The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 15

TELEVISION, RADIO, SPORTS, FINANCIAL AND COMICS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1970 SECTION mtttt 7l 'I- A Full House mxmn mm Dundee Dame9 leads aldermen to homes near controversial quarry its limestone mining operations under the city's Trevilian Park. Area residents are objecting and Mrs. Bendl, of 2403 New-burg Road, is applying to the new cause some of the energy that appears to have all but won the Dundee school fight. The aldermen on yesterday's trek shied away from discussions of any conclusions they might have reached on the mine issue, but Benovitz sounded as though he'd be uncomfortable if Mrs. Bendl decided to run for alderman in her home ward.

back. Benovitz promised the abandoned car would be removed Monday. The group also visited the homes of Chester Jennings, a former alderman and a member of the Riverfront Commission, and Henry Ward, a former Kentucky highway commissioner and gubernatorial candidate, in the well-to-do Colonial Hill Road area. Mrs. Jennings and Mrs.

Ward told the visitors their homes had suffered damage, apparently from the blastings. The aldermen are considering an ordinance to allow the company to extend Hill showed the aldermen some cracks in her ceiling that she said are filled in about once every two years but keep coming back. Then she took advantage of her captive aldermanic audience to air a few other gripes. She showed the group the effects of i air pollution on her windows and pointed out a junked car that's been left in a wooded area owned by the city near her home. "This is Stanley's ward," Witten said, laughing and clapping Benovitz on the there is no way the company could be mining under their yards without the owners' knowledge.

The worst damage appeared to be heavy cracks in the walls and basement floor of a small white stucco house at 3794 Illinois, about a half mile from the mine entrance. Leo J. Herm, owner of the house, told the Alderman he had poked a yardstick two feet into the crack in his basement but couldn't find the bottom of it. Mrs. J.

B. Marshall, of 3003 Colonial By JOE WARD Courier-Journal Stafl Writer Hubert H. Greenwell was relaxing on the couch of his modest home at 4002 Illinois at 5:10 p.m. yesterday when his wife opened the front door and announced, "Dear, here's the board of aldermen." Greenwell got to his feet and stood there buttoning his shirt and blinking his eyes while more than half of the Louisville Board of Aldermen, two reporters and two photographers, filed in behind Gerta Bendl. Mrs.

Bendl, leader of the "Dames of Dundee" in the Dundee-area school districting dispute, was on another campaign this time to convince the aldermen that they should not permit the Louisville Crushed Stone Co. to expand its quarry under her neighborhood. eigh-In egins High-Quality Leaf Crop Has Growers Optimistic The Greenwells live directly across Illinois from the entrance to the cavernous limestone quarry, and they had expected company, just not that many and not that soon. The crushed stone company paid them damages a few years ago when several window panes in their basement were broken by a blast, and they'd agreed to talk to the aldermen about it. Mrs.

Bendl led seveu board members, including aldermanic president Carroll Witten and Third Ward Alderman Stanley V. Benovitz whose ward the mine and neighborhood are. in through five residences purportedly damaged by quarry blasts. She had a list of 16 more they could examine if they cared to. The aldermen looked at cracks in ceilings, floors and walls and heard stories about jarring blasts at noon and 4 p.m.

each day. They assured two homeowners floor." He expects the floor to be well filled by opening day. One young tobacco farmer predicted that this year's burley will bring $76 or $77 per hundred. "The quality is better this year than last," said Gary Conder, 17, of Grayson County. "It rained when we needed it and didn't rain when we didn't need it." Stifling the enthusiasm somewhat at the Louisville warehouse were fears of the continuing campaign against cigarette smoking.

None of the farmers interviewed seemed too concerned about the ban on television advertising beginning Jan. 1, but several mentioned the threat of the federal" government removing its price support. "Price support is the farmers' bread and butter," said R. J. Chism, of Meade County.

"We need the price support, and if the government quits that, it'll be bad." By FRANK ASHLEY and LARRY WERNER Courier-Journal Stall Writers Kentucky's tobacco warehouses came to life yesterday with the rustle of burley leaf and the chatter of farmers, who were thanking the weather for an early, high-quality crop. During the first weigh-in day for the 1970 crop, tobacco men in Lexington the state's largest burley market and Louisville seemed optimistic about the price they will get for their product when sales begin Nov. 23. A good growing season and favorable stripping weather have yielded a crop that should bring a price better than last year's belt-wide average of $69.54 per hundred pounds, according to those interviewed. In Lexington, warehousemen generally described the burley as not fancy, but very usable a term often used by buyers to describe tobacco of good all-around cigarette-manufacturing quality.

"It's a good crop," said Prewitt Van Meter, floor manager at the Geary-Wright Tobacco Co. on South Broadway. "It will be a good selling crop because it's so Smokeless Stacks Railroad Bridge belie the bustle of activity that will come with the completion of the highway construction project. THE HIGHWAY SUPPORTS along this unfinished stretch of the Riverside Parkway (1-64) near the south end of the old Pennsylvania He'd Rather Paint His Farmhouse a Mount Washington Its Reluctant Hero By LARRY WERNER Courier-Journal Stall Writer MOUNT WASHINGTON, Ky. It's been a long, busy life of civic devotion for J.

Edgar Fisher. Now that he's 79, retired and wants to spend his days quietly painting his rambling farmhouse, the townspeople of Mount Washington are making a big fuss over his contributions to the community. The mayor has proclaimed this week Edgar Fisher Week," and the Mount usable." Van Meter said his company has been unloading between 150,000 and 200,000 pounds of tobacco a day for the last five days. Down the street, at the New Burley Warehouse, floor manager W. O.

Lamb predicted that this year's crop will bring slightly higher prices than last year's. This was also the opinion of farmers interviewed while unloading at Lexing- ton warehouses. Willard Mullannix, of Georgetown, called his 7.4-acre crop "the best I've i' had," and suggested that though it weighs less than last year's, the better quality should bring a better price. This was also the story in Louisville. I "We think our average price will be better this year because our crop is bet- ter," said Morris Smith, manager of the 5 New Burley Tobacco Warehouse on Pop- I I Jar Level Road.

"The rain made the tobacco grow fast, and that makes it thin," he said. "It's going to be a good, thin crop of tobacco. I Smith said the favorable stripping I has resulted in more tobacco 1 being readied for market earlier than he has ever seen. "At this time last year, we didn't have any tobacco on the floor," he added. "Now, we've got two days' sale on the Praise for the city's No.

1 citizen has been the rule this week in the shops and on the sidewalks of the town's Main Street. But the topic of conversation is removed from it all at his 150-year-old home. He says he's too old to maintain the pace that kept him about town and involved in civic projects for many years. Now he lives with his daughter and keeps active by painting and splitting logs. When a visitor comes, he'll take a break from his chores and reminisce.

"They had a tannery shop here at one time, and a blacksmith's shop," he said. "When the electric car line came out to Fern Creek, we had a fella here who ran a little Ford and took passengers there. "We've gone a long way since then," he added. If you ask, Fisher will tell you how he helped the community. While running a general store, Fisher decided that Mount Washington needed a high school.

Despite objections by the Bullitt County Board of Education, he Fiiies Ruling to Honor But with the humility that people love in their heroes. Fisher said, "I don't want to be a public figure." Want it or not, Fisher is probably the most public figure living in Mount Washington. A lifelong resident of the area, he has been involved in nearly every stage of the community's development. "The old gentleman has been the backbone of the community all his life," said Mayor Sidney Griffin. "You won't find one out of a thousand like him." Stall Photo by bryan Moss a i tmmummmmmMMU Stall Photo by James N.

Keen spent $4,000 of his own money and succeeded in establishing the school. When the city decided it should have a fire department, Fisher worked for that and became Mount Washington's first fire chief. When residents expressed a desire for funning water, Fisher helped organize a town board that secured city water, even though Fisher to this day drinks the water he gets from an outside pump. "I didn't need water," he said. "But some of my neighbors did." Fisher also helped raise money to bring electricity and gas lines to the city, in addition to his long tenure as PTA presi-, dent.

Because of this long list of contributions, the Mount Washington Lions Club of which Fisher is a charter member-voted to sponsor the day of recognition. But there was one dissenting vote. "I was against it from the beginning," Fisher said of today's program. "But there were 50 guys there, and I was only one." tinuing to sell certain merchandise on Sundays. Jefferson Circuit Judge Marvin Sternberg said after the ruling that the high court's instructions on fines would have to be formally brought to his attention before they could be imposed.

Contacted by a reporter yesterday, RMA attorney Winfrey Blackburn said the Court of Appeals will likely forward a "mandate" formal notification to Sternberg sometime next week. Blackburn said the RMA would then follow "as fast as we can" with a request for a hearing before Sternberg to hear evidence relating to the fines. The Court of Appeals ruled that violating stores must forfeit at least 50 per cent of the total gross sales for each day of violation as a penalty. Officials of a number of the local stores named in the case have voiced uncertainty over whether they would continue to operate tomorrow. Blackburn said the RMA would wait to see if any other stores were open tomorrow before deciding to bring additional legal action.

Beg Your Pardon Jack Kenneth Dayton of 6209 Orion Road, his son, Jack Kenneth Dayton and the firm of Jack Dayton Son, 743 E. Main, are defendants in an accident damage suit filed in Jefferson Circuit Court. A story in yesterday's Courier-Journal erroneously said they were "named as plaintiffs." Dr. Armand E. Cohen was killed in the accident and the suit was 1 filed by his wife, Mrs.

Jean K. Cohen. IIII1II7 illllj it' jfi mi Veterans Day Parade Starts at 11 Today Delay Likely on Action Against Sunday Sales Washington Lions Club is sponsoring a day of recognition today, when a banquet, parade and a mock Civil War battle will be staged in his honor. "It's embarrassing to me," Fisher said, taking a break from his painting. "I don't know why they picked me for the goat." They picked him because he organized a fire department, a town board, a high school, a water district and served for 21 years as president of the PTA in this Bullitt County town.

self, and it would not be long before the exemptions would be the rule." Earlier this week, the board had tabled requests for exemptions from five cities in the county Northfield, Seneca Gardens, Lyndon, Anchorage and Shively. The board indicated then that it wanted to wait until county government decided where it stood. C. Milton Young III, board chairman, said yesterday that he is "quite happy" that Hollenbach "is living up to his commitment. "It's been demonstrated that Joe Citizen has put his back to the wall and it looks like county government is going to the wall with him." Young declined to say what impact Hoi-lenbach's announcement would have on the five cities' request for exemption, as provided in the ban.

However, Young I Tfr The FIRST from swirling Baylor of New during the University of Louisville's annual Veterans Day i Parade will start at 11 a.m. today, moving west on Broadway from Brook to Ninth. Ten armored units from Ft. Knox, a 1 band and color guard from the 100th Division (Training) Army Reserve, and 1 -10 National Guard units will participate 1 along with schoolchildren, veterans and others. A reviewing stand for city and county officials and military officers will be set up between Sixth and Seventh.

Sandman at Work DONNING HIS mask to protect himself clouds of sand he creates, Robert Albany, then bends to his work construction of a new building at the Louisville at First and Brandeis. Judge Calls Pick-Up Successful Won Try to Lift Leaf-Burning Ban One of the attorneys for the Retail Merchants Association indicated yesterday that it would probably be "next week sometime" before the RMA seeks to have court fines imposed on 16 Louisville area stores. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the stores should have been held in contempt of court for con- After three days of the county pick-up effort Saturday and this week, Hollenbach said it was an "impossible situation." But yesterday he told reporters that Works Director Friend Lodge had assured him the crash collections made "great efforts and strides." The judge praised "thousands of citizens" for bagging their leaves, mulching them and disposing of them in ways other than burning. Hollenbach also' predicted that his decision would be "an unpopular one" in light of a multitude of complaint calls his office has received this week. However, a member of the judge's staff told a reporter that there had been "thousands" of calls, but that they appeared to be about equally split between those favoring the burning ban and those opposing it.

County i JAMES NOLAN courier-Journal Staff Writer Saying that industry has begun to do its part to combat air pollution and now it'S th citizens' turn. Jefferson County Judge Todd Hollenbach announced yes- lUUgC JL vVt-U 1" tprdav that he will not seek to have the new ban on burning leaves uilcu all He said this week's leaf pickup by the County Works Department on a crash basis was more successful than expected. And he noted that County Commissioner Tom Helm is negotiating with the National Guard and the Army's 100th Division reserve unit to join in clearing away the remaining leaves. The judge again said the county cant afford the $3,000 a day it costs to provide this week's pick-up service. Hollenbach said at an afternoon press conference that he decided against seek- said, "We won't completely close the door on any community." He also predicted that the problem of leaf disposal will "run much more smoothly" next year.

One of the criticisms of the month-old ban by some local officials was that it caught the city and county governments unprepared to deal with the mounds of leaves that people weren't allowed to burn. The city attempted to solve its problem by having Sanitation Department crews pick up bagged leaves and deposit them in the Ohio Street dump. The county's problem, on the other hand, was complicated by the fact that it doesn't have a department for the regular pick-up of trash. Crews that handled the pick-up this week normally patch roads and sidewalks and work on drainage projects. ing a burning-ban exemption for most of the county "because of the absolute necessity that pollution be controlled and our air once again be made pure." He also noted that private citizens Hvou and me cause more uwn Jitui i 0 0ur pollution." He said an expensive ef- ion Dy iucai inuusmes ima suu.

the last few months" in reducing indus trial air pollution by 30 per cent. If the county had sought exemptions so loaves could be burned in all incorporated and unincorporated areas but Louisville, Hollenbach said, the result would have "quickly eroded" the "moral of others concerned about pollution." The judge told newsmen that "even greater pressures would be brought to bear against the (Louisville-Jefferson County) Air Pollution Control Board it-.