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WEATHER COLUM FINAL HOME EDITION Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and Hcdneoday with acattered thundershowers thia evening and again Wednesday afternoon and evening Low to-night 70 High tomorrow about ML Sunset 7:33 sunrise tomorrow 6:13 More data Page 7-A Serving The People Of South Carolina For More Than Three Score Years VOL '64-No 348 Tuesday lime 6 1961 Columbia iieI FOR FISCAL $6239550 Proposed for Robert Parris 20-and his father Parris register smiles minutes after Robert walked into the front yard at his Trinity home after being missing all night The grill operator had been missing since a fight between white and Negro youths Monday night On his right arm is one of welts he suffered in the fight (AP Wirephoto) Phone ALpine BACK HOME Beaten n't get at me very well I finally roiled out from under them I couldn't see anything but Negroes so I took the husky 190-pounder said Parris said he fled and some of the Negroes chased him across a wooded area "I dived under this house but I had run so hard 1 passed out When 1 came to it was light and I walked Parris said three Negro youths came to the grill Monday morning and asked to be served inside the building usually give them something to drink and take he said this time they wanted inside I refused to let them The Country Parson 'As we advance scientifically the world becomes smaller-and our problems bigger" Chuckle Money may not help you make friends but it will get you a higher grade of enemies a Daily Budget City men It also calls for an appraisal to determine the value of Wilbur Wright Homes with the view to selling this property since the city will no longer operate the Columbia Airport where the unit is located Hw Airport is in the process of being turned over to a three-government commission representing the city Richland County and Lexington County The budget does not therefore contain a separate accounting for Columbia Airport as it has in the past The city will however contribute $5000 towards its operation JOINT OPERATIONS The city will also contribute towards two other operations in (Continued On Page Six I Returns Reports Dirkscn of Illinois the Senate Republican leader and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ful bright D-Ark to his waiting helicopter to ride with him to the While House 15 miles away At the executive mansion Kennedy planned to work during the day on the speech he will broadcast at 6 pm Eastern Standard Time tonight It will be carried by all major television and radio networks Kennedy who seemed relatively bouncy despite the ardors of his trip made no speech at the airfield lie told newsmen he had a fine fine trip" General Report In tonight's talk Kennedy is expected to deal largely in general ities in reporting his conversations with Khrushchev But it seemed certain that he will reaffirm the determination to stand solidly against any new Communist thrusts in Berlin and other danger spots Members of divided between hop and skepticism eagerly awaited Kennedy's report Congressional Democrats gen crally were optimistic that some improvement in East-West relations might grow out of the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna even though no concrete results had been anticipated Republicans were more skeptical Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield on Montana said he believes the conversations were worth and may have contributed to laying the groundwork for lower-level negotiations on East-West differences BY RULINGS 150 RETURNS HOME Missing Man By PATSV UDE of The Record Staff The City of Columbia today presented a $6239530 budget for fiscal year 1961-62 with a personnel classification and salary survey as its most notable provision The balanced budget which calls for no increase in the property tax rate or water rates is only $137503 higher than the budget adopted for the current fiscal year The budget now in use was termed a necessities and strict control of expenditures has been the rule throughout city government this year The budget will be received by City Council tomorrow The most notable provision for the coming fiscal year is a recom Governor Stays Two Executions By The Associated Prose The execution date for two men convicted of killing a highway patrolman has been postponed by Gov Ernest Hollings to allow a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court Hollings granted a 1 D-day stay of execution Monday to Otis Britt and Douglas Wcstbury He acted after the State Supreme Court refused earlier in the day to postpone the scheduled Friday death datq Britt from Savannah Ga and West bury from near Summerville are seeking new trials on the basis of a statement signed April 28 by Lee Von Tilson also of Savannah AGREEMENT SIGNED WARSAW (AP) A Polish-Cu-ban agreement on radio-TV cooperation was signed Monday the official Polish news agency Pap reported 0 Box 7967-62 mendation for a personnel classification and salary survey by a qualified independent organizatk in order that any existing inequalities be determined and as far as possible employes as a whole be justly compensated on a level comparable with other governmental personnel and private enterprise in the area 8ETS ASIDE 61MJNW The budget sets aside $1000110 for salary and wage adjustments and the cost of the survey Th last time such a survey was conducted was in November 1948 by Grilfenhagen and Associates The budget also calls for the hiring of six new employes including one watermetcr reader one Negro Recreation supervisor one stenographer and three police 1 FINE TRIP Kennedy Prepares WASHINGTON (AP)-Preident Kennedy returned to America this morning after a fine trip' to see leaders in Europe He will make a report to the nation tonight Kennedy arrived at Andrews Air Force Base at 9:33 am after a week during which he saw Soviet Premier Khrushchev French President Charles dc Gaulle and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan The President stopped from his Jet plane to a small but warm welcome at the airport Congressional leaden of both parties diplomats and administration officials greeted the returning chief Kennedy walked down the receiving line and shook hands with each of the approximately 70 people in it Non-Part tea Then in a show of bipartisanship he took both Sen Everett tiifll BAY 6-3461 Kennedy Seeks Crime War Powers WASHINGTON (AP) Atty Gen Robert Kennedy told die Senate Judiciary Committee today federal authorities urgently need additional powers to deal with organized crime Appearing before the committee (o urge enactment of the half-dozen proposals which he has submitted put heavy stress on two One would provide penalties up to $10000 fine and five years imprisonment for interstate travel in furtherance of racketeering activities involving gambling liquor narcotics prostitution extortion and bribery Channel 19 Switch Set On Monday WNOK-TV Sales Manager Richard Laughridge said today that Channel 67 will switch over to Channel 19 on Monday The last program to be seen on Channel 67 said Laughridge will be at sign-off time Sunday night The switchover win occur at about 11 Monday Laughridge pointed out that Channel 19 will broadcast at 244000 watt effective radiated power operating at two and a half limes more power than Channel 67 and covering an area four times greater The coverage am he said will encompass 700000 people 40 per cent of South Carolina's total population living within 55-mile radius of Columbia should be able to get Channel 19 he said WNOK-TV ia on the verge of its eighth year of operation It is the oldest television station in Central South Carolina and the second oldest station in the state About 85 per cent of its programs originate with CBS network and some 14 ABC network programs are aired by the station It is also the originating station for Educational Television in Cbhimbia have made no effort to compile them enumerating those agreeing and those disagreeing The briefs are bulky and quite long Some of them run to 30 or 40 pages general however those from the Eastern Maine Connecticut and Massachusetts for example-support the Justice Department's view "'Those from Maine Connecticut and Massachusetts appear to be the result of collaborative effort (Continued On Page Six) 5 Cents Sunday 20c 7 More Head For Jackson Say Is Expected' By The AMoriutrd frm Seven more ''Freedom headed Tor -Taekon Miss by bus today and others planned new moves by air to test Mississippi segregation laws despite threats of stiffer punishment Five white persons and two Negroes left New Orleans by bus at 6:25 am today and were due in Jackson at 11:25 am tCST) Seven more Rider" quickly landed in Jail at Jackson Miss today after a acw attack on Mississippi's negregatkm laws The two Negroes and five was Jailed for breach of peace Newell Weber of East Orange NJ spokesman for Ihc group said they expected to be arrested in Jackwn and would serve out their fines in the city nr county jail The first fly-in to check on segregation at the Jackson airport was expected to arrive from Si Louis Mo Wednesday Plans were announced for students from a half-dozen cities to leave Louisville Ky early next week for Freedom Rides to several southern cities Thirteen more riders were imn-victcd in Jackson Monday raising the total to 65 since the first wave arrived May 24 Breach of I'eacn None has been charged with violating segregation laws All were fined $200 and given 60-day suspended sentences on breach of peace charges The maximum penalty on that charge is a $200 fine and four months in jail Gty Attorney Jack Travis said he would demand penalties for future riders and added that other charges might be filed against them city and stale have done all they can to uphold the laws since these so-called riders have come to Travis said It appears that a conspiracy plan or plot exists to completely break down the laws of the state" RECORD INDEX Astro Guide 8-A Classified 5 6 7-B Comics 8 9-A Crossword Puzzle 8-A Dead is 1-B Editorials 10-A Explore Your Mind 8-A Financial 11 -A Motion Picture 4-B Radio-Television 4-B Sports 8 9-B Unde Ray 9-A White House 8-A Women's Pages 2 3-B of the Kremlin This requirement is a part of the 1950 Subversive Activities Control Act The Justice Department declined comment on the rulings Gus Hall US Communist party general secretary said in New York the decisions endanger very foundation and fabric of Democracy in our The party vowed to fight the decisions but didn't say how Writing the majority opinion upholding the government efforts to force the Communist party to register as an arm of the Soviet Union Justice Felix Frankfurter swrpt aside the party's arguments that its rights under the First Amendment of the Constitution were being violated Hollings Hits 'Robert Kennedy Goes Too By ROBERT PF-lRR Of The Record Staff Gw Ernest Hollings today severely criticized the office of the Attorney General Robert Kennedy who he said had 'corralled (around him) a few zealots in the field of civil rights" Hollings said the attorney office had gone too for a man is supposed to be the chief law enforcement official not of Freedom Rides South Carolina's chief executive was referring to the recent trouble associated with the scalled "Freedom into the South He said the attorney general's office "acted as dispatching agent for the first of such riders Of the Freedom Riders and GORE (Congress of Racial Equality) he said group that incited this overplayed their When asked if he lumped Robert Kennedy brother of the President as a zealot himself he said he know whether the attorney general himself fell into that classification Inspiring the blast against the Kennedy office was Hollins' own release ridiculing an alleged attack on a Sumter Negro Alleged Attack The alleged attack occurred according to the Negro on May 27 when he said he was abducted and the letter cut on his body several times An investigation proved was something wrong with his Hollings aid Asked if there had been a series (Continued On Page Six) Mint Julep Chickens President Whitehousc raised chickens had a mint flavor It took an investigation to find the reason Lillian Rogeis Parks tells in today's instalment of at the White House" on Page 8-A of The Columbia Record today in StX3 EZ imtxm I CM mmxssiJ I 8S8S9B3R iwr leg 25555185 rams BBBQRS S3 II33 iBsnsng mtszsP I KSKSSs foxmsxfi P5SSSS2 IK IKZWTZ I £3 ivxvm 8E333FISK Safe TRINITY NC (API A 30-year-old white youth object of an all-night search after a fight between white and Negroes walked into the yard of his father's home at about dawn today His body bore welts and bruises from a beating with leather straps Robert Parris said he lay under a house some distance from the scene of the fight while an angry crowd of about 250 white persons county police and state troopers looked for him He disappeared about 8:30 pm after an interracial fracas at the small grill Parris operates in the heart of this rural community of 1000 Officers said Monday morning Parris refused to serve some Negroes who promised to return On The Prowl During the night bands of while youths roamed the area some of them carrying such make-shift weapons as tire tods meat cleavers and axes Officers confiscated the weapons and restored order to the community They said about a dozen shite youths and some 40 Negroes were involved in the fracas No charges had been made early this morning All was quiet in the neighborhood when Parris bedraggled and hungry walked out of the woods to his father's modest two-story He told Randolph County Sheriff Wayne Wilson that several Negro youths Jumped him when he rlosed the grill for the night They knocked him down and beat him with belts and sticks His Story was on the bottom of them moat of the time and they could USDJ STARTS SOMETHING High Court Tightens Controls on Reds Contention Meets With Disagreement mi in By PAUL YOST WASHINGTON (AP) Dividing 5 to 4 in two historic derisions the Supreme Court has upheld two of the major weapons against Communist party activity in the United States The derisions backed the tightest US restrictions ever aimed at a group which purports to be a political organization The court Monday upheld: 1 A clause in the Smith Act which makes it a crime for a person to belong to any organization knowing that it advocates violent overthrow of the government 2 A requirement that the Communist party register with the US attorney general as a puppet By Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS-A number of file attorneys general of the 50 states are in sharp disagreement with the Justice Department on whether the Constitution requires states to mnlntain a system of public schools The Justice Department de-dares that the states must provide public education under the Constitution Many of the attorneys general say that the states are not required by the Constitution to provide such system The legal officers of an undetermined number of stales made (heir petitions known In briefs filed with a special three-judge Federal District Court here A Dallam O'Brien clerk of the court told The Columbia Record that there was very definite difference of opinion" among the state attorneys general and the Justice Department The department and the state's attorney had been asked by the court to give their opinions on the constitutional requirement of public schoola of the brief support the Justice Department's position Others lake issue with one or more O'Brien said HOLDS POLICE AT Hoy Fair 40 hurls can of garbage from hi fifth-floor apartment In the Bronx yesterday as a detective on roof with rope attempts to snag rifle used by Fair to hold off police for an hour He was subdued by police who crashed through apartment door wearing bulletproof vests (AF Wirephoto) i I J-S I I 4s I I AA.

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