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The Birmingham News from Birmingham, Alabama • 15

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THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1959 FIFTEEN ii JUDGE PARKER Bv Paul Nichols THANKS TO YOU, YOU HAVE 'N IrVE OVERCOME IT ivvENDELv mi I'M GOING OVER TCI SEE SUE AND EXPLAIN THAT OUR ENGAGEMENT IS TERMINATED WENDELL. LET'S NOT BE SO HASTY 4 CaLDERS 1820-22 2nd AVE NORTH JULY YOU'RE RIGHT RAKOV I'VE SUFFERED A MOMENT OF INEXCUSABLE FT-ynT E2. Includes area restriction Senate OKs TVA finance bill, matches House action Open Lafe Tonite present TVA service area. Provision is made in the bill, however, for future service to 11 cities and areas in Kentucky. Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi regardless of the five-mile limitation.

The bill also requires TVA to WASHINGTON, July 10 UB-The Senate has matched House action in passing a bill to give the Tennessee Valley Authority the right to finance future construe-, tion of its power plants. The Senate acted by voice vote yesterday after rejecting 73-17 The bill provides that the president will receive, hut may not alter, the TVA program before sending it to Congress with his comments. If Congress does notj disapprove within 90 days, the program is official. TVA OFFICIALS have said they need the self financing authority provided in the bill in order to build power generating plants if; a power shortage in the TVA area is to be averted by 1962 or 1963. When TVA first was launched) Congress appropriated funds for.

TVA to build power dams and) later on some steam plants. But it later balked at providing funds for steam plants and, since Eisen-) hower has been president, the Budget Bureau has never recom-! mended such an appropriation, i motion to send the bill back to pay interest on the $1,200,000,000 Congress has previously appropriated to build power facilities and also to repay $1 billion of the appropriated total over the next 53 years. Payments would range ifrom $10 million to $20 million committee. A joint Senate-House conference committee now will draft a final version of the bill to compromise minor differences in the two measures. Private utilities scored a meas-yearly, lire of success in their efforts to have the bill contain language re- THE TREASURY Depart-stricting future expansion of ment, under the bill, can delay TVA's power area.

issuance of TVA bond issues brief- THE BILL'S main purpose is to ly, but if approval is not forth-euthorize TVA to issue up to $750 coming within seven days the million in bonds to finance con-Treasury must buy the issues and struetion of needed generating fa- TVA may later issue the bonds cilities chiefly steam power and repay the Treasury. Nominated President Eisenhower has named Dudley C. Sharp to be undersecre-, tary of the Air Force. Sharp, of Houston, is a former assistant Air Force secretary. Republicans lost in their effort to give the president and the Budget Bureau more authority over TVA's annual construction budget.

plants. Bonds would be repaid from power revenues. Expansion of TVA's service area is limited, in effect, to points within five miles of the FCC rejects proposal Local TV station is denied permit to use Channel 4 Poem for the day THAT MAN LN THE MOON, MAY NOT LIKE Y'ALL You who are talkin 'bout "goin' to the moon, And you, who are sayin youre goin there soon, You may be a headin for a come back fall, That man in the moon, may not like y'all. You who are sailin them rockets toward the moon, And you who are "workin for perfection soon, I'm a warnin you now, yes, one and all, That man in the moon, may not like yall. That man in the moon, is always very kind, To every lover, when hes out to shine.

But if he sees you taking his place, You may be a headin for a Josing race. You who are thinkin bout goin to the moon. And you who are wantin to go up there soon, You had better think about that awful fall. That man in the moon, may not like y'all. MRS.

PEARL H. SOLOMON (The Poem Department of The News has a sufficient supply for months. Please dont submit any until this footnote asks for them.) would eventually act favorably on a proposal that Channel 4 be added to Birminghams channel assignments. Such an assignment, which would require a number of channel shifts in adjacent areas, is still under commission study. The proposal to move Channel 4 from Columbus, to Birmingham was made by the Winston Salem Broadcasting operators of WSGN in Birmingham.

Ben McKinnon, manager of WSGN, is on vacation and could not be reached for comment. WASHINGTON, July 10 UP) Federal Communications Commission has rejected a proposal by TV' Station WBMG, Birmingham, that it be given special temporary authority to go on the air on VHF Channel 4. The station has been assigned UHF Channel 42, but is not now operating. THE PROPOSAL was opposed by Stations WRBL-TV (Channel 4 and WTYM (Channel 28), both of Columbus, Ga. The commission advised WBMG Its request was premature in that it "presupposed that the FCC AND EVEN MORE A REAL WATERPROOF 17 JEWELS Anti-Magnetic Reduced to xiH Vi Experiment in Virginia School board OKs race mixing, sex segregation CHARLOTTESVILLE, July! Twenty-eight other Negro trans-16 DPI Segregation by sex will bejfer applications which came be-tried at some class levels in) fore the board last night were re-Charlottesville theijected.

The board said it would forward its recommendations in the form of a resolution to the State Pupil Placement Board in Richmond. School Supt. Fendall R. Ellis 95 Here Are Just a Few Typical Examples 25c DOWN 25c WEEKLY Grand buy at a great savings for yourself or for a gift. Non-tarnishable case, Waterproof (if crystal, case and crown remain intact) see specials AinE ourUwindows I CITY school board gave Home the Perfect Diamond the go-ahead for the experiment south's lAtctsr watch osaiay night, and simultaneously I recommended the enrollment of a 1 12th Negro in white schools in SOUTH'S IAACIST WATCH OISAIAT BUSCHS JKlW KREpiT JEWELERS -OPTICIANS schools when city begins the process of racial! desegregation next Fall.

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THE DRIVER, Ross Hill, Compton, told the committee that in the earlier 1950s the local barred all but about six Negroes from its 12.000 membership. The ban. Hill said, cost him severe financial losses. He said the six Negroes got in only because they were on payrolls of big trucking firms the local had organized and it had to take them. Sen.

Barry Goldwater presiding in the ahsence of Chairman John L. McClellan (D ordered the committee staff to send investigators to Detroit to look into the alleged discrimination. Woman pays parking tickets eight years late A Birming'ham woman got away without paying late charges on three delinquent parking tickets today. Police acepted her check for the face value of the tickets because they couldn't have forced the woman to pay, anyway. The statute of limitations has run out on the tickets.

Two were issued in 1951, and the third in 1954. Sgt. M. H. House, who is in charge of the traffic citation department, said they were the oldest tickets he has received in two years on the job.

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