The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 1

LorQoflaiiD H3 lit Will Si By RILEY C. DARNELL Direct Representative The recent changes that have swept the Tennessee political scene in the last few months might be described in revolutionary terms. Webster's Dio-tionary defines revolution as "a total or radical or in the political sense, a "fun years. A review of Tennessee legislative history for the past half century will give us a better understanding of what may occur during the upcoming legislative session. Over the last half century, the General Assembly lost its status as an independent, coequal branch of state government.

In fact, as late as the beginning of the last decade, we find the General Assembly acting more like an arm of the executive than a separate branch of government. The domination of the legislative branch was gradually brought about over a considerable period by a nearly unbroken succession of damental change in politics." Although no guns were fired or blood shed, the Tennessee Legislature has undergone a revolution-one of attitude and These rapid political changes have created problems for Governor Dunn and possibly the people of Tennessee for the next two Democratic Party governors. Nearly 50 years of one-party control of state government was more than sufficient time to allow complete control by the executive branch. The governor, as both chief executive and leader of the majority party, was to become the overwhelming figure in state government. Dissident democratic legislators were either silenced or rendered ineffective in their oppositon to the governor.

The" Republican minority was even less effective in its opposition and usually found itself supporting the administration to salvage some of the "benefits of state government for its con-Continued on Page 8, Col. 7, Unshackling the Tennessee legislature from the influence of the Governor presents its members with an opportunity for responsible leadership. Riley C. Darpell, Montgomery County's 30-year old Direct Representative to the legislature, discusses these challenges in the 22nd of a -series of articles analyzing the local community. 1 A native of Montgomery County, Darnell is a graduate of Clarksville High School, Austin Peay State University and holds a law degree from Vanderbilt University.

He is a practicing attorney. He was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly in November and is a member of the Judiciary and Finance Committees of the state House of Representatives. CLARKSVILLE. TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 10, 1 f' 1 7 jtloc were extricated in the night and early morning hours. The shock at 6:01 a.m., Tuesday was centered 26 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, crumped much of the concrete facing on the 150-foothigh dam of Van Norman Hoystooi Rises found in the hospital wreckage two of them just before dawn today and 55 rescued.

So heayy and so interlocked wettHtige chunks of concrete irom me virtuauy leveiea three-story structures that rescuers said it might be LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE iJl-- Major "I i ''J PACL 10 CENTS SINGLE COPY likely to be reckoned ultimately in the hundreds of. millions. Hundreds of com--mercial buildings and factories were damaged, along with uncounted homes, high-Continued on Page 8, Col. 5 01 (SI I To Roosa parachuted to a precisiort landing in the South Pacific Tuesday, climaxing a lunar voyage which scientists say will greatly enrich man's knowledge of the moon and space agency officials hail as perfect. The spacemen hit the gentle tropic waters less than four miles from this helicopter carrier and quickly were hoisted aboard by helicopter.

They were just seven-tenths of a mile from the landing target. Hundreds of white-clad sailors cheered and snapped pictures, "Welcome Apollo 14" banners unfurled and a band played "Starsand Stripes Forever" as the three smiling spacemen walked smartly from the copter to the quarantine trailer. On the remote possibility that they returned harmful germs from the moon, Shepard, Mitchell and Roosa wore protective masks that prevented their exhaling into the surrounding atmosphere. Dr. William Carpentier, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration flight surgeon who is in the quarantine van with them, reported that a preliminary medical examination showed them all to be in good health.

Also in the trailer is R. H. Culbertson, a NASA engineer who maintains the van 1 -4- i' i 1971-50 CENTS A WEEK San Fernando Valley which would be in the path of flood waters should the dam break. Officials said that barring a strong new aftershock, it should hold. The initial shock and lesser aftershocks caused damage ABOARD USS NEW ORLEANS (AP) Apollo 14's moon heroes, healthy and snug in a quarantine trailer, steamed aboard this carrier toward Samoa today "after safely completing man's third lunar landing mission.

From Samoa they'll be flown to the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston, arriving early Friday. They'll get a glimpse of their families, then continue their isolation against possible moon germs until Feb. 16. Alan B. Shepard Edgar D.

Mitchell and Stuart A. Tax Hike Rumored NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Winfield Dunn probably will be, forced to seek new sources of revenue possibly a 1-or 2-cent sales tax increase to finance the next fiscal year's budget of more than $1 billion, a spokesman said today. "As it looks now, there will have to be some additional revenue," said Ralph Griffith, Dunn's director of information. "A decision will have to be made this week." Before he left office, former Gov.

Buford Ellington said he did not see how Dunn' could avoid a tax increase because, he said, revenue gains had not kept pace with rising costs of government. At the moment, Griffith said, Dunn's administration is thinking of seeking an increase in the state's sales tax, raising it either to 4 or 5 per cent. If it goes to 5 per cent, he Continued on Page 8, Col. 1 Astro Bock another day or more before all victims could be reached. Although cries of "Help me! Help me!" could be heard Tuesday night, authorities said there was little likelihood of more survivors being found.

The bodies of five persons COLLAPSES IN of the Veterans 7 I 7 -a 1 fff Lakes, the city's largest reservoir, and cracked its main structure of earth fill. As water experts began draining it, police ordered a forced evacuation Tuesday night of some 80,000 persons in a 20-square-mile area of the AP Wlrephoto Valley gallons of water, killing five persons and destroying 64 homes. Most of the lowlands homes nearest the dam cost $40,000 and up, a city official said. They are in the bedroom communities of Granada Hills, Northridge, Mission' Hills, Reseda, Canoga Park and Van Nuys. Robert Noel, a dam Continued on Page 8, Col.

5 RILEY DARNELL Death Toll LOS ANGELES (AP) Authorities kept a wary eye on a cracked reservoir dam and probed wreckage of a ruined hospital for bodies today in the wake of an earthquake that dealt death and destruction to Southern Forty-four deaths were reported, nine of them heart attack victims. More than 1,000 persons were reported injured. Officials said 15 persons were missing, some buried in the rubble of two collapsed buildings at a Veterans Administration Hospital in the hard-hit west end of the populous San Fernando Valley. Twenty -five bodies had been mister Visioned Earthquake ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) When the Rev.

Don Abernathy led his flock across the country to Georgia from California two and one-half years ago, he said he did so -because he believed an earthquake would drop the western edge of California into the Pacific. Abernathy, 31, and his congregation of about 200 moved from the Bell Garden commu-. nity in the Los Angeles area because the minister said he had a vision. They set up their First Apostolic Gospel Church in I nearby Stone Mountain, Ga. "This is happening just the way the Lord showed me it would," the minister said when he heard about the earthquake in the Los Angeles Continued on Page 8, Col.

5 Hogan's Conviction Is Upheld Ronnie Hogan, 23, was transferred to the state prison this morning to begin serving a sentence of not more than 15 years after the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Hogan's murder conviction Tuesday. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department arrested Hogan yesterday afternoon after the murder conviction was" upheld. Hogan has been free on a $7,000 appellate bond since his conviction Jan. 8, 1970, awaiting the outcome of the appeals court. The Court of Criminal Appeals turned down Hogan's appeal of the trial court's decision which refused to grant the Clarksvillian a new trial here.

The Clarksvillian was found guilty of second degree murder In the June 2, 1969 pistol slaying of Sgt. l.C. Kenneth W. G. Oetken, 33, a Ft.

Campbell soldier. The victim, whose Uth child was born about iour months after his death, was shot with a pistol at his home, 5 Lexington Drive, Clarksville. tiiiim niiini rmmi mrwmmi i. ir Administration hospital in Sylmar lie in ruins following Tuesday's southern California earthquake. HOSPITAL portions vacuo ted From systems and helps with cooking and other chores.

Continued on Page 8, Col. 2 Damage Suit Postponed A $450,000 damage suit which was postponed Monday due to inclement weather is scheduled in circuit court Wednesday, Feb. 17. There was some mix-up Monday as the case was reported to have been rescheduled for today However, Paul Welker, attorney for the plaintiff, said the case was rescheduled for Wednesday of next week. The suit was filed by Mrs.

Mary Ruth James, 1356 Moss Road, against the Clarksville Transit Authority which is no longer in operation. The suit, stemming from injuries to Mrs. James' daughter, Patricia Ann, in a 1968 bus accident has ended in two mistrials in Law and Equity Court here previously. The suit was also dismissed last June when a New York attorney could not be present to aid Welker in the case. Judge Thomas Boyers III of Gallatin will hear the case next week in circuit court.

counts of larceny after an investigation of several months by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and city police. Arrested were James Wilson Taylor, 18, of 413 Garden Terrace, charged with two burglaries and two lar cenies; Ronald L. Booth, 22, of 478 Circle Drive, charged with two burglaries; Thomas Crockett, 18, of Route. Palmyra, charged with three burglaries; Willard Ennis, 19, of Route 1, Southside, one burglary; Roger Dale Martin, 18, of Route 2, Clarksville, one burglary and two larcenies; and Jerry Wayne Wilbanks, 18, of Route 8, Clarksville, charged with one burglary; and James Howard Walker, 20, of 114 S. Seventh charged with five burglaries and three larcenies.

The cases for all seven have been set In general sessions court for 9 a.m. Feb. 17. The seven were placed on bonds totalling $19,500. Walker Continued on Page 8, Col.

1 Burglary Ring Broken Here Officials said they would have the dam drained to a safe level by tonight. Pumps were used to discharge water into Bull Creek, eventually feeding the valuable drinking water, into the Pacific Ocean. When the earthquake struck there was 3.6 billion gallons of water in the larger of the reservoirs. On Dec. 14, 1963, a break in the Baldwin Hills Dam 20 miles south of the valley spilled about 2.3 billion my men to not save anyone who doesn't want to be saved," Davis said.

Police in patrol cars, using bullhorns, sped through the area telling residents to leave. Some valley dwellers spent the night at evacuation centers set up at three high schools. Others stayed with friends. Only street lights burned in the evacuated, sealed-off area. Seven persons have been charged in connection with five burglaries and three 80,000 By ROBERT-T.

KERR Associated Press Writer GRANADA HILLS, Calif. (AP) A 20-square-mile area where 80,000 persons live in the suburban San Fernando Valley was under evacuation order today because police feared a potential disaster from an earthquake-damaged earthen foothill dam. Nestled on a slope covered with trees and brush and overlooking a vast section of iddle and upper-middle-class Los Angeles homes, the Van Norman Dam showed two cracks 20 feet long and 18 inches wide. An earthquake Tuesday caused half of a concrete apron to slip into one of the dam's twin reservoirs. Police Chief Edward Davis ordered evacuation although the city water and power department, which operates the dam, said there would be no leakage unless there was another earthquake.

"I have issued "an order to Goitio On Insidd Editorial 4 Sport Pages 6-7 Deaths 8 TV 13 Dear Abby Page 14 Comic Page 16 Classified 17 (' fS tH i 7 i l1 i) 1 1 I 1 () i 1 1 I I 1 ta 4" -n 11., Si 1 I Mb1" 4 1 Stiff Photo by WJ. Souza Willard Ennis, James Wilson Taylor, Roger Dak Martin, Jerry Wayne Wilbanks, Ronald L. Booth, Thomas Crockett and James Howard Walker. BURGLARY AND LARCENY SUSPECTS These seven men were charged Tuesday with five burglaries and three larceny cases. From left are.