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VOL. 76-NO. 279 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER NASHVILLE, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1982 32 Pages -WEATHER- TENNESSEAN 1 bland ases 4 A I Rules; bnfirr BlastsR egime i in 5 By The Associated Press Polish authorities lifted some martial law restrictions yester day, but Pope John Paul IPs angry denunciation of the regime indicated that church-state negotiations on further "normalization" had not gone well. 5 Power Use Forcing Cut In Voltage By DAVID GRAHAM The Tennessee Valley Authority expecting a peak energy use record will reduce electricity voltage by 5 starting at 7 a.m. today as temperatures are expected to plunge to -10 degrees.

Hugh Parris, TVA power manager, asked consumers to use electricity sparingly during peak consumption times 7 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m. today to ensure power to meet mininum needs. "THE BITTER COLD with 15- to 25-mph winds is placing an extraordinarily heavy load on the TVA power system," Parris said yesterday. "We have two nuclear units and one major coal unit down but we're going to try to pull through the early morning hours Monday today without having to cut back blackout on any consumers." He said the voltage reduction will affect both in- dustrial and residential consumers.

TVA expects consumers to set a new peak energy-use record of 23,500 megawatts at 8 a.m. today as people prepare for work and the average low temperature in the four largest cities of the Tennessee Valley Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga is expected to be -1 degree. The Middle Tennessee area, like much of the nation, is entering its second day of near-zero and sub-zero temperatures because of cold, Arctic air which moved into the area from Canada. YESTERDAY MORNING'S low temperature in Nashville was -4 degrees with a high of only 5 degrees by afternoon, said Ray Burgess, forecaster for the National Weather Service here. Winds of 25 to 30 mph early yesterday, combined with the low temperatures, contributed to a wind-chill factor of -40 degrees, he said.

Following an early morning low of betweenf-5' and -10 degrees, the temperature should rise today into the low 20s by afternoon, he said. The temperature should rise gradually throughout the re- (Turn to Page 8, Column 5) Further liberalization could depend on what Poland's foreign minister is told in Moscow and what NATO allies decide in Brussels, Belgium, this week. Restoration of telephone links in the country's major cities outside the capital could not be checked since it was impossible to dial beyond the city's area code, Netter reported. He said some callers reported that certain telephone numbers answered with a recording saying the call was being "controlled" in keeping with official pronouncements that "calls may be censored and interrupted if used for activity threatening the security of the state." A BAN ON inter-city travel without permission and the nightly 11 p.m. curfew remained in effect, and foreign porre-spondents were forbidden to leave Warsaw.

Censorship was lifted Saturday for foreign correspondents, but they are still required to go through the cumbersome process of sending them by telex at the government's press 4 fv 1 PHONE service was restored within Warsaw and some regular international flights by the Polish airline were scheduled for the firt time since martial law was imposed on Dec. 13, according to reports from Associated Press correspondent Thomas W. Netter in Warsaw. Indian Drifter Sought Dream, Found Death Tlx, TTT? A 1V UPlTelephoto Firemen Fight Cold Day, Hot Blaze other buildings early yesterday, Chicago's coldest day in history with an official low of 24 degrees below lero. The wind chill factor was 77 below zero.

Two firemen were injured slightly in the fire. CHICAGO lce-encrusted firefighter return to their truck to pick up more equipment while battling a spectacular even-alarm fire that destroyed a four-story factory warehouse and spread to two They found him the young Navaho drifter lying "fac down in a back alley on Lower Broadway, an empty whiskey bottle beside his body. They did not know who he was, because he carried no identification, but they could see he was an Indian. An ambulance took the body, to General Hospital's morgue. Sentencing by Jury Comes Under Fire on ice.

1 Officials at the foreign press center said Saturday that foreign correspondents would be allowed to visit factories this week and that travel restrictions may be lifted soon. Despite the eased regulations, Pope John Paul II used the strongest language yet in attacking the military crackdown in his native country, where more than 90 of the 36 million people are Roman Catholics. He specifically lashed out at government requirements that Poles sign loyalty oaths and renounce their membership in the suspended Solidarity union. "UNDER THE threat of losing their jobs citizens are forced to sign 1 declarations that don't agree with their conscience and their convictions," the pontiff told 30,000 people at St. Peter's Square for his weekly blessing.

That violation of conscience, John Paul said, does "grave dam- (Turn to Page 4, Column S) fronts in the Court of Criminal Appeals, where Metro Public Defender Walter Kurtz is challenging its constitutionality, and in the General Assembly, where a legislative committee recommended Friday that the law be rewritten to give trial judges authority to set sentences. Kurtz maintains that, even under current Tennessee law, defendants should be given a separate sentencing hearing, at which they can present testimo- By KIRK LOGGINS Tennessee juries take a "shot in the dark" when they sentence criminal defendants based only on the evidence introduced to" determine guilt or innocence, say many prosecutors and defense attorneys. Tennessee is one of a handful of states that still leave sentencing decisions up to juries, and most of those provide for a separate sentencing hearing, in which both sides can present informa tion they think is relevant to the question of punishment. IN MOST cases, juries in Tennessee courts never know, unless the defendant takes the stand, whether he is on trial for the first, or the fifth, time. As a result, first offenders sometimes receive harsher sentences than persons with lengthy criminal records.

But the Tennessee sentencing system is now under fire on two THAT WAS a week ago Saturday night. And it was not until the, following Friday that Ray Emanuel of the Tennessee Indian Council was called to identify the body. "It was terrible," Emanuel recalled yesterday. "It had rained hard that night, the night he died, and his hair was matted and caked with dirt. He was wearing several old jackets and they were all muddy and wrinkled.

It was just awful." Harold Nelson, 27, grew up on a Navaho Indian reservation in New. Mexico. He had been in Nashville since early December, trying to find a steady job. That search for employment was largely unsuccessful. What he found here instead, despite attempts by friends to help him, was disappointment and, some say, a measure of violence.

He also found oblivion in whiskey and in the country music songs blaring from jukeboxes in downtown bars. -And, finally, in the gutter behind a Lower Broadway peepshow theater, he found death. THE CITY'S medical examiner, Dr. John Ashhurst, said there were no marks on the body, nothing to indicate foul play. The hlnnri narrmlpc that wprf tfllrpn I 4 LJ Families See Angry Feud Erupt Again By WOODY REGISTER Like some back-hills feud in the Appalachians, no one really knows when or how the ongoing war began.

And it really does not seem to matter any more who, if anyone, started it all or why. THE battlefield in this case is not a remote mountain hollow. It is scattered in different locations among the faceless rows of small frame houses in the LM'- i 1 7f, 1 iV4' Z'Ji fill 1 Ail- 4 i' t- ny to a jury on their "character, education, family and religious background, mental health history and other factors that may be relevant to the issue of punishment." STATE SEN. John Rucker, D-Murfreesboro, says, however, that judge sentencing is "an idea whose time has come," after years of going down to legislative defeat because of opposition by many criminal defense lawyers. Prosecuting' attorneys have long complained that the present (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) Atlanta Trial Focus Is Still River Bridge By MARK MAYFIELD ATLANTA (UPI) Prosecutors intend today to keep the focus of the murder trial of Wayne Williams on an eerie predawn incident at a Chattahoochee River bridge.

It was there that the defendant first became a suspect in the slayings of 28 Atlanta young blacks. DISTRICT ATTORNEY Lewis Slaton said his prosecution team would continue its case with testimony from Henry Lewis Bolton, an Atlanta policeman who testified only briefly Friday before court, was recessed for the weekend. Bolton said he was in charge of trying to "re-enact" the May 22 incident where Williams, 23, was seen driving a station wagon slowly over the bridge seconds after a loud splash was heard in the water below. Williams, a black free-lance photographer, is charged with the murder of Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, and Nathaniel Cater, 27. Both were among the 28 young blacks slain during a 22-month period.

TWO DAYS AFTER Williams (Turn PageS, Column 1) i- rv Staff photo by Dan Loftin may show something later. But for the time being, the death is being attributed to "natural causes." Natural or not, i is indicative of the problems facing many American Indians in a society dominated by the white man. Alienated from the culture which sustained their ancestors, they try to deal with a fast-paced society they did not create. Some succeed. Harold Nelson did not.

Nelson appeared to be frustrated and inarticulate, and he sought refuge in whiskey and possibly in drugs. A drifter with otherwise peaceful working-class neighborhoods on either side of Nolensville Road in South Nashville. Early Saturday morning it happened again. Four men stormed the residence of Larry Vernon, brother of police char acters Gary and Barry Vernon. Larry Vernon fired back, hitting Bobby Mangrum, 27, of 1310 Pillow St, squarely in the forehead, "This is my house and I ain't going to let no man run me off from my house," Larry Vernon vowed calmly the day after he killed Mangrum.

HIS WIFE Cindy sat behind him, nervously stroking the curly locks of their son Ben, 2. "He might kill me but he ain't going to run me away from my Ain't Going To Let No Man Run Me Off Larry Vernon, who is relaxing with his son, Ben, mies may have to kill him, but he will never leave who is 2, and his wife Cindy, vows that his ent- his home. house," Vernon said, his tattooed hand pointing threateningly out the window at his enemy, whom he identified as police character Jeff Gulley. In the driveway of Vernon's house, at 3015 Wingate Ave, lay a chunk of Bobby Mangrum's scalp and a thick lock of his long black hair. A few yards away was the spot where he fell a dark burgundy-colored patch of grass, sodden with blood and flesh.

Two feet away was what appeared to be the dead man's ear, flattened by cars driving over it. MANGRUM was one of four men who drove to Larry Ver-(Turn Paget, Column I) no prospects, ne seemea sometimes to live in a fantasy world world where, he could play (Tura to PageS, Column 1).