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i i BflKBfci KENTUCKY NEWS SECTION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1972 mittee gets word from Ford- no revenue-sharing funds session Com will receive annually from revenue share-ing, noting that computation errors have been made on the federal level. The original estimate was that $87.3 million would be allocated to Kentucky in the first year. State government gets one-third, and local governments the remainder. There are some reasons why communities might not receive their aid immediately. For example, some data might be missing from an application.

Ford said in those instances the state will hold the local share in trust, to be distributed later. He said no local government is going to lose any money any shortage wil lbe made up with the state as a pipeline or directly from the federal By SY RAMSEY Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. Gov. Wendell Ford sent final word to Kentucky's lawmakers yesterday that he does not intend to call a special session to deal with federal revenue sharing. Finance Commissioner Donald Brad-shaw relayed the word in an appearance before the State Government Committee.

Kentucky is slated for $29.1 million in federal revenue-sharing money, with the first payments due this week, and there has been some legislative sentiment for a special session to determine where the money will be spent. Ford's memorandum said it is not known yet how much the state actually Ford said problems caused by inadequate and inaccurate data mean "it will probably be several months before we will have a good indication of how much the state will receive from revenue sharing." He also noted that the use of the. federal money "is virtually unrestricted" and "appropriation of these funds must be made in view of the state's total financial resources and demand for public service." One question raised by the committee was how the state will invest the $29.1 million, which won't be spent until 1974. Bradshaw said the methods will be either through certificates of deposit netting up to 5 12 per cent interest or U.S. Treasury notes.

For its inactive surplus cash, the state normally makes deposits in scores of banks around the state, obtaining an average of only 4 per cent interest. Bradshaw, along with James Fleming of the governor's office, gave the legislative committee an outline of proposed reorganization of the state government. Fleming said "we undoubtedly will have fewer" than the current 60 or so agencies and departments. Even if all agencies were kept, he added, they would be arranged "in manageable form" under reorganization plans. Fleming said the hope is to have a "running commentary" between legislative committees and the proposed six cabinet groupings of agencies.

State police violence probe to start in south Kentucky Photo by Nancy Hughes of state police. Boucher said the board was created to investigate a recent state of violence against state policemen in hopes that ways of protecting the men could be devised. Yesterday Kelly said the board held an organizational meeting Tuesday. When the current investigation in rural Warren County is completed, the board plans to look into the Nov. 26 shooting of a state trooper involved in an undercover investigation of a suspected bootlegger near Frankfort.

The Courier-Journal Bureau FRANKFORT, Ky. The new Kentucky State Police Board of Review formally launches its work today with a visit to the South Kentucky site where two state policemen were wounded by a shotgun blast Nov. 10. This was disclosed in an interview yesterday with Lt. Col.

Willard Kelly, deputy director of state police and chairman of the new Board of Review. The board was created Nov. 29 by an order of Col. Larry G. Boucher, director Ready for the stage SECOND-GRADER John Strickland adjusts his cooking-pot hat as he portrays Johnny Appleseed in a classroom play.

The class has been studying the legendary pioneer figure. John is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Wiliam Strickland of Bowling Green. sfes -j1 No-go for go-go ABC chief says topless, bottomless dancing being curbed penberg said in an interview.

At any rate, none of the board's rulings has been challenged in court yet, the commissioner added. Ruling may help Most of the offending bars have received 20- to 30-day suspensions of their licenses to sell alcoholic beverages, he said. Some of the offenses involved offering prizes for audience participation in go-go contests, something that is specifically forbidden by the regulation, the commissioner noted. The regulation also bars any type of improper conduct or lewd or immoral act, including "dancing that suggests an immoral act," Knippenberg said. In a California case, the U.S.

Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states have broad powers to prevent bars and night clubs from allowing sexy live entertainment. Knippenberg said the ruling should have no direct effect on Kentucky's enforcement policy. But the ruling probably would strengthen the ABC board's hand in court should the regulation be legally challenged, he added. The most recently completed Kentucky case involved the Lookout House, a Covington night spot, which received a 10-day license suspension Nov. 22 for offering a $100 prize for a go-go contest among its customers, records indicate.

The establishment was permitted to pay By DON WALKER Courier-Journal Staff Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. A 1968 Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board regulation prohibiting topless and bottomless go-go dancing in bars is being strictly enforced, state ABC Commissioner Julian Knippenberg said yesterday. Approximately a half-dozen night spots have had their alcoholic beverage sales licenses suspended for violating the regulation within the past year despite a 1970 Franklin Circuit Court order restraining the ABC board from enforcing parts of the regulation, Knippenberg said. "We are just using our judgment in the cases. If a licensee proves us wrong (in court) he'll just have to do so," Knip a $350 fine in lieu of five days of its suspension and the other five days' suspeit-sion were probated for one year.

Another 10-day suspension for an unrelated technical offense also was probated for one year. On Dec. 4, the board heard similar charges against the Pirate's Cove, located in Louisville's Bon Air Shopping Center-. The final order has not been entered in that case but Knippenberg said the decision had been made to order some sort of license suspension for permitting a go-go contest. Records on the other cases for this year were not immediately available but several of these also involved go-go contests for patrons, an ABC employe said.

Filial answers THE ANSWERS are there, but it's up to Janet Lewis, a graduate student shown at Morehead State University's library, to figure out which answers she'll need for final examinations Monday. 3 Kentuckians to attend ceremonies for Tennessee-Tombigbee project By LEONARD PARDUE Courier-Journal Staff Writer Boosters of a long-delayed plan to build a waterway linking the Ohio Valley with the Gulf of Mexico will gather at Gainesville, next Tuesday to celebrate at last a start on the project. On that day, ground will be broken for the federally financed $465 million Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, to be built by the Army Corps of Engineers. Congress first approved the project in River with the Tombigbee in Alabama. Traffic will travel the and Kentucky Lake in Western Kentucky to reach the Ohio River.

Seventy-six miles of canal will be dug, 46 of it to bypass a narrow stretch of the Tombigbee and 30 of it to cut a channel through the divide now the Tombigbee and Tennessee river systems. Five dams and 10 locks will bexbuilt to allow river traffic to overcome ithe 340-foot difference in elevation. The corps says completion of the project will take 10 years, assuming Congress makes money available. as it is needed. Gainesville, site of -Tuesday's groundbreaking, is the location of the southernmost of the locks and Gov.

George Wallace of Alabama, chairman of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, will pull a switch detonating explosives to begin work on the waterway. The authority is composed of five states, including Kentucky, created to push for development of the waterway. 1957 but was reluctant thereafter to provide funds for it. Allocation of the first construction money wasn't approved until 1970. In May of last year, President Nixon took part in a Mobile ceremony dedicating the project.

But a lawsuit subsequently was filed by environmental groups, challenging the project on grounds that it would cause environmental damage, and a court order forbade the corps to begin construction. That injunction was dissolved last summer when a U.S. district judge in Mississippi ruled in the corps' favor. An appeal is pending in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

Project to take 10 years Three Kentucky politicians are expected to attend Tuesday's groundbreaking Gov. Wendell Ford, Sen Walter Huddleston and 1st District U.S. Rep. Frank A. Stubblefield.

The waterway will join the Tennessee No fireworks Section of 1-65 opens next week Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. Interstate 65 from north of Nashville to near the Kentucky line is scheduled to open late next week, taking traffic off a 14-mile stretch of narrow, curving U.S. 31 that probably is best known for the gift and fireworks stands along it. The only other unopened sections of I-65 between the Alabama state line and Central Indiana are in south Nashville. State highway officials said they hope to open the 14-mile stretch Dec.

15 and that they definitely will get traffic onto it before Christmas. 1 riMniiMiii iiinmi imwiif minim niMiimirn-Mii hmtiI Beg your pardon Staff Photo by Michael Coers Looks familiar The name of the state director of tuberculosis control, Dr. H. Mac Van-diviere, was spelled Vandiviers in yesterday's Courier-Journal as the result of a transmission error. A road shown in a picture of a new 1-64 overpass near the Franklin-Woodford county line in yesterday's Courier-Journal was incorrectly identified as Lucas Lane.

The road is Woodlake Road. encountered during a drive after turning onto KY 224 -at the Upton exit from Interstate 65. 1 STARK REMINDERS of the season can be encountered quite suddenly as this lonely barn was joe creason One man knew the caliber of the folks in Bath County 94 iVKIVWW.iWiV. 30 nuns in Houston ask state welfare HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) About 30 elderly Roman Catholic nuns, living in what has been a self-sufficient Dominican convent in Houston, have asked the state for welfare money to pay their room and board.

If the applications, made to the local office of the Texas Welfare Department, are approved, the nuns, all over 65, would receive about $129 monthly in Old Age Assistance payments from the state of Texas. Sally Horton, program director for the Texas Welfare Department here, said officials had to determine whether a convent could be interpreted as a "family" or as individuals belonging to a group. The department's legal office ruled that the nuns are individuals belonging to a group. Consequently, each nun's income is figured separately, and welfare rights are based on each nun's particular situation. A "family" ruling would have required the income of all 179 Dominican nuns in Houston to be averaged and that figure used as a basis for eligibility.

RACY and goes like this: The first person to move, loses." The colonel kind THE OTHER day Richard G. Potter of Louisville got a pesky hangnail repaired and coined a saying at the same time. "Just like Colonel Sanders," Potter said after the manicurist had finished the job. "What do you mean by that?" she asked. "Why," he reasoned, admiring his hand, "it's finger lookin' good!" The wages of some WHAT WITH inflation and all that stuff, people who get paid every two weeks probably are lucky.

One week's pay just won't buy anything these days. The last Git up' LEXINGTON insuranceman Stuart Mc-Cray grew up on a farm, but he never learned to like the chores he was expected to perform. And of all the jobs he disliked plowing with a mule was No. 1 on his hate list, he says. Kow strongly he felt about plowing, mule style, was pointed up quite eloquently in a remark he made to his grandfather when he announced he was retiring forever from farming.

"The next time I say 'Git up' to -a mule," he vowed, "he'll be sitting on merT. He asked the flier if he could take him to a telephone where he might call and get the replacement parts. Not knowing exactly where he was, the pilot wasn't too keen about leaving his plane unguarded. "Where am he asked. "You're in Kentucky, on the Bath-Nicholas County line near the little village of Bethel," he was "What kind of people live around here," the apprehensive flier pressed.

"Well, I'll tell you," Mr. Crouch answered. "God a-mighty made 'em. He sent 'em down here, and it was about the best He could do!" a' Ringless one PUNSTERS ARE apt to surface any. where.

John I. Erickson of Louisville IT'S REALLY too bad that all of us don't regard our neighbors as highly and as kindly as did one of my wife's grandfathers, the late Tom Crouch of Bethel, Bath County. For to him the people who lived in his area were the positive pick of the litter, the salt of the earth, the cream of the crop. That feeling was pointed up in an incident that happened so many years ago airplanes then were a curiosity called aeroplanes or airships. Anyway, one day an aviator from Lexington, flying an old open cockpit biplane, ran into trouble and had to make a forced landing on the back, side of the Crouch farm.

Mr. Crouch went immediately to the scene and found the bird man uninjured but his plane somewhat bruised and in need of a new part or two. was having trouble telephoning a friend so he called the operator to report he wasn't getting a ring. "I'm having the same trouble with my boy friend," replied the operator. "I'm not getting a ring either!" No-move bureaucrats IN A RECENT issue of Simulation Gaming News, a newsletter about teaching through specially designed games, Milton I.

Patrie, director of the of Audio Visual Television Center, came upon a letter concerning a new game spawned bythe times. The' letterhead: "I created a game you might enjoy, lt is ismple and can be played by any number of people in any physical setting. It is called BUREAUC.