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"I dont think anyone without a valid driver's license should get a plate or tags," he said. Ransdell was a 1991 graduate of the School of Law at Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, and was an attorney for the University of Tennessee Technical Assistance Service. Her husband also is a Nashville attorney. They were married last May. She was the daughter of U.S.

District Court Judge Thomas Hull of Gree-neville. Ransdell was killed at about noon as she walked along a busy downtown Nashville street Police said a pickup truck struck another vehicle, then swerved onto the Church Street sidewalk and pinned her against a steel pole. Covington, whose father died in an accident caused by a drunken driver 31 years ago, has asked state Sen. Douglas Henry of Nashville to draft legislation requiring residents to present a valid driver's license at the time of their annual car registration renewal or at the time of the initial application for title. The proposed bill also would require car dealers to sell vehicles and issue temporary tags only to buyers with a valid driver's license.

"You should have a valid license to register a car. If this could stop that one guy from running over that one person, it will have worked," Covington said. The proposed legislation would be "another tool in the fight against drunk driving," said People without a state driver's license should not be allowed to buy cars, according to one Davidson County official who is pressing for reform legislation. The issue has come to light since Friday, when a pregnant Nashville lawyer was struck and killed by a man now accused of drunken driving. Although Ralph Claypole Jr.

did not have a Tennessee driver's license, he bought the used pickup only a few days before the crash, police say. Davidson County Clerk Bill Covington says a law is needed denying vehicle registrations to people without a valid driver's license. Claypole, 34, is scheduled to appear today in General Sessions Court on three charges stemming from the death of Amy Ransdell, 31. Claypole is charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a suspended license. VENTLESS GAS LOGS On Display by Superior ji hrcpbce Anliqw Pol.

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"The individual wants to make sure there is no chance of their package being undelivered!" Gil-more noted. With the abundance of packages sent during the holidays, the postal service emphasizes that recipients need to be the most alert about suspicious packages. "We're telling students and staff, if you haven't requested a package, a red flag needs to go up before you open it," Gilmore said. "Some people are reluctant to call the police, but it's better to be safe." By USA BENAVIDES Staff Writer It's better to be embarrassed than dead. That's the advice Brenda Gil-more, director of Vanderbilt University's mail, is giving after Saturday's mail-bomb death of a New Jersey ad executive.

"We tell employees and students, if they have a suspicious package, to isolate it immediately and evacuate the area," she said. "Several years ago a student received a ticking package. It frightened everyone, but it was a false alarm. It turned out to be an alarm clock." A Vanderbilt professor was the target of a mail bomb 12 years ago, thought to have been sent by the same man responsible for Saturday's deadly delivery. The suspect, dubbed the Unabomber because he targets people connected to universities, airlines and computers, is thought to be responsible for bombs that killed one other person and wounded 22 in eight states since 1978.

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