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TiMii-'riy '9 lyirrnyi ijjyui myiif it ay yimy iqj 10 THE COURIER JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1978 Court orders railroad clerks end most picketing of nation's other railroads that are supply clerks' strike, but that if the service disruption continues it will cause mine shutdowns. Thomas A. Ballantine U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Kentucky, yesterday evening issued a temporary restraining order stopping picketing by the clerks.

The order forbids picketing at all points on the other than locations where the and exchange traffic and at terminals and other facilities operated jointly by the two railroads. spokesmen said that would include points in Cincinnati; Danville, Norton, Linden, and Lafayette, Ind. "As law-abiding citizens, we would expect the railroad clerks to go back to work this evening," said Joseph Leni-han, a railroad attorney. L. E.

Brosher, general chairman of the clerks' union, the Brotherhood of Railroad and Airline Clerks, would not comment yesterday evening on whether the clerks would go back to work immediately. But he and Herbert L. Segal, attorney for the union, said the clerks would picket today at all points allowed by the restraining order. spokesmen said earlier yesterday that if railroad employees do not go back to work, supervisory personnel will operate trains moving freight to plants with low inventories of raw materials and to other customers with "critical" needs. That does not include coal operators, who will have to stockpile their production until normal service resumes, according to E.

Leo Koester, public relations officer. "The idea of our strike was to bring operations to a halt," said a clerk picketing yesterday morning in front of the headquarters building in downtown Louisville. He explained that the participates in a "mutual aid pact" with the By BEN 2. HERSHBERG Courier-Journal Business Writer Clerks of the Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. were ordered to stop pick- eting most points on the rail system yesterday evening by a federal court in JLpuiswlle.

The order was made after a work Istopprtge during the day that disrupted operations from Chicago to Florida and further interrupted service in Kentucky's coal fields, which already are i short of transportation. Pickets said yesterday they were on strike- in sympathy with members of i their national union who have been I' striking the Norfolk Western Railway i since July 10. In Kentucky, the clerks" strike, hon- Wed by other railroad unions, virtually brought already-inadequate rail service in tte state's Eastern coal fields to a halt and will cause widespread layoffs if service interruptions continue, ac-t cording to mine operators. 1 "We were due a train this morning and didn't get it. In lieu of that we are shutting down operations" if the strike isn't ended today, said Clyde E.

Goins, president of the Coal Resources Corp. in Harlan. He explained that his firm has little extra storage capacity because it has been operating at a high level of pro- duction and has only been getting a small percentage of the coal cars it or- ders from the "I "We all have stockpiles already exist- 2 ing and it doesn't take more than a few days (without rail service) to put you in a serious situation," Goins said. He said that unless the striking clerks are back at work today and the resumes service, he will lay off his roughly 300 employees. Other coal operators interviewed by -The Courier-Journal said that their op-, 'erations have not been affected by the 3 and swing a 4 i miss Roger Ingram.

9. of Mount Washington, took a swing at the ball, but failed to make contact as he Federal grant will subsidize rent Shawnee area to get rehabilitation aid operating Outwood reports drop in earnings By LESLIE ELLIS Courier-Journal Staff Writer About 150 units of rundown housing in Louisville's Shawnee neighborhood may be rehabilitated, William Gatewood, director of the city's Commu- ing funds estimated at $800,000 a day to keep the operating. Because other railroads are aiding the though its clerks are on strike, members of the clerks' union on some of those railroads are also striking, the picket explained. The clerks are calling for greater job security as part of the contract they have been negotiating with the railroad. That strike has idled about 20,000 workers and forced the railroad to sharply curtail service.

As a result, about 25,000 miners in West Virginia, Kentucky and other states were laid off during the summer, when their mines shut down. The clerk asked not to be identified because he was not an official spokesman for the union, which represents about 2,200 employees. Al Pounds, assistant to the vice president of the Association of American Railroads, said the nation's major railroads participate in a service interruption insurance pool, which gives financial aid to companies whose operations are cut by strikes. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said members of the clerks' union who are employed by railroads participating in the service interruption pool could strike in sympathy with the clerks.

Industry spokesmen said that decision could allow a nationwide strike by the clerks' union, which has an estimated 235,000 members. Railroad attorneys have asked the Supreme Court to hear the case. The work stoppage, according to the railroad association, spread yesterday to several railroads smaller than the Richard D. Spence, recently appointed president of the said yesterday that the clerks' strike was "illegal and irresponsible." He explained in a written statement that attorneys for the railroad industry Monday got an injunction from the U.S. Court of Appeals restraining the clerks' union "from engaging In any strike activity until 4 p.m.

on Friday." The injunction was granted to allow industry attorneys time to request a hearing from the Supreme Court on whether other clerks' union members can strike in support of the clerks. The in its complaint to U.S. District Court in Louisville yesterday on the local clerks' strike, said it would lose more than $2 million daily if the strike continued. Railroad attorneys added that the strike would prevent interstate commerce "essential to the public health and safety." Cloyd McDowell, president of the Harlan County Coal Operators Association, said yesterday that if the clerks' strike continues, "I think it would be a pretty bad situation. "We've had problems heretofore getting service from the We've been hanging on (but) we have stockpiles running out of our ears." "We've been suffering for so long from the shortage (of transportation) that this would be a real blow," McDowell added.

Bullitt magistrates ll. increase eir pay The Bullitt Fiscal Court magistrates have voted to raise their pay by $228.18 a month to $900. The four magistrates, who will continue to receive $1,200 a year for expenses, will now receive a yearly salary of $10,800. The increases were made retroactive to July which means the magistrates also collect $456.36 in back pay for two months. Fiscal Court, which includes the four magistrates and County Judge-Executive Arson Moore, meets once a month and occasionally holds special meetings.

The job of magistrate is considered part-time. All four magistrates have other, full-time employment. The raise was recommended at Monday's Fiscal Court meeting by County Attorney Chester Porter. Moore, whose job is considered full-time, was not affected by the vote. His salary, which is set by the magistrates, is $18,700.

nity Development Cabinet, said yester- Section 8 guaranteed rent program. day- "We applied to the program to deal The work would be part of an effort with smaller multifamily houses in that Study finds big headache in Kentucky toll road debt played in a some friends to upgrade small apartment buildings in that area. Gatewood said he learned yesterday that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has agreed to subsidize the rent for 150 units under its mainly for capital development of highways, universities and state parks. The outstanding principal on Kentucky Turnpike Authority bonds accounts for nearly half the total state-level debt in revenue bonds.

In contrast to general obligation bonds, which require a referendum when the proposed debt is more than $500,000, the state's revenue bonds are issued by various agencies without ref-erendums. They are not issued with legally binding claims on tax receipts, but with the promise of payment from operating revenues. Revenue bonds usually have a higher interest cost than general obligation bonds with the same maturity rate. Staff Photo by Jebb Htrrn front yard ball game yesterday with of his in Taylorsville. community," Gatewood said.

"There are several apartment buildings between five and 10 to 12 units that are beginning to experience decline or in some cases are already run down." The units will be in the area from 32nd Street to 41st Street and from Broadway to River Park Drive. It is hoped that the rent-subsidy program will be an incentive to developers to rehabilitate buildings, Gatewood said. Tenants will pay 25 percent of the rent, and the federal government the balance. The community development office will negotiate with developers who want to rehabilitate units in the area, including apartments and single-family dwellings, Gatewood said. "We'll be looking at substandard areas," he said.

The units may be unoccupied or already have tenants, who would be relocated during renovation. Gatewood said he will not know how much money is involved in the project until the rental payment for each unit is established. Gatewood said developers will work with the city and will know exactly how many units are eligible. Under other Section 8 programs, developers had to go through a state HUD office and had no guarantee any Louisville units would be eligible for a rent subsidy, he added. rl FREE Veterans Benefit Book is vours obligation.

It contains information on Aivooafed Presi FRANKFORT. Ky. Excepticon Inc. reports its total earnings dropped more than 60 percent during the first year of a tightened contract with the state to operate the Outwood mental hospital near Dawson Springs. A report released by the Lexington-; based firm stated its per share earnings for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1978, were 22 cents, compared with 62 cents the year before.

H. P. Bollmann, vice president for fi-; nance for Excepticon, said net income for the firm dropped from $396,500 to $137,600. He said the most significant portion of the reduced income could be attributed to the new Outwood contract. Bollmann said that Outwood produces about half of the revenue for Excepti- con and that its pre-tax earnings last fiscal year were about cut in half from the previous year.

However, Bollmann said increased la-bor costs and the non-recurring write- off of development costs in connection with a previously planned facility in Not-guilty plea entered in death Th Courier-Journal Southern Indiana Bureau JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. A Jeffer-sonville man charged with murder in the strangulation death of a Louisville woman pleaded not guilty Monday in Clark Circuit Court. A trial was set for Nov. 14 for William H. Fisher.

23, of Villa Park Trailer Court. He is being held in Clark County Jail without bail. Fisher was arrested last Tuesday, a day after Clark County police found the body of Mary Nell Ferry, 34, of 2120 Cleveland in a field off Interstate 265, near the Mount Tabor Road overpass in New Albany. She had been beaten and strangled. Police allege that Mrs.

Ferry was killed in a mobile home at the Villa Park Trailer Court, and her body was later dumped in New Albany. REGISTER NOW! CLASSES START SEPT. 25! v- This important without cost or CALL (502) educational tutorial Wives, Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. Bonds issued to build Kentucky's toll roads have been the state's biggest debt headache of the 1970s, says a new report by the Kentucky Council of Economic Advisors. The report, by University of Kentucky associate economics professor Richard E.

Gift, analyzes the historical growth and present level of bonded indebtedness of state government. It will be submitted today to the Interim joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue. The level of the state's debt became an issue during the 1978 General Assembly, when several legislators ques tioned the wisdom of borrowing more money in view of the state's already high debt. The council report was to be re leased during the legislative session. But it was returned to the council for fur ther work after Gov.

Julian Carroll's ad ministration questioned whether there was sufficient basis for the report to conclude that the state's debt was too high. The General Assembly eventually au thorized a substantial increase in the bonding authority of several state agen cies at Carroll's request The report, the first of its kind since the early 1960s, outlines basic facts about the state's debt. It will be fol lowed in a couple of months by a report on the state's capacity to assume more debt, according to Lawrence K. Lynch, the council's executive director. The state has used revenue bonds couldn't remember a more serious incident "in my 20 years of association with the schools." So you might expect the athletic association's penalty to be severe; if the alleged beating had involved only fans, then perhaps the school would have benefits, eligibility, loans, time limits, assistance and more.

Available to Veterans, Widows or Orphans as a public service. Nashville, also contributed to the reduced earnings. The private-firm took over operation of the former state hospital in mid-1975 under a two-year contract. The state renewed the contract with Excepticon in June 1977 in the wake of controversies over the firm's operation of the hospital in Hopkins County. The new contract included several provisions to control profit and to better ensure quality care.

Excepticon was paid $4.5 million during the year to operate the hospital, with the company receiving part of any savings under that figure. However, the firm was to receive progressively smaller shares of any profits above 10 percent. An audit for the state by Touche Ross Co. showed Excepticon made a $361,748 profit after taxes on Outwood in fiscal 1976-77 but will make only an estimated $158,000 after taxes this past year. Seven percent of the money paid Excepticon, or $315,000, was placed in escrow to cover certain performance standards in the contract.

Joan Riehm, a spokesman for the state Department for Human Resources, said the company forfeited $22,919 of that amount for failing to maintain a certain number of patient days and for letting the direct-care staff fall below a certain level. Bollmann said the firm experienced delays in replacing staff members because of the relative isolation of the Outwood hospital. Ms. Riehm said there was no major dissatisfaction in the department with the firm's operation of the hospital. Its contract has been renewed for another year with a 10 percent increase to cover inflation and federal minimum wage increases due to take effect next yeah Drunken driving charges Doieil See.

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vnburn Dameron, 47, of the 1 100 block of Baiter Ave. glenn rutherford Courier-Journal Columnist After the game, some Clarksville fans and a player that's right, a PLAYER from the Clarksville team allegedly assaulted a couple of the officials. One, an off-duty Evansville policeman named Steve Bagbey, was knocked unconscious and taken to Clark County Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville. Another, Barry J. Hart, was struck in the face, allegedly by the player who.

by the way, had been ejected from the game. All this occurred when the officials were making their way to the locker room. Apparently, they had quite a crowd around them at one point, and one Clark County official said one of the Watterson E23 100 High Rise Drive 1-65 Louisville, Kentucky YES! Send My Free Benefit Book! I also want information on: Computer Programming Accounting Business Administration I Am A Veteran Discharge Date NAME PHONE ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP 966 2131 TODAY! al Fern Valley Road ys-jWmwKft tt WZJ Ugly game incident hurts toivn's image I i I IS i ifj-i 4ssHtiJ'i Glenn Rutherford's column appears regularly in the Indiana edition of The Courier-Journal. CLARKSVILLE, Ind. The entire town of Clarksville ought to be ashamed of what happened last Friday night.

For a place with an already unsavory reputation, the incident at the Clarks-ville-Providence high school football I game only served to confirm a lot of people's prejudices. In Clarksville, it's said, the three R's I refer to rednecks, rowdies and racists. That's a scathing indictment of an en- tire community, and no doubt it over- states things a bit. But after Friday night, you tend to believe that the first two parts of that hyperbole are fairly accurate. This ugly, reputation-producing inci-C dent was produced by a trivial event, Clarksville just happened to lose a football game.

-That's all, just a football game, i The breaks didn't go Clarksvilies according to stories in the sports "bilges; some of the officials' calls were disputed by the team, its coach and its fans. It just so happened that this time Clarksville was playing arch-rival Providence, a Catholic school, the only other high school in town. referees told him it was "the most hostile situation he'd ever encountered." "There was a lot of agitation; apparently, there were quite a few obscenities hurled at the officials." said one Clark County official who's looking into the incident. "It was just ripe for a few idiots to take advantage of the situation," he said. And, apparently, that's exactly what the idiots did.

A woman dentified as Cathy Guthrie, of 176 Woodbourne Drive in New Albany, has pleaded not guilty in Clark County Court to a charge of battery, a misdemeanor. Her trial has been set for Dec. 14. A juvenile detention warrant has been issued for the player, and officials are considering a third arrest in the case. What's going to happen to Clarksville High School? Well, they're certain to be penalized by the Indiana High School Athletic Association; even their principal says so.

Jerry Mclntyre told Indiana Times Sports Editor Gary Schultz this week that he fully expected some kind of penalty as a result of the attack. He said he 1 MI mm MM only had its wrist slapped. But when a player became directly involved in the fracas, the incident's impact upon the school went up tremendously. Allowing a team member to get involved in something this ugly is inexcusable; no doubt it's hard to keep track of every player on a squad when it numbers 50, 60, 70 or more. Nevertheless, it's the responsibility of the school and the coaching staff to do just that Yesterday, Mclntyre and other Clarksville officials were in Indianapolis meeting with representatives of the athletic association.

No one knows exactly when the punishment will be handed out, but everybody knows this much: Incidents like the one that happened Friday night have no place in high school athletics. That's why Clarksville should be ashamed of itself. We, The Courier-Journal.