Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 71

I M3T0N HERALDLEADER Section Friday November 8 1 985 Classified B3 Baesler seeks to upgrade look of neighborhoods streets not that possesselwith he said of politics just as soon go into business when I get In the meantime he said he would devote his energies to the business of running parks once Lexington receives its last share of federal revemiesharing fends he said And with state cooperation plans to widen Nicho-lasville Richmond and possibly New Circle roads should take shape during the coming year he said he said But residents will pay for the federally mandated expansion of the Town Branch sewage treatment plant Baesler said sewer user fees probably would increase in 1986 with the average homeowner paying $35 to 60 more a year The expansion will cost the Urban County Government up to $30 million making the fee increase unavoidable he said Kentucky's economic well-being by attracting new business which in turn would create new jobs If all goes well Baesler said the coalition will present a legislative reform package to the 1968 General Assembly Although his travels to advance his partnership program had sparked speculation that he planned to run for a state pok Baesler has said repeatedly that be will not leave the mayor's office before 1968 just going to be he said However Baesler said he might consider a run for the UJ Senate or House of Representatives or even governor after 1968 By Jacqueline Duke 1 -l I nBran-LMoor kbit wmor i Mayor Scotty Baesler spent mudi of his first term in office changing the face of downtown Lexington Now after emerging unopposed in his bid to a second tom Baesler can turn to the projects drat he says interest him most: improving the look of neighborhoods and streets In a wide-ranging interview yesterday Baesler discussed some of the projects he hopes to accomplish during his final term which begins in January The Urban County Government will acquire land for about a dozen new neighborhood During his first term Baesler put the revival of downtown on the top of his agenda beginning with the Victorian Square project A variety of other new developments have followed: the festival marketplace the Lexington Financial Center and Central Park Construction will begin next year on a new central' library and The One Eleven and Central Park (Urn to BAESLER B3) Road improvements and park ment are some of the services that will i without an additional price Baesler said he would recommend no increase in property tax rates during his final term even though Lexington no longer will receive federal revenue-sharing fends after this year think people will notice the differ ence in a pretty good state On a broader scale Baesler said he would continue to work with leaders across the state to promote the concept of a partnership among local governments business and vocational schools community colleges and universities Such a coalition he reasons would ensure $1000 fees to lawyers ruled legal Payments went to 2 supporters of Alice candidacy By Mary Ann Roser HerakHoader staff writer State Superintendent of Public Instruction Alice' McDonald apparently did not break any laws when she used state money to make $1000 payments to two of her political supporters for attending meetings the attorney office said in a letter released yesterday But the letter from Attorney General David Armstrong said that his Mon CltyStato nows It on Pago C14 Armstrong in June to investigate the payments The letter was made public yesterday The money went to Louisville lawyers Robert Barnett III and his partner John Bleidt both of whom were Supporters of McDonald's 1983 campaign for superintendent of public instruction The two men received the payments for meetings they attended with McDonald on Dec 2 and Dec 3 1984 and Feb 12 1985 "It has been suggested that these stipend payments were political to Ms Armstrong said in his letter law does not limit fee awarding of stipends to political supporters so long as the announced purpose of the payments actually McDonald apparently has discretionary authority to make such payments up to $1000 and they would be illegal only if they were awarded for a fraudulent purpose Armstrong said in his letter' HarakRjMderRon Garrison investigation had been stymied because none of the taw people involved had been available for inter views In a memo to Armstrong a subordinate said the probe had readied a dead end because of the "stonewalling of those involved letter dated Oct 14 was sent to Rep Bob Jones D-Crestwood the chairman of the legislative personal service contract review subcommittee He asked Frontier Nursing Service display Lindsay Roseberry and Doris Geoghegan University of Kentucky graduate students inspected yesterday a uniform like those worn by Frontier Nursing Service nurses in the 1 930s In the foreground is a picture of a baby in a saddlebag Nurses carried equipment in saddlebags when they made their rounds on horseback in Eastern Kentucky The display is (art of a collection of materials and pictures dedicated yesterday at the Margaret I King Library at the University of Kentucky The nursing service is based in Leslie County Woman found murdered in Knox still unidentified "The quality of the work required is not defined so that a meeting with the superintendent (foe purpose announced here) would be sufficient reason to justify the stipend even though the meeting may have produced little or anything of substantive he addel Armstrong said that the investigation was incomplete because his office had been unable to interview any of the key people involved Barnett McDonald and two of her top administrative deputies James Yocom and Joe Woolums refused to be interviewed (Turn to S1JOOO B3) said police are "not really much to solving the cases than they were far late April when FBI officials met with law enforcement personnel from the states where the bodies were found Watson said investigators will feed their information into foe Violent Crimes Apprehension Program computer in hopes of determining whether foe murders could have been the work of a aerial killer and to build a personality profile of the killer just going to be to solve the crimes Walker sail By Bill Estep Cumberland Valley bureau CORBIN More than seven months after the body of a slightly built young woman with reddish-brown hair was found near Corbin investigators sakl yesterday that the identity was still a mystery The death may have been tied to the string of redhead so named because some of the victims had red or reddishbrown hair authorities said still get inquiries all the time from people wanting to know if they ever found out who she said Bob Deaton the manager of Funeral Home in BarbounriUe which provided the funeral for the woman Her nearly nude body was found April 1 in a refrigerator in a dump at Gray in Knox County four miles east of Corbin still working on the case very actively bat she has not been Kentucky State Police trooper Bill Riley said Circumstances surrounding the death linked her to the unsolved deaths of at least seven other women in four other states Tour of the bodies were found in Tennessee Others were discovered in Pennsylvania Mississippi and Arkansas 1 Steve Watson deputy director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said recently that perhaps only or of the murders were linked although all remain under investigation as part of the case Only one of the eight women has been identified She was Lisa Ann Nichols 28 of West Virginia whose body was found Sept 16 1984 dumped near a major highway in West Mon-phis Aik Watson said the inability to identi fy others despite efforts by police to match the women with of missing-persons reports has slowed progress in the case we could identity the victims it would give us a real starting Watson said Nagging dissimilarities also have prevented police from establishing a conclusive link among die murders All of the victims were fairly young white females but fewer than half shared the hair color that gave foe cases their name Charles Walker a Crittenden County Ark criminal investigatin' Probe finds no proof of sexual harassment 24 farm deaths in 3rd quarter most since Staff wira report Twenty-four people were killed in farm-related accidents in Kentucky during July August and September foe most since foe Kentucky Farm Bureau began an accident survey in 1981 This year's death toll from farm-related accidents is at 45 the same as for the first nine months of 1984 What is particularly alarming Farm Bureau safety director David Finney sakl yesterday is an increase in tractor-related fatalities Kentucky has had more than 90 such fatalities over foe last three yean and leads foe nation in foe category of foe most interesting things is that foe tractor-related fatality which normally is our leader was responsible far about 75 percent of these fatalities and up 25 percent from normal" Finney sftid Tractors were involved in 18 of foe summertime deaths and they overturned- in 14 of those fatal accidents said Finney who coordinates the survey Mowing and towing showed up most often In the study as the prime causes of tractor overturns (Turn to FARM-RELATED B2) Hearn said last night that she made the complaint against one of the officers after he allegedly touched her and against the other when he allegedly made suggestive remarks toward my During the internal investigation prompted fay the charges McFadden sail did not find any proof of wiwi However he sail "fee conduct should not have occurrel There was conversations and talk that should not have occurred in a professional setting-" The internal Investigation began after Hearn an officer for almost 12 years formalized complaints that she made May 29 After Sellars affirmative action officer Julius Berry and urban county personnel attorney Terry Holmes received foe case for review Sellars said he asked that Hearn and foe (Han to KOBE backpaga) By Valarie Honeycutt Herald-Leader staff writer An Urban County Government investigation provided no proof that two Lexington police officers engaged in sexual harassment Commissioner Terry Sellars said yesterday but they "may have permitted an improper atmosphere to develop in their The two male officers both far supervisory positions were not far-malty discipline! Chief John McFad-den sail But McFadden sail parties involved" were admonished and were-warned that sexual harassment would not be toleratel Earfier this year Lexington police officer Stella Hearn filed formal mmI harassment charges gainst the two male officers She said last night that one was a captain and foe other a lieutenant Hearn and top police officials have declined to identity foe officers Hsrakt-LaaderRon Garrison The song squad Michelle Moskowitz Missy Heaton and Stephanie Russell exercised their vocal cords yesterday during a rehearsal of a junior high music program in Lexington About 250 Fayette County junior high students were scheduled to sing last night at the University of Kentucky Center tor the Arts Michelle and Missy are from Beaumont Junior High School and Stephanie is from Southern Junior Cocaine hunt resumes after bag linked to Thornton found Gamer sail Gamer said Thomton probably was dropping the drug to be picked up by fellow smugglers Perhaps he did not have time to attach each duffel bsg to a parachute Gamer ty that more is out Said Gary Gamer foe head of the Georgia Bureau of Gainesville office An empty parachute found Sept 12 in Cherokee Comity Ga about 40 miles south of the most recent discovery might have been dropped by Thornton Gamer said foe cords on the cargotype chute had been cut indicating foe recipient did not want to take the time to uiibuckle the cargo from the chute Tests on foe parachute have not been completel The federal Drug Enforcement Administration was tracking the parachute's history based on numbers on foe canopy trees for logging Walters said that foe duffel hag which was not attached to a parachute was broken open and that kilo bundles of cocaine had spilled out The duffel bag matched the hag found with Thornton and foe force bags found Sept 14 attached to a parachute in foe Chattahoochee National Forest The cocaine was wrapped and marked identically in all three cases Walters sail The cocaine was found far a heavfiy wooded area 200 to 300 yards from foe location of the hags found Sept 14 Walters sail there is a very good possibili ered to 368 pounds with an estimated value of $716 million Eddie Walters a forest service law enforcement agent said authorities were convinced that Thornton dropped at least one more load in Fannin County on his way to Knoxville on Sept 1L Thornton a former Lexington narcotics officer was killed when he landed on his back after abandoning his plane and parachuting into a residential neighborhood with 75 pounds of cocaine Forest rangers came across the latest find Tuesday while on a routine excursion to mark ByKitWagar HarakUMdor staff writer The discovery of another 75 pounds of cocaine linked to drug smuggler Andrew Thornton II has rekindled efforts to find MVfifinnni iwh that Thornton may have dropped in Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest US Forest rangers and agents of foe Georgia Bureau of Investigation resumed flights over Fannin County which borders Tennessee looking far additional bags of the drug Tuesday's discovery the third linked directty to Thornton brings the amount recov Walters and Gamer said they had no evidence of anyone searching for or picking up cocaine in foe forest after Thornton's shipment was droppel But Gamer sakl he would not give out the location of foe Fannin County discoveries to discourage fortune seekers from combing the forest I -V K' I I 1 7f- r-' i si AfelKb fpf 1 1 Ms WP.