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34 THI TfcNNiSSiAN, Hdgy, Novmtxr 2 DUSTY ADDISON sells AUDI at J- Vaughn Motor Company 715 Murlreesboro Rd. 244-4910 FACTORY, OUTLET INC. I $3iti mmmmifmim i IT ft Colorado Firm Buys Read House CHATTANOOGA (AP) A Colorado-based firm has purchased the Read House and is keeping the 225 employees of the landmark downtown hotel at their jobs, a spokesman for the new owner said yesterday. Don Gritman, regional vice president for the Denver-based Associated Inns Restaurants Co. of America at first declined to announce the purchase price.

Pressed for an estimate, Gritman said Aircoa paid less than $5 million to the previous owner, the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Co. THE FIRM OWNS the Maxwell House along with 45 other properties in the United States. "Aircoa is pleased to have this property," he said. beautiful. You don't see hotels like this any more." 3201 GALLATIN RD.

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"We can't get statues of Martin Luther King in some public said Isaac Richmond, executive director of the Congress of Racial Equality's West Tennessee Chapter. "Why should we stand for black tax dollars going to support and maintain Forrest's image when he organized the (Ku Klux) Klan?" WHAT RICHMOND has upset is a 75-year-old bronze equestrian statue of the one-time Memphis planter and businessman who enlisted in the Confederate army as a private and rose to lieutenant general. The statue stands atop a seven- foot-high marble pedestal over the graves of Forrest and his wife, Mary, in the center of Forrest Park near the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences. In a news release issued earlier this week, Richmond promised to issue his demand for the statue's removal from the top of Forrest's horse. BUT WHEN HE arrived at the nark early yesterday afternoon, he 'Like Hitler' MEMPHIS Issae Richmond of the Congress of the Social Equality's West Tennessee chapter clings to the statue of Civil War Gen.

Nathan Bedford Forrest as he de mands the statue be removed. A 8 Illllil Hitler Gen. Forrest "Jews would rise" settled for a perch beneath the horse's neck, where he could hold on to the mount's bridle with one hand and his prepared statement with the other. "Ya'll hurry up," he urged a newspaper photographer and a television cameraman. "You know black folks can't stand heights too well." Then he launched into his denunciation of Forrest, the Confederacy and Southern political authorities.

Richmond said he was unaware until shortly before his arrival that both Forrest and his wife were buried beneath the statue. But he said that would not affect his mand that the statue be removed. "LET SOME OF the Sons of the American Revolution (sic) move it i "I "THE QUESTION is, in a city, to their plantations if they want to glorify him," he said. "I don't know county, state and nation where political authority persists in refusing to erect statues and public monuments to great humanitarians like Dr. Martin Luther King," Richmond said, "how can this proclaim in patriotic majesty, the statue of Gen.

Nathan Bedford Forrest, which stands out as the unreconstructed mentality and heritage of racism, bigotry, prejudice, violence and degradation." Only four reporters and an unidentified black woman who accompanied Richmond attended the 15-minute news conference. Several medical students and university faculty members passed the statue while Richmond read his statement. But nobody stopped to listen. whether we ought to dig up their graves maybe cover them over with some nice grass." Richmond said Forrest's exploits as a cavalry leader, which earned him recognition as one of the Civil War's best generals did not excuse his actions as one of the Klan's founders. "Hitler was an historical figure," he said.

"If somebody proposed putting up a statue of Adolph Hitler the Jewish citizens would rise up." There was no immediate reaction from Memphis city government, but several City Council members said earlier this week they had no intention of voting to remove the More Legal Authority Nurses Perform Extra Duties Due to Crisis :3 come in the American health care field." The nurses' association. meeting here is different from the organization's annual convention. Its agenda is restricted to educational efforts and long term policy discussions. Tullahoma Banks' Holding Firm OK'd TULLAHOMA -The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has approved formation of a holding company which will own Traders National Bank here, the largest of Tullaho-ma's three commercial banks. Actual ownership of the bank will not change, according to Tom Strawn, bank president and chairman of the new Traders Holding Co.

STRAWN, THE principal stockholder in the bank, said the bank's former stockholders will own stock in the holding company. Strawn said the move will give Traders the flexibility to move into other lines of business. He said moves in that direction may be made around Jan. 1, but declined to elaborate. The bank had deposits totaling $28 million as of last June 30.

Traders was founded here in 1889. Inmate Accused By NAT CALDWELL The crisis in American health care has led nurses into accepting "extra duties" as nurse practitioners for which they need broader legal authority, a national educator advised them yesterday. The well-known nursing educator, speaking here at the American Nurses Association's annual scientific and clinical meeting at Opry-land Hotel, warned that the medical profession "manipulated nurses" into meeting temporary shortages in doctors. "THE THOUSANDS of nurses across the country who have accepted these 'extra duty' assignments without extra legal authority, vesting them with broader functions are being exploited," said Mrs. El-donna Shields, professor of nursing at the University of Akron.

Mrs. Shields predicted that public pressure will be so great that the supply of doctors will be vastly increased in every state. Nearly 1,000 registered nurses from all over the United States registered for four days of educational conferences at the hotel yesterday. MISS MARY Ernestine Kotthoff, University of Colorado nurse practitioner, who will conduct another seminar on this health care specialty, said yesterday: "I do not share Professor Shields concerns for the simple reason that I expect that the future expansion of duties and responsibilities of nurse practitioners will move rapidly into preventive medicine and health care." MISS KOTTHOFF said that, in her opinion, the medical profession is eager to broaden its own activities in the field of preventive health care. "Even, if late in the game, the medical profession should try to pick up that ball too, I believe they would find the American public demanding something different and better," she added.

"And I think that field is where the big expansions will i If Of Def raudingState 1 A state prison inmate managed to defraud the state of $20,000 by entering fradulent claims in the Tax Relief System and depositing them in a bank, a special comptroller's report says. James LeMay, 32, who disappeared from his work release job in the comptroller's office last May, managed to embezzle the $20,395 after mastering the state's computer system, the audit report says. Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. 10 0,8 mg. nicotine av.

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