The Daily News-Journal du lieu suivant : Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 2

2 Friday. Nov. 20, 1992, Murfreesboro. Tenn. THE DAILY NEWS JOURNAL Obituaries Darnell wins Secretary of State post NASHVILLE (AP) A former state senator, Riley Darnell, rose from defeat in the Nov.

3 election to wage a quick and winning campaign for secretary of Winning the vital nomination from legislative Democrats, 49-32, Darnell defeated Secretary Bryant Millsaps on Thursday and will take over the office in mid-January for a four-year term. Lions Club Fish Fry set Saturday The Murfreesboro Night Lions Club will hold its monthly fish and chicken fry Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Lions Club Clubhouse in Can-nonsburgh. Adults can eat all the fish and chicken they want for $5.

Children 12 and under can eat for 4 tape deck and gold jewelry. Value and damage were listed at $5,050. Burglars stole $3,000 worth of copper tubing from Murfreesboro Supply at 1018 S. Church St. Theft John Sonnier of North Tennessee Boulevard told officers someone stole a laptop computer from his home.

It was valued at $1,838. Vincent Minter of Double Springs Road reported someone stole his car stereo system while the car was parked at Sears on Old Fort Parkway. Loss was estimated at $708. James Sweeney of Commercial CourHold cfficers someone stole his mobile telephone from his car parked at Stones River Mall on Old Fort Parkway. The phone was valued at $532.

Crime Stoppers will pay rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest for any crime. The following items were taken from reports on file this morning at the listed agencies. Murfreesboro Police Cocaine arrest Ricky Allen Grant, 31, of Green Valley Road, was charged with possession of cocaine for resale after he allegedly pos-sessed a white powdery substance believed to be cocaine. He is scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court Dec. 17.

Burglary arrest Joseph Mizell "Jo Jo" Freeman, 21, of Daniel Street in Christiana, was charged with aggravated burglary after he allegedly broke into Donna Malone's home at Burns Court Malone identified Freeman, her ex-boyfriend, as the suspect to officers Mark Henley and Eric Cook. He allegedly stole $60 cash and $65 worth of food stamps. Police located him about 30 minutes later. He was' being held in Rutherford County Adult Detention Center. A court date was set Nov.

30. Flying A Gas Station in Wheatland, and the retired manager of Highway Oil service station on College Street here. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Ullrey Memorial Chapel.

Carroll Services for Mrs. Martha Buchanan Carroll, 77, of Maymont Drive, who died Thursday at Oconee Medical Hospital in Seneca, S.C., are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Dr. John Thompson and the Rev.

Jeanne Hoechst Ronner will officiate. A native of Nashville, her parents were the late Robert and Sally Anderson Buchanan. She is survived by a daughter, Martha Sue Bowyer of Clemsori, S.C.; a sister, Rachel Kirkpatrick of Nashville; and three grandchildren. Her husband, the late Burns Carroll, died in 1980. Family and friends will be pallbearers.

She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel. Joe W.

Eckert Jr. Services for Joe W. Eckert 61, of Hallmark Drive, who died Thursday at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel, with graveside services at 1 p.m.

Saturday in Lawrence County Memorial Gardens. John Bowman and "the Reverends Randy Brown and Ed McClellan will officiate. A native of Lawrence County, his father was the late Joseph Eckert. He is survived by his wife, Reba Nell Burns Eckert; two sons, Joseph of Murfreesboro and Kenneth Eckert of Nashville; his mother Mrs. Alpha Clayton Eckert of Lawrericeburg; two brothers, Terrill of Weilburg, Germany and Roy Eckert of Tullahoma; a sister, Joyce Harris of Lawrenceburg; and a grandson, Christopher Eckert of Nashville.

He was preceded in death by a sister, the late Melba Joan Schoonover. A member of Blackman United Methodist Church, John B. Garrett, Masonic Lodge No. 711 and a Scottish Rite Mason, he was a graduate of Lawrenceburg High School, attended Martin College, MTSU and was a graduate of Howard College School of Pharmacy in Birmingham, Ala. A veteran of the Korean War; he was a pharmacist at Big Drugs here.

Pallbearers will be Rick Morris, Buddy Royston, Ralph Hillman, Mike Graves, Tony Schofield, Roger Wheeler and -Ed Watts. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Murfreesboro or to the Amerian Cancer Society. Visitation will be held after 4 p.m. today at Woodfin Memorial Chapel. funding levels which resulted in sharp local cutbacks before the funds were restored this year, Womack said.

But continuing the increase may be difficult because of the wpbupfanfi-taxlawmakers on Capitol Hill, Beasley said. That's a really scary point for what we've gained," Beasley said. 5 Days Only Nov. 27-Dec. 2 in SALE 259 RQ.

$289 Lay-A way Now for Christmas Furniture located Cantor TtlfAc Light ACft CC Powitwm Smyrna HO JtC I DP wound State (Continued from page 1) year, Beasley said. BEP is the funding -mechanism for the Education Improvement Act. State school board members will vote on whether to 'send the 1993-94 funding information to the governor and state legislators. But Beasley said she doesn't know whether a funding formula will be discussed. The state Board of Education has been on record for about lYt years as supporting state income tax to fully fund BEP rather than phase it in over five years as the Legislature voted to do with a sales tax hike, she said.

However, Gov. Ned McWherter said this week an income tax is basically a dead issue, and Sen. ndy Womack, D-Murfreesboro, said the temporary, half-cent sales tax increase would have to be continued to maintain already made in education funding. Failure to continue the sales tax increase would put the school systems' budgets back to 1990-91 (ZfottettPUM, Willie E. Smith Services for Willie E.

Smith, 76, of the: Wheel community of Bedford County, who died at home Wednesday, were held at 2 p.m. today at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill, with burial in Wheel Cemetery. Robert Mason officiated. His parents were the late John and Minnie Lee Collins Smith. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Mattie Bell Dalton Smith of Wheel; six daughters, Shirley-Smith of Agnes Cunningham, Rowena Hatch-ett, Violet Gibson, Sandra Hart, all of the Flat Creek community, Teresa Church of Lewisburg; four sons, Edward, Earl, Joe, all of Lewisburg and Billy Smith of Flat Creek; a sister, Mrs. Pauline Cunningham of Murfreesboro; four brothers, Grady of the Laws Hill community, Leonard and Johnny of Murfreesboro and Charlie Smith of McMinnville; 23 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A native of Rutherford County, he was a retired farmer. Louise Robinson Services for Mrs. Louise- Robinson, 83, of the Ragsdale community of Coffee County, who died Thursday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center after an extended illness, are scheduled for 10 a.m.

Saturday at Manchester Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in Rose Hill Memorial Garden. Her husband, the late James Robinson, died March 8. A member of the Presbyterian Church, she had attended MTSU. She is survived by- a sister, Merna Duncan of Estill Springs. Visitation will be held at 9 a.m.

Saturday in the chapel. Jack H. Bradshaw Services for Jack Hamlet Bradshaw, 73, of Rio Oso, who died Tuesday in Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at Ullrey Memorial Chapel in Yuba City, with a private burial in Fairview Cenetery in Rio Oso. The Rev.

Herman Windier will officiate. His parents were the late Edgar and Ophelia Bradshaw. He is survived by two daughters, Anne Tyler of Rio Oso, Karen Sutton of Auburn, two sons, Randy of Columbia, and Jeff Bradshaw of Biloxi, his former wife, A. Louise Bradshaw of Wheatland, 10 grandchildren and a great-, grandchild. Born in Bell wood, he moved to Rio Oso where he lived for 50 years after living in Tennessee 23 years.

A U.S. Army veteran of World War II where' he earned the Bronze, Star, ETO Medal and the Good Conduct Medal, he was a member of Nicholas Lodge No. 129 and the Wheatland Chapter of Oddfellows Lodge. He was a former owner and operator of Jacks Fired (Continued from page 1) Johnson was the first female CIIllUJiCU tJJ till? iuui 1 1 j. Fire Department, Echols' order says.

She was a firefighter in July 1982. In January 1985 she was transferred to a dispatcher position and fired in May 1986, ostensibly for striking a male co-worker in a department lounge during off-duty hours, the judge wrote, While Johnson sought -back pay, she is entitled only to the difference between what she would have been paid and the amount she's received in -unemployment compensation or other pay earned since she was fired. Former assistant city attorney Lynn Watson represented the city in the Johnson case. Burglary Mary Crawford of Eagle Street told officers someone stole a cedar jewelry box from her home. The box contained $300, jewelry and old coins.

Dorothy Hall of 10 Park IV Apartments reported someone stole a jewelry box containing. 22 pairs of earrings. Value was set at $675. Maria Smart of Stones River Apartments reported burglars stole two televisions from her home. Value was set at $675.

Jim Manson of Forrest Street told officers burglars stole $500 worth of property from his home. Missing items included a microwave oven, television and two telephones. Burglars stole a fax machine from Bullock, Fly and McFarlin attorneys' office at 301 N. Spring St. Value was unknown.

John Bulat of Colfax Drive said burglars stole property and damaged his home. Missing items included a videocassette recorder. education enrollment has grown by 92 students this school year. Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp. USA employee James Buttrey presented the' school system with a $1,400 check.

The annual presentationis always used by the materials center to buy science and technology videotapes for the schools Carlton updated the board on computer technology in the county schools. Five schools have computer centers in all classrooms in kindergarten, first and second grades. Computer tenters are expected to be in the early grades of all schools by the end of January. I '-in- concerns ab futurej" Carlton said. "We cannot let our second-grade students go on to the third grade and be without this technology program." He said he is interested in computerizing an additional grade each year, he said.

School officials will work out a plaifand" present it to the board. deputy clerk in the County Clerk's office. As employees work with the committee, they must be careful not to get bogged down in the--details of benefits and salary i administration, Commissioner Bob Bullen warned the group. "The county is vulnerable and you're vulnerable," he said. We need to get the county covered and you protected," he said.

"Let us deal with that first, then we can move into the areas of benefits and salaries." The county urgently needs a comprehensive policy to cover a number of employee relations issues, committee" chairman Ernie Johns said. "We're a little concerned about some of the problems that have happened in Murfreesboro and La Vergne," he said. "We want to get ahead of the game." 1 LARGEST U-J SELECTION of I -A Ut CODCER1C in the Area! E1C1 A MITSUBISHI 22, 1992 P.M. Schools (Continued from page 1) sentatives will set up dates to meet with school officials to evaluate the systemandcome back to the board with a report. In other action Thursday night: The school board approved a new special education bus route for the Smyrna area to help the increasing enrollment.

A contract for a driver was also approved. Drivers own their own buses and work under contract with the county schools. The new driver's salary will be based on the number of miles driven and the number of seats on the bus. Each special education bus holds! 8 st rt sna wheelchair, county schools transportation director Hoyte Sanford said earlier. Seats can be removed if space for another wheelchair is needed.

Special education students have been shifted from one bus to another because of-the crowded conditions, Sanford said. The school systems' special Employee (Continued from page 1) time is necessary than we have during a day meeting," Boggs said. All of the 27 employees who came to the meeting attended on their lunch hour. "Night meetings are great with us," Commissioner Jeff Phillips said. 'The reason we had it now was we thought it would be more accessible to you." The committee decided to meet next at 6 p.m.

Jan. 12. Employees do want input as the handbook reaches its final draft and they do want to be consulted when revisions are made, Boggs said. "We feel we work efficiently and professionally," she said. "Not to have input would take away motivation." Employee backing will be necessary to get a policy adopted by the county commission and to have the county's fee officers who would not be required to participate buy into the plan, Phillips said.

"And when you're thinking about this, you need to be thinking for two sides, how best to serve the county and the employees," he said. "Most of the time when you come up with something in your best interest, it will be in (the county's) best interest, too," he said. Several employees cautioned the commission not to underestimate the interest of fee officers in a personnel plan. "The county's elected officials really do want to do whafs right for their employees and the county," said Melissa Wheatly, a We offer private rooms flexible menus Call Today for the most memorable Christmas Party in Murfreesboro! GREEK NIGHT Fri. Nov.

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