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HEART OF TVA NASHVILLE VOL. 57-No. THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Served America's Greatest by News At the Crossroads of Natural Gas and TVA Power-Telephone Alpine 5-1221 Services 322 Second Class Postage NASHVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1963 10 CENTS 30 PAGES Paid at Nashville, Tenn. HIGH WINDS LASH MIDSTATE Anti-Castro Acts Surprise Latin Chiefs 'Only Thing Not Being Done Is Rusk Reports; Massive Assault on Ills Pledged SAN JOSE, Costa Rica Dean Rusk said last night prised Central American of U.S. military and other against Castro Cuba.

"About the only thing U.S. Deplores Raids on Cuba WASHINGTON The United States said yesterday it strongly opposes hit and run raids on Cuba by refugee groups. It called them irresponsible and ineffective in ridding the island of Fidel Castro's Communist regime. In a firmly worded statement the State Department said it is investigating whether there was any violation of U.S. laws in a reported attack by Cuban exile commandos on a Russian camp and ship in Northern Cuba Sunday.

U.S. LAWS prohibit private armed forays from U.S. territory against a foreign nation, The Justice Department said it also is investigating whether the reported attack involves any violation of the Neutrality Act or other laws. Anti Castro Cuban refugee sources in Miami reported Monday night that two groups known as Alpha 66 and the Second National Front of Escambray joined forces and shelled both a Soviet military camp and one of its ships near Sagua La Grande in Las Villas province. The sources claimed some Russians were killed.

Havana reported that some wounded sailors had been taken to a hospital. But the broadcast did not mention their nationality or anything about a raid. Both the radio and Havana newspapers were silent vesterday on the reported attack, but Moscow Radio said anti-Castro exiles had attacked a Cuban coastal area. It claimed the asthe States. It did not sault probably, was instigated by mention Russian casualties.

LINCOLN White, State Department press officer, told newsmen, as he has before, that (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) Tennessean Today Page Amusements 30 Ask Andy 16 Bridge 13 Classified 24-29 Comics 16 Crossword 24 Editorials 10, 11 Horoscope 24 Lawrence 13 Markets 22-24 (AP) of State President Kennedy surpresidents with the extent commitments arrayed not being done is shooting at Cuba," Rusk told newsmen at a briefing. He referred particularly to U.S. trade and shipping moves to isolate the Fidel Castro regime. American chiefs of Kennedy and the sitatmiddle fidently predicted the Castro government soon will fall but raised their guard block Soviet-Cuba subversion Cento, tral America. The seven presidents, after two days of joint talks, vowed to halt Castro Communist version with ships and planes if necessary.

Kennedy pledged what was termed substantial U.S. aid to combat a spread of Soviet imperialism via Cuba with a massive assault on economic and social ills in Central America. In 2.000-word "Declaration of Central America." the presidents expressed their "conviction that Cuba soon will join the family free nations." They raised not threat of armed intervention. RUSK SAID later, however, that Kennedy devoted nearly a fourth of the joint sessions to Cuba and gave the other presidents "the full story" of U.S. military and other commitments in the Cuban crisis.

"Now the principal problem in isolating Cuba is to break the supply of funds used (by Castro) to support subversion and (Com- (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Probers Call 3 On Hoffa Panel Three prospective jurors for James R. Hoffa's recent conspiracy trial have been subpoenaed to appear as witnesses before the federal grand jury investigating alleged jury tampering during the trial. Names of the prospective jurors were included in 11 more subpoenas filed in the court clerk's office yesterday following service. The three were listed as: Mrs. J.

B. Branham, 236 E. Spring Lebanon, who has been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury today. Mrs. Lillian Robert, 1005 E.

Main Murfreesboro, subpoe- (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) I AUNT ASHES CORS -Staff photo by Jack Corn PORTLAND, man, bracing against the shrub-bending wind, 109 were ripped down, with only the front and back sections of the build- concrete block warehouse of the and both sides of the structure SUNS looks at the debris around the Sons paint store. The roof Rail Projects Cost $2 Million By ALBERT CASON, Business News Editor Two expansion programs totaling approximatelv million were announced yesterday by Nashville's railroads and the Railway Express Agency. One of the programs--construction of a combirail, truck, piggyback, and barge terminal at the foot of Broadway--is now in the final negotiations stage. It involves the Louisville Nashville Railroad and the Tennessee Central Railway. The terminal would be built by on six acres of property owned by the Tennessee Central Railway.

A 70-year-old fram freight house now located on the site is being razed. The other project is construction of a $300,000 terminal facility on Eleventh Avenue. South. It involves the and the Railway Express Agency. ANNOUNCEMENT of the project was made.

yesterday in Atlanta by Ridlehoover, southeastern general manager of Railway Express. The facility will be 549 feet long by 172 feet wide. It will extend from line 100 feet south of the Broadway viaduct all the way to Demonbreun Street viaduct. Ridlehoover said that the building will be the agency's (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Anglers at Show Have It Easy By PAUL CARDEN When it comes to teaching flyrod casting, Leo Pachner and Joe Stearns have the easiest job in the world--they have a machine to do it for them. On the stage of the huge tank at the "Great Lakes of the South Outdoor Show" sits an ungainly contraption that looks like a cross between a concrete mixer and a barbecue grill.

"It will make you a pro in 15 minutes." Pachner cries out like a carnival barker. Boat Show Today The Great Lakes of the South Outdoor Show at the Municipal Auditorium will open at 5 p.m. today. The stage show starts at 8 p.m. Page Obituaries 24 Radio-TV 17 Sports 18-21 Uncle Ray 16 Weather 24 Woman's World 12, 13 Word Game 16 Still one of the most popular exhibits at the show is the Smoky Mountain trout tan where for a quarter you can fish to your heart's content for 15 minutes.

"Here Mama, hold this." said 10-year-old Carl Weatherly as he poked a still-wiggling trout at his mother and rushed back for more. His catch took him less than a minute. Fishermen whose tackle has been in storage all winter and (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Portland Hit Hard; Several Twisters Seen No Serious Injuries Reported; Estimated 400 Buildings Hurt By EUGENE DIETZ Tornado like winds lashed Portland, yesterday afternoon, and similar storms howled through other communities in a wide belt from the Alabama-Tennessee border to Southern Kentucky. The U.S. Weather Bureau in Nashville said some, including the Portland storm, probably were tornadoes.

Estimates of damages in the already flood-ravished Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama area ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, with about $250,000 in the Portland area alone. J. E. Kerley ing left on Highway the cloud Negroes Plan All-Out Drive By FRANK RITTER The Nashville Christian Leadership Council outlined plans last night at a mass meeting of Negro leaders for an immediate and full-scale assault on segregation practices here. The "plan of action" recommended increased sit activity and called for kneel-in demonstrations at local churches, freedom marches, mass prayer ings and conferences with public officials.

"If these measures fail to end (the Rev. discriminatory J. Metz Rollins, chair- said man of the NCLC's project committee, "then we will ask for a total and full-scale economic boycott." THE COUNCIL made its proposals after some 500 persons who attended the meeting were told by Miss Katherine Jones, executive director of the Tennessee Council on Human Relations: "The question is whether we are going to settle for 'creeping tokenism' in race relations or let it be known what really want- which is first-class citizenship." Several other leaders in the fight for integration here also spoke at the meeting at the Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1100 Jefferson St. The NCLC's proposals. its leaders hope.

will bring about the largest organized protest (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) Politics -By Joe Hatcher- Court May Take Over Remapping The issue of reapportionment is right back where it started in the lap of the federal court, or SO it appears from the action of the rural-minded, unyielding legislature in its closing days. The Senate version gave the urban areas more senators than it now has, for a 13 to 20 split, and literally thumbed its nose at the federal court order to have at least one house ap- (Turn to Page 5, Column 1) standing. A refrigerator stood in color contrast. the -undamaged. Note Fire Injures 6 in Family Family of six and a visiting early today when fire frame home at 121 various degrees of burns, range in ages from 14 years to seven months.

Listed in serious condition at Madison Hospital early today are: Mrs. Marvin Barnes; her two daughters. Patricia, 8, and Shelia. seven months: two sons. Marvin, 10, and Eugene, 6, and a nephew.

Ray Swicegood, 14, Carthage, Tenn. MADISON Hospital authorities said the Swicegood youth, Marvin, Patricia and Eugene all appeared to have at least second degree burns. The baby and Mrs. Barnes were not burned as seriously as the others. "The flames seemed to break out all at once," said Mrs.

Barnes' husband. who rescued three of sleeping children and his wife. Barnes suffered only minor cuts on his hands. Fire and police officials had not determined the cause of the blaze early today. "I WOKE UP and the whole (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) Pleasant NASHVILLE AND VICINday, Clear and ITY: Sunny, and, pleasant tocool tonight, low 37 to 45.

Tomorrow fair and mild. Weather map and other data on page 24. NO SERIOUS injuries were reported. An estimated 400 to 500 buildings were damaged in the Portland area. Heavy damages were reported in the northern part of adjacent Robertson County.

ing, which had been Twisted pieces of metal proof, through the air like kites, littered fields near Portland. Some grotesque bits of metal roof. ing hung from high tree limbs; others pushed through wire fences where they had lodged. Other windstorms, with hail and lightning in most, hit Lawrence County, the Clarksville area, Knox County, Franklin County, Grundy County and Marion County, among others. IN DECATUR, a tornado ripped the roof from A.

soft drink bottling works and dropped it. onto an adjacent service station. The storm then jumped the Tennessee River and hit Pryor Field, the Decatur-Athens air. port, and damaged a hangar and several planes. Belle Mina and the Greenbriar community in Limestone County, Alabama, also were reported to have suffered damage from the storm.

$2 two nation Hardin Conn, Attorney, Dies Hardin Henry Conn, 69, Nashville attorney and Baptist lay leader, died at 4:30 p.m. yesterday in Vanderbilt Hospital. Services be at 10 a.m. morrow at First Baptist Church, conducted by Dr. H.

Franklin Paschal, Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Adairville, Ky. The body is at Roesch- Patton Funeral Home. Conn, of 2007 Linden moved to Nashville from Springfield. in 1942. HE WAS born Nov.

3. 1893, in Adairville, son of Eugene Phillip and Annie Copeland Conn. He was educated in the public schools of Adairville and at Wallace School. He was graduated from the law school al Vanderbilt University in 1916. He served as city attorney of (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) -Staff photo by Eldred Reaney Joe Stearns pulls the handle that operates the crank in which Mrs.

Leana Williams' arm is enclosed so she can learn how to cast with a fly rod. The machine, which teaches casting, is one of the many features at the Outdoor Show at the Municipal Auditorium. By JERRY THOMPSON Five members of a family nephew were seriously burned swept through their one-story Elm St. in Madison. The children, suffering Pension Asked By 2 Officials Two well-known city officials have joined a growing list of municipal employes who filed applications for pensions before metropolitan government becomes effective April 1.

They are Fred Lassiter, inspector of the School Mothers' Patrol, and Henry, Graham, 68, former city tax assessor. Graham's application is eXpected to be among seven to be heard this afternoon by the City Civil Service Commission. But Lassiter filed only yesterday and his application may heard today. LASSITER, claiming 27 vears of service with the city, took a leave of absence from the police department several years ago to become chief deputy for Sheriff Tom B. Cartwright.

He lost the job and returned to the police department when Leslie Jett was elected sheriff almost three years ago. Graham's job was abolished last Sept. when County Tax Assessor Clifford R. Allen Jr. became metropolitan assessor.

Graham continued, however, as a deputy assessor. He has held a city post since 1922 and is eligible for a regular 25-year pension. But the disability application would indicate he will ask for retirement for reasons of health. GRAHAM, OF 3826 Brighton Road, is known to have suffered from hepatitis. He is hospitalized at present.

The pension half his salarywould be effective June 6, but he reportedly has time accumulated so he will not have to work until that date. A personal physician has filed (Turn to Page 8. Column 2) 'Books, Papers Flying Around' By HUGH WALKER, Staff PORTLAND, Tenn. Junior High School just at some 375 students were in I was standing in the two eighth grade boys, By BILL KOVACH House members will vote today on whether to keep Tennessee's death penalty as it is or abolish it except in cases of murder in prison. The bill was placed on today's House calendar as administration floor leaders had promised last week after Gov.

Frank Clement's personal endorsement of the measure. It is reportedly the first time the 125-year-old law has been submitted to a vote of the General Assembly. endar promise an active session similar to yesterday's which saw the passage of two disputed measures. With limited debate, the House passed the rural plan for reapportionment of the Senate by 8. vote of 61-32.

The bill goes to the governor where supporters see no indication the gover. nor will not sign the measure. The local option sales tax measure--amended twice Friday -was further amended and returned the Senate for final action. The latest amendment limits the total tax to $5 on a single purchase, a suggestion Death Law Vote Today which Sanaturned down flatly by the week. The reapportionment bill, which pertains only to Senate seats, gives the rural counties 20 senators and the other 13 are distributed among the urban areas of the state.

Davidson County keeps its present three senators. REP. LEWIS PRIDE offered an amendment which he said would give proper representation to all areas, including the urban counties. His bid was defeated 62-27. The same amend- (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) PORTLAND, Mrs.

Ramona Gilliam, Buntin Road, was in her house when A tree crashed through the roof, causing an estimated $5.000 damage to the $20,000 new home. The Gilliams da moved into the home Dec. 23. "I looked out the front door and saw a funnel a twirling cloud, low, moving toward the house," said Mrs. Gilliam, editor of the Upper Sumner Press.

"I went out. The storm was So strong it blew me against the house. got back inside, went into the dining room, and got up a minute later to go back into the living room," she continued. "I heard a noise--like an airplane, down low. I ran back into the dining room.

I heard a big noise--ran rana back into, the living room, there a tree sticking in through the ceiling." AT MONTEAGLE last night, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said high winds and hail buffeted parts of Grundy, Franklin and Marion counties. Hardest hit was Pelham on U.S. Highway 41 in Grundy County. Witnesses at Pelham said they saw two "funnel-like" clouds. One woman said the tornado (Turn to Page, 4, Column 1) Correspondent The storm struck Portland lunchtime yesterday while the building.

back of the building with Larry Bradley and Ralph Simonton. We were just about to go out when the rain came down. We turned back into the building and heard a roaring sound. Things were blowing around in the rooms. We ran up into the hall and met an orderly line of students and teachers going into the basement.

WE RAN INTO a classroom in front of the building. Two of the windows were open and the wind was howling in. Books and papers were flying around and rain splashed against the opposite wall. It was dark and we couldn't see much, but we could feel the force of the storm. It was all We could do to hold the windows closed against the wind.

Hail about the size of marbles (Turn to Page 6, Column 3) THIS controversial bill, along with whisky bills on today's cal-.