Stewart-Houston Times from Clarksville, Tennessee • 1

---r-- --rr -'t --7- flT HOUSTON Stewart And Houston Counties Oldest Newspaper Dover and Erin Tennessee Wednesday June 81983 VOL 57-NO 23 Houston Times -1 40 25 cents 'A Multimedia Inc Newspaper e'fl Staf Require Several m- if County Roads On July 1 doing Is taking what has been called the Rural Roads and the Federal Secondary System" Lyle said The next most Important arteries are called State Aid Koads and Congress recently gave the the authority to spend up to 50 percent Me of their State Aid Monies to build concrete bridges on these roads the past people in Nashville who didn't reaHyknow the needs of the local road designated where bridges were to be built Now the road will have greater input as towhere new bridges are Ide said And the state has Increased the amount of State Aid Money it will give to Houston Qeunty Jrom 170000 ust year to $117060 tins year Stewart County-went from $86jlQ0 to $150000 over the same period In Houston County the total road mileage is 33555 miles in Stewart County it's 51356 Prior to July 1 the existing State Highway System in Houston County is 5658 miles Stewart is 71 J(L After July 1 the State wUl own 7620 miles of roadway in Houston County and 11L46 in Stewart County The Proposed State Aid System in Houston County is 5177 miles In Stewart Coynty SUfL After July 1 Houston County will have 22558 miles of roads to maintain while Stewart County win have 34244 Lyle and Cunningham say that they wfll be able to concentrate their wok force on upgrading other deficient roads after the state acquires the roads in the two counties i By David Ross On July 1 the State Highway Department win acquire several miles of roads that currently belong to Stewart and Houston Counties The State rather than the counties will Ir responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the roads after that date In Houston four sections of county roqds equalling 1652 miles will be tuned over to the State Those sections of roads are: lfcEwen High- way to the Humphreys County line ikson County Highway 41 to the Dickson line Highway 49 to the Stewart County Une pnd Highway 1471n--McKinnon to the Stewart County Une In Stewart 315 miles of county roads will become the responsibility of the State These roads are The Indian Mound Road from Red Top Throck- morton Road to the Montgomery County line The Carlisle to Cumberland City Road and Highway 147 from the Houston County line to Highway 71 According to the road engineers in both counties the State's decision to take over these roads will benefit the two highwav and lie who live on the roads the oeoole who win be a big help to take these roads out of the County's jurisdiction and let the state Worry about them' said Stewart County Road Engineer Jerry Cunningham Cunningham says that each section of road the state will acquire night The strong winds possibly a tornado up-rooted and mangled a path of trees in the park behind the Confederate Monnment The strong winds also caused considerable damage la many portions of Stewart and Houston Counties CLEARING LC Dudley near and James Moekabee Fort Donelson National Military Park employees are busy clearing away the debris from more than 23 huge trees which were downed In the park by the wild wlndf Friday Wild Weekend Winds Rip Across Stewart And A good many people-in Stewart and Houston Counties found the forces of Mother Nature to be quite overwhelming Friday night High winds blew limbs and trees across roads and power lines leaving some roads in both counties unpaas- able and left a number of people a period of without electricity for time There are indications that a several tornados passed over the area and possibly touched of Stewart County of- down in areas' fidalssay think we had a tornado It cer- tainly left that said Charlie Vial superintendent of Fort Donelson National Military Park According to Vial 23 huge oak' trees and countless smaller trees in the park were uprooted or blown over one lues to lose trees especially us said- "i Vial said that several trees and limbs were blown across the paries roads during the storm had to close the park until we could dear the he said Vial said seven park employees worked until 10 am Saturday morning clearing the park roads Tina Hicks a dispatcher for the Stewart County Sheriffs Depart- man said the winds got so bad that the prisoners were taken to the basement of the jailhouse r- got several calls throughout the night especially in the Bumpus Mills area reporting trees on the roads downed lines and wind Mrs Hicks said Stewart Coufity Road Engineer -Jerry Cunningham said that he worked throughout the night clearing trees and branches out of roads A spokesman for the Houston County -Highway Department said City HaU Council Chambers and the Wilson County Courthouse in Lebanon Continuing Educaiton Units will be awarded The course is designed to provide local government supervisors basic skills for planning and organizing work wUl be on effective work) Instructor for both courses win be Dr Wayne Chaffin director ol- safety education at Austin Peay: it -5 'J li 1 -'J 1 needs attention that the County afford Carlisle road Is a pretty nod Is work The pne but even it needs others are probably the most miser-in the coui able roads the he said Camdl Lyle Houston County road engineer says thst Houston County has been treated fairly by the state the State only wanted to take 8J9 miles of the best roads In the county but I made a few phone calls to Nashville and convinced them to also take the two sections leading to the Stewart County Hue" Lyle said Cunningham also convinced the State to tuei an additional I miles of county road had to make an agreement to hot mix a portion of the old TV A road before the state would agree to take he said Four miles of the Indian Mound Highway is gravel "Tills is the only gravel road in Tennessee that will go to the Cunningham said Ciiimtngham eaya that the folks who nvein downtown Indian Mound may finally get their road repaired so that it wash away on a regular basis "It win cost a tremendous amount of money to fix the Indian Mound road in tne downtown area perhaps the State can afford to do it We he said Oq July the State Highway Department will acquire 33000 miles of the best and the worst highways in im and Lyle Tennessee Cunningham and Lyle say State decided to take over the main arteries in the County Highway system What the State is is located at 4M North Poplar Street in Paris Just two blocks North of the court square like for everyone in Stewart and Houston Counties inter ested to come to our Mrs Outlqwsaid' And she says If there is enough interest in the two counties she will be willing to work with citizens in the two counties towards organizing chapters here from Paris and I knew the people there to get a MADD chapter started But we need people who are with the Local law en forcement officials District Attorneys judges and the entire dfisesy i rf Stewart and Houston rfm grid I Mrs Outlaw along with a growing' number of Americans feels that the i of drunken drivers should problem beaddiw need an organization like MADD to puA for tougher Intention against the drunk driver Often times the people who an making the laws are habitual drunk drivers themselves They drink and drive to enact and enforce stricter the drug problem drinking is socially said Mra Outlaw cites some staggering statistics compiled by Congress to back up her claim far an organi- the Held for several tournaments this summer park are and photo on Local Supervisors Invited To Attend UT Organizing Course Houston that several trees were downed in Houston County especially in the McKinnon area CEMC crews worked to restore to citizens of Stewart County 10 pm on Friday until 8 Saturday still up certain areas1 sail spokesman Russell Ross According to Meriwether Lewis General Manager John Barber crews were out in Houston County most of Saturday morning Melvin Selph of Houston County said that he and his family wore at the'Tqnnessee Ridge Elementary baseball field when the storm oc-' cured think ever been aa he said think a tornado padsed directly overhead" Selph mM i ii JtiJ iwintTflitiim rtrn unn State University Deadline 'to register for either session is June 15 No registration fee will be charged city or county personnel because of special funding State employees may attend free if space is available A $15 fee will be charged all others For more information contact John Fat CGTs regional manager at (615) 251-1402 want to ten story so that people can become aware If what I'm doing can prevent just one needless death then Debbie has not died-in she said people wonder how I can talk so freely about my daughter's she said can because Fm mad and my way of getting rid of my anger and frustration is to work with she said Citizens of Stewart and Houston Counties interested in leaning man about MADD can contact Connie Outlaw at her home at 2325235 after 6 pm or on weekends have an answering machine but be afraid to leave your same and number and ni get back ln touch with r- Or you can write for information at: MADD PO Box 1274 Paris TN Photos by David Rass practice on regaalr occasions and are to be played oa the field Flans far completing the Community wen underway See related story page 1-B A DREAM COMING TRUE- The Houston County Recreation Park a project of the Houston County Jaycees for die past five years is slowly but surely becoming a reality The once vacant lot locate near HCHS Is now a regulation taDfleU complete with a backstop Local ban teams use Mother Wants To Form MADD Stewart And Houston Government supervisors In Stewart and Houston Counties are Invited to a University of Tennessee Center for Government Training Course of Supervision in Local Government Planning and June 17 in Dickson and June 24 in Lebanon The one-day sessions part of CGTs Tennessee Public Supervisor Certificate Program will be held from am to 4 pm at the Dicksbn Chapters In Mrs Outlaw says that it is important for people who have not been victims or who have had friends and relatives who were victims of an alcohol related accident to become in-valved in MADD my daughter was killed you couldn't have made me believe that rd be trying to organize such program not a joiner or an or ganber but I do believe in the importance of MADD IPS too bed that I had to lose my daughter before I became aware of the seriousness of this she said On the night of Aug 6 1982 Debbie JahknCd was sitting at stop sign at the Intersection of UA 71 and the old Buchanan boat dock road in Henry County Her 1188 Mustang "was struck head on by an AMC jeep driven by Richard Simmons 35 ofBig Sandy Debbie was killed in Weather stantly Two passengers in Debbie's car along with Simmons and his companion escaped serious Injury On May Id after pleading guBty to driving drunk on the night of the accident Simmons was sentenced to 10 years in the state penitentary with anbutooeyearof the term suspended He will serve the one year in the Henry County jail have Ms license suspoided for three years perform 126 hours of alcohol related public service work each of the three yeam be on probation for ten yesrs 1 And he will have to live with the knowledge that he took the life of a young girl because he had been driving under the Influence of alcoboL Mrs Outlaw says that it has been difficult for her to accept her daughter's death but tee feels that her af- fOiatiou wtthMADDhu helped to eese the burden One quarter of a minion Americans lost their lives in alcohol-related auto enuhes over the past dec- eAbout 21500 citizens are killed in drunk driving incidents yearly Nearly 78 Americans are killed In drunk driving incidents every day Or one American life is lost every 23 minutes in alcohol-related auto cradles The drinking driver problem creates an estimated economic cort of over $5 bflhon annually And the list goes ool show that on an aver- age weekend night one out of every ten drivers on the road is Mm Outlaw said Henry County and possibly Stewart and Houston Counties that' statistic is probably much higher" In Tha Issue Classifieds Deaths By David R1 Connie Outlaw jOf Dover would like to see a local chapter or chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) organized in Stewart and Houston Counties And she is more than willing to help get them started Mrs Outlaw whose 17 year eld daughter Debbie Jablonski was killed in Henry County by a drunk driver a little more than a year ago has been the principal organiser of a MADD chapter in Henry County The goals of MADD which is a organization established in 1I80L are reduce the number of deaths and tajtuies canned by drunk drivers And to offer support and services to the victims of drunk Mrs Outlaw said Is not Just for she said who has been touched in some way by adrunk driver or anyone who wants to hety do something about this serious aa- tlonal problem on our highways is encouraged to become member or Imply attend our meetings" Mrs said-- The Henry County chapter of MADD the second chapter to bo formed in Tennessee meets every 4th Thursday of the month at the Farm Bureau building in Paris at 7:30 pm Tte next meeting iamtlor June 2LThe Farm Bureau bulldiag Features 8-B 2-A The extended forecast through Saturday calls for partly cloudy skies i "norma: 50s to 1 NI 3TMAHSVN upper! 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