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Early JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1981 Coroner Actor Jack 7 Albertson AROUND KENTUCKY General Tire will lay off 100 MAYFIELD About 100 production workers at the General Tire and Rubber Co. plant in Mayfield will be laid off next week, bringing to about 460 the number of people laid off at the plant since 1979. Jack Marshall, a spokesman for the company at its Akron, Ohio, headquarters, blamed the layoff on the economy. The 1 reduction brings the plant's total hourly work force to 1,025, personnel officials said. Control tower's fate up in air PADUCAH Federal officials say it will be mid-1982 before a decision is made on the fate of the control tower at Barkley Regional Airport near Paducah.

The Federal Aviation Administration closed the Paducah tower and others at small airports across the country on Sept. 15. Controllers were transferred to large airports to reduce the burden caused by the air-traffic controllers' strike. Airport Manager Richard Roof said he received a letter from the FAA this week urging the local airport to lease the tower to avoid permanent closing. Officials at the Owensboro airport have completed a lease agreement.

Henderson to quiz first applicant HENDERSON The Henderson City Commission: has called a special meeting tomorrow to interview the first applicant for the vacant post of city manager. Mayor Bill Newman said 13 candidates are under consideration for the post, which was vacated by Dick Brown, who resigned July 9. Newman said two interviews have been arranged, but he wouldn't name any candidates. Hopkinsville police chief retires HOPKINSVILLE Raymond Walker, a 26-year veteran of the Hopkinsville Police Department, has announced his retirement. He has been chief of police for the past 10 years.

Walker, 60, said his retirement is effective Monday. But Mayor Al C. Rutland said Walker will be acting chief until Jan. 4, when Sherry Jeffers will be sworn in as mayor and will appoint a successor. Walker denied that his decision to retire was a result of Mrs.

Jeffers' election, saying, "I believe I could work with her." He said he will not recommend to Mrs. Jeffers who should succeed him. Still the one FRANKFORT Kentucky writer James Still will be given the 1981 Milner Award by the Kentucky Arts Council. The award, named in honor of the late B. Hudson Milner of Louisville, is given every year in recognition of outstanding leadership in the arts in Kentucky.

Still is a native of Alabama, but he has lived in Knott County since 1932, writing poetry and fiction. He will receive the award Dec. 10 at Strickler Hall at the University of Louisville. 3 join Real Estate Commission FRANKFORT Gov. John Y.

Brown Jr. has named three people to the Kentucky Real Estate Commission. They are Neal Turner of Bowling Green, Robert Massey of Louisville and James Huff of Fort Mitchell. Auction will benefit horses LEXINGTON The Kentucky Harness Racing Commission and the Kentucky State Racing Commission will hold a an auction next Wednesday for the benefit of the University of Kentucky Research Laboratory. The auction will be held at the farm of Brownell Combs, and Racing Commissioner Anita Madden will be hostess for a party.

Items to be auctioned include an art collection, rare horse books and stud services for the thoroughbred Nureyev and the pacer Niatross. State Public Protection Secretary Tracy Farmer announced the auction yesterday. Farmer said that the two commissions contribute $100,000 a year to the laboratory but that it is still operating at a deficit. The laboratory studies the effects of diseases and drugs on horses. From Associated Press Dispatches APPEALS COURT MINUTES The -Journal Bureau FRANKFORT, Ky.

Minutes of the Kentucky Court of Appeals yesterday: AFFIRMING FAYETTE COUNTY Richartz vs. Commonwealth; Chief Judge John P. Hayes. DAVIESS Martin vs. Martin; Judge Michael McDonald.

BOYD Cox vs. Allied Chemical et Judge McDonald. PIKE Land, commissioner, etc. vs. Wagner, et Judge John D.

White. HARLAN Land, commissioner, etc. vs. Estridge, et Judge White. BOYD Gearhart, vs.

Hall, et Judge J. William Howerton. NELSON Mitchell vs. Mitchell; Judge Anthony M. Wilhoit.

BOYD Carpets Inc. vs. Willey, et Judge McDonald. PIKE Land, commissioner, etc. vs.

Smith, et Judge McDonald. BOYLE Allen vs. Commonwealth First Federal Savings and Loan Association; Judge Donald C. Wintersheimer. CHRISTIAN Cochran vs.

Commonwealth; Judge Charles Bruce Lester, GRAYSON Powell vs. Powell; Judge Lester. HENDERSON Ausbrook vs. Commonwealth; Judge Lester. JEFFERSON Gibson vs.

Bridgers, et Judge William M. Gant. JEFFERSON Waters vs. Vulcan Tool Judge Harris S. Howard.

JEFFERSON Edwards vs. Commonwealth; Judge Gant. KNOTT Land, commissioner, et al. vs. Johnson, et Judge McDonald.

CARROLL Kawneer Co. Inc. et al. vs. Hardin, et Judge Howerton.

JEFFERSON Goodman vs. Commonwealth; Judge Howerton. REVERSING MAGOFFIN Licking Valley Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. vs. Joseph, et Judge Charles S.

Reynolds. BREATHITT Thorpe vs. Turner; Judge Wintersheimer. shouldn't get new trial, attorney says Associated Press OWENSBORO, Ky. Daviess County Coroner Mike Everly convicted of misconduct and failure to report child abuse in the death of his great-niece is not entitled to a new trial, according to County Attorney Robert Kirtley.

Everly has filed a motion for either a' directed verdict of acquittal or a new trial. Daviess District Judge George V. Triplett III is expected to hear arguments on the motion Dec. 4. Everly was convicted last week in connection with his investigation of the death of 4-month-old Melissa Maglinger on July 12.

A six-member jury recommended that Everly be sentenced to five months in jail and fined $1,000 $500 for each offense. Kirtley agreed with only one item in Everly's motion new trial. The maximum fine for failure to report child abuse is $250, Kirtley said. The county attorney said he is willing to agree to modify the fine if Everly's attorney, Robert Gwin, will agree. Beyond that, however, Kirtley argued that Everly's contentions are just sour grapes.

"The fact that the jury did not believe his (Everly's) version of the events that transpired hardly entities him to an opportunity to try again to convince another Kirtley argued in his response, filed Tuesday. Kirtley also disputed Everly's contention that he did not receive a fair trial because of prejudicial publicity. He said Everly did not try to prove in court that pre-trial publicity harmed his case. If he had been concerned about jury selection, Kirtley said, Everly should have asked to have the trial moved to another county. As for Everly's contention that the, jury recommended an excessive' punishment, Kirtley noted that the jail sentence could have been for a year.

Ex-jailer gets a year for theft of office funds Associated Press MORGANFIELD, Ky. Frankie Hayes, the former Union County jailer, was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday after he pleaded guilty to misusing office funds. The prison term, handed down by Union Circuit Judge Will Tom Wathen, will run concurrently with a three-month sentence Hayes faces from a similar conviction earlier this year. Hayes will serve his first three months in the Crittenden County Jail. At his arraignment yesterday, Hayes pleaded guilty to a Class felony theft charge.

A grand jury had indicted him on Nov. 2 for misappropriating $4,567 in office funds during 1980. The three-month jail term was imposed in February when Hayes was convicted on a misdemeanor theft charge. The jury had found that he misused $11,968 in his 1979 office accounts. Last week the Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld that In both cases, the misappropriated funds were excess fees collected by the jailer's office.

The jailer's office is allocated a specified amount for each day a prisoner is held. After office expenses and salaries are paid, any excess must be turned over to the county General Fund. Hayes, who resigned Monday, also faces an audit of his 1981 accounts. Don. Berry, who was to take the jailer's post in January after winning the Nov.

3 election, was sworn in Monday by County Judge-Executive Bob Hines. Lawyers named for man charged in son's death SPRINGFIELD, Ky. Two attorneys have been appointed to represent a Springfield man charged with murdering his 2-year-old son. William Amos Byrd did 1 not enter a plea at the hearing Monday in Washington District Court in Springfield, and a request for bond was denied. No new hearing was scheduled.

State police say Byrd, 39, took his son, William Ray Byrd, to the Springfield police station on Nov. 16 and told police the child was sick. Police summoned emergency medical technicians and Washington County Coroner Freddie Carey, who pronounced the boy dead. Dr. George Nichols, the state's chief medical examiner, said an autopsy in Louisville showed that the boy had been beaten and died of "manual suffocation." Byrd was transferred from the Marion County Jail to the Bullitt County Jail in Shepherdsville after an inmate at the Marion jail told authorities that Byrd was talking about suicide.

Byrd was moved to the Bullitt jail because a full-time deputy was available, police said. dies of cancer at 74 Associated Press HOLLYWOOD Jack Albertson, a former pool hustler who garnered awards in all three acting fields during a career spanning half a century, died yesterday of cancer at age 74, his publicist said. Best known in recent years for his portrayal of a crusty but soft-hearted garage owner in the TV series "Chico and the Man," Albertson had had cancer for about three years "but didn't reveal it for employment purposes," said publicist Tom Masters. "It was always under control up until two weeks ago, when he took a turn for the worse," Masters said. He said Albertson died at his Hollywood Hills home at 9:30 a.m.

with his wife, Wallace, at his side. Albertson won a Tony for his performance in the male lead of "The Subject Was Roses" on Broadway and an Oscar for his performance in the film version of the play. He won two Emmys, one for "Chico and the Man" and the second for a guest appearance on a Cher special, Masters said. Albertson's last work was an ABC television movie, "My Body, My Child," with Vanessa Redgrave, scheduled for broadcast this season, Masters said. The actor and dancer was born June 16, 1907, in Malden, and grew up Lynn, "We were really poor," Albertson recalled in a 1976 magazine interview.

"My father took a powder, and my mother had to work in a shoe factory to support my sister and me." He learned a few dance steps in pool halls as a boy and learned pool so well that he was banned from the local parlors. He hustled pool throughout New England before shipping out on a freighter that sailed the North Atlantic, Masters said. He later tried his luck on Broadway and came to Hollywood in the early 1930s. On television, Albertson appeared in "The Thin Man" and "Ensign O'Toole," and made guest appearances on "The Jack Benny Show," "The Red Skelton Show," "Playhouse 90," "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "I Love Lucy." In "Chico and the Man," he starred with the late Freddie Prinze and Scatman Crothers. Albertson had another TV series after "Chico," starring for NBC in In his 'Chico and the Man' role File Photo Jack Albertson "Grandpa Goes to Washington" in 1978.

His motion pictures included "The Poseidon Adventure," "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate "The Flim Flam Man," "Days of Wine and Roses" and "How To Murder Your Wife." Albertson returned to Broadway in "The Sunshine Boys," received a Tony nomination and took the show on the road. 2 Litton's Charles Thornton dies Associated Press LOS ANGELES Charles B. "Tex" Thornton, who bought a small microwave company in 1953 and built it into the giant Litton conglomerate, has died of cancer at 68. Thornton learned he had lung cancer in June. The cancer progressed to his bones, according to Litton spokesman Barney Oldfield.

He died Tuesday night at his Holmby Hills home. His wife of 41 years, Flora, and ones of his sons, Charles B. Thornton, a member of the Litton board of directors, were with him. Thornton, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom last month, used the post-World War II science and technology revolution to build Litton into a firm that reported sales of $4.94 billion last year. In 1953 Thornton bought what was then a small microwave company with annual sales of $3 million.

Within 12 years, Litton became one of the nation's 60 firms to report annual sales over a billion dollars. Thornton was president of Litton Industries from 1953 to 1961, when he became chairman of the board. The company makes and services business and office equipment, produces material-handling equipment and machine tools, conducts geophysical exploration, makes microwave cookers, medical equipment and electronic components, and produces business papers. KENTUCKY DEATHS BARDSTOWN Sherman Walls, 71, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2:30 p.m.

Friday, M. H. Proffitt Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

BENTON Mrs. Pansy Edwards Stone, 82, died Tuesday in Louisville. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Filbeck Cann Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 3 p.m.

Thursday. CENTRAL CITY Mrs. Nola Catherine Griffin, 70, died Wednesday in Hartford. Her husband, Kelly, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Friday, Tucker Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 5 p.m. Thursday. CORBIN Edward Pittman 72, died here Tuesday. His wife, Ruby, survives.

Funeral, 1 p.m. day, Vankirk Funeral Home here." CORBIN Harry K. Clark, 75, Lily, died there Tuesday. His wife, Mary, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Thursday, Hopewell Baptist Church. Burial will be Hamilton, Ohio. Hart Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements. ELIZABETHTOWN Gus Belt, 97, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Dixon-Atwood Adkins Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home will be after noon Thursday. EVARTS Jess Kinder, 83, Coxton, died Wednesday in Harlan. His wife, Mary, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Ages Pentecostal Church of God, with burial in Boggs Cemetery in Ages. Visitation at Evarts Funeral Home here will be after 5 p.m. Friday. FRANKLIN Mrs. Naomi Davidson, 56, died Tuesday in NashTenn.

Her husband, Jessie, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Booker Funeral Home here. HAZARD Steve Gross Sandlin 54, Buckhorn, died Tuesday in Lexington. His wife, Eileen, survives.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Buckhorn Lake Area Church in Buckhorn. Visitation at Engle Funeral Home here will be after 5 p.m. Thursday. HINDMAN Mrs.

Laura Terry Slone Bolen, 91, Hueysville, died Tuesday in Prestonsburg. Funeral, 10 a.m. Friday, Hindman United Baptist Church. Visitation is at the church. Hindman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

HYDEN Joe Napier, 79, Warbranch, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Warbranch. Dwayne Walker Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements. LEXINGTON Grover J.

Bullock, 70, died here Wednesday. His wife, Josie, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Betts West Funeral Home in Nicholasville. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 3 p.m.

Thursday. LEXINGTON Jonathan Hawthorne, 73, died here Tuesday. Smith Smith Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements. LEXINGTON Mrs. Dorothea Mae Lee, 57, died Monday in Louisville.

Graveside services, 10 a.m. Friday, Lexington Cemetery here. Visitation at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home here will be after 5 p.m. Thursday. LEXINGTON Leonard C.

Neff 87, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Friday, W. R. Milward-Broadway.

Visitation at the funeral home will be after 6 p.m. Thursday. LEXINGTON Mrs. Arizona Thelma Taylor, 81, died here Monday. Funeral, lad 3 p.m.

Friday, W. R. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 5 p.m. Thursday. MANCHESTER Arthur Carmack, 49, Lily, died Tuesday in Gainesville, Fla.

Funeral, 12 p.m. Friday, Britton Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 6 p.m. Thursday. MANCHESTER Mrs.

Rhoda Sandlin, 81, Oneida, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Road Run Church of Christ here. Visitation at Britton Funeral Home here will be after 6 p.m. Thursday.

MAYFIELD A. 0. Smith, 60, died Wednesday in Paducah. His wife, Neoma, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Northside Baptist Church here. Visitation at Roberts Funeral home here will be after 10 a.m. Thursday. MOUNT VERNON Mrs. Mary Pat Hammons, 66, died here Wednesday.

Funeral, 10 a.m. Satur- LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS Frank S. Denzinger, 75, of 510 Bauer Ave. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane.

John Clifford Eisel, 47, of: 4606 Crittenden Drive. Funeral, 10 a.m. Friday, McDaniel Funeral Home, 4339 Park Blvd. Mrs. Meredith Ann Flaherty, 38, of 7 Shade Woods Drive.

1 p.m. Friday, McDaniel Funeral Home, 4339 Park Blvd. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 6 p.m. Thursday. Mrs.

Nannie Bell 1 Bradley Frazier, 81, of 409 E. Muhammad Ali a native of Allensville. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, A. D.

Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St. Mrs. Mary Ellen Greer, 74, of 4139 Michigan Ave. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, G. C. Williams Funeral Home, 1935 W. Broadway. Visitation In past years, Litton and its directors 1 have been subject to federal investigations into the company's shipbuilding contracts and importation of computer parts.

After serving in the Army air corps in World War II, Thornton and nine war colleagues approached Ford Motor knowing it was losing, company money, and under offered control. to bring His team was hired by Henry Ford II. 00 Thornton left Ford two years later and took a job with Howard Hughes as vice president and general manager of Hughes Aircraft. He reorganized the company, building wits sales from $1.5 million to $200-million in five years. 40G day, Dowell Martin Funeral Home here.

Graveside services, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Pineville Cemetery in Pineville. Visitation at the funeral home will be after 6 p.m. Friday. NICHOLASVILLE Bishop, 32, died Tuesday in a helicopter crash in Honaker, Va.

His wife, Mary, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Guyn-Kurtz-Hager-Cundiff Funeral Home here. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Hillcrest Cemetery in Redkey, Ind.

Visitation at the funeral home will be after 10 a.m. Friday. PRESTONSBURG Mrs. Belle Scutchfield, 81, Watergap, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Friday, Carter Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home will, be after 11 a.m. Thursday. SCIENCE HILL Cyrus B. Randolph, 90, Wheeldon, died Tuesday in Somerset.

His wife, Betty, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Thursday, Morris Hislope Funeral Home here. SHELBYVILLE Miss Mary Virginia Bird, 98, formerly of Shelbyville, died Wednesday in Louisville. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Saturday, Shannon Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home wilbobe after 2 p.m. Friday. pin TAYLORSVILLE Mrs. Mary Ollie Donovan, 87, died Tuesday at Parkway Medical Center.

Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Friday, Lutz Shelbutne Funeral Home here. VERSAILLES Mrs. Frances Price, 79, died here Tuesday. Graveside services, 10 a.m.

Friday, Lexington Cemetery here. Visitation at Duell-Clark Funeral home will be after 6 p.m. Thursday. VIRGIE Mrs. Opal Tackette, 52, Long Fork, died Tuesday in Lexington.

Funeral, 11 a.m Friday Long Fork Regular Baptist Church here. Jones Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements. WEST LIBERTY Mrs. Vivian Lacy Stewart, 55, Malone, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Friday, Potter Funeral Home here. Visitation at the funeral home will "be after 11 a.m. Thursday. WEST LIBERTY James Kelly Harper, 88, died Wednesday in Centerville, Ind. Potter Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements.

FRANKLIN Lane vs. Commonwealth; Judge Lester. REVERSING AND REMANDING KENTON May, et ux. vs. Powers; Judge Gant.

HARDIN Reeder, et al. vs. Lewis, et Judge Wintersheimer. JEFFERSON Stamps vs. Klotz, et Judge Howerton.

OTHER TRIGG Grange Mutual Casualty Co. vs. Woodall; affirming In part, and reversing and remanding in part; Judge McDonald. CASEY Grider vs. Grider; affirming in part, and reversing and remanding in part; Judge Howard.

REHEARINGS DENIED BULLITT Clayborn vs. Commonwealth. JEFFERSON ON Terward etc. et al. vs.

Johnson, etc. JEFFERSON Yodofsky Associates, etc. vs. Department of Finance, et and Yodofsky Associates, etc. vs.

Department of Finance. WHITLEY Randolph, et al. vs. Davis. Chinese official jailed for misuse of power PEKING (AP) Authorities jailed a disgruntled official who shut off electricity to a swimming pool on the eve of a major international competition, a Sichuan newspaper reported.

The Sichuan Daily said Chen Zhenyu, deputy director of the provincial sports commission's struction office, ordered the blackout Oct. 9 because his workers had not been given tickets to an acrobatic performance. at the funeral home will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Mrs.

Regina Hamilton, 87, of 2219 Rockford Lane. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 1925 Lewiston Drive. Visitation at Keenan's Funeral Home, 4724 Dixie Highway, will be from 2 to 5 and to 9 p.m.

Thursday and Friday. Raymond Arthur Herberman, 73, of 12214 Meadow Lane, Middletown. Funeral, 10 a.m. Friday, St. Aloysius Church in Pewee Valley.

Visitation is at M.A. Stoess Sons Funeral Home in Crestwood. Mrs. Adelaide K. Kraus, 71, of 1900 Garrs Lane.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, St. Helen Catholic Church, 4005 Dixie Highway. Visitation at Arch L. Heady Hikes Point Funeral Home, 4109 Taylorsville Road, will be from 11 a.m.

to 9 p.m. Friday. James Allen Lloyd, 4, of 6309 Overton Road. The funeral will be private. Visitation is at Nunnelley Funeral Home, 4327 Taylor Blvd.

Betty Lou Morris, 42, of 8435 Sally Drive. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, W. G. Hardy Valley Funeral Home, 10907 Dixie Highway.

Mrs. Fannie Pollock, 99, of 2300 Millvale Road. Funeral, 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Herman Meyer Spn, 1338 Ellison Ave. Fred G.

Wahle, 91, St. Petersburg, formerly of Louisville. Funeral, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, St. Paul Catholic Church in St.

Petersburg. Visitation is at Simmons Funeral Home in St. Petersburg. 132 James E. Wilder, 74.

Funeral," 10 a.m. Friday, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 510. Lane. Visitation is at Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road..