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Vol. xcu. No. as

Established 1894

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Wednesday. November 8. 1989

 

UK to ask city to rezone 15 acres of Coldstream

By TONJA IMLT
Campus Editor

UK will ask the Lexington-
Fayette Urban County Planning
Commission to approve the rezon-
ing of 15 acres of Coldstream Farm
in order to allow the construction
of a research facility.

The UK Board of Tmstees Execu-
tive Committee approved a propo-
sal to build a Research Campus
that will include a high-technology
research laboratory and related activ-
ities in a campus-like setting.

UK will file an application with
the Lexington-Fayette Urban Coun-

ty Planning Commission for a
Small Area Change in the land at
Coldstream Farm. The process will
take 6 months.

If the change is approved, UK
will build a Research Campus por-
tion of the overall development of
Coldstream Farm that will employ
about 200 people.

A plan presented by MPC &
Associates, a Washington DC,
consulting firth hired by UK, rec-
ommended last year that 500 acres
of the farm be used as an office re
search park.

The farm, which is on Newtown
Pike near the Interstate 64-75 inter-

a

Plans to build research facility
that would employ 200 people

change, is used by the College of
Agriculture for research. If the Uni-
versity’s proposal is approved, UK
President David Roselle said that it
would benefit agricultural restxuch.

“You need to consider the agri-
cultural needs,” UK President David
Roselle said. “What we are recom-
mending today does suggest deveL

opment for the agriculture experi-
ment station."

Coldstream needs to be re/oned
to allow a high-technology compa~
ny to relocate, Roselle said.

The application to rezone will be
submitted by Friday. The process
should take six months, according
to Joseph Burch, of the PK legal

 

 

 

SQUEAKING

OUT A WIN

 

 

Ellinger
elected

by 70—Vote
margin

By DAVID A. HALL
Staff Writer

The heat was not off Dr.
Charles W. Ellinger until late last
night.

Ellinger, a UK dentistry profes-
sor, was elected to one of the
three council-at-large seats on the
Lexington-Fayette Urban County
Council last night by just 70
votes.

With 97 percent of the precincts
reporting, Ellinger received
17,455 votes —— 18 percent ——
squeaking past two-tenri incum—
bent Barkley Blevins by just 70
votes. Although the totals are un-
official, Ellinger proclaimed his
victory shortly after 11 pm.

Polls had predicted that Blevins
and Council member at Large
Pam Miller would vie for the top
two spots, with Ellinger running
third.

Miller overwhelmingly finished
first, receiving 30 percent of the
vote, but Theresa Isaac polled an
unexpected 22 percent to finish
second.

The top three finishers in the
six-candidate race are elected to
four- year terms.

Ellinger said that he was sur-
prised by the outcome of the race.

“I’m surprised that people went
out and voted for her (Isaac) the
way they did," he said. “I’m sur—
prised it turned out to be a two-
person race for the top and a two
person race for the bottom."

Blevins‘ fourth-place finish end-
ed his eight years of service on
the council.

Ellinger, who has served two

 

UK dentistry professor Dr. Chalres W. Ellinger addresses his constituents last night at the Campbell
House Inn. Ellinger unofficially finished third in the Urban County Council at-Iarge election.

terms as 10th District council-
man, said that his victory means a
strong voice in Urban County
govemment for UK.

“I will be a voice (for UK) and
help to coordinate various types
of programs and concerns for the
University and the Council,“ he
said.

Ellinger supporters said that
last night‘s victory was the result
of a hard-working campaign.

“It’s an exciting victory," said
Roger Fischer, Ellinger's cam-

patgn manager. “Any time you
run in an tit-large race you run a
long shot."

“I feel like we had run a first-
class program all the way," said
Carol Ford, a patient care worker
in the UK College of Dentistry
who also was active in Ellinger's
campaign.

Many Ellinger supporters said
that their candidate will be a
strong addition to the Council.

“I think he (Ellinger) will con-
tinue to do for the entire commit»

STEVE SANDERS/Kernel Stall

nity what he‘s done for the l()th
District," said Wayne 1.. Smith.
finance chairman for fillinger‘s
campaign.

“He‘s got a conservative out-
look that will help l-extngton
grow in a positive way." Fischer
said. “He has the time to spend on
the CounCil and takes the time to
get involved with the issues."

Ellinger said his new lob as
councilman at large will mean tid-
ditional responsibility to his con-
stituents.

 

 

Soviet celebration draws fire, protests

Associated Press

MOSCOW .— Anti-Communist
marchers, striking workers and
clashes between police and protest-
ers vied yesterday with a scaled-
down military parade on Red Square
as the Soviet Union celebrated the
1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Even President Mikhail S. Gor-
bachev tempered the Revolution
day festivities by saying the na-
tion’s economic problems hang
like a “sword of Darnocles over
us.

A column of about 5,000 march-
ers paraded peacefully through Mos-
cow to challenge Communist Party
authority, while a few miles away,

Gorbachev and other leaders cele—
brated the 72nd anniversary of the
revolution reviewing the traditional
show of military force.

Activists in the southwest repub-
lic of Moldavia said police broke
up a crowd of thousands of would-
be protesters and beat some of
them. The military part of the pa-
rade in its capital, Kishincv, was
canceled

In the Arctic city of Vorkuta.
striking coal miners joined the offi-
cial celebration, but carried slogans
demanding more independence and
that the government fulfill promis-
es of better living conditions.

In some trouble spots, such as
the Caucasus republics of Armenia

and Georgia, state-run media said
traditional parades were canceled.
Boris Sokolov, an activist from the
Baltic republic of Latvia, said a
small group of people burned a red
Soviet flag in the capital.

Gorbachev acknowledged that
many Soviet feel threatened by food
shortages and the disorganilation of
the consumer market.

“When all this is hanging like a
sword of Damocles over us, it is
very important we do not forget the
main thing, that this is the way we
have chosen to follow," he said, rc-
ferring to the Greek legend in
which a sword was strung by a sin-
gle hair over the head of Damocles.
a royal attendant, to show the pre-

Lots of questions,

cariousness of power.

Gorbachev said the Soviet leader-
ship has not yet been able to re
place fully the administrative sys~
tem of the past, and “thus there
exrsts a loss, or a weakening of
control. Shall we go back‘.’ That
would be a mistake"

The anniversary marks the day in
1917 when the Bolsheviks under
Lenin seized power from a provi-
sional government.

“We‘re tired of 70 years of Com-
munist power with nothing having
changed for the better, and this is
our protest," said Taisya Shlyono»
va, a retiree. One placard character—
ized communist rule as “72 years
on the road to nowhere."

council.

The proposal to bmld a research
facility was passed by the commit-
tee by a 3~1 Ill'drglll.

Larry Forgy. chairman of the
BOT finance committee, cast the
single opposition vote because he
said it would be more profitable to
build a shopping center on the
farm.

“That shopping center .. would
give us the kind of development
money to relocate the animal devel-
opment," Porgy said. "I see the
University and the public about to
lose the opportunity for a financial
windfall with strategic location of

the shopping cente'.

“There would be enough money
to move the agriculture center and
provrde 2.00031“) scholarships,"
he said. “If we vote with Just part
of this we are doini.r a disservice to
the children of this state.

“I would rather see us. leave it in
it’s pristine Iorm,‘ l‘org} \tll’ci. "II
we aren’t going to tlt. it right then
let‘s not do it."

UK originally had [WUPUYQii I!‘
develop a mall on the ncrthcast cor
her of the farm. but dropped tho
plans last summer

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