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COTTON MARKET Greenville Mid. Inch Cotton 41.85 Greenville Strict Low Middling .43.85 New Orleans Spot Middling 41.85 LOCAL WEATHER Partly cloudy, windy and cooler weather today. Fair and mild tomorrow. (Other data on page 3). THE LEADING NEWSPAPER OF SOUTH CAROLINA 78TH YEAR No.

105 METROPOLITAN POPULATION 168.152 GREENVILLE, S. C. MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1952 TWELVE PAGES PRICE 5c SUNDAY 15c ,1 ATlirnp ICTIS OF ABBEVILLE HIGHWAY CRASH IWLYWEDS TV 'Freeze' Is k3 Wedding Present Becomes Death Car liood Havoc Swells With 7 States Hit Danger Grows As Ram it Fatally Hurt In 3-Vehicle Easter Wreck Grandmother, Father Of Five, Calhoun Falls Girl Are Dead 15 IN VEHICLES Contested Applications May Cause Long Delay WASHINGTON, April 13 (AP) The Federal Communications Commission paved the Qy today for a vast expansion of the American television industry by lifting its three-and-Mialf-year-old freeze on new station licenses. This means that eventually more than 2,000 video stations may dot the United States and its possessions, as compared to 108 In operation now. It is expected to take a long paging Missouri River Still Rising MANY HOMELESS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The creeping destruction of the turbulent Missouri River put the Sioux City, area under water Sunday and men time to reach such a total, but South Carolina Allocated TV Stations In 21 Cities Bv STAFF CORRESPONDENT ABBEVILLE.

April 13 Victims of an Easter Sunday car crash near here today only 30 minutes after their wedding were a battlefield commissioned veteran Just home from Korea, his bride, a grandmother and a father of five. Instantly killed in the three-car crash wore l.t and Mrs. Fred I'ouell. married at the bride's home in Calhoun Falls minutes before. Mrs.

Annie Taylor, 67-year-old grandmother, and the father of five, Lawrence Taylor, Gainesville, died later at Ab TV stations allocated to South Carolina are: Greenville, 4, 23, 29 (educational); Aiken, 34; Anderson, 58; Camden, 14; Charleston, 2, 5, and 13 (educational); Clemson, 68, (educational); Columbia, 10, 19, 23, 67, (educational); Conway, 23; Florence, Georgetown, 27; Greenwood, 21; Lake City, 53; Lancaster, 31; Laurens, 45; Marion, 43; Newberry, 37; Orangeburg, 44; Rock Hill, 61; Spartanburg, 7, 17; Sumter, 47; and Union, 65. All channels up to and including 13 are very high frequency; all those above that number are on the ultra high frequency wave bands. aced the protecting levees In the Omaha Council Bluffs, metropolitan district. The critical flood area extended 1,000 miles from South Dakota into Missouri and Kansas. Some 600 square blocks in Sioux City or its suburbs were under water Sunday and the danger of further destruction grew hourly.

CREST YET TO COME Iowa's second largest metropolis, Sioux City has 84,000 residents, although some the flood hit were in suburbs outside the city. The havoc inflicted by the rampaging Missouri was the major part of an Easter Sunday midwest flood picture embracing seven states. Omaha's river level reached an historic high with the crest three days away. And, at South St. Paul, on the Mississippi River, an embargo was placed on livestock receipts at the big stockyards although the today's action is a go-ahead sign for an industry that blossomed into a million dollar enterprise even under wraps.

Eventually television will be available to most of the population, whereas now less than half of the people live within turning range of a station. Today's order involves these Steps: 1. Formal creation of 70 new television channels in the ultra high frequencies (UHF), to be added to the 12 very high frequency (WW) channels now in use. 2. Adoption of a final table of local channel assignments, based on the total 82 channels, which will make possible 2,053 stations in 1,291 communities scattered across the country and in the territories and possessions.

This compares with 108 stations now in operation and a maximum of 400 outlets that would have been possible on the VHF channels alone. 3. A specific set-aside of 242 of the local channel assignments in that number of communities for exclusive educational, non-commercial use. A proposal by some schools that such stations be permitted some part-time commercialization was rejected. 4.

A formula for exact and much Wider mileage separations between TV transmitters and for fixed power standards "to provide the widest beville Memorial Hospital. Greenville Will Get 1 Of5S.C.VHF's; This car, a wedding present for I t. and Mrs. Fred Powell nf ralhnun Kalk was in a rnllUinn iut 3fl minutes after the couple were married yesterdav. The voune couole were instantlv killed in the head on The three vehicles, carrying a total of 15 persons, were in collision about 3 p.

m. three miles west of Abbeville on the Calhoun Falls highway, Sheriff Chester Fleming said. Mrs. Taylor, the grandmother, was riding with the seven-member family of Mr. Taylor.

His crash with another car near Abbeville. Two other persons died from injuries as a result ol the collision and 11 were injured. (Greenville News Photo bv (Jary Brown). WFBC 1st Applying Television soon becomes available In twenty-one South Work Begins Carolina communities, but the timetable will be variable. tittle A In some of the smaller towns where only one application Another Picture on Page It may be made, the licenses may come sometime this year On Gas Line dikes protecting the yards and But in the larger cities, where more than one applicant seeks a wife.

Rose Lee, was in critical condition at the hospital late tonight. The five children of the Taylors market areas were still holding. The Mississippi at Minneapolis-St. tern of television such as used by WBT-TV and WSB-TV. But there will be multiple applications for some of the UHF frequencies frequency, the time will be much longer maybe two or three years.

Paul reached a 21-foot stage early i a were declared badly injured. Installation Starts Today Sunday seven feet above flood, Five other persons returning to and a rise of .6 feet in 14 hours also, and they must follow the Only five vhu cnatyieis nave been awarded South Carolina, two to Charleston and one each' to Abbeville in a 1951 Dodge after MOST FLEE TOWN same path. To Tie In Natural Gas Supply attending the weddine were Riven When telev sion actually appears Greenville, Columbia and Spartan South Sioux City, like many possible service with least amount of interference." 5. Directives to 30 existing VHF (emergency treatment at the hos in the 21 communities will be de burg. All five will doubtless be ipuai anu uismisseu.

others was a ghost town. Only a few hardy souls of its 6,000 popula termined therefore by the number stations to shift to other channels, By HERBERT JOHNSON 5 HKAUKD TOWAKU ABBbVlLLK of aDDlications between now and tion determined to ride out the also in the VHF, in conformity Apparently the Powell and Dodge tt A 7: ri Extensive work will begin today July 1. After that the Federal flood menace. A Red Cross esti with the redistribution of assign merits. on installation of pipe lines that cars and a horse-drawn wagon u'Pra httrlifl InurArd AVthAvillo with mate of flood displaced families in Communications commission wiu begin processing.

the stricken area remained at will tie a natural gas supply into Uhi Tavlnr ear annrnnphinir frnm vc contested, wiucn means nearings, examiners' reports and other routine procedure, so that each applicant may have "his day in court." VHF MOST SOUGHT AFTER These will be the most sought-after frequencies, no doubt, because they are on the present sys- Greenville distribution system by Although these actions lift the too many grants any too soon. Most commissioners expect to see only the opposite direction when the 17,744 probably 40,000 persons but officials expected the figure to accident occurred, Sheriff Flem- the end of May. Williams Brothers, contractors go higher. inK said. freeze 'on.

new station grants, in- The crest, which passed through for Piedmont Natural Gas Corpora The Greenville News-Piedmont Company's WFBC was the first applicant In South Carolina for a television station, having filed July 15, 1948. It requested the use of channel 19 with rrtsoat power of 2T3 anff anrat power of 13,800 watts. tie reported that the driver of (Contjnued on Page 3, Col. 5) tion. local distributors, arc sehed South' Dakota's capital city of Pierre last mid-week, Sunday hit tne uoage win: ne war rouowmg the bride and bridegroom's ear uled to begin laying the steel pipe yanxton, in southern souttt Dakota when a horse -drawn vehicle today, according to H.

Slurry Da Talk Is Of Popen Business vis, superintendent for the gas loomed ahead on the road just ana was due in Sioux City Monday. Downstream from Sioux Citv The FCC reached and granted firm. as the Taylor car approached from along its jowa-jveoraska reaches Greensboro's application, but the opposite direction. BEGINS ON WESTFIELD the Missouri spread its tentacles as Greenville's was caught in the The steel pipe line will begin at wide as 10 mile over farmlands, At this point the lieutenant's and the Taylor autos apparently freeze where it has been ever alone with hundreds of a point on Westfield St. near the Army flood experts and engi crashed head-on, the sheriff said.

Johnson St. intersection, where it neers fought desperately to others. This was brought about The Dodra then hit the rear end will connect with the distribution strengthen levees and floodwalls, designed to protect against a crest system. It will follow Westfield of the Powell vehicle and the horse bolted and threw the driver off the cart, he said. St.

to Wardlaw St. then continue by discovery that television stations operating on the same channel had to be farther apart than first believed. Consequently the ot 26.6 feet as against the 30-footer expected. Four thousand soldiers The young lieutenant, 24, who re FCC had to re-allocate the cnan- along Wardlaw St. to Pendleton St.

The line will follow Pendleton St. to Green then will run along Green eventually to a point worked to add another two feet to the top of the protective dikes. turned three weeks ago after 13 months in Korea, and his bride nels allowing more miles separation. ere riding in a 1952 Chevrolet, near Cant Station on Highway 29, it was not until yesterday mat weddine gift from the parents. Cooler Today the regulatory body came up with its final allocation plan.

where it will connect with a border station, already set up to reduce pressure of the gas supply receiv They were en route to Fort Ben-nine, Ga. They had been married at the ed from the main supply line. VHF CHANNEL 4 HERE This plan puts VHF channel 4 fir' I home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Is Prediction Showers last night promised the Mavor J.

Kenneth Cass said last C. Ayers, Calhoun Falls. She it' I in Greenville, channel 7 in Spar night that the project will be an I as the former Miss Fay Lee tanburg and channel 10 in Colum inconvenience to traffic tor De- Ayers, 21. tween 30 and 40 days but it will be bia. Columbia lost one vnr cnan-nel 7 to Spartanburg.

UHF chan SON OF POLICE CHIEF Lt. Powell was a son of Police carried out in accordance with specifications of City Engineer R. H. Cureton along the part of the route Greenville vicinity cooler weather today and the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and wind. The high temperature today is expected to be near 70 degrees, a few degrees less than yesterday's high for April of 74 degrees.

The nels 23 and 29, the latter noncommercial educational which Fur- man University is seeking, are inside the city. Chief and Mrs. Bill Powell, also of Calhoun Falls. Both the Taylor and Powell cars were demolished. The Dodge, owned by Bobby Clark of Abbe At the same time that mam is also assigned to Greenville, and UHF channels 19, 25 and 67 to low mercury reading early this laid, a main will be installed from the point near Gantt Station to morning is expected to be 55 de ville, turned over several times grees.

after the impact. Kain and threat- connect with a main suppiv nne about 15 miles from Greenville on Fork Shoals Rd. The main supply Children of the Tavior family i weather Columbia. In this case channel 19 is non commercial educational. Charleston has VHF channels 2 and 5 and, for education, channel 13.

Other nearby UT1F allocations are Aiken 54, Anderson 58. Camden 14, Clemson 68, Greenwood 21, Laurens 45, Newberry 37 and Spar-tanbure 17 as well as VHF 7. linp is that of Transcontinental Na i imiiwiii. innim yesterday morn in the hospital in addition to the critically injured mother are tural Gas Corporation, source of SIR ERIC MR. ELDERKIN Michael, 7, Maxine, 14, Ruth, 9, Roseline, 11 and Joyce, 18.

the supply that will serve Greenville. The connecting line from Gantt Station to the Transconti ing turned in mid-day to a warm and sunny spring day, al-though Easter plans in numerous cases were Talk usually is cheap, but not when men like these get together. At left Karl O. Elderkin, general manager of Crossett Paper Mill in discusses construction of a $53,000,006 pulp paper plant at VHF means Very High Frequen MRS. POWELL LT.

POWELL I.t. Fred Powell, recently returned from Korean combat and son of Police Chief and Mrs. W. L. Powell or Calhoun Falls, and his pretty young bride, Mrs.

Faye Lee Ayers Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ayers of Calhoun Falls, are shown above yesterday afternoon after they were married, and only minutes before they were to meet death in a highway crash near Abbeville.

Three automobiles were involved in the Easter Sunday tragedy. nental main will be laid across cy and UHF means Ultra High Frequency. It is the difference be- country, Mr. Davis said. TO GET GAS IN MAY The local superintendent said na tween long wave radio as now changed.

A mild known and verv short wave radio rain began yes- Passengers in the Dodge treated at the hospital were Bobby Clark, J. C. Porter, Reid Porter and Joe Seawrigbt, all of Abbeville, and Miss Iribtb Crosby of Calhoun Falls. E. X- Burgess, driver of the wagon, also was treated and dismissed.

He was knocked unconscious when thrown from the wagon. tural eas should be turned into as used by police and taxi lines. terday morning The UHF band is impervious to at 4:20 clock, Greenville's svstem by the last of May. He said Greenville will be according to the Senator Connally Says He static and gives a somewhat clearer, steadier picture, noise divided into three sections for pur Wnthar Rtiran and interference free. In this man poses of distribution.

Gas consum-j and changed at ner it is like radio's frequency ers now are supplied oy manutac- 5:45 o'clock to a Will Not Seek Re-Election Charleston, with his boss, Sir Eric Bowater of London. mulU mniionaire owner of the Bowater paper industries. They arrived here yesterday aboard Sir Eric's private railroad car to discuss the Sew plant'. construction with the J. E.

Sirrine Company, consulting enrineers. (Greenville News Photo by Robert B. Steel Paper Magnate Says Southern People And Climate Top Assets By F. C. McCONNELL 111 A multi-millionaire Britisher sans the stuffy Hollywood-devised English accent, Is convinced more than many South modulation.

It also travels in tured gas from a plant on Bramiett Rd. moderate rain, which ended at straight line, like a beam of light and will not bend with the curva COOLER Mr. Davis said Greenville's gas 8:15 o'clock, 'Russell Speaks Addressing the "people But with last night's showers. more than half an inch of rain fell system will be expanded as soon as pipe becomes available. He said Mr.

Hurst told him that as soon as nine could be secured it is planned ture of the earth. In this manner it gives very excellent primary or line of sight coverage, but is short on secondary coverage. Very yesterday, bringing the total for On Civil Rights NEW YORK. April 13 i-Sen. April to about an men ana ine total for the vear to 21.59 inches.

to circle Greenville witn a nign High Frequency on the other nana 4.72 inches more than normal for will bend somewhat and win mere Russell D-Ga. said today his party. pressure line to serve suouroan that neriod of time. fore give service beyond line of areas with natural gas. WASHINGTON, April 13 U.

Sen. Tom Connally, veteran "old-school" lawmaker who steered most of the nation's major foreign policy laws through the Senate during and since World War II, announced tonight be will not be a candidate for re-election this year. In a dramatic Easter night statement issued through his office here, the white-maned Texas Democrat announced bis retirement after 35 years in Congress. Texas," Connally who will be 75 next August said: "I do not desire to be a candidate in the primaries of Texas for renomination to the U. S.

Senate." He said his reasons were "of purely personal character," adding that his Senate tour has been a "crushing burden" and "I will not engage in a bitter, arduous and taxing campaign in order to continue to carry this burden." shovld have a civil rights plank in its platform that would please all Democrats. And he saw no reason Mild weather ana lair sues are sight. It is. however disturbed Dy erners of Dixie's sterling inausiriai ana aBncuumrc m-mc. indicated for tomorrow, according lightning, ignition sparks, etc.

of ot cir Vne Bowater ixmaon, BED JETS SHOT DOWN to the Weather Bureau. why it couldn't be done. CONVERTERS BE AVAILABLE which attract industry. Sir Eric So far this year, temperatures remarked. "No wonder it is tne There is only one transmitter SEOUL, Korea.

Monday, April 14 on Sabre jet pilots destroyed or damaged 12 Russian-built MIG-15s have been above normal and an Russell, appearing on a television show CBS, "Man of the Week" said he thought the 1944 platform trim 56-year-old owner of the vast Bowater paper industries, who arrived with officials of his company here yesterday on a consult-fis miccinn is so convinced the operating on UHF at the present greatest growing area in the en tire nation." accumulated excess of 452 degrees time. It is located at Bridgeport, of the Democratic party bad a In an accent onlv faintly rem above normal is recorded through Easter Sunday in a series of air yesterday. 'battles over Northwest Korea. Conn, and is experimental. No iniscent of what Americans have UHF license has been issued ex ceDt for experimental purposes.

suitable compromise on civil rights. "I am not insisting the exact language of that platform be ac come to believe is the way Britishers talks, Sir Eric pointed out that South has a future he is willing to invest upwards of $55,000,000 a new pulp paper plant. ToHav and tomorrow, they will All purpose converters will oe Father Of Spartanburg County Flier Supports his eomnanv is not "running xrom available at about $30 for con labor conditions as is the case with instruction of the news verting present VHF television sets South. cepted, be said, adding: "It was a strong declaration in favor of all human and civil rights for which the Democrats have al Son In 'Staydown Strike' At Air Force Base to UHF. Single channel vtur converters have iust been developed print and kraft paper mill near Charleston, with officials of so many textile firms coming CITES PEOPLE.

CLIMATE He was" hit in the back and the by RCA which will sell for around $10. Thus if channel. 4 were in 'Our unions are friendly," he the war and "I don't want him to World War II, and new planes are faster and more complicated. One the J. E.

sirrine unnpauy, suiting engineers. FIVE YEARS OF STUDY head with shrapnel in World War said. He added that good people ways stood, and it said the party is pledged to pursue the protection and enablement of those rights by every constitutional means." use here, the owner of a tele of the men-involved has five fly any more." AU six of the Mather objectors were identified by the Air Force, and good climate in tne sown were SACRAMENTO, April 13 0JJ9 One of 12 Air Force officers facing possible disciplinary action for refusing to fy received II. He flew a 'B-17 with the 8th Air Forte in England and flew vision set for $10 could install (Continued on Page It, CoL C) irresistible attractions aa com nanv. Five years of intensive study all parts of the nation went into selection of Tennessee for the plant it sir Frir said durinc an inter Snoddv.

his wife and six-year-old 35 combat missions. I understand but only the name of one of six protesters at Randolph Air Force support today from his father, who son live at Sacramento. The elder Snoddy said Mrs. Snoddy and the Tax Refunds Accompanying Sir Erie on the consultation visit are Karl O. FMprkin of Nov a Scotia, general Base, near san Antonio.

was TODAY'S CHUCKLE view in his private railroad car said his son had "never got over" 13 of them came in 11 days. He got several medals. He never got over it. 1 revealed. boy have asked tne oiticer 10 stay on the ground.

flying 35 combat missions in World yesterday. Good transDortatioo facilities. manager of an Arkansas Bowater Air Traininc Command head "His mother doesn't want him to Colonel: "Man-to-man, now, "I hope very much he won't War II and was reluctant to take Quarters at Scott Air Force Base, mill; A. d. Meyer, oinciai ox ne Bowater Paper Company, New flv.

His wife and son don't also, 111., disclosed that zz officers nave abundant power, nearby raw materials (trees), good water and a mii' available labor market have to fly again." the elder Snod dv said at his South Carolina home and it worries his son half to more risks. Sam Snoddy, Wellford; S. C. Names of Spartanburg Coanty residents who have federal income tax refunds for 194t wait-big for them will be found ea page of today's Greenville News. Other Spartanburg names will apear tomorrow.

death, I'd like him to do some "He was grounded once and i the father of Lt. James D. Snoddy York: Charles x. wcks new York City, Bowater vice president; Charles Opdyke of New York, s.tr treasurer A. W.

Bentley, Why do yoa refuse this opportunity for Officer's Training?" Sergeant: "Well, I've been in this army long enough to know I doat mind saluting officers; hot I'm hanged if I'm going to associate with them as brought the first southern Bowater newsprint mill to the South, he Air Force asxeo mm to uy auw. thing else. He never got into any trouble and I hope he wont over asked to be grounded since Jan. 1, 1951. The reservists, called back to service, are considerably older than they were when they Hew in He refused.

I don't -want him to aid one of six "staydown strikers" at Mather Air Forte Base here, said the flier bad been wounded during refusing to By, forestry expert, and Dennis Tim- fly. "Most places in the South had mis, assistant controller. Bora than one of the ingredients.