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IKI ml MU coal klMll It fyir cifr witR imit ttmim ir ItmtaralHrM klfht it la KNOXVILLI AND MITROROLITAN Mtll-JTWiiny ant coal today lute ant coal lomthl HiH urSJSSTji1 Woalhtr Dtlalll OR PiM II City Edition Independently Oivned And Operated 122ND YEAR KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 1960 30 fages Two Sections PRICE 5 CENTS i inpr Ini Nixon Condemns Kennedy's Industry Seizure Plan i Xw a O'- i One Final Hurdle Awaits Building Of Structure For Men Norman Mason US Housing and Home Finance Agency director yesterday in Washington approved University of application for a loan of $670000 to construct the proposed Yale Avenue dormitory on Seventeenth Street between Yale and Cornell avenues Rep Howard Baker announced Baker called Mason yesterday after UT officials re quested him to do so and within a short time was informed by Mason he had signed VP Gives Plan For Progress Bv WALTER MEARS NEW YORK Oct 20 OB Vice President Richard Nixon called today for new presidential powers in national labor emergencies He also outlined his own blueprint for economic progress Nixon charged his Democratic presidential opponent Sen John Kennedy with proposing that the White House be granted power LISTEN MY CHILDREN Vaughn Smith (center) of 408 Chilhowee Drive looks over his old press clippings of World War II with his children Vaughn Jr 14 and Cordelia Gale 16 Smith held draft card No 158 which became No 1 when the Selective Service went into effect in October 1940 No 158 was picked by the Secretary of war from a jar filled with registration numbers Smith registered at Board 6 here volunteered before he was called and served almost five years in the Army GOP Sets Address By Jenkins Ray Jenkins famed lawyer will be the main speaker at a Republican Fund Raising Dinner at 7 Nov 3 at Bon Restaurant 1 1 was announced yesterday by epublican Headquarters here Rep Howard Baker will be on the pro gram and Os BAKER car Tate Jr has been named dinner chairman in charge of all arrangements Dckets will be $5 and are on sale at headquarters 807 South Gay Street and from member of the dinner committee Members are Charles Steven son Matt Prince Oakes Hazen Kreis Virgil Graves McQain Henry Baker My natt Rex Wilson Mrs Bid die Charles Roberson Elmer Floyd Mrs Marjorio Bradshaw Herschel Ousley A Thomas Claude Sharp Ralph Nichols Adcock Jr Herbert Barker Gift Mrs Dulcie Atchley Mrs Lillian Anderson King Mrs Lorraine Child Mrs Ger trude Searle Lyman Weaver Lloyd Hodges Carl Cowan Sarah Moore Green Rudolph McKamey A Bowerman James Beck Barnett Hodge (Bid) Anderson Mrs Georg Rankin William Coleman James Johnson A Car Dollar Price Of Gold Soars To $4060 Ounce In London By DIE ASSOCIATED PRESS Feverish speculation gripped the world's bullion markets yesterday with the dollar price of gold soaring as investors rushed to unload their stoe'-s of American dollars On the London pace-setters for world a top price of 290 shillings ($40 60) per ounce was reported in the last minute of trading This was a gam of $318 an ounce for the day The official US Treasury price is $35 per fine troy ounce Speculation that the United States might devalue the dollar by raising the gold price appeared to be one of the chief rea-1 -yCT Knoxville Journal and Knox Beautiful Commission a mini mum of 50000 crape myrtle plants will be offered to business Today the credit certificate for sales of crape myrtle plants in printed on Page 23 Clip and save it for use when a sale is completed houses and residents of Knoxville and Knox County during November at the low price of 60 cents apiece Advance sales already are on Most of the selling will be done by members of garden clubs and women's clubs although other organizations also are eligible Groups to which sales are credited will receive onc-fourth of the sales price for their treasuries To provide for beautification of public property the clubwomen Continued on Page 2 Col 7 Candidate Calendar By Associotod Frost Campaign tchadulot lor tho prasltfantial and vco praiidantial candidates far Friday and Saturday FRIDAY Kannady and Nixon Now York City where they will angoga in their fourth nationally televised and braodcost dobata 9 pm EST at Chiltlcothe Mo for national corn picking conrotf Mitwoukoor Wit SATURDAY Nixon Fhilotfetphta Chatter Writ Chatter Morristown Lovittown and Al-lentewn Pa Missouri Including Kansas City and St Louis Chicago Austin Tax The debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen John Kennedy will be carried in Knoxville at II pm today ever WBIR-TV Channel II WATE-TV Channel I WTVK-TV Channel 21 and radio stations WBIR and WNOX It will be broadcast over WATE radio at I pm to seize an Industry to forestall or end an emergency while at the aame time opposing compulsory arbitration He called this unfair to management The Republican vice president proposed instead amendments to the Taft-Hartley Law that would give the President greater fad finding leeway in major labor disputes Nixon said the White House should be empowered to initiate fact finding at any time rather than waitm until a full blown emergency ises Such a fact finding board as he envisioned would not make settlement recommendations unless both sides to the dispute consented Nixon added: purpose of the board would be to clarify the issues for the public is often lost in cloud of propaganda from both sides" FACT-FINDING BOARD Another amendment he pro-posed would empower a pet-finding board to make strike-settlement recommendations before application is made for an injunction to halt the strike Of this Nixon continued: the board should be able to make recommendations It would move up the time table so the government could act before the injunctive process be- Contimird on Page 2 Col 1 Ilouk Named Yankee Pilot HOCK NAMED -Ralph Houk a former third string catcher with only minor league managerial experience yesterday was named pilot of the New York Yankees to succeed Casey StengeL Page 7 VOTING Rigging a voting machine is a highly technical sensitive task Page 28 Crape Myrtle Donors Assured Recognition Firms and persons donating quantities of crape myrtle plants to ornament parks playgrounds and other public places will get con tinuing recognition for their gifts City and county authorities agreed yesterday on putting up plaques on which will be inscribed the fact that the crape myrtles growing at the various locations were given by certain companies or individuals In a program sponsored by The HE HAD NUMBER Verlin Lee Keith now a barber at a North Gay Street shop held No 158 when-he registered for the draft in October 1940 The number was that picked out of a glass jar by Secretary of War Henry Stimson and thousands of men with No 158 throughout the country automatically became the first to be drafted into armed service Six Knox Countians one for each draft board held the number Knoxville Selectees Look Back 20 Years By BEN CHESTER Remember October 1940 and the events that made the headlines? Die Cincinnati Redlegs won the World Series from the Detroit Tigers in seven games The New York Fair closed after a two-year stand and 45000000 paid admissions Italy invaded Greece And in Washington Oct 29 that year the Secretary of War in the Franklin Roosevelt Administration Henry Stimson blindfolded reached into a huge glass bowl and drew out No 158 The number drawn that day placed every man who had No 138 at his local draft board at the head of the line The Selective Service Bill had been signed Sept 1 and over 16000000 men registered for the draft on Oct 16 Here in Knoxville six men one from each draft board held the number They were Vaughn Smith Verlin Lee Keith Stanley Fairwiek Jones Jesse Eugene Arnold James Edgar Davis and Kermit Newton Weaver RECALLS EVENT Today Smith of 408 Chilhowee Drive and Keith of 400 Balsam Drive remember the draft of 20 ears ago with mixed emotions Smith now 45 years old said somebody from the draft board (No 6) came to see me They told me I would be the first to go But they had so many volunteers they didn't call me right away" He kept waiting but others kept volunteering He woiking at the time and the waiting got on his nerves So on April 8 1941 he volunteered and was sent to Fort Oglethorpe Ga In December 1945 Vaughn Smith ponent Vice President Nixon rather than on the administration itself In a blistering statement Kennedy said the Communists took over Cuba as a result of the Vice President's having seen nothing wrong there and having made no recommendations for action the application The plans and specifications must now be approved under the US College Housing Program before the loan will become available for the building to house 248 men students UT filed the application Oct 11 with the Atlanta HHFA office and it was then forwarded to Wash ington Baker said UT will put up $315000 for the building making the construction cost $985000 plus another $85000 for furnishings bringing the total to $1070000 overall When this facility is completed it will bring to 2318 the number of male students which can be accommodate with rooms at UT This includes the 879 In Melrose Hall and the Stadium Dormitories 1000 in the Melrose Hall addition now being constructed 112 married students in Sutherland Village and 79 married students in Taiiwa Court UT now has space for 1445 women students in dormitories Although the total when the new project is completed will bring accommodations for both men and women students to nearly 4000 UT officials said yesterday they will need double this number in the next decade More dormitories are planned but UT officials didn't reveal any details There are now 8300 day students on the UT campus here and a spokesman said 800 more men students would probably be enrolled if the rooms had been available had that many applications approved this fall from men students who come because of the lack of housing the spokesman stated The peak is expected in the 1963-64 school year the spokesman continued adding that three factors are involved which will make the 1963-64 year the apex: 1 The World War II and post war birth rate Those born during the war years and the immediate post war years will become of college age 2 More students are entering college now than ever before 3 More students are staying longer In college than ever before Legion Picks Californian MIAMI BEACH Fla Oct 20 Burke of Long Beach Calif today was elected national commander of the American Legion Burke 43-year-old vice chairman of the National Public Relations Commission is former commander of the California Department He succeeds Martin Me-Kneally of Newburgh Five vice commanders were elected They were Dr Harry Krelzler of Edmond Wash Vincent Maxheim Clinton Iowa George Walker Watertown Mass James Wagonfeller Lancaster Ohio and Ruffin Godwin Newborn William Moss of Pulaski Tenn was named chaplain The legion will hold its 1961 convention Denver ported at the meeting This would be about $735000 some $130000 short of the goal with a week remaining to go over the top Eight new firms were named yesterday as winners of United Appeal chapter firm awards They are East Tennessee Packing Co Brnco Plastics Inc Baumann Baumann Inc Flenniken Co Southeastern Glass Inc Fountain City Bank Davidson and Co and Safety Park Inc Firms winning chapter firm awards now number 60 There were 66 firms qualifying during last drive Additional recognition will be paid tomorrow at the meeting to the volunteer crew of projectionists who have shown the campaign film lo businesses and organizations in the area and to the volunteer staff of auditors who have maintained financial records during the drive sons for the sharp rise in price of gold here These reports brought a formal and flat denial from the l'S Treasury It holds $18 5 billion of the metal If the high price holds in London foreign central banks could demand American held gold for their dollar assets and trans fer still more of it to European hands So far this year $873000 000 has been taken Prices of gold soared in other markets where trading is permit ted (it isn't in the United States) In Frankfurt Germany the Degussa Co main supplier of the metal ran out and the big three German private banks rzspended sales at noon with the price at $3768 per ounce Sales are expected to resume Friday Buyers in Zurich Switzerland paid $38 an ounce London bank ers had held that the big rush to buy gold this week was sparked by Swiss banks seeking to turn dollar holdings into the metal Swiss banking circles said this was a minor factor contended the movement started in Britain and claimed to be mystified as to the reason beyond worries over the strength of the dollar following gold losses in the United States and speculation about devaluation Stock prices of gold producing companies rose sharply on ex changes in New York Toronto Continued on Page 2 Col 3 Two Shows Set Today At Circus The Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Combined Circus will present two shows at Chilhowee Park today under the auspicies of Zelmar Grotto The shows will be at 3 "0 and 8 pm with doors open at 2 and 7 pm The exhibits will feature such animals as the elephant giraffe hippopotamus rhino camel lion and tiger There will be 600 people with the big show which comes to Knoxville from Asheville Clyde Beatty will battle his huge group of black-maned Numl-dian lions and Royal Bengal tigers Outstanding among the performing personnel of 200 artists are many troupes and solo start from Europe Asia and South America La Norma of Balanced flight will soar aloft while standing on her head on the bar on her wide-swinging trapeze Tickets are available at Walgreen Drug Store and at the circus grounds Baker To Talk On WTVK Today Rep Howard Baker will deliver a five-minule campaign talk over WTVK television channel 28 at 615 pm today Representative Baker is running unopposed' for his fourth term from tho Second Congressional District WTVK Asks Shift Of Channel Television Station WTVK at Knoxville has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission in Washington to assign Channel 8 to this area so it can change from ultra high frequency to very high frequency This was announced yesterday in Evansville Ind by John Engle-brecht president of South Central Broadcasting Corp which operates WTVK now on UHF Channel 26 He said the petition was filed recently by South Central for the station Englebrecht said since the filing the FCC has annuonced it will permit replies or objections to be brought before the commission within 45 days from Sept 30 It is considered likely that the FCC will complete its consideration of the matter by next spring so that the change if approved can take place during the summer If WTVK is allowed lo telecast on Channel 8 it will mean TV watchers will be able lo tune the station in without UHF equipment or adapters on their receiving sets Knoxville now has two VHF sla tions WATE-TV is on Channel and WBIR-TV is on Channel 10 Cuban Planes Given Insignia Of US Air Force HAVANA Oct 20 Diplomatic sources said today they had information that five twin-engine Cuban Air Force transport planes were painted with US insignia at the nearby San Antonio de Los Banos Air Base for unexplained reasons These sources said they believe the Castro regime may be planning to use the aircraft in some venture to embarass the US government The planes are of a type used by many countries in the Caribbean area and are similar to those involved in previous invasion sorties both here and in the Dominican Republic Chuckle The world is moving so fart these days that the man who tay it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone dotng it Continued on Page 2 Col Low Of 35 Some Frost Predicted For ET Area (Weather Details Page 10) Turn on the heat and get out those overcoats The mercury was expected to drop to 35 degrees here this morning and if this prediction proves correct it will be the coldest in Knoxville since April II when a 27-degree low was recorded Scattered frost and a light freeze was expected in the higher elevations A high of 55 degrees is expected today under mostly sunny skies but the mercury is ex pected to dip to a 34-degree low tonight Official high yesterday was 60 degrees recorded at midnight But the mercury at the time was dropping and continued the decline until between 10 and 11 a when it stopped at 48 degrees The temperature then climbed to 51 degrees at 3 pm and then started back down A sub-freezing temperature of 30 degrees is predicted for the Di-Cities and Crossville-LaFol lette areas tonight This morning's lows in those areas was expected to be 32 and 30 respectively Outlook for tomorrow is fair and cool in the morning and a little warmer in the afternoon MIDDLE EAST Mostly tunny ond coot Higft SS LOWER EAST TENNESSEE Mostly tunny and coal High J) Mostly tumy oikI eol Him si i 1 1 sunny and coal HlgSi SO Carmichael Ever have one of those mom logs when instant coffee Just isn't quick enough? For Long Distance In Effect On Suiulay UF-RC Adds 27000 Ne iv Efforts Urged Kennedy called for US aid to for Freedom" in exile and inside Cuba who are seeking to overthrow Prime Minister Fidel regime He also proposed that the United States consider the seizure of all Cuban assets here which he estimated at $200000000 as of last June He said these for offer eventual hope of overthrowing Castro but have had almost no support from the US government It was rthe second statement of the day in which Kennedy went gunning for Nixon with strong language He got out an earlier one contending that the Vice Prcs- Contlnued on Page 2 Col 4 Obituaries Coy Etfword Fulton Mrt MHdrod Roinoy Mrs Morgorot Cnihom Prenk Jomat Horpor Infonf Cot twhn Robort Moyttoid Rulot Pott Loltia (Mow) Humphnot Mrs MHdrod Painty Raymond Dyko LENOIR Motli Groybool Lloyd Eakor Donat) England Mrt Llnio Eowlln SFC Jamot Jarvil EarniO Orlck Mr Mlnnlo Johnson Mrt Cltmml Faullintr Mill Matlla ialtl MAR VILLI Mrt Clna I Byarlty Jfthn Connatwr' Androw McCorltr Cotharina Tallay OBITUARIES ON PAGE I Continued on Page 2 Col 6 direct distant dialing is effected here on Feb 19 1961 you will dial only one number to get into long distance he said you call person to person or collect or need assistance on your call you will dial 0 and the operator will answer and assist you If you call station to station and know the number you will dial 1 This places your call in the long distance equipment Then you dial the code of the city you are calling and this will be listed in the telephone directory This places the call in that city You then simply dial the number" He explained that the change Sunday is to familiarize telephone users with using only one number to get long distance Ixitt also last night announced the prefix numbers to be used on Knoxville telephones starting Feb 19 For numbers beginning with two three four and five the prefix 52 will be used For instance The Knoxville telephone Continued on Page 2 Col 2 The first phase in direct distant dialing will go into effect at 1201 a Sunday when telephone users will simply dial Instead of for long distance operator Lott district manager for Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co said last night Lott explained the purpose of the change is to reduce the number of digits a person must use to get long distance Marmaduke Do you realize how many steaks you'll have to do without if she buys that? United Fund-Red Cross Appeal campaign workers brought in a total of $27000 yesterday at an interim report meeting bunging the campaign total to $592467 or about 65 percent of the $866257 goal Die pledges reported at meeting were chiefly from small businesses Campaign leaders became concerned when the Tuesday report meeting revealed pledges had dropped sharply Following the interim meeting yesterday Clyde Carpenter campaign chairman expressed cautious optimism Individuals and firms have the money and are willing to pledge it but campaign workers must not let down if the goal is to be achieved he said Leaders of the drive will meet at noon today at First Baptist Church for a scheduled report meeting Officials are hoping for 85 percent of the goal to be re- I i -c.