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nn nn p1 ffj Tennessee's Oldest Newspaper Establishedln 1808 ClarksvllU Tennessee Thursday November 17 19E3 VOL.18fr-NO.322 19U Tht Ltof-Chronlclt Co. I News Sections 35 cents A Multimedia Inc. Newspaper fl "1 '1 '1- r1 A-V (yjirayirjiu) '4 7v i Jr WASHINGTON (AP) Leaders of George Bush's transition team closed ranks publicly on Wednesday, refusing to talk about the reported selection of Washington outsider Jote Sununu as White House chief of statf. Bush asked aides to sign a pledge designed to prevent leaks and conflicts of interest. As the capital buzzed about the choice of Sununu, the feisty, conservative governor of New Hampshire, Bush spent the day in separate meetings with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.

Bush will meet with Thatcher again over breakfast Thursday. The vice president was mum about filling the chief of staff's job, saying "no final decisions" had been made. Sources close to Bush said, however, he would name Sununu to the "post. Next to the president, the chief of staff is the most powerful person in the White House with influence over access to the Oval Office, the agenda, scheduling and other mat i AP Loserphoto Morning After Michael and Kristy McGhee stand in the rubble of Michael's home Wednesday, the day after a tornado destroyed the Scott, Arkansas, house. "His comment was, 'Just let them know that when I'm ready to make an announcement, they'll hear from me on Standing at a podium with transition co-director Robert Teeter, Fuller said, "There's no one standing here who's opposed to John Sununu having a major role in this administration." Denying reports that he had tried to block Sununu's appointment, Fuller "I have in no way been opposed to John Sununu for the chief of staff job or any other position in this administration." Fuller said he considers Sununu a friend and had "only, ONLY friendly and good working relationships with John Sununu." Fuller added that Sununu "offers a great deal of talent either in the Please turn to page 2A Bulletin A late-model car was split in two pieces and a woman killed in a one vehicle accident late Wednesday on New Ashland City Road, near the Apostolic Lighthouse church.

The Clarksville Police Department Fatal Accident Crash Team (FACT) responded to the scene in which the car, believed by officers to be a dark blue Chevrolet Camaro, went over about a 25-foot embankment. The vehjcie apparently was southbound ai a high rate of speed at about 10:50 p.m., according to Lt. Monte Mitchell, who heads the FACT Team. The driver, who was alone, apparently went off the shoulder of the road and then over-corrected, according to FACT Officer Chris Bolin, who added that the investigation was just beginning. "It's too early toteir he said.

The car went over the embankment and apparently struck a tree, splitting both the tree and car in half. Heavy brush and the steep embankment hampered Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services and Rescue Squad personnel from removing the body. Emergency responders were still at the scene at presstime. To sa cl 6 jjxa wira i gTC i IFiroirii'B' I Vi r- ii Is ters. The other contender for the job was Craig Fuller, who has been Bush's vice presidential chief of staff for four years.

Sununu, who re-turned to New JVlVs Eos By The Associated Press The cold front that unleashed the fury of tornadoes on the nation's midsection the Drevious dav spread eastward on Wednesday, bringing up to 10 temperatures to produce wind-chill readings of zero to 20 below zero in northwestern Iowa, west-em Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. But the severest weather had taken place far-. ther south on Tuesday? "I can't even tell what street I'm on because the trees are uprooted," said Police Chief Darnell Scott of the central Arkansas town of Lonoke. "Damage is so bad. I think we were very lucky it wasnt more tragic than it was." Two people were killed near Lonoke, roughly 20 miles east of Little Rock, when a van overturned on Interstate 40.

The other tornado victims in Arkansas were a' young couple and their year-old son whose mobile home was demolished in the nearby town of Scott, and a man who died when his home was destroyed in Van Buren County, north of Little Rock. An elderly woman died in Butterfield, in southwestern Missouri, when a tornado threw her' trailer home into the air, authorities said. Ten inches of snow fell at International Falls, Wednesday morning, and the National Weather Service said there were hazardous conditions in much of Minnesota because of snow and blowing Showers and thunderstorms were scattered along the front, which by midday extended across the Ohio and Tennessee valleys into the central Gulf Coast. An inch of rain fell in less than two hours at Fort Wayne, Ind. Winds gusted to 50 mph or more in Traverse City and Lansing, and in Cleveland.

High wind warnings or advisories were posted in parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. In Chicago, city workers scrambled to repair downed traffic lights, clear fallen trees and open sewers clogged by heavy rains. "We're so busy heret hon, I can't even turn around twice," said Mary Church of the city's Streets and Sanitation Department. "We have really been hit hard but we're handling it." The blustery winds combined with plunging Hampshire after Sununu a Monday night meeting with Bush, said, J'We've had discussions abtmt-that obchief of staff) in particular." At a news conference in Concord, Sununu request isn't a formal request until the tall thin guy (Bush) sings. And the tall thin guy hasn't sung publicly, and therefore I'm not going to comment on this in any way at all.

"Until the vice president decides yes or no and he certainly could decide no in the interim I don't think it's appropriate for me to Comment." In Washington, Fuller told a news conference he did not know if Bush had made a decision. Fuller said he raised the question with Bush in a morning meeting. inches of snow, winds topping 50 mph and wind-chill readings well below zero. Twisters killed six people in Arkansas and one in Missouri late Tuesday and injured dozens more in those states and Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. As the violent cold front churned eastward, midday temperatures in parts of Kansas and Missouri were 30 to 40 degrees lower Wednesday than they had been the day before, and many areas got the first real snowfall of the season, the National Weather Service said.

At least three people were were reported dead in accidents on snowy roads, and an Illinois woman was electrocuted after lightning downed a power line in the northern city of Rockford. Cold, wind and snow led to school closings in several states. Nation's Median Age Heading Toward Record High median age for that region increasing from 33.6 years in 1986 to 40.3 in 2010. The South will be second in 2010 at a median age of 38.4, up from 31.4 in 1986. The Midwest will mature from 31.6 to 38.8 and the West will go from 31.0 to 37.4, the study projected.

i Florida, a retirement haven, will remain the state with the highest median age and Utah wiH still be the youngest state, according to the projections. Florida, with a median age of 36.0 in 1986, will age to 45.3. Utah's median will rise from 25.5 to 27.6, leaving it the only state with a median'age below 30 years, thanks largely to a continuing high birth rate. In the 1986 estimates no state had a median over 40 but several were under 30, including besides Utah Alaska, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming. result of the fact that the giant Baby Boom generation is largely in its prime child-bearing years.

The rate of births per 1,000 remains well below that of the post-World War II period. The Census Bureau study also estimated that the nation's black population will increase to 13.7 percent by 2010. Blacks made up 11.8 percent of the population in the 1980 census. Blacks are expected to comprise nearly one in five residents of the South in 2010, 19.7 percent of the popu-latioa That will be up from 18.7 percent in 1980. In the Northeast, blacks will increase from 10.1 percent to 13.2 percent of the population.

They will go from 9.1 percent to 11.9 percent in the Midwest and from 5.3 percent to 6.3 percent in the West. The projections said the Northeast continues as the oldest section of the country by population, with the point, as it did jokingly for the late comedian Benny, the depends on birth and death rates in the coming years. The new projections are based on the assumptions that current trends will continue. At that rate, despite the aging of the population overall, the so-called dependency ratio is expected to decline. That ratio is the number of people under 18 and over 65 compared with the number of people of working age in, between.

The younger and older groups are said to depend on those working. The 1986 ratio of 62.2 dependents per 100 workers is expected to slip to 56.7 by the year 2010, with the low birth rate reducing the number of young dependents to a greater extent than aging adds to the older group. While there have been reports of increases in the total number of births in the last few years, that is a WASHINGTON (AP) The maturing of America will raise the nation's median age to Jack Benny's never-changing 39 by the year 2010, the Census Bureau estimated Wednesday. i 'The maturing of the massive post-World War II Baby Boom generation is combining with that group's relatively small production of offspring to raise the median to its highest point ever. 1 The median age meaning half of Americans are older and half younger than that mark touched 30 for the first time in 1950, then slipped back as the Baby Boom lowered the numbers.

i It took until the 1980 census to hit 30 again, edged up to 31.7 as of 1986 and is expected to climb to 33.0 by 1990, 36.5 by 2000 and 39.0 by 2010, the bureau's projected. i Whether the aging of United States will halt at that Two In Stolen Van Suspected United Moves To Boost Most Discount Air Fares ing, Robbery Spree In Odnapp Inside Abby 8B BusinessMarkets 6B Classified Comics 8B Community Calendar IB Cumberland Life 7A Dr. Donohue Editorials 4A 2B TV 5B Outside Sunny and cool today. Details on page 2A. were stopped by the victim's father.

While the pair were fleeing from the house, Heatherly struggled and managed to free himself. Heatherly's description of the matched the description of NEW YORK (AP) At least two major U.S. airlines decided Wednesday to follow Continental Airlines' move to boost most discount fares used by the majority of vacation travelers. Other competitors of Continental a subsidiary of Texas Air were expected to follow suit "I would be surprised if they didn't" said Helane Becker, an airline analyst at Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.1 Spokesmen for American Airlines and Dplta Air Lines said that the Wendorff assailants, Barnes said. A stolen van matching the description of the vehicle the armed assailants used was discovered burned at Northeast High School around 2 30 a.m.

Wednesday. When volunteer firefighters from St. Bethlehem arrived at the vehicle Continental changes, he said, involve more than 100,000 such fares. "We continue to review the others," Tyler said. "There is still indecision in the industry." Houston-based Continental notified travel agents on Tuesday night and Wednesday that it would revamp its MaxSaver program to base fares on the length of a flight.

Competition on individual routes, not mileage, had determined the fares in the past Under the new formula, scheduled to take effect Nov. 23, MaxSaver fares for longer flights generally would be raised while those. for shorter hauls would mostly be reduced. The changes appear to have the effect of raising roughly two-thirds of Continental's MaxSaver fares andr cutting the remaining third or so. They follow by a few days plans, initiated by Continental and matched by other major airlines to drop another category of discount air fares the "junk fares" available four to seven days before a flight that are used mainly by busl-.

Please turn to page 2A By SANDEE SUITT Of The Leaf-Chronicle Staff Police believe that two men riding around in a stolen van and wielding a handgun kidnapped and robbed their way from Clarksville to Oak Grove, and back again late Tuesday and early Wednesday. A van that may have been used by the assailants was found partially stripped and burned in a Montgomery County high school parking lot early Wednesday, according to Clarksville Police Detective Billy Barnes. i Police believe that the two men who kidnapped and robbed Carl Wendorff, 22, Company, l327th Infantry, Fort Campbell, may be the same individuals who stole a 1987 Chevy Astro van from a North Clarksville trailer park. Wendorff was walking north on U.S. 41A near State Park about 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday when two black males in a dark-colored van pulled along beside him, pointed a semi-automatic handgun in his face and shoved him in the van, The men were both muscular and had short hair, according to the Clarksville Police Department report. Wendorff was taken to Garrett Lane in the Edgewood Trailer Court in Oak Grove where the kidnappers took his wallet, shoes and a small amount of cash from hin Wendorf f's assailants left him at the trailer court and drove away in the direction of according to the report A second Clarksville Police report details a similar incident involving an 18-year-Old Clarksville man. Phil Heatherly, 411 Newman was walking west on Providence Boulevard when he was approached by two men in a van who asked him if he wanted a ride. When Heatherly got in the vehicle, one of the men inside the van pointed a pistol at him and demanded his money, the report said. The men started beating Heath-, erly when he told them he had no money, the report said.

They drove Heatherly around before taking him to his house where they tried to enter the residence but fire, the van still was burning, according to a Montgomery County Sheriff's Department report. The vehicle was destroyed byiflames, it said, The van had been partially stripped, and the tires and license plate were missing, according to the report The van was traced to Earl M. Nicholson, American Village Trailer Park, who said the van was stolen from his residence sometime between 8:30 p.m. Monday and 2:26 carriers were studying Continental's move and considering whether to follow it United Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, is matching Continental's action throughout its route system, said spokeswoman Sara nacker in Chicago. She said the average increase on the MaxSavers to be hiked would be around $15 each way.

Northwest Airlines partially followed the action, changing around 30,000 MaxSaver fares between different cities, said Northwest spokes-, man Red Tyler in Eagan, Minn. The Kevin Neblett a.m. Wednesday, the report said..