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The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 2

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Leaf-Chronicle, Monday, April 2, Squires Squires Beach said these funds were. originally planned to go to the health department but the squires voted it down because they were not sure how the money was going to be spent. "We have since worked everything out," the Judge said. "A representative from Department of Public Health in Nashville will be at our informal meeting to discuss this further and to answer any questions the magistrates might have." The magistrates, will not be taking any official action on these two amendments until their regular meeting scheduled for Monday, April 9. The three zoning cases include one application for a trailer park and two applications to set up trailers on people's lots.

The first case is application of Thomas and Mary Sharp for a zone change from R-A (single family district) to R-B (two and three family district). The Sharps are planning to -put a trailer park on this property located south Keesee Road and east of Cumberland Heights Road. At their meeting last week 'the Regional Planning Commission recommended this case be disapproved because "there was a topography problem on this land tract." Continued from Page 1 The remaining two zoning William cases were recommended for County Judge 0. The first of these two cases is an application of Harvill Batson on behalf of Comer Davis for a change from R-A (single family district) to RM1 (single family mobile home residential district). This 10 acres of land is located north of Britton Springs Road (Battle Lane) and adjacent to the Fort Campbell Military Reservation Boundary.

Davis is planning to put a mobile home subdivision here. The last zoning case is an application of Richard B. Wiley for a change from R-A (single family district) to R-C (multiple family district). This 2.6 acres of land is located south of Britton Springs Road (Battle Lane) and west of Evans Road. Wiley is planning to put three trailers on this land for his family.

The county court will just hearing these cases tonight. They will not take any action until their regular meeting next Monday night. The court will take action on a proposal to split the County and Criminal Judgeships tonight. Judge Beach said the magistrates will need to vote on this matter at the informal meeting "so as to give, our representatives in the legislature the time they need to get these bills enacted into law." He added that it will take a public act and a private act of the state legislature to accomplish this. (two) bills which we have prepared are in good order except that we cannot have a four -year term for the County Judge and still have him retain probate and other monthly county court jurisdiction," Judge.

Beach said. "Therefore it seems that we will have to leave it at an eight -year term." The Judge emphasized this proposed change affecting the County, Judgeship does not become. law until it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the membership of Hearing On Capri Motion Set Today A motion to dismiss temporary injunctions which have been placed against the showing of several films at Capri Adult Theater, Inc. was scheduled to be argued in Law and Equity Court at 1 p.m. today.

Attorney Rodger Bowman," who represents Earl L. Heath, manager of the theater, filed the motion for dismissal of the temporary injunction on the following grounds: "The complaint for a temporary injunction requiring to keep the motion pictures town and stop showing such motion pictures was not served until 8:15 p.m. on March 15, 1973. Prior to that time and on or about 1:15 on March 15, 1973, in the regular course of business, said motion picture films were shipped out of this jurisdiction." According to Bowman's petition, "Without the motion picture films before the court, the court cannot. properly make an independent constitutional judgment on any question of obscenity." Judge Sam Boaz was to hear.

the Malaria Continued from Page 1 H. Brunson of Memphis, said: "I know what Americanism means now. It means you all really care for us, and that's what really counts." He had been a prisoner six months. Lt. Cmdr.

Thomas R. Hall a POW who returned to the United States earlier, said on Sunday that dissident Americans who visited Hanoi during the war "hurt our morale and were instrumental in physically hurting a lot of POWs." NAVE FUNERAL HOMES, INC. 1709 MADISON ST. PHONE 647-3371 CLARKSVILLE, TENN. 11 MAIN STREET PHONE 289-4277 ERIN, TENN.

1973 Dixie Braces: Continued from Page 1 The Rocky River at Norwood, N. was about 23 feet above flood stage Sunday morning as a result of Saturday's heavy rains. On Sunday afternoon, tornado-like winds and heavy rains swept across northern Virginia causing more than 30 injuries and inflicting heavy property damage. A twister tore apart a shopping center in Fairfax, a town located a few miles west of Washington. high school was damaged to the extent that classes were called off for today.

South Carolina Gov. John West and Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter each flew over stricken areas of their states Sunday and both said they would seek federal disaster funds. At one point Sunday, tornado watches were issued for parts of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The watches expired with only Virginia being hit.

In Georgia, state agency representatives were scheduled to open relief centers in Jonesboro, Monroe, Athens and Conyers at noon today to help residents seek assistance. those in attendance and said, "There is a handful of parents and teachers at Greenwood Annex that are out to get Yeary. Pknow wha they are-not 100 per cent--but I bet I know 80 per cent of them." And Rev. J.F. Cunningham, NAACP member, concluded the meeting saying, "Too much politicking is going on in our school system.

If you're interested in supporting Mr. Yeary, it would be to: your advantage to be at the conference session of the school board (April 10) and the school board meeting (April 24). "You as parents can have great influence on what action the Board may take," Cunningham said. TWO DIE IN FIRE NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)Two men died early Sunday in a fire that destroyed the Nashville house in which they were staying.

Dead are Neville Vaughn Wilkins 30, of Goodlettsville, a Nashville suburb; and Roland Pike 34, of Odessa, Tex. The men, found in a bedroom of the house, died of smoke inhalation, firemen said. A third occupant of the house, Miss Katherine Vanderfluft, escaped by climbing through her bedroom window, firemen said. The weekend tornadoes were the fourth natural disaster to hit the Peach State since January. Since the first of the year Georgia has ehdured a crippling ice storm, a once-in-acentury snow storm, and flooding.

Tornadoes Saturday night struck with capricious aim leaving a trail of patches, of destruction that stretched from Jonesboro, south of Atlanta, to the South Carolina line. Hundreds of homes were demolished or heavily damaged, four mobile home parks- two near Stockbridge and two near Athens-were virtually wiped out. The City of Conyers suffered heavy damage to its industrial park, The Leaf-Chronicle AP -Wirephoto WRECKED BY TORNADO Onlookers survey the tornado struck. Forty homes were destroyed and one damage to a home in Abbeville, S. subdivision where a hundred and twenty four were damaged in the area.

Georgia Victims Begin Cleanup be By The ASSOCIATED PRESS Massive cleanup operations were under way today as, thousands of Georgians began the task of rebuilding in the aftermath of tornadoes that rampaged -across the state during the weekend. Relief assistance centers were planning to open at noon today in Jonesboro, Conyars, Monroe and Athens-the hardest hit areas when twisters began touching down Saturday before skipping into South Carolina. At least eight, persons have been reported killed in the two states. Gov. Jimmy Carter called the damage from the twisters the "worst natural disaster" to hit Georgia.

He estimated damage between $50 million Havner Trial Rescheduled The Criminal Court trial of Debra Havner, age 20, charged with the Sept. 18, 1972 murder of a New Providence mother of two, was rescheduled for Wednesday after Attorney General Noel R. Bagwell announced settlement had been reached in the case. The Havner woman, of Grayville, was arrested at her home after the body of Anna Lee "Peggy" Johnson, 31, of Lot 38, Sunnydale Trailer Park, was found lying in the bedroom of her mobile home. She also faces charges of larceny in connection with the same incident.

The additional charge accuses her of taking the victim's car after she allegedly murdered the woman. Four Local Officers Take Training, -Two city patrolmen and two county sheriff's deputies have completed six weeks of basic police recruit training at the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy at Donelson. Attending the training school from the city police department were patrolmen Thomas L. Nelson and Phillip Harold Watson. Deputies Bobby Biter and Randy H.

Wall attended the school from the sheriff's office. The class, which ran from Feb. 19 through Mar. 30, was conducted in compliance with the "Minimum Standards" law which was passed by the state legislature and went into effect in July, 1970. Training emphasis was placed on the three major areas involved in law enforcement: 1).

Legal subjects for police; 2) Criminal in vestigation activities; and 3) Police traffic services. Course topics. included: sociology, psychology, principles and techniques of conducting criminal and accident investigations, defensive tactics, -traffic patrol techniques, traffic direction and control, firearms training, and first aid. Class discussion was also conducted on specifid offenses such as burglary, car theft, narcotics and dangerous drugs, counterfieting, liquor laws, and sex crimes. and $100 million.

"I've been in nadoes but I've anything quite said Bill Clack, director of Civil covered so much Twisters first in Jonesboro damage, Carter said. recovery operations and a lot of tor- The governor has asked major insurance companies never seen state agencies to send are also being asked to send like this one," representative to the four representatives to help exstate assistant relief centers to assist pedite claims. Defense. "It skipping down Yeary Continued from Page 1 yesterday describing what the teachers had called "intimidation" and what he called his "administrative philosophy." For instance, Yeary said he a little gadget" he used on teachers when they were not at their "posts" He said his a written statement which he placed in some teachers' mailboxes, went "something like "As I came by your post, Hearing Set For Exposer A Ft. Campbell sergeant was arraigned in General Sessions court this morning on charges of indecent exposure stemming from an incident this weekend at the Two Mall parking lot.

Appearing before Judge Thomas E. Stamper was Sgt. Dorris Owen Oliver, 34, assigned to the U.S. Army Hospital. Detachment.

Bond was set at $1,000 and a preliminary hearing date was set for April 16. Oliver was arrested by city detectives Lt. Bill South and Bill Carney about, 5:35 p.m. Saturday at the Riverside Dr. mall after five complaints had been received at the police department from various shoppers.

According to South, an, additional complaint was also. received from a Collinwood Dr. resident who told police man in a brown Maverick" had exposed himself to a 13- year -old girl. South said the marooncolored Maverick Oliver was. driving at the time of his arrest matched the description given by the complainants.

Oliver was also charged with driving while intoxicated and was released from the city jail after posting bond of $105.75. you were not there. If you have a logical explanation as to why you were not there, write it up, and if it is logical, It will destroy the fact that you were not there (at your White the teachers called this device Yeary said yesterday, "This is not a threat. trying to show you I deal as honestly as I know how." As far as daily announcement bulletins, which teachers said threatened them, Yeary said he thought the teachers were referring to statements he released in daily bulletins after he found students stranded after school. Yeary said the children were involved in activities in the late afternoon, waiting for rides, with no teacher supervision.

He said that after he found these students several times he got fed up" and said in a bulletin, "If this happens again, you will have to sit and answer to me and one of the administrators above me." In describing one incident at his school where he and a teacher disagreed on the punishment of a pupil, Yeary said, "I told this, teacher--and this teacher has a master's degree in psychology--I told her she was acting like a teenager. "The student had a much better case than the teacher had," Yeary said. In other matters, Yeary repeatedly. said "the referring to the LEAF-CHRONICLE, had done a "first class job to electrify the community," and claimed hadn't been given a "fair shake" in the newspaper. The single reporter at yesterday's meeting was from the LEAF-CHRONICLE.

Asked if there was any difference in the attitude of the teachers and students since the accusations were levied, Yeary said, "I used to be able to walk down the halls and the students would say hello. I say good morning to the same students now and they look the other way and don't even speak." At the close of the meeting, Yeary expressed his thanks to CAN YOU SELL YOURSELF And YOUR IDEAS? Ability to do so will put you ahead faster and is one of the skills you'll develop in the Dale Carnegie DALE CARNEGIE, Founder Some Profits from the Dale Carnegie Course for Men and Women Confidence Relations Speaking Training Friends Worry VISIT A FREE INTRODUCTORY SESSION No Cost or Obligation MAR. 29 OR APR. 2 7:06 P.M. NEW PROVIDENCE BRANCH-NORTHERN BANK For Info.

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37040 Single Copy Price, Daily .10 Single Copy Price, Sunday .20 MAIL RATES Montgomery and Adjoining. Counties One Year $14.00 Six Months 8.00 Three Months $.6.00 One Month 3.00 Outside Montgomery and Adjoining Counties One Year $17,00 Six Months $10.00 Three Months 7.00 One Month 6.00 By Carrier One Week $50 City subscribers not desiring to pay the carrier each week may remit in advance direct to the Leaf-Chronicle at the rate of .50 per week for a period of three, Six, or twelve months. The LeafChronicle will not be responsible for money paid in advance to regular carriers. It is permissable to pay motor route carriers in advance. Man Held In Assault A 52-year-old Clarksville man was being held in county jail in lieu of $3,000 bond this morning after he was arrested this weekend on charges of assault with intent to kill.

Detective Lt. Bill South said Ira Burnice, of 527 Ninth St. was arrested Sunday at his home by patrolman Bob Davis. Burnice is accused of stabbing William Thompson, 50, also of 527 Ninth in the left it eye with a pocketnife following an argument at their home, South said. Thompson was reportedly found walking at the inPersection of Ninth and Marion St.

shortly after the incident about 10:55 p.m. Saturday. A spokesman at Memorial Hospital said Thompson was treated at the emergency room and released. Burnice is scheduled for a. preliminary hearing on April 9.

Obituaries Russell Powell Russell Powell, 49, delivery service operator of 604 Cumberland died Saturday at 3 p.m. in Clarksville Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at McReynolds Funeral Home by the Rev. Glen Hester and' the Rev.

John Price: Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Mr. Powell was born in Montgomery Co. July 30, 1923, son of the late Oscar and Cora McDaniel Powell. He was a member of Gracey Ave.

Baptist Church. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Walker Powell; three daughters, Mrs. Sandra Bordonali, Ft. Pierce, Mrs.

Marilyn Ross and Mrs. Karen Wilson, Clarksville; three grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Malcolm Fuqua, Bobby Ross Thomas Elliott, Morris Stanley, Billy Wilson, Lehman Jenkins, and Bobby Ross Sr. Mrs. Elam Mrs.

Essie E. Elam of Hopkinsville, died at the residence of a daughter, Mrs. Mary Etta Landers, 233 Edmondson Ferry Road, here this morning after a sudden Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Babbage Funeral Home, Hopkinsville, Ky. across the state. Two persons were killed in Georgia, hundreds injured and an estimated 5,000 left homeless.

Six persons were reported killed in South Carolina in the Abbeville and Calhoun Falls, S.C., areas. More than 300 persons were reported injured in Rockdale, Clayton, Walton and Clarke counties-50 seriously enough be admitted. About 12 persons were admitted to De Kalb General Hospital Saturday night. A National Weather Service spokesman said the stretch of territory the tornado hit was unusually long and the damage was amazing. The twisters developed and began touchity ground so quickly they ore not spotted on the service's radarscope.

Carter said he has asked for federal assistance in the hardest hit areas. He flew over the areas Sunday. He said it was "a miracle no more people were killed." Officials of the U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness will tour the areas today to assess Tennessee Continued from Page 1 so, said Mrs. Raymond Armistead of Sumner County.

"They get their beef and their pork prices frozen at the very peak retail price level but the farmers get their liveweight price frozen when the market was on its way back up, but still five or six cents under peaks of 40 cents set at the Nashville market two weeks She said the President froze prices at a point when the market was experiencing the biggest spread between live prices and retail prices in months. "Who does that help? The chain stores, the meat packers, the processors and reatil marketers in general," she declared. Hotel Trial Underway The trial of' the Hotel Montgomery vs. the city of Clarksville began in Circuit Court today at 11 a.m. The case involves a countersuit between the hotel and the city for a breech of contract.

City Attorney Frank. Runyon, representing the city, claims in the suit the hotel has not paid the more than $10,000 in back rent it owes the city. James Cunningham, the attorney representing Mr. and Mrs. William Edmondson, managers of the hotel, has claimed the city is in breech of contract because it has not repaired damages to the hotel's roof as stated in its contract with the hotel.

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