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i g0 mmyniyi ipi 1 jii pp pp yi pp 'Ipl11 'yy 'iir-y Nashville Business 20 Stock Closings. Wall Street. 22 WEDNESDAY August 6, 1980 15 White Collar Aim 1 1 Aide Given Annual Hike In 3 Months By ALAN CARMICHAEL General Services Commissioner Francis Guess gave Administrative Assistant Lee Gilmer Crump a $2,244 annual merit raise which took effect a little more than three months after she began working. Guess describes Mrs, Crump as a "friend," but he says the fact that he knew her before she was hired has nothing to do with her quick raise. GUESS SAID he was just trying to bring her salary in line with another administrative assistant in his office.

He said the merit raise was within bis discretion as commissioner and was earned by Mrs. Crump. "It would be different if someone was saying it was politics," Guess said. "No one is raising the political charge; they're just saying she is a friend of mine." Guess said he has given other general services employees merit raises since he took over as commissioner in January, but he said he does not know whether any of those are as large as Mrs. Crump's.

GUESS SAID he became acquainted with Mrs. Crump when they both worked with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and he was impressed with her performance. He said he could have hired Mrs. Crump at a higher salary than he did, but he decided to readjust her pay after she was on board. "Francis told me it was all he could pay at the moment, but in the future he could be of some help," Mrs.

Crump said. "As I moved up, I would be givenraises." ACCORDING TO General Services records, Mrs. Crump was hired in late January at a salary of $19,632 a year. After her merit raise, the salary became $21,876, an 11.4 increase. Guess said Mrs.

Crump's raise became effective July 1, but General Services records show that the increase took effect May 1, a little more than three months after she HOWEVER, District Attorney AI Smutzer of Sevierville, president of the state association of district at- torneys, conceded yesterday that law enforcement efforts toward white collar crime "have been defi- cient" in the past. Smutzer said association members have agreed to allow the new white collar crime unit initiate its Own investigations and bring evidence to the district attorneys. "One of the problems which has always existed is how a district attorney knows wrongdoing exists in his area," Carson said. WHITE COLLAR crimes and public corruption are often difficult to detect through normal police channels, Carson added. The new unit, he continued, will look on a continuing basis at such items as large expenditures of public money, bidding and purchasing practices, conspiracies, fraud and public corruption.

James F. Keesling, a veteran TBI agent from Kingsport, was named to head the new division. Keesling jointed the TBI in 1968 and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. CARSON SAID Keesling was chosen on the basis of his past record as an agent and because of proven analytical ability in investigating difficult crimes. Other TBI divisions announced by Carson and the directors: Criminal Investigations, the basic investigative arm of the agency, headed by Steve 0.

Watson, an agent since 1969. Criminal Records, the division which handles dissemination of records and fingerprints to other police agencies. It is headed by Douglas D. Woodlee, who has been an investigator, narcotics agent and supervisor since 1972. Forensic Services, the division which handles TBI laboratory work.

It is headed by William Darby, who has been head of the laboratory since 1974. Administrative Services, the division which will handle basic administration for the agency. It is headed by Robert G. Pearce, who was formerly chief of fiscal services for the Department of Safety. fa 1 i i Crime By LARRY AUGHTRE State officials said yesterday a reorganization of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is designed partly to allow more probes of white collar crime and public corruption.

A new division of the TBI will focus exclusively on those areas of ''hidden" crime and present evidence developed to local district attorneys. "WE HOPE this will go a long way toward ridding the state of this type of crime that seems to be so prevalent in the country," said TBI Director Arzo Carson. Changes in the TBI organizational structure were announced yesterday by Carson and Gov. Lamar Alexander. With the exception ot the white collar crime unit, most of the changes are the result of a reorganization bill passed by the legislature earlier this year.

i As he was putting the reorganization into effect, Carson also quietly eased out three of the top officials in the old TBI structure. I Robert Fortner, who had been assistant director of the agency before the legislature restructuring, was returned to a job in the polygraph division. JOE HANNA, who supervised agents as an inspector and. functioned in the No. 3 position in the department, was returned to status as a field agent.

Ambrose Moss, head of the old narcotics division, will retire at the end of the month. All were replaced with younger agents with different job titles. The TBI still functions essentially as an evidence-gathering arm for state district attorneys and in the past has started investigations only at their request. Three Midstate Judiciary Races At Stake Tomorrow sFive judicial seats in Middle Tennessee will be filled tomorrow, but only three of those races the 8th and 21st Circuit judgeships, and the 4th Chancery Division tare contest- In the race for the 21st Judicial Circuit seat, now held by Robert Burch, 32, of Dickson, opponent Allen Wallace has accused Burch of not being candid with voters about his Republican ties. BURCH WAS appointed to the judgeship last Jan.

29 by Gov. Lamar Alexander. His former law partner is Tom Beasley, head of the state Republican Party. "When you are running for office you ought to be candid and let the voters Enow where you stand," Wallace said. "His (Burch's) campaign organization is Republican, everybody who backs him is Republican and then he says politics shouldn't be involved in the judge's (Turn to Page 16, Column 1) Staff photo by Ricky Rogers Tobacco Chopping Time which will be transported to warehouse in Carthage, Tenni HARTSVILLE, Tenn.

Paul Ray, of Hartsville, harvests tobacco grown on farm near U.S. 231. His son, Lorinie Ray, right, helps his father cut the tobacco, Contractor Gets Term, $1 0,000 Fine count of lying to the February grand jury. As in Mullican's case, the U.S. Attorney omce agreed to drop a(Uam aUmham nvtAUrkvtWA ah Alt other charges in exchange for the guilty pleas.

Wilson will rule Friday whether to accept the proposed plea bargains. As part of the arrangment, Shelton faces up to 15 months in and a $15,000 fine, while Northcutt could be sentenced to as long as one year and be required to pay a $7,500 fine. Mullican's agreement with prose Private Schools Nearly White started work. Mrs. Crump said she did not believe the fact that she knew Guess previously would have had any bearing on whether he gave her a raise.

"I WOULD LIKE to think it; is because of my talents and my initiative and what I've done in the office," she said. Guess said Mrs. Crump's hiring was not based on their friendship, either. "It was not germane that Lee was someone I worked with in Muscular Dystrophy," he said. "I was treasurer of MD and worked closely with the district director.

I made an assessment of her professional competence to offer the job of administrative assistant. significant minority enrollment as well. Madison Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist high school, reported a black, Filipino and Mexican enrollment totaling about 20 of its 152-student population, while Father Ryan High School reported that about 10 of its 944 students are black. "No one is here to get away from black students, because they are here also," said Charles F. Ramsey, administrator of Whimpering Hills Christian Academy, which opened in 1970.

BUT FEW administrators of the schools founded around or since that time or, for that matter, of Nashville's longer-established private institutions contacted during a recent survey could match Ramsey's estimate of an "about 20" black enrollment. For the most part, private school educators expressed uncertainty about the extent of their minority enrollment, though glances through mostly white class photographs made the exact number of their tew black students quickly apparent to reporters. ''We don't keep statistics," said Michael Drake, assistant headmaster at Montgomery Bell Academy, which includes two blacks in its 460-member student body. "WE DON'T try to figure the percentage of blacks we have," said W.F. Ruhl, president of Goodpasture Christian School, declining to specify the extent of minority enrollment among the school's 1,035 students.

(Turn to Page 17, Column 1) CHATTANOOGA Prominent McMinnville contractor J.D. Mulli-can was sentenced here yesterday to three months in prison and fined $10,000 for perjury before a grand jury probing alleged bribery of city officials. In accepting Mullican's negotiated plea of guilty to two counts of "making false statements to a grand jury," U.S. District Judge Frank Wilson also imposed an 18-month probation period to follow the prison term. Wilson ordered the McMinnville civic leader to begin serving his term in federal prison Nov.

3. MULLICAN, PRESIDENT of J.D. Mullican Construction Co. in McMinnville, was indicted last May by a Chattanooga grand jury for Staff photo by Frank Empson lying to another grand jury in Feb- ruary, conspiring to bribe McMinn- vale aldermen, and using interstate Ll 1 i. tt communications facilities in the furtherance of fraud.

The grand jury investigations grew out of a lengthy 1979 FBI probe into charges that Mullican and two other McMtnnville businessmen, automobile dealer Joe Powell Shel-: ton and mobile home dealer Way-mon T. Northcutt. attempted to bribe at least two aldermen in return for favorable votes to reestablish the city's industrial bond According to the indictments, the bond board would then have been asked to extend low-cost financing to Three Star Mall, a large shopping center now under construction on the outskirts of McMinnville. THE GRAND JURY charged that the three men made downpayments of $2 500 each to then Vice Mayor Charles Bogle and Alderman Grady Scott as part of $25,000 in bribes for their vote on the bond board. Assistant U.S.

Attorney Tom Bil-lard said both Bogle and Scott cooperated in the investigation and that indictments will not be sought against them or any other persons in the present case. Records in the Warren County courthouse show that Shelton ana Northcutt owned the land on which the shopping center is being built, and Mullican's company is the general contractor for the $8 million project. BRONSON Hutensky of Bloomfield, is owner of the mall, described as the largest completely enclosed shopping mall between Chattanooga and Nashville. As part of the plea-bargain the government agreed to drop bribery and fraud charges against Mullican. The fraud indictment alleged that the three businessmen conspired to inflate Mullican's construction bid to Bronson Hutensky in an amount necessary to cover the bribes.

Mullican entered guilty pleas last month to the two perjury counts. Less than than a week later both Sheldon and Northcutt changed to guilty their earlier not-guilty pleas to charges of lying to the grand jury. SHELTON PLEADED guilty to three of five perjury counts, while Northcutt pleaded guilty to one cutors included a maximum one-year sentence and a $10,000 fine. ASKED YESTERDAY if his clients might withdraw their guilty pleas in view of Mullican's sentencing, Tullahoma attorney John McCord, representing both Shelton and Northcutt, replied: "As far as I know, there's been no change. They will appear before Judge Wilson Friday at 1:30 Chattanooga time for sentencing." Third in a series serves children of the Black Muslim faith, though officials of the school could not be reached for comment on its racial composition.

To dismiss the other schools as "segregation academies" is to disregard the multiple factors, including unique educational or religious philosophies, that are part of their appeal. Yet to ignore the dates of their "foundings would be to gloss over the fact that first the threat and then the reality of public school desegregation contributed to their growth. WHETHER FOR race-related reasons or because of the uncertainty of public school assignments, some of Nashville's older private schools also saw substantial enrollment growth between 1970 and 1971, the year public school desegregation bust For example, figures reported to Metro officials show that Akiva jumped from 64 to 135, Harpeth Hall from 470 to 541, David Lipscomb Elementary from 440 to 610, Oak Hill from 306 to 369, St. Henry's from 411 to 571 and University School from 569 to 831. "As far as the Justice Department and the civil riehts bovs.

university School is about the only one that meets their quotas," said Brad- shaw. BUT WHILE University's reported 13 black and 6 foreign enrollment indeed gives it one of Nashville's most diverse private school student bodies, other schools report Mli'H rl Anh- hi 7y Hxh Yt A 1 i las' vVs tit a i I 1 By SAUNDRA IVEY and ADELL CROWE Thumbing through the Franklin Road Academy yearbook is like moving into a time warp where school desegregation never existed. Cheerleaders for the "Rebels" flash friendly smiles, a Confederate-uniformed flag bearer waves the Stars and Bars, the class of 1980 gazes intently into the future and, with the exception of two cooks, everyone is white until the school's single black among 745 students, a second grader, appears on page 120. THE RACIAL composition of Franklin Road Academy, which enrolled its first black student last year, typifies many of tlie 19 other private schools 17 of, them still open founded here since 1969, when action stepped up in Davidson County's desegregation case. "Escape from busing was probably definitely a factor" motivating some parents who enrolled their children at the academy ivhen it was founded in 1971, said headmaster Bill Bradshaw, who nevertheless denied that the school's founding was related to desegregation.

Other officials made similar disclaimers, yet the coincidence re mains that 17 of the county 43 private schools 39.5 have been founded since 1969, and that nine, two ot them since closed, were established in 1970 and 1971 as fed eral court desegregation orders took effect. 1 ONE OF Tlffi schools! Clara Muhammad Elementary, reportedly Happy Hunting, Shoppers! Mike Harper, manager-trainee at Caster Knott, shows off some of the bargains Nashvillians can hunt during Nashville Extra Value Days. The 52nd edition of the bargain extravaganza begins tomorrow..