Edition THE STAFF PHOTO BY BILL LUSTER Earl Logsdon collected aluminum cans for recycling from one of the apartments at Yorktown Senior House in Louisville yesterday. Man with problem of his own still finds ways to help others By TRACEY ECKELS Staff Writer Louisville resident Earl Logsdon could have given up on life when doctors discovered a cancerous growth on his voice box three years ago. But decades earlier he'd made a promise to himself to help at least one person every day. The deeds wouldn't have to be anything major, Logsdon had decided back then holding the door open for a person or helping an elderly lady across the street. Acts "you don't expect a thanks for," he explained.
But more than 25 years after he made that pact, Logsdon has been thanked nationally recognized, in fact for his one-man recycling program for the benefit of the Louisville chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Since October, he has raised about $200 for the association through the recycling program that he started at Yorktown Senior House, where he lives. USA Today selected Logsdon as its Kentucky representative for "Making a Difference Day" and honored him with a $2,000 prize, which he donated to the Alzheimer's Association's Louisville chapter. Logsdon started recycling at Yorktown Senior House after meeting with the executive director of the Louisville chapter, Karen M. Ring.
He said that Yorktown had had no recycling program previously and that the notion of raising money to fight Alzheimer's disease complied with his pledge to help somebody everyday. He started out by asking fellow residents to leave their old cans with him; now individuals and businesses communitywide are asked to recycle their cans and donate the money to the chapter. Every Monday at noon, Logsdon wheels his grocery cart, which he confides was purchased for him by a "lady friend," up and down the three floors of his building to collect the tidy sacks of cans his neighbors leave outside their doors. Logsdon is 69, but he moves quickly. Sometimes people forget to put their cans out, so Logsdon knocks on the door.
Or sometimes he'll stop just to chat. He's usually greeted with a friendly smile and sometimes a dog. The recycling proceeds, which are expected to hit $300 by October, help people who take care of those with Alzheimer's. About 4 million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease; 60,000 of them live in Kentucky and 20,000 in the Louisville area. The local chapter receives about 500 calls per month for help or information.
Ring described Earl as "positive, unassuming, very caring and committed" and said it would have been easy for him to give up when he found out he had cancer. Logsdon, who is divorced, attributes his cancer to any one of a variety of causes. "You name it and I've done it," he said in a raspy voice. "I've smoked, Tattoos cover both his arms, although he incongruously, wears a Mickey Mouse his wrist. And his living room is adorned with pictures of his two daughters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
"He does a great job," said Pauline Arrowood, a Yorktown resident. "He is a very unselfish person to do something like this." Logsdon just laughs and says, "This building is like my fan club." Louisa trucker pleads guilty in chil d-sex case children. Each of the men was arrested after meeting with the woman, going over his plans for sex with the children and entering a room where she told him the children were waiting. Butcher's lawyer, Marc Murphy, said the undercover officer, Louisville police Lt. Bridgett Skaggs, also showed Butcher photographs of nude children "to rev up his engines a little." Murphy had asked Judge James Shake to dismiss the indictment against Butcher claiming, among other things, that the police were guilty of entrapment.
Shake, however, said entrapment was a question for a jury to decide. Butcher's sentencing was set for July 12. Of the other men charged in the sting operation, at least three also have pleaded guilty. By MICHAEL JENNINGS acts they would perform with her An Eastern Kentucky trucker one of six men charged with attempted sex crimes as a result of a police sting pleaded guilty yesterday in exchange for a recommended sentence of 10 years in prison. Donald R.
Butcher, 39, of Louisa, was charged in Jefferson Circuit Court with trying to rape and sodomize three children under the age of 12. He was arrested in September 1993 after driving to Louisville to meet with an undercover policewoman who was posing as the fictional children's mother. Like other men charged in the sting, Butcher corresponded with the policewoman after answering an ad police had placed in a "swingers" magazine. At the woman's urg. ing, the men described in letters and telephone conversations sex Monticello boy's body found in river Associated Press Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, Ky.
Officials have found the body of a 15-yearold Monticello boy who fell into the Cumberland River on May 12. Two fishermen spotted the body of Kelly Hanco*ck Monday evening near Noe's Dock in Whitley County, about eight miles from where he fell in nearly two weeks ago. Whitley County, Coroner Carl Paul said members of the Williamsburg Rescue Squad recovered the body. Kelly was climbing on rocks below Cumberland Falls when he COURIER JOURNAL KENTUCKY ADAIRVILLE Wilfred Durwood Cumbee, 75, formerly of Adairville, died Friday in New Albany, Ind. The funeral was Sunday at Adairville Baptist Church.
Arrangements: Austin Bell Funeral Home. BARDSTOWN Emma Livers Linton, 93, died here Monday. Funeral, 10 a.m. Thursday, GreenwellHoughlin Northside Funeral Home. Visitation after 8:30 a.m.
Thursday. BARDSTOWN Carroll ers, 51, died here Monday. His wife, Sue Ann, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Thursday, St.
Joseph Catholic Church. Visitation at Mann Greenwell Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Wednesday. BENTON Toy Franklin Starks, 85, died here Tuesday. His wife, Bertha, survives.
Funeral, 1 p.m. Thursday, Collier Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Wednesday. BLOOMFIELD John Themes Goldring, 48, died Tuesday, in Bardstown.
Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Fairfield Second Baptist Church. Visitation at Houghlin Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Thursday and at the church after 11 a.m. Friday.
BOONEVILLE Grace Botner, 93, died Monday in Wildwood, Fla. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, New Hope Baptist Church. Visitation at Searcy Strong Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Wednesday.
BOWLING GREEN John Hubert Davis, 63, died here Monday. His wife, Freda, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, J. C.
Kirby Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Wednesday. BOWLING GREEN Beryl M. McLin, 89, died here Tuesday.
Graveside service, 11 a.m. Friday, Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, til. Visitation at Nales Funeral Home, Fairfield, after 2 p.m. Thursday. Local arrangements: J.
C. Kirby Son Funeral Home. BROWNSVILLE Lorine Skaggs, 71, died Monday in Louisville. Funeral, 11 a.m. CDT Friday, Patton Funeral Home.
Visitation after noon CDT Thursday. CARLISLE son, 62, died here Monday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, MathersGaunce Funeral Home. Visitation after noon Thursday.
COLUMBIA Homer Pelston, 47, died here Tuesday. His wife, Linda, survives. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Thursday, Coomer Cemetery. Visitation at Stotts-PhelpsMcQueary Funeral Home after 3 p.m.
Wednesday. COLUMBIA Elmo Lester Swincher, 66, died here Monday. His wife, Mary, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. EDT Friday, Hopewell Baptist Church, Louisville.
Visitation at Grissom Funeral Home after 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday and at the church after 1 p.m. EDT Thursday. CORBIN Williams Earl ard, 78, Keavy, died here Tuesday. His wife, Ninnia, survives.
Funeral, 2. p.m. Thursday, Vankirk Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Wednesday.
DANVILLE James Robert Robinson, 88, Junction City, died here Tuesday. His wife, Eva Mae, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Junction United Methodist Church. Visitation at Preston-Pruitt Funeral Home after 5 p.m.
Thursday and at the church after 9:30 a.m. Friday. FRANKFORT Anthony Wayne Carter, 1-year-old son of Kathryn and Kenneth W. Carter, DEATHS WEDNESDAY, MAY KENTUCKY DEATHS died here Sunday. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Rogers Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m. Wednesday. GLASGOW Lester Mullins, 44, Smiths Grove, died there Sunday. Funeral, 10 a.m.
Thursday, Crow Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Wednesday. GREENSBURG George Per. kins 64, died Monday in Elizabethtown.
His wife, Evelyn, survives. Funeral, noon Wednesday, Cowherd Parrott Funeral Home. HARRODSBURG Benny C. "Buddy" Bottom, 58, died here Monday. His wife, Shelby, survives.
Funeral, 11 a.m. Thursday, Alexander Royalty Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Wednesday. HAZARD Oma Campbell, 99, Rowdy, died here Tuesday.
Funeral, 1 p.m. Thursday, Mount Carmel Regular Baptist Church. Visitation at the church after 6 p.m. Wednesday. Arrangements: Maggard Bros.
Funeral Home. HOPKINSVILLE Montgomery Chiles, 89, died here Monday. His wife, Jennie, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Mount Pisgah Baptist Church.
Visitation at Gamble Funeral Home after 11 a.m. Friday. HOPKINSVILLE James ert Ellis, 63, Crofton, died Monday in Madison, Tenn. Her husband, Bonnell, survives. Funeral, 1 Friday, Gamble Funeral Home.
Visitation after 11 a.m. Thursday. HOPKINSVILLE Rosetta Jackson Wimberly, 39, died here Monday. Her husband, Jessie, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.
Thursday, Gamble Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Wednesday. LEITCHFIELD Vera Mae Grant, 79, died here Monday. Her husband, William, survives.
Funeral, 1 p.m. Thursday, Dermitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Wednesday. William Elmer Smith, 76, died here Tuesday.
His wife, Minnie, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Dermitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Wednesday.
LEXINGTON Zella Lee, 89, died here Monday. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, W. R. Milward MorVisitation after 10:30 a.m.
Thursday. LEXINGTON Edward Smith, 50, died here Monday. His wife, Kay, survives. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, W.
R. Milward Mortuary-Southland. Graveside service, 3 p.m. Wednesday, Bowling Cemetery, Lee County. LIBERTY Darrell Ray Duncan, 52, Lawrenceburg, died Tuesday in Lexington.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, Bartle Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Wednesday. LONDON Eliza McQueen, 81, died Monday in Corbin.
Funeral, 2 Tanker spill settlement to help protect wildlife WASHINGTON (AP) About $60 million from the Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement will be used to protect 152,000 acres of prime tat for bear, salmon, bald eagles and other species on Alaska's Kodiak Island, the Interior Department said yesterday. The agreement on how to spend the money, which is part of a $900 million restoration settlement stemming from the 1989 spill, was announced after an agreement with two Alaska native village corporations on details of the habitat protection plan. LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS Visitation: after 9 a.m. Wednesday. Dora Helen Jones, 61, South Louisville.
Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, St. Helen Catholic Church. Arrangements: Nunnelley Funeral Home. Joseph 0.
Manion, 83. Funeral: 1 p.m. Wednesday, Owen Funeral Home. Rodney Lee Massey, 30. Funeral: 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Arch L. Heady Son Funeral Home. Charles W. Miller 85. Funeral: 11 a.m.
Thursday, First Virginia Avenue Baptist Church. Visitation: G. C. Williams Funeral Home, after 7 p.m. Wednesday.
James Osborn, 76, South Louisville, a native of St. Francis. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Visitation: Joseph E.
Ratterman Sons South End Funeral Home, after 2 p.m. Wednesday. James L. "Big June" Pitteard, 56. Funeral: 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, W. P. Porter Mortuary. Visitation: after 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Stuart Pressma, 43. Funeral: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Herman Meyer Son. Scharfenberger, 71. He willed his body to the University of Louisville medical school.
Myra Schofleld, 75, Masonic Homes of Kentucky. Memorial service: 2:30 p.m. Friday, Masonic Homes of Kentucky chapel. Arrangements: Willhite-Ballard-Heady 24, 1995 p.m. Thursday, Dortha Pentecostal Church.
Visitation at Bowling Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Wednesday. MARTIN Jack D. Hall, 57, died here Monday. His wife, Jeanette, survives.
Funeral, 11 a.m. Thursday, Hall Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Wednesday. MARTIN Gracie Gayheart, 84, Beaver, died there Monday.
Funeral, 11 a.m. Thursday, Samaria Old Regular Baptist Church, Teaberry. Visitation at the church after 8 a.m. Wednesday. Arrangements: Hall Funeral Home.
MIDDLESBORO Maud Ruby Bailey, 90, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church. Visitation at Shumate Funeral Home after 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
MOREHEAD Michael Dallas "Cracker" Stevens, 52, Clearfield, died here Tuesday. His wife, Louise, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Northcutt Son Home for Funerals. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Thursday. MOUNT VERNON Meada Sowder, 84, died Monday in Brod- head. Funeral, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Cox Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m.
Wednesday. PRESTONSBURG Darvin Crider, 63, died here Monday. His wife, Mary, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Floyd Funeral Home.
Visitation after 11 a.m. Wednesday. PRESTONSBURG Madge Hunter, 80, formerly of Prestonsburg, died Tuesday in Fremont, Ohio. Funeral, 1 p.m. Thursday, Floyd Funeral Home.
Visitation after 6 p.m. Wednesday. PRESTONSBURG Myrtle Prater Salyers, 73, died here Tuesday. Her husband, Callie, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.
Friday, Carter Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Wednesday. RUSSELL SPRINGS Lena McGowan, 81, Faubush, died there Monday. Funeral, 1 p.m.
Thursday, Jabez Christian Home Church. Visitation at Bernard Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Wednesday. SHELBYVILLE The funeral for Laura Louise Todd Jackson, 72, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Clay Street Baptist Church.
Visitation at the church after 6 p.m. Thursday. Arrangements: Morton-Beckley Funeral Home. She died Monday. SOMERSET Emery Lonzo "Smokey" Angel, 75, formerly of Stearns, died here Tuesday.
His wife, Wilma, survives. Private graveside service, 10 a.m. Thursday, Barnesburg Cemetery. Visitation will be private. Arrangements: New Bros.
Funeral Home. TOMPKINSVILLE Cemoore Gray, 76, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Thursday, Strode Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m.
Wednesday. VIRGIE Elvina Tackett, 89, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Jones Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Wednesday. WILLIAMSTOWN Juanita Pence, 57, died here Monday. Her husband, Wayne, survives. graveside service will be scheduled later. Arrangements: Elliston-Stanley Funeral Home.
WINGO Elizabeth Watts Jackson, 81, formerly of Graves County, died Sunday in Huntsville, Ala. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Thursday, Little Obion Cemetery. Visitation at Brown Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Funeral home. Billy Allen Scott 25, Pleasure Ridge Park. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, Home. Neurath Underwood Funeral Visitation: p.m.
Wednesday. Pearl Sorrels, 90, formerly of Louisville, a native of Hartford, Ky. Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday, Northside Christian Church, New Albany. Visitation: Seabrook Dieckmann? Naville Market Street Funeral Home, New Albany, after 1 p.m.
Wednesday, and at the church after 1 p.m. Thursday. Emma Gill "Miss Mama" Thomas, 75, a native of Cadiz. Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday, G.
C. Williams Funeral Home. Visitation: after 7 p.m. Wednesday. Jose J.
Vila, 90. Graveside service: 10 a.m. Wednesday, Cave Hill Cemetery. Arrangements: Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road. Mary Margaret Woodruff, 72, Valley Station, a native of Cleaton.
Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, Owen Funeral Home. Visitation: 'after 3 p.m. Wednesday. James R.
Woodson 71. He willed his body to the University of Louisville medical school. Memorial service: 4 p.m. Sunday, 227 Woodclift Road. A memorial service for Herbert F.
Zink will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Graves Hall, St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church. He died May 17. Arrangements: Pearson's.
Ruling says man had been killed before train hit him Associated Press WHITLEY CITY, Ky. A coroner's jury ruled Monday that a man hit by a train had been murdered but the panel couldn't say who placed his body, face-up, on the tracks with a cigarette in his mouth. Donald Ray Shepherd a husband and father who was a week away from his 28th birthday, did not move as the train rumbled toward him on Dec. 21, 1991. He did not respond when the train engineer who could not brake in time to avoid hitting him flashed the lights and sounded the whistle.
Shepherd had been drinking, but not enough to pass out, said witnesses and later the state's chief medical examiner. And Shepherd was too afraid of trains to walk along the tracks, let alone lie across them, said his mother, Dorothy Aldridge. "I know my son better than anyone else, and he would not have been on those tracks for any reason day or night," Aldridge said. After hearing from a dozen witnesses during a coroner's inquest, a six-person jury ruled that Shepherd's death was a homicide. Kentucky State Police Detective Dexter McKinney, who reopened the case in 1993, will continue to investigate the death.
"We're very pleased," Aldridge said. "It's a step in the right direction. I've been three years just trying to get to this point." "We will find the people that did this," said Gene Aldridge, Shepherd's stepfather. The Aldridges and Shepherd's widow, Paula, have doggedly tried to get more information about his death. The Aldridges turned their business phone in Attica, into a toll-free tip line.
They wrote to Kentucky's governor and to the attorney general trying to get action on the case. Previously, a McCreary County grand jury had reviewed Shepherd's death and returned no indictments, said Commonwealth's Attorney Allen Trimble. People with whom Shepherd was drinking beer and smoking marijuana that night testified that he was not close to passing out when he left his sister-in-law's car and started walking home after the party. And though there was testimony that Shepherd had been in his share of fights and had once told his mother his life was in danger there were no solid leads. "It doesn't resolve anything," Paula Shepherd said of the inquest.
"It just means maybe now something will get done." Hallie Souche, pioneering West Point banker, dies Percy W. Bramiett, 73, a native of Irvington. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road. Visitation: after 2 p.m.
Wednesday. Robert M. Brammer, 86, a native of Hardin County. Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, Highlands Funeral Home.
Chester Brown, 73. Funeral, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Ratterman's-Portland. Visitation: after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Dora Catherine Bryant, 87, Crescent Hill, a native of Worthington. Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Arch L. Heady Crescent Hill Funeral Home. Franklin Luther Evans, 66.
Memorial service: 7 p.m. Wednesday, W. P. Porter Mortuary. Gary Durand Harper, 41, formerly of Louisville.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, St. Stephen Baptist Church. Visitation: G. C.
Williams Funeral Home, after 6 p.m. Wednesday. Sylvia Delores Harris, 52. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, W.
P. Porter Mortuary. Visitation: after 9 a.m. Wednesday. Jo Ann Hart-Muncy, 52, Fairdale.
Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, SS. Simon Jude Catholic Church. Visitation: Russman Sons Funeral Home, after noon Wednesday. William D.
Hollers, 56, Shively, a native of Evarts. Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Owen Funeral Home. a Hallie L. Souche, former president of the West Point Bank, died Monday at Jewish Hospital after an illness.
She was 89 and lived in West Point. Souche, a native of Hardin County, was thought to be the first female bank manager in Kentucky. She started working at the bank as a part-time bookkeeper in 1924 after one semester of college, and she retired 62 years later. Souche worked her way up, bought stock in the company, and got a seat on the board of directors in 1936. In 1941 she became the bank's executive officer, running its day-to-day operations.
Eventually, she and her sister acquired controlling interest in the bank, and she was eventually named president. The fact that the directors, the employees and all but one of the seven stockholders in the bank were women brought The New York Times to West Point in 1977. The resulting story said that at the time there were just a half-dozen all-women banks in the country. In addition to her banking career, Souche was West Point city clerk for 28 years, secretary-treasurer of the West Point Board of Education for 20 years and the operator of an insurance agency for nearly 30 years. She held local, state and national offices in the National Association of Bank Women and also in the Louisville Group of the Kentucky Bankers Association.
Her survivors include a niece, Wanda Reynolds of West Point, and a friend, Gene Smith of West Point, both of whom cared for her. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at West Point United Methodist Church, with burial in Bethany Cemetery. Visitation will be at W. G.
Hardy Valley Funeral Home, 10907 Dixie Highway, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 5:30 to 9 p.m. today, and at the church after 10 a.m. tomorrow.
slipped and was swept away by the rain-swollen river. Bad weather hampered the search in the days after the accident. "He was just a 15-year-old boy that was in the wrong place, 1 guess," Paul said. Kelly is survived by his parents, James and Georgia Hanco*ck, and two brothers, Jamie and Lannie Hanco*ck. His funeral will be at 2 p.m.
tomorrow at Marvin S. Hicks Funeral Home in Monticello, with burial in Gap Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home after 3 p.m. today..
