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I JOLRNAL, THIRSDAY, JUNE 15, 1978 National labor board begins investigation of charges at Stearns Federal deregulation should not increase gas bills, official says A I i't -r -1 s4 lit' te" for a decision on whether to issue a complaint against Stearns Mining or Blue Diamond Coal, she added. If a complaint is issued, a hearing would then be held, she said. About 150 UMW miners are on strike at Stearns. Negotiations for a contract broke off in January 1977. The UMW says the major obstacle to a settlement is Blue Diamond's refusal to agree to a contract similar to the one that covers most other union miners and that allows a union safety committee to close a mine when conditions are deemed unsafe.

No strike-related violence has been reported in McCreary County in recent days, a state police spokesman at London said. Violence frequently has marked the 23-month labor dispute. Donald Ray Watson, a non-striking miner who had been crossing UMW picket lines, was killed in April in an ambush shooting as he returned from work. would be sold to interstate transmission companies for less than the maximum price, because the market is restricted. Gas industry representatives have contended that the price of gas would have increased with or without deregulation because set costs such as transportation or amortization represent 80 percent of the cost of gas and aren't going down.

Stapleton said deregulation possibly could keep the cost of natural gas lower than it would have been by keeping use of imported propane, which is more expensive than natural gas, to a minimum. Christian school officials fight state standards Associated Press The National Labor Relations Board has begun investigating unfair labor practice charges filed by the United Mine Workers against Stearns Mining Co. in southeast Kentucky. "Right now I have virtually nothing to report," said Ingrid Vaughan, the NLRB attorney in the agency's Cincinnati office who has been assigned to the case. "The investigation is just beginning and we are in the preliminary stage of gathering evidence." The UMW filed the charges last week in response to the recent formation of an independent employees' union at the company's Justus mine at Stearns, where the UMW has been on strike since July 1976.

The mine workers' union alleges that Stearns Mining, a subsidiary of Blue Diamond Coal Co. of Knoxville, helped form the Justus Employees Association. The group has about 80 members who are crossing UMW picket lines. The UMW contends it is the certified bargaining agent for Justus miners and that Blue Diamond has failed to bargain in good faith for a contract. The first step in the investigation, Ms.

Vaughan said yesterday, is to have both parties in the dispute submit evidence. Peter Mitchell, a UMW attorney in Washington, said yesterday that he and other union lawyers "are in the process of supplying the NLRB with evidence to support our claim." Ms. Vaughan said the investigation should be completed in about a month. The evidence will be turned over to NLRB regional director Emil Farkas stealthy and progressive advance of inflation. "In advancing the permissible amount for negotiated or small purchases, the legislature has relieved local governments of unnecessary admin- energy research board Hendrix, Owensboro; J.

L. Jackson, Lexington; Ronald Rainson, Winchester; Kenneth E. Haughton, Lexington; Harry C. Saxe, Louisville; B. Hudson Milner, Louisville; Joe M.

Rodes, Louisville, and Albert Gore, Lexington. Carroll also ordered the creation of a division of technology assessment within the Energy Department's Bureau of Energy Research. Staff Photo by Keith Williams Making way Sgt. Francisco Novero grabbed his the way of troops passing in review 203rd birthday celebration of the Cities' no-bid limit doubles to $5,000, ruling says for the Army daughter Andrea, 5, to move out of at Fort Knox yesterday during the U. S.

Army. "The legislature momentarily lost sight of the fact that in the later bill the $2,500 figure was being increased to $5,000," he said. "To hold that the $5,000 figure governs is logical and makes good sense in view of the Carroll names 16 to FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) A 16-member Energy Research Board was named yesterday by Gov. Julian Carroll, to be headed by State Energy Secretary David Drake.

Five other cabinet secretaries will serve as ex-officio members of the board. The other 10 members are: State Rep. Mark O'Brien, D-Louisville; Charles D. Hoertz, Ashland; Dennis Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. Kentuckians need not expect a sudden rise in natural gas bills under proposed federal legisla- tion to deregulate gas prices, a state official said yesterday.

House and Senate conferees have reached compromises on all major issues in the congressional energy package but taxes, clearing the way for final action on the legislation. The central compromise on deregula- tion, reached after more than six months of negotiation, would raise the price ceiling on gas from the present $1.49 per 1,000 cubic feet to $1.93. Then the price would be allowed to increase by an additional 10 percent a year until January 1985 when the lid would come off. John Stapleton, deputy Kentucky energy commissioner, said gas prices will increase, as they have in recent years, but increases will be gradual. He said it is almost impossible to determine the impact of deregulation on Kentucky consumers except in a gener- al way.

Exactly how much monthly gas bills will increase is directly related to how much new gas a utility buys at the higher rates, Stapleton said. Higher prices would be combined with, or "rolled into," existing rates, after approval by the state Public Service Commission, thereby lessening the impact of higher gas prices, he said. The theory behind price deregulation is that it will encourage exploration for new gas and will make transportation of gas through interstate pipelines economically feasible. The current federal ceiling applies only to interstate gas supplies, but not to intrastate gas, or gas produced and used within a state. Stapleton said it would take four or five years for a price increase on newly gas to hit homeowners, because it would take that long to get the 'gas into the system.

In the meantime, natural gas compan-; ies could probably buy gas from intrastate pipelines under the new price for-; mula, and higher prices would be rolled into existing rates, he said. But because the proportion of new gas in the system is apt to be small in 'relation to the amount already in the system, the higher purchase price of new gas should not have a huge impact Ion monthly bills, he said. "Stapleton also said it is likely that -some gas, in Kentucky for example, Status remains same for Lyon prison farm Continued from Page 1 cause of the jail time already served, he said. Long-termers who have been assigned to the farm over the years usually are nearing eligibility for parole. But even they can be counted on for farm work longer than most short-termers, Bland said.

The farm center, established about 10 years ago as a part of Kentucky State Penitentiary, became a separate institution in 1976. Lyon County officials did not elaborate on the reference to the farm center in the report. But Bland said reclassification of prisoners for removal from the state prison while a proposed $4 million cellblock renovation is under way during the next two years "probably started the rumor mill." He said that about 50 inmates of the main prison have been reclassified but that most of ttkem were sent to the Kentucky State Reformatory near La Grange. The population is being reduced from about 1,050 to 850 for the renovation. Bland said the deportment hopes to hold the maximum population of the 90-year-old maximum security prison to about 800 after the work is completed.

The renovation apparently eliminated a long-standing proposal for a new maximum-security prison in another part of the state. PUBLIC MOTIVE On May 22. 1978. Word Broadcasting Notwork, a Kentucky nonprofit corporation, filed a construction permit application with the Federal Communications Commission seeking authorization to build a new television station in Louisville, Kentucky, operating on Channel 2t with a oowor of fourteen hundred kilowatts from fan antenna six hundred and seventy-three feet above ground. The antenna and transmitter will be located at the intersection of Renn Road and Fairview Road, Floyd Knohs, Indiana.

The main studio of the station will be located in Louisville, Kentucky. The officers and directors of Word Broadcasting Network, Inc. are: Robert W. ftodgers. President, Donald L.

Miller, Vice-President and Secretary, and Rhea G. Morgan, Treasurer. There are no stockholders of the corporation. A copy of the application and any subsequent amendment or related material will remain on file available for public inspection between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

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(AP) Figures compiled by the Kentucky Film Commission and Universal Studio indicate the filming of the television movie "Centennial" on location in Kentucky brought nearly $1 million in revenue into the state. Portions of the film were shot in Augusta, Lexington, White Hall Shrine and Fort Boonesborough. istrative detail and expense," Runyan said. In another opinion released yesterday, Runyan said a local fiscal court cannot dissolve a fire protection district it has created. "There is no express statutory provision dealing with the dissolution of a fire protection district," Runyan told Laurel County Attorney Elmer Cunna-gin Jr.

Cunnagin said several residents of the Bush fire protection district in his county have petitioned the Laurel County Fiscal Court, asking it to dissolve the district, which was created three years ago. Runyan added, however, that the district could be effectively dissolved if its territory were diminished. Yards Bank Company Continued from Page 1 the court last September after the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education denied accreditation to 20 schools the previous spring. Officials and parents of students at four of the schools filed the lawsuit and obtained a restraining order blocking the state from prosecuting parents of children in the non-accredited Christian schools for truancy law violations. The suit contends that imposition of state standards on private schools is unconstitutional and violates religious freedoms.

Yesterday, the school officials objected to use of the textbooks required by the state for accreditation. Goodell said all state-approved textbooks are "objectionable to us." Of the 21 biology, texts he may choose, none is acceptable because of their handling of the creation of man, Goodell said. The Rev. C. Harry Rudasill, administrator of Owensboro Christian Academy, said his school has never sought state approval because it can't "conscientiously comply" with the standards.

Rudasill said that his school is willing to provide a clean, healthy and safe environment for its students. The president of the Kentucky Association of Christian Schools, Earl Mullins Sr. who is principal of the Portland Christian School in Louisville, said, "many of us are not opposed to accreditation in the normal sense" but question the present state power over curriculum. His school has been accredited by the state since the early 1930s. He said the state rejected teaching of a subject on the concept of creation and evolution at Portland, but the curriculum was rearranged and it was taught "in other ways." Parents testified that they are pleased with religious and academic areas of the Owensboro Christian Academy and Saline Christian Academy at Somerset.

None of the parents thought that the state should have any power over the qualification of teachers. The parents said that they are sending their children to the Christian schools because of God's will and that they are trying to train their children in the ways of the Lord. The parents said they would pay a fine or go to jail if convicted under truancy laws for sending their children to non-accredited schools. During opening arguments before Judge Henry Meigs, William Ball an attorney for the parents, schools and the association, said the aid of the court was sought to protect religious freedom. Ball said that two basic issues are involved: the nature of the religious claim and the nature of the state's action.

Former Gov. Bert Combs, counsel for the state board, said the board believes it has the right and the authority to set minimum standards for education. Combs contended that state regulations do not prohibit the teaching of religion in non-tax-supported schools. The trial will resume at 9 a.m. today.

Advertisement Furniture a solid Oak business for 22 years BP. A A. SAVOR Bass Furniture Galleries, which has been one of Louisville's most respected merchandisers of home furnishings at "warehouse" prices for the last 22 years, is calling it quits. The gallery's lease on the historic building, the old Bradford Woolen Mills, at 1034 E. Oak is expiring, according to R.

Bruce Bass, president. A search for a new location did not prove satisfactory, according to Bass. "There is a time to arrive and a time to leave," he said. "We have decided this is our time to leave." Bass has been selling out its home furnishings under County License No. 584, which expires July 15, 1978.

According to company officials, response to the "Going out of Business Sale" has been fantastic. "Louisvillians know our sound reputation for quality, famous brands," Bass said, "and at the price reductions we've made to sell out, they know they re getting once-in-a-lifetime buys. Customers have been coming back many times, Bass said, because prices are being slashed almost daily. When interviewed, Bass and his associates were doing just that, crossing out prices on tags and scribbling in even lower price cuts. "We'll cut prices until everything is sold," Bass vowed.

In a spot check, this reporter saw many fine furnishings still available: sofas, chairs, lamps, pictures, dining rooms, bedroom furniture to name a few. The company's president announced another incentive for bargain hunters. "Customers who clip this ad and bring it in will receive an additional 5 off the already marked-down prices," Bass said. Bass Gallaries will be open Monday and Thursday t0 a.m.-9 p.m.; other weekdays and Saturday, 10 a p.m. "Everything must be sold," Bass said.

"It all has to go." Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. After Saturday, local governments can make purchases of up to $5,000 without taking bids, despite conflicting laws passed by the General Assembly, the state attorney general's office said yesterday. Ralph Ed Graves, commissioner of the Department for Local Government, had pointed out that while the legislature passed one bill doubling the amount local governments can spend without competitive bidding, it also amended another bill that left the former $2,500 ceiling in effect. Charles Runyan, assistant deputy attorney general, agreed that the two bills were irreconcilable. He held that under legal precedent the last bill passed the one raising the non-bid purchases to $5,000 must prevail.

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