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TUESDAY 3 7 Lindsay Lohan twice as charming Youngster sets her 'Parent Trap' Making the right Noise to sell tickets 9 88 sw 72 Complete weather forecast on 8B GM Mike Kopp going grass-roots NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE A GANNETT NEWSPAPER VOLUME 94, NO. 209 5 SECTIONS 3 Copyright, 1998 PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID IN NASHVILLE, TN -v in, mm JL 3j .1 JcINJcmJcAT Detent's lY. 1 area I LS1BM saw Lebanon PAVTpSOl LS0N i RUTHERFORD lit a Area considered for racetrack jet Wll ROM I LaVergnew 1 Several landowners near the community of Mona say they have been approached by Dover Downs. John Ray Zimmerman, whose property is on the Wilson-Rutherford line, said he has "signed a contact with the Dover people and they have paid me earnest money." The four acres he is selling are at the corner of Mona Road and Gladeville Road, near the new 840 exchange, he said. Zimmerman said he was told his acreage was needed to provide access to adjoining property.

Much of ft Turn lo PAGE 2 Column 3 Smyrna, ers, Ezell's grandson who represents Harding University in efforts to sell its land, said the college has a contract with a buyer who has offered to pay near the school's asking price of about $4 million. Randall Gibson, vice president of Knoxville commercial developer Lawler-Wood said he contracted with the college to buy the land as a trustee on behalf of a third party. He would not identify the actual buyer. A source familiar with the deal said Dover Downs is buying Harding's land, as well as other smaller surrounding parcels. ding University, a small, private Christian college in Searcy, Ark.

Since the early 1980s, the school has owned 1,600 acres received as a gift from Middle Tennessee developer Houston Ezell, who was on Harding's board of trustees. Dover Downs President and CEO Denis McGlynn yesterday declined to comment on his company's land-buying efforts. Officials at Gaylord Entertainment Dover Downs Entertainment's minority financial partner in the superspeedway, also declined to comment Brentwood developer Ted Sand Rutherford, Wilson site takes shape By LARRY WOODY and WILL PINKSTON Staff Writers Dover Downs Entertainment Inc. is staking a claim on hundreds of acres straddling the Wilson and Rutherford county lines for its planned $35 million superspeedway, WHAT'S COMING Developers hope to attract lower-level events but could expand for Winston Cup, on 2A. a contender for NASCAR motor-sports events.

The Dover, Del company, owner of Nashville Speedway USA and other racetracks throughout the country, is buying land between Lebanon and Murfreesboro, slightly east of State Route 840. The largest tract belongs to Har RUTHERFORD CO. A. Murfreesboro JIM CHAPMAN STAFF Fantasies live in Lottoland meets with Starr team mum about testimony 3 .0... ll' i JJHSi.

Ginton's lawyers have agreements with many of the witnesses to share information about grand jury appearances. By taking Clinton's and Lewinsky's testimony simulta- 6 a 1" I r. Tanya sues label for $300K She says Capitol jilted her for someone else By CATHERINE TREVISON and JAY ORR Staff Whim Country singer Tanya Tucker is suing her record label for more than $300,000, charging that Capitol Records ignored her In favor of another artist. Tucker was out of town and her spokeswoman, Suzanne Crowley, said she wouldn't comment Capitol chief Pat Quigley did not return a phone message. The lawsuit does not name the other artist, but Capitol Records has devoted a major part of its budget to promoting Garth Brooks' latest releases, Sevens and a boxed set Quigley was hired as Capitol Nashville chief in November, after Brooks held up Sevens? release.

In her lawsuit, Tucker said her records were consistently successful until her 30th album, Complicated, was released in 1997. At the time, Scott Hendricks was president of the label. Capitol made Tucker replace her producer and put little effort Into promoting the album, she contends. Tucker "concluded that this lack of Ttmrsstan Nrwi Services WASHINGTON Breaking a six-month stalemate, former White House Intern Monica Lewinsky met yesterday for several hours with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's prosecutors In a day marked by legal setbacks for President Clinton. Lawyers with knowledge of Lewinsky's meeting with prosecutors indicated that the session had moved the two sides considerably closer to an agreement that would lead to Lewinsky's grand jury testimony.

In proposed testimony submitted earlier this year, Lewinsky acknowledged having had a sexual relationship with the President but denied that he or anyone else had tried to persuade her to lie about it under oath. Lewinsky repeated those assertions yesterday, the lawyers said. Starr is moving quickly to secure the testimony of Lewinsky and Clinton the two central parties in the matter at virtually the same time as the fact-gathering phase of his investigation nears a conclusion. I AP ,7 nating their accounts, according to lawyers Involved in the matter. As Lewinsky met with prosecutors secretly in New York, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that Clinton's top confidant, Bruce Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 3 Hotel tax collections show tourism slump effort, apparently because of Capi By WILL F1NKSTON and STACEY HARTMANN tol's decision to devote its efforts to another artist, were, at least in large part, a reason for Complicat-ed's sales performance," the lawsuit said.

ii-V SaaAi fa V. .1 urn iiiinrii il MOVING SOUTH I Gaylord gets financing package to develop hotel In Florida, on 1E. would have been guessing somewhere in the 15 range," he said. Private research firms tracking average hotel occupancy a leading tourism industry barometer will not have June statistics available until August But the Nashville area's occupancy rate chimed in at 62 in May, down 6 from the same 1997 period. Metro's lodging tax collections that month totaled about $1.3 million, down 7.

"The whole market has de USA WPP8TAFF Steve Sander of MurfreMboro buys $105 worth of Powerbatl lottery Ucketo at Lottoland Market and Grill In Franklin, Ky, a other hopeful wait behind him. Beach house, bird dogs among dreams Staff Writers Nashville's hotel tax collections plunged almost 19 in June, a clear signal the city's tourism industry is suffering this summer. The Davidson County clerk's office estimates hotels and motels dumped $1.3 million into Metro tax coffers In June. That is $300,000 less than they added in June 1997, a healthy period for tourism. The declining segment of Metro tax revenue indicates fewer people were staying in area hotels and motels last month, and paying the 4 local lodging tax placed on top of an 8.25 state and local sales tax.

"I cant say it's a complete surprise," Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau head Butch Spyri-don said yesterday. His office has observed a tourism drop after the December closing of Opryland theme park and other developments, such as bad weather starting with tornadoes on April 16. But Spyridon was not expecting such a large dip In June's lodging tax revenue, a sign of weak tourism performance in what typically is Nashville's strongest month. "I TUCKER At the time, Tucker tried to get Hendricks to release her from her contract But the Company exercised its option to make her record two more albums, she said. Quigley replaced Hendricks last year, and Tucker again asked to be released, she said.

This time, the company agreed but only if Tucker wouldn't make the company pay the $300,000 contractual penalty, she said. In January, Tucker said, Quigley told Tucker's representatives that "Capitol was not Tanya Tucker's home." Tucker's recorded for Capitol since 1986. SoundScan, a computer system which tracks album sales nationwide, reports Tuckers 1992 release, Can't Run From Yourself, sold 737,000 copies. A greatest hits album released in "93 sold 603,000 copies, and Soon, released In late "93, sold 479,000 copies. Fire to Fire, released In April "95, sold 104,000.

Complicated has sold 147,000 copies to date. rich," Steve added, smiling. The couple agreed they'd buy some coastal property as well. One can buy a handsome chunk of beach for a quarter of a billion dollars, doled out at $10 million a year for the next 23 years. All day yesterday at Lottoland Market and Grill Just off 1-65, retirees, nurses and cops lined Turn lo PACE 2A, Column 1 two hours going back." Sanders and her husband, Steve, crossed the Tennessee-Kentucky line yesterday afternoon to buy $105 worth of Pow-erball lottery tickets, hoping to win big during tomorrow's world record-breaking drawing.

"If we win, we are going to tithe to the church first," Joyce Sanders said. "And then get all my relatives By CARRIE FERGUSON Staff Wntrr FRANKLIN, Ky. All roads leading to Kentucky are paved with dreams this week dreams riding on the random draw of six numbers worth $250 million. "It's a fantasy," said Joyce Sanders of Murfreesboro. "You spend It for two hours on the way up (to Kentucky) and for clined," said Holiday Inn Select Bri-ley Parkway general manager Adrian Trumper.

"We're being outdone, in marketing terms, by other locations and destinations." Led by former Opryland theme park operator Gaylord Entertainment the tourism industry is planning beefed-up marketing next year. Gaylord is matching Industry contributions to create a potential $1 million marketing fund. aiXLLi FT" rrrm Toubcrtba: 242-NEWS Now Air RfScNair must go deep Workplace child-care merger completed The merger of Delivery proUama: 254-5661 or 1-600-342-8237 For poraonal aervtca, call during trwa tlmea: Nashville's CorporatePamiry Solutions and Coming tomorrow Curing bottlenecks and traffic jams Just what is the state doing to relieve traffic bottlenecks along Trinity Lane, from Whites Creek Pike to Brick Church Pike? Find out when the road construction will be finished, what It will cost, what state officials are doing and what it means to businesses in the area. In tomorrow1 Termessean. I 530am to 6 30 a m.

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