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iOCA.j Editor Kathleen Merrill Phone: 425-9629 Toll tree: (800) 372-3922 Fax: 425-9639 Internet contactusjacksonsun.cor., Across West Tennessee Deaths 6A Nation 6A World 9A Thursday, August 3, 2000 a) 4 etins mi raiiiireeiKEits to tioyie tax Captain D's tragedy felt by all J' oNeU Weatherford, owner of Lexington's Dairy Queen, remembers Scott -Myers as a 'jolly" individual and an "all-around American, good family man. Myers' life was ended abruptly in the early morning hours of July 12 when "I think it's going to have to be resolved. That's tax money that belongs to the citizens. It's their money. Anyone from the city as a citizen could complain about that money." Ken Walker, city attorney fiscal year, Henderson County had used property tax money to fund their rural fire departments.

That meant city residents were paying for county fire protection when they already paid city taxes for the same service. The city has come up with an initial figure of $453,000 the county will have to reimburse Lexington taxpayers, City Attorney Ken Walker said. He informed the county of the amount in a letter before the commission's last meeting in July. But no action were questions about how the city arrived at the figure, and itH need to be checked, he added. In May 1999, the state passed a law requiring counties to find other means of paying for rural fire protection that would prevent double taxing city residents for the service.

For the current fiscal year, the county created a Henderson County Fire Protection Fund. Instead of property tax money, revenue from bank excise, wholesale beer, alcoholic beverages and mixed drink taxes will go into the fund to finance the county's rural fire departments. There are several ways the county can deal with what is owed the city, other than just reimbursing taxpayers with funds, Walker said. For instance, city and county officials had talked about the county giving the city a used fire truck toward what they owe. But the county could also lower the tax base for city residents over a certain period of time to repay the money, Walker said.

complain about that money." Henderson County Executive Dennis McDaniel declined to comment further, but said the situation would be worked out The figure the city presented the county is not final, Walker said. There CCA inmate gets 21 -year sentence for '99 escape -t-t r- -J Photoe by HELEN COMERThe Jackson Sun iiiiiiiiiiii.nm i jn.j a ii.ni.ii) nil inn i 1 1 in. i. mtrm wn .1 i -( r. t.

I -r --r lr 1 i 1 i T'' Judge Todd orders Settle to serve new sentence after his old one. By DYLAN T. LOVAN The Jackson Sun An inmate who took a hospital worker hostage after he escaped from a guard was sentenced to more than 21 years in a federal prison on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge James Todd said he hoped Mike Settle, 31, would be "too old to commit other violent crimes" once he finishes his prison sentence.

Settle pleaded guilty in May in federal court in Jackson to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was an inmate at Whiteville Correctional Center when he escaped from Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in August 1999. He was captured in Shelby County after 300 officers tracked Settle for nearly seven hours. Todd imposed the maximum possible sentence on Settle, taking the recommendation of Assistant U.S. City, county officials undecided as to how to pay taxpayers back.

By TONYA SMITH-KING The Jackson Sun LEXINGTON City and county officials have not resolved how much the county must pay back Lexington citizens for double taxing city residents in recent years for fire protection. Up until the end of last Jackson Clinic's stunning arrival Benjamin surprises the clinic as doctors rush to deliver second baby in 25-year history. By TAJUANA CHESHIER The Jackson Sun He may discover the cure for cancer or break Michael Jordan's record, but one thing is for certain, this little guy could not wait to get here to do it. Benjamin Allen Rowell 5 pounds, 2 ounces and 17 inches is the second baby born in 25 years at the Jackson Clinic. Around 4 a.m.

Tuesday, five hours before her scheduled doctor appointment, first-time mother Michelle Rowell started feeling contractions. Rowell, of Bemis, was not terribly nervous about the contractions because she was due within the next two weeks and thought it might have been false labor. Her plan was to wait until her contractions were closer together, but Benjamin had another agenda. At 9 a.m., Rowell and her mother arrived at the Jackson Clinic, 616 W. Forest for her appointment.

When her contractions grew more intense, doctors and nurses realized that time was not on their side and they called paramedics for a transport to Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. "They just kept saying, "We're not really prepared to do Rowell said Wednesday. Meanwhile her husband, David Rowell, could not find his wife. "They kept calling me saying, No, she's at the hospital. No, she's still at the clinic' I finally had to ask, where I am going?" David said Wednesday He missed all of Tuesday morning's action.

At 9:40 a.m., in an examination room filled with a pediatrician, two obstetricians and four or five nurses, Benjamin Allen Rowell was born, before the was taken. The commission's next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 9. "I think if going to have to be resolved," Walker said. "That's tax money that belongs to the citizens.

It's their money. Anyone from the city as a citizen could dilates, but Rowell's process, especially for a first-time mother, was uncommon, Welch said. "When babies come, they come. They don't care what time it is," said Laura Tynes, a licensed practical nurse who works with Welch. Michelle Rowell plans to wait a while to have her he was killed along with two other men at a Captain D's restaurant in Smyrna in Middle Tennes- Tonya SMITH-KIE3 For years, Myers supervised Dairy Queen's district managers, including stores in the Memphis District, which includes Lexington, she said.

Even though he's been gone from the Dairy Queen system for two years, Weatherford said she still felt Myers was a part of the Dairy Queen family. Last Thursday, the store raised about $1,500 from sales and donations for a memorial fund for Myers' family. "It was sort of a freak thing that happened," Weatherford said. "I just wanted to help the family as much as we could." Weatherford had known Myers for about 15 years, since' her association with the restaurant He lived in Memphis and is survived by his wife, Julie, and their three daughters, Ashley, 10; Allison, 12 and Amanda, 15. "His wife didn't work," Weatherford said.

Tm sure this will be hard on her. SheU have a whole different life to get used to." Family needs help Myers was on the final day of a six-week training program for a managerial job with Captain restaurants when he was killed, Weatherford said. Myers and two other employees died from single gunshot wounds to the head, said Smyrna Police Sgt Scott Byers, the police department's public information officers. They were shot during the robbery of Captain D's at sometime between 12 midnight and 2 a.m. on July 12.

Police are not releasing how much money was stolen. The other victims were Bryan Speight, who was training Myers, and 18-year-old Troy Snell, a drive-through clerk, Byers said. Speight and Myers were found inside the store, and Snell was found inside his 1997 Mazda Protegee in the parking lot about 600 yards from the store, he said. The detectives are working everyday on the case," Byers said. "We have received information and tips, but as of yet have made-no arrests." A trust fund for the family has been set up at First Tennessee Bank, P.O.

Box 84, Memphis, TN, 38101. Please send donations to the attention of Kim Cherry. Donations also can be made at any First Tennes-Bank, Cherry said. Tonya Smith-King is a reporter in The Jackson Sun's Henderson County Bureau. You may call her at 967-3269.

Her fax number is 967 -3380. fw! -i(V' 'Ai A--X i 4vl "-rp 4'- V'f Ford to Gore: Join me against Forrest memorial Benjamin Allen Rowell was bom Tuesday at the Jackson Clinic North Jackson. it 'J next child, after experiencing natural birth. "This is not something I'd ever want to do again," she said. "Next time I'm going straight to the hospital." The proud parents said they are already expecting great things from their son.

"He's already made his splash into the world," Michelle Rowell said. BThe hours Construction hours and lane closures will be from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Attorney Leigh Grinalds. To ordered that Settle begin-serving the federal sen tence univ- Settle after he com-1 pletes a 25-year aggravated robbery term at the Whiteville cen-; ter, a privately held prison whose parent company, Corrections Corporation of America, is based in Nashville.

Todd said he had never seen a criminal history that matched Settle's. Settle has "terrorized the citizens of West Tennessee for a long time," Todd said. Settle has 13 prior convictions, including eight robberies. He was at the hospital after a suspected drug overdose. Settle took his guard's revolver and fled the hospital, taking a female employee hostage in a parking garage.

Settle took her car, later crashing it on Interstate 40 in Shelby County. Using helicopters and about 300 officers, officers discovered Settle in a wooded area. fcf, J.r Gore Ford not been nearly as controversial as the flag dispute in South Carolina, where thousands of protesters marched outside of the Capitol. The Confederate flag has since been removed from the South Carolina statehouse and moved to a nearby Confederate memorial. Forrest, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, is believed to be the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan though he ordered it disbanded in 1869 because of the group's excessive violence.

As a cavalrv eeneral dur ing the Civil War, Forrest was responsible for several notable victories and one massacre. His soldiers killed more than 300 blacks after the surrender of Fort Pillow, a major blemish on his record. TRAFFIC North Highland Avenue Road widening from Union Ave JEast College St to McCowat St Reduced to 2-lane traffic. U.S. 45 In Gibson County New road construction from north of Trenton bypass to north of Rutherford.

North Parkway Widening from Royal Street to U.S. 70, including bridge construction. Watch for machinery, flagmen. U.S. 45 Bypass Workers will be paving U.S.

45 Bypass northbound and southbound inside lanes from Old Humboldt Road to Oilwell Road. Vice president remains silent on tribute to former KKK leader. The Associated Press CHATTANOOGA U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr.

is urging Vice President Al Gore to publicly denounce a Tennessee memorial that honors a former leader of the Ku Klux Wan. A bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest sitting in the state Capitol is one of several across Tennessee to honor the former Confederate general and leader of the KKK. Gore has remained silent on the memorials, leading some Republicans to suggest a double standard. Gore was critical of Republicans, including George W. Bush, for their silence over the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina Capitol.

"I'll have a conversation with the vice president about it, and well get a denunciation," said Ford D-Tenn. Gore's staff has said that the Forrest memorials haVe i Michelle Rowell holds her newborn son, Benjamin Allen Rowell, as her husband, David Rowell, looks over her shoulder. paramedics could get there and only 5 Yz hours after Rowell experienced her first contraction. "(Her process) was what is called fast labor," said Dr. Christopher Welch, an obstetriciangynecologist at Jackson Clinic.

The birthing process is generally a 23-hour period that begins when the cervix Jn" ftnq Win luiaw MORNING BRIEFING HCA to fight cable network's suit Lower JaCkKM ffif' Brownsville I tI frgg (js) imftn 1MUI The project The pavinrj will extend in both directions from mile markers 87 to 74. HCA spokesman Jeff Prescott said the company will fight the lawsuit The complaint alleges that HCA illegally backed out of the agreement to acquire a majority stake in the cable network. Scott resigned amid a federal fraud investigation of HCA's billing practices regarding federal heath care programs. He is now one of the principal investors in a limited partnership that owns half of The Health Network. Scott is not a party to the lawsuit.

The Associated Press NASHVILLE HCA, the nation's largest hospital company, has been sued by a Florida cable network headed by former HCA chief executive Rick Scott. The Health Network, based in Orlando, sued HCA on Friday Nashville alleging HCA aborted a deal to invest in the network on the same day in 1997 that who had approved the investment, resigned as CEO of The; Chancery Court lawsuit seeks; "unspecified compensation for losses investors in The Health Network claim to have suffered because the deal fell through. Construction workers wSI be placing shoulder gravel on romps from irJle marker SO to marker 74 (eastoounsl anil westtsound on ana off ramps). The finishing date All construction is scheduled to end in late September..