Former State Legislator Dies

{London, Kentucky}...Gene Huff, who served more than 26 years in the state legislature, died at Saint Joseph-London Hospital early Thursday at the age of 82. Huff had pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that causes scarring in the lungs, and had been on oxygen the last year. Huff pastored First Pentecostal Church in London for more than 25 years, served two terms in the state House of Representatives before he was elected in 1971 to the state Senate, where he spent more than 22 years. Huff retired in June 1994, the same day the tower went up for WYGE, a 50,000-watt Christian radio he owned with his wife, Ethel Dayberry Huff. Huff, who rejected abortion, the Kentucky lottery, expanded gambling and higher taxes, opposed then-Governor Louie Nunn, the first Republican governor in more than 20 years, when Nunn pushed an increase in the state sales tax in the late 1960s.