THE COURIER JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1989 KENTUCKY DEATHS Church. Visitation at Gibson Son Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday. HAZARD Gay Lee Mollica, 34, died Monday in Phoenix, Ariz. Funeral, 10 a.m.
Sunday, Engle Funeral Home. HAZARD Lorraine C. Reynolds, 75, formerly of Hazard, died Thursday in Orlando, Fla. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Engle Funeral Home.
Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. HENDERSON Lewis Owens 66, formerly of Henderson, died Thursday in Arnold, Mo. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Tapp Funeral Home.
Visitation after 7 p.m. Sunday. IRVINGTON Bobby Nelson Claycomb, 53, died here Friday. His wife, Betty, survives. Funeral, 3 p.m.
EDT Sunday, Irvington Baptist Church. Visitation at Alexander Funeral Home after 1 p.m. EDT Saturday. LAWRENCEBURG Kenneth Earl Jeffries, 70, formerly of Anderson County, died Friday in Louisville. His wife, Anna, survives.
Funeral, 1 p.m. Sunday, Gash Funeral Home. Visitation after 7 p.m. Saturday. LEBANON Jonathan Smothers, 5, died Thursday in Louisville.
His parents, Harold and Frances, survive. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Campbell Funeral Home. LIVERMORE Eva Acuff Cessna, 71, Louisville, formerly of McLean County, died Friday in Shelbyville. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Muster Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. LONDON Johnny C. Hodge, 79, died here Thursday.
His wife, Pearl, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Bowling Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday.
MADISONVILLE William Watts Addis, 82, died Thursday in Dunedin, Fla. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Saturday, Odd Fellows Cemetery. Visitation at Barnett-Strother Funeral Home after 10 a.m. Saturday.
MADISONVILLE Ernest Chavis, 47, died here Wednesday. His wife, Vicky, survives. The funeral will be in North, S. C. Bandy Funeral Home in Nortonville was in charge of local arrangements.
MARTIN James Oakley Hall, 59, Teaberry, died there Thursday. His wife, Ollie, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Samaria Regular Baptist Church in Teaberry. Visitation is at the church.
Hall Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. MARTIN Willie Salisbury, 81, died Thursday in Pikeville. Funeral, 11 a.m. Sunday, Hall Funeral Home. MARTIN Edward Everett Man who was hurt in Campbell County bridge accident dies The North-Central Kentucky Bureau A Butler County man died yesterday about a week after he was injured in an accident on a bridge that was under construction in Campbell County.
An autopsy has been scheduled for this morning at Humana Hospital-University of Louisville to determine whether the death of J. C. Phelps, 54, of Morgantown was related to the June 22 accident, Warren County Deputy Coroner Brad Schulz said. Phelps collapsed in his home and died on the way to the hospital, according to Warren County Deputy Coroner Kevin Kirby. A section of beam collapsed while it was being installed, killing Harry Fulweiler 37, of Fort Thomas.
Phelps was struck by a cable that whipped out from the falling beam. Three other men also were injured. State Transportation Cabinet officials still are trying to determine the cause of the accident, which took place on a bridge being built as part of the state's AA Highway. LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS 3532 Leith Lane. Funeral, 10 a.m.
Saturday, St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church, 1104 S. Sixth St. Highlands Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs.
Guy J. Osterman 73, of 361 South Western Parkway. Funeral, 10 a.m. Monday, St. Columba Catholic Church, 3514 W.
Market St. Visitation at Barrett Funeral Home, 1230 Bardstown Road, after noon Sunday. Willie Mae Perry, 69, of 2816 W. Main St. Funeral, 10 a.m.
Saturday, A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St. Mildred O.
Philpott, 58, of 6403 Fegenbush Lane, a native of Hart County. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home, 8519 Preston Highway. Visitation after noon Saturday.
Mrs. Marvin Poteet, 74, formerly of 4004 Shady Villa Drive. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Schoppenhorst Underwood Funeral Home, A 13 investigating alleged extortion of Ashland Oil by doctor, report says Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W. Va.
The FBI is investigating allegations that a former Kenova doctor tried to extort money from Ashland Oil Inc. by offering to sell his testimony in a lawsuit against the company, a Huntington newspaper reported yesterday. Ashland Oil officials said Thursday that they are cooperating with the investigation of Dr. Kevin Spanos, an osteopath who recently moved to the Tampa, area. The FBI declined to say if it is investigating Spanos, and U.S.
Attorney Michael Carey said he couldn't confirm or deny the investigation, The Herald-Dispatch of Huntington reported in a copyright story. Spanos offered to change his testimony for $80,000 in a lawsuit for Ventriloquists pay lip service to founder of basic course By KEVIN WALZER Associated Press FORT MITCHELL, Ky. Thirty seven years after his death, the first ventriloquist to devise a course to teach the art is being remembered by those who carry on the craft. Fred Maher, who started what has become the basic curriculum to train professional ventriloquists, is being honored at the Vent Haven Museum's 15th annual Ventriloquists Convention. It ends today.
"We've all taken the Maher course," Mark Wade said Thursday. Maher "educated the world (of) ventriloquism." This year's three-day event drew about 350 people. The convention was established in Fort Mitchell after the 1972 death of W. S. Berger, a ventriloquism-puppet collector.
Vent Haven was built on Berger's collection, Wade said, and the convention sprang up after museum directors decided to meet annually. Ventriloquism was a secretive field before Maher established his course, Wade said. Ventriloquists would guard their methods for throwing their voices. Maher died in 1952; in 1969 his health damages against Ashland Oil, according to company security director Ed Scott and other company officials. On another occasion, Spanos offered a deal to the company that would net him as much as $380,000, the officials said.
Spanos refused to discuss the accusations Thursday, the newspaper said. He could not be reached in Florida yesterday. Ashland Oil officials rigged Administrative Vice President Robert Compton with a tape recorder and sent $80,000 in cash to Spanos' office in a briefcase. Spanos wouldn't take the money, the officials told The Herald-Dispatch. Spanos tried to sell his practice and some patient files to company officials earlier this year.
Ashland officials contacted the FBI after Spanos first told Ashland's medical director on Jan. 27 that he would change his testimony in a lawsuit involving Terri Adkins, who later dropped the suit, the paper said. The investigation included, in part, Spanos' request that Ashland officials purchase 2,000 cases of an over-the-counter fever-blister medicine that he wanted Ashland to sell in its SuperAmerica stores. Ashland has been named in recent lawsuits by nearby residents seeking $630 million in damages. The plaintiffs claim they have suffered health and property damages from emissions from the company's plant in Catlettsburg, Ky.
About 700 Kenova-area residents filed federal lawsuits against Ashland Oil several years ago for property damage. The company paid an unspecified amount. ASSOCIATED PRESS Puppetmaker and dealer Tim Selberg displayed one of his creations earlier this week at the convention. widow sold Maher Studios to Clinton Detweiler of Littleton, Colo. Although retired, Detweiler says he spends 16 hours a day at the studio, which runs a correspondence course for ventriloquists.
The convention included lectures on technique and skill demonstrations. "There's a lot of sharing," Wade said. Dealers from around the country also sold puppets, other equipment and memorabilia. Dealer Tim Selberg of Auburn Hills, displayed several intricately carved puppets that he made, one a replica of the famous Charlie McCarthy puppet. Selberg makes limited-edition puppets starting at $1,595.
Custom jobs start at $2,395. It takes 4 to 6 weeks on average to carve a single puppet, Selberg said. Ventriloquists use different types of puppets in their routines, Wade said. Some are wood or fiberglass, while others are of soft materials. Humana's $5 million gift to of will fund research at cancer center By LESLIE SCANLON Staff Writer A $5 million gift that Humana Inc.
pledged to the University of Louisville in 1983 will be used for research at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, of has announced. Humana pledged the gift as part of of L's five-year "Quest for Excellence" fund-raising drive, which raised nearly $62 million. It was only recently decided, however, that the grant would be used as a perpetual endowment for cancer research meaning that the $5 million would be invested, and the return on it used to fund research. Under an agreement reached in 1987, of now owns and operates the cancer center, and specialists from of L's medical and dental schools are involved in treating the center's patients. Yesterday, Dr.
Donald Kmetz, dean of the of medical school, called the Humana grant "the most significant single private gift to assist the academic and research programs" the cancer center has received since it opened in 1981. Kmetz said the grant will primarily be used for research in molecular biology, tumor biology and hematopathology the study of blood diseases and abnormalities. Such research "will mesh very nicely" with work being done at the bone marrow-transplant unit that opened last fall at Humana Hospital-University of Louisville, he said. George Atkins, Humana's vice president for public affairs, said the company sees the grant as "just another way that the University of Louisville medical school and Louisville can become a world-renowned medical treatment and research center." Humana officials believe "the cancer center has great potential and a great future, and that this money will help attract the caliber of medical researchers and medical professionals" to enhance the center's reputation, Atkins said. Some nursing homes to get increase in Medicaid COVINGTON, Ky.
The state will raise Medicaid payments $5 to $6 a day to nursing homes that care for indigent patients, the state Cabinet for Human Resources announced. The decision, effective today, was made to comply with federal requirements, officials said. The state Cabinet for Human Resources will raise reimbursem*nt rates to $43.73 a day for intermediate-care patients, up $5.12, and $62.27 a day for skilled-care patients, a $6.20 increase, said cabinet spokesman Brad Hughes. The cabinet based the increase on the annual change in the Consumer Price Index and additional costs that nursing homes face because of new federal regulations, Hughes said. Nursing-home officials hope the larger reimbursem*nts will reduce the shortage of nurses and aides by funding salary increases, said Jim Judy, executive director of the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities.
Jim Burcham of Rosedale Manor Nursing Home in Covington agreed. "We're hoping, when the increase begins to come through, that we can do things to attract and retain good quality people," Burcham said. Attracting and retaining quality staff is a problem, said Jack Nienaber, director of Senior Citizens of Northern Kentucky. Competition for workers has been hard because Medicaid rates have not kept pace with inflation and many other employers pay better, he said. Turnover among aides is high 94 percent in Kentucky in 1987.
Salaries average $3.61 an hour, according to the the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities, a trade organization for nursing homes. Medicaid is a federal-state healthcare assistance program for the poor. About 80 percent of Kentucky nursing home residents are on Medicaid. A new federal regulation requires nursing-home employees to wear protective gear when working with patients. Other new laws require homes to train nurse aides, hire more registered nurses and raise employee salaries by 1990.
17-year-old Bullitt girl killed, 2 hurt in wreck A 17-year-old Shepherdsville girl was killed and two people injured Thursday night in a one-vehicle accident in Nelson County. Heather Michelle Still died at the scene, Nelson County Deputy Coroner Joseph L. Greenwell Jr. said. Nelson County Police Chief Jim Goatley said that Still was driving a pickup west on Icetown Road about 10:30 p.m.
when she apparently lost control of the truck in a curve, ran off the road and overturned in 1 a ditch about three miles northwest of BARBOURVILLE Violet Caldwell, 68, Bryants Store, died there Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Hopper Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday.
BARBOURVILLE Randall Hubbard, 20, Flat Lick, died Friday in Pineville. His mother, Gussie Hubbard, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Hampton Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m.
Saturday. BARBOURVILLE Hannah H. Walker, 63, died here Thursday. 2:30 p.m. Visitation Sunday, after Hopper Funeral Home.
7 p.m. Saturday. BOWLING GREEN Arthur C. Brandt, 55, died here Thursday. His wife, Cathy, survives.
Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, J. C. Kirby Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m.
Saturday. BOWLING GREEN Lucian Perry Conner, 80, formerly of Warren County, died Wednesday in Upper Marlboro, Md. His wife, Carrie, survives. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, J.
C. Kirby Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. BOWLING GREEN George B.
Parrish, 87, died here Friday. His wife, Edna, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Monday, J. C.
Kirby Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Sunday. BREMEN Dayton Downey, 76, Route 1, Bremen, died Thursday in Greenville. His wife, Mary, survives.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Tucker Funeral Home in Central City. Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday. BURKESVILLE Herbert Howard Thrasher, 59, formerly of Cumberland County, died Thursday in Louisville.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Norris New Funeral Home. CADIZ. Willie Gresham, 86, died here Thursday. His wife, Mildred, survives.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Goodwin Funeral Home. CENTRAL CITY Opal Pyle, 81, died Friday in Greenville. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Tucker Funeral Home.
Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday. CAMPBELLSVILLE Dorothy Lee Williams, 75, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church.
Visitation is at the church. B. J. Brown Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. CLARKSON Lottie Campbell, 71, formerly of Summit, died Friday in Leitchfield.
Funeral, 2 p.m. CDT Saturday, Rogers Funeral Home. CYNTHIANA Cora Ewalt, 68, died here Thursday. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Monday, Whaley-McCarty Funeral Home.
Visitation after 4 p.m. Sunday. DORTON John E. Adkison, 53, formerly of Pike County, died Wednesday in Tenn. His wife, Jeanette, survives.
Funeral, noon Sunday, Dorton Freewill Baptist Church. Visitation is at the church. Justice Funeral Home in Pikeville is in charge of arrangements. EDMONTON James Glen Watson, 86, died Thursday in Glasgow. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Butler Funeral Home. EMINENCE Herman O'Nan, 85, died Friday in Louisville. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Prewitt-Eminence Funeral Home. Visitation after 7 p.m.
Saturday. Radcliffe Funeral Home in La Grange is in charge of arrangements. EVARTS Alice Middleton, 94, Verda, died Friday in Harlan. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Verda Baptist Church.
Visitation at Evarts Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday. FISHTRAP Troy Justice, 75, died Friday in Lexington. His wife, Flossie, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.
Monday, Johns Creek Funeral Home in Meta. HARLAN Milford J. Anderson, 85, died here Thursday. His wife, Bertha, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Monday, Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Sunday. HAWESVILLE James T. Gray, 69, died Thursday in Evansville, Ind.
Funeral, 10 a.m. Monday, Immaculate Conception Catholic E. Glenn Bartberger 43. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Arch L.
Heady Hikes Point Funeral Home, 4109 Taylorsville Road. Mary V. Wilkerson Frey, 70. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, W.
G. Hardy Shively Funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Highway. Mabel Hammers Howard, 91. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, W.
G. Hardy Shively Funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Highway. David E. Kirk, 52, of Seattle, formerly of Louisville. The body will be cremated.
Bonney-Watson Funeral Home in Seattle is in charge of arrangements. Cora H. Lewis, 79, formerly of 1622 W. Oak a native of Bonnieville. Memorial service, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church, 1213 Dixie Highway. A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Joseph P.
McTighe, 70, of Stickler, 60, formerly of Martin, died Tuesday in Southgate, Mich. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Hall Funeral Home. MAYFIELD James Thomas Landon, 86, Route 2, Mayfield, died here Thursday. Funeral, 3:30 Saturday, Byrn Funeral Home.
p.m. NEW HAVEN Tabatha Renay Stillwell, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Stillwell, died Tuesday in Clarksville, Ark.
Graveside service, 11 a.m. Saturday, Riverview Cemetery. Visitation is at Joseph L. Greenwell Funeral Home. OWENSBORO Emma G.
Galloway, 81, died here Friday. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Monday, James H. Davis Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m.
Sunday. OWENSBORO Laura Margaret Warren, 69, died here Thursday. Her husband, John, survives. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Bellevue Baptist Church.
Visitation is at Haley-McGinnis Funeral Home. PIKEVILLE Dora Virginia Nichols, 68, died here Friday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, Call Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Sunday. PINEVILLE Mary George Ross, 50, Route 7, Pineville, died there Friday. Her husband, Mike, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Hampton Funeral Home in Barbourville.
Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday. RUSSELL SPRINGS Ashley Renae Stargel, 2, daughter of Gloria and Barry Stargel, died Friday in Louisville after an illness. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Bernard Funeral Home.
Visitation after 4 p.m. Saturday. SEBREE James E. Scott, 71, died Thursday in Evansville, Ind. His wife, Lena, survives.
Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Tompkins Son Funeral Home. SMITHS GROVE Grace Houchin Watt, 65, Oakland, died Thursday in Nashville, Tenn. Her husband, Howard, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Hardy Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday. SOMERSET Margaret Hegner, 78, Somerset, died there Friday. Her husband, H.
survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Cotter Avenue Church of God. Visitation at Morris Hislope Funeral Home in Science Hill after 6 p.m. Saturday.
SOMERSET Wilbur Ray Vaughn, 67, died Thursday in Lexington. His wife, Anna, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.
Saturday. STANFORD David L. Wright, 54, Lexington, died there Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Fox Funeral Home.
Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. WHITESBURG Oscar Lewis, 86, died here Thursday. His wife, Jess, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church. Visitation at Letcher Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Saturday. WHITLEY CITY Carl Barnett, 71, Stearns, died there Thursday. His wife, Mary Ann, survives.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, HickmanStrunk Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. WHITLEY CITY Roy A.
Jones, 81, Stearns, died Thursday in Somerset. His wife, Marie, survives. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.
Saturday. Romania's communists nominate party leader VIENNA, Austria (AP) Nicolae Ceausescu was unanimously proposed for re-election as leader of Romania's Communist Party when it convenes its 14th party congress on Nov. 20-25, the official Agerpres news agency said Wednesday. Ceausescu also was nominated as the sole candidate for the top party job at the last two congresses in 1979 and 1984. His subsequent election was a foregone conclusion.
Ceausescu became party general secretary in 1965. Associated Press New Haven. Two passengers in the truck, Robert L. Douglas, 19, and Michael G. Bowling, 20, both of Boston, were kept overnight at Flaget Memorial Hospital at Bardstown and were released yesterday.
Still was a native of Fort Knox and a former employee of Bonanza Steak House in Shepherdsville. She was a senior at Bullitt Central High School and a Girl Scout co-leader. Survivors include her mother, Linda Still of Shepherdsville; her fa- ther, Douglas Still of Utica, a sister, Dawn Still of Shepherdsville; two brothers, Kenneth and Christopher Still, both of Utica; grandparents, Mona and Carl Jones of Shepherdsville and Eva Still of Utica; and great -grandparents, Inez and Elmer Basham of Hot Springs, Ark. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Maraman Funeral Home in Shepherdsville, with burial in Brookland Cemetery.
Visitation will be at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. 19th and Market streets. James Randall Smith, 65, of 5912 Gloria Lane.
Funeral, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Guardian Angels Catholic Church, 6000 Preston Highway. Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Della C.
Sowders, 72, of 2409 S. Shelby native of Lewis County. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Schoppenhorst Underwood Funeral Home, 19th and Market streets. Mrs.
James I. Wimsatt, 86, a native of Washington County. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, St. Agnes Catholic Church, 1920 Newburg Road.
Burial, 12:30 p.m., St. Rose Cemetery in Springfield. Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road, is in charge of arrangements. Paul M. Winbun, 74, of Lawrenceville, formerly of Louisville, a native of Pendleton.
Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Smith Funeral Home in Lawrenceville..
