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B2 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER LEXINGTON KY SATURDAY DECEMBER 15 1984 Parents claim drug health problems in local health department but parents said the health department was not equipped to handle the problem The main concern was the problem and they have given board members a week to acknowledge if the problem exists and to offer a proposal to solve the problem After that Mrs Walker said she would take her complaints to the state Board of Education' Expenditure for legal fees The board has spent $1100 defending itself against a lawsuit by one of the board members who contended that the board had violated the state open-meetings law The board member Paul Cummins won the suit in Whitley Circuit Court but the board members voted to appeal the case to the state Court of Appeals The ruling forced the board to move its meetings from the office which had space to few members of the public to a larger rooml Requiring students especially' special education students to do maintenance work at the schools Members of the group said that students had been asked to dean classrooms at Poplar Creek Rockhold and Oak Grove elementary schools and Whitley County Middle School After Mn Walker had read her statement Mays asked for any other business without discussion of the complaints When Mrs Walker pressed the board to acknowledge whether the school had a drug problem the board members declined to an- swer Another parent Williard Brown asked what the school intended to do about a head lice problem at Oak Grove Elementary School and why restrooms at the school had no doors One parent said after the meeting that her child came home with head lice She treated the lice but the child was reinfested at school she sail Oak Grove Principal Dewey Bradley said he referred individuals with head lice to the uals either parents or citizens wish to speak the group must select one spokesman and only that person will be recognized" said Bill Mays the assistant sqierintendent of schools School Superintendent Ernie Siler was not at the meeting The group with Mrs Walker as spokeswoman presented a list of four complaints They were: Allegations of drug problems at Whitley County High School and Whitley County Middle School Parents say that students are using drugs especially marijuana during school hours and on school buses Locked restrooms at Whitley County Middle School One parent said after the meeting that her teen-age daughter's clothes were soiled by menstrual flow because the restrooms were not accessible By Judy Jones Southern Kentucky bureau WILLIAMSBURG Charlene Walker waited mote than two hours in a sweltering room fn a chance to talk with school board member about problems in the Whitley County schools Mrs Walker was one of about 50 parents and county residents who attended Thursday meeting to get answers to questions about allegations of poor quality in their school system But before Mrs Walker was allowed to read her three-minute prepared statement the board laid down restrictions on the extent to which the public could participate in the meeting is the policy of the Whitley County Board of Education that if groups of individ The group was formed on Oct 27 after parents became concerned with (bug prob-J terns One parent who spoke on foe condition that aim not be named said she had withdrawn her 15-year-okl daughter from school for 22 days white the girl overcame a peftistent drug problem Ex-judge gets year in jail $500 fine for jury tampering Pressure over state job cited By Mark Chellgren Associated Press FRANKFORT -State Sen Louis Peniston D-New Castle his wife and Henry County Sheriff Ray Powell improperly attempted to have a Transjiortation Cabinet employee re moved (ran his job according to foe -repot on an attorney investigation obtained yesterday by The Associated Press The Penistons and Powell denied trying to influence the Transportation Cabinet's decisions about the job status of Jesse Chishoim according to foe report and interviews yesterday The Penistons and Powell held with Transportation officials including Secretary Floyd Poore and his chief deputy Steve Reeder to discuss Chisholm foe report said The report said the Penistons and Powell to exert political influence or pressure in attempting to remove Chisholm from his merit system According to the report Chishoim has been an employee of foe Trans- portation Cabinet for 33 years all but two of them in a merit position as a highway engineer Staff wire reports Former Henry County District Judge Robert Hawkins was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail and given a $500 fine for jury tampering a spokeswoman for the Henry County office said The sentence was handed down by Special Judge Laurence Higgins of Jefferson County who presided at foe trial A Henry County Circuit Court jury returned its verdict Nov 15 Hawkins 43 was acquitted of three counts of official misconduct two counts of sodomy me count of tampering with a witness four counts of unlawful transaction with a minor two counts of intimidating a witness and one count of conspiracy to evade process the spokeswoman said The case involved a 15-year-old girl who had appeared before Hawkins in juvenile court and had later testified before a county grand jury Hawkins who resigned Nov 27 must report to the Henry County Jail by Jan 1 Causa of plane crash Is mystery: Federal officials say they are mystified about the cause of Thursday night's fetal crash of a single-engine airplane that wrecked as it was approaching Greater Cincinnati International Airport in Northern Kentucky The crash of the six-seat Cherokee airplane in a wooded ravine about a mite from the airport's Runway 36 kilted Maria Martin 43 of the Cincinnati suburb of Madeira Ohio Two others were injured Airport officials said yesterday that nothing appeared to be wrong with the plane until it plunged from radar screens Stolen cigarettes confiscated: Police confiscated 200 cartons of stolen cigarettes valued at $1200 from the Seventh Street Market and arrested the owner yesterday counties will receive a minimum of $25 from each of their drunken driving convictions The law designates the fee money to be used for law enforcement education and treatment programs record keeping and jail financing State revenues on target General Fund revenues for the month of November were $238 million 123 percent higher than the same month a year ago according to figures released yesterday by the Revenue Cabinet According to a release from foe cabinet much of the increase can be attributed to a shift in the timing of property tax receipts If the property tax receipts are adjusted the cabinet said the real rate of growth for November was 54 percent In either event Secretary Gary Gillis said General Fund revenue receipts were on target for meeting projections for the current fiscal year Stele placing more In jobs: The Kentucky Department for Employment Services found jobs for more than 25000 people during the first quarter of this fiscal year according to statistics released yesterday Commissioner James Daniels said it was the largest quarterly total the department ever had Reception planned for Burdette: A reception to honor outgoing school board member Mary Ann Bur dette will be held Monday night after the Fayette County Board of Education meeting want to honor her and thank her for her eight years of service on the said Mary Birenbaum president of the Fayette County PTA Council which is playing host to the event Burdette lost her reelection fed last month to Marilyn Daniel who will take office in January planned Police said the store was the site of a fencing operation The owner Mohammad Shalash 23 of 1143 Centre Parkway and a mate juvenile who works at the stem each were charged with a felony count of receiving stolen property detective Mike Moynahan said He said an additional 50 cartons of cigarettes valued at about $400 were confiscated from a second grocery in the Lexington area No arrests have been made but an investigation is continuing he said Shalash who remained in the Fayette County Detention Center last night in lieu of $5J)00 cash bond is to be arraigned at 9 am Monday in Fayette District Court The whereabouts were not known last night TV license awarded to Frankfort The Federal Communications Commission used a lottery yesterday to select the winning applicants for 20 low-power television licenses and one of the winners was Frankfort The Kentucky Authority for Educational Television will use Channel 58 for a low-power station People who object to the awards may file a petition with the FCC within 15 days Counties will get part of drunken driving fines: County governments soon will be receiving their share of fines and service charges made under new drunken driving law Under emergency regulations put into effect Thursday by the governor HeraM-LeaderDavid Perry Gathering in the leaves Forrest Conley caretaker for Calvary Cemetery 874 West Main Street used a blower Thursday to gather leaves The leaves have lingered on the trees longer than usual this year requiring further cleanup work At the beginning of the administration of Gov Martha Layne he was named acting director of foe- Department of Motor Vehicle Licens- tag He later became director of foil-Division of Rural and Municipal Aid In January Otto Ingram a deputy cabinet secretary told Chisholm that foe Penistons mid Powell re- Salesman honored for highway heroics quested Secretary Pome on January 11th to remove Chishoim as an em- ployee of state government the port said The Penistons and Powell that Chisholm had not supported Governor Collins (in her 1963 campaign) and had fought against them in prior the report said The report said that the actions of Poore and Ingram were not violations of merit system few on our investigation it does not appear that criminal prosecution would be foe report In cases where the person who performed the heroic feat died his survivors receive the medal and prize money The commission said 12 of the 21 heroes died during the rescue attempts The heroes or their survivors will share grants totaling $52300 Since its founding by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1904 the Carnegie Hero Fluid Commission has recognized 6377 individuals in the United States and Canada for heroism and has granted more than $153 million to them or their survivors Staff wire reports Arthur Ambrose Naltner a 42-yearold salesman and certified hero was on foe job yesterday as usual The only thing different about the day was that reporters kept calling Naltner was among 21 people in the United States and Canada who were recognized by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in a ceremony in Pittsburgh really super a terrific honor" said Naltner who works in Cincinnati and lives in Edgewood in Kenton County Mountaintop hotel for Pikeville will fulfill dream Ronald McDonald House praised as of From Page bi ately needs Ms Caudill said yesterday is splitting open at the seams" she said got new roads coming in everywhere you look The money is here and there is a lot of business going on But people come in here and got no dace for them if they want to have a convention or a place to The development will overtook the man-made canyon through which foe Big Sandy River flows The 6100-million project to triiange foe course of the river so that it no longer flows through Pikeville is expected to be completed next year Ms Caudill said that her Grouse Point Development Corp had already begun some work on a lower level of the mountain in an area owned by foe city The $6 million leveling job is expected to begin next spring and should take about a year to complete she said Frank Morris who is a Pikeville City Commission member and president of the Pikeville Chamber of Commerce said the Grouse Point development was something been trying to get off foe ground for several One of the things that may help the project along Morris said Is that the sale of alcohol has been legal in Pikeville since April have had trouble attracting hotels but we've had several feelers since he said guess it's important to them to have a Ms Caudill said it has not been determined what kind of hotel will be built on the foe nor did foe project a completion date By Andy Mead Herald-Leader staff writer When Nancye Yost Caudill was 6 or 8 years old foe and her father used to climb to the top of a mountain that foe family owns in Pikeville eat hot dogs and talk of someday building something spectacular there Now three decades later Ms Caudill says her dream is going to come true: A corporation she owns has announced plans to level the top of the mountain to build a 309-room hotel a restaurant and lounge and a banquet and convention center that would overtook foe Pikeville cut-through There may even be a cable car spanning die gorge to connect the development with the city recreational area on the other side something the town desper- nior League of Lexington Inc Metropolitan Club Equestrian Events Inc Alpha Delta Pi Sorority Ray Krac Fluid Madison County McDonalds and Friends at Pikeville Paintsville and South Harte Hanks Printer Mr and Mrs George Evans Jr Bluegrass Coop Whirlpool CorpT Central Bank Trust Co Mr and Mrs Joseph McCoy Bluegrass Charity Ball Deluxe Check Printers Foun--dation Knight Foundation Margaret Voorhies Haggin Trust Fayette County Medical Society Foundation University of Kentucky Hospital Auxiliary Bundy Foundation Jefferson Coal Co Lexington Council of Federated end they would circle the (12000 square-foot) house she said But to keep things running smoothly Mrs Cronin said more donations and volunteer labor are needed Needs range from canned goods and peanut butter to someone to bake Christmas cookies and prepare a country ham for a holiday dinner The following are among major contributors to the Ronald McDonald House who have given either services or money in excess of $5000: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Gertrude and Tom Snyder EO Robinson Mountain Fluid Fayette County Medical Auxiliary Ju He will receive a medal and $2300 for a bit of selfless quick thinking that occurred as he drove along Interstate 75 in Cincinnati on Feb What happened was that Naltner who was driving a Volkswagen noticed a Monte Carlo swerving from side to ride hi front of him He pulled ahead of the larger vehicle let it crunch into his bumper then braked both care to a stop That quick thinking was credited with saving the life of 25-yearoid Charles Snowdy of Lexington who had been knocked unconscious when a broken section of a drive shaft from a tractor-trailer truck crashed through his windshield and struck him in foe chest you put everything in perspective you probably would do the same Naltner said yesterday am not by any stretch of the imagination a religious freak but God was there It was through his graces that I managed to do anything" Naltner who has become a father again since that episode said he had no doubts that he could put the prize money to good use six kids are many many he said Another of foe Carnegie awards went posthumously to David Bradford 16 who died while trying to save a 19-year-old friend from drowning at Jenny Wiley State Park on June 12 1961 Bradford of Asheville NC was a student at the Prestonsburg Jobs Corps Cnter when he and Reginald Hunter of Goldsboro NC went swimming at Dewey Lake after earning passes fin their work They were swimming in an area of the lake that was off limits Work on tunnel project halted January But Auxier and Ms Driesler said that foe current contract was being Garden Chibs Harry and Maxie LeVi-ers Foundation Inc Sufi's of Georgetown Gerald Healy family Dixon Electric and Frantz Inc When Yon Want News We've Cot You Coveted When Yon Want Sports We've Gof Yon Covered When You Want Lifestyle' 1 We've Cot You Covered When Yon Want TV Programming We've Gof You Covered equipment into the area and had leased property for its operations The current contract includes the drilling of a test tumid and construct ionof a railroad crossing Sanborn also said that government plans to buy land for right of way and to award the main design contract were halted by action say a kit of people down here are Sanborn said State business leaders have hailed the project not only for its eventual economic effect but also for its potential as a major source of jobs Unemployment remains high throughout the region particularly in Harian and Whitley counties and more than 700 people applied for work when the first 35 jobs were filled Ultimately the project would employ as many as 300 people From Page B1 for increased safety measures for the dangerous stretch of mountain read So hazardous is the 175-mile section of UJS 25-E that Pursifull labeled it Noting that construction of foe tunnel could take eight to nine years Pursifull estimated that 50 to 60 people would lose their lives on the highway in that time Ton Edick chief at the Transportation Federal Lands Section was careful to distinguish the contract suspension from an outright cancellation A suspension he said means only that work will stop a cancellation would be a final termination of construction Edick said-the Reagan administration would be required to get congressional approval to cancel the project by submitting a deferral request when he House and Senate reconvene in When Yon Want Crosswords We've Cot You Coveted When Yon Want Abby's Advice We've Gof You Covered paid for from the budget for fiscal 1961 which ended in October The administration submitted a defer ral request for foe 1984 appropriation but was turned down Frank Richardson foe Interior Department's solicitor said that he was not familiar with the project or the order to stop work but department spokesman George Beridacy said the decision was legal and not unusual Even if foe decision is legal Ms Driester said foe National Park Service has estimated that stopping work on the project could cost taxpayers as much as $1 million in incidental expenses regardless of whether the work is resumed Roy Sanborn superintendent of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park at Middlesboro said the contractor already had moved a great deal of When Yon Want Horoscopes We've Got You Covered When Yon Want Comics We've Gof You Coveted Lexington Herald-Leader For Home Delivery Call 253-1314 or 1-500-432-9548 Police said at the time that Hunter apparently stepped into deep water Herald-Leader staff writer Say and panicked When Bradford tried to Cohn contributed to this-article save him both went under.