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The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 4

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Pg Lewf-Chroniclo, Friday, September 12. 1975 a FoodiGompIaint Continued from Page 1 3iiOuQ worn Nuclear Test Don ported harmed. Prison officials estimated that at the height of the disturbance about 350 of the 2,200 Inmates milled around a courtyard and athletic field, refusing to return to their cells. 4 Order was restored after about 100 city police officers and guards, armed with night sticks, formed a skirmish line with dogs in the open area and forced inmates inside, Metro politan police Chief Joe Casey said. 4 Several of the officers and guards received minor injuries during the sweep, said Casey.

Another. 200 "riot-equipped ouisiue ine wans. The police chief said a subsequent search of inmates and cells turned up several homemade knives, clubs and rocks; but no firearms. Morford said the two prisoners suffering dog bites were bitten bv German Shepherds being handled by police. tries under terms of the non-proliferation treaty.

The draft does not specify how it would be decided whether a test was for peaceful purposes: Also a signer could with- draw from the treaty on three-months' notice "if it decides that extraordinary events have jeopardizes the supreme interest of its country. Western diplomats tended to regard the new proposal as another in a series they say Moscow makes to divert at-'. tention from the slow progress of the Geneva disarmament negotiations. The Soviet Union should instead demonstrate its sincerity about disarmament at Geneva, a West European official said. Another prisoner, Jerry Duncan, 36, received a skull frac A tH-n-xj i mt ture in a fall, Morford said.

The names of the other injured and their conditions were not immediately known, z-Morford said the visitors were evacuated within 30 minutes director for the state Corrections Department. Seated, against brick wall, are Jerry Thompson, a reporter for The Tennessean, Nashville, and Corrections Commissioner Herman Yea tran. Others are unidentified. PRISON INMATES NEGOTIATE Prison officials negotiate with inmates of the Tennessee State Prison Thursday night during a disturbance that resulted in injury to fi ve in ma tes. Standing at left is Jim Gilchrist, information Overcrowding Root Otf.Mcjny Problems At Penitentiary of the outbreak, which began at 5:30 p.m.

(CDT). During the, disturbance prisoners looted several areas Including the commissary and tossed firebombs into the post office, Morford said. Newsmen saw several guards rushing into prison carrying shotguns and rifles. However, prison officials said the armed guards were manning guard stations on the'prison wall. Later, gunfire was heard.

Firemen were called when a electrical transformer at the rear of the dining hall burned. Several other fires were started by prisoners, kindled by trash and debris, Morford said. At one point, a prisoner using a bullhorn shouted through the bars of his cell window at the front of the prison, "Everything is going, man. They've got guns and dogs back here. There's a riot going on back here." Most of the night, Morford, Corrections Commissioner Herman Yeatman and several other persons met with about a dozen prisoners to discuss a wide assortment of inmate complaints.

"It was a pretty tough give and take session," one correc-' tions department spokesman said. During the meeting, the inmates said they were generally dissatisfied with the prison food and criticized Morford 's operation of the prison Among the points agreed on by prison officials and the inmate committee was the suspension of the guard involved in the dining room incident, publication of a set of rules for both guards and inmates, the establishment of an elected inmates By GENE KRAMER' 4 Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) -The Soviet Union proposed on Thursday a universal ban on air atomic, weapons tests, including those underground. I Soviet Foreign Minister An-foei A. Gromyko asked the (J.N. General Assembly to take up the issue "as an important and urgent question" $1 its 30th regular session starting Tuesday.

tGromyko also sent SecretaryGeneral Kurt Walkdheim an eight-article draft universal test ban treaty $hich the assembly will be asked to recommend to U.N. member nations. would consolidate and supplement the 1963 Moscow rtv bannrmr nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, outer space and under water, and the 1974 U.S.-Soviet pact limUing the size of underground nuclear tests carried out by the two superpowers. The Soviet proposal would not apply to underground nuclear explosions conducted "for peaceful purposes" or in behalf of non-nuclear coun- Refugees Threatened Immolation CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. CAP) Twenty Vietnamese refugees said Thursday at least one of them would burn himself to death unless the United States flies them to tiuam.

'rhe former soldiers, policemen and civil servants said at si news conference they want fo join 1,600 refugees waiting on Guam to return to Communist-controlled South Vietnam. Nick Thome, head of the civilian Interagency Refugee Task Force, said the threat is genuine and he will try to arrange the flight as soon as possible. He said he had tried for ifi days to arrange the Guam tfjight for the men. Marine Gen. Paul Graham said the refugees were being Xept away from gasoline and other flammable material.

med with a homemade knife and demanded money and assurances he would not be placed in solitary confinement, transferred to Brushy Mountain or be harmed by guards. He got the money, but the prison got it back. eourtciMhat due -process beltowed in-disciplinary board hearings and that there be no reprisals for the disturbance. Morford said the extent of damage and an estimate of the dollar loss will not be made until later today. The majority of the cells were not damaged, he said.

Lockheed Officials Face Payoff Juiz officers were kept on standby; documents before the Senate panel released them, Among the disclosures: Lockheed paid at least $115,000 as a 5 per cent "com mission" to a secret "benefit fund" for unnamed high officials of the Indonesian force beginning in 1970. The money was paid into secret bank accounts when the Indonesians insisted on the kickbacks as a condition ol buying spare airplane parts from Lockheed. When it was pointed out that the IRS might question the deduction of the Indonesian kickbacks. Lockheed set up a dummy agency as a conduit to make the payments look like f.le.-gitimate sales commissions; Lockheed padded Jhc price of the C130 Hercules transport planes it sold to the Saudi air force to produce money for Khashoggi to use aS payoffs. The price was in; flated by to $200,000 per airplaneaccording to one Lockheed memo, with most of the money going to Khashoggi "for so-called 'under the table' compensation to -Saudi officials in order to get the contract signed." Go first class and it meant only that you're that-much nearer the nose of the plane should it fly into a mountain.

close Brushy Mountain State Prison, northwest of Knox-ville, in 1972. At the time, about 200 guards at Brushy Mountain, then the state's maximum security prison, stopped work in support of pay demands. Brushy Mountain, near Pet-ros, now is being renovated Gov. Ray Blanton says it should be open again for about 400 prisoners next year. But some of the worst uprisings occurred before Brushy Mountain was closed.

On Aug. 17, 1961, eight inmates armed with guns and knives seized 38 persons, including visitors and guards, and held them hostage for eight hours to protest what they called lack of: recreational facilities and guard brutalities. The prisoners finally surrendered to a show of force, winning no concessions. On Dec. 17.1969, one inmate.

Haywood Quinn, held 21 persons, including a 13-month-old girl, hostage in the visitors gallery for more than four hours. Quinn, serving 10 to 17 years for armed robbery, was ar- Soldier Charged In Larceny A 20-year-old Ft. Campbell soldier has been charged with grand larceny and contributing to the delinquency of a minor in connection with the loss of two tires, valued at $250, from a man Aug. 28, according to arresting investigator Ralph Prost of the sheriff's department. Terrv Lee Davis, attached to Co.

426th was arrested Wednesday for investigation of the larceny. Prost Jarvis reportedly confessed to the offense, and implicated another unnamed person in the crime, he said." According to Prost. Jarvis said he sold the tires in Ohio. Prost said a juvenile will also be charged in connection with the incident. larvis was placed under $1,000 bond-for the grand larceny charge, and $500 for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Court dates are Oct. 3 for the first charge and Oct. 2 for the contributing charge. The tires were stolen from Timothy Phillips of 9 Burch Road, Prost said. Phillips' truck also reportedly received about $150 damage.

Warden Jim Rose to resign in July. Morford was named acting warden and promised to use whatever force might be necessary to put down an uprising. That force Thursday night, he said, sent one prisoner to a hospital with severe gunshot wounds and two with bites inflicted by German Shepherd dogs handled by Nashville policemen. A fourth prisoner suffered a skull fracture in a fall, he said, -and two others injuries." On several occasions, prison officials have conceded publicly that much of the overcrowding and problems stem from former Gov. Winfield Dunn's decision to lew Continued from Page 1 though this will not stop the arrest and possible conviction.

Upon conviction, even a person's first, the offender, is subject to fine and court costs and at least one day in jail. In multiple cases, the punishment will be issued according to the severity, Hestle warns. Under this new procedure. Hestle said, bad checks "are being dealt with as a criminal offense." "This hasn't been a real problem until the last four months," Hestle said this morning. However, the recent "astronomical" number of bad checks have bogged down the sheriff's department in serving other warrants, according to Hestle.

County deputy Janae Howell, who handles all bad check warrants, said during August alone, of 330 total warrants issued by the department, about 275 have involved bad checks. "Merchants in the past have tried to collect the checks themselves." Hestle said. The numbers piled up and many' of the offenders have moved out of town, making it "almost impossible "for the sheriff's department to track them down. Deputies have spent a number of hours and 'wasted" time attempting i ina the offenders, they say. Hestle said the new policy is "Worth a to enforce the criminal bad check statute.

The statute provides anyone giving a bad check and notice has been given, and he fails to honor it will be arrested and prosecuted. He will not just be allowed to pay the check and court costs as in the past. Voters Can Register Without 1 Divulging Social Security No. The United States was ex-pected to find fault with the draft treaty's provision for voluntary complianie through each country's "own national technical means of control" plus exchange of seismic data. The United States has always insisted on on-site verification and inspection in treaties banning explosions not readily detectable.

In the 1974 Moscow treaty the United States and the Soviets agreed to ban for 10 years, starting March 31, 1976, underground weapons explosions stronger than 150 kilotons. or 74 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. This is, the strength the United States said it could monitor remotely. -JlariieiLSovieLdisarjnament- proposals at the United Nations have included a world disarmament conference in 1972 and a reduction on 10 per cent in military budgets of the nuclear powers, proposed in 1973. Neither has been realized.

Observers said even if the Soviet. Union and United States were able on Gromyko's proposed ban for a universal test ban, it probably would not be signed by the same countries refraining from the 1963 limited test ban treaty and the treaty against the spread of nuclear jveapons-Theyiinfclude two nuclear powers. China and France, and more than a dozen other countries regarded as having nuclear capability. 1 vidson County, her residence. Carter, a staff attorney for the state health department, said.

"The principal concern was thai this was an invasion of privacy which would allow access to dossiers that can be located by use of a Social Security number as a uniform identifier." High, in a three-page opinion, said the 1972 law prescribing a registration form with space for the voter's Social Security number is "nothing more than advisory." "Disclosure of a Social Security number is not necessary the furtherance of the business of voter registration because registration to vote can be accomplished without such disclosure." Carter, who said he did all the legal work oh the case at home and on his own time, said he was "delighted with the decision." Alex Shipley, assistant attorney general who handled the case for the state, said he will have to consult with Davidson and Shelby County election commissions before deciding whether to "These commissions are most directly affected by the ruling because they have computerized their voting rolls, using Social Security numbers as the key number," Shipley said. Shipley argued that the Carters' arguments that the Social Security number could be abused were invalid because existing federal law already are designed to prevent such abuse. Carter said he gave his own Social Security number to voter officials because it already is listed in other public documents. But Shipley By BROOKS JACKSON Associated PressJVriter WASHINGTON (AP) A Senate subcommittee plans to grill officials of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. about company payoffs in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

Documents released before today's hearing show Lockheed paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to its Saudi Arabian middleman, Adnan Khashoggi, for use as "under the table" payoffs to government, officials. A Lockheed" spokesman declined comment on the docu ments in advance of the testimony by company officials today. The documents also show Lockheed hid payoffs to Indonesian air force officials from U.S. tax authorities, a revelation that may prompt an Internal Revenue Servic probe into possible tax frauc The Senate subcommittee on multinational corporations headed by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, released the 205 pages of 'Lockheed papers Thursday over the objection of the company.

Lockheed has admitted paying $22 million for payoffs to foreign officials, but is resisting publication of the names and nationalities of recipients. Names of in- NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-vercrowdingat the Tennessee State Penitentiary, bulging with 400 more prisoners than the 1,800 it was built to hold in 1900, is at the root of many of its problems. The mostTecent, a six-hour rebellion Thursday night that sent six prisoners to Nashville hospitals and injured two guards, came toward the end what one prisoner predicted would be "another hot. summer of killing." After it was over-Thurs night, acting Warden Robert Morford said, "It was this (Thursday) afternoon that I said we were overdue for an incident.

I didn't realize how dose I was. to being right." A disturbance in April, with three civilian counselors taken hostage, resulted in a board, including an inmate and a former prisoner) 'to investigate convict grievances. A leader of that uprising said it was designed to prevent "another hot summer of killing." Three prisoners from the Memphis area were stabbed to death during a six-week period beginning May 17. PIscapes have been frequent. The prison's snowballing problems prompted former said Mrs.

Carter's is, too: on her application for a driver's license Carter said the state attorney general's office jilready. has voiced concern over his role in the case, even though he has dene his legal work at home and not on the job If the state appeals, he said, he may have to get another lawyer to represent his wife. Raise Asked For Hamilton County Teachers -CHATTANOOGA- (AP) The Hamilton County School Board will ask the County Council for additional funds to increase a 3.7 per cent pay hike for teachers this year to 7 percent. The board voted to seek the money at a meeting Thursday night that was attended by about 750 of the county's 1,000 public school teachers. Jim Booth, president of the Hamilton County Education Association, was cheered as he told the school board the main concern pf all teachers is "immediate relief through a cost of living salary increase." "The mood of the teachers is one of growing discord with the present educational situation in Hamilton County and, as a result, they want to see positive action," Booth said.

The increase would cost an estimated $500,000. County Judge Don 'Moore, who presides over the county council, offered little encour agement that the funds will be authorized. Administration Continued from Page 1 fhipf Gray and Kujawa say the suspected arsons remain unsolved. The ires at Nichols' and Pressler's farms Labor Day were probably not accidental, they say. "1, don't know that much about fires." Kujawa.

who is a criminal investigator for the county sheriff, said. Gray said he would leave the investigation to police and deputies until a new fire marshal is appointed. "Not being trained in interrogation." Gray said, "we're liable to get it messed up." Pressler said today he lost about 7,000 bales of hay when fire destroyed one barn and damaged another at his farm north of Susan Drive Labor Day. It was reported at 4:25 p.m. and burned until midnight.

Nichols lost 2,000 bales of hay and a big stable and barn in the first fire about two months ago, he said. The second fire at Nichols' farm on Labor Day claimed about 1,500 bales of hay and a "real large dark-fired (tobacco) barn," he said. Nichols, who has offered a reward for information leading to the conviction of the persons responsible for the fires, said today, "We haven't got an arson investigator so the only who'siooked at it is me. Kujawa and Nichols both discount theories the fires started accidently. No electric lines run to the barns and It was a clear day with no lightning.

Nichols notes. The hay was dry, so spontaneous combustion is probably not to blame, Kujawa says. Charles Binkley, city juvenile division officer, and the' state arson inspecter temporarily working here are looking into the Pressler fires, 'Detective Farmer said today, LET US ADD SOME REGAL .1 4 Days Fri, Sat. Studio Dot Sopt. 1 M2-I3 Hours 1 Chief "Graceydividual recipients were (ap)-you i Wnl register to vote in Ten-irossee without disclosing your Social Security number, no matter what a 1972 law says, CijancellorC.

Allen High says. 'Kigh's ruling Thursday came in a challenge to the Social Security number requirement by Linda Knight Carter, director of Mac-lariand Hospital, Lebanon. She refused to disclose her Social Security number, her lawyer husband said, and was denied the right to vote in Da- Obituaries Mrs; Askew -r Mrs. Barbara Barker Askew. 82.

died Thursday at 2 p.m. in Memorial Hospital after a short illness. She was a resident of Laurindale Farm near Trenton. Ky. Graveside services will be conducted Saturday at 4 p.m.

in the Brickhouse Cemetery on L.aurindale Farm, by the Rev. George Gracey and the Rev. W. L. Kittinger.

Murphy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Askew was born in Montgomery County Aug. 16, ,1893. daughter of' the late Peter M.

and Annie Johnston Barker. Her husband. John Askew, died in 1969. She was a member of the Clarksville First Presbyterian Church. Survivors are four sons, Laurin B.4 N.C.; Peter Will L.

and John Askew all of Trenton; two. daughters, Mrs. Kitt Haynes, Clarksville; Mrs. Kenneth Tidwell. Atlanta.

a sister, Mrs. Ross Morrow. Wheeling, nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. The body will be taken to the-residence near Trenton today lo remain until the hour of service. In lieu of other remem-berances, the family requests persons make memorials' to their favorite charity.

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