The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky (2024)

1 a Early Edition B4 THE COURIER- JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1992 Jefferson starts making payments to settle suits over jail strip searches By DEBORAH YETTER Staff Writer Jefferson County government has begun making payments to people to settle allegations they were illegally strip-searched at the jail, in a development that shows the controversial searches may indeed prove extremely costly to the county. So far, the county has paid or agreed to pay $235,000 to 12 of the more than 25 people who sued the jail, claiming that they were forced to remove all or most of their clothing following their arrests for a variety of minor offenses. Recent individual payments or agreements on payment have ranged from $7,500 to $27,500, First Assistant County Attorney N. Scott Lilly said yesterday. And the most costly cases may lie ahead, according to lawyers who spoke at a settlement conference yesterday in U.S.

District Court in Louisville before Judge Edward H. Johnstone. 'Lawyer Gregory A. Bolzle, a lead attorney in the case, said some of his clients are holding out for $60,000 and are prepared to go to trial if necessary. "Those cases will outrage the jury," he said.

Plaintiffs include a grandmother arrested and strip-searched after i inadvertently missing a court date for a traffic citation, a minister dressed in a tuxedo on his way from a dinner party stopped for driving with his lights off, and a father with two children in the car mistakenly arrested because he had the same name as a suspect police were Depending Bolzle said. on circumindividual stances of their clients, some attorneys are asking for higher amounts. "I don't believe these are unreasonable demands at all," Bolzle said. Some clients have agreed to settle their claims for $30,000 but the county so far has refused to pay that amount, Bolzle said at the settlement conference. Lilly wouldn't comment on any specific offers the county has made or rejected, objecting to a reporter's presence at the conference.

"I don't think it's fair to conduct settlement negotiations in the newspaper," he said. Johnstone urged the lawyers to continue to negotiate privately and to report back to him if any more settlement agreements are reached. Even if all plaintiffs were paid only $19,500 the average of the $235,000 agreed on to settle 12 cases it would cost the county around $500,000. The payments could pose a financial hardship, said Larry Smith, spokesman for Jefferson County Judge-Executive David Armstrong. The money comes from the county's general fund and "we will have to cut someplace else to make those payments," Smith said.

An additional cost to the county was $5,000 Johnstone recently ordered the county to pay to the plaintiffs' lawyers as a sanction for filing a frivolous motion in the case. Jail officials have defended strip searches for weapons and contraband as necessary to ensure security, but in June of last year they stopped routine searches of people arrested for minor offenses. The strip searches currently at issue occurred after the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1988 that the county could not stripsearch people detained for minor offenses without a reasonable suspicion that they might be carrying weapons or drugs. That case arose from a lawsuit filed by a Pleasure Ridge Park woman who claimed she was illegally strip-searched after her arrest for failing to appear in court over a traffic offense even though she had been given the wrong date by a Jefferson District Court employee.

The county paid $30,000 to her and $25,000 to her lawyer, Bolzle, to settle the case but continued the strip searches, claiming the 6th Circuit ruling was merely The county relied on that defense when it responded to the series of lawsuits that began in February 1991 after Steven W. Price, a salesman, was stopped for speeding and arrested for failing to list his current address on his driver's license. Price claimed he was illegally stripsearched at the jail; the number of people who filed suit after him grew to more than 25. The county's defense that the federal appeals court ruling was merely advisory was rejected in a stinging rebuke by a federal judge who found that the 6th Circuit ruling clearly applies. He ruled that the county's motion to dimiss the cases was frivolous; the county was ordered by Johnstone to pay $5,000 to the plaintiffs' lawyers as a sanction.

In an interview yesterday, Lilly wouldn't comment on whether it was wise for jail officials to continue the strip searches after the 1988 federal court ruling because many of the cases are not settled and may go to trial. LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS Bertha Vandiver Curry, 88, formerly of Strathmoor Boulevard, a native of Breckinridge County. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road. Morris Eugene Dansby 42, of 1305 W.

Market St. Arrangements: A. D. Porter Sons Funeral To Home. Clarence William Dennis, 76, Portland, a native of Breckinridge County.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday, Schoppenhorst Underwood Funeral Home, 19th and Market streets. Visitation: after 10 a.m. Friday. Gloria Ann Farris, 37, formerly of Louisville.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St.

Visitation: after 2 p.m. Friday. Sue McCoy Gaston, 57. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Second Presbyterian Church, 3701 Old Brownsboro Road.

Arrangements: Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane. Margaret E. Goodman, 79, Mount Holly Nursing Center. Graveside service: 11 a.m. Saturday, Cave Hill Cemetery, Arrangements: Neurath Underwood Funeral Home.

Mrs. Henry F. Hellmann, 91, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Barrett Funeral Home, 1230 Bardstown Road.

Visitation: after 7 p.m. Friday. Mildred Manning Hendricks, 86, a native of Bowling Green. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, Arch L.

Heady Son Funeral Home, 1201 E. Oak St. Alverda Reed Hess, 92, of 3700 W. Wheatmore Drive, a native of Hardin County. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Friday, Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Edward Lee Jones, 95, a native of Bardstown. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, St.

Stephen Martyr Catholic Church, Hess Lane and Pindell Avenue. Arrangements: Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road. Henry M. Meller, 79. Arrangements: Herman Meyer Son, 1338 Ellison Ave.

Florence T. Niehoff, 86, of 2903 Lindsey Ave. The body was cremated. Memorial service: 10 a.m. Saturday, St.

Catholic Church, 1604 E. Washington St. Arrangements: Neurath Underwood Funeral Home. KENTUCKY DEATHS ALBANY Wanda Shelton DeRossett, 52, formerly of Albany, died Wednesday in Booneville, Ind. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Talbott Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Friday. AUBURN Coy Earl Wright, Wednesday in Russellville. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Friday, Young Funeral Home. BARDSTOWN Janie Harding, 88, died here Thursday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Lillydale Church of Christ, Gatchel, Ind. Visitation at Zoercher-Gillick Funeral Home, Tell City, after 1 p.m.

Sunday. Arrangements: GreenwellHoughlin Northside Funeral Home, Bardstown. BENHAM Gleneva "Peggy" Vanover, 69, died Wednesday in Lexington. Her husband, Elzie, survives. Funeral, 3 p.m.

Saturday, Cumberland Pentecostal Visitation at Tri City Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Friday. BRANDENBURG Bob Bridges, 75, Ekron, died Thursday in Louisville. His wife, Louise, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Hager Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. BROWNSVILLE Pauline Ritter, 73, died Thursday in Bowling neral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m.

Green. Her husband, Ed, survives. Funeral, a 1 p.m. Saturday, a Patton FuFriday. BURKESVILLE Glayron "Smokey" Anderson, 59, died here Wednesday.

His wife, Brenda, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Ballou Funeral Home. Visitation after noon Friday. BURKESVILLE Johnie B.

Blankenship, 73, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Ballou Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Friday.

CANEYVILLE Essie Embry, 83, died Wednesday in Bowling Green. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Chapel Union Baptist Church. Visitation at Dermitt Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Friday.

CENTRAL CITY Lurine ker, 79, formerly of Central City, died Thursday in Cincinnati. Funeral, 1 p.m. Sunday, Tucker Funeral Home. Visitation after 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Hopewell Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Arrangements: W. R. Milward Mortuary-Broadway.

LEXINGTON Raymond Pyles, 54, died here Wednesday. His wife, Juanita, survives. Funeral, 3 p.m. Friday, W. R.

Milward Mortuary-Broadway. LEXINGTON Samuel Toler, 79, died here Wednesday. His wife, Georgia, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Friday, W.

R. Milward MortuarySouthland. Graveside service, 1:30 p.m. Friday, A. R.

Dyche Memorial Cemetery, London. LEXINGTON Annetta Wig. ginton, 94, died here Thursday. Graveside service: 10 a.m. Saturday, Lexington Cemetery.

Arrangements: W. R. Milward Mortuary-Broadway. LIVERMORE Monroe L. MIllard, 71, formerly of Livermore, died Tuesday in Florence, Ariz.

neral, noon Saturday, Muster Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Friday. LONDON Clarence "Clare" Storm, 90, died here Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, HouseRawlings Funeral Home. Visitation after 7 p.m. Friday. LOYALL Charles Eldridge, 71, Wallins, died Wednesday in Lexington. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Loyall Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. MADISONVILLE Lucinda Dozier Duncan, 58, died here Tuesday. Her husband, Bill, survives.

Private services will be held at a later date. Arrangements: BarnettStrother Funeral Home. MADISONVILLE Lillie Mai Boston council overrides condom machine veto BOSTON (AP) The city council overrode the mayor's veto of an AIDS-prevention ordinance that would require bars and restaurants to install condom-vending machines. The council voted 9-3 in favor of the ordinance, which applies to businesses that serve alcohol, have an entertainment license and can seat more than 100 people. "What it tries to do is warn people while they're most vulnerable, while they're drinking and dating, that there is this epidemic going on," said Councilor David Scondras, the measure's sponsor.

Mayor Raymond Flynn declined to comment on the override. He had said earlier that he didn't think the measure would be effective in controlling the spread of AIDS and considered it unfair to business owners. Bogle Pittard, 83, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Woodfin Funeral Home, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Visitation at Barnett-Strother Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Friday and at Woodfin Funeral Home after 2 p.m. Saturday. MADISONVILLE Gertrude Vaughn, 95, died here Monday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Elliot Mortuary. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. MARTIN Edgar Allen Poe Leslie, 77, of Emma, died Thursday in Prestonsburg. Graveside service, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Weddington Cemetery, Emma. No visitation. Arrangements: Hall Funeral Home. MARTIN Dollie Vanderpool Ratliff, 70, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Friday, Hall Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Friday. MAYFIELD Oather "Jie" ley, 90, died here Wednesday. His wife, Josie, survives.

Graveside service, 1 p.m. Saturday, Maplewood Cemetery. Visitation at Byrn Funeral Home after 4:30 p.m. Friday. MONTICELLO Alfred Lee Shepperd, 75, died Wednesday in Somerset.

His wife, Sadie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Marvin S. Hicks Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m.

Friday. MORGANTOWN Henry "Dav" Render, 84, died here Wednesday. His wife, Christine, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Jones Funeral Home.

Visitation after 10 a.m. Friday. MORGANTOWN Juanita Joyce Stinson, 62, died Wednesday i in Bowling Green. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Smith Funeral Home.

Visitation after 10 a.m. Friday. MURRAY Craine Trimble, 67, died here Thursday. His wife, Martha, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Miller Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. PADUCAH Frances DeWest, 59, formerly of Paducah, died Nov. 24 in Phoenix, Ariz.

Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Mount Kenton Cemetery. Arrangements: Roth Funeral Home. PADUCAH Elmer Hayden, 88, died here Thursday. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Saturday, St. John Catholic Church. Visitation at Roth Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Friday. PADUCAH W.

T. Rogers, 67, died here Wednesday. His wife, Rosie, survives. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Friday, Clarks River Cemetery.

Arrangements: Roth Funeral Home. PERRYVILLE Ruby Mae Carpenter, 87, formerly of Perryville, died Thursday in Danville. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilder Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.

Friday. PERRYVILLE Wanda Baker Drake, 61, died here Thursday. Her husband, Clayton, survives. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Wilder Funeral Home.

Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. PINEVILLE Jeremy Ryan Kirkland, 10, died Tuesday in Corbin after an illness. His parents, Weldon and Teresa Robbins, survive. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Riverview Baptist Church. Visitation at Arnett Steele Funeral Home after 8 a.m. Friday. PRINCETON Hazel Eggleston, 62, died Wednesday in Madisonville. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Friday, Morgan's Funeral Home. RICHMOND Shelton Marshall Saufley 85, died here Thursday. His wife, Carlisle, survives. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Saturday, Richmond Cemetery.

Visitation at Turpin Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Friday. SCIENCE HILL Zella E. Sneed, 82, died Thursday in Stanford. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Morris Hislope Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. SCOTTSVILLE Waymon Lee Stone, 76, died Wednesday in Bowling Green. His wife, Dorothy, survives.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Goad Funeral Home. SLAUGHTERS Travis Hardy Nance, infant son of Joan and Robert Nance, died Tuesday in Henderson. Arrangements: Tompkins Son Funeral Home. SOMERSET Grace Adkins, 84, Indianapolis, formerly of Somerset, died Thursday in Greenwood, Ind.

Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. SOMERSET William M.

Sears, 88, died here Thursday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday.

TOMPKINSVILLE Norman D. Fox, 78, Gamaliel, died Thursday in Glasgow. His wife, America, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Strode Funeral Home.

Visitation after 3 p.m. Friday. WHITLEY CITY Pauline Anderson, 68, died Thursday in Knoxville, Tenn. Arrangements: Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home. WHITLEY CITY Martha Glaspell, 76, died Wednesday in Cleveland.

Private graveside service, Saturday. Arrangements: HickmanStrunk Funeral Home. Getting sick in U.S. was a blessing for Russian Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. While many people fear becoming ill while traveling overseas, Gueorogui Alexeev was thankful when he got sick while he was away from home.

Alexeev, a Russian musician, became critically ill over the weekend while performing in South Bend. Doctors found a bleeding ulcer that had drained almost two-thirds of Alexeev's blood before he received treatment Sunday. Although his condition was grave, it might have been worse had he fallen ill at home in St. Petersburg, where crucial medical supplies and even food are scarce, he said. "There's a big problem," he said Wednesday from his hospital bed at St.

Joseph's Medical Center. "The government does not have enough money." Alexeev, 28, is touring the United States this month with 13 other members of a Pentecostal church. The group is trying to raise money and other support for construction of a larger church building. Religion has flourished in postcommunist Russian, said Alexeev. It has been one stable element people could rely on in a time of political, economic and social uncertainty, he said.

He's glad for the religious freedom the social upheaval has fostered. "I believe in God; I believe in the Bible," he said through an interpreter, Charles Ruf*cku, a St. Joseph's medical technician who studied in Russia. Alexeev's group performed at the Christian Tabernacle in South Bend over the weekend, then continued on to churches in Texas and Oregon, leaving Alexeev behind. Alexeev planned to recuperate at a home in Granger before meeting up with the group for a flight home Dec.

19. A. Gardner Fox, laser pioneer, ex-physicist, dies New York Times News Service Irene Lewis Patterson, 90, Shepherdsville, a native of Warren County. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Friday, Hardy-Close Funeral Home, Shepherdsville.

Visitation: after 9 a.m. Friday. Paul C. Payne, 58. Arrangements: Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home, Houston.

Albert "Boot" Perry, 70, of 2139 S. 29th St. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Greater Good Hope Baptist Church, 1100 S. 26th St.

Visitation: G. C. Williams Funeral Home, 1935 W. Broadway, after 9 a.m. Friday.

James W. Schaffer, 75, Wentworth Avenue, a native of Morganfield. Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday, Barrett Funeral Home, 1230 Bardstown Road. William B.

Scrogham, 48, Lebanon Junction. Funeral: 2 p.m. Saturday, Maraman-Billings Funeral Home, Shepherdsville. Visitation: after 9 a.m. Friday.

Carolyn Cook Smith, 69. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Visitation: after 1 p.m.

Friday. Charles E. Thornton, 66, Watch Hill Road, a native of Shelby County. Funeral, noon Friday, Heady Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road. Kenneth B.

Timperman, 78. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, St. Rita Catholic Church, 8709 Preston Highway. Visitation: Ratterman'sBardstown Road, 3800 Bardstown Road, after 1 p.m.

Friday. Howard G. "Hud" Veneklase, 79, formerly of Louisville. Memorial service: Friday, Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Memphis. Arrangements: Canale Funeral Home, Memphis.

William C. Watts 60, formerly of Louisville, a native of Muldraugh. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Muldraugh United Methodist Church. Arrangements: Nelson-Edelen-Bennett Funeral Home, Radcliff.

Ernest Waugh, 79, South Louisville, a native of Carter County. Funeral: p.m. Friday, Nunnelley Funeral Home, 4327 Taylor Blvd. Essel Schaefer Wilson, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: noon Saturday, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Altadena, Calif.

Arrangements: Mountain View Mortuary, Altadena. A. Gardner Fox, a retired physicist and inventor who made discoveries in radar, microwave communications and lasers, died Nov. 24 at the Evergreen nursing home in Harmony, Pa. He was 80.

His family reported his death Wednesday and said the cause was Alzheimer's disease. Fox worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories for 41 years and held 53 patents in the microwave and quantum electronics fields. His research has been used in a wide range of fields, from weaponry to overseas telephone calls to airplane communications. Fox and Dr. Tingye Li developed the basic theory of light behavior in laser beams, opening the way to the construction of laser devices.

Born in Syracuse, Fox grew up there and in Montclair, N. J. He earned his bachelor's degree and a master's in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Slain Clay boy's funeral is tomorrow From Staff and Special Dispatches MANCHESTER, Ky. The funeral for Donald Scott "Scotty" Baker, the slain ClayCounty 10-year-old whose burned body was found Tuesday in Laurel County, will be at 2 p.m.

tomorrow at Britton Funeral Home in Manchester. The burial will be in Manchester Memorial Gardens, and visitation will be after 6 p.m. today. Scotty was abducted the day before Thanksgiving from Paces Creek Elementary School in Manchester. His stepmother, Stephanie Genean Baker, and a friend of hers, Susanne Renee Baker, both 22, have been charged with murder in connection with his death.

Scotty, of Garrard, was a fifthgrader at Paces Creek. His survivors include his father, Donnie Lee Baker of Garrard; his mother, Ruth Baker of Bush; a brother, Jeremy Vega of Senoia, two sisters, Tonya Burns and Amy Burns, both of Bush; his grandparents, Alonzo and Dorothy Jackson of Garrard and Juanita Miller of Corbin; and his greatgrandparents, Hobert Jones of London and Annie Smith of Garrard. "Ad ran on Sunday, received a call same day, showed house Tuesday and sold it!" Dave Smith Classifieds Call 582-2622.