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Register, Bcckley, W. Friday Afternoon, June 24, 11)00 Ex-Prieitliiod Student Speikt At Confab U.S. Reds Told Catholic Could Be Good Communist NEW YORK (UPI)-A for mer Catholic student for the priesthood told America's Corn- good Catholic could also be a good Communist. The address by James Kennedy, 27, of Chicago before a closed session of the national convention of the American Communist party drew the day's heaviest applause, a party spokesman said. Kennedy, who said he spent a year in a seminary and took the simple vows toward becoming a priest, urged the party to concentrate its recruiting among the nation's urban Catholic workers.

He cited the steel town Gary, as the sort of plac where the party should try hardest to win new members. The Communists claim 12 000 members. "There is no inherent contra diction between being commu nicant and being a nist," said Kennedy, wh renounced his religion after he County Officials Wrap Up Meeting CHARLESTON (UPI) -County officials wrapped up a three-day meeting ihere today and began a one-day "Clean Water Institute." The institute features addresses by Gov. Hulett Smith, Sen. Jennings Randolph and other state and federal officials.

Smith urged Thursday that West Virginia officials attend the institute after ending their legally required annual meeting commissioners, county assessors and county commissioners. water can be our greatest asset. water can be our greatest we cannot wait until the problem becomes so bad that it requires emergency action," the governor said. (Continued From Page 1) but that he expected the walkout to spread further. He declined to speculate on how long the strikes might last The U.S.

Embassy is apparently opposed to compan; proposals for an increase in wages for grounds it the workers on would contribute further to the inflation that is plaguing the country. The spokesman said: there no evidence of Communis activity in the strike, although he added there had been evidence the Viet Cong were behind a walkout by 2,000 por workers in Saigon last month workers are employed by the RMJK-BRJ. combine in the crash billion-dollar construction program under way throughout South Viet Nam. The Vietnamese employes receive an estimated payroll of close to $1.7 million each month. For the past year RMK-BRJ has sought wage increases for the Vietnamese, whose pay is based on a 1957 cost of living scale although prices that have Ruby until next fall.

Ruby, 55, shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of tile Dallas City Hall Nov. 24, 1963 as police led him to a squad car. Millions of persons saw it on television. Ruby's lawyers contend the original trial judge, Joe B. Brown, committed 1,200 legal errors in Ruby's month-long trial.

They contend Ruby's constitutional rights were violated because Judge Brown was writing a book about the trial while presiding. Ruby's lawyers also said they would cite the Supreme Court's overturning of the Sam Sheppard murder conviction in Cleveland on the grounds an inflammatory press kept him from getting a fair trial. The meeting of county ficials found agreement speakers Thursday that educa tion is in great need for coun ty officials charged with assess nient functions. Simon Clopper, supervisor assessments in Washiugto County, and Richard She! tan, executive secretary of th W. Va; Association of Count Officials both noted that the as sessment process has not kep pace with the rapidly increasing complexities of government.

The majority of those wh are presently in the positions assessors, acquired them sheer accident" Clopper sak as he noted that many "hav had little formal education be yond grammar school." Clopper stressed that modern government requires that as sessors be well-trained and aflbl men and that institutions higher education must offer professional education for as sessors. The Eagerstown, official outlined a training program being started in his (home state He said this parograini gives promise of serving as the start of ground swell of training which will list the assessing function to the level of a pro Shelton told the county of ficials that proper impleinenta tion of the Higher Education Act of 1965 will enable West Vir ginia to "give professiona status to the assessor's office and gain public approval anc acceptance of tfce assessor's judgment." The Mountain State official noted that reaction to the property tax prior to the 1930's brought about changes in the role of the assessor which made the official function as little more than a "roll copier." But he said the West Virginia Legislature initiated a series of acts beginning in 1955 which, at Srst, encouraged and presently "orces the assessor to increase and to equalize assessment "There is almost no comparison between the simple duties of the assessor's office in 1950 and those of today," he said. Shelton's a came during a panel discussion of 'Regional Training Program Under the Higher Education Act." State Tax Commissioner G. Thomas Battle explained that Ms act (makes West Virginia eligible for funds to train assessors. Battle said plans are for West Virginia University to set up a 52-hour course on appraisals, and related subjects for the enefit of elected and appointed ffficials.

He added that the subjects would be offered by at least five schools other than WVU and extension courses would be ffered in other areas. He said the courses would consist of one ession per week. Battle said it was hoped that sufficient number of county fficials would indicate they in- end to enroll in the classes to nable the course to start with fall semester. I became active in the party, Kennedy, who worked in a Chicago bookstore and wa identified as the "spokesman' for Chicago's Communist youth said both Catholicism ant Communism arc concernec with advancing the rights of man, universal progress and the harmony of mankind. He said Pope John XXIII was thinking of Communists when he said Catholics should cooper ate with progressive forces in their homelands.

A party spokesman said 202 delegates and 45 alternate from 31 states as well as 400 invited observers had regis tered for the convention in steamy Webster Hall, in lower Manhattan. Police stood guarc outside the convention hall. H-m-m-m Racial RioSing Hits Cleveland CLEVELAND (UPI) --Stores and homes on the city's East Side were damaged early today as nearly 200 persons went on a rock-throfwing rampage touched off by the wounding of a Negro ixy by an unidentified motorist The boy, Steven Griffin, 10, was in Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound on the lower albdominal region. He was in ifair condition. After the shooting, Negro and white groups of youths threw rocks and bricks at each other and the crowd gradually swelled and spread over the area.

Police said vandals set fire to supermarket and crowded iround it, preventing firemen reaching the blaze. It was believed the store and its contents were a total loss. A hardware store was broken into and a few items were stolen, officers said. Windows of homes, stores nd cars were smashed in a ive-block as area. area mobs of Superior roamed the About 20 uniformed policemen, a 10-man task force and a umber of police officials finally quashed the disturban es early today.

The boy and a group otmpanions, police said, wer eported throwing rocks a as sing cars before tihe shoot ing incident. Police said it was difficult to efl whether the motorist was Deaths And Emerson W. Amick Mrs. Neil (aldwell (oak Funeral arrangements are in- Final rites for Mrs. Neil Cald- complete for Emerson Walker Amick, 73, Oak Hill, who died Thursday morning at his home following a heart attack.

He was a retired employe of the New River Co. at Lochgelly. Amick was a member of the Oak Hill Nazarene Church. Bora at Runa, July 22, 1892, he was a son of the late Samuel and Martha Dorsey Amick. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Elsie Amick; two sons, Wallace of Hyattsville, and Ernie of Phoenix, three daughters, Mrs. Eva Smith of Phoenix, Mrs. Lesta Dwelly of Portland, and Mrs. Iva Mann of Oak Hill; 17 grandchildren and 7 great- grandchildren. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home in Oak Hill.

(RNS) Lacy V. Worley Funeral services for Lacy Virgil Worley, 67, of Glen Morgan, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with the Rev. C.

E. Walker and the Rev. William Berry in charge. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park. Workey died Thursday at 9 a m.

in a local hospital following a long illness. Pallbearers will be Ray Green, John Pate, Frank Rakes, 3die Daniels, Larry Pate and! Ivan Farley. Friends may call at the Rose after 3 p. m. todaiy.

Clcve M. Patton Graveside rites for Cleve M. Patton, 81, formerly of Alderson, will be held it 11 a.m. Saturday in the Rosewood Cemetery with the Rev. Elwin H.

Roberts in Patton, the father of Mrs. Frances Lowe of -Beckley, died at 7 p.m. Wednesday at bis lome after a long illness. He was a member of the rreenbrier Baptist Church at or white, but witnesse 11 claimed the motorist wa; No estimate of the property amage was available. ecreiary Of State On Five-Nation Trip WASHINGTON (UPI) --Secre- oday on a five-nation Pacific trip.

Main stops will be at anberra, Australia, for the ministerial meeting of the SATO liance opening Monday and okyo Iks. for U.S.-Japan trade Rusk declined to answer any uestions by reporters as he oarded his plane at Andrews Force Base. Accompanying usk was William P. Bundy, ssistant Secretary of State for ar Eastern Affairs. Before returning home, Rusk go to the Philippines July Formosa July 3, Japan July and South Korea July 8.

Police Appeal for Aid In Stewardess Murder Rachel Kessler Morrison 122 WHITE STICK RD. Graduate of Collins High School Attended Beckley College Formerly Employed By W. T. Grant City of Frankfort, Montgomery Ward Started Working At Bank of Raleigh in 1960 Present Position Drive-In Teller 1 Son Ricky- 10 Old Member Pianist CaNoway Heights Baptist Church Bonk of Raleigh Main Kanawha Streets Member F.D.I.C. SEATTLE, Wash.

(UPI) The head of homicide etail appealed to the public oday for help in solving the ludgeon slaying of an attractive airline stewardess and the ratal beating of her roommate. Lonnie Trumbull, 20, was bund dead in tiheir basement ipartment Thursday morning, ler blonde roomimate, Lisa Wick, 20, also a stewardess, vas rushed to King County Hospital where she remains mconscious. The girls, both in their ughtclothes, were found lying twin "oommate, beds by another Joyce Bowe, 20, ivho had spent the night with friends. "We want to hear from anyone who heard anything unusual in the neighborhood Wednesday night or early Thursdaj' morning or saw anything out of the ordinary," said Capt. Paul Lee.

"We also want to hear from anyone who has had problems with prowlers in the neighborhood in the past several months and anyone who has been molested there," Hie said. The three girls, all from Portland, had graduated recently from the United Air Lines stewardess school. They were scheduled to begin making regular flights to California next month. PERCE STRINGS NASH CAMPBELL JUST WHEN THEY GET TOO DO66ONE OVEBBCAR1N6. NASH CAMPBELL FURNITURE AT DISCOUNT PRICES NAVH CAMPBELL 1 9 2 1 A BECKLEV.

VA So. 70, Ancient Free and Ac- epted Masons. He was born in Monroe County, Sept. 22, 1885. The body is at the Lobban Funeral Home in Alderson.

RNS) Earl L. Compton Services for Earl Lacy Compton, 55, Route 1, Rock, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kegley Methodist Church with the Rev. Rpseoe Keys in charge. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bluefield.

Compton died Wednesday night in a Princeton hospital after a long illness. He was the father of Mrs. Howie Kobinette of Beckley. Born July 28, 1911, at Rock he was a son of the late S. W.

and Mamari Belcher Compton. The body will remain at Memorial Funeral Directory in Princeton where friends may call this afternoon (HNS) Mrs. Winnie Hairslon Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Mrs. Winnie Hairston, 101, of Greentown, who died at her home at 1:40 p.m. Thursday after a long illness.

Born in Martinsville, Va: May 1, 1865, she was a daughter of the late Manuel and Frances Hairston. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Greentown. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mary Wilson, and a son, Robert Bloth, both of Greentown; a sister, Mrs. Nannie Abrams of Philadelphia, three grandchildren and five great- grandchildren.

The body is at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor pending completion of arrangements. well Cook, 72, Mullens, will be held at 1 p. m. Saturday in the Bailey Funeral Home Chapel in Princeton with the Rev. William N.

Nelson in charge. Burial will be in Resthaven Park Cemetery at Princeton. Mrs. Cook died Thursday at 3:30 p. m.

in a Mullens hospital after a long illness. Born May 5, 1894, at Lerona, she was a daughter of the late Floyd and Ellen Fleshman Caldwell. She was a member of the Mullens Methodist Church. Survivors include her husband, Kyle; a son, Daymond T. of Mullens; a daughter, Mrs.

David S. Peoples of Winston- Salem, N. a brother, Eddie C. of Bluefield; two sisters, Mrs. Giles Pennington of Whitesville and Mrs.

Don Wyrick of Dambril, and four grandchildren. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. (RNS) James Ramsey Jr. Graveside services were held at 11 a.m.

today in the Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery at Red Sulphur Springs for James Larry Ramsey infant son of James L. and Rachael Billings Ramsey of Beaver. The infant was stillborn in a Bluefield hospital Wednesday evening. Other survivors include a sister, Bertia Elaine, at home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Carroll Billings of Bud, and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mamie Ramsey of Glace. The Rev. Bill Harvey was in charge of the services. E.

J. (Jake) Blevins Funeral services for E. J. (Jake) Blevins, Pulaski, formerly of Oceana, were held at 2 p. m.

Tuesday in the Shilofa Church near Pulaski. Blevins died at 9 a. m. Sunday at his home after a long illness. Among Ms survivors is a brother, Hazel Blevins of Lillydale.

(RNS) Vatican May Approve Limited Use Off Contraceptive Pills liberally to cover couples too VATICAN CITY (UPI) law of God. Pope Paul VI's birth control commission appears likely to recommend approval for limit ed use of oral contraceptive pills, Vatican sources said today. The sources said the commit tee believes that acceptance of qualified use of the pill would not contradict past church teachings that both mechanical and chemical contraception is impermissible and against the Giant Balloon Launched Info Polar Orbil VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. (UPI) launched The Air into polar Force orbit Thursday a 100-foot balloon satellite designed to aid in the earth's surface with remarkable accuracy. The 125-pound aluminum- coated plastic satellite--called Pageos 1--was blasted into a circular polar orbit from this coastal base atop a Thor-Agena John Althier Honey Will Be Harder To Gei At 'Yes' Bank DES MOINES (UPI) -Money is going to be harder to get at the "yes" bank in the future.

'We're a full service bank. with the yes address but is ridiculous," the lowa- Des Moines National Bank said in a newspaper ad Thursday. The ad was directed to a 'man in a straw hat" who borrowed $1.500 from the bank's savings and service center on Wednesday. "You forgot to sign a note," the ad said. It seemed that the man in the straw hat not only forgot to sign a note, but obtained the $1.500 by pointing a gun at a teller and saying, "This is a' stick-up." The bank felt this was an Services for John Althier, 78, Parkersburg, will be held at a.

m. Saturday in the Dodd- Payne Funeral Home Chapel in Fayetteyille with the Rev. Billy Reed Wickline in charge. Burial will be in Huse Memorial Park. Althier, a former resident of Fayetteville and Oak Hill, died at 4 a.m.

Thursday in a Parkersburg hospital. Death was attributed to a stroke. The body will remain at the funeral home where friends may call after 4 p. m. todav (RNS) National Obits TARRYTOWN, N.Y.

(UPI) -Funeral services will be held here Saturday for William J. Cannon, vice president and general manager of the Tarrytown Daily News. Cannon died in Phelps Memorial Hospital in North Tarrytown Wednesday at the age of 72. BETHESDA, Md. (UPI) -Edward J.

Reardon, who retired 18 months ago as a Washington correspondent for the Herald News of Passaic and Clifton, N.J., died Thursday of a heart attack. He was 65. rocket booster. "It' is in orbit and it looks good," a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. Pageos, for Passive Geodetic Earth-Orbiting Satellite, was circling the earth every three hours at an altitude of about 2,600 miles and traveling 13,700 miles an hour.

The satellite will reflect sunlight from its shiny surface to provide an orbiting point of light which can be photographed from earth for a five year period, NASA said. It will be as bright as the star Polaris and can be seen with the naked eye. The photographs will enable scientists to calculate geometrically the distance between two surface points 3,000 miles apart to an accuracy of 32 feet. Once it achieved orbit, Pageos was released from its launching cannister and was inflated by chemical means. i Ten couples have applied for marriage license at the Raleigh County Clerk's office here recently.

They are: Jackie David Biggs, 22, Beckley, son of Bert and Nellie Biggs, and Rosemary Katherine Thompson, 19, Beckley, daughter of Paul and Mary Thompson; James William Buckland, 31, Beckley, son of William and Barbara Buckland, and Brenda Kay Clay, 19, Beckley, daughter of Oliver and Theda Gay. Stuart Edward Bowden, 26, Princewick, son of Ira and Rebecca Bowden, and Elsie Me Kinney, 32, Coal City, daughter of Charles and Virgie McKinney; Leamon Elmore, 19, Princewick, son of Ervin and Nina Elmore, and Rilla Kay Meadows, 18, Crab Orchard, daughter of Samuel and Rema Health Strikers Call 'Emergency Meeting 9 iNEW YORK (UPI) called an "emergency meeting" 1,500 doctors and dentists by leaders of the doctors Their thinking is that the pill should be used in special cases as a device to postpone conception rather than prevent it, the sources said, and its use would be governed by much the same considerations that now control use of the rhythm method of birth control. Safer System Since the pill regulates the woman's body chemistry, it would make the rhythm system safer. The church's present position, laid down by Pope Pius XII in 1951, is that all artificial forms of contraception are illicit. The only permissible family planning means of are either abstinence or--in special cases where there if jood reason--the Ogino-Knaus ythm method.

Good reason, as defined by Pope Pius, applied mainly to cases where pregnancy would pose a danger to health. Catholic theologians, however, lately have tended to interpret the clause more short of money to properly care for children. "In any event, the purpose of the rhythm system and of the pill should not be to prevent conception, but simply to postpone it until a more proper time," one reliable source said. To Comlete Work The Birth Control Commission's "inner cabinet" of 16 cardinals and bishops has been meeting this week and Vatican sources said it would likely complete its work today or Saturday and make its report next week to the Pope. The pontiff has the final say on the matter and sources said he probably would make no pronuncements until the fall.

The sources said that while concensus in both the "inner cabinet" and 60-member commission on use of the oral pill was very wide, views on other contraceptive methods were varied and both a majority and minority report likely would be presented to the Pope. Ten Couples Seek License To Marry Edgar Hampton, 62, Whitesville, and Lucille Graley, 48, Pettus; Donald Edward Honaker, 19, Chicago, 111., son of James and Maude Honaker, and Judith Ann Bonds, 17, Pineknob, daughter of Mrs. Sallie Bonds; Charles Edward Samples 19, Beckley, son of Charles and Margie Samples, and Virgie Mae Howerton, 18, Sophia, la Howerton; Robert James Steelman, 18, Beckley, son of Joseph and Julia Steelnran, and Patricia Ann Jackson, 18, McAlpin, daughter of Nathaniel and Katherine Jackson; Arville Kenneth Todd, 24, Piney View, son of Arville and Lilly Todd, and Doris Marie Smith, 17, Piney View, daughter of Mrs. Bertha Smith; Robert Walter Zemerick 18, Cleveland, Ohio, son of Mrs. Virginia Zemmck, and Margaret Mary Brennan, 17, Cleveland, daughter of Mrs.

Eileen Brennan. Dodd (Continued From Page 1) for F. Sonnett early 1960's who On Raising Of Prices CHICAGO (UPI) --Chicago's 5,000 barber shop operators voted by mail today on whether to increase the price of a haircut to as much as $3. The barbers are being asked by the Master Barbers Association if they want the price of a haircut to remain $2.25, or if it should be increased 25 cents, or 50. cents.

Mercer Grant Approved WASHINGTON (UPI)--The U. S. Health Service today ap- a regional center in Mercer County, W. Va. for improvement of heart, cancer and stroke dis- Robert C.

Byrd and eases. Sens. Jennings Randolph, botdi D-W. said the funds would help establish the center for local and region-wide services available in the area of cardio-vas- cular diseases. abuse of their open door policy.

jun to get a loan from us at the yes bank," the ad said. "As much as we're flattered by your choice (of banks) we must insist that you not get the dea that we will condone this type of borrowing again." DANCE THE WHEEL Route 19-21 Daniels FRIDAY A SATURDAY 1:30 to 12 THE ORBITS No Under IS Admitted Snow Hits Argentina NEUQUEN, Argentina (UPI) --A six-foot snowfall in northeastern Argentina, accompanied in some areas by wind and rain storms, has killed at least one person and stranded about 2,000 others, it was reported today. health clinics today in a dispute over higher pay and better working conditions. The strike, euphemistically Fighting (Continued From Page 1) appeared to be a reinforced platoon of the enemy and they whirled and took up positions to delay the American advance. His men overran them after a vicious exchange of mortar and machine gun fire.

Push On Davison's company and other 1st Cavalry units then pushed on, encountering sniper fire and booby traps left behind to delay them. "They appeared to be in positions which were freshly dug," UPI correspondent Leon Daniel reported from the battle scene. In other ground action, units of the U.S. 25th Division which have killed 425 Communists so far in Operation Paul Revere, in Pleiku Province near the Cambodian border, ran into a company of Viet Cong and engaged them in heavy fighting today. American casualties were described as light.

U.S. Marines killed five Viet Cong and captured 17 in operations near Da Nang. The 1st Infantry Division, sweeping Tay Ninh Province about 40 miles northwest of a i uncovered pply caches containing an estimated 1.000 tons of rice and 5,000 sheets of tin used for buildjng shelters. In the air war, U.S. pilots hit North Viet Nam with 84 i i Thursday.

smashed a 100-truck convoy, destroyed two bridges, and hit a number of cargo junks, antiaircraft sites and radar stations. Spec. 4 Franklin Todd, 22. of Cincinnati, a radio operator with the company first hit by toe Communists in the Nathan flale battle, said the North Vietnamese got to within 15 feet of some foxholes before hey were halted by intense fire. "They hid in the jungle grass," Todd said.

"The wind was pretty steady and we couldn't hear them too well." ditch efforts to negotiate the dispute met with failure Thursday night. A city official said today the doctors association "will maintain all critically needed services as well as emergency facilities. We will refer patients to hospital clinics where necessary." The statement by Dr. Howard J. Brown, health service administrator and Commissioner of Health, concluded: "We are confident no doctor will let a child suffer during this npri.ifi All the clinics were opened this morning with nurses in charge.

Another negotiating session was called for this morning at the end of Thursday night's two-hour meeting between- city officials and representatives of the doctors association. But Dr. Donald Meyer, who will become president of the association next Friday, termed the city's latest offer "completely unsatisfactory." The "emergency meeting" was expected to keep the doctors and dentists away 'from the clinics until mid-afternoon at the earliest, although Meyer said emergency medical service would be maintained. Meyer said that if an agreement is not reached, the "emergency meeting" would continue on a day-to-day basis next week. The doctors and dentists, who have been working without a contract since their last pact expired last January, seek a guaranteed, number of working days a year and a pay raise from S23 to $43.50 for- each two- and-a-half working session.

Soviets (Continued From Page 1) community of 35,000 persons devoted entirely to nuclear and other scientific research. It is officially the Siberian branch of the Soviet academy of science and the Russians say it is unique in the world. On Saturday, reliable sources said, De Gaulle and his son; Navy Capt. Philippe de Gaulle, will become the first westerners to see the super-secret space center at Baikonur. a registered age number of West Gei As Dodd opened attorney John I summoned Charles Earlier documents i Kersten, in the tried to get Dodd i the Bogdan Stasbins Throughout the he nett has insisted tha to West Germany in to interview Stash allegedly was a mei Soviet murder appai than to plug Klein officials.

There was a chan silver-haired Connec crat might take himself after four ses in his behali before the Sena Committee headed C. Stennis, D-Miss. The strains of tt now in its third da sessions, cut throu pipe-smoking impass day as he dhallenge that sought to link $10,000 payment fi Klein, a registered West German intere That testimony one of five fon employees whose documents from DC formed a basis for senator was an for Klein. Helen Batherson, mer "Girl Friday Washington office, Klein had sought I with unhappy clien numerable occasio buxom blonde said to do the same thing Senate friends. Dodd has asked Department to turn 1 nxr fif iiy ui ividrjorie --a curvy 28-year-o over to a grand consideration.

Dodd woman perjured her He branded as report of a speculating on how i might have given return for the senate trip to Germany in to help Klein hold clients. He said te closed session sh payment charge wa: In her soft Arkan Mrs. Carpenter con the conversation she had been specula testimony on this stricken from the re Freelance Record Promoter the stand ther witnes: appeared te Ethics Dodd's from Julius came from er Dodd theft of on "in- The jury for the elf. false her conversation uch Klein Dodd in showed the conceded that count Her was Wheeling Han Killed DENISON, Ohio (UPI)-Harold Finley, 37, of Wheeling, W. was killed Thursday xn a car-truck pileup on U.

S. Route 36. Officials say Finley's car was struck by a tractor trailer truck as he pulled out of a gasoline station. Disc Jockeys Received 'Payola' LOS ANGELES Freelance record Currie Grant told (UPI) a closed DANCE 8:30 TILL 12 Satellite Lounge 19-21 BECKLEY Federal Communications Commission hearing Thursday that record companies have handed out "unbelievable payola" to disc jockeys and program directors to get their records played on the air. Grant told newsmen that he had testified the payoU was in the form of food, clothing, automobile paint jobs, money "and so many prostitutes it would make your head swim." He said he became aware of the payola between November, 1962 and June, 1963, when he worked for two record companies.

I. "Without payola, I just couldn't get our records played and I finally got fed up with it. I kept seeing my friends getting fired--going from one record distributor to another because they couldn't get their records played without payola," Grant said. Grant and another former record promoter, Albert Huskey, filed a civil suit two years ago in Superior Court asking $230,000 damages against disc jockeys and other radio personnel. Grant said that prior to filing the suit he and Huskey had received threatening telephone culls.

The suit is believed to have prompted the current FCC investigation, which is expected to subpoena about 50 disc jockeys, program directors, record promoters and record company executives. FCC officers have declined to comment on the investigation except to indicate it will be continued in other cities across the country. FCC hearing examiner Jay A. Kyle said that when the hearing ends, he will certify the record to the commission for action. Ke will not write any opinion or decision of his own, he snid, because the hearing is "investi- gatory, rather than judicial.".