The Commercial Appeal du lieu suivant : Memphis, Tennessee • 21

MID-SOUTH MEMPHIS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 20 1999 The Commercial Appeal section Noncoimah 2 miles closer to 1-40 goal Collierville segment opens to rush of engines iv Shell By RonMaxey loop skirting Memphis Luanne Grandinetti a Parkway to form the Shelby County loop spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Transportation in Nashville said the Bailey Sta-tion-to-Byhalia extension is part of a 41-mile segment that will carry the parkway to US 72 by the end of next year Cost for the total 41-mile section is slightly over $21 million DAVID WATERS Faith Matters Restoring liberty and hope? radical but daring? Jubilee 2000 sounds impressive Local faith leaders lay aside doctrinal differences for the common good People of faith asked to cross sectarian boundaries and work together for justice liberty ana tolerance The numbers are impressive too: A coalition of 16 faiths and denominations representing KX) Christian Jewish and Mus-" i congregations The largest and most diverse gathering of clergy and lay people ever held in according to the Jubilee 000 press release The vision is even more im-ive: economic presshi envisioned Grandinetti said work on all future segments from US 72 north to 1-40 is still in the engineering phase Meantime the new section in Collierville has resulted in town officials having to make some adjustments Fred Rogers development director for the town said signal timing has been adjusted to deal with heavy traffic emptying onto Byhalia He said most of the traffic turns north onto Byhalia to get to Poplar permanent fix to the heavy traffic this has created on Byhalia is for Nonconnah to open on through to (US) Rogers said the interim we knew we would have this A similar traffic bottleneck occurred when the first section of the parkway opened in 1994 from 1-240 near ML Moriah to Ridgeway in' East Memphis Traffic would back up at the Ridgeway-Mt Moriah intersection as traffic poured off the parkway just north of the intersection The problem largely disap after the Ridgeway-to-verdale section opened in late 1995 BectI0I opened Together the Bill Morris and CoUierviUe-Aiiington highways will join Paul Barret Parkway to form the envisioned Shelby County loop From US 72 the parkway will go north to Tenn 57 in the next phase Future phases will connect Bill Morris with pro-osed Collierville-Arlington fonning" ahiehway system from Tsnn 57 toMacon Road then from Macon to US toad 64 and finally from US 64 to I 40 Together the Bill Morris and Collierville-Arlington high- ways will join Paul Barret MEMPHIS The Commercial Appeal The newest segment of Bill Morris (Nonconnah) Parkway has opened for business as the high-speed highway continues its slow march toward Interstate 40 in eastern Shelby County A two-mile segment from Bailey Station Road to Byhalia Road in Collierville opened quietly late last week in contrast to the trumpeted opening in December 1997 of the 67-mile section from Riverdale to Bailey Station The extension opened up a new area of extreme southeast Shelby County for development and fundamentally changed the way East Shelby County commuters travel It provided a speedy path to the doorstep of Federal Express new World Technology Center on Bailey Station The newest segment doesn't signal as great a milestone perhaps explaining the lack of fanfare when the barriers were removed at the Bailey Station exit last Thursday The opening does however push the parkway a little deeper into Collierville providing more convenient for moves to the high-speed calling works it to 7b reach reporter Ron Maxey call 529-2544 or send E-mail to maxeygomemphiscom arN The 11 men and one woman deliberated for less than two hours before finding Latham guilty in the caning death of the 84-year-old victim They also found Latham guilty of reckless homicide and aggravated assault Circuit Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood has not set a date for sentencing but concurred in the verdict that it will contain a $5000 fine Latham faces a possible 15 to 25 years in prison The defendant who faced a hopel land to purpose tne munity of press conference announcing Jubilee 2000 no doubt will be impressive Bishops ministers rabbis and imams will discuss a com- mon dream at the site of the assassination of one of great dreamers Dr Martin Luther King Jr must live together as brothers or perish together as King used to say King was impressive but he was much more than that He was radical He gave great speeches and press conferences but he also walked through police barricades bricks and tear gas He led large numbers of people but usually they were outnumbered He preached about the soul but he also challenged the system what got him into trouble He lust announce his dream He risked everything for it It cost him his life Jubilee 2000 sounds daring but will it be so? If it is it could be costly If these faith leaders are faithful to the radical concept of Jubilee it could cost them popularity position maybe more It could cost many of us something too Jubilee just a religious concept a political ana economic concept from a radical religious text the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout tne land to all its it says in Leviticus 25:10 A portion of that verse is inscribed on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia: liberty throughout the land to all its But the Biblical Jubilee only about liberty It also was about forgiveness and justice As spelled out in Leviticus 25 Jubilee was to be celebrated Tatnam foiinfl every 50 years It required that 1UU11C1 the land lay fallow for a year and that it be returned to its original owners not all All debts were to be forgiven All captives were to be freed Interest on loans was prohibited Food to the poor was not to be sold for profit Ron Sider president of Evangelicals for Social Action wrote about the meaning of Jubilee in his new book Just Gen- crosiufi property was not Sider wrote however the means of producing wealth were to be equalized up to the point of every family having the resources to earn a decent Jubilee introduced morals into economics It about access to the parkway some motorists It also Bill Morris a little closer goal of its being a A higher Barry Moss of Powertel Powertel expects to need guilty of killing Ripley man 84 By Bartholomew Sullivan The Commercial Appeal RIPLEY Tenn down two to go how the family James Webster liesday evening to a Workman Nashville lawyers for condemned killer of a By Deborah Young Claim of cleaner city gets mixed reactions at street level By Tom Bailey Jr The Commercial Appeal Neiel mixed reactions Thesday to the claim by Memphis City Beautiful that litter has been dramatically reduced in Memphis in the last 20 Gloria expresses sponse As coordinator of the Stonewall Block Club within the Vollintine Evergreen Community Association she said not unusual to see people picking up litter and keeping the neighborhood clean But as one who grew up in and still loves Hyde Park she sees in her old North Memphis neighborhood heavily littered streets that counter Memphis City claim The latest annual measure of litter shows 82 percent less litter on Memphis streets now than in the first measurement taken in 1979 The 1998 count also shows rigbt-of-ways have 75 percent less litter than 20 years ago vacant lots and parking lots have 91 percent less litter areas around garbage bins have 81 percent less litter and litter around loading docks is down 56 percent me Fulton-Singleton 47 said of Hyde Park me a lack of pride When I grew up you just throw paper out on the street went to Hyde Park School When the principal rung the bell you picked up litter as you walked to the classroom You have a lot of money but you were clean Please see UTTER Page B2 in the robbery and shooting but told he was drugs at the time Davis who was presented in trial as the only eyewitness to the shooting told jurors he saw Workman fatally shoot Oliver He now says he had been drinking and smoking marijuana and saw Oliver and By Kent Ptuttipe 160 feet up on a communication tower at 2670 Fite Road to install temporary microwave equipment handle heavy cell phone traffic from Memphis Motorsports Park during an upcoming NASCAR event XX sentence of life without the possibility of parole if been convicted of either of the two first-degree murder charges in the indictment bugged his mother and appeared relieved after the jury was dismissed His family declined comment family also appeared pleased Latham will do some prison time 4-year-old granddaughter who Please see GUILTY Page B2 US Supreme Court to reconsider its recent refusal to review their cases Coe now 43 was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Cary Ann Medlin an 8-year-old girl he abducted near her Greenfield Tenn home in 1979 He confessed and was convicted by a jury in Memphis where the trial was held in 1981 Workman 47 was convicted of robbing restaurant at 3275 Thomas of $1170 in cash on Aug 5 1981 and then shooting Oliver in a struggle to get away Workman admitted to 2nd-degree murder in caning death witness perjured self dale County second-degree murder verdict in the trial of James Lee Latham 18 have to said son Terry Webster 41 today I think they should pick up the other two They deserve the same Webster was referring to two troublemakers who accordin to authorities went wit' Latham to rob James Webster the night Latham beat the old gentleman with his own cane lawyers say in 1981 a critical piece of said Jefferson Dorsey one of attorneys with the Tennessee Post-Conviction Defenders Office in Nashville it means is their only shooting witness was a perjurer He lied incredibly A federal appeals court last year downplayed the importance saying that testimony merely corroborated own trial testimony that he shot Lt Workman now says new ballistics evidence indi one of reacted Lauder the Memphis police officer hope their life can be spared with the recanted testimony of a man presented in the 1982 trial as the only eyewitness to the shooting The witness Harold Davis now says on a videotape defense attorneys released this week that he saw a struggle but did not see Phillip Ray Workman kill Lt Ronald Oliver cates the fatal shot did not come from his gun State prosecutors say the issues have been litigated and that even if the claims are true Workman still stands guilty or murder in the perpetration of a felony which can be punishable by death Workman and fellow death row inmate Robert Glen Coe are in the final stages of their appeals and could become the first prisoners executed in Tennessee since 1960 Their sentences have been stayed until at least Oct 29 while their attorneys ask the charity It was about change the risky part sort of like the difference between two major inter-nip his the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Asso- datum and Shelby County 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