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1C MESSENGER-INQUIRER, Tuesday, October 1. 1991 3C STATE FROM Deaf can make connections with new phone system monthly, statewide surcharge of 10 cents per phone line to pay for it Here's how it works: Callers dial a I toll-free number to an relay center in Alabama. Hearing- and speech-impaired people type sages into a text telephone. The mes- sages are read by operators, who pass them orally to the other parties. Relays must be verbatim, confi- dentiality must be guaranteed there is no charge for local calls.

devices cost from about $200 to $800 and the service cannot be used for calls to other states, company of-; ficials said. That nettled the dozens of deaf peo-. pie who packed into a hotel ballroom for the first demonstration of the service Wednesday. They said deaf people in border cit- ies such as Owensboro, Louisville and northern Kentucky pay for local access to cities across the Ohio River, but cannot use it By Charles Wolfe Associated Press FRANKFORT Kentucky on Tuesday ushers in a new communications age for hundreds of thousands of people who cannot hear or speak. They will be able, for the first time, to converse by telephone with anyone else in the state.

Their tools will be keyboard-equipped "text telephones" and specially trained operators to relay messages to an ordinary phone. "We can use our telephones to access a world most people take for granted," William Rogers, executive director of the Kentucky Commission on Deaf and Hearing Impaired, said at a kickoff ceremony. American Telephone Telegraph Co. was beginning the service Tuesday on a five-year contract with the Kentucky Public Service Commission. The 1990 General Assembly mandated such a service, and the state in July began collecting a Associated Press $25 million winners Four factory workers from Muncie, turned in a winning Lotto America ticket Monday and will share $25 million.

Above, Eston Hines, 58; his son, David Hines, 22; Timothy Vannatter, 42; and LeMoyne Altic, 50, display their winning ticket Monday at the Hoosier Lottery regional office in Muncie. Each winner will get $234,000 a year for 20 years after taxes. The winning ticket was one of 40 plays, or $20 worth of tickets, the group bought last Thursday at a Speedway convenience store in Muncie. The four co-workers had been pooling $5 apiece every payday, with Vannatter buying tickets in the biggest jackpot of the week. They usually played the Hoosier Lottery or Ohio Lottery, but selected Lotto America last week because of the larger prize.

At one time 10 co-workers, including the winners, pooled their resources. Six of them dropped out previously, including one woman who had quit the group just last week. "Her misfortune, I guess," Altic said. Husband pleads guilty to killing soldier wife STATE ROUNDUP Prom Associated Press reports Murray enrolls record number of undergraduates MURRAY A record 7,022 undergraduate students enrolled at Murray State University this fall, but the overall headcount fell short of an enrollment record set in 1976, school officials said. Total enrollment, of both undergraduate and graduate students, was 8,215 compared with 7,977 last year.

The total was the fifth highest in the university's history, the university announced Friday. The undergraduate total was up 157 from the previous record, set last year. Man sentenced for stealing from union LEXINGTON -A former business agent for Ironworkers Local 769 who pleaded guilty to stealing $51,177 in union funds has been sentenced to 12 months in prison and two additional years of supervised probation. Charles R. Cantrell, 56, of Kenova, pleaded guilty to the felony charges July 16, according to a statement from the U.S.

Attorney Karen Caldwell's office in Lexington. U.S. District Judge Henry Wilhoit handed down the sentence on Friday. Federal prosecutors alleged Cantrell stole the money between January 1986 and Nov. 29, 1988, the date he resigned from the union.

Cantrell repaid the money before he was allowed to enter the guilty plea. Wilhoit allowed Cantrell to remain free on bond until authorities decide where he will serve his sentence. Attorney refuses to buy city sticker CATLETTSBURG Greenup District Judge Lewis Nicholls has yet to set a date for Boyd County Attorney Jerry Vincent's trial on two counts of failing to buy an Ashland city sticker. Nicholls was appointed to preside over the 62-day-old case a few days after Ashland police filed the charges in mid-July. Vincent said Monday that one of the reasons that the case has not moved forward is that no one has appointed a special prosecutor.

Normally, Vincent said, it is his responsibility to appoint a prosecutor if he steps aside. But in this case, because of his direct involvement, Vincent said he believes Kentucky Attorney General Fred Cowan is responsible for the appointment Vincent claims that the city's sticker ordinance generates less revenue than it costs to administer the program, which he said is unconstitutional in Kentucky. He said if a special prosecutor is not appointed soon, he will move for the charges to be dismissed. Fall fire season starts today HARLAN Burning restrictions go into effect today with the start of the fall fire season, state forestry officials said. Tim Price, unit ranger for the Kentucky Division of Forestry in Harlan and Leslie counties, said Kentucky law designates Oct 1 through Dec.

15 as "Fire Hazard Season." Between those dates, the law prohibits burning within 150 feet of the woods except between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and midnight need and I was in the right place at the right time. I've had fun. Every weekend I couldn't wait for Monday." Press credits Govs. Bert Combs, Ned Breathitt and Louie Nunn with making the important decisions that brought KET to life.

"We never had a governor that didn't support KET, but those three governors had to make the big yes or no decisions," Press said. "I consider Bert Combs the real father of KET." Fox will guide KET to even greater heights, Press predicted. "We've just lifted off the first stage," he said. "Now Ginny is in Associated Press PADUCAH A 32-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to fatally stabbing his soldier wife with a bayonet last February after she returned home to Fort Campbell on emergency leave from the Persian Gulf. Under an agreement with the prosecutor, Keith Lee Honaker pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

He had been charged with first-degree murder in the Feb. 14 death of Sgt Deborah Linn Honaker, which could have led to the death penalty. Honaker also pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his 8-year-old daughter in January. His arrest for that incident led to his wife's return from Saudi Arabia, where she was a cook for the 101st Airborne Division. Deborah Honaker, 35, died after being stabbed in the chest and back at the couple's Fort Campbell apartment Investigators said her husband stabbed himself in the chest At Miracle-Ear Centers, help people hear better more out of life! Miracle-Ear' will never get to the rural areas," he said.

"I held out for building it all at one time." The General Assembly in 1966 floated a bond issue to build 12 transmitters and a network center in Lexington. A Louisville transmitter was added in 1970 and Owensboro and Pa-ducah received transmitters a couple of years later. KET signed on the air in 1968. A Massachusetts native, Press said he feels lucky to have been associated with KET for more than 30 years. "It turned out to be a terrific way to spend a career," he said.

"I'm a very fortunate guy. Kentucky had a RATE The coal will come from the same southern Indiana producer now supplying a different grade of coal to the plant according to Hayden Tim-mons, vice general manager of the Henderson-based generating company. The Coleman plant burns 1.4 million tons ofcoalayear. Big Rivers also plans to install sulfur dioxide scrubbers at the Henderson Municipal Power Light Station Two which it operates for the city of Henderson. The new clean air standards take effect in two steps.

In 1995, sulfur dioxide emissions must be cut to 2.5 pounds of sulfur dioxide for each million BTUs of heat generated. By the year 2000, the limit is cut by more than half, to 1.2 pounds per million BTUs. Big Rivers already has scrubbers installed on its Wilson and Green power plants, which will contribute to the sulfur dioxide reductions necessary for the entire Big Rivers system. Fuel-switching at the Coleman plant is planned to meet the Phase 1 reductions, and scrubbers will be installed on units by 1997, which will be switched to lower-sulfur coal in 1995, unless scrubbers can be installed there on an accelerated schedule. To meet the tougher Phase 2 reductions in 2000, Big Rivers plans to begin "overscrub" at its Wilson and Green plants and at The "overscrubbing" will compensate for sulfur dioxide emissions above the standard at its other charge of the second stage, which will really orbit KET will become integral to the education process.

Ginny wants to bounce ideas off me, but she has more ideas in a week than I have in a year." Fox, 52, might not be so sure of that Working for Press for the better part of the last 23 years has been like working within a tornado, she said. "But it's been wonderful," Fox said. "Len has managed to keep the enthusiasm, curiosity and freshness of a child, but he has the intellect of an adult He never says you can't He also never wants to do things like other people do things. He wants to do it better. He always wants to be out in front" RAIN When it doesn't rain, more and more people turn to their water hoses to keep the grass green and the tomatoes healthy.

On June 20, OMU had to pump 18.1 million gallons of water to meet the demand and the most the utility can do is 18.6 million gallons, Brown said. "The day before it was 17.7 million, so it wasn't a one-day fluke," he said. The average for August was 15.5 million gallons a day, but September is generally 13 to 14 million gallons, Brown said. A one-season drought does nothing to the aquifer levels the city draws from, Brown said. Even the drought of 1988 did not cause a lower water level, Brown said.

"We'd only be worried over a long period of time." HOME GROWN. WORLD WISE. Messenger-Inquirer 4-4-4-J, 4-4-4-4- Registration for Owensboro Youth Hockey Sept. 28 1-4 PM at the Ice rink Oct. 5 -9-1 2 PM at the ice rink 4- 1st yr.

player 40 includes Ages 5-18 yrs. with the bayonet after killing his wife. The victim's mother witnessed the stabbing, authorities said. Keith Honaker, an unemployed ci-L vilian cook, has been in the McCrack-" en County Jail since his release from-a Nashville hospital in February. Honaker is scheduled to be sentenced Dec.

18. The plea agreement is meaning Honaker cannot withdraw, his guilty plea if he does not like the sentence imposed, Jones said. Deborah Honaker, who first joined the Army in 1974, had been stationed-at Fort Campbell since 1988, when, she rejoined the active-duty service after serving nine years in the Reserve. She was assigned to Head--quarters and Headquarters Compa-. ny, 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment The couple had three children, aged 11 years, 8 years and 15 months at the time of Deborah Honaker's' death.

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3" W. 0- P.M. Daviess County Clerk W. The proposals and rate increases are subject to review and approval by the Kentucky Public Service Commission. Dean Stanley, general manager of Green River Electric said Monday it was too soon to predict exactly how and when the distribution company will pass along the Big Rivers' rate increase to its own customers.

Customers of Owensboro Municipal Utilities also are facing a rate increase of as much as 60 percent to pay for the installation of scrubbers at OMU's power plant Green River's rates are presently higher than OMU's, but Stanley said, "I expect we'll be much closer" after both utilities have implemented their Clean Air Act plans. Green River Electric has about 25,000 customers. Its service area covers all of Hancock County and parts of Daviess, McLean, Ohio, Webster, Hopkins, Muhlenberg and Breckinridge counties. FALLOWAY'S COMPLETE LINE OF BODY PARTS LOWEST PRICES ON USED AUTO PARTS TOP DOLLAR PAID FOR JUNK I WRECKED CARS 684-0179 U.S. Highway 60 Owensboro Ull America's Better Hearing Outers' VOTE 91 VOTE 91 VOTE 91 VOTE I 1991 GENKKA1 ELECTION INFORMATION KALLY FOR 05 a i-t a Oct.

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