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4 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1991 Ex-director of public relations at Churchill Downs dies at 87 Raymond Johnson, former director of public relations at Churchill Downs, died Saturday at Nashville (Tenn.) Healthcare Center after an illness. He was 87. In 1971, Johnson became director of the publicity department at Churchill Downs, a job he held for eight years. Johnson also compiled the bloodlines book for Churchill Downs detailed information on the 3-year-old horses that are likely to qualify for the Kentucky Derby. coming to Churchill Downs, he was sports editor of The Tennessean in Nashville.

He began working at the newspaper in 1918, and was sports editor from 1936 un til his retirement in 1970. Johnson served as president of the National Turf Writers of America, Football Writers of America, Amateur Softball Association of the Americas and the National Golden Gloves Association. He was a native of Humphreys County, Tenn. Survivors include two sons, Robert and Gene Johnson, both of Nashville; and three grandchildren. The funeral will be at 2 p.m.

today at Woodlawn Funeral Home, Nashville, with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Park there. Visitation will be after 11 a.m. today. "3 t7 i i I III At I Gen. Ralph Zwicker, figure during McCarthy era, dies SHOWING OFF ITS WINGS: People looked over one of park yesterday.

The planes are part of the annual convention and promotes safety In agriculture and aviation. STAFF PHOTO BY DURELL HALL JR. two single-engine airplanes that landed at a Jeffersontown industrial Industry exhibition of the International Flying Farmers, which Peress left the Army after invoking the Fifth Amendment before McCarthy's committee when asked if he had ever been a communist. The Army closed ranks behind Zwicker after persistent accusations against him by McCarthy. Eventually he was ordered not to return to Capitol Hill, and Army Secretary Robert Stevens testified in his place.

After that, the McCarthy investigation of the Army lost steam. The Senate approved Zwicker's promotion to major general four years later on a 70-2 vote, with McCarthy voting no. Associated Press WASHINGTON Ralph Zwicker, a retired Army major general who figured in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1953, died Friday in a nursing home of a heart ailment. He was 88. Zwicker was a brigadier general and commander of Camp Kilmer, N.

when Sen. Joseph McCarthy, accused him of being "unfit to wear the uniform" because of the way Zwicker handled the honorable discharge of Maj. Irving Peress, an Army dentist. LOUISVILLE Anthony Bliss, former director of Metropolitan Opera, dies Associated Press NEW YORK Anthony Bliss, who modernized the Metropolitan Opera as its executive director and also was former co-chairman of the Joffrey Ballet's board of directors, has died, an opera spokesman said yesterday. He was 78.

Bliss died at a Canadian hospital on Saturday after suffering a brain hemorrhage, and he also had pneumonia, the spokesman said. A lawyer who was a Metropolitan Opera director since 1949, Bliss gave up his practice to become executive director in 1974, when the Girl, 3, dies after falling from moving car man; and four grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Tuesday, St. Anthony Catholic Church, 2222 W.

Market St. Burial: St. Michael Cemetery. Visitation: Ratterman's-Portland, 2114 W. Market 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Monday. Memorial gifts: Mass of the Air, American Diabetes Association or American Cancer Society. Oscar B. Stivers 70, formerly of Louisville, died Saturday at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in Owensboro. He was a retired district engineer for South Central Bell, where he worked 42 years.

Survivors: his wife, the former Juanita Mallette of Owensboro; a daughter, Delinda Givens of Mor-gantown; two sons, Thomas B. Stivers of Kansas City, and Henry A. Stivers of Lexington; three sisters, Minnie M. Stivers, Dorothy Craft and Violet Yeager; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Funeral: 11:30 a.m.

CDT Tuesday, James H. Davis Funeral Home, Owensboro. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Resthaven Memorial Park. Visitation: James H.

Davis Funeral Home, after 1 p.m. CDT Monday, and at Heady Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road, 6-9 p.m. Tuesday. Audie Edward Woosley, 66, died Sunday at SS. Mary Elizabeth Hospital.

He was a retired ramp serviceman for Eastern Airlines and a member of Maple Grove Baptist Church. Survivors: his wife, the former Betty Bennett; three sons, Joe, Monty and Richard Woosley; a daughter, Linda Newell; four stepsons, David Morris of Bartlett, 111., Raymond Cox, and Dennis and Chris Pfaff; and 11 grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Wednesday, Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home, 8519 Preston Highway.

Burial: Louisville Memorial Gardens West. Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Monday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday. From Staff and Special Dispatches CLIFTY, Ky.

A Todd County girl died Saturday after she fell out of a moving car on Ky. 181 about a mile south of Clifty in Todd County. Ashley Dawri Law, 3, died of head injuries at Muhlenberg Community Hospital in Greenville, Muhlenberg Deputy Coroner Jimmy Rolley said. According to state police in Madi-sonville, Law's mother, Pamela Mann, 23, of Elkton, was rounding a curve at 12:45 p.m. when one of the passenger doors opened.

Ashley fell out and hit her head on a guardrail before falling eight feet down an embankment. Other passengers in the car, Lori A. Law, Ashley's twin sister, and another sister, 4-year-old Tabatha R. AREA DEATHS there Saturday. She was a native of Hardin County and a member of Shively United Methodist Church.

Survivors: three daughters, Elsie M. Fish, Betty R. Hicks and Delores Moerdyk; a sister, Elsie Rogg; a brother, Charles Norton; nine grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nunnel-ley Funeral Home, 4327 Taylor Blvd.

Burial: Louisville Memorial Gardens West. Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Monday. Memorial gifts: Methodist Children's Home, 2050 Lexington Road, Versailles, Ky. 40383 or Wesley Manor.

Evelyn S. Lovely, 69, of 3412 W. Muhammad Ali died Saturday at the home of a relative. She was a member of Golden Star Baptist Church. Survivors: six daughters, Janette L.

Lovely of Greensboro, N. Doris Tennyson, Brenda Braddox, Gearline Wilson, Sharon A. Hinton and Oretha Lovely; three sons, Ronald James E. and Dale E. Lovely; a sister, Carolyn Pitts; two brothers, William and Clarence Brookins; 23 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Wednesday, W. P. Porter Mortuary, 2611 Virginia Ave. Burial: Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation: 4-9 p.m. Tuesday. Ronald Jefferson Matlock, 79, formerly of Louisville, died Sunday in Raleigh, N. C. Survivors: a son, Ronald J.

Matlock Jr. of Redondo Beach, a brother, M. Taylor Matlock of Montgomery, and two sisters, Elizabeth M. Eagles of Crisp, N. and Sarah M.

Stocks of Hookerton, N. C. Funeral: 2 p.m. Tuesday, Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, Raleigh. Burial: Rainbow United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hookerton.

Visitation: 7-9 p.m. Monday. Memorial gifts: Hookerton Rainbow Cemetery Fund, co Hookerton United Methodist Church, Hookerton, N. C. 28538.

James W. Page, 74, of 512 S. 16th died Friday at Hillcrest Healthcare Center in Jeffersonville. He was a native of Horse Cave and a retired employee of the old Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. Survivors: three cousins, H.

E. Davis of Boston, Mae Jenkins and Robert Davis, all of whom cared for him. Funeral: 1 p.m. Wednesday, King Solomon Baptist Church, 1620 Anderson St. Burial: Green Meadows Cemetery.

Visitation: Lyons West End Funeral Home, 3226 Vermont 7-9 p.m. Tuesday. May Phipps, 86, of 936 Barrett died Sunday at St. Anthony Medical Center. She was the former May Webb, a native of Hardin County and a member of Cecilia (Ky.) Baptist Church.

Survivors: a sister, Estice C. Herrmann. Funeral: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Arch Heady Son Funeral Home, 1201 E. Oak St.

Burial: Hardin Memorial Gardens, Elizabethtown. Visitation: 3-9 p.m. Monday. The funeral for Dorothy E. "Dot" Pollard, 69, will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at W. G. Hardy Valley Funeral Home, 10907 Dixie Highway. Burial: Eminence (Ky.) Cemetery. Visitation: 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Monday. She died Saturday. Marie E. Sanders, 76, died Saturday at SS. Mary Elizabeth Hospital.

She was the former Marie Bender. Survivors: a son, James E. Sanders; a daughter, Charlotte A. Stott- Lexington man killed; suspect charged Durrell Phillip Bates, 65, formerly of 1018 S. 29th died Sunday at Pavilion Healthcare Center.

He was a native of Canton, a retired employee of Metal an Army veteran of the Korean War and a member of Hickory Lodge Baptist Church in Canton. Survivors: three daughters, Yo-landa Angela D. and Cassandra A. Hayden; a son, Timothy W. Hay-den; a stepdaughter, Linda M.

Hayden; a stepson, Raymond E. Hayden; two sisters, Lorene Bates of Canton and Ollie Spence; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Thursday, W. P.

Porter Mortuary, 2611 Virginia Ave. Burial: New Albany National Cemetery. Visitation: 4-9 p.m. Wednesday. Wilbert Bradley, 56, of 2920 S.

Fourth died Friday at Humana Hospital-University of Louisville. He was a former employee of Pepsico and Allied Drum Co. Survivors: a daughter, Dina Cher-ice Gore; and a grandchild. Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Rowan Grevious Funeral Home, 1400 Beech St.

Burial: Louisville Cemetery. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. Tuesday. Eugene Whitley Bright 79, died Sunday at Baptist Hospital East. He was a native of Lexington, a retired sales manager for Fulton-Conway an Army veteran of World War II, and a member of Broadway Baptist Church, Executive Club of Louisville, Highland Kiwanis Club, American Turners and Port of Louisville Propeller Club.

Survivors: his wife, the former Lucille Sell; a daughter, Bonnie B. Taylor; a son, William W. Bright of St. Louis; and three grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane. Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery. Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Monday. Memorial gifts: church building fund or American Cancer Society.

James E. Collins 42, of South Louisville, died Sunday at SS. Mary Elizabeth Hospital. He was a bartender for Wyandotte Cafe. Survivors: his wife, the former Jackie Quinn; a son, Bradley T.

Collins; two daughters. Tammy L. Welscher and Lisa M. Collins; a brother, Steve B. Collins; his grandparents, Nancy B.

Collins and Earl Priddy; and three grandsons. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Burial: Evergreen Cemetery.

Visitation: 6-9 p.m. Monday. Mrs. James Stanley Cooper, 88, died Sunday at her home. She was the former Elizabeth D.

Denzinger and the former co-owner of Clarksdale Liquors. Survivors: her husband, James Cooper, and two brothers, Andrew G. Denzinger Sr. and Benjamin S. Denzinger Sr.

Visitation: Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial gifts: Mass of the Air. Robert L. Cravens 56, of South Louisville, died Saturday at his home.

He was retired owner of ABC Enterprises, past president of Sheet Metal Workers Local 110, former scheduling director for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association and a member of Excelsior Masonic Lodge 258, Kosair Shrine Temple and the Scottish Rite. Survivors: his wife, the former Emily Hamilton; two sons, Christopher Cravens and Robert L. Cravens two daughters, Becky Jewell and Diane Rihn; two sisters, Gerry Lee of Lexington and Rhoda Ar- LOUISV1LLE Durrell Phillip Bates, 65 Wilbert Bradley, 56 Eugene Whitley Bright 79 James E. Collins 42 Mrs. James Stanley Cooper, 88 Robert L.

Cravens 56 David Crider, 42 William E. "Eddie" Deely, 61 Kathleen S. Geswein Dye, 31 Emma Pearl Norton Goehrlnger, 81 Raymond Johnson, 87 (Story, this page) Evelyn S. Lovely, 69 Ronald Jefferson Matlock, 79 James W. Page, 74 May Phipps, 86 Dorothy E.

"Dot" Pollard, 69 Marie E. Sanders, 76 Oscar B. Stivers 70 Audie Edward Woosley, 66 nold; two brothers, Leon Cravens of Evansville, and Richard Cravens; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, Holy Name Catholic Church, 2914 S.

Third St. Burial: Louisville Memorial Gardens West. Visitation: Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor 4-9 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Tuesday. The funeral for David Crider, 42, of South Louisville, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Burial: Resthaven Memorial Park.

Visitation: 4-9 p.m. Monday. He drowned Saturday in the Ohio River near Greenwood Road. He was a self-employed auto body man and a Vietnam War Army veteran. Survivors: his mother, Ressie Spears; a sister, Kay Grant; and two brothers, Jim and Jerry Crider.

William E. "Eddie" Deely, 61, died Sunday at Baptist Hospital East. He was a retired operations manager for Kentuckiana Food Service. Survivors: his wife, the former Dorothy Russell; a son, Timothy E. Deely, with the Air Force at Fort Campbell; a daughter, Lisa D.

Am-shoff; his mother and stepfather, Cora Lee and William A. Whiteley; a brother, Joseph E. Deely; three sisters, Jean Peterson, Melva L. Cher-wak and Mary S. Brister; and four grandchildren.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church, 1104 S. Sixth St. Burial: St.

Louis Cemetery. Visitation: Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, 2-9 p.m. Monday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday. Kathleen S.

Geswein Dye, 31, of Floyds Knobs, formerly of Louisville, died Saturday from injuries she suffered in a car accident in Luverne, Ala. She was a native of Lanesville, and a secretary for Safeguard Business Systems. Survivors: her husband, James E. Dye Jr. of Floyds Knobs; two sons, Adam and Alex Dye, both of Floyds Knobs; her parents, Maurice and Anna Geswein of Lanesville; two sisters, Jane Geswein of Lanesville and Diane Kost of New Albany.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday, St. Mary of Lanesville Catholic Church. Burial: church cemetery. Visitation: Kraft Funeral Home, New Albany, 5-9 p.m.

Monday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial gifts: Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Emma Pearl Norton Goeh ringer, 81, of Wesley Manor, died Met's chances for overcoming financial difficulties were in doubt. He created the opera's media and marketing departments, and updated its fund-raising efforts with computers.

He also presided over its $100 million endowment drive in the early 1980s. Bliss was named general manager in 1981; from 1956 to 1967, he had served as president. Bliss remained the Met's executive director until 1985. He also was an original member of the National Endowment for the Arts and co-chairman of the Joffrey board of directors until 1990. Law, were not injured.

Police said no one was wearing a seat belt. Ashley was a native of Hopkins County. Besides her mother and two sisters, her survivors include her father and stepmother, Bobby and Christine Law of Elkton; her stepfather, Harold Mann of Elkton; another sister, Mandi N. Law of Elkton; a stepbrother, Jonathan C. Sharp of Elkton; a stepsister, Jessica O.

Sharp of Elkton; her grandparents, Frank Law and Margie A. Law, both of Allegre, and Emma V. Ruple of Elkton; a step-grandfather, Ollie Ruple of Elkton; her great-grandparents, Terothy Law and Annie Mann, both of Allegre, and Hubert Owen and Charlie Lamb, both of Elkton; and a step-great-grandmother, Eupha Owen of Elkton. Joe W. Garrison, 68, was arrested at the scene of the shooting and later charged with murder.

He is to be arraigned today in Fayette District Court. Neighbors said that Garrison sometimes stayed with a neighbor of Bosco's and that Garrison and Bosco had been feuding for about two years. Hooper Funeral Home in Beverly Hills, is handling arrangements. minor injuries by Emergency Medical Services. BREAK-INS, THEFTS Louiavlll 1400 block ol S.

Preston St. Mauttie Williams' apartment. Door and frame. Between Wednesday and Saturday. 900 block ol Logan St.

Clydeen Bowen home. VCR, microwave oven, telephone, cash. Friday or Saturday. 400 block ol S. Sixth St.

Margaret Oates' home. Silver, flatware, watch, pearls. Friday. 2100 block ol Date St Janet Batsel home. TV.

Wednesday. 4100 block of Third SI. Michael Crosby's home. Class ring. Saturday.

4300 block ol Taylor Blvd. Tammy Riggs' apartment. TV. Saturday. 4000 block of Churchman Ave.

Ouida Persley's home. Seven packages of hamburger, roast. Friday or Saturday. 4100 block of S. Second St.

Gary Gun-dell's home. Lawn mower, tools, toolbox. Between Thursday and Saturday. 300 block of Alger Ave. Elizabeth Malloy's home.

Picture. Saturday. 600 block of N. 32nd St. Pat Darcy's home Bicycle.

Saturday. 2300 block of Broedmeade Road. Bill Ridge home. Bicycle. Fnday or Saturday.

1200 block of S. First St. Stella Hughes' apartment. Video game system and cartridges, cash Saturday. 500 block of W.

Zana Ave. Charles Bush's home. TV, camera equipment. Saturday BOO block of Eastern Parkway. Ashley Marlowes home.

Backpack, book, other rtems. Saturday. From Staff and AP Dispatches LEXINGTON, Ky. A Lexington man died after being shot in his front yard Saturday, and another man has been charged with murder, Lexington police said. Gaspare Bosco, 44, was pronounced dead at the University of Kentucky's Albert B.

Chandler Medical Center just after 6 p.m., about 45 minutes after the shooting. CRIME REPORTS KENTUCKY DEATHS BEAVER DAM Mack Nery Embry, 81 BENTON Lucille English, 83; Anna Master-son Webb, 82 BEREA Ralph Bowman, 59 BOWLING GREEN Betty Allen Snodgrass, 70 BURKESVILLE Alma Crawley, 82; Maggie McCoy Lollar, 85 COLUMBIA L. J. Caldwell, 58 CORBIN Herman Roaden, 64 ELKTON Ashley Dawn Law. 3 EMINENCE Betty Louise Smith, 53 FRANKFORT Evelyn Maud McQurtty Man-ley.

56 GEORGETOWN Charles Blythe Cook, 55 GLASGOW James T. Dugard, 66 HARDINSBURG Beatrice Porter, 67 HARRODSBURG Ophia Goff Peavier, 93; Terry Lee Pinkston, 19 HOPKINSVILLE Mabel Joiner Collins, 84; John D. Keller, 79; Edna Barnes Pinson, 65 LEBANON Terry Albertson, 37 LIBERTY Marie Scott. 89 MANITOU Hattie M. Harris, 101 MARTIN Annie C.

Mullms, 60 MONTICELLO Cecil Alexander, 75 OWENSBORO Eldred Eugene Huskisson, 67; Charles David Langford III, 39; Oscar B. Stivers 70 RACCOON George Matthew McCoy, 89 RICHMOND Mary Pattie McBnde, 80 RUSSELL SPRINGS Lula Mae Coffee. 89 SCOTTSVILLE Mildred Izell Richards, 77 SOMERSET Chesley M. Godsey, 72 TOMPKINSVILLE Bess Hope, 94 VINE GROVE Pearl Gnmes Mingus, 94; Francis Gilbert "Gillie" Ray, 73 INDIANA DEATHS JEFFERSONVILLE Iris B. Key, 76.

died Sunday. Funeral: 11 a m. Wednesday, Kraft Funeral Home, New Albany. Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Tuesday.

NABB Efton Bower, 78. died Saturday. Funeral: 2 m. Tuesday. Grayson Funeral Home, New Washington.

Visitation: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday, after 8 a.m. Tuesday. NEW ALBANY Ralston Hardin, 61, died Sunday. Funeral: 1 p.m.

EDT Wednesday. Dill-man-Green Funeral Home, Marengo. Visitation: 3-9 p.m. EDT Tuesday, after 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday.

ROBBERIES 100 block of N. First St. Kiser Harrison said two men, one with a handgun and one with a sawed-off shotgun, approached him in his parked car and took $37 and a pager from him about 4 a.m. yesterday. 11th Street and Broadway.

Lauri Caufield said three men grabbed her purse, which contained $70, about midnight Saturday. 500 block of S. Western Parkway. Larry Garrett said that while he was making a Papa John's Pizza delivery about 11 p.m. Saturday, a man with a gun took an undetermined amount of money from him.

300 block of S. Fifth St Trenda Crowe said a man and woman to whom she gave a ride took two rings and $5 from her about 1 a.m. yesterday. 4200 block of Taylor Blvd. Ronald Prather said he was walking from a bus stop when four or five me attacked him, beat him with pipes and robbed him of $65 about midnight Friday.

He was treated for.