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THE ATE Columbia Saturday September 2 1961 WCCA-TV Goes on Air In October New Installation Nears Completion It is expected that newest television station Station WCCA-TV Channel 25 will go on the air about October 1 if present plans carry according to Anderson general manager of the station and also president of the First Carolina Corporation of Columbia which owns the station President Andprson reported the new station would become an ABC affiliate In a progress report given to The State yesterday Manager Anderson said that a sales office and an interview studio had been set up on the mezzanine at Hotel Columbia and erection of a 348 foot tower on the Shakespeare Road by Mine Iron and Metal Company of Columbia is underway Workmen will be installing the transmitting equipment over the pre-Labor Day week-end and will continue until equipment has been installed Old facilities of former Station TV at 5902 Shakespeare Road are being remodeled for the new station A complete lineup of major per- sonnel has been announced by General Manager Anderson as follows: Arie Landrum program director Gerald Quick sales manager Jim Luttrell chief engineer Ellis Skolfield art director Guy Brooks film director Dean Pou-cher producer: Dale Hawkinson news director Ron Wenzel! sports director Thurmond D-SC himself a major general with cards letters and telegrams he has received investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee military leaders in their anti-communist statements Committee Thursday summoned Secretary for Sept 6 (AP WirephotoL 22 Convicted In Monroe Disturbances Agree' In Halt Demonstrations MONROE NC (AP) -Twenty-two racial pickets were convicted jof inciting a riot and were let off with suspended prison terms Friday when they agreed to call off their demonstrations Judge James Griffin who consolidated the charges against the group for a single trial handed out sentences ranging from six months to two years in jail but told the demonstrators he would suspend Ihe active prison terms for two years on condition that they not picket or participate in any activity that might lead to race trouble in Union County The demonstrators through lawyers agreed to accept the suspensions on that basis Most of the out-of-town said they planned to leave im-j mediately They were charged with inciting a riot after their arrest in last series of racial out-j bursts which erupted following a week of picketing the county courthouse against segregation practices Some also were charged with resisting arrest and simple assault More than 40 persons were arrested some of them white people who became embroiled in the hour-long free-for-all Attorneys William Kuntsler of i New York and Len Holt of Nor-1 folk Va had entered pleas of innocent for the seven freedom riders and other iniegrationists ORANGEBURG RALLY None of the defendants testified Two were fined $100 and ordered to pay court costs in addition to their suspended prison terms of two years They were Le-Roy Wright 19 Nashville Tenn Negro and Woodrow Wilson 19 Monroe Negro In addition to the riot charge Wright was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon Wilson also was charged with using profane language and resisting arrest i Four were given 12 months sus-1 pended terms and fined $50 and costs They were James Forman of Chicago a leader in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Richard Griswold 35 white of Brooklyn NY Paul Deitrich 29 i white of Washington DC and I Vance Covington 17 Monroe Negro Robert Kilgo of Monroe and Wil-iliam Mahoney 19 of Montclair NJ were fined $25 and costs and given eight months suspended terms Given six months suspended and let off without fines were John Hough Brown Massey Dorothy 1 Massey Josephine Massey Leo-! nora Massey Ola May Massey I Charles Nance Eddie Nance Heath Rush Constance Lever I Kenneth Shilman Joe Wilson and Joseph Williams I Miss Lever a white woman of Manchester England joined the freedom riders here the day be- fore the outbursts on Sunday A I staff member of the British Em- jbassv in Washington Donald (Tames Graybrook came here for her trial He said he came ly as an observer at the request (of Miss Miss I ever said she planned to leave Monroe hv morning I The big legal question during i the trial was whether it was legal for the demonstrators to continue picketing under the tense situation that prevailed last weekend I Officers testified that the riot charges against most of the de- ifendants resulted from picketing 1 However they related incidents where pickets jeered at FIGHTS GAG ON MILITARY: Sen Strom in the Army Reserve has his desk piled urging to continue his efforts for an into what he calls efforts to gag and seminars The Armed Services of Defense McNamara to a hearing set Thurmond Fight Against calls an military Party Orangeburg of what may climax of his Secretary' fore the Senate Committee restrictive right to speak The committee deciding whether congressional Thurmond has I in connection DeLoach Named Civil Defen se Di Lt Col James DeLoach who retired from the Army in December 1969 after 20 years of sendee has been appointed deputy civil defense director for Richland County Gen William Cork county civil defense director made the announcement Colonel DeLoach born in Hampton County attended schools in Allendale and Varnville He entered the Army as a private in 1939 Commissioned in 1942 he served as instructor In- i fan try department Brisbane Au- stralia Joining the 32nd Division at the last of the Buna Campaign 1942 he served the remainder of Address to Detail Red-Led Plot attempt to gag" the concerning the Communist USA is responsible appearance at will come on the eve prove to he the efforts a Wednesday appearance of Defense Robert McNamara be- Armed Services for questioning on Pentagon policies regarding of military leaders Is scheduling appearance before to approve a investigation which formally requested with What he labels Senators Hone US Will Not Sword WASHINGTON (API Sen Philip A Hart D-Mich keyed Senate reaction to w'ord of the Soviet nuclear test explosion Friday by saying hope we will not reach for the sword figuratively or Other senators joined in his suggestion that this country should not rush into a resumption of nuclear testing just because the Soviets have done so Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana told the Senate can state that we are in extremely good shape most excellent He later told a reporter the Soviet test was nothing to be surprised at "They must have been working for weeks if not months in preparation for this Mansfield said Rep Chet Holifield D-Calif chairman of the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee said the explosion of a nuclear Soviei device the hypocrisy of the Soviet negotiators at Geneva and explains the reason why they would not accept any Western proposal for an adequate detec- tion and inspection system to guard against secret deliberately exploding a nuclear weapon in the earth's atmosphere they have now repudi-! ated all of their arguments against contamination of the atmosphere which were based on the grounds of damage to the genetic pool of Holifield said Sen Everett Dirksen R-I1L Senate GOP leader said "This was not From other sources it was indicated that the White House was pretty certain Thursday the Soviet test would come within 24 hours Chairman Clarence Cannon D-Mo of the House Appropriations Committee called the test very significant "It he said "that they have reached what they consider superiority in arms and can afford to disregard world Sen John Sparkman D-Ala said he thought the Soviets were I as an anti-anti-Communist con-j spiracy Indicative of the importance and furore the situation has created are the literally thou-j sands of letters and telegrams which both the commitipe and Thurmond's office have received from all over the country A committee spokesman esti-j mated this week the volume reached between 6900 and 7000 in a two-day period and that perhaps 12000 communications had been received since Thurmond first proposed the probe about three weeks ago Thurmond's office reports his mail is running even heavier almost all of it favorable to his position His position has also been bolstered by the findings of the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee in secret hearings held here in mid-July That report lends to confirm his argument that the military plan is just one aspect of the behind-the-scenes Communist party effort to silence its opposition in this country While refraining from any contention that government officials arp willing parties to the conspiracy Thurmond has asserted some within the government as well as in the nation's press have been used without their knowledge for that purpose The argument started in late July over a secret memorandum from Chairman Fulbright tD-Arkt of the Foreign Relations Committee to the Defense Department concerning Pentagon censorship and has widened since to include the other aspect Deputy rector MARKED DECK Dr Arthur Dye of Charlotte NC participating in the Mid-Atlantic Bridge Tournament here shows how he plays with a Dr Dye blind uses braille to recognize the cards He qualifies in national competition as a life master bridge player Insert photo show's how he sorts out the cards in his hand (Staff photos by Richard Beebout) Blindness No Handicap In Bridge Cards Make Difference WILLIAM BYRD WILLIAMS Staff Writer for The State It is not necessary to have 20-20 vision in order to play championship bridge Dr Arthur Dye of Charlotte here for the Mid-Atlantic Bridge Tournament will tell you that totally blind Dr Dye a life master bridge player and veteran of about 200 bridge tournaments plays with cards They are in Braile Since bridge tournament rules provide that all cards are prearranged he has no way of knowing what the oppoosition has He never touches their cards Dr Dye says that being blind has its advantages in bridge never distracted when a pretty girl walks he explained But the Charlotte man is more prone to hear a lovely voice or smell fragrant perfume than the man who can see His other senses are more advanced Dr Dye arranges his cards and he is told what dummy has The opposition tells him what cards they are discarding He was asked if he had trouble remembering what had been played Doesn't any bridge player? Dr Dye has played in regional and national tournaments throughout the East He obtained enough good-playing points to qualify as a life master in 1956 "Bridge is a wonderful the most wonderful in the he said He has play- Mxflhmk WINNING HAND? This in all probability is a winning hand if the player bids correctly If not the opposition could possibly make seven no trump contract Say the player with this hand immediately bids seven spades The player on his left with a good balanced hand except in spades says seven no trumps spades" partner has a balanced hand with nothing higher than a 10 What would happen? The opposition would make seven no trumps for the all spade hand could never get the lead If the player to all right however bid seven no trump the biddder would go down seven for spades would make the opening lead and keep it (Staff photo by Richard Beebout) MUZZLING VICTIM Thurmond Criticizes Treatment of General By The Washington Thurmond remarked that De- Correspondent Ipartment of the Army reports WASHINGTON South Carolina show the charges which caused Senator Strom Thurmond has as-(Walker to he relieved of his job could happen to any officer were found to be untrue General Walker's new assign-! ment is Assistant Deputy for Operations in the US Army a the war as an Infantry company commander seeing service in New Guinea the Netherlands East Indies the Philippines and Japan At the war's end in 1945 he returned to Ihe States and was assigned to the Infantry School Ft Renning Ga In 1946 he was assigned to Trust Forces on the Italy-Yugo-slavian border during the period when Marshal Tito was not on such friendly terms with the United States: and was in the thick of the riots and other Communist activities in that sector When the Allied forces moved from the border he was assigned to Germany Following his assignment in Gprmany he returned to the States just as the Korean conflict began Called off of leave he was moved to Korea and served with I Corps as liaison with Republic of Korea Forces was in the middle of the evacuation of Seoul on iwo Following services in Korea came an assignment to the General Staff as assistant secretary General Staff of the Sixth Army in the Presidio of San Francisco trying to frighten the Western world He termed it part of the sorted the case of Major General Soviet scare tactics centering Erwin Walker is an example of around the Berlin crisis Hvhat Reds Announce Naval Exercise MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union announced Saturday there would be combined flept and rocket maneuvers in the arctic east of Spitzhergen in September and October A communique carried by Tass said accordance with the plan of military preparations military exercises with the actual use of various types of modem weapons will he held by thp northern flept jointly wdth rocket troops in the Barents and Kara seas in Seplember-Octoher 1961" The described area rovers several hundred square miles Headquarters in Germany Thurmond ed bridge since 1929 since he said and his immediate supervi- was blind He has been in sor will be another major general tournament bridge for 10 sure this major general is! years competent to carry out the func- This tournament the osteo-tions of his post without another! path is not so w'ell major general as his Just a little above Thurmond remarked job could not be a more! obvious pigeonhole aren't wwking with he said Dr Dye remembers a Sens George Aiken R-Vt a Avho teaches his troops the facts Senate Foreign Relations Commit- about the of commu-tee member and John Sherman nism Cooper R-Ky a former ambas-j Speaking on the Senate floor sador to India said in separate Thurmond said the smear cam-interview that the Soviets seek to paign against General Walker reintimidate the particular- suited in the sidetracking of the ly in a hope to awe the neutral career of a officer and nations now meeting in Belgrade fine JAMES DELOACH California Transferred to France on the Joint-Staff in 1955 and following service with the 3rd Armored and 3th Infantry Divisions he returned to the States for service as a Battalion Commander 3rd Training Regt Ft Jackson He retired in December I960 after over 20 years of sendee Having served over 14 years on foreign duty his decorations include the Silver Star and Oak Ieaf Cluster Ihe Bronze Star with two Oak Ieaf Clusters the Army and Air Force commendation ribbons the Purple Heart and Oak Ieaf Cluster Ihe Combat Infantry badge and foreign decorations Colonel DeLoach is married to the former Frederica Golden of Hampton They have one son Dee born in Germany and beginning the seventh grade this year Crescent Beach Air Show Set Elder Kennedy To Be Guest As Caddy Vt eds ANTIBES France (API Joseph Kennedy father of the US President is to he guest of honor Saturday at the wedding of his pretty blonde dark-eyed golf caddy He is officially listed as a witness for the civil ceremony before the mayor of this Riviera village and later at a religious service at the local Roman Cath-jolic church I Kennedy has prom-i ised me he will said the excited bride-to-be Francoise Pellegrino She has been favorite caddy for the past five years at nearby Biot Golf Course Francoise is marrying Lucien Autiero 22 a handsome businessman from Venre Mayor Henri Carpentier a Communist will perform the civil ceremony The religious ceremony will follow in Francoises parish church Francoise had become good friends with the father during the five years she has been pulling his golf cart "I rail him ami he calls me she said Kennedy and h's wife Rose olan to end their Riviera holiday Sunday when they wall leave for Ihe United States Francoise is counting on her boss to show up as a witness for the wedding told me he would come and that only the gravest thing would make him miss she said added Francoise with an impish smile has all morning to play SOAK ONIONS Marinate thin onion rings in olive oil lemon juice salt and pepper Drain and make sandwiches of the onion with very fresh white bread (crusts off ann well buttered i Men like these tournament in New York W'hich featured a fist fight A director who rules on disputes had to separate two pugilists Several fights have broken nut during tournaments Dr Dye recalls Often arguments get heated he said Asked the difference between tournament bridge and contract bridge Dr Dye said the difference between samHot baseball and the big leagues LA BOR DAY WARNING Drivers Are Urged to Use Extra Caution on Highway MYRTLE BEACH The American Air Show of the Great wall stage performances Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 pm at the Crescent Beach airport 19 miles north of Myrtle Beach The air show will include Gail Lambert a pretty young school teachpr who rides on Ii'ac IVrmanc the wing of a Boeing Special at 1 vrLl III dim TIT Chase Refugee walker Nanre 8nrt Rpnnif Into Free Zone number one stunt will BERLIN (APi Fast Orman be the inverted ribbon pickup invaded the French sector Flying at 150 mph upside down of Berlin Friday in an effort to he will pick up a huge ribbon ishoot down a 17-year-old refugee just a few feet off the ground I Wpst Rprlm reported Walker will do a special power un seeking to es-acrobatics performance featuring smoke and noise across the k1 "7 Ut 77 by border police just be- A delayed parachute jump will fore he reached West Berlin He feature June Bug Covington 1 1 tore himself awav from the police will fall at a speed of 150 miles 1hrew himself over the per hour from a height of 5909 barhed wire int0 lhp Frpnrh RPr feel and not open his parachute 0r until 1909 feet above the ground West Berlin police said Commu-Many other aerial acrobatics nist police followed thp refugee will be included in the show abou 80 yards into West Reriin (firing at him The refugee finally MELBOURNE Australia ex-j reached a small lake where a perts to produce enough oil to he group of West Berlin police no-independent of all imports from need him and ordered East Ger-other countries man police to get out condition before starting a trip 4 Drive defensively by watching out for the actions of other drivers They may not be obeying the rules 5 Before switching lanes signal and glance in your rear view mirrors to make sure Iherp is no danger of a collision 6 Operate your vehicle at a speed that is safe for enndt-tions existing Keep your distance from the vehirie athoad 7 Obey all other tmff: law to the letter Most accidents result from traffic law violation by one or more persons involved caution and asked all motorists to cooperate in making the long week end safe Six persons died on South highways during the Labor Day period last year The following traffic safety pointers were offered by the Highway Department for the benefit of holiday travelers: 1 try to travel so far over the week end that it is impossible lo make the trip while driving at a safe speed 2 Avoid driving when tired or sleepy and after drinking alcoholic beverages 3 Make certain your ve hide is in good mechanical Persons planning to make tnps during the long Labor Day week end are urged by state safety officials to exercise extra care in their driving during the holiday period Because Labor Day is the last summer holiday thousands of motorists are expected to take to the highways for week end vacations Roads leading to beaches and other resort arras are expected to he especially congested Safety officials reminded those who will be traveling that crowded high way conditions call for extra Aga Khan Girlfriend Are the Hocks' AJACCIO Corsica (AP) The young Aga Khan and his pretty girl friend Anouchka von Mcks 19 were towed into port Friday after their cruiser struck submerged rocks in the Mediterranean Officials said the girl was at thp wheel when the boat hit the reef A DRAMA OF WARMTH: Columbia's Fine Film Committee will present in as the next attraction beginning today at the Five Points Theater Director Leacock has obtained some brilliant acting from juvenile newcomers Phillip Needs left and Loretta Parry right Diana screenplay is concerned with the poisonous blight -ef religious prejudice on the friendship that springs up between the little Jewish girl Miss Parry and the Catholic boy Master Needs It is a Columbia picture.