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MCGAVOCK PIKE Though its meandering pat across eastern Davidson County has been fragmented by time and progress, much history is still to be found along this narrow lane. From Mill Creek at Bakertown, McGavock Pike once stretched all the way into East Nashville, by way of a ferry across the Cumberland River from Pennington's Bend. The old road is in pieces now, ending first at the Metro Airport and r- I'I ri i Adams. City Mall has a new look. Inside renovation and redecoration was completed and the outside brick laying was being finished by William Wright, on scaffold, and Jimmy jyioore, Clarksville contractors (top photo).

Meanwhile, Robert Redfern relaxes as he discusses old times and the upcoming Thresher Show with Doug Caroland owner of the Adams grocery store in the background. Caroland claims Adams and Robertson County is the best place in the world to live and getting better all the time. Fire, police chief duties split GOODLETTSVILLE The duties of the Goodlettsville fire and police chief will be split after more than 23 years of having one person filling both positions, City Manager David Wilson announced last week. Chief Jack Hunnicutt will continue as full-time fire chief, and Highway Patrol Capt. Fred Schott will head the police division.

Schott officially takes office July 15. The police force will soon grow to 28 full-time officers, and the Fire Department will increase from five to nine members in the next few months, Wilson said, adding that the dual job of fire and police chief became too big for one person. Although Goodlettsville is mostly within Davidson County, it maintains its own Fire and Police departments, using Metro forces only for occasional support, Hunnicutt said. Absentee vote deadline near CROSS PLAINS Thursday is the last day to vote absentee by personal appearance for the city election which is scheduled to take place here next Tuesday. Absentee voters may cast ballots from 8 am until 4:30 p.m.

in the Election Commission office of the Robertson County Courthouse. Handicapped or elderly persons whose assigned polling place is inaccessible may vote in the election office on July 14 if written notice of their intention is filed with the election commission. A field of eight candidates has qualified for the two city commission seats up for grabs. Incumbent commissioners James R. Roberts, 43, and James Stark 48, are each seeking election to second four-year terms of office.

They are opposed by Jeff M. Brown, 69, Ron Harrell, 40, Gerald Jackson, 36, Freddy Pinson, 48, Ernest E. Tuber-ville, 50, and Andrew Webb, 58. The top two vote-getters in the election will join commissioners James 0. Murphy on the three-member board.

Newly elected commissioners take office Aug. 1. Polls will be open at city hall next Tuesday from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. for the city's approximately 500 registered voters.

Bypass honors Vietnam vets, HENDERSONVILLE A ceremony last week marked changing the name of the Hendersonville Bypass to Vietnam Veterans Boulevard to honor Tennesseans who fought in the Vietnam War. The plan to dedicate the three-mile section of road to the veterans was started by Sumner County Chapter 240 of Vietnam Veterans. "Our chapter initiated this proposal im memory of our brothers and sisters who never came back alive and to our comrades who are still missing. We have not forgotten you," said Fred See, chapter president The new road runs from Gallatin Road near the Avon-dale community to New Shackle Island Road. Gov.

Ned McWheter unveiled the green highway sign while a small group of people stood silently and watched. OskKosh breaks ground WHITE HOUSE OskKosh B'Gosh has broken ground for their 300,000 square-foot multi purpose complex here. Gov. Ned McWherter joined White House Mayor Charles Duty, Robertson County Executive Emerson Meggs and Oshkosh President Charles Hyde to actually spade some dirt in the groundbreaking ceremonies. The plant is located on a 30-acre tract alongside 1-65.

The facility is slated to serve as a distribution center and warehouse. It is supposed to employ 500 when fully operational. Parade, picnic slated July 25 PLEASANT VIEW The Volunteer Fire Department picnic and parade is set for July 25 at the Pleasant View Elementary School. The parade will start at 1 0 a.ra with the picnic to follow. Live bands and games are on the agenda Flea market space can be rented for $10.

For more information, call Helen Fuller at 746-8880. Uncle Dave Day this weekend MURFREESBORO Uncle Dave Macon Days will feature a motorless parade and lots of music and dancing this weekend. The 10th annual celebration honors the late country music entertainer who was a native of Kittrell in Rutherford County. It will be cewntered around the courthouse square here. Also on July 1 1 and 12, the 125th anniversary of the capture by Murfreesboro by Confederate Col.

N.B. Forrest and his Raiders will be observed at Oaklands Mansion. Lebanon celebration slated LEBANON A gospel music concert will kick of the seventh annual Cedar City Summer Celebration at 7 p.m. July 17 at the Baird Park Ampitheatre. On July 18, old fashioned games are planned from 10 am to noon.

The competitive events will begin at 1 p.m. with awards planned in fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, novelty, buck dancing, junior buck dancing, senior buck dancing (25-40 year), senior buck dancing (over 40), junior duo clogging, senior duo clogging, blue grass bands and square dance teams. Available prize money totals $1,600. The Chamber of Commerce, the city of Lebanon and the Lebanon Jaycees are jointly sponsoring the events. 1 it ft i again oyupryianas river ironiage, which isolates the Inglewood section of the pike.

On old maps, the pike zigzags across well-kept farmland, first smoothed for aircraft in the 1930s, when this section of the pike was closed. Modern maps still show bits of it incorporated into the airport's road-network. Today, the pike picks up again in Donelson, at the northern edge of the airfield. From that point, it continues northward for a long stretch, but it doesn't quite reach the river anymore. The ferryboat landing is part of the Opryland complex now, and the ornate steamboat General Jackson docks where the old ferries Edgefield and Judge Hickman once disgorged their cargo of horsedrawn wagons and autos.

In order to reach the pike's Inglewood extension, motorists must now cross the Cumberland on Briley Parkway and travel south on Gallatin Pike. Wiggling its way through some of Davidson County's most populated areas, McGavock Pike remains luxuriously shaded and largely residen- tial on both sides of the river. The Inglewood section was still quite rural when Haysboro historian Sarah Bradford Saunders was growing up. "My sister had a friend who lived on McGavock Pike, and we used to go swimming at the ferry boat landing," Saunders recalls. "We'd swim across the river but we always had a boat handy!" There are a number of churches and schools on the pike now, including an elementary and a comprehensive high school which bear the McGavock name, and a middle school named for the family's magnificent manor house, Two Rivers.

Dalewood Elementary School is on the Inglewood side of the river, where the pike winds through former farmland including the one once owned by Adams plans 18th Threshing Show PAUL OLDHAM Focus Writer ADAMS Hundreds of people are expected here for the 18th annual Threshing Events will be held at the old Bell School building and grounds. The show starts at 10 a.m Friday, and Saturday and Sunday's shows begin at 8 a.m. Equipment on display will include steam engines, threshers, a sawmill, old gas tractors, gas engines and antique cars. An antique tractor pull is set for 4 p.m. on Friday.

Albert Fuqua is in charge of the event Nina Seeley's Bell Witch Opry is set for 7 p.m. The Opry is a country and bluegrass music show that features the Seeley and the Bell Witch Band. Seeley also operates Strange who was recently re-elected to another term. Adams dates back to 1804 when John Bell's family settled in the community, beginning the events that are recounted in the Bell Witch legends. The Bell Witch has been the subject of numerous books, articles and research, In 1858, Railroad opened a rail line and built a depot which was named Adams Station because the depot and support.

buildings were built on land owned by Reu-ben Adams. Goodspeed's Histories lists the first store at Adams Station as Adams and Holloway. It also states that nearly all the town's buildings were destroyed during the Civil War. Only three dwellings were left stand-ingin 1866. the Bell Witch Antique Mall and the Opry.

A parade is scheduled for 1 0 a.ra Saturday. The Red River Boys will be The mule pull will start at 5 p.m This will be a tight race, one driver competition. William T. Turner will share some of the Bell Witch legends at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bell log house.

The house will be open during the three-day show. Saturday's events include gospel singing, square dancing, a medicine man show and old-time quilting. Even though Adams is an old community, with some families in the vicinity descended from the days of James Robertson for whom the county was named, Adams has only been incorporated since 1963. The town has had only one mayor John Fund raising: An inequality in schools? they are concerned that it may be creating inequities among public schools here, providing some students with opportunities that are denied others whose families cannot or will not raise large sums of money. A sampling of Metro elementary schools by The Tennessean found marked disparities among the facilities, materials and learning opportunities provided students, primarily the result of local community Margaret Echols, a resident of this area, says there've been many changes during the 35 years she's lived there.

"An awful lot of traffic went across the ferry," she recalls. "Now, the only access to the river is for people who are putting in boats." A shopping center at the pike's intersection with Riverside Drive is but one indication of the area's rapid population growth, Echols adds. "Across from Opryland, a whole new section has grown up out of nothing in the last 10 years." Education has a long history on McGavock Pike. In 1816, a school for women was opened by the distinguished pioneer educator Dr. James Priestley, of the faculty of Nashville's acclaimed Cumberland College.

Priestley's school was located at his home, Montebello, a sumptuous plantation on the river bluff one mile be AMY GUTMAN Focus Special Concern about sharp disparities in fund-raising success among Metro schools and inequality that may foster is not limited to those who make do with a slim share of extra dollars. At Eakin Elementary School here, where an "Invest in Your Child" donation campaign this year yielded about $8,000, a respectable $15 per child, Principal Don Hudson says the whole issue of fund raising prompts basic ethical questions. "The whole point of public education is to provide the same education for all children," said Hudson. "There are very few major things that one can justify one group of children having and another group not having." While acknowledging the benefits of parental fund raising, some educators say fund-raisers. "Through fund raising," said Hudson.

"You may be providing over-and-above services for privileged children while underprivileged children do not have the fund-raising sources to do comparable things. Therefore, children in the affluent neighborhoods may be having better services than children in underprivileged neighborhoods. "In a sense, it's the class system working. At this time, it's not controversial. In the past, it has been.

During the 1960s and 70s the federal government placed a greater emphasis on equalizing educational opportunity. Now it doesn't seem to be that big a concern for most people." John Folger, director of the center for education policy at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Public Policy Studies, ex- PLEASE See Page 2 hind Two Rivers Mansion. The professor had paid Andrew fund-raising Second in a series PLEASE See Page 2.