lt last nieht. I Mrs.

Anderson said they were passing up a revivnl at their loral Greeted By Sons Family Church of Christ in order to make The Andersons were greeted on the trip. Flying is much nicer than I "All the members told ut they wouldn't v.int us to miss tire tr ip. though," she said. "Today, they're so in: si; hi: safe insniit CALL BLAZER BROS. TODAY! Alpine 4-6536 419 MAIM fheir arrival at the Hotel Chatham here bv his wife, Yvonne Etwl Anderson and their son.

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H. An- 1 having dinner on the prni.ind otrt there. I left them some hai becue help out with it." tadllshing a four-cent letter stump after a quarter rrntury of thrce- mail..