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DOWNTOWN Crackdown on cruisers 91 teens picked up in curfew sweeps in Nashville LOCAL NEWS, IB REVIEWS Rock bottom Some cuts on Kids album downright boring; other Junel9 2000 A86 70 Complete weather forecast on 6B artists reviewed fare better LIVING FOOD, 5D NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE A GANNETT NEWSPAPER VOLUME 96, NO. 171 5 SECTIONS 3 COPYRIGHT 2000 PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID IN NASHVILLE, TN WRESTLING WWF Tutorial to tonight's sideshow at Gaylord SPORTS, 1C, 7C V'i i' WRESTLER SYCHOSID jfgY jHl 1i A. i.i'""a, I1 w'wV,) M. Superspeedway adds Indy car race Woods breezes to record victory 300-lap, Saturday night event will be televised by ESPN PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -At 24, Tiger Woods won a U.S.

Open for the ages yesterday. Woods won by a record 1 5 shots since his breakthrough victory in the 1997 Masters. That day, at 21 he holed his final putt and embraced his father. Yesterday, Father's Day, Earl Woods was not present. He has struggled with heart-related illnesses.

"To have my dad still alive while I won this championship on Father's Day, it's very important to me" Woods said. Story, on 1C DAVID CLIMER witn a tour-aay score of 272, 12 before today's announcement," said Cliff Hawks, Nashville Superspeedway vice president and general manager. "Now, with the addition of this Indy race, I think it takes our inaugural year to a new level. I don't think there's any question that, with the addition of Indy-style racing, that the credibility and demand for season tickets continues to increase." Already booked to run when the unfinished $125 million facility in Gladeville opens in April are NASCAR Busch Series, Craftsman Truck Series and ASA-ACDclco Series races. All three of those series have races scheduled at Nashville Speedway this year.

Officials with the Wilson County track say each of the 2001 races may draw more than 100,000 fans. The 12-race IRL series features open-wheel cars that routinely hit speeds of more than 200 mph. Eddie Cheever won yesterday's IRL nationally televised race at Pikes Peak, Colo, where the addition of Nashville to next year's schedule was announced. Next year's schedule also adds five other new markets: Miami, Richmond, Va, St. Louis (a track also owned by Nashville Superspeedway owners Dover Downs Entertainment), Chicago and Kansas City.

By JIM EAST Staff Writer The credibility of the new 133-mile oval Nashville Superspeedway got a shot in the carburetor yesterday with the news that the Indy Racing League series will roar into Wilson County on July 21, 2001. Underscoring the significance of the Indianapolis 500-type event, which has yet to get a sponsor, is the fact that Nashville's inaugural 300-lap affair, on a Saturday night, will be nationally televised on ESPN. "We felt really good about the inaugural lineup strokes under par. Never before has a player finished 10 or more strokes under par in the Open. Much has changed for Woods A I me ranKS 51 in election fii tiding Termites change plans for mansion 3 local areas quite generous to Bush, Gore matching federal funds.

The three ZIP codes, 37205, 37215 and 37027, have traditionally been politically active and have ranked high nationwide in political contributions. A spokesman for Gore said the vice president's campaign, unlike the Bush campaign, has been relying on grass-roots support from small donors. "We've done much better among people who give a less amount of money to campaigns, while Bush has relied Please see ZIPs, 2A in Belle Meade, Brentwood and Green Hills than almost anywhere else in the country, federal records show. Since October, money raised in the three affluent ZIP codes have ranked among the top 14 ZIP codes nationwide for Bush, who maintains a strong edge over Gore nationwide in total money raised. As of April 30, Republican Bush had raised $81.5 million nationwide and Democrat Gore $43.8 million, with $10.7 million of that coming from yf -Ve By DREW SULLIVAN Staff Writer Tennesseans voting with their checkbooks in this year's presidential campaign have heavily favored favorite son Al Gore with contributions.

But lately George Bush is proving to be more popular By THOMAS GOLDSMITH Staff Writer These walls can talk. Renovation work at Sunnyside mansion is communicating plenty about the Metro-owned, 180-year-old structure in Sevier Park. With interior walls and ceilings stripped of 19th century plaster, workers have found: New evidence of shots ripping through the building during the Civil War. New information about the time periods in which various parts of the house were built. A much higher level of termite damage than first suspected.

Because of the termite problem, Metro Parks offi- Please see MANSION, 2A Legislators looking for new ideas The House and Senate are scheduled to reconvene at 3 p.m. today. 1 "I want to see what ideas others have," Haynes said. Gov. Don Sundquist is demanding that Tennessee develop structural changes in its tax system, saying he wants to make it more reliable in the changing economy.

His proposed budget is $300 million short without new revenue. The legislature is constitutionally required to balance the budget by June 30 or the state shuts down at the start of the fiscal year, July 1. Sundquist said he will announce this week how he plaas to keep essential services such as state prisoas, the highway patrol and child-care services running in the event of a shutdown. Shutdown in 12 days if no budget is passed By ANNE PAINE and BONNA de la CRUZ Staff Writers Lawmakers return to the Capitol today faced with 12 days to balance the state's budget and little overall in the way of a solid plan. Last week's maelstrom, in which proposals swirled to defeat amid lively arguments and scattered hand-wringing, left lawmakers more contemplative than gung-ho.

"I think everybody's just resting up this weekend," Sea Bob Rochelle, D-Lebanon, said yesterday. At issue is how and whether to better fund education, lennCarc and other services, including what, if any, raises teachers and state employees should get. Sea Joe Haynes, D-Good-lettsville, said he has a few ideas that he might suggest. They include: extending the Hall Income Tax, which is levied on interest and dividends, to capital gains when stocks, for instance, are sold; an increase in license plate fees; and a 1 increase in insurance premiums. A shell fired during the 1864 Battle of Nashville apparently made the hole in this Sunnyside beam.

PHOTOS BY RICKY ROGERS STAFF Curt Garrigan, Metro Parks planning superintendent, inspects Sunnyside mansion's original logs, uncovered during renovation. A special report: Growing pains Sudden, unimagined changes lurking in growth Public school enrollment climbs in the suburbs Public school enrollment in fast-growing Williamson County is far outpaced by growth in once-rural Gwinnett County near Atlanta. Counties around Atlanta never expected interstate bypass nightmares that may come true in the Midstate with completion of State Route 840 Gwinnett County Percent growth Williamson County -(59 100,000 schools are finished, the county will need almost twice as many portable classrooms at least 820. "I remember vaguely them saying we will only need this once, and then we will be up to speed," said Tom Marney, a Gwinnett County activist. "Not only will we have to do it forever, but even thea that won't be enough." And, say many Atlanta experts and officials, Nashville's surrounding counties had better pre- State Route 840 bypass under construction around Nashville.

Sch(K)ls there could not keep up. Gwinnett County's population leaped from 72,000 three decades ago to more than 545,000 today, making it more populous than either the city of Atlanta or the city of Nashville. So, in I'W, residents approved a 1 sales tax increase and launched a $507 million school building plan. Today, they are learning they will end up worse off than when they started. When all the new By SHEILA WISSNER Staff Writer Residents of suburban Atlanta's Gwinnett County thought they had found the answer to chronic school overcrowding three years ago, when students were jammed into Second; more than 400 of three portable classrooms, parts They were wrong.

Gwinnett, just east of Atlanta, has in recent years seen residents flood the county from Interstate 85 and eight exits off 1-285, a bypass similar to the i 80.000 -irwwaii 11 11 I growth It I 1 I 60,000 460 rff I I 40,000 I I 20.000 I wtf I JTrnm Numbers 9 1997-98' sludenls i Please see GROWTH, 10A 'Method of computing enrollment has I changed from a yearly average to fall enrollment SOURCE US Department ol Education National Center for Education Statistics KENT TRAVIS STAFF Suburbs struggle with taxes. On 10A COMING UP INSIDE BILL STEBER STAFF Country life is no longer the same on Sharon Cassidy's Gwinnett County, farm since a subdivision popped up across the road. Past suggests pattern. On 10A 840 could affect Nashville transportation options. Tomorrow ana .80 Comics.

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