The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 12

18 THE COURIER METRO SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1999 B5 Grant aids terminal, long-term patients By DICK KAUKAS treatment they want to receive in The Courier-Journal the event of terminal illness. Such a directive, for, example, An organization established by might say whether the patient the Kentucky Hospital Associ- wants to be kept breathing on a ation has received a $74,000 ventilator. grant to plan programs to im- Keeney said all adults need to prove care for people with termi- complete advance directives, carnal and long-term illnesses. ry them with them, and provide The grant from the Robert them to immediate family memWood Johnson Foundation in bers and the family doctor so Princeton, N.J., will enable the that if there is a health crisis, evCenter for Nursing and Allied eryone will know whether the paHealth Professions to set up pilot tient wants to receive extraordiprograms in six nursing homes nary care. and to hold public meetings on She added that some doctors end-of-life care.

don't provide adequate pain reThe center is part of the hospi- lief, mainly because they fear tal association. Cynthia Keeney, a that they'll cause addiction or registered nurse who is the cen- that police will investigate, the ter's executive director, said possibility of over-prescribing Thursday that the planning effort narcotics. In most cases, such will focus on ways to educate the fears are unwarranted, Keeney public, doctors and nurses on said, and the patient's pain how best to honor people's wish- should be adequately addressed. es about health care when they The grant will be used to help are incapacitated and terminally apply for a three-year grant of ill. $375,000 from the same foundaKeeney said that only a small tion to implement the programs percentage of people admitted to developed during the planning hospitals in Kentucky have com- phase.

Kentucky groups and indipleted "advance directives," in viduals have pledged an additionwhich they outline what kind of al $300,000 for the effort. Children's insurance delay to be probed by lawmakers By CHARLES WOLFE Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. Some legislators want to know what's holding up a health-insurance program children of the working poor. The General Assembly's permanent investigations committee has been told to find out. Committee members agreed Thursday to a preliminary study of the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program.

The study could turn into a full-blown investigation. Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, D-Hindman, asked the committee to "determine what's going on over there." Bailey, chairman of the powerful Senate budget committee, asked that the inquiry also delve into Gov. Paul Patton's "resistance" to a general expansion of Medicaid. Kentucky, was, the 46th state to have a children's health-insurance INDIANA DEATHS ELIZABETH Thomas K.

Layer, 87, died Friday. He was a retired farmer and employee of Indiana State Highway Department. Survivors: his wife, the former Lucille Stewart: sons James Ralph S. Donald R. Layer; daughters Janice Eaton and Deborah Layer; a sister, Ruth Layer; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Monday, Depauw United Methodist Church. Visitation: Gehlbach Royse, Corydon, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday and after 8 a.m. Monday.

ELIZABETH Mildred Ward Walton, 92, died Thursday. She was owner of the old Y. Inn Grocery. Survivors: her husband, Leroy C. Walton, and a daughter, Shirley Simmons.

Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Monday, Market Street Chapel of Seabrook Dieckmann Naville. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. Saturday and noon-9 p.m. Sunday.

NEW ALBANY Freda Akers, 84, died Friday. Survivors: sons Benjamin Jr. and Robert Akers; daughters Emily Perronie, Carolyn Mayes and Sharon Fetz; a sister, Margaret Powell; 13 grandchildren; and 24 great-grand- Louis H.C. Laukhuf dies at 88 The Courier-Journal Louis Henry Charles Laukhuf, an administrator with the Jefferson County Public Schools from 1961 to 1973, died yesterday at Hurstbourne Care Centre at Stony Brook. He was 88.

Laukhuf, for whom- Laukhuf Elementary School on Capewood Drive is named, served as assistant superintendent and associate superintendent of personnel. It was in the latter position, to which he was named in 1967, that Laukhuf helped lead the effort to hire more black teachers. In 1972, 143 African-American teachers were hired by the district; only 52 worked in the school system the year before. Laukhuf stressed the importance of hard work. Speaking in 1961 to 151 Fern Creek High School seniors at Freedom Hall, he said "there is 1 no substitute for work as a guarantee of happiness and a way of life" and "work is the ballast in human life." Laukhuf served as the superintendent of schools in Maysville, and owned a business there before coming to Jefferson County.

He was a native of Brunswick, Ohio, and a member of Fern Creek United Methodist Church. Laukhuf is survived by his wife, the former Emily Shelburne; his son, Walden L. Laukhuf; a daughter, Claire L. Hundley; sisters Ann Stamm, Mabel Brumley and Rose Craft; and five grandchildren. His funeral will be at 11 a.m.

Monday at his church, at 6727 Bardstown Road, with entombment at Resthaven Memorial Mausoleum. Visitation will be at Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road, 1-5 p.m. tomorrow. Memorial contributions can be sent to his church. CRIME REPORTS SEXUAL ASSAULTS Southeastern Jefferson County.

A 26- year-old woman said a man entered her hotel room and attempted to rape her about 5 a.m. Jan. 1. ROBBERIES BP Corner Mart, 8003 Shepherdsville Road. An employee said a gunman wearing a ski mask took an unknown amount of cash about 11 p.m, Jan.

9. Short Stop Food Mart, 7.600 S. Third St. An employee said a gunman hid behind a counter, grabbed her and took an unknown amount of money from the safe about 9:45 p.m. Thursday.

13400 block of Dixie Highway. Merri Nelson said a man who had what appeared to be a knife approached her as was entering her car and took $300 about 11:30 a.m. Jan. 2. 5700 block of Ridge Crest Road.

Corey Tutt said someone hit him on the head with a bottle, then held a gun to his head and took his jewelry about 4:30 a.m. Sunday. THEFTS Jefferson County 3000 block of Autumn Lake Drive. Robert Penn's home. Guns.

Between Jan. 8 and Sunday. 7900 block of Bala Court. Joseph Elders' home. CDs, video games, cash, liquor.

block of Daffodil Drive. Stephen Kormos' home. Guns, air conditioner. Jan. 5.

9000 block of Denise Drive. Beverly Smith's home. VCR, stereo, videotapes, model cars, crystal statue, glassware, dolls, phone, jewelry, computer. Between Jan. 3 and 6.

8400 block of Fernview Drive. Jacky Vincent's home. Guns. Jan. 6.

8600 block of Highview Lane. Rebecca. Murphy's home. Furniture, TV, entertainment center, grill. Jan.

8 or 9. 4400 block of Kranet Way. Sheila Gudger's apartment. Video games. Jan.

7. 11600 block of Lower River Road. Donald Druin's home. Saws. Jan.

4 or 5. 12500 block of Old Dixie Highway. Kenneth Welsh's home. Kerosene heaters, model cars, VCR, medication, bicycle tires. Between Jan.

3 and 5. 5700 block of Oxford Place. Daniel Vanover's home. Jewelry, cologne. Monday.

1700 block of Wilart Drive. Timothy Bellamy's apartment. VCR. Jan. 3.

Readers with information about these or other crimes can call Crime Stoppers at 582-CLUE. If you call, you don't have to give your name. Crime Stoppers will pay cash for information that leads to an arrest and plan approved by the federal government, which would put up million a year for five years. The state is to pay $13 million a year. The administration is implementing the program in two parts.

In July, Medicaid eligibility was extended to 23,000 children, ages 14-18, in households with incomes up to the federal poverty level $16,450 for a family of four. Rather than expand Medicaid further, Patton ordered subsidized health insurance to be offered to children in families with incomes of up to twice the poverty level. The administration assumes 55,000 more children would be eligible for subsidized coverage. That part of the program is to begin July 1. That has put Patton at odds with Bailey and others, who wanted to spend all the money on a Medicaid expansion.

Patton has said that would have covered fewer children. children. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, Mullineaux. Visitation: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Sunday. NEW ALBANY Howard L. Bice, 77, died Thursday. He was a retired employee of Jefferson County (Ky.) Department of Human Services. Survivors: his wife, the former Goldie Knight; a daughter, Cherri Beth Chapman; stepsons Raymond and Steve Knight; brothers Donald, Carl, James and Fred Bice; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Monday, Oak Street Chapel of Seabrook Dieckmann Naville. Visitation: 3-8 p.m. Sunday and after 10 a.m. Monday.

SCOTTSBURG Viva Shirley Stricker, 62, died Friday. She was a retired employee of Pillsbury Co. in New Albany. Survivors: her husband, Jesse Stricker; a daughter, Debbie Keown; stepsons Lee, Tim and Kendall Stricker; brothers Claudis Henderson and James, Joe and John R. Abbott; sisters Virginia Abbott, Vivian Bressler, Vada Short, Martha Righthouse and Delcia Smith; and six grandchildren.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Monday, Grayson, New Washington. Visitation: 3-9 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday.

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Chavous II, the son of a retired Louisville police sergeant. Chavous, 21, who will be buried today, was the city's first homicide victim of 1999. He was shot at home at 3 p.m. on West Gaulbert Avenue. The names of the teen-agers were not available last night because they are juveniles.

Both are being held in the Jefferson County Youth Center, said Officer Aaron Graham, a Louisville police spokesman. The boy was charged with murder, burglary, robbery and tampering with physical evidence. The girl was charged with tampering with physical evidence, hindering prosecution, intimidation of a witness and terroristic threatening. Police said Chavous was at home at 1776 W. Gaulbert Ave.

with several people when someone came to the door and Chavous let him in. The person demanded that Chavous "give him everything." Chavous was then shot once in the neck, and he was later pronounced dead at the University of Louisville Hospital. Graham said he did not know whether Chavous knew the teens, or know the relationship between the boy and girl. Graham said witnesses were instrumental in the arrests. Retirement Communities Are Not Created Equal.

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