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7 Regional news Deaths The Courier-Journal, Sunday morning, February 24, 1985 MEMO Heart implant opens door to long recovery, Humana's Lansing says tients, he said that the actual surgery is just the beginning. "One of the. things we got the Barney Clark experience that; helped us on the medical team is that we realized when the heart was put in, it wasn't over," he said. "It was just starting. The jubilation and the euphoria that occur when, everything is going fine we feal-; ize that's temporary.

Sooner or laler something will happen thatWJli; change things, and you have to tjve with that." I Clark suffered neurological dam-', age from a seizure on the sixth day; after surgery and eventually died, from circulatory collapse after, sev-; eral organs failed. Schroeder had a stroke 18 days; after surgery that left his memory-impaired and his speech In addition, he developed flulike symptoms and a depression three', weeks ago that have prevented bim from leaving the hospital for "halfway" house. Schroeder's condition was much' improved last week, however, and his doctors said it was possible that' his departure could be scheduled for as early as this week. Haydon's course, from the stir-; gery itself to his postoperative recovery, has been "uneventful," DeVries said. It took three hours and 43 min-See IMPLANT PAGE 3, col.

1, this section By MARY ANN FRENCH Curir-Jumtl staff Wrttar When life depends on pieces of plastic and metal, an "uneventful" week can be exciting. Murray P. Haydon's first week of life with an experimental artificial heart was smooth, with no major medical or mechanical complications. His doctors will now be guarding against the risk of infection and a blood clot in his lungs, said Dr. Allan M.

Lansing, director of Humana Heart Institute International. The retired auto-assembly worker from St Matthews continues to recover steadily and has "perfectly normal" vital signs, according to Dr. William C. DeVries, who implanted the heart a week ago at Humana Hospital Audubon. Haydon, 58, is the third patient to receive an implant from DeVries.

The surgeon has permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to perform four more of the procedures. The first was Seattle dentist Barney Clark, who lived for 112 days with the permanent artificial heart after a 1982 implant. William J. Schroeder, 53, of Jasper, has had one of the mechanical devices since Nov.

25. Both Clark and Schroeder experienced serious medical complications during the experiment. Although DeVries cautioned Friday that it isn't valid to compare the pa WM If I cr Stiff Photet by Bill Klght Sousley. is buried. Behind Rosenthal, from left, were Brig.

Gen. Richard Trotter: Goldie Price. Sousley's mother: Maj. G. K.

Cunningham; and Maj. Craig Nesbitt. Yesterday, the 40th anniversary of the Iwo Jima flag-raising, photographer Joe Rosenthal addressed the crowd at a memorial service in Elizaville, where one of the men Pfc. Franklin R. Retired teacher recalls glory of Central High as an all-black school Fight and its famous illlliilpr "fii Each Sunday during February, Black History Month, The Courier-Journal has presented a story about the history of black people in Louisville.

Early in this century, educator Carter G. Woodson conceived what he called "Negro History Week" to spotlight contributions by blacks to society. By BETTY WINSTON BAYE Ceuriar-Journal Staff Wrltar A warm glow lights up Victor Kent Perry's face when he reminisces about the 44 years he devoted to teaching physics at Central High School. His recollections are a mixed bag of historical facts and anecdotes about the old days when Central was an all-black school. Central was founded as a school for Negroes in 1882, opening at Sixth and Kentucky streets.

It has been moved several times, but since 1962 it has been at Eleventh and Chestnut. The old school was once known as Central Colored High. "Colored" remained part of its official name until 1945, when students asked that it be deleted. For several years after 1956, when Louisville's "freedom-of-choice" plan for public-school desegregation went into effect, Central remained an all-black school. III lv ff -'Vim ill r-r it iHl-rYt I Lorene Day held a framed version of the famous photograph as she and her husband, Bob, listened as photographer Joe Rosenthal spoke.

The Days are from Morehead. Name fails to describe all of auto show's parts Staff Photo by Mary Ann Lyons Victor Kent Perry Keen Interest in students Some local historians claim that' Central and other public schools in Louisville were slow to integrate because, in the early years of desegregation, many parents black and white asked that their children See RETIRED PAGE 6, col. 1, this section Because of a typing error," a story in yesterday's Courier-Journal misspelled the name of Unoka Frisby, a Democratic candidate for. 8th District constable. photo are By EVERETT J.

MITCHELL II Courltr-Jiurnal Staff Wrlftr ELIZAVILLE, Ky. When Joe Rosenthal photographed five Marines and one Navy Corpsman as they raised the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima, he had no idea of the impact it would have on future generations. "I did not do the fighting," said Rosenthal, who was an Associated Press photographer when he took the picture on Mount Suribachi. "I had only a small part of that event which attracted attention to the men who gave so much. "I was merely a recorder of history." Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of that flag-raising on Iwo Jima.

Residents of Elizaville, a small town in Fleming County in northeastern Kentucky, joined Marines and Marine recruits to honor Pfc. Franklin R. Sousley, one of the Marines in Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning picture, at a graveside ceremony. Rosenthal, of San Francisco, and Goldie Price, Sousley's mother, also were on hand. Rosenthal, 73, reflecting on the events leading to the famous pic of the winner of a national "Mr.

look-alike contest. His name is Tony Hardy and he sits, pen in hand, scowl on face, at a table between the A-Team stunt van and a giant photograph of the real Mr. T. Then, for $3, a fan can pose for a self-portrait with the "Jumpin' General Lee" the bright orange speedster that keeps television's "Dukes of Hazzard" out of jail. For an additional $3, picture yourself next to the stunt motorcycle in the country.

In the mid-1970s, when the music was at the height of its popularity, The Bluegrass Alliance was consistently rated by various magazines as one of the nation's best. Lonnie Peerce, now 61, was the short-haired fiddle player that night at The Storefront Congregation. He had founded the group in 1968, and he was its leader and the man behind its name. Last Friday, Peerce sat in the living room of his home on First Street and recalled some of the musicians who came and went through the years of the Alliance. Their names are a Who's Who of bluegrass music.

They included guitar players Dan Crary and Tony Rice, mandolin and fiddle player Sam Bush, banjo player Courtney Johnson and others Darrell Sanson, Danny Wiley, Glenn Lawson and Chuck Nation, to name a few. "Probably the best group I ever had, both singing and lnstrumen-tally, was Sam Bush, Tony Rice, of I in at he recalled ture, said luck helped him get the picture. He had been photographing the Marines from the time they set foot on Iwo Jima, Rosenthal said. "It was a very rough beach; opposition fire was very heavy mortar fire, cannon fire," he said the landing. "I had been going back and forth from the beach to the ship for several days as the fighting wore on to get and send film for processing.

On the fifth day, when was on my way back, I heard that a unit was climbing Mount Suribachi." Rosenthal headed for the extinct volcano. "There was no real path up the mountain it was sort of a meandering path," he said. "As we were climbing the mountain, every once a while somebody would yell, 'Take or "Fire in the as grenades were tossed us." On his way up, Rosenthal said, met a fellow photographer, Louis Lowery of Leatherneck magazine, who told him he was too late. "He told us he already got a pic-See IWO JIMA PAGE 3, col. 1, this section used in the television series "Streethawk." Then circle around the "Fall Guy" four-wheel-drive pickup truck and "K.I.T.T.," the computerized, talking car from the series "Knight Rider." In addition, the authentic Bigfoot car-crushing 4x4 monster truck is parked inside, one front tire sitting on the smashed roof of a Chevy Im- See NAME PAGE 2, col.

1, this section Johnson, Ebo Walker and myself," Peerce said. That was the bunch that brought about a change in the way blue-grass was played a move to what music writers called "progressive bluegrass." And that was the group with which traditionalists such as Bill Monroe took exception. There was a time when Monroe wouldn't allow The Bluegrass Alliance to take part in his famous annual festival in Beanblossom, Ind. Monroe said it was because they had long hair; others said it was because they sometimes got ovations as loud as those for Monroe. That version of the band broke See FIDDLER PAGE 3, coL 1, this section Lonnie Peerce, the man behind The Bluegrass Alliance, recalled the musicians who came and went through the group.

Staff Phat fey etannRvthwltrd Beg your pardon mirrorlike finish of every hood and fender in the place. But the show, which ends tonight, is billed as the largest of its kind in the world and visitors have a lot more to do than marvel at more than 650 of the nation's top street rods, custom jobs, race cars, vans and trucks. A whole lot more. For example, Louisville-area youngsters have a rare opportunity to get a genuine autographed photo By HUNT HELM Couriar-Journal Staff Wrltar What can be said about Carl Casper's 24th annual International Championship Custom Auto Show that isn't already part of its title? Thousands of people are learning the answer this weekend at the Kentucky State Fair Exposition Center. The faces of Astonishment, Delight and Envy are reflected in the Because of a reporter's error, a story in last Sunday's Courier-Journal said President Andrew Johnson made a military appointment in February 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was president then and made the appointment. Fiddler plays most tunes from memory now Glenn Rutherford Courier-Journal IkT columnist One Friday evening more than a decade ago, two unsuspecting friends sauntered into a small place on Bardstown Road, since demolished, called The Storefront Congregation. On a tiny stage in the narrow room were four young musicians with long hair and one much older fiddle player without It. At first, the group was a curiosity, In those days, it was highly unusual for a close-cropped, middle-aged country musician to fiddle with a bunch of long-haired kids. But these five musicians were filling the place with such beautiful, exciting music that the friends, who'd wandered in for just one Mason jar of beer, wound up hanging around till closing time.

The group was called The Blue-grass Alliance, and the music it made, as you might expect, was bluegrass country or folk music in three- or four-part harmony, made with acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and bass. It's the music your grandfather might have listened to or even made himself on a front porch. It's the music people in this part of the country had for entertainment in the days before multiplex stereo and MTV. And it's the music of Kentucky born, by some accounts, in Grayson County and nurtured in Appalachia. 1 For 11 years, The Bluegrass Alliance, in one form or another made that kind of music about as well as any group in America.

It traveled all over the country and sometimes visited Canada. It hit every major bluegrass festival a.