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,0 WW 1 ju 1 $1.00 ri 1 ft 1 By TERRY HOLLAH AN Of The Leaf-Chronicle Staff Natural gas rates in Clarksville will increase 15 to 20 percent beginning Dec. 1 due to rising spot market prices, city officials said Monday. The Clarksville Gas Department purchases about 98 percent of the natural gas is sells to customers from the spot market, according to department superintendent Mark McCutchen. He said the department paid $3 per 1 ,000 cubic feet in September, up from $1.68 per 1,000 cubic feet paid last February. The increase will be a "pass through" increase not requiring approval of the City Council, McCutchen said.

The Public Utilities Committee approved the hike Monday and will inform the cil before its December regular session. Rick Lowe, comptroller of the Gas, Water Sewer said the gas department's 1992-93 budget was based on it purchasing gas for $2.50 per-1 ,000 cubic feet through the year. "There is really nothing we can do," Lowe said. "When we prepared this budget and presented it, we showed a bottom line of $92,200 (net income)." Lowe said the budget absorbed additional costs the department has incurred, including debt service owed on the $3.5 million 22-mile LHJ -U U-L -U LHJ-U Sept. Oct.

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The October bill should be received later this week. McCutchen and Lowe said '20 percent would be the maximum increase, based on the 20 percent rise from the $2.50 budgeted to the $3 the department currently is paying. "We're going to crunch some numbers," McCutchen said. "If we can pass along some additional costs, the increase might be a little less. We should know by the end of See Increase page A3, column 1 Staff Photo By Greg Williamson Dale Hutchinson, 4, helps his parents rake and bag leaves at their Sherwood Drive home Monday.

It's the first year the youngster has raked leaves; his family has lived in Alaska where snow covers them. i Commission Nixes Greenwood Funds Riley Darnell Seeks Votes For Secretary Of State From staff and wire reports Less than a week after being defeated for re-election to the state Senate, Riley Darnell confirmed late Monday that he's been lining up votes for secretary of state. Darnell, a Democrat, was defeated by 142 votes last week by Republican Carol Rice. He spent 22 years in the House and Senate and was the Senate majority leader. Since his defeat, Darnell said that he has been urged to seek the office now held by Bryant Millsaps by Democrats in the General Assembly.

"After I had an opportunity to several House and Senate members I've known for a long time, I got a lot of support and I feel like it may be coming together for me," Darnell said. House and" Senate Democrats caucus in Nashville Nov. 19 to nominate Senate and House speakers and other legislative offices as well as candidates for state-comptroller, state treasurer and secretary of state. The secretary of state serves a four-year term; legislative'officers and the comptroller and treasurer serve two-year terms. Since Democrats hold a 82-50 majority in the General Assembly, their candidate is virtually assured of election.

While he would not say just how close he is to the 42-vote Demo- -cratic majority Darnell said late Monday he was confident that he would be able to unseat Millsaps, who was elected after the 1989 suicide of longtime Secretary of State Gentry Crowell. "It looks real good at this point," Darnell said. "I've got a few more folks to meet with and talk to, but I've been getting a lot of excellent support and committed votes. "In the next two or three days, I ought to be able to put it all together." Besides his support, Darnell said his desire to help push projects he started during his term in the Senate as a key factor. "What really turned me on it was the fact that I'll be able to have a position where I can help my local folks with the projects that they're interested in," Darnell said.

"I've really been concerned about what's going to happen with things like the museum, the road programs and a number of other issues that are very important to me. "This way, I'd have an opportunity to have a real influence on those kinds of issues because I'd be dealing with the Legislature, working with them and for them." Local officials have expressed concern that the loss of Darnell's influence in the General Assembly could hurt several ongoing projects of interest to the Clarksville area; including completing the 101st Airborne Division Parkway extension to Dover Roadrwidening U.S. 79 West to Dover and extended the 1-840 North Loop to this area. Former Sen. John Hicks of Nashville, who was- replaced by Darnell as chairman of the Fiscal Review Committee when b6th were in the.

House, and Gary D. Morgan, a former bingo regulator, said Darnell has entered the race. Morgan and Hicks botn have said they had planned to run against Bryant Millsaps. Treasurer Steve Adams and Comptroller William Snodgrass both are candidates for new terms. Committee, had also recommended By LEE ELDER Of The Leaf-Chronicle Staff The Montgomery County Commission voted down a $2.9 million renovation for Greenwood Middle School at its formal meeting on Monday, then deferred a decision on building a new middle school.

Commissioners did approve the nearly $300,000 plan to add eight classrooms bnto the new Kenwood sion followed the recommendation of the joint School Building Committee. Only four commissioners voted to renovate Greenwood: Austin Peay, Mabel Steeley, Lettie Kendall and Mercer McKinney. The joint committee, which is made up of members of the commission's Budget Committee and the, Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board's Building Elementary School. The new rooms will increase the North Clarksville elementary school's capacity to about 925. The school is scheduled to open next fall.

The fate of Greenwood remains unresolved although the issue has been before commissioners several times this year. In Monday's vote, commis: deferring a proposal to build a new middle school in South Clarksville until December. Commissioners again went along with the committee's proposal, delaying a vote until December. In the meantime, commissioners asked the school board to come up with alternatives to building a new See Commission page A2, column 3 Nov, 10, 1942 An American column advances toward Libya today, the first U.S. thrust directly aimed at expelling the Axis from Africa, as the preliminary occupation of French North Africa roll swiftly toward completion over Vichy's shattered and disorganized defenses.

In Clarksville, citizens await the Armistice parade, which will step off from Public Square at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Gore Wants More Than Coat-Holder Role Nov. 10, 1967 Clarksville and Hopkinsville citizens are putting the final touches on a farewell program in honor of the 101st Airborne Division which Is bound for Vietnam. The event, to be held Sunday, Nov.

,19, is being proclaimed "Screaming Eagles Day" by both communities and will feature a variety of entertainment and community tributes. The program will come on the heels of the departure of the division's advance party. The remainder of the division is scheduled to clear out of post by Jan. 1. ft --t.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Al Gore harbors high hopes that his new job will be a "partnership," not a dead end. No one is more invested in President-elect Clinton's promise of an alliance to change America than is Vice President-elect who desperajelywants a substantive role in the new administration. In his victory speech last week, Clinton promised: "We're going to do our best to give you a new partnership for a new America." The expectation of that partnership was a major attraction for the 44-year-pld Gore. "I'm not especially enamored of the job of vice president as it has traditionally been carried out," said Gore, who is giving up a Senate seat from Tennessee.

"But both of us have an understanding of how we can work together well and I can help him." Gore brings extensive inside knowledge of how Washington works from his 16 years in the House and Senate. In addition, he has highly regarded expertise in arms control, the environment and high-technology. Gore, who grew up in Washington as the son of a senator, sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. But he dropped out after a series of primary losses and chose not to run this year, citing his son's long recovery from a near-fatal accident in April 1 989. In an interview with The Associated Press, Gore said he accepted Clinton's offer to join the Democratic ticket because he believed he could improve the Arkansas governor's chances of and because "everything I care about would be better off in a Clinton-Gore adminis tration and worse off in a Bush-Quayle administration." So far, there has been no word on Gore's role in the new administration.

Historically, vice presidents have spent much of their time campaigning for congressional candidates, doing political work for the president or carrying out ceremonial duties, such as attending funerals. "It's up to the president" to break from that -tradition, said Walter Mondale, who is credited with redefining the office when he served under Jimmy Carter. "From everything I can tell, the relationship between Clinton and Gore is excellent, and that's a good start Vice President Dan Quayle heads the White House Council on Competitiveness, which looks critically at the effect of government regulations on business and industry, and the Space Council, which oversees the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. But such jobs are "probably less important than giving advice across the board," said Erwin Hargrove, a Vanderbilt University political scientist. Some areas seem natural assignments for Gore: the environment, a subject on which he has written a best-selling book; technology, an area on which he has focused in the Senate; and armscontrol.

But it also would seem logical for Gore to represent the new administration on Capitol Hill. "I think the fact that he's had experience up there helps a lot," said Mondale. "He knows the institution. If he seems to be close to the presi-See Gore page A3, column 1. IK B6 A6 B7 B6 A5 B5 B6 A4 Classified Comics Cumberland Life.

Deaths Dr. Opinion Television AP Photo Vice president-elect Sen.AI Gore, left, and president-elect Clinton walk through the mm' grounds at the Arkansas Governors Mansion Monday in Little Rock. Clinton and Gore are there working on the transition. Mostly cloudy, chance of rain Weather Details on page 2A New Food-Labeling Rules Leave Dispute On Fat Content Unresolved Heart disease and cancer both have been chanee the rules. said that because of the meat induslry the law was "in danger of being scuttled by the A senator who helped write the law requiring more extensive labeling blamed the meatjndustry for the impasse, saying it didn't want the public to know how much fat is in meat.

The American Meat Institute said his accusations were "flat-out wrong." The matter isn't necessarily closed. Although the White House, without1 comment, let the 5 p.m. EDT deadline pub-; lishing the revisions Federal Regis-' ter, food industry sources said the adminis tration would seek additional time to WASHINGTON (AP) New rules go into effect Tuesday for revising labels on virtually -all packaged foods butleaving a dispute over fat content still unresolved. The Food and Drug Administration had. insisted that labels show tow much fat should be included in a daily diet, but the Agriculture Department opposed the idea.

Unable to reach a compromise Monday, the Bush administration alknved proposals issued a year ago to go into effect without refinements recommended by health offi- cials and the food industry. linked to diets that contain too much fat, so information about it is considered key to the relabeling effort, 7 But a disagreement over how to present the information on labels developed between Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan, whose department regulates meat, and Sullivan, who along with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler created enforcement rules that emphasize health concerns. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, JVs unclear, however, whether changes can be made before Bush leaves office. "As of 1 2:0 1 a nr.

Tuesday theproposed rules become law," said John Gibbons, spokesman Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan ho oversaw the rule-making process. "This is not a good result," said Rep. Henry Waxman, House sponsor of the legislation mandating the rules. He 1 said the process could be delayed into the Clinton White House." He- and Waxman urged President Bush to go forward with the regulations worked out by Sullivan and Kessler which also have the support of consumer and health groups. "These new rules which would help save lives are being held hostage because the meat industry wants to keep the public in the dark about fat content," Metzenbaum said..