MONDAY 162nd YEAR • No. 104 AUGUST 29, 2016 CLEVELAND, TN 16 PAGES • 50¢ Wilson bond set at $500,000; hearing Sept. 8 By ALLEN MINCEY was returned to Bradley County eventually taken into custody. Assistant District Attorney Cindy enforcement was contacted, and Banner Staff Writer Saturday evening. He is being His daughter was being cared for LeCroy-Schemel, also scheduled an endangered child alert was held at the Bradley County Jail until family could get to that area Wilson’s preliminary hearing for sent across the country. Michael Wilson, the non-custo- on a charge of aggravated kid- to bring her back to Bradley Sept. 8. The pair was initially thought dial father who was arrested last napping, which was upgraded to County. Wilson was to return his to be traveling along the East week while with his daughter in that charge from custodial inter- General Sessions Court Judge daughter on Aug. 7 to her grand- Coast and in Florida. Prior to Colorado, made his first appear- ference by the 10th Judicial Sheridan Randolph set a bond of mother, who has custody of 2- being apprehended in Colorado, ance in Bradley County court District Attorney General Steve $500,000 on Wilson. He said year-old Skyla Wilson after hav- Wilson and his daughter were this morning. Crump’s office. since it is not a capital case, he ing her stay with him from Aug. 4 believed to be heading to Mexico. Wilson waived his extradition He had been seen on Interstate felt he must set a bond. through that date. When he did from Grand Junction, Colo., and 70 in that area, pulled over and Randolph, working with not return with her, local law See WILSON, Page 16 Wilson Inside Today Utility gets OK to seek bids on $3.7M Coach: Titans have holes in defense project Tennessee Titans coach Mike Mularkey has some work to do to CU’s final phase of plug up some holes in the Titans’ 15-mile waterline defense. The best pass rushers in the Southeastern Conference By RICK NORTON will be back chasing down quar- Associate Editor terbacks again this year. Kyle Larson drove to his first NASCAR Cleveland Utilities has received victory on Sunday in Michigan. Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS state approval to seek bids on the See Sports, Pages 9-11. RETIRED PHONE COMPANY employee Jimmy Still has been a tinkerer of antique clocks for almost 80 years. He has about 50 final leg of a three-phase water- clocks at his home, including this trio of old timepieces he collected for his hobby. line project that — once complet- ed — will significantly increase the city of Cleveland’s water sup- Should GOP nuke ply, especially to its southern its own candidate? end. For retiree, it’s about time The massive initiative includes For a candidate who speaks a combination of 20-inch and 24- freely of nuclear weapons, and their inch water use, there’s room to wonder if the mains that will Republican Party would like to nuke connect CU’s 87-year-old Jimmy Still loves to tinker 3-million-gal- its own presidential nominee. For lon water stor- one person’s perspective, see the age tank on guest “Viewpoint” on Page 12 of Eldridge Drive today’s edition. with old clocks, but a challenge awaits to the Hiwassee U t i l i t i e s By LARRY C. BOWERS Commission fil- Forecast Banner Staff Writer IDDEN ter plant in Cleveland retiree Jimmy H north Bradley Webb Still has enjoyed a unique County. hobby for just under 80 CLEVELAND The full dis- years, but he’s now hit a little tance of the bump in the road. It’s a project is about recent interview. 15 miles. delightful bump, but one he He said Aunt Bertha lived says he may not be able to The first two on Wildwood Avenue, near phases each navigate. the old Pierce Drug Store. The cost $3 million Still, 87, is retired from the clock had been a wedding and the final telephone company after 37 present. phase will be years of service, and has He quickly discovered that $3.725 million. raised four daughters. Aunt Bertha had been wind- Unlike the first Mullinax One daughter, Margot, is ing the clock backwards, the two legs of the Today’s forecast call for mostly the new director of the reason it wouldn’t run, and project that were financed sunny skies and a high near 93 Cleveland Public Library’s the clock was easily repaired. through conventional, higher- degrees. Tonight looks to be mostly history branch, and another, “I also thought it would be interest bonds, the third phase is clear, with a low around 69. Luann, is an engineer with interesting to tear the clock being funded through the State Tuesday calls for mostly sunny and the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. down and find out what made Revolving Fund Loan Program. hot conditions, with a high near 94 Over the years, since he it tick,” he said, “but my This latest SRF package to was a young boy, Jimmy has mother wouldn’t let me!” Cleveland Utilities includes a and a “feels-like” heat index been intrigued by the work- approaching 100. Tuesday night “That was the start of my 1.11 percent interest rate and a ings of timepieces (clocks). interest in clocks, especially 20-year fixed rate whose interest should be partly cloudy, with a low This all started before the age will not increase over the full term around 70. antique clocks,” he said. “I of 10. have worked on clocks ever of the loan. His Aunt Bertha had an since.” “This is really good news,” CU antique table-top clock which That clock (later named Manager of Engineering Philip Index wouldn’t run, and she told Aunt Bertha) remains in the Luce said earlier of the Water Jimmy he could have it. “I family, and his daughter Division financing plan. Classified................................14-15 went home and got my Red Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS He was joined by CU President Comics...........................................6 Margot has it prominently JIMMY STILL DISPLAYS the workings of an old timepiece Rider wagon, went back and displayed at the history and CEO Ken Webb who told the Editorials......................................12 got the clock, and pulled it to belonging to niece Susan Davidson. The works and gears of the Cleveland Daily Banner in mid- Horoscope......................................6 my home,” said Still in a See TIME, Page 16 antique clock are made completely of wood. MINI Page......................................5 See UTILITY, Page 16 Obituaries.......................................2 Sports........................................9-11 TV Schedule..................................7 Weather..........................................8 Campbell ‘blessed’ to lead School of Nursing By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG the first nursing graduates next May and Around Town Banner Staff Writer anticipating many more classes to come. PERSONALITY Before she got started in her current Sue Zius and Melinda Carroll Dr. Sara Campbell, dean of the School of position, Campbell was the dean of the enjoying some antics with friends Nursing at Lee University, has made an art School of Nursing at the University of at lunch ... Dax Spencer complet- of balancing the demands of caring for her PROFILE South Carolina Aiken. ing his first few weeks of medical family, patients and students over the Prior to that, she held numerous posi- school ... Katie Pulliam becoming years. tions in nursing and nursing education. a granny for the second time, Originally from Wapella, Ill., Campbell class of nursing students, and students However, it was a path she did not origi- and chuckling about getting hung moved to Cleveland from South Carolina in started that fall. nally anticipate when she first started her up on when telling her mom ... 2013 to help start the university’s nursing With the School of Nursing having own college education. Kathy Turner and Tammy Price program. recently moved from classrooms all over “I didn’t initially go to school to be a showing off some great gift “When I first got here, I was the only Lee’s campus into a new building near nurse,” Campbell said. “I wanted to be a ideas. one,” Campbell said. downtown Cleveland, Campbell calls her- physical therapist.” Though she later began working with an self “blessed” to have had the opportunity Midway through her undergraduate col- assistant and a full group of faculty, she to lead the school. lege career, she began visiting with resi- was the nursing school’s first employee. “It really feels amazing,” Campbell said. dents of a nursing home. There, she “fell In 2014, the Tennessee Board of “I’m so thankful for where we are now.” Nursing gave Lee the OK to accept its first Now, she is preparing to congratulate Dr. Sara Campbell 6489076 75112 See CAMPBELL, Page 8 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, August 29, 2016 www.clevelandbanner.com OBITUARIES (USPS 117-700) Periodical Postage Paid at Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 Post Office POSTMASTER: Send Address Changes to: Banner, P.O. Box 3600, Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 Gregory Beard University of Michigan. She mittal service. Bobby swafford Published at 1505 25th Street, NW (P.O. Box 3600) worked for more than 20 years The family will receive friends in Cleveland, TN 37320-3600, daily except Saturday Bobby Swafford, 56, of and Christmas day by Cleveland Newspapers, Inc. Gregory Beard, 52, of Tennga, at the University of Michigan’s from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Ga., died this morning, Aug. 29, Cleveland, died Sunday, Aug. 28, Phone (423) 472-5041. Children’s Hospital as a med- Aug. 30, 2016, at the funeral 2016, in a Chattanooga hospital.