Associated Preat leased ire And Wireohoto Network VOU 1 1 1, NO. 208 TKLKI'lHtNKS 36rW')IH, 734-775i, 7)M1K hS ll.l.F, kKMUCKY, MONDAY, IKBRTAR 28, 1977 3.V;LF. COTY lOe Proposed How To Split $19.5 Billion "II i -A. House To Act On Tax Cuts I 4 i 1 I day, would extend for one year the government's authority to control interest rates on savings accounts tt also would broaden the powers of credit unions, giving them authority to lend money tar home mortgages. House action it expected Tuesday on a new code of ethics for representatives, which it considered virtually certain to pass because it was.
made a condition of allowing a 29 per cent pay hike for lawmakers to go Into effect The congressmen got their raises of nearly a week ago The ethics code is likely to call for extensive financial disclosure, a limit on outside earnings and for other protections against conflict of Interest. The Senate la expected to consider on Thursday the nomination of Paul Wsrnkt to be chairman of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and chief U.S. negotiator at the S.Soviet arms-limitation talks, the nomination hat been the most controversial made by Carter. WASHINGTON APr The House of Representatives will decide this week how to split up a i billion individual tax cut proposed by President Carter in an effort to prim the sluggish economy. Carter want to spend the money on a one-shot $50-per-person lax rebate and to permanently increase the standard deduction, which generally helps taxpayers on the lower end of the Income scale.
Most Republicans and torn Democrat prefer a permanent serosa-the-bosrd tax cut for virtually all taxpayers. Despite the political appeal of universal tax cut, there it every Indication the House will accept the Carter plan as the only sure way to pump more than $10 billion into the economy within a few weeks. The two-year tax cut is scheduled for House debate on Thursday, one of the few pieces of legislation to be considered by Congress this week. Another important bill, to be debated In the House on Tues A comprotnlsw fidget amendment to sccommodsls any emergency eceBoini stimulus is slated for work today during the drat major Senato-HouM conference of the new Congress Tt House aad Senate have passed slightly different amendments that assume out do not ensure acceptance of Carter's Ui-cot snd Job creation plana. Carter's plan to mail a $6 check to virtually all Americana this spring has bee under attack by many In Congrats sine ha first spelled tt out Oi portents oontend the rebate It sa expensive and nncarta la way la create Jobs counted on to help pull the economy out at recession.
Carter's economic stimulus proposal would cost about $32 billion between now and Sept SO, 1971. In addition to the rebate ar bigger standard deduction (or taxpayers who da not itonusa, the measure calls for business tax break snd Increased federal spending la create Jobs. Cincy Area Is Fearful daughter Melisha Gibson, center. Authorities cite public reaction to the slaying as the reason for increased security: The two are charged with second degree murder. (AP Wirephoto) TRIAL BEGINS Authorities say security will be extremely tight today as the trial of Ronald, left, and Wanda Gibson Maddux, right, begins in the beating death of the woman's four-year-old Trial Begins For Two In Slaying Daughter PhoneRate Suspended LOUISVILLE, A spokesman tor South Central Bell says it will have no comment on the City of Louisville's accusation that the telephone company is "trying to rip off" its Kentucky customers "to satisfy the insatiable appetite of iu parent company for more and more money." The city, in a brief filed with the state Public Service Commission last week, urged rejection of South Central Bell's request for an increase in Kentucky phone rates that would produce $44.8 million annually in additional revenues.
The proposed higher rates have been suspended pending hearings by the commission, but the company will be allowed to put them into effect on March 26. They would be subject to refund if the commission rejects all or part of the requested increase. Paul D. McCandlew, vice president and general manager for South Central Bell in Louisville, said Saturday the company will have no comment for now on the city's brief. "We'll do that in our legal processes and answering to briefs," he Said.
The brief from the city's law, department said rates sought by the company are "excessive and exorbitant" and are based on exaggerated notions of "wild inflation" in the next few years. "The company's frenzied fear of fantastic inflation is either a foolish fancy or a frowzy effort to frighten and frustrate this commission in the performance of its duty to protect rate the brief said. The brief said the company's claim that its stock cannot compete with other industrial stocks for investors' dollars is ridiculous. The brief said there was 25 per cent growth in the market value of the stock of South Central Bell during the past year and the triple-A rating of South Central Bell bonds refutes this claim. If the company does not earn the 11 per cent on shareholder -equity that the commission said it was entitled to in the last rate case, the brief said, it is because of "inefficient and extravagant management'' The brief said the company's payroll for supervisory employes and officers for 1975 totaled $681 million and that the annual salary of the president of South Central Bell, W.
Cecil Bauer, it "almost the same amount as Coal Strike In Fourth Week I I I ATHENS, Tenn, (AP) A special sound -equipped room was readied at McMimi County Courthouse today to hold the overflow crowd expected at the trial of Ronald and Wanda Gibson Maddux, charged with the beating death of Mrs. Maddux's 4-year-old daughter, Melisha. The child's nude body was found on a bare mattress in the unhealed living room of the Maddux's home in Cleveland, Governors Told They Have Friend nil the 200-seat courtroom. A basem*nt room with loudspeakers to relay the proceedings was prepared for the overflow. Criminal Court Judge James Witt said attorneys and witnesses in the second-degree murder trial would use a side door of the courthouse to keep them away from reporters and the public.
"There will be stringent security at the courthouse," said Sheriff Larry Wallace. "And there will be extra tight security measures taken a the jail while the Madduxes are here." Judge Witt moved the widely-publicized trial to Athens last year because he said heavy publicity made it impossible for the Madduxes to receive a fair trial in the Cleveland area. Last week, he rejected a motion to suppress statements the Madduxes made to sheriff's deputies the day the body was found. Mrs. Maddux was alleged to have said her husband resented Melisha because the child was fathered by another man.
dux reportedly told deputies that he began disciplining Melisha after she wet her pants. Maddux is alleged to have said he beat Melisha with a stick to keep her walking, and allegedly the following statement: "I made her keep walking back and forth all day to try and tire her out so that she would sleep that night "I kept giving her the hot sauce a tablespoon at a time. She asked me for a drink of water. I got a glass of water and told her if she would take the tablespoon of hot sauce, I would give her a drink. "She swallowed the hot sauce and I drank the glass of water." Maddux told officers he gave Melisha a shower and sent her to bed alone, naked on 'the bare mattress in the cold living room.
An autopsy concluded she died the following morning of shock and exposure. If convicted, the Madduxes could be sentenced to 10 years to life in prison. 4 last Oct 13 just five months after the state returned Melisha to the couple. The Madduxes had been convicted of abusing Melisha when she was 11 months old and were jailed for six months. The state Human Services- Department returned the child to them last May.
Reporters and some 150 prospective jurors were expected to Even California's skeptical Gov. Edmund G. Brown who never bothered to come before, said the governors may have more clout with Carter in the White House. "Given the fact that we have a former governor as President, this may make the National Governors' Conference a more effective vehicle for national public policy," Brown said. "We want to develop a continuing partnership that will bring about the fullest possible participation of state government in the federal decisionmaking process," said Gov.
Reubin Askew of Florida, the conference chairman. That's what Carter promised. Not in 32 years, since the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, has a former governor held the White House, and Carter said he would not forget the lessons of his four years as governor of Georgia. He scheduled two hours of a White House work session with the, governors today, with Vice President Walter Mondale and the Cabinet also on hand.
The governors will go back Tuesday night for a black-tie dinner with Carter, The social visit is customary. The working session is not. In addition to that, at least eight members of the Cabinet are to meet with governors in separate committee sessions during Srr GOVERNOR on Page 3. chase the decals, licenses and city stickers. PTL.
DON Gilliam investigated an accident on Harding St. at 6:05 a.m. today Gladys Wheeler, Imperial Trailer Park, was backing her car from a parking space at Spivey's Restaurant and did not see the car of Cecil Toadvine of Erlanger turn left from Perryville St. onto Harding St. The cars collided with the rear of the Wheeler car and right rear side of the Toadvine car damaged, AMELIA Sulcek, Grabruck Dr.treported to Deputy Sheriff Robert Stamps at 1:30 p.m.
iday that the left rear of her car had been damaged while the veh cle was parked at Danville Manor Shopping Center. WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter's top political aide assured the nation's governors today that they have "a friend in the White House" as they seek a bigger role in shaping the programs of the federal government. "We've been on the receiving end," Hamilton Jordan "said after conferring with Democratic governors. "The President has been a governor. He knows their problems." Jordan said the President wants help from the governors too.
He said they can provide a significant boost to administration efforts to reorganize the executive branch of the government and, in the process, reshape programs that shape the states. "We intend to assert ourselves in constructive ways while participating in the formulation of national policy that affect our states and cities," said Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, chairman of the National Governors Conference. "On energy policy, welfare and Medicaid reform and other areas of concern, our views must be considered for any national policies on these and other issues to nave any validity in our home states," Askew said at the opening session of a two-day Washington conference that was expected to draw 48 of the 50 state governors. 0 4 Plead In Boyle Court What looked like a busy day for the Boyle Circuit Court petit jury, with five trials scheduled, turned out to be easy for the jurors as two cases were dismissed and four persons entered guilty pleas before Judge Henry V.
Pennington in Mercer Circuit Court this morning. The jurors were dismissed just after the opening of court. The jurors are scheduled to report again Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock for trial of a civil case. Action taken in the court session today, held In Harrodsburg included: -Carl Ray Wiser, 39, Danville, pleaded guilty to charges of sale of alcoholic beverages in a dry territory and possession of alcoholic beverages in a dry territory both seeond offenses; he was fined $110 and sentenced to 65 days in jail in each charge; he was given credit on the sentences for the time he has served in jail, the remainder was suspended and he was placed on strict, supervised probation for two years the evidence taken in the case also was ordered destroyed: Gary James Southerland, 28, Owensbofo, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of non-support, making the case a misdemeanor; he was sentenced to six months in jail, the sentence suspended and he was placed on strict, supervised probation tor two years, on condition he continue support payments: -W. T.
Devine, 38, Harrodsburg Route 8, had his non-support charge amended to a misdemeanor, pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months, had the sentence suspended and was placed on strict, supervised probation for two years; Alma Gillespie, 44, Heather Hills, pleaded guilty to an indictment for theft of property from Kentucky State Hospital Sri- FOUR on Paw not as many persons were participating, tear gas was used several times to break up unruly crowds. Antibusing leaders blamed those incidents on drunken teen-agers and "a few trouble makers." Protest marches have been held, however, almost every month since U. S. District Court Judge James F. Gordon issued the sweeping desegregation order, For the most part, the marches have been peaceful, with fewer than 100 persons participating.
When leaders began noticing that their Crowds were getting smaller and smaller -with each march, they announced lait year that a massive fund-raising drive had been launched and that they hoped to raise $1 million. They said that they would give the $1 million, and pay the taxes on it to any Of Water CINCINNATI (AP) r- Fearful that their drinking water ki pot-luted with a cancer-causing chemical, residents art drying up the supply of bottled water la the Cincinnati area. The run on bottled water, triggered by a second carbon tetrachloride spill Into the Onto River system la a week, hat turned people off oa drinking tap water. report they can't keep bottled water la stock due to the demand. "I've never seen anything like It," said Dave Wecger, aa IGA store manager in Fl Thomas, Ky.
"One man ordered enough water to fill a bathtub. He said, he refuses to take a bath In tap water." Restaurants claim diners art substituting coffee snd tea (or water with their meals, while grocery store report an Increase of sales in toft drinks. The bottled water sties peaked over the weekend at Sr CINCY on Pi 'aX Families In State "We don't know what to do with It yet." he said. "It's to damn Involved." He said ha hat notified other Mate of organized crime activity to Kentucky that could affect them. He will submit a report to Gov.
Julian Carroll within a few days, outlining what it going on in Kentucky and other states. After discussing the report, they will decide how to proceed, be said. Bunnell said the organized crime operations in Kentucky surfaced only recently because of the cold winter. "Everybody It going in the energy field because it looks like it may be a way to make a lot of money," he said. Without divulging names or specific locations, Bunnel said attempts have been uncovered to acquire coal companies and coal leases In Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Alabama, and Pennsylvania He said many variations on common scheme are employed.
Including false coal purchase contracts, bankrupt fraud, fraudulent loans, use of fraudulent certificates of deposit in foreign banks and antitrust violations. One of the easiest ways to, perpetrate a fraud it to acquire a legitimate business that has a business sheet, assets snd property, and I registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SECX Bunnell said Even corporate "shellt" businesses that ha ve depleted their asset but have kept up their registration with the SEC are in demand, telling for thousands of dollars. Bunnell said he doesn't know how widespread organized crime is to Kentucky. By The Associated Press A wildcat coal strike entered its fourth week today with miners In six southern West Virginia counties refusing to work.
Dan Fields of the West Virginia Coal Association said roving pickets idled the miners in the counties of Kanawha, Weekend IC Toll: 7 By The Assoc la led Press State Police said seven persons were killed in Kentucky traffic accidents over the week- -end, including three fatalities in a two-car crash In Bowling Green, i- The deaths raised the state highway fatality toll for the year to 84, compared with 106 through the same period last year. According to state police: -Gregory L. Elliott, 20, of Fancy Farm, was killed early Sunday when his automobile struck the side of a low railroad overpass about seven miles south of Fulgham in Hickman County on Kentucky 307. Rick Hodds of Ballard County was injured in the onecar accident and is listed in serious condition at Lourdes Hospital in Psducah. -David Kamber, 26, and Wil-liam Ballard, 26 both of Bowling Green and Steven Decker, 26, of Smiths Grove, were killed Saturday in a two car crash in Warren County at the Junction of U.S.
231 and Lovers Lane. Kamber's auto, in which Ballard was passenger, went out of control, crossed tht Sre HKKKE.NU oj Pajsy'X iTl4rs'ak. mMtkrwtrral SATURDAY Highest reading Lowest reading 39 Participation .14 of an inch Temperature 7 am. Sunday 39 One year ago 7 a m. Sunday 37 Herrington Lake level 727.7 Lake level year ago 738.2 SUNDAY Highest reading 39 Lowest reading 29 Participation Temperature 7 a today 29 One year ago 7 a.rti today 43 Herrington Lake fevel 727 8 Lake level year ago 737 Mostly sunny west with de-.
creasing cloudiness elsewhere this morning becoming mostly sunny statewide this afternoon. High in the 40s. Increasing cloudiness and cold tonight with slight chance of snow showers, low in the 20s. Mostly cloudy with slight chance of snow showers early Tuesda morning with slowly decreasing cloudiness Tuesday afternoon. High in the 40t to tow 50i.
Traff Boone, Wyoming, McDowell, Logan and Mercer. The strike, which began Feb. 4 against Esttern Associated Coal at one time Idled up to 14.000 miners. A meeting at Madison on Sunday was billed as a debate oyer whether to support the strike, but it turned into an organizing session for the pickets. By a silent show of hands approximately 300 union members voted to support the wildcat ttrike Organisers Immediately began assigning pickets to posit at mines throughout the area.
But not- aU of those in attendance at Sunday's rally voiced support of the walkout. "We aren't going put in sympathy with you," said A.J. Hatfield, president of Local 1889. "Je want to work. We under stand what you are striking over but we had the same policy and we beat ll" But the mora than 100 miners who said they would not post pickets also said they would not interfere with those participating in the Srf 3.
12 Mafia Operate FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -At least 12 Mafia families are operating in Kentucky, primarily in the coal, oil and gas business, Kentucky Securities Director Jack Bunnell said. However, he said it doesn't look ss if they're defrauding Kentuckians, except in a handful of cases. It appears Kentucky is being used as a bast to defraud people in other states, he said. Kentuckians could potentially lose lot of money as well, he ssld in recent interview "It looks like they're using the energy, cosl here," Bunnell said "They find Kentucky attractive from the standpoint that whatever scheme (they're involved in) they can use the name and peddle it elsewhere." A native of rural Hart County, Brunnell said he grew up believing that books about the Mafia and the underworld "were complete fantasies of someone's imagination.
I thought it was ficuon. "1 couldn't envision tome-body going to hit ikill) or knock anybody off," he said. But because of existence of Mafia elements in the state, Bunnell said he now checks twice before sending an investigator into the field. Organized crimes refers to Kentucky as a "free territory," Bunnell "In other words, we have no established Mafia here so any of them can operate here," he said. "At this time, we, have established there are definitely 12 families operating' in Kentucky" None ire native Kentuckians.
Bunnell said he was wary of going into too much detail about the operations, since the state not yet how to handle the situation. Review Of Protesting vV 'Local News' the annual salary of the presi- dent of the United States The brief suggests: The company should be re-1 quired to restructure its monthly service rates by eliminating the "value of service" concept used to justify charging much higher rates in metropolitan areas than in rural areas. The company should not be allowed to charge off charitable contributions and free or discounted phone service to company employes as operational costs to be paid through higher rates. The company should not be permitted to pass along all the Costs of rate cases to its. customers as it now does.
The brief said South Central Bell spent $269437 in the past two years seeking rate increases, and counts this as operating expenses to be paid through higher rates. one who could stop busing here. That approach failed too. No one stopped busing here. Jack Shore, head of Union Labor Against Busing, the largest of the local antibusing groups, said recently after theU.
S. Supreme Court refused to take up the county 's appeal of the desegregation order that he thought people would "hit the streets" again when warm weather arrived. It was warm and sunny here Saturday, and Shore's group had permission for 3.000 persons to march in downtown Louisville. It was a familiar scene. Some people wore buttons, others carried Confederate and American flags.
But only about 200 persons showed up, and the familiar chant, "HeU no we won't bus" See JEFFERSON on Par J. Jefferson Anti-Bus Leaders Still Active LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Frustrated antibusing leaders here keep looking for new ideas in their efforts' to revive the enthusiasm of the movement that reached its zenith in the fall of 1975 when thousands of persons participated in protest demonstrations. A federal judge ordered Jefferson County school's desegregated in July, 1975. His order required more than 20,000 pupils out of an anticipated enrollment of 134,000 to be bused: When schools opened that fall massive, destructive antibusing riots erupted.
Hundreds of persons were arrested. Many persons, including dozens of police-officers, were hurt The National Guard was called up to help outnumbered police. Last (all, (Sere wm more demonstrations just iter the school term egan. Although THE USUAL last minute rush to purchase license decals and licenses in the county clerk's office was not witnessed in the Boyle Courthouse today. County Clerk John B.
Nichols said there was no big rush this morning and business was staggered throughout the morning. He attributes this to the extension of the deadline until March 15. The original deadline was set for Tuesday. 'The deadline has also been extended for the purchase of city vehicle stickers at City Hall. There was steady business in the office of G.S.
Wesley, city tax collector, but no big rush today. Officials urge citizens not wait until the last day to pur 7 ''V.
