Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 1

BUSINESS: Yearling sells for $14 million highest price ever at Keeneland Sept sales Page C4 Wednesday September 11 1996 50 Cents SPORTS Metro Final Business Classified Editorials Local News COMMUNITY Vacation memories Readers share photos from around the world Page 15 C4 Section A6 Section 'Wildcat' Wally waiting again Fan first in Big Blue Madness line Page Bl Obituaries C2 TodayCommunitv Mostly sunny mm Comics 28 Crosswords 31 D9 Movies 25 TV 26 Vol 14 No 253 1996 Lexington Ky Chance of precipitation less than 20 Weather Page AS Business Dow fY LEXINGTON Heraldeader -666 Page C5 OlSMOlllOfill Check out the Lexington Herald-Leader Online at Catholic schools want bus service Fayette officials oppose transporting private students Linda Carpenter picked up her children Danny 8 and AJ 7 at Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary School MA Pember Herald-Leader emotional divisive debate: Advocates say it is an inexpensive way to ensure that all children get to school safely opponents say it amounts to a taxpayer subsidy for private schools "This is not an educational issue it's a safety issue" said Jane Chiles the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky one of the groups pushing the plan "The issue is safety for all children" Not everyone sees it that way Many See bus as By Kent Fischer Herald-Leader Education Writer Four local Catholic schools want Fayette County to provide school bus service for their children Many counties have been busing private school students for years and the state has set aside $2 million a year to reimburse them Local advocates of pri vate schools say Fayette County should try to cash in on the state money too If approved the plan could put anywhere between a couple hundred to a couple thousand additional students on school buses every day The county would get reimbursed for most of those costs by the state The plan has all the makings for an Gays lose two battles in Senate US warns Iraq of more air strikes Herald-Leader Wire Servicb ASHINGTON The United States appeared to be setting the stage for further air strikes against Iraq warning yesterday that attacks would occur if President Saddam Hussein persists in efforts to rebuild his country's damaged missile defenses The warnings came as Iraq again claimed it had fired anti-aircraft missiles at US jets patrolling the country's southern no-fly zone and as Iraqi government backed Kurdish forces solidified their hold in the north of the country The Pentagon said no American pilots reported being fired on Washington already has warned Hussein not to try to rebuild air defenses damaged in last week's missile attacks "We're reiterating the warning" State Department spokesman Nicholas Bums said yesterday "He knows the price I'm being very clear about the warning we sent to him last week He knows what it is" Pentagon spokesman Kenneth iiacon said: "We have SEC IRAQ A5 Associated Press Above: Joe Melillo left and his partner Pat Lagon are one of three couples that stepped up to the Honolulu marriage license counter in 1990 and initiated the challenge there Left: Genora Dancel left and Ninia Baehr also plaintiffs in Hawaii's same-sex marriage challenge were in Washington yesterday and called on the Senate to allow them to legally marry Same-sex marriages job protection defeated By David Hess Knight RiDOfR Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday voted against recognizing same sex marriages and then defeated a bill to protect gays and lesbians from dis crimination in the workplace In a move in harmony with public On Page AS opinion senators voted 85-14 to Te define marriage as a contract between Hawaii's ea one man and one woman On that mam age Do vote senators ruled that even if one goes to court state sanctions same-sex marriages other states do not have to recognize the marriage Both of Kentucky's senators voted for the ban against the job protection bill The House passed an identical bill in July by a M2 67 vote and President Clinton has said he will sign the legislation once it reaches his desk Several polls in recent months have shown strong publa- opposition to same-sex marriages A University of Connecticut poll for instance in June indicated only 27 percent favored the idea while 65 percent opposed it The bill also for the first time defines marriage in federal law as the "legal union between one man and one woman" and defines "spouse" as "a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife See 0AYSAS Mills' wills lead to dispute over estate control BWAWMIH HcralD-Leader Frankfort Bureau FRANKR )KT As Frances Jones Mills lay dying in a bxiisvtlk hospital in May the former state treasurer scrawled an on a paper to signify a new will contend d(uments filed this week Franklin District Court "I Frances Jones Mills the testator sign my mark to irm instrument realizing I am too weak to sign my name however my mind is akil and I am very aware of what I have asked to be done" the will said It made man changes in two wills similar to each other that Mills signed in IHKi and on May I I5SH The most notable change removed James Taykc president of Cumberland College in Williamsburg as executor and designated that position to Barbara Nash of Cynthi ana who had worked for Mills in state government The deathbed will allegedly signed May 22 1996 also specified that instead of leaving the remainder of Sir MILLS A4 Ralph Gabbard 1945-1996 Nationally known broadcast executive rose from Kentucky teen disc jockey Ralph Gabbard was president and board member of Gray Systems Inc but is probably host Leaders meet President Clinton was greeted by Gov Patton yesterday at governors' conference in Kansas City Mo Cam paign news Pag A9 AMmiAtfo Pmn By JCNMiriR Hfwirrr HtRAiD-LEAOtR Stat Wrio Ralph Gabbard who rose from teen-age dJac Jockey to a TV station executive in Lexington to a nationally known figure in the broadcast industry died while in Btwton on a JMMiPt trip He was 50 Security workers at the Four Seasons Hotel found Mr Gabbard president and board member of Gray Communications System' lac dead about 7 atn yesterday apparently of a heart attack after he failed to answer a wake-up call said Bill Parkier chief finam tal officer of Grnv who had dinner with Mr iab bard Monday night Gray Communications based in Georgia owns several TV stations including WKYT (Channel 27) in lxtnglon and WYMT (Chan net 57) in Hazard Mr Gabbard was perhaps best known for his affiliation with the two Kentucky CBS affiliated stations where he spent much of his career before moving up the industry ladder He was thought to have been the first person to do on air television editorials in the Lexington market He also was credited with bringing the people of the mountains of East-SCI GABBARD A4 for his long time association with two Kentucky sta Hons WKYT in Lexington and WYMT in Hazard.