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PAGE 1 A SUN-DEMOCRAT. PADUCAH, KENTUCKY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ff 1977 in the news Mrs. Stovall sees defeat for constitution rewrite SZ won't do the job. The entire document must be reviewed to see what needs changing, he said. Sloane, Mid several factors underscore the need for a constitutional convention to analyze the document.

He cited an unrealistic $500,000 debt limit, the expense of annual elections and the antiquated definitions of constitutional offices. He said Kentucky's constitution is different from the federal document because it is much more detailed and restrictive and attempts to deal with things that are resolved by the legislature. Mrs. Stovall challenged the contention that the constitution, is outdated and she sharply opposed any change in the document that might lead to annual legislative sessions. Sloane said he thought that the voters could be able to vote on any new constitution section by section such as terms of elected officials and how often the legislature meets keeping provisions they liked and discarding the balance.

polls this November whether the constitution should be redrafted. Mrs. Stovall conceded during the debate at the University of Kentucky that there is room for change in the 80-year-old constitution, but said the way to do it is by amendment. She said the "time tested constitution" is the same as "the Bible is to Christian doctrine" and is as important to Kentucky as the U.S. Constitution is to the freedom of the nation.

Sloane, however, said tacking amendments on the constitution LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) If half the state's residents don't even know there is a Kentucky constitution, how ire they going to vote to rewrite the 1891 document? Someone asked that of Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall after her debate Monday with Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane on the issue of whether to call a constitutional convention. Mrs.

Stovall replied, "They'll vote no and if they know what they're voting for, they'll still vote no." Kentuckians will decide at the SI JACK SWIGERT hopes to join the list of astronauts who have moved into politics. The Apollo 13 astronaut, who helped guide a crippled spacecraft back from an aborted trip to the moon, announced Monday that he will run for the U.S. Senate. Swigert, a 46-year-old bachelor from Denver, said last June he would seek the Republican nomination for the Senate seat now held by Democrat FLOYD HASKELL, who has said he will seek re-election. He delayed a formal announcement until after his resignation Aug.

31 as staff director of the House Science and Technology Committee. Sens. JOHN GLENN, D-Ohio, and HARRISON "JACK" SCHMIDT, were both astronauts getting into politics. The PRINCE OF WALES should prepare himself for a change-of-pace meal when he stops for lunch with Gov. EDMUND, BROWN JR.

next month. PRINCE CHARLES is scheduled to visit the 39-vear- JAMES E. GROPPI, a former Roman Catholic priest who gained national attention in the 1960s as a leader of civil rights demonstrations, now is trying to become an Episcopal priest. Groppi said tie and his wife, MARGARET, have been attending St. Andrew's Episcopal Church for a year.

He goes before a church commission Oct. 4 for interviews that could lead to his being accepted as a priest. He said he doesn't feel he is leaving the Catholic church because -the essential teachings are the same." Groppi was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church several years ago when he married. BING CROSBY received a standing ovation from mofe than 2.300 fans on the first night of a two-week show at the famed London Palladium. Crosby was accompanied Monday by his wife J4ATHRYN, his guitar-playing son HARRY, singer ROSEMARY CLOONEY and jazz pianist JOE BUSHKIN and his trio.

Interim postmaster named old California governor for 14 hours Oct. 29. "It will be very simple," B. T. COLLINS, a Brown aide, aid of the expected" fare.

Bean sprout sandwiches "or something just as simple," he added. Nichols has served as superintendent of vehicle operations and area safety manager of the Evansville communities with "420" zip codes. He said the Paducah office, however, still will remain classified as a "mail processing center" for the area. Paducah facility no longer will be regarded by the Postal Service as a sectional center. Previously the local office served as a sectional center for area 79th birthday this weekend, left St.

John's Hospital on Monday. He had been hospitalized since Aug. 4, when he entered St! John's for brain surgery and was forced to stay when a clot developed on one of his lungs. "He's in very satisfactory condition, and he'U be going home to recuperate," said spokeswoman Peggy Frank. She said Pidgeon was cheerful and had been given a small party for his birthday.

Actor WALTER PIDGEON has returned home to recuperate from a blood clot on his lung. Pidgeon, who celebrated his TTTTTiTi IILWI Support of canal treaty by Pen tagon ranks voiced 1 TlTP A successor to Paducah Postmaster James Clark, who retired Friday, will not be selected for at least three months, according to James E. Card, manager of the Evansville, sectional center. During the interim period, Clarence E. Nichols, a veteran of 28 years of experience with the U.S.

Postal Service, will serve as officer-in-charge of the Paducah facility. Nichols, who served in the same capacity for about five months last year in Princeton, said postal regulations stipulate that the officer-in-charge can-' not be selected as postmaster of the same facility. "That's why they don't name a local person as officer-in-charge," he said. Gard said it will be his responsibility to review all applicants for the job and reduce the list to five names. From that list, ah Evansville Postal Service impartial panel of four persons will select Dark's successor.

Gard said the summer months are the peak period for postmasters to retire and that the selection process may take five months or more to complete because of the number of vacancies. The Evansville sectional manager added that the i 0 the Pacific and Caribbean ends," he said. He said the bigger danger is a military threat from within the Canal Zone. "If Panama and other Latin American countries or major elements of the Panamanian population became hostile to the United States, then protecting the canal against internal threats, terrorism and guerrilla actions would be much more difficult," the secretary said. The military leaders testified on the second day of three weeks of hearings the foreign relations panel is holding on the treaty signed by President Carter and Panamanian President Omar Torrijos on Sept.

7. WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Harold Brown said today the Pentagon "wholeheartedly and fully" supports the new Panama Canal treaty and believes the agreement will improve U.S. national security interests in the Western Hemisphere. Critics of the treaty have questioned whether U.S. military leaders fully support turning control of the waterway over to the Panamanians after the year 2000.

Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the secretary said: "The Department of Defense has been fully involved in aH stages'of the drafting and negotiating of the treaties." Gen. Brown limited his testimony to the brief three-page description of terms of the treaty calling for-a continued U.S. military presence in the Canal Zone until 2000.

The general said the Joint Chiefs "support the treaty as being protective of military interests of the United States and is providing an effective basis for defense )f the canal." Testifying that the pact will pose no leightened threat to American access to waterway, Secretary Brown said the U.S. Navy retains control of the approaches to the canal, regardless of treaty terms. "Our armed forces now control and they will continue to control with overwhelming forces the sea approaches to canal on both Clarence NichplsJleTthtelks mth carrier Charlie Hayder. Continued On Back (SUA photo by RoaCtart) Over fire marshal suspensions 3 answers for Carroll denies move to block testimony office at that time," the governor said. Speaking to reporters before addressing a Democratic fund raiser next door to the burned out supper club, Carroll said the owners of the nightspot "are in serious trouble" and that criticism of his handling of the disaster afterward was unwar Police Commissioner Kenneth Brandenburgh and Chief Executive Officer Jack Hall.

Attorneys for Richard Schilling and his three sons, owners of the club, had branded Carroll's remarks concerning the Kentucky State Police final report on the fire as "irresponsible and scurrilous." ranted or motivated by politics. The governor also said disciplinary action was planned against Southworth. Carroll, however, said he delayed action against Southworth and his subordinates while awaiting recommendations from special counsel Ovid Lewis, State "What they were referring to is the oath I took to become a lawyer," Carroll said. "But I took an oath to be governor, too, and it supercedes the oath I took as an attorney. "A1LJ did was to summarize the report.

Read the report! They are in serious trouble," he added. FORT THOMAS, Ky. (AP) -Gov. Julian Carroll denies he suspended the state fire marshal and two aides to prevent their testimony before a congressional subcommittee. Rep.

Jhomas Luken, D-Ohio, had complained that Carroll suspended Fire Marshal War- -ren Southworth prior to a congressional hearing last week and prevented Southworth and his aides from testifying. The House Consumer Products subcommittee, of which Luken is a member, was in Cincinnati to look into the possibili-' ty of a national fire code. "He should testify," Carroll said. "They should call him. He should testify for himself.

It is my understanding that he will testify. "But we did not want him testifying as a representative of the commonwealth (of Kentucky) or of the fire marshal's Carroll had suggested the Campbell County grand jury consider indictments for negligence following the fire. The governor also had charged there was a disregard for the safety of the public. Carroll said he now generally supports taking the fire marshal's office out of state insurance department and possibly placing it under the justice department. Carroll said he asked for an investigation that political influence might have kept fire laws from being enforced at the club.

"I think I know what will come out, but Twant them to find it out for themselves," Carroll said. Carroll said statements by former Fire Marshal Billy Williams that the fire marshal's office was a dumping ground for political appointees is were "politics." Gas spill Usher tanker crashes; families evacuated missing inmate By STEVE WTNGFIELD Sun-Democrat Staff Writer EDDYVTLLE, Ky. The evidence points to three possible Explanations for the disappearance of James Yates from the Kentucky State Penitentiary here, but Supt. Donald Bordenkircher said he thinks Yates went over the wall during a fierce storm on Sunday, Sept. 18.

Bordenkircher said evidence accumulated over the past week also points to the possibility of Yates escaping in a group of Murray State and Western Kentucky University students who were part of a criminal justice seminar at the prison on Sept. 19. Or, said Bordenkircher, Yates could still be in the prison, hiding in the labyrinth of tunnels and hidden nooks and crannies at the facility. Bordenkircher said when he had evidence for all three possibilities, he started looking for the abnormal events. He said on the afternoon of Sept.

18, some inmates were playing or watching a football game when there was some sort of confrontation among the prisoners. Bordenkircher said the attention of all the guards was diverted to the confrontation. When officers moved in to break the confrontation up, Bordenkircher said the prisoners dispersed quietly, as if nothing had happened. "The officers said something was wrong," he added. "When such an offbeat situation occurs, it's very easy for one man to slip aside and hide.

Then, said Bordenkircher, "one helluva thunderstorm" hit Eater that afternoon. The storm reduced visibility to 45 or 50 feet, said Bordenkircher. Guards couldn't see Yates if he went over the wall, and over the electric wire that tops the walls, he said. Based on the two extraordinary occurences and his 19 years of prison work, Bordenkircher said he thought Yates went over the wall. It has been two years since a person escaped over the Ed-dyville walls.

HARTFORD, Two families were evacuated from their rural Ohio County homes Monday after a tanker truck carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline rammed a coal truck and overturned. The families lived along U.S. 231, state trooper Phillip Ballard said, in an area where it was feared a fire might result from spilled gasoline. There was no fire, however, and no injuries. The tank portion of the rig was owned by Usher Transport but the tractor was owned by the driver, Michael Emerson of Owensboro.

Ballard said Emerson told police his brakes failed when he tried to avoid hitting another vehicle. Emerson told police he swerved to avoid hitting a pickup truck and the rear of his tanker struck the rear of the coal truck, which was not loaded. Traffic on U.S. 231 north of Hartford was tied up for several hours as the truck was righted and the cargo transferred to another vehicle. It was the second tanker truck accident in three days in Kentucky, after an apparently brakeless gasoline tanker owned by Usher Transport Co.

crashed into a building on Beattyville's main street, triggering a fire that killed seven people. Strange weather for Big Apple Rain clouds hang over New York City, partially obscuring the 110-story twin-towered World Trade Center Ion the sixth straight day of rainy weather. Weather (experts, responding to numerous queries from the muouc, saia ine rainy spell was not triggered by the recent uninese nuclear blast. ililllli Continued On Back Ballantine gets nomination for federal judge if vr day, called the news of his selection to the post a "great birthday present." Both Huddleston and Ford predicted the nomination of Ballantine, who is also a Democrat, would "sail through with flying colors." Ballantime, a Jefferson County circuit judge since 1964 when he was appointed by then Gov. Edward T.Breathitt, would succeed Rhodes Brfetcher, who died in July.

WASHINGTON (AP) -President Jimmy Carter has nominated Thomas A. Jr. of Louisville, to be the next federal judge for the Western District of Kentucky. Ballantine's selection had been confirmed last Thursday by Kentucky's two Democratic U.SJSenators, Walter (Dee) Huddleston and Wendell Ford. The president made the nomination official Monday.

Ballantine, who was 51 Thurs lit..

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