The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 4

i Til FRIDAY MORNINH, APRIL 9. 1070 THE r.Ol RIKIi-J OURNAL, LOriSVlLlX KY. 777. Tf il i 0 A itown ttace npsmrp. Plsstic Bols in 5 Bright Colors! (as if "country-fresh" margarine wasn't enough) IS JLMOWt as viaaison i- tin jtr, tt tz 4 chants feel that shutters or curtains on windows and new paint on the upper floors coordinated by the committee and planned to highlight the architectural features is an inexpensive way to get the effort going.

As signs are removed and upper floors restored, the merchants hope to begin eliminating the false fronts to restore the ground floors to match the upper stories. If the success of the downtown effort matches the apparent success of residential restoration efforts in the downtown area, the effect should be delightful. Martling talked lo the Madison merchants on Feb. 13. The next week he told Downtown Jeffersonville merchants much the same thing about their buildings.

It was the second time the merchants in Jeffersonville had heard it. Martling had also talked to them in June. On both occasions their response was enthusiastic, but Just a couple of weeks ago the newly elected president of Progressive Jeffersonville, Robert Clark, admitted to a reporter: "We're still not getting anything done, we're just not getting anything done." propriate to the buildings and to renovate the buildings as single elements. He urged them to preserve the original character still visible on the second and third floors of the buildings instead of trying to make the upper stories conform to the facades on the lower halves. He showed them how this could be done with minimum of expense with paint and elimination of clutter.

He showed examples of how other cities had restored their downtown buildings and urged coordination of the overall renovation effort to make the downtown buildings compatible. Crume's new Female Cardinal offered 1 Suits Top $28 Million In 1968 Richmond Blast By CHANDLER DAVIS Courier-Journal Timet Start Writer MADISON, Ind. This more than 150-year-old riverfront community is anything but ordinary. The casual visitor or one of the thousands of tourists who come here every year is almost stunned by the beauty and uniqueness of the well-preserved 19th century public buildings and colorfully trimmed homes. It is almost like walking through a well-planned outdoor museum of fine Federal, Greek revival and Italianate architecture.

But downtown Madison the stretch of retail shops, bars, drugstores, restaurants, and banks along Main Street returns the visitors abruptly to the glass and plastic dimestore-modern architecture of a more recent and distinctly less tasteful era. It's sort of like finding one of the many modern-day hamburger stands in the heart of the historic Williamsburg or Shakertown. With a few pleasant exceptions, downtown Madison looks exactly and disturbingly like every other small city downtown shopping drag in America. Ugly. Yet the buildings are the same sort of buildings behind the neon overhanging signs and false store fronts as the ones in the downtown residential sections.

If you drive down Main Street deliberately looking at only the second and third stories of the shops, above the false fronts, the uniqueness of Madison is once again apparent. Architect Told Them So This is what U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development architect Lockwood Martling saw when he came to Madison in February at the invitation of Historic Madison, to help advise the merchants on how to revitalize downtown. And he told them what to do about it. He told them to rip off the pseudo-modern facades, tear down the overhanging signs, replace the huge plate-glass windows and doors with orifices ap- at Southern Savings when you deposit $750 or more to a new or current account Painted at fha mafa fa Cruma's mala Cardinal, which it now a collector's item.

The Jeffersonville group discussed recommending an ordinance to the city that would prohibit overhanging signs. The members were to study model-sign ordinances and vote on the matter this month. Clark said about a week ago, however, that he doubted if the ordinance would be discussed this month, because the group had not been able to find any satisfactory ordinances to use as guides. Although several Jeffersonville merchants have expressed a willingness to remove signs and restore their buildings, none has made any apparent moves toward doing so. Madison Makes Some Moves In Madison, according to Chamber of Commerce Manager Neil York, it is a much different story.

A joint committee representing the chamber, Historic Madison, and the Downtown Merchants Association was formed last week to coordinate an overall renovation effort. Even prior to the naming of the committee much groundwork had been laid. York said the merchants obtained the names of three cities from Martling that the architect felt had excellent sign ordinances and wrote immediately for copies. These ordinances are now being researched and as soon as the merchants decide what they want from each one, a proposed ordinance for Madison will be presented to the city council. York said individual members of the council have alreay been consulted and expressed support.

In addition, York said, two large overhanging signs have already been removed. A shoe store and a barber shop were shorn of their clutter almost immediately following Martling's talk and the owners have agreed to put up no new signs until a coordinated style has been decided on by the groups. A nationally recognized restoration architect with an Indianapolis firm has already been selected and will probably be retained soon as a consultant to the groups, York said. The joint committee has named a color subcommittee to study color schemes and advise merchants on paint when the renovation begins. Merchants Present United Front York said the merchants are united In a plan of action and almost unanimous in the feeling that the historic approach is the best answer to revitalizing the downtown.

"We've done a pretty good job on homes but the downtown business section has been overlooked," York said. "As a whole, I think the merchants are united now in feeling that the historic atmosphere should be kept." The immediate goals, he said, are to phase out the existing overhanging signs and keep new ones from being erected and to get the merchants to fix up and paint the upper stories of the buildings. Many of the upper-floor windows are now painted over or are boarded and others are dirty or cluttered with stacks of packing crates. York said the mer of the gas company's pipelines at the time of the blast. At the deadline, Richmond courts had received 355 suits asking damages totaling $25,134,655.

-The district court had 13 suits asking a total of $2,984,690. Many of the actions are by about 70 fire-insurance and life-insurance companies, seeking to recover benefits they paid to families of the dead and to owners of destroyed or damaged property. The biggest individual suit was filed by Barbara Reeves, formerly of Richmond and now living in Ohio, asking $750,000 for the death of her husband, Blaine Reeves. Marting Arms heirs were named, the complaints said, because of reports that a large quantity of gunpowder was stored in the establishment. Cause of the disaster, was never RICHMOND, Ind.

(AP) Damage suits totaling more than $28 million hav been filed in the wake of the downtown Richmond explosion April 6, 1968, that killed 41 persons and injured more than 100. The deadline for court actions in the blast was Monday. Some suits were filed in Wayne County Circuit and Superior Courts and others in U.S. District Court at Indianapolis. The federal clerk's office said there apparently was considerable duplication of suits filed in the Richmond courts and in the district court.

Biggest Suit Is for $750,000 Major defendants named were the Richmond Gas Heath Survey Consultants, of Boston, and heirs of the Marting Arms sporting-goods store owners who were killed in the blast. The Boston firm was making an inspection 1 1 I 1 i Prints of Crume's new KINGBIRD also available free with deposit of $300 or more NEW HIGH PASSBOOK RATE 5W Thci and ethr Crum prtnti being offered ore en display at Southern Savingi. Southern Indiana Deaths. Funerals Deposit on or before April 10 and earn a dividend for three full months on Southern's SUMMER PAYDAY NEW ALBANY Mrs. Mary J.

Hill, 1 91, of 1118 E. Market St. died at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday at Floyd County Memo-rial Hospital. She was a native of Brown County and a former resident of Dayton, Ind.

She was a member of the Christian Church. Graveside services, 11 a.m. Frdiay, Dayton Cemetery, Dayton. The body will be at Seabrook Funeral Home from 4-9 p.m. Thursday.

JUNE 30 NEW ALBANY Earl L. Winders, 50, of 1513 State died at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday at Floyd County Memorial Hospital. He had been taken to the hospital after a fire Monday at the house he was living in. He was a native of Harrison County, an Army veteran of World War II and a retired employe of the Brown-Forman Distillers Corp.

Survivors include his wife, the former Vernia F. Kost; a son, Keith F. Winders, New Albany; a daughter, Carol June Winders, New Albany; his mother, Mrs. Alice Winders, Clarksville; and a brother. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Seabrook Funeral Home. Burial, Graceland Memorial Park. Southern Savings has a "Payday For All Southern Savings 424 SO. FIFTH STREET LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY 40202 PHONE 587 8882 NEW ALBANY Ralph C.

Borkenheim, 82, of Shaver Lake, died at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday at Floyd County Memorial Hospital. He was a former resident of New Albany, and had been visiting a daughter here. He was a retired machinist for the Railroad, a member of the Raynor Park Christian Church, Sunnyvale, a 50-year-member of Jefferson Lodge 104, and the Daughters of America. Survivors include two sons, Harmon R.

Borkenheim, Jacksonville, Alfred H. Borkenheim, Mountain View, three daughters, Mrs. Rachael E. Jones, Lake; Mrs. Martha Hollmann, New Albany; Mrs.

Jane Cowgill, Silver-dale, Washington; a sister; 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Funeral at Sunnyvale Saturday. The body will be at Dieckmann Funeral Home here after noon Thursday until Friday morning, when it will be taken to California. i Expressions of sympathy may take the 'form of donations to charity. Hill Bros, tonlie FUN-SHINE STRAPS for city or sun! SANDLOT SPECIAL! Little League Regulation-Style Baseball Shoes fjj Single Pair Reg.

$3.99 NOW JL $2,99 PAIRS PAIRS J) JEFFERSONVILLE John Osley Davidson, 69, of 310 Thompson Lane, died at 12:12 p.m. Wednesday at Clark County Memorial Hospital. He was a native of Brooksville, and a retired employe of Colgate-Palmolive Co. Survivors include four sons, Hall Willis Davidson, Watson, and Malcolm Lee, Donald Ray and Homer Fred Davidson, all of Jeffersonville; a daughter, Mrs. Anna Frances Violet, Henryville; four brothers, four sisters, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Coots Funeral Home. Burial, Walnut Ridge Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home after noon Thursday. NEW ALBANY Irvin H.

Thomas, 66, of 205 Bank was found dead at his home Wednesday morning. There are no immediate survivors. The body will be at Paul V. Shrader Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Thursday.

MADISON Harry B. Smith, 67, Madison Rt. 6, died at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at King's Daughters Hospital. He was a farmer, and was a member of the Wirt Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Loretta Johnson Smith; two daughters, Mrs. Donna Osburn, Kent, and Mrs. Laverne Bright, Madison; a stepson, Edwin Sipe, Monterey, three grandsons and four stepgrandsons. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Wirt Baptist Church.

Burial, Hebron Cemetery. The body will be at Vail Memorial Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Thursday. VEVAY Charles 0. Stevens, 80, Vevay Rt.

2, died at 6 a.m. Wednesday at Dearborn County Memorial Hospital, Lawrenceburg. He was a retired farmer, a native of Center Square and a member of Center Square Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Charlotte Stevens; a foster son, Raymond Curry, Indianapolis; and a brother.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Haskell Morrison Funeral Home. Burial, Vevay Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Thursday.

ENGLISH Calvin Kaiser, 62, of Columbus, died 10 a.m. Tuesday at Columbus Hospital. He was employed by the Atterbury Job Corps Center and was a member of the East Columbus Church of Christ. Surviving are his wife, the former Jewel Wellman; a son, Keith Kaiser, of Indianapolis; a stepson, John R. Manis, with the U.S.

Navy; six daughters, Mrs. William Bohall, Indianapolis, Mrs. Jesse Dailey, Lawrence; Mrs. Donald McWill-iams, Brownsburg; Mrs. Charles Thompson, Pittsboro, and Debbie and Mary Kaiser, both at home; his mother, Mrs.

Mary Speedy, Plainfield; two sisters, 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Denbo Funeral Home. Burial, Providence Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home after 3 p.m.

Thursday. CHRISNEY The funeral 'for John Morris, 34, who died Monday at St. Joseph Hospital in Huntingburg, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Fuller Funeral Home, Dale. Burial, Chinn Cemetery.

ST. MEINRAD Jacob Sifrig, 90, died at 1:15 Tuesday at the Jasper Nursing Center. Surviving are nieces and nephews. Funeral, 9 a.m. Thursday, St.

Meinrad Catholic Church. Burial in church cemetery. The body is at the Robert Heilers residence, St. Meinrad. J) Single Pair $2.99 Ladies and Teen Sizes thru 10.

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Yoho, assistant commissioner of the State Board of Health, told the committee, "We just don't have emergency medical service in Indiana." He said the board has developed a plan r- "but it needs implementation." Yoho said the 1971 legislature will need to act on the plan. American Made' Childrens Sneakers $1.99 PAIRS NOW gle Pair $1.66. Halt Sales of Securities In Indiana, Firm Ordered INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Tri-State Pe-t troleum of Cincinnati was ordered to stop offering securities for sale in Indiana I yesterday. Secretary of State William N. Salin's office issued a cease-and-desist order against the firm, saying it had never registered with the Indiana Securities Salin said the company's president, Robert Sherry, admitted selling securities to more than 15 persons in Indiana at a total price of more than $25,000.

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