The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 24

SPORTS AND WOMEN'S NEWS FINANCIAL, TV AND RADIO SECTION-2 2 0 PACES THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1959 Kentucky-Wide Blast, Fire Kill Man; 8 Injured Three Children Among Victims At Kcattyvillc 'jV 0 2jV7s? -t '1 Educational-TV Network Urged U. O. Leonard Press Ciics Growth Of Colleges And Shortage Of Teachers nr' asm: r.utni v. Th Cftunit -journal Burffti Frankfort, July 22 A state wide educational-television network was proposed Wednesday by 0. Leonard Press, head of the department of radio arts at the University of Kentucky.

By MARIOX PORTER Curwr.Jeurnl tuff WriUr Beattyville, July 22 A father of 10 was killed and five other men and three children were injured here Wednesday Mhen an explosion and fire ripped through a crude-oil stor Press, in I speech to the Frankfort Rotary ('lull, said such a network would provide a corn of the ablest teachers available to holster the educational program of every school and community in lie said the need for such a network is based on growing college enrollments, the khoit-age of qualified teachers, and expansion of Hie University of Kentucky through five extension renters. Tine Steps Included Tlie edurtifioixi TV vrlwnrk age lanic. Dead is Lemon Caldwell, 54, foreman of a work crew that was cleaning the tank at the Ashland Oil 4 Transportation Company's pipeline pumping station on the edge of town. One of the injured is his 12-jear-old son, Freddie Caldwell. He and Arnold Blanton, Nippa, a member of the work crew, were taken to St.

Joseph Hospital, Lexington. Taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, Lexington, were the other members of the crew; W. C. Taylor, 32, Pryce, who was st the tank to haul away the refuse, and his 6-year-old son, W. C.

Taylor, Jr. Boy Critically Ilurt The boy was listed in critical eondition, along with Tommy McCormick, 21, Burning Fork; Dora McKin2ie, 48, Elma, and Kussell Bowen, 23, Zoe. The elder Taylor was listed in serious condition. dcscrihrd lu l'res irouM include Oirr steps; 1. A television production and trainum center at U.

to cost to Imild and a year to operate. 2. An interconnected State-university system by TV, linking extension centers with the campus. This would cost an additional $300,000 to establish and $35,000 a year to maintain. Predicts Funds Measure 3.

A state wide educational-television network i make the liest teachers and lecturers available through open and closed TV circuits to all schools and communities in the state. It JC 'V be there to bark these television lectures with regular class sessions for discussion, questions, and commentary, hut the backbone of the (caching program would emanate from the campus." he said Press predicted the next session of Congress would providn up to for each slat to develop and improve educational television facilities. Private groups, such as the Ford Foundation, would match funds, he said. "Our job Is to raise funds fof them to match," Press said. TV Course Set For Fall Press also disclosed that IT.

K. students this fall will be ahle to attend one class via television a required undergraduate course in anthropology taught bv Dr. Charles Snow over WLK.VTV at 9 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Press said the course would be offered by TV lo give faculty and students an opportunity to olwerve an actual television course in action and fo test th efficiency of television as a teaching tool.

The course will not be limiled fo students. Credit will be given for it by the U. K. extensioi division to anyone who wants to enroll. Track Wants Local-Option Pica Rejected Miles Tark, Inc, yesterday asked County Court to dismiss a petition for a local option elec-tion September 12 in an area of the 12lh Ward.

The company, operating a race track at the Old State Fair-grounds, said the petition does not accurately describe the 26th Precinct of the ward In which it seeks to hold the election. Also, the response filed by Miles Talk attorney F.li Brown, III, contended the petition does not represent the required 25 per cent of the qualified voters of the 26th as now constituted. Corporation Joins In In a County reprecinctinij early this month, Miles Park and other areas of the 26th were moved to other precincts. tH Phst by Mly Dil The surRe bnsin at left of tlie canal was scooped out of old Sliippmupoit Island. The upper stretch of the will be widened and the tip of Sand Island, below the cofferdam, will be cut off.

The 27th Street bridge, crossing the old lock, will remain and a new bridge will extend across the new lock. Work on the project, helped by good weather, is 7 per cent ahead of schedule. would cost about $1,000.0110 to set up and $75,000 a year to operate. Press said every teacher on the II. K.

campus would be ahle to lecture to all extension center students at one tune over a state wide network. "Resident tearhers would still ONE THIRD COMPLETE That's the status of the $19,000,000 renovation and enlargement of Lock 41 on the Ohio River here. This aerial view shows the new concrete lock being built inside the cylinder shapes that make up cofferdam in the foreground. The old 600-foot lock and its 360-foot auxiliary are at right of new lock. Water will flow into the river through two tunnels at left of the new lock.

Coroner Herbert Twyman, one of the first to reach the scene of the blast, said a pump used ry the work crew caught fire and ignited oil sludge that lay about 2 feet deep over the bottom of the tank. Lee County Sheriff Orval Gross said Don Caldon, an employee of the pumping station who was asleep in a nearby trail, e-r, was awakened by the blast and managed to drag Caldwell's apparently lifeless body out of the tank. Caldon's young son was playing outside the trailer and was knocked over a mud fire wall. He suffered hand burns but did rot require hospitalization. The blast toppled the tank off Its base and overturned it.

Volunteer firemen were credited with confining the blaze to the one tank and keeping it from spreading to a second about 15 feet away. Fire Burns 2 Hours Chief Wallace Bumgardner raid his men first tried to use water on the fire, but hurriedly fhifted to chemicals. They reached the blaze minutes after It erupted, he said, and were fcoon joined by radio-dispatched units of the Ashland Oil 4 Refining Company, of which Ashland Oil Transportation is a subsidiary. Walls Offer A in I Escapee Is Captured Inside Shop Bill Would Apply Federal Tax To New Nontobacco Ciaurclles Properly Owners Ask Rebuilding Of Road A group of property owners yesterday asked Fiscal Court to rebuild Long Pun Road, extending 2'i miles north of Shelbyville Road to the Shelby County line. Court members said they believe it can be done.

Nine of 11 property owners have already agreed to give necessary rights of way. County Road Engineer W. eral tax nor, presumably, a State tax. The latter averages about 4 cents. "It is basic to all of our tax laws and to the American sense of fair play that our tax laws apply equally and fairly," Walts aid in introducing his bill.

He stressed that the federal tax wouldn't apply lo smoking devices manufactured by pharmaceutical and drug companies for medical purposes only. The bill would amend the present tax Jaw definition of a cigarette as "any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper to make it read "any roll of tobacco or any substitute therefor wrapped in paper." C6urir Journal ftur4U Washington, July 22. Representative John Watts, hurley's champion in the House, took dead aim Wednesday at a new "cigarettelike smoking device" advertised as containing no tobacco. The Nicholasville Democrat introduced a hill to apply the 8-ccnt-a-pack federal tax on cigarettes to all brands with or without tobacco. The substitutes, made of unspecified non-tobacco materials, were recently introduced for sale in certain parts of the country.

They sell for about the same price as tobacco cigarettes 25 rents a pack. Hut, tobacco men here noted, this price does not include the fed Alleprtlly Krliirn To Of Crime An escapee from the State Reformatory near LaGrange was caught about 11 o'clock last night when he and a companion allegedly returned to the scene of an earlier crime. Henry H. Crawford, 22, of 1621 W. Main, the escapee, and Frank Jackson, 21, of 616 E.

Madison, were charged with storehouse breaking. The two were arrested, inside the Industrial Milk Vendors, 727 E. Main, after they squeezed through bars on a window and set off a burglar alarm installed yesterday, police said. Crawford, who escaped June 30 from the reformatory, was committed there May 22 on several charges. One of the charges Mif Cntlieft In On Name Malone said that at the meeting they will urge action toward an increase in costs and filing fees.

County Attorney Charles W. Dobbins will investigate legality of their requested reimbursement. Unloading Dock Opposed The court asked Dobbins In another matter to protest a proposal of the R. W. Greene, Sand Gravel Company to build an unloading dock on Louisville Gas Electric Company property on the Ohio River off Upper River Road.

The court said the project would interfere with use of recreation areas and with navigation in the area. The United States district engineer will have a hearing on the proposal August 6. I The blast occurred shortly fter 1 p.m. Bumgardner said it look about 2 hours to quell the fclae. Twyman noted that when he was taking five of the injured to 3exington, he could see black mnke billowing up from the fire Jes far as 10 miles away.

Caldwell's survivors, beside his injured son. include his wife; ix daughters, Wanda Lee, Judy, JanLs, and Dorothy Caldwell, and Mrs. Betty Ruth Hogan, 11 of Beattyville, and three sons. Lemon Caldwell, Lenox Caldwell. Avith the Army in Texas, and jWillis Caldwell, Greenlcy, Ky.

An 11th child died of leukemia In late June. Portland, July 22 Slill Lislcil In Critical Condition Gene Kenny, 32. former Pcl-larmine College basketball coach Dorette Lemon, a Portland Price Lane will study the proposal and see what can be done about obtaining any other necessary rights of way. V. A.

Haas presented a petition signed by the property owners who said they were willing to give any easement the County needs. Courtly Judge B. C. Van Ars-dale, who likes to fish, told the group: "You have come with bait on the hook." The judge said he believes the court will give its approval, adding that he looks with favor on people willing to do something in return when they ask the County to do something for them. Other Signers Named Haas said the road in the extreme part of the county is narrow and dangerous.

In some Burns Are I'alal To Girl, 5, Mother Kokomo, July 22 A Kokomo housewife and her daughter suffered fatal burns Tuesday in a basement fire started when the girl dropped a gal housewife, entered a contest to name a mystery lemon pie and Attorney James A. Crumlin, filing the petition for a local-option election, said many of the petitioners objecting lo a new dispensary at 1321 Cecil I A who was Injured In an automobile accident July 7, was still in critical condition and un won. She suggested the name: "Lemon Porelte." German Film At I'. Today "The Confessions of Felix Knill." a German movie with I lon jug of gasoline. The dead were Mrs.

Allen was breaking into the vending firm, police said. Dillinger Dead 25 Years were among mose movea nui. He contended the reprecinctinif was improper and asked that the election be held in the 26th as formerly constituted. Also filing a response to the petition asking that it he dis-missed was B. W.

Corporation, which seeks to set up the dispensary on CeciU conscious last at General Hospital. Kenny sufleied a broken arm and leg and internal injuries when his car hit a culvert on Bardstown Road just north ol Thixton Lane. Bontragcr, 30, and Elnnra, 5. Israelis Over Gaza Charged Cairo, July 22 fliV-Egyptian sources charged here that 12 Israeli planes flew over the Ga.a Strip Wednesday in the areas of Khan Younis and Abasan. English subtitles, will be shown at 12 15 and 8 p.m.

today at University Center on Belknap Campus. The film is based on the last novel of Thomas Mann. His daughter, Enka, plays a minor role. Jn another matter, the court increased the number of County police sergeants from 14 to 15. Chief Edwin A.

Richardson said he is promoting his secretary, Nicholas Pinto, from patrolman to sergeant. The funeral will be Friday at Funeral Home here. '-Road-Slogan Claimant For Speeding Cranston, R. July 22 A New York. July 22 Twenty five years ago Wednesday John Dillinger, notorious Midwest desperado, was shot to death outside a Chicago movie house by I.

agents. Dr. Slider's Stories Delidit Kiwanis Club Audience He Rolls 'Em In Aisles Again Wayne, motorist who says he coined the nationwide safety slogan "Slow Down and Live'' was $15 poorer Wednesday. That's how much he was fined after police reported they Jcauqht him speeding. Woodrow W.

Piatt, 42, was i stormed on thp wav tn Canp Cod places it is impossible to pass a school bus, he said. He said Shelby County has improved the road up to the Jefferson boundary. Straightening and widening on the Jefferson side would be a convenience to persons attending the historic Long Run Baptist Church, Haas noted. Others besides Haas signing the petition were G. A.

Bryant, M. H. Sattcriy, Dr. P. O.

Sweeney, Paul L. Kelley, J. E. Mitchell, John W. Smith, George Murphy and Garland Pearce.

Jefferson County's three magistrates asked Fiscal Court to reimburse their expenses for a trip to a meeting of Kentucky magistrates at Somerset this weekend. Magistrates M. G. Snyder, John K. Stiles, and Harry with his family.

I Lord Halifax Breaks Hip London. July 22 TP Lord Hal-ifax, 78, Britain's former ambassador to Washington, was re- hospital Wednesday after hreak-ing his hip in a fall in his Yorkshire garden. VMM TV: itt MHftHymiMMM At -f i Vis; -V JiiUcr-Escapcc Captured Aftcr Shooting State Officer 3Iinisler Becoming jNoled As Speaker By ORA SPA1D The Fev. W. W.

Slider rolled 'em in the aisles again yesterday. The latest group to delight in the good-laugh humor of the Elizabethtown Methodist minister was the Louisville Kiwanis Club. After 20 minutes of "Bill" Slider's story-felling, the club members were ready to declare yesterday's meeting at the Brown Hotel the best of the year. This isn't the first group to make such a declaration. Dr.

Slider is fast becoming one of the most-in-demand speakers on the banquet and service-club circuit. And it is-n't because he particularly wants to be; it's Just that his lively stories and warmly cheerful personality charm so many members of hisaudiences into passing the word, "If you want a good speaker, get that Bill Slider." Here Are Some Samples Of Stories It's never quite fair to repeat a speaker's jokes in cold, hard print. They lose a lot in transmission out of the warmed-up context he has given them. But here are some samples from yesterday: Apologizing for the fact that so many members of the club had heard him speak before. Dr.

Slider told of the woman who went up to Abraham Lincoln and remarked that he was his hand on their heads and took them into the church. We happen to have three knobs on the chancel rail of our church and he put his hand on them and took them into the church, too. And we still have those knobheads on our board." Tells Story Of Diplomatic Umpire Discussing the fact that service-club members may sometimes disagree in certain areas, he told of the man who was called in at the last minute to umpire a baseball game. In a close play at third base, he called the runner safe. Immediately the team in the field ganged up around him, demanding, "What did you caU him?" "He was out," the umpire hastily changed his mind.

This brought the team at bat charging menacingly from the dugout. "What did you say?" they growled. "Now, wait a minute," countered the nmo. "How about when this man passed second? Was he safe all right there?" Both teams agreed that he was. offered the ump, "Then let's put him back on second where we can all agree." Dr.

Slider has, you might say, a million of 'em. At least his rapid speech delivery seldom runs longer than a minute or so before being braced with a story'. And if you ask him here he gets them, he can't very well tell you. He's just one of those guys who remembers stories which are told to him in generous quantities bjj his listeners. All Serve To Illustrate A Point Despite his growing reputation as a humorist, the baby-faced.

40-year-old Dr. Slider has no inclinations in that direction. The stones he are not intended to be funny merely for the sake of being funny. They all serve to illustrate some probably put in 4 hours preparing his speech and irtually every bit of it is down on paper. Dr.

Slider is a native of Brazil, who came to Louisville at the age of 10. He was a football plaver and track man at both Male High School and the University of Louisville. He once held the state record for the 60 meter dash, run in an A A U. meet at the Armory. He often speaks in jest of his remarks as profound, scholarly, and learned" but that side of him is real.

He holds a master's degree in church history from the V. of L. and a doctor-of theology degree from St. Andrew's College in London. Trcpares Three Sermons A Week He still spends (he better part of three days a week buried in books preparing the three sermons a week he gives to the 1.247 members of F.liabcthtown Methodist Church.

And his pulpit personality is a far cry from the one that comes across the banquet table. It's hard to believe his contention that in school "I couldn't sav five words in a row without turning brick red." But there no doubt about his sincerity when he says. "I'm a simple soul" and "The ministry's my joh Allhough he gets dozens of requests to make speeches, he accepts only about three a month. And he confines these to charity groups, service clubs, and schools "organizations with a cause 1 can contribute something to." He was called upon to launch a recent capitaV funds drive for the Jewish Community Center-apparently the first Gentile speaker to perform such a function. He finds, as all popular speakers do, that it is hard to sav "No'' But he insists that his church and his family which includes two young sons are his primary responsibility.

But no protestations from Dr. Slider will stop program chairmen from trying to get him for their important meetings because he fills the two requirements they lay down for a speaker he can "keep the per.p!? and "he give them something that has meat." Manchester. July 22 State-police detective was wounded Wednesday as he and three other lawmen surrounded I mountain cabin where an escaped murderer was hiding in a rugged, remote part of Clay County. Veteran Detective Walter Woods was struck in the hand tend side by a shotgun blast after he called upon Oliver Lawson, an escapee from the State Re- formatory near La Grange, to surrender. Trooper Halts Fleeing Man Lawson then ran from the cabin and was slopped by State I Trooper James D.

Braw ner and 'two deputized men. Lawson, about 30, and his wife. Mrs. Polly Lawson, were lodged in Laurel CrtiiTifw lit! I ntilnn officers called for an ambulance and carried Woods down the roadless, rugged mountainside to the nearest highway, two miles away. Woods, reported in fair condition, was flown to Lexington for treatment at Central Baptist Hospital.

Charges To Be Filed Estes said charges would be filed against Lawson and his wife Thursday. Lawson, from Panco. on the Clay-Leslie County line, escaped from the reformatory in December, 1953, and had been "hiding out in two or three different spots. We had information he was hiding up there on the mountain. It's a no man's land." Lawson was sentenced to life in 1957 from Clay County for murder.

the ugliest man had ever seen. "I'm sorry, madam," Lincoln replied, "but there just isn't anything I can do about that." "You could at least stay at home," she snapped. Sneaking of dead-timber club members who take up places on committees without doing anything, Dr. Slider told of the near-sighted bishop who came out to his church to confirm a group of 6- and 7-year-old boys and girls. "He put THE REV.

VV. W. SLIDER Much in demand as storyteller ace every referenre he makes to himself with, "If you will excuse me, sir." And the spontaneous manner in which he rolls out his yarns belies the fact that he has point he is making. The away from the podium Dr. Slider is not hat you'd expect.

He's a genuine article kind of person, with, boyish modesty that leads him to address even younger men as "Sir," and pref- vuiuii. a juvmu 1 Set. Edgar Estes. State police- post commander at London, said.