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net k-rf 108794 53)64 Sports Page 1 1 1 i I Stc ftSWlLL, 372J3 146 Year-No. 99 We can cut out salary increases, we can increase County budget needs fund balance revenues through a property tax in How difficult will depend on the decision expected next week from the commissioner's office, he said. "We're at the mercy of the commissioner," he said. A "no" on further use of reserve funds means commissioners will have to decide between pay raises and tax raises, he said. Although the new budget has been thoroughly dissected, much still remains to be worked out before the final draft and a tax rate are ready for full commission consideration June 30, Bullen said.

The nexj step is the annual public hearing crease or we can ask for a Bob Bullen Budget Committee ByJOKNCAlLOW Stall Writer Rutherford County has requested a variance from state law which would allow it to dip into reserves to balance its budget. If it doesn't receive it, the countyiom mission may have to choose between a tax increase or no county Ey raises for. teachers, the county commissions udget Committee chairman says. The variance would allow the board to dip into the 3 percent reserve required by the state for the school's ending fund balance, Budget Committee chairman Bob Bullen said. The Budget Committee and county school board agreed last week to build a budget which will require no tax increase.

However, lower than normal revenue projections Public Works Committee nixes roads plan See editorial cage four for 1994-95 continue to plague the board's attempts to balance the general purpose school fund. "It could be $700,000 out of balance," Bullen said. If that's the case the county commission has three choices, he said. "We can cut out salary increases, we can increase revenues through a property tax increase or we can ask for a variance from the (state) commissioner of education," he said. The variance has been requested.

"It's premature to celebrate no tax increase for the schools," Bullen said. "We may still have it, but you may have to make some difficult decisions," he told his committee. scneameaiOT7p.m.Junelbattheuourthouse. The committee discussed the budget woes as it took time out Thursday night to handle routine business before heading back next week to the difficult job of setting the 1994-95 budget "1 Most of the items on the lengthy agenda were budget amendments brought by departments to balance expenditures as the budget year winds down and ends June 30. The hard part gets harder- next Bullen said.

The big problem is still the school situation," he said. "I hope that will be clearer next week." (GasoDH ion DoDintoog Leamina bl cycle safety But school boan w'1 Gity Schools spotlighted on NBC-TV By AMY SUTTON Staff Writer Murfreesboro City Schools will be. in the national spotlight Monday when "Good Morning America" does a live interview from Northfield Elementary School on the Extended School Program. Becci Bookner, director of the Extended School Program, and city schools superintendent John Hodge Jones will be interviewed live by Joan Lunden at 7:09 a.m. on fix r- atp Tl 1 I l1JM 1- By AMY SUTTON Staff Writer Despite a three-month construction delay that will keep new Cason Lane Academy from opening before school starts, city school board members feel confident the school will be a success eventually.

Highland Rim Construction announced in a written statement this week the school will not be completed until Sept. 1, three months past the original completion date and at least two weeks after school opens. "I have had people ask me about when the school will be ready, but they feel comfortable things will work out," Baid school board member David Hopper. "I don't think this will hamper enrollment" Cason Lane will be the first school in the state to open with a year-round calendar and enrollment policies accepting students from all over the city system and county schools. Bad weather and lack of certain types of laborers have contributed to.

construction delays, the contractors have said. Enrollment for the school has been confirmed at around 900 students, many of whom are coming from the Bell wood School zone. However, there are stu-(See Cason, page 2) NBC-TV Along with the "ESP. pro gram, Jones will also address the report "Prisoners of Time" by the Federal Time and Learning Commission. Jones was chairman of the federal committee which conducted a two-year study on how the school day and year can be used more effectively.

The report was released in May. Jones appeared on the Good (See Spotlight, page 2) ONJ Photo ty Jim Dntt required to follow a series of signs as part of the course. Note that Sara is wearing a safety helmet. Sara Christ gives a hand, signal before making a turn during a bicycle safety course at Stones River Mall on Friday. She was Man dead Vibtiin's lance esin't sp lipup TODAY'S HEADLINES from suspect in considered a case, and Steeples isn't a suspect in the Marietta Marietta Police claim no suspect injuries in car wreck casein anyway.

"We are still looking at evidence, and we're still waiting on evidence from different locations," Parker said, declining to give details about the location or the evidence. charged with the beating deaths of Robert and Kelli Phillips of California. The bodies of the Phillipses were discovered in a Nashville motel room in March. Police in Nashville and Marietta had "We're still getting information back earner uikubwu uuuuuiun 111 uia itu cases, but Marietta Police Capt. Walter from.

Unsolved Mvstenes and we're running down leads, he Baid. Parker now says the cases aren linKed. Rolfs says he hasn't seen a photo By LISA MARCKES0NI Staff Writer Injuries Buffered in a two-vehicle crash April 2 on North Highland Avenue apparently caused the death April 23 of a Christiana man, Murfreesboro police reported Thursday. Charles W. Summar, 70, of Miller Johnson Road died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, reported Sgt Roy Fields of the Fatal Accident Crash Team.

Fields talked Thursday to Summer's wife, Dorothy, who confirmed -her husband died as a- lineup containing a photograph of By ANGELA CAOON Staff Writer Marietta Police in Georgia aren't planning to show a photo lineup containing a picture of a man charged with murdering a Nashville couple to the fiance of an MTSU student murdered in Marietta. Police say they can't do it because the man being held in Nashville is not a suspect in the Marietta murder. MTSU student Heather Uffelman. 22, died in October 1992 after she and her fiance Jeremy Rolfs went to a Marietta motel to meet a potential computer customer. They were beaten by an unknown assailant Rolfs survived, and Uffelman died as a result of the beating.

A Mt. Juliet man named Thomas Steeples, 49, is in custody in Nashville A recent "Unsolved Mysteries" segment featuring a re-enactment of the -Uffelman murder generated several hundred leads in the case. When asked whether Parker thought ii imvi Steeples, but wants to see one. However, Parker said on Wednesday, "We hadn't intended doing that The age President Clinton stepped up sanctions against Haiti Friday by stripping all activities in that country with U.S. banks.

result of the crash. The suspect in he Uffelman ascnbed as bemg in his late 20s to-ftnvrea80n whey .1 Legally, the police' captain says he But he said he wasn't going to elab-can only show Rolfs a photo hneup orate on an area where the suspect containing someone who is considered a. might be staying. BFSY3tluS yic, iecli force up RUTSi student fees Willi Astres The Braves' John Smoltz and the Astros' Doug Drabeck locked horns In a pitching battle Friday night. "At the time of the accident, his injuries were not believed to be that serious," Fields reported.

His ribs, shoulder, elbow, hip and foot were injured in the crash. Summar was admitted to Middle Tennessee Medical Center the day of the crash and released the next day, the sergeant reported. He was readmitted from April 5 to April 22. He went to Vanderbilt April 22 and died the next day. The victim talked to his wife about the crash, believing he blacked out, the sergeant He suffered from diabetes and was likely losing sight "However, he would not have died at that time if he hadn't been in the accident," Fields reported.

Traffic Officer Mark Henley, who in-1 vestigated the crash, reported Summar was driving Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck on North Highland Avenue when he approached a vehicle driven by Gary Roden, 31, of Walnut Grove Road. Roden was backing from a parking space when Summar apparently thought Roden was coming into his path, the officer reported. Summar "overreacted, causing his vehicle to swerve across the. roadway striking a utility pole." INDEX education institutions in Tennessee, including MTSU. Under the recommendation, tuition for an in-state, undergraduate student at MTSU would-be $1,616 for the 1994-95 academic year, which is a $62, increase from the 1993-94 academic year, according to THEC information; The Tennessee Board of Regents, which governs MTSU, would give final approval to any recommended tuition increase as well as other higher education budget matters during a meeting later this month, higher education officials said.

pay each semester ($100 per academic year). The debt service fee is used in part to retire bonds on a new student recreation center which is under construction on campus, said Dot Harrison, MTSU public relations director. Parking and dorm fees, which vary, are in addition to the debt service, recreation and technology fees and tuition. The Tennessee Higher Education Commission has also recommended a 4 percent tuition increase at most higher From Staff Reports Student fees at MTSU may go up $60 a year beginning this fall for. full-.

time students in addition to a $62 proposed increase in tuition for undergraduates, university officials said. Full-time undergraduate students are scheduled to pay $15 for each of the two semesters in the next academic year for new technology and student recreation fees, according to information from MTSUs budget and public relations offices. These fees are in addition to a $50 debt service fee which students already Public ...16 Lifestyles ..5 4 9-11 (Weather. 8 Comics 6 1 1 1 -T-'.