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Tkowiav. December 1982 III, Twin. fete 4A TUt fof-ChfOtltCf, Cttorlctv 1 Transit Systems Face Dilemma I SHOE MARTS number of daily van trips from three to two. But, Pritchard said, CARTA proposes to increase the fare for the handicapped from $1.50 to $2. Transit officials are hoping the toss of federal money will be offset somewhat if Congress approves Reagan's proposal to increase the federal gasoline tax by a nickel a gallon.

Officials said transit may benefit from some proceeds of that increase. Williams said Metro Nashville voters are likely to see another transit tax proposal "I would expect that would have to be addressed again in the next couple of years," he said. It is up to transit officials to convince wary voters, he said "You have to go back and sell them on the concept" In August, MTA officials eliminated one bus route and reduced the number of runs made on other routes. Williams said the system, whose buses carry about 35,000 daily riders during weekdays, did not need to increase the 65-cent base fare adopted in October 1981. By JOHN NOLAN 4 rrmm nl 4 A Dbam Mf ilMOMI rrCSS WtnCT With traditional sources of funding for public transportation drying up, transit officials must do their best to convince the public that the service is worth the cost of new taxes, a Tennessee transit administrator says.

"Some way, you have to pay for it," Harvel Williams, general manager of Nashville's Metropolitan Transit Authority, said Wednesday. "Public transportation is facing very difficult period," he said. "But I think that the people in generl support a transit system and recognize that there must be a transit system to have a viable community." The nation's transit systems are under pressure to find means of financial support because President Reagan proposes to eliminate federal transit operating subsidies by 1985, reducing them by one-third each year until then. The MT A cut back its Nashville-area bus service by 11 percent sys-temwide after the city's voters oh Aug. 5 rejected a proposed one-cent per gallon gasoline tax that would have raised ah estimated til million annually for the transit system Directors of the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority made final decisions today on what bus services the CARTA system is eliminating after Hamilton County voters rejected a similar one-cent per gallon gas tax proposal Nov.

2. That tax would have provided CARTA with an estimated $1.7 million annually. "Some people think well be making a profit with this. All we'll be doing is balancing our said Mark Pritchard, CARTA'S assistant general manager. "We have to reduce our budget and we have no alternative but to reduce service." He said CARTA plans to eliminate some bus routes and reduce service on others.

Among those concerned about CARTA'S service cutbacks are handicapped people who ride vans specially equipped with wheelchair lifts. Transit officials assured handicapped people who attended a CARTA public hearing Tuesday night that the agency had worked out a way to keep from reducing the Reg. 15.99 Dress Wedges Glamorous open toe vamp and sling strap. Black, 6-10. Matching Shoulder Bags reg.

7 99 sale 6.22 SHOE MARTS OPEN NIGHTS AND SUNDAYS 653 NORTH RIVERSIDE DR. 552-9620 Two Men In Truck Take Ottoman; Woman Blows Horn To No Avail Two men showed little Christmas spirit Wednesday afternoon as they drove away with part of a Clarks- Local Briefs vdle woman's brand new living room ,1 suite. Jodie BotticeDo, 1028 Britton Springs Road, was bringing her new living room furniture home from Nashville when the ottoman fen from her truck on Riverside Drive. "We turned around to go back and get it and here were two men putting it into their truck," she said. "We were blowing the horn at them but they just drove off." She said she failed to get a license number because the other truck began moving before she could turn around.

"You'd think they wouldn't do something like that right here at Christmas," she said "It was part of the whole set andil had been paying on this for a year," she said, noting the set was valued at $1,000. Police were looking for a blue-anB-white pickup truck. City, County Befcr Tax Revenue Up Both Montgomery County and tie city of Clarksvule showed gains in the collection of beer tax revenues during August of this year over the previous year. The latest figures from the Tennessee Malt Beverage Association show the county collected $19,020 in August from the 17 percent tax on legal beer sates. That was up from the $17,789 collected the same month in 1981.

For the year, the county has received $133,525 through August compared last year. The city showed an increase as Well, taking in $69,877 in August this year. That was up from the $64,106 for August the year before. For the year, the city has received $502,452 while in 1981, it had revenues of $487,519 through August. APSU Computet Teaches Farming If Old MacDonald had had a farm like the 220 acres in an Austin Peay State University computer, his nonsense song could have been serious busi- "business" of farming is what a computer simulation is designed to teach in the farm management course at Austin Peay.

James Goode, an agriculture professor, devoloped the computer program which allows students to see the short- and long-range effects of decisions they make in raajiagjng their farms. Natural factors rain, drought, soil erosion, harsh winters, crop selling time as wen as factors like interest rates, equipment purchasing, fixed and variable costs and borrowing money are part of the program To pass the course, each student must avoid bankruptcy for 10 years through 24 chances each "year" to make management decisions. "We're not teaching the student to use a computer to operate a farm," Goode said. "We're stressing the decision-making process using the computer terminals as a teaching tooL The student can see what mistakes have been made in management and learn from those errors. It's practical experience in making decisions." Goode used farm land similar to that in this area and local pricing indicators and weather factors from the past 10 years to create the computer "farm." Those along with soil erosion, cattle and crop information are applied to each student's "farm" at random.

Third Weatherization Workshop Set The third in a series of free weatherization workshops win start at 6 p.m. today at the Ebenezer A.M.E. Church on Edmondson Ferry Road. The workshop is sponsored by the ClarksvUle-Montgomery County Community Action Agency, Cumberland Electric Membership the Clarks-vUte Department of Electricity and the Tennessee Valley Authority. The workshop win present instruction in caulking, weatherstripping, and in installing window plastic and water heater insulation Information on how to qualify for free weatherization and other energy assistance win be presented 1 For additional information, persons may telephone 552-3454.

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Micula, 32, of New York, who used the stage name Samantha Fox, was arrested Wednesday after she allegedly fondled her breasts and touched her gential area during a strip show Tuesday night The cinema's owner, Billy Ray French, 38, was arrested and charged with violating a Metro ordinance prohibiting lewd dancing, police said. Officers also said Oval Sullivan, 50, was arrested for resisting arrest during the incident and faces a Friday hearing in Metro court All three posted bond of $65 and were released, officers said French called the arrest "pure harrassment" white Ms. Micula said she was "somewhat humiliated" On Sept. 23, officers arrested Sirno movie star Rhonda Jo Petty, for violating the same ordinance. i mm rnce jt ni '-yj wmmm i at a i Furniture iWbrld U5A I OUR TV WEEK AD ON SUNDAY, DEC.

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