The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 1

Tennessee's Oldest Newspaper-Established In 1808 VOL. 172-NO. 248 SEVENTY-TWO PAGES CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1976 HOME DELIVERED PRICE-75 CENTS A WEEK-15 CENTS SINGLE COPY Wednesday Cod Wliftiirii WARMER jjN Temperatures should rise to a high in the mid-40s Thursday, following a high in the mid-30s today and a low in the low 20s tonight, as cloudiness decreases. Winds tonight should be variable at about miles per hour. The probability of board said, an employe within they system should be given some added consideration in the selection for the position over a person who is not employed within the system.

Advertisements of job openings should be placed In all the schools, and personnel within the system seeking transfers should have a method of determining when these openings are available so they could apply for the positions, the board said. Kyriakos said he sees no conflict between the affirmative action plan and the board's policy of hiring without consideration as to creed, race, sex or national origin. "It is a matter of understanding the affirmative action plan," Kyriakos said, "there is no conflict between the two. board. It should be ready for approval at the board's regular monthly meeting Dec.

14, Kyriakos said this morning. The policy states all hirings shall be accompanied by a statement filed in the central office stating the affirmative action hiring plan was complied with in the selection of a particular person for a job. The policy outlines the steps to be taken in the selection of persons for school system jobs but did not include enough detail on the processing of applications, board members said. The board also requested the policy be changed to include some weighted system of grading applications to include whether the person is already an employee In the system. Assuming all other factors were equal, the A icsfr Editorial Deaths TV Movies Comics School-Related Issue- By RON TAYLOR Staff Writer Chief Fire Inspector Andy Schmittou was to inspect Clarksville High School today to determine if fire code violations have been corrected there.

If the violations have not been corrected, there is a good possibility warrants will be issued for the arrest of school board members, school officials, CHS officials and teacbers, Schmittou said. Schmittou comments came this morning, after he informed the school board Tuesday night that unsafe conditions at the school have existed too long and that too many warnings have been given to warrant much more toleration of the situation by the city fire department. In a prepared statement read to the board, Schmittou cited several Instances In which complaints were made about the school by parents, teachers and students about the fire code violations. The most pressing of the violations found at the school Involved locked exit doors and missing fire doors. Eight such fire doqrs were replaced with iron gates around the gymnasium, Schmittou told the board.

Schmittou said lt Is not his Intention to have the utilities cut off or have warrants taken because of the violations, but that those options are open to Fire Department Chief Finis Gray if the situation is not corrected. Board chairman Glyn Broome pointed out that some of the complaints checked by Schmittou were made last year and questioned Schmittou's delay in bringing the matter to the board's attention. Schmittou said he had given director of schools T.M. Oakley copies of the monthly reports involving- complains at the school. Oakley had assured him he would follow through on the reports, Schmittou said.

Evidently we haven't followed through too well If they (the violations) were still there in the spring of 1976," Broone said. The board agreed to have the school inspected by Schmittou and David Ausbrqoks, county OSHA inspector, and correct any violations found. "We're not concerned with Just this school," Broome told Schmittou. "We're concerned with every school we have," he said in requesting the inspections. Schmittou pointed out that he Is a city officer and only Inspects city buildings and that CHS was the school building on which he has been receiving the most complaints.

Howard Thompson, principal of the school, openly defended the locked doors during the discussion, stating "If you're going to have a school out there you're going to have to keep it locked." Thompson pointed out the fire doors mentioned by Schmittou were not taken off as Schmittou had suggested, but were "ripped off" by the students. Schmittou said this morning he is planning to inspect the school today and return a full report on the Inspection to Chief Gray for whatever action he wishes to take. The enforcement of fire cod, is primarily the chief's responsibility, he said, according to the city In other business, the board decided on the "affirmative action plan to hire minorities will be used as the school system's hiring plan. Assistant director of schools Peter Kyriakos presented a draft of a proposed revision in the system's hiring and transfer program to the board for discussion. The policy was returned to Kyriakos and his staff, for some changes and modifications by the Locel Parents Warned Agai rist I ssui ng Threats The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be visiting Clarksville Thursday from noon until 6 p.m.

at the Madison Street Church. A quota has been set at ISO pints for this visit A spokesman for the endeavor said Montgomery County Is behind in its yearly quota and urged all who can donate blood to visit the bloodmobile Thursday. explusions for school, but Cowen pointed out no such policy exists for the buses. Cowen asked the board If principals have the authority-': to exclude students per-; manently from riding the buses without board action. Principals have this power, board member Helen Griff ui said, but the child could apT peal such action to the board.

Cowen said he was asking, for the interpretation to avoid arguments from parents that the buses are public property and that, as a taxpayer, all children had a right to use them. People threatening school employes or officals may face criminal charges, school board members warned Tuesday night. The warning came after board members were told of several instances in which school employes and officals were threatened with physical harm by parents of students. W. C.

Cowen, director of pupil personnel for the told the board such threats were made during meetings between the parents, bus drivers, school principals and himself. The meetings were called to discuss in stances of disruptive behavior on the school buses by the students. Glyn Broome, chairman of the board told Cowen to take out warrants against anyone who made such a threat "I don't think the school employes are paid to sit there and take this abuse," board member Charlie Warren added. Cowen reported the threats while asking for. a board interpretation of policy on excluding students from school.

The board has a policy stating board action is necessary or. all permanent sometimes saying more than -he is ready to have said. So when Thomas B. "Bert" Lance, designated director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on Sunday that a quick tax cut is "almost a certainty," Carter was quick to amend the record. "It's too early to decide," he said.

"I wouldn't say it was virtually certain, although it is one of the possibilities." Lance quickly conformed. Open Option Idea Qeiikg NASHYIIXE-I-24 from Clarksville to Nashville may not be completely open until a year from now, state officials say. Opening of 44-mile interstate section has been continuously pushed back since its initial scheduled completion date passed in October 1975. Eddie Shaw, Gov. Ray Blanton's indicated transportation commissioner how on leave of absence, said in Clarksville in September 1975 that the interstate should be open between Nashville and Clarksville by early-or mid-1977.

Transportation department officials now say the final 18-mile section should open in December 1977. A four-mile section between the Kentucky state line and Clarksville opened in September 1975. A 15-mile section from Tenn. 76 east of Clarksville to Term. 49 at Pleasant View opened last Septefhber.

Tillett Brothers of Shelbyville, 1-24 contractors, may be penalized more than $160,000 for late completion of the work," officials say. i company has three 1-24 contracts, -and is approximately an average of 130 working days behind on each one, according to state officials. ERIN Mary Lou Dobbins of Clarksville's office of the Mid-Cumberland Human Resources office was elected to the Houston County School Board Tuesday night Houston Cpunty magistrates voted unanimously for her election, after David Power, a candidate for the Dist 5 post earlier this year, withdrew. In other action, the 12 magistrates present voted to advertise to sell $1.3 million in school bonds, and to increase the per-prisoner charge at the county jail from $4 to $5 for state prisoners. The $1.3 million will be used for improvements at Tennessee Ridge Elementary School, Erin Elementary School, and Houston County High School.

State officials had threatened to withhold state funding if steps to correct overcrowding conditions were not taken. Harder, Daily fos Carter measurable precipitation today is 30 per cent. Irrfk .....6 .....14 24 ....28 ..........29 31 5 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Two Sentenced In Robbery Case A meeting set for Friday among U.S. Corps of Engineers representatives and Mayor Charles Crow and County Judge William Beach has been postponed. The meeting, to discuss possible funding for perhaps two marinas on the Cumberland River here, may be held next week, the mayor said today Col.

Henry Hatch, district engineer from Nashville, had to cancel the meeting, the mayor said, but Hatch suggested setting a date to meet next week. The Corps recently notified city and county officials it will not be able to participate in dredging operations for the proposed marinas. The dredging is expected to be a major part of the project costs. Other alternative sources of federal aid will be discussed at the meeting. tt By WALTER R.

MEARS AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -Jmmy Carter is a man who believes in keeping his options open, but it's getting more difficult every day. There's a prime example in the current will-he-or-won't-he discussion of a quick tax cut to pep up the economy early in the new administration. Carter isn't saying whether he thinks there should be such a tax cut, although that move now appears likely. Unless there is an unexpected economic spurt during the next month, the President-elect almost certainly will propose some government action to stimulate the economy. That means a tax cut to spur consumer spending, or an increase in government spending on programs that would quickly create jobs.

Carter may well opt for a combination. He said he hasn't decided and won't until after the first of the year. As a candidate, Carter dealt often in possibilities and options, leaving himself room to maneuver. That technique gave rise to charges raised first by Democratic rivals and later by President Ford and the GOP, that he wavered on issues and tried to placate all sides. But for a president-in-waiting, the options close quickly.

A campaigner's words are one thing; those of a presidentelect are another, and Carter himself fueled the tax cut speculation shortly after the election. Furthermore, Carter now has advisers and fledgling appointees speakingtar the incoming administration, and California Inmates Cheer Ruling SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) On San Quentin's Death Row, inmates shouted, whistled and cheered when 'they heard the California Supreme Court had ruled the state's death penalty unconstitutional. Thirty miles south across San Francisco-Bay, Wayne Rebiejo sat in his suburban living room and said he didn't understand why the man convicted of kidnaping, raping and murdering his sister was getting another chance. "1 don't know why they're 'doing what they're doing," Rebiejo said.

At the same time Tuesday, California Atty. Gen. Evelle Younger and members of the state legislature vowed to act immediately to enact a new capital punishment statute. Democratic Gov. Edmund Brown a death penalty foe in the past, declined comment on whether he would sign legislation re-est -Wishing capital punishment.

The unanimous 40-page decision written by retiring Chief Justice Donald Wright cited recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings. It said a 1974 California law makes "death a mandatory punishment for those categories of first-degree murder encompassed by special circumstances without provision or con-sideration of evidence of mitigating circumstances as required by the high court. A member of Younger's of- flee said the ruling will have the effect of reducing most death sentences, if not all, to life terms. At San Quentin, an official said television reports on the decision threw men into "complete pandemonium." "If they had balloons and champagne, they'd be celebrating, I'm sure," said prison spokesman Bill Merkle.

Rebiejo, whose 21-year-old sister, Debbie, was slain on her way home 15 months ago, said he regretted that James Reece, who was sentenced to death for the murder, would be spared. Reece, 32, was released from prison just a few weeks before the murder, after serving four years for a series of violent crimes. California becomes the second state to strike down its capital punishment law in the wake of the U.S., Supreme Court rulings. South Carolina declared its death penalty unconstitutional on July 21. Sixty-five men and two women currently are under death seritences in California.

AP Wfephoto I FEEL GREAT'-Tbat's what Dave Pederson, 45, pictured looking through the bars of his cell on San Quentin's death row Tuesday, had to say after learning the California State Supreme Court ruled the state's 1974 death penalth law unconstitutional. Pederson was convicted of two counts of murder In San Bernardino in 1974. Bond Set At $50,000 For Murder Suspect He said a tax cut is a leading option. Meanwhile, members of the economic team at Carter's transition headquarters in Washington said a tax cut almost surely would be part of any package proposed to stimulate the economy. Carter said two days after the election that advisers had told him a tax cut might be necessary.

"This would be a very strong possibility if there Continued on Page 13, 3 were part of the case the state had prepared to present had the case been presented, Hestle said. Two other suspects in the case are to stand trial on the charges later this term of court. William Wheat, 21, of 210 and Florence Lee Gibson, of 81-K Hillview Heights were separated from Jeffery and Brown for today's court actions, Hestle said. Good police work by City detectives Benny Woodson and Ken Albright gave the state one of the tightest cases they could ask for, Hestle said and apparently prompted the guilty plea by the two defendants, who faced a ppssible 10-year to life sentence on the charges. Criminal court Judge Sam Boaz said he would decide whether the defendant.

sentences wouia De serv concurrently or consecutively on Friday. Reached work Monday he continued. i- Smith added that a joint statement by union and management officials would be. made by Monday oathe strike issues, reported to focus, on concerning wage. Other matters in the union contract, which has been the subject of negotiations since midnight Oct.

22, had, already been settled, officials say. FT. CAMPBELL, Ky. Lt. Gen.

Charles G. Dodge (Ret), executive vice president of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) will be the principal speaker Monday at the AUSA general membership meeting. Social hour is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Top 6 Club on post, with dinner to begin at 7:30 p.m. All members and interested persons are invited.

Tickets can be purchased for $7.50 from Capt Morrison, 798-5228, or from major unit command sergeants major at Ft. Campbell." A $50,000 bond was set today for Bryan L. Collins, 18, of Youngstown, Ohio, charged with murder In connection with the shooting death of 19- Lvnn BaUey Two 10-year penitentiary sentences were returned by a Montgomery County Criminal Court jury this morning against both Earl B. Jeffery, .21, of 210 and Laverne L. Brown, 22, of M-98 Hillview Heights.

The two pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery this morning in court and received the minimum sentence recommended by Atty. Gen. Jack Hestle. Hestle said the two were charged with the armed robberies of the Kwik Stop Market on U.S. 41-A North and Tiny Town Road and the 7-Eleven Store on Peachers Mill Road Oct.

18. No evidence was allowed to be presented In the case since it was a guilty plea before the jury, Hestle said, but an outline of the state's case against the two was made, Confessions to the crime, the recovered money and the weapon used in the crime member of the union negotiation committee. Smith said the decisions made in negotiatbns would not become official until after a membership ratification vote of the union. "We assume that the vote will be taken within the next two or three days," he said. "It is our hope and expectation that we will be back at.

Around The State By The Associated Press NASHVILLE Construction of the Natchez Trace Parkway, begun in 1937 but dormant for the last decade, faces several obstacles before being completed. But the Natchez. Trace Association of Tennessee hopes the state government will overcome one of those obstacles purchasing the remaining right-of-way by July 1977. The group also hopes area Congressmen will succeed in securing the estimated $165 million in federal funds needed to complete the project. Sailey's body was found stuffed inside a trash container on Needmore Road, his hands and feet were tied.

He had been beaten, stabbed and shotrsherifTs deputies said. All three men were soldiers at the time of the murder. No motive in the case has been determined yet, Chief Deputy Royce Hancock said, although the department has two or three different possible motives it is investigating, and is discussing them with Atty. Gen. Jack Hestle.

Tentative Management and union officials of the Vulcan Corporation reached a tentative agreement early today towards settling the nearly long strike by members of local 194 of the United Rubber Workers. Charles Ed Smith, president' of Vulcan's Clarksville operation, said the tentative agreement was reached at 1 am to Vulcan Agreement uec. i. Collins' wife, Virginia, had accessory-to-murder charges against her dropped by the sheriff's department this morning in general sessions court. Collins Is charged with "aiding and abetting the murder of Jeffery Bailey by being present and ready and consenting to the murder of the deceased, that defendant has admittedly been there when deceased was killed and helped conceal the deceased in a box before he was finally beaten to death," according to the warrant against him.

William Richard 20, of Mobile Manor Trailer Park, who was charged with murder earlier during the tar vestigation, was brought before the court in a docket call this morning, but had no trial date set for his preliminary hearing, Asst. Atty. Geft. Wade Bobo said. day, but added an agreement among the federal mediator, union and management officials would not allow him to discus ssspecific details of the settlements, he said.

Another meeting to confirm the specifics of the strike settlement was scheduled for 11 a.m. today, to "tie together" the issues settled at the earlier meeting, according to one it.