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FridayJANUARY 23. 9g7 Man charged with running gaming house Wreck kills Springfield farmer Springfield resident Ricky Lynn Balthrop ran an illegal gambling operation from his home from September to November of 1985 that included betting on football games, a federal grand jury charged in an indictment Balthrop is also charged with failing to obtain a federally required gambling stamp from the Internal Revenue Service and with failure to file income taxes. The indictment issued Wednesday in Nashville, follows a Nov. 9, 1985, raid on Balthrop's home by Internal Revenue Service agents acting on information received through the probe of Nashville gambling figure Jerry Poole. Balthrop could not be reached for comment about the charges yesterday.

He had sought to have the search warrant used in the raid on his home supressed by a federal judge. Balthrop claimed the IRS failed to have the action approved by IRS lawyers. However, U.S. District Judge John T. Nixon ruled earlier this month that Balthrop's rights were not violated by the search.

White County takes a new step toward 'going metro RIDGETOP, Tena A Springfield farmer was killed here yesterday morning when a cement mixer truck that swerved to miss another vehicle overturned on top of the man's pickup truck, officials said. Ralph Lipscomb, 39, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident that occurred at about 8:40 am yesterday on VS. 41 north, said trooper Scott Perkins, of the state Highway Patrol Driver Robert Bush, of Hender-sonville, driver of the truck, was not injured, Perkins said. Funeral services for Lipscomb will be at 2 p.m. today at Austin and Bell Funeral Home in Springfield.

Burial will be in Robertson County Memorial Gardens in Springfield. Survivors Include two daughters, Jacqueline Maria Lipscomb and Jennifer Melissa Lipscomb, Nashville; his parents, Pat and Joe Mac Lipsomb Springfield; a brother, Joe Mac Lipscomb Springfield, and two sisters, Genie Bellar, Adams, Tena, and Patti Bellar, Springfield. he said, UT representatives say the project would "cost no more than $15,000." "If it costs more than $15,000, we'll make it up in the private sector," said Johnson. "We think the metropolitan form of government is something the people of White County should consider. It's a far-reaching idea that's got some merit" Phillips Toy Mart 5207 HARDING RO.

352-5363 TAY SMITH Stale Writer SPARTA, Term. By requesting formation of a charter committee yesterday, a group of citizens took White County one step closer to becoming the nation's least populous area to utilize a metropolitan government The Consolidated Government Study Committee voted to ask the White County Commission to appoint a charter committee to "consider" the feasibility of a metro form of government The charter committee would work on details and present a final charter to White countians. A referendum could be held as soon as March 1988, officials said. Sparta-White County would be only the second metropolitan government in Tennessee, after Nashville-Davidson County, and the least populous area in the nation to consolidate its government "This is just another way to help us get our act together and that's the bottom line," said Bill Johnson, spokesman for the Consolidated Government Study Committee. Johnson is a local banker and a University of Tennessee trustee.

UTs Institute of Public Service, which has directed the committee, is using White County as a "model for other counties in the state," said Johnson. He said the institute foresees a metro form of government for many small counties by the 1990s. The County Commission would have to allocate $35,000 to the charter committee, as required by state statute, according to Johnson. However, JJ Technics MyEEr E'jS Technics 100 Watt Matched I Audio Component System frpjjS rSrftU i Speakers I rniTiif rr: iff 1 100 watts integrated ir" r---iw-ui" "hZjju -i-i TIZnf fTT rV'tf ITiT Jrff euSh I dual-cassette with IT---l0 I J)HJHJH high-speed dubbing and fj I Itsssm jjt JJLffiRfll 8- L-S) DolbyB NR rp mm f.imJ;iulioma,ic-bel,-drive Video Cassette Recorder with HQ Visual II 11 1," NEC VHS Quality HQ picture enhancement provides crisper images with CONTROLI I wf 100 i I 1 I 1 A I 'l wi i attractive audio cabinet Um fflsL watts J. more outstanding details, faithful color reproduction and overall picture brightness for visual high quality 'V MWfc.

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Authorities here said yesterday they suspect foul play in the November disappearance of a Cheatham County nurse's aide, who co-workers say rarely missed a day of work. Friends, neighbors and co-workers of Judith Ehmke, a resident of the Pond Creek community off River Road, said they are baffled as to why the mother of three has not been seen since she left work at the Cheatham County Nursing Home here the morning of Nov. 25. Also baffled is Cheatham County Sheriff Dorris Weakley, who said he would file a missing persons report on Ehmke today. The investigation into Ehmke's dis-sapearance began "pretty quickly" after the department was contacted by concerned friends, Weakley said.

"They didn't know where she was and couldn't find out" he said. He said foul play is suspected and that nothing has been ruled out Johnstone said co-workers became especially worried about Ehkme because of the medical aide's three teenage children, two daughters ages 13 and 18 and a son, 19. The older children are staying with friends, but the youngest girl has been taken by the state Department of Human Services from the home Ehkme shared with her husband, DarrelL 41, and placed In a foster home. Darrell Ehkme was sentenced In General Sessions Court here yesterday to three days in the Cheatham County Jail on charges he assaulted his daughter, Teresa, who was 17 at the time of the October incident The allegation against Ehmke was that he took a 2-by-4 with a handle and beat his daughterl" Assistant District Attorney Bob Wilson said. Weakley said Ehkme, when asked about his wife's whereabouts, told authorities "she left him." Dickson man back in jail for threats ASHLAND CITY, Tena A Dickson man charged with burglary and grand larceny was returned to jail yesterday for accused of threatening a witness moments before his preliminary hearing.

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