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Lincoln Mercer girls lose 12th Region Tourney Players defend Pale Brown Views hign ou RELIGION 30 5 iu 65 jyERsiTy 01 "WAV LEHNCT0N Shoes for making the grade Presbyterian program gives shoes to good students WEATHER A8 Wuocnle Slcsscnaer 1995 The Advocate Messenger Kay Bee Toys to expand its distribution center in Danville By Annabel Girard Staff Writer Three construction projects are getting off the ground in Danville including an addition to Kay Bee Toys on Lebanon Road Plans were reviewed Thurs day by the technical review committee of the Danville Boyle County Planning and Zoning Commission The 50000 square foot addition at Kay Bee will han dle an increased need for stor age capacity and to aid product distribution to the Toy Works chain the company said in a news release Kay Bee is a division of Melville Corp and stores also include Circus World and Toy Stores The company has distribution centers in Arizona Pennsyl vania and Massachusetts as well as Danville The expansion is expected to be completed by August No significant increase in employ ment is planned The distribu tion center opened with 45 employees in 1985 and now employs as many as 185 dur ing peak times Toy Works is a 40 store division of Kay Bee Toy Stores and opened eight stores in 1994 in locations such as Illinois Wisconsin Virginia and Maryland careful consideration of the increasing need in these regions pleased to announce this addition to our Danville said Dave arrell Kay Bee senior vice president James Gray Construction will build the addition Also reviewed Thursday were plans for developing both corners of the Baughman Avenue Hustonville Road intersection Sonic a fast food restau rant is planning an outlet on the south corner Mitch Linnabary of Sonic said the store should be completed by the end of May believe that will be a great he said The property is owned by Tom Byerly and Dan Deaton of Danville On the north corner Betty Pemberton plans to build a 4768 square foot building that will be a beauty shop and pro fessional office The projects will be brought before the planning commis sion Wednesday If approved the developers are cleared to get building permits The technical review com mittee is responsible for reviewing projects before they come before the planning com mission to see that all the required technical information is available Staff Photo by Kent Brown ort with a view 7 jr wi gg Mb 1 II I bEMmW8WM8MBM ft HI 'f Wm nw "j(J JwSfc I I rA 4 7 5 li ksBKMl Sa IiLr cL Susan Brushwood of Amazonia Mo looks out of a second story window of ort Harrod Wednesday She was touring the state park in Harrodsburg with her husband Mike and sister in law Becky Rivers a former Danville resident The fort is open from 8 am to 4:30 pm but the hours change to 8:30 am to 5 pm on March 16 The museum at the park also opens on March 16 EMS director discusses use of volunteers By Annabel Girard Staff Writer JUNCTION CITY Michael Payton director of Boyle County Emergency Medical Services met with City Council members Thursday to answer questions about how the paid EMS works with volunteer units have been some rumors about us pulling the ambulance from Payton said is not going to hap pen However there had been concerns from EMS about the way the ambulances were maintained Payton said all the ambulances used by rescue squads operate under the state license held by the county and must follow operating proce dures set by the county Mayor Dale Walls said the city wanted to be kept informed about the service even though the Junction City Rescue Squad is not run by the city Walls said he understood concerns especially that the ambulances had to be kept clean One of the problems had been cigarette butts found in the Junction City ambulance Walls said Council member Kitty Rosel questioned how the system worked thinking EMS responded only after it was learned there were no volun teers available is an automatic Payton said Payton said the units in Danville respond 24 hours a day to calls from Junction City If Junction City volun teers are available they make runs An EMS paramedic will ride in the Junction City ambulance if advanced care is needed Paramedics can do such procedures as start intra venous medications With fewer volunteers available fewer volunteer runs will be made 10 volun teers we understand that at times they are not Payton said have to be two first responders on the ambulance to make the When the EMS was set up in 1994 it was agreed that vol Continued on Page A10) "i Members of Danville units of the National Guard will be col lecting money for Easter Seals Saturday in Lancaster Stanford and Liberty The Brigade" made up of members of the Kentucky National Guard has been in existence since 1972 Danville Guard members will be collecting at US 52 and 127 in Lancaster US 150 and 27 in Stanford and on Main Street in Liberty Arts for Kids ETC will host a student showcase tomorrow at 2 pm at the West Hill Community Theatre The perfor mance includes a variety of short plays musical selections original works and selections from Shakespeare Admission is $5 Inside Advice B10 Classified B6 B8 Comics B9 Deaths A2 Local news A2A3 Lottery numbers A5 Markets A5 National news B6 Opinion A9 Police news A2 Religion news A4 Sports B1 B5 TV schedule B9 a This newspaper Is printed on recycled paper Perryville will appoint its own ethics board Council to avoid of countywide ethics board By Ann Harney Staff Writer PERRYVILLE The city of Perryville will not participate in a county ethics board Instead the city will appoint its own ethics board When the Perryville City Council passed its ethics ordi nance late last year the mem bers decided to establish a board with other legislative bodies in the county to admin ister their policies However the council also decided to keep required financial disclo sure statements on file with the city clerk Tuesday night Perryville City Attorney William Stevens told the council that to estab lish such a board the city would have to enter into an interlocal agreement with Boyle County iscal Court and Junction City Council He said the ethics board would require staff and office space and Perryville financial disclosure statements would be kept at the board office The Danville City Commission is establishing its own ethics board is a rather significant departure from what we origi nally agreed to Stevens told the council creates another level of Stevens also said the coun cil would have to help fund the staff and office on a proportion al basis with the other two governments could run into big Councilman Bobby Joe Ellis said Councilman Anthony Young agreed only potential is have to spend more Young said Stevens said there was no downside to the appoint ing its own board He said the only problem was that the city was not in Compliance with the ethics law which required (Continued on Page A10) House imposes $250000 cap on malpractice awards By Jim Drlnkard Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) An intense lobbying push over the past week paid off big for the doctors who persuaded Congress to impose a $250000 cap on malpractice awards for pain and suffering response to our lobbying they decided to do us a said Kirk Johnson general coun sel of the American Medical Association a lot of sympathy for the doctors on When House Republicans as part of their With promised to revamp the legal system under which injured people sue for damages the American Medical Association saw both a danger and an opportunity The danger was that with manufacturers of items like silicone breast implants shielded from high punitive damage awards under the bill the doctors who implanted the devices would stand out as the only lucrative lawsuit targets left The opportunity was to find a friendly mem ber of Congress and to piggyback the own lawsuit shield onto a bill that enjoyed enthusiastic backing from the new Republican masters of the House So the AMA approached Rep Christopher Cox Calif and got him to offer the pain and suffering cap as an amendment to the broader legal reform bill Without hearings in this Congress and with less than an hour of debate the amendment passed late Thursday 247 171 To enhance its chances the association had (Continued on Page A10) Death of snake handling preacher investigated TiS? 7' 7 7( By Allen Breed Associated Press Writer The line between protected religious practice and criminal activity is being tested in a Kentucky State Police investiga tion of the death of a snake handling mountain preacher Trooper Johnny Collins of the Harlan post said Thursday that police are investigating the death of Pentecostal minis ter Kale Saylor 77 of Bledsoe Saylor died early Wednesday at Pineville Community Hospital after being bitten by a rat tlesnake Sunday The obscure Appalachian practice has been illegal in Kentucky since 1942 But police receive few complaints about snake handling and a scholar who worked with Saylor said Thursday that authorities should back off diqd practicing what he believed said Dave Kimbrough who studied with the preacher for 10 years while working on a doctoral thesis Kimbrough considered Saylor a friend and mentor and (Continued on Page A10) ALSO INSIDE: Company wants to run gas lines in rural Casey A2 WEATHER 5 A8 RIDAY MARCH 1 0 1 995 VOL: 1 29' NO 21 1 7 50(6 1.