Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 21

Lexington By Tuesday October 27 1H1 0 TV 0 Classified Section The court jester turned to queen '1 1 v- -c 'V J-V- rT v- -dj 1 1 reiTf XI £rV i 3 -i-V 1 1 wt' i 0 By JUDI JOSEPH Laatei naif i the Boyle County town In preparation for homecoming the students vote for a queen and court Each of the four grades freshman through senior elect their own representative for the court and all the students vote to select a senior as queen Ibis year first attempt at royalty "I tried to tun for Junior attendant last year but they (the administration) wouldn't let me do it well I think anybody took me seriously So this time I DANVILLE "All I really says Mike Preston "was to ride on top of a car in the parade down Main Street and to get to walk out on the football Preston got all that and more: A rhinestone-studded tiara a dozen red roses and the title-of 1981 Danville High School Homecoming Queen The week following his coronation he's also getting some friendly kidding from his teammates on the hadwnwH team and some icy stares from the female contestants in the homecoming competition "I had some kidding today from a few people who thought I was a' few people hollered out he said Monday as he left the school gym after basketball practice "One of the ghfo boyfriends stopped speaking to me You please he reasoned with a smile and a shrug Preston an Impish-looking 18-year-old with auburn hair and blue eyes admits he out to prove anything by putting himself in the running for that Ugh school the chance to reign over the football team and fons at the homecoming game "I Just wanted to upset tradition Our cuss done that much we're dull at the pep rallies I wanted our class to be the one that could say had the first male homecoming About 650 students attend Danville High School a modem red brick building nestled between large well-kept homes ta a tree-shaded section of made up little name fogs and things so people would know I wu He that serious he admits "I only wanted to get in the top four so I could ride in the parade But as it a closer to the election I knew I a chance because everyone said vote for Last Friday he got his chance to ride down Mam Street "I rode in a Datsun 280-ZX Turbo from one of the car dealers and at the game I rode in a Camaro He got his chance to walk out on the football field too during halftime of the game between Danville and Montgomery County "There were 15 girls out there plus While the female contestants had male escorts Preston was escorted across the field by his girlfriend i for Liza Upton While the female i testants were outfitted in dresses and plaid skirts and blazers Preston wore a navy sport coat and tan pants and his friend Keith hiking boots "I heard It was going to be really cold and I wanted to keep my Please sect MALE Page 2 this i Lntann LeaderJDAVID TCtXY AlVa mnll iUn Four Longtonians just bought- from left Larry Kezele John Wolff wMl lllUl UWCllS well houses on North Limestone Street dis- John Morgan and Charles Mihalek' I cuss plans for renovating the inner- Three of the four houses are in the city homes The homeowners are" background t- Homeowners are betting on North Limestone par -4 iv Both Mihalek's and houses known as the Jacob Ott houses were built in the 1860s by the same builder and are examides of Greek revival architecture i His father a retired maintenance worker for Rockwell International in Winchester betas him and teaches him -about renovation as they go along --V-: Because of financial limitations Kezele said he has to be resourceful to get the quality he wants in the house For example he found the skylights he wanted for each buying then bom a former who got than as salvage in a warehouse wrecking project "I saved several hundred dollars when I have to buy them said Kezele Mihalek said new houses are nice you have to spend six years working an it But they have hardwood floonand they fi a -V'wV By MAKTI MARTIN Liaderitafl wilier Hookers and 100-yearokl houses: North Lime Police have tried repeatedly to break up North Limestone prostitution traffic heaviest between Third and Fifth streets and still there But so are the houses And they may prove to be the key to cleaning up the neighborhood Several homeowners have begun repairing or restoring the houses They hope that nicer houses will attract nicer neighbors that maybe the prostitutes and pimps and their customers will move on Four homeowners who formed an alliance of sorts recently are out to improve a chunk of the 300 block of North Lime opposite Lexington Junior High School Each has bought a house on the block and three plan extensive renovations John Morgan 28 a mining engineer bought a twoatory brick house at 343 Limestone St The Rev Adam Rankin II a controversial minister who founded what became the First Presbyterian Church once lived in the Georgian-style home Built in 1808 it is the only antebellum house left on the block and is one of the oldest houses in the city John Wolff Jr a 43yearold Realtor purchased in partnership an Italianate townhouse built around I860 or 1870 at 353 Limestone St when the Civil War was lY' 1 1 The costs of the four houses ranged from fliEOOO to 530000 After they bought the houses the four men formed a corporation Transylvania Mews Inc and bought a fifth house which they had tom down to improve the neighborhood Morgan said the house that was demolished provided a lesson in alternative lifestyles so many people can live in such squalor for so long city condemned the property right after we purchased he said "It was a blight to the Some of their own houses exactly hi applepie order either Wolff said his house was the only one of the four homes that need major repairs He has made some repairs however and plans to keep the property in good shape Wolff the only married man in the group is also the only one who plan to live in the He bought it as an investment he 30 said he plans to move into Us when finished restoring it for he has spent over a year at about 40 hours a week working on it seems like tearing down the house and building it at the same And he is All the upstairs interior walls have been replaced and he's now ripping out the h' The attorney says he's going to have to hire people to do his renovation work Tm not like these creative talented Mows And my law practice keeps me Both Morgan and Kezele have put in new foraaces heating and air conditioning in their homes Morgan said the toughest project he had was putting on a new roof "Doing that house was Just a piece of cake for says Kezele "John renovated one that was built in 4 A a native of England and his parents restored the 530yeartd house in Suffolk Eng- Meet 'Queen Mike 9 He was in the midst of renovating a cottage built in 1750 in Wales when Taywood Mining transferred him from its London office to Lexing- HOMEOWNERS Page 2 this Larry Kezele administrative assistant to the public works commissioner and his father Charles bought a two-story home at 355 Limestone St Charles Mihalek a 35-year-old attorney bought a house at 358 Limestone St Danville High School homecoming queen Mike Preston and the other nominees for queen Seated next to Mike is Jill Martin Standing from left are Michelle Frisby and Elizabeth Howard who in competition for Channel 62 Kentucky Education Authority Today Lexington Family -Television Inc Sparta mavta-Mtwoik reruns 90 percent of LFTs stock is owned by Candy Schageene a Sarasota Fla graphic illustrator Family Broadcasting Corp i Sports movies network re-nms soaic church sendees FBC has 10 stockholders including Lexington -Coundhnu Ediar Wallace Instructional programming now on KETa cable channel KET-etc KEA financed by federal and state -money and private dona- Game No 6 of the World Series gets under way at 8 pm Channel 36 will carry the game between the New York Yankees and Lob Angeles Dodgers played in New York- Michael Fogler gives a faculty recital on guitar and luta at 8 pm in the recital hafl of the University of Kentucky Center for the Arts no charge Way of the Cross Outreach Church services network reruns Way of the Grose headed by Ed Bowids a former Kentuckian who a veteran of TV ministry and founder of TJJ (Time out yfar Jesus) Productlone It (dans to use the station to Mead-cast the educational programs already carried on Kentucky Educational Television's cable channel KET-etc KET-etc ta shown only on Lexington cable explained KET executive Leonard Press so its profile high grams which include By SUSAN WHITE Leader TV ctlanatat 'V" For almost four months now four groups of people have been slogging 7 through the FCC bureaucracy hoping to win the license to broadcast on Channel 62 which has been vacant ever since WTVQ-TV moved to the more powerful Channel 36 One of those groups profiled Monday is the Way of the Cross Outreach Inc a non-profit religious group which wants to bring more churdHriemed programming to Lex- faigton But the other groups all have quite different goals The Family' Broadcasting Corporation for instance makes no bones about the fact that it's in busines to make a profit It would use Channel 62 for independent-station programming The emphasis would be on-iports movies network reruns and i some local church services Instead of regular half-hour newscasts FBC would probably give short two-minute newscasts throughout the day FBC has nine local and one out-of-town stockholder the out-of-towner providing much of the expertise Ian (Sandy) Wheeier a veteran broadcaster who already owns shares in independent stations in Charlotte NC Topeka Kans Wash- ington DC and Tampa Fla Although Whnler says he is ccn-'Vinced that bis coup will eventually win the Uoense for Channel 6L ments) and then you listen to their An LFT station would be another independent station Grants said It would use counterprogramming (airing sports while the other stations were featuring movies and so on) to win viewers and would probably do fivminute newscasts Crants himself owns shares ta an independent station now under construction in Springfield Mo and he also has applications pending for several other independent stations school equivalency courses and others for college credit reaching those areas of Kentucky tint need tor in Sarasota Fla Ms Schageene is in the business oh the advice of her brother Doctor Crants a financial adviser in Nashville Term He introduced her to Hal Dixon a Cleveland TemL businessman who became a 10 percent shareholder in the corporation Although Ms Schageene referred all questions about the station to her brother he Insists that Ids Schageene win take an active part in the busi- of the questions the FCC asks is the applicants going to be tacit Investors or will they take a real Interest in the running of the station?" Crants explained sister intends to take an If LFT is awarded the license Ms Schageene will move to Lexington and run the station had no experience in tint field Crants says but "running a television station is a business at one level and a series of teeb-nicafikills at the other end you hire experts (to handle the various depart- not naive enough to think the decision will come any time socn The FCC deliberated five years before granting Ms Tampa station a license he pointed out and there were only three applicants involved not four as there are in Lexington The local people who own shares in FBC include Irving Rosenstein a land developer whose projects include Crossroads Shopping Center his son Robert Stephen Kesten district sales manager for Channel master Corporation Steven Caller president of Investors Building Corp James Clifton vice president of Hilliard Lyons David Stevens an orthopedic Louise Ward a real estate broker in Woodford County Edgar Wallace a realtor and city councilman ud Robert Miller a lawyer with Miller Griffin and Marks Ninety percent of the stock in Lexington Family Television Inc is owned Candy Schageene a 31-yearora former Louisville resident who now works as a graphic IDustra- Wednesday The Junkyard Players present Acts in the Great at noon Wednesday in the Great Hall of the UK Student Canter The free performance is open to the public Lexington singer Sparkle Hart performs at 8 pm at the Continental HaBin the Continental Inn 801 New Circle Road Tickets to the concert billed as a Vegatype show with music ranging from Loretta Lynn to Barbra are 17 JO and S650 In advance and S750 at th door fpr reservations According to Press the bast expensive way to get the KET-etc signal picked up by other cable systems in the state seems to be to broadcast the signal to the cable companies from Channel 62 The ranges of that broadcast would beodmded by the use of low-powered transmitters KET wouldn't aril commercials on its station It would operate with money provided by the state and federal governments as well as occasional fomhaising drives His experience with the FCC has made Crants aware of one Mg phis he and his sister share If all the applications for license are equal he said the FCC may choose the applicant with the most minority stockholders And he and Ms sister are onequarter American Indian one of the smallest minority groups in the country -The group that wants Channel 62 to become an instructional station the Kentucky Educational Authority-.