THE COURIER JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1987 and 18 KENTUCKY DEATHS BEREA Berthea Williams Alexander, 79, formerly of Berea, died Friday in Cedarville, Ohio. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Monday, Tilot Knobb Cemetery. Williams Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. BOWLING GREEN L.
B. Wilkerson, 70, died Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. J. C. Kirby Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
BOWLING GREEN Grover Jones 81, died here Sunday. His wife, Ida, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Tuesday, J. C.
Kirby Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Monday. BOWLING GREEN Dwight Eugene Tucker, 41, died here Sunday after an illness. J.
C. Kirby Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. BRODHEAD Bertha Hendrickson, 54, died Sunday in Mount Vernon. Her husband, Pearl, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, West Brodhead Church of God. Visitation at Watson Funeral Home after 6:30 p.m. Monday. BROWNSVILLE Sina Pearl Elmore, 88, Clarkson, died Sunday in Bowling Green. Funeral, 2 p.m.
CDT Tuesday, Antioch General Baptist Church in Grayson County, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation at Patton Funeral Home after noon Monday. BROWNSVILLE Chlora Sowders, 80, died Saturday in Hartford. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Gravil Funeral Home.
CORBIN James Edward Elliott, 66, formerly of Corbin, died Saturday in Cincinnati. His wife, Leona, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Hart Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m.
Monday. ELIZABETHTOWN Louie E. Cundiff, 70, formerly of Hardin County, died Sunday in Warner Robins, Ga. Brown Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. FRANKFORT Katherine Feigt Erb, 82, died here Saturday.
Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Harrod Bros. Funeral Home, with a graveside service at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Louisville Memorial Gardens West. Visitation after 7 p.m.
Monday. FRANKLIN The Rev. Cleo Gumm, 79, died here Friday. His wife, Camile, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Loving Chapel Baptist Church. Visitation at Burrus Funeral Home after 1 p.m. Monday. FRANKLIN The funeral for Mary Stringer, 91, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Booker Funeral Home.
She died Saturday. FRANKLIN The funeral for Leann Holloway, 59, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Booker Funeral Home. She died Friday. FRENCHBURG Ruby Gillespie, 78, Route 1, Salt Lick, died Saturday in Mount Sterling.
Her husband, Farris, survives. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Menifee Home for Funerals. Visitation after 7 p.m. Monday.
GLASGOW Bertrand Lewis Bauer 62, Route 1, Cave City, died Sunday in Louisville. His wife, Eva Rose, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Hatcher Saddler Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m.
Monday. GREENSBURG The funeral for Gilliam N. Judd, 87, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Cowherd Parrott Funeral Home. He died Saturday.
GREENVILLE Mamie Beatrice Kelley, 89, died here Saturday. Funeral, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Joines Chapel General Baptist Church in Elkton. Visitation at Gary's Funeral Home. HARRODSBURG Charles Thomas Watts, 80, died here Sunday.
His wife, Florence, survives. Funeral, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Alexander Royalty Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Monday.
HAZARD Ovealy Duff Smyley, 76, formerly of Perry County, died Sunday in Concord, N. C. Her husband, Al, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Engle Funeral Home.
Visitation after 7 p.m. Monday. HODGENVILLE Megan Danielle Pierce, infant daughter of Richard and JoAnn Pierce, Route 1, Hodgenville, died Friday in Louisville. Graveside service, 3 p.m. Monday, Mount Tabor Baptist Church Cemetery near Buffalo.
Brownfield Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. HOPKINSVILLE Annie Mae Haddock, 62, died Saturday in Madisonville. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Hughart Beard Hopkinsville Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Monday. HORSE CAVE James B. "Jim Buck" Hayes, 73, Route 3, Horse Cave, died here Sunday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Winn Funeral Home.
Visitation after 11:30 p.m. Monday. LEITCHFIELD The funeral for George Patton Bratcher, 42, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at EllisMayes Funeral Home. He drowned Saturday in Rough River.
His wife, Judy, survives. Visitation after 9 a.m. Monday. LONDON Aubrey E. Davis, 61, Route 1, London, died here Sunday.
His wife, Jessie, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Bowling Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Monday.
MAGNOLIA Joel Edward Chels, 99, Jonesville, died there Sunday. His wife, Annie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, DixonRogers Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m.
Monday. MARTIN William M. "Bill" Slone, 73, Estill, died here Sunday. His wife, Renda, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.
Tuesday, Hall Funeral Home. MOREHEAD Estill Edward Hamilton, 58, died here Saturday. His wife, Eula, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Northcutt Son Home for Funerals.
MUNFORDVILLE Hillard Puckett, 69, died here Saturday. His wife, Bessie, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Wilkerson Temple United Methodist Church. Visitation at Sego Funeral Home after 5:30 p.m.
Monday. OWENSBORO Nora E. "Mamie" Dockery, 81, died here Friday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, Haley-McGinnis Funeral Home.
OWENSBORO Rudy E. Young, 85, died here Thursday. His wife, Geraldine, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Haley-McGinnis Funeral Home.
OWENSBORO Janet Sue Tennant, 47, died here Saturday after an illness. Her husband, Robert, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Haley-McGinnis Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Monday. OWENSBORO Ralph W. Johnson 70, died Friday in Indianapolis. His wife, Mildred, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m.
Monday, Glenn Funeral Home. OWENSBORO William B. King, 66, died here Saturday. His wife, Betty, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.
Monday, Glenn Funeral Home. OWENSBORO Thomas A. Moorman, 79, died here Friday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, McFarland Funeral Home.
OWENSBORO Sula Wooldrige, 99, died here Saturday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Fourth Street Baptist Church. Visitation at Young Funeral Home after 2 p.m. Monday.
RUMSEY Alma Williams, 81, died Sunday in Calhoun. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Muster Funeral Home in Calhoun, with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery in Owensboro. Visitation after 5 p.m. Monday.
SHELBYVILLE Stella M. Huffman, 94, Mount Eden, died there Sunday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mount Moriah Baptist Church. Visitation at Cleveland Funeral Home in Mount Eden after 2 p.m.
Monday. WEST LIBERTY Nancy Peyton, 71, Route 2, West Liberty, died Sunday in Morehead. Funeral, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Herald Stewart Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Monday. -AREA FUNERALS Helen Marie Cave, 67. Funer- p.m. Monday, Highlands Funeral al, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Arch L.
Heady Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road. Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Tay- Carolyn B. Crask Pedigo, 42, lor Blvd. Visitation after 1 p.m. Mon- of 607 Barret Ave.
Funeral, 10 a.m. day. Tuesday, St. Aloysius Catholic Bennie J. Hendricks, 76.
Fu- Church, 1129 Payne St. Visitation at neral, 1 p.m. Monday, W. G. Hardy Arch L.
Heady Son Funeral Shively Funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Home, 1201 E. Oak after noon Highway. Monday. William Franklin Kathryne L. Ambrose Walls, Houchin, 49, 64, of 1678 Christian a native of of Nashville, formerly of LouNelson County.
Funeral, 1 p.m. isville. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Tuesday, Arch L. Heady Son FuNeurath-Cralle Underwood Cres- 1201 E.
Oak St. Visitaneral Home, cent Hill Funeral Home, 2428 tion after noon Monday. Frankfort Ave. Visitation after 6 p.m. Monday.
James C. Webster, 28, of 1338 S. Preston St. Funeral, 11 a.m. TuesAlma J.
Keefer, 82, of St. Mat- day, Schoppenhorst Underwood thews Manor Nursing Home, a na- Funeral Home, 1832 W. Market St. tive of Ohio County. Funeral, 1 p.m.
Visitation after 9 a.m. Monday. Monday, Pearson's, 149 Breckin- Vernon E. Wilson 72, of ridge Lane. 3134 Garland Ave.
Funeral, noon Edith Margaret Ott Meixner, Monday, Arch L. Heady Southern 80, of 800 S. Fourth St. Funeral, 1 Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Rockcastle woman accused of shooting at 2 troopers The South Kentucky Bureau A Rockcastle County woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at two state troopers at her home Friday evening.
Ada L. Martin, 46, surrendered to state police after a five-hour standoff. She was taken to Rockcastle County Hospital for treatment of a possible drug overdose, then to the Pulaski County Jail in Somerset. The incident began about 5 p.m. when Martin's daughter, Becky, called the Rockcastle County Ambulance Service and said her mother apparently had suffered an overdose, said Vernon Sowder, director of the ambulance service.
When he arrived at the trailer home about seven miles north of Mount Vernon on May Apple Road, Sowder said, Becky Martin, 22, warned him not to go inside because her mother was armed and threatening suicide. Sowder called for the state police. Minutes later, Trooper Gary Lane arrived and Ada Martin allegedly shot at him. She allegedly fired a shot at Trooper Jim Silvers later. A special-response team from the state police post at London was called to the scene.
Sgt. David Biggerstaff said the team's negotiator, Trooper Danny Trosper, spoke intermittently with Martin by phone for five hours. She surrendered at 10:12 p.m. She was transferred yesterday to the Rockcastle County Jail, where she is being held in lieu of $25,000 bond. The incident was the second in a week in which police from the London post confronted an armed person at home.
On Tuesday, a 41-hour standoff in Whitley County ended when Herschel Rains, 53, apparently died of a heart attack. Police were trying to arrest Rains on an assault warrant charging him with shooting a neighbor. Henry County man hit by car in Shelby dies of his injuries The Central Kentucky Bureau A Henry County man died yesterday after being struck by a car in Shelby County Saturday night. State police said Kenneth Ray Webb, 50, of Pendleton, died of multiple injuries at Humana HospitalUniversity in Louisville at 2:57 a.m. Webb was struck by an eastbound car on U.S.
60 about two miles west of Shelbyville at about 10:46 p.m., police said. He was taken to United Medical Center in Shelbyville, then flown by helicopter to University hospital, officials said. Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Lloyd Workman said the car in which Webb and his wife were riding hit a guardrail on U.S. 60 at KY 55 about 10:45 p.m. Saturday.
The Webbs got out of the car to go for help. Webb apparently had forgotten something and turned to walk back to the car when he stepped into the path of a car driven by Scott Alsher, 21, of Jefferson County, officials said. Alsher and his passenger, Charlotte Cook, 27, of Louisville, were not injured, police said. No charges were filed. Webb was a native of Oldham County and a farmer.
Survivors include his wife, the former Nancy Dickens; four sons, Johnny Mitchell Keith A. and Ricky T. Webb; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W.
Webb; and three sisters, Elizabeth Yochum, Nannie B. Yochum and Ellen Abbott, all of Pendleton; and two brothers, Chester Webb of Salem, and Bobby Webb of West Palm Beach, Fla. The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Radcliffe Funeral Home in La Grange, with burial in Sulphur Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home after 5 p.m.
today. Lexington boy killed in Mercer County The Bluegrass Bureau A Lexington boy was killed in Mercer County yesterday when he apparently lost control of his motorless scooter and was hit by a car. State police officials said Mark D. Crowe, 12, was riding north on Ballard Road north of Harrodsburg at 10:17 a.m. when he apparently lost control of the scooter on a curve.
Mark was struck by a southbound car driven by James Disponette, 63, of Bondville. The boy was taken to Haggin Memorial Hospital in Harrodsburg, where he was pronounced dead. Plumber scores tapping feat BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) An apprentice plumber tap-danced seven miles in a little more than two hours to claim what he hopes will be a world record for distance. ASSOCIATED PRESS A LONG STRETCH: Doug Griffin of Evansville, had to stretch to install a window at a housing project, but not as far as it seems.
The leg in the window at left belongs to another worker. TB never really disappeared, remains a public-health threat, officials say By THOMAS P. WYMAN Associated Press Pulmonary tuberculosis, once a common killer that now rarely breaks into the headlines, still menaces public health, health officials say. Tuberculosis is no longer the scourge that accounted for one death in five at the turn of the century and was America's leading cause of death in 1900. Nevertheless, Indiana publichealth officials confirm several hundred new cases each year and have reported 110 deaths from the disease since 1985, said Mary Hamilton, a public-health nurse who directs Indiana's tuberculosis-control program.
"It has never really disappeared," she said recently. Last month, health officials discovered that at least nine employees at the Westville Correctional Facility in Northern Indiana may have been infected by an inmate suffering from tuberculosis. In response, prison and health officials decided to test all of the prison's 2,800 inmates and employees. Officials worry that the disease, if not checked, could spread from the psychiatric ward where the infectious inmate was confined to the rest of the prison, and eventually to the outside. Although confirmed cases and even possible infections bring a quick response, public awareness remains low, officials say.
It ebbed as effective drug treatment led to the closing of large sanitariums and as the number of reported cases continued to fall during the last 25 years. The huge white X- ray vans once used by the Tuberculosis Association to search for new cases in public screenings are long since retired. The association itself dropped the disease from its name in the early 1970s and became the American Lung Association. Dennis Alexander, a Lung Association official in Indianapolis, said the organization now concentrates on preventable lung ailments caused by smoking. It still regards tuberculosis as a serious health threat, although outbreaks are largely confined to "pockets" such as nursing homes or prisons, and among the homeless.
"I think tuberculosis is still a big problem," he said. But the rod-shaped tuberculosis bacteria, or bacilli, borne deep into a healthy lung on tiny droplets often expelled by infectious carriers, continue to claim new victims. Hamilton said the Indiana State Board of Health has confirmed 115 new cases so far in 1987. Last year, 307 cases were confirmed, and 304 cases were uncovered in 1985. Even worse, public-health officials expect the downward trend to reverse as soon as the age-old disease joins forces with the modern medical horror of AIDS.
Health experts explain that the immune system of a healthy person can manufacture antibodies to destroy the invading tuberculosis bacilli and resist the disease. A person with a condition that weakens the immune system, such as alcoholism, malnutrition or Illness, becomes more vulnerable. A person with acquired immune deficiency syndrome has even less chance of resisting tuberculosis. Hamilton says "fewer than 10" combined cases of AIDS and tuberculosis have been reported in Indiana, and no projections have been made for the future. Many cases of pulmonary tuberculosis can be cured in less than a year with a strictly administered regimen of antibiotics, Hamilton said.
A tuberculosis vaccine, which has been widely used in developing countries where the disease reached epidemic proportions, doesn't work as well as hoped and is not recommended in the United States, she said. Storm huffs and puffs and blows trees down By ROBIN GARR Staff Writer A rapidly moving line of vicious thunderstorms lashed much of Western and Central Kentucky and Southern Indiana with a downpour and damaging winds late yesterday afternoon. The National Weather Service in Lexington said that winds estimated at 55 to 60 mph hit Anderson County and that winds of unspecified velocity caused damage in Boyle, Franklin, Woodford and Mercer counties. The weather service said a barn was destroyed in Mercer County and a house caught fire in Versailles when a power line fell on it, but most of the damage reported was limited to trees and utility wires. The Kentucky State Police post in Elizabethtown reported trees and wires down and scattered power outages throughout the region.
"Pretty much the usual" for a severe summer storm, a dispatcher said. The storm hit the Louisville metropolitan area with wind gusts of 48 to 60 miles per hour around 7 p.m., felling trees, limbs and power lines. A resident told the Floyd County, Sheriff's Department that a funnel cloud touched down on Budd Road in rural New Albany township, toppling a line of trees but causing no injuries or property damage, Officer Alan Montgomery said. Authorities in Orange County, also were investigating reports of a tornado touchdown, according to Beverly Poole, a forecaster with the National Weather Service at Standiford Field. However, Poole said forecasters believe most damage was done by exceptionally strong straight-line Chase ends in 4-car pile-up on I-65; Tennessee teen jailed A 16-year-old driver from Lebanon, is being blamed for a four-car pile-up yesterday afternoon on Interstate 65 north of Franklin, that injured five people, including a state police trooper.
At 2:21 p.m. yesterday, Trooper Danny Gillock responded to a call from Portland, police, who were pursuing a car reported stolen in Tennessee. Gillock joined the chase about seven miles north of the Tennessee line, and Warren County sheriff's deputies began setting up a roadblock near the Warren County line, said Jackie Strode, public-information officer for the Bowling Green post of the state police. Three minutes later, Gillock radioed that the chase had ended in a wreck miles north of Franklin. According a state police report, the car driven by the Tennessee youth ran into a van carrying four Michigan residents.
That wreck caused Gillock's car and the police winds, the effect of an unusual thunderstorm phenomenon known as a "bow echo" in which damaging winds "bulge out" in advance of a fast-moving storm front. "It's safe to say that we've got a tremendous amount of tree damage in just about every county on our watch list," which covered virtually all of Western Kentucky and all of Southern Indiana south of the Bloomington area, Poole said. However, there were no immediate reports of injury or widespread property damage. Large trees were reported down on houses on South 25th Street in western Louisville and on St. Clair Drive in Middletown, and police said fallen trees damaged cars in the Cherokee Road area of Louisville's East End.
Downed trees and limbs, fallen power lines and darkened traffic lights were widespread in the Louisville area and Southern Indiana. A Jeffersonville, police dispatcher estimated that she'd received 300 calls reporting minor storm damage within an hour after the storm had passed. Gusty winds whipped trees in Oldham County, leaving country lanes littered with leaves and branches but causing few problems other than power outages due to felled power lines, according to spokesmen for Oldham Fire and Rescue and the state police post at La Grange. car from Portland to collide, the report said. The youth, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with six counts of wanton endangerment and one count of receiving stolen property.
He is being held in Kentucky pending extradition to Tennessee. A Portland police dispatcher said the youth allegedly left a gas station five miles south of Portland without paying, and when Portland police tried to stop him, he took off. Gillock sustained bumps and bruises in the accident, which closed the northbound lanes of I-65 for about 25 minutes. His cruiser was totaled. Gillock and the four people in the van were treated at Greenview Hospital in Bowling Green and released.
They were identified as Hugh Wade, 52, Detroit, the driver; Sarah Wade, 53, also from Detroit; Ruby Fischer, 56, Flynt, and Tommie Scott, 72, Detroit. The Portland officer, Ricky Rawls, 26, wasn't injured. Truck accident kills Bowling Green teen The West Kentucky Bureau A 17-year-old Bowling Green resident died early yesterday in a wreck on U.S. 231 near Bowling Green, state police said. Timothy Gerald Roark was pronounced dead at the scene, 1.3 miles south of Bowling Green.
The pickup he was driving ran off one side of the road and then the other er before hitting a bank and a tree about 6:45 a.m. yesterday, police said..
