The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 15

til SECTION 2 28 PAGES THURSDAY, JULY 11,, 1957 SPORTS AND FINANCIAL xNIvWS RADIO AND TV PROGRAMS mxiim I I 1 i lLT 1 Zy 'A I urnmiiiniiv 0- all! i -lii'MHr 'u'ft4; wr- jlt -us rKjf I -qTj 1 I fr! Courier-Journal Photos EVEN DURING A STRIKE, Louisville Cement Company at Speed, and its workers co-operate. A company-owned mower is used on the company-sponsored golf course by Harry Hinton, a striker who heads Speed Country Golf Club. The firm provides many recreational facilities for the men. BABY-SITTING for his 10-month-old daughter, Paula, is among the strike duties of David Whittinghill, president of Cement Workers Local 209 at Speed. He talks with Darrell Killen, vice-president of the local.

THE SWIMMING POOL sponsored by Louisville Cement Company at Speed and leased to the employees seems a good place for strikers and their families to while away the idle hours. Picket lines a short distance away seemed almost as relaxing, with pickets reading and chatting. Sta? Strikers, Company at Speed Are Amicable In Disagreement By DON FREEMAN company-owned mower on the company-sponsored course where the club plays. Some other strikers and their families were having a shouting good time at the company-sponsored swimming pool. "We just have amiably disagreed," Leake said of the strike circumstances.

"There have been no harsh words spoken on either side." David M. Whittinghill, president of the 620- member Cement Workers Local 209, said: "We left (the job) on good terms, and I presume we're still on good terms. It's just a matter of business." The strike one of a rash of 74 walkouts in the cement industry began June 27. Despite the friendliness at Speed and the new settlements at some other cement mills, it's hard to say how soon the Louisville Cement strike will be settled. A proposal made by the firm Friday was found unacceptable by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

local's negotiating committee. The local's membership will discuss it tonight. Louisville Cement said the offer approximated a settlement ratified July 1 at Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company, a large Midwest outfit. But union official Wittinghill said they were different, and "too many strings" were attached to the offer. (Two more agreements were reached elsewhere yesterday at Aetna-Portland, Bay City, and with National Cement at Ragland, Ala.

They followed the Marquette pattern. Union headquarters in Chicago said a wage increase of 16 cents an hour was included. The union had asked 20 cents and the companies had offered 10.) The strike at Speed is the first in the local's 13 years as bargaining agent. It means a loss of $55,000 a week in wages, said Boyce Martin, executive vice-president of the firm. Some 50 strikers have taken temporary jobs, such as carpentry and welding.

Whittinghill said men with outside jobs had been asked to donate 10 per cent of their earnings to a "kitty" for relief of men not working. "The money's been coming through, too." Also, he said, some financial aid is expected from the international union. The local has preached economy among its members for the strike's duration. One sign of economy is that few teen-age sons of strikers now frequent the old lunchroom hangout at night. About four fifths of Speed's 750 residents are Louisville Cement workers and their families.

The firm, founded in 1830, settled there in the 1880's. Despite the dustiness associated with cement mills, this town on U.S. 31-E in Clark County is tidy-looking and cozy. Thick-leafed trees leaning over the highway accentuate the coziness. Across the road from the plant is a company-sponsored community house, with a park behind.

The company has also provided a lighted athletic field, along with the swimming pool and golf course. The many company-built houses are trim, pleasant, and generally modern. The firm sold most of them seven years ago to their occupants, and at rates below the appraisals. Typical prices were $4,000 for a four-room house and $5,000 to $6,500 for a six-room dwelling. All this helps explain why the strike has not soured the feelings at Speed.

And so does a remark of D. E. Willingham, a vice-president of Louisville Cement: "The workers are my personal friends and neighbors. We go to church together, and my kids go to school with their kids." Even in a strike, Speed, Ind.r is a good-natured, pleasant-talking community. The strike at Louisville Cement Company there has halted output, but not the neighborly good feeling between worker and boss.

Picketing seems to be done merely because it's part of the traditional routine of striking. "I just come up and shoot the breeze every fifth day," one striker said of his picket-line assignments. A nonstriking guard in the plant has brought soft drinks to the sun-dried men on the line. "I had one striker overhaul the motor on my boy's car," said W. P.

Leake, the general superintendent. During any strike, a little extra money like this comes in handy. Harry Hinton, a striker and president of Speed Country Golf Club, yesterday was allowed to use a Maternal-, Child-Health Expert Dies Integrate Teachers Here, N.A.A.C.P. Urges Board Wait A Year So Desegregation of Pupils Can Be Consolidated, Carmichael Replies A plan of teacher desegregation here "to accompany student desegregation" has requested by the Louisville branch of the National Association for The Advancement of Colored People. medical college, she spent a few years in Eastern hospitals and then returned to Louisville to private practice.

During World War I she went to Blois, France, as a civilian doctor with the Red Cross. In 1922 she joined the State Department of Health and organized the maternal- and child-health program. In 1937 she went to the City Department of Health (later City-County Health Department) to direct the Bureau of Maternal and Child Hygiene. Studied Infant Car When the City-County's Department of Maternal and Child Hygiene was reorganized in 1948, Dr. Veech became director of child hygiene.

The following year, at her own request, she became associate director and consultant. She continued with her program of conferences for mothers. Concerned about the high infant mortality rate here in 1943 Dr. Veech prompted a study of methods of caring for infants in hospitals. The study resulted in improvements.

In 1943 and later years she gave a series of weekly lectures for mothers. She was an advocate of breast feeding for babies and continuayy urged mothers to see that they, as well as their babies, got enough rest. "The greatest cause of ill health (in babies and young children) is lack of rest," she once said. "When a child avoids a cross parent (cross because of fatigue) hi i i mm inn pin nin ii 'JMWI" wkq 'P' Jfi A vs) fci Aft If 'i Dr. Annie Veech Led Programs Of City, State Dr.

Annie Veech, 81, who spent her professional years as a physician promoting the welfare of mothers and babies, died at 10 o'clock last night at Pewee Valley Hospital. She was taken to Norton Memorial Infirmary in May, 1956, after suffering a stroke at her apartment at 2519 Cherokee Parkway. She was transferred to Pewee Valley last July. Dr. Veech had suffered another stroke six years earlier.

Through persistent exercise and witbrirredicaLhelp she had overcome the paralysis of one side that resulted. A graduate of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1909, Dr. Veech was honored by the alumnae association of the college in June, 1956, for "outstanding medical and scientific achievement." Organized Health Program She was the organizer of the first maternal-and child-health program in the state and was the first director of Louisville's Bureau of Maternal and Child Hygiene. After her graduation from he is takmg the first step to-ward Juvenile Court," was another of her comments. She asked mothers to make a Truck Upsets, In a letter to the Louisville Board of Education, attorney J.

Earl Dearing, branch president, said the branch "goes on record as being vigorously opposed to the policy and practice of teacher segregation as now promulgated by the Louisville Board of Education." City School Superintendent Omer Carmichael said the School Board has no plan for desegregating faculties in the' coming school year. Discusses It With Board He added that he personally wishes "another year for the consolidation of desegregation among pupils." He has discussed the question informally with the board and he believes the board, concurs in wanting to continue' another year with segregated faculties. Carmichael said he favors delay because "integration of faculty creates a number of problems not created by integration of pupils. I believe in solving one major problem at a time." The superintendent has said he believes integration of faculties is a logical step to follow study of caring for infants since "No instructions come with the baby." Working with the Federal Children's Bureau, Dr. Veech many years ago made a survey of the maternal death rate in Kentucky.

The survey pattern she set up was followed by 14 other states. In 1939 she went to Washington as a member of the White House conference on "Children In Democracy." Studied Medicine at 34 Dr. Veech didn't begin the study of medicine until she was 34. "Until then I had done nothing but have a good time," she recalled. "I decided that happiness lay in thinking of others rather than one's self.

I am of the same opinion still." A graduate of Miss Hampton's School, a fashionable school for girls here, Dr. Veech traveled widely when she was young and visited almost every country in the world. When quite young she formed the first circle of King's Daughters in Kentucky, the organization that brought Louisville its first visiting nurse. Member of a pioneer family, Dr. Veech was born and reared in the old Veech home in Indian Hills, now occupied by Sidney Smith.

The first -Veech to come to Kentucky was John Veech, her great-grandfather, who was a surveyor here in 1780. He built the Veech house, the first in the Indian Hills area, in 1782. Proud of her Kentucky heritage, Dr Veech turned down offers of posts elsewhere to remain in Louisville. One of the positions she refused was that of medical director of the United States Children's Bureau, offered to her in 1925 by Miss Grace Abbott, bureau chief. Dr.

Veech is survived by a number of nieces and nephews. The body was taken to Pearson's, 149 Breckinridge Lane. The family requested that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to Norton Memorial Infirmary. Blocks Traffic Garbage Collections On Schedule Again The City Sanitation Department "fell behind" on garbage collections after the July 4 holiday last week but finally caught up yesterday, according to Sanitation Director John W. Leake.

Ordinarily, Leake said, extra trucks and crews are used after holidays to handle the accumulation. But the City was not able to do this last week because 12 of its 53 garbage trucks were in the City garage for repairs. Courier-Journal Photo created in places outside tha city of Louisville. "Of course, the recent decision of the Supreme Court outlawing segregation appertains to the pupils. However, th legal reasoning supporting the decision, as well as the moral implications inherent therein, are of sufficient sweep to apply to the public-school teaching force." The School Board's "attitude," the letter said, "places young Negro teachers of this community in a pitiful plight.

This was shown this spring when two Negroes applied to teach in summer school and were refused employment because the board would not place them in a desegregated situation." In September, 1956, thera were 1,340 white and 347 Negro teachers in City schools. This was a decrease from 1955, when there were 1,401 white and 393 Negro teachers. Replacements Not Hired Carmichael noted that the percentage decrease in Negro teachers was 11.9 compared with a 4.37 decease in the number of white teachers. The overall decrease was caused by cutting out kindergarten and home instruction. Fewer Negro teachers were needed, Carmichael said, because more Negro children transferred to schools previously all white than white children to previously all-Negro schools.

No teachers were fired, but replacements were not hired for some who resigned or retired. Carmichael said he will refer Dearing's letter to the board at its next meeting August 5. County School Superintendent Richard Van Hoose said there are no plans to desegregate County-school faculties this fall. ROLL CALL Troop 22 Scoutmaster Elmer Eisert, left, checks Don Skeeters, Vine Grove, center, and Dave Buzzee, Shively, against list of scouts who left last night for the Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa. About 110 Old Kentucky Home Council scouts boarded a special train at Central Station.

They will return July 23 after visit to Washington and Williamsburg, Va. Traffic on Watterson Expressway at Dixie Highway was blocked for about an hour when a truck-trailer hauling four new automobiles overturned at 5:30 a.m. yesterday. The driver, J. M.

Enlow, 43, Elizabethtown, was not hurt. Police said Enlow told them his brakes failed, causing the truck to strike the rear of a car stopped for a red light. James O. Ward, Hartselle, driver of the car, was not injured. Traffic was tied up until four wreckers righted the truck.

The new cars were damaged, but not torn loose from the trailer. The transport is owned by Dealers Transport Company, 8111 Crittenden Drive. Building In New York pupil integration. Expresses Dismay Dearing's letter expressed dismay that "no public statement has been made indicating that a plan of teacher desegregation is remotely within the contemplation" of the School Board. The tetter continued: "The failure and refusal to desegregate public-school teachers blurs the picture of public-school desegregation in Louisville as portrayed by the publicity surrounding the many honors received by Mr.

Carmichael, and is inconsistent with the impressions that this publicity has 'Rapidly Closing Down' Chandler Committee Here To Open Offices Monday The Third District Democratic Committee, formerly the Chandler Third District Democratic Executive Committee, will have offices in the Kenyon Building, 112 S. Fifth. A. J. Bartholomew, director of organization for the Chandler forces here, said he would open the offices Monday in Suite 230.

The old committee headquarters were in the Watterson Hotel. Robert E. Hatton, committee chairman, said the name had been changed because the new name was considered "more descriptive and the Governor is not a candidate." Bartholomew stressed that the new committee is "a permanent setup meant to help all residents of Jefferson County solve any problems they have with the State Government." Bartholomew said a committee secretary would be named later. The official Democratic Party organization here is the Jefferson County Democratic Executive Committee, with McKay Reed as chairman. It has headquarters at 133 S.

Fourth. Although the Chandler forces and the regular Democratic organization here have been at odds since the 1955 primary, the Chandler group has pledged its support to all Democrats nominated in the May primary, all of whom were regular organization candidates. Now York Timt Ntw Sorvlco New York, July 10. Building construction in the metropolitan area was "rapidly closing down" today as a result of a cement shortage and strikes by three construction unions, an industry spokesman said. Howard McSpedon, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, asserted that unless the strikes were settled and something was done to restore the flow of cement into the area, "Friday will see the beginning of impressive layoffs" in the building unions.

School-Merger Study Topics Include Year-Round Classes 1 Countr-Journtl Photo SAFETY AWARD was presented yesterday to William M. Gray, left, district director of 'Internal Revenue for Kentucky, by Regional Commissioner N. B. Eshleman, Cincinnati. None of the 543 Kentucky employees of the I.R.S.

lost time because of accidents in 1956. things as finance, night school, the school-lunch program, transportation, housing of administrative and supervisory staffs, salary schedules, athletic programs, educational television, and legal considerations. 4 i U. S. Got $1,530,419,869 In Taxes From Kentucky In Past Fiscal Year The implications of a 12-month school session are one of many points in an outline for a study of merging the City and County school districts.

The outline, approved by both boards of education, was made public yesterday. Proposals to operate the schools on a year-round basis as an economy measure have been studied here in the past. The merger study, to be made by staff members of the two boards, is to be completed before January 1. The boards then will probably vote on the merger. The outline Includes such DR.

ANNIE VEECH Help Asked To Teaeh Handicapped To Swim The American Red Cross yes-terday appealed for volunteer swimming instructors and water-safety aides to help with special classes of physically handicapped children. A special training class for instructors and aides will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow at tha old Nichols Hospital pool, Manslick Road and Berry Boulevard. Classes for handicapped children will be held there eacn Tuesday and Friday through August 15.

Repairmen Work On Water Main Repairmen were working on a water-main break around the clock last night to try to restore water service to the Pleasure Ridge Park area by 6 a.m. today. Users there and in parts of Auburndale and Fairdale have been without water since the 14-inch main of the Louisville Extension Water District broke about 2 p.m. Tuesday. The break was at Bethany Lane on the east side of Dixie Highway.

Students of '23 Lands To Visit Here Saturday Seventy-two students from 23 countries will visit here Saturday. The University of Louisville International Center and Youth Speaks will be hosts. The students, sponsored by the American Field Service, will arrive at the U. of L. by bus at 3:30 p.m.

They will stay in homes of Louisville students. Sunday the group will go to Bardstown for a reception given by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Junior Chamber of Commerce. They also will visit Hodgenville that day. climbing steadily. During the last fiscal year, the 8-cent tax on each pack of cigarettes brought the Government $323,204,066.

Ctgaret(e-to receipts in other recent fiscal years were: 1955-56 1954-55 $302,852,226, and 1953-54 $294,158,091. Gray said that collections had gradually in-creased in beer, gasoline, and Social Security taxes, and in taxes on furs and jewelry. Miscellaneous tobacco-tax receipts have been going down, Gray said. This tax is on snuff and chewing tobacco. The Federal Government collected a record $1,530,419,869 in taxes in Kentucky during the iUcal year that ended June 30.

This was an increase from the previous fiscal year, when collections totaled $1,430,612,729. Excise taxes of $10.50 per gallon of whisky were the largest source of revenue, accounting for $553,259,828. Individual- and corporation-income-tax collections followed, totaling $531,049,444. District Director of Internal Revenue William M. Gray estimated about 900,000 individuals and 7,000 corporations paid taxes.

In the 1955-56 fiscal year income-tax collections totaled $485,475,698. Gray said cigarette-tax receipts have been Student Ending Austrian Stay Miss Judith M. Simon, 2319 Village Drive, this month will complete a semester of study at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna. Miss Simon, a student at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., lives with an Austrian family in Vienna. Man Arrested as Tipsy Driver Police arrested a man on a charge of drunken driving last night.

He was listed as Richard K. Pool, 49, of 1119 W. Hill. Police also issued 79 citations, including 19 for speeding. Nine persons were arrested..