The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky • 3

Lexington Herald Thursday June 26 1980 A-3 CitySta te Housing Officials Accuse Social Worker of Violating Zoning Laws a two-bedroom house at 430 Pyke Road off South Broadway into a boarding house for nine women The ordinance carries a maximum fine of $500 for each day the violation continues Since she is charged over a 64-day period Mrs Wilson could be fined as much as $302000 If she is found gulty Mrs Wilson can also be ordered to close her houses to boarders Her hearing is scheduled for 1 pm July 1 Bob Ritchie a building code enforcement officer who brought the charges against Mrs Wilson says the case arose from complaints "There were reports of lewd and offensive behavior and some persons had called saying they were in fear of their Ritchie says our main concern is for the safety of the people who are living in the Ritchie says that as many as 12 people have lived in the Pyke Road house at one time seven of whom were "crowded into a damp basement with only one exit and very poor "When I went through there they had all those beds lined up in the basement and a crib pushed up against a furnace" he says "If there had been a fire we'd have had seven bodies carried out of No one disputes the charge that the nine women who range in age from 24 to 56 are living in the house and that the neighborhood is zoned for angle families R-l zone in which Mrs houses are located allow a maximum of two boarders But Mrs Wilson says the government should "have some for her boarders most of whom she says are alcoholics and former mental patients Mrs Wilson says she also operates two other boarding houses one nextdoor to her father's home on Duncan Street and one at 1407 North Limestone Street District Court records show that her father John Moore is charged with a zoning violation on the Duncan Street house and that John Hundley faces a similar charge on the North Limestone Street house Mrs Wilson says she is responsible for all three houses her father "is just her and Hundley "is really a boarder Jack Burch executive director says the agency is planning no action against Mrs Wilson if she loses her case Said Burch "What she does on her own time is her own Mrs Wilson says the boarding houses are "a non-profit despite claims she has heard from (Turn to HOUSING A-4) By Mike York 01 TtwHaraM Staff A 29-year-old Lexington social worker will go to court next week in an unusual criminal case that could test the power of the local government to enforce its zoning laws Housing officials have charged Kathy Wilson a social worker for Community Action of Lexington Fayette County with violating the ordinance that restricts some neighborhoods to single-family residences Mrs Wilson ran afoul of die law the officials say when she converted Grand Jury Calls Oilman Ex-Officials 3 Masked Men With Fake Bomb Rob Ashland Bank By Jack Seamonds By Woodson Emmons Of Ttw HarOd Staff A business venture' involving framer state Democratic Party Chairman Howard Hunt Jr and the purchase of the old Hidden Valley resort were apparently among the topics of interest Wednesday as the special federal grand Jury resumed its investigation of alleged corruption in Kentucky state government Among the witnesses were Indiana oilman Vaughn Price David Bland former state corrections commissioner Joe Barbee formerly administrative assistant and Jay Spurrier a vice president with Kentucky Utilities Two other witnesses could not be identified Price who said he owns Price Oi Services of Princeton Ind was apparently questioned about his business dealings with Hunt and other Frankfort figures Asked before his grand jury appearance why he had been subpoenaed Price said has something to do with David dark and some kind of political Testified Last Summer Clark 1 of Frankfort' Is a vice president of Hurst Roche Engineers Inc a consulting firm that received several large state contracts during the administration of former Gov Julian Carroll Last summer Clark appeared before the grand Jury to testify about business dealings he had with Hunt tiie former state Democratic Party chairman Among the dealings was an oil venture with an unnamed Indiana firm Price said Wednesday that he knew Hunt but said only met the man once in my life and I know him now if he walked through that Atlas Oil-Atlas Operating Co was listed below name on his subpoena Records at the Secretary of office show that Atlas OU was incorporated in Kentucky in October 1974 In November 1978 the name was changed to Hydrocarbon Resources Inc David Clark is named among: the board of directors and Wil-1 Ham Curlin Jr a Frankfort lawyer and dose political ally of Carroll is the listed process agent Price said his business ventures in Kentucky include oil exploration in Lee County Lexington HenMDevM Peny Debby Donnellan takes daughter Jenny to day-care center on LexTran bus ASHLAND Ky An Ashland bank was robbed of an estimated $147000 Wednesday by three men carrying what they said was a nitroglycerin bomb inside a briefcase The robbery took place while Ashland police were checking bomb' threats in an apartment complex and a shopping center A US Army bomb squad was flown to the bank from Fort Knox arriving by helicopter and landing in the parking lot about 1 pm Officers delicately opened the briefcase after discharging a small explosive device beside the briefcase Inside they found a small dear bottle containing a dear liquid but members of the bomb squad said it was not nitroglycerin The robbery occurred about-10 am Shortly before the robbery police evacuated an estimated 380 resi-: dents from the Scopes Towers apartment complex for the elderly In downtown Ashland after a telephoned bomb threat No serious injuries were (hiring the evacuation A spokesman for Daughters Hospital said one woman from Scopes Towers was treated for chest pains but later released Police said they believed the men who robbed the bank made the bomb threat to the apartment buildings to distract attention Officials at the First Bank and Trust of Ashland branch at Midtown Shopping Center said three men wearing ski masks entered the bank where a half-dozen employees were at work One went into the office oi the manager Marilyn Smith and told her there was a bomb inside the briefcase he was carrying Mrs Smith said the maa ordered her to hand over several bags of money After she did the men fled in a black pickup truck which was later found parked a short distance from the bank Dkesman1 Hearing Planned on Route Cutbacks 7:30 pjn July 28 No site has been set for the meeting The proposed route eliminations came during a sometimes-heated session Four members of the Lexing-ton-Fayette Urban County Council appeared to suggest other ways of saving money such as reducing management expenses raising fares and combining routes Several residents including some LexTran drivers also appeared to urge that routes not be eliminated Gene Miller a LexTran driver said there is "a mistaken impres that most riders are poor "I think most people would gladly pay a 5Bcent Miller said Debby Donnellan of 702-H Me-Vey Drive also suggested a fore increase "I would much rather pay 50 cents than lose my she said Ms Donnellan said she uses LexTran to get to work and to take her 2-year-old daughter to day care LexTran manager Johnson said (Turn to ROUTE A-4) By Mike York Of Hie Herald Staff LexTran manager Lee Johnson said Wednesday night that the transit authority must make deep cuts in its route system to avoid bankruptcy and he released a set of routes which he said should be eliminated Johnson's list included 4-Ver-sailles Road 5-Wabwt 7-HoDywood 10-Liberty HeightsThranpson Road anil 15-Richmond Road The board scheduled a public hearing on the proposed cutbacks for FBI agents said no arrests have been made and they have no suspects More than 20 stores in the center were- evacuated by police and hundreds of spectators were kept behind police lines about 100 yards from the bank while the bomb squad opened the briefcase Police said they also checked the headquarters downtown at the Second National Bank Arcade for a bomb after a third telephoned threat but they found nothing suspicious At the apartments for the elderly police found several huge railroad flares which resemble dynamite taped together in a first-floor room of one of the buildings Police said the elderly residents some in wheelchairs were kept away from the buildings for several hours while officers searched for a bomb Test Pattern Signals Start On Channel 36 By David Reed I rmn ipmston conor WTVQ-TV finally made it on the air as Channel 36 Wednesday After a delay of nearly two days the local ABC affiliate completed its change from Channel 62 to Channel 36 at 2:18 pm when the station began transmitting a test pattern "This is day one of a new television station in general manager Bill Service said after viewing the first picture from the new transmitter The station officially signed on the air at 2:58 Wednesday afternoon marking the end of a two-year process of making the channel change getting telephone calls from people already who say they can get a better Service noted Just minutes after the station began transmitting even seeing us in Chevy The Chevy Chase area in east end was one area which had difficulty in viewing the old Channel 62 The new Channel 36 transmitter has nearly twice the power of the old transmitter WTVQ went off the air at 12:40 am Saturday In the interim workmen removed the Channel 62 antenna from the top of the station's 1000-foot tower on Bryant Road and replaced it with a new Channel 36 antenna The channel change was scheduled to have been completed Monday night at 8 pm but difficulties in removing part of the old antenna and late-evening thunderstorms prevented that Tuesday it appeared the station would be successful at getting on the air by 10 pm Workmen had placed the new antenna atop the tower shortly after 5 pm But they later discovered a device to keep ice off the tower in winter was in the path of the transmission line from the transmitter to the antenna High winds prevented the crew from removiifg the device until Wednesday morning Station officials and executives from Shamrock Broadcasting WTVQ's parent company will celebrate their new Channel with a party at Spindletop Hall tonight Station employees will do their celebrating during a Saturday afternoon picnic at the station Sturgill Reappointed Young Also Named Governor Picks Black Woman for UK Board Price declined to comment after his grand Jury appearance He left the federal building with an IRS agent who carried a cardboard box apparently containing grand Jury documents The box was labeled "Hurst Last March the grand Jury questioned Curlin and CT Huffins president of the Bank of Mount Vernon in Rockcastle County Huffins said he was questioned about an unsecured $90000 loan his hank made to Hunt Curlin and dark in 1979 Clark according to published reports said the loan was used to finance an oil venture in Oklahoma He denied suggestions that the loan was politically influenced Jerry Ikerd of Somerset another Carroll ally is chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the Bank of Mount Vernon Ikerd appeared before the special grand Jury last December He said then that his appearance "was strictly for some records" and that he had "never had any business with Hunt Neither Bland of Lexington nor Barbee of Danville would comment on the substance of their grand jury appearances Wednesday Bland however said after an appearance before the grand jury last March that he was asked about the purchase of the old Hidden Valley resort for use as a minimum-security correctional facility Stevens Miles William Sturgill WT Young University's Board of Curators He also serves on the UK Development Council and the boards of First Security National Bank and Trust Co Kentucky-American Water Co and Lexington Center Crap Miles a member of the UK Development Council and the UK Business School Advisory Council is a 1951 graduate of Washington and Lee University He is president and chid executive officer of First Kentucky National Corp of Louisville parent company of First National Bank and First Kentucky Trust Co Brown said he chose Miles for the UK board in order to give Louisville and Jefferson County a representative on the board Miles is a former president of the Greater Louisville Fund for the Arts and a former member of the University of Louisville Board of Overseers Sturgill a UK graduate and chairman of the UK Development Council serves as secretary of energy in the Brown administration He is president of East Kentucky Investment Co Fourth Street Tobacco Warehouse Co and Fourth Street Fertilizer Co chairman of Hazard Explosives Co and former president of Golden Oak Mining Co The new trustees are expected to be sworn in at the meeting Friday afternoon By Harry Merritt Ofriia HanM Staff Gov John Brown Jr named Edythe Jones Hayes of Lexington Wednesday as the first black woman member of the University of Kentucky Board oi Trustees Brown also- named Lexington businessman William Young 62 and Louisville banker A Stevens Miles 50 to the UK board and reappointed board chairman William Sturgill of Lexington to another term Mrs Hayes the Fayette County assistant superintendent for federal programs and adult education is only the second black to serve on the UK board Mrs Hayes replaces LD Gorman of Hazard Young replaces Dr John Woodyard of Fort Mitchell and Miles replaces George Griffin of London Brown said Mrs Hayes highly recommended by members of her and predicted that "her experience and background will be a major to UK The first black UK trustee Lexington pharmacist Zlri A Palmer served from 1972 until last September when his term- expired Gov Julian Carroll replaced Palmer with former Commerce Commissioner Terry McBrayer Carroll's choice for governor in the 1979 primary against Brown Mrs Hayes a graduate of West Virginia State University with a degree from UK has done advanced graduate work in special education and adult education at UK and Eastern Kentucky University Mrs Hayes joined the Lexington school system in 1953 as a teacher at Carver Elementary School She was head of the division of federal programs in the city schools from 1965-67 and was named director of the adult education program after the city and county schools -were merged She was also assistant superintendent for the school Area II which includes Lafayette High School Mrs Hayes also serves on the Lexlngtoii-Fayette Urban County Airport Authority and the Board of Trustees of the Retirement System Young a 1939 UK engineering graduate is board chairman of Royal Crown Industries and WT Young Storage Co He also is vice chairman of Brown's Cabinet and heads the Governor's Economic Development Commission and Transylvania.