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2 News Journal, Murfreesboro, Dec. 31, 1983 A': Nixon Channel (Continued from page one) we see now, things are holding up." But he said problems could still arise in the station's brand new equipment that could force it temporarily off the air. Everything at Channel 39 is so new that the smell of fresh paint still pervades the studios. That clearly was not what Rattliff was thinking of as he walked through the building congratulating his staff. "It's been a long time coming, but it's working," the Baptist minister joked.

He added that when the broadcast began, "I had a sense of humility and excitement." The PTL Club was selected as station's first show because it was produced Friday and Channel 39 irontarl fn Hot cnmothinCT that IS Loyal E. Services for Loyal E. Nixon, 61, formerly of Murfreesboro, were incomplete Friday night. Visitation will be at Anderson and Son funeral home in Lafayette. Nixon, who died Friday at the Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital, was the son of the late C.C.

Nimn and Edith Nixon Wilson of JS I Effie Estelle Brown Services for Mrs. Effie Estelle Brown, 82, North Highland who died Friday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel, with the Rev. Leland T. Cwden officiating.

Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. She is survived by her Virgil Vestle Brown; one son, Jerry, of Murfreesboro; one brother, Fred Rrown, of Murfreesboro; four sisters, DNJ photo by Jim Davis FIRST BROADCAST Channel 39 President John Rattliff and a technician monitor the new Murfreesboro station's first broadcast Friday night to make sure everything goes smoothly. Couple's trip a nightmare Mows briefs NATO missiles ready to fire totally current, that was made today." And he added that the PTL Club is a money-making show for the station. The PTL Club was to be followed by a game show, then an Abbott and Costello feature followed by the sta- otfs first movie, Dr. Doolittle.

Channel 39 was scheduled to sign off Friday night at 11:55 and sign on at noon today with Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes and a movie called Beach Bikini, Rattliff added. inside the pickup, Parker said. A 29-year-old Dallas man, identified as Jerry Ryder, was jailed Friday in Athens on charges of aggravated assault and criminal mischief, said Henderson County Justice of the Peace O.D. Baggett, who set bonds totaling $17,500. County investigator Mike Burton said Ryder wasn't arraigned until Friday because he was "too intoxicated to understand the charges." Rasmussen said he hopes future trips are less eventful.

"I hope I never have to use my gun again," he said. "You really can't let it affect you. You can't cower. If you do, they'll take over." accident fatalities weekend, four died before Jan. 1, 1983.

The 1983 toll passed 1,000 on Wednesday, despite stepped-up efforts by the Tennessee Highway Patrol to keep the 1983 figure below 1,000 for the first time in 20 years. Icy roads accompanying a winter storm were blamed for at least 11 deaths Tuesday through Thursday. And Chattanooga police said an autopsy showed a day-old Cleveland baby, Amy Coffey, died of traffic injuries suffered Monday when the ambulance in which she was riding collided with a car in Cleveland. The tiny" girl was en route to T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital for surgery at the time of the wreck and was taken to the Chattanooga hospital, where she died, in another ambulance.

hung in the teens. The cost to repair the pipes in most of the university's buildings will be minimal, according to Staley. But the cost of labor, flooding damage, and the repair of torn-out walls could be high. Many of the floors, however, are either tile or concrete, he said. Maintenance crews had winterized campus buildings, Staley said.

"As cold as it's been, you're going to have this problem," he pointed out. Thermostats had been set at 72 degrees while students were away between winter and spring semesters, Staley said. But as many as 10 classrooms may have received damaged. The Pentagon report blamed security and other lapses for the Oct. 23 terrorist bombing that killed 241 U.S.

servicemen at Marine headquarters in Beirut, and said the United States should stress diplomatic rather than military efforts to achieve its goals in Lebanon. The commission, composed active and retired civilian and military Pentagon officials, said there was "an urgent need for reassessment of alternative means to achieve U.S. objectives in Lebanon and at the same time reduce the risk" to the 1,800 Marines in the multinational peacekeeping force. Speakes said Reagan would discuss the Marines' deployment with Donald Rumseld, his special envoy to the Middle East, shortly after the president's return to Washington on Monday. Murfreesboro.

He is survived by his wife, of Lafayette; two brothers, James, of Starkville, and Hayden, of Walnut Creek, and three sisters, Lillian Summar, of Murfreesboro; Peggy Henderson, of Winchester and Shirley Taylor, of San Diego, Calif Jennie Brown, of Murfreesboro; Irene George, of Murfreesboro; Allie Hobbs, of Lebanon; and Cleo Glasgow, of Tullahoma, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be James Taylor, Doss Alexander, Howard Moore, Cordell Carter, Freddie Brown and Arthur Pitts. Mrs. Brown was a member of the Church of Christ. told The Associated Press in a telephone interview: "The first American battery of nine Pershing 2 rockets is ready for action in West Germany." Wuerzbach said the U.S.-built missiles "would be immediately dismantled and destroyed if the Soviet Union agreed to a verifiable and comparable step in arms negotiations." Military sources previously have said deployment was proceeding according to NATO's decision in 1979 to have the first of the Pershing 2s ready for firing if necessary by the end of 1983 unless significant progress was made in arms talks with the Soviets.

Syrian official something can be done or said to allow us to break the deadlock and take a giant step toward peace, and that on high humanitarian grounds, Lt. Goodman can be freed," he said. Jackson indicated he had no guarantee he would be able to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad or the captured airman, but said he was "reasonably-sure" he could do so. Goodman, a bombardier-navigator, was wounded and captured Dec. 4 when his attack jet was downed during a raid on Syrian positions in Lebanon's central mountains.

The pilot of his plane was killed. hotel, $137,500 from the fraternity and $12,500 from the 19-year-old fraternity member driving the car. Courts have also held bars and bartenders liable in connection with assaults and robberies committed by drunks, and a recent New Jersey case said a bar owner had to pay damages after serving a drunk pilot who got into his plane, buzzed the tavern a few times and then crashed. Beitman said most dram shop laws were written in the 1930s, after Prohibition ended, but some like New York's are more than a century old. However, he said, the number of dram shop lawsuits across the country has tripled in the last three years, and typical damages are $100,000 or more.

"Since the anti-drunk driving movement has been at the forefront, more lawyers are using these Jaws," Beitman said. "Drunken driving used to be more acceptable. Drunken drivers got off easy. But now juried are more likely to be tough." He said it is still rare for a "social host," a private person giving a party for friends, to be held liable for damages. 'This is largely because social hosts are not seen as having the professional bartender's expertise in determining when someone is too drunk to have another.

Clarification Mark Haynes, listed in the Saturday, Dec. 17 Public Record column as convicted of malicious destruction of property, is not the Mark Haynes who lives at Route 11 Emory Rd. EST Enow E3 Occluded xrr Stationary -fki fired a pistol at wrecker driver J.D. Vaughn of Palestine, striking him in the leg, minutes before encountering the Rasmussens. Frankston Police Chief Jay Parker, driving into town in response to the first call, saw the pickup but could not pull it over without forcing it off the road.

He asked a truck driver over his CB Fadio to pass them and block the road ahead, he said. The pickup was stopped and within moments was surrounded by Parker and two other law enforcement officers who had just arrived. They ordered the driver out of the car several times before the man got out and was taken without incident. Several tablets and pills of "controlled substance" were found Knoxville adds four KNOXVILLE (AP) A two-car crash near Knoxville' Friday killed a Lawrence County mother and two of her children as well as a Sevier County man, who troopers Said was legally intoxicated. Willa 45, of Iron City, and two of her children, Angela Judd, 11, and Alberta Judd, 12, were killed in a collision with a vehicle driven by Sanford Gilreath, 24, of Kodak, who died later at a hospital.

Troopers said Gilreath was legally intoxicated and charged him with vehicular homicide before he died, a dispatcher said. All four victims died before the New Year's holiday weekend began at 6 p.m. Friday. The 78-hour weekend ends at midnight Monday. Of eight persons who died in traffic accidents during last New Year's Frozen (Continued from page one) cafeteria, theater and a section of the bookstore, Staley said.

Flooding left about one inch of water on the carpeted floor of the theater and some books were damaged by water in the bookstore. In the business building, a broken pipe in a wall caused flooding of the stairway, halls, offices and about four or five classrooms. "We've had pipes busting everywhere," said an MTSU maintenance worker Friday as they went from building to building repairing pipes while temperatures Pressure (Continued from page one) for the president's policy is an important signal to those with whom we are dealing in the Middle East, both friends and adversaries. But I don't think the president will be deterred in pursuit of his policy there." Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.

has called a meeting next Tuesday of his Lebanon monitoring group in the House to discuss the implications of a special Pentagon commission's report that was sharply critical of Reagan's policy in Lebanon, particularly his emphasis on the U.S. military role. The monitoring group consists of 14 Democrats who had voted in October with O'Neill's approval to authorize the Marines to stay in Beirut for 18 more months, unless Congress changes its mind. 5 Partiers (Continued from page one) An expected crowd of 250 people will don their finest to party out the old year. "Everything starts at 9 p.m.

with dancing to live music by Gallatin," said John Robinson, general manager of the country club. "We are serving champagne at midnight and-. breakfast at 12:30 a.m. and we'll have everything connected with New Year's party favors, noise-makers and things of that sort." The cost is $20 per couple. Partying is the main idea at the Club where the Band will entertain the partiers.

Breakfast will be served at 12:30 and the price is $15 per couple or $7.50 for singles. Want to go a cheaper route but still have a good time? "We're having a little get-together at The Campus Pub," said owner Buddy Harrell. "Bring your own bottle and the price is only $3.50 to get in." Reservations are required at Tycoon's where Charlie Brown will play his brand of music. "Tycoon's will serve breakfast at 1 a.m. and we'll have noise-makers, hats and all that regular b.s.," said Ralph Blcse.

There will be no cover or minimum and breakfast will cost $4.50. 1 Down at Main Street, Jet Set will play for rock and rollers, a spokeswoman said. Admission for the Main Street party will be $10 per person and $15 per couple. For this price, partiers will receive party favors and free champagne will be served at midnight And what's happening at Faces? "We're having a little New Year's Eve Party," said" manager Gary Edwards. "Of course we'll have champagne, party favors and all sorts of odds and ends." This "little party" costs $10 per couple and $20 per table.

"Oh yeah," said Edwards, "you have to make reservations." So, with all this going, Murfreesboro is bound to be a noisy but happy place come midnight tonight. Radio (Continued from page one) bulance service to the area is imperative, Phillips asserted. "I feel like we're not providing the same quality of care to the northern end of the county that the rest of the county is getting," Phillips said. "They deserve the same protection as anybody else." Because it is a government entity, Phillips said, the ambulance service can get a 60 percent discount on some radio equipment. He has estimated that a Motorola radio, receivers, tower and hookups would cost the county about $6,500.

The same system runs about $12,000 for a private firm. "The big hang-up right now is getting the hospital to kick in some of the cost," Phillips said. "The County Commission has the feeling that they should contribute to the cost." At Thursday's meeting, Phillips suggested a $2,500 contribution from the hospital. "I don't see that as an insurmountable problem," said Kenneth Ashley, administrator of Smyrna Hospital. "It certainly doesn't seem unreasonable.

We very definitely need to go in this direction." Ashley said his hospital is prepared to put up partial funding for the radio. "We just haven't gotten together to decide exactly what we need," he said. "It's a matter of getting the figures." The cost of a new radio tower represents about $1,000 of the $6,500 estimate. Tennessee By The Associated Press Middle Zones 1, 4, 6 Saturday sunny and warmer with the high around 30. Wind light and variable.

Saturday night fair and not so cold with low in the mid teens. Sunday mostly sunny with high in the upper 30s. Forecast for monday holiday a chance of rain. -q Zones 2, 3, Saturday sunny and warmer with the high in the mid 30s. Wind light and variable.

Saturday night fair and not so cold with the low in the upper teens. Sunday mostly sunny with the high near 40. Forecast for monday holiday a chance of rain. Middle Zones 8, 9, 10,12,14 Saturday sunny and warmer with the high in the mid 30s. Wind south 5 mph.

Saturday night fair and not sy cold with the low around 20. Sunday FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) Western Europe's" first Pershing 2 nuclear missiles are ready to be fired on command, but will be "immediately destroyed" if the Soviet Union scraps its own medium-range missiles, the West German Defense Ministry said Friday. The U.S. Army refused to confirm or deny the Defense Ministry's report. In Mutlangen, where the missiles are deployed 30 miles east of Stuttgart, police dragged away 10 to 20 protesters who tried to block the main gate of the U.S.

Army airfield. No major protests were reported. Peter Kurt Wuerzbach, the Defense Ministry's No. 2 man, Jackson meets DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson came to Syria Friday to work for the release of captured U.S. Navy airman Robert O.

Goodman Jr. and said he had "high hopes" of success. U.S. Ambassador Robert Paganelli and Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Issam An-nayeb met Jackson when he arrived at the Damascus airport. "We have high hopes this visit will be able to bring forth our message of peace," Jackson told reporters.

"We hope that somewhere in the course of these meetings, Dram (Continued from page one), Rafael, girl left in a coma after the car in which she was riding struck a tree. Her family claimed the driver, who was killed, was obviously drunk and should not have been sold beer by a store clerk earlier in the evening. California and 34 other states have "dram shop" laws which make it easier to sue people who serve alcohol to drunks and easier to collect money damages for injuries the drunks cause. "Dram" is an old English word for a small alcoholic drink. "Dram shop laws are intended to cover the bartender who just keeps serving, who never checks on how drunk someone is," said Bob Reeder, an attorney for the Northwest Traffic Institute in Chicago.

Ron Beitman, a Falmouth, attorney who edits a newsletter called the "Dram Shop Reporter," said about half those states allow only injured third parties to sue bartenders, but about half allow drunks to sue for their injuries, too. He cited a Massachusetts case in which a bartender kept serving martinis to a man who was obviously drunk. The man tried to dance on the bar, and the bartender had to pay the medical bills for the man's broken leg. In a recent case in Ohio, an 18-year-old woman was awarded for the brain damage and paralysis she suffered in an auto accident following an Ohio State University fraternity party at a Columbus hotel. She got $550,000 from the Hp FCfSCJft For 7 p.m.

Wtather Servtc iOAA, 8 Dot Commerce FrcfCokJ Warmer 4o FRANKSTON, Texas (AP) A couple whose trip had already been plagued by icy roads saw it turn into a "nightmarish movie" when a pickup truck rammed them repeatedly until the husband fired his pistol between the headlights of the oncoming vehicle. The pickup driver was later ar: rested when a truck driver, acting on a request from police, used his tractor-trailer rig to block the road so officers could capture him. Nikki Rasmussen and his wife Theresa, and their two children, had driven their Pinto across 500 miles of treacherous roads en route from Lincoln, home to Deridder, and thought the worst part of the trip was behind them. Then about 1:30 a.m. Thursday they ran afoul of what might have been a scene in "Christine," the Steven King book and movie about a killer car, or "The Duel," the TV movie in which Dennis Weaver was pursued by a truck whose driver was never seen.

"It was like a nightmarish movie," Rasmussen recalled. "I never thought things like this happen. I don't know what was in his (the driver's) mind besides murder." Rasmussen, 28, said he woke up in the passenger seat when his wife swerved to avoid hitting a pickup truck that was backing out irom a driveway about 12 miles east of Frankston. "We swerved around him and kept going until he caught up with us. He pulled alongside us and then rammed the side of our car, trying to force us off the road.

I was amazed. My wife said 'My God, Nikki, he's trying to kill Rasmussen said. Rasmussen said the man kept ramming their car until he forced them into a spin and into a ditch. The truck then rammed them again pushing them farther into the ditch. "We were scared for our lives.

My wife was crying and screaming. We were just wondering all the time 'why, he said. Rasmussen said he took his pistol and fire six rounds at the tires and grill of the pickup, which then left the scene. He drove the damaged car 10 miles to Frankston to get help, but as he entered town the truck returned, driving head-on toward the Pinto. "The car was barely rolling, but we drove through the park and he kept coming after us.

So, I got out of the car with the gun and told my wife to keep going," Rasmussen said. He said he fired his pistol four times at the truck, striking a tire and the driver in the right wrist. "I had to jump out of the way, he missed me by inches," he said. Rasmussen said he then drove to a service station, where employees had already called police after being notified by a wrecker driver. The pickup driver had allegedly Woman (Continued from page one) Smyrna woman were killed in separate accidents on icy roads in the county Tuesday.

Woodfin Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements for Mrs. Pruitt, which were incomplete. Mrs. Pruitt is survived by her daughter, her husband, Roy, three sisters, Deborah Joy Ramsay Reed, Kimberly Dawn Ramsay and Penny Hope Ramsay, three brothers, William Harold Timothy and Jon Mark, her father, Bill, all of Murfreesboro, and her mother, Nancy. outlook partly cloudy and warmer with the high near 40.

Forecast for the monday holiday a chance of rain. West Zones 7, 11,1315 Saturday sunny and warmer with the high in the upper 30s. Wind south 10 mph. Saturday night fair and not so cold with the low in the mid 20s. Sunday partly cloudy and warmer with the high in the low 40s.

Forecast for the: Monday holiday a chance of rain. The Tennessee extended outlook Monday through Wednesday calls for a chance of rain Monday with partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday. Lows should be in the "upper 20s Monday and in the 30s Tuesday and Wednesday. Highs are expected mostly in the 40s Monday and in the 50s Tuesday and Wednesday. 1 ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE SINGING December 31 7:30 P.M.

WITH Tho Gospel Lights Peacemakers Gospel Sounds and Others Everyone Welcome f.iillcrsburg Baptist Church AP Lowrphoto WSATHR FORECAST The National Weather Service predicts rain today along the weit coast of Northern California and Oregon..