LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1991 Alaska seeks to extradite man who worked for Pikeville Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska Alaska will try to extradite a man who used false resumes to win high-ranking government jobs nationwide, including in Pikeville, a prosecutor said Friday. Carl "Randy" Keyser 36, has been held for a month at the King County Jail in Seattle on a probation-violation charge. Keyser was sentenced in 1989 in Alaska to serve 90 days in jail and to pay $18,000 in restitution after he pleaded no contest to firstdegree theft. Authorities said he fraudulently gained pay and benefits during three months in 1988 when he was city administrator in the Southeast Alaska village of Kake. They said it was the last of a series of government jobs Keyser obtained using false resumes and references.
He was placed on probation for seven years and moved to Seattle after he completed his jail term in Petersburg, Alaska. He and his wife have managed a Seattle apartment complex since then, his probation officers said. Keyser was arrested in mid-January on three counts of first-degree assault by police in Mountlake Terrace, a Seattle suburb. Detective Tam Guthrie said Keyser brandished a handgun in a home there and threatened to kill three people. The Snohomish County prosecutor's office initially decided not to prosecute because of concerns about the victims' credibility, but the case is being reconsidered, Guthrie said.
Jeffrey Cole, district attorney in Ketchikan, Alaska, said he was waiting to hear whether Washington officials would prosecute Keyser. Even if they do, the state will try to extradite Keyser, Cole said. If the Alaska court agrees that Keyser violated his probation, he could face up to 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine on the theft conviction. Keyser violated his probation by possessing a gun, failing to pay restitution and providing false information on a probation report, said Laura Mathiason, the Washington probation officer who supervised Keyser. "He just wasn't a good boy," said Bill Beatty, Keyser's probation officer in Ketchikan.
Hunger relief concert to be Derby Eve Press LOUISVILLE The first USA National Hunger Relief Concert, featuring the pop singing duo Hall Oates, will be Derby Eve at Louisville Gardens. The May 3 "food-raiser" is expected to provide up to 250,000 of food for distribution in 25 cities. It will be the first of what officials said Friday would become a mainstay of Kentucky Derby Festival Week. Kentucky Derby Festival Inc. has sanctioned the concert as an official festival event.
It was the Carl "Randy" Keyser Jr. had worked as city manager in Pikeville. brainchild of festival chief executive Dan Mangeot, said Stan Curtis, Kentucky Harvest founder and USA Harvest chairman. Several corporations are cosponsors and are marking significant contributions. Winn-Dixie Stores Inc.
will donate at least 200,000 cans of food. United Parcel Service will fly for free 10,000 cans of food from the drive to each of more than 20 cities with USA Harvest chapters. And Bluegrass Coca-Cola Bottling Co. will pay an undisclosed sum for the entertainment: Hall Oates and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Curtis said 6,600 tickets would be available for $10 each plus a minimum of four cans of food.
Officials said ticket revenues would go to defray the cost of staging the concert. Leftover proceeds will go to buy food. A total of 10,000 cans of food will be distributed in each of five Kentucky cities: Louisville, Lexington, Owensboro, Bowling Green and Ashland. Winn-Dixie officials said food manufacturers such as Del Monte and Kool-Aid also planned to contribute canned goods to the hungerrelief effort. Pi Winchester student wins state citizen bee Herald-Leader staff report Why was the Embargo Act of 1807 passed? Paul W.
Puckett, a senior at George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester, answered questions like that yesterday and won first place at the second annual Kentucky Citizen Bee. The competition, conducted yesterday at the Lexington Public Library, quizzed 23 students from Kentucky on topics such as U.S. political and cultural history, government, geography, economics and current events. Puckett won $600 and will compete in the National Citizen Bee in Washington in June. Second place went to Rebecca M.
Boggs, a senior at Kentucky Country Day in Louisville, who won $400 and also will compete in the nationals. David L. Hill, a junior from Gallatin County High School in Glenco, won $200 SOLDIERS: 6-year pen pals meet when sergeant returns from gulf From Page B1 back," Ray said. Twelve-year-old Greg Walker picked a soldier's name out of a newspaper when he was in the second grade and wrote to him in Germany. They corresponded for a year or so, until Greg Perry of Frenchburg left Germany and Greg Walker was in the third grade.
Then, five years later, came the war with Iraq. Greg Walker scanned the list of soldiers' names in the newspaper with plans to write to another soldier. He saw a name he recognized and a mailorder reunion ensued. Then last week, the two Gregs met face to face at the younger Greg's home near Lexington. "We went up and sort of hugged each other, patted each other on the back," said Greg Walker, who presented his soldier pen pal with a commemorative pen inscribed with his name, the date and "Welcome Home." In return, Sgt.
Greg presented one of his desert camouflage shirts and the Arabic language label from a water bottle. Perry, a 27-year-old sergeant, is a member of the 299th Engineering Division. "We were sitting on the Iraqi border before it (the ground war) started," Perry said. "The day it FRAME OUTLET Regency Centre-Lexington 278-8686 Tates Creek Centre-Lexington 273-1127 850 By-pass 745-0537 Fastgate Center-Louisville 502-244-3755 Cole said Washington authorities also were considering charging Keyser with theft. Keyser wrote bad checks for more than $3,000 for car repairs, $1,000 to retain a lawyer and almost $2,200 for car- stereo equipment, according to police reports.
"I don't think he has any control," Beatty said. "He had $500 in the bank and he wrote these checks. It was pretty blatant." Keyser's attorney in Seattle did not return phone calls Friday. Officials in both states said neither Washington nor Alaska wanted to pay to keep Keyser in jail and that apparently has led to the delay in prosecuting or extraditing him. "Alaska wants Washington to incarcerate him and Washington wants Alaska to incarcerate him," Beatty said.
"I just wish they'd prosecute him. It's frustrating when they point the finger and want someone else to do it." Cole said Keyser should be returned to Alaska and forced to serve time for violating his probation. "He got a fairly lenient sentence, with the judge thinking he was not the type who Funeral Notices BASTON John William Baston, 60, 2038 Stamping Ground Georgetown, the husband of Sarah Whit- ney Baston, died Fri. at Scott General Hosp. He was born in Scott on April 20, 1931 and was the son of the late Moses Asa and Edna Rachel Waston Baston.
He was a retired bookkeeper for Georgetown Cable and a former science and biology teacher for 10 years at Georgetown High School. He served 3 years in the Air Force and was a 1956 graduate of Georgetown College, a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, a member of the Kentucky Retired Teacher's Association, member of Beta Biology Honorary, and a member of the First Presbyterian in Church, Georgetown. Survivors in addition to his wife include a daughter and son-in-law, Beth Baston Perkins and Stephen D. Perkins, both of Georgetown; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. David W.
Baston and Tamara T. Baston, both of Monroe sisters, Mrs. J.B. (Martha Jo) Obenshain, Ashville, NC, and Mrs. Milton (Louise) Price, Georgetown; grandchildren, Phillip D.
and Sarah Kimberly Perkins, Alexandra John Neal and Trey William Baston. Services will be 2 p.m. Mon. at the First Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, with Rev. C.
Patterson Clark officiating. Burial will be in Georgetown Cemetery. Casketbearers will be John H. Fitch, David H. Kenley, Victor D.
Perkins, Milton Hance Price, William E. Ransdell, and Leo Reed. Honorary bearers will be Michael J. Besten, Dr. R.K.
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He apparently has done so," he said. After Keyser was sentenced, officials dismissed a charge of theft by deception in Pikeville, where he worked six days as city manager in 1988 before he resigned amid allegations he faked his resume. An investigation at the time revealed that at least 19 of Keyser's jobs since 1980 were with city or county governments. Records and interviews with city officials in several states showed Keyser used false information to obtain at least 11 of the jobs. Keyser, a native of Huntington, W.Va., was placed on probation for one year after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge in Oak Hill, Fla.
Authorities said he used false information to get hired as Oak Hill's police chief in 1987. Law enforcement officials said Keyser apparently earned a living by cashing a as many salary and expense checks as he could before his bosses became suspicious and he either quit or was fired. "What he did was fairly egregious," Cole said. Information furnished to Herald-Leader advertising department by mortuaries. Georgetown or the Buckhorn Childrens Home, Buckhorn, KY.
HOVERMAN Elmer Lewis Hoverman, 69, of 412 Greenbriar husband of Marcile (Marcy) Hamrick Hoverman, died Sat. morning at his residence. He retired after 45 years as an engineer with Square D. born in Van Wert, OH, and son of the late Phillip and Bertha Shook Lewis. He served during WWII in the U.S.
Army and he was past exalted ruler of the B.P.O. Elks Lodge Other survivors are two sons, Norman Dean Hoverman, Lexington, and James Lewis Hoverman, Dallas, TX; one daughter, Ellen J. Burgess, Riverside, CA; one brother, Lester Hoverman, Willshire, OH; one sister, Ruth Fox, Lima, OH; four grandchildren, Mike and Lisa Burgess, Riverside, CA, Todd Hoverman, Atlanta, GA, and David Hoverman, Lexington. He was preceded in death by a brother, Merl Hoverman, and a sister Velma Simpson. Funeral services will be 11:30 a.m.
Tues. at the W.R. Milward Mortuary-Southland with burial in the Lexington Cemetery. Casketbearers will be Hays Cowley, Ansel Davis, Robert Black, John E. Young IV, Williard Gehron and Farrell Krall.
Friends may call from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Mon. Contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 2035 Regency Suite Lexington 40503. JENKINS Mrs. Dicy B.
Jenkins, 88, 447 E. Sixth widow of Lawrence Jenkins, died Thurs. morning at Good Samaritan Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Rockcastle KY, daughter of the late Dr. William Nelson and Gulena Pettiford Reed.
She was a member of Shiloh Baptist Church, and a participant in the Helping Hands Respite Care Program at Second Turn to B7 Tri for third place. The program was sponsored part by the Close-Up Foundation and the Lexington Herald-Leader. Pat Nickell, social studies coordinator for Fayette County schools, was the coordinator. Brian Collins, weather anchor for WLEX-TV, served as moderator. The answer to the Embargo Act question: to keep the United States out of the war in Europe.
did, we drove for 24 hours." He was in an armored personnel carrier when his group was attacked. "I co*cked a 50 caliber and cut loose on them," he said. He went into Iraqi bunkers and saw soldiers who had been killed by tank fire. "I've still got nightmares and dreams about that," he said. Greg Walker said his meeting with Perry lived up to his expectations.
As for his souvenir shirt, he doesn't plant to wear it. "I'm just going to hang it up in my room." Members of the 475th MASH from Frankfort, who reportedly didn't see a single American casualty during the war with Iraq, now are treating Iraqi refugees. And EKU: Budget for next year increasing From Page B1 changes in the cost of living and partly on the basis of individual merit. Funderburk said the budget included several initiatives to improve academic quality, including: expanded scholarships to attract talented students; suppport for publie school reform; improved advis- employees of Cardinal Hill Hospital who deployed with the MASH have called home requesting medical supplies for children. "They are having to stick big people IVs into little babies," said Tish Muldoon of the hospital.
Employees of the hospital have collected 2,000 pounds of medical supplies, diapers, food and toys and are working with the office of U.S. Rep. Larry Hopkins to find a way to ship the supplies to the MASH. The five employees from Cardinal Hill in the Middle East are Maj. Jennifer Garda, a nurse; Maj.
James Templin, a doctor; Capt. Joel Southerland, a pharmacist; Sgt. Sabrena Fields, a nurse; and Sgt. David Dunaway, a nurse. "Jennifer was trading her clothes off for kid supplies," said fellow employee Mary Anne Reiff.
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