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AN look dark after 3 slayings CHATTANOOGA (AP) Some residents say they're having second thoughts about venturing into the woods since three men were shot to death on a mountain outside this southeast Tennessee city. "Lots of people will probably be hesitant about going in there by themselves," said Stanley Nixon. "Maybe with a crowd, some will go back. I wouldn't care about going in myself." Nixon described himself as a friend of Richard Mason, 49, of rural Signal Mountain, one of the men killed July 9 while riding all-terrain vehicles in a remote area on the mountain. Autopsies completed yesterday showed Mason, his son-in-law, Kenneth Griffith, 22, and Griffith's friend, Earl Smock, 23, died of gunshot wounds, said Dr.

Frank King, the Hamilton County medical examiner. Police said the men apparently were slain in a wooded area commonly used by outdoorsmen near the village of Walden, about 15 miles northwest of Chattanooga. After a four-day search, their bodies were found Wednesday night dumped in a garbage strewn ravine on Suck Creek Mountain about five miles from the suspected shooting site. Their vehicles had been discovered July 11 at the bottom of a similar ravine five miles in the opposite direction from where they had been riding, police said. Terminally ill FROM PAGE 1B Minnie, also known as Sarah Cannon, invited Tammy to join her backstage at the Opry.

"I would love to see the child," Minnie said. Signs of Tammy's serious illness are not visible. who meets her can't tell she has cancer." Straudahar said of her blue -eyed daughter with light brown hair. A first grader who likes to fish and swim, Tammy relates the rest of her Nashville itenerary with the aplomb of an experienced tour guide: "I'm going to see Minnie Pearl's Although declining to identify any suspects or disclose a motive for the slayings, Chief Deputy Jim Hammond of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department said detectives were close to presenting a case to prosecutors. "The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they do turn," Hammond said.

But Signal Mountain residents said they were still unnerved by the slayings, which occurred in an area dotted with swimming holes, logging trails and flat rocks for picnicking. Even though the land is privately owned, many neighbors said that over the years they've tended to view it as community property. "'We didn't ride across people's plowed fields or yards or fences," said Nixon. "But where there are trails, people have ridden those hills for 20 years." "It worries me about walking on my own property or walking on someone else's to get to some other property we own," said Beth Harris, who girl gets wish MASON Museum, Nashville Now and the Grand Ole Opry." She says she also is "excited" by the prospect of swimming in the pool at Opryland Hotel, where she will be staying, and meeting famed Nashville Network puppet Shotgun Red. Tammy will be accompanied by a local St.

Paul television crew when she makes her trip to Nashville. The city's ABC affiliate has been following Tammy's progress since she began receiving the experimental pinpoint radiation therapy earlier this year, her mother said. "Pinpoint radiation is regular radiation powered to the smallest beam they could get and shot directly into the center of the tumor," Staudahar A.W. Willis Jr. rites Tuesday MEMPHIS (AP) Funeral services are scheduled Tuesday for A.W.

Willis a Memphis civil rights leader, lawyer and real estate developer, who was a member of the state Racing Commission. Willis, 63, died of cancer at his Memphis residence Thursday. He served in the state House in 1965 and gained the support of the late Gov. Frank Clement in an unsuccessful attempt to abolish the death penalty in the state. Willis was instrumental in the creation of a Shelby County program to provide low-interest loans for firsttime home buyers of moderate income and was a key participant in efforts to turn The Lorraine Motel into a civil rights museum.

Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered at the Lorraine in 1968. Born in Birmingham, Willis went to high school in Memphis and began practicing law in the city in 1953. He founded the city's first integrated law firm in the 1960s and was an attorney for James Meredith, the first William Griffin memorial service planned Monday SEWANEE, Tenn. The Rev.

William A. Griffin, 61, professor of Old Testament and Theology at the University of the South, died yesterday in St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, of a heart attack. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at All Saints Chapel on the university campus.

Arrangements are by Roesch-Patton Dorris Charlton Broadway Chapel, Nashville. A native of Durham, N.C., the Rev. Mr. Griffin joined the Sewanee faculty as an instructor in 1959 and became a full professor in 1973. He received a bachelor's degree from Duke University and bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University.

The Rev. Mr. Griffin was a member of Otey Memorial Episcopal Church and had previously served in the Episcopal Church's Diocese of North Carolina. He was a popular lecturer and his resonant speaking voice was used in several recordings for the Episcopal Church. Survivers include his wife, Ann F.

Griffin, Sewanee; a daughter, Shore B. Griffin, Sewanee; his mother, Clyde Shore Griffin, Durham, N.C.; and a sister, Betty G. Tuggle, Durham, N.C. The family requests that, instead of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the dean's discretionary fund at the School of Theology, University of the South. 16, 1998 1 THE TENNESS You can't get close to the convention floors GRIFFITH SMOCK lives on the mountain with her husband, David.

"When people get in the woods, it's like it doesn't matter whose land it is." Nashville said. The process previously has been practiced in Europe and in limited cases at Harvard Medical School. "Tammy's one of the first to receive pinpoint radiation the Boston her mother said. Although Tammy's illness has been labeled "terminal," her mother and the doctors feel the new treatment holds out some hope for a longer life. The tumor has not grown in months, and Tammy has been gaining weight and feeling better, Staudahar said.

"I take it one day at a time," the mother said. "I try not to think about what will happen in the end." O'HARA GAIL Convention Republican 18-21 New Orleans TENNESSEAN Story of Your BY MOTEL FURNITURE CONDUCTED HOTEL- Public Notice DISTRIBUTORS FREE LAYAWAY 3-DAY FURNITURE SALE BRAND NEW IN ORIGINAL SEALED FACTORY CONTAINERS SURPLUS FROM RECENT INNS, SHERATON INNS IN VIRGINIA, GEORGIA, FLORIDA, ALABAMA 13:1 00 $358 NOT ONE NOT TWO BUT LOVESEAT CHAIR COMPLETE ALL 3 PIECES SOFA $222 ALL SECTIONAL FOR 5 PIECES 4 PIECE SUITE $348 BRAND NEW National Democratic Atlanta July THE The ARENA SOFA PIT GROUP MAHOGANY BEDROOM INCLUDED ALL 3 PIECES FREE $298 COMPLETE LAYAWAY FAMOUS HOTEL CONTRACT MOTEL BEDDING FREE LAYAWAY EA. FREE KING STORAGE BED FRAMES BRAND NEW FULL TWIN 14.95 QUEEN 24.95 SOLD IN SETS KING 29.95 National Convention JAMES PRA1 JIM August 15-1 Life black student to attend the University of Mississippi. In the 1950s, Willis helped found the Democratic Club, an organization aimed at voter registration and education, and in 1960, he was one of several lawyers who filed suit to integrate the Memphis public schools. He was appointed last year to the state Racing Commission.

Funeral services are scheduled at the Pentecostal Temple Church of Christ in Memphis. Midstate area deaths PULASKI Lillie Reid Abernathy, 94, of Bryan, Texas, formerly of Pulaski, died Thursday in Texas. Graveside services 5 p.m. today at Maplewood Cemetery. The body is at Bennett-May Funeral Home.

SPRINGFIELD Helen Burchett, 48, of Springfield died Thursday in Springfield Health Care Center. Services 4 p.m. today at Robertson County Home. LAWRENCEBURG- Earl Chapman, 61, of Route 5, died Wednesday in St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville.

Services 1 p.m. today at Bennett-May Funeral Home, Pulaski. SPRINGFIELD William Walter (Lumie) Clubbs, 87, of Route 2, died Wednesday in Jesse Holman Jones Hospital. Services 10 a.m. today at Wilkinson Wiseman Funeral Home, Portland.

COLUMBIA Katherine Orell Dale Duncan, 60, of the Hampshire community died Thursday in Maury Regional Hospital. Services 10:30 a.m. today at Oakes Nichols Funeral Home. SPRINGFIELD Edgar Fort Fletcher, 81, of Route 6, died in Jesse Holman Jones Hospital. Services 2 p.m.

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CHARLOTTE William Bradley Hunter, 54, of Charlotte died Thursday in Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a crane accident Monday near Erin, Tenn. Services 3 p.m. today at Dickson Funeral Home. WESTMORELAND Willie Ann Mandrell, 92, of Route 2, died Thursday in Sumner Memorial Hospital. Services 2 p.m.

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