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4 THE COURIER-JOURNAUNIONDAY, JUNE 17, 1985 Many pitch in to make festival at river a success r. Or5 vV Continued from Page 1 the festival, Ms. Lewis said. Orem doesn't mind playing a sub-TV ordinate role. "I think it will be a fun time," he said.

"Everybody has to pull together to get this thing go- ng." Councilman Ron Grooms, who normally dispenses drugs in his job as a pharmacist, will be serving I beer and wine at a covered pavilion at the foot of Spring Street Like Morris, he's had some experience for the volunteer job. -v "I've seen the blood, the mud and the beer," joked Grooms, who has drawn foamy mugs of brew at the annual Jaycees Fair for nearly 10 years. "I guess you'd say I have I pretty good hand-eye coordination." Getting involved with the river-! front festival is important. Grooms said: "It's good to have something that draws attention to the culture and entertainment in our area." Some of that culture will be pro-; vided by professional artists from -1 the region, said Mary Coyte, a part-owner of the Jubilee Gallery in Jef-C fersonville. Area artists are being asked to display and demonstrate, but not sell their art, at the festival "If you have sales, you end up with a real hodgepodge.

We want to keep the quality," Mrs. Coyte said. "We think it will be rather classy." Ms. Lewis said she hopes the festival will be as popular as last summer's riverfront concert by the American Wind Symphony of Pittsburgh. That event, which she helped organize, drew 10,000 people.

Area businesses have contributed money for the festival, which Is expected to cost $8,000 to $10,000. Tables and booths must be rented, and portable toilets, at $80 each, must be provided, she said. The 20-minute fireworks display will cost $3,500. There are still many details to be worked out, but Ms. Lewis isn't worried.

After all, she's had some experience. "It's amazing how the loose ends seem to fly around," she said. "But, at the last minute, they get wrapped up together into a big package with a bow." 1 If I) 0 1 it 17 A i .1 Brad Swope. 34, of Louisville men's title yesterday at the The Pfet by Tun Maran thrill of victory WHATEVER Championships in a 108-mile race at near Lexington. HAPPENED TO By VINCENT CROWDUS Dedication equals scale of building Continued from Page 1 gray from Spain and Italy, and black from Angola.

"I think the outside may be a little too fancy and too decorated." said Joyce MacDonald of Louisville. "But I do appreciate the warmth In the color, and the permanence of the monumental effect It's not Just another 40-story box." "It makes me feel good," said Mary Ann Dant of Audubon Park. Across the street, at the Bom-hard Theater In the Kentucky Center for the Arts, a multi-media presentation on the conception and 1 construction of the building was shown every half hour. Prepared by Donna Lawrence Productions, the show included time-lapse shots from photographs that were taken every 45 minutes during the two years of construction. "We decided that we wanted to build a building in a thoughtful way to try to make an example of what can be accomplished here so that those who build the next buildings here in Louisville can try to build them even better," said Jones.

"If it causes people to think about what they do and try to bring excellence to what they do, then that would be something that would make us feel very good indeed." Those who missed the dedication yesterday, and those who went but had a hankering to see more of the building especially the open-air terrace on the 25th floor can look forward to scheduled tours starting in July, according to George Atkins, the company's vice president for public affairs. Howard University picks IU professor as its law dean AuMiatod Press WASHINGTON Indiana University law professor John Baker has been named the dean of Howard University law school, effective I July 1. Baker succeeds former dean Wiley Branton, who resigned in September 1983. Howard law professor Oliver Morse has served as acting dean during the search for Bran- i ton's replacement Baker was an honors graduate from Howard in 1965 and has been a professor at Indiana University since 1978, serving as an associate dean for three years. Before that, he was an associate professor at the Yale Law School i for five years and was general counsel and president of the New York Urban Coalition Venture Capital Corp.

i 5,000 Chinese honored for working at frontier PEKING (AP) Five thousand) young adults from remote regions of China were given achievement med- als and hailed as "excellent sons -i and daughters of the frontiers." the Kentucky archaeological sites yielding river tribes' history UofL student walki to raise money for trip Ron Whitehead's 133-mile walk to raise money to help take his family to England was a big success, although somewhat painful. Whitehead, 34, a student at the University of Louisville, has a scholarship to study at England's Oxford University and a of grant for research while there. He wants to take his wife, Nancye, and their three children with him. That will take an estimated $6,000, which he doesn't have. Thus the walkathon.

Whitehead left the of campus May 30 and arrived at the Ohio County farm of his parents, Edwin and Greta Whitehead, after walking non-stop for 54 hours and 20 minutes. He suffered more than 40 blisters, assorted cramps and some "mild hallucinations," he said. His father and brother, Brad, helped him the last mile or so. About 75 neighbors and friends were waiting to greet him. "It was the most positive experience I've ever had," he said.

It will take another week or so "to fully recover from the aches and pains and get back to normal," he added. Whitehead estimated the walk-athon netted about $3,000 from donors along the way and others interested in helping. He and, he hopes, the rest of the family are scheduled to leave for England July 2. government reported yesterday. ing trial lawyer, probably ran more unsuccessful races for major office than any other notable Kentuckian of his day.

He was also a consistent advocate of better schools, a crusader against the death penalty, an active supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and a friend of organized labor. In later years, he developed an intense interest in the problems of the elderly. In a career that spanned 50 years, Brown was elected to six terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives, serving as House speaker in the 1932 session early in his career and as majority floor leader in the 1966 session, the last time he would hold elective office. His election to the U.S.

House of Representatives in 1932 was the only time he won office in a statewide election. Kentucky congressmen were elected at-large that year and with nine seats open. Brown finished ninth and barely won a seat. Brown ran for the U.S. Senate In 1936, the first of seven unsuccessful races for that office.

His record also included unsuccessful campaigns for governor, lieutenant governor, the state Senate, and a final race for Congress in 1980, the year after his son had been elected governor. Gov. Martha Layne Collins, in a won the senior Kentucky State liffe, is operated by Murray State University. When Hernando de Soto explored the Mississippi River Valley in 1541, he reported seeing signs of human population throughout the area that is now Western Kentucky. But Jacques Marquette, on his trip down the Mississippi in 1673, found virtually no one in the same area.

Why the population developed there in the first place and then declined so dramatically are two of the questions the Illinois crews hope to answer. Tom Sussenbach said his fellow students and Berry Lewis, an assistant professor of anthropology, will try to date the various cultures they find in the area, determine how they relate to other areas and find out how they adapted to the area. From earlier surveys it is known that that the counties were inhabited by the Mississippians, who lived from 900 A.D. to the 1500s. The Mississippians included several North American Indian groups who lived along the river, in much of the Southeast and as far west as Texas, Sussenbach said.

The Missisippians belonged primarily to two linguistic families: Siouan, which was found primarily west of the Mississippi and spoken by the Sioux, Crow and Osage, among and Muskogean, which was spoken by the Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Mississippians were agriculturalists who grew corn, beans and squash, Sussenbach said. They also picnic in New York son, executive director of the Mississippi Society in New York, the smaller budget of about $6,000 to $8,000 meant there was one serious deficiency at the picnic no catfish. Newspaper editor, figure in Marshall Plan dies LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Charles A. Guy, editor and publisher of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from 1931 to 1972, died Saturday at Methodist Hospital after a lengthy illness.

He was 83. Guy was editor of the weekly Plains Journal 1925-26, then headed the combined Avalanche and Journal from 1926 to 1931 when he became editor and publisher, a position he held until October 1972. The younger Brown made no bones about the fact that his own career in politics was, in some respects, intended, to square accounts in bis father's behalf. His father had been a victim of the Democratic Party machine, the son would argue, taken down by men who were never his equal. The two men stood side by side that November night In 1979 when Brown won the governor's race.

Courier-Jour-nal Staff Writer John Ed Pearce would write: "And in a gesture at once trite and touching, the taller young man reached out and embraced the shorter, older man, and in the welter of emotions flicking across the father's face was a lifetime. "He nodded and waved, smiling' slightly, seemingly unimpressed by the familiar sounds of the crowd. Here was the old warhorse, the man who for 50 years had been a leader of the Democratic Party without being a part of it." Brown's success may have come in the 1966 General Assembly. As the Democratic floor leader, he helped Gov. Edward T.

"Ned" Breathitt push through a strip-mine control act and civil-rights legislation. He also led an unsuccessful fight to abolish the death penalty. Cycling Becknerville, the mallard duck nesting aboard boat The mallard that made a nest last month on the Zacha-ry Taylor II, a neighbor of the Belle of Louisville along the wharf at the foot of Louisville's Fourth Avenue, still is sitting on her eggs. The number of eggs has dwindled, however, and the nest has been moved to the stationary office boat of the Belle. Sonia Mullaney, one of the Belle office workers who have been keeping watch on the nest, said the nest was moved to the stationary boat because it might be endangered on the towboat's trips.

It was discovered in the move that there were only eight eggs instead of the 24 counted when The Courier-Journal did a story on the mallard three weeks ago. "We don't know what happened to them," Ms. Mullaney said. The eggs are expected to hatch in about a week. By TIM ROBERTS Cauriw-Jeumal Staff WrHar BARDWELL, Ky.

From bits of charcoal and pieces of pottery, archaeology students from the University of Illinois are attempting to write the history of the prehistoric people who lived on along the Mississippi River bluffs in Western Kentucky. The Kentucky counties along the Mississippi have never been extensively explored, the researchers say, and the area could yield a new understanding of the people who once lived along the river and throughout what is now the Southeastern United States. "We're looking into how these people evolved into some kind of tribal complexity," doctoral student Richard Edging said Friday. "It's a worldwide phenomenon, and it happened right here." The work, which will last through the summer, is taking place in Carlisle County northwest of Bardwell, where earlier explorers found two groups of Indian burial mounds, neither of which has been examined extensively. One crew of four Illinois students is being financed by the Kentucky Heritage Council.

Another crew of six is operating as part of the university's field school, which offers course credit for the work. The sites the students are examining are about 10 miles south of a Western Kentucky site that has been the focus of archaeological study since the 1940s. That site, in Wick- Mississippi Society holds a NEW YORK (AP) It's a long way north of the Mason-Dixon Line, and it was surrounded by buildings taller than most magnolia trees, but the 1985 Mississippi Day Picnic in Central Park drew about 1,500 former residents of the Magnolia State. Transplanted Mississippians competed in watermelon-seed spitting contests, listened to country music and picnicked on Southern fried chicken and potato salad. However, unlike past years, Saturday's picnic had no official presence from Mississippi.

Gov. Bill Allain turned down an invitation and there was no state funding. Allain said the benefits didn't justify the $10,000 to $12,000 spent on the event from 1981 through 1984 by the state Department of Economic Development. As a result, said Rachel McPher- statement released by her press secretary, said Brown "certainly will be remembered for his long and distinguished career in the law as well as for his years of interest and activity in public service." Brown was born Feb. 1, 1900, to tenant farmers, Jesse C.

and Lucy K. Brown, in rural Union County. He was named for John Young Brown, a Kentucky governor of that era. As Brown related incidents in his early life, a political career seemed pre-ordained. One ddy the county superintendent visited Brown's school and spoke of opportunity in America.

Placing his hand on Brown's head, the superintendent reminded everyone that "Someday, Johnny here could well be governor." While working his way through Centre, Brown was a member of the football, track and debating teams, joined Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and was elected to Omega Delta Kappa, an honorary leadership society. After graduating in 1921, he taught and coached in the public schools at Marion, for three years before enrolling in law school at UK. In 1929, Brown married Dorothy Inman of Somerset. They were to have five children, four daughters and the son who would later be elected governor. domesticated sunflower, May grass, goose foot and pigweed in what is now Western Kentucky.

The Mississippians also fished and hunted deer, turkey, raccoon and other game. The existence of mounds indicates that the early residents of what is now Carlisle County were politically developed because It took leadership and power to command' the labor necessary to build them, Sussenbach said. Funeral goods found in the burial mounds also indicate that some individuals carried more status than others. At one site, about a half-mile from the Mississippi River, the ground rises in three places indicating the location of the mounds. Village chiefs lived on these mounds, now eroded into sloping humps, but which once were flat-topped pyramids with ramps leading up to rectangular mud dwellings, Edging said.

The wide, flat area at the center of the mounds probably was a large plaza used for games, rituals and religious ceremonies. Scattered around the plaza and mounds were villages that owed allegiance to the chiefs. The archaeologists have dug several shallow pits as they remove soil and eventually, they hope, artifacts layer by layer, 10 centimeters at a time. The soil is sifted through a screen to remove artifacts. In one neatly dug pit at the edge of the plaza.

Edging scraped gently with a trowel and pointed to varying shades of color in the clay soil. Dark clay formed a circular pattern, which Edging said probably was created by the charcoal mains of a post in a village dwelling. By determining how many such posts there once were, Edging hopes to estimate the number of dwellings and the village's population, which he now guesses could have been as large as 300 to 600 people. From a distance the excavation sites are barely visible in the tall grass, which is inhabited by a large population of grasshoppers. The buried mounds and villages, once the scene of busy domestic life and commerce, stretch toward the horizon and the Mississippi in rolling hills.

Similar villages probably were built all the way to Wick-liffe. "It's very picturesque," Edging said. "It's one of the nice things about working here." His obsession with politics apparently led to the dissolution of his marriage. After bis three Senate races in the 1960s, Brown and his wife separated, eventually divorcing in 1973. Dorothy Brown died in 1977.

Brown also lost one of his four daughters, in 1970. Pamela Brown, an aspiring actress, tried to cross the Atlantic in a balloon with her husband and a pilot but they were lost at sea. The Pamela Brown Auditorium at Actor's Theatre in Louisville is named for her. His other daughters are Dorothy Ann Oxley of Sarasota, Betty "Boo" McCann of Lexington and Diana Johanson of Atlanta. He is also survived by a sister, Doye Sutton of Lansing, and by 16 grandchildren.

Brown always maintained that he loved his five children equally, but friends said he devoted the most time and the sternest discipline to John Jr. It was the father who would introduce the son to an old friend, Har-land Sanders, who needed a lawyer to help him franchise a fried chicken business. Instead, Brown Jr. bought out the Colonel and sparked the meteoric rise of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. i John Y.

Brown noted Kentucky lawyer and politician, One hundred received gold medals, 1,000 received silver medals, and the rest were awarded bronze medals in a ceremony held in Peking on Saturday, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. They were chosen by two magazines, China's Youth and Liberation Army Life under the theme of "ideals, hard work and dedication," Xinhua said. They include soldiers, peasants, workers, technicians, teachers and bureaucrats who "took up the cause of building and defending their hometowns or volunteered to work on remote frontiers," the report said. The Chinese government en-courges young people to work and settle in remote regions, rather than live in overcrowded Peking. dies at 85 The senior Brown's activities extended into other areas in the 1970s and 1980s, including putting together two energy companies for New York clients, involvement with a device to save gasoline and the mining of gold and diamonds in Africa and Latin America and research on aging.

Friends would joke that Brown prayed every night that a Lexington foundation he help set up would find the secret of aging in time to let him live forever. He smiled at the thought in 1979 and said: "I want to understand aging, not be physically young forever, but to function mentally as I did when I was young. I want to live, and when I can't function, I want to die." Brown was the fourth prominent political figure of his era to die in the past year. U.S. Rep.

Carl Perkins, former Gov. Earle Clements and Lexington attorney Edward F. Prichard proceeded him. Visitation will be at the W. Mil-ward Mortuary-Broadway in Lexington from 3 p.m.

to 9 p.m. today and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow. The visitation Wednesday will be at the Central Christian Church, 205 E.

Short Street in Lexington, from noon until 1:30 p.m. The funeral will follow at 2 p.m. By BOB JOHNSON Courier-Journal Political Writer John Y. Brown whose frustrated political career was fulfilled with the election of his son, John Y. Brown as governor of Kentucky, died yesterday at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville.

He was 85. A hospital spokesman said Brown, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident in December, died of pneumonia. He had been admitted to the hospital June 5. The former governor and his wife, Phyllis George Brown, and Brown three surviving daughters were with him when he died at 2 p.m. Brown Jr.

said last night that his father "influenced reform and change in politics" more than any other Kentuckian. "He was certainly my inspiration," said Brown whose 1979 platform included reform of the political system. Brown added: "More important, he was a good father to me." He described his father as a man with a cause, whether in the courtroom, the political arena or as an advocate of civil rights. "He always felt comfortable in the role of the underdog," he said. Brown a Union County native who became a prominent Lexington.