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The Kncwtllc News-Sentinel Monday March 20 1387 The Truth About Guns by Harriet Van Horne Excitement! Adventure Channel Chuckles Pact Averts Strike WASHINGTON March 20 U-A threatened strike by some 3000 clerks and ticket agenta of National Airlines has been averted by a settlement resolving all the disputed issues KNOXVILLE Bimtt'iTi mm SKINNY Cheat he Mile ehlMf m4 Mrtevwefcbt to- eemw of peer eetteg Mbtte Mea ee tewe oM flrte urn MMkfr tm totter to iMtotoMpwaa "MOOUCfiM teteSe trATUtc TUU-i loiii mm fun far Everyone! Si POM thlMk WlthAMl pode or Mir teetint idle Tit new taper weee-Gsii nnratift-oolly preeoee Wot-r rtwrk fwM fflhlSlRllV IllSi Km vttimlML Mhwfb Alt tlM quin IMMir Mii Mwt imp wMjrti i handing mitnrete Pam weight nhM of puma eat nan npariad rtoeke taatHar anna top Mm Ihigfce asmI an tba Mr totmkl orYetn iea'i to skimp! Gei am Sapor Wete-Gw at dnmtou 1st parateee mtmm or mat for lofimd Savora WATE-ON mmwhb ueuwa si TMuna VJWtfEAl lfM HUkN HAM Ml Amunn KHIIlViiiiL iEiitfii Many of the- letters an Illinois legislator testified were highly abusive INADEQUACY POINTED UP Set against the vigilant campaign of the NRA were some blood-chilling scenes pointing up the inadequancy of present gun laws During the hour we watched an NBC reporter walk into a store in Dallas the third anniversary of the assassination was being marked in a nearby and purchase a gun identical to a 1 weapon want the gun that killed the big man?" asked the proprietor And a viewer could be forgiven for thinking in Texas Another NBC reporter bought a seven-foot 20 mm anti-tank gun in a stop swap shop in Phoenix The gun capable of penetrating six inches of steel was loaded into an open truck and parked in front of a police station After being fired in the desert the gun wax shipped to the show's producer Fred Freed in New York There's no law against transporting such weapons BOUGHT THROUGH MAIL An NBC page bought a semiautomatic rifle and a Nazi gun arm band in a Times Square store And we watched a 12-year-old unwrap a rifle bought through the mails no questions asked Unless there's a gun law lethal weapon will continue to fall into the hands of lunatics drunkards ex-convicts minors and people who are simply incapable of handling any sort of firearms Yesterday was a busy rewarding one beside the small screen The Frank McGee report (NBC) took a long hard look at Negro unrest in Rochester NY The star of this half hour was Bishop Fulton Sheen who suggested that the prosperous and the smug their hands dirty their feet wet" among the poor Ethel Merman put her Get Your into a 90-minute TV capsule (NBC) and it was of course super entertainment all the way- The camera work was unusually fluid and the songs never sounded better NBCs experiment in television made an hour with Marshall McL a uncommonly exciting with a visual background that was pure sur-real-tam What Prof McLuhan said may soon be forgotten but who shall forget the nude lady cellist (draped in plastic) who played her piece then slipped into a rain barrel? For these and other marvelous effects credit director Ernest Pintoff Educational TV Station Goes on Air Tennessee's first state-owned educational television station WSJK-TV went on the air this morning with programming on Channel 2 The station is getting a run" this week while school is out according to station manager George Griffin Mr Griffin said broadcasting this spring will be limited to school hours 8:10 am to 3 pm will not be able to provide any night service until at least this Mr Griffin said The station has a transmitter at Sneedville with studios on the U-T campus here and the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City The Johnson City studio is still under construction The regular telecasting started this morning with a lesson for music classes The station spent last week in engineering tests The station will serve 772 schools in East Tennessee and be available to almost 1000 schools in Southeastern Kentucky Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina ONLY 'I O' MORE DAYS TO SEE WINNER OF fi ACADEMY AWARDS I i METROGOLDiYYN UAYtR A CARO PONTI F9O0UCTCN 5 DAVID LEAN'S FILM Of MRS PASTERNAKS DOCTOR ZHIVAGO MNWSI0N mo UETSOCOUM MM MM CtlSIDHN CHAFUN jWH (NUUK RESERVED SEATS NOW AT BOX-OFFICE OR BY MAIL NOWI I-" I oo PMMMt3MrM nOHcOw: 'JVc- ((- N-i Wwda lru SOrrl S-' 1 'iMIWllr: II JO 3788 CMl 111-MU 331-1811 Ml 8H88VATKM g( prigQD Cge sq'gdid mr MeNouA Home Building Destroyed by Fire Fire destroyed the Chapman Highway home of Mr and Mrs linwond Gray yesterday starting from a faulty flue according to Federal Rescue Corps The fire spread to a nearby vacant apartment building belonging to Sam Home real estate man and destroyed it Harvey Hamilton FRC chief said both buildings were in flames when his firefighters arrived and the blaze had spread to nearby trees The woods fire was extinguished About three hours later according to Mr Hamilton the fire started again from smouldering embers and destroyed 300000 feet of used lumber The rekindled fire also spread to a vacant house and threatened three other buildings before it was finally put nut by FRC and State Forestry Department firefighters Mrs Hicks Serious Mrs Ruby Cate Hicks 32 of Raccoon Valley Rd Powell remained in serious condition today at St Mary's Hospital Mrs Hicks was shot in the chest Friday night with a 25-caliber pistol during an argument with her husband Detectives Joseph Mynatt and (Red) Parker ruled the shooting self-inflicted Her husband Farrell Hicks 33 was released from County Jail Saturday after detectives questioned him in connection with the shooting NEW YORK-Three depress-ing and utterly ahaming truths emerged from yesterday's NBC documentary "Whose Right to Bear Arms?" First we are the most violent nation in the world In 1967 17-000 will die of gun wounds That' roughly two per hour And nearly all of the 100000009 guns in this country are unlicensed Two: Since the assassination of President Kennedy 77 bills to control the sale and possession of guns have been introduced in Congress Not one has been passed Three: These 77 bills have died (along with 1000 bills in state legislatures) because we are governed not by independent high-minded legislators but by special interests It is not the will of the- people that prevails but the will of the lobbies And here is irrefutable proof: A recent Gallup survey showed that 70 per cent of all Americans favor stricter gun laws In addition 73 per cent favored registration of shotguns and rifles 5 per cent favored registration of hand guns PRESSURE CITED Gun control legislation is regularly at every level of by the National Rifle Association The greatest virtue of somewhat diffuse "inquiry" into this national scandal was the cold searching light it turned on the NRA and its super-slick pressure program The NRA pays no taxes narrator Robert MacNeil pointed out because it is not listed as a lobby It proclaims itself to be "devoted exclusively to charitable educational and recreational A Federal law specifically forbids tax exempt organizations from on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation" As these statements were hanging ominously in the air die cameras showed us the mills of the NRA grinding out their mountains or propaganda The NRA operating report said MacNeil states that "no other organization carries on such a continuous and successful effort to inform its members about proposed anti-gun LETTERS MAILED Prior to debate on one of the proposed gun laws the NRA secretary said sent letters to our 750000 members and told them to let their opinions be known Well we really got results" Paying no taxes the NRA has been able to accumulate assets of SMM000 operates on a 84508808 budget annually Members are advised in monthly bulletins and by special mailings to bring pressure on all legislative bodies contemplating stricter gun laws Men of good will who have felt this pressure spoke feelingly of it yesterday Threats of political reprisal were the least of it Fr1ic -Winning eMnslcal Comedy vT i BVSIMSS that savo you MONEY! 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