The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

.37219 Phone 893-5860 Good Afternoon RUTHERFORD COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER SINCE 1849 224 N. Walnut St. 28 Pages, 2 Sections Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130 135th Year No. 190 Thursday, September 6, 1984 25 14. Mloimev woes 1 wee WFYZ cuitbaclk Rattliff referred other queries to Renaldo Brutoco, president of Focus Communications Inc.

of Brentwood, which is operated by the same partnership that runs the United Press International wire service. Focus' offices are located in the same building as are UPI and UPI Media Inc. "We're in a tough, competitive market and my assignment is to make this station work," Brutoco said. "The first thing we're going to do is focus all our energies on the 3 p.m. to 2 a.m.

slot, which we feel is the key portion of the day." Brutoco confirmed that several WFYZ employees would be laid off, but denied that any large-scale firing would take place. "There will be employee layoffs, but they will be people who will have to be terminated in order to adapt to our new strategy and hours" of operation," he said. Brutoco said WFYZ has been locked in a fierce ratings battle with WCAY-Channel 30, another independent station which went on the air shortly after WFYZ. That added up to three independent, UHF tele-( Please see Money, page two) Ms. Holt Said today.

"I have been working towards doing that for some time." The Rev. John Rattliff, WFYZ president, said the station is undergoing a series of unspecified changes in an effort to save it. "This is a reorganization," Rattliff said. "Nobody knows exactly what we're going to do." The first and most obvious change occurs Monday when WFYZ is to sign on at 3 p.m. and sign off at 2 a.m.

Currently, the UHF station conducts a 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. broadcast day. By CURT ANDERSON News Journal Staff Writer The station manager at WFYZ-Channel 39 has resigned and the channel's broadcast day will be slashed as part of a major company reorganization, WFYZ's president said. Kaki Holt, who has managed WFYZ since it became Murfreesboro's first broadcast station last New Year's Eve, resigned Wednesday to take a position with Nashville's Barnes Realty.

"What's happened with me is I've resigned and gone into real estate," '2 a ttacks W's it IF. T- I1 I i women has been or will be raped. "Rape is one of the worst crimes. I've seen. It is one of the most violent," said registered nurse Marge Rice.

Ms. Rice works in a hospital emergency room, where she sees a constant stream of human tragedy. She is also a volunteer counselor with the Rutherford County Rape and Sexual Abuse center. "Rapists pick their victims and watch their behavior their everyday comings and goings. They pick a vulnerable looking person, someone who looks like they would offer no resistance," she said.

While there is a variety of explanations for the high number of crimes against women, none of them ease the physical and mental pain of the 1 in ii i ir in -r-1 By MIKE WEST News Journal Staff Writer America's attitudes toward rape a violent attack described by some as murder of the spirit are slowly changing as awareness of the psychological horrors associated with the crime grows. "The best way to change these attitudes is take the problem head on and raise the awareness of both males and females," said Chief Jack Drugmand of MTSU's department of Public Safety and Security. "Rape is on an increase nationally in every state and almost every community," Drugmand said, despite a well-documented drop in other major crimes like burglary and homicide. Statistics show that one out of 10 -I DNJ file photo IN REAL ESTATE Kaki Holt, shown in the film library at WFYZ-Channel 39, has resigned as part of large-scale company reorganization. She has taken a job at a Nashville real estate firm.

The channel is also cutting back its broadcast day effective Monday. running slioes stressed. Despite strong public education programs, attitudes developed over centuries will not change overnight, which is why the MTSU police stress "assault awareness" to female students, Drugmand explained. "Frankly, we're a magnet for the type of sick people who commit acts of this sort," Drugmand said. "We're a community of 12,000 people at least 50 percent women concentrated on 500 acres of land." Classes started last week at the university.

During this short period, two sexual assaults have been reported by coeds. "We're not surrounded by walls. We're an open community vul-(Please see 2, page two) By BILL LEWIS News Journal City Editor Wearing a pair of red running shoes to soothe feet aching from more than a year of campaigning and surrounded by the men he defeated in the Aug. 2 Democratic primary election, Bart Gordon began a show of party unity today. "I have to give my feet a break," the 6th District congressional nominee joked as photographers focused on his feet.

Joining the Murfreesboro Democrat on the steps of the Courthouse here were Bryant Millsaps, Lincoln Davis, Bob Moore and Martin Sir, the candidates defeated by Gordon in the primary. cushion trail campaign victim, Drugmand pointed out Through its "crisis, call" phone line, the Rape and Sexual Abuse Center serves as a support vehicle for rape victims. Sixteen volunteer counselors are available. "We zero in on their problem, and if it is rape, we give them constant person-to-person contact," Ms. Rice said.

The center's liason nurse goes with the victim to the hospital and stays with them during a medical exam. The person-to-person counseling continues as long as needed. "If they want us to go to court with them we will," she said. "The effects of rape go on for a long, long time. The crime effects the vktinij her friends and her parents sometimes for years," the couselor i 'I of the baby contest, which netted over $200.

The tax consumed about $15. While charity fundraisers are calling the new amusement tax unfair because it takes money away from funds which would otherwise go into the charity, Fred Bracey, sales tax director with the Department of Revenue, denys that chatities are being forced to (Please see State, page two) DNJ photo by Jim Davit POLITICIAN PARADE Democratic 6th District congressional nominee Bart Gordon, in running shoes at right, campaigns on Public Square with the candidates he defeated for the nomination, Lincoln Davis, Martin Sir, Bob Moore and Bryant Millsaps. Spirits were high as Gordon, perhaps taking a from entertainer Michael Jackson, dubbed today's tour of the 17-county district a "victory tour." But Gordon was serious when he charged that Republican nominee Joe Simpkins of Franklin "doesn't understand" problems surrounding the abandoned and incomplete $2.7 billion TVA Hartsville nuclear plant. Gordon favors turing the plant into an industrial park. But.

Simpkins has said that idea offers "almost false hope" to the Hartsville area. Industries will not locate at the plant because TVA will not allow long-term leases. Instead, Simpkins has said, the plant should "We have a lot of people who tell us they would have called if they could have gotten to the phone," said Mike Nunley, director of the county, ambulance service. "Last winter a woman went outside in the cold and fell. She wasn't found until the next day, when she had died of exposure." The Middle Tennessee Medical Center's In-Home Health Service, in conjunction with the ambulance service, wants to help put minds at ease by offering a way for people to Computer niay offer lifeline to those who can't call help man takes bite State tax By JAN SLUSHER News Journal Staff Writer Charities like those that benefited the fight against muscular dystrophy over the weekend are finding the tax man is taking a bite out of some of their collections.

Murfreesboro Jaycee Women chairwoman Reta Parton said that a part of the money collected in a baby contest to benefit the fight By CURT ANDERSON News Journal Staff Writer Imagine having diabetes, being 80 years old and living alone. The doctor says you could become lightheaded, suffer blurred vision and pass out at any moment. Because of that possibility, you're afraid to go out to the garden or even to get the mail. And, if you do collapse away from a telephone, how many hours will pass before you're found? be used to house small businesses or industrial training facilities. "He wants it used for something that will really work," Simpkins spokeswoman Beth Campbell said today.

"I'm afraid the Republican nominee doesn't industrial park would be a good use of it," Gordon said. The five Democrats, who a month ago were completing-a hard-fought primary election, turned their full attention to Simpkins today. Millsaps accused the Republican nominee of being told what to do and say by a Washington public relations (Please see Gordon's, page two) call for an ambulance when they're not even near a telephone. According to In-Home Health Administrator Mike Kilts, the service would allow high-risk patients those considered by a doctor to be most likely to suffer a stroke, heart attack or the like to wear a bracelet or necklace connected by radio waves to a receiver near the telephone. "If something were to happen, the person could press one button and the "telephone would automatically dial -the ambulance service," Kilts explained.

He added that most such systems allows transmissions up to 1,000 feet away from a telephone. The computer, in turn, would provide emergency medical technicians with the person's entire health history, including allergies and current medications, and with a detailed map showing where the stricken person lives. "If you have something go wrong and you need an ambulance, somebody has got to be aware of it," Nunley said. "With the service, we'd automatically know. That person wouldn't need someone else to find them and call us." Kilts said MTMC is willing to put up all of the estimated $10,000 needed to buy the computer and accompa-.

nytng transmitters; the county would only have to pay for electricity to run the computer. What is needed, however, is a design best suited for the hospital and the community and one that will allow the most people to afford it. "We have looked at a system that did not provide what we wanted for the money," Kilts said. "Our goal is to keep it functional at a low cost so all the people who need it can afford it." In the two or three other locations (Please see Computer, page two) riSRFREEJ; Sentra will boost Nissan's tax bill against muscular dystrophy must go to the state. Mrs.

Parton said, "I don't think the tax is fair concerning a charity because we are devoting our time and services to raise this money." She was chairwoman for the baby contest held in conjunction with the MD telethon. 1 She added that her organization had to pay a 7.75 percent amusement tax on the entry fees paying $1 million a month in import taxes for its pickup trucks and the 'Smyrna company expects to pay a little less for the Sentra line. "We will probably pay a little less than $1 million a month for Sentra. But we haven't done all of our calculations on it yet," he said. "The" rate of import duty oh a car is lower than on a truck." Nissan was informed this week that the production of its automobile line at Smyrna will be covered by the foreign trade zone established in 1982 for the company's pickup truck assembly.

"The foreign trade zone covers the Nissan compound at Smyrna. It defines the location of the area," he added. Wendell said Nissan does not have to pay the import tax on its pickup trucks until the trucks are shipped outside the physical boundaries of the plant into the Jurisdiction of U.S. customs. The company, in paying the import tax, does not have to pay a (Please see Sentra, page two) MTE' 1 1 DNJ photo by Jim Davit By JAN SLUSHER News Journal Staff Writer Nissan officials are expecting to pay almost $2 million a month in import taxes once the company's Sentra automobile starts rolling off the assembly line.

Paul Wendell, manager of transportation, said Nissan is already Index Classified Ads Comics Crossword Editorials Farm Horoscopes Obituaries Today's People Sports TV 12 12 4 ....22 12 2 9 15-19 13 ....10 Weather Just passing through The Goodyear Blimp leaves Murfreesboro behind as it heads south as part of a tour Wednesday of several Middle Tennessee counties..