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good afternoon Tuesday December 8, 1981 mm ninie 08OV NE424-8080 PHO Jackson, Tenn. Two Sections 25 Cents Copyright 1981 The Jackson Sun, Inc. buy farm for county park locations have been examined. Development of the north park as the 72-acre South Madison Park will begin next spring, probably ready for baseball games, tennis and picnics summer of 1983, said Pugh department executive director. Park, 12 acres big and, according to parks officials, seriously is the only existing county-owned park.

site is bordered on the north Road and on the east by Central Gulf railroad tracks, Medina Road several hundred west and Henderson Road to It is vacant except for a barn, only adjacent building is Oakfield Outlet on Oakfield Road. The main access to the park would be from Oakfield Road. The site was first considered about two years ago, when Duffey was asking $200,000 for it. Parks department officials were' tempted, and even had environmental impact statements, a land survey and an appraisal done. Maps showing the location of the park's potential attractions on the site were drawn.

But Bourne said the uncertainty of getting federal funds for the county's two-park project officials were hoping for $500,000, but might have gotten zero kept them from concluding a deal. By the time the National Park Service approved $150,000 for Madison County in October, parks officials were ready to act. Please Turn To Page 9A Kenneth Duffey, owner of Duffes Home Center, will sell the Madison County Recreation and Parks Department a tract of land for the future North Madison County Park, for $155,000. Religion on campus OK: court Call Sun Line, 424-8080, or write to Sun Line, Box 1059, Jackson, 38301, for action and information. You must include your name, phone number and address; they will be kept confidential.

We answer as many questions as we can and print the most interesting and helpful ones. Consumer-related questions can also be directed to the State Consumer Affairs Division by calling (800) 342-8385, a toll-free number. Q. Why are the salaries of Youth Town of Tennessee employees kept secret? What do they make? L. J.

Jackson A. Walter Howell, director of the home for boys, said he sees "no reason" to publicize the salaries because the non-profit, charitable organization is a private one. A private citizen wouldn't want his or her salary published, he claimed. However, "we'll be glad to sit down and discuss it at length, including financial statements" and salaries, with any contributor who visits him at the home on U.S. 45 in Pinson.

According to last year's required audit submitted to the secretary of state, total salaries, including payroll taxes and employee insurance, amounted to $78,452 for the 20 employees at the home for 28 boys here and six girls at the ranch near Franklin. Howell said those 20 employees include himself, a social worker, three office workers, a director of development, a farm manager, three maids and 10 house-parents. Salaries alone totaled According to the latest audit figures released when Tom Hendrix took over as Youth Town president, revenues of $341,862, mostly in donations, exceeded expenses of $337,546, reducing indebtedness to $12,000. A copy of the latest audit was unavailable. Hendrix said he receives no compensation or salary as president and a fund-raiser.

Q. Will the Garden State Bowl between Tennessee and Wisconsin be televised? B.S. Jackson A. Yes, but you might need cable TV or a friend with it to see it. Mizlou TV Network in New York will broadcast the football game live at 11:30 a.m.

Sunday from New Jersey to WPTY (Channel 24) in Memphis and WNGE (Channel 2) in Nashville, which is no longer available on Jackson cable TV, as well as Knoxville area stations. Q. I travel from Lexington to Jackson on Tennessee 20 quite often, and there's been heavy traffic, narrow misses and deaths due to accidents. What has to be done to get a highway widened from two to four lanes and has this ever been considered for Tennessee 20? G.P. Lexington A.

The state Department of Transportation as well as local governments originate highway improvements, Bill Wallace, director of the department's planning division, explained. The department has a "continuing needs study" on traffic volumes, accidents and other aspects and, also, makes special studies when local governments request them. Having enough state and local money is the main obstacle to improvements, he said. He agreed Tennessee 20 has problems of hills, no-passing zones and narrow Please turn to Page 2A "i If? 1 ft A 7 Board to By KEVIN BARNARD Sun Reporter The Madison County Recreation and Parks Department board voted Monday afternoon to purchase a 97-acre farm on Oakfield Road for the site of the future North Madison County Park. Kenneth Duffey, owner of Duffey's Home Center, will sell the department the long vertical tract about two miles north of Jackson for $155,000.

Board members Irvin Green, Bill Wil-hite, Tom Burks, Bo Deaton and Willie Tyson unanimously approved the purchase over another possibility, a 60- to 65-acre farm on Watson Road owned by Robert E. Smith. The deal, which will be signed by Jan. 1, will end a three-year search for a north park site for which more Authorities file charges, blast Walesa WARSAW, Poland (AP) Poland's Communist regime launched a two-prong assault on the independent labor movement, accusing Lech Walesa of calling for the overthrow of the government and filing charges against another top Solidarity leader. PAP, the official Polish news agency, reported the independent labor federation's chief in the Baltic port city of Szczecin, Marian Jurczyk, had been charged with "publicly ridiculing and insulting" government officials last month.

It is the first time since Solidarity was formed a year and a half ago that someone of Jurczyk's prominence has been charged. The charge was based on his comments that members of the Sejm, the Polish parliament, were traitors and that some people might have to be hanged to solve the nation's problems. Jurczyk's remarks were published by the Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Ludu before a meeting of the Sejm. And on Monday, four days before another meeting of the Sejm, both the newspaper and Warsaw Radio revealed a speech by Walesa, Solidarity's national chief, in which he said confrontation between the union and the government "is unavoidable, and the confrontation will take place." Other Solidarity leaders scoffed at speculation that charges might be filed against Walesa also. "There would be a war if they touched Walesa," said one.

"I wanted to reach that confrontation in a natural way, when almost all social groups are with us," the head of the 9.5-million-member union told a closed session of union leaders last week. "But I made a mistake because I thought we would keep it up longer, and then we would overthrow these Sejms and (local government) councils and so on." The union should not say "aloud" that confrontation is inevitable, he continued, but should say, 'We love you, we love socialism and the party and, of course, the Soviet Union, and by the accomplished facts we should do our work and wait." The army newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci said such statements lead to the conclusion that "the most extreme tendency is gaining the upper hand within the Solidarity leadership they are those who have long striven for anarchy and chaos, seeing in it a chance for a takeover of power by forces hostile to People's Poland and socialism." Walesa confirmed to The Associated Press that he made the remarks but said his words were taken out of context. Warsaw Radio broadcast a tape recording of the speech, but a spokesman refused to say how the government station got hold of it. The Sejm meets Friday to begin debate on legislation to limit the right -to strike, which the workers won as a result of the nationwide upheaval in the summer of 1980 that produced Solidarity. The union leadership is also scheduled to meet Friday and Saturday and has threatened a nationwide general strike if the legislation is adopted.

Tennessee By JOE DEW San Gibson County Bureau The Tennessee Supreme Court, sitting in Jackson Monday, upheld a ruling granting a new trial to Ricky Lee Webb, convicted of murder in 1978. The decision, handed down by Justice William J. Harbison, affirmed an appeals court decision of April 17, 1980, ordering a new trial for Webb, who was convicted Oct. 25, 1978 in the rape and murder of Charlotte Blurton, of Gibson. Webb's court-appointed attorneys, Ben Huey and Fred Collins of Milan, sought a new trial on the grounds that evidence gathered by Prentis Rogers, an undercover agent placed in Webb's cell after his arrest, should not have been admitted as evidence in the original trial.

Rogers was placed in the cell with Webb and than seven as well County with both and softball by the Bourne, Pope overcrowded, Duffey's by Oakfield Illinois with Old feet to the the south. and the Men's WASHINGTON (AP) State universities which permit student groups to use campus facilities must let those groups hold religious worship and study sessions there, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. But the 8-1 decision gave no clues of any upcoming changes in the court's 19-year-old ban on organized prayer in public elementary and secondary schools. The court has consistently treated elementary and secondary schools differently from colleges in religion cases. In other cases, the nation's highest court: Agreed to decide in a Virginia dispute whether a union that fails to properly help an unjustifiably fired member may be forced to reimburse part of his lost pay.

Promised in a Texas case to decide whether minority members who say they were denied promotions because of illegal bias can sue also on behalf of people who never got hired because of the employer's alleged bias. Left unresolved a dispute of critical importance to thousands of recent lawsuits filed over the health effects of asbestos. The court turned away appeals asking it to decide how federal courts should determine which insurance companies must compensate manufacturers who are sued successfully in asbestos-related cases. Refused to free Mobil Oil Corp. from paying other refiners about $50 million under a now-defunct oil price-control program.

The justices left intact a ruling that cleared the way for the government to force Mobil to make the payments. Refused to force Seventh-Day Adventists at the Martin-Marietta Corp. plant The Dalles, to pay union dues. Made it tougher for victims of accidents caused by defective products to pick the court in which they sue in hopes of getting the maximum damages. In the case on religious use of campus facilities, the court ruled that a ban by the University of Missouri at Kansas City on the use of a student center for religious purposes violated students' constitutional right of free speech.

"The University of Missouri has discriminated against student groups and speakers based on their desire to use a generally open forum to engage in religious worship and diseussion," Justice Lewis F. Powell wrote for the majority. "These are forms of speech and association protected by the First Amendment," Powell said, noting the university recognizes more than 100 student groups. "The university has opened its facilities for use by student groups, and the question is whether it can now exclude groups because of the content of their speech," Powell said. "In this context, we are unpersuaded that the primary effect of the public forum, open to all forms of discourse, would be to advance religion." University officials had said allowing meetings by a religious student organization called Cornerstone would violate the Constitution's "establishment" clause that bars states from advancing religion.

for Webb Although the court ordered a new trial, the justices found no merit in five other charges Collins and Huey made in their appeal. They charged trial judge Jerman erred by not challenging the racial composition of the jury, by allowing the jury to see a color photograph of the murder scene with Mrs. Blurton's semi-nude body and a blood graphically depicted and by charging the jury with special instructions. The attorneys also said the sentence of 99 years and one day on the rape conviction was excessive and exhibited capriciousness on the part of the jury and that Jerman erred when he ordered the two sentences life for the murder conviction and 99 years and a day for the rape be served consecutively. The case will now come back to the Humboldt Law Court, where a new trial will be index Going Madison County sheriff's deputy David Woolfolk leads murder suspect Laron Williams to a patrol car for a trip to Columbia, where jury selection for Williams' trial began today.

Williams is charged with the May death of the Rev. John Jay Jackson, a priest at St. Mary's Catholic Church. The trial was moved from Jackson after Circuit Judge Andrew Tip' Taylor ruled news coverage of Jackson's death would make selecting an impartial jury here difficult. Business 8A Classified 8B-9B Comics 6B Crossword 6B Dear Abby 4A Deaths 7B Leisure 7A Living 4A Matter of Record 7B Opinion 2B People 5A Sports 3B-5B TV Log 7A Wonderword 6B justices order new trial Sun photo by Larry AtHerton to tria The associate pastor of St.

Mary's was found dead in the rectory on May 15, the victim of an overnight burglary and murder. An autopsy showed he was shot twice in his back near his neck. Williams was indicted on charges of first-degree murder by the Madison County grand jury. Williams last month was sentenced to death after a Memphis jury convicted him of killing a Memphis policeman. heard between the uncle and nephew.

Webb's lawyers contended evidence gained by Rogers violated their client's constituional rights and was insufficient for the rendered verdict. Appeals Court Justice Mark A. Walker wrote that the real issue was whether the undercover agent's presence in the cell constituted an illegal interrogation and denied Webb his right to have counsel present during questioning. Walker reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial, writing, "The incriminating statements were deliberately elicited by action of the state. This action amounted to an interrogation.

"We agree with (Webb) that his right to counsel was subverted. In these circumstances the officers did indirectly what they could not do weather Fair and turning colder today. Partly cloudy and cold tonight and Wednesday. Highs today in the mid 50s. Lows tonight near 30.

Highs Wednesday in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 10-15 mph today and tonight becoming northerly Wednesday. More weather data on Page 2A. his nephew Carl Ray Webb, who was also charged with the murder. Carl Webb later entered a plea of guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Collins and Huey argued before the appeals court that the three were placed in the same cell by the state in the hope that the Webbs would argue and Rogers would be able to garner new information to aid prosecutors in gaining a conviction. Trial Judge Dick Jerman Jr. refused to allow Rogers to testify concerning what was said to him in the jail cell but did allow Rogers to testify as to what he overheard while in the cell. Two other men, who were in the jail at the same time as Rogers and the Webbs, were also allowed to testify as to the conversation they.

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