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Page B3 The Leaf-Chronicle it STATE tir Saturday, November 28, 1998 Fbur escape from Obion center State celebrates 40th anniversary of 1-65 McLilly, age unavailable, of Milan was caught shortly after the escape, during which he suffered a leg injury. The $7 million jail opened Tuesday, and Sheriff Danny Cunningham has already complained about staffing and design problems. He said the escape was aided by equipment failure and perhaps insufficient staffing Perry was being held on charges of first-degree murder. Young was imprisoned for parole violation and other offenses, and Bennett was being held for failure to appear in court. McLilly is jailed on cocaine sales and possession convictions.

In Knoxville, the newly done Pellissippi Parkway is 1-140. "With the four major interstates (65, 40, 24 and 75), we have an excellent transportation system as a whole," Grandinetti says. "You are pretty well covered across the state." Richards agrees. "Moreso than any other state, the interstate system has put Tennessee on the map. The state is a major hub for commerce, especially the trucking industry." "Lots of industries have located in Tennessee because we are easy to get to thanks to the interstate system.

'Tennessee is almost 600 miles in length; the interstate connects what is a very long state; it's a real asset." By JOE EDWARDS Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE It seems an unlikely spot for Tennessee's first interstate: It was 81 miles from a metropolitan area and in the heart of soybean fields. A 1.8-mile segment of Interstate 65 in Giles County near the Alabama line is celebrating its 40th anniversary as the state's first link of interstate highway. The interchange on State Route 31, providing a bypass around Ardmore, was completed in November 1958 and opened that December. Forty years later, Tennessee has almost 1,100 miles of interstate highway crisscrossing the state. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the average motorist travels about 3,785 miles a year on interstates in the state.

'The interstates have brought us closer together and enabled us to be a mobile society," says Dr. Steve Richards, director of the Transportation Center at the University of Tennessee. State troopers say the segment, 81 miles south of Nashville, was a major step toward improving highway safety. "Typically there are more accidents on state routes and county roads than on interstates," says Dana Keeton, a spokeswoman for the State Safety Department. The 1-65 segment was the first in Tennessee because the state needed to coordinate with Alabama, which was building its link south of the state line.

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Police were searching northwestern Union City and manning roadblocks. Blood hounds from Dyer County were brought in to help. Union City is in northwest Tennessee, near the Arkansas, Missouri and Kentucky borders. At large are Floyd Lee Perry, 18, of Jackson; Ronnie Young, 26, of Humboldt; and Roman Bennett, age unavailable, of Fulton. Curtis OSMETIC A Eye Liner SKIN i mm fai 7 Call Today DERMATOLOGY NASHVILLE AP) The Tennessee Commission on Indian Affairs is debating whether to expand the state's definition of who is considered an Indian.

Recent appointments to the commission by Gov. Don Sundquist should help the prospects. The rule in Tennessee is that a person has to meet one of two criteria to be recognized by the state as an Indian, a designation that confers minority status and thus certain benefits. Some college scholarships are reserved for members of minority groups, for instance. The two criteria are: Being a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe; or being a direct descendant of an individual previously recognized by the state as an Indian.

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PIGMENTATION Eyebrow Definer ilgwBk 1 Colorful carousel by acclaimed artist opens in Nashville 4 It took 1 12 years to finish the 1.8-mile bypass. Today, more than 16,000 vehicles a day travel the segment. There's a welcome center nearby. "You only have to look at the growth of Nashville to see what the interstates have meant," says Luanne Grandinetti, spokeswoman for the state transportation department. "Nashville has prospered for the last several years because of that.

The interstate provides a tremendous ability for growth." "You can see economic development where interstates are." The interstate construction is still going strong. The state has just completed about 20 miles in Unicoi County that will become 1-26 when North Carolina finishes its section. said. Three opponents of expanded recognition have left the commission in the past 18 months. They are Becky Yahola of Lebanon, Harley Grant of Chattanooga and John Martin of Knoxville.

Yahola and Grant were not reappointed to the commission by Sundquist when their terms expired. Martin resigned out of frustration with the commission's new direction. "It's good for people to find they have Indian blood in their history. That's very important," Grant said. "But we've got to look at it this way: If a person is one-eighth Native American, that means they are seven-eighths something else.

Being part Native American does not make you Native American." He spent five years on it, the longest he has devoted to any project. "I think I would have wanted to do something about Nashville anyway," Grooms said. "Even if I had been from somewhere else it's such great subject matter. "But the fact that it is my hometown does make it special." x-v 0 My Angel is 30 Michelle Dodson 1 wmt JANUARY-Garnet FEBRUARY-Amethyst MARCH-Aquamarlne APRIL-Dlamoud IB St MAY-Emerald AUGIST-Perldot SEPTEM ER-Sapp Ire OCTOEER-Rote NOVEMBER -Topai DECEMBER-Bioe Zircon JLNE-Aleiandrlte JLIY-Ruby people on the state's list. There are other Tennesseans of some degree of Indian ancestry who want to be recognized by the state.

Their entreaties have been rejected by previous commissions, but Sundquist's recent appointees are more sympathetic. "We're going to look at it from all the legal aspects, to do it right," said Clayton Prest of Montgomery County, appointed commission chairman last summer by Sundquist. He has been on the commission for three years. Toye Heape, executive director of the commission, said the agency has a responsibility to "provide for recognition of unrecognized groups and individuals and to formulate a process for doing that." "A lot of people have brought up the fact that they would like to see the process re-examined," Heape years worth of show biz there before the (Grand Ole) Opry ever came along." Southern critters like the catfish and the chigger are also represented. Riders will cruise to songs like "Turkey in the Straw," "Tennessee Waltz" and "Wake Up Little Susie" by The Everly Brothers.

"It's so unique and it tells such a story it's more than an art said Trudy Byrd, a friend of Grooms who helped raise $1.75 million to install the carousel and build a protective pavilion. "It's a history piece and a cultural piece in which each individual work of art tells a story. "It's going to be so uniquely Nashville that I think it will become kind of an icon for us more than just a piece of Red Grooms sculpture that's whimsical and fun." The carousel, which will be open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily through Christmas if weather permits, costs SI.

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The Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel is open for business at Riverfront Park, just across the river from the city's new football stadium currently under construction. The colorful, garish sculptures on the merry-go-round wouldn't be out of place in a carnival, helping to mark it as the work, of acclaimed artist and Nashville native Red Grooms. "It certainly comes from the carnival in that it is zany and slightly grotesque, but that's what's so attractive about a carnival," Grooms said. There are 36 rideable figures and 28 painted panels on what Grooms calls a "sculpto-pictora-ma." Among the sculptures: Davy Crockett, Olympian Wilma Rudolph and President Andrew 'Jackson. Also included are lesser-known people like former Ryman Auditorium booking agent Lula Neff, who Grooms says "created 35 Dr.

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