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26, 1977 15 CENTS 38 Pages TENNESSEA Page Amusements 13 Business. .26,27 Chunk Newt. 28 Classified. 29-37 Comics. 16,17 Editorials 10 Sensors Lurk Caution Given By Black Units On Smith Plan On Interstates For Taiigaters By FRANK GIBSON Unwary taiigaters on a stretch of Interstates 24 and 40 will have some surprises next month if they get too close to the vehicle in front of them: flashing lights and warning horns.

State Department of Transportation officials said special sensors were placed in the pavement near Fesslers Lane three weeks ago. Taiigaters are already under the watchful eye of the sensitive equipment. "WE'RE ANXIOUS to see how it works," said Paul Allen, a spokesman for the Transportation Department. "It's an experimental system to try to reduce accidents caused by motorists following too closely." Regardless of the speed cars are traveling when they pass through the sensors, officials said warning lights will flash if a vehicle is less than 1.25 seconds behind another vehicle. The words "Danger Following Too Close" will flash across a sign above the roadway.

If a motorist is less than seven-tenths of a second behind another car, Allen said, the word "Violation" will appear on the board and a horn will blow to get the AP Wirephoto Driving To Make a Point PLAINS Tractors appear as plentiful as peanuts after farmers, I Carter's hometown of who are threating a strike, parked the vehicles in a field in President production cost. Plains, Plains to protest low farm prices and high witnessed a similar protest. From WIRE REPORTS SALISBURY Two moderate black nationalist groups gave cautious approval yesterday to Prime Minister Ian Smith's proposal for talks aimed at leading to majority rule. That rule would be based on a one-person, one-vote system. But the militant Patriotic Front rejected the plan and vowed to continue its guerrilla war.

In New York, U.S. Ambassador to the United National Andrew Young said the plan could only intensify the war. YOUNG SAID Smith's statement "is no proposal for a settlement." In Rhodesia, Smith pledged himself Thursday to majority rule and universal adult suffrage with guarantees for the white majority; he invited the leaders of the three moderate groups to hold talks with him, bypassing the Anglo-American peace plan. "WE HAVE always said that the war that is going on is not a racial war but a franchise war," said Elliott Gabellah, vice president of the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole's faction of the African National Union.

"Now the prime minister has agreed to universal adult suffrage, we think we have got what we have been fighting for. If we achieve that, there will be nothing left to fight for." Sithole was on a tour of the United States but Gabellah said he would return in time for the talks, which Smith said he hoped to begin next week. TRIBAL chief Jeremiah (Turn to Page 8. Column 1) With Tractorcades Protest armers Some tractors carried signs: "Hell No. We Won't Grow," and "American Grew Up With the Farms.

Let Them Die." THE tractors circled Plains, then drove through the center of town, between the famous railroad depot which was Carter's symbolic campaign headquarters, and Billy Carter gas station, parking three abreast on the main street. The State Patrol closed off the town. The farmers then rallied in a field behind the Carter peanut warehouse complex to voice their protests. As the tractors moved slowly Police estimated that more than 4 000 tractors and about 10,000 farmers and their families were in the processions that inched along three two-lane Georgia roads at barely 5 mDh. The tractorcades started at dawn and stretched into the afternoon, tying up tourist afternoon, tying up traffic for miles.

Promoters of the protest said it was the largest tractor-cade staged to date in the nationwide unrest over farm prices. THE GEORGIA protest was planned for the Thanksgiving holiday in hopes Carter would be visiting in Plains, but the chief executive chose to spend the holiday at Camp David. The tractorcade to this southwest Georgia community was orderly and farmers, perched high on their tractor seats, waved to passing motorists. But while their mood was jovial, they appeared serious about plans to strike Dec. 14 unless they achieve their goal of higher prices for farm goods.

"WE'RE striking for our way of life," said farmer Tommy Kersey of Unadilla, organizer of the protest. "If something's not done, we're going to go broke." From WIRE REPORTS PLAINS Thousands of tractors and a spreader rolled into President Carter's hometown yesterday in a massive protest by farmers threatening a strike over production costs and crop prices. The manure spreader, owned by Albert Towning of The manure spreader, Teltair County, bore a sign reading: "Manure from Washington is what the farmers have been getting." A COMPANION protest was held in Plains, where farmers drove about 500 tractors into town and ringed the square. dT fi i If Rutherford, Nixon Two Circuit Judges Seek 'Super' Post Patron Crushed To Death Filling Gasoline Tank into Plains, residents watched from the roadside and waved from windows to the farmers, many accompanied by their wives and children. KERSEY said farmers "don't want the government to guarantee us anything," but added that federal price controls must allow farmers to make a profit.

As an example, hesaid, the controlled price for corn was $1.40 a bushel when the nationwide protest began several weeks ago, but said it would take $3.38 a bushel for the farmer to recover costs and make a profit. (Turn to Page 6, Column 7) self out of the race for the presiding judgeship. Of the two Circuit Court judges nominated for the job J. William Rutherford and John T. Nixon Rutherford has waged the more active campaign.

THE PRESIDING judge, chosen by- his peers each November, is given broad authority over the assignment of under a two-year-old State Supreme Court rule "unifying" the Criminal, Circuit and Chancery courts here. Most criminal case are still assigned to the three Criminal courts in the traditional manner by Criminal Court Clerk Earl Hawkins but cases in the six Circuit courts have been assigned in recent years by the presiding judge of the circuit courts. That job, most recently held by Rutherford, (Turn to Page 8, Column 3) tailgater attention. ALLEN SAID last night he is not certain the system will include the "audio capability" because "if one goes off, everybody will hear it." He acknowledged that could cause problems if the motorist in front applied his brakes suddenly. The sensors presently are collecting data to determine what percentage of the 100,000 vehicles which travel the westbound section of the highway daily is guilty of following too closely.

DOT OFFICIALS said data collected over a six-week period will be compared with data collected during the first six weeks the lights and other (Turn to Page 8, Column 6) TrmTTinrrinrfl'irro'oB Metro fC-9 Rome Trip Confirmed 3 3 By ALAN CARMICHAEL A spokesman for the? Federal Aviation Admin- lsirauon coiuiriueu yes- IVI UttJ .11 1I11.MV lice K-9 bomb dogs shipped overseas on a secret mission were taken to Rome International Airport. Don Leyden, an FAA3 public information officer 3 dogs were assigned to the Rome airport on a "security matter" and said the operation had the approval of the Italian government. THE AWARD-winning Metro K-9 dogs, trained to 3 snut oui Domos ana expio-; sives, left Wednesday with -their trainers on a highly secret State Department (o mission. (Turn to Page 6, Column S) a a a 8 a a a with Arab countries bordering Israel, is only a recommendation and has no binding effect on U.N. members.

The United States, Canada and El Salvador joined Israel in voting against it. Those abstaining were Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, Barbados, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the European Common Market (Turn to Page C.ColamJb) By KIRK LOGGINS Two Circuit Court judges are in the running for the potentially most powerful post in Davidson County's court system that of presiding judge of the 12 trial courts. The judges picked four of their number as nominees for the job earlier this month, but one of those rhpn, CHftthial Court Judge Allen R. Cornelius, has said he would decline to serve in the post if he were elected. AND CHANCELLOR Robert Brandt, who had been thought to be the leading contender for the post, wrote his fellow judges earlier this week to say that much of his time in the next year will be taken up by the Sting cases and campaigning for election to a four-year term in the judgeship to wnich he was appointed last year.

But Brandt did not take him fl-WOT 'ir-i-xi-'- -jSi A. Waft, S'-w-JSw Vi '7 Vmyfl Jug By ROBERT SHERBORNE James Gilbert, 40, of Bon Aqua, was crushed to death yesterday when hit by another car while gassing up his automobile at the Red Ace service station, 4500 Charlotte Ave. William II. Ridings, 35, of 3710 Murphy Road, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident after he allegedly hit Gilbert and fled the service station, crashing his car into the Pettus Owen and Wood Funeral Home. "HE TELLS ME he doesn't remember anything except pulling into the gas station," 9 Additional picture on Page 6 said Metro traffic officer Harold Bamman, who investigated the accident.

"Mr. Gilbert was stooping down behind his car filling it with gas, and he Ridings said his foot slipped off the brake and onto the gas pedal," Bamman added. Clifford Garrett, an attendant at the station who witnessed the accident, said: "HE GILBERT WAS squatted down behind the car putting gas in. Another car came in behind him and stopped 10 or 12 feet away, just like normal. Then, all of a sudden he shoved the gas pedal down and hit him." "It wasn't intentional," Bamman said.

"He appeared to me to be coming off a drunk. He said he had been drinking heavily the night before." Gilbert, an employee of Lavender Motors, 4408 Charlotte was rushed to Baptist Hospital, where he died of "severe internal injuries" about 1 p.m. RIDINGS, A CARPENTER, who alsowas slightly injured in the accident, was admitted to General Hospital for observation, Bamman said. "His father said he may have had a seizure," the officer said, although he said he knew of no medical problem in Riding's past. No additional charges are expected to be filed in the case, Bamman said, although the case is still Under investigation.

Israeli Occupation of Arab Land Earns U.N. Vote of Disapproval Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territories occupied in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and for early reconvening of the Geneva peace conference with participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization to work out a just and lasting peace. It mentioned an Oct. 1 Soviet-American statement calling for a new Geneva conference that would include Palestinian representatives. It did not mention Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit last weekend to Israel.

THE resolution, chared From WIRE REPORTS UNITED NATIONS The U.N. General Assembly condemned last night Israel's continued occupation of Arab territories ignoring Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog's warning that it would be an obstacle to Middle East peace. The vote for the resolution, drafted by nonaligned nations, was 102-4 with 29 abstentions. THE ROLL call on the resolution wound up a four-day Middle East debate in the assembly. The resolution calls for Li Staff photo by Gerald Holly Gas Pump Fatality Scene Charles Gilbert, 40, was stooping behind his car pumping gas from this pump at the Red Ace service station, 4500 Charlotte when another car, allegedly driven by William Ridings, 35, lurched forward, crushing Gilbert to death..