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The Courier-Journal, Saturday morning, October 27, 1979 Television Regional news Sports Accent T7 KENTUCKY iVei portion of 1-24 allows use of bridge over Tennessee River Vex JL -Si. s. f1- tJJNOtS interrupted four-lane travel from Fulton to Salyersville, Sullivan noted. The opening of the latest segment of 1-24 reduces the incomplete portion of the highway to 34 miles, all in Kentucky. The unfinished section is between KY 453 and U.S.

68 five miles east of Cadiz. However, Sullivan said that all but a short section of the incomplete road is nearly ready for use. The part that is farther from completion lies between the Western Kentucky Parkway junction and KY 293 south of Eddyville, Gov. Julian Carroll said last fall at the opening of a section of 1-24 from Paducah to U.S. 62 that all of 1-24 would be in use before his term ends next month.

Sullivan said construction reports show that is still possible, but that some parts along the 30 incompleted miles $fY NOW CJOr open rpx PURCHASE ta By BILL POWELL Courier-Journal Staff Writer CALVERT CITY, Ky. A short but important segment of Interstate 24 in Western Kentucky has been opened to traffic. The opening of 2.5 miles of the four-lane road will permit use of a $14 million, Tennessee River Bridge that has sat idle since its completion five years ago. It also will enable 1-24 traffic to avoid the 29-year-old, two-lane bridge across Kentucky Dam, which often has been a bottleneck at the peak of the tourist season around Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley in far Western Kentucky. The newest 1-24 section to be opened starts at U.S.

62 about three miles west of Kentucky Dam and ends at KY 453 between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. KY 453 leads to combined U.S. 641 and U.S. 62 at Lake City between Kentucky Dam and Barkley Dam. The state route is four lanes wide from 1-24 to the U.S.

highway. The segment was opened without ceremony Thursday. Ninety-three miles of 1-24, which is to connect Chattanooga, to Southern Illinois, are in Kentucky. D. O.

Sullivan, construction engineer for the Kentucky Bureau of Highways at Paducah, said yesterday that "an even more significant" development on 1-24 is expected in early December. That will be opening of the 11-mile segment of the highway from KY 453 to the junction with the Western Kentucky Parkway in the Eddyville-Kuttawa area. The segment will include a $21 million bridge over the Cumberland River. The joining of these highways will complete the connection of east-west four-lane highways all the way across Kentucky, according to Craig Combs, an information officer for the Kentucky Department of Transportation in Frankfort. That route would begin in the west with the Purchase Parkway at Fulton and continue on 1-24, the Western Kentucky Parkway, 1-65, the Bluegrass Parkway and 1-64 to the Kentucky-West Virginia line near Ashland.

Use of the Mountain Parkway beginning near Lexington would provide un- fin Why clocks are set back British tinkerer was ahead of time Bales use to be light; supporters optimistic By PHIL NORMAN Courier-Journal Farm Editor Kentucky farmers have signed up to sell about 40 million pounds of burley tobacco, about 10 percent of the 1979 crop, in controversial, labor-saving bales. The relatively light participation farmers could have signed up to bale as much as 20 percent of the leaf has seemed to rekindle a long-smoldering dispute over the best way to sell a crop worth about $500 million a year to Kentucky growers. Supporters of baling said they were still optimistic about winning permanent approval of the new system, which already has been through a long series of market tests. But others pointed to the light sign-up as an indication that farmers haven't accepted the hay-like bales as a substitute for the hand-tied bundles in which burley has always been sold. Research at the University of Kentucky has showed that baling could save 5 to 7 cents a pound in producing a crop that was sold last year for an average of $1.31 a pound.

But opponents of baling have contended that the system could lead to sloppy handling of the crop, hurting leaf quality and reducing world demand for burley. Farmers are taking "a wait-and-see attitude" about baling, said S. J. Stokes chairman of the tobacco committee of the Kentucky Farm Bureau, which has favors the new marketing system. The issue could be settled on this year's market.

Stokes said, with farmers accepting the new method if baled-bur-ley prices stay close to those for hand-tied leaf. But Morrison Nelson, president of the Leaf Tobacco Dealers Association, said he viewed the sign-up as "pretty conclusive" evidence that the bale "isn't the package that the growers want." The U.S. Department of Agriculture ultimately will decide whether baling is popular or useful enough to become a regular part of the marketing system. Under the traditional system, overseen by the Agriculture Department, burley must be hand-tied to be eligible for Jobacco price supports. The department last year approved an experiment in which 5 percent of the burley crop could be sold in bales, which already had been tested in some smaller and less formal experiments.

Farmers last year signed up to bale less than 5 percent of the crop. But a number of farmers did participate in the experiment, selling more than 10 million pounds of baled burley at prices averaging only about 1 cent a pound below those for tied leaf. And the Agriculture Department agreed to expand the experiment for the 1979 market, scheduled to open Nov. 19. This year's program was designed to allow each burley grower to sell in baled from 1,500 pounds or 20 percent of his crop, whichever is greater.

But farmers could sign up to bale 100 percent of their crops as long as the state-wide total didn't go over 20 percent. A total of 3,796 Kentucky farmers signed up to bale 39,664,691 pounds of burley, according to the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service in Lexington. The sign-ups, which ended Sept. 28, were conducted in agriculture-service offices across the state. About 140,000 farms with burley quotas were eligible to take part in the baling program.

Baling proved most popular in the Bluegrass, where farmers have been particularly hard hit by rising labor costs. The biggest sign-up in terms of acreage was in Fayette County, where 156 farmers made themselves eligible to bale 3.8 million pounds of burley. Woodford County farmers signed up for 3 million pounds, and extensive participation was also reported in Shelby, Bourbon, Harrison, Henry, Jessamine, Madison and Daviess counties. Prices paid for baled burley will depend to a large extent on the attitudes of U.S. cigarette manufacturers.

Manufacturers and warehousemen have mixed opinions about baling. Two manufacturers, Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds, bought most of the baled leaf offered on last year's market. Some other tobacco companies, notably American, have opposed the introduction of baled tobacco.

Baling opponents have argued that last year's baled-burley prices were raised to an artificially high level by friendly companies. ''Ill fMr 4 i (wal M. If tewiwrnimmiiwi I nfiwmmTtt' frrrnrmniiimurm FWCWVttWWtfmW 'WilM'lJIMlIMiXWW'lW li z7fifw, Vf K- 4' UWn -1 Li f. iM ff. fs, a0 ill KAY BE OPEN IN Staff Map by Herman Wiodorwohl might be prepared only for one-way traffic.

Sullivan also said that two years and $3.8 million worth of repair work on the Ohio River Bridge betwen Wickliffe and Cairo is expected to be completed by the end of October or a few days later. The bridge project has been a traffic bottleneck, causing long delays and greatly restricting truck weights. Last fall the state stopped the repair work while working conditions were still good so the bridge could be opened fully for movement of grain between Kentucky and Illinois. The contractor was paid more than $80,000 for the delay. Kentucky, according to Transportation Department records, has completed 631 of its 646 miles of planned toll parkways and 710 miles of the 761 miles of interstate mileage assigned to the state.

The first oil crunch caused by the 1973 Arab embargo put the United States on daylight time months early in 1974. It started on Jan. 6 instead of the usual spring switch. In 1975, there was an 8-month daylight time period. And in 1976, Congress switched back to the end of April to end of October system and again gave states the option of legislating year-round standard time.

Central and Eastern Kentuckians also have been through more than the usual number of switches because they changed from the central time zone to the eastern zone in the 1960s. This confusion, however, may seem mild when compared with the nation's more pastoral past. A February 1883 Louisville Nashville Railroad timetable lists Louisville time as 18 minutes faster than New Orleans, 10 minutes faster than Mobile, 18 minutes faster than Memphis, five minutes faster than Nashville, 19 minutes faster than St. Louis and four minutes slower than Cincinnati. Other regions were no less out of sync.

Because communities set their clocks at noon when the sun hit its zenith, See BLAME PAGE 3, col. 1, this section Beg your pardon Because of a wire service error, a story in yesterday's Courier-Journal said that Chrysler Corp. had estimated it will lose $1.5 million this year and next. The figure should have been $1.5 billion. two sisters always came back to her, she said.

The parents of the three sisters died about three years ago, she said. Margie could have come back to her home, Mrs. Schneider said, but she may be better off as a ward of the state for now. "Just knowing she's all right and in a better place, I think I'll be able to rest some now," she said. While her relatives were in the dark as to Margie's whereabouts, the people who did know where she was didn't know her full name.

She had told the Kentucky State Police trooper that arrested her that her name was Margie Dale and that she lived in Seymour. It wasn't until Thursday that she also answered "Seymour" when she was asked her name. Once her story became publicized, See LOST PAGE 3, col. 1, this section Provide for a 10-day organizational session in January of odd-numbered years. The session would be for electing leadership, adopting rules and forming committees.

The first session would be held in January 1983. Drop from the constitution an obsolete pay schedule for legislators ($5 a day, 15 cents a mile) that has already been increased by statute. Drop days on which neither house meets from the legislative calendar. That would add flexibility and extend legislative sessions. The legislature would still have only 60 working days to complete its work and would have to conclude by April 15.

Currently, only Sundays and legal 1 1 JtftlAWlJMIlOIWtlmiilWIWI ni Will nWIMMMIillMMlWHl By CAROLYN COLWELL Courlor-Journal Staff Writer If you show up at church an hour early tomorrow morning, say a prayer for William Willett. He thought of tinkering with time. In 1907, the British builder came up with the idea that will prompt all Ken-tuckians and some Hoosiers to set their clocks back one hour tonight (At 2 a.m., clocks should be set back to 1 a.m.) Willett started a campaign for daylight-saving time so man's average day in the late spring and summer would include more daylight hours for recreation. His other arguments also have a contemporary ring reducing the use of artificial light and cutting crime in the streets. But Willett was a man ahead of his time.

He died before Germany became the first nation to adopt daylight saving time in 1916, during World War I. Great Britain and the United States soon followed suit. The concern then was not summer fun but aiding the war effort by saving electricity and coal. Since the sundial was invented, "What time is it?" has been a loaded question. Time could mean sun time, local time, railroad time, standard time, fast time or slow time.

And the answer has depended upon geographic and political boundary lines, technological progress and lifestyles. In the 1960s and '70s, there have been enough changes in national and local time systems to create doubts about the old adage for daylight time: spring forward, fall back. minder of a difficult problem for her sister, Carol Schneider. Margie Seymour had been living with her sister at the time she disappeared, Mrs. Schneider said.

The retarded woman left home the day after Mrs. Schneider went to the hospital to deliver her fourth child, Mrs. Schneider said. Though friends scoured the neighborhood, Mrs. Schneider wasn't told about her sister's disappearance until Tuesday, when she reported her sister as a missing person to Shively police, she said.

"Nobody wanted me to know about it until after the baby came," Mrs. Schneider said. Mrs. Schneider said that besides her own children, Margie and another retarded sister, who is 48, lived in their home, and the burden was sometimes more than she could handle. Placements in care homes did not work out for various reasons, and her Chat and pour While a conversation took place at ground-level at a service station near Shelby Gap in Pike County this week, Mitchell Bailey was up on the station roof, patching it by pouring tar from a bucket.

Lost woman finds first step toward home Staff Photo by Stewart Bowman "Margie's going to get the best of care," said Dorothy Schroeder, residential services branch manager for the division of mental retardation of the Kentucky Department for Human Resources. After her initial evaluation, Ms. Seymour probably will be sent to Central State Hospital for further testing and possible eventual permanent placement in a properly supervised setting, Mrs. Schroeder said. Permanence is something that Margie Seymour has known little of in recent years, according to relatives and state officials.

Before her address became the Meade County Jail, she had stayed in state mental hospitals, family-care homes, the somewhat larger personal-care homes and an unlicensed boarding house. There also were periods when she stayed in a family setting. The news that Ms. Seymour had been found came as both a relief and re decide on 1979 ELECTION every two years instead of the current limit of two. It would also allow amendments to modify as many articles of the constitution as necessary to accomplish their objective.

The amendment would also drop a provision that an amendment may not be resubmitted to voters for five years after it has been on a ballot. The second amendment is more complicated. It would change legislative By BILL OSINSKI Courltr-Journal Staff Writer BRANDENBURG, Ky. A last name and a first step toward a home have been found for the retarded woman who for the past five days had been a Meade County jail inmate known only as Margie. After The Courier-Journal published an article yesterday about the woman who was found last Sunday night wandering down the middle of U.S.

31 near Muldraugh, her identity was established as Margie Dale Seymour, 51, of Shively. Relatives who'd been looking for Ms. Seymour since her disappearance recognized her picture and got in touch with police and social-services authorities. By the end of a day of legal and medical maneuvering, Ms. Seymour was on her way to the Triage Unit at Louisville General Hospital to begin a series of physical and medical evaluations.

Voters to By FRANK ASHLEY Courier-Journal Political Editor FRANKFORT, Ky. The governor's race has so dominated Kentucky politics that voters may be surprised Nov. 6 when two constitutional amendments turn up on the ballot. The amendments provide a third category of decisions for statewide voters in addition to constitutional offices and legislative seats. The questions, though lengthy, are fairly simple.

One, known as the Gateway Amendment, deals with the process of amending the state's 1892 constitution. It would allow the General Assembly to offer four constitutional amendments 2 constitutional amendments elections from odd- to even-numbered years. This amendment is known as the Independence or Kenton Amendment because it is sponsored by House Speaker William Kenton, D-Lexington. It is designed to allow newly elected legislators a year's apprenticeship in committee and parliamentary work before going into regular session to vote on bills. Currently, legislators elected in November go into the regular legislative session two months later, where they may cast votes on about 1,500 pieces of legislation, including the $7 billion-plus state budget The Independence Amendment would: holidays do not count against the 60-day limit.

The amendment would automatically add 10 days to a session because Saturdays on which the session does not meet would not count as legislative days. Provide a schedule designed to move the election of legislators from odd- to even-numbered years. The amendment would not affect legislators elected this year nor permanently change the two-year terms of representatives or four-year terms of senators. But in 1981 representatives would be See CONSTITUTIONAL PAGE 3, coL 3, this section Staff Photo by Stewart Bowman Job with a view Lee Wilkerson spent some time this week working at the 80- foot level of a two-way radio communications tower in Lexington. He is building the 130-foot tower for his employers..