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30, 1991 THE TENNESSEAN College heads on corporate boards Conflict of interest issue, they say KNOXVILLE (AP) College presidents can be an asset to their institutions by serving on corporate boards, but not when there is a conflict of interest, presidents of Tennessee schools said. "Since I do not serve on such boards, I can be objective," said retiring Memphis State University President Thomas G. Carpenter. He has served only on the boards of non-profit organizations during his tenure. "I think presidents should serve on various types of boards, but should never be involved where a Control over airport up in air By KEVIN D.

POLLARD Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD Officials hope decide within a month how to allocate responsibility for any future environmental concerns at the Springfield-Robertson County Airport, the county attorney said yesterday. Springfield-Robertson County committee is prepared to take control of the local airport from the Nashville Metropolitan Airport Authority, but not until some environmental guarantees are made, said Robertson County Attorney Clyde Richert. Metro airport authority has run the airport for 17 years 1 and does not want to be responsible for any environmental problems that may arise after Robertson County takes control, Richert said. Robertson County also doesn't want to take responsibility for those 17 years, he said. "We would possibly be willing to share some costs, but nothing major.

"We met with the attorneys for the authority a few days ago, but we still haven't come up with a solution although we are closer," Richert said. An environmental study on the airport has been suggested by the two sides as a way of seeing whether any major problems exist, Richert said. I Ex-inmate: to have wife By KIRK LOGGINS Staff Writer Used-car dealer Luis Alva, jailed on charges of assaulting his wife and raping a young girl, attempted to hire someone to "hurt" his wife and mother-in-law, Alva's former cellmate has testified. But Alva's lawyer, Jim Omer, attacked the credibility of James Wooten, a child-sex-abuse suspect who shared a cell in the Metro Jail with Alva last November. Omer also said Alva has passed a polygraph test in which he denied that he ever molested the young female relative who has accused him of rape.

Omer asked Criminal Court Judge Ann Lacy Johns on Thursday to set a bond for Alva, 39, who has been confined to the Metro Jail since he was indicted on rape charges Feb. 15. Assistant District Attorney General Deb Smith has said she fears Alva will attempt to flee to Peru if he is released on bond. Wooten testified that Alva said his wife, Sonia Elisa Alva, who suing him for divorce, fabricated charges that he raped a young relative 106 times over a six-year period. Alva blamed his wife's mother for causing the divorce suit by allegedly encouraging his wife to resume relations with an ex-boyfriend, Wooten said.

Wooten, 42, of 4502 Dakota said Alva suggested that they keep in touch after they were both released from jail, on bond, in November. Alva was arrested Nov. 6 on charge of threatening his wife with a gun and a knife during an argument on Oct. 30. He was not arrested on the child-sex charges until Feb.

15. Wooten said that when he visited Alva in November at his car lot, called Auto Locators, at 627 Murfreesboro Road, Alva said he would conflict of interest can become an issue," he said. "There are definitely some benefits that can flow to the university through those contacts," said Joe Johnson, acting president of the University of Tennessee. "Especially since part of the job of president is to attract the interest of business and industry to the university." But Johnson, who was recently appointed to the board of Knoxville's largest savings and loan, Home Federal Bank FSB, said college and university presidents must follow the laws "to the letter" and remove any perceptions of impropriety. "My basic feeling is that whatever the law of the state is, that's what Sen.

I'll do," Steve Johnson Cohen, D-Memphis, has sponsored legislation that would prohibit any college or university administrator from sitting on the board of any company with whom the institution does business under a contract. The bill, which failed to win legislative approval last prompted by Lamar Alexander's extensive business interests while he was president of UT. The measure has won committee approval but Cohen has delayed consideration in the Senate until he can get enough votes to pass it. "If I became president and that bill were passed, obviously I would relinquish any of those positions that fell under the law," said Johnson. He is considered a leading candidate to become UT's next permanent president.

Johnson said most of the boards he had served on had been nonprofit institutions, such as Blue Cross- Blue Shield of Tennessee. David Sharp, president of Home Federal Bank, said the had no business under contract with UT, but did occasionally bid on servicing investments. "He's an outstanding individual. He's an outstanding businessman," Sharp said when asked why Johnson was selected for Home Federal's board, which also includes UT President Emeritus Edward J. Boling.

Freeman Ramsey Staff CIRCUS VISITOR Jeremy Malone, 5, feeds Lisa some cabbage as Ashleigh Brown, 4, and Jarremy Gooden, 5, look on. The 3-year-old, 800-pound pachyderm visited Edgehill Day Care Center yesterday. She's with the Great American Circus. Morristown KNOXVILLE (AP) A Morristown soldier died and an Oliver Springs reservist was injured when a 5-ton truck overturned in Saudi Arabia, a military spokesman said. Spec.

John B. Stephens, 26, of Morristown, was driving the truck when it rolled over as he made a right turn, said Bill Peoples, public affairs officer with the 125th U.S. Army Reserve Command in Nash- Man tried 'hurt' like to find someone "to run a car into his mother-in-law and hurt her a little bit." Wooten said Alva discussed the comparative merits of having someone steal a car for the assault on his mother-in-law or buying an "old, big" car at auction. Wooten said he contacted a police officer acquaintance at that point and began cooperating with police, who monitored some of his subsequent conversations with Alva. Alva later discussed the possibility of hiring "a black gentleman" to "beat up and rape" his wife, Wooten said.

"I told him I'd check on it," Wooten said. Alva "said money was no object to him," Wooten testified. Alva "said he had the financial ability to get to Mexico, him and his two kids," even though he had to surrender his passport as a condition of being released on bond in November, Wooten said. Wooten said Alva never offered him a specific amount of money to harm his wife and mother-in-law. "He just told me to find out what it would cost," Wooten said.

Omer asked Wooten if Alva eventually decided against harming his wife or mother-in-law because "it wouldn't be the right thing to do." "No, sir," Wooten responded. "He said it wasn't the right time." Wooten said Alva told him that someone identified only as "the motorcycle guy" said it was "too soon" for Alva to attempt to cause harm to his wife or her relatives. Johns delayed ruling on Alva's bond request until Wednesday, so she can listen to the recordings which police made of conversations between Alva and Wooten. No criminal charges have been filed as the result of Alva's alleged threats against his wife and her mother. Report address change, drivers warned The state Department of Safety unnecessarily spends more than $650,000 a year because drivers ignore a law requiring them to report address changes, says state Safety Commissioner Robert Lawson.

Lawson said that a simple new change of address form available at driver license stations and the De- Death Notices Death notices are accepted by the newspaper only from funeral homes. To place a death notice please contact the funeral home of your choice. BLACK, Melvin Age 44, March 27, 1991 in New York City. Mrs. Melvin Black, Clearwavived by father and step ter, FL; sister, Mrs.

Dave (Fran Walton, Mobile, AL; Michelle Renee Walton, Mobile, AL. Graveside services will be conducted 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, 1991 at Woodlawn Memorial Park. Visitation with the family will be after 2:00 p.m. Monday.

Complete arrangements to be announced later by FUNERAL HOME, 383-4754. Hohenwald DOBBINS, Mrs. Willie Mai- Age 91 of Hohenwald. Died Friday morning, March 29, 1991 at the Lewis Community Hospital. Mrs.

Dobbins was the wife of the late C. Osteen Dobbins. She was preceded in death by one son, Malcolm Smith Dobbins. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Billy Todd and Martha Ann Dobbins of Telleco Village also two granddaughters, Carolyn Jean Dobbins of Nashville and Connie Leigh Lehman of Seattle, WASH.

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday evening at 3 p.m. in the funeral home Chapel with King McCarver officiating. Burial will be in the Swiss Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family request memorials be sent to the Lewis County Manor Patient Trust Fund. MCDONALD FUNERAL HOME in charge of arrangements, 796-2207 March 28,1991 at Parkview Hospital.

He was a member of the Donelson First Baptist Church, he was a mason. Survived by wife, Faye Edwards, Donelson; mother, Daisy McPeak Edwards, Norene, TN; one son, Glenn Edwards, Lebanon; four brothers, Riley Edwards, Lebanon, Ray, Nashville, Bobby, Norene, Scoot Edwards, Norene; four sisters, Earlene Phillips, Norene, Gladys Allison, Lebanon, Polly Oakley, Mt. Juliet, Marie Dobson, Gladeville; two grandchildren, Matthew and Aaron Edwards, Lebanon. Funeral services 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Partlow Atwood Funeral Chapel, officiating, Dr.

Roy Fisher and The Rev. William A. Alexander, Rev. Ezell Rose. Friends will serve as pallbearers.

Interment, Fairview Cemetery, Norene. PARTLOW-ATWOOD FUNERAL CHAPEL, 444-7007. Lebanon- TN EDWARDS, Gene- Age 64, died Dickson, TN FRAZIER, William Eugene- Age 75 years, Thursday, March 28, 1991 in Green Valley Health Care Center. Survived by wife, Mrs. Mary Ethel Frazier, Dickson; two sons, Henry Garland and Glen Marlin Frazier, Dickson; daughter, Nancy Schmidt, Burns; brother, David Hoyt Frazier, Madison; two sisters, Mrs.

Odell Kimbro, Dickson, Anna Lou Morris, Burchrun, MI; five grandchildren. The remains are at the Dickson Funeral Home, where funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 1991 conducted by J.D. Cathey. Interment, Union Cemetery.

Arrangements by BUCKNER'S DICKSON FUNERAL HOME, Dickson. HUBBARD, Johnnie M. (Mack)Age 85 years, March 28, 1991. Survived by daughters, Mrs. Coolidge (Mary) Dalton, Mt.

Juliet, Mrs. Larry (Marie) Gray, Lavergne, Judy Bunch, Nashville; sister, Mary Cartwright, Nashville; 12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren. His remains are at the Woodbine Funeral Home, 3620 Nolensville where services will be conducted Saturday, March 30, 1991 at 3:00 p.m. by Rev. Ralph Carroll and Rev.

Billy Hill. Interment, Woodlawn Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers, members of Concord Baptist Church, Dr. Wesley Moore, James Waller, W.P. Williams, Tom King, Ricky Byrd, Alton Goodwin, Frank Goodwin.

His grandsons will serve as active pallbearers. WOODBINE FUNERAL HOME, Directors, 832-1948. KENNEDY, Willard March 27, 1991. Survived by wife, Hattie Kennedy; daughters, Gale Kennedy, Ruby Walter, Theresa Lauderdale, Irma Kennedy and Willemena Morland; sons, Ronald and Marvin Kennedy; eighteen grandchildren; ten great grandchildren; brothers, Jessie (Ruth), Lexington, KY. and Clifton (Ruth) Kennedy, Oxford, Ohio; sister-in-law, Victoria Kennedy, Cincinnati, Ohio; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins; other relatives and friends.

Visitation Sunday, March 31, 1991, 6-7 p.m. at Faith United Baptist Church, 2800 Whites Creek Pike. Funeral to follow, Rev. Charles Oglesby officiating. Interment Monday, April 1, 1991, Greenwood Cemetery.

LEWIS WRIGHT FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 2500 Clarksville 255-2371, Richard A. Lewis and William H. Wright, Directors KIMBLE, Mattie- Age 85, Thursday, March 28, 1991 at her residence. Survived by husband, Robert Kimble; five daughters, Geraldine (Oscar) Terry, Robbie (S.L.) Stringfellow, Doris (Wardell) Bratton, Julia (Wesley) Hemphill, Mary L. Groves; five sons, Eugene, John, Leslie, William and Chester Kimble; a host of grandchildren, great and great-great-grandchildren; five cousins; devoted cousin, Mrs.

Dorothy Wade; devoted friends, Sister McGhee, Mother Mack and Sister Patterson. The body will lie in state, Sunday, March 31st, Johnson's House of Atena, p.m. Visitation with the family, Monday, April 1st, noon, funeral to follow at Mt. Paran PB Church, 10th Vaulx Lane, Elder Cunningham officiating with Elder Perry Shannon giving the Interment, Greenwood Cemetery. JOHNSON'S HOUSE OF ATENA, Director.

MORROW, James Brunswick, GA, Wednesday, March 27, 1991. Survived by wife, Josie Atchinson Morrow; sister, Dorothie M. Beasley; nephews, Leslie W. Beasley, Michael Barrett Beasley, Dona St. Clair Beasley.

Funeral services, Wednesday, April 3, 1991 at 4:00 p.m. in Brunswick, GA. Send all communications to the Brunswick Funeral Home, 2700 Albany Street, Brunswick, GA, 31500. This is a courtesy notice of the WILLIAM GUNTER SONS FUNERAL SERVICE INC. NESBITT, Jewell ElizabethThursday, March 28, 1991.

Survived by sisters, Mary Ruth Coleman and Virginia Banks; nephew, David Nesbitt Coleman, (Nancy); niece Irene Nesbitt; sister-inlaw Harriett Nesbitt. Remains rest at the funeral home of PhillipsRobinson 2707 Gallatin where services will be Saturday, March 30th, 2:00 p.m. with Bro. Jim Olive officiating. Active pallbearers, Dwayne Lannom, Greg Michaud, Bro.

Hudson, Ronnie Pitts, Jimmy Scott and Mr. Hunter. Mrs. Nesbitt was a member of Jackson Park Church of Christ. Interment, Spring Hill Cemetery.

PHILLIPS-ROBINSON Directors. REED, James Clayton- Age 60, March 28,1991. Survived by wife, Shirley Reed; daughter, Linda King; son, James Terrence Reed; sisters, Johnnie Lou Lillie, Juanita Cleveland, Claudia Ashburn; half- sister, Elise Columbia; brother, Raymond Reed; eight grandchildren. Remains are at the Woodlawn Funeral Home, 660 Thompson Lane, where services will be conducted in the Chapel of Roses, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 1991, Dr.

John Langlois officiating. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Interment, Woodlawn Memorial Park. Arrangements by WOODLAWN FUNERAL HOME, 383-4754. SEARS, Mrs.

Hazel Dickens- soldier dies ville. Sgt. John Lewis Smith, 43, of Oliver Springs, suffered a serious injury to his left leg. He was unsure where Smith was being treated. The accident occurred Wednesday at 9:45 a.m.

Saudi time, according to a release from the Army's Casualty Sub Area Command in Knoxville. in accident Coffee County jury to decide man's fate in 2nd murder trial CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) A jury from Coffee County will hear evidence in Joe Shepherd's second murder trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday in Bradley County Criminal Court. Shepherd, 38, of Tellico Plains, is charged with first-degree murder for the 1978 slaying of Roxanne Woodson, 16, whose body was found in the front yard of Shepherd's mother's home. Randall Kizer, an investigator for District Attorney General Jerry Estes, said the jury would be chosen from outside Bradley County be- Both men were members of the 418th Quartermaster Detachment that is normally stationed i in Knoxville and oversees units in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Stephens was a driver for the 418th. Smith is a water treatment sergeant. Peoples said Stephens is the first Tennesseebased reservist and the second soldier with the 125th to die in the Persian Gulf. cause of pre-trial publicity. In November, a Monroe County jury convicted Shepherd of seconddegree murder in the 1976 slaying of Cathy Clowers, 15, and he was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

Shepherd was charged in both slayings in 1978 but escaped from the Bradley County Jail while awaiting trial. He remained at large until November 1988, when he was arrested in London, Ontario, after an acquaintance saw a segment about him on the NBC television program Unsolved Mysteries. I Nashville area deaths Warren Russell Baine Cannon, 44, of Route 10, Sparta, an auto mechanic, died Wednesday in Parkview Hospital, Nashville. Services 11 a.m. today at Thurman Funeral Home, Sparta.

Charles Cunningham, 56, of Route 1, Lynchburg, a home builder, died yesterday in Harton Hospital, Tullahoma. Services 2 p.m. tomorrow at Ralston-McCauley Funeral Home, Lynchburg. William C. Currie, 71, of Oberlin, formerly of Columbia, a retired firefighter, died Thursday in Allen Parish Hospital, Kinder, La.

Services 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Oakes Nichols Funeral Home, Columbia. Anna Louise Hickerson, 83, of Route 2, Wartrace, a homemaker, died Thursday in Bedford County General Hospital, Shelbyville. Services 1:30 p.m. today at Hillcrest Funeral Home, Shelbyville.

Harold J. Perkins, 68, of the Centertown community near McMinnville, a retired bus driver, died last Friday at his daughter's residence in Westland, Mich. Services 2 p.m. today at McMinnville Funeral Home. Essie Roberts, 66, of Route 1, Crawford, a homemaker, died Thursday in Livingston Regional Hospital.

Services 2 p.m. tomorrow at Twinton Freewill Baptist Church, Livingston. The body is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Farley Hodge.

Joseph DeWitt Rowlette, 78, Baggett Road, Springfield, a retired Thursday, March 28, 1991. Survived by brother, Felix Dickens, Nashville; step-children, William F. Sears, Nashville, Mrs. Bettye Sears Graves, Paducah, KY, Mrs. Erma Sears Sinor, Forest Park, GA; grandchildren, Becky Sowell, Pamela Antinori, Patty Sinor.

Her remains are at the Broadway Chapel, where the family will receive friends Friday, p.m. and Saturday, a.m. The family and friends will assemble at the gravesite in Mt. Olivet Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 1991 for graveside services conducted by Bro.

Dan Dozier. Active pallbearers, nephews: Billy Beard, Lewis Dickens, William Fyke, Ernest Brien, Dennis Pfeffer, James A. Knight, Luther Earl Luttrell, Jr. ROESCH PATTON AUSTIN-BRACEY CHARLTON, 1715 Broadway, 244-6480. TAYLOR, Robert (Snooks)- Thursday, March 28, 1991 at MTMC, Murfreesboro.

Survived by one son, Kenneth Dewayne Taylor; sister, Mollie Hasting, Nashville; brother, Mr. Jim Taylor, Murfreesboro; sister and brother-in-law, Mrs. George Dunlap, Nashville; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Graveside services Monday, April 1, 1991, 1:00 p.m. at Hoover Cemetery, Woodbury, TN, conducted by Rev.

Cicero Frazier. H. PRESTON SCALES SON, Directors, Murfreesboro, 893-1313. TILLERY, Alice McCloudWednesday, March 27, 1991 at her residence. Preceded in death by her husband, Roy Tillery, sons, Coluthious and Vassel Tillery; daughter, Vivian (Jamison) Jenkins, Nashville; son, Roy Tillery, Long Beach, CA; 16 grandchildren, Michael Jenkins, Dorcel (Harold) Benson, Roy Tillery, Janice Cherry, Morris Tillery, Nashville; sister-in-law, Ruby (Timothy) Simmons; three nieces, Katie Anglin, Patricia Richard, Thelma Simmons, Nashville; numerous other relatives and friends.

Remains are at Lewis Wright Funeral Home, 2500 Clarksville Hwy. Funeral services Saturday, March 30, 1991 at Phillips Chapel CME Church, 97 Lewis Street, Nashville, TN, Pastor Charles E. Winfrey officiating. Family visitation, a.m. with services immediately following.

Interment, Greenwood Cemetery. LEWIS WRIGHT FUNERAL DIRECTORS, 255-2371. firefighter, died Thursday in Jesse Holman Jones Hospital. Services 11 a.m. today at Robertson County Funeral Home.

Eddie Simmons, 66, of Route 1, Flintville, an auto mechanic and farmer, died Thursday in Lincoln Regional Hospital, Fayetteville. Services 11 a.m. today at Higgins Funeral Home, Fayetteville. Glenn Wesley Skinner, 63, of the Flat Creek community near Chapel Hill, a farmer, died Thursday in Williamson Medical Center, Franklin. Services 1 p.m.

today at Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill. Taft Western 43, Robinson Road, Cookeville, a laborer, died Thursday in White County Hospital. Services 1 p.m. today at Hooper Huddleston Funeral Home. Harlin Wilson, 84, of 702 Red Boiling Springs Road, Lafayette, a former trustee of Macon County, died yesterday in Macon County General Hospital.

Services 2 p.m. today at Alexander-Macon County Funeral Home. Ada Winton, 80, a resident of Life Care Center, Tullahoma, a homemaker, died Thursday in the center. Services 2 p.m. today at Tullahoma Funeral Home.

CREDIT CARDS HONORED Emma's Tasteful Arrangements 327-0202 2410 West End Ave. LaFayette, TN Grandville Harlin- 84, March 29, 1991 at the Macon County General Hospital. Survived by wife, Era Loftis Wilson, LaFayette; two daughters, Vivian Hanvey, Nashville, Patricia Wix, Jacksonville, FL; three brothers, Dr. Wendell Wilson, Old Hickory, Harold Wilson, Madison, Prentice Wilson, Gladeville; two sisters, Hallie Ingalls, Madison, Kathleen Wheeley, Knoxville; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. Remains are at the Alexander Macon County Funeral Home, where services will be held Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Bro.

Charles Patterson officiating. Active pallbearers, Kenny Loftis, Melvin Casady, Johnny Wilson, Phillip Stinson, Darrell Lambert, John Dorris, Interment, Macon County Memorial Gardens. ALEXANDER MACON COUNTY FUNERAL HOME, 666-2189. partment of Safety will make it easier for motorists to update the information. Under state law, the department must be notified within 10 days when license holders move or receive new 911 mailing addresses.

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