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iftR Saturday, Juiw 12 1999 THE TENHESSEAN cj Cp LOCAL NEWS Ex-NBA player smreeders to police By LEON M. TUCKER TTTTTPT" 3 A second suspect, Karshma Dar- Memphis group apparently had paid to play at a party there that followed Street Nic, police said, but the club closed before the group got on stage. Street Nic, an event geared toward African-Americans, was at Riverfront Park earlier the same day. Police were able to identify the two suspects after a Players Draft House security guard said he witnessed Jones and Dardy commit the shootings. Jones was most valuable player of the Southeastern Conference tournament after Mississippi State upset Kentucky, leading the school to the Final Four.

He left college after his junior; Staff Writer 1 The search (or a former Nashville basketball star in connection with an Antioch shooting ended yesterday when Dontae Jones turned himself in at police headquarters and was released on $7,000 bond. Police issued reckless endanger- dy, 26, was arrested Thursday afternoon, also charged with reckless en-dangerment and felony vandalism. He was released on $35,000 bond. Police said it all started after an argument between a Memphis rap group and an entertainment promoter at the Antioch nightspot The year to enter the NBA draft, where he was a first-round pick of the New York Knicks and 21st pick overall. He was traded by the Knicks to the Boston Celtics in 1997 until he was released by the team before the start of the latest season.

ment and felony vandalism charges against the former Mississippi State University basketball player for his alleged role in an April 25 shooting at Players Draft House that left seven people wounded and a car riddled with bullets. Jeep driver runs from wreck scene Stars shower treasures on school auction if I i JARED LAZARUS STAFF Williamson County Sheriff's deputies and rescue personnel clear the scene of a three-vehicle wreck on Highway 96 West, near Highway 46. The burned Jeep in the foreground was abandoned by its driver. then burst into flames. The last trace of the owner, aside from the charred Jeep, was a color brochure singed around the edges for an expensive pair of sunglasses, which had fallen out of the vehicle.

The driver of the GMC truck, Glover Smith, whose address was not available last night, was taken to a local hospital. Authorities said he had been headed from Frank she said. Rhonda Bass helped a woman who managed to get out of the upside-down, crushed GMC vehicle. "I grabbed her. What happened to the guy in the Jeep?" Bass asked Brown.

"While the truck was on fire, he jumped out of it and went toward the cars in the other lane," Bass told her. Tutu has plans By ANNE PAINE Staff Writer A Sammy Kershaw and a Steve Wariner autographed guitar, Lyn-yrd Skynyrd signed guitar, drumsticks and drumhead. A Brooks Dunn jacket and photos signed by a host of other music stars. Automobiles a Honda Acura and Plymouth Grand Voyager. This, apparently, is not your typical elementary school auction.

Boosters for Hendersonville's new Jack Anderson Elementary School have organized an auction, set for today, worthy of a national-sized charity. "Unfortunately, many of the items came to us within the last two days, and we have not been able to advertise properly," said Charlotte Gonzalez, an event coordinator. The fund-raiser, including a cook-out magic shows, face painting, music, carnival and games, is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Kids KingdomMemorial Park on Gallatin Road in Hender-sonville. The live auction is noon-2 p.m.

The rain date is tomorrow, noon-4 p.m. Proceeds go toward computers, a copier and playground equipment organizers say. A total of $78,405 is sought for the K-5 school, which will be completed this fall. While there are many sponsors for a host of items, including relations Ky. There, she could tell students "how it felt to be a black South African who was not considered really a citizen of the country of my birth." That's just one example.

She also was chairperson of the Tutu Foundation, which gave South African refugees in African countries scholarships to learn skills to make them self-supporting while in exile. Tutu will be an asset to Fisk, the Race Relations Institute and the Nashville community, said Ray Winbush, director of the Race Relations Institute. "For instance, there is a lot of Stabbing kills An early morning argument yesterday between two women in east Nashville turned fatal when one stabbed the other to death, police said. Metro Police have issued an arrest warrant against Vera Eddie, 39, of 164 Charles E. Davis charging her with criminal homicide in the death of 49-year-old Katherine Wilkerson.

Authorities were looking for Eddie last night Police said Wilkerson, of 511 Townsend her boyfriend and lin toward Fairview. Cronk and Leslie Brown were also on the highway then, headed to Fairview after a trip to the mall. Cronk said a young man jumped out That's the last she saw of him. "I saw him drift. He almost hit us.

I looked, and he hit the back of the trailer. Then he kept drifting and hit the truck head-on," African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "If we don't work on the issue of race, we're really not building the future we keep talking about" Among her ideas is creating TUTU serious, challenging discussion groups about race and gender. They have to be small, no more than "ill By JANET H. LETHGO Staff Writer Everyone stayed after the traffic-halting accident late yesterday afternoon in Franklin everyone except the man who police say caused it all.

The unidentified man jumped out of his flaming Jeep and took off down the road on foot, after his Jeep had sideswiped an empty motorcycle trailer and then smacked head-on into a sport utility vehicle. Authorities in Williamson County were still looking for the man last night "All I know is that the driver is missing. He's certainly not here," said trooper Jackie Attkisson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Investigators said they didnt know why the man crossed into the oncoming traffic. Driver Tara Cronk, who saw the wreck, was almost hit by the mystery rrian.

Instead, the man crossed the center line on Highway 96 west of Franklin and hit the trailer. "I thought he was going to correct his car. But he didnt," Cronk said. After hitting the trailer, the man continued his course in the wrong lane, and hit a GMC Sonoma sport utility vehicle head-on. That truck flipped, pinning its passengers inside.

One of the passengers, whose identity could not be confirmed last night, was airlifted to Vander-bilt University Medical Center. The Jeep skidded to a stop, is I Judge halts abortions at clinic By KIRK LOCCINS Staff Writer A judge has ordered a Nashville clinic to stop performing abortions because it does not have a valid state license to operate an outpatient surgical center. Davidson County Chancel-, lor Irvin Kilcrease has ordered The Women's Center, at 419 Welshwood Drive, to stop performing abortions after the procedures it has scheduled for today. The Tennessee Department of Health and the state Health Facilities Commission filed suit last month, alleging that the clinic, owned by two East Tennessee physicians, has neither a certificate of need nor a license as required by state law. Kilcrease noted in his ruling that The Women's Center near Harding Mall has been performing about 3,300 abortions a year.

It is the only abortion clinic in Nashville other than the facilities operated by Planned Parenthood of Middle Tennessee. The judge said the restraining order will remain in effect until he can hold a full hearing June 24 on the lawsuit The clinic's owners, meanwhile, have filed a suit of their own in U.S. District Court, alleging, that the state government is unfairly interfering with their right to perform abortions. Senior U.S. District Judge John Nixon has set a Monday hearing on that suit Waltz' singer Page BEBA opens meeting KERSHAW WARMER Trickett Honda for the Acura and Bob Frensley for the mini-van, the last-minute music donations came as a result of prompting from one of Music Row's best-loved characters, Hazel Smith.

She's known for her outspoken ways, often in praise of country music. She invented the phrase "outlaws" for Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and their stylistic peers in the 70s. She. does gossip shows for radio stations all over the United States and has been called the matriarch of country music writers. Smith, who has two grandchildren who will go to the school, said she simply got on the telephone recently and called her friends.

They produced guitars, jackets, photos and more. "The hillbilly heart is the biggest heart in the world," she said. confusion between race and class issues and we expect her to help sort those out and research how those issues interplay. he said. Tutu will be responsible for the development and implementation of national and international race relations programs.

She is currently working on a doctoral degree in social administration and anthropology from the London School of Economics. She also has a bachelor's degree in economics and French from Berea College and a master's degree in international economic development from the University of Metro woman several others were talking on the porch at a friend's house at 33 Wharf Ave. around 2:20 a.m., when Eddie approached. Eddie asked to speak to Wilkerson's boyfriend, who, police said, is also Eddie's ex-boyfriend. Wilkerson and Eddie got into an argument that turned into a fight During the fight Eddie broke a bottle and stabbed Wilkerson in the neck.

Wilkerson was taken to Vander-bilt University Medical Center, where she died. LEON M. TUCKER "There's no apparent evidence of foul play, but we're going to do. an autopsy to be sure," Achord said. A footpath leads to the fishing spot off Smith Springs Road In Antioch, where boaters made the discovery at about 10:30 a.m.

The man, possibly from north Nashville, been dead for at least several hours and maybe as long as a couple of days, the detective said. -BETH WARREN barge project fects on wildlife and well water in the area "It's a step in the right direction," said Tom Winkeler, president of Save Our Air, Rivers and Recreation, a citizens group that went to court to stop the work. "It's what weVe been saying all along, that weVe been getting railroaded in the permitting process," Winkeler said. At a hearing Monday, Campbell said government regulators failed to take a hard look at the project "If there has been a hard look, it has been a hard look the other way," the judge said. at FisM for race eight people, so that no one can hide behind another person's feelings or actions.

She also wants to let people know it is important to get angry. Complacency, she said, is disempowering. But anger channeled properly can bring about constructive change. Tutu reflected on how she got angry when she was ignored while visiting a cafe in South Africa. She said she exploded.

Later, she realized her energy could be better spent She spearheaded a move to include South Africa in college curricula at her alma mater Berea College in Berea, Tom T. Hall. Page received the Academy of Country Music's Pioneer Award in 1979, and in 1983 she co-hosted the launch of TNN; The Nashville Network, with Roy Acuff. Tonight's awards dinner is part of IEBA's 29th annual meeting and seminar, "Opening Doors to the Next Millennium." TV and radio personality Ralph Emery and author Craig Karges are keynote speakers for the conference. Other honors to be presented tonight include talent buyer of the year, talent agent of the year, artist manager of the year, concert promoter of the year and festival, fair or special event of the year.

at nightclub nude performances. Bottoms Up officials chose the latter, saying their dancers would be fully clothed. But undercover police said that was not the case. If an injunction is granted and the business stays open, it could be found in contempt of court and fined. Highway, College Grove, will celebrate the seventh anniversary of its pastor, the Rev.

CE. McCathern, in services at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. tomorrow. Religion news appears Fridays and Saturdays.

To submit news, write The Tennessean, 1100 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn. 37203; fax to 259-8093; or call Frances Meeker at 664-2199 on Wednesdays and Thursdays; or Ray Waddle at 259-8077 Monday-Friday. By MONIQUE FIELDS Staff Writer There are but a few things holding this country back as it spins toward the new millennium race, gender and economics, said Naomi Tutu, the new program director at Fisk University's Race Relations Institute. And Tutu plans to turn the world's attention to all of them. "Those ace really the three things, when you look around the world, that have a major determi-' nant where people are going to be, how people experience life," said Tutu, the daughter of former South 'Tennessee honored as By JAY ORR Staff Writer Patti Page, whose recording of The Tennessee Waltz brought the song to national prominence, will receive the "Harry 'Hap' Peebles Lifetime Achievement Award" tonight from the International Entertainment Buyers Association.

Page, 71, will be in Nashville to receive the honor, which recognizes her as a "living legend," during a dinner at the Doubletree Hotel downtown. A native of Oklahoma, where she began her professional career in the late '40s on radio station KTUL, Page has homes now in California and New Hamp Hearing set BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Sullivan County authorities are taking legal action against a Bristol nightclub after police reported seeing dancers exposing themselves and simulating sex with customers. County Attorney Dan Street filed an injunction against Bottoms Up yesterday, and a hearing was set for June 24. 1909 County Hospital Road, will host a five-day evangelistic meeting.

Word Explosion Conference, beginning with a youth revival at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Other services are set for 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday. Concert: Music evangelist Hovie Walker, former bass singer for such notable groups as the Thrasher Brothers, Singing Americans, and a Fisherman found dead at Percy Priest shire.

Recording for Mercury Records, Page built a successful pop career, with hits such as Went to Your Wedding, The Doggie in the Window, Let Me Go, Alleghe ny Moon, Old PAGE Cape Cod and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. In the early 70s, she made a transition to country music, scoring a Top 20 country hit in 1972-73 with Hello We're Lonely, a duet with on dancing County leaders last year adopted local-option law to regulate adult businesses. Bottoms Up, which featured nude dancing, challenged whether the law was constitutional but lost its court battle. An appeal is pending. The law requires adult establishments to either register with the county and license dancers or stop Boaters found a body yesterday at a fishing spot by Percy Priest Lake yesterday morning.

The man's fishing pole was beside him, along with a tackle box and a bucket of fish that had been caught Metro Police homicide detective David Achord said. The name of the man, believed to be in his late 50s, was not released yesterday pending notification of next of kin, police said. Federal judge delays CLIFTON, Tenn. (AP) A federal judge has blocked plans for a barge terminal on the Tennessee River, saying environmental regulators were too quick to approve it The terminal near Clifton is part of an $8 million plan by Vulcan Materials Inc. for a riverside rock quarry about 100 miles east of Memphis.

Judge Todd Campbell of Nashville said the Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority were "arbitrary and capricious" in approving permits for the terminal. More study is needed, Campbell said, on the project's potential ef Music evangelist Hovie Walker to sing at Westwood Baptist Willie Wynn and the Tennesseans, will present a concert at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Westwood Baptist Church, 6100 Charlotte Pike. Women's service: The Rev. Paula McGhee, chaplain at Fisk University, is the speaker for a Sisterhood Ministry celebration at 10:45 a.m.

tomorrow at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church, 1203 Ninth Ave. N. Anniversary: ML Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, 8318 Horton tures to be held tomorrow through Wednesday at Lipscomb. Congregational singing preceding Smith's address will begin at 7 p.m. Smith, who is also the speaker for the Willard Collins lectures at 1 p.m.

Monday-Wednesday, will join the Lipscomb faculty this fall as Scholar in Residence for Christian Studies. Life of Faith Christian Center,.