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SI' Oil IS A.D AM IS ME NTS FINANCIAL, RADIO AND TV SECTION 2 16 PACES THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1958 Realty-Tax Repeal Bill i Is Submitted Commonwealth's, Attorneys' Fees I Mun icipa ILeague Won 't Ask Easing OfAnnexingLaws Won't Seek Repeal of Act State 's Revenues Up In Some Cases General and Road Funds Gain; Corporate-Tax Receipts Decline By HUGH MORRIS Tha CsurnrJaurnal Frankfart luraau Frankfort, Jan. .15. The State's general-fund in asjpjsv i i tL 1 i -W Tn V---- If y- i I of this fiscal year exceeded the State budget is based by On Sites Passed for G. E. At the urging of Louisville's Mayor Hoblitzell, Kentucky Municipal League directors yesterday dropped from the organization's legislative program a proposal to make it easier for big cities to annex smaller ones.

They also dropped a proposal rr t- ipacup nrnnnspd revision He Caurlar-Journal Phot AMONG THE 274 FIRMS and organizations receiving Community Chest plaque awards last night were the Louisville Police Department, represented by Maj. William Kiefer, left; American Telephone Telegraph Company, represented by Mrs. Joyce Benton, and Belknap Hardware Manufacturing Company, whose general manager, Charles Allen Gage, accepted the plaque. Tn cral annexation law This law, imposing stiff requirements for the annexation of industrial sites, was enacted in 1956 at the urging of officials of the G. E.

plant here The two proposals were part of an over-all revision of Ken tucky's annexation laws approved by the league for sub- mission to the 1958 Legislature, Other major provisions in the revision were left unchanged by the directors, who met yester day at Frankfort. Chandler Against Repeal According to City Consultant Roy Owsley, repeal of the G.E. law was dropped after the direc tors were told that Governor cnanmer naa saia ne wouia noi favor the league's proposed over-all revision if it included the repealer (Attorney J. Donald Dinning of Anchorage, chairman of the uL the statement during a confer- Lite sidtcii cui uuiuit 1 r. 350 Who Helped Push Chest Total Celebrate With Dinner cute i i it mc tuuiuiiiivi.

posed, might make it impossible continue County-police serv- Hoblitzell said he proposed here because it is not fX. dropping the provision for easier tQ Louisville. Abolition Sought. The Courier-Journal Frankfort lureau Frankfort, Ky Jan. 15 Repeal of the State tax on real estate and abolition of the fee system for Commonwealth's attorneys are the aims of two new proposals to amend the State Constitution.

Both were introduced Wednesday by Senator Cassius M. Clay, Paris, president pro tern of the Senate. Senator Clay also is the sponsor of an earlier proposal to make the clerk of the Court of Appeals an appointive instead of an elective officer. The amendment to repeal the State tax in realty is rooted to the first Administration of Governor Chandler 20 years ago. Then, upon enactment of a State income tax, the Governor urged repeal of the State tax on real estate.

Court Said Tax Necessary His Legislature did repeal this tax, but with the view of leaving real-estate taxes solely to cities, counties, and school districts. But the Court of Appeals held that the Constitution requires a State levy. The State tax was then set at the token rate of 5 cents per $100 of valuation. Last fiscal year it yielded $1,068,000, a detail hardly deemed worth the cost and trouble of collection. This amendment would also change another property division of the Constitution.

Section 172 requires property to be assessed at its "fair cash value, estimated at the price it would bring at a fair voluntary sale. Means 100 Pet. of Valuation This means 100 per cent of valuation, but not since the 1890-91 Constitution was written has property been assessed at full value. The amendment would cause it to be assessed "at a uniform percentage" of its fair cash value, which has been the practice through the years. Senator Clay's other amendment is aimed at Section 98.

This section directs that the Commonwealth's attorney's compensation be a combination of salary and "such percentage of fines and forfeitures as may be fixed by law." The Clay amendment would confine the compensation to salary only. This amendment has been urged at every session of the Legislature since the Constitution Review Commission recommended it in 1950. "We believe," the commission then reported, "that it is fundamentally wrong for prosecuting officers to have a financial stake in securing convictions." Lawmakers Approve Atomic Representative Washington, Jan. 15 Wi Senators on the Senate -House Atomic Energy Committee Wednesday approved the nomination of Robert M. McKinney to continue as United States representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

McKinney, editor and publisher of The Santa Fe (N. New Mexican, is serving now under a recess appointment from President Eisenhower. To Record Plaques Honor 85 Pet. Donors Some 350 of the people who helped shove the 1957 Community Chest total beyond its record goal bought themselves a dinner last night to celebrate their achievement. They heard their prowess praised from many sides.

And many of them carried away Community Chest awards, as well. Representatives of 274 firms and organizations received plaques denoting that at least 85 per cent of their fellow em ployees contributed $5 or more to the Chest campaign. 13 Get Plaques 10th Year Five firms and eight organizations received plaques for the 10th year. Fifty organizations were awarded gold stars signifying that each of their members gave more than $8 to the Chest campaign. Forty-four others received silver stars denoting that each employee gave $6 to S8.

Those organizations were hailed as a big reason for the ing out to be almost as good a year for them as was 19a6. Although corporate income taxes are off, personal income taxes totaled $23,540,000, zooming well over the official estimate of $22,000,000. However, in view of increasing numbers of worker layoffs in recent months, it is possible that before the fiscal year ends next June 30, applications for refunds of withheld income taxes may cut deeply into these record receipts. The economic situation would appear to be having some effects upon the alcoholic-beverage industry. Liquor Down and Beer Up Collections of consumption taxes on distilled spirits were 3.8 per cent below a year ago.

Receipts in July-December totaled $1,648,583, compared with $1,714,140 the year before. Beer-consumption taxes, on the other hand, rose almost 3 per cent indicating that consumers feeling an economic pinch might be switching from strong liquor to the cheaper malt beverages. Distilled-spirits production and import taxes at 10 cents a gallon since action by the 1956 Legislature brought in This was almost 2 per cent higher than collections in July-December of 1956, and may well serve by the end of the fiscal year to keep Governor Chandler's current budget in balance. Amusement-tax collections showed a drop of 34.2 per cent from a year ago. Collections totaled $356,640, compared with $541,649.

But during three months of the 1956 six-month period, higher amusement-tax rates applied, so the two figures are not directly comparable. Two Show Gains Actually, amusement-tax collections were well over the official estimate of $210,000 for the July-December period. In the State road fund, motor-fuels taxes brought in a gain of 9.6 per cent over the July-December period in 1956. Motor vehicle usage taxes the State's 3 per cent sales tax on new autos and cars first licensed in Kentucky brought in $3,465,733, a gain of 4.4 per cent over 1956. Total revenue in both road and general funds for the six-month period was $142,293,777.

This was up almost 10 per cent over July -December, 1956, when the total was $129,483,506. 50-Year Awards To Be Presented To 5 Attorneys Certificates signifying 50 years of legal service will be presented to five attorneys tonight at the annual Gridiron Dinner of the Louisville Bar Asociation. The five are Gilbert Burnett, Frank Coyle, F. W. Finger, Alfred C.

Krieger, and C. Mc-Lellen. Skits satirizing some aspects and members of the legal profession will be presented by members of the bar. The dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Kentucky Hotel.

Officers elected last fall will be installed. They are: president, James Frazee; vice-presidents, Robert Sloss and Frank Dougherty, secretary, Fielden Woodward, and treasurer, Victor W. Ewen. come during the first half official estimates upon which $741,000. State road-fund collections ex-ceeded official estimates by $569,000, it was reported Wednesday by Revenue Commissioner James E.

Luckett and Finance Commissioner Ward J. Oates. "Despite these results, there are signs that all is not well with some sections of Kentucky's economy. Corporate income taxes, for example, ran 28 per cent below official estimates of $4,000,000 for the six-month period. Collections in July-December of 1957 totaled $2,852,724 and this sum was below the $3,398,587 received in the same period in 1956.

1 'Little Fellows' Hit The comparison actually is not as bad as the figures would make it appear, for 1956 collections were swollen by deferred payments from several corporations after loss of a tax suit, in the court of appeals by the Louisville Nashville Railroad. Most of the drop in corporate income taxes appears to be caused by declines in earnings, particularly among smaller corporations, such as automobile dealers, the building industry, merchandising firms, and the like. These are the "little fellows" ot the business world, whose performances seldom rate mention in Moody's or The Wall Street Journal. But as a class they are closer to consumer resistance and feel the economic pinch first. Big Ones Hold Up Well The larger corporations, for the most part, appeared to be holding up well, with 1957 turn- Handley Says He Will Run For Senate Indiana Governor Would Replace Jenner Indianapolis, Jan.

15 Governor Harold W. Handley announced Wednesday he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination to the Senate seat now held by his ally, Senator Jenner. Jenner has announced he will not seek nomination in the Republication state convention next June 27. Handley said he would remain as Governor unless elected in the November general election. May Face Fight Handley is not expected to have clear sailing for the nomination despite his control of patronage and the backing of Jenner and state Republican Chairman Robert W.

Matthews. Senator Capehart, Republican, whose term runs through 1962, has been outspoken in opposing Handley's potential candidacy. Capehart has said Handley should serve out his term as Governor. Handley was elected in November, 1956, for a four-year term. The Governor has also been at odds with several members of Indiana's Congressional delegation, especially Representative Ilalleck, a leading spokesman for President Eisenhower in Congress.

Yes, There Are Flying Fishes annexation oi sixw-ciass cuita 'because of the campaign pledge made by the Democratic Party here to oppose any legis- lation that would make it easier to annex any area without the approval of a majority (of those to be annexed)." The league's annexation bill, as it now stands, leaves un- changed the present method for annexing smancr cuies. inis is by a vote of approval of a ma- jority of the residents of the smaller city Would Be Tried by Judge The bill would also require that at least 50 per cent of the voters of unincorporated areas proposed for annexation jo in any protest. At present a single resident can block annexation by filing a court suit. The bill would further pro- vide that suits against Louis- said he is also in favor of the league's legislative program except two measures. Hoblitzell and Owsley tried to get the league directors to re vise one of these "unacceptable" measures, and Hoblitzell asked hat, the fhe.u beJdrPPed tirely But the directors de- clined.

Both of these measures stemmed from proposals made by Owsley at the league's an- nual conference last September, Offers Substitute One was designed to prevent County fiscal courts from usins their general funds to provide muncipal-type services to areas outside cities if the same serv- jces wore not provided inside the cities. Owsley offered a substitute specifying that the prohibition u-nnlH nnf onnlv tf cprvippe already being rendered, He said the substitution was suggested by County Judge B. C. V'nn A crHiIri iirnk fart fan Ihar the measure, as originally pro- a ti rii ouaic tiv tun The measure that Hoblitzell wanted dropped entirely would County fiscal courts to opvilU 1UUU 1UIIUD I1'UV HVO This is now forbidden by law. Van Arsdale Objects Hoblitzell said he objected to the measure at Van Arsdale's urging.

The County judge pointed out, Hoblitzell said, that the measure, if passed, would cicar the way for some 37 cities jn Jefferson County to demand County road work. "The County just couldn't finance all that would be demanded," Hoblitzell said. The directors were told that this bill has already been in- trQduced fte Among other bills in the league's proposed legislative program is one that would increase the population requirement for new cities from nicipal utilities oi'tside the city limits from the control of the State sion. Public Service Commis- Woman's Purse, $60 Snatched by Man Mrs. Amelia Pfeiffer, 406 Christopher Place, told police her purse containing about $60 was snatched at 9:25 p.m.

yesterday as she was getting into a car in the 2300 block of Osage. The thief, a man about 40, fled through an alley, she said. Courier-Journal Phot 1957 Chest campaign exceeding its $2,040,000 goal by $23,432. Other Reasons Given Attorney Wilson Wyatt, featured speaker at the Brown Hotel dinner, also attributed the campaign's success to the generosity of Louisvillians, to the campaign's leadership, and to Sidney Rosenblum's retirement. Rosenblum, who headed the Chest campaign for the second year, retired from business last summer.

Wyatt said: "We're all beneficiaries of his retirement. Now he has even more time to devote to the Chest." Last night's awards were for the Chest's Industry-Commerce-Labor and Public Employee divisions. Organizations receiving plaques for the 10th year were Belknap Hardware Manufacturing Company; Byck Brothers Company; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Louisville; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Louisville branch; Louisville Nashville Railroad Company; Child Guidance Clinic; Jefferson court's chief probation officer, said a special effort will be made to pick up boys hanging around the Fourth and York area and "the adults who have been preying on these juveniles." Frobation Officers Robinson and John N. Roper said they had made repeated checks in the area and made the boys gathered there move on.

"But it seems like scattering them isn't enough to discourage it," Roper said. Judge Jull told the boys he jailed, "Tell your friends that from now on anyone we catch hanging around that area or in the company of these men is going to be sent to jail." ville's annexation proposals be 125 to 750. tried by a judge as is done in Another measure would re-the case of all other cities in m0ve the rates charged by mu- Juvenile Judge Warns Hangers-On at Library Juvenile Court Judge Louis H. Jull warned yesterday that teen-agers caught hanging around the Louisville Free Public Library at Fourth and York at night would be put in jail. Arnold Robinson, a probation officer, had told the court that the library area had become "rendezvous for degenerates Kentucky instead of a jury, With the dropping of the con troversial provision, Hoblitzell said he now is in favor of the Jewish Center Offers Course for Chairmen "How To Be An Effective Chairman" is among new courses offered this winter at the Jewish Community Center, 3600 Dutch-mans Lane.

Registration is in progress for such adult activities as classes in bridge, ceramics, dancing, oil painting and sketching, cooking, and music. it is almost prima facie that the boys are hardly there to take out books. "Up to now," the judge said, "we haven't had to do this just for hanging around, but it looks like we're going to have to starting today." 4 Ordered to Jail He then ordered four 16-year-old boys who were picked up Sunday at the library to be sent to jail until another hearing Wednesday. The four were accused of taking part in the knife-point robbery of 50 cents from a man in an obscure corner inside the library. The boys denied the robbery.

Charles C. Dibowski, the Circuit Court Clerk's office; the office of the Community Chest, Health and Welfare Council, So- cial Service Exchange, and Volunteers' Bureau; Jewish Community Center; Old Kentucky Home Council, Boy Scouts of America; Visiting Nurse Association; Wesley Community House, and the Y.M.C.A. Those receiving gold stars were: Baiikrns Bond Company; Belknap Hardware Manufacturinn Company; Blue Crou Rlu Shield: Burronflu Corporation: Bs'ck Brother; Carter Dry Gooda Company; Coca-Cola of Loula-ville; Cochran Continental Container Corporation: Cochran Foil Company; Cochran Foil, laminating division; Com. monweaith Life Insurance Company, St. Mattoewi district office; Commonwealth Life Insurance, home office; Continental Air Filters: Cnitcher Trsnsfer Line: du Pont Louisville Works Employees; Equitable Life Assurance Society; Ks cou, (iroxnn.A Company; Falls City Tobacco Company.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. I.ouis, Louikville branch: First National Bank Kentucky Trust Company; General Electric Employees' Community Fund; Grimes Press; Hazelet Krdal; J. J. B. Milliard Son: Bruce Honlltiell Com.

pany; Home Life Insurance Company of New York: International Harvester, Louisville works: Kentucky Motor Trans-port Association; Kllng Company; Louisville Chamber of Commerce; Louisville Home Federal Savings i Loan Association; Louisville Linen Service Company; Louisville Trust Company; Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company: Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York; National Cash Register Company; National Life Insurance Com. pany of Vermont; New tngland Mutual Life Insurance Company; Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company; F. W. Owens' Company. Orga Processes.

J. C. Penney Company; Provident Loan Association; Reliance Varnish Company; Sears, Roebuck at Company, St. Matthews branch; latei tiecxrtc at supply company; V'nited Furniture Company; United Mercantile Agencies; Waterman's Department Store, and Will Sales Appliance Store. Silver stars went to: ABCO Van Lines: J.

Bacon Sons; Rittner'a Sons; Boone Box, Brinly Hardy Company; Blown Williamson Tobacco Company: Commonwelth Life Insurance Company, Kenturklana Agency; Commonwealth Life, Western District; Ford Motor Company employees; Gamble Brothers; Gateway I)i-tributijig Conpany; The Girdler Company; V. C. Carpet Company; International Business Machines; Kentucky Chamber of Commerce; Kitchen-Kompact. Kroger Company: Liberty National Bank et Trust Company; Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company, Kentucky division office; W. L.

Lyons St Company Martin's: The Mengel Company; Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner 8r Beane: Monarch Kquipment Company; Monon Rail, road; Multi-Metals, O'Daniel Motors, Porcelain Metals Corporation; Price Chemical Company; Prudential Insurance Company of America, ordinary department; V. Reed Sons: Roadway Express: H. j. Scheirieh Company; Southern Trust Company; standard Oil Company.

St arks Building office; Stauf. fer Chemical Company; Stewart Dry Goods Company, store and warehouse; Strietmann Biscuit Company: Time Finance Company: Trl-Ctty Oldsmobile Company; WAVE, WINN, and Western Southern Life Insurance Company, Louisville eastern office. Sand Island Skull Found Sunday That of Woman A human skull found Sunday on Sand Island under the Ken tucky Indiana Termina Bridge was that of a woman about 40 or 50 years old, Col. Lucien Beckner, director of the Louisville Free Public Library Museum, said yesterday. Thomas Tatum, 61, of 2612 Portland, found the skull Sunday partly buried in the ground.

Po lice turned over the skull to the museum in the belief it might be that of an Indian. The island was once the site of an Indian village. There was no indication of where the skull came from or how long it had been there, Colonel Beckner said. He said it would be kept at the museum for a while. 8 Drivers Are Arrested On Drunk Charges Police yesterday arrested eight men on drunken-driving charges.

They were listed as Robert R. Black, 31. of 1132 Everett; Audra Hale (alias George) Darnell, 47, of 2508 Osage; Booker T. Lester, 52, of 1119 S. 38th; George N.

Wells, 43, of 1522 W. Ormsby; Richard K. Graves, 24, of 406 S. Hancock; William Edward Reaves, 40, of 919 Mary; Condious S. Philpott, 36, of the 1100 block of South Second, and Fred L.

Mock, 35, Jeffersonville. Police issued 52 citations, In cluding 22 for speeding. Four persons were arrested on traffic charges. 1 Girl, 9, Wins Nature Atlas I SP SALVATION ARMY LEADERS attending a dinner here last night are, from left, Lieutenant Commissioner William Davidson, territorial commander, and Brigadier Lillian Hansen, editor of The Southern War Cry, both of Atlanta, and Colgan Norman, Louisville chairman of the Army's advisory board. Salvation Army Boys Club Given VS $1,000 of Jail Commissary Profits The Salvation Army's Red Shield Boys Club Donna Sue Kolb's Question Chosen for 'Ask Andy' Column "Come you bark to Mandalay.

where the flying fishes play. Nine-year-old Donna Sue Kolb's grandmother often sings that famous old song to her, and Donna Sue was turious. "Are there really flying fish?" she wondered. So with the help of her grandmother, Mrs. William J.

Kolb, 3319 Wizard, Donna Sue wrote to "Ask Andy' a daily feature on The Courier-Journal comic page. Andy answers her on today's comic page, "Yes, indeed, there are flying fish," and Donna Sue owns a brand new illustrated nature atlas, including information about and a picture of a flying fish, because her question was used. In Fourth Grade at Kerrick School The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L.

Kolb. 4942 Swaps Lane, Donna Sue is in the fourth grade of Kerrick Elementary School. Elfin-faced, with brown eyes and brown bobbed hair, Donna Sue will tell you in her perfect and precise grammar that spelling is he favorite subject in school, and that she has missed only two words in two years. Once she forgot to cross a in the word "states," and another time she misspelled pumpkin as p-u-n-k-i-n. In her school career, Donna Sue has made all A's and B's, with the exception of one C.

"Reading is one of my favorite subjects, also," Donna Sue said. "I can read fifth- and sixth-grade books sometimes." She has a growing library, including stories about the Five Little Peppers, Heidi, the Wizard of Oz, and Little Women. And she often takes time out to read bedtime stories to her sister, Jackie, 3, and brothers, Dowlas, Hi, and Dennis, 5 months. An Ardent Reader ot Ask Andy' Donna Sue is an ardent reader of the Ask Andy column. Her mother said she is the first one to the paper each morning, and reads the column at breakfast, For two years Donna Sue has played the accordion, and she has played in one recital and did a solo once for a banquet.

She collects salt and pepper shakers as a hobby, and her collection numbers six pairs and four half-pairs. The half-pairs were created by her brothers' and sisters' inquisitive fingers. She attends Sunday school at the St. James Evangelical and Reform Church. last night received a $1,000 donation from profits accumulated by the County Jail commissary during Mayor Hoblitzell's term as sheriff.

The presentation was made advisory-board dinner at the Kentucky Hotel by the Rev. Frank O. Taafel, Veterans Hospital chaplain and a member of the jail's religious advisory board. at the Armys that another to the Way Mr, Taafel later told a reporter $200 was donated earlier yesterday side Christian Mission, 215 S. Columbia, and Mexico, was principal speaker at the meeting.

He said the Army "has a heart that never hardens, a patience that never tires, and a hand that never hurts." Ted Broecker was elected a member of the 36-member advisory board here. Lt, Col, Edward Laity, divisional commander here, announced these appointments as committee chairmen for 1958: F. VV. Russel, budget and finance; James R. Miller, bequest and endowment; Thomas BaU, lantine, public relations; Mr.

Taafel, evangelistic activities; William Griffin, youth; Morey L. Booth, welfare; United States Army Col. S. D. Slaughter, emergency planning; M.

Hen-nessy, building and property; Floyd Edwards, nominating, and Herbert F. Bunton, men's social service. A two-day convention here of Salvation Army officers from Kentucky and Tennessee will end today. Preston. Broecker Put on Advisory Board Checks for $3,000 to the Volunteers of Ameri ca and for $2,000 to Kosair Crippled Children Hospital were presented by the religious advisory board last week.

Four other charitable agencies will benefit from an unestimated amount remaining in the fund, Mr. Taafel said. Couritr-Journil Phot WHERE DO THE FLYING FISHES PLAY? That's what Donna Sue Kolb is going to find out from the nature atlas she received because her question about flying fishes was selected for publication today in the "Ask Andy'' feature on The Courier-Journal comic page. Lieutenant Commissioner William Davidson, Atlanta, territorial commander Army in 15 Southern states, of the Salvation the District of.