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C6 THE COIRIER-JOIKWL. TUESDAY, MAY 1978 Russellville publisher again eyes louisville area, deaths TV A post; to meet with Carter Here are the names of others often mentioned as candidates: Norman Clapp, a Washington lawyer and associate of David Lilienthal, a pioneer member of the TVA board. Jack Gibbons, a physicist who heads the University of Tennessee's environment center and the state's Energy Authority. Clare Nader, a scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the sister of Ralph Nader. Rick Harrod, an environmental specialist on the staff of Sen.

Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn. In addition to the TVA jobs, the administration is expected to announce shortly the names of directors of five regional offices of the new Office of Surface Mining. The regional directors will be the front-line supervisors of the new federal strip-mine law. Last week, David C.

Short, now deputy attorney general in Kentucky, underwent a second interview for the directorship in Knoxville, according to By HOWARD FINEMAN Courier-Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON Al Smith, the Russellville, publisher, is in the running again for a seat on the Tennessee Valley Authority board. Smith has been invited to the White House to discuss the matter on Thursday, according to administration and congressional sources. TV A is the nation's largest utility, the biggest buyer of Kentucky coal and the supplier of electricity to southern and southwestern parts of the state. Smith is only one of several candidates for two seats on TVA's three-member board, said White House per sonnel aide Jim Gammill. Smith, a former president of the Kentucky Press Association, repeatedly has been recommended for a seat by Kentucky's senators and other state Democratic leaders.

A seat was available last year, but it went to S. David Freeman, a key energy adviser to President Carter and former director of the Ford Foundation's energy study. Yesterday, Sens. Walter (Dee) Hud-dleston and Wendell H. Ford, sent the White House another letter on Smith's behalf.

By May 18, there will be two vacancies on the board, which is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate: One vacancy was created last Friday with the resignation of William Jenkins, a Tennessee lawyer and Republican political figure. The other will arise on May 18, when Aubrey (Red) Wagner steps down after 17 years on the board, nearly 16 of them as chairman. Freeman is expected to be named the new chairman a move that won't require Senate confirmation. Kentucky's senators urged a sense of urgency in filling the vacancies. By law, TVA officials said yesterday, the board can't vote on any new projects with only one sitting member as will be the case after May 18.

The post being vacated by Wagner will last for nine years the normal term for a board member. Jenkins resigned after filling six years of the regular term, so his seat will carry a three-year lifespan. Smith, interviwed yesterday morning, declined to say whether he would be willing to accept the three-year Human resources agency names chief medical officer Walston of Lanesville, Patrick, David and Vincent Walston, all of Elizabeth, five daughters, Jerrie Clark of New Albany, Karen Boody, Tina and Tammy Walston, all of Southern Indiana, and his mother, Mrs. Lucy M. Walston.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road, with burial in St. Stephen Cemetery. The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday. Mrs. Ella Mae Welch, 72, of 2115 -Kenilworth died Monday at her home. She was a native of Athertonville. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.

Minnie E. Rogers; a son, James W. Welch; seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Visitation at Arch L. Heady Son Funeral Home, 1201 E.

Oak will be after 3 p.m. Tuesday. Ray Woods, formerly of Prospect, died Friday at General Hospital. Deputy Coroner James B. Egner said that Woods was in his 60s and Egner requested that next of kin contact Gen- eral Hospital.

Mrs. Myrtle Davis, secretary of state's mother, dies at 92 Mrs. Myrtle Spacy Davis, 92, of Shelbyville, mother of Secretary of State Drexell R. Davis, died at 9:07 a.m. yesterday at King's Daughters Hospital in Shelbyville.

She was a native of Spacy Fork, a member of the First Baptist Church in Shelbyville and a Kentucky Colonel. Other survivors include two daugh- ters, Mary Lillian Davis of Shelbyville, and Mrs. Edward Elkins of Louisville; two sons, Charles L. and Robert C. Da- -vis, both of Shelbyville, and six grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. tomor-'" row at Shannon Funeral Home, with burial in Grove Hill Cemetery, both in Shelbyville. Woman, mother die in 1-car 1-65 crash A Jamaica, N.Y., woman and her daughter were fatally injured in a four-car accident on Interstate 65 at Eliza- bethtown about 7:50 a.m. yesterday. Kentucky State Police said Ada Minor, 55, and Lynn Minor, 25, the driver of the car, were dead on arrival at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabeth-town.

Officers said a car driven by David R. Thomas, 26, of Bloomfield, crossed the median and collided head-on with the Minor vehicle during a heavy rainstorm. Mr. and Mrs. Paul B.

Dellette, of Gallon, Ohio, told police they were stopped in the highway's emergency lane when the Thomas vehicle also struck their car. An auto carrying Mr. and Mrs. Wood-row Wilson, of Tempe, then ran into the rear of the Minor car. Thomas was not injured.

The Wilsons were treated at Hardin Memorial Hospital and released, but Mrs. Wilson was taken to a Louisville hospital for additional treatment of minor injuries. The Dellettes were treated at Hardin Memorial Hospital and released. Police said they believe the Thomas car went out of control after running through a pool of water on the road. The accident occurred between two exit ramps about a half-mile from the state police barracks at Elizabethtown.

No charges were filed. Man critically hurt $2.3 million decision against UMW in antitrust suit upheld blood of Powhatan, and Mrs. Cynthia Brown of Winter Haven, and four grandchildren. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Milner Chapel Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, with private entombment in Washington Park North Mausoleum there.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the memorial fund at the Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. Ben W. Miller 78, of 3406 Greenwood died Sunday at St. Anthony Hospital. He was a native of Elizabethtown, a retired employee of the old Winter-smith Chemical where he worked 49 years, and past grand master of Unity Masonic Lodge 12.

Survivors include his wife, the former Martha Anna Johnson; two sons, Charles Miller of Orlando, and James R. Miller; two daughters, Mrs. Sue M. Bronner and Miss Fannie E. Miller; six grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the First Virginia Avenue Baptist Church, 3601 Virginia with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery. Visitation is at A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W.

Chestnut until 6 p.m. Tuesday, when the body will be taken to the church. Louis Dominic Oechslin, 78, of 1216 Lydia died Monday at Suburban Hospital. He was a native of Jeffersontown, a molder for 40 years at American Standard Co. and a member of St.

Joseph Orphans Society. Survivors include two sons, Louis E. and Carl J. Oechslin; two daughters, Mrs. Carmel Wahl of Lexington and Mrs.

Mary Rose Blair; 12 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, 1020 E. Burnett with burial in St.

Michael Cemetery. The family wil be at Bosse Funeral Home, Barrett and Ellison avenues, from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Bernard Rosenberg, 82, of 1259 Eastern Parkway, died Monday at Parkway Medical Center. He was retired from Louisville Cycle Supply Co.

and a member of Anshei Sfard and Adath Jeshurun congregations. Survivors include his wife, the former Sara Rubinstein; two sons, Arnold J. and Charles F. Rosenberg; five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. The funeral will be at 11 a.m.

Wednesday at Herman Meyer Son, 1338 Ellison with burial in Anshei Sfard Cemetery. Visitation at the funeral home will be at the time of funeral. The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the American Cancer Society. Russell H. Sanford, 75, formerly of 1938 Bonnycastle died Sunday at a hospital in Cincinnati.

He was a retired pipefitter for the Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. and a member of Masonic Lodge 820. Survivors include a brother, L. J. Sanford Jr.

of Pennsylvania. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Arch L. Heady Son Funeral Home, 1201 E. Oak with burial in Calvary Cemetery.

Visitation at the funeral home will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Bland Summers, 71, of 2306 Rowan died Sunday at National Health Enterprises-Northfield. He was a native of Shelbyville, a veteran of World War II, a member of the Church of God and a retired self-employed painter. Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Meredith; a son, William Horn of Pensacola, a daughter, Mrs.

Emma Curry; eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Schoppenhorst Brothers Funeral Home, 1832 W. Market with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Robert Terrell, 72, formerly of Chaplin, died Sunday in Mitchell, Ind.

He was a retired farmer. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Charlie Smith of Bardstown. Mrs. Clyde Jolly of Mitchell, Mrs.

Ronald Mclntyre of Columbus, and Mrs. Doretta Higgs of Salem; three sons, Robert Jr. and William Terrell, both of Mitchell, Keith Terrell of Ormond Beach, 20 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Wesley Church in Mitchell, with burial in Highview Cemetery in Chaplin.

Visitation at Haverly Funeral Home in Mitchell will be until the funeral and at Houghlin Taylorsville Road Funeral Home in Bloomfield from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Wednesday. George B. Walston, 49, Woodhaven Medical Services, died there Monday. He was a retired printer for The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times companies, where he worked 27 years.

Survivors include four sons, Michael S. Indiana deaths FLOYDS KNOBS Albert L. Trin-deitmar, 61, Route 1, Floyds Knobs, died Monday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Wednesday, St.

John Catholic Church in Starlight, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation at Kraft Funeral Home will be after 10 a.m. Tuesday. FLOYDS KNOBS Vollie David Atwood, 46, Route 2, Floyds Knobs, died Monday. Visitation at Seabrook Funeral Home in New Albany will be after 6 p.m.

Tuesday. NEW ALBANY Mrs. Thomas W. Johnson, 63, died Sunday. Funeral, 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Dieckmann Funeral Home, with burial in Graceland Memorial Park. NEW ALBANY Robert L. Bridges, 71, died Monday. Visitation at Kraft Funeral Home will be after 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Mrs. Thomas M. Cannon, 55, of 2616 Colin died Sunday at St. Joseph Infirmary. She was the former Dorothy Jean Howard, a native of New Albany and a member of Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary 6.

Survivors besides her husband include two sons, Russell L. and Wesley R. Cannon, and her mother, Mrs. Clyde E. Howard of New Albany.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Embry-Bosse Funeral Home, 2723 Preston Highway, with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery. The family will be at the funeral home from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. William Clark 52, Route 1, Ekron, formerly of Louisville, died Saturday at his home.

He was a native of Louisville, a veteran of World War II and had worked in the maintenance department at Schen-ley Distillers Inc. Survivors include his wife, the former Lorena Stinebruner; three daughters, Mrs. Donna Jones of Brandenburg, Mrs. Saundra Phillips of Goose Creek, S.C., and Mrs. Irene Beeler of Elizabethtown; two sons, William H.

Jr. and Anthony H. Clark, both of Ekron; his mother, Mrs. Thelma Clark, and eight grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at Hager Funeral Home in Brandenburg, with burial in Rock Haven Cemetery in Meade County. Lucian Edlin, 68, Chapel House, died Sunday at the Christian Church Home. He was a member of the First Christian Church. Survivors include two brothers, Ber-ney S. and Herman W.

Edlin. The funeral will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at O. D. White Sons Funeral Home, 2727 S.

Third with burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. The family will be at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the First Christian Church building fund. Mrs.

Alma Walton Gardiner, 94, formerly of Louisville, died Sunday in Charleston, S.C. She was a former member of the Deer Park Baptist Church. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Resthaven Memorial Park Chapel, with burial there. McAfee Funeral Home, 3928 Bards-town Road, is in charge of arrangements.

John E. Guess, 65, of 2728 S. Fourth died Monday at Veterans Hospital. He was a native of Martinsville, 111., a retired employee of Dixie Liquor Store and a veteran of World War II. Survivors include his wife, the former Carolyn M.

Cox. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at O. D. White Sons Funeral Home, 2727 S.

Third with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 5 p.m. Tuesday. Mrs. Evelyn V.

Hardy, 71, of 1515 Aletha Drive, died Monday at St. Joseph Infirmary. Survivors include her husband, Joseph R. Hardy; two sons, Thomas and James Hardy; five daughters, Mrs. Emma L.

Bolter, Mrs. Joyce A. McWhorter, Mrs. Mary Walls, Mrs. Judy Embry and Mrs.

Sharon Zoeller, and several grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. John Ignatius Martyr Catholic Church, 1816 Rangeland Road, with burial in St. Michael Cemetery.

Visitation at Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor will be after 5 p.m. Tuesday. Harry Henson, 83, of 12418 Berry-town Road, died Saturday at St. Anthony Hospital.

He was a native of Philadelphia and a former elevator operator. Survivors include his wife, the former Stephana Young; three stepdaughters, Miss Anna Green, Miss Marie Young and Mrs. Margie White; two stepsons, James and Louis Young, and three grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11 p.m. Wednesday at the Hobbs Chapel Methodist Church in Berrytown, with burial in St.

Aloysius Cemetery there. Visitation is at R. G. May Sons Funeral Home, 719 E. Chestnut until 1 1 a.m.

Tuesday, when the body will be taken to the Henson home. Fred A. Kratch, 86, of 2334 Carolina died Monday at Methodist Evangelical Hospital. He was president of Woodson Kratch Monument Co. and a member of the Christ Evangelical Church, Masonic Lodge 750, Scottish Rite and Kosair Shrine.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lydia Kratch; a son, Harold F. Kratch; three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery.

The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. William Arthur Lewis, 91, Hender-sonville, formerly of Louisville, died Monday in Goodlettsville, Tenn. He had been a sheetmetal worker.

Survivors include a brother, George V. Lewis of Erie, Pa. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Cecilia Catholic Church, 338 N.

25th with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation at Ratterman's, 2114 W. Market will be after 7 p.m. Tuesday. John William May, 81, formerly of Louisville, died Saturday at a nursing home in Indianapolis.

He was a native of Lexington, a former attorney at O'Neil O'Neil law firm and retired field representative for William Lynn Chemical Co. He was a 'past master of Masonic Lodge 400 and a member of the Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Contemporary Club, English Speaking Union, Indiana Historical Society and Indianapolis Museum of Art. Survivors include his wife, Alice C. May; two daughters, Mrs. Alice Young- Walter N.

Heine, OSM's national director. The final list of candidates has been forwarded to the Civil Service Commission for approval, Heine said. He would not say whether Short's name was on the list, but he appears to be the leading candidate for the job. And the White House has begun setting up a special coal industry study commission, a move President Carter promised during the coal miners' strike. No members have been selected, according to Diana Rock, assistant director of the White House personnel office.

Senators and governors from coal-producing states, including Kentucky, have forwarded names to the White House. The only name that appeared on both Kentucky senators' list was Dr. Charles Haywood, a former secretary of the Kentucky Development Cabinet and now dean of the University of Kentucky College of Business. Among the names being mentioned for coal industry members of the panel is Stonie Barker, president of the Island Creek Coal Co. in Lexington.

Slaton, 36, will succeed acting commissioner Burnice Ransdell. Emergency legislation enacted by the General Assembly removed the requirement that the health services commissioner be a physician and established the new post of chief medical officer as a physician adviser to the secretary. Conn said of the health services post: "It seemed to me to be a bad utilization of a doctor's special skills to subvert them to administrative tasks such as seeing that buildings are cleaned and people hired. We felt it was more appropriate to put someone in that role who would spend all his time in administration." The consolidation of the state's health and welfare agencies into the human resources department created a need for someone with medical responsibility for programs operated by all four bureaus, instead of just the health services bureau, Conn said. "We have taken the bureau responsibility and made it department-wide," Conn said.

Hammons will be responsible for evaluating medical personnel in the department and services the department provides. He will not be involved in day-to-day operation of the department, Conn said. Hammons held administrative positions in health and mental health services in state government from 1969-75, including posts as deputy commissioner and commissioner of the health services bureau. He also served as associate coordinator of health sciences education for the Kentucky Council on Higher Education. He received his medical degree from the University of Louisville and studied community medicine at the University of Kentucky, practicing medicine in Eastern Kentucky before beginning his training in psychiatry in 1965.

Conn said that Hammons' salary has not been determined, but that it will be more than Conn earns. Physicians generally command higher salaries in state government posts. Slaton, a native of Hopkins County who has served as Conn's top assistant since last year, will be paid $36,000. Denture maker plans to appeal By SONI CASTLEBERRY Courier-Journal Times Staff Writer Jefferson Circuit Judge Henry D. Hopson yesterday signed a permanent injunction to prevent Chester T.

Hudson from engaging in acts that would constitute the practice of dentistry. Hudson has been operating Allied Denture Studio at 5910 Preston Highway since last year. He also had operated Hudson Dental Lab. Hudson is one of several denture makers who have been trying to gain recognition as "denturists." But the 1978 Kentucky General Assembly killed a bill to allow members of the profession to make dentures for people using a dentist's prescription. In his order yesterday, Judge Hopson said Hudson is guilty of violating state statutes by "failure to open his work orders and inspections for board review" on March 5 as requested by the Kentucky Board of Dentistry through its investigator, Paul Stomski.

Hopson postponed any action against Hudson for violating the state statute. Hudson said last night that he will appeal Hopson's injunction. The injunction prohibits Hudson from performing any dentistry except upon the written order or prescription of a licensed dentist or without casts or models made from an impression taken by a licensed dentist. Hopson ruled that under state statutes the Kentucky Board of Dentistry had properly authorized the hiring of Stomski and Associates on Dec. 3, 1977, to do investigative work.

Hopson also said the board did not violate state statutes when it discussed litigation against Hudson during a closed-door session. He said statutes state that discussions of proposed litigation involving public agencies are not open to the public. Hopson also ruled that the board acted properly when it gave formal written notice to Hudson about the investigation of him, even though state law does not require that. Associated Press FRANKFORT Stanley Hammons, a psychiatrist with experience in education and community medicine, was named yesterday as chief medical officer of the state Department for Human Resources. The appointment of Hammons, 49, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alabama, was announced by Human Resources Secretary Peter Conn.

It becomes effective Sept. 1. The post was created by the 1978 General Assembly, at Conn's request. The human resources department administers state public health and welfare programs. Conn also announced the appointment of his senior administrative assistant, Robert Slaton, as commissioner of the department's Bureau for Health Services.

conspire with members of an industry and remain immune from antitrust laws. Then in 1971, the high court ruled in another Tennessee case that coal companies only had to show a preponderance of evidence of a conspiracy in order to win antitrust actions against the union. A lower court judge had said more proof than that was required. In virtually every antitrust action against the UMW, including the first one in the mid-1950s, the coal firms' attorneys have been Fowier, Rowntree, Fowler Robertson of Knoxville. The firm represented Scotia in the case just upheld by the appellate court, and it represents Stearns Mining Co.

in its current suit against the UMW in U.S. District Court at London. The same firm slso won the largest antitrust award against the union, a $7.2 million judgment that the Supreme Court let stand in 1971. The award was paid to South-East Coal Co. of Irvine, by the UMW and Consolidation Coal Co.

The South-East case, however, differed from the Scctia and Stearns cases. After South-East refused to continue its contract with the UMW, the company was subjected to a boycott by its principal sales agent, Consolidation Coal, which is a member of the BCOA. In the Stearns case, both sides have made their initial filings, and the next move is up to Stearns Mining and Blue Diamond. No hearing dates have been set in court at London. The union will have to pay 6 percent interest on the Scotia judgment since the original 1975 ruling, unless the finding against the UMW is overturned.

The UMW has had a series of financial setbacks during the past year, caused primarily by a record contract strike, frequent wildcat strikes, depleted pension and health funds and high organizing costs. been any public disclosure of an agency role in the coup until now. At one stage before the overthrow of Nkrumah, the sources said, the CIA's station chief in Accra, Ghana's capital, requested permission from CIA headquarters to deploy a small squad of paramilitary experts, members of the agency's Special Operations Group. Those men, the sources said, were to attack the Chinese embassy during the coup, killing everyone there and destroying the building. The men also were to steal as much material as possible from the embassy's code room.

After some hesitation, the sources said, high-level CIA officials in Washington decided against this operation. Details of the agency's alleged role in the coup became available after John Stockwell, a former CIA operative, briefly described it in a footnote to his newly published book, "In Search of By KEN HOSKINS Courier-Journal Staff Writer The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $2.3 million judgment against the financially pressed United Mine Workers union in a 12-year-old lawsuit filed by Scotia Coal Co. in Letcher County. Harrison Combs, general counsel for the UMW in Washington, said yesterday that the union will petition the U.S.

Supreme Court to review the case. However, the UMW has lost two similar, cases before the Supreme Court. 'Scotia, which is owned by Blue Diamond Coal Co. of Knoxville, filed the suit in July 1866. The union had gone on strike the previous spring after the company refused to accept the UMW's national contract.

In its suit, Scotia accused the union of violating antitrust laws by conspiring with the major coal companies to force the union's national contract on all coal producers. The same accusation has been made in a $64 million damage suit filed against the UMW last February by Stearns Mining another Blue Diamond subsidiary. Scotia's case first led to a hung jury in federal court at Lexington in 1974. A year later, Scotia won the case before a federal jury in Frankfort and was awarded $2.3 million in damages. The union appealed to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, contending that its consistent policy of negotiating only one contract (with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association) was aimed at achieving national uniformity in wage rates and labor standards.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled against the UMW on April 28, making no comment on the issues. In the first comparable case lost by the union, a suit filed by a Tennessee coal firm in the mid-1950s, the Supreme Court ruled that labor unions cannot Sources reveal CIA involvement in 1966 overthrow of Nkruniak in Watterson crash A Michigan man was critically injured at 4 a.m. yesterday when his car went out of control on the Watterson Expressway near Breckenridge Lane, and crashed into a light pole. Louisville police said Robin C. Young, 26, of Walled Lake, was pinned in his car for an hour while city firefighters cut his car apart to free him.

Officer Al Sallee said Young was entering the eastbound lanes of the Watterson from northbound Breckenridge-Lane. The car went out of control and skidded, with the driver's side of the car hitting the pole. Young was listed in critical condition last night at General Hospital, where he had undergone surgery for multiple injuries. Indianapolis man gets two-year term for insurance fraud Clarence Milton Thompson, of Indianapolis, must serve two years in prison and then serve three years' probation for his role in an insurance fraud scheme that involved staging car accidents, a federal judge ruled Friday in Louisville. Thompson, 59, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud insurance companies, 19 counts of mail fraud and one count of making false statements before a grand jury.

U.S. District Judge Eugene Siler sentenced Thompson to two years in prison on the conspiracy charge and gave him five-year suspended sentences on each of the 20 other charges. Thompson was among 18 people" charged with participating in the scheme that started in 1974 and ended last summer when they were indicted. Sixteen people pleaded guilty to the charges, one was acquitted by Siler, and jurors found one innocent. By SEYMOUR M.

HERSH New York Times News Service NEW YORK The Central Intelligence Agency advised and supported a group of dissident army officers who overthrew the regime of Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah in February 1966, firsthand intelligence sources said yesterday. The agency's role in the overthrow was carried out without prior approval from the high-level interagency group in Washington that monitors CIA clandestine activities, these sources said. That group, known in 1966 as the 303 Committee, had specifically rejected a previous CIA request seeking authority to plot against Nkrumah, who had angered the United States by maintaining close ties to the Soviet Union and China. There was no immediate comment from the CIA. Although the CIA has often been investigated in the 12 years since Nkrumah was overthrown, there has never.