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-V 12 THE K.Y4L, Till RSDAY, A I 10, 1972 Activist's role Consolidation of Official at UK strives for equal-jobs program specific information about the charges and later sends a team around to see if some changes are needed. If change is in order, HEW demands action. It asks for a specific, step-by-step run-down on what the university will do in the way of "affirmative action" to prevent discrimination. But UK didn't wait. Ms.

Ray said UK officials who had a look at policies on the campus here have concluded "there are deficiencies," and, as a result, individual university units are at work finding their own problems and devising ways to handle them. When the work is done, it will be drawn together with some additional "general" plans to form the UK Affirmative Action Program. Ms. Ray, who was moved from a position as an assistant dean of students to become coordinator of Affirmative Action July 1, will do most of the drawing. It is her responsibility to supply the expertise when unit heads want to know how to solve specific problems, and, to a degree, to help administrators find manpower among women or minority groups by directing them to organizations that can help.

She also will help monitor the program to see that there is no backsliding. That possibility she thinks will be eliminated taking her job with it if the plan is properly drawn. So far, said, she's been fairly busy trying to determine where the problem areas in the university are. She has identified some of them, but said she would prefer to discuss them with the people involved before publicizing them. By JOE WARD Courier-Journal Staff Writer LEXINGTON, Ky.

Ms." Nancy Ray has a new job at the University of Ken-lucky she's to see that women and minority-group members get a fair employment shake at UK and there's some irony in it. In the first place, Ms. Ray as the might indicate is active in a women's liberation group, the very one, in fact, whose complaint to the federal government led to Ms. Ray's In the second place, she thinks she will have to resign from the group the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) I so its members can complain to the University without embarrassment if they don't think she's doing a good job. And finally, if Ms.

Ray performs her duties well, she won't have the job long. That's her personal goal. WEAL filed a complaint with the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) last September alleging "poor representation of women on the facility, the university senate and in the administration" at UK and charging that, generally, women were "confined to the lowest ranking, lowest paying jobs in every facet of the University." HEW is charged with seeing that, discrimination on the basis of sex or race does not go on at universities that receive federal money. When the department gets a complaint like the one WEAL filed and it has in 350 cases so far Ms. Ray explained Tuesday that it asks the university to supply Staff Photo by Paul Schuhmann Slow fishing MARK RAUSE, 16, finds it easy to fish the Forrest Lawn Cemetery Lake in Erlanger.

He probably doesn't even care if he gets a bite. Mark will be in the ninth grade at Lloyd High this fall. $750,000 in aid pledged Merged police force planned for 4 counties insurance firms advances By LIVINGSTON TAYLOR Courier-Journal Staff Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. A plan for consolidating three state-seized insurance companies into one surviving firm, Western Pioneer Life Insurance is to be submitted to Franklin Circuit Court within 40 days, it was agreed, yesterday. The agreement was announced after Judge Henry Meigs held a second closed-.

door hearing with 'attorneys for the companies and the state Insurance Department. The companies Teachers National Life Insurance American Businessmen's Life Insurance and Western Pioneer were seized by state Insurance Commissioner Harold McGuffey last February because of "certain irregularities and alleged violations of Kentucky statutes." All three firms are based in Louisville and controlled by American Pyramid Companies, Louisville, which is headed by Robert T. Shaw, Louisville. After yesterday's hearing, attorneys declined to discuss what was said, except to issue a brief, agreed press release in the names of McGuffey and S. Roy Woodall, president of the three companies.

McGuffey and Woodall "stressed that no details concerning the (consolidation) plan will be available until the completed agreements are filed with the court and that the disclosure of the basic form of the plan was being made in the interest of keeping the policyholders and stockholders of the three companies informed the release stated. McGuffey did not attend the meeting. The department was 'represented by at-, torneys George Dudley and James Neel, both of Louisville, who have been placed on personal-services contracts by the department. Others present were Shaw; Woodall; attorneys Phillip Allfjn of Louisville and Edward Prichard of Frankfort, representing the companies, and attorney William M. Johnson of Frankfort, who represents minority stockholders of American Businessmen's in another suit pending in Franklin Circuit Court.

Judge Meigs initially permitted this reporter to attend. However, Allen asked that I be excluded because "any disclosure concerning these details at this point, othor tH-rt by agreed press release, would tend to be confusing to the stockholders." Dudley agreed that a closed hearing would be "helpful" because the matter is "too complex for the general public to understand." Meigs then agreed to hear the attorneys in private, as he did on July 11. Jefferson police now have all 146 24-hour patrol cars The Jefferson County Police Department has its full complement of 24-hour patrol cars on the road now. Third District officers in the southwestern part of the county received the last batch 51 of the gold-painted vehicles yesterday. The 146 cars are financed by federal grants and some county money.

1 First District policemen, in the eastern part of the county, received 45 cars and Second District officers, in the central area, 50. The 24-hour patrol program is intended to make the police officer more visible in the community and to provide wider crime coverage. Patrolmen are encouraged to use the cars during off-duty hours and to listen to their police radios so they can react to nearby calls. Chief of neiv office named State minority business post filled business administration from the University of Louisville and a bachelor-of-science degree in chemistry from Tennessee State University, was employed by Celanese Coatings, for six years as chemist, process engineer and store manager. In 1969, he was elected to the board of directors of the Louisville Junior Chamber of Commerce and was a member of a group trying to raise the aspirations of black persons.

His new office will have two major elements: By BILL COX Courier-Journal Staff Writer 'JAMESTOWN, Ky. The federal government has earmarked $750,000 to finance a four-county police department in the Lake Cumberland area, a local anti-crime group announced yesterday. The new department, expected to operating in 1973, will be the first of i kind in Kentucky. It will serve Pulaski, Russell, Wayne and Clinton counties. The force will consolidate five local police departments under a single chief and a nine-man supervisory board consisting of the four county judges and mayors of the five towns whose police departments will be merged.

These five municipal police departments will be merged: Albany, Somerset, Jamestown, Russell Springs and Monti-cello. Somerset, with 18 men, is by far the largest department involved. The others average about 3 men each. The county sheriff will not be replaced in any of the four counties because that office is established by the state Constitution and cannot be abolished by any county, officials said. However, the new force is expected to relieve the sheriffs of most of their police-type work and enable them to concentrate on tax collection and other duties, Don Gaskin, executive director of the Lake Cumberland Regional Crime Council said.

The $750,000 federal grant includes money to construct a headquarters building, purchase equipment and pay salaries and other operating expenses for the first year. "After the first year, we estimate we Court ruling condemns use of laymen judges Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. A Louisville chemist and businessman, Floyd C. has been appointed director of the new Kentucky Office of Minority Business Enterprise. State Commerce Commissioner Damon Harrison, in announcing the appointment, said Taylor is well qualified for the job because of his "fine academic training, solid business experience and a concern for his society." Taylor, a Negro, will be paid $13,860 a year.

Taylor, who has a master's degree in (. Staff Photo by Paul Schuhminn 1 A Your basic swing THIS CHAIN at Covington's Park might not have been intended for her kind of swinging, but Teresa Newman, 8, thinks that it was. probably can get along by consolidating the budgets which had been going to support five individual departments, about $200,000 annually." Gaskin said. Gaskin said alt of the mayors and county judges involved in the project are enthusiastic about it. "These officials have been in on the planning from the first and they see the new force as our only hope of stopping the alarming rise in crime that is threatening the tourist business," he said.

"We have to organize to give residents some preventive police work. Now they never see a peace officer until after they have been burglarized and go to file a complaint." Gaskin said Russell County, which has experienced a boom in construction of summer homes along Lake Cumberland, is patrolled by a sheriff and one deputy. Clinton County also has only a sheriff and a single deputy; the Wayne County sheriff has two deputies and Pulaski has three, Gaskin said. "This four-county concept is the best idea that has come along for providing adequate police services to rural or largely rural counties," Commonwealth's Attorney Eddie C. Lovelace, of; Albany, said.

"We can't keep placing the burden on the sheriff a political office who just learns something about law enforcement and then is replaced by the voters." Isolated cabins have become special targets for burglars and a recent rise in break-ins is hurting local tourism, Lovelace said. i "Tourism is the largest source of income for the four counties," Gaskin said. "If we don't protect it, we are in big, trouble. That, really, is why we are will-' ing to try such an unusual approach." Si 4 Staff Photo ONE OF Nancy Ray's first affirmative actions could be to change her label from "Mrs." to "Ms." to fit her activist role at the University of Kentucky. Ms.

Ray expects a visit from the HEW team some time in the early fall perhaps within the next two months and she will have a month after the team's departure to submit her plan. Even if the team does not find the "specific complaints" that started the ball rolling were justified, Ms. Ray noted, the university has found enough problems in the area that there will be an Affirmative Action Program anyway. The program's aim will be not only ta open jobs to qualified women and members of minority groups, but also to improve their advancement chances and to arouse interest in university jobs among affected individuals who would not otherwise be attracted to them. An office in the state Commerce Department will urge agencies of state and local governments, organizations and private firms to support minority business enterprise and to encourage establishment of new minority-owned businesses.

business development organization will be established at the University of Kentucky to assist minority business enterprises throughdut Kentucky except in Jefferson County. The University of Kentucky Business Development Office will provide management counseling and technical assistance as well. "If a person is entitled to legal counsel in misdemeanor cases involving a possible sentence, he is entitled to a judge with at least comparable legal training and experience," Hill said in an opinion Tuesday. Earlier, he had granted a temporary injunction against Police Judge Stanley Ditty, who was scheduled to try Larry Hampton on charges of driving while intoxicated, disorderly conduct and reckless driving. Hampton's attorney, Eugene Goss, objected on the ground that Ditty was not an attorney and filed suit for a temporary injunction and a permanent restraining order.

Hill said he felt that "a trial justice must have special and extensive legal training in order to be qualified to conduct a criminal trial to afford or insure an accused his constitutional rights to a fair trial." No hearing has been held on Goss' request for a permanent injunction but Hill indicated it would be granted. "The court will not hesitate to extend permanent injunctive relief," the judge stated, "in the event the action on the case is continued and the same subject matter is involved." Jefferson County is the only county in which judges must be members of the bar. Elsewhere, only circuit judges are required to be lawyers. tion of Ted C. Gilbert, the agency's executive director from 1960 to 1962 and from 1966 to the present.

Gilbert's resignation had no effective date so he will presumably remain in his present post for the time being. However, he has already accepted an administrative post in UK's Office of Institutional Planning. Hood will name a council committee soon to propose procedures for selecting a new council executive director. Company pays state $777 as restitution for fish kill FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) National Industrial Containers, of Florence, has paid the state $777 for a fish kill it caused last year in Boone County.

In announcing the payment yesterday, Atty. Gen. Ed Hancock said $777 was the assessed expense of restocking Gun Powder Creek, where the fish kill occurred, and of the investigations that followed. The fish kill occurred April 4, 1971, when approximately 500 gallons of diesel fuel entered Gun Powder Creek from the company's plant in the industrial park complex in Boone County. Drunken driving charges Kenneth W.

Blacketer, 40, of Bardstown, Ky. Gregory C. Scarborough, 22, of the 800 block of Honeysuckle Way. William L. Watson, It, of Jeffersonvllle.

Robert Bentley, 49, 1300 block bf Bates Ave. Associated Press HARLAN, Kyi Circuit Judge Ed- ward Hill has condemned the system that permits laymen to serve as judges in all counties but Jefferson. He also questions whether a defendant could be tried fairly under such circumstances and says that was his reason for blocking prosecution of a case here. Man, woman injured in one car mishap Two people were injured, one seriously, when their car ran off a Louisville road and struck a tree about 12:15 a.m. yesterday.

The car, driven by Eileen Rowland, 18, of 1849 Trevilian Way, was traveling west in the 2900 block of Frankfort, near Hill-crest, when the right front tire blew out and caused the car to strike a tree, city police said. Miss Rowland was treated at General Hospital for cuts under the left eye and on the left knee, and was released. A passenger, Barry R. Reed, 18, of 4112 Leo Lane, was admitted to Methodist Evangelical Hospital in serious condition with severe lacerations to the face and forehead. He was reported in satisfactory condition last night.

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After a lengthy discussion, the agency finally decided it would not hold up any projects considered by the Finance Department before June 16, the, effective date of the legislation. However, a stipulation was made that any projects within this category could receive council review later at the direction of Finance Commissioner Donald Bradshaw. The council later directed its staff to develop a specific format for future projects and then approved three proposals totaling $1 million on the University of Kentucky's Lexington campus. One project is a $600,000 facility to house UK's new Family Practice Department, a division of the College of Medi ComptetBOf ftQ tllprti Relief silt. llllSKliliiiW: kmiiimmmmmm imk, "iri.

1 cine that will train general practitioners. UK President Otis Singletary told the council the new space was badly needed because of already-overcrowded conditions within the university's medical center. The other two projects, costing a total of $400,000, are an autopsy room in the new Veterans' Administration Hospital adjoining UK's hospital and relocation of two greenhouses that must be moved from the soon-to-be-widened intersection of Cooper Drive and S. Limestone Street. Except for some technical modifications in policies to determine residency requirements for students attending state colleges and universities, most other council action yesterday focused on personnel matters.

The meeting, held in the new Capital Plaza Office Tower, opened with Judge John Palmore, acting chief justice of the Court of Appeals, swearing in 10 of the council's 11 new voting members. Mrs. Garnett Bale of Elizabethtown will be sworn in later. The new members then elected Gordon Hood bf Fort Mitchell to a one-year term as council chairman. Hood, a Cincinnati lawyer, was chairman of the old council from 1970 to 1972 when the legislature abolished that agency's membership.

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