The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky • 1

cate JRi'as Copyright 19U The Advocate Messenger All Rights Reserved VOL 118 NO 300 DANVILLE KY THURSDAY JUNE 7 1984 18 PAGES SINGLE COPY 25 AP Photo to Day is for Garrard man Plmiiung board reverses earlier Perryville zone Rv HPRR Rpnrv ir i A 1965 study urged expansion of city water system Lambert pleads guilty to cocaine distribution Lambert said beach your East said named one of my boys after one of those The 2nd Ranger Battalion's mis sion was to knock out the battery of German artillery stationed on the 100 foot cliffs above Omaha Beach It was accomplished with including the distribution of other drugs and marijuana Attorneys said Lambert a Lex ington nightclub owner1 has not lost his right to appeal US District Judge Scott decision on allowing wiretap evidence Prosecutors said the plea residential single family to high density 3 The one acre tract which in cludes an older home is part of the Bertice Reynolds estate and the heirs sought the zone change in connection with plans for an apartment complex But the commission tied a number of conditions to its motion in favor of the zone change in cluding one which required that the developer of the proposed Elmtree Ltd apartments Albert will not be completed before August and could take longer Hindsight is easy said Commis sioner John orsyth Wednesday about current water needs need is orsyth said during a working session Wednes day to discuss needs of the water treatment system is short sighted not to have looked at it Vyrom Smiley an engineer with Howard Bell Consulting Engineers in Lexington told the commissioners is not enough storage when your tank (level) is falling You need it During session Reed said that Lambert placed in his housekeeper Reed refusing to throw out much of the evidence ruled that the woman did not become a government agent when she turned informant on her employer The judge also said a 212 hour surveillance tape presented by prosecutors was audible and ac curate enough for jurors to hear However he decided that a pro secution transcript was too inac curate for presentation by WC Hundley and told the press he would ask for a zone change on the Hundley property too After learning that the com mission requested that Moffett notify it in writing that he had for mally withdrawn his request for a zone change on the Reynolds property But Moffett has not submitted the letter on the Reynolds proper ty and he also has not made for mal application for a zone change on the Hundley property decided to look for another site for the apartment project He said it would be difficult to get federal financing for the project because the site apparently is listed on the National Register of Historic Places Moffett also said the commis vote in favor of the project was too and and that forced him to look elsewhere in Perryville Moffett found another prospec tive site a lL2 acre tract owned Moffett of Shelbyville submit a planned unit development giving detailed information about the $380000 project Commission member David Spragens made a motion to and revoke the condi tional given on April 4 saying Moffett had failed to meet the After the commission recom mended the zone change Moffett said in interviews with The Advocate Messenger that he had now looking at two years down the road when the im provements were needed last Smiley said it was that the plant was treating nearly 500000 more a day than it was last year However the commission agreed earlier not to decide on whether to proceed with a new storage tower and transmission lines until it knows if it would receive a $1 million federal grant That policy was reaffirmed Wednesday when orsyth said it would not be a good idea to have great loss of life and a change in plans of the sixdorh panies landed first charged the cliffs and began climbing East a private in Company was to have been part of the se cond assault on the cliffs other three companies were to follow with heavy artillery and destroy the guns up he said we lost radio contact with the first group so we know if made it up the save the government and the court thousands of dollars Assistant US Attorney Jane Graham and defense attorney James Shuffett said the trial would have lasted about two months all is a complex case The plea will conserve at least a month of trial time and court resources The goverment would have spent a significant amount of dollars pro A 1965 study of the water needs recommended that the city have a treatment capacity of 65 million gallons by 1975 After the study the existing plant was supposedly upgraded to treat 5 million gallons of water a day However the plant has never been able to handle without using backup equipment that design capacity Renovations now being done will give it the 5 million gallon capaci ty with the ability to perhaps treat 6 million during an emergency situation City Engineer Luther Galloway said those renovations By HLKK BKUCK Staff Writer The Danville Boyle County Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to revoke its earlier approval of a zone change that would have allowed construction of a 12 unit apartment complex in Perryville After a stormy series of public hearings the commission voted in early April to recommend that Perryville City Council rezone a tract on the Danville Road from By HERB BROCK Staff Writer The local zoning panel voted Wednesday to reject developer William request to rezone 23 acres in Indian Hills Subdivision from highway com mercial (HC) to medium density residential (R 2) attorney James Clay Jr warned the Danville Boyle County Planning and Zoning Commission that its vote against recommending the zone change might result in a lawsuit We 11 see you in Clay said on his way out of the meeting at City Hall But McAnly who was absent when the vote was taken arrived later and asked the commission to reconsider its action He said he would promise that only 18 apart ment units would be built on the tract At two public hearings in April McAnly refused to say what he had planned for the site which is at the corner of Shawnee and Nokomis roads and between a shopping center and residential area But it was widely speculated that he would build apartments there Up to 30 apartment units could be built on the 23 acre tract ac cording to 2 regulations Indian Hills residents two dozen of them were at meeting have voiced concern over increased traffic congestion By ANNABEL GIRARD Staff Writer If Danville had followed the recommendations of a 1965 water study the city would not be facing a possible water shortage Too little water storage capacity and a treatment plant operating at capacity combine to give Danville water delivery problems during peak demand periods One of those periods is now Since the first of June water treatment plant has produc ed a minimum of 399 million gallons of water and a maximum of 457 million gallons a day Under questioning by Reed Lambert admitted of drugs within intent to distribute them or share them with my friends Also I conspired with another person to share these Later after Assistant US At torney Robert Trevey summariz ed the case Lambert protested that he had never sold drugs have never taken a dollar for cocaine and I never never processed cocaine and I never had anything to do with and Mrs Reagan attended the 40th anniversary of the allied invasion that led to the end of the Nazi regime and its occupation of Europe cliffs We were ordered to go to our backup plan which was to go down'the coast come inland and swing around to the backside of the cliffs allotted us three hours but it took us a day We met unex pected resistance and got pinned in" As he scrambled down the beach East said got shot in the helmet the bullet went through and lodged in the back of my neck (Continued on Page 8) Bell begin design work until the ci ty heard about the grant The city is considering adding a 3 million gallon water storage tower and additional transmission mains to the system The federal Economic Development Agency has notified Mayor Roy Arnold that the city can apply for a $1 million grant Jas Sekhon director of the Blue Grass Area Development District in Lexington told the commission that while its chances for receiv ing the grant are good the city will have to do the work itself if it does (Continued on Page 8) and drainage problems that might be caused by a development of that size The commission indicated that it likely would approve proposal for only 18 units the feeling from the commission is that it would okay that" said commission attorney Jack Smith McAnly said he wanted the affir mative vote on his 18 unit proposal Wednesday but Smith said McAn ly would have to reapply for the zone change and link it to a planned unit development project Or Smith said McAnly could avoid the zone change process and apply to the Danville Board of Ad justments and Appeals for a condi tional use in an HC zone Last year the board granted McAnly a conditional dse permit to develop up to 18 apartments on the same 2:3 acre tract bufMcAn ly saidjie could not build the units because the board placed rental restrictions which made it difficult for him to get financing for the project The board said rent could not be less than $220 a month for each unit and that no portion of the rent could be subsidized by the govern ment or come from any other source than the renter's own and The vote on zone change request Wednesday was 5 1 against recommending the (Continued on Page 8) By JO WITT Staff Writer The Kentucky Airport Zoning Commission will hold a hearing later this month to rule on a Jamestown application to build a television antenna tower in Mercer County The proposed 1099 foot tower would transmit the signal from WDKY TV an independent 660000 watt television station that Jamestown attorney Robert Bertram plans to build in Dan ville The studio would be in Danville but the tower would be near High Bridge 72 miles east of the Harrodsburg Mercer County Airport 13 miles north of Goodall ield Airport near Danville and 14 miles south of Blue Grass ield Bertram originally planned to build the tower in Boyle County but changed the location so the station serve a larger geographical he said this week The station will broadcast in a 50 mile radius and be carried on local cable television services Bertram said WDKY will be known as Channel 56 and will carry oriented pro he added A site for the studio been found said Bertram At the airport zoning commis sion hearing officials will decide whether the tower have any effect on navigable in the area said Mark Roberts a spokesman for the state Transpor tation Cabinet who is handling in formation requests for the airport zoning commission At issue is whether the proposed tower would interfere with the safety and navigation of airplanes Bertram who began lookihg for a tower site in Jahuary when the ederal Communications Commission approved the sta license says the tower would not interfere with aviation In a telephone conversation from his Jamestown office Bertram cited a ruling in March by the ederal Aviation Administration which found that the tower would not be hazardous (Continued on Page 8) ANNE CROWLEY Associated Press Writer LEXINGTON Ky (AP) Nightclub owner James Lambert pleaded guilty today to conspiracy in the distribution of cocaine In exchange for the plea the government is dropping dozens of other charges against Lambert The plea to only the conspiracy count Ms Graham said encnm entered under a 1983 rule would secuting the case and bringing in witnesses she said "The trial of the remaining defendant should be shortened considerabily government believes it has overwhelming evidence of guilt and is confident of a jury verdict of guilty on all Lambert and Phillip Block nephew of former Gov Julian Car passes the conditions charged in roll were to have gone on trial Monday on the conspiracy and distribution charges Lambert had also faced a firearms charge Under the agreement Lambert faces a maximum of 15 years and a $25000 fine State panel to rule on TV tower lowers tor the dead Nancy Reagan puts a flower by one of the graves at Normandy American Cemetery Wednesday as she and President Reagan walk through the gravesite of the dead of the Day invasion in 1944 The president sary of Day AD East a terrible tooacco plants on a central Ken tucky hillside and tried to forget On June 6 1944 East was part of of a suicide that led the charge against German forces at Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy rance Only about a third of the 400 men in the 2nd Ranger Battalion sur vived said East now 64 can still sit here and see it all 1 1 19 3u i i i University Panel rejects zone change request for Indian Hills BUCKEYE Ky (AP) As the as clear as when it he The night of Day he said taWfifld observed he 4Qth anniver said eyes glistening with tearsX were thousands lying dead It a ijarrihlci momnrt ziixvfrkrx uh Liir iirrni i nnti 1 1 1 nr i i 1 1 1 East took a bullet in his neck and down that beach was was awarded a presidential cita the toughest thing a man could tion and a Purple Heart for his role take Those men lying on that tne impossioie world War 11 mission that succeeded make me out as a hero and make it look like I'm bragging about anything" he said looking to write about heroes tell you about plenty of change Moffett could not be reached for comment Wednesday or today but David Reynolds an heir and agent of the Reynolds estate said Wednesday that the family plan to renovate the old house as was recommended by opponents of first plan price is still the he said In other business the commission a permit for a mobile home to be placed on a lot (Continued on Page 8) Looking in 1 jT' mI Sant Hr i IRRfc BBB IKr BBBilW MM HBK jS? 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