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TVA Cutting Voltage 5 8 THE TENNESSEAN, Monday, Januory 1 1, 198? Families See Violent Feud Erupt Once More To Meet Expected Demand The last time the city wis ex rested recently for concealing stolen property, police said. THE ALLIANCE was solidified several years ago when Randy Beasley married a Vernon sister, Nancy, police said: "The Vernons aren't the only ones causing trouble; it just seems like every time something happens they're there," South Patrol officer Harry Boner said. "I've been arresting the Beas-leys since they were juveniles," said another officer. "They're punks all of them are punks. All we can do is wait for them to do something, then go arrest them." (Continued From Page One) mainder of the week, with a chance of sleet, snow or freezing rain in the area on Wednesday, he added.

And despite reports of injury and death in other parts of the nation from the severe weather, Metro police reported no weather-related injuries. NASHVILLE Electric Service repairmen spent yesterday replacing more than 20 transformers and repairing the Roy Street substation which were damaged as a result of the cold weather, said Sid West, assistant director of operations for NES. The damages were repaired, and those affected were without power for a short time, he "The load conditions are very heavy, and in a real cold snap, we're going to have some problems," West said, adding that NES customers may establish a new peak energy-use record today. A record peak of 1757 megawatts was used by NES customers Jan. 17, 1977, but by 6 p.m.

last night consumption had reached 1710 megawatts, he said. DESPITE the coldest weather here in years, the Nashville Union Rescue Mission did, not report any increase in its transient visitors. It served an average of 350 persons each night of the weekend, said the Rev. Carl Resener, director. The Salvation Army, which operates a transient lodge with a capacity of 28 visitors, reported several vacancies last night.

(Continued From Page One) non's house around 1 a.m. Saturday and fired five shots through Vernon's bedroom window, narrowly missing Vernon's wife. There were six bullet holes in his automobile and the rear window had been blown away by several shotgun blasts. was shot as he and other men ran from the scene, puiice saiu. Police arrested Tom Gulley, uncle of Jeffrey Gulley, who Vernon said is out "to get me." Gulley was charged with assault with intent to commit murder 1 nr uni i.

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I I Till llfVt I 1 'III I. TTTT7rT7" 1 lntJS ann inrpais npiwppn inp vernnn arm neasiev IdllllllfS dnu me viuiicjr idiiiujr ui wuucvci happens at the time to be the riefnesis of one of the families. The individual histories of the families involved in the so-called according to police, are "characterized by crime and violence. On one side, according to police, are the Vernons and Beas-leys. There are five Vernon brothers, Larry, Gary, Barry, and Jerry, and three Beasley- brothers, Randy and Kenny.

Kenny is IS and was ar iL. 0..11 i 111 ,1 111 ii i. i A i mtmmtm'htiMtoit tiKnnf Staff photo by Don Loftin Near Miss for Her Cindy Vernon peelci from the window of her home as the did early Saturday morning before four men fired five shots at the house. The windows above her were shattered by the shots that police said were meant for her husband, Larry Vernon. the Vernons had been firing shots from their automobile.

Another officer was slightly wounded during the fracas in which Gary Vernon was charged with assault with intent to commit murder. Barry Vernon allegedly fired a gun Nov. 14 into Sheri's Club, 503 Wedgewood Ave. On Nov. 22, he and Randy and Nancy Beasley were arrested for firing shots into Teddy's Cafe, which is next door to Sheri's.

Kenny Baker, a police sergeant's son, was wounded in that shooting. Last week Tom Gulley's Jeep was shot, police said. Larry Vernon said his mother's house has been shot and the Beasleys' mother's house as well. Navaho Drifter Sought ream, Yet Found Death HIPPODROME OLDS. BROADVWY BILLTRICKE7T OLDS, ACROSS FROM RIVERGATE posed to such cold weatftef was in January of 1977 dropped to -5 degrees, Burgess said.

The lowest -lefn-perature on record for thfifrty. is 15 degrees recorded 1940 and again in 1963. RECORD temperatuCc lows were toppled across the nation from Oregorrio New York, with Chicago reporting -26 degrees, surpassing a previous record low set in 1872. Wind chill factors in Minnesota and North Dakota dipped to -90 yesterday. At least five weekend deaths across the nation were blamed on the weather, with one person dying in a traffic the other four from exposure, shoveling snow and attempting to jump-start a car.

Thousands, of motorists were stranded in Iowa and Indiana Saturday night by high wJhds that whipped snow into blinding, blizzard-like conditions, making some roads impassable. HARD-FREEZE warnings were in effect over the weekehd for the northern two-thirds Florida. I TVA officials could not say last night how long they would keep the emergency power-use reduction requests in effect. Ransom From A Po'el by JERRY ELKINS ert local Bookstores or Winston-Derek Publishers, Int. 356-7384 a ft t.

tcday: 859-4451? i' 1 1 1 1 THE CENTRAL figure on the other side is Jeff Gulley, Boner said. Gulley's father, Charles Wade (Bud) Gulley, a convicted habitual criminal, was murdered in 1975 and his body left in a station wagon in a remote area off Bell Road, police said. Jeff Gulley himself has been stabbed on at least three different occasions and shot on two others, police said. NO ONE can specifically name what started the feud, although just about everyone involved has his theory. One police officer believes drugs are at.

the center of the feud, although he could not say exactly how. Larry. Vernon said it started several years ago when Jeff Gulley beat up a Vernon cousin whom he was dating at the time. OTHERS SAY it began because the Vernons are "trouble makers." "Wherever they go they end up getting in fights with somebody and before you know it, they end up shooting somebody," Boner said. It might have begun one of the nights Jeff Gulley was shot and the Vernon brothers, in an effort td prevent an ambulance from taking Gulley to the hospital, the reservation are poor.

"After a while, Harold said he was going back to North Platte, Nebraska, where, he had once worked on the railroad. He started out hitchhiking. The next thing I knew, he was in Nashville. I got a postcard from him before Christmas, saying that. he was okay." Nelson liked to travel, his sister says.

He loved seeing new places. He was interested in music and tried to play the guitar, although he never could do it well. He was never married. By the time he reached Nashville, Nelson had been unemployed about AVz months. He caught a ride into the city with Hewitt and said he wanted to go to the bus station.

"It quickly became apparent that he had no place to go," Hewitt recalls. "I hesitated to do it, but finally I suggested he come home and stay with me and my wife for a few days. He stood there and thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said he would." THROUGH Hewitt, Nelson was introduced to Emanuel and the Tennessee Indian Council, which seeks to help Indians. Eventually, he ended up at the Salvation Army.

He slept there at night and looked for work, sometimes seriously and sometimes not. during the davtime. "He would call me sometimes," Hewitt says, "from Lower Broadway. And he would seem to ue reauy oui oi it. 1 don know if it was alcohol or drugs.

But I tried to tell him, 'Look, Harold, you re going to end up like those guys on skid row unless you make a change in your life. While you've got friends to help you, why don't you try to do something "He seemed not to have a lot of motivation. He seemed to be in a totally different place. Once, he told me he had been with country music star Waylon Jennings. I suspected he fabricated that And once he tried to sing and play the guitar for us, but it was obvious he couldn't carry a tune." Hewitt was not surprised when they notified him that Nelson bad been found dead.

The body was flown back to New Mexico Saturday. It will cost the family $1,125 to bury Harold Nelson. They don't have the money and don't know how they will get it if I A if slashed the ambulance tires, police said. "DOES THAT make you wonder why Gulley might not like the Vernons?" a police officer asked. Another time, the Vernons' mother was wounded in a shootout at the Paradise Lounge on Nolensville Road.

"I think it's dangerous to get in the Vernons way," Boner said. SINCE JULY the violence has gotten completely out of police said. Police officer Phillip Sage was shot in the chest July 24 when he went to Gary and Barry Vernon's house at 2102 Bransford Ave. to investigate reports that Two if tit '9 lit Facilities Separate both Indoor Indoor (flnntinued Frntn Pair One) guiidi wiLii ease anu uuunuu i hi Mil bi jr iiiuai. aiai a.

with him in the ast few weeks nf uie paini a picture rar from the fantasy. They paint -the reality of a young man head-led toward trouble. I Andy Hewitt, 1404 Gale Lane, -who befriended the young Indian his first day in Nashville: "He seemed childlike in a way. He 'riirin't look out for himself DroD- eriv or taKe care 01 nimsen. tie gravitated toward Lower Broadway even though I warned him against it.

tie taixea to some peo-I pie about suicide, but he wasn't very communicative until he had been drinking, and then you "-couldn't understand him very Emanuel, who tried to find 1 Li 1 111 1111. -worn ior mm in rsasnvine; ne -told me he had hitchhiked to 'Nashville, and that he was just out looking for work because he had been laid off from his last job. We gave him a little money to keep him from being a va-grant, and we paid for his meals and board at the Salvation Army." A worker at the Salvation Army facility where he stayed briefly: "He didn't stand out all that much. But he came in one day with bruises all over his face, like he had been in a fight." Virginia Nelson, his sister in Shiprock, N.M "He knew Indian ways because he was raised in them. But he called us not long agd to say he had given up his religion.

He said he just uiuii i ucucvc iv oiiyiuui c. 11 When Harold Nelson was 7, his father was killed in an automo-; bile accident. He grew up believ-; ing for some strange, unexplained reason that his mother and the rest or the family were tn ii ame inr me irapenv. He went as far as the lZth -grade in school and then joined -the-Navy, serving a three-year I hitch swabbing the decks of an Taircraft carrier, painting and uuiiik uuiei menial jous. DISCHARGE from the servire.

re worsen at various ip w-jjduig juua. lauuici iui me Pacific Railroad, ware-I houseman for an air conditioning firm, hospital orderly, he was laid off from his lie isK an OV nan i A n'-r Via "came back to the reservation," Jits sister recalls. "He tried to ipd work here, but there ii absolutely nothing. We live poor. -There is my mother, myself, a "sister and a brother.

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