The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 19

SECTION 2 16 PAGES TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1950 SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS W03IENS NEWS AND RADIO jotitrtial American Turf's '50 Profit Is $100,000 Less Than In '49 City Board Votes $33,130 Repairs At Talbert School Action Ends Proposal To Shift Pupils; Parents Are Reassured The Louisville Board Education yesterday voted to spend $33,130 for repairs at Mary B. Talbert School, Eighth and Kentucky. The board had considered moving the Negro pupils at Talbert to Mary D. Hill School, 542 W. Kentucky, and Association Dissolved; Downs To Be Independent Company, Corimi Says Net profit of American Turf Association on last year's operations was $100,000 less than that of the year before and less than half that of 1947.

The figures for the 1950 fiscal year, which ended February 28, were announced yesterday as the stockholders to I w- A If i-; 1 Xu ifr fife Point of Law Rarely Used Clears Driver Sober-Compaiiion Clause Is Cited In Drunk Case Citing a seldom-Invoked, point of law, James A. Hubbs, attorney, got a client cleared of a drunken-driving charge in Criminal Court yesterday. The defendant was Cpl. John R. Stanley, Fort Knox, who was arrested Januaj-y 14 at Seventh and Magnolia, and fined $100 last month in Police Court.

The case was in Criminal Court on appeal. The original charge against Stanley was drunkenness in a public place. Hubbs cited law to show a defendant should not be arrested on such a charge if he is in custody of a "discreet, sober person." No. Policemen Subpoenaed Stanley was with his wife when i for the Derby running ahead of last year's. The February 28 figure this year was $483,427, against $446,241 on the same 1949 date.

A former proposal to turn Churchill Downs into a nonprofit operation whose net income would go to charities or educational institutions was not discussed at the meeting. that plan the race track would have been sold to a foundation. Efforts to obtain a ruling from the Treasury Department on the tax aspects of the proposal failed. Presumably the plan now is dead. i.

y-x- Farnsley Succeeds Barry On Democratic Committee Mayor Charles Farnsley was elected a member of the Democratic County Executive Committee last night. Precinct committeemen and committeewomen" from the 40th Legislative District selected Farnsley to succeed the Courier-Journal Photo RIDES in a Louisville Nashville Railroad diesel locomotive were the rewards Bob Baughman, 12, of 3703 Nanz, left, and Tommy Owen, 18, Lyndon, received for selling the most tickets to Boy Scouts' Wali-ga-zhu April 28-29. The boys are members of Scout Troop 115, Beargrass Christian Church. Scouts To Take Part In Circus Here A Wali-ga-zhu that's what Boy Scouts call a circus will be staged at the State Fairgrounds April 28-29 with 6,000 members of the Louisville Area Council of Scouts a delegation from Hill added that students there get wet going to their lunchroom, which is in a separate building. Carmichael said the 92-year-old Monsarrat School, abandoned several years ago, is unfit and unsafe, has no toilets in the main building, and less playground space than Talbert.

Estimated cost of restoring it would be he said. On the question of making Hill a Negro school, Carmichael said a survey showed a very small percentage of homeowners in that area are Negroes. To Take Bowman School The program of repairs at Talbert includes new roofs and floors, interior and exterior painting, installation of a fire-alarm system, concrete-block foundations for four portables, refin-ished furniture, and a resurfaced playground. The board voted to take over the Bowman Field School June 30. Property in that area was annexed by the City in December.

The Louisville board will pay the Jefferson County Board of Education $8,622. half the amount spent by the County board in 194S to renovate Bowman Field School. On recommendation of Carmichael, the Louisville board approved an arrangement for letting 5-year-olds "sit in" on first-grade classes next fall. Age Deadline Changed Although technically they will not be first-graders, those who are considered ready for second-grade work by June, 1951, will promoted. The age deadline for first-graders provided in State law recently was changed frorn January 1 to September The board's arrangement will accommodate children now in kindergarten who will not be 6 by September 1, but who will become 8 between January and June, 1951.

Otherwise they would have to remain in kindergarten another year. Four-year-olds were admitted to kindergarten last September if their fifth birthdays were by January 1. To avoid this mix-up in the future, only those children who are 5 by September 1 will be accepted in kindergarten next fall. the police arrived to investigate a minor automobile accident in which Stanley's car figured. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Carl Ousley agreed that Hubbs point of law was well taken, and since the arrest on the original charge was invalid, the defendant was not liable on the drunken-driving and reckless-driving charges which later were placed against him.

The Police Traffic Bureau was not represented in the courtroom, and Capt. Lloyd Chadouin, head of the bureau, said later that none of his men had been subpoenaed. Ousley said this was a. clerical oversight. Witness Failed To Appear One of the arresting patrolmen.

Ray Stith, later confirmed that the soldier was with his wife, who had not been drinking. He said the arresting officers could not testify that Stanley had been driving while drunk or driving recklessly, since they had not seen him do so. Stallard Hill, 517 S. Clay, with whose car the soldier's collided, did not appear as a witness against him in Police Court last month. In Police Court yesterday two Fort Knox soldiers were fined $100 each for drunken driving.

Didn't See Warning: Sign They were listed as Sgt. David Cochran, 21, arrested March 12 on Walnut at Fifth, and Pvt. Leon Steele, 19, arrested January 31 on Dixie Highway. A student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was ordered to Traffic School yesterday by Quarterly Court Commissioner Thomas Young. Police said the Rev.

Quentin Lockwood, 27, drove too fast through a school zone at Middletown School on Shelby-ville Road March 1. Lockwood said he didn't see the warning sign. expected to participate. The 10-act circus, a part of the national observance of Scout-ings' 40th anniversary, will feature such unique acts as a simulated tornado, chariot racing, and Indianwarfare with American pioneers. The opening pageant will carry out the theme of the Wali-ga-zhu, "Strengthen Liberty." The pageant will depict the march of freedom in this country from the time of the Pilgrims to that of the United Nations.

Other acts will include a con cert by a 200-piece band, a Scout-craft display, wall scaling, and camping. Performances will start at 7:30 p.m. each day in the Horse Show Pavilion. The Louisville Council is composed of Scouts from Jefferson and 18 surrounding counties. Out-of-town Scouts will camp at the Fairgrounds during the circus.

General chairman of the circus is Robert L. Schmitt, 130 N. Bayly. met at Churchill Downs race track, the association's sole active enterprise. Net profit for the association's last three fiscal years, after provision for taxes and other charges: 502,310 1949 609,812 1948 1,064,111 Profit from operations for the three years, before provision for taxes and other charges: 1950 720,142 1949 980,007 1948 1,897,100 Much pf the drop in the figures between the fiscal years ending in 1949 and in 1948 was accounted for by the sale of Lincoln Fields race track, Chicago, September 22, 1947.

The 1949 figures are for the first year of operation of. Churchill Downs only, whereas 1948 included Lincoln Fields operation. Expenses Are Steadier Operating expenses followed a more even course in the' three years, although last year's were highest: 1950, 1949, 1948, $543,779. Earnings per share of stock were $1.31 for the latest year, $1.59 for the year before, and $2.78 for the year ended in 1948. In an action not related to the profit trend, the stockholders voted yesterday to dissolve the association.

This will eliminate a no-longer-needed stockholding company. Churchill Downs will not be affected. Association stockholders will exchange their shares for those, of Churchik Downs, one for one. It was understood the step would result in lower expenses doing away with the association's Chicago office, for example and in certain tax savings. After the dissolution plan was approved, Bill Corum, president of the association and the Downs, "Churchill Downs will be operated as an independent corporation.

The ass'ets of American Turf not necessary for the operation of Churchill Downs will be liquidated as a result of a virtually unanimous vote of American Turf stockholders." The vote was 293,873 shares to 3,661. All Officers Re-Elected Liquidation of cash assets of the association will provide about $4.50 a share to be distributed to the stockholders. In addition they will be in line for pc -share payments estimated at between $2.50 and $3.50 from the sale of real-estate holdings in East St. Louis, 111., and Chicago. Current market value of Churchill Downs stock is about $9 a share; of Turf stock, between $16 and $17.

All officers and directors of American Turf were re-elected at the meeting, and Thomas Graham, Louisville securities dealer, was added to the directorate. It is expected that the Turf officers and directors all will take corresponding ijosts in Churchill Downs when that company meets shortly after the Kentucky Derby May 6. The association's'balance sheet showed advance sales of tickets Baptist Training Group To Meet In Ashland The State Baptist Training Union Convention will meet April 12 to 14 at First and Pollard Baptist Churches, Ashland. The Rev. Carroll Hubbard is pastor of First Church and the Rev.

Donald Wells is pastor of Pollard Church. The convention is sponsored by the training-union department of the Baptist State Board of Missions, and will be presided over by the Rev. Francis R. Tallant, Central City, president of the convention. Bridges Jury Held Overnight.

San Francisco, April 3 (U.R) The Harry Bridges jury was ordered locked up for the night tonight at 10:15 p.m. Picture Windows Urged For Back-Yard Scenes Too many Americans are looking at their front yards who ought to be looking at their back yards a speaker told an Associated Home Builders of Louisville meeting last late John J. Barry. The precisionlike procedure took less than 3 minutes at Democratic headquarters in the Tyler 'Building. It was a major victory for Farnsley, who often has been at Ex-Chief Sues To Regain Job At Owensboro Accuses City Officials, Others of A Conspiracy Owensboro, April 3 (P) Vernie Bidwell, discharged in February as Owensboro's police chief, today accused City officials and others of forming a conspiracy to get him out of office.

Bidwell brought the charges in an appeal to Daviess Circuit Court from his dismissal by Mayor Fred L. Weir and the City commissioners. He charged that the officials have ordered police, since his dismissal, to hold off on enforcing gambling laws against some offenders while enforcing them against others. Bidwell's charges then stated that "policemen are following and obeying" that policy, "and as a result many forms of gambling in many places are flourishing in the City of Owensboro, unmolested." All Charges Denied Bidwell's petition to the court for reinstatement as chief of police denied all charges of "misconduct, inefficiency, violation of the law, and dereliction of duty" on which he was dismissed February 6. Named "conspirators" with Mayor Weir were Commissioners O.

E. Meredith and Leroy Woodward; V. J. Steele, president of Owensboro Broadcasting on The Air, operator of station WVJS; James A. "Fletcher" Ferguson, a retail liquor dealer; State Senator E.

M. Ford; Police Detectives M. Stuart Lambert and H. O. Whittinghill, and W.

M. Gabbert, assistant chief of police under Bidwell and now acting chief. 2 Youths Held In Rape; Police Seek A Third Sanford Goodman, 19, of 1710 Tyler Street, and Delbert O'Neil. 18, Greenville, were arrested yesterday on rape charges. Detectives A.

J. Miller and John Guter-muth said the pair and a third youth, still sought by police, forced a 19-year-old woman into their automobile Friday night and raped her. The woman identified the men. O'Neil admitted his part in the rape, Miller reported. Complaints on Streets and Take Over 100 to Mayor's shifting Hill pupils to Monsarrat, California, and Strother Schools.

Superintendent Car-michael promised about 20 Negroes at a noon meeting of the board that "Talbert will be clean, will have clean furniture, gas heat, improved toilet facilities, and modern lighting," when school opens in September. Head Protests Among those at the meeting were members of the Talbert" who complained to the board several weeks ago of conditions at the school. After the board's decision yesterday, Mrs. Margaret Yeager, Talbert president, protested that no matter what repairs are made at Talbert, "our children will still have to be out in the rain several times a day going from building to building." The school consists of wooden portable buildings. The superintendent told her that 144 portables are in use at various schools, housing 8 or 9 per cent of the total school enrollment.

Mrs. Howard Hicks, who headed 'Tater Day' Is Successful Despite Rain Benton, April 3 CT) Heavy morning rain whittled the crowd very little today as Benton staged its 108th annual "Tater Day." Approximately 4,008 persons milled about the Courthouse and were busy in a swapping ring as if the sun were shining brightly. The swapping ring was a flashback to the old days. Mules and horses, pocket knives, musical instruments, and other things changed hands. Seed sweet potatoes were on hand, too, and sales were brisk.

"Tater Day" was founded in the early 1840's so farmers could buy or sell seed potatoes in an organized manner. At first the activity was limited to the yam" business. Then general swapping was started and before long the day had become a high light of the year for Benton and Marshall County. Curter-Jfarnal Photos. MRS.

DENNY ELMORE Seesaws jolt pictures dler, 129 N. Fourth. Because there is no playground in the primarily commercial area in which they live, their children are in almost constant danger, they said. They told the Mayor of the death last Tuesday of 10-ye9r-old Charles Lee Metzmeier when a makeshift swing collapsed near their homes. A safe playground is needed, they pleaded.

Morgan suggested one might be established on the grounds of the wharfmaster's office at Third and River. "Get some playground equipment down there tomorrow morning," the Mayor ordered. Weather Delays Project Playground problems also were placed before the Mayor by John Logan, 4018 Grand, and W. F. Hase, 1036 Eastern Parkway.

Logan asked that a playground at 36th and Virginia be lighted and a softball diamond be added. Funds for the diamond will be requested in the Parks Department's new budget, and "we'll see what can be done about the lights," Morgan said. Hase complained that work on a new playground at Lincoln School for Negroes near Burnett and' Shelby has been delayed. Morgan agreed, pointing out that clearance from the School Board had been obtained only recently. "Now the weather is holding us up," he added.

But both he and Farnsley promised that work will get under way "as soon as the weather permits." Haze and other residents of Eastern Parkway also complained about the deep gutters built years ago along the parkway by the Works Projects Administration. THOMAS GRAHAM Added as a director. odds with the executive committee during the past two years. Farnsley was not present at the meeting because of a Beef Session. Later he said: "I appreciate if (the election) very much.

I was a great friend and admirer of John Barry. It's a great honor be chosen to succeed him." McKay Reed, chairman of the executive committee, added: "We're very much pleased." Farnsley was eligible for election because he lives in the 40th Legislative District. Mrs. Margaret Morris, 4323 S. Second, acting chairman, opened the meeting, attended by about 50 persons, by asking for nominations.

Constable Glenn Rushing of the Second Magisterial District, said: "I nominate Charley Farnsley." Seconded by Sternberg J. Lee Sternberg, 531 W. Hill, seconded the motion and Mrs. Mary Melvin, 4025 S. Fifth, moved nominations be closed.

L. B. McDevitt, secretary of the group, cast one vote for Farnsley to make the election official, according to party procedure. Mrs. Morris then said: "The meeting is now adjourned." The Democratic-neadquarters organization, and Mrs.

Lennie W. McLaughlin, secretary of the committee, have in the past disagreed with Farnsley on various issues. They fought against nis election by the Board of Aldermen in March, 1948, to succeed the late E. Leland Taylbr as mayor. They fought against the occupational tax initiated by Farnsley.

Farnsley met opposition from headquarters when he proposed the creation of a City commission to buy the Louisville Railway Company. Seated 2 Candidates In December, 1948, the executive committee seated only two of four candidates running for the committee on Farnsley's ticket in four contested 'legislative districts. John W. Crimmins, organization chairman for the executive committee, charged in January, 1949, that Farnsley had cut off patronage and employee's contributions to Democratic headquarters. Crimmins said then: "This is the end as 'far as I'm concerned." But two months Taier the organization as represented by Reed and Mrs.

McLaughlin announced their suppoi-t of Farnsley for the Democratic nomination for re-election. Farnsley at that time said he had "extended an olive branch to the organization." Legislators Do Post-Mortem On 950 Session The performance of the 1950 session of the General Assembly came in for some post-mortem comment here last night by three State senators. "Legislators should have more freedom," declared Republican Senator Freeman L. Robinson, who represents Jefferson County. "The time has got to come," he told members of the Beechmont Civic Club, "when the executive branch of the Government will stop encroaching upon the Legislature." Senator Edward C.

Gallagher, Louisville Democrat, defended the General Assembly's record. 'Proud of Our Record "I don't know how some people can call it a 'do-nothing Legislature'," said Gallagher. "We worked hard, passed some very good bills. I'm proud of our record." Senator C. W.

A. McCann, also a Louisville Democrat, defended the Legislature's refusal to provide the $12,000,000 extra demanded by Kentucky's teachers. "The teachers wanted more money, yes," he said. "Sure, we all want more money. But when the teachers descended on us, there just wasn't any money in the kitty for them." The club voted to try to obtain a traffic signal at Southern Parkway and Woodlawn, and to have resurfaced a short strip of street between Fourth and Central and Fifth and Longfield.

night. The speaker was Thomas A. Clarke, regional sales promotion manager for Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, Toledo. He talked about glass in construction, including the large "picture windows" in many modern homes. Sees Streets Out Front "Too many of the picture windows are misplaced.

There are no pictures. Or at least no pretty ones. "The idea of such windows is to give the occupants of the house a good view. Most picture windows are built on the fronts of houses and what do people sea? Concrete streets. "Most of us put in time and labor making our back yards attractive.

Why not put the living room on the back of the house and also the picture windows?" Clarke suggested. Suggests Bigger Panes Besides the view, this would have the advantage of privacy, Clarke said, since passers-by Dope Sentence Is Year and Day Leroy Keel, 48, was freed of charges of selling marijuana by a Federal Court jury yesterday. Keel was charged with selling and transferring 63 grains of the hemp. The Government charged that Kenneth Owens, 19, Negro, 725 W. Walnut, bought marijuana cigarettes from Keel the night of March 3.

Later, after a search of Keel's quarters in a trailer on Eighth between Walnut and Cedar, police and federal agents failed to find marked money Owens is supposed to have given Keel. Owens pleaded guilty to the charge of possessing the marijuana and was sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison. Mayor, Aides To Seek Police Institute Funds Attempts will be made this week to get clearance for funds to start the proposed Southern Police Institute. Mayor Charles Farnsley said yesterday that he, President John W. Taylor of the University of Louisville, and Safety Director John Moremen will go to New York today to confer with officials of two foundations asked to help finance the institute.

The institute, which would be established jointly by the University of Louisville and Louisville Police Department, would serve 11 Southern states. Man Robbed of $75 Gun R. C. Williams, 36, of 972 Swan, reported to police he was slugged and knocked down in the 200 block on East Market at 7:45 p.m. yesterday.

A gun valued at $75 was taken from his pocket. He said he borrowed the gun from a friend and was returning it. He was treated at General Hospital for a head injury. would hot be staring into the living room. Clarke criticized the marty-paned windows seen especially in houses of Colonial design.

"They let in less light and mean much more work in cleaning," he said, "since a window of such panes contains four corners for each one." March Is First NoFatality Month Since Last July Last month was the first since July, 1949, in which no deaths from traffic mishaps occurred in Louisville. Records of the Police Traffic Department also showed yesterday there were only two other "no-fatality" months September, 1946, and June, 1947 in the past six years. Five fatalities in the first three months of this year was the lowest number for any like period in the past four years. One death, 47 injuries, and 932 accidents were recorded for March a year ago, compared with 1,109 accidents and 75 injuries last month. Tom Wallace To Speak Tom Wallace, editor emeritus of The Louisville Times, will address Shawnee Unit 193, American Legion Auxilitary, at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday at the post, 28th and Main. Mrs. Walter Berger is chairman. LIGHTNING STRUCK the yesterday and caused a fire Evansville, Ind, edifice. Playgrounds Beef Session 'They are so deep our car bump-zts scrape, and when there is ice 5r snow in them we get stuck." he added.

City Engineer W. W. Sanders told him he would take up the matter with the State Highway Department, which maintains Eastern Parkway. Mayor Orders Holes Filled Edward Balz, 3902 Garland, told the Mayor it was the third time he had come to the beef sessions to ask that a vacant lot at 39th and Garland be filled in to eliminate hazardous water holes. Sanders explained it was private property, and the City had been unable to find the owner.

"Send someone down there to fill up those holes, and let the owner sue him," Farnsley said. Speeding traffic was the concern of R. J. Barry, 149 Samuel, and Mrs. L.

Schaaf, 1359 Dixie Highway. Barry suggested that a four-way stop was needed at Texas and Goss, where "there was a serious accident last night." A survey will be made, he was told. Mrs. Schaaf said several serious accidents had occurred at Dixie Highway and St. Louis.

Traffic Engineer Wilbert F. Watkins and Farnsley told her they would "lobby" the State Highway Department in an effort to get a traffic-actuated signal installed at the corner. It's up to the Highway Department because it maintains Dixie Highway, they explained. A delegation of residents of the 6000 block Third were told work would be begun "before May 1" on eliminating and grading an old roadbed there. Third Street was relocated recently.

DON DOBBINS What about bets at track? 3Ian Questions Bookie Shutdown Seesaws that "knock the pic tures off the wall," poison ivy, betting at Churchill Downs, and a handful of playground, street, and traffic problems brought a hundred or more citizens to the Mayor's beef session last night. Children playing on the see saws "right outside my bedroom i in Westonia Park "knock the pictures off the wall," Mrs. Denny Elmore, 114 N. 29th, told Farnsley. At her suggestion.

Parks Director T. Byrne Morgan said he would see if pnother spot could be found for the up-and- down trade. R-fin? Is State Matter Don Dobbins, 3216 Kirby, told the Mayor "I don't play the bookies myself," but the current crackdown on handbooks led him to question why betting is any more legal at Churchill Downs than in the books. Allan Schneider, an administrative assistant to the Mayor, explained the Kentucky Constitution specifies that all gambling is illegal except at race tracks licensed by the State. "It's a State matter over which the City has no control," Farnsley added.

The poison ivy entered the session when a delegation of residents of the 100 block on East Amherst Avenue appeared to see what could be done about getting their street resurfaced, a street light installed, and something done about drainage of the street. R. G. Hacker, 143 E. Amherst, and Mrs.

Charles Brawner, 151 E. Amherst, declared poison ivy grows rampant on an unimproved section of Tenny Avenue behind their homes. Children get in it and have to be put under the care of doctors, Mrs. Brawner said. She added that she took the matter up with the Parks Department last summer and was given the name of a chemical to spray on it to kill it.

The chemical only made the stuff grow more, she added. Street Repairs Promised The upshot was a promise that the drainage on Amherst will be checked, street repairs made, a street light installed, and the poison iyy sprayed until it disappears. In addition, Farnsley suggested that a well-planned, organized playground be built at the end of Amherst on Douglass Park property which the delegation said had been offered for such use. Morgan said he would see about it. Quick action also was promised Mrs.

Edward Miller. 127 N. Fourth, and Mrs. Albert Chan- Associated Fretf Wirrphota steeple of 101-year-old Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church which left only the walls and pews standing in the downtown.