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23 WMnwtoy. Acturt 7 1WI THE TENNESSEAN other changes time frame Settlement division upsets plaintiff in pollution case in daughter's disappearance about 40 miles upriver from the Tennessee border. Champion proposed the settlement after a federal court jury deadlocked in 1991 About 1,200 Tennesseans are to get money from the settlement U.S. District Judge Thomas Hull approved the settlement distribution formula last month. He has scheduled a hearing on distribution for Monday.

Nearly $2 million of the settlement went for attorneys and expert witnesses. Special master Shelby Grubbs, a Chattanooga attorney Hull appointed to decide how to distribute the money, has been paid more than $118,000. He is paid $185 an hour. The landowners are expected to divide the remaining $4.6 million based upon Grubbs' The formula calls for landowners to get points for assessed property value, number of acres on the waterfront and how far the, land is from the North Carolina border. "It is blatantly unreal how the values were looked at" Graham said.

-i' Graham complains that. the. Newport Utilities Board will get nearly $481,000 but some farmers-will only get $250. According to court documents, a one-acre lot with 64 feet of property on the waterfront is to get $13,096, while a farm with 493 acres and 8,606 feet of land on the river will get $8,260.1 GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The complicated formula to settle a lawsuit over Pigeon River pollution means a utility company will get nearly $481,000 while some farmers will get as little as $250.

One landowner will get only $7.24 of a $6.5 million settlement That has a plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit angry. "It looks like they are robbing those with large acreage," said James Graham, a farmer and one of those who sued paper manufacturer Champion International. Tennesseans along the Pigeon River and Douglas Lake sued the company, saying its toxic dumping had damaged their land and reduced property values. Champion has a plant in Canton, N.C, By CATHERINE TREV1S0N Stiff Wnlef The mother of a 3-year-old girl who disappeared from a parking lot at Rivergate Mall two weeks ago has changed her account of how the child came to be missing. However, police say that won't change their investigation of Lucy Meadows' disappearance.

Yong Meadows first told police that Lucy disappeared a few seconds after she unfastened the strap on her car safety seat July 25, but yesterday she told police as many as 10 to 15 minutes may have passed. "We dont feel like it's a major hurdle or obstacle that's going to change our investigation in any foray," said Goodlettsville Deputy Police Chief Richard Pope, after investigators re-interviewed Yong Meadows. I He said that neither of the girl's parents, nor anyone else, has been named a suspect in the case. Meadows, who is Korean by birth, is not fluent in English, Pope said. After interviewing her again yesterday, investigators "couldn't pin it down why there was a Pope said.

"She had time to reflect on it She's trying to figure out in her own mind how it possibly could have happened." Yong Meadows first mentioned the new time frame Monday in an interview with a reporter for the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle. She told the reporter and police that after she unsnapped Lucy's car seat, she spent a few minutes collecting some woven handicrafts she had made from the front seat of the car. Meadows wanted to sell the crafts at a nearby flea market, Pope said. "Everything else on her story is very consistent like it has been, Pope said. "We went over the whole scenario" yesterday.

Pope said that eight officers have been assigned to the case full time, but they are frustrated by the lack of physical evidence or descriptions of a car or suspect Pope said that had they had known of the 10- to 15-minute time frame, they might have been more quick to search an adjacent parking lot A Castner Knott security camera was pointed away from the scene at the time, and although it was re-directed after Meadows reported the child missing, it "didnt really show anything of use to us," he said. Yong Meadows and her husband Tom, are separated. Through a friend, attorney Hugh Poland, Tom Meadows has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the safe return of the child. Tom Meadows and Poland could not be reached for comment yesterday. LOCAL NEWS: STATE NEWS Hospital returns county funds Topless bars fight prosecutor New MTA routes facilitate trips to school for magnet students COLUMBIA Maury Regional Hospital has returned to the county $55,000 in excess funds from operating the county ambulance service.

"The hospital can run the ambulance service more efficiently than the county," said Don Morrow, chairman of the County Commission's Health and Environment Committee. The hospital assumed the ambulance service Feb. 1. It gets $500,000 per year for five years and is to return any excess revenue from the operation. In the 1994-95 fiscal year, it cost the county more than $600,000 to run the service.

MEMPHIS Attorneys for eight topless bars in Memphis accused a special prosecutor of abusing his subpoena powers, but prosecutor Larry Parrish has denied any wrongdoing. Parrish has been working to permanently close the nightclubs. The clubs' lawyers say Parrish improperly questioned witnesses without their lawyers present but Parrish has said sworn statements were given voluntarily. "A person's deposition cannot be taken without adequate advanced written notice having been provided all of the parties or their counsel," Parrish said in papers filed Monday. "Furthermore, I have nevef taken, nor known of a deposition to be taken, without such advanced notice having been given." I Employees and customers were served subpoenas on July 11, and about 100 people showed up Saturday in Memphis to respond to the subpoenas.

The clubs Were closed on July 11, but were later reopened. The state claims the clubs are a source of prostitution, drug dealing and racketeering. Parrish is best known for prosecuting people' involved in X-rated films like Deep Throat in the 1970s. By DIANE LONG Staff Writer In the crunch of a transportation dilemma, families and students in I Metro's magnet schools are looking to MTA for a ride to school. Thanks to parents who are plugging into a bus pool program, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is setting up routes that will transport from around the county to schools in the hard-to-de- segregate downtown area.

"Let's just face it nowadays both parents work," said Judy Vad-en, route organizer and parent of a magnet school student. "I'm a teacher and I can't just leave my students to provide transportation my child." First used last year, the bus pool program meets the needs of the 3,650 magnet students who are not 'eligible for daily rides on Metro school buses. Magnet school trans- For information Here's where to call for information about MTA bus pool routes to magnet schools: Bellevue area to M.L. King, Meigs and Hume-Fogg: Robin Stroud, 665-9200. Crieve Hall area to Meigs and East: Ann Russell, 331-6862.

Crieve Hall area to Wharton, M.L. King and Hume-Fogg: Rita Hardeman, Antioch area to Meigs, East, Wharton, M.L. King and Hume-Fogg (two routes): Barbara Miller, 360-3513. David Warren, MTA assistant executive director, 862-5969. A parent meeting for those in the Antioch area is planned for 7 p.m.

Thursday in the Una Elementary cafeteria. An organizational meeting for parents of East students is at 7 p.m. tomorrow at East Magnet building. Call Anne Watkins, 262-3189. portation has been a perennial item on the school board's wish list but it won't be funded this year.

MTA developed six routes last year, although one covering the Madison area was discontinued because of low rider numbers. This year, three MTA routes covering the Bellevue and Crieve Hall areas are already planned. Two more meetings are scheduled jo-morrow one to finalize two routes in the Antioch area and another to organize parents at East Magnet which has doubled its student enrollment "With the inclusion of East I hope we have the happy problem of too many people," said David Warren, assistant executive director for MTA. "We like to get the kids because maybe they'll continue riding the bus." Under the magnet bus pool program, MTA will design a route and schedule to suit the needs of any group of 48 students. A group of students can get from their community to a magnet school more quickly and directly, without changing buses downtown or backtracking along the route.

A commuter card with photo ID entitles Tips prompted drug bust PARIS Rumors that crack cocaine was being sold in public housing led to an investigation that resulted in 15 arrests and warrants for seven people. The investigation began because of reports of illegal drug trade in public housing in Paris, and the investigation led in several different directions," Police Chief Tommy Cooper said. The joint investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, local authorities and the Shelby County Sheriff's Department found that drugs were being sold in public housing and at an area bar. Federal housing agents began buying drugs in public housing in February. Sgt Donny Blackwell said about 23 buys were made involving between $40 to $200 of bagged crack each.

Police started making arrests Friday and had 15 people in custody by Monday. The Community-Wide Christian Celebration planned for 7 p.m. Sun-Jday will be in the McGavock High School stadium. The event location -was Incorrectly reported last Satur-fday. The Tennessean regrets the ror.l them to a special rate of 80 cents each way.l fsnnsttsnsa Treasurer wants separate trial To place your free ad, call 1-800-337-3177 You must be 18 or older.

To respond to an ad, call 1-900-454-3570 $1.79 per minute. To purchase 900 time by credit card, call 1-800-337-3177. GREENEVILLE A Johnson City woman who is among those charged with defrauding the federal housing department wants a separate trial. Tracy Fleenor was the treasurer for Logan-Laws Financial Corp. in Johnson City.

Two owners and four managers of the now-defunct company are charged in a 96-count federal Indictment On Monday, Fleenor's attorney asked that she be tried separately because she was just following orders. A federal magistrate will consider the request along with motions from other attorneys. "She was a responsible corporate officer directly involved in false reporting to the government" said federal prosecutor Neal Smith. The government charges that the company provided false information and caused the government to insure mobile home loans to borrowers who were not eligible. FREt Personal Ad FREE Voice Greeting FREE Message Retrieval Woman charged in theft KNOXVILLE A Talbott woman accused of stealing nearly $1 million from her employer in Knox County is now suspected of taking $860,000 from the same business when it was in Hamblen County.

Paunita J. Carter, 38, is accused of taking money from Anchor Advanced Products a plastic injection molding company, from 1989 until last April. The Hamblen County charges focus on a period from 1989 to 1994 when the manufacturer was- in Morristown, said District Attorney General C. Berkeley Bell. Anchor moved to Knoxville in 1994.

The Knox County charges, returned in June; allege Carter continued stealing once the firm She was terminated in January. i A Hamblen County grand jury has returned a multi-count indictment charging Carter with thenVShe Is being held at the Knox County Detention Facility on $750,000 bond on the Knox County charges. Carter's husband, Robert, 39, also has been charged in the Knox County theft He is free on bond. Authorities allege Paunita Carter diverted Anchor funds to accounts she and her husband controlled. The Anchor theft is one of the largest ever investigated in Knox County.

Recycling pickups dropped 1 KNOXVILLE Folks in Knox and other surrounding counties are going to have to find another way. to get rid of their recyclable goods. -r': Waste Management the nation's No. 1 garbage disposal and recycling company, has stopped residential recycling pickups, officials said Monday. The company began phasing out the service in May and decided to discontinue it altogether by the end of July.

"The process became so cost-inefficient that we could no longer do it" said David Spear, director of public affairs for Waste Management Waste Management's Knox County customers who used curbside recycling pickup must now take their recyclable goods to one of seven solid-waste convenience centers operated by Knox County or switch to a different carrier. About 3,500 of Waste Management's 10,000 garbage disposal subscribers also requested recycling pickup. The additional service was offered for free. Spear said whether Waste Management reinstates curbside recycling in the future depends on the! fluctuating price of commodities. "If we can ever reach a comfort level in terms of stability in the price of commodities, we may reinstate the service," he said.

hi --v. Expert gives views on terrorism JOHNSON CITY Terrorists feel alienated from and unable to adjust to the modern world, according to an Egyptian psychologist and terrorism expert Falaat Mansour is a visiting researcher to East Tennessee State University's Upper East Tennessee Educational Cooperative, a federation of 15 school systems in northeast Tennessee. He said it's unfair to correlate Islam and terrorism. Mansour said people often become terrorists because they are intolerant of the ambiguities and contradictions of daily life. He said terrorism in the United States will increase unless this country develops a way to identify the sources of violence.

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