Wayne E Heath, the innovative sign maker responsible for the revolving buckets outside KFC franchises, as well as signs for Ralphs, Winchells, the Flamingo Hilton in Vegas, and the Felix Chevrolet dealership on Figueroa Street in LA, died from prostate cancer May 15 in Palm Desert. He was 87. Heath and his partner, Tony Gorsich, started a small sign business in the 1940s, lettering storefronts and highway billboards. Later, when they began using bright colors, Plexiglas, and neon, “they changed the way signs are designed,” said a longtime representative of Heath’s company. “They used to be black and white, blue and white, red and white. He used incredible shapes and wild colors people had never seen in signs before.”