State Payroll Reaches Realistic Lower Limit Of 25,000 Employes Kentucky Salaries Lag Behind At 'Just About Every Level', By SY RASMEY By FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) er Ralph Howe said Monday roll has reached its realistic 25,000 figure. He said any further versely affect programs and The 25,000 estimate includes, only permanent, fulltime employes and is down nearly 2,000 from the level at the time Gov. Louie B. Nunn instituted a hiring freeze six months ago.
Actually, Howe said, there are two sets of figures available to him for the exact number of state employes at any given time. One, he said, is six weeks behind time while the other sometimes is 1,000 off the mark because of technicalities. Howe made his remarks on a local cable television interview with two newsmen. He has been personnel commissioner for nine months the third under the Republican administration. General Trends Speaking of general trends, Howe said an effort will be made in the next decade to keep state worker turnover in line with private industry.
He said it is much higher now, averaging 600 a month and occasionally reaching 900 tool, he indicated, would be a training and classification program which would show a state job prospect how far up the ladder he can go in how much time and at how high an eventual salary. The Personnel Department is undergoing a reorganization in line with recommendations by the governor's task force on economy and efficiency, but the process appears to be slow. Howe said that during the next legislative session he expects proposals which would allow state workers in union to bargain collectively with the stateshort of the right to strike. Bargaining Inevitable Is Belief He made no prediction of immediate passage of such a law, but indicated it is inevitable in the next few years. Howe said Nunn's freeze order touched off a barrage of complaints at first from state Personnel Commissionhe believes the state lower limit at the current loss of personnel might adgeneral state operations.
agencies. They resented the new centralized power of the Personnel Department is approving or rejecting "critical" jobs hiring. But now, he said, the same agencies have come to see that the plan works and gives a stable underpinning to personnel matters. "Before, I used to walk into department and ask for their organizational chart and they never had one," he said. "These days they know what's going on with their personnel." Manpower Levels Established The commissioner said department already has established manpower levels for most.
all agencies, one of the long-range goals mentioned Nunn at the time of the freeze edict. The new biennial budget will reflect this new setup, he said, but did not go into figures. Howe said two major goals the moment are to improve state salaries in numerous areas and to strengthen the merit system protects workers discrimination or arbitrary practices by an administration. Loopholes Do Exist The merit system regulations seem adequate although loopholes exist, he said, and the Personnel Department will ask the next General Assembly to plug the loopholes. But the main thing, he said, is for any administration to adhere to the spirit of the system and really want to keep state employes in a serene frame mind.
Howe, a Republican, said he thought the Nunn regime was following this principle. As for salaries, he estimated that half of state workers earn less than $400 a month and many are below the federal poverty level of $3,600 a year. "Kentucky lags behind in state salaries at just about every level," he said. Six Charges Placed Against Berea Man Ky. Six charges were lodged against Berea man after a hit-and-run accident and attempted shooting of a state policeman Saturday at Berea.
Trooper John Nixon charged Jack Fryer, 21, Berea, Route 3, with drunken driving, driving without an operator's license, carrying concealed a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and hit and run. The arrest came after Fryer allegedly sideswiped the auto of John Foster Williams, Sand Gap, about 1.1 mile west of Berea on Dogwood Lane. Nixon, investigating the mishap, was being briefed about accident by Williams when Fryer returned to the scene and was stopped at a road block, which was set up to traffic in order for the vehicle to be removed from a ditch. Nixon said Fryer had passed the accident site once "Before. Trooper Nixon said he approached Fryer's auto and Fryer pulled revolver and aimed it at Nixon's stomach.
Nixon grabbed the gun and struck the man over the head with his own revolver. Fryer was treated for a scalp laceration at Berea Hospital before being taken to Madison County Jail. At a hearing Monday before Trial Commissioner A. B. Davis, Fryer was fined $150 for drunken driving and $40 and costs for driving without a license.
The other charges, all felonies, Judge Davis held for consideration by the next grand jury. Fryer remained in jail under $6,800 bond, pending payment of fines. Husband Sentenced In Yule Eve Slayings MARION, Ill. (AP) neth Rogers pleaded guilty Monday to the Christmas Eve slayings of his wife and her woman companion, and was sentenced to 75 to 100. years in prison.
"I'm guilty, that's all," said Rogers in response to questions by Circuit Judge John Clayton, who informed the 29-year-old Carbondale book store employe of his legal rights. Rogers was arrested in Covington, Friday after the bodies of his wife, Wilma, 22, and Miss Barbara Case, 25, were found Christmas Day in their trailer home at Carterville. Both had been strangled with electric cords. Rogers, represented by Public Defender George Morgan, waived his rights to a preliminary hearing and indictment. After the proceedings in marion, Rogers was taken to Jackson County Circuit Court in Murphysboro where he was arraigned on a charge of murder- Excess Fees Can't Cover Burglary Loss FRANKFORT, Ky.
(AP) Atty. Gen. John B. Breckinridge has advised that Campbell County Clerk Edward Sheehan cannot use excess fees deposited with the state treasurer to cover a burglary loss. Sheeban's office was burglarized of some $35,000 Feb.
19, 1969, only $5,000 of which was covered by insurance. Sheehan paid another $10,000 of his own money to help cover the loss. In an opinion requested by Finance Commissioner Albert Christen, Breckinridge said the theft cannot be charged against Sheehan's excess fee balance as an office expense. Additional ARC Funds Approved For Hospital At West Liberty WEST LIBERTY, Ky. commendation for approval of $464,000 in funds from the Appalachian Regional Commission for a hospital in West, Liberty was given Monday Frank J.
Groschelle, director of the State Program Development Office. The recommendation was made after an architect's plan for the hospital called for the additional funds. The total estimate is now An additional $5,009 in funds is still lacking. However it is expected that these funds will be raised locally or the project reduced in scope. Groschelle said that in addition to the recommended funds, the total project would be funded by a grant of about $464,000 from Hill-Burton funds, basic money from the federal Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Departmentout The remaining $500,000 will be contributed through local sources.
The new hospital will serve five counties Morgan, Elliot, Menifee, Wolfe and Magoffin. At present there are no hospital facilities in the area. Announcement of the recommendation came in a letter to Joe W. Haney, state representative from the 98th District. Man Found Guilty Of Neglect In Boy's Death; Term Suspended LOUISVILLE, Ky.
(AP) charge of criminal neglect was dropped Monday against a womwhose son died of malnutrition, but her common-law husband was found guilty and given conditional one-year suspendsentence. Jefferson County Juvenile Court Judge Raymond L. Suell accepted a plea of innocent by reason of insanity from Estelle Ellis ground she did not have mental capacity to know that Robert Drew Ellis, 9, was starving to death. R. Cecil White entered a similar plea, but Suell rejected it.
The suspended sentence was awarded on the condition that continue to live with Mrs. Ellis and see that she gets "appropriate rehabilitative treatment." Robert Ellis died Thanksgiv-1 Aling Eve. Police found his body to get divorced." in a bed in the house occupied Defense Attorney Stuart Lyon, by White, 38, and Mrs. Ellis, 29. explaining that he was trying The couple's five daughters show Mrs.
Ellis is mentally were hospitalized and treated tarded, questioned her about her for severe malnutrition. home life, friends, income and Suell upheld a petition re- about Robert Ellis, 9, who died questing that the five girls be on Thanksgiving eve. declared dependent and sched- Mrs. Ellis' five daughters uled a hearing for Jan. 8 to de- were hospitalized after Robert cide where they will be placed.
was found dead in the house. Mrs. Ellis told Suell she was She said she has been receivan illegitimate child, has an ing $179 a month from the Deeighth-grade education and nev- partment of Economic Security, er has held a job. adding that neither she nor She testified that four men White are drinkers. She also fathered her first four children said none of the welfare money and that White is the father of was used for his small repair her "last children." She said appliance business.
"the half-child" is the one she Mrs. Ellis said money is carrying now. wasn't enough to feed herself Asked why she and White and her six children but she was never married, Mrs. Ellis re- reluctant to seek help from the and didn't have already, money talk behind my back if I did." plied, "He is married neighbors "because they would Louisville Mayor To Request Share Of Sales Tax For Counties, Cities LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) been in effect during 1968, Jef-1 Burke said neither city Mayor Frank W.
Burke said ferson County would have re- county governments can "reMonday he plans to ask the ceived $5.7 million and Louis- spond adequately to the needs state legislature to share rev- ville could have claimed $3.8 of people in the 1970's." He said enue from the five per cent million. federal and state governments sales tax with counties and "must share with county and cities. "It was recently reliably esti- city government the sources Burke unveiled the major mated that the sales tax would revenue which they have item of his set of legislative produce $265 million in 1969," thoroughly consumed." proposals in a press confer- Burke said, million and noted than the collect- figure The mayor also said his plan or ence. is $50 more would help meet a "real crisis" The mayor said he will ask ed in 1968. for second, third and fourth state to return one-half pen- He said the state will have to class cities in the state.
for each nickel collected set priorities in fund requests Burke said his legislative within the city or county or 10 because not all requests can be package will be introduced earcent of the total tax rev- filled, but called on the legisla- ly in the coming General Asenue. tors to recognize the needs of sembly, but did not say who will Burke said if the plan had local government. introduce it. President's Signing Of Coal-Mine Safety Bill Approved By 7 Widows WASHINGTON (P) women, widows for little than a year, could say Monday they lost a battle but won the war. The women, whose husbands were entombed by an explosion deep in a Farmington, W.Va., coal mine Nov.
20, 1968, didn't see President Nixon as they had wanted to. But they were at the White House, talking with a Nixon aide, when word came the President would sign the coal-mine safety bill they had made the goal of their pilgrimage from West Virginia. "I just jumped up and shouted," said 1 Sara Lee Koznoski, deher reaction. "It's a scribing at a news conference for all of Mrs. Koznoski, whose hus.
band Pete was among the who died in the Farmington mine disaster, acted as spokesman for the widows. They were flown to Washington by Rev. Ken Hechler, D- Rites Wednesday For Mrs. Butler EDMONTON, Ky. (AP)- The funeral Mrs.
Pearl Pendleton Butler, mother of Wendell Butler, state superintendent of public instruction, will be Wednesday. Mrs. Butler, who was 88, was a former teacher and was runner-up in 1968 Kentucky Mother of the Year Contest. She died Sunday after an illness of more than a year. 40th Cadet Trooper Class Members of the 40th Cadet Trooper Class of Loyall; William E.
Bowles, Milan, Brown, Owensboro; Kenneth M. Burton, Denny Reading, Ohio; Prentice K. ton; William D. George, East Bernstadt; rell, Corbin; Stanley G. Heslep, Ekron; nings, Hickman; Lee R.
Johnson, Garrett, Muldraugh; Jerry W. Lovitt, Piney Grove; nard, Pikeville; Richard L. Meshew, Fulton; Elkton; Michael E. Nelson, Russell Springs; Owensboro; Melvin Perkins, Glasgow; James Louisville; Eddie G. Railey, Bowling Green; Sheperson, Perryville; Erchall B.
Shouse field. the Kentucky State Police are Douglas E. Ronald W. Bradford, Harrodsburg; James Owinngsville; Kenneth R. Carter, Leitchfield; Disponette, Versailles; James Earl Fennel, Phillip R.
Harney, Reading, Ohio; Colan J. Eugene R. Hutchinson, Martin; James W. Guy E. Kerfoot, Elizabethtown; Ralph Lee McKinley E.
Mayes, Harrodsburg; Paul R. Gary G. Messer, Olive Hill; Robert C. Denis L. Obst, Louisville; Joseph T.
A. Perry, Pleasure Ridge; William T. William H. Riley Williamsburg; John Simpsonville, and Michael Winn, THE LEXINGTON HERALD State, Society, Amusem*nts, Markets, Comics And General News Lexington, Kentucky, Tuesday Morning, December 30, 1969 13 Night Hours Are 'Prime Time' For Most Kentucky Shoppers By LONNIE D. STUART re- LOUISVILLE, Ky.
(AP) Kentucky shoppers are using. late afternoon and evening hours as prime time to part with the family paycheck. Operators of discount department stores, appliance stores and grocery stores say their peak selling, hours begin at about and continue until 10 or 11 p.m. "After 4:30 we do at least double the amount of sales that we do during earlier bours," said Erv Martin, executive vice of president and Louisville general discount manager a large department store chain. Martin said the late shopping trend is due to the large influx of suburban stores that make night shopping easy.
An appliance store manager said his establishment doesn't do much business during the daytime. "We depend on nighttime business to make the day's selling He said quota," he said. or many come early to look at appliances, then bring their husbands back for the purchase. Most store managers say Saturday afternoon is also a large of volume selling time, but activiso ty slows down during the evening hours. A spokesman for a Louisvillebased grocery chain that extends throughout Kentucky said business drops in stores outside Louisville after about 6 p.m., but continues until closing time for in-city stores.
He said Fridays are big selling days, with Saturday's running a close second. Martin said the grocery department of his company's discount stores do a large volume of business at night. He said both husbands and wives shop for groceries at night, but fewer men are seen in the daytime hours. Mrs. Barbara Backes, and Mrs.
Ann Cullum, both Louisville housewives, say they shop mostly during the evening hours. "We usually go at night, but it depends on when my husband is home," said Mrs. Backes. "I'd rather go in the daytime," said Mrs. Cullum, "but we usually end up going Thursday evenings." She said both she and her husband Loren shop together for expensive items.
Spokesmen for new and used car agencies said their business is in its off during December and January. "Few people will buy a major priced item at Christmastime because they are involved in buying toys and trinkets for their families," said a new car salesman. But he said evening, and weekend sales are backbone of new car sales during top summer months and estimated that 50 per cent of new car sales start after 4:30 p.m. The used car sales manager went even higher. He said shift work scatters customers but estimated 65 per cent of sales come in the evening hours.
The new-car salesman said husbands usually rely on their wives to help decide which car to buy. "The husband probably involves his wife to avoid the "I you so' reaction on a poor the salesman said City Can't Use Bonds To Annex School Area FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Elementary School, which are Atty. Gen. John B.
Breckinridge has advised that the Louisville school board cannot issue revenue bonds to cover the cost of annexing part of the Jefferson County School District. Breckinridge said that such revenue bonds can be used only for capital construction. Likewise, Breckinridge advised that the special voted building tax also could be used only for capital construction and not to pay off any such revenue bond issue. Henry A. Triplett, a Louisville attorney, asked Breckinridge's opinion on the financing of the proposed annexation.
Residents of the county school district have petitioned for the city district to annex territory where they lived, in which case the city board would have pay the county board $1.3 million. The petitions were presented after the city board decided early this year that it could no longer accept county students at Atherton, Highland Junior High School and Belknap Cora Wilson, two children; Mary Rogers, two; Mary Hayes, four; Lucille Strait, two, and Bonnie Taylor, seven. THE New Years OPEN Townsend STEREO CONSOLE Day IF YOU THINK MAR LOW PRICE IS LOW You're Right! but Watch For Our Ad Dec. 31st B233 Marlowe Tire Appliance Co. 707 Lane Allen 851 N.
Broadway Asher, D. Carl BenHar- MayMiller, Pagan, Perry, L. Leitch- Liquor, Wine Shop Here Is Given Charter 14-year-old Lisa Levering, whose strangled body found Dec. 1 near Carbondale. He did not enter a plea in the Levering case and was held for the grand jury convening Jan.
14. Rogers was scheduled to be taken to Menard Penitentiary. He previously had been committed twice to Menard as a sexually dangerous person, Two Youths Arrested In Car Theft RICHMOND, Two Madison County youths were caught taking a car from a used car lot early Monday morning. John Newby, 19, Highway 595, and Mike Whitaker, 18, Richmond, Route 1, were arrested by local police at 2:35 a.m. near Jimmy's Used Car lot, attempting to start an auto which had been taken from the lot.
Police said that Newby was sitting in the stolen car and Whitaker was in Newby's auto trying to push the stolen car. The noise roused the suspicion of Charles Smith, a nearby resident, who called police. Police said the car, a 1965 Mustang, had been stolen found just a week before but was near Lake Reba, a mile east of here. State Employe Dies FRANKFORT. Ky.
Jesse Carl Jones, 65, of 347 Holmes Street, a state guard and night watchman, and husband of Mrs. Mary M. Jones, died Monday. The body is at Harrod Brothers Memorial Chapel. FRANKFORT, Ky.
Bird Liquor and Wine Shop, Lexington, capitalized at $30,000, was granted a charter Monday by the secretary of state. Incorporators were James S. Bird, Lexington; Seldon Wright and William Wright, Millstone. Other charters granted were: The Apple Tree, Lexington, 1,000 shares without par value; Sue Clay Moloney and Zee Faulkner Wile. AML, Lexington, 000; David L.
Helsten and Arthur G. Seifert. Salyer Radio Corporation, Whitesburg, 2,000 shares without par value; Raphael B. Salyer. in hopes of Nixon to sign the bill.
Nixon, before the White House announced he would sign the measure with some misgivings, had said one of its provisions, for federal compensation of "black lung" disease victims, is inflationary. Although the women all are widowed, they have relatives, including sons, who still work the coal mines of West Virginia. One of them, Juanita Mayle, has 16 children. Others who made the trip in two chartered airplanes were Damages Sought For Injuries Suffered In Fall FRANKFORT, Ky. Georgia Moore, Frankfort, Monday filed suit in Circuit Court against Paul and Ellen Penn for $8,800 for damages growing out of injuries suffered here Dec.
28, 1968, due to the alleged "negligence" of the Penns. It was claimed the Penns maintained their driveway negligently and this caused the Moore woman to fall. Another suit by Lucy Sharp Gum asked $1,000 from Gary J. Terrell for unpaid rent on a building in Danville. The four lane Sao Paulo- Santos highway, being built at a cost of $125 million, is expected to handle about 140,000 cars a day..
