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2B TINNHSIAM WwWdy OCTOBEW Black male teachers not on the scene TV i i nJiwfe' 4 u-' jit "i iff- Reapportionment meeting delayed CLARKSVILLE A meeting scheduled for yesterday between city attorneys and a voters rights group to discuss city ward reapportionment proposals was postponed, an official said. The voters group's attorney, Walter Searcy of Nashville, was "tied up In federal court," said Roger Maness, attorney for the Clarksville-Montgomery County Election Commission. Citizens for Fair Government has filed a federal lawsuit against Clarksville seeking ward reapportionment The lawsuit claims the city is violating the 1965 Voters Rights Act's "one man-one vote" provisions. Close election protested HENDERSONVILLE Former aldermanlc candidate Jim Edwards presented two affidavits to the Sumner County Election Commission Monday night by two voters who say they were prevented from voting In his narrow loss last week. The Election Commission verified the results of the Sept 26 election showing Edwards received two fewer votes than John H.

Grigsby but Edwards presented two residents' statements that they were not allowed to vote at the Ward 4 precinct where they were zoned. Confessions admissible DUNLAP, Tenn. Two confessions by a man accused of killing a Sequatchie County couple will be admissible as evidence when he goes on trial for murder, a judge says. Sequatchie County Circuit Judge Thomas Greer on Monday refused to suppress confessions Edward Albert Wooten made in April about the slayings of Clarence (Joe) Harvey, 57, and his wife, Mattie (Teah) 54, in March. Greer said he would decide later whether a third confession, made April 15 before District Attorney Bill Pope, would be admitted as evidence.

The Harveys were the uncle and aunt of Cheryl Holland, who lived with Wooten. Wooten told the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation that he and Holland killed the Harveys for stacks of $100 bils and then dumped the bodies into the Tennessee River. Holland disappeared last spring after driving Wooten to a job in Newport News, Va. She remains at large. CONTRIBUTING: Montgomery County, Terry Batey; Sumner County, Randy Cline Officials vow strict burn law enforcement Bd Steber Statt Dcrick Richardson, a Ross Elementary School music teacher grade students get the notes right in the Christmas songs they the only black male teaching there helps fifth- and sixth- are practicing for an upcoming concert.

Teacher recruiting short of funds Race and sex of ere. Rutherford: 20 out of 936 teachers. Murfreesboro: Four out of 248 teachers. Sumner 20 out of 934 teachers. Williamson: Five out of 601 teachers.

Franklin: None out of 203 teachers. Wilson: One out of 453 teachers. Lebanon: None out of 119 teachers. The state did not know the race and sex of 1,468 teachers. So the actual number of black male teachers in each school system last year might vary somewhat from the above figures.

Educators say black male teachers and male teachers In general are needed in schools to provide positive, nurturing role models for students. "Children need that example at the younger age," said Richardson, who teaches music at Ross, Eakin and Bordeaux elementary schools. "In some of the neighborhoods I work In, like the Ross area, you've got a lot of drug dealing going on. I used to work at Pearl-Cohn High School. It was real bad over there.

"That's one of the reasons I teach the age I do, mainly fifth and sixth grades. When they get older, they get set In their ways. I have seen some who dropped out just to be drug dealers. It's kind of a sad thing to see." "There are so many broken homes," said Lamont Hudson, a seventh-grade science teacher at Goodlettsville Middle School. "Some kids don't get a male figure in their lives until they reach school age.

A positive male role model may not come for years after that. To develop our kids as men and women, they need to have Interaction with good, strong, positive men." Qulnester Calloway, principal of Ross Elementary School, which has a 75 black student population, said elementary schools are "notorious" for not providing black male role models. "When they do put them black men in elementary schools, they do not put them in the classroom where they can be most effective, but In the office where the relationship with the students is entirely different." Children at Ross are fortunate because members of 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee an organization of professional black men, are volunteering their time to work with them at school. Other schools have no such resources. Ridley asked school system administrators last week what they were doing to get more men into elementary classrooms.

Bradley said Metro aggressively recruits male teachers but faces competition from other school systems that also are looking for high-caliber male teachers. Ridley said later that he remained convinced that something could be done to get more male teachers into elementary schools. "There has got to be an Incentive to get some men down there, but we definitely need men," he said. Grades Grades Teachers K-6 7-12 Other Total total Black male 16 58 38 112 3.2 Black femals 300 132 140 572 16.3 White mala 77 349 128 554 15.8 White female 1.033 457 512 2.002 57.2 Other minorities- 1 33 13 47 1.3 mala Other minorities- 45 35 36 116 3.3 female Unknown race 46 23 30 99 2.8 and sex Total iTsiS 187 897 IndudMmutfc.art, phytfcal ducatton, vocational, ipacial education, homahoapltal. pra-Mndarganan and ramrtia! taachars In 1990-41.

SOURCE Ti Dapartmant of Education Bradley also said quality stand- ards have to be maintained. "We just don't hire anybody be- -OS salary you make." Klrkpatrick said that In addition to a better salary, schools should give black male teachers proper recognition as role models for students. Lamont Hudson, a seventh-grade science teacher at Goodlettsville Middle School, said people need to view the lack of black male teachers as a crisis and recognize that education is a viable career for a man. He said his high school guidance counselor had advised him not to enter the teaching field. Leon Bradley, Metro's assistant superintendent for personnel, said he planned to contact the American Association of School Personnel Administrators to find out what other school systems were doing if anything to offer Incentives to attract male teachers.

But Bradley said that offering benefits beyond what females and whites receive might violate federal discrimination laws and that he would need to research the legal Issues as well. a.m. today at the municipal center on Maryland Way. Franklin Budget and Finance Committee meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall.

Jackson supports Memphis candidate MEMPHIS (AP) Jesse Jackson stopped off here yesterday to get involved In the city's race for mayor, which voters will decide tomorrow. Jackson gave his support to former School Superintendent Willie Herenton, who is trying to unseat two-term incumbent Richard Hack-ett and become Memphis' first elected black mayor. Jackson stopped here while heading to Arkansas to speak at a high school in the small town of Earl. He also was scheduled to meet in Little Rock later in the day with Gov. Bill Clinton who is expected to announce tomorrow if he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

Jackson told a breakfast gathering of Herenton supporters that Memphis government needs new direction. Approval of bridge work funds expected I become teachers. But a lack of money Is hampering efforts to do more, higher education officials said. They said there is no additional funding for the minority teaching fellows program nor any money to fund the Partnership to Assist School Success Project, a joint project with the state Education Department and the Tennessee Education Association. The project recruited and men-tored high school students who were good teacher prospects.

"We've got programs designed and will get them under way at some point," said Nebraska Mays, an official with the Tennessee Department of Education. Teachers said offering better pay would be an obvious solution to the problem. "I have three kids," said Derick Richardson, a Metro elementary music teacher. "Being a family man, It's sometimes kind of hard to support a wife and children on the DAVIDSON COUNTY: Metro Board ol Parks and Recreation meets at 1 p.m. today in board offices on Oman Street.

RUTHERFORD COUNTY: Old Fort Golf Commission meets at 7:30 a.m. today at Old Fort Golf Pro Shop. Murfreesboro Planning Commission meets at 7 p.m. today In the courtroom at the Police Building, 302 S. Church St.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY: Brentwood Planning Commission holds an informational meeting at 7:30 SD309 219 SO 320 11 249 i Metro teachers of Staff cause they are male or female." Bradley said. "We are looking for competence in every area." in compliance with safety regulations, Meek said. After the July 17 collapse, county officials inspected all 20 poorly rated county bridges. "The state recommended that signs be placed near the bridge warning people that it is narrow and that there Is an intersection ahead," Meek said of the Liberty Pike bridge. "They recommended a 10-ton weight limit" Meek said installing the signs would cost about $300 to $400.

CSX officials made minor repairs to the bridge, which spans the company's railroad tracks, he said. Design work will begin soon on a bridge to replace the collapsed Old Boyd Mill Pike structure, Meek said. "By the time we get the paperwork done and get it out for bids, we're looking at spring," he said. "We ought to be building it sometime around then." faces a charge of accessory after the fact in the case. Harold Lawson, of Nashville, also charged with accessory after the fact agreed to testify yesterday In exchange for a lessor charge of giving false Information to a police officer.

District Attorney Dan Alsobrooks is seeking life in prison for Butler, who Is charged with first-degree murder. The trial, originally expected to conclude today, could continue through tomorrow, Quillen said. TO PLAY. 1 3-DAY DELIVERY patio covers 10x20 iaaaili' I SAME AS CASH Ml (Ml Iffil liffl MANY I 11 SI i OTHER AV HI designs 1 lyyy. to "9 if iH 1J choose "Si FROM 1 II 1 II illli ..11..

TBI agent to take stand in Dickson murder trial crease of fires to recent dry cooler temperatures, as well as the abundance of vegetation left over from an unusually wet, fertile spring. As scenic fall foliage becomes unwanted ground cover during the next few weeks, well-intentioned people may start leaf fires that get out of control, Clayton said. The number of forest fires reported normally peaks from late October to mid-November. About 87 of last year's fires began as arson or as small debris fires that got out of control, Clayton said. To protect themselves and their surroundings, Clayton said, residents in municipalities should first contact their local fire departments to find out what kind of burn ordinance their city has.

However, any resident living outside city boundaries must obtain a burn permit from the state Department of Conservation's Division of Forestry if he plans to ignite debris outdoors within 500 feet of any woodland area. A permit, which Is free, is required from Oct 15 thru May 15. Residents must request them two days before burning debris so that officials can monitor weather forecasts, Clayton said. "This gives us an opportunity to talk to those folks about safe burning," Clayton said. In addition to destroying about 50,000 acres of forest land annually, unauthorized burning can cause environmental hazards, Clayton said.

Burning trash other than garden and lawn waste often emits unwanted toxins into the air that cause immeasurable damage, he said. KENTUCKY IQTTERl By JIM EAST Staff Writer FRANKLIN Williamson County officials are expected to vote today to fund state-recommended improvements to the Liberty Pike bridge so the structure can be reopened quickly, highway Superintendent Charles Meek said yesterday. "We'll have It open sometime Thursday," Meek said of the bridge near Wilson Pike and Clovercroft Road that was heavily traveled before Its closure. County Officials closed the structure, declared to be in poor condition in 1989, on Aug. 8.

The action came In response to a July 17 incident in which a bridge on Old Boyd Mill Pike in western Williamson County collapsed when an overloaded county truck and a car drove over It. Both bridges were rated poor but trial in Dickson County in the September 1990 fatal shooting of a Nashville printing foreman. Robert Douglas, 58, died at a resort home owned by his sister-in-law in the Rock Springs community. Douglas was visiting Butler and his sister-in-law, Patricia Harrington, of Paschall, when an argument broke out and he was killed. Harrington has invoked her constitutional right not to testify.

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