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Stole EdiSisas 2 THE COUTtlF.R.JOURK.U, TIMES, LOUISVILLE. KV. SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1. 1970 rorvry NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO YES NO IIIMMIMIV IMI'IKIV K.MKM' lUS'lHKT governmental, complex, jaii general hospital and mAmua AND GOVERNMENT SUBSTATIONS COMMUNITY STADIUM FIOOOWAIL AND RELATED DRAINAGE CIVICEXHIBITION HALL DETOXIFICATION CENTER NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES cv.t.

"ves, if if $23,441,000 LIMIT $4,000,000 LIMIT $13,552,000 LIMIT $8,000,000 LIMIT $7,000,000 LIMIT $1,000,000 LIMIT $1,000,000 LIMIT "in i i i. i I uiiIi.imhi,jiiiiim.II.i.mMi inijiiiro in I niiuimiL iiimi i. i i I Si imH.Tri'iimiim I mmii.iiiiiu mm I 11 mill miiiiiiunn ii.ii.him. ni mini I mum Ml 1 1 Mfl it A A Primer for the Voter 1 IP Jefferson County Bond Vote, 7 Yeas Equal $58 Million YES NO GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE COMMONWEALTH Are you in favor of the Act of the General Aisembly known aa Senate Bill, No. 359, enacted at the regular lesnion of 1970 wherein it ii proposed that the Commonwealth issue and sell ita General Obligation Bonds in addition to all bonds heretofore authorized by the voters in the principal aum of Forty-eight million three hundred thousand dollars the proceeds of whirh will be set aside for state agencies and public purposes for the acquisition of lands, the construction and reconstruction of buildings and structures, installation of service facilities, and the purchase and installation of equipment, facilities, and furnishings of a permanent nsture for buildings and structure for the state agencies or for other public purposes as follows: School for the Deaf, School for the Blind, Department of Education for vocational schools, Department of Corrections, Department of Child Welfare, Department of Mental Health, Farm Development Loan Guarantee Fund? Pis liij State Bond Vote: $48.3 Million For Mental Health, Other Aid enter the booth is the amount of property tax increase that will be required to retire the bonds for each project.

A special tax not to exceed 10 cents per $100 of assessed valuation is permitted under the enabling legislation passed by the last General Assembly. However, bond issue supporters project that, if all seven projects pass, an increase in the county property levy of 9.5 cents will be sufficient. An opinion by the legal counsel for the commission that would administer the bond projects says that the tax increase would cover these categories: All real property. tAll tangible personal property, including stored whisky. All franchises of companies engaged in public service.

The bonds for the projects approved would probably be sold for around 7 per cent interest over a maximum 40-year term. The state issue, which will not require a tax increase, will be used to pay for facilities for mental health, corrections, vocational education, child welfare, the deaf and blind and for a farm-loan Community stadium, $4,000,000 limit. Floodwall and related drainage, $13,552,000 limit. Civic-exhibition hall, $8,000,000 limit. General Hospital and detoxification center, $7,000,000 limit.

Natural history museum, $1,000,000 limit. Parks and recreation, $1,000,000 limit. Besides the jail and the governmental substations, the large government complex includes a new courts building, remodeling of City Hall, the Courthouse, the old First National Bank and Louisville Trust buildings (both of which the county' now owns), and demoltion of the present Courthouse Annex, Sinking Fund Building, and City Hall Annex. A single "yes" vote for the "governmental complex" question will approve all of these items and a "no" vote against it will defeat them. The same applies for the "lumping" of the hospital and detoxification center as one question and the floodwall and drainage as another.

What voters will not see when they By JAMES NOLAN Courltr-Journll Staff writer Here's a primer of basic facts on the proposed Jefferson County bond issue and an A guide on how to express your preference for or against any or all of its seven projects: Voters entering the booth on Tuesday will find the $58 million county package strung out across the top of the machines. In the upper left-hand corner will be space for the $48.3 million state bond issue an item entirely separate from the county bond issue. There will be a description of the county issue, followed by the seven projects it contains in left-to-right order. Each of the seven projects on the county issue will have its own "yes" and "no" levers. A simple majority of those voting on each item will be sufficient to approve or defeat it.

There will be no master lever to allow a voter to register a "yes" or "no" for all the county projects combined. Each must be voted on separately. (There will be just one set of "yes" and "no" levers for the state bond issue, however.) The seven parts of the county bond issue, in order and with the exact wording as they appear on the voting machines, are: Governmental complex, jail and governmental substations, $23,448,000 limit. Gov. Bert Combs, also have said they favor the bonds.

There has been no organized opposition, although supporters are wary of a silent "anti" sentiment opposing added debt and government spending. The state administration has printed about 75,000 brochures and posters favoring the bond issue, using the themes "help the less fortunate" and "a vote for tomorrow." Major projects to be financed by the bonds include new facilities at the state's mental hospitals, a third state prison, a vocational-technical institute in western Jefferson County, a new juvenile-delinquent reception center in Jefferson County, a high school building at the school for the deaf in Danville, and a music facility at the school for the blind in Louisville. The farm-loan program would guarn-tee private loans of up to $7,500 for the purchase of operating farms. if sold at 6.5 per cent interest, would be $3.7 million. Over 30 years, total principal and interest would be $111 million.

Nunn Endorses Bonds In fiscal 1971-72, the addition of $3.7 million in debt payments would increase the per cent of general-fund income revenue committed to debt service from about 5 per cent to 5.6 per cent. Enlarging the picture to include highway debts and revenue, total debt payments would rise from 9.5 per cent to 10 per cent of total revenue. Republican Gov. Nunn has personally endorsed the bonds and has authorized certain state agency heads, "without neglecting their other duties," to work for the issue's passage. However, he has said he is not commiting "all of the resources of this administration" to the campaign.

Two Democratic candidates for governor, Lt. Gov. Wendell Ford and former By LIVINGSTON TAYLOR Courier-Journal Staff Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. The only state-wide question in Tuesday's election will be whether the state should issue $48.3 million in bonds to finance facilities for mental health, corrections, vocational education, child welfare, the deaf and the blind, and to create a farm development loan guarantee fund. A simple majority of those voting on the issue is sufficient to pass or defeat the bond issue.

The bond issue was proposed last January by Gov. Louie B. Nunn, and its submission to the voters was approved by both the state House and Senate. By following the voter-approval route, the bonds, if approved Tuesday, will be general obligations of the state and thus will sell at a lower interest rate than revenue bonds issued through other procedures. State finance officials have stated that annual payments on the 30-year bonds, Two Incumbents Unopposed 3rd Appellate District 23 Counties to Elect Appeals Court Judge 5 Congressmen Challenged Fifth District Thirteen Kentuckians will have their names on the ballot Tuesday in bids to fill the seven seats allotted to the Bluegrass State in the U.S.

House of Representatives. Two of the candidates are already assured of re-election, since they are unopposed. They are Rep. Frank A. Stubbleficld in Western Kentucky's 1st District and Rep.

William H. Natchcr in the west-central 2nd District. Elsewhere in the state, the five other incumbent congressmen face opponents. In one race, the 3rd District in Louisville and Shivcly, there are two candidates opposing the incumbent. Tim Lee Carter U.S.

Rep. Tim Lee Carter, 60, a Republican from Tompkinsville, is seeking TS By BILL BILLITER Courier-Journal Staff Wrlttr On Tuesday, voters in 23 Central and South-Central Kentucky counties will fill one of the seven seats on the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals. Competing for a full, eight-year term from the 3rd Appellate District are Judge C. Homer Neikirk, of Somerset, and Commissioner Bernard B. Davis, of Shelbyville.

Neikirk, 59, a Republican, was appointed by Gov. Louie B. Nunn last September to fill out the term of the late Court of Appeals Judge Morris C. Montgomery, who was killed in an automobile accident. Davis, 58, a Democrat, has been one of the four commissioners on the Court of Appeals since he was appointed by the seven judges to the post in 1963.

Davis Was FBI Agent Court of Appeals commissioners have duties that are almost identical to those Willis Carter his fourth term in Congress from the 5th Congressional District. A physician, Carter received his bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University and his M.D. from the University of Tennessee. He was first elected to Congress in 1964, and has been twice re-elected. He served as chairman of the Monroe County Board of Education for 12 years.

A Baptist, he is married and has one child. Lyle Leonard Willis Lyle Leonard Willis, a real estate broker from Corbin, is the Democratic candidate for 5th District U.S. representative. Willis says his background includes work as an "ombudsman," dealer in printed advertising specialties, farmer, J.oLJ Watson Mazzoli Cowger miner, railroad worker, lumber worker, bookkeeper, reporter and salesman. He attended Lincoln Memorial University.

He says his political background includes "many times working with the Democrat headquarters" in Corbin and serving as chairman of the late John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign headquarters in Corbin. A Baptist, he is married and has three children. Staff Map 3RD APPELLATE DISTRICT Third District Sixth District of the judges themselves, except they may not vote on how a case shall be decided. Democrat Davis is a native of Shelby County and is a graduate of the Washington and Lee University Law School.

He served as a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1942 to 1945. He has served as city judge and city attorney in Shelbyville. A Baptist, Davis is married to the former Sally Ware of Shelbyville. Gerald G. Gregory- was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for lieutenant governor on a ticket headed by Eugene Siler of Williamsburg.

In 1960, Neikirk was beaten by Siler in the Republican primary for the old 8th Congressional District seat. A Baptist, Neikirk is married to the former Opal Denney, of Pulaski County. They have two daughters and five grandchildren. The 3rd Appellate District judgeship on the Court of Appeals is the only state office to be filled in Tuesday's general election. Only residents of the 23 counties in the district may vote in this race.

The 23 counties in the 3rd Appellate District are Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bullitt, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Hardin, Hart, LaRue, McCreary, Marion, Metcalfe, Nelson, Oldham, Pulaski, Russell, Shelby, Spencer, Taylor, Washington and Wayne. Gerald G. Gregory, a 29-year-old Lexington resident, is the youngest congressional candidate in Tuesday's election. He is the Republican nominee in the 6th District. A tool-and-die maker, Gregory attended the U.S.

Military Academy, West Point, N. and the University of Kentucky. He received an associate of arts degree bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from the University of Louisville Law School. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Louisville in the spring of 1969. Last spring he defeated three opponents in the Democratic primary to win the 3rd District Democratic nomination for Tuesday's general election.

A Catholic, he is married and has two children. Ronald W. Watson Ronald W. Watson, 32, of Louisville, the American Party candidate for 3rd District congressman, is making his third political race. Watson was an unsuccessful American Party candidate for the 33rd Legislative District seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1969.

He was an unsuccessful Conservative Party candidate for county commissioner in 1967. Watson is an insurance company employe specializing in tax-favored savings. He received his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University, and studied for three years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Baptist minister. He is married and has one child.

Neikirk Former Legislator Neikirk, a native of Pulaski County, is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law. He has served as Pulaski County asstorney, and at the time of his appointment to the Court of Appeals, he was Pulaski and Rockcastle counties' commonwealth's attorney. He was a member of the 1938 and 1940 sessions of the legislature and in 1951 William O. Cowger U.S. Rep.

William O. Cowger, 48, is seeking his third term as congressman from the 3rd District Louisville and Shively. A Republican, Cowger had no opponent in last May's primary. He was first elected to Congress in 1966. Cowger was mayor of Louisville from 1961 to 1965 the first Republican mayor of the city in 30 years.

He received his bachelor's degree from Carleton College, Northfield, and has done graduate work at the University of Louisville and American University in Washington, D.C. A mortgage banker, he is president of Cowger Mortgage Realty Co. in Louisville. He is divorced and the father of two children. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Romano L. Mazzoli State Sen. Romano L. Mazzoli, a Louisville Democrat, will mark his 38th birthday tomorrow the day before election. He was elected state senator in 1967 from the 35th Senatorial District.

The district takes in most of eastern Louisville. Mazzoli, an attorney, received his in industrial technology from Eastern Kentucky University. Gregory was active in Fayette County's Veterans for Nixon-Agnew during the 1968 presidential campaign. He is married and a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). John Clarence Watts U.S.

Rep. John Clarence Watts, 68, a Democrat from Jessamine County, is seeking re-election in the 6th Congressional District. He has served continually in Congress since his first election in 1951. A lawyer, farmer and banker, Watts received his bachelor's and LL.B degrees from the University of Kentucky. He has served as county attorney of Jessamine County; member and majority leader of the Kentucky House of Representatives, and state commissioner of motor transportation.

Watts is a member of the Christian Church. He is married and has one child. mMm Courthouse Bond Issue On Todd County Ballot Watts Gregory Seventh District Fourth District Herbert E. Myers householding a prominent position in the center of Elkton will not be torn down, but preserved as office space for, various state and federal agencies. If the measure is passed, property taxes will increase about 7 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, proponents claim.

There has been no organized campaign cither for or against the measure, though the local newspaper and some civic groups have endorsed it. Special te The Courier-Journal ELKTON, Ky. Todd County voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a $420,000 general obligation bond issue for construction of a new courthouse and jail. The county's present 135-year-old court-, house has grown too crowded and the approximately 90-year-old jail too rickety, the measure's proponents argue. However, they insist that the old court 31.

Gene Snyder U.S. Rep. M. Gene Snyder, 42, of Jef-fersontown, is seeking his fourth term in Congress as he bids for re-election Tuesday in the 4th District. A Republican, Snyder was first elected to Congress in 1962.

He was defeated in a re-election bid in 1964, but was again jSk' Tax for Health Department At Stake in Bullitt County Perkins Myers elected in 1966 and re elected in 1968. An attorney and real estate broker, Snyder took prelaw studies at the University of Louisville and graduated from the old Jefferson School of Law. He served two terms as magistrate of Jefferson County's 1st District and also was city attorney for Jeffersontown. A Protestant, he is married and has one son. Charles W.

Webster Charles W. Webster, 38, of Carrollton, is the Democratic candidate in the 4th Congressional District. Webster served two terms as mayor of Carrollton, from 1961 to 1969. He is a pharmacist and owner of Webster's Rexall Drug Company in Carrollton. He received a bachelor of science and pharmaceutical degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1953.

A Catholic, he is married and has five children. Herbert E. Myers, of Louisa, is the Republican nominee for 7th District U.S. representative. Myers, 49, is an industrial construction accountant.

He has held no previous public office. Myers defeated H. H. Wheeler, of Lexington, in the 7th District's Republican primary last May. He attended Marshall University in Huntington, W.

Va. A Baptist, Myers is married and has four children. Carl Perkins U.S. Rep. Carl Perkins, 58, a Democrat from Hindman, is the dean of Kentucky's congressional delegation in the U.S.

House of Representatives. Perkins has continually served as 7th District congressman since his initial election in 1948. Prior to entering Congress, Perkins served as a commonwealth's attorney, state representative, attorney for Knott County, and counsel for the Kentucky Department of Highways. He is a graduate of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, and the old Jefferson School of Law in Louisville. A Baptist, he is married and has one child.

Health department officials estimate that the tax will increase the department's annual budget from about $35,000 to about $56,000. Grants from the fiscal court, the county school board and the state health department currently support Bullitt's Health Center. Public health taxes now exits in 76 Kentucky counties. The fate of a "health tax" for the operation of the Bullitt County Health Department will be decided by that county's voters in Tuesday's election. The health department is asking voters to approve a 2 12-cent property tax to cope with the problems of "inadequate financing," undcrstaffing and a growing population in the county.

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