The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 17

SECTION TUESDAY, TELEVISION, RADIO, SPORTS, FINANCIAL AND COMICS mntv A chool Board Buyin; 4 sea, 20 PAGES JUNE 25, 1968 mm ENth i i ii City i IT Site to Replace Taylor 11 'i tv -s Staff Photo by Rick Ball By BILL BILLITER Couritr-Journal staff Writer The Urban Renewal Agency yesterday agreed to sell for about $103,000 a site for a new school to replace the 115-year-old Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Elementary School. The sale will not be completed until the Louisville School Board submits final plans for the new school proposed on vacant land on the north side of Chestnut between 11th and 12th. The site is part of the Village West complex and had been designated for a school. City School Supt. Samuel V.

Noe confirmed that the school system is now moving ahead with plans for a replacement for Taylor elementary at 13th and W. Liberty. To Accommodate 900 Pupils "We are now ready to start on this," Noe said. He estimated that the sale would be completed in "a week or two." In the meantime, architects are draw square foot school site is being sold for 50 cents a square foot. In other business, the Urban Renewal Agency approved the sale of land on the south side of Market between Preston and Jackson, where Comprehensive Care, plans to build a nursing home.

The sale was for $124,250. The agency terminated a contract made with two doctors last year for the sale of urban renewal land on the north side of Walnut between Floyd and Brook. Leeth said the doctors, G. David McClure and Edward Shrader, planned to develop an office building on the site, Leeth said construction plans for the building were not advanced despite extensions of deadlines. He added that the land is again available for sale.

The agency approved final plans for two East Downtown urban renewal projects: Charles Carpets and Linoleums, between Brook and Floyd on the south side of and Standard Printing near the northwest corner of First and Jefferson. ing up preliminary plans for the new school. Noe said "in all probability" the new school will be completed during the 1968-1969 school year. It will accommodate 900 to 1,000 pupils, he said. The school board stepped up arrangements to replace the old school after a group of parents complained about the building's condition last month.

Plans for a new school, first announced three years ago, were delayed while school officials sought more information about the long-delayed Village West project so they could plan for student enrollment. Sale of Another Site Approved Village West, however, remains unbuilt. Its construction is now scheduled to start this fall, and the new school may be under construction at the same time. Jack Leeth, executive director of the Urban Renewal Agency, said the Just Passing Through south of Berry Boulevard yesterday. The state Highway Department corrected the situation later.

A SUDDEN DOWNPOUR left about four feet of water under the Seventh Street Road viaduct To Train Hard-Core Jobless illion From U.S. ranging from automobile assembler to punch-press operator. They will be trained for six to 24 weeks, depending on the job, and then will be placed, with one of 20 Louisville-area companies participating in the program. Underhill said the government grant came at an "opportune time," because plans had just been completed to expand the program and extend the number of trainees from 48 to 60 in each four-week period. He said the program already has outgrown its present headquarters at 829 -Jtrm4err -ssmAA Jury Selected to Hear Police Slaying Trial GLEEFUL YOUNGSTERS at the Tom Thumb pool in Highland Park, at 4505 Crittenden, splash away under the watchful eye of lifeguard Mary June Jaggers, a junior at Western Kentucky University.

The shortage of qualified lifeguards has delayed the opening of eight of Louisville's 12 pint-sized pools. While Kids Wait Lack of Guards Close 8 Tom Thumb Pools Staff Phots by Rick Bell neighborhoods. Hennion said the Health Department had given him a list of names without any addresses or telephone numbers. Leake promised to get addresses of the qualified guards to Hennion as quickly as possible. He also promised to schedule lifeguard training and qualify ing programs on a crash basis if Vet- tiner finds some applicants.

Pools needing guards are: Baxter, 12th and Jefferson; Park-Hill, 1703 S. 13th; Roosevelt, 18th and Columbus; Sheppard, 17th and Magazine; South-wick, 36th and Southern; Strother, 1796 Wilson; Herbert Madison, Jackson and Walnut, and G. C. Moore, 610 W. St.

Gets administered through the Kentucky Department of. Economic Security. Underhill said this grant has been approved, although O. L. Burkeen, Louisville area manager for the employment security office, has not yet received a confirming telegram.

The financing commits Jobs Now to 12-month job-training program for 720 hard-core unemployed persons in the Louisville area. 'Not a Government Program' Even though the program is receiving federal funds, it will continue to be administered, directed and partially financed by private business, Underhill said. "It's important for people to realize that this is not a government program," he added. Some of the past restrictions regarding the participants' age and education will be dropped as the program is expanded, Underhill said. There will be no age limitations, and applicants will not be turned away if they have been graduated from high school, provided they meet other criteria.

Previously, only high school dropouts participated. Trained for Variety of Jobs The Labor Department contract was developed in conjunction with the National Alliance of Businessmen, with which Jobs Now is affiliated. The men selected for the program will be trained and placed in a variety of jobs Jefferson College Taking Nursing School Applications Applications for the new nursing school Jefferson Community College are being accepted, Miss Martha K. Lyon, program chairman, said yesterday. Classes will start Aug.

26 for 40 to 45 nursing students. The school will offer an associate-degree program, which combines nursing and general education in a campus rather than hospital setting. It ordinarily will take two academic years, but can be spread to three. And they chorused "Aniens" and "Yes Lords" to the vigorous double-barreled preaching of the Rev. Charles Elliott Jr.

and the Rev. Cornelius Booker Sr. The frail Rev. Mr. Elliott, pastor of King Solomon Baptist Church, and the husky Rev.

Mr. Booker, pastor of Von Spiegel Street Baptist Church, organized the six-night "soul saving campaign" in the wake of the disorders that broke out May 27. There were a few references to racial problems. "Give, us more love for one another," went one impromptu prayer. "Lead us and guide us.

We don't need white power. We don't need no black power. We need Your power from on high." $1.7 Jobs Now Federal financing from two sources will provide $1,727,000 for Jobs Now, Louisville's business-directed job development program for the hard-core unemployed, Jobs Now Director George T. Underhill said yesterday. One is a $1,454,400 contract with the U.S.

Labor Department announced yesterday by U.S. Rep. William O. Cowger, R-Ky. The other is a $273,000 Manpower Development Training Act grant to be Scout Training Helps Boy Save Brother's Life Last week 14-year-old Barry Houk was reading about tourniquets and other first-aid procedures in his Explorer Scout manual.

Barry had just joined Louisville Explorer Scout Troop 257 and hadn't had an opportunity to watch an actual demonstration in stopping the flow of blood from cuts. So all he knew at 3 p.m. Saturday at his home, 478 E. Brandeis, was what he had read. That was enough.

His 9-year-old brother, Mark, came to him screaming and holding his wrist. It had been cut badly when Mark accidentally plunged it through a glass storm door. Study Put to Test Barry quickly applied a tourniquet made from a piece of cloth and stopped the bleeding. Doctors at Jewish Hospital found that an artery had been severed and a tendon in the wrist partially cut through. They said Barry probably saved his younger brother's life by stopping the flow of blood quickly, according to the boys' mother, Mrs.

Virginia Juvrud. She was out of the house when the accident occurred. benches and rickety chairs underneath one half of the tent. The other half was still too muddy from yesterday's down pour, but gravel will be spread on the ground today. Around the perimeter of the tent stood several dozen others mostly youths.

Although they watched with interest, few of them joined in the singing. But under the tent virtually everybody, sang with enthusiasm "Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross," "Where I'm Bound," "What a Fellowship," "My Father's House," "That Great Day." a at no S. Third, and that arrangements had been made to use part of the Temple Adath Israel Educational Building. 834 S. Third, for the remainder of the summer.

Recruitment for the Jobs Now program is handled by the Community Action Commission, the state Employment Service and the Urban League. After the men are referred to the Jobs Center, they undergo a two-week orientation program to prepare them for the jobs that lie ahead. Under the expanded program, Jobs Now will also provide training in basic skills for those of its clients headed for semi-skilled or skilled industrial jobs. popularly interpreted as saying the death sentence cannot be imposed by a jury from which persons with conscientious scruples against capital punishment were automatically excluded. Judge Pound did not offer his interpretation of that Supreme Court opinion.

Charged with murdering Meyer, and are Car Sims p.Z m.SL a Lr ukef' Cherry liritVt flirt Dumn PnKKvn nf mi La 77" vuu pears' Pleaded Not Guilty All four have entered pleas of not guilty. They are represented by a total of six lawyers. The jury panel members were allowed to go home last night but Judge Pound admonished them not to read newspapers, watch television or listen to radio. He said he will question them on these matters today before swearing them to duty. In such serious cases, jurors are usually kept together and lodged in a downtown hotel.

Room reservations for last night were canceled after defense attorneys agreed to allow the panel members to go to their homes. The panel was accepted by the prosecution but not by the defense, which used all its allotted 18 preemptory challenges which need not show cause before the 14 jurors were selected. U.S. Judge Issues Order Shortly after the proceedings com menced, an order from U.S. District Judge James F.

Gordon was delivered to Pound, telling him not to proceed with the case. Shortly afterward, however, Gordon notified Pound that the case might pro- ceed if Pound ordered Eugene Herron, an inmate at Leavenworth (Kan.) Penitentiary, to attend the trial. Pound did so. Herron would be a defense witness. Defense attorneys sought the order to force Herron's appearance at the trial.

Meyer was shot and killed when he joined the chase of the persons who robbed the store at 3012 Bardstown Road in the Gardiner Lane Shopping Center, Work Resumes as Strike By Teamsters Local Ends A strike by Teamsters Local 89 at the Griffin Chemical Co. was settled over the weekend, and the firm's seven employes returned to work yesterday, according to Fred Baumgardner, director of the Louisville Labor Management Council. The union had been on strike since May 13. A three-year contract ratified by the union included a 15 cent an hour pay increase for the first year, with 10 cent an hour increases for the second and third years. The contract also included improved vacation and insurance benefits.

S5.000 Taken From Safe About $3,500 in rash and $1,500 in f.i,, taken from a safe at Aisc -itm Turners-Louisville, 3125 Upper River Road, sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 8 am. yesterday, Dick Senn, president, told police. County detective James Flowers said the front door was forced. Revivalists Bring Old-Time Religion to By PAUL JANENSCH in arms and a man on crutches.

Five or courier-journal staff writer six white faces could be seen in the other-Old-time, down-home, revival-style re- wise all-Negro congregation, ligion bloomed in a muddy vacant lot last Most of the congregation sat on By GERALD HENRY Courier-Journal Staff Writer A jury panel of 11 men and three women was selected but not sworn in last night to hear the trial of four men accused of willfully murdering Louisville Police Patrolman William F. Meyer Sr. last Sept. 1. Testimony is expected to begin today after court resumes at 9:30 a.m.

in the Criminal Court of Judge J. Miles Pound. The panel, including two alternates, was selected only after 57 prospective jurors had been dismissed for a variety ed approximately nine hours, including recesses. Twenty-four prospective jurors who said they had scruples against imposing the death penalty were dismissed for that reason. The death penalty is one possible penalty for conviction of willful murder.

The prosecution said it "will demand the death penalty for all four" defendants. Defense attorneys objected to the dismissal of the prospective jurors with scruples against capital punishment, citing a U.S. Supreme Court opinion earlier this month. That opinion has been Riot Area The emphasis, however, was clearly on personal salvation and not social revolution. "If you're a sinner, Jesus loves vou." intoned the Rev.

Mr. Booker in the rock- ing. almost sing-song preaching style he learned 30 years ago in Alabama. "If you're a back-slider, Jesus loves you. It don't matter what society you be- long to, Jesus loves you "Yes, Lord," the congregation respond- ed.

"It don't matter what color you are, Jesus says, come Jesus says, come to Me." 'The One Natural Leader' Alternating at the loud-speaker micro phone with the Rev. Mr. Rnnkpr trip Rpv Mr. Elliott implored the congregation to turn to "the one God, the one super natural power, the one natural leader. "We need a heart he chanted.

"Jesus We need a heart Jesus Only Jesus We need a brand new society Jesus That's what we want Jesus Jesus Here I am." With that his shoulders sagged and with perspiration standing out on his brow, the Rev. Mr. Elliott was helped to a bench. Minutes later he was back on his feet, ready to sing another hymn. "The Bible says to go to the highway and byways," said the Rev.

Mr. Booker. "But this isn't the highways and the byways. This is 28th and Greenwood and we mean business the business of the Lord!" Travelers Protective Unit Opens Louisville Meeting The Travelers Protective Association of America, a national fraternal organization, opened its 78th annual at Louisville's Kentucky Hotel yesterday. Welcoming 664 delegates, Gov.

Louie B. Nunn commended the organization on its "Watch That Child" safety program. The convention will continue through Thursday, By GAIL EVANS Courier-Journal Staff Writer To thousands of youngsters in neighborhoods west of downtown Louisville, the city's Tom Thumb swimming pools must appear like mirages. Eight of the small pools can be seen but not swum in. Until some 24 lifeguards can be hired and that may take a week or more the youngsters will jusi nave xo mirsi ior me waier.

Charlie Vettiner, city-county parks director, had hoped to solve the lifeguard shortage by hiring persons without lifeguard training to watch waders. But he learned yesterday that health regulations require the presence of fully certified lifeguards even though the Tom Thumb pools are only 42 inches deep. The opening of all but four of the city's 12 Tom Thumb pools has already been delayed one week. The city is having trouble getting guards for the inner-city Tom Thumb pools because they are "not in the best neighborhoods," said Bob Hennion, director of athletics for the parks department. Girls Can't Be Used The problem of getting lifeguards at these pools is further complicated, Vettiner and Hennion said, because girls cannot be used.

"We've got to get every big boy we can find," Vettiner said. In the past, Vettiner explained, the older youngsters have bullied the smaller ones using the pools. The lifeguards, he said, are expected to help keep order. Vettiner, Hennion and Sam Jones, an assistant to Vettiner, met for half an hour yesterday with Eugene Alvey, city law director, and John W. Leake, of the city-county Health Department, to try to find a way to get the pools open.

The group concluded that regulations stand in the way of any speedy solution. Vettiner said until last month's civil disorders, he had lifeguards signed up for all the pools. Afterwards, many of these guards, both white and Negro, backed out, he said. 'I'm Really Vettiner Says Vettiner kept repeating, "We've got to get these pools open. It's the hottest time.

I'm really worried." But Leake and Alvey pointed out that they were powerless to waive regulations. Vettiner even proposed draining the pools to wading depth, but Leake said this would cause the pools to become polluted because the filtering system would not work properly. The Health Department has certified some 540 lifeguards brt'vern anr! 20 years old. Only 240 of those are presently working as guards, leaving some 300 qualified guards available. The problem, according to Vettiner, is getting in touch with them and finding guards willing to work in inner-city night a mere stone's throw literally from the corner of 28th and Greenwood where civil disorders erupted four weeks ago.

The house of worship was a tent, erected just south of the Little Palace grill, the smashed windows of which are still boarded up. The theme was "Love Power It will Save Souls and End Violence." The first night of the revival, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. through Saturday, drew a crowd of several hundred men and women, young and old, babes WREATHED in lace, a woman listens to a sermon at the "love power" tent revival. Staff Photos by Jay Thomas PREACHING SALVATION, the Rev. Charles Elliott standing at right, delivers a vigorous sermon at a "soul saving" tent revival that began last night near 28th and Greenwood.

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