The Courier-Journal, Friday morning, October 31, 1986 7 JRegional news Deaths I MEHEO i .3 rmi'i1jiir Staff Photo by Pot McDonogh Supporters of re-election for mayors optimistic By BOB JOHNSON Political Wrltor The people leading the campaign to give Kentucky's big-city mayors the option of seeking re-election are counting down to Election Day with a commanding lead in the polls and no announced The co-chairmen of Kentuckians Supporting Mayoral Succession Democratic state Sen. David Karem of Louisville and Republican state Rep. Ken Harper of Crestview Hills In Kenton County are the picture of bipartisan optimism over prospects for the amendment Karem said the proposition will be in good shape Tuesday If it gets anywhere near the roughly 70 percent support It Jias drawn in several polls. Harper said that virtually everyone! he talks to in Northern Kentucky backs the proposed amendment which would give mayors of Louisville and eight other cities the option of seeking re-election. Under Kentucky's 1891 constitution, big-city mayors cannot serve consecutive four-year terms.
Supporters of the amendment say mayors need a longer period than one term to solve complex city problems and to attract industry. Of Kentucky's 450 or so cities, only Louisville, Paducah, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Frankfort, Newport, Covington, Richmond and Ashland are subject to the one-term limit Lexington, with its unique urban-county government has a two-term limit, while mayors in Kentucky's other cities have; no limit on the number of terms they can seek. The 28-word proposition would apply to mayors now in office. If voters give it the simple majority required for an incumbent such as Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson would be eligible to seek a second consecutive term. While all the preliminary signs are good, Karem, Harper and others have their fingers crossed, guarding against the unexpected.
Terry Feathers, who Is running the campaign for the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, is concerned about the expected light turnout and the small share of that turnout that will decide the amendment's fate. Feathers said a review of the 1984 election results showed that 40 percent of the voters that year did not vote on the proposed amendment to permit sheriffs to run for re-election. The amendment won easily. "It could be decided by an extremely small minority of Kentuckians," he said of mayoral succession. There Is also a chance the amendment may be caught in the undertow of such controversial ballot issues as the proposed Jefferson County library tax, Lexington's Issue of liquor by the drink on Sunday, and a second constitutional amendment to allow appointment instead of election of the state superintendent of public instruction.
"If there's a strong negative (vote) on the superintendent's amendment they might just vote no on both of them," Harper said. However, he said he has seen no evidence that will happen. Feathers noted that voters are generally See SUPPORTERS PAGE 2, col. 1, this section Corrections clarifications Because of an editor's error, a headline in yesterday's Courier-Journal Incorrectly said that a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling changed the way juries are selected.
The decision was handed down last April. Harvey Sanders, who is retiring after 36 years as the caretaker of Manual High School's stadium, walked yesterday around the field that now carries his name. Manual stadium caretaker will hear his last hurrah Tonight's game, he estimates, might bring in 6,000. "It's Just not the same anymore," he said. The white-haired caretaker told his employers about a month ago that this was going to be his last season.
"I've been expecting to retire for years, but I just kept on putting it off. I want to stop while I'm still going," he said Sanders left a Job as a plumber's assistant in Shelbyville to take the position in 1951. He moved his wife and two boys to the stucco house with the locker room showers attached to the back. His wife died in 1968 and both sons have moved from the area, but Sanders has continued living at the stadium. Now he hopes to move back to Shelby County sometime before Christmas, and Manual employees aren't sure how they're going to replace him.
"I don't think we're going to find another Harvey," athletic director Bob Jacobs said. "It might take a couple of people to fill all his roles." Until 1976, Sanders was a full-time school system employee in charge of maintenance and security for the entire See CARETAKER PACE 2, col. 2, this section By LARRY BLEIBERG Stiff wrltor A Louisville tradition continues tonight when the Male and Manual high school football teams meet for the 102nd consecutive year. Another tradition, however, will end. Tonight Is 75-year-old Harvey Sanders' last game as caretaker of Manual's stadium.
He is calling it quits after 36 years on the job. Although his age and tenure are reason enough for attention, Sanders' retirement Is even more noteworthy because his job is unique in Jefferson County. Manual is the only high school with a football stadium on a site away from campus the two are more than a mile apart So since 1951, Sanders has not only cared for the stadium, he has lived there. His front door faces East Burnett Street His side door opens onto the field where Paul Hornung, Howard Schnellen-berger and thousands of others have played. But Sanders remains decidedly unimpressed.
"It's just too close to work," he said as he showed visitors around the deserted stadium yesterday. Sanders is a quiet man, but with a little prodding he'll recall the Male-Manual games in the early 1950s that attracted more than 20,000 spectators. Pollution district reports lower Goodrich toxic hazard the chemical cause two cancers nationally every five years. But EPA officials say the vast majority of dangerous acrylonitrile emissions come from 26 chemical plants in 15 states, and so they left regulation of those emissions to state and local agencies. County air-pollution officials urged EPA to set a national standard for acrylonitrile emissions instead.
They complained that if local officials imposed tough regulations to protect Louisville-area residents, Goodrich could close or shift production to other plants in cities with less-stringent rules. Tough regulations would be needed in Louisville, local officials say, because prevailing winds blow chemicals from the plant northeast over the heart of the metropolitan area. If the plant were located on the other side of Louisville, it would pose a much smaller risk, they said. The Louisville plant is one of 13 that likely will have to install additional air-pollution equipment according to Fred Renner of EPA's air assessment branch in Research Triangle Park. N.C.
The other plants among the 26 targeted by the EPA Including a similar Goodrich plant in Akron, Ohio will not have to install new equipment or are waiting to hear from state officials, Renner said. For now, Goodrich officials are not threatening to leave Louisville and are promising to work with the air-pollution district "We will attempt to comply as best we can with the recommendations of the report," plant manager Ed Beeler said. Goodrich officials worked with the air-See LOWER PAGE 3, cot 1, this section risks associated with acrylonitrile from the plant are "higher than acceptable." They wont decide what pollution-control equipment should be Installed at Goodrich until they finish a study of a second cancer-causing chemical, butadiene, also emitted by the plant. Acrylonitrile and butadiene are two of the main Ingredients in synthetic rubber. They are mixed In different proportions with vinyl chloride and styrene to make 50 different rubber compounds at the Louisville plant Acrylonitrile emissions are at the center of a controversial EPA strategy for regulating toxic air pollutants that has led to clashes between local and federal environmental officials.
EPA classifies acrylonitrile as a probable carcinogen and estimates that emissions of By SCOTT THURM Stoff Wrltor Emissions of a toxic chemical from the B. F. Goodrich Co. plant in Louisville cause about one case of cancer every 25 years and should be reduced, officials of the Jefferson County Air Pollution Control District have concluded. Their estimate of the hazards posed by acrylonitrile is markedly lower than earlier estimates by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, but still marks the Goodrich plant as among the most dangerous emitters of acrylonitrile in the country. The lower estimate emerged from a two-year study of the plant 4100 Bells Lane, that Included the nation's most extensive tests on acrylonitrile emissions. In a report released earlier this month, air-pollution officials concluded that the Marquez found wandering, is arrested for fourth time Some workers at old mansion say house has real presence TP a wh fer: vw; it -k 1 1 fit Vn' V-vi 4 1 Byron VlUYVlUlU 1 Courier-Journal MAmI columnist Stoff Photo by Byron Crawford Yesterday, police were called to the 2100 block of Gilligan Street about 4:45 p.m. after neighbors complained about a prowler. "When officers drove up he was standing in someone's yard," said Capt.
Steve Thompson, commander of the 6th District. Marquez didn't threaten or act violently toward anyone, Thompson said. The neighborhood is about a mile from the West Side Mission Home, 1625 W. Market, where Marquez has been staying. Marquez's attorney, Danny Karem, said he probably wouldn't object if a prosecutor suggests that his client be evaluated.
He said he would have to talk to Marquez before deciding what to do. Police charged Marquez with disorderly conduct Oct. 1 1 after they found him walking in the middle of Interstate 65. Yesterday's arrest was Marquez's second for criminal trespassing. He pleaded guilty to the same charge Oct.
22. District Judge Kevin Delahanty suspended a $25 fine and sentenced Marquez to one day in jail, with credit given for time served. Marquez, who was traveling with Stevie to California and stopped in Louisville to change buses, has said he left his son at a McDonald's because he feared for the boy's safety. Marquez's story has drawn a strong response from the public. A woman bailed Marquez out of jail on Saturday and has offered to fly him and his family to California.
Dozens more donated $600 to a fund also earmarked to fly the family to California. An optometrist donated two pairs of glasses, and someone else hired an attorney to defend him. By MARV O'DOHERTY Stoff Wrltor Esteban Marquez, who has been charged with abandoning his 4-year-old son at a downtown restaurant, was arrested yesterday for the fourth time in three weeks when he was found wandering in yards and vacant houses in the Portland neighborhood, police said. Marquez was charged with criminal trespassing. Police made a special notation on his arrest slip: "We recommend that this person receive psychiatric assistance.
Subject is not in touch with reality." It is the second time such a notation has been made. When Marquez was arrested Oct 11, the arresting officer wrote, "Subject needs mental exam, or social worker." The first message was intended for a prosecutor, who then could ask a Judge to order a psychological examination. However, Assistant County Attorney Jack Hanley, the prosecutor in Jefferson District Court when Marquez was arraigned Oct. 13, said he didn't see the arrest slip. Yesterday, Hanley said he would attend Marquez's arraignment today to make sure the prosecutor reads the slip.
Marquez was released on his own recognizance last night by District Judge Daniel Schneider. Marquez, 42, of Queens, N. Is scheduled to appear in District Court Monday on the abandonment charge and a charge of disorderly conduct. His son, Stevie, is scheduled to appear in Juvenile Court on Nov. 12.
Social workers are investigating whether Stevie should be allowed to return to his mother, who lives with her three other children at a hotel for the homeless In Queens. Housekeeper Lucy O'Donnell says she has heard noises at White Hall in Madison County, formerly the home of Cassius Marcellus Clay. RICHMOND, Ky. No one lives at White Hall anymore, hasn't for years. But some who work at the Madison County mansion, now a state shrine, and a few who visit there occasionally wonder if unseen inhabitants haunt the home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, the fiery abolitionist and Civil War general known as "The Lion of White Hall." "In the late afternoon, those steeped in Its lore are sometimes struck with the strange illusion that White Hall is as much spirit as brick and mortar," H.
Edward Richardson, a professor of English at the University of Louisville, wrote In a biographical essay about Clay. "The lion's presence, though same feeling. I know there was somebody in there, but I looked around again and there was nobody there. I've never liked that blue room since then." Several tour guides and park rangers have also related eerie incidents. A few years ago, a ranger was reading in the room that serves as a lounge for employees Just off the entrance hall when he heard footsteps on the stairs about 2 a.m.
Thinking it was his imagination, he continued reading until he See SOME PAGE 2, col. 2, this section vaguely felt, eludes both guide and tourist." "I'd been here, I guess, about tnree years and was in the blue room working one cloudy, gloomy day, and there was somebody in that room with me," recalled Lucy O'Donnell, who has been the housekeeper at the 35-room mansion since it opened as a shrine in 1971. "I just felt it, and I thought it was one of the tour guides playing a prank, so I turned around real quick and looked, and nobody was there. "I started working again and got the.
