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Walnut St. 35 wmm isect. iiuirwsiios Coed's services today, scholarship fund set -1 I for the man who fatally beat MTSU senior Heather Uffelman of Erin and assaulted her companion, Jeremy Rolfs, 21, of Illinois, an MTSU senior. -j pounds. He has brown hair and was clean-shaven.

He is about 30 years old. He carried a small semiautomatic pistol, perhaps a model. The suspect drove a brown Dodge Dynasty with Tennessee license possibly Williamson County. He has a good knowledge of computers. Parker asked people with knowledge about the suspect to call their local law enforcement agency who will forward the information to Marietta detectives.

49th foes away in finale Authorities said Uffelman accompanied Rolfs to Marietta to deliver a $31,000 computer system. The suspect forced the students at gunpoint to wrap up in sheets while he beat them with hammer and robbed the couple of the computer but didn't steal ahv cash from the students. A 4 i Former Ash, Liles swap charges Funeral services for Uffelman were scheduled this morning in Erin. A scholarship fund was established in her memory. Contributions may be made to the MTSU Foundation, WMOT where she worked on the air as Roxanne or the College of Mass Communication's radioTV program.

Marietta Police Capt. Walter Parker said Tuesday Rolfs was released from Kennestone 4 candidate supports The pollsters will be putting their reputations on the line on those," he said. Buchanan made a one-day to Middle Tennessee Tuesday stumping for the Bush-Quayle ticket. Buchanan acknowledged Clinton is in the lead and favored, but "it's still not decided," he told an audience of students and parents at Franklin Road DNJ Photo by Dan Whlttta i 'i a. a Conservative commentator and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan speaks at MTSU Tuesday as some in the crowd protest his positions.

Buchanan's talk "came during a campus rally sponsored by MTSU Campus Republicans in support of the BushQuayle ticket. Pollsters' reps on line this week: Buchanan Hospital Tuesday. He was supposed to return to Tennessee Tuesday night. Police were trying to identify and locate the suspect, the captain said. "We -don't know his name," Parker said.

"At this point, we think the motive was robbery," Parker said. Rolfs worked with police to give, a description of the suspect. He was described as a white man about 5-feet-9 to 6-feet and weighing between 160 to 175 0' DNJ Photo by Pamela Harrison president Christian School. Trust and taxes are winning issues," he said. "It's one of the really big issues in this campaign "and why Fm out" fighting so hard for President Bush even though I campaigned against him," Buchananaaid.

Buchanan hammered- hard on those themes drmg both the Franklin Road speech and a rally (See Polls, page 2) Two accuse employer of sex charges By LISA MARCHESONI News Journal Staff Writer Sexual assault and battery-Charges were filed Tuesday against an employer accused of sexually harassing two women employees on the job, records showed. Robert Jeff Ballard, who owns Attic Label Co. on Samsonite Boulevard, was arrested on separate charges of sexual assault and sexual battery. Ballard, 34, of Cason Court, declined to comment but referred all questions to his attorney who was ill court and unavailable this morning. The two women employees contacted Murfreesboro Police Detective Anita Flagg who said she told them they, could obtain arrest warrants against Ballard.

Sheriffs Deputy Jack Keisling served the warrants on Ballard Tuesday afternoon. The arrest warrant for sexual assault stated the employee began working for Ballard when she was 17 in May. He allegedly made sexual remarks towards (See Two, page 2) By LISA MARCHESONI News Journal Staff Writer A brown Dodge Dynasty believed similar to the one driven by a suspect in Saturday's murder of an MTSU student in Marietta, was checked by Murfreesboro police this morning but wasnt the same car. .1 Police officers spotted the car, at an Old Fort Parkway motel but determined it wasn't involved'in the case. Marietta Police are searching Clinton winner at MTSU Mock election By ANGELA CANNON News Journal Staff Writer Democratic presidential can-didate Bill Clinton had an overwhelming victory over Republican President George Bush Tuesday in a mock presidential electf on held at MTSU, university officials said.

Clinton won by a 2-to-l margin, receiving 1,074 votes. Bush followed a distant, second with 531 Independent Ross Perot received 304 votes. Liber- tarian candidate-Andre Marrou received 12 votes. "I 'don't put much stock in this result," MTSU political science frofessor Mario Perez-Reilly said. erez-Reilly is the advisor to MTSU's Young Democrats.

The mock election was only limited to a small group of people fmd can't really be used as a means of speculation on what will happen next week during the actual election, Perez-Reilly said. Only about 2,000 people voted on a campus where there are almost 17,000 students, he said. Some of those that cast their ballots in the mock election may not even vote in the real election. The only indicator in MTSU's mock election that Clinton might -win the actual election would be similarities in past mock elections, an MTSU official said. the 1 a 8 two mock presidential electionsat MTSUj former President Ronald Reagan and Bush won overwhelmingly before their respecti ve presidential victories, MTSU Eublic relations director John ynch said.

MTSU's Student Government I (See Clinton, page 2) No food left for judges ByDANWHTTTLE I News Journal Staff Writer One does not put salt on a crawfish's tail to catch a crawfish, confirmed a Cajun hunter and trapper. Cajun Dean Comeaux explained he was not talking about dinky little roadside crawfish found in Tennessee streams, but Ibayou-country full-growed 'crawfish that are sometimes "bigger than small shrimp. Comeaux was one of an .475 people who at-tended Sunday's second annual Cajun Gathering andor faix-do-do at Can-nonsburgh. Although there were various craft booths and Cajun books on sale, Comeaux and company were Jobviously most interested in 'getting their stomachs filled with i Cajun cooking as evidenced by (See No, page 2) COMPOSITE DRAWING OF MURDER SUSPECT "I don't want to do this as a career. I've got a career," Ash said.

Liles responded Ash was a "slick" attorney who lacked his experience" and accomplishments in government and had indirectly supported a state income tax by saying he supported tax reform. Ash would be "another tax and spend" legislator because Ash can't live within a personal (See 49th, page 2) wuy uoiao county rec assistance By CLINTON CONFEHR News Journal Staff Writer Rutherford County ought to help fund Murfreesboro's Department of Parks and Recreation, some City Council members said during a Tuesday workshop on plans for a $5.39 million park behind SportsCom. "They should be a good neighbor and participate in some form," Councilman Chris Brat-cher said later. "If the city and county can get together and build a plaza and parking garage I don't see why they can't do this." Other Council members took similar positions, saving during the meeting on McKnight Park that county residents will use the city park with five baseball fields, a central concession stand with restrooms and a press box. Lose Associates of Nashville designed the park and hopes to win' the architectural and" engineering contract.

Council reviewed the plans at City Hall and discussed funding one phase of the project which may require selling $1.7 million worth of bonds for landscaping as recommended by the city Parks and Recreation Commission. "We'd like you to tell us that-Council will approve architectural and engineering in the next two weeks," parks director Dennis Rainier said. Site preparation might start in (See City, page 2) V'l Election By TOM SPIGOLON Managing Editor SMYRNA Rep. Mike Liles is a "career politician" without leadership while Don Ash could not manage the state's budget because he can't manage his -personal -affairs- the candidates-said Tuesday. Liles, R-Murfreesboro, and Democratic challenger Ash made their charges before about 70 onlookers during a sometimes heated forum sponsored by The Rutherford Courier newspaper at the Smyrna Assembly Hall.

Ash, an attorney and Democratic candidate for the state House 49th District seat, said Liles was a "career politician" "who had offered "doubletalk" on education reform by saving he supported it but opposed funding for a reform bill. Liles no longer paid a payroll or was part of the business community which the state's founding fathers intended by setting up a citizen legislature, Ash said. HEADLINES Iraqis may have used U.S. weapons President Bush says no U.S. weapons were found in Iraqi hands during the Persian Gulf War.

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If you don't get your Daily News Journal, please call your carrier or 893-5860 before 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. On weekends, please call before 10:30 a.m. By JOHN CALLOW News Journal Staff Writer Don't believe everything the pollsters have said about-the-presidential race to date, says former Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan. "The polls to take, seriously are the ones appearing this Thursday Friday and Buchanan said Tuesday in Mur-freesboro.

'r Yi. Mexican Cajun food eater Mexican-American Jim Gonzales and his wife. Estella of Mur-freesboro sample a Cajun culina7 aeationieatured at the second Tennessee Cajun Gathering at Cannonsburgh Sunday,.