The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky (2024)

January 3, 1974

Publication:

The Lexington Heraldi

Location:

Lexington, Kentucky

Issue Date:

Thursday, January 3, 1974

Page:

25

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Farmers Landowners Demand Justification For Parkway Link 16 Counties Get Child Care Grant WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep Carl Perkins D-Ky announced Wednesday i $119 million grant for second-year funding of a child care program for 18 Eastern Kentucky counties Perkins said the federal money would provide services to 1505 children under six years old and their families funding some 30 child development centers in the area The program Includes: Day-care centers providing learning nutrition and health care home-based family services and a pre-' school program working with children and their parents Counties assisted with the grant are Bell Breathitt Clay Harlan Jackson Knott Knox Laurel Lee Leslie Letcher Owsley Perry Rockcastle Whitley and Wolfe VERSAILLES Ky (AP) -A group of Central Kentucky farmers and landowners is determined to halt the planned construction of the Blue Grass Parkway extension until they're convinced it can be Justified "People are beginning to wake up to America's habit of wastefulness" said Mrs Ben Chandler a member of the citizens group during a recent interview "A road may be needed but cant we know why before the land is desecrated?" Mrs Chandler and Mrs Robert Clinkinbeard both of Woodford County say the current fuel shortages underline their contention that the state should reconsider its plan to build the extension The proposed $15 million nine mile extension would connect the parkway at the point where it now ends at US 60 between Lexington and Versailles to the present interchange of US 62 and Interstate 64 in Scott County A traffic and revenue feasibility study is expected to be ready on or about March 1 according to State Highway Commissioner James Gray and a preliminary engineering study is scheduled for completion by June 15 'Antiquated Statistics' "They're using antiquated statistics in the feasibility study" Mrs Chandler charged "For example who would have thought a year ago that we'd be short of gasoline?" "We're asked to conserve fuel to use car pools and wear more clothes but imagine the gasoline it would take even to build the road" Mrs Clinkinbeard added They also say that statistics show the toll roads in the state are not paying for themselves Apart from what they see as a lack of economic Justification for building the extension the citizens group a core of about 20 with some 200 supporters is primarily concerned with how the road would affect the character of the area through which it would pass Although Commissioner Gray said the route of the road wont be final until this spring the citizens group says indications are that it would pass through a corridor which includes some of Scott and Fayette Counties and portions of the most fertile Woodford County farmland as well as an area designated historic by the Woodford Planning and Zoning Commission 'Corridor Fight' Several members of the citizens group met with Gov Wendell Ford last November and Mrs Clinkinbeard said it was "the governor's contention that it is a corridor fight but it's much more than that: we're getting support from people in Lexington and other communities not in the path of the road" "The attitude in Frankfort la that we're little guys screaming for our own nests but it's not so we have to stand together" said Mrs Chandler there's no reason to desecrate the land" The group's efforts have been endorsed by the Buckley Hills Audubon Society an organization chartered by the National Audubon Society to represent nine counties in Central Kentucky in conservation and ecology matters In opposing the proposed extension the society cited the threat to ecological values of the area the noise and pollution that would result and the lack of Justification from the standpoint of fiscal feasibility or traffic density The citizens group has asked for a hearing on the matter and Mrs Chandler said the governor has agreed to "talk with a small group of people" after the feasibility study is completed "When a federal road is built there must be an environmental impact statement and a hearing but with a toll road it's not required" Mrs Clinkinbeard added Seduce Death Toll They say officials have told them that the extension would help lighten the traffic load on US 60 and would reduce the highway death toll on Oat road "It wouldn't lighten the traffic load" Mrs Chandler said "in fact it would probably bring in some amount of traffic from the north" "Why not help Route 60 Itself? Let's get on with that" "People have the feeling that you can't fight city hall" Mrs Clinkinbeard said "This thing has happened so quickly that many people aren't aware of ft" Surveyors Refused To take up the communities the group has arranged open forums formed telephone committees begun a letter writing campaign to state officials and newspapers and now has launched a petition drive Local landowners have refused to let surveyors on their property to put up stakes and Mrs Clinkinbeard said tilings "started cracking" after that "We Just hope we have enough time" she said Happiness Is Summer Of 74 by a ribbon of white chrysanthemums and the famous twin spires atop Churchill Downs grandstand and the float theme "Summer of '74" when the 100th Kentucky Derby will be run (Associated Press Wirephoto) Carrying out the theme of the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena Calif New Year's Day which was "Happiness Is Louisville entered this float in the colorful event i It features a life-size replica of Secretariat two huge golden horseshoes linked THE LEXINGTON HERALD State Society and General News Lexington Kentucky Thursday Morning January 3 1 974 25 3Youths Die In Car In Garage LOUISVILLE Ky (AP) -Three young men died of carbon monoxide poisoning Wednesday after they entered an auto either to rest or warm up They were identified as Sherman Farmer 17 Larry French 18 and Mike McDanieL 19 The bodies were discovered about 6:20 am by French's mother in a two-car garage at the rear of the French home Jefferson County police said the ignition was on the radio playing and the gas tank empty Officials said the three had been working on Fanner's car about 11 pm Tuesday after Farmer took bis father to work Police theorized the trio got into McDamel's vehicle to rest or get warm Chief Deputy Coroner William Anderson ruled the deaths accidental Around The State GOP Opens State Office Today LEXINGTON KY sm dIstSY 'oymrsof 662 MAIN MOUTLET 662 Mam SERVICE IN Phone 233-0800 uxington returned to Lexington The GOP Committee will occupy the quarters recently vacated by the KML "We hope to be of service to Republican members of the General Assembly as well as to Republicans throughout the state" said Van Hoose "as well as to keep an eye on goings-on in state FRANKFORT Ky The Republican State Central Committee will establish its permanent headquarters in a building at Third and Capital Avenues here today Executive Director Larry Van Hoose disclosed yesterday The building was formerly occupied by the Kentucky Municipal League whose a a has been Gambling Costs Man $800 Fine HARRODSBURG Ky Bruce Wayne Huffman 32 Danville Road was fined a total of $800 and costs by County Judge Glover McGinnis on charges stemming from his arrest Saturday by State Police on an information warrant accusing him of being a common gambler State Police reported Huffman was fined $500 and costs for carrying concealed a deadly weapon $200 and costs for common gambling and $100 and costs for engaging in gambling In addition to the fines Huffman was placed under a $500 surety bond for one year Officers said they arrested Huffman on West Broadway and found he had a quantity of jewelry in his possession including several watches He was released on bond after his arrest Fire Destroys Post Office Local law enforcement officers said that two Harrodsburg firms were broken into during the holidays They said $95 in checks and about $25 in cash was stolen from the Mercer Youth Center and an estimated 25 tires from the Mercer Tire and Recapping Company both on Warwick Road No arrests have been reported Neighbors alerted the Goodmans and they escaped uninjured- Hardin County firemen kept the blase from spreading to nearby buildings Figures on the loss were not available ELIZABETHTOWN Ky CAP) The post office at Eastview about 17 miles west ofElisabethtown was destroyed by fire late Tuesday' night The post office was located in the home of Polk Goodman 60" Console Stereo' Mercer Lodge Elects Officers MEDITERRANEAN STYLE WOOD CABINET Veterinary Medicine School Bill Pre-Filed Goodlett secretary Herbert Burns treasurer Ronnie Carey senior deacon Larry Lance Junior deacon Lloyd Myers senior steward Donald Brown Junior steward Gash Sr tiler John LeNore chaplain and Buster Sims reporter '-HARRODSBURG Ky -'Mercer Lodge No 777 recently elected officers for the coming year Installed by Buster Sims past master were: F-ank Lawson master William Grigsby senior warden Gash Jr Junior warden Guy AM-FM RADIO 8 TRACK TAPE 4 SPEED RECORD PLAYER FLOOR MODEL CLEARANCE Our regular low prices have been slashed to move our floor stock and make room for 74 Tornado Record Set By WILLIAM PEEPLES Herald Frankfort Bureau FRANKFORT Ky A measure to establish a school of veterinary medicine in Kentucky was pre-filed for the 1974 General Assembly here yesterday Sponsored by Reps Thomas Burch and Lawrence Ray Maynard both of Louisville the bill would authorize the state Council on Public Higher Education to determine the location of such a school and approve its degree program The measure also directs that a veterinary school maintain two departments for teaching and research It calls for an appropriation of $30 million over the next two fiscal years The Southern Regional Education Board has estimated that it would cost around $24 million to build and equip a school of veterinary medicine and about $15 million a year to operate it $11995 81 sf if GARRARD TURN TABLE -Pc Component System 4iriM from the twisters The last tornado deaths in the state were in 19C9 when nine persons died in Southcentral Kentucky The most tornadoes In any previous year were 16 in both 1967 and 1971 LOUISVILLE Ky (AP-Kentucky had a record 19 confirmed tornadoes in 1973 more then twice the average the National Weather' Servie said Wednesday There were no fatalities Register daily at your Kentucky Group Bank! 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