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a m. FAIR frS thorn: Deaths 4 Editorial 6 10-13 DearAbby 18 Comics .22 Movies 23 Classified 24-27 West Point Scandal Puts AAorale At Rock Bottom Page 14 iiii ji i ii ii ff Tennessee's Oldest Newspaper-Established In 1808 VOL. 172-NO. 119 TWENTY CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 1976 HOME DELIVERED PRICE-75 CENTS A WEEK-15 CENTS SINGLE COPY. Sfreefs, Recreation Funds Cut Capsule Coyincil CinSDruyes Mews I I Tr Budgets By STEVEN JONES Staff Writer The scissor-weilding city council finance committee trimmed the street department's 1976-77 budget request in hearings Wednesday night, but began crew-cutting the recreation department's new budget.

C.B. Smith, street department superintendent, asked for $902,173 and left with $54,173 Tom Dillard, recreation department director, asked for $545,642.74 and left with $453,042.74 minus $92,600. Both budget requests face possible further reductions or modifications after all department requests are heard and then considered together along with projected city revenues for the next fiscal year to start July 1 The street department budget, as it left the committee meeting Wednesday, represents a 22 per cent increase over this year's $695,000 budget. Smith told committee members an added 28 miles of roads from the recently annexed areas would necessitate greater ex- penditures. The department will go over its budget allotment for this year because of the added road maintanence, he said.

The committee cut $10,000, for a new truck, from the street equipment budget, but agreed to leave in Smith's request for an $18,000 "maintainer," a small grader which Smith said was his "priority" piece of equipment. Smith also asked the committee to allot $35,000 to buy a new street sweeper. The present sweeper is beyond repair, he said. A sweeper is superior to using water and manpower to clean the streets, Smith said. Buying a sweeper would help the appearance of the downtown area, and would ease the "complaints" he is getting about dirty streets, he added.

The sweeper request was left in the budget for the time being. "It's whatever you gentlemen think," Mayor Charles Crow told committee members. In addition to $54,000 for equipment, the street budget request contains $19,000 for drainage pipe, $300,000 for materials and Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 Staff Photos By Steven Jones MORE AND MORE-City council member Michael Savage, top, chairman of the recreation committee, ponders the recreation department's budget at Wednesday night's city budget hearings. Tom Dillard, recreation director, is in the background.

In the lower photograph, C. B. Smith, city street superintendent, explains the street department's increased budget needs for the next fiscal year while Clint Daniel, chairman of the streets committee, listens. Furfher Discussions Sef By The Associated Press NASHVILLE Rep. Marvin Hopper, R-Nashville, the only Middle Tennessee Republican in the state House of Representatives, today became the latest House Republican to announce he won't seek re-election.

Hopper, a restaurant operator, represents the only legislative district in Davidson County which was carried by Republican Bob Olsen in last year's special 5th Congressional District election. Rep. Clifford Allen, won the election. There were 34 Republicans in the House during the 1975-76 legislative session and 10 of them have announced they won't seek re-election, three of them to run for the Senate. NASHVILLE Buoyed by his near-tie with Jimmy Carter in Michigan, Rep.

Morris Udall, has scheduled two campaign appearnces in Nashville Friday for next week's Tennessee presidential primary election. Udall's Tennessee visit will be climaxed Friday night with a question-and-answer session at the same banquet, sponsored by The Tennessean, Nashville newspaper, at which Republican Ronald Reagan will appear. Udall becomes the third Democrat to campaign in the state for votes in the Tuesday primary, where the state's 46 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are at stake. Carter, the favorite to win a majority of the delegates, and Alabama Gov. George Wallace both were In the state earlier in the week.

PHILADELPHIA French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing has toured historic PhHadelphia, rubbing the Liberty Bell's famous crack and praising men like Ben Franklin who strengthened American-French ties more than 200 years ago. Accompanied by his wif Anne-Aymone, and more than 100 foreign newsmen, the French president was given a whirlwind tour Wednesday of Independence National Historical Park, where the Liberty Bell is housed and where America's forefathers adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 19776. Giscard d'Estaing returned to Washington Wednesday night for a flight to Texas today. His schedule takes him to Louisiana on Friday. WASHINGTON A majority of the Senate's new intelligence committee will be members of existing panels whose failure to curb spy agency abuses provided a principal argument for creation of the new committee.

Under terms of a resolution establishing the new panel, at least eight of its 15 members must come from the four Senate panels that traditionally have monitored the CIA FBI and other spy agencies. The resolution won overwhelming Senate approval Wednesday. Majority leader Mike Mansfield will pick eight Democrats to serve on the panel and minority leader Hugh Scott will tap seven Republicans. The resolution originally called for a 17-member panel but the number was cut to 15 under an amendment by Sen. Howard Cannon.

Tenatative Insurance Contract Signed By School Officials ft eswW i By RON TAYLOR Staff Writer A tentative insurance contract for the city-county school board will be discussed by the board and its Insurance representatives Tuesday night at the regular session of the board. The tentative policy was signed yesterday by school system officials in an attempt to provide liability insurance for the board. The board's present policy with the Insurance Company of North America expires June 1 and the board has threatened to resign if new insurance is not provided by that date. The new policy, with CNA Insurance, will provide better Insurance at a premium, according to board chairman Glynn Broome. The proposed policy to be discussed by the.

board includes three possible in the suit filed by former Greenwood Annex principal James Yeary. Yeary is suing the board for back pay and about $500,000 in damages after he was not rehired as principal of the school during the 1972-73 school year. Yeary contends his contract with the system was not renewed because of racial reasons. Although the school board is required by law to carry at least $20,000 of Insurance, the law is not the reason for the local board's decision on insurance, Broome stated. "I don't know about the law," he stated, "but we are doing it to protect ourselves." The board is currently involved in two law suits, the one with Yeary and another involving a youngster who injured himself at St.

Bethlehem School during a summer recreation program there. surance plans with four different coverages, Doug Weiland, school system business manager, said. The policies offered can provide insurance for all the school employes, Just the board, or the board and anyone else it designates, Weiland said. The policies also offer annual coverage of $1 million, $2 million, $3 million or $5 million, whichever is desired, Weiland explained. The board's present policy offers a maximum coverage of $1 million per year with a $100,000 limit on any one law suit, Weiland stated.

Without the new insurance the board would be liable for damages and legal costs for any law suits brought against it that may arise after June 1, Broome stated. INA will be responsible for all law suits filed against the board prior to that date, he added, including Coy id vy To eh er IK! ou sed Afl Rescue Squad! Sive probably increase the cost of his department's insurance. So, it was determined that- Continued on Page 4, Col. 3 By ROBERT SHERBORNE Staff Writer A 1,000 gallon water tanker which will be used by the newly formed county fire Riley Darnell Seeks Post As Delegate IRiley Darnell, a Clarksville attorney and state legislator, is seeking election May 25 as a delegate to represent Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention this summer, he has formally announced. Darnell, who has served In tbi Tennessee House of Representatives as a Continued on Page 4, Col.

3 protection service will not be housed at the city fire station, as originally planned. This was the decision reached last week at an Informal meeting of Mayor Charles Crow, County Judge William O. Beach, city fire chief Finis Gray, and rescue squad captain Alex Wooten. Original plans had called for the tanker to be housed at the city fire station on Third Street, and to be driven to county fires by city fireman. Mayor Crow, however, said that several city council members "adamantly oppose" this plan.

These council members, he said, do not want to become entangled in a joint city-county fire fighting effort. "We're riot opposed to what they're doing," Crow said after the meeting. "In fact, we're supporting them 100 per cent." Yet, Crow said, the fire department's insurance company might increase the department's insurance rates should city firemen be used to help fight fires in the county. "The (insurance Inspection) bureau has frowned on it all along," Crow said, referring to the fact that city firemen and equipment have In the past gone into the county to fight fires. And, Crow said, he feels the bureau will simply not allow another fire service's equipment to be boused at the city fire station.

Chief Gray said that since the tanker would have been manned by city firemen, then the number of men available to tight a fire in the city would be temporarily reduced when there was a fire in the county. And, this, Gray said, would OSLO, Norway Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told North Atlantic foreign ministers today that Soviet leaders are under temptation from some of their ideologists to use their growing military strength, according to a diplomat who attended the meeting. But Kissinger was said to have added that in his opinion the Soviet Union is not bent on world domination. Kissinger was the first speaker at a working session of NATO ministers that has been clouded by concern over the UJS.

secretary's campaign weakened effectiveness. Kiepinger said Soviet military strength is the result of long-range planning and not a reaction to current events, the diplomat reported. WASHINGTON The Ford administration is stepping up its efforts to prod Rhodesian President Ian Smith into negotiations for a peaceful takeover by the African nation's black majority. The administration as been working through African and European countires in its indirect contacts with the Rhodesian government. Talks between Smith and President Ford have been all but ruled out.

Meanwhile, the White House has reached a tentative decision not to step up pressure on Congress now for an immediate vote to nullify the Byrd amendment, which permits the Import of chrome from Rhodesia in definance of a United Nations embargo. BEIRUT, Lebanon Christian and Moslem leaders sought to arrange another cease-fire today In the Lebanese civil war, but they coudln't even agree on whether or not they had reached an agreement "There Is no smell of ceasefire on the front lines," a police spokesman said. He reported at least 58 persons were killed overnight In clashes in Beirut, Its suburbs and the mountains overlooking the Christian-held enclave north of the capital. Nearly 20,000 persons have lost their lives in the 134 months of warfare. Shelling of the Christian heartland of Kesrouan province by leftist Moslems and their Palestinian allies --1' i INVESTIGATING THE ACCIDENT City police officers S5i4 Richard Simmons (right) and Wayne Davis examine the I'll wreckage of an accident between a tractor-trailer loaded I i 1 1 with lumber and a passenger car on the Ringgold Bridge at I 1 about 2 a.m.

today. The photo by Staff Photographer W. J. I is Souza shows part of the $3,000 worth of lumber spread across 3w5; i I the bridge as a result of the collision that injured three sj tL I persons. All three were treated and released at area My-" hospitals; i' 1 I I i --wis! tjr, i r-r UlZn in inT i SSBBliBlltlf forced a closing of schools, Christian leaders said.

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