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THE TENNESSEAM, Sofurdoy, Spembf 24, 1977 Doubts Murder Link $400,000 Potted Brownies No Case, Says Ad cox' Lawyer Sought Damage Parkwood officials be restrained from distributing the $647,000 the amount Metro agreed to pay to Parkwood stockholders. Metro bought the system which serves some 1,600 sewer customers after the Tennessee Public Service Commission denied Park-wood owners a large rate increase and after the State Department of Public Health forced the company from accepting new sewer customers. METRO OFFICIALS said they plan to rehabilitate the system by correcting leaks and bypass-ing the company's defective sewage treatment plant. The residents cited numerous problems with the For Sewer By FRANK GIBSON Ten Nashville residents asked Circuit Court yesterday to order a private sewerage company to pay $400,000 in damages because raw sewage backed up into their homes. The residents, represented by local attorney W.

H. Stephenson II, charged that Parkwood Service Co. was negligent in providing a system "that was grossly defective andor grossly inadequate andor grossly IRONICALLY, the Metro Council approved the purchase of the system by the Metro Water and Sewerage Services Department Tuesday after months of negotiations. Stephenson asked that Health Care Abuse Curbs Pass House WASHINGTON (AP) -A bill to combat abuse of Medicare and Medicaid and impose tougher penalties on nursing homes and doctors padding their bills was approved yesterday by the House. The vote of 362 to 5 sends the measure to the Senate, where a similar bill has been approved by the Senate Finance Committee.

THE FINAL version is expected to get quick approval from President Carter. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. praised the House action, saying, "This is an important milestone in the attempt of the Congress and the executive branch to make government Medicaid and Medicare programs free from fraud, abuse and error." He said HEW will use the power to curb fraud in the two health programs to the fuLI extent permitted in the bill. THE BILL would stiffen penalties for physicians or nursing homes convicted of defrauding the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for members of the medical profession who solicit kickbacks or bribes to gain more business.

It would change most fraudulent acts in the health programs from misdemeanors to DRIVE-IN WORSHIP SERVICES IN WORSHIP SERVICE rFINAL DRIVE -StoH photo by Frank Cmpson THIS SEASON SEPT. 25th nal Court Judge Raymond Leathers set bond at $10,000. Later in the day, special General Sessions Court Judge Jude Lenahan continued Adcox' prelimi-nary hearing on the murder charges until Oct. 5 after Kyle said he has not had time to work on the case. Adcox was charged in midafternoon Thursday.

A thin man who appears older than 51, Adcox was present at the sodomy hearing but not at the hearing on the murder charge. He was kept in the Metro Courthouse for a few hours after the sodomy hearing and was transported to jail by sheriff's deputies. However, shortly after his return to jail he was taken to Metro General Hospital because he "felt faint." He received a shot at the hospital for a "nervous condition" and was returned to jail, deputies said. LEATHERS issued an oral order last Friday, upon Kyle's request, that Adcox was not to be taken from the jail for questioning unless his lawyer was present. "They would take him out and ride him around," Kyle said.

"He (Adcox) said they cursed him and threatened him and tried to trick him. I just want to be present when they question him." Kyle quoted Adcox as saying: "They are trying to pin a murder on me that I didn't do." KYLE ALSO said police have questioned his client every time a crime of a sexual nature is committed. "They questioned him extensively and repeatedly when it occurred in 1969, and it is my understanding that he had an alibi," Kyle said, adding that he is not certain of the alibi. "But I know in eight years if they had had anything, they would have charged him." Mills said he and the After Bond Hearing A Metro Sheriff's Department deputy opens a cor door for Edward Warner Adcox, 51, who police have charged with the 1969 sex slaying of Kathy Jones, 12. Adcox is leaving the Metro Courthouse where his bond was set on a charge of sodomy with a young boy.

OUllUdJ ogiviuc n.in. Come as you are and worship in your car. The service is conducted from an outdoor balcony and received on your car radio. TWO RIVERS BAPTIST CHURCH McGovock Pike Porkwoy from Opryland) 1969, said it is "the closest to my heart" of any case he has investigated. However, he said he will not consider the case closed until there is a conviction.

KATHY JONES' mother, Mrs. Darrel L. Steinback, was present for Adcox' hearing on the murder charges yesterday, but she refused to comment on the case. Mrs. Steinback signed the murder warrant for Adcox Thursday, a move whir led some to SDeeu- late the case was a weak one if detectives would not sien the warrant.

However, Mills said it is usual procedure for a victim's next-of-kin to sign a warrant. Officers usually sign warrants only when there is no next-ot-kin and the victim is in the hospital, he said. other two officers working on the case checked Adcox out of jail about three times. He said he has no desire to interview the suspect further. HE ALSO said Adcox has not been given a polygraph test nor has his apartment been searched recently.

Adcox was given a polygraph test after the murder occurred. The results were inconclusive, Mills said. Adcox' apartment was searched at the time and officers found newspaper clippings and pictures regarding the case, sources said. Adcox was employed as a bus driver for the roller skating rink where Miss Jones was headed when she was killed. He had quit his job two days before her disappearance.

Mills, who has worked on the murder case since HAMPTON. N.J. (AP) Two Kittatinny Regional High School students face juvenile court action because they added too much spice to brownies in a home economics class, police say. State police in Newton said two 16-year-old boys in a cooking class in this Sussex County community loaded brownies with marijuana and passed them out to classmates. system, including: "The presence of raw sewerage in homes, lawns and streets, the loss of use of bathrooms, kitchens and surrounding areas; the depreciation of values of homes and lots; the total loss and partial loss of personal property; the prolonged and lingering stench, and the embarrassment." on m.nn (Across Briley A UNIT Of ALLIED STORES 111 By NANCY VARLEY The attorney representing Edward Warner Adcox, accused of the 1969 Kathy Jones murder, said yesterday he doubts the case against his client will stand up during a preliminary hearing for probable cause.

"I don't anticipate they can show probable cause, and it doesn't take much to do that," said John Kyle, an attorney with the Metro Public Defender's Office. "They know a crime has been committed but they must bridge the gap between that crime and Adcox." KYLE ALSO said detectives have harassed Adcox, 51, of 110 16th S. He said police took Adcox from the Metro Jail, where he has been since June on a charge of sodomy with a boy, 8, and drove him around, cursing him and threatening him in connection with the sexual assault and murder of Miss Jones, 12. Kathv Jones disappeared Nov. 29, 1969, after she left her Woodbine home to go skating.

Four days later her nude body was found in a field of tall weeds. She had been sexually molested, her hands were bound behind her back and a sock had been stuffed down her throat. Adcox was considered a suspect early in the investigation, but he was never charged. Detective Charlie Mills said police did not harass Adcox, but "we did try to obtain a confession, as we always do." MILLS, WHO held an afternoon press conference on the case with detective Tommy Burke and Sgt. Sue Klippstein, said police have "physical and circumstantial evidence" linking Adcox to the case.

The evidence is newly collected material as well as evidence from the scene of the crime, Mills said. "We have a chain of evidence," he claimed. However, police refuse to discuss what the evidence is. They said they began looking closely into the Jones case again after Adcox allegedly talked with a fellow jail inmate about the killing. Mills de-clined comment on whether police sent an undercover officer or used an informant to obtain more information from Adcox.

ADCOX PLEADED not guilty yesterday to the so-domy charge lodged against him. Metro Crimi- Pardons Unit Post Goes To Minister The Rev. J. Richard Allison Jr. was named yesterday to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles by Gov.

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