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2B Thurtday. January 19 1995 THE TENNESSEAN How to become an organ donor STATE NEWS Genetic traits and tragedy Man charged at preschool He was yelling obscenities, had gun in car By ROCHELLE CARTER Staff Writer GALLATIN A Gallatin man who walked into a private preschool class of 3-year-olds and yelled obscenities was arrested by Gallatin police with a gun in his possession. James Nelson Anderson, 56, of 143 W. Jackson St, walked into Deborah O. Jones classroom at Gallatin Church of Christ "stating there was something on the property that they needed to get off or they were all going to go to hell," according to an affidavit filed at the Police Department Anderson continued to yell obscenities in the children's presence, but Jones was able to persuade him to leave, the affidavit said.

Two attempts to reach Jones by telephone were what's happening. "They did a family diagram," she said. "The only thing they came up with was that Sonya's mother had lost a child. They don't know the cause." Riedel said if the diagnosis is correct, Alexis will be one of the oldest children ever reported with the condition. Most babies with it are born sick or get sick within a day or two and die shortly thereafter.

Alexis was healthy for the first two months of her life. Trey Campbell said they took Alexis to the hospital on New Year's Day with a fever. They were not worried at first because Alexis had just received her two-month immunizations, and they were told to expect unsuccessful. Anderson was soon arrested by a patrol officer, who found a loaded gun in his car. "Why he walked in there, we haven't determined that" Police Lt Robert Helson said.

"When they arrested him they found the gun In the vehicle. As far as Anderson having it in the day care, we don't know." Anderson was charged with criminal trespass, carrying a weapon, driving on a revoked driver's license and assault on a police officer. He was transported to Nashville Memorial Hospital for a mental evaluation, Helson said. Suggestion to privatize TVA comes up again in Congress Condemned Bells Bend site to cost $12 million Eastman Kodak Co. in 1990, after the tract was approved in concept as a landfill site by the council.

Early last year, the council voted to buy the land. Within days of the council's action, Spicewood bought it for $5,000 an acre, about $2,000 more per acre than Metro had hoped to pay for the land. Spicewood paid $4.04 million for it Metro then sued to condemn the to fight to keep its congressional appropriation. "I don't see that as a big issue anytime soon," Crowell said. "There seems not to be any interest in it among the congressional delegation from the Tennessee Valley, and the administration has assured us they would vigorously oppose any action" to make TVA private.

Crowell said selling all or part of TVA would be essentially a political decision, but that it should be considered from a business perspective. "If you look at it as a business decision, you wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole." man found alive Cutlass, a Kentucky State Police spokesman said. Bardstown is about 140 miles northeast of Nashville. Finch was initially taken to Fla-get Memorial Hospital in Bardstown and then transferred to the University of Louisville Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition last night Nashville About 38,000 people in the United States are waiting tor organ transplants, according to the United Network tor Organ Sharing. Of the approximately 4,059 who need livers, 531 are children.

Liver transplants have about a 90 success rate, said Sue Car-dillo, spokeswoman for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where about 100 transplants are performed annually, Including 50-60 liver transplants. Unfortunately, many who need transplants will die while waiting. In 1993, 2,889 people died waiting a low-grade fever for a few days. He said Ciara was never well enough to be considered for a liver transplant While Alexis awaits a donor, family and friends in Nashville hope to raise money to help pay expenses. The Campbells have medical insurance but are incurring other expenses while away from home.

A medical trust fund has been land, offering $2 million. The government can use its power of eminent domain when the use is "for the public good" and then haggle over price in court The council vote should come in 60 to 90 days. The city can move its other solid waste programs leaf composting and tire shredding from the closed Bordeaux Landfill to Bells Bend. The $2 million was set aside LAMPS mm iv i in Our Once A Year for organs, according to the network. Of those who died, 560 were on the liver waiting list.

"Statistically, there are so many people who could be donors," Cardillo said. "It's just a lack of education and awareness." To become organ donors, people must sign donor cards and discuss their wishes with family members. To get a donor card or learn more about organ donations, call 1-800-24-DONOR or contact Tennessee Donor Services at 327-2247 or 1-800-969-4438. TAMMIE SMITH set up to help. Donations can be made in Alexis' name at any branch of First American National Bank.

Trey Campbell managed the Exxon gas station on Broadway until about a month ago, when he changed jobs. Sonya Campbell is on maternity leave from her job as a manager at a McDonald's restaurant! from Metro's solid waste fund. That fund was created to hold the dumping fees paid by private garbage haulers at the old Bordeaux Landfill, which closed last March. That fund Is almost empty because it costs so much more to take Metro's trash to the Browning Ferris landfill in Rutherford County and pay dumping fees. Bredesen said he will announce his plans to solve that problem when he releases his budget- Blowout! GLASSWARE SALE DATES: Jan.

1 9 Through Jan. 23 Pottery i iXTj ntIM Chattanooga' 1 He said TVA's chief financial officer estimated the impact on rates at 19. "I don't think the people of the Tennessee Valley, who have paid for these assets, would be Interested in paying more just to turn the assets over to a third party," Crowell said. "TVA has a very large nuclear program, has a large debt so sure we would have people who want to come in and take the cream, and leave the skim to the ratepayers and taxpayers." "From a business standpoint I don't see how it could be accomplished without great detriment to the ratepayers of the valley." in car trunk A state trooper had been called to the lake early yesterday with a report of car partially submerged. After a wrecker pulled the car out of the lake, the trooper noticed blood spots on the vehicle and heard a noise coming from the trunk.

When it was pried open, Finch was found inside. The case remained under investigation last night and no suspects had been arrested as of late yesterday, the Kentucky State Police said. 3. Knox County KNOXVILLE Rep. John Duncan Jr.

said yesterday the federal government should eliminate the Job Corps program, members of which have been involved in three killings in East Tennessee in the past three months. Three students from the Knox-ville Job Corps facility are in jail on charges of murdering a fourth Job Corps student over the weekend. In November, two sisters were shot to death at the Job Corps facility near Bristol, Tenn. Job Corps, a federally funded education and skills training program, came under fire Wednesday in Congress where a Senate committee listened to tales of drug abuse and gang violence. Duncan, a Republican whose district includes Knoxville, said the program is wasteful and should be eliminated.

"I intend, when this appropriation comes up again this year on the floor, to speak out very strongly against his program and its very excessive and wasteful cost," Duncan told WTVK radio. "It seems like it's almost impossible to do away with a federal program once it gets started, but I think a very serious look is going to be taken at this program, and I certainly hope so," he said. Knoxville police said they are investigating whether the three teenagers accused of murder dabbled in the occult Chief Phil Keith said police still think the motive for the killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer of Orange Park, was a love triangle involving Slemmer and two of those charged in her death. Arnett said Slemmer's killing "was not a ritual-type homicide." CONTRIBUTORS: Associated Press. KNOXVILLE (AP) Selling the TVA to private enterprise would drive electric rates up 19, TVA Chairman Craven Crowell said yesterday.

Selling TVA is a frequent suggestion when Congress begins cutting budgets, and the latest such resolution was filed Jan. 4 by Rep. Scott Klug, R-Wis. He wants TVA's power facilities sold. TVA's power system operates without taxpayer help on a budget of more than $5 billion.

The agency received $143 million in tax money from Congress last year for non-power programs, such as its environmental center in Muscle Shoals, Ala. Crowell does not anticipate any serious efforts to sell TVA, although he predicted the agency will have Mount Juliet BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) Kentucky State Police identified a man found yesterday inside the trunk of a car partially submerged in Symp-son Lake near Bardstown as Troy A. Finch, 27, of Mount Juliet Tenn. Investigators were unsure of his identity for a while because the man was carrying no identification and was unable to talk because of severe head injuries.

The only clue to his identity was the Tennessee license plate on his 1985 Oldsmobile btory ,1 Location Memphis! ID 1. Shelby County MEMPHIS A judge, saying it's the city's duty to protect its citizens, awarded a family $130,000 for the death of a woman killed by a neighbor's pit bull dogs. "The city has a duty to protect all citizens from vicious animals," said Judge James Swearengen of Shelby County Circuit Court Swearengen awarded the victim's family $759,000 Tuesday but the judgment will be reduced to $130,000 under a state law limiting the liability of government bodies in negligence cases. Swearengen presided over the trial without a jury. Betty Lou Stidham, 57, was killed in 1990- by two pit bulls that attacked her in a side yard of her residence in a comfortable, tree-lined neighborhood.

A medical examiner said she was bitten 72 times during the attack, which lasted about 30 minutes. Stidham had reported the dogs as dangerous several months before her death, and the Memphis Animal Shelter had cited their owner for not properly restraining them. MEMPHIS A woman trying to kidnap a 3-month-old girt from a children's hospital ran away when confronted by security guards, authorities said yesterday. The woman snatched the girl from a patient room at LeBonheur Children's Medical Center. As she was leaving the medical center, security guards noticed the baby had a hospital arm band and became suspicious, said police Lt Ella Mos-by.

When a guard asked the woman if the baby wassick, she fled leaving the child behind, Mosby said. No arrests were made. The child, who was hospitalized for treatment of lung inflammation, was not harmed by the incident said LeBonheur spokesman Ed Coleman. WALLPAPER BORDERS COMFORTERS US IP" 1 gmmm mmm -a JU ll(ITi7 iMzm3 Pottery ft acres, MM 2. Marion County WHITWELL Classes were canceled yesterday at Whitwell Higr-School after an overnight fire that police think was started with a homemade bomb.

Patrolman Todd Brown noticed the fire about 9 p.m. at the front entrance of the Marion County school 30 miles northwest of Chattanooga. After calling the fire department Brown put out the blaze with an extinguisher. Brown estimates he just missed the bomb being thrown because the fire had not spread farther than the front entrance. Two juveniles and an adult were arrested, but identities and further details were not immediately available.

Whitwell Police Chief Jim Usel-ton was at the school most of the day and was not available to return phone calls. The incident is the second in the Chattanooga area this month involving a school and homemade bombs. Eight pipe bombs were found Jan. 6 at Red Bank High School after a gym teacher noticed four cylinder-shaped devices protruding from a student's book bag. After a police search of the building, three more bombs were found in a stairwell and another student had one in his book bag.

One 15-year-old student confessed to making nine bombs with pipe, black powder, fuses and adhesive. He told police he detonated one to see if it worked before taking the other eight to school. Two other students were charged with possession of prohibited weapons. "It's bad enough kids are carrying guns; now they're carrying bombs," Red Bank Police Chief Ronnie Dodd said. "It concerns us." (Next to Outlets Ltd.

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