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DEC a 1976
University of (which
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Vol. LXVlll, Number 81

Wednesday, December 8, 1976

What’s in a name?

insulation. Assistant Fire Chief (‘linton Johnson
gestures fora hose to put the fire out.

Which came first. the name or the fire? Vandals
started this blaze in ('lay (‘ounty from a pile of

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KENTUCKY

an independent student newspaper 1

1 "—Stewart Bowman

Shuttle incurs $400 deficit;
twice number of buses needed

were used at Thursday game

By BETSY PEARCE
Kernel Staff Writer

Problems with estimating the
number of shuttle buses needed to
transport UK students at the first
home basketball game incurred a
nearly $400 deficit, according to UK
Safety Director Tom Padgett.

Since the Texas Christian game
was the first time the shuttles were
used, it was necessary to have
enough buses to accomodate what
was thought would be a great
student response. “We decided to
overestimate (student demand),
and we probably had twice as many
buses as we needed," Padgett said.
“However, if we didn‘t have enough
buses for the students, the system
would have been a failure.”

UK President Otis Singletary
agreed to underwrite deficits in-
curred the first two times the
shuttles ran with money from his
contingency fund. Since the shuttles
are being used on an experimental
basis, however, their fate is un-
certain if money is lost after
Saturday night‘s game.

“If there's a deficit after the
Kansas game, it won‘t be nearly as
great as the first game‘s," Padgett
said. “At the most it would be $100,
but we lave a good chance to break
even this time."

Anticipating a large crowd, eight
shuttles were used for the first
game. Five will be used for the
Kansas game. which Padgett says
“may be an overestimation,

although there’s chance the demand
may exceed the supply this time.”

Many variables are involved in
trying to gauge shuttle demand
against the number of buses used, so
that the program will pay for itself.
Mike McLaughlin, Student
Government (SG) president, ex-
plained that there are complications
due to weather and the time of the
game.

“It‘s hard to estimate how many
students will be using the shuttles
when there’s the weather to contend
with," he said. “Attendance may be
significantly affected by bad
weather. Also, finals are coming up,
and this may affect the number of
students going to the game."

McLaughlin said that while SG
didn’t want to create a “gigantic
demand" for the shuttle service, it
wanted the service to be available
for the students to patronize. “We
had a lot of input on the route and
scheduling to initiate some type of
shuttlebusing, and we'd like to see it
work."

Currently, the shuttle begins at 6
p.m. at the (dorm) Complex, goes
down Woodland Avenue to Main
Street, wha‘eit then goes to Mill and
Vine Streets and back. Students are
picked up at Vine between Mill and
Upper Streets after the game. A one-
way ride takes approximately 10
minutes and costs 25 cents.

About 900 students were taken to
and from the first game, which
Padgett considers “a success.
Fewer students rode back from the

 

| M.I.K. adjusts hours

It‘s that time of year again; finals
are here, and along with them come
coffee, long nights and the need for a
quiet place to study.

So, again this year the MI. King
Library is extending the hours the
reserve room will be open. The
extension began Monday and will
last until Dec. 17.

Dec. 6-9 (Mom-Thurs. ) 8-2 am.
Dec. 10(i‘ri.)8-9p.m.
Dec. 11 (Sat.) 8-9pm.
Dec. 12(Sun.) 9-2a.m.

Dec. 13-18 (Mom-Thurs.) 8-2 am.
Dec. 17(Fri.)8-8p.m.
Dec.18(Sat.)9-2p.m.

Dec. 19(Sun.) closed

After midnight the outside en-
trance to the reserve room has to be
used. The door is to the left of the
main entrance. During the
Christmas vacation the library
hours will be shortened.

The library‘s hours through
Christmas vacation are as follows:

Dec. 20-23 (Mon-Thurs.) 8-5 p.m.
Dec. 24-8 (Pd-Sun.) closed
Dec. 27-30 ( Mon-Thurs.) 104 p.m.
Dec. Ill-Jan: (Fri..Sun.) closed
Jan. 3-7 (Mom-Thurs.) 8-5 p.m.
Jana (Sat) 9-2pm.

Jan.’ (Stan) closed
Janie-ll (Mom-Tues.) 8-5 p.m.

game than rode to the game, but that
presented no problem.”
Lt. John Potts, traffic unit com-

mander for metro police, said that --

his biggest problem involved
pedestrian traffic after the game.
“It’s about what we expected.
Before the game there's no problem,
since people dribble in at different
times After the game, however,
everyone is on the street at the same
time."

While the shuttle service has not
hindered traffic controllers‘ jobs, it
has not significantly helped them.
“There’s no way that half a dozen
buses can makea dent in a crowd of
23,000 people. Sure, there are about
300 fewer people (approximately 150
cars) to fool with, but as far as
pedestrian traffic, it’s not much
help."

Potts said that the shuttle service
is not really a mass transit system.
“it helps students and the Univer-
sity, but as far as overall traffic, it
hasn‘t had much effect-not for me,
anyway.“

There are no upcoming plans to
include the general community in
the shuttle service, and Padgett said
if space was allotted for the public,
the system couldn‘t pay for itself.
“Besides, it wouldn’t be fair to
students to take away their space,"
he said.

The future d the shuttle service
depends on whether it can pay for
itself. “Inorderto pay, it must make
abmt three trips before the game,
and two trips on the way back,"
Padgett said

Student patronage, however, is the
key to success. “If students would
wait in the second rum, the service
would work. They shouldn‘t have to
wait longer than five minutes,“ he
said. “if we were to insure no
waiting, then we‘d have to ra'se the
fare, and we don‘t want to do that.

“We’ll justhave to play it by ear,“
Padgett said. “But we‘ll need to
experiment more with the service at
future games."

 

Sunshine
but still cold

It'll be mostly sunny today to
offset the temperatures in the
mid-20's. There’s a 20 per cent
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6] University of Kentucky

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Lexington, Kentucky

Christmas, 1876

Old Hunt Morgan home preserves
3 generations of famous families

By JENNIFER GREER
Kernel Reporter

On Dec. 19 Christmas at the Hunt
Morgan House, 210 N. Mill St., will
be celebrated in much the same
mamer it was 1(1) years ago by the
Hunt and Morgan families.

Candles,wassail, holly, carolers
and the fragrance of apple and
cinnamon are all part of a
traditional Christmas in Gratz Park,
when the House, along with others,
will be decorated and open to the
public 1 to 5 p.m.

The Hunt Morgan House, which
family members call Hoemont, was
built in 1814 by John Wesley Hunt,
pioneer merchant, manufacturer
and financier.

When Hunt died in 1849, his family
fortune and social position were
weilcstablished. The family’s
position of leadership and
prominence in the community
passed to his grandson, John Hunt
Morgan, the Confederate general.

Hunt‘s great-grandson, Thomas
Hunt Morgan, born at Hopemont,
won the Nobel Prize in physiology in
1933 for research in genetics.

Connections of the Hunt Morgan
family lived at Hopemont until 1953.

In 1955, when a contractor
threatened to tear down the building
and replace it with a parking lot, it
was saved by a group of people who
eventually formed the Bluegrass
Trust for Historic Preservation
(BGT), and made into a museum.

The Hunt Morgan House offers
tours during the week, which on
Sundays are usually guided by the
curator herself, Mrs. John McIn-
tosh.

A member of the BGT, Mrs.

McIntosh has lived in Lexington 29
years and is well acquainted with
the history of the area.

The House is also available for
parties and weddings, whose
arrangements can be made through
the BGT.

A handsome example of Georgian
architecture, Hopemont is partly
furnished with antique cherrywood
tables, Sideboards, sugar chests,
chairs and other pieces made
around 1815 for Mrs. John Hunt.

“You must understand that the
house was constructed before the
first steamships operated on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers,"
McIntosh said. “Nothing could be
transported overland, that was too
expensive. So most of the furniture
was made here in Kentucky."

When the waterways did open up,
the Hunts imported carpets and
china from the Far East, Empire
furniture from Europe, a piano from
Boston and other fashionable ac-
cessories from the East Coast,
which still accent the home today.

0f the many paintings in the
museum, there is a portrait of the
first John W. Hunt by A.P. Heeley, a
contemptrary artist who did the
famous painting of Lincoln without
his beard

One room in the house has been
dedicated to John Hunt Morgan, and
contains many Civil War artifacts,
photographs and personal
momentos of the famous Con-
federate general.

Mrs. McIntosh explained why the
museum has so many of the original
furnishings for the "52-year-old
house.

"Because Kentucky remained
neutral thrmghout the Civil War,
homes here are well-preserved,"
she said, “unlike many places in the
South. Take Atlanta for instance;
thanks to Sherman, nothing in that
city is more than 100 years old."

Mrs. McIntosh spends about 45
minutes with each group that tours

the Hunt Morgan House. “I talk that
long because i feel it's just as im-
portant to tell the visitors about the
house as to show them.

“The history of Hopemont is what
distinguishes it from other old
homes The lives of the three Hunt
Morgan men tell the history of
Lexington, and for a larger part,
Kentucky."

When John W. Hunt came west in
1795, Lexington was little more than
a proposed site for a town. Hunt
came to Kentucky to build a general
store. A canny judge of business
opportunity, he soon expanded his
activites and became one of the
responsible figures of Kentucky
banking and finance.

He made a fortune selling hemp
for rope and ships loaded with his
goods were the first American
vessels to go to China.

In another kind of venture, be
imported fine stallions from the
east, significantly improving the
bloodlines of thoroughbreds and
trotters in the bluegrass.

For his 12 children, Hunt built
Hopemmt, which stands today as a
monument to his taste and the
personal forutune be accumulated in
Kentucky.

When Hunt died at age 76, he left
the house to a daughter who had
married into the Morgan family
from Huntsville, Ala. At Hopemont,
the young couple brought up a son,
John Hunt Morgan, who was to
become the most brilliant calvary
officer of the Civil War.

“All of the Morgan men held
Confederate sympathies, as did
most of Lexington, because of social
and economic ties with the South,”
McIntosh said. “When federal
troops occupied the city, John
Morgan and the Lexington Rifles
joined the Confederate forces. As a
consequence, Lexington changed
hands several times.

“Union headquarters were right
across the street from Morgan‘s
home,” she said pointing to what is
now the Bodley-Buiiock House.
“But they didn’t bother Mrs.
Morgan; women weren‘t considered
a threat by either army."

Because Morgan attended Ken-
tucky Military Institure and not
West Point, his ideas about fighting
a war were different from most
other generals. He introduced
guerilla warfare and modern
calvary tactics that dumbfounded
Union officers throughout the war.

Even today, his strategies are
being taught at military academies
and General Patton is said to have
claimed that he “used tanks like
Morgan used horses."

Two of his brothers, one of them
the youngest Morgan boy, were
killed during a raid into Ohio and
Indiana, and General Morgan
himself was surprised and killed by
federal troops in a Tennessee raid in
1864.

The rest of the brothers returned
to Hopemont after the war. In 1866,
Charleton Morgan‘s wife had a boy
who they named Thomas Hunt after
the youngest brother who died in the
Ohio raids.

McIntosh said Charleton wrote a
letter at the time of the child’s
christening, which said: “Everyone
will remember John Hunt Morgan
and how he lived and died for the
South; butThomas died so young, he
left no impression upon the world.”

By giving Thomas a namesake,
the Morgans sought to com-
memorate him to future
generations.

And that they did. For Thomas
Hunt Morgan would uphold the
tradition of the Hunt Morgan name,
representing his family, Lexington
and Kentucky to the world when he
won the Nobel Prize in 1933.

llershal Holland, of Richmond. K )2. found the bark of his truck to he
warmest place to sort out the “bad apples" in his produce. Rolland
sells his fruit several days a week at the intersection of highways t2!

and 1018 south of Richmond.

 

  

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orps’ idiocy goes on

espite Gorge fiasco

Overwhelming public opposition has stopped
contstruction of tlte Red River Dam, but it hasn’t
stopped the project‘s planners— the Army Corps
of Engineers. Indeed, the Corps has an interest
in more than 40 reservio: projects tn the state.

Four of those projects are in question as a
result of a class action suit filed in district court
by a group of landowners and environmentalists
known as the Kentucky Rivers coalition. KRC is
challenging the constitutionality of the Paints
(‘reek Dam in Morgan and Johnson counties, the
Taylorsville lake Reservoir in Spencer County,
the Kehoe Dam in Carter County and the
Ya tesv ille Reservoir.

State contracts for the four projects were
signed by then-Gov. Wendell Ford in 1973. State
law requires approval from the legislature for
expenditures which result in more than “casual
debts" for the state.

Corps’ projects require shared funding bet-
ween the state and the federal government. The
KRC contends that the state‘s share will be $14.6
million—clearly more than a casual debt.

In response to the suit. state attorneys for Gov.
Julian Carroll last week maintained that the
costsharing contracts were legal. Previously,
however, Carroll's press secretary, John
Nichols, said “the contracts are un-
constitutional...but Gov. Ford signed away the
state’s power to do anything about it.”

The question now rests in District Court.
Should KRC win, it might be a significant step
toward limiting the Corps’ preoccupation with
dominating Kentucky waterways. Any measure
acln'eving that end would be a victory for state
residents.

We find itdifficult to believe that Kentucky has
flood control or water supply problems
significa nt enough to require Corps’ projects all
over the state. Fourteen Corps reservoirs have
already been built, 13 more are authorized and
some :1) more are under consideration.

Certainly the Corps‘ judgment is in question if
the Red Itiver Dam project is any measure. The
(‘orps supported destruction of the scenic gorge
area and displacement of many residents for
reasons which were shallow at best.

Flood control and increased water supply
didn’t necessitate costly construction of a dam in
that area of Powell and Clay counties. Instead,
the Corps pushed the dam project for the
recreation benefits it would provide. Yet the
Corps maintains that recreation benefits are
secondary when a project is considered.

The KRC, dependent solely on those com-
mitted to preservation of state waterways, is
delving into projects around the state and has
already uncovered questionable “benefits” as
defined by the Corps. Hopefully the KRC’s ef-
forts will be successful in court.

 

    

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Your choice

Friends, do you think your text-
books are worth more than what
you‘re getting for them? So do
we—r that's why Student Government
has established a Book Exchange
Program for you. You can sell your
textbooks for more and buy next
year‘s books for less,

All you have to do is deliver your
used books to Student Center room
118 from Dec. 13-17. And then, next
semester. you can buy textbooks at
great savings from Jan. 10-15 and
from Jan. 17-10.

This service can only be a success
it you. the 1K students, participate.
You can give your money to the
bookstores or put it back in your
pocket. The choice is yours.

Matthew II. Welch

Business anti Economics senator
James II. Newberry
scnator-at-large

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ERA facts

If we. want a better society. it is
essential that we communicate with
each other, women and men.
minorities attd majorities. We must
look at our problems vertically,
which means that we must view
them in their historical context. and
we must see them hortizontally. in
the context of the current needs of
society at large.
.‘lntje lemke
('athollc World Library
Volume it!
September. 1976

Concerned individuals will be
gathering soon. at Indianapolis, to
actively voice support for
ratification of the Equal Rights
.t‘tntcndmcnt lERAl. One thousand
men and women are expected to
rally at Indiana Jan. 9, and sup-
porters from Lexington com~
ntunities will be among them.

Despite detrimental propaganda
regarding the policies and ob-
jectives of the ERA, support is
steadily growing. Within Lexington,
numerous established organizations
are devoting time and finances to
educate the public; disspelling the
myths and falsehoods circulating at
this time.

ERA is a societal issue. The voice
of the petple will determine its fate.
It is a matter relevant to numerous
aspects of our lives; it is capable of
improving working conditions, and
relieving individuals of sexually-
based inhibitions.

An ERA informative session is
open to the public, on Dec. 7, at 8
pm. in the Student Center. Through
fair presentation of fact, it is hoped
that questions can be answered and
together we can work for this
common cause.

Scout Ziegler
l'K Faculty

Students activism . . .

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Days gone by

Student activism replaced by conservatism

ll) NANCY [MIA

Being a member of the Student
Senate for the past seven months has
been a lot different from the days
when I reported and wrote editorials
about Student Government for the
Kernel. Hut l still find myself
looking at SG through a writer‘s
“mind‘s eye" from time to time.
And, for what it‘s worth. l‘ve come

 

commentary

 

up with my own theory about the
state of student activism in the
seventies.

It all goes back to high school. I
was a sophomore in high school
during the height of the Vietnam
War, the year of'the moratorium and
marches on DC Most college
students today were even younger
then (I am 2t. They were in junior
high school and still very much
under the influence of their families.
They watched Walter Cronkite at
home, hearing thier pa rcnts lantbarnt
those student protesters v. :iving Vic:
Cong flags before T\' cameras.

I got into a lot of heated
discussions about Vietnam in high
school. Illorcoftenthannot, kids just
repeated what they heard from their
parents. I knew then that my
generatin was going to be very
conservative. luasn't. My family is
very liberal and activist My father
retired from 2;: years of actin-
ntilitary duty disgusted and
disillusioned with CS. policy in
Vietnam and my oldest sister was
active nationally in the peace
movement. I realize nty philosophy
has a lot to do with their influence.

The natural crop of leaders which
evolves in every high school was

Employment, education not provided by

YOL'NG St)(‘l:\l.|ST \IJJANCE

For years, young people have been
told that America's prosperity will
assure them a decent education,
sound employment and an improved

 

commentary

 

quality of life. But now the future
looks increasingly bleak.

Scarce jobs at miserable wages,
poor education at cxorbitant costs.
social inequality, oppression and
injustice—that is the plight facing
millions of people. Worst of all. the
problems are growing.

This misery and uncertainty about
the future, isn't just a temporary

problem. it‘s rooted in the social and
economic system we live in-the
capitalist system.

Capitalism is based on private
profit for a tiny majority. This class
of millionaires makes up less than 1
per cent of the population, yet owns
the vast bulk of the country’s wealth.
Capitalism continues to exist by
fostering the oppression of women
and black people and other national
minorities.

Every institution in society oper-
ates according to the needs of this
private profit system, ranking hu-
man needs at the bottom.

Capitalism can‘t meet the needs of
the majority. 11 must be replaced
with a more humane. tational

system—socialism. Socialism will
mean that the working class, the
majority, runs society. This is what
the Young Socialist Alliance and
Socialist Workers Party are striving
for.

The YSA is a revolutionary social-
ist organization. We stand unalter-
ably opposed to the inhuman. out-
moded, parasitic system of private
profit. We believe that to overturn
that system a revolution is needed, a
revolution involving the support and
participation of millions of students
together with the vast majority of
working people. .

The YSA is a democratic organiza-
tion. The decisions concerning our
political program, our organization-

al structure. and our llCltHlleS art.-
voted on by the l-tgncst body of thi-
YSA—our national convention. This
follows months of written convention
discussions and chapter meetings
where discussions are held and
delegates are elected

The YSA is an internationahst
organization. We recognize that the
struggle for a socialist tuturt cannot
be confined within the national
boundaries of a single country

Weknow that one individual alone
can‘t bring about fundamental
change. The only way to fight back is
to unite with other people tn it
powerful organization. We believe
the YSA and SWP are such org.tnt/.i-
tions.

suuooeo PRINT

very conservative at mine-Henry
(flay High School here in Lexington.
Our Student Council was primarily
concerned with raising enough
money for the senior prom. Among
the intellectuals—those who won
scholarships to Notre Dame-~I
sensed a disdain for political in-
volvement and radical affectations
leg. drugs, long hair). Personally, I
was pretty alienated in high school
and was caught in the middle of a
strange mixture of friends. One
close friend went on to become
Junior Miss of America and win
$14,000 in scholarships. Another
friend , a dope dealer and rock &
roll groupii, gave her illegitimate
baby up for adoption. The extent of
my involvement was the Naitonal
Honor Society and the heavily-
censorcd school newspaper. I
couldn‘t wait to get to UK, where I
heard things were hopping
politically.

But I came too late. There wasn’t
much going on my freshman year.
thc fall of 197?. I worked hard for
Mctlovcm and subsequent local
“liberal“ candidates But the
student left was splintered into all
kinds (f small. ineffective groups
that was the year of activist SC.
Prcsident Scott Wendelsdorf‘s
second lenn. I think Scott, for whom
I still have the utmost respect. was
fully aware then that student ac-
tivism was on the skids. the first
term (is SG president-my senior
year in high school was the last
time students ever had any major
impact at this university.

So I went to work for the Kernel.
liut even there I saw a tran-
sformation from activism to greater
concern for gctting jobs after
graduation It 's a legitimate concern
which I can appreciate. People on

 

it .gone for good?

the Kernel now aren‘t necessarily
any less liberal than the staffs four
or five years ago. They‘re simply
less likely to express themselves
politically. That transformation has
obviously been refleted in the
student newspaper itself.

Partially because of that change
(but mostly for other personal
reasons) I left the Kernel and
changed my major to social work a
year ago. And last spring, just for
the hell of it. I ran for the Student
Senate.

The Student Senate reminds me of
high school. Once again I feel sort of
alienated. About half the Senate is
Greek. I‘m not. Some two-thirds of
the senators live on campus. I‘ve
always lived off campus. Only seven
of the 40 senators are women. And
there‘s a “don't-rock—the-boat”
attitude among senators and 80
officers in dealing with the
University administration. But I
think rocking the boat, making some
noise, maybe even being slightly
obnoxious, is the only way students
can get anything done.

Don 't misunderstand me I like the
people I’ve worked with this
semester in Student Government
They‘re nice and a lot more diverse
than I anticipated. We just have
different ways of percriting our
roles as ”studtnt leaders.“ Mean-
while, [realize my political interests
rttn against those of the main-
stream. And I don’t have the time,
energy or inclination to try and
change the flow of events.

Ten years from now. should
anyone leaf through old Kernels to
see what I‘K students were like in
the mid-seventies, they‘ll see a
passive. tradition-oriented
generation. I guess I was born five
years too late

capitalist system

The YSA is holding its national
convention Dec. Lil-Jan. 2 in Chico-
go. There will be five themes
discusses and decisions made about
our activities for the next year:

If S imperialist policy in south-
ern Africa We will discuss how to
build a campaign to demand U.S.
withdrawal from South Africa. an
0nd to apartheid and an end to US
support for all colonial settler states
there.

, the fight for the rights of the
most oppressed in society-~from the
tight for women‘s to the battles for
black and Chtcano liberation.

«The fight for democratic rights
for all Americans, for example by
oursuitagainstthe l-‘BlandClA.

-—'l‘he need to organize students to
fight back against economic attacks
on the working class and students,
particularly on the right of a decent
education.

The YSA campaign to wm
support for socialist ideas through
the sales of thc Militant and Young
Socialist newspapers and running
campus campaigns

We invite all of you to check out
the YSA by coming to our meetings
on Sundays in room 118 lit the
Student Center at 7 p m. or by
joining us in attending the convcn~
tion in Chicago. For further tutor»
mation, call 233-1270 or 253-0371 after
5 pm. We will be leaving the
moming of Dec. 30.

 

 

 

   

 

 

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Odds are against
death penalty bill

FRANKFORT [AP] — The odds are
against her, but Sen. Georgia Davis
Powers isn‘t giving up the fight to
abolish the death penalty in Kentucky.

“My bill doesn’t have much of a
chance," the Louisville Democrat said
Tuesday. “At least the General Assem-
bly will have an alternative to consider
when it takes up capital punishment."

Her proposal, now before the Judici-
ary-Statutes Committee, would abolish
executions and provide a penalty of life
imprisonment without parole for major
crime.

“I feel that capital punishment, as
dispensed now, is not justice or just,"
Powers said during an interview.

 

Carter may

request

price increase notices

WASHINGTON (APt—Afler
rulirg out wage and price controls,
President-elect Carter is con-
sidering asking some corporations
to give advance notice of price
increases as a means of combating
inflation, his advisers say.

The advance notice would give
the government an opportunity to
bring pressure to bear to force a
reversal (i price increases it
considers unjustified, the advisers
said.

“The precise details of how that
ought to be arranged, whether it
ought to be a voluntary sort of
thing. are still to he worked out.

But in general (‘artcr favors the
concept of some prenotification in
certain circumstances,“ said
Stuart I'Iizenstat. director of
policy development for the t ‘arter
transition team.

Eizenstat and other (‘arter ad~
visers sought during an interview
to dispel any notion that (‘arter's
decision last week to rule out wage
and price controls, except in a
national emergency, means he will
be more tolerant of inflation.

They said they don‘t think (‘a rter
will do anything that requires “the
force of law,“ but will emphasize
\olunlary nit-assures.

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southeastern Kentucky. “They
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“The more affluent, and those who are
white, find some means of escaping a
death sentence. That is why we have so
many blacks and so many poor on death
row now."

Carroll brings up
off-track betting

FRANKFURT [AP] _._ (iov. Jillian
Carroll broadened his call yesterday for
the special session of the General
Assembly 'to include legislation that
would block ofl~track betting

“We are not about to permit any action
for the support of organized crime in this
state," Caroll told a news conference.

House considers

new peace officers

, FRANKFURT lAl'] ~— The Kentucky
House passed over the only hit] on its
agenda yesterday after a question arose
over whether it could be amended.

The legislation would permit the
governor to appoint special local peace
officers upon application by property
owners. The bill would merely restore
the statute to what it was before the 1976
regular session of the General Assem-
bly, when the provision was dropped
through oversight.

Some legislators wanted assurance
that the officers could not be used as
strike breakers in a labor dispute and a
floor amendment was filed to that effect.

 

 

as “ridiculous" yesterday a report
charging that two explosions that
killed 26 men in the firm’s No. 1
mine last March were inevitable.

The House subcommittee on
labor standards said in the report,
issued Monday in Washington, that
mine conditions and lax enforce-
ment of safety regulations made
the two methane gas explosions
inevitable.

It said Scotial Coal C. “ignored“
requirements of the federal coal
mine health and safety act by
allowing dangerous conditions to
exist in the mine.

“That’s ridiculous." said Ralph
Dye. a vice president of Blue
Diamond Coal Co, which owns the
Scotia mine at Oven Fork in

just not true."

He said he could not elaborate
because "there could be some
litigation pending and I don‘t
believe we are in a position to
comment."

Investigators prepared the re-
port at the direction of Rep. Carl
Perkins tD-Ky).

Perkin