The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 45

Hjii I nil Mmmrn 0 Your community newspaper EAST "1 'V: Capleville -V Collierville Cordova 4: Eads East Memphis i Flshervllle Germantown Parkway Village SERVING YOU THESE COMMUNITIES MEMPHIS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13 1990 TfaE Commercial Appeal Filing closes with three races January 1989 and within days was elevated to mayor when Warner Hodges HI resigned Salvaggio drew attention earlier this year as spokesman for the six suburban mayors who fought proposals for school consolidation by announcing plans to form a new county Copeland 39 is chief engineer at St Francis Hospital He has become a regular candidate in Ger-mantown elections during the contested are on the ballot Current Aider-man Wayne Addison did not seek re-election to a third term in that office The other three Germantown aldermen David Halle Bill McGaughey and Bob Parrish are not up for re-election until 1992 Salvaggio 35 is owner of Memphis Door and Hardware and first was elected alderman in 1986 defeating incumbent Jay Kahn He became vice mayor in 1988 ballot eventually running against McGaughey Copeland finished third in that race In Position 1 all three candidates are seeking their first political offices A1 Montgomery a 41-year-old securities broker for Vining-Sparks Securities Inc has lived in Germantown about four years He said the departure of the two Incumbents could make it easier for a newcomer to be elected He plans to run a low-key campaign with no donations and no yard signs: 1 think it city? trashes By Clay Bailey The Commercial Appeal Candidates in three Germantown races have two months to convince voters that the most qualified candidate to lead the city during the next four years The qualifying deadline for the Nov 6 election for mayor and two of the five aldermen last Thursday with no petit Scouting hut to serve as Irwin memorial 1 By Ron Maxey The Commercial Appeal One of Robert Irwin dreams was to build a new hut for the Boy Scouts to whom he had dedicated much of his life Irwin died Aug 28 at the age of 78 and area scout leaders want to help his dream come true Members of Boy Scout Troop Ole 97 which Irwin headed as scoutmaster for more than SI years are accept-donations for the hut 97 hopes to build the SECTION run Morris 34 will try to run his own campaign despite being the son of Shelby County Mayor Bill Morris Trey Morris is general manager of Vendor Supply Co He is a member of the Germantown Theater Foundation one of the studying funding to complete the theater wing of the Germantown Centre Mrs Parker 37 is a member of Please see ELECT Page E3 race features last-minute Intrigue E8 Parkway may start by Oct 1 By Ron Maxey Tlw Commercial Appeal The pieces are expected to be in place by Oct 1 to begin the construction of Nonconnah Parkway Holloway Construction Co of Wixom Mich successful bidder for the initial phase currently is moving equipment to Memphis and expects to be for work to start by the be-of the month a Lloway spokesman said The Michigan company won NaslivUlThe company Coffer of $4474881912 since has been certified as the low bid the Holloway spokesman said last week Expected to take several years to complete Nonconnah Parkway will run basically parallel to Poplar The1 long-anticipated road is designed to provide another major artery into east Shelby County and ease congestion on Poplar Nonconnah is one of the most expensive projects on which the state Transportation Department ever has taken bids spokesman Gwen Hopkins said earlier The first phase involves work along 44 miles of Interstate 240 near Perkins Road to Ridgeway Road in East Memphis The pr feet description calls for widening Interstate 240 construction oflnterchanges to tie the park-lnto the Interstate grading drainage wqrk construction of five bridges construction of reinforced concrete and metal noise walls paving and a long list of other work Homeowners whose property backs up to the interstate along Please see ROAD Page E6 iBYGONt DAVSRHB From the files of The Commercial Appeal Sept 13 1930 Bus service for new eastern suburbs and the new Fairview Junior High School was offered the city by the Memphis Street Railway Co Thq routes proposed to Mayor Over-ton and the city commission would serve the section east of the Parkway between Poplar and Central avenues as well as territory as far east as Highland Street Sept 13 1930 State Teachers College will soon be one of the show places of Memphis Not only has an elaborate system of new roads been constructed but the entire campus is being regraded Many additional shrubs and trees wul be planted The new concrete roads will be a tremendous boon to students who come in cars Parking space at the eastern end of the building has been provided Germantown board first inn last-minute unknown entries The only surprise was the withdrawal of Dick Staub from the race leaving only Mayor Charles Salvaggio and James Copeland vying for the suburb's top seat In the races A1 Montgomery William Morris and Lisa Parker are seeking the Position 1 post being vacated by Alderman Bill Finney In Position 2 Nestor Keith Saunders and Jerry hut which largely would be used as a meeting facility at Broadway Baptist Church near Southaven Bill Dixon a scoutmaster since 1947 who grew up with Ir-win in South Memphis said Troop 97 will have a tribute to Irwin at its traditional booth at the Mid-South Fair Sept 21 30 and will accept donations to pay for constructing the hut Not even in death did Irwin who once called service to scouting his testimony to God forget the cause to which he had devot- ed so many hours of his life i As he had stipulated the pallbearers at his funeral Sept 1 were eight scouts who had reached Eagle Scout status under Irwin They Included at least one representative from each Please see IRWIN Page E6 cognized the monthly Youth in Excellence award winner The vote approving the bed-and-breakfast inn completes a four-year battle for devi Walter Wills IB who will use ISO-year-old house as the centerpiece for the hotel project was rejected on several occasions because the property is zoned residential But eventually he rode the coattails of a new ordinance passed last year That law allowed for uses such as Wills's hotel on property on the National Register of Historic Places Wills is the only person to apply for a project under the law Alderman Bill McGaughey who has opposed the project from the start was- the only Please see INN Page E6 White Station on the east has become! of office andi Also the Garden Plaza hotel and the Racquet Club of Memphis are on Sanderlin MendenhaB Commons shop-center anchored by a grocery store is at the corner of the Menden-haB-Sanderlln intersection and Beth Sholom synagogue is on the northeast comer Residential development is on the west side of Mendenhall where Sanderlin deadends Charles SulUvan the deputy engineer for traffic said there are no plans currently to extend Sanderlin west of denhalL Johnson said 15674 vehicles the intersection 630 am and 630 pm during the most recent traffic count Please see SIGNAL Page E4 all three seats on the displayed only twice a week in a separate room' officials said School classes may schedule with the museum staff to see Stuffee for the regular admission fee and staff members will take the doll to forums planned for area schools and hospitals Stuffee was designed at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum which has sold similar dolls to museums schools and doctors around the country It was purchased with a $10000 gift from the Memphis and Shelby County Medical society Auxllliary Stuffee's stuffing was revealed for the first time last week to about 40 children and museum officials who passed around fabric organs during a 30-minute welcoming ceremony one gets queasy or faints because Stuffee looks so friendly and so said JJ Doughtie the volunteer coordinator who went to Pittsburgh to learn how to give presentations organs look pretty true to life and the heart has batteries and the kids can hear it beating when they hug him" Jeanne Flnan director of the museum said Stuffee also may be used to explain mqjor surgery to young medical patients think that could be a good way to relieve some of their anxiety" she said doctor bought one from the Pittsburgh museum for just that purpose doll waj The unweildy doll was flown to Memphis aboard Northwest Airlines Jet The company provided three free seats for Stuffee and airport workers helped the doU change planes at the Detroit airport By Clay Bailey The Commercial Appeal The long-discussed Kirby Farms inn first hotel received final city approval Monday night and could be under construction by the first of -the year' The Germantown Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the first phase of the bed-end-breakfast inn between Poplar and Poplar Pike by a 3-1 vote The initial construction will convert the historic Kirby Farms home into a restaurant and seven rooms with two additional buildings of 10 rooms each being built Also on Monday night the board approved the hiring of three new city employees and re Traffic light installed to help relieve interchange problem Doughtia a voluntaar coordinator for The Museum of Memphis shows children the in Stuffde a doll that features model internal organs 7-foot stuffed doll serves as museum exhibit with By Ron Maxey The Commercial Appeal The city has installed a traffic signal at the intersection of MendenhaB and Sanderlin because increasing traffic has worsened turning problems Ken Johnson rathe traffic design division in the city office said the signal was necessary because of the large percentage of left turns at the East Memphis intersection Southbound traffic on MendenhaB has to turn left across two lanes of northbound traffic to travel east on Sanderlin Also traffic on Sanderlin has to cross three lanes of traffic including a turn lane to head south on MendenhalL The site is about a half mile north of the Poplar-Mendenhall intersection Sanderlin which runs parallel to Poplar between Mendenhall on the west and By Dave Hlrschman The Commercial Appeal Call it a museum exhibit with heart and lungs a liver kidneys and a few other internal or- Stuffee a 7-foot-tall doll recently acquired by the Museum of Memphis dls-realistic body parts when ts zippered front goes down The doll is neither male nor female because it is not anatomically correct However the fabric organs it can display are the correct size for a human 7 feet tall The doll wiB be used to teach children about human bodies how they work and what the parts look like It will become part of the Memphis museum's permanent collection but will be.