The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

i ft B2FEAT COulPAHISG? FDA can regulate tobacco as drug, federal judge rules Bono DAI7L5 Oakland, Riverdale meet on field Mother's testimony brings jury to tears ije757 iiz e. TEV.ES3EE STATE LlfcSPY 3 7TH AVE NASHVILLE, TO 37243-Z21; fi 149th Year-No. 315 Saturday, April 26, 1997 MURFREESBORO, TENN. 350 on Lit LoJae ike hj tow Ex-student killed in S. Africa wreck Nearly died in '92 computer sale try as early as June on widening Work may begin By Angela Cannon Staff writer NASHVILLE An $11.4 million bid from LoJac of Lebanon is the apparent low bid for a project to widen Interstate 24 from Sam Ridley Parkway to the Davidson County line.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation opened bids on Friday for 63 contracts in 47 counties, said Susan Ralph, department By Angela Cannon Staff writer Jeremy Rolfs a former MTSU student whose girlfriend was murdered in Georgia in 1992 was killed-last month in a-motor Vehicle, wreck in South Africa where he served in the Peace Corps. Rolfs and girlfriend Heather Uffelman, who was also an MTSU student, traveled to an Atlanta area motel in October 1992 so Rolfs could sell a They were beaten in the motel room. Uffelman died, and Rolfs (See Ex-student, page 2A) here brought il By Lsa Marchesoni Staff writer Two suspects charged with possessing $2,000 worth of "cocaine indicated they drove to Atlanta to obtain the drugs because of a drought in Middle Tennessee, a narcotics officer reported. Allison Daniel Stegall, 49, of Nashville and Charles Michael Shanks, no age available, of Bax-ter, were charged with felo- nious possession of cocaine for resale Tuesday by sheriff's Deputy "information specialist, The 1-24 project will widen 3.4 miles of road from four to eight lanes from Sam Ridley Parkway in Smyrna to the Davidson County line, Ralph said. The department will lake 2 to 4 weeks to review bids and "make sure everything is as it should be, then they award them, and then the construction company can start working" she said.

Construction 11 cil meeting. 'The transfer gives us the room to expand the old historical, community of Cannonsburgh," Mayor Joe B. Jackson explained, noting the city'SiSpecial Projects Committee and U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Murfreesboro, backed the proposal.

"It will also give us room to eventually add sheds and buildings to house historical artifacts.The old coal yard is something we have wanted for some time." The owners of Hooper Supply 'Co. on South Front Street own the should begin on the 1-24 project.by the first part of June. A contract typically goes to the low bidder once the state confirms all guidelines were followed, Ralph said. The apparent low bidder for the 1-24 project was LoJac Inc. and LoJac Enterprises Inc.

of Lebanon with a bid of 11,445,162. Other bidders for the 1-24 project were Hoover Inc. of La Vergne with a bid area. And the city owns a tract of land at the side of the com- pany's building. Both have agreed in principle to transfer land titles.

"Everything isjn place," Jackson said. "The next step is to get an engineer to stake it out for the purposes of transferring title. As soon as we get that cleared lip, we'll start cleaning the property up." But part of the agreement, the mayor noted, was that the company would remove some old steel and Consultant shows off Australian way of educating youth 1 1 bid to eight lanes of Jones Brothers Inc. of Mt. Juliet with a bid of and APAC-Ten-nessee, Inc.

of Alcoa with a bid of $13,548,481. The 1-24 project will include bridge construction at Road over 1-24 and at Sam Ridley Parkway over 1-24, Ralph said. State bid notices have given the completion date on -widening of (See 1-24, page 2A) 7 an okf crane left behind on the property. Completion on the Lytle Creek Greenway is about two months away, the mayor said, adding that completion on the Stones River Greenway is about a month away. Both projects will be connected to form a trail approximately five miles long, he said.

The trail is designed for bicyclists and hikers and skirts along the edges of the Stones River National Battlefield, Fortress Rose-y (See Land, page 2A) Chris Bratcher. The Tennessee Department of Transportation's highway corridor and design public hearing will be held in the cafeteria of Stewartsboro School on Old Nashville Highway from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Grandinetti said. "No formal presentation is planned, but representatives from the department will be present to provide information, receive comments and answer questions concerning the project," she said. Richardson will be gathering information for the city at the hearing since the new roadway will be in Murfreesboro.

The city annexed land around New Nashville Highway to border Smyrna where Chrisman Motel and Smyrna Home Products face each other across the highway. "I don't have a construction time schedule yet," Richardson said. "That's one of the things I was hop-" DNJ photo by Jim Davis Moving on Catlin Reynolds uses her feet to power her and her tricycle around the trikeathon course at Parker House Child Care Center on Waldron Road Friday. Land swap enlarges Cannonsburgh Might also serve as creek trailhead By Keith Talley Staff writer An ideal spot to construct a trail head and picnic area for the Lytle Creek Greenway is an old coal yard in Cannonsburgh Pioneer Village, city officials say. So a land-transfer agreement between the city and a local property owner was approved at the Thursday Murfreesboro City Coun Rob Prestininzi.

Narcotics Detective Kevin Elrod reported the suspects told him and Prestininzi they were traveling from Atlanta to Nashville to obtain the cocaine. 'This corroborates what we've been hearing on the street that there is a cocaine drought going on in Middle Tennessee and it's driving prices up," Elrod said. Prestininzi was driving about 4 a.m. Tuesday on Interstate 24 about V' (See DrugVpage 2A) "The county received an Eisenhower Grant, and I requested that a portion of the money be spent to bring him to Murfreesboro." 1 Williams discussed the three major aspects of Australian educational reforms with area teachers during in-service training on Monday. "First we looked at kinetic learning, which is physically involving students.

The theory there is that' the more the child senses their involvement, the more it Williams explained. "We also looked at making better use of calculators, and discussed the Mathc- (See Consultant, page 2A) i. Satirist, Psulsen d32d at Pat Paulsen, the deadpan, droopy-faced comic whose career launched on the Smothers Brothers' TV show and sustained by satirical campaigns for the White House, has died. He was 69. INDEX Classified Comics Opinion Sports B1-4 TV 6 A Public NASCAR Auto State hearing will focus on Florence intersection work By Lori Gray Staff writer Having children physically participate in learning mathematics is one of the techniques that an educational consultant from Melbourne, Australia, is promoting to help young students develop math skills.

Campus School teacher Lynn Patterson met consultant Doug "Williams last year when he was a speaker at the Council of National Teachers of Mathematics Conference in San Diego. "With the help of the Rutherford County Teacher's Center director, Ann McCraw, we were able to bring him here," Patterson said. ing to ascertain from the state during the hearing "This is being done wholly by the department of transportation and, as such, we have no financial obligation other than the maintenance costs," Richardson said. "It's my understanding thai sig-nalization will be part of this project," he said. "In fact, the city has already executed an agreement with T-DOT to maintain those traffic Creating a new path for Florence Road and removing pavement around the current intersection "is an attempt to better align Florence Road at a preferable 90 degree angle," Richardson said.

"By creating this alignment in the manner proposed, it would also diminish the crossing distance from one side to the other of New Nashville Highway," he said. That will reduce travel time and By Cunt Confehr Staff writer SMYRNA A public hearing on proposed improvements to the intersection of Florence Road and U.S. Highway 4170S (New Nashville Highway) is scheduled for Monday night at Stewartsboro School. The proposed improvement would create a new path for Florence Road, according to Luanne Grandinetti, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Transportation. A new intersection would be made with New Nashville Highway.

"Preliminary plans show the new roadway crossing vacant land northwest of Square Market," Murfreesboro traffic director Dana Richardson said. Florence Road's new path "will go around behind" Square Market which is owned by Murfreesboro City Councilman Proposed improvements State officials want public opinions on plans to reroute Florence Road (red line) to create a better intersection with U.S. Highway 4170S (New Nashville Highway) which will, have a red light A public hearing is set for 5-7 p.m. Monday at Stewartsboro School. (See State, page 2A).