The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 13

section 2i i MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1963 i a ami a A 1)10 A INI) TV NIUIJRAMS How Old? i wo-uir Collision Kills Man Centenarian-Plus Wheels Like 90 i 'ft Frenebburg's Miss Ingram, They Figure, Now Is 115 By JIM IIAMPTON Courlar-Journal Bluaarati Buraau Frenchburg, April 21. From her jaunty bonnet to the way she scurries about in her wheelchair, Miss Clarinda Ingram acts as though she weren't a day over 90. A man was killed and his wife and two others injured in a two-car accident at 11:40 p.m. Saturday at- Hancock and Broadway. William Grant Lasley, 57, of 925 Magazine, was pronounced dead at General Hospital.

Chief Deputy Coroner Donald Shader said he died of a broken neck. Lasley's wife, Ruby Lasley, 52. was treated at General Hospital for cut ankles and bruised elbows. A third person in the car, Lou Sara Anderson, 18, of 1712 W. St.

Catherine, was treated for head cuts. Turned North The driver of the other car, Mrs. Alma Frances McKenzie, 50, of 2318 Glenmary, was ad-mited to St. Joseph's Infirmary for observation. She received leg cuts and head and chest injuries.

Police said Lasley, driving east on Broadway, failed to yield the right-of-way when he attempted to turn north onto Hancock. Mrs. McKenzie was traveling west on Broadway. The fatality was the 12th in the city this year. The figure at this time last year was 10.

Lasley's body will be taken to the S. LeRoy Mason Son Funeral Home, 1508 W. Walnut. In another accident Joe Clyde Brown. 32, of 3506 Hale, was admitted to General Hospital yesterday with a broken leg suffered when his motorcycle went out of control at 1:10 a.m.

in the 1500 block of Prentice and struck two parked cars. Brown was thrown from his motorcycle. Staff Photo by Charity Darnaal BOOKMOBILE GUESTS at the presentation of a $1,000 award to the Meade County Free Public Library are Mrs. J. G.

Woods, right, first chairman of the Meade library board and now a resident of St. Louis, and County Judge George R. St. Clair. At left is Mrs.

Margaret Frymire, Bookmobile librarian. Which is a compliment to a petite lady who, two months shy of her estimated 116th birthday, is possibly the oldest woman in Kentucky. The figure 116 is an educated guess. Miss Ingram remembers that her birthday is June 23, but can't remember when she was born. There are no records, so no one knows her exact age.

Doctor Said 111 She entered United Presbyterian Center nursing home here in January, 1958. The home's consulting physician, Dr. Donald Graves, estimated her age then as at least 111. It is known that Miss Ingram worked as a maid in a Lexington hotel during the Civil War. Many old-time Menifee County residents confirm this story.

They heard it either from her or their elders. One such person was the late Charles Cornwell, who operated a general store at nearby Cornwell. He was 85 when he died in 1956. His grandson, Frenchburg newspaper publisher Jerry Ringo, said Cornwell recalled that Miss Ingram was a grown woman when he was only a child. When she was well past 100, Ringo said, Miss Ingram regularly walked the three or four miles from her one-room cabin at Dogtrot to Cornwell's store.

She would fill a coffee sack with groceries, put it over her shoulder, and walk home again. She lived alone until she broke her hip in a fall, then she entered the nursing home. Miss Ingram is unable to walk, but otherwise her health is remarkably good. Miss Sylvia Braband, the home's nursing supervisor, said Miss Ingram "really requires a minimum of supervision and care. "She's out of bed and in her wheelchair every morning when I get here at 6:45.

She stays in her wheelchair all day. We've tried to get her to take naps, but she usually just dozes in her chair." Always Wears Sunbonnct A crisp sunbonnet is Miss Ingram's trad emark. "She never takes it off," Miss Bra-band said. "She loves jewelry. She always wears a necklace, and she will put tn as many Staff Photo by Jim Hampton BAUBLES, BANGLES AND BONNET With a new bonnet and ample jewelry to set it off, who needs youth? Miss Clarinda Ingram is believed to be at least 115 years old, but time hasn't dimmed the gleam in her eye when she's complimented on her costume jewelry.

Symbolism In Meade Library Already $1,000 Award Spent, 'Arrives' months ago with a gentleman who was admitted. He was in his 80's and Clarinda got a tremendous crush on him. "She'd get up next to him and tweak his ear. Finally he got so irritated he began saying, 'I can't go anywhere without that woman following "We had to speak to her about that." Breathitt Pledges Farm-Income Rise Chandler: State Pays Newsmen Attotiatod Pratt Versailles, April 21. Former Governor A.

B. Chandler charged Sunday that "scores of newspapermen and newspaperwomen, or members of their families, are on the State payroll or have service contracts" with the State. The candidate for the Demo- Attoclattd Pratt By MARIAN AYCOCK Courltr-Jaurnal Wrltar Brandenburg, April 21 The Meade County Free Public Library Sunday received a symbolic check for $1,000 symbolic because the money has already been used to buy almost 300 new books. Such aggressiveness in improving library services for the county's 18,000 residents was i cited as one reason the check was given in the first place. The money represented a Dorothy Canfield I Fischer memorial award, one of 48 presented in as many states Sunday to mark the opening of National Library Week.

Miss Fischer was an author and for 25 years was a member of the editorial board of the Book-of-the-Month Club, sponsors of the i awards. National Recognition Miss Margaret Willis, head of the Kentucky Department of Libraries, said "the award is far more valuable than just $1,000. "The idea is to recognize nationally those 1 libraries whose board members, librarians, i Bookmobile librarians, assistants, and citizens who have worked, who have struggled hard, who are wide awake, who are superior in the acceptance and understanding of the need for education for young people, adults, and our older citizens," she said. Miss Willis, who made the symbolic presentation to J. Donald Hawkins, library board chairman, said it also was "for recognizing that a library is not just a mausoleum with four walls.

"Your spirit of cooperation here has been unusual," she said. "You need to keep moving forward, you need a bigger building, more services. But you all know this." The Meade library was opened by the Brandenburg Young Business Women's Club soon after one of the State's original Bookmobiles began operating out of the town in 1953. On The Main Street Some 16,000 volumes owned by the library and another 6,000 on loan are housed in a 15-by-20 white cottage-type building on Brandenburg's main street. To be eligible for the Dorothy Canfield Fischer award, libraries must serve fewer than 25,000 persons, operate at least five days a week, must serve all members of the community, be recommended by their state library agencies, and meet certain other requirements.

One top award of $5,000 is given each year. Last year it went to the Jenkins, library. Hawkins, in accepting the award before some 200 persons at the Meade County High School gymnasium, said the books which $1,000 would buy "are already catalogued and on the shelves of the library for all to see and read." U. L. Dean Is Speaker Marlin M.

Volz, dean of the University of Louisville School of Law, hailed the presentation as "an historic occasion." "Nothing will contribute so much to the welfare of your citizens and future generations as this library," he said as the principal speaker on the program. "Libraries and a high level of civilization go hand in hand. They are the price you might say we have to pay for civilization. "Success doesn't come like a bolt of lightning," he said. "Most of us have to work and read books to advance.

The most helpful place for us to help these ambitions is the library." Hopkinsville, April 21. Edward T. Breathitt, pledged Sunday to work, if elected governor, for a billion-dollar-a-year agricultural industry in Kentucky. "By emphasizing better production and marketing methods and through the use of approved conservation practices, I have no doubt that Kentucky's agricultural income can reach the billion-dollar mark during my administration." said the Democratic candidate in a statement from Hopkinsville, his hometown. "When our four years of rings as she can get on her fingers." Are there any problems with a 115-year-old patient who doesn't wear glasses, needs no medication, and eats whatever is on the menu? "Just one," Miss Braband chuckled, "and you'll find it hard to believe.

"We had a problem a few Pregnant Woman Hit, Robbed A mother was struck under the eye in a first-floor hall of General Hospital early yesterday morning and her pregnant daughter was lured to the parking lot where she was knocked down and robbed of $5. Police said Mrs. Ruth M. Hall, 42, of 1132 E. Burnett, and her daughter, Mrs.

Marie Crain, 20, of 429 Tallulah, gave them this account: Mrs. Hall took her daughter to the hospital at about 12:45 a.m. when she began experiencing labor pains. In the hall two men in their early 20's made insulting remarks to the women. Mrs.

Hall told her daughter to go to a waiting room and she reprimanded the men. When she attempted to telephone police, one of the men struck her under the eyi. Both then fled. While Mrs. Hall was being treated in the hospital's emergency room for a 2-inch cut, one of the men told Mrs.

Hall's daughter that her husband was waiting for her in the parking lot. When Mrs. Crain went to the lot, the second man hit her in the jaw, knocked her down, and took her purse containing $5. Mrs. Crain was uninjured.

service are done, I would want no higher tribute than for the Iromti Quebec to London to To-farmers of Kentucky to say kyo." 2. Find more markets for Kpnlnrkv nrodiirls. "SnniP all the way from tire consultants to scores of people being paid to disseminate as best they see fit information about the attractions of Kentucky." Chandler aides also announced that George C. Martin, Louisville, has been named chairman of the building industry advisory committee for Chandler and for Harry Lee Waterfield for lieutenant governor. Martin is president of Bollinger-Martin Company.

Stabbing Charge Denied By Suspect Robert L. Payne, 21, of 5029 New Cut Road, was charged by police yesterday with the malicious stabbing and wounding of David Lee Hampton, 20, of 211 W. Adair, at the Park Play miniature-golf course, 5215 New Cut Road. Hampton was reported in good condition in General Hospital with a stab wound in his chest. Payne denied the charge.

noo.000 Americans live within a day's drive from Kentucky. We must tap these markets." 3. Expand and draw new industries that use farm products. 4. Expand research facilities.

5. Cooperation between farmers and the State Government. "Kentucky is still an agricultural state with 70 percent of our people living on farms and in rural towns. We must develop a program to combat the tendency to think of agriculture as aa unprofitable occupation." Breathitt said the same emphasis must be placed on agriculture that has been placed on the industrial economy. Vacant Buildings Damaged By Fire Fire broke out in a vacant garage in the west downtown urban-renewal area early yesterday morning and spread to 11 other vacant buildings in the 1000 block of West Madison and on West and Tenth Streets north of Chestnut.

Firemen said the blaze 10 Are Accused Of Drunk Driving Tolice charged 10 motorists with drunken driving over the weekend. They were listed as Cletus George Sergesketter, 50, of 4329 Whitmore; Martin L. Wolfe, 47, of 1807 Washington Boulevard; Richard L. Page, 30, of 1919 Heaton Road; John Miles, 19, of 8205 Old Third Street Road; Donald E. Sheffield, 23, of 7320 Helen; Edsel Wesley Blanton, 36, of 4726 Dover Road; James Henry Bar-nett, 23, of 10511 National Turnpike; Robert Lee Logsdon, 35, of 4117 Hazelwood; Mary R.

Grindstaff, Palm Beach, and Marion Richardson, 25, of 1921 W. Main. St Xavier Math Teaclier Honored cratic nomination for governor also said "We have one case where three or four employees of a small radio station are on the State payroll." Chandler did not mention any names or any specific amounts of money, but he said he intends to disclose this information later. His charge was included in a statement released from Versailles, his hometown. Chandler also asserted that from a "report from qualified sources who are documenting the bloated payroll and the service contracts" he would say the State Administration is spending more than $50,000,000 a year more than when he was in office in 1955-59.

Lawyers, Too He also said that more than 500 lawyers are on the payroll or have special contracts with State Government agencies. Chandler said his sources advised him "they have come up with more than 4.600 service contracts let by the Combs Administration. These range a good sense of humor, but he believes in hard work, too." Taught For 9 Years A teacher for nine years, Schneider, 116 N. Longworth, has been at St. Xavier since 1960.

Before that the Louisville native taught at Flaget High School here and at Cathedral High School, Los Angeles. He I) Breathitt's schedule for the week is on Page 14, Section 2. that I helped them make Kentucky a billion-dollar-a-year agricultural state." He proposed a five-point program: 1. Expand the tobacco industry. "I want to see Kentucky tobacco sold around the world, Robber Enters Car At Signal; He Takes S5 A motorist was robbed of his wallet, which contained $5 and personal papers, by a man who jumped into his automobile when it was stopped for a traffic signal at First and Broadway, at 4:15 a.m.

yesterday. J. D. Allen, 37, of 7000 Ethen Allen Way, said the man stuck what felt like a knife into his side and ordered him to drive west on Broadway. Allen said be saw a policeman at 12th and Broadway and when he sounded his car's horn the intruder knicked him under the chin with the knife.

The police officer didn't notice him, Allen said, and the man made him continue to the 2200 block of North Western Parkway. The man fled after taking Allen's wallet and car keys. Combs Urges Revenue Plan Safeguarding Vanceburg, April 21 Cfn Governor Bert T. Combs told a library-dedication audience in the nearby Lewis County community of Garrison Sunday that the State's revenue program must be safeguarded. He said the program has financed an increase of 66 percent in State funds for public schools.

Since 1959 when he took office, Combs said annual State aid has risen from $101 to $166 a pupil. At the same time, he said the annual guarantee for each pupil has been increased from $80 to $125 under the minimum foundation program. "If that revenue program is impaired," Combs said, "the library and Bookmobile program will be the first to be destroyed." Combs dedicated the library at Garrison Elementary School Atom Experts Seaborg, Finger To Give Talks Two top authorities in the field of nuclear energy are scheduled to speak Friday to the annual meeting of the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board. Dr. Glenn T.

Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, will speak at a 6 p.m. dinner meeting in Lexington. Harold B. Finger, director of the nuclear-systems office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will address a luncheon meeting here startnrl in a garage at iuua Marlisnn Thpv listpd iht cause as undetermined. The first alarm was turned in at 4:04 a.m., and a second alarm was sounded at 4:12.

The lire quickly spread and Aitociittd Praia Phot DR. GLENN T. SEABORG Lexington speaker Wilbur F. Schneider, a 49-year-old mathematics teacher at St. Xavier High School, was honored yesterday for "outstanding service" as a lay teacher in Louisville Catholic schools.

Speakers dealt with some of the reasons for his selection at an afternoon ceremony at Ursuline College. There, with about 75 persons in attendance, Schneider became the third person and first man to receive the school's Ursula Laurus award, or St. Ursula "victory medal." Citation Read Reading an accompanying citation, Brother Edward Daniel, St. Xavier principal who had nominated Schneider for the award, noted that it was bestowed for "fitness, dedication, and outstanding services." In nominating Schneider, the principal had called him "intelligent, mature, and an exemplary Catholic whose interests are genuinely centered on the work of education." Dr. Samuel Peavey, director of the department of secondary education at the University of Louisville, gave the main address.

Students Attend He called for "less impersonality" in education and for "more individualized teachers who will continue," in the manner of Schneider, "to give individualized instruction." In the audience were several of Schneider's first-year algebra students. After the program each vied for the chance to tell why he thought Schneider was an outstanding teacher. "He makes elasscs seem as damaged vacant two- and three sto apartment buildings and homes at 1003 1009 and 1011 w- 52? 30, J- Tenth and 527, 529 and 531 West Street. Yesterdays fire was the second in two days in the Downtown West Urban Renewal area. At 1:30 p.m.

Saturday fire broke out in a three-story vacant building, once known as the Waverly Hotel, at 613 W. Walnut. Authorities blamed that blaze on children playing with matches or vagrants using the building for shelter. Two firemen were injured in that fire. No one was injured in yesterday's fire.

Jack D. Leeth, City urban-renewal director, said he would study the fire reports before deciding whether additional precautions should be taken to prevent further fires in renewal areas. Negroes Urged To Seek Help Of Religious The active help of all religiously motivated people should be in the movement to improve the economic and social lot of the Negro, a National Urban League official said here last night "Once they are enlisted they will know what to do," added Mrs. Edith Macy, New York, the league's religious-resource consultant and a former Y.W.C.A. national president.

She addressed the Second Family Night Workshop at Fifth Street Baptist Church. The meeting was sponsored by the Louisville Urban League and the Women's Fellowship and Study Club of the church. Staff Fhota HONORED Wilbur F. Schneider, center, a St. Xavier High School mathematics teacher, received the Ursula Laurus award of Ursuline College yesterday for "outstanding service" as a lay teacher in Catholic schools here.

With him at the award ceremony were Sister M. Madeleine, Ursuline College academic dean, and Brother Edward Daniel, St. Xavier principal. the same day. The board was created in 1961 as a publicly supported agency to further cooperation among 17 Southern states in nuclear matters.

It is the nation's first interstate nuclear advisory and. development agency. 4 Begins At 9 a.m. The meeting will begin at 6 a.m. Friday at the Sheraton Hotel and move to Lexington In the afternoon.

Due to address the Saturday morning session here are Virginia Governor Albertis S. Harrison, chairman of the Nuclear Energy and Space Committee of the Southern Governors' Conference, and Kentucky Governor Bert T. Combs. if they were playtime," ex-plained William Lyon, 15, of 2831 Esther Boulevard. "I can understand math the way he puts it over." Dan McCarthy, 14.

of 1905 Gladstone, agreed up to a point. "He docs make everything interesting, but his classes aren't like playtime. He has has a master's degree from the University of Louisville. As he stood shaking hands with congratulators yesterday, Schneider was asked for his own definition of the outstanding teacher. A tall, gray-haired man, he hesitated only briefly.

"Well," he began, "he has got to like children.".