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THE TENNES5EAN Friday, Wovembw 19 1993 33 Fog warning system due next month mm i 5f ONLY Others Use Front Entrance. i company was partially responsible for creating fog in the area. The study was done after three people were killed and 14 were injured in an 18-vehicle collision along the 17-mile stretch of highway. The year before, 46 people were injured in 61-car pileup. Bowater has steadfastly contended that the area's topography narrow valleys with a river and several creeks running through them causes the fog.

Bowater said the 1979 study was inconclusive. Several lawsuits have been filed since the 1990 crash. The state reached an out-of-court settlement, undisclosed, with plaintiffs in 30 lawsuits. A civil trial involving Bowater and 40 crash survivors and victims' families is slated for Feb. 1.

CHARLESTON, Tenn. (AP) A $4.5 million system designed to detect and warn motorists of deadly fog on Interstate 75 near the Hiwas-see River will be ready for use next month, state officials say. There were only two flashing signs to warn motorists of fog the morning of Dec. 11, 1990, when 99 vehicles slammed into each other near the Hiwassee Bridge, about 40 miles northeast of Chattanooga. Twelve people died and more than 50 people were injured.

"This unique fog detection system, we believe, will warn motorists enough in advance so they can react appropriately to dangerous driving conditions," state Department of Transportation Commissioner Carl Johnson said Wednesday. The new system consists of eight fog detectors, 44 radar detectors, several overhead message signs, two computerized weather monitoring stations, manual patrols by state highway officers and swing gates that will cut off access to the interstate when fog reaches dangerous levels. There has been much debate as to what causes heavy fog in the area. Many blame Bowater a paper plant which emits at least 2 million tons of water vapor into the atmosphere daily. Day One, an ABC news magazine show, aired a segment on Monday examining whether Bowater attempted to cover up a fog study it conducted in 1979 that showed the Schools' office unit condemned Jan.

3 deadline for repair plans By WARREN DUZAK Slate Writer LEBANON When the roof fell in, water soaked the rugs, and the dust and stench became too much to bear, executive secretary Kathy Lawrence moved out of her office in the schools' administration building. That was a month ago. She temporarily is working in a computer room. "I'd need galoshes to go back in the old one," Lawrence said yesterday after city codes enforcer Robert Robinson and Fire Chief Fred Sims inspected and condemned the building. They posted signs on the outside declaring the structure "unfit for occupancy." Robinson said he has given school officials until Jan.

3 to develop plans for repairs or to move. If plans are not developed, Robinson can cut the utilities off to the building. The deteriorating conditions at the system's Market Street central office are old news. For years, employees have had to Nina Alexandrenko Staff The Wilson County school system's central office building on Market Street in Lebanon has been condemned by inspectors who said conditions, such as a severely leaking roof, make the structure unsafe. posses FEED HUNGRY FAMILIES THIS THANKSGIVING Throughout this holiday season and only with your place five-gallon buckets in strategic locations to catch water seeping through a rotten, porous roof when it rained.

But County School Board Chairman Randy Wright said school officials have not ignored the problem. There have been engineering studies to investigate whether to repair the old building, build a new one or lease a facility, he said. "We have examined a lot of options," Wright said. "We have got all this stuff but it is just a matter of where the money comes from. We were more interested in a building program for students." For the last few years, the school board has had to fight the County Commission for additional funds to eliminate overcrowding in county schools.

When a proposal for a new central office building was proposed, parents criticized school officials for seeking to build an office before adding more classrooms. The issue is expected to be discussed when the school board meets on Monday. help we will provide nutritious food and warm beds to the desperately needy men, women and children of Nashville. Already this year we have served 47,155 meals and provided 27,667 nights of shelter to those who had nowhere else to turn. Please help as your heart directs you.

Your tax-deductible gift will help us care for needy families this Thanksgiving and all year-round. 1 1 .50 to feed 1 0 hungry people Name Address. S23.00 to feed 20 hungry people $34.50 to feed 30 hungry people Author hits complacency of rich churches, hidden military aims LET TALK $46.00 to feed 40 hungry people to feed hungry people CityStZip THE SALVATION ARMY P.O. Box 30240 Nashville, TN 37241-0240 TURKEY T30116N19 PI.EASt CLIP AND MAIL WITH YOl GIH TODAY "Jesus was a myth-shatterer, and he asked us to be too." JACK NELSON-PALLMEYER Liberal Christian author GM A TSiMKSmUlM DlMStl is rapT 1 HOPMm PERSON If 4E? traditional home-cooked Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings for the hungry and shelter for the homeless during this Thanksgiving season. $14.70 can help provide 10 meals $29.40 can help provide 20 meals $58.80 can help provide 40 meals $147 can help provide 100 meals $1,000 can help feed and shelter 500 people Your gift will help the needy this Thanksgiving and throughout the year.

Ptm mm piease cup and mail with your gift today mm mm From the American poor working class to the upper 1 of the rich, in the form of social welfare cutbacks, changes and tax breaks in the tax code and the rising insecurity of losing jobs to cheaper labor overseas. From U.S. corporations to Japan and the Pacific Rim, in the form of lost markets. "The question the international economy seems to ask now is not, 'What can we do about but, 'How do we get rid of the he said. "In America, we answer that by building more prisons, but we don't ask what can we do to end inequality and poverty." Nelson-Pallmeyer said he also fears that the national military established, despite the end of the Cold War, will find new ways to keep a grip on its huge budgets, which could otherwise fund social programs, education and economic research and development.

"When the Berlin Wall came down, they didn't see that as something to celebrate they greeted it with panic," he said. Since then, the military has tried to justify keeping its vast machinery by conducting a "war on drugs" it never wanted to touch before, "humanitarian intervention-ism" like the action in Somalia, and the Gulf War, Nelson-Pullmey-er argued. "That one turned out to be a good showcase for new weapons to sell to other countries," he said. By RAY WADDLE Religion News Editor 1 Christians should reject the complacency of rich churches and the aims of the military establishment, just as Jesus attacked the jRoman empire and religious status iquo of his day, says a liberal Christian author. Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, a Lutheran author and teacher, will speak at three area churches this weekend to argue that faithful believers should oppose international economic and military trends that intensify the gap between rich and p'oor.

"Jesus was a myth-shatterer, and lie asked us to be too," Nelson-Pallmeyer said in a phone interview. "He asked us to confront every form of domination and complicity (hat serves the few at the expense of the poor and the Earth. Churches have become very complacent. would challenge the wealth 0f our churches, the flags found (here, the mixing of nationalism snd religion." Nelson-Pallmeyer, based in Minneapolis, has traveled widely in Central America to study the effects of U.S. foreign policy in poorer countries.

His most recent book is Brave New World Order. He speaks at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Trinity Presbyterian Church for a Central America Dinner sponsored by Clergy and Laity Concerned. Tickets are $7 by calling 228-9835 or 321-9077 by today. He also preaches at 8:30 a.m.

Sunday at Edgehill United Methodist Church, then at 11 a.m. at Second Presbyterian Church. The 42-year-old father of three daughters said economic trends of the 1980s only widened the gap between rich and poor, increasing injustice, crime and resentments here and abroad, trends no Christian can ignore any longer. "It's increasingly an illusion that we can build a safe, healthy life for our children apart from building a safe, healthy life for all children," he said. Jesus stood for ending injustice and divisions between people, he said, but the 1980s witnessed three "unprecedented wealth transfers" that struck blows against economic justice: The massive transfer of wealth from "the Third World poor countries to the First World rich countries," the result of huge debt payments from developing nations to richer ones.

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