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The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 9

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Ten to to one we're on Claimed mKillmgCase DOVER Tenn Dec 2 A story of sexual intimacies between McCord and Mrs Helen Ann Stavety condoned by Mrs Staveyn husband ufifold-ed hero Thursday as McCord took the witness stand to deny bludgeoning the husband to death "We had relations as we wanted them" testified the former Clarksville electrician who in accused of beating Robert Wiley Stavety to death Feb 23 in the basement of the Stavety home "She (Mrs Stavety) told me I was the only person in the world she ever loved She showed me more love then either of my two former wives" he added Both are 43 Teathneoy Differs McCord's testimony widely divergent from that given earlier by Mrs Stavety came as the trial neared the end of Its A NEW WINDOW wNhlhe MIT faatarw af Jriaw ala WMawfc aad tfca Maw-' slasara af Awning i 4 -A AfKKrJ az: fight I aha To Aid Payments Deficit Hors Cova Area Park Proposed JOHNSON CITY TeniL Dec 1 (UPD-City Commission last night heard plana for a proposed state nark fat the- Hone Cove area of Buffalo Mountain about two miles south of Johnson City Vice Mayor Mitchell Thorp showed commissioners a map of the proposed park which would contain 2500 acres and adjoin Cherokee National Park WINDOW FBI MAN ON Cartha DoLoach 45 of Claxton Ga an FBI agent since 1942 has been ap- tinted assistant to FBI irector Edgar Hoover The promotion increased speculation that Hoover is grooming De Loach to possibly succeed him when he retires Although the Attorney General will name Hoover's replacement the FBI chief's recommendation presumably would carry weight Foreign Spending Guidelines Readied 301SNLCSMral PhaaaS21il It WASHlNGTffecV-Joho-son Administration finance experts seeking to ease the balance of payments dentil were busy today filling in the blank spaces for a complete set of specific guidelines for business spending abroad The aim of the Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments is to achieve President Johnson's newly-announced goal of limiting tha dollar outflow to less than 5258000800 a year The outgo Is running now at five times that rate Mr Johnson assigned his Press Secretary and top aide Bid Moyers to preside at a White House briefing sessi for explanation of tha program to be announced formally to the businessmen on dsy A battery of top economic and defense officials back kirn up Treasury and Commerce Department officials emphasized (and a much battar valuatool) ur tell about an annoying old man whose coughing fits "woke up the wboleip-nsighborhood" unlikely that a not-too-famous performer invited to appear on one of NBCs moat important variety hours would utter any word stronger than But if network ct have a motto it is "damn us no DEMONSTRATION FIRST In matters of taste and deB-however these custodians of public morals are hearted vulgarians The Guy Marks routine la a perfect case in point The word "damn" was judged too offensive for the nation's sensibilities But Marks was permitted in the next breath to offer a horrible demonstration of precisely how that annoying old man sounded when he woke up coughing Vulgarity of this sort runs on an die networks But the three most vulgar shows of the new season are on NBC Namely Mona McCluskey" "My Mother the and a Runamuck" When the script offers no wit no charm no honest laughter it Is practice desperate directions to fall back on "sight gags" Most of them are too unsigh tty for description here Worse not funny Sometimes stars who regard themselves apoetles of clean living virtuous examples for the nation to follow exercise strict censorship ever their scripts NO BEER PLEASE A Hollywood writer who once worked on the "Ossie and Hir-riet Show" tells of the time Quit deleted a line that had him Inviting a neighbor into the kitchen for a bottle of beer The deaned-up version as uttered by Ossie read "Come on out to the kitchen weH have some milk and cookies1 Milk and cookies!" that writer is still shrieking Also heavily censored are the old movies you see on TV I once asked a "continuity acceptance man" (as tha censors are called) what the rule of thumb was on deletions "We taka out dirty words violent words racial stereotypes and all heavy breathing in love said he Later I read a mimeographed guide for the film censors and this quick summary far wrong Perhaps tha most peraicous form of censorship in television is that which former FCC Chairman Newton Minow once called "dollar censorship" When a TV in advance there would be no deviation from the Government's voluntary approach to overseas spending inaugurated last February No further restrictions on spending by US tourists were anticipated although Americans are expected to spend 51-000400400 mom overseas this year than visitors win here For the first nine this year the payments deficit ran at the annual rata of 51-250400400 In 1004 the outflow totaled 52400400400 and in 1163 it was 52700400400 The new guidelines were prompted officials said by continued heavy foreign fovest-menta by American firms Scientist's Wife Found Strangled CINCINNATI Dec 3 (UPI-The wife of a prominent University of Cincinnati aerospace scientist was criminal) ed and killed in the of a large apartment house yesterday The body of Mrs Emogene Harrington a 52-year-old Presbyterian Church deaconess was found lying in a washroom with a piece id yellow plastic clothes line around her neck Mrs Harrington was thn wife of Dr Paul Harrington head of the aerospace engineering department and director of the Institute of Space Sciences at tha university French Campaign in Final Day PARIS Dec 1 (UPI) first presidential election cnmpnign in 117 yean drew to a dose today President Charles de Gaulle is expected to defeat five opponents In voting Sunday Final eight-minute campaign speeches were pre-recorded for radio and television broadcast tonight Than they wen put under lock and key to prevent last-minute skulduggery If one candidate knew in advance what the other was going to say it would give him an advantage in the presidential sweepstakes France has about 28800000 registered voters But Sunday will be the first time since ISM the country as a whole has elected its chief executive in the American style Up to now parliament or limited college of Hgrand electors" has decided who win be president The Ministry of Interior said Its public opinion polls give De Gaulle about per cent of the vote with nesriy a third of the voters still undecided Deportment officials said they expect De Gaulle to get about a third of this undecided vote on Sunday to push his final total to a comfortable 55 to 87 per cent The election campaign took a violent turn yesterday when about 21 men beat up five youths who were slashing posters of De Gaulle ENGINE SMASHES GLASS ROGERSVILLE Tenn Dec 2 A Southern Railway locomotive crashed through a warehouse door at Grasslands Glass Plant Wednesday wrecking two cars loaded with glass and ramming three trucks There were no inferies Southern officials said they were Investigating New 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Separate controls for each pair of slots Tout 2 slices light 2 slices dark if yon wish family size order of tout without waiting! Or tout one or two slices without heating up the whole touter Toastmaster toasters from less than 13 to 934 WTVK Equipment Power Hike Sought South Central Broadcasting Corp owner of television sta tion WTVK has filed applies tioa with the Federal Communes Uom Commission to greatly increase Its power and equip-ment in the face of proposed IJHF competition here William Eckstein station manager said the application to increase power from 318400 watts to 1400000 watts and tower height from 2M feet to 1073 feet was filed John Engiefarecbt president the corporation in Evansville Ind Earlier this week it was announced that Olympic Broadcasting Corp a newty organized firm had filed with the FCC for operation of a new Knoxville television station on Channel 14 at 1000400 watts Mr Eckstein said that in addition WTVK Channel 28 had signed a contract with General Electric Co to install color equipment at a cost of SI 400000 MODEL MIRRORS 2 slice toaster features convenient up-front controls MODEL 1112 Quality MI ALL TYPES -ALL SIZES KNOX GLASS CO IK sihkm raw Minn FRIDAY EVENING WTVK-TV Flavor-protecting stainless steel coffee maker has "See-Lever handle Everything coffee touchcs-pump basket tube and ts euy-to-dean flavor protecting stainless steeL Bitter oils build up Coffee tutu better gauge shows water or coffee level from 4 to 12 cups MODEL M501 Stainless itssl 3-9 cup sutomstic coffss msker Toastmaster coffee makers from loss than 12 to 34 Caaatry Capoi Cat Rodin MUM Mars wati an iNSCi nasun Waie-AM INS (MCI ltM wsia-FM mi aw niinuM WIVK MMM WKXV SH tut wvot-pm fif aw WKM ISN kc tarn wovar mki am-rn am warn taw tcss-MSSi I uM am wskt im kc am wMir-ma tat wsav-eaa mi aw 7 WMWMJMM an MODEL MS21 TV Tonight 7:30 THE WILD WIID WEST tries hard to shake you up as Burgess Meredith a crafty Big Daddy of a geologist sets out to build an empire hv man-made earthquakes WBIR-TV 7:30 -CAMP RUNAMUCK-Spiffy in the conclusion of two-part comedy enters the business world but his heart is still at camp WATE-TV FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE In See Humphrey Van Weyden (Alexander Knox) a writer and Ruth Webster (Ida Lupino) fugitive from justice are taken aboard a mystery ship run by a brutal heartless captain (Edward Robinson) WATE TV CLARY is in the center spotlight of Hogan's Hr rets posing ns a brilliant French chemist while his POW pale sneak the real scientist out of their camp WBIR TV BEST BET Carnegie Hell citadel of New York concert goers provides the stage for The Jimmy Dean Shew a fancy blnck-tie affair starring Eileen FarreD Boots Randolph Chet Atkina and Floyd Cramer WTVK THE MAN FROM UNCLE has Ronald Long aa splendid villain who is trying (so he rays) to turn France into a country that In 100 per cent pure WATE-TV TRIALS OF I moves Into new time The first is Jessy murder mystery starring Milton Berle WBIR-TV SHOW -Burt Lancaster Phyllis Thaxter and Charles Bickford In "Tim Ail American" WBIR-TV TV Tomorrow 12 Gem ini-7 special report WATE-TV NCAA FOOTBALL-Mary-lend vs Penn State WATE-TV 2:30 THE GEMINI-7 FLIGHT which Is scheduled to be launched from Cape Ken-at 2:20 pm will be cov-by all the networks In fHLOL K3aauT WPrrt- Toastmaster broiler flips over and becomes an oven IKS' IKS" WTo '1 4 State College Football game via a split screen Kickoff it College Park Md ia 1:30 pm WATE-TV color WATE-TV WBIR-TV WTVK NBC also hopes to cover the flight end the Maryland-Few! 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