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SPORTS NEWS COMICS (C-TJI NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Crossroads of Natural Gas and Cheap TYA Power-Telephone Alpine 5-1221 'XfJ At the 20 CENTS VOL. 62 No. 219 NASHVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, DEC. 3, 1967 5 Tennesseans Killed Highway Accidents James B. White 28, was in critical condition in a Memphis hospital.

He is pastor of Big Sandy Methodist Church. STATE TROOPER James Melton said White was driving the car. Four persons in the other car also were injured. Melton identified them as: Troy McClure, Yuma, driver of the other car; Will-ard Ellis, Yuma; Jimmy Hampton, Buena Vista, and Jerry Hester, Huntingdon. Ellis was carried to a Jackson hospital and the other Vols Roll; Win Title KNOXVILLE Tennessee overpowered Vanderbilt 41-14 on the passing of Dewey Warren and the running of Walter Chadwick and Richard Pickens yesterday and won its first Southeastern Conference football title since 1956.

The Volunteers finished the regular season with a 6-0 conference record, 9-1 over-all and ranked No. 2 in the nation. They meet third-ranked Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl at Miami New Year's night. Tennessee scored two touchdowns in the first quarter and added one each in the second, third and fourth. Soccer-style kicker Karl Kremser booted field goals of 38 and 31 yards and added four extra points.

Vanderbilt tried an onside kick at the start of the second half, got the ball on Tennessee's 47 and drove over in 10 plays for its first touchdown. The Commodores scored their second TD early in the fourth quarter on a 10-yard pass from quarterback Roger May to Lee Noel after recovering a fumble on the Tennessee eight. Warren touched off Tennessee's touchdown parade midway in the first period when he hit flanker Richmond Flowers with a pass that covered 64 yards to the Vandy three. Chadwick plunged three yards for the TD. The drive covered 88 yards, and the Vols subsequently marched 55, 70, 49 and 53 yards for their remaining touchdowns.

ide Tips Plainsmen BIRMINGHAM (UPI An electrifying 47-yard romp by quarterback Kenny Stabler in the fourth quarter gave seventh-ranked Alabama a 7-3 victory over arch rival Auburn in a mud battle at Legion Field yesterday. The run by the all-conference signal caller broke open a game which had been dominated by Auburn until that moment. Stabler swept right end avoiding tacklers at the line of scrimmage and then outran everyone, carrying an Auburn defender with him the last five yards to the end zone. O.J. Top Back SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) 0.

J. Simpson squeezed out a 10-9 victory over Gary Beban, the Heisman Trophy winner, in balloting yesterday for the Pacific Coast UPI back of the year honor. The Southern California whose 64 yard touchdown run set up the Trojans for a 21-20 triumph against UCLA and Beban in the showdown battle for the Rose Bowl bid, had placed second to the Bruins' quarterback in Heisman Trophy balloting. Laurel Idled LAUREL, Md. (UPI) The entire racing program at Laurel Race Track was called off for the third straight day yesterday because of bitter six-degree temperatures.

A spokesman for the track said that a new program will be drawn up for tomorrow and that he was hopeful there will be racing. Navy Wins PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Inspired Navy built up a 19-0 lead over favored Army and then held on for dear life against a blistering Cadet comeback in the fourth quarter to pull out a 19-14 thriller in the 68th renewal of their storied classic yesterday before 102,000 chilled fans. Nationa To Aid Held in Woodfield Murder Albert Merritt is booked at Metro police headquarters on charges of being a fugitive and failure to register as an ex-convict only hours before he was charged with the murder of Mrs. Merlyn Woodficld, wife of Allan J. Woodfield, presi-: dent of Temco, Inc.

Man Charged In Knife Death. By FRANK SUTHERLAND and RALPH DAWSON Five Tennesseans were killed in two traffic accidents yesterday, including three Nashville teen-agers in a one-car accident on Haywood Lane at the intersection of 1-24. The teen-agers were killed after their car went out of control in a heavy rain and crashed into the interstate bridge. THE WIFE of a former Vanderbilt divinity school student and a 7-year-old boy, believed to be their adopted son, were killed in a two- U.S. Hits China Ship: Peking SAIGON (AP) Communist China accused U.S.

pilots yesterday of making a "savage" dive-bombing attack on a Chinese freighter in a North Vietnamese port near Ha-phong. It said eight Chinese crewmen were wounded. Battle reports from allied headquarters were scanty as the war appeared to be in another -Avaiting. lull. Ground fighting was light and scattered and monsoon weather again limited the U.S.

air offensive over the North. THE OFFICIAL New China News Agency said bombs ex-ploded above the water 11 yards from the freighter Hongqui No. 154 on Nov. 25 and damaged the vessel in 20 places as she lay at anchor at Hong Gai, 18 miles north of Haiphong. A State Department spokesman in Washington said officials are looking into the report.

U.S. military spokesmen in Saigon and Washington declined to comment. The U.S. Command had reported Nov. 25 that American pilots raided a naval dispersal area 39 miles east of Haiphong and about nine miles east of Hong Gai.

NCNA QUOTED the Chinese (Turn to Page 6, Column 7) Cloudy NASHVILLE: Mostly cloudy in morning, clearing in afternoon, cool, fair. Colder tonight, sunny, little warmer tomorrow. Highs in mid 40s lows in mid 20s. 17 Sections-238 PAGES Staff photo by Bill Prtston from the rear of the house into a patch of thick honeysuckle vines where officers found the slain woman's pursa Thursday. Merritt was released from (Turn to Page 6, Column 3) Cardinal Spellman Dies NEW YORK (UPD-Francia Cardinal Spellman, America's leading Roman Catholic -churchman whose flock of millions was scattered from the slums and skyscrapers of New York to the battlefields of Vietnam and the icy wastes of the Antarctic, died yesterday of a "massive cerebral accident." The 78-ycar-old archbishop of New York, one of eight American cardinals, was stricken fatally at St.

Vincent's hospital less than two hours after he was rushed there by ambulance. He was the second U.S. cardinal to die this year. THE CARDINAL'S sccre- Msgr. Thomas Mc- Govern, said that although, Spellman was hospitalized for a checkup only last month, he had been in good health almost to his death.

He visit-I cd two banquets Friday night and talked of making his anil nual battlefront visit to Vict-; nam at Christmas. The hospital elaborated on the cause of death by describ-(Tum to Page 6, Column 3) I am three to a Huntingdon hospital. George Currey, special investigator for the state district attorney general's office here, said Beasley was driving the car on Haywood Lane. "THEIR CAR just went out of control and crashed into the 1-24 bridge on Haywood Lane," Currey said. The youths were dead on arrival at General Hospital.

Carl Odum, driver for Ambulance Service of Nashville said Beaslcy was pinned behind the steering wheel of the car. Life Cities and the United Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, Prince Hall Affiliation, Southern Jurisdiction of Knoxville. The non-profit corporations will serve as sponsors of the projects, and will own and manage the buildings, which will include a total of 356 rental units 212 of them in the east Nashville location of Second Street and Foster. The Nashville project will be made up of two-story brick buildings on an 11.4-acre tract. National Life will make a 40-year loan for $2,749,300 to finance the project.

The complex will include 10 one-bedroom units at an established rent of $110 per month, (Turn to Page 6, Column 5) Promises Taxes along with him on that," said Rep. Sam Lewis D. Pulaski, the leaders in a group of independent legislators fought a lengthy battle with Ellington on taxes last spring. "Everyone now is in complete accord about no new taxes." ELLINGTON told the lawmakers, gathered here for a luncheon prior to the Tennes-see-Vanderbilt football game, that he is "by no means alarmed" about the failure of revenue collections to match the rate of growth used in budget projections. He termed the slump a temporary matter.

"Should the present slowdown continue, and we don't think it will, then we will tighten our belts accordingly and live within the revenue provided," the governor said. "Our sound financial and budgetary system allows us flexibility to meet unforseen or unexpected fluctuations in our tax revenues "I PRESENTED a wo-year program, to be funded for two (Turn to Page 12, Column 2) car collision three and a half miles north of McKenzie, on rain-slick Highway 22. Killed in the Nashville accident were: Larry W. Beaslcy, 16, of 3808 Valley Ridge Drive. Sophus E.

Gerald, 14, of 307 Elysian Fields Drive. The identification of the third youth was withheld, pending notification of his parents. Killed in the West Tennessee crash were Mrs. Betty W. White, 23, of Big Sandy, and Mike Mark.

Her husband, the Rev. Tornado FOREST, Miss. (AP) A tornado raked rural Scott County northeast of Forest yesterday, killing at least two persons, the sheriff's office reported. The twister was one oi several that danced across Mississippi and parts of Louisiana during the day. A sheriff's office spokesman at Forest said some people were believed to be missing Tornadoes also touched down near Vicksburg, Thomastown, Lake Pro vidence, and Clinton, La Damage was relatively light, however, and no injuries were reported.

Ackley Blasts Steel Increase WASHINGTON (AP) The Johnson administration struck hard yesteaday at a new increase in steel prices. Its spokesman added some barbs for recent auto wage hikes and got in another plug for a tax increase. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, read grave inflationary impact into a boost in sheet steel prices and into labor contracts reached by Ford and Chrysler with the AFL-CIO Auto Workers Union. HE CALLED for "a return to more responsible behavior on wages and prices by both labor and management." U.S. Steel announced Friday an increase of $5 a ton about 3.4 on two grades of steel sheets.

These types are widely used in consumer products from automobiles to (Turn to Page 6, Column 1) Staff photo by Jimmy Ellis By ALBERT CASON Business News Editor The first commitment in Tennessee, under a new $1 billion urban investment program undertaken by the life insurance industry at President Johnson's request, has been made by National Life and Accident Insurance Co. The $4,531,700 commitment, which also is one of the first hi the nation, is for construction of two rent supplement housing projects here and in Knoxville, to be insured by the Federal Housing Administration. WILLIAM C. WEAVER executive vice president, said the company will make 100 loans on the projects to nonprofit corporations organized by Lane College of Jackson, Ellington No New By LARRY DAUGHTREY Staff Correspondent KNOXVILLE-Mcmbers-of the 85th General Assembly responded with applause and expressions of relief here yesterday as Gov. Buford Ellington promised he will ask for no additional taxes at the February legislative session.

In addition to pledging no new administration taxes, the governor asked legislators to "join with me on holding the line on taxes." "He'll have no problem in getting the legislature to go Weather To Favor Parade The weatherman promises clear, nippy weather for Nashville's Christmas parade this afternoon. The mercury will climb into the 40s by 2:30 p.m., when the long parade wtill start its march through town. The starting point is Twenty-third The parade will move along West End to Broadway and then down Broadway to Second Avenue, where it will disband. Co-sponsors of the parade are the Nashville Gas Co. and the retail division of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.

The theme of the parade is "The Wonderful World of Dr. D. O. Little." More than 40 giant balloon-animals whose creators were inspired by D. O.

Little stories, will be features of the parade. The fantastic rubber creations will include a two-headed cat, measuring 22 feet long, and a herd of huge elephants stretching 150 feet. Terry Hart, vice president of the Nashville Gas Co. and chairman of the parade committee, said yesterdav, "we are looking forward once (Turn to Page fi, Column 6) By JERRY THOMPSON A 21-year-old man was charged early )'esterday with the murder of Mrs. Merlyn Woodfield after police took a pair of trousers from the suspect's North Nashville home.

Albert Merritt 1715 Sixth was charged with murder in the knife slaying Wednesday of the attractive wife of Allan J. Wood-field, president of Temco, Inc. SOURCES CLOSE to the investigation said the trousers would be sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington for examination. Meanwhile, other officers continued their search for another suspect in the brutal killing and were racing against predicted rain before dawn yesterday and making plaster casts of "two sets of footprints" behind the fashionable Woodfield home at 6644 Brookmont Terrace. One investigator said one set of footprints was made by someone wearing engineer boots and the other by someone wearing sharp-pointed beetle type shoes.

THE FOOTPRINTS led -rj, Index Page 6-A traveling to Knoxville for the Tennessee-Vanderbilt football game. POLICE CHIEF, Chief Roy Loveday said he planned "to work my entire force around the clock this weekend to keep the traffic moving." "Some of my men will have to be on duty for a 24-hour shift and so will the sheriff's office and the highway patrol," he added. Sheriff John Turner said he expected "a lot of trouble" on U.S. 127, the three-mile access road from the Interstate to Main Street, "especially if it is raining." HE EXPLAINED that the Slate Highway Department rushed to complete a resur II if II I CrOSSVille ConqeSteCl 1-40 Link Snarls Traffic Christmas shoppers rush ffv II -fr Ijjb QrvrJ tuil h'Vil zrt ill facing project on the narrow two-lane highway, but left the shoulders soft wuth fill dirt that could be "extremely danger-ou if a car slips off the pavement." "If it rains tonight, we could be in for a mess," he said. Until Friday, the Interstate ended west of Crossville at Dripping Springs where a temporary access connected the superhighway with U.S.

70 and the truck route through Crossville. WORK CREWS sealed off the temporary access forcing the heavy football traffic down the Interstate to U.S. 127. "The state has just ignored the truck route through town. (Turn to Page 6, Column 1) CROSSVILLE The much-publicized opening of a section of Interstate 40 north of here brought bumper-to-bumper traffic congestion in this city yesterday and angry protests from motorists and traffic policemen.

"It seems like a stupid move on somebody's part," said one harassed citizen who complained that the link forces motorists through town on narrow Main Street instead of the four-lane truck route on U.S. 70. Gov. Buford Ellington beamed Thursday when he announced the 13.2-mile link between Monterey and U.S. 127 would be opened Friday two months ahead of schedule and in time for use by football fans Ran Scales Christ mos Shoppers pell-mell along on Church Street during heavy downpour which pelted Nashville yesterday.

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