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THf MAT Of TV Served by America's Greatest News Agencies NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN At the Crossroads of Natural Gas and Cheap TV A Power Telephone Alpine 5-1221 VOL. 55 No. 277 NASHVILLE, TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 31, 1961 5 CENTS 22 PAGES 1m A fa)1 nnn LaJAiLI re Hijacked Liner Gets Visitor Critics Flay Skeptical of Talk, Costs Official Admits Knowing Prison Firearms Sales Ex-Guard on Trial For Giving Weapon To Life-Term Inmate By PAT ANDERSON s' 4 fc ft fh'mi Inuf ft) 1 7 Navy plane flies over the rebel-held Santa Maria AP WIrephoto in the Atlantic Ocean. 4 ill I Ad To mirai Meet President Kennedy merican economy is in trouble" Rebe WILLIAM L.

RYAN RECIFE, Brazil (AP) gearing with a negotiating today with hopes of getting liner Santa Maria brought into -A U.S. RECIFE, Brazil- Educational TV Here Threatened By GARRY FULLERTON Education News Editor A major threat to educational television in Nashville developed yesterday with the disclosure that two Hamilton, attorneys have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to giya them Channel 2 for" commercial use. Channel has been reserved by the FCC since 1952 for educational use in Nashville and Stats College, home of Mississippi Stata University. No station has been built in either place. The attorneys, Rankin Fite and Robert H.

Thomas, suggested that FCC allocate Channel 30, an ultra high frequency (UHF) channel, for educational purposes instead of Channel 2. UHF channels cannot be received on ordinary television sets without a special adapter. News of the proposal aroused an By State Delegation Lauds Address By LOIS LAYCOOK, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Members of the Tennessee congressional delegation hailed President Kennedy's Stata A rendezvous at sea between Rear Adm. Allen E. of the Union message yesterday as a clarion call for action on national and international problems.

"The message was an inspiring challenge to the peo A. (Pat) Patterson, assistant state commissioner of corrections, admitted in Criminal Court yesterday he knew about a former guard selling guns to inmates more than a month before the guard was arrested. "We had information there were several weapons inside the prison." Patterson testified. "We were trying to keep our investigation as quiet as possible." The ex-guard, Carl McGee, 1 charged with smuggling two guns into the prison and selling them to prisoners. He is on trial for the sale of the second gun, a .38 pistol, to life-termer Bobby Sons.

Warden Lynn Bomar testified the first gun, a .32 pistol, was first sold by W. S. Neil, deputy warden, to McGee, and later sold by McGee. to inmate Ernest Baugh. Bomar said Neil is a licensed gun sales man.

Neil did not testify yesterday. MeGEE'S attorney, Alf Adams charged that Neil originally sold both guns not just one which were later sold by McGee to inmates. When questioned about Neil's connection with the guns, Bomar shouted angrily: "If they came through Neil's hands some crooked guard brought them In." Patterson testified McGee ad mitted to him and Bomar last Feb ruary that he had sold the two guns. McGee was not arrested until after the March prison riot when two convicts held 20 hostages bay for 24 hours. The assistant commissioner said that after the riot "it was no longer useful to us to keep It quiet." Adams charged that Patterson agreed not to prosecute McGee but later decided to use him as a "scapegoat" for the riots.

"I made no promises to him," Fatterson testified. Adams Insisted that McGee did not sell the guns to the prisoners for escape purposes. He said the prisoners wanted the guns so they could get in good graces witn prison officials by voluntarily turning them in. He asked Patterson if the first gun McGee sold had not been (Continued on Page 3, Column 5) (Questioned Ir? Police Probe -The, Davidson County grand Jury questioned yesterday the first four of nearly 40 witnesses subpoenaed in its probe of an alleged burglary by two city patrol men. Sources close to the grand jury said it may take a week to com plete the investigation.

Dist. Attv. Gen. Harry G. Nichol declined to comment on the grand jury's closed door session yesterday.

However it was reported his office Is confident there enough evidence to war rant indictments against the two patrolmen and three city officials charged with being accessories in' the case. The first witnesses were Mrs, T. L. Olds, manager of the Rus sell Street Drivein Market; city Detectives "Rj B. Owen and Bill Ogles and Asst.

Police Chief Frank Muller. PATROLMEN Steve Moore Hailey and Calvin Burgett are charged with burglarizing the mar ket Dec. 18 and later trying to cover up the breakln with a fake chase of a nonexistent getaway car. Owen and Ogles witnessed (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) Politics Ideas Symbolized By Olive Branch, Bundle of Arrows WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy's call for swift strengthening of the United States "in an hour of national peril and national was hailed by most Democrats yesterday as a stirring call to action. But reaction from Repub licans was tinged with resentment at the implicit criticism of the Eisenhower administration, and some Democrats joined the GOP 1 it 11..

critics in asKing sucpntauj how much will it cost. First reactions in Europe were generally favorable. The President, delivering his first. Stat of th Union message to Congress, gravely reported he had ordered a swift strengthening of U.S. airlift, missile and Polaris submarine programs.

KENNEDY accompanied this stiffening of the nation's military posture with an offer to cooperate with Russia in exploring space and the wonders of science. Such a joint effort, Kennedy hoped, would wipe out some of the "bitter and wasteful competition of the cold war." Putting his ideas into a symbolic capsule, Kennedy said: "On the presidential coat of arms, the American eagle holds in his right talon the olive branch See editorial," 'Danger the President Warns, In Sounding Clear Call for Action," and Tom Little's cartoon page 6. Full text of the President's address appears on Page 4. while in his left Is held the bundle of arrows. We intend to give equal attention to both." A resounding burst of applause, from Republicans and Democrats alike, thundered through the House Chamber where Kennedy spoke in person.

FOR THE MOST part. Republi cans sat silent when the man who ended their regime in the White House talked of the outlook at home and summed up: "In short, the American economy is in trouble." It was largely the Democrats, and not all of them, who cheered and applauded when the President said, "This administration does not intend to stand helplessly by in the face of forecasts of continued unemployment and business slack." Kennedy's speech, which lasted (Continued en Page 2, Column 2) Flowers Ml m.r-1 14 jmmmh immediate storm of protest amongraj-g owners. Smith Jr. and Portuguese rebel leader Henrique Gal-vao, aboard the Santa Maria with nearly 600 passengers as unwitting hostages, was set for about 6 a.m. (3 a.m.

EST). Final details were disclosed at a U.S. Navy shipboard news confer ence which was thrown into turmoil late last night by the sudden appearance of a Portuguese representative of the Santa Ma- He demanded liberation of the crew as well as passengers, but was given no promises. THE U.S. NAVY indicated it was pressing hard for port evacua tion of the passengers specified as numbering 588 to avoid dan gers of transferring them at sea from ship to ship.

The ship with its 70 captors in command lay two hours steaming time offshore awaiting the meeting. Liberation of the passengers somehow seemed near and it ap I ooeeas The speedy U.S. destroyer admiral aoard set out early passengers of the captive Recife and set ashore. Kasavubu Sends U.N. Ultimatum UNITED NATIONS, N.T.

UP) A threat by pro-Western President Joseph Kasavubu to seek military aid outside the United Nations added new complications yesterday to the Congo crisis. The threat, made Saturday, was disclosed yesterday by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold even as news from Leopoldville indi cated a' new failure by the forces of Gen. Joseph Mobutu in a deep thrust into the stronghold of Oriental Province, the stronghold of rebels backing deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba. Kasavubu told Hammarskjold his government would be com pelled to seek such assistance unless U.N. troops quickly put down what he called terrorism by the THE CONGO leader said he would take such steps despite the risk of setting off an international conflict Hammarskjold replied that he would put the request before the Security Council when it takes up the Congo crisis again tomorrow.

But the secretary-general made (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) Tennessean Today Page! Page Amusements umt- Ask Andy 15 i uaries 14, 17, 18 Bridge 9 Pattern 8 Classified 18-21 Radio-TV 9 Comics 15Sports 11-14 Crossword 14 Uncle Kay 15 Editorials 6, 7Amy Men's I Vanderbilt 9 Fashion 10 Weather Map 14 Horoscope l1, woman Ida Jean Kaln 101 World 8-10 Lawrence 8 Word Game 15 Markets 16, 171 ple of all nations," declared Sen. Estes Kef auver. "I was particularly proud of his remarks about the need for closer economic and politi cal ties between the NATO nations. "President Kennedy pulled no punches and gave us sound, clear-cut targets on all fronts," Kefau ver said. "I think we should roll up our sleeves as citizens and as legislators and seo his program through.

Sen. Albert Gore said the speech was "an alert to action not onlv to the Congress but to the nation and the world. "THE NEW FRONTIERS now (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) for FDR educational and political circles here, "WE WILL resist any proposal to take Channel 2 away from Nash vUle," said Mayor Ben West "Our City Board of Education has shown Interest in developing an educa tional television station here and is trying to work with the County Board of Education on it right now." Joe Thompson, president of the Nashville Educational Television Foundation, said the Alabama pe tition "just bears out the point that if the city and the county school systems want educational television, they are going to have to act right away." Fite, a former speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, said he and Thomas, his law partner "have the money to start the station." "The channel has long gone un- Continued on Page 3, Column 1) peared likely in the light of de- velopment. that they would bePr-Lumumba forces. Reds Say Nikiia Coming to U.N.

WASHINGTON UP) Communist sources said yesterday Soviet Premier Khrushchev will come to the United Nations next March, and will be agreeable to a meeting with President Kennedy, and whether they do mee. will depend on the White House. Communist diplomats attached to the world organization brought this report to Washington. They insisted that the word came from Moscow and, barring some un foreseeable event, the Soviet lead er can oe expected to snow up when the UN General Assembly reconvenes March 7. Khrushchev wants to spend one week at the United Nations, these sources reported.

His tentative travel plans do not go beyond New YorK. State Department officials say they have had no Indication one way or the other about Khru shchev's plans. They recalled that the Russian proposed for this spring a special session of the General Assembly with heads of state discussing his scheme for general disarmament BUT THE MARCH session, they noted, will be merely a continuation of lat fall's regular assembly meeting and by no means a mass summit as Khrushchev pro posed it to be. Communist sources said, on the other hand, that there was noth ing special in Khrushchev's decision. They said the Russian strongly believes that disarmament Is the most vrgent problem to solve and he probably plans to submit hla sweeping proposals for general and complete disarmament In the assembly again.

Warmer NASHVILLE AND VICINITY -Mostly sunny and little warm er today, high 40-47. Partly cloudy with gradual warming trend tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight around FIVE DAY FORECAST Temperatures will average near normal west portion to 2 to 4 degrees below normal middle and east. Warming trend until middle of week then turning little cooler. Normal high 49-51 normal low 29-34.

Precipitation will average .15 inches in showers mid-week and again near weekend. Weather map, data on page 14. far above the rest, of the state's economy. The cash receipts totaled $99,752,000, and prices received by Tennessee farmers aver aged 3.4 per cent above figures for the previous November. Retail sales showed a 9.9 per cent gain over the previous Novem ber and helped offset comparative declines in September and Oc tober.

The sales are indicated by sales tax receipts. THROUGH THE END of No vember, yearly sales showed a 2.8 per cent gain over 1959 levels, the bureau reported. Debits in the eight major banking centers or the state showed 4.9 nar ent nain far tha month. Total nonagricultural employment, standino at 890.000 durlna the month, recorded a 0.9 ner csnt drop from November 1959. tlrT P.

A I cx-iruman Aiue To Head NASA WASHINGTON UP) President Kennedy chose James Webb, who served as a key official in the Truman administration, to be chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, yesterday. Webb, 54, and a Democrat, waa former President Harry S. Tru. man's budget director from 1946 to 1949. He served as undersecretary of state in the same administration from 1949 to 195Z Kennedy also announced that Dr.

Hugh Dryden will be retained as deputy administrator of NASA. Dryden, now is acting chief of the agency, and will continue in that capacity pending Senate action on Webb'a forthcoming formal nomination. KENNEDY announced seWtlnn of Webb after a conference with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who has been tapped by the President to be chairman of the Space Advisory Council in the new regime. Webb at present, is a.

director of the McDonnell Aircraft Onm. of St Louis and director and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc. of Oklahoma City. Webb, who was on hand In ihm office of White House Press Sec. retary Pierre Salinger when his selection was announced, also is president of Educational Services me, of the Massachusetts Insti (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) Dynamite! It exploded ai the Mid-state Colden Cloves opened last night at the Hippodrome.

14 of 30 fights ended in kayoes. Tonight the young amateurs rest but more explosions are scheduled when action resumes tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. For the action-packed details on last night's fights turn to page 14 of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, First in Sports, Too! Fireworks Use Ban Proposed By JAMES TALLEY A bill to outlaw the use as well as sale of fireworks in Tennessee was introduced in the State House of Representatives last night. The proposal was offered by Rep. Duane Lacy, D-Paris, and 22 other representatives.

At the same time the Ellington administration free within hours. Brazil's presidential inaugural at noon (11 a.m. CST) today Is ex pected to mark a deadline for their release. Janio Quadros takes the oath as Brazil's 22nd president at noon (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) asked the State Legislature to establish an adult probation system and to set up forestry camps for juvenile delinquents. The fireworks bill would limit the use and sale of fireworks to public displays, which would be strictly regulated.

The bill pro vides for fines up to $500 and im prisonment up to 80 days for violations. THE SALE of, fireworks is liiyiited at present to the Christmas and Fourth of July holiday seasons in Tennessee. But in many counties such sales have been outlawed altogether by private acts. Funds to operste forestry camps and to set up an adult probation system were included in the administration's big appropriations bill already signed Into law. The forestry camp proposal was (Continued en Page 2, Column 1) Midstate Chalks Up Biggest Sales Gains Legislators To Be Asked To Revise Vote Laws in National Elections By Joe Hatcher ing because of moving from one section and falling to meet the long residence requirements in the new location.

Connecticut and Vermont have laws permitting voting privileges to former residents for 24 and 15 months respectively. California, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin have eliminated or reduced residence requirements for voting for president and vice president if the new voter was a qualified voter In the state of his previous re al (Continued en Page 3, Column 4) KNOXVTLLE UP) Middle Tennessee counties recorded the largest percentage gain in yearly retail sales over the November 1959 figure, the University of Tennessee Bureau of Business Research said yesterday. The bureau pointed out, however, that most segments of the Tennessee's economy continued in the current mild secession. The gain for Middle Tennes-ee counties for the month was 14.3 per cent. EAST TENNESSEE counties showed a 9.2 per cent gain, while wests ate counties snowed a per cent increase.

Agricultural reeerde for the month showed a 20.2 per cent gain, Tennessee legislators will be sked to revise voter qualification laws to guarantee all qualified persons the right to vote for president and -vice president of the United States. Tha axeeutlva committee of tha Governors' Conference voted at its last session in Washington to urge all states to consider measures that would allow new eiti-zens to vote In presidential slec tions, whether thay quslify for voting In local elections or not Hundreds of tnousanos or clu iens are being barred from vot- AP WIrephoto HYDE PARK, N.Y. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt watches as the March of Dimes poster child, polio victim Keith Miritello, 5, of New York, places a wreath at grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

With them is Maj. Gen. W. C. Westmoreland, superintendent of West Point, who placed a wreath on behalf of President Kennedy at a ceremony commemorating FDR's 79th birthday..