3D MESSENGER INQUIRER, Owentboro, Oct. 6, 1978 Blackbirds still a problem i i coordinate the state's efforts in its battle against the birds. Coburn Gayle, director of the Division of Pest and Noxious Weed Control, said Kentucky actually got off pretty light last winter. "We had about 5.8 million birds, compared with 50 million in Tennessee," Gayle said. "But it's hard to predict what we will have this winter.
I think a lot of what happens will depend on the weather." Gayle said he felt the freezing temperatures drove the birds farther south last winter. "I'm sure the weather had more influence than we did," Gayle said. He said the major weapon this winter will be starlicide, a bird poison placed in feed lots. He said Tergitol would be used only as a last resort. But Gayle reported he received disappointing news Wednesday about any kind of replacement for the chemical.
He said researchers for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department told him at a meeting in Bowling Green that a new contact killer they are testing will probably not be ready for registration until 1984. He said they are hoping to field test it this winter on a few roosts, but they don't know where yet. "Our tools are the same," Gayle said. "We are in a sad state to do the job with." state's possible response.
But he said one thing he doesn't want to use again this winter is the chemical PA14, or Tergitol. The controversial chemical, which strips the birds of their protective oils, causing them to freeze to death, was used with mixed results on several large roosts in western and southern Kentucky the past two years after the' state won a legal battle against a New York humane organization which objected to the killing of the birds. "There are just so many problems and so few days during the year when it can be used with any effectiveness at all," Harris said. Harris said Friday's session is a preliminary meeting designed to By HERBERT SPARROW Associated Prst FRANKFORT Kentucky state officials are once again discussing the problems of blackbirds that have plagued the state for the past few winters. And state Agriculture Commissioner Tom Harris says the birds are now presenting a problem in the summer also.
"We are now having some problems with summer roosts," Harris said. "The birds are changing their habits and we have some sizeable summer roosts we haven't had before." Harris has called for a meeting of representatives of several state agencies Friday in his office to discuss the problem and the rf-, v. 'v- State approves road funding High Steppin' railroads. The new unit is the result of a report to the governor on railroad safety and the shipment, of hazardous materials made by Grayson's office and the Department for Natural Resources and Envi- Associated Pross FRANKFORT State Transportation Secretary Calvin Grayson announced Thursday that a special rail unit is being created within his department to make safety inspections of Kentucky Mike Students pranced on the Spaulding College lawn Thursday In Louisville as the college held Us Burgoo and Bluegrass Day. The high-steppers at the annual event Included Terry Lee, Abbate, Sheryl Mobley and Gayle Newcom.
said. lit The new unit will be funded with $300,000 in general fund money through the remainder of the biennium. The report to Carroll said the number of railroad accidents in Kentucky doubled in the two years between 1975 and 1977. It said three carriers, the Louisville Nashville, Chesapeake Ohio and Illionis Central Gulf railroads, were involved in almost nine out of every ten accidents. 1 And the report said the same ratio of accidents occurred at the site of previous accidents.
TVA chief approves contracts briefly Lucite ronmental Protection earlier this year. The report was ordered by Gov. Julian Carroll in the wake of a series of train derailments involving hazardous materials in late 1977 and early this year. Grayson said the first duty of the unit will be to inspect railroad tracks but he hopes it will eventually be expanded to also include equipment. Grayson announced creation of the new unit at a news conference at which he released the draft copy of the first phase of a state rail plan.
One inspector has already been hired and Grayson said he hoped to have four on'the payroll, at salaries of $18,500 each, by the end of the next fiscal year. The unit will be headed by a supervisor, who has not been hired yet. Grayson admitted the inspectors will be hard to find because of higher salaries paid by industry and the federal government. The inspectors must have at least six years experience with construction or maintenance of tracks and must pass written and field tests. He said the new unit may also face legal questions about its authority and added he has asked the attorney general's office for an opinion.
"But even if we are limited legally, we can sure make a lot of harassment," Grayson said. "We can let people know that a bridge or section of track is unsafe. "I feel this is an important step for our department," Grayson Toilet Seat GENUINE OLD COINS Lifetime Guarantee late 1980s. Three are on line now. TVA spokesman Mike Butler said, "The uranium will be extracted from phosphoric acid at the company's facilities now under construction in Polk County, Fla.
Naturally occurring uranium in phosphate rock is freed when the rock is processed into phosphoric acid during the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers. Approximately one pound of uranium concentrate is present in each ton of phosphoric acid." In an effort to demonstrate the possibilites of solar energy, Freeman approved an agreement with the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division and the South Memphis Development Corp. that provides low-cost, long-term installation loans for residential solar water heaters. and we don't have anyone else to go to." The situtation, he said, shows an absence of competition in this sector of the economy and he asked TVA divisions to see what could be done. The chairman suggested consideration of legislative proposals and said he thought the week's delay had made his point.
Freeman also approved two long-term, $407-million contracts with International Minerals and Chemical Corp. of Libertyville, 111., for TVA nuclear plant fuel. Up to 850,000 pounds of uranium concentrates byproducts of a fertilizer manufacturing process are to be delivered annually from 1980 through 1993. That would take care of about 10 percent of the annual fuel requirements of 17 TVA nuclear plants to be in operation by the Associated Pratt KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Saying the nation's largest utility is over a barrel, the Tennessee Valley Authority's chairman Thursday approved a $5-million General Electric spare parts contract he pigeonholed last week complaining of monopolistic practices.
Chairman S. David Freeman said last week GE and other TVA equipment suppliers are free to charge what they will for parts for the machines they've produced. No other firm makes them. At issue was a GE of Chattanooga agreement for two TVA steam plant rotors. Thursday he said, "I don't want to delay this approval further.
We need the spare parts. I don't see any need of prolonging this further. They've got us over a barrel Last week in Memphis, Freeman said 1,000 homeowners could participate. Thursday he said the program may be expanded and extended to TVA power consumers in the rest of the Tennessee as well as Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. The 20-year loans are to cost recipients $13 a month.
Butler said conventional water heating bills now average $12 to $17 monthly. Responding to complaints from TVA employees in Chattanooga, Freeman announced appointment of an unsalaried three-member committee to investigate discrimination allegations. The committeemen are Erskine Peoples, a black insurance agent, L.T. Prig-more, plant manager of Dixie Yarns Inc. and John P.
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(Next To Mudd's) 685-4717 Associated Pross FRANKFORT The state Thursday approved the sale of $250 million in Resource Recovery Road bonds and plans to issue another $90 million in bonds next year to finish 15 projects. The action taken by the Turnpike Authority of Kentucky applies to 12 projects and a portion of one project in Eastern and Western Kentucky. The work to be provided in the next bond issue includes the Thirteenth Street Bridge at Ashland, the Mount Sterling bypass and a part of the U.S. 25 project between Pineville and Baughman. There were two reasons that all 15 planned projects could not be completed.
One was the estimated cost rose an additional $90 million since Gov. Julian Carroll submitted his proposal to the 1978 legislature last February. The other is Internal Revenue Service regulations, which limit a project's duration to five years. The issue is being sold at 6.5 percent interest through Bache Halsey Stuart Shield, First Kentucky Securities Corp. Carroll said the interest rate news from around the region Immunization deadline hits LEXINGTON Some Fayette County school children may miss six to eight weeks of classes because they failed to be im-' munized against childhood diseases, as required by the state.
Wednesday ended a 30-day grace period and 447 pupils here did not have certificates of immunization. An undetermined number were sent home. Many children lack only a booster shot, said Clarence Musgrave, the school system's director of pupil services, but some need the entire series of shots to be immunized against polio, measles, German measles, tetanus, diptheria and whooping cough. The series takes a minimum of six weeks and could take eight weeks, Musgrave said. Atkins denies wrongdoing FRANKFORT State Auditor George Atkins says that a $100 campaign contribution by former Letcher County Judge Estill Blair in in no way influenced an investigation by his office of alleged wrongdoing in Letcher County finances.
Atkins said in a telephone interview Wednesday that he had no knowledge of the contribution until a news reporter brought it to his attention. According to a story in last week's Mountain Eagle, Atkins thanked Blair, a Republican, for the contribution in a letter dated May 18, 1977. At the same time, state auditors' were completing an in- quiry into alleged abuses by Blair and members of his admin-' istration involving use of county equipment and supplies for private purposes and use of county employees on projects for which work had been contracted out. Atkins said he did not write the letter and that it probably was written by someone in his campaign headquarters. Workers strike Phelps Dodge HOPKINSVILLE About 350 members of United Auto Workers Local 1807 walked off their jobs Friday morning when contract negotiations broke down with representatives of Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire Co.
A contract between the union and the company, which manufactures copper wire, expires Oct. 11. Union officials said the work stoppage is not sanctioned. About 60 to 70 pickets stood at the company gates Friday morning, but no incidents were reported. The dispute reportedly centers on wages and other eco- nomic benefits.
Plant manager Gordon Pequignot said the plant would continue to operate. Power plant planned WINCHESTER Kentucky Power Co. said Friday it plans to build a $1.2 billion power plant in eastern Kentucky within the next seven years. General Manager Ronald Rainson said sites are being considered in Lee, Estill, Breathitt and Clark counties. A site is expected to be chosen by the first of next year, he said.
The company said the plant would include two coal-fired generators and would employ about 100 persons. Nuclear discussion set LOUISVILLE Art official of Public Service Indiana is scheduled to discuss radiation safety planning at the Marble Hill nuclear power plant during the Health Physics Society's .1 Bluegrass chapter meeting here Nov. 4. Alvin D. Poland, a PSI health physicist and environmental engineer, is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m.
in Room 202 of the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center. HI The first of two reactors at the $1.85 billion 11 plant, under construction near Madison, about 30 miles upstream from Louisville, is scheduled to begin operation in 1982. Fuel adjustment down LEXINGTON Retail customers of Kentucky Utilities Co. 1 will experience a slight reduction in the fuel adjustment Z. charge on October electric bills because of decreased fuel costs, the utility has announced.
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