Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 25

Waylon Jennings to receive GED from Martha Wilkinson tial GED students who call in The GED program has been Martha pet project since her husband was elected in 1967 Her of volunteers has gained national recognition for helping thousands of Kentuckians without high school diplomas change that through the GED program After meeting Jennings and his wife singer Jessi Colter at the Kentucky Derby last spring Wil-(Tum to JENNINGS C2) with Wilkinson die wife of Gov Wallace Wilkinson last year He passed the GED exam in Kentucky in December after studying tapes of die KET program on his tour bus The wife gave the tapes to Jennings The presentation to Jennings of his degree will be used to promote Call-In a two-hour program that will air an KET at 8 pjn Monday During the show 1000 free enrollments will be given to poten By Joseph Stroud Herald-Leader education writer Mamas let your babies grow up to be dropouts That might be the message country music singer Waylon Jennings will bring to Kentucky on Monday when he comes to the state Capitol in Frankfort to reoeive his General Educational Development certificate from Martha Wilkinson Jennings enrolled in Kentucky Educational on TV program after talking about it Fie photo Singer Waylon Jennings left Martha Wilkinson singer Jessi Colter Jennings' wife and Gov Wallace Wilkinson met last year at the Kentucky Derby new police Pipes containing asbestos found in Pike water system By Lee Mueller Eastern Kentucky bureau PIKEVILLE While digging into water-system problems this month city workers uncovered something that startled Mayor Walter May more than the estimated 1000 leaks or the $1 million May says it will take this year to repair the system Workers dug up a six-inch waterline made of cement and asbestos a material that has been linked to some kinds of cancer May said the asbestos used as a bonding fiber in the pipe was installed years ago But he said it would be a health problem only if city worker attempting to repair the leaks cut into the line and breathed airborne particles A section of the pipe wrapped in plastic was circulated around Pikeville City Hall yesterday during a news conference on the city's water problems was shocked when I heard we were sending water through asbestos May said There are between five and eight miles of the asbestos-laden pipe in Pikeville's 57-mile system most of it in the Marrowbone section of Pike County said Hal Williams manager of Pikeville ITib-Itc Works While it poses no problems now the pipe is now illegal and environmental officials have advised the city to have it in the ground whm it installs new pipes That day cannot come soon enough fir Pikeville officials The city's new water plant now pumps drinking water to most of Pike County and some arras of Floyd Gunty After the plant shut There are between five and eight miles of the asbestosladen pipe in Pikeville's 57-mile system down temporarily during subzero weather last month to repair a broken water main storage tanks dried up and many customers in the five water districts served by the system lost service far two weeks' The problem said May is that while the city has a new water plant that can produce 6 million gallons of water a day it has an old delapidated distribution system that can handle only 22! million gallons a day like trying to run a Cadillac with Ford A-Model wheels on it" said City Commissioner Walter Blankenship: Workers were afraid to use a second pump at the water plant to fill the tanks Williams said we'd turned on the second pump it would have blown the existing system apart and we would have been out of water all of us" he said Pikeville has a 16-inch water main but the size of the water lines in four water districts ranges from 2 inches to 16 inches Williams displayed several sections of corroded broken pipe that he said had leaked an estimated 316 million gallons last year and cost the city about $134266 May said the city needs at least $1 million to build two storage tanka and comet problems this year Marty Parks and his 13-month-old son Cameron share a look after UK crowd up down just like weather What with the loss of Rex Chapman to the pros that NCAA investigation hanging over their heads two fewer home games and die growing prospect of a losing season the 1968-89 Kentucky Wildcats figured to attract fewer spectators to Rupp Arena than the year before They did Attendance last year for 14 games was 306J525 an average of 21000-plus The previous year the Cats drew 374223 in 16 games an aver age of 23000-plus This edition? Better than last year not so good as the year before Going into home game with Mississippi attendance for 10 games has totaled 226321 an average of 22000-plus hurt this season's average says University of Kentucky sports information director Chris Cameron was the extremely bad weather during die UK Invitational Tournament in December Only 18639 showed up for the first-round games and 20112 for the finals Cameron said Henderson bartender Vicki Darr will have some explaining to do if she's ever stopped by the police how she learned she had some explaining to do: Last spring a Henderson police officer stopped her an a routine traffic check He didn't spot the birth date on her license: But she did: Dec 1986 Darr whose age is fmumble)ty-three says she has tried to get the date changed But state officials say she must have her birth certificate and die cant find it Lexington's WKYT-TV report-ed this week that Democrat John Brock plans to advertise his candidacy the Senate with a commercial during the Super Bowl telecast Sunday Perhaps this time hell get to see it Three years ago when he was a candidate fur Kentucky superintendent of public instruction Brock spent for a Super Bowl commercial It was supposed to air during the second half Instead it appeared during the halftime show Itmck who had been watching the game made a trip to the rrfrigrratnr Ik missed his own cnmmericaL Midnight Madness Richie aermt traditional chili lunch at LSU cinch Dale histrionic Alabama conch Wimp plaid jarkrts Southeastern Conference officiating there's brm a lot for Kick Pitino to get aoruitomcd to during his first season a UK basketball reach Here comes another one Where else but Kentucky would ISO funeral directors plin I heir rem-vrntmn each year to coincide with a basketball game? The Funeral iNnvtom Association of Kentucky will mrrt Feb 56 at Lexington's Hyatt Regency Hotel And in a bxly so to speak thryll attend the Vanderbilt game Feb 7 at Rupp Arena I that you James? Pmonalucd licrnse plate spotted on a sleek silver gray Gxvrtte on Euclid Avenue: -JHONir graduation The graduates left row from back to front: Paul Adelfio Michael Snyder Marty Parks Mark Sayre Donald Williams Right row back to front David Whittlesey Johnny Hurley Tommy Hammons Terry Egbert Office in Middlesboro among best in nation in recruiting for Army Retiring Police Chief John McFaddcn addressed graduates Nine new Lexington police offiem rrlrhrntrd their graduation last night from the Police Officer Training Academy The ceremony held at the Ixxingti) Public Library Theatre featured an address by Chief John MiFadden who is retiring after 33 yrars with the Lrxingtnn police department The new graduates enter the department at a time whm the police force is actively treking1 recruits Herald-Leader photos by Charles Bertram ctni in the Southrant to the high degree of patriotism in the rrgm Military srrvice in xne families gin hock to the Civil War he said The large number of recruits in Middlrsbixo has gained wane national annum Next wrrk NIC show will film a segment in MhUItsIxxo atil the remitting offHY Itrnnrtt said On Thurwtay Whittle Gromu-nirations of Knoxville wa in town to film the remntmg office and talk to Bmnrtt The interview will lx Uxd fix Whitttr's Channel One program a daily news briAdcasl into high schieils aenrc tlx One of tho programs from the graduation ceremony Lundergan accuses former employee of embezzling from catering business I ISeltingllUstraighll AMooeVHl Pm MliaJLKSBORO The Army's recruiting office in Middles-bxo is among the top SO in the nation and officials attribute its Kuvna to the region's patriotic flTYiX The Middlrsbxo recruiters are gaining ne national attratm for thrir rffixts including a fixt banning srgmmt on NIC show The nffvT rover Bril and Harlan rnuntir in Kentucky Ctaibxne Gunty in Tronrw and the west-rm (union of Lrr Gsinty in Virginia Tlie regiixi Is fertile ground fix die Army which obauis nvnl of its tnnj from die midSnitit rnron mkI Dive kn-ves public informa-Ihhi nf-HTf with tlx Army's Na-h-Villr office Middln-bxtt one of the brt area in nor of die Ut krrvc mkLTW dw I) recruiting station in dx United Stairs it is in the lop The Mvldlrslvxir nffor ha wnitrn recruiting contract fix 115 youth in tlx Lt rival yrar Kcrvr iumI That's alsit double fix a recruiting other he mkI Sgt Tony Itrnnrtt rernnts fnsn the Middfrsbxn nffv and wa namnl Knruitrr of tlx Vrar in fix dx Nabville diMrirt which covers Krntmky arvl rai'Tn Tconrsr-xr Hr attriNitr dx Army' rue- Correction Ixldx Patrick Clark 23 of Kiky Branch was itwcmafrly re-(xstrd in laM wrrk' the record" a having Ixrn ronvicird nf driving under the influmnr of an intoxicant in MoIiwhi lh-tnrt Court The drunkrn driving charge wa amrndrd hi driving contrary to law IV lUrtihl Ijnt'Ut fnmrlt 3 su'nt'Vxif rrrcif that att bought to lb If think ax An nujU iurh an rmx fjra to3 or wnriKiq at fWW 1 Ittht SrrtrHfc taS (tit) Zlt XlOJ afUt 7 were issued to Crow or to grocTty stores acrording to record filed wiih (he suit All were issued to the suit says The Lundergan say in their suit that the Mai amount allegedly rmljruled is not known because many other Catmng clinks are missing or outstanding Lundergan a Ixxmgton Iv-n rrat resigned his 76th Ihtnct Iksise seat on Iks: 12 after he was OHivkted (Hi state cths rhargea stemming frren his Pprtation of Lundy A Franklm Circuit Gnirt jury lie Urd Unlawful mflureKe as a legislator to obtain a state catmng contract TJir onwutig said Crow was sent by lamdrrgan to Frankfort to pick up the lV-totl thnk fix the job: which was made nut to a tasiisville catering firm but deposited in bank account An allegatsrt of rxtigtion involving Crow disrupted second trial in Ikrrmlrr The first was halted in Srptmilxt after allegations of jury timimog defmse attorney said Crow a potential prrenrution witness tud affixed tv 4 In Irstify against the lamdrrgan if lltey Would rvH press theft charge against him in atvithrf matter Crow ilmied the aHegalvm By Robert Ka sor M1 la Sit (-f Former IrgislaM Jerry lamder-gan is suing a man who Lundergan says rwxe than $1 410 fnrei Lundergan Ixxmgton catering laronr Joining Lundergan in die lawsuit is his brrithrr Tom Ixinrlergan a partnrr in Camng The suit filed Jan 16 in Fayrtte Circuit Court says ft-emrf rmpkore Mike Crow forgid Tom Lumief signature on 178 unautfos rued links written brtwren May and IVtrtnbrr PJtVt The thrtkn amounting to llUT't ranged from S3) to £50 with an average of about SeWU Mt Thru iherr's all that exercise he grtx moving his lips Whm he horded a plane fig a strolling engagement in San Auto nm Trxa this wrek liat Brm-staff's favorite fun guy Curt Hurley say he was packing 38 fewer Hindu Irm on a dirt again This lime Ising weight han't bren the only brticfit he say Oh? studied so many trend boxes Lilrly my reading level has gne up two grwlrs" i i.