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2C THE TENNESSEAN TiwtUyAPWlL 23. 1985 IN BRIEE- 'W. Staff photo by Pat Casey Daley Speakers ioice Hope rFor ARC Efforts Under Way To Delay Phaseout By BILL BERGSTROM MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) An Appalachian Regional Commission official says efforts by President Reagan's administration to shut down toe joint federal-state agency are misguided. If Reagan wants to "get government off our backs, this program shares power more effectively than any other, It is government walking side-by-side with the people," said Mike Wenger, states' representative on the commissioa "If there is 6he program that more than any other symbolizes the Reagan philosophy, it is the Appalachian Regional Commission," Wenger said.

Wenger spoke at a Morehead State University dinner Sunday celebrating "Appalachia-Kentucky 20 Years of Progress," sponsored by the area development districts set up under the ARC to coordinate local, state and federal efforts. Several speakers voiced hopes of --salvaging the ARC, which has coordinated spending of billions in federal, state and local dollars on roads, clin-icSt vocational schools and other projects in 13 states since its founding in 1965. John D. Whisman, the first ARC States' representative in 1966, said the 0 Agency, which he described as having made the difference between "day-. light and dark" in eastern Kentucky, will not die quietly.

tw -The commission is in the ihird year of a five-year phaseout negotiated by "governors of the ARC states when the Reagan administration first proposed -shutting down the program. But Whisman said "there are people in Congress who feel very strongly. For four budgets the President has that the program be "ended, and for three years they've been able to keep the program alive through that kind of negotiation. They're going to try agaia" A hopeful note came from US. senator and former.Gov.

Wendell Ford, who recalled being an aide to former Gov. Bert Combs when the ARC was getting its start Ford said 13 other senators are co-sponsoring a bill he introduced to continue the commission, and "when you jget 13 people to sign on with you, that's a pretty good little nucleus." The dinner, preceded by folk music and dancing put on by Morehead State's Appalachian Development drew more than 200 people David Mills, left, press aide to Tennessee State University Student Government Associaton President Tony Spratlen, right, tells students gathered in front of the TSU Student Union Building that their concerns are being ignored in the selection process for a new TSU president. Dennis Foster, center, a TSU junior, listens to his fellow students' 'complaints. Reagan To AttempF To Sell Budget CutsE: WASHINGTON (AP) Presided Reagan will address the ration-television tomorrow to try to sell pbfif-'-icallv unpopular budget cuts ing 17 domestic programssuch as Anv trak and the Small Business Admira a i i i-' increases. A deeply divided Senatj, preparing to begin voting on the bi idg- et plan, a compromise fcetw jgn Reagan and Senate Republican l(k d- -ers to cut projected spending by X.

billion and reduce the deficit to belo $100 billion by 1988 without raising taxes. Vv Mechanical Heart Patient on Dialysis LOUISVILLE (AP) DaC? placed artificial heart recipient Jack Burcham on dialysis yesterday, after initially deciding the machine's 'use would be unnecessary. Burcham, 62, was to remain connected to thsjna-chine for four to six hours; implant surgeon William DeVries wouloVde-cide later whether further treatment would be needed, said Donna Hazle spokeswoman for Humana Hospital-'' Audubon. Military Operations Press 'Pool' Eyed 1 WASHINGTON (AP) The-fense Department said yesterdav-k will review, the press "pool" sysfth for covering secret U.S. military orations because a test of the arrangement during an exercise in Honduras resulted in premature disclosure.

"We're greatly disappointed in the way it turned out," said Fred S. Hoffman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. Republicans 911 House Seat Theft VIVO WASHINGTON (UPI) House Republicans accused "outright theft" by naming one-teijn Rep. Frank McCloskey the winney -pi the disputed Indiana House seat in a rare recount yesterday and warnedof retaliation unless a special election Is called. The task force in charge of tfle recount formally reported McQoskey beat Republican Rick Mclntyre Jjy four votes, 116,645 to 116,641.

Claus von Bulow Students Nicies Lied Say Group and faculty included in the decision! A Current TSU President Frederick Humphries is scheduled to leave the university June 30 to take a similar position at Florida University in Tallahassee. The TSU Student Government Association recommended the appointment of SGA president-elect Gus Macedo to the search committee but failed to recommend a second student for the committee as requested by Nicks, Rhoda said. Macedo and graduate student Jack Welch were both appointed by Nicks to the committee. "Dr. Nicks met with Tony Spratlen and Gus Macedo and told them there would be two students on the search committee one whose choice would be their decision, and on the second appointment he asked for recommendations.

He never got any recommenda-. tions," Rhoda said. Rhoda said the Regents staff was "surprised" that the students voiced complaints about the process. "When the chancellor met with the stu- dents, he was very straightforward," Rhoda said. "He does not lie or deceive." Nicks was out of town and unavailable for comment yesterday.

Rhoda said he was unsure whether Nicks would alter his recommendation to the Board of Regents Friday on orming the search committee in light of the student complaints. Other memberes of the search committee named by Nicks Dr. Mary Burger, TSU vice president for academic affairs. Steve Crawford, president of the TSU Alumni Association. Fred Dettwiller, chairman of the TSU Foundation.

Dr. Phyllis Leffler of the TSU history department. Jacqueline Mitchell, chairwoman of the TSU faculty senate. Nannette Martin, a member of the TSU faculty senate. Wayne Oldham, a member of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

A member of the state Board of Regents will be named to the search committee on Friday. By RENEE VAUGHN A group bf Tennessee State University students charged yesterday that Board of Regents Chancellor Roy Nicks lied to them about plans for picking a new TSU president But Rich Rhoda, executive assistant to Nicks, said the students' claims are "just not valid." 1 "We called this press conference to point out that the man who is running this presidential search process has excluded us," said David Mills, press aide to TSU Student Government Association President Tony Spratlen. "We've been lied to and deceived." Some 100 TSU students listened as Mills and Spratlen outlined a list of concerns about how a hew president for the predominantly-. black school is to be selected. Nicks has named a 10-member committee to assist in the selection of a new president at TSU, The Board of Regents is expected to decide exactly how the search process is to be conducted at its meeting on Friday, Rhoda said.

'We disagree with the process and the structure," Spratlen said. The students said they want more student IBW.11 Jurors Set or PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI)i Jurors in the attempted murder retri- al of Claus von Bulow checked in yes- terday to a hotel where they wilHiye for up to three months while consider- ing the Danish-born jetsetters CI ue Search Conti ues In Murder-Robbery Case April 5 Slaying of Renta-Center Manager 1 CRIME if you have information that could aid police. The robbery and shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. April Sgt Jerry Mayes, head of Metro's CrimeS-topperunit Steven Brinkley, 31, an employee, was putting cardboard boxes in the trash bin in the alley behind the Renta-Center when a man came up behind him and stuck a pistol in his back.

"He ordered him to give up his keys to the back door," Mayes said. "With the key, the robber forced the employee (Brinkley) into the store, asking where the office was." Dennis Chelette, 23, of 2999 Smith Springs Road, was the store's manager. He was sitting in the office, work By DAVID JARRARD On a cool Friday evening earlier this month at the Renta-Center at 1517 Church St, the employees were cleaning the store and closing the books for the day. It appeared like it would be a quiet night But it ended in bloodshed. The manager of the small store was shot to death when he tried to fight an armed robber and police say they are still searching for clues to the gunman's identity.

This death is the CrimeStoppers Crime of the Week. Information given to police in the next seven days leading to the arrest and prosecution of a suspect in this case may be worth $1,000 to the informant: Call 74- ROTC Enjoys (Continued From Page One) "There used to be a line drawn on campus you were either for or against the military," said Fred Fraw-ley, director of the Vanderbilt ROTC unit "Now we are a part of the university. When you go into student organization meetings, you see students in uniform actively participating." Many of today's ROTC participants are enticed by the complete financial aid package the Army offers to young men and women willing to undertake the added responsibilities of military training, Frawley said. At Vanderbilt Increased Acceptance including workers in the ADDs, state education and transportation officials and local officials and community leaders. Gov.

Martha Layne 'Collins' administration was represent- by Commerce Secretary Carroll VKnicely and Transportation Secretary JFloyd Poore. Al Smith, London newspaper pub- -Ksher and former ARC chairman, (Called it "a gathering of the saved and "converted" and Ford agreed speaking at the dinner was like "preaching to the choir." But Smith said there is a need to the people on the federal side bf the process that we are indeed trying to build an and that the ARC is not a welfare program: know the difference between food stamps and a job." The commission has built more than 1,800 miles of highways in the Appalachian regions of the 13 mem-" ber states Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, 'Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia out of more than 3,400 miles on the drawing In Kentucky, $478 million has been Spent on highways, $52.4 million on clinics and other health care projects, $4 1 million for community ment projects, $37 million on voca- tional education and $9.4 million on housing. Among officials in the crowd was Hazard Mayor Bill Gorman, who the program "the salvation of our region" and translated the spending into real-life terms -driving time from Hazard to Lexing-ton reduced to two hours from four and one-half, from Hazard to London to an hour from the previous 2y2, and from Hazard to Pikeville to 70 min-vutes from 3'2 hours. TVA Officials By HANK ALLISON CHATTANOOGA (UPI) Top vJVA nuclear power officials, their Browns Ferry plant out of service and under a mandate to reassure employee "whistleblowers," met yesterday -'with Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials in Bethesda, Md. iv A four-man team from TVA ln-, eluding General Manager William Willis.

Manager of Nuclear Power James Darling and Hugh Parris, man-I ager of power and engineering met "several hours" with top Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff mem-bers, an NRC spokesman said yesterday. "TVA and the NRC have been working together a lot on the staff Missions Head Drops Baptist Chief Backing (Continued From Page One) Parks said one Southern Baptist congregation had written him requesting a list of all "genuine Bible-believing evangelistic" missionaries, but also told him that as an agency head he also was suspect of being a liberal so they intended to write the missionaries and determine which ones to support "I refused to honor the request of that church, for the request had in it the potential for the dismantling of the Southern Baptist Convention," said Parks, who insisted there is no drift toward liberalism in the convention. "The agency heads, the trustees of the agencies, the professors in the seminaries are Bible-believing Southern Baptists," he said. "When a former missionary called to ask a staff member if I really believed, I recognized the insidious results of the campaign that has been going on." Parks accused the conservatives of not only undermining the convention's foreign and domestic mission programs but also of seeking to sup plant the local church traditional authority on matters of doctrine, ordination and ethical issues with a kind of "creedal conformity" at the national convention level. Clamp on Fishing In Canada Eased DULUTH, Minn.

(AP) Fisher men and others who cross in and out of Canada in the lake country of north ern Minnesota without checking in with Customs are being let off the hook. Since a crackdown began in Febru ary, heavy fines have been levied on anglers and others crossing the ben der by boating across lakes unwatched by U.S. Customs. But the policy brought protests by Sen. Dave Durenberger, who said peo ple have been crossing the border there for years.

Bill Knoblauch, US. Customs Ser vice district director in Duluth, said Friday that officials were recom mending a system of annual permits allowing one-day fishing trips into Canada without having to report to Customs when returning. The panel's best-known member, Jof- mer state lawmaker Vernon Strom berg, was excused from the jury cause a hip problem was by the many courthouse steps, saicTAs: sistant Attorney General Henry ma. Stromberg's removal left 1 1 wom en and four men. Transplant Backers, Offers Vary Widely run WASHINGTON (AP) Although nearly 75 of Americans support the idea of human organ transplants, only 27 say they are "very donate their own kidneys, hearts other organs after death, according a poll published yesterday.

The GSf-lup Poll, sponsored by the Council on Transplantation, shoS striking differences between people feelings about the subject of organ 'donation in general or even in their families as opposed to themselves -Ml Farm State Leaders. To Meet in May DES MOINES (AP) Farm State governors will meet here next rnafitji to work out a strategy for long-rangp agriculture policies and to pressure Congress for an acceptable farm bUl, Gov. Terry Branstad said yesterdayv Governors from Kansas, Montana and South Dakota have made plans to attend the meeting May 29-31, and others may join, Branstad said. r'M Scat!) lottos GREENE, Mrs. Sylvesta Thompson- Monday morning Apra iso? at Knoxville, Tn.

Survived by tw daughters, Susan Green Nolan; Debra McElroy; son, Russejl Thompson Greene; Sister, Syble Thompson Jennings; four grandchin-dren, Brittany Rae Nolan, Leon Hutton McElroy, Lindsey Laufa McElroy, Mackenzie Greene McElroy. Remains are at the Mad ison Funeral Home, 219 Old HiCk ory where services wilt'be' conducted Tuesday at 12:00 noon by Reverend Elma Broyles. Fam0y will receive friends Tuesday from 10:00 AM til 12:00 noon. Interment Spring Hill Cemetery. Honorary Pallbearers: A.E.

Wright Sunday School Class of Inglewood United Methodist Church MADISON FUNERAL HOME. Directors 868-9020 be- ted ing on the Renta-Center computer. The robber, a masked male black, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and Weighing about 180 pounds burst into the office, demanding money. "Mr. Chelette and the store employee were ordered to lay on the floor while the robber went through the bank bags," Mayes said.

But the bags were empty. The robber angerily hit Chelette on the head with his pistol and demanded money. Chelette grabbed the robber's leg, causing him to fall backwards out of the office. Chelette followed him. commitment to military service, Frawley said.

"This year, we had our largest ROTC enrollment in the past 12 years at Vanderbilt" Frawley said. He said equal numbers of cadets enter the part-time military branches, such as the Army National Guard and the Reserve, as go into a full-time career. ROTC students have the benefit of a "regular" college existence and military training, Frawley said. Frawley said the ROTC program draws students average to above-average grades and ability. NRC Staff unwilling to identify themselves to the NRC The welds have been examined and declared safe and the sensors were replaced.

But the NRC concern remained about employees who alert officials to safety hazards. Watts Bar Nuclear Plant spokesman Frank Cason said TVA has been told It must satisfy the NRC on the issue of employee concerns before it will get a license to load fuel and test the Spring City, plant TVA had hoped to have that license by the end of this month. "I consider it the whistleblower issue the biggest issue we face right, now between getting and not getting an operating license in the Immediate future," Cason said. Discuss Operations With a full scholarship is worth some $10,000. "You can't find a better scholarship than an ROTC scholarship," said Chasteen.

Forty of the 125 students enrolled in ROTCat Vanderbilt are from other Nashville colleges. Vanderbilt operates a joint program with David Lipscomb, Trevecca, Belmont Tennessee State University and Fisk, Frawley said. In return for the scholarships and rank of officer upon graduation, the Army requires a minimum four-year definitely last month until problems can be corrected. The utility's directors said they would not restart any of its three reactors until they were sure they could be operated safely and properly. In addition, TVA has been ordered by the NRC to come up with a program that will assure employees who blow the whistle about safety concerns that their jobs and careers are safe.

"I would be surprised if that issue was not discussed," a TVA source said. NRC officials have said that TVA employees who had concerns about the safety of welds at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and about pressure sensors at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant have been level in recent months, and TVA felt this was a good time to sit down and talk about the overall nuclear program here," said Ian McLeod, TVA manager of nuclear information. The meeting was "a discussion of TVA's overall operations and TVA's regulatory improvement initiatives," said NRC spokesman Joe Gilliland. Present from the NRC were Dr. J.

Nelson Grace, NRCs regional chief from Atlanta and Harold Denton, director of the office of nuclear reactor regulation and four other NRC officials, Gilliland said. Stung by constant problems and more than $700,000 in NRC operating fines, TVA pulled its giant Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant out of service in.