Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 13

Lexington HeraldLeader Classified B3 Comics BIO Section Saturday March 14 1987 CBS frees Phyllis George from pact By Cindy Rugeley Harald-Lssdar poMcal writer FRANKFORT Phyllis George and CBS News ended their contract this week because she wanted to be free to work in her gubernatorial campaign a campaign spokesman said yesterday George wife of former Gov John Brown Jr had a reputed $2 million contract with the network She served as cnanchor of the CBS show for about eight months in 1985 before resigning far August of that year Pat Mulloy chairman of was excited to get it behind Mulloy said of the contract which was to run until 1981 said she felt she had 10 good years with CBS and felt she had to move Mulloy would not disclose the terms that ended the agreement Mulloy said George had asked Tuesday to be released from the contract and received approval on Thursday Brown filed for governor last month At the time George was asked if she thought her CBS contract would prohibit her from campaigning for her husband but she declined to comment In Prestonsburg before her filing George said she think it would be a problem George figures prominently in a biting article in the April issue of Playboy magazine about problems at CBS News Mulloy said the article had nothing to do with decision to seek release from the contract When George resigned from the show in 1985 she said her decision was prompted by her husband's plan to run again for governor Playboy artMa takaa PbyKa George to Cask Ufaetyta campaign for governor said George asked to be released from the contract because it contained a clause that would have prohibited her from participating in her bid to regain the Job he held from 1979 to 1981 She also wanted to work full-time on her "Chicken by business he said George also is sympathetic to the financial difficulties at CBS that have led to layoffs of several employees he said Phyllis George Startling contrasts US ends supervision of prisons in Kentucky By Mark Cheilgren Associated Press FRANKFORT A decade of federal court supervision of prison system which prompted the expenditure of more than 230 million and construction of more than 2700 new prison beds came to an end yesterday US District Judge Edward Johnstone said the state had made vast improvements in its prison system and he no longer would have to monitor virtually every action taken by the Corrections Cabinet Barbara Jones a Corrections Cabinet attorney who has been involved with the case almost from its beginning in September 1978 was ecstatic at the ruling bottom line is we Ms Jones said is a landmark day in the history of Kentucky 30000 fish looking for a place to call home For Fred Faust of Versailles and all the others the Ashing was easy out there in the middle of Brumfield Hay ft Grain's parking lot at 5GB South Broadway got 30000 just in this one Faust deadpimned He wasn't kidding however Buddy McDaniel who had Just trucked them here said exactly how many live fish Lexington area residents bought Thursday afternoon before demand quickly exceeded supply The fish crappie biuegills arid mostly channel catfish and largemouth bass will stock private ponds and lakes Eight weeks or so from now McDaniel says he'll haul in another 30000 from Farley's Fish Farm in Cash Ark Wonder if he has a bureaucrat brother named XS? State Auditor Mary Ann Tobin recently endorsed Bob Babbage as her successor not quite the way The State Journal in Frankfort told it however The headline said: "Tobin Backs Baggage As Her Somebody passed some unfunny money this week at Allied Sporting Goods 3220 Nicholasville Road says assistant manager Gerald Patrick Stamped on the (10 bill and two singles was kiux klan VIII Lexington Ky" The customer bought shotgun shells No the taxpayer paying for LaFonda Fay and Tina Marie Hickey PowdTS clothes during their long murder trial The families are The Legal Aid office has one to clothe defendants says legal aid attorney Gene Lewter If you're in there Geraldo Rivera come on out Down at WSGS-FM in Hazard they found an old safe in what used to be the lobby of what used to be the Hurst Hotel the Radio Building now The lobby now the studio Monday at 9 am on Randy Watters' talk show with James Bond music blaring in the background try to open the thing Unlike A1 secret vault however the big mystery may be how long it takes to get the thing open Kent Colwell insists he can do it Colwell is a Hazard typewriter repairman A typewriter repairman? Epitaph: After delivering a speech in Daytona Beach Fla several yean ago the speaker sat at a table signing autographs Among those standing in line was a newspaper columnist you'sign the columnist said one quote you would like to be remembered for what would it be?" The speaker even stop to think about that one that conies he wrote worth a It was signed: Hayes" HarakUeadarJocalyn WKems Kathleen Blee of UK shown with early Ku Klux Klan publications is studying Klan women of 1920s Sociologist studies Klan women Ms Jones said she had not seen the 3bpage order filed by Johnstone in Paducah but said the Judge told her the state was substantial compliance on virtually every Johnstone was generally complimentary of the efforts result of these procedures is reflected in more than six yean of vast improvements in the two institutions and the state correctional system as a Johnstone said in his order tremendous improvement in living conditions and physical facilities also manifests itself in a more positive attitude between residents and their Johnstone said a sense the achievements in this regard exceed any improvements in physical Johnstone said he considered the consent decree which was signed with attorneys for prison inmates to be a between the state and the inmates (7Urn to US BS) By Tom McCord Herald-Leader education writer They considered themselves good Christian women involved in sewing circles recipe swappings and baby christenings Among them was Daisy Douglas Barr who was ordained as a Quaker preadier at 16 and was a leader They were the women of the Ku Kiux Klan in the 1920s mothers widows and grandmothers who in some cases believed in rights Such a startling and at times ironic picture of one rtf most vkv ience-prone and hateful groups emerges in the research of Kathleen Blee a University of Kentucky sociologist Ms Blee director of studies at UK plans to write a book about Klan women in the 1920s "Disturbingly enough there were connections between all kinds of wom groups and women in the Ms Blee said in an interview Thursday "For example women who were in the Klan the leaders often came but of other movements out of the temperance movement sometimes out id the suffrage she said learned to be political leaden and they applied it in different said Ms Blee who gave a talk about her research yesterday at library Nearly four years ago she began to study the emergence of women in the Han after World War I She had been studying women who were involved in the progressive movements of the early 20th century Then she discovered that much less research had been done on women in right-wing groups She has focused on the 1920s Han in central Indiana where membership was strong Size is hard to estimate she said but nationwide the membership has been pegged as high as 5 million during that period Han in a lot of communities was was for native-bran people It was also a morality Ms Blee said women's Han had policies that emphasized rights They were very much supportive of suffrage now I emphasize suffrage to them meant white Protestant and natlvebom got the vote out They were a sort of political she said what really intrigued me this combination of advocating rights for a segment of women with the traditional Klan platform: anti-Catho-lic anti-Semitic anti-black" she said Ms Blee has collected Han newspa- (TUm to SOCIOLOGIST BIS) hreftaa A ruling this week by the Kentucky Supreme Court should affect only a re ew child abuse cases Page B2 Court clears way for apartments that city opposed affect the city's ability to keep developers from revising their plans after a zone change has been approved out raid Division of Planning think it would kind of weaken the faith of the surrounding neighbors in the planning But state Rep Bill Leer mission to set aside its decision disapproving the development plan of Shadeiand Venture II When Shadeiand Venture II bought the lQAacre tract on Patchen Drive it was zoned for residential Use based on the original plan to build 86 town-houses In rejecting the new owner's request three times the commission said that any change in the By John Winn Miller Hsreld-Lsader Frankfort buraau FRANKFORT The state Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that Lexington must allow development of an apartment complex on Patchen Drive that was rejected three times by the Planning Commission City officials said they wanted to study the decision before com-' meeting but one said it could original plan could cause traffic problems and would alter the essential character of this residential But the Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court that the traffic issue not based upon substantial because the traffic engineer had testified that existing roads could handle any increase (1 Urn to COURT backpage) Lexington attorney who specializes in zoning cases said he thought the court decision would not have any substantial effect on other zone changes He said the city had always been able to impose binding agreements on developers done In this case the Court of Appeals upheld a 1985 ruling by Fayette Circuit Judge LT Grant who ordered the Planning Com UK heart surgery chief resigns under pressure UK seminar sheds light on apartheid audience popped Karen Lllford a nirar at Barren County High Junior School open-heart surgery program and said he would like to see more surgeries performed Todd was a member at the team of surgeons who performed open-heart surgery at UK and the Veterans Administration Medical Center The VA program which will undergo a review in 15 months had been on a list of 10 such VA programs considered for dosing A VA study had recommended Closing open-heart surgery units where fewer than 150 operations a year were performed and where (Turn to HEART backpage) By Sharon Reynolds Hsreld-Lsader staff writer Dr Edward Todd has resigned as chief of the division -of cardio-thoracic surgery at the University of Kentucky Albert Chandler Medical Center after being asked to step down according to the chairman of the department of surgery Dr Byron Young said he sought Todd's resignation because he didn't think the cardkHhoradc surgery program was keeping pace with growth In the rest of the department Young specifically cited the By Tom McCord HsraU-Laadar education writer South African Bishop Desmond daughter and a 17-yea rdd girl from Barren County drove home the realities of global politics yesterday fix about 400 Kentucky teen-agers At an all-day seminar on South Africa at the University of Kentucky Naomi Tutu-Sea vers 26 was answering questions from Kentucky high school students when up from her seat in the Miss Lllford who is white Is a fourth-generation native of Zimbabwe another African nation that was ruled by whites until its Independence In 1980 She told Mrs Tutu-Sea vers who is black that her family was forced to flee Zimbabwe when racial violence flared Miss Lilford wanted to know what would Hsreld-Leadsr Charles Bertram Naomi Tutu-Seavers flanked by William Jacobsen Jr left and Broadus Butler answers questions.