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The Tennesseani
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IH IHIMtAH 0 IV FX1TTT71 "TV SEVILLE TENNESS1 Served by A erica's Greatest News Services Af ihe Crossroads of Natutal Gas and Cheap TV A Power-Telephone ALplne 5-1221 VOL. DG No. J97 56 PAGES Strond Clans PoitMt Fld il Ntihvlllt, Tcnn. NASHVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 16, 1961 5 CENTS 1 HKt I ft UVJ UVJ nr a I And It Never Got Off the Ground Bootleggers Claim ATU Boosts Brand Thant Says Force Planned 'If Necessary' Gizenga-led Mutiny Compounds Confusion In the Land of Chaos By WAYNE WHITT illegal business, it was to keep increasing aa more and more bootleggers stock it.

So far Tennessee's biggest boot learned yesterday. they have been heavier in East The brand, reliable source aid, haa just been on the market Tennessee where bootlegging is in Tennessee for a month, it leggers have been "urged" by State Alcohol Tax Unit agents to stock a single brand of bourbon in their By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS not a new brand but la new to bigger business than in some other sections. The whisky, how this state. United Nations forces ever, is being stocked by stores Sales of the brand are expected Ctri In all sections of the state. were told yesterday to take "every measure possible" to ONE BIG Eaatstate bootlegger said it was the only brand of bourbon he would stock when his put down a mutiny in the Congo believed led by leftists.

other supplies are sold out. He said he never heard of it until it was called to his attention by Acting Secretary-G a 1 Thant took personal charge of tha situation from his office ln New York. County To Sue For 4 Schools The Davidson County Board of Education voted yesterday to fight in court for the right to operate four schools in the 49-square mile territory annexed by Nashville. "A heavy percentage of our students attending these The U.N. forces announced a an ATU agent.

This East Tennessean said the brand is being pushed by the few Knoxville retail stores which are supplying most of the bootleggers in East Tennessee. Meanwhile, the Southern Beverage Journal in its November issue reported that the Knoxville market "is fast becoming the hub for illicit liquor traffic all over the eastern portion of the state. The publication, an independent trade journal for liquor dealers in eight Southern states, warned: mutiny of more than 2,000 Conge government troops has broken out in the eastern Congo and diplomats said tha defiance was under tha personal command of leftist leader Antoine Glzenga. The United Nations said the rebellion will be put down by force if necessary. four schools live in areas which the county will be WSM-TV Jo Get ERUPTING LESS than two required to provide with schools," commented Supt.

J. E. Moss after the board action. "We must meet weeks since he took office, the up AP Wlrephoto section at Logan International Airport. The National liner lost its right outboard engine.

BOSTON A National Air Lines plane sits on its nose after collision with a Northeast Air Lines plane at a runway inter- $175,000 Offer By EUGENE DIETZ The Educational Television Com rising presented Thant with a new force working against the unity and stability of the Congo. Another major divisive force, tha secession of Katanga province, occupied most speakers in a Security Council meeting on the Congo. Ceylon, Liberia and the United Arab Republic asked the ll-nation council to strengthen Thant's powers to oust mercenaries from Katanga and stop arms shipments to Katanga President Moise Tshombe's regime. Thant sat In on the touncil debate after spending most of the morning dealing with the new up-. mittee, representing the Nashville-Davidson County school systems, "Unless there's a cleanup, and soon, the legal liquor Industry (in Knoxville) will be shut up.

And once the drys have nailed their barricades onto the doors of the stores and wholesale houses, there'll be no tearing them down for a long, long time." IN THE ARTICLE, titled "Notes From the Publisher" and written by Marvin Levin, the Southern Beverage Journal noted there are stores in Knoxville willing to sell below fair trade prices. Because of this, it reported Knoxville was attracting the Illegal liquor traffic. The article said In part: "The only ammunition Knoxville has is time. The area cannot be dried up until May 1963, the earliest date that the drys could ask for a referendum. SBJ hopes that the 'situation which is giving Planes Collide While Taxiing voted yesterday to buy the WSM- Twin-Headed, Retriever Rockets Soar Into Orbit TV studios and tower for $175,000 provided the station vacates the studios within two years BOSTON (JP) Two airliners collided at an Intersection of run Formal acceptance of the offer is expected within a few days by the atation's owner, the National rising, a u.n.

spoKesman saia By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of its most productive days of! Altitude Control. It was intended ways while taxiing at Logan Inter national Airport last night. spent more than an nour in aireci telegraphic communication with the snace ace. A fourth device to check the feasibility of using Life Accident Insurance said was lost in a fieiv nlunee. the earth's aravitation field to A National Air Lines plane A.

B. Gibson, committee member officials in keopoiaviue. Thant told them to restore rocKeta on Dotn the At.anuc and a satellite with its face smashed into the passenger cabin the prohibitionists such renewed strength will be corrected well be who was the go-between in the Pacific coasts yesterday, one of the epace wlna ln Jta noM wa pointed permanently at the earth order In Albertville and Klndu, In of a Northeast Air Lines Viscount, shearing off the tail section and In about 10 days, if all goes well, them a double header which put transaction between the ETV com- launched by the Navy from Cape tha eastern Congo more than a it 11 AnnAllnfllA fore that time. If it la not, we can foresee little hope for the TRAAC will stabilize in a face the lounge and rearmost seats mittee and the National Life au Canaveral, at 5:20 p.m. EST.

two satellites into orbit at once. down position above the position above the none of which were occupied. earth. ordered two top U.N. of- About 90 minutes later, the Navy thorities.

The feat gave the United States If approved by National Life 9 rim 9 ficlals to New York for consulta-(Continued on Page 2, Column 21 Hnn Tf)ey are Conor 1,,, in Washington said the two satellites apparently bad separated as three sparkling new satellites ln There were 40 passengers on the heavily damaged Northeast turboprop Viscount. The National liner the proposal will be put before these needs." The county wants to keen Hills-horo High and three elementary schools, Joy, Inglewood and Shwab. THE NASHVILLE Board of Education voted last Thursday to asK Ciiancery Court to appoint an arbitrator to settle the controversy over the transfer of the 22 county schools to the city. Supt. W.

H. Oliver of the city eystem said the city wants all 22 and added that the city feels it has the obligation to operate the schoola in the annexed area. Yesterday, the county board, on motion of J. Olin White, "board member, voted unanimously to refer the question to Shelton Luton, county attorney. Ferries C.

Bailey, board member who seconded White's motion, commented "We have no choice." White's motion Instructed Luton "to protect the rights of the county." MOSS SAID later In an interview that many pupils in the four schools live in unincorporated territory or in one of the small cities in the county where the only public school facilities are provided by the county. The county is required by the Tennessee constitution to provide schools for cities which do not choose to run their own, according to Moss. She city has offered $6,400,000 for the schools. Asst. Supt.

John B. (Continued en Page 6, Column 2) Tennessean Today Pagel Ask Andv 49-50 O'Brien, chief U.N. representative the Davidson County Board of I I I In the Congo, and Gen. Sean Mc had 20 aboard. Education for action during a 4:30 Place for See editorial "No Monopoly," page 16.

p.m. session next Wednesday, and Moll lonsuiiea ABOUT 15 OF the passengers (Continued on Page 7, Column 2) Builders Back Shelter Code were injured, most of them with cuts and other minor injuries suf Joelfon Aim: Rehabilitation it will be taken up by the Nashville Board of Education during a called meeting after the Insurance company's action. planned and had passed in orbit over tracking stations in Austra fered when they climbed over the jagged metal in getting out of the lia and the Philippines. Keown, U.N. military commander in the Congo.

DIPLOMATIC Informants said Oizenga. the leftist heir of former Premier Patrice Lumumba, was directing the revolt against central government authority ln Kindu, the Kivu provincial town north of the secessionist province of Katanga- Glzenga's open defiance of th RATIFICATION by the two The twin satellites, each weigh Northeast plane through the open tail end. boards Is necessary before the deal ing about 200 pounds, were intend The National airliner lost Its ed to orbit more than 600 miles By MAC HARRIS The state's forestry camp and may be completed. Two weeks ago, the six-member rieht outboard engine, and sheared above the earth. The Greater Nashville Better off blades from the propeller of an youth center at Joelton will be operated as a school and not as a The major passenger in the ETV committee had voted unani By Bonn Brass By GASTON COBLENTZ THE TENNESSEAN-He raid Tribune BONN West Germany's ambassador to Moscow, whose recent actions have aroused suspicion and ire in western capitals, was called In last night by Chancellor Aden Business Bureau won unanimous mously to look for a place to build United Nations and the Congo a endorsement yesterday for adop Navy rocket was a Transit 4B, part of the Navy's program to detention center, the superintend other engine when it nosed over In a field at the side of the runway.

Some of the passengers on the develop an accurate, all-weather ent of the new Institution said central government, of which tie nominally is a vice premier, was reoorted three days before a sched tion or a code or ethics for the advertising and marketing of fallout shelters and accessories, new studios for the ETV station to operate on Channel 2. This wai dons during a meeting in which the committee voted unanimously not to go beyond space navigation system for ships, planes and submarines. The four-engine, piston driven National The endorsement came at a William B. Birdwell of Lafayette, drum-shaped package carried a uled Nov. 18 conference to which Glzenga has Invited all "true nationalists of the Congo." plane, slid to the ground tnrougn meeting of about 60 contractors, Tenn, superintendent of small nuclear generator.

$150,000 for the WSM-TV studios accessory suppliers, lenders and an emergency canvas chute. Others were taken down on a ladder from an airport crash truck. others concerned with construc He has summoned all left-wing leaders to set up a new Lumum- THIS WAS the second such test and tower in the Belmont sector. National Life originally asked tion of home shelters. auer as a principal consultant on foreign policy.

Ambassador Hans Kroll Joined an exclusive circle of four advisers who were convoked to assist Aden aimed at harnessing atomic power the center only yesterday, said plans call for deserving juvenile offenders to be housed at the institution by Jan. 1. "We will aelect only those of bist national party called the "Panalu" movement. for space exploration. The first At the same time, William Faris HIGH OCTANE gasoline poured $300,000, but had trimmed the offer to $190,000.

The city board, during an unexpected action on Transit 4B was launched last June The mutiny was disclosed one from the smashed wing of the Na- city-county civil defense drector. announced thnt his office would and the Atomic Energy Commis dav after a U.N. Investigating auer in preparing for next week's tional plane, creating a hazard. A sion has been extremely pleased start a training program to In fenders who show promise of rehabilitation within a year's time," Classified 40 Nov. 9, voted to see if the property could be acquired for that figure, with the provision that the net fire truck stood by.

The Northeast Airliner had Just with its performance. struct superintendents in the proper way to build fallout shelters. Birdwell said. Riding piggyback yesterday with landed on a flight from Washing the Transit 4B was a doorknob cost would be $175,000 as WSM would pay $15,000 in rent for shar THE FIRST inmates will be "A MAN HAS a right to know ton and New York. The National was about to take off.

Comics 24! Sports 44-48 Crossword 42 Uncle Ray 24 Editorials 16-17Weather Map 43 Horoscope 24 Word Game 24 COLUMNISTS: Chllds. White, McGill, Pearson, Fleeson, Wilson, Hinton Page 17 shaped satellite officially named TRAAC for Transit Research and ing the studios with Channel 2 See editorial "Kroll-Khru-shchev Affair Gave 'Der Alte' a Trump" and Tom Little's cartoon, page 16. Slogan Platitudes Won't Solve Berlin, says Columnist Ralph McGill, page 17. what class shelter you are selling selected from the state vocational schools at Jordonia and Pikeville. Civil Aeronautics Board inspec- him," Faris said.

"The amount of commission said that In all probability Lumumba and two of hta aides were killed last January In the presence of Tshombe. SOLDIERS at Kindu refused Tuesday to hand over 13 U.N. Italian airmen they had arrested and beaten last Saturday. "Several of the airmen were apparently unconscious as they were tossed into army trucks." U.N. spokesman George Ivan "We will not run a penal inst during a two-year period in which (Continued on Page 6, Column 3) (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) (Continued on 'Page 6 Column 1) tution out there by any means," the superintendent said, "jt will be a center for rehabilitating boys, vital talks with President Ken We will have a complete program." Cold Froni, Winds Due Birdwell, a former high school nedy on the Berlin crisis.

This development followed the Just One Little Look Wont Hurt Smith said. principal, was named superintend The U.N. command has given envoy's oral account to Adenauer Tuesday night of a Soviet bid for ent of the camp and center by Tennessee Corrections Commis the Glzengalst troops until today to release the prisoners or face "energetio action." a bilateral rapproachment between Bonn and Moscow. HereTonight sioner Keith Hampton. Gov.

Buford Ellington praised the appointment, saying: "I am quite pleased Mr. Bird- Gen. Victor Lundula, GIzensra THERE WERE ATTEMPTS former army chief, has made a yesterday on the lower level of the West German government to be- second trip to Kivu to seek the fliers' release after having beea wen nas accepted tnia position. Tha Nashville temperature will forced to flee on a first try. wel qualified Dy education piunge from a high of about 60 (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) am cHciicntc iU ulreul, lnls newels morning to a low or about program and I am confident he.26 tonight, the weather bureau will do an outstanding Job." said last night.

Tue rruTFB "A cold front advancing rapidly zfd from the west will bring winds of by the 1961 legislature. It will t0 25 miei per nour and located on the property of the.freezing nighttime temperatures." abandoned Joelton Radar Jesse Chambers, forecaster at The property was given to the state i the Berry Field Weather station. Robert Kennedy Warns US. Reds I DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Atty.

Gen. Robert F. Kennedy by the federal government, The stationary front which brought showers to much of Ten Birdwell tpent most of yester day looking over applications forinessee over the past few days will the teaching jobs. He said he be displaced by the cold front hoped to obtain a staff within a moving swiftly across the plains states from Uklanoma, said unam- few days. bers.

warned the Communist party yesterday that if it and its Equipment Is to be installed over the next few days, he added. leaders fail to register with the Justice Department on He said there will be considerable cloudiness tonight, but no chance of rain. Yesterday's high was 71, and the expected high today about 60. 1 The new superintendent said he and his family would move here Monday its leaders will be jailed and fined. sometime ln December.

On Monday the 30-day period in which the Commit THE SCHOOL will include pro- (Continued en Page 6, Column 8) Old Bill's 3 Old Horses Saved From ihe Glue Pot Cooler :f.tBn1c4v I nist party of the United States must register with the Justice Department expires. "The Supreme Court has ruled that t' Communist Party Is an arm of the Soviet Union and must register In accordance with section 13 of the subversive activltlea con trol act of 1DS0." Kennedy aald at a meeting of the Associated Press Managing Editors convention. "IP THE PARTY does not regj inter, the law Imposes a personal obligation upon each individual officer and member of the national board to register within 10 days in this case by Nov, 10." Kennedy said that If they fall te obey the law "as they have nl. cated iHtv wll! het be subject te 0. Immsw "d' (data home for them after his retirement, Bill feared he would have to have them ahot.

But he appealed to Queen Mother Elizabeth, one of tbe nation's foremost horse-owners and horse-lovers. A London newspaper published the appeal and the offer from the livestock protection association followed. Old Bill Indicated he pobably would accept but not until he hears whether the queen mother haa a better idea. "It would be a bit rude not to Rive her a chance to reply," he said. LONDON UW-Old Bill Rice's three old work horses were saved from destruction yesterday.

The British Livestock Protection Association offered them a home for life on its farm for old horses In Liverpool. Bill, 74, a blacksmith, is going out of business after 60 years in London's Holloway district. The horses Jim, Ada and John are pets which have the run of the back yard. All are about 25 years old. Unable to provide another NASHVILLE and VICINITY: Showers tapering off this morn-ing, followed by windy and turning colder and falling temperatures this afternoon.

Mostly cloudy tonight and much colder, FIVE-DAY FORECAST: Tern-peratures will average slightly below normal in west and 3-8 degrees above normal east. Normal high, 56-60; normal tow, 33-39. No significant temperature change through period. Occasional rain, heaviest over weekend, will total near 1 inch in east, up to 2-3 Inches west por tion. Map, lake levels en page 43.

i Staff photo by Gerald Holly ernettes of the Austin Peay State College marching band at Frysr Stadium In Fort Campbell, during a gams between Ft. Campbell and Tennessee Tech. The band will appear at the Blanket Bowl in Springfield, Saturday night. Miss Hester is the daughter of Mr, ind Mrs. Ed Hester of Gallatin.

fine and flve-yesf lm- Ths most carefully instilled regimentation is apt to fail when the csmeri makes its appeal to innate Individualism especially when the individualist in attractive young woman. Judy Heater, 18, can't resist the temptation to look back st the photographer, with a spontaneous smile, si hs snaps ths Gov- .7" (Continued en Page 7, iMumn 1).

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