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Today's index Vol.98-No.309 4 Sections 56 Pages Weather forecast 2B Classifieds 7D-42D Deaths, Services 8D Editorials 4B Gallop Poll Family News iC Financial Landers 15A Sports Theater HC PADUCAH AND VICINITY Partly sunny Sunday with the high in the low to mid 20s. Mostly sunny and warmer Monday with the high in the upper 30s to low 40s. Paducah, Kentucky, Sunday, December 26, 1976 15e Daily-20e Sunday -'it Technical poiiiit could cost city ICET transmitter 11 T-'. 1 former WDXR-TV transmitter site are continuing with the owners. He said the state has not determined how much it will give for the site, but another state department is appraising the site.

KET has also been in contact with Lady Sarah McKinney-Smith McCallum in regard to a passible transfer of Channel 29's license, he added. Allie Morgan, a member of the KET Authority, said, it is "late in the day to establish priorities" in the placement of the transmitters. The study commission did not establish priorities and neither did KET when it applied for money in the state budget, he added. "I don't know why it was decided right now that there should be priorities," said Morgan. "I am totally against priorities, but it seems to me they have already established them." The effort to locate a transmitter in Owensboro is alng with the acquisition of land and a frequency completed, he added.

"I'm very disappointed with the whole thing. I know the reception problems in Paducah and that is what I am most interested in," said Morgan. Morgan said residents of Owensboro receive an educational television signal from Evansville, Ind. He said most people are interested in the Public Broadcasting System shows and that people in Owensboro can get them from the Evansville station. Members of the KET Authority passed a resolution in October which reaffirmed its desire to locate a transmitter in Paducah.

Press said it is not clear if the resolution gives Paducah a Continued On Back Page This Section By BILL MATLOCK Sun-Democrat Staff Writer If a choice has to be made between Paducah and Owensboro for the location of a new Kentucky Educational Television (KET) transmitter on a "technical" basis, Owensboro will get the new transmitter. According to 0. Leonard Press, KET executive director, technical reception is worse in Owensboro than in Paducah. Press said measurement of signal shows that the signal in Owensboro is weaker. Although Owensboro has a site and channel available, Press said he felt "confident" that Paducah will have a channel before the deadline for filing for federal funds.

"We are making progress in negotations," he added. Although the deadline for filing for federal funds necessary to locate the transmitters has not been set, Press believes it will be near the end of January. "We are hoping for both transmitters, but for this type of program this ($770,000 needed to construct each transmitter) is a lot of money," said Press. He said KET had difficulties getting from the federal government funds that were used to increase the power at the Ashland station. "The technical signal in Paducah is not as bad as it is impractical," said Press.

The present signal is not as bad as the Owensboro signal and residents only have to get the proper equipment to receive the signal from the Murray station, he added. The actual presence of a transmitter is more important than the signal, said Press. "The idea is to get more people aware of the channel and what is on it," he added. Press said negotations for the purchase of the auditing required by the new law, but it signified nothing. Politics was just about the last segment of our national life in which the handling of large sums of money had escaped auditing.

It was bound to lose its carefree status. The Watergate horrors were just the precipitating cause. On the congressional level, the reforms went only halfway, and the consequences were deeply disturbing. In 1974, Congress, took the presidency off the auction block, but rejected public financing for itself because the reform would have done too much to even up the relative positions of incumbent and challenger. Incumbents have an Christmas Day at Grandpa and Grandma's this case, at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Sullivan Major improvements seen in election finance reforms must be made in the law, special interest political Commentary (This article contains the opinions and conclusions of the author.) By John W.Gardner Chairman, Common Cause In the political year 1976 we saw the first trial of some far-reaching reforms in the financing of campaigns. Now with the election many weeks behind us, it's time to ask ourselves how the reforms worked. The overwhelming verdict from experienced political retroactive payment of campaign debts for any independent or minor party candidate who gets five per cent of the national vote. None did, in this election; and more generous provisions should be made.

For example, matching public funds could be provided in the general election once an independent or minor party candidate had raised a threshold amount of private money to demonstrate viability as a candidate. A more serious problem that must be dealt with is the great difficulty a minor party candidate has in getting on the ballot in many states. There was a lot of nattering about the paper work and Finish By RON CLARK Sun-Democrat Staff Writer Nearly 10 years ago, the Massac-Clinton Road Water District was formed to furnish water for the residents of a portion of southwestern McCracken County. Now, finally, the water is flowing, but only after many obstacles, one which necessitated changing the name of the organization to the Massac Water Association Inc. Water from the system now is available to the 380 potential customers in the association, according to Hunter H.

Martin, consulting engineer for the enormous advantage, and a majority of the House of Representatives had no intention of diminishing that advantage further by putting public funds in the hands of their challengers. Result: a lot of members of Congress were bought and sold in 1976, just like the good old days except that the going rates were higher. In 1976 special-interest groups poured well over $20 million more than in 1974. That's an enormous increase in just two years. The money-heavy special interests couldn't buy themselves a president so they tried to buy as many members of Congress as they could.

In a study of the top dozen heaviest spenders among New Hope Church Road, began Wednesday, but Caldwell employes called an end to their work Thursday afternoon for the Christmas holidays. Work, Thomas said, will resume on Jan. 3. Water which is currently available to some of the customers actually is being provided by the City of Paducah, Martin said. Pressure from the city is adequate enough to accommodate Massac customers "between the tank and Paducah," he said, except an area along Contest Road where some testing, disinfecting and meter-setting We restored dignity to the presidential election through a lair that worked, a law whose "profound impac on the election, to quote a leading journalist, "was nearly invisible to the We can hare the same profound impact on congressional elections and ensure for Congress the integrity that our best senators and representatives so sincerely desire.

of water district work approaching project. And, according to Ernie Thomas, a superintendent with Caldwell Tank Co. of Louisville, a storage tank currently under construction should be completed by the end of January. Then the remaining customers, particularly those "at the end of the line inthe Graves County community of Melber" will have enough pressure to tap on to water mains which already have been laid, inspected and disinfected, Martin said. Assembly of the 125-foot storage tank, located on Clinton Road near the intersection of in the congressional campaigns was the inequity of heavy spending by wealthy candidates on their own campaigns.

The Supreme Court has ruled that such spending cannot be limited unless the candidate accepts the limitation as a condition of receiving public funds. So again, public financing emerges as the solution. Independent oversight and enforcement is essential to making campaign finance laws work. The Federal Election Commission had an enormously difficult task in 1976 and did an admirable job. Continued On Back Page This Section work is going on," said Martin, adding that once the storage tank is complete, there should be no The system ties in with the Paducah water system at Olivet Church Road.

Contractural work on the system is being done by Murray Flatt Electric of Newbern, Tenn. Residents of the area initially banded together in 1967 and formed the Massac-Clinton Road Water District. One setback after another, however, prevented the organization from getting on its feet. Adjoining water, districts extending their services during began proceedings to change the organizational structure of the district in order to be able to cross the county line and take in residents in Melber. That gave the association the required 380 customers.

In other instances, the Farmers Home Administration informed water district officials that no funds, at that time, were available for water districts, but funding could be obtained if the district reorganized into a water association. Officials of the water district that began proceedings to chance the organizational structure of the district in order to be able to cross the county line and take in resident in Melber. That gave the association the required 380 customers. The PSC, however, then refused the association permission to operate because it claimed the association would Continued On Back Page ThisSection observers is tnat the reforms at the presidential level worked exceptionally well. To quote one editorial writer, the principle of public financing "proved itself nobly." All candidates, in the primaries and general election were spared the demeaning chore of begging for big gifts from the heavy spenders, and the winner is spared the obscenity of being beholden to well-heeled special interests.

It is hard to believe that just four years ago, the presidential race involved money-raising methods that approached extortion, money-stuffed satchels passed by shadowy figures, the selling of ambassadorships and many downright criminal activities. This time, tens of millions of Americans took the game away from the fat cats and paid for the campaigns themselves through the one dollar check-off on their tax returns. Early critics of the law said only candidates with great national reputations would meet the matching requirements and get through the primaries. But the law enabled a nationally unknown peanut farmer and ex-governor to travel the long road to the Democratic nomination. Critics also said the law would outrageously favor incumbents.

But in 1976 the incumbent came close to losing the nomination of his own party and in the general election became the first incumbent to be defeated in the 44 years since Herbert Hoover. There are improvements that passengers on the Egyptian Boeing 707 jetliner, and police said at least 18 mill workers were missing and presumed dead. Egyptian officials in Cairo said a team of experts was on its way to search for the flight recorder to learn why the plane crashed a mile short of the Bangkok airport runway. Bangkok police said most of the corpses were charred or mangled beyond recognition and the plane and factory were totally destroyed. They said it was the worst aviation disaster in Thai history.

Supichai Phindabutt, a 30- Spending limits for the candidates were too low. The $21.8 million that went to major party candidates in the 1976 election should be significantly raised. We must not imagine, however, that if the limits are raised, the extra money will be spent (as some would hope) for bumper buttons and volunteer organizing. If the candidates are able to spend more they'll spend it on the media, unless other steps are taken to focus resources on local activity and the paraphernalia of volunteer organizing. One way to deal with this issue would be to provide that state and local parties could spend money on behalf of the presidential candidates at the same rate as the two cents per voter provision for the national parties.

This would correct a mistake in the law and help restore to the state and local level of the parties the opportunity to play their traditional role. The present law provides year-old mechanic employed at the factory, said he was returning to his post at the end of the break when he heard the jet scream low toward the compound, smash the tops of nearby worker dormitories and crash into the factory. "Then I saw three explosions," Supichai said. "One man and two women came out of the factory burning. The man jumped into a canal.

I think he died. "I heard many people screaming and crying inside Continued On Back Page This Section committees, both labor and the professions appeared to outrank business in the amount spent, but the business world is gearing up to regain its position in 1978. So we face a kind of escalating political arms race to see who can paper Congress with the most currency. One immediate corrective measure would be to reduce substantially the present $5,000 ceiling on giving by special interest political committees. In addition, the $1,000 limit on individual contributions should be retained.

But the overriding solution is public financing of congressional campaigns. A problem continues. "We anticipate the entire project will be completed in two months," Martin said, adding that main lines also are planned for areas bounded by Contest, Lovelaceville-Florence Station and Luigs roads to near St. John Church. Those areas were not included in the original project "because we didn't know how much money we were going to get," Martin said.

The Farmers Home Administration, which provided a $514,000 loan and a grant of $300,000, stipulated that at least 80 per cent of the original project had to be completed before any surplus money could be used for the additional lines. Those areas also should be receiving system water in about three months, he said. Once water becomes available to customers, the homeowner will be responsible for the installation of the line from their homes to the water meter installed by the association. Residents currently are utilizing well water. A booster station will be located on Massac Church Road, about a half-mile south of U.S.

62 for pumping water into the system and tank, Martin said. "One thing I want to point out is that there is going to be some interruption of service for awhile," he said. Some residents who already have tapped onto the system's water main have complained that the water service sometimes is shut off. "This Is necessary while the testing, disinfecting and other Plunge of Egyptian jet is fatal to 69 JackPaxton joins S-D Jack Paxton has joined the Sun-Democrat as associate editor. Paxton, 37, was for ten years a writer and reporter for NBC News.

He spent most of his time with the television network in New York City but also served tours in Vietnam, Hong Kong, India, Israel and Western Europe. Paxton, a native of Paducah, said he returned home after 22 years away at school, in the army and with the network because "I got tired of traveling, I never found a place I liked better than Paducah and I was of fered a good, honest job." By NEAL ULEVICH Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -Rescue workers pulled charred bodies Saturday from the wreckage of an Egyptian jetliner which plunged into a textile mill and exploded early Christmas morning. About 69 persons were believed killed, including all the jet's passengers and several workers. Officials said about 40 bodies were recovered before the search was suspended to await the arrival of Egyptian aviation experts. Airline officials -in Bangkok said there had been at least 51.