The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 17

i i i) IM 1 1 vi 7 9 oeemrs If 7, "9 i I ,0 A ft I 1 On lis IVsIs 1 1 0 i a .6 pi ini.ii ilv oil the new s.ilc-s 'I line were oMMiiie I lev en.nii of si.lSf, 1 to Advises ami il Menial and Tn The if liiroprac! a- r.x.iiniiii-is, Health, Personnel. Public isiiry, one each. 935 cinergciirv a mini nl men III the llleliidcil i hose 3li wen lerical listed a.s Highway Dcparlmenl poininieiil.s, of Yule Lists To on the basis of their haloing and experience Those who got prn isional, emergency, or temporary appointinents must eventually pas tests to keep their jobs, Joyner said. lie said the figures showing almost a third of the applicants failed the tests speak lor themselves. "It proves the examinations are not so low that they are not of any use.

It shows we off a highly significant number of applicants that we shouldn't have on the Stale payroll." The testing is part of the merit-system program for State workers. A good number will be coyered by the new merit system when it goes into effect July 1. Others will be brought into the system as a department or agency is ready but all within one yar, except for some unskilled, hourly, and part-time workers who will not be covered. The 88 people hired by the Revenue Department without taking tests are working revenue investigators, Hi revenue held icpre-senlatives, and seven revenue held auditor appointed without tests. Since the sales tax is a new held of Stale (lovei nnient activity, no examination was prepared when the workers were needed, so they were lured and a test is being prepared lor them.

Of the 103 provisional appointments, 34 failed examinations, but were given appointments anyway. They will be given another chance, and must pass the test to remain on the Stale payroll. Only four of the 103 passed the test the first time they took it, Joyner said. The Welfare Department headed the list with 33 employees given provisional appointments. The new Parks Department had 14; Iteveuue, 1(1; Agriculture, Highways, and Industrial Relations, 7 provisional appointments; Alcoholic Beverage Control and Public Safety, r.v i'n.

ni Afctocisted Prtti Writer Frankfort, May 9. Almost one-third of Slate-job seekers have flunked their necessary examinations since Onvcrnur Combs took oi-fice last December. This was revealed by Personnel Commissioner Felix Joyner, who said people took the examinations and 514 failed between December 8, and April 22 of this year. Every person who applies for a State job must pass a test, Joyner said. Those who fail will not be put on the State payroll.

However, 103 provisional' appointments have been made in the past five months in scattered State departments and agencies. Another 935 emergency appointments have been made in the Highway Department. Joyner said fi8 temporary appointments have been made in the Iteveuue Department and an additional 1,234 applicants were rated i ii it i i union account clerks u-ed as timekeepers They could not be examined because they did not meet the minimum qualil icalions is set forth in the job The other 899 in the Highway Departimuit generally were County foremen, maintenance crews, laborers, and semiskilled workers. They were hired without being required to take the examinations because of the rapid turnover of employees when the Combs Administration took over. Examinations for many will be mere formalities, since formal testing techniques are extremely difficult to prepare for such jobs a.s truck drivers, grass cutters, and so on (ilmslinas-Cift Solicitation Condemned I5 (lountv Unit As 'Unbecoming Conduct' Solicitation of Christmas gifts by police of any rank is "conduct unbecoming a policeman" and was condemned yesterday by the County Police Merit Hoard.

The board came to this conclusion after investigating the existence of a Christmas-gift list in the County Police Department. Ex-Maysville Sislers Slain A I Cincinnati Police Sav 12-Year-OMMaii Apparently Shot' AVoinen, 2 Ami 1H. Then look Own Life Pill mmqM felik lip From Wirt Ditpatchtt CINCINNATI Two sisters and a man accused by one of them of being- the father of her unborn child were shot 1o death Monday in a near-downtown apartment. Detective Chief Henry Sandman said Sam l'apitis. 42, a bridge painter, apparently killed Mrs.

Wanda McElfresh. 'J8, and her sister. Miss Ruth Mingua, 18, in a hallway and took his own life with a shotgun. The women were formerly of Mavsville. Kv.

Staff Photo UP AND OVER The North-South Expressway overpass on Broadway between First and Brook was begun yesterday with the installation of foundation forms. Workmen are to begin putting in the first piers today. The work, expected to take up to 4 1 2 months, will close Broadway's two center lanes to traffic. i I lie i tl ciM li li II a Radio Free Europe Barker Says Red Policy Raising Refugee Rale Sill vol rliv 0 Remain Ai 10 Cents Sei'r Hoard Salaries Won't Me Increased O'ood news for taxpayers, bad news for Shively Sewer Board members, and a stand-pat decision about an occupational tax came out of last night's Shively City Council meeting. CounciIiu.cn voted to keep the City tax rate of 40 cents per $100 assessed valuation.

The legal maximum is 75 cents per $100. Sewer-board members made a second request that their salaries be raised from $25 a month to $25 a meeting. One member said the board has been meeting three or four times a month. Pay Itale Ruled 1 rocn The Council took no action after special counsel Raymond Stephenson advised that the pay rale is frozen. Ordinances setting up the board and providing for sale of revenue bonds for sewer construction set the rate, he said.

Board members indicated last week they'd meet only once a month if their request was denied. An additional $75 a month from the City's general fund was voted for board member William Cambron, who has additional duties as hoard treasurer. Tax Action Postponed In a public poll by Mayor Joseph Strotman. councilmen voted, 3 to 2. in favor of waiting a year before acting on any Shively occupational tax.

A sixth councilman. Albert Bachmann. gave no opinion. I The proposed 1U per cent Jefferson County occupational tax provides that suburban cities may enact their own tax laws and he exempt from the County levy if the cities contribute to joint City-County agencies. Stevenson said Shively would have to contribute S2 13.000 to $225,000 to City-County agencies in oidcr to claim exemption.

Stevenson also noted there "are several tricky legal questions" to be decided before the County tax takes effect. Councilman Resigns William S. O'Daniel, a councilman eight years, resigned effective June 1. O'Daniel. 4ti, an area engineer at the I.

du Pont de Nemours Company neoprene plant here, said additional job responsibilities, plus his Council work, could affect his health. He underwent surgery last month. State statutes provide a successor shall be selected by the Council to serve until the November election, when an election will determine who shall serve the remaining year of O'Daniel's term. hi-hop of Kentucky, who is convalescing in Norton Memorial Infirmary, Louisville, from exhaustion. Bishop Marmion's annual address, to be read at a service of evening prayer Tuesday night by the Rev.

William li. Langley of St. Mark's Church. Louisville, is expected to dwell on evangelism. C.hfpso Output Kim' FRANKFORT Kentucky has jumped from sixth to third in the nation in the production of cheese, the State Department of Kconomic Development reported Monday.

Frank l.ebus, director of agricultural development, released figures showing that Kentucky's production rose fmi 24.910.000 pounds in 1950, to 49,176,000 pounds in 1958, an increase of 97 4 per cent. Kentucky's output last year totaled 5 per cent of the na-t I a 1 total of 972.892.000 pounds. Only Wisconsin and i i led Kentucky in cheese production. Dr'uvr (I vl 2 Yvarx MADISONVILLK A Mad-isonville man was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for an automobile accident that blighted the lives of a young Alabama couple and their infant. Shelly Night.

27. pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious striking and wounding with an automobile with intent to kill. The accident occurred just south of Mortons Gap at 115 a.m. November 30, 1958. Roy B.

Vernon, then 20. was driving his wife, Mrs. Louise Vernon, then 19, and their 12-day-old child and two other adults from Danville, to Chicago. State Police Trooper John Dogger said Night's car hit the. Vernon automobile head on at high speed.

Mrs. Vernon suffered severe head injuries. Now described as a walking invalid, she is not expected to regain her mental balance. Her husband has been confined to a wheel chair. Their child is reportedly losing his visum.

The shooting occurred only one floor below an apartment where the parents of the two women, Mr. and Mrs. Oval Mingua, and six other children were preparing to move back to Mavsville. Kin Tells of Shooting Sandman and Value Vapt. Taua Mills said a brother of the tiro girls.

Eugene Mingua, 'J9, and a sister, Mary Mingua, 12, told them this story: Ruth Mingua told l'apitis Sunday that she was expecting a child and that he was the father. She refused to marry him, however, claiming he drank too much and ran around with other women. An argument followed and l'apitis threatened to kill Kuth and her family. The shooting came one dav later. Slalp Ihiyx vhn' FKANKKOHT The State Department of Health Monday contracted for $18,850 worth of polio vaccine for distribution to County health departments.

It accepted the low bid of $130 per 9 cc. vial of vaccine for 14.500 vials. That will provide 130.500 inoculations, or about 1,100 doses to each local health department that requests the vaccine. The successful bidder was Merck. Sharpe Dohmc.

Philadelphia. F.ach County health department will set its own policy for distribution of the vaccine. The local departments also will pav for it. l'licoiuili(inx Tit Merl HKNDKRSON F.mphasis will be on evangelism in the l.T2d annual convention of the Kpiscopal diocese of Kentucky here Tuesday and Wednesday in St. Paul's Church.

The meeting will be attended by about 150 laymen and clergymen, delegates from churches irt the western half of the state which comprise the diocese of Kentucky. The Kt. Rev. Charles Cling-man, retired bishop of Kentucky, will preside over the contention in the absence of the Kt. C.

Cresham Marmion. End ft. victor Says lists are requested Stiff Photot (APT. DOK.LAS LIT! It LI. Appears before merit board dismissed, told the board he believed the problem of gift.s to police was a board responsibility.

However. Higgins said he was disturbed at the lack of co-operation he received from County police during an investigation of a bribery charge against Mrs. Lottie K. folding-ton, operator of the Friendly Inn, 13801 Dixie Highway. "She claimed she was arrested because she didn't give the police a Christmas gift, and that the police tried to pull a shakedown for $100," Higgins said.

'Decided To Look' Police charged that she tried to bribe them not to arrest her, so "1 decided to look into the case further and suggested that all parties involved take a lie-detector test," Higgins added. Mrs. Fddington look it, but the police didn't, Higgins said, and "I learned when the case was called in court that this was contrary to police policy." He told the board he received fine co-operation from County police in all other cases. Asks About Complaints The board questioned Higgins about complaints he received about the gift lists, but he declined to name the persons beefing. "One complaint was that a policeman returned a Christinas gilt because he believed it was too small," he said.

Another said he was handed a list containing the name of a radio operator, he recalled. The three captains said the requests for lists usually came from tavern owners, liquor stores, shopping centers, and sometimes from individuals. They said businessmen weie supposed to receive lists containing only the names of the men on their beat. In its report the hoard said: "We believe that every member of the department should recognize that by reason of his responsibility to enforce law impartially the acceptance of gilts in connection with the, performance of duty is frequently subject to misunderstanding and may subject the officer and Police Department to criticism by members of the public. For these reasons, vye recommend that the receipt of gifts by police officers be discontinued." The board expressed confidence in the Police Department and said, "We believe that the department's overall performance is of a high caliber." vv? Vi Jpf.

A. ffl The rate of defections from Hast (lermany to West (iermany has stepped up considerably 111 March and April, a Iiadio Free Kurope spokesman said here yesterday. The normal flow of Fast (ierman refugees through Berlin has been about 10.000 a month, said Hayard L. Fngland. Newark, N.

J. In March, he said, this increased to 13.000 and during the first three weeks of April it was 17,000. An increasing number of refugees (15 per cent in April) are farmers, England said. This is the result of the Soviet collective-farming program in East (Iermany, he thinks. Also, more refugees are older people now.

Previously it was felt such had too much to lose by leaving. Now they are leaving. 'Right Now It Looks Had' England is New Jersey stale chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, which backs the privately financed Radio Free Europe's broadcasts of news, information, and features to Communist-dominated Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. He was here yesterday for a luncheon with business and industrial leaders at the Pendennis Club. The recent international uproar over Russia's shooting down an American espionage plane requires "communications, to give the other side," England said in an interview.

Asked what the other side is, he said. "I don't know. Adults realie that espionage goes on. I don't think all the facts are out yet. Right now it looks bad." Little Faith In Summit Reported England said American officials who are in on next week's four power summit conference haven't held much hope for its success, and "I'm inclined to think they're right." He said the Russians probably shot down our reconnaissance plane "because they know we're not putting too much faith in the summit conference." England, who has visited R.

F. installations in Munich and Lisbon several times, said Russia puts out 221 hours a week of propaganda broadcasts to Western Europe. hours to Eastern Europe, 198 hours to the Middle East, and 119 hours to the Far East. "That's one reason why we have to meet this." he said. "We'd like not to do it.

Hut we re forced to do it." There's a Cold War on, he noted "No bullets are going off, but it's a battle for the minds of people. You have to meet their weapons." Col. Edwin Richardson and Capts. Douglas Littrcll, John Raisor, and Victor Senninger told the board that police had received gifts ranging from turkeys to money over a period of years. But the officers said they were unaware of any person receiving favors in return lor the gifts.

All stated no one was given a Christmas list unless it was requested. 'Practice Just (irew' Richardson informed the board that the Christmas list practice existed when he joined the force in 1938. "I don't know how it got started; it just grew," he said. Richardson told the board that he had already taken steps to see that Christmas lists are not passed out this year. The chief said.

"1 don't like modellers, and I made this known when I was named chief." He said he was informed at that time that police were getting free food at some restaurants. He ordered this practice stopped. Richardson said he would be happy if the merit board issued an order against police taking gifts at any time. Notes Spirit Of Season But this idea brought comment from some board members. A.

A. Byrne, vice-president of the Kentucky Transport Corporation, asked whether such an order would be discrimination against policemen. "We all get into the spirit of giving about Christmas time and for years it has been tradition to give a little some-' thing to the postman, the milkman, the garbage tippers, and others." he said. "But now everyone seems to he afraid of payola since the White House incident involving Sherman Adams." Byrne continued. "We must be realistic, but there must be no shakedown," he emphasized.

Police are now being criticized for something that in past years was accepted as tradition, he said. R. .1. Theobold, accountant and vice-chairman of the board, 1 doubted that the practice of giving to policemen could he stopped. "I imagine our police get food at reduced prices at some restaurants, and personally, see no objections to this," he said.

This has been a "time-honored cu.stom," he continued. However, this might be construed a.s a gift, and "I don't see how it can be stopped," he said. Notes Difference In Jobs Hoard member Charles W. Allen. assistant treasurer of Belknap Hardware Manu facturing Company, thought the board should consider the difference between the milkman and the policeman.

"After all. the milkman can only give you fresh or sour milk," but in a police department you can run into the problem of police favoritism to persons giving them gift.s. John Fulton, attorney and hoard chairman, said the board invites any Jefferson resident to appear before it to discuss County police problems. Iliggins Disturbed Commonwealth's A torney Laurence Higgins, who disclosed the presence of a Christ-inasgift list when he recommended that a bribery charge against a tavern operator be luff Phots APT. JOHN RAISOR Tells of Christmas-Rift list Pollulion-Coiilrol Group Told West Point Project By KOBLItT P.

LARK Countr-Journtl Staff Writar Frankfort. May The City of West Point has notified the Kentucky Water Pollution Control Commission that it plans to build a sewage-treatment plant. A contract to draw preliminary plans has been made by the City with Louisville consulting engineer V. H. Martin, according to West Point Mavor Edward Y.

Mason. MW l- 4 1 i 1 li Belleview Man Heads Bonus Setup Frankfort. May ft -Adjutant Oeneral Arthur Y. Lloyd Monday announced two key appointments for administering Kentucky's veterans bonus Norbert C. Reihtin.

Rclle-view, will be the director of the Veterans Division and William A. Maggard, Langley, as sistant director. The Veterans Division will administer the bonus for the Department of Military Affairs, which Lloyd heads. Was With X. A.

Office Rechtm was with the Veterans Administration regional office in Louisville for 12 years and was chief of the section that authorized payments to thousands of Kentucky veterans under the CI Hill. He went to work for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington in 1958. Rechtin also has directed the civil-defense adult-education program in Kentucky. Maggard operated an appliance business for a number of years in Floyd County. Before that he spent several years as a field supervisor and purchasing auent for Inland das Corporation, a drilling and exploring company.

87.0 Stolen Al Home Thomas H. Nuckles, 1(102 Vivian Way, told police that S400 to S450 cash, and goods worth $300, were stolen from his home while he was out yesterday afternoon. The loss included $200 in jewelry, two shotguns, and a radio, he said. Legion Auxiliary Posts Filled Mrs. Alton Heckman.

1010 Ardmore Drive, last night was re-elected president of Zachary Taylor Post, American Lesion Auxiliary. Mrs. Martin Bauer was named first, vice-, president, and Mrs. Frank Met-ten second vice president. Mason also notified Louis F.

Hirkel. the commission's executive director, that it hopes io get loans from the Housing and Home Finance Agency to finance both the preliminary planning and the project itself. Might Cost SlliO.000 A rough estimate of the project's cost. Hirkel said, is to $100,000. West Point has been under pressure from the commission for several years along with other cities whose sewage has been polluting the Ohio River and other waterways to build treatment plants.

Birkel told the West Point City Council about two months ago that some sort of start on the project must be made and that it wasn't sufficient for the City simply to say it could not finance the project. Hirkel told the City officials that the matter would be placed before the pollution-control commission at a meeting here Tuesday. Council Action Expected Mayor Mason, in a letter to Birkel last week, reported on the contract with Martin and i said an H.II.F.A. loan for the preliminary planning had been 1 applied for. "In the next few days." the Mayor added, he believed the; City Council would lake action 1 toward financing of the over all project probably through a public-facility loan from the A.

Such loans, at the going interest rate, are made to small communities that cannot float bonds through conventional sources. Mason said he doubted if other sources would buy West Point bonds. The Mayor wrote that, in iew of these actions, the City was applying for a permit to continue putting sewage into the Ohio River. Has Doubts On Permit Birkel said he would report to the commission Tuesday, but doubted if a permit would be issued sually such permits are not issued until the project is further along, he said. In fact, he added, it is likely that the commission would withhold a permit until plans for the treatment plant have been approved and the project actually finished and in operation.

Technically, Birkel said, the City remains in violation of State regulations until the plant is in use. But with plans to abate the nuisance under way. action against the City would not be taken as long as progress is being made. Chestnut Street 4V Kxceeds SI 2.000 Coal The Chestnut Street Branch of the Y.M.C.A. last night announced that its 1900 fund-membership drive reached 102 per cent of its S12.000 goal.

At a final report meeting. officials said thev had reccivei pledges totaling $12,337.75 in the drive which started March 21. Staff Photo THE TOPS Trophies for the most attractive floats in this year's Derby Festival parade were received by, from left, Russell Anderson, representing Louisville Hotel Association, which won the sweepstakes award; Franklin Miller, representing American Tobacco Company, which entered the winning commercial float, and Fred Ford, representing the Supervisors' Association of Naval Ordnance Plant. The ordnance-plant float, paid for by the supervisors' group, was judged best of military entries..