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2B THE TENNESSEAN Tuesday AUGUST 23. 1988 NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS TTv Lavergne tries to hatch method to ban city's gamecock breeding Ask About Our Money Back Guarantee I Lost 72 Lbs. Through Neuro-VISION CHRIS BEl.l State Writer LAVERGNE The Lavergne city government is continuing to study ways of controlling the raising of gamecocks in residential areas, city attorney Dave Bolin said. While no legislation is currently un der consideration, the city is investigating how the state law against gamecock fighting can be used in this situation, Bolin said. State laws ban cock fighting but say little about the "The Neuro-VISION program works, and without hunger.

My friends compliments make me feel great!" Debby Dunn doesn't outlaw lions and tigers and bears. It seems it would violate equal protection as drafted. The feeling I got from Mayor Moore, though, was that this was on the back burner." According to Bolin, the city will continue to examine ways of stopping the raising of gamecocks within city limits. While no legislative action is planned, the possibility still exists of changing the city's zoning laws to accomplish this. "I'm really surprised at all the opposition this has raised," Bolin said.

"I wasn't aware that all this interest existed." Regardless of the numbers being raised, few complaints have been made about cockfighting recently, according to the Rutherford County Sheriffs Department. "I don't think I've had a call about gamecocks in at least a year," said detective Sgt. Matthew Royal. "It's been very quiet." 9 Mayor and Aldermen earlier this month. Moore said there were people in residentially zoned areas of the city raising as many as 200 birds.

During the board's Aug. 16 meeting, attorney Steve Waldron raised questions about the legality of such a measure, saying it was unconstitutional. After discussion, the council did not vote on the initial proposal, but left the door open for further action. "I showed up last Tuesday evening because my clients were concerned the matter might be voted on in that meeting," Waldron said. "Mayor Moore said that was a topic that had been discussed, but that no firm decision had been made as to whether the city was going to take any acion." Waldron refused to identify his clients in this matter.

"It would appeal that the ordinance, or at the the draft I saw, is unconstitutional," Waldron said. "It picks out a certain type of animal. It raising of the birds. "The problem is you have to prove birds are being raised for fighting," Bolin said. "You have to have someone testify that they saw the birds being used for that purpose.

This is a very complex situation." Citing the damange it can do to property values, Mayor Jack Moore originally proposed an ordinance to prohibit the raising of fighting cocks at a meeting of the Lavergne Board of Smyrna celebration to commemorate death of confederate hero Sam Davis MICHELLE WILLIAMS Now You Can Take Advantage Of The Neuro-VISION" Program, After hundreds of documented dramatic success stories from residents who, for years, desired to lose excess'pounds, Neuro-VISION'S patented pro- gram has been made available to the public. The Neuro-VISION system hasbeenproventoeffectivelyhelpyoucontrolyourappetiteandloseweiglit through simple hypnosis or our patented video program to reach the subconscious mind. NeurcvVlSlON gets to the root of most overweight problems with very little effort on your part. The rights to use the Neuro-VISION program in this area have been awarded exclusively to the Craig Counseling Stress Control Center. Call NOW For A FREE Preview Of The Neuro-VISION Weight Control Program.

890-2452 CRAIG COUNSELING STRESS CONTROL CENTER 428 East Bell Murfreesboro A photo contest will be held in conjunction with Heritage Days this year for students from three age groups: junior high school, high school and college. Color entries, 8-by-20 mounted but not framed, will be accepted. Photos should capture the spirit of Sam Davis through artistic photos of the grounds and the home's exterior. No interior or staged shots will be accepted. Deadline for submitting entries is Sept.

24 and should be taken to the gift shop at Davis' home. Only photos taken after Aug. 1, 1988 will be eligible. Judging will be done by Jim Davis, Murfreesboro Daily News Journal staff photographer and several area photography educators. The top three entries in each category will receive U.S.

savings bonds. For more information on the contest or Heritage Days, persons may call 459-2341. ment will feature the Rutherford County Square Dancers and Cripple Creek Cloggers. At 1 p.m., a performance tracing the development of Appalachian clogging from its roots as an English folkdance will take place. Union and Confederate re-enactment groups will demonstrate cider making, candle dripping, cotton ginning, spinning and weaving.

Fiddlers, dulcimer players and other bluegrass players will perform and artisan and craft booths will be set up on the grounds. Tours of the Sam Davis home will be given and historical and genealogical societies will be on hand to answer questions at their booths. Admission to the event is $2. On Sunday, a memorial service will be held at Davis' gravestite at 2:30 p.m. and will include the presentation of an American flag that once flew over the White House.

A tour of the home will follow the ceremony. State Writer SMYRNA The second annual Heritage Days slated for Oct. 8-9 here, an event honoring Smyrna's Confederate hero Sam Davis, will also mark the 1 25th anniversary of his death. Davis was executed in Pulaski, Nov. 27, 1863, by federal troops after he refused to acknowledge the source of documents he carried hidden in his boots.

Heritage Days, held at Davis' home, was observed for the first time last year but has been expanded to include a wide variety of entertaining and educational activities, said chairwoman Pat Barnickle. Exhibits will include artifacts from the Sam Davis Home, an original letter written by Davis to his mother from Pulaski the night before his execution, his execution orders and other artifacts from his life. On Saturday, the grounds will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entertain Man arrested after 'car theft spree' nils Dm' it DAN MARTIN State Writer SMYRNA An Illinois man was arrested in that state yesterday, but only after he stopped here, dropped off a truck stolen in Georgia and stole a car here, officials said.

Warrants against Scott Culp, 18, will likely be taken out by local police today charging the man with concealing stolen property and grand larceny, said Mike Beach, a Smyrna police detective. Beach said Culp had allegedly been on a "one-man car theft spree" which started in Troup County, and ended Sunday when he was arrested in a stolen car in Vienna, 111. A 1985 Dodge truck was found in Smyrna yesterday morning with a bank receipt bearing Culp's signature on the floorboard, said Beach. He speculated that Culp abandoned the truck before stealing a 1985 Chrysler for his trip to Illinois. Beach said Vienna police spotted the stolen Chrysler and pursued Culp until he drove the car into a field an escaped on foot.

However, he was apprehended a short time later when police chased another stolen vehicle which eventually wrecked in a pond in Vienna, said Beach. "He came out of the lake naked," said Beach, noting that Culp had been trying to hide his identity. "They also found some of his belongings in the first car." Beach said that in addition to the charges pending here and the charges of possession of a stolen vehicle in Vienna, warrants naming Culp were on file from East St. Louis. 111., including theft, burglary and escape from jail.

Bosmnni rik ShoEfcTakes oo 00 The Bus! Du School News starts its second year August 29. 1988 Activity Page topics feature: Aug. 29 Success in School Study Tips Sept. 5 Labor Day Sept. 12 Summer Olympics Sept.

19 Seasons Equinox Sept. 26 Extracurricular Activities Oct. 3 Fire Prevention Oct. 10 Columbus Day Oct. 17 Drugs Oct.

24 Arts Crafts Masks Oct. 31 Halloween Nov. 7 Elections Veterans Day Nov. 14 Children's Books Nov. 21 Thanksgiving Nov.

28 Food Dec. 5 Movies Dec. 12 Christmas Preparations Dec. 19 Student Christmas Issue Dec. 26 Holiday No School News Jan.

9 School News Resumes classes. A half-day schedule is planned, with classes beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 1 1 :30 a.m. Buses will run on regular schedules. All students must have turned in Tennessee immunization documentation before beginning school.

MTSU registration today MURFREESBORO Registration begins tomorrow for an estimated 12,500 students at Middle Tennessee State University. Residence halls on campus opened today and students will register tomorrow and Thursday at the Murphy Athletic Center. A special registration session for night students will be held from 5-7 p.m. today in Murphy Center. Fees are $571 for full-time, in-state students, and $748 for full-time, out-of-state students.

Part-time fees are $52 per semester hour for in-state students, and $76 per semester hour for out-of-state students. For more information call the MTSU admissions office at 898-21 11. Workshop keys on downtown MURFREESBORO Most facts anyone would want to know about downtown development in small towns will be covered in a workshop here called "Downtown: An Untapped Resource" Thursday. Don Rypkema, of the Real Estate Services Group, will be the featured speaker at the workshop being held at the Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corp. from 8 a.m.

until 5 p.m. Rypkema is a real estate coasultant with a master's degree in historic preservation. The program will cover real estate investment, source of profit and cost-saving techniques, tax benefits, profitable rehabilitation, demographic and market evaluation and the availablility of local financial tools. Registration is $45 and includes refreshments, lunch and a resource handbook. For more information call 898-2919.

Planners face busy agenda LAVERGNE A busy agenda is in store for the Lavergne Planning Commission Thursday with 10 items of business, one of which could bring a shopping center to town. The commission, during its 6 p.m. meeting, will consider rezoning some 20 acres between Stones River Road and U.S. Highway 4170 from agricultural to commercial to allow a Nashville developer possibly to build a shopping center, said Mayor Jack Moore. "I don't know what stores will be in there, we'll just have to see Thursday," Moore said.

Moore also said that pre-plat approval will be requested for a 280-home development on Hollandale Road. Laundry robbery investigated MURFREESBORO Police here are investigating the weekend armed robbery of a local laundry in which the robber escaped with $60 from the attendant. Ernest Carrigan, 24, was the attendant at Sunshine Laundry on South Tennessee Boulevard at 2:30 a.m. Saturday when a man walked in and asked where "Mike" was, said Murfreesboro Police detective John Mathews. "When Mr.

Carrigan said he did not know, the suspect asked him how he was doing, then went to the counter and produced a small-caliber handgun and demanded money," said Mathews, adding that the gun may have been a Derringer. "He gave him $60 in lOsand 20s, then the subject ran from the laundry toward Mars Street." The assailant was described as a black male, approximately 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 1 65 to 1 70 pounds, said Mathews. He was wearing a light blue, sleeveless T-shirt blue jeans and tennis shoes. Murfreesboro schools to open MURFREESBORO Summer vacation ends tommorow as students in the Murfreesboro public schools begin fall Phone in your Newspaper-in-Education orders now and don't be left behind! To order call: 259-8033 or 1-800-351-1227, ext. 8033 LOOK FOR SCHOOL NEWS EVERY MONDAY IN: The TENNESSEAN CALL 254-1031 TO PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD.