The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 1

Br i sj i FRIDAY Meidland labor backer gets his Chevy van 4 i i s.t:r 1 for an American-built caf paid off: The Suburban was delivered Tuesday. Michael Marcks said he and the 4,949 other employees of the Janes-ville plant appreciate Sullivan's dedication to union labor. "I wish a hell of a lot more people were like him," said Marcks, president of United Auto Workers Local 95 in Janesville, by telephone. "Mexico is taking too many jobs away from the Umted States, and that is eroding the nation's tax base." Sullivan, 50, also wishes more Eeople would follow his lead and I uy American-made products. "I have never driven a car built outside the United States, and I BY Bill BARTLEMAN THE PAOUCAH SUN For J.R.

Sullivan, supporting American labor union workers "was more important than his dream of owning a shiny, new Chevrolet Suburban. Sullivan, a Reidland resident and a member of the International Association of Electrical Workers Union Local 816, threatened to cancel his order for the new Chevy when told it would be built in Mexico. But after eight months and numerous long-distance phone conversations, Sullivan finally persuaded Chevrolet officials to build his- Suburban at a plant in Janes-ville, Wis. His persistent support certainly, would never own one," Sullivan said. "I would have never ordered the Suburban if I had known it might have been built in Mexico." Sullivan's campaign began in January when he placed his order through a local dealer.

Over the next few weeks, he made numerous calls to the Chevrolet Customer Service Center to find out when his car would be delivered. He was finally told a production date had been set at one of the plants in Mexico. As much as he wanted the Suburban, Sullivan told the Chevrolet official he would cancel his order if it came from outside the United States. Please see VAN 18A ELIZABETH COURTNEYmw Sun It took only 8 months of phone conversations, but J.R. Sullivan finally got what he ordered.

Ito rules jury may hear n-word twice says the word "nigger." Fuhrman testified earlier at Simpson's murder trial that he hadn't used the word in the past decade. The tapes were made from 1985 to 1994. But the judge barred the defense from offering any statements Fuhrman made about police misconduct, mostly on grounds the statements are too inflammatory and the defense had failed to prove the incidents actually happened. Ito also refused to let the defense play statements in which Fuhrman describes himself as a "key Please see ITO 18A Testimony is scheduled to resume today now that the judge has ruled on the 'Fuhrman tapes. BY MICHAEL FLEEMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES In a major blow to the defense in the final days of its case, O.J.

Simpson's judge ruled Thursday that jurors can hear just two of 41 instances in which Detective Mark Fuhrman uses a racial epithet for blacks. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito ruled the defense can play two excerpts for jurors in which Fuhrman Carpenter's will boosts Livingston KEVIN SIMPSONTln Sun Larry Sisson carries a load of tobacco plants to the trailer. 1 I I I i Tobacco loading: Leaf-laden posts, long hours arrhythmia, had no children. "He was kind of a loner and very sensitive," McGee said. "He loved Livingston County." McGee said that after making some "small bequests to some friends and distant relatives," he left the rest to beneficent organizations.

The largest share, $154,865.50, went to the Livingston County Historical and Genealogical Society as an endowment, with half the interest to be used for college scholar- ships for Livingston Central High School graduates and the other Please see W1U18A BY BOBBIE FOUST THE PAOUCAH SUN SMITHLAND, Ky. G.A. "Acoam" Carroll, a quiet, sensitive man who apparently loved history, has ensured the preservation of Livingston County's heritage. He was a self-employed carpenter who lived a frugal life. Few if any, except his lawyer, ever dreamed he had a small fortune.

Last month Smithland attorney Bill McGee, executor of Carroll's estate, distributed more than $225,000 to Livingston County organizations and others named in his will. Carroll and his wife, Louise, who died in 1984 of cardiac Channel 46 signs on Sunday in Murray V. i i 'I 1 (Wednesday) we might be in the wrong profession. It just about killed us. I don't think ve ever been so tired in all my life." The first day of harvest is always the hardest, they said.

As each day passes, those seldom-used muscles gain strength, and beginning the next day isn't so painful. On Thursday, they returned to work on the five-acre field, but this time they shifted down to "cruising speed," Larry Sisson said. The sun, beating down relentlessly at 9 a.m., already had warmed the tobacco patch to 80 degrees. A two-quart water jug hangs from the back of a tractor; an ice chest filled with Gatorade and soft drinks is nearby in a truck. "We make a good living, but it's awfully hard work," the elder Sisson said.

"We've got a lot of tobacco, but we focus on quality. It's not the best we've ever had, but it's good tobacco." Six weeks earlier, the tobacco tops were broken off to stunt upward growth in favor of a fuller plant. Tobacco is ready for cutting when leaves droop, yellow a bit and attain a certain crispness. A proper wilt helps assure the quality, and they take painstaking care in making sure they don't break extra leaves or do other unwarranted damage. "If it's not wilted properly, it'll break all to pieces when you put it on a stake," David Sisson Please see TOBACCO 18A BY KEVIN SIMPSON THE PAOUCAH SUN WlNGO, Ky.

Larry Sisson bent down to fiick up a leafy stalk of tobacco and let out a aint groan. "It doesn't take long to find those soft spots, does it?" said his father, David Sisson. "I'm not as sore as I thought I'd be," Larry Sisson answered. "I am," his father said. It's early Thursday morning, and it will take a few hours for the men to work out the stiffness from cutting, staking and loading more than 500 plants the day before.

There will be no shortage of sweaty, achy days like this before they finished harvesting 21 acres of dark tobacco. The pair had expected help from three men Wednesday. But when the labor failed to show up, the Sissons had their hands full. Time was against them: They had hundreds of cut plants to stake and load before the sun scorched precious leaves. Eleven hours after their day began, dehydrated and fatigued, they called it quits.

"My dad said he ws going to whip them if he runs into them again," said Larry Sisson, 29, referring to the prescribed punishment for failure to show. "You can bet they'll get a good cussing," his 49-year-old father replied. "We decided "It's a longtime dream," he said, adding that after teaching at Paducah Tilghman High School and Memphis State University in the early 1970s, he returned to his hometown and put radio station WSJP on the air. "That ledito, in the next 16 years, the purchase of WBLN and WNBS (radio stations). Television has been a dream of ours for a long time." The station represents an investment of about $500,000, and Please see TV STATION 2A BY BOBBIE FOUST THE PADUCAH SUN MURRAY, Ky.

Sam Parker, owner of three radio stations here, will fulfill an eight-year dream when WQTV Channel 46 signs on at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Parker and members of his family and staff hosted a sneak preview of the station's programming Thursday for community leaders and reporters in the station's market area Calloway, Graves and Marshall counties in Kentucky and Henry County, Tenn. KEVIN SIMPSONTlw Sun David Sisson takes a break from harvesting tobacco. Farmers across Kentucky are spending long days loading the leafy stalks on stakes.

1KO) C'q: Editorial 4A Elizabeth Taylor says she and husband No. 7 "need our own space for a while" and are splitting up, four vpars after their lavish wwl- in the capital, Chandigarh, when the explosion went off. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but suspicion fell on two Sikh separatist groups that are demanding a Sikh homeland. 06 7B Hihrf of Miphaol Taptcrtn'c rannh 1' TV 50 tow TOHGHT KGH TODAY The 63-year-old violet-eyed actress Landgrg 1 1 and Larry Fortensky, 43, a twice- Money 12A-divorced construction worker, met Religion, SB Forecast, ISA three or four times per independent counsel in 1988 at the Betty Ford Clinic, where they being treated for substance abuse. Story, 2A.

Kenneth Starr of using threats and harassment in an attempt to force a plea bargain. Story, 2A. The decision by a state agency to relax standards for local Kentucky jails that do not hold state felons is an overdue triumph of common sense that will benefit smaller rural counties and could indirectly ease jail and prison overcrowding throughout the state. COKUCTIONS The registration and information telephone number for LDD access to the Internet is 800-455-1608. The wrong number was listed in Thursday's Sun.

The date of the -1995 Industry Appreciation Dinner, sponsored by the Purchase Area Development District, is Thursday, Sept. 14. The wrong date was reported in Thursday's Sun. day. Newer, once-a-day versions marketed as Procardia XL or Adalat CC were not studied.

Story, 9A. The next woman who wjants to march in the all-male corpslat The Citadel is a military academy student and star athlete who has a brother in the college and a father who is an alumnus. Nancy Mellette, a 17-year-old senior at a North Carolina military boarding school, is asking to intervene in the Shannon Faulkner case, according to federal court papers filed by lawyers who also represented Faulkner in her quest to become a cadet. NATO'S MUSCLE Air strikes drive Serbs grudgingly toward bargaining table. 1A MURRAY WINS Racers open season with 35-14 defeat of Western.

ID Patients taking high doses of one of the heart drugs known as calcium channel blockers had nearly triple the death rate of others with heart disease, a new study shows. The latest study deals with older versions of nifedipine, sold in generic form and under the brand names Procardia and Adalat. These older versions must be taken Suspected Sikh militants blow up the car of Punjab's highest elected official, killing him and 12 others and raising fears that the state's separatist movement might revive. Chief Minister Beant Singh was getting into his bulletproof car outside government headquarters Another partner of President Clinton in the Whitewater land development pleads innocent to fraud and conspiracy charges and says she will never cooperate with prosecutors. Susan McDougal, charged with eight felonies, accused OIL.

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