The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 9

The Courier-Journal, Tuesday, December 21, 1976 metro regional news business Following traditions at school IS MAKE I TRADITIONAL 1 TTTr, i I FT A STURDY A5I same thing "so they'll be ready" when they get to the 10th grade. By WANDA NICHOLS and LINDA STAIIL Courier-Journal Staff Writers Sheril Johnson has a reason to be proud as she looks around the Jefferson County Traditional Elementary School. Her entry in a contest to select a school symbol won, and now Tigger the tiger from "Winnie the Pooh" is everywhere. He's on all report cards and the school newsletter, Tiger's Tale. Sheril's drawing of Tigger is prominently displayed in the principal's office, and olher drawings of him are posted in the hall.

The contest that put him everywhere is one example of efforts to build student pride in the school at 1051 Hess Lane. Most students interviewed by a Courier-Journal reporter said the efforts seem to be working. But David Weller, a fifth-grader, made an extra effort to tell how he feels. Pulling the reporter aside as she was ending a day of classroom visits, David said in a soft voice, "I don't know how the cafeteria people do it, but they have the best food at this school of any school I've been in." To the three "R's" add a for patriotism and a for discipline and you have a reasonable approximation of the recipe for a traditional school. Louisville's traditional schools are at 1051 Hess Lane and in a wing of Thomas Jefferson High School.

STAFF PHOTOS by ROBERT STEINAU payday worked out Some teachers say the schools' emphasis on discipline is "just a return to good manners," as one put it. A reporter and the elementary principal were talking in the hall, and a student walked between them. A teacher who noticed this promptly scolded the child. A teacher recounting the philosophy of a religious reformer named John Wy-cliffe used the word vernacular. He stopped and called on a student to spell it.

When she said she couldn't, the teacher told her, "That's your assignment for tomorrow. Find out what it means, how to spell it and how to use it." He then resumed his talk. It was a world history class. But the lOlh-graders in it are kept on their toes in spelling and grammar. "It doesn't make any difference what you're talking about," said one student.

"You get graded down if you don't spell right." About 25 elementary students whose class performance or attitudes about school don't meet expectations have been put in a "home contingency plan." Parents and teachers give counselor Lina Beth Dorough a list of each child's responsibilities. The list is posted at home, and parents check off duties that are completed on a daily basis. If child meets all his requirements for the week, he gets an agreed-upon reward. Mrs. Dorough said students usually ask for a small allowance or for time alone with their parents.

She said the program is designed to last only until a child develops better habits. "It is easy to lie, but it is hard to tell just one." That saying is posted in the hall of the elementary school, and teachers and parents alike say they expect students to gain high moral standards. But Miss Shelton, the principal, said no time is set aside in class for the purpose of building character. Instead, she said, the faculty tries to get the idea across by setting a good example throughout the day. "You just can't preach at children," Miss Shelton said.

"They have to learn from your life." Robert Taylor, the fifth-grade teacher, said he tried to start his students thinking about morality on the first day of school. He said he asked them to remove the words "fight" and "cheat" from their vocabulary and to replace them with "love and respect." Urban renewal board re-elects Clarke Fenimorc Clarke Fenimore was re-elected yesterday as chairman of the Louisville Urban Renewal Commission, but City Law Director Burt Deutsch said last night he will soon file suit to remove Fenimore from the commission. The city administration contends that Fenimore holds the post illegally because he lives in St. Matthews not Louisville. Armed with opinions to that effect from Deutsch's office and the state attorney general's office, Mayor Harvey SUtane recently named Mrs.

Dann Byck Sr. to replace Fenimore, and the Louisville Board of Aldermen confirmed her appointment. Deutsch said last night, after the com mission unanimously reaffirmed its support for Fenimore, that the city will probably file suit soon after Jan. 1. The city will want the court to determine whether Fenimore is seated illegally, Deutsch said.

Fenimore, who contends that commissioners need only be members of "the community," said yesterday that he still does not plan to resign. He acknowledged that Sloane had asked him to step down. But he said Sloane has sent him no formal notice that Mrs. Byck, who was not at yesterday's meeting, has replaced him. Fenimore said he had not discussed the matter with Mrs.

Byck, whose family owns a chain of local clothing stores. In a telephone interview last night, Mrs. Byck said, "The city has not cleared up Mr. Fenimore's appointment, and that's that." "I'm not on the commission until he's off," she added. "My understanding was that I would not be going there (to commission meetings) until the issue is resolved." She said "I don't want to embarrass him (Fenimore) or myself." Fenimore was appointed to the commission by Sloane in 1974.

He assumed the chairmanship early this year. Also yesterday, the commission reelected Michael Carr as vice chairman. Beg your pardon Because of an editing error, a headline in the Accent section of ycslerdav's Courier-Journal failed to specify that it is WAVE-TV news that leads the latest loc ratings. votes 3,327 to 88 to accept contract Dispute over payless JCTA The Jefferson County Teachers Associ-atioi (JCTA) made it official yesterday, voting 3,327 to 88 in favor of accepting a new master contract with the county Board of Education. Although the teachers returned to work a week ago after voting overwhelmingly at a mass meeting to end their 10-day strike against the board, the JCTA constitution required approval of the tentative contract agreement by secret ballot.

About 74 per cent of the JCTA members voted at their schools yesterday, ac While the reporter was at the elementary school, another one was at the Jefferson County Traditional High School at 4401 Rangeland Road, in a wing of Thomas Jefferson High School. The traditional schools, which opened in September, stress the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic in an atmosphere of strict discipline. Here are a few of the visiting reporters' observations about the schools: Patriotism is emphasized. It's not a matter of "my country right or wrong" or "rally 'round the flag, boys," say the elementary school principal Shirley Shelton and James Taylor, her counterpart in the high school. Rather, they say, students are taught to love their country with the understanding that they can make it better.

One sixth-grade class has memorized all of President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address for a play the students wrote. "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country," they say in unison. In the same vein, some llth-graders who are designing their own class ring plan to use patriotic symbols, such as the eagle.

High school teachers say they cooperate in carrying out school goals. For example, one found that another is trying to train his lOth-graders to use ink pens for compositions. The first teacher began making his seventh-graders do the JCTA members who belonged to the credit union circulated recall petitions to oust the board, composed of two school administrators, two retired administrators, three teachers and a retired teacher. At a special meeting last Wednesday, the old board was recalled, and a new board of seven teachers and a bus driver was elected. Some administrators apparently have withdrawn from the credit union since the new board was elected.

Sharon Zimmerman, a Waggoner teacher who was elected board president, said the credit union would launch a membership drive. It has about 3,000 members out of the 12,000 eligible school employes. The new board also declared a bonus dividend of 14 per cent on shares, to be paid Jan. 1, she said. Staff Photo by Dan Dry Nobody is saying much in shooting of Outlaw V.V, ft 'v-V cording to June Lee, association president.

The contract approved by the teachers includes an 8.6 per cent wage increase, limits on class size and a guaranteed duty-free lunch period. The salary schedule is subject to annual renegotiation, but most other provisions of the contract are for three years. Mrs. Lee said that an agreement has been worked out with the school administration in a dispute that arose last week over paychecks for the period covering the strike. The family will be at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today. Sitting in a jail cell in the Jefferson Hall of Justice yesterday was Earl Mc-Guire 42, of the 500 block of West Whitney Avenue. He was arrested about 5:30 p.m. yesterday at his home by homicide detectives and charged with Cornish's murder. McGuire was hit in the left hand during the shootout.

Earlier yesterday, members of the Outlaws were also unresponsive to questions at their club house at 117 W. Kentucky St. The large, three-story house that doubles as the club house stands next to an empty lot. A big guy with a huge red beard and mustache cracked the door open a bit and yelled. "Yeah, what do you want?" he shouted.

"Nah, we ain't got nothing to say to you. Get away." He then slammed the door. Across the street from the Outlaws' hangout is the tavern where the shootout occurred. The bar is a one-story, redbrick addition to a three-story house. The soda-company sign in front says: "Jim's Place.

Live music. The bar, which is at 120 W. Kentucky was closed yesterday. The state Alcoholic Beverage Control officials ordered it shut down indefinitely at the request of city homicide detectives. Saturday's late-night melee was the latest of several recent incidents there.

Police records showed that since May there have been three shootings and two cuttings at the bar, which was the One Way Bar until recently. Police homicide detectives are still piecing together bits of the story to find out what happened. Sgt. Fred See NOBODY fAGE 2, col. this section Yesterday was also the first of four make-up days scheduled this week as a result of the time missed during the strike, and school officials reported that attendance was dow n.

David Espin, assistant school superintendent for pupil personnel accounting, said attendance was below normal in nearly all schools in the system, but he was unable to determine how much it is down. And it was learned that a dispute over the leadership of the Classroom Teachers Federal Credit Union, which grew out of the strike, has led to a complete turnover in its board of directors. In early November, when a strike was imminent, the old board voted to limit loans to the amount of a member's shares in the credit union until a new contract was signed with the school system. Face to face and her sister, mirror to apply in a Christmas v' avVv tableau held last Catholic Church Louisville. The two Some teachers who are paid on an annual, rather than on a nine-month basis, contended that part of their wages being held in escrow for payment in the summer months should have been released to them Friday.

Those teachers received no pay. Mrs. I.ee said the JCTA has distributed forms to the teachers that, when filled out, will authorize release of some of the money being held. The board, in turn, has agreed to pay the money "as soon as possible," she said, but it is not likely the checks will be ready before Christmas. Back paychecks for teachers' retroactive raises are to be paid Thursday, she said.

The JCTA is no longer planning court action in the dispute over last week's payday, she said. ante Sixteen-year-old Lisa Veigl, left, Laura, 14. share a double-sided makeup. The two were angels feiitHinWWWMW By BEN JOHNSON Courier-Journal Staff Writer Wayne Cornish's friends rode in cars to his wake last night. They left their motorcycles at the club or at home.

It was too cold to ride them. And it was snowing. About 50 people filled the chapel of Batterman's on Lexington Road. They sat or stood quietly, only occasionally whispering to someone nearby. Many of them wore leather jackets or blue denim vests.

On their backs were emblazoned: "Outlaws Motorcycle Club." A woman with long brown hair stood close to Cornish's coffin, sobbing loudly. Her jacket carried the hands-off warning: "Property of the Outlaws." Some of the members eyed a stranger suspiciously. They refused to talk about the Saturday night tavern shootout that left Cornish dead and three other people injured. "Try asking Wayne," one slim, bearded man said. "He's the only one who knows.

No one else knows anything." Cornish's hands were crossed over his body lying in the inexpensive casket. His silver-gun-mctal vest was on a hanger above him. Another denim jacket with the club emblem oh it rested on his chest. He wre a red plaid flannel shirt, open at th? collar. His beard and mustache were ecatly trimmed.

Cmlnish's funeral will be at 10 a.m. to-moriW at Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery'. Cornish. 31, of 1411 Old Mill Road, was a 'native of Frankfort and a veteran of the Vietnam War.

Survivors include a daughter, Christine Jeanettp Cornish, and his parents, Mrs. Ethel. Cornish and James Cornish Sr. night at the St. Stephen Martyr on Hess Lane and Pindell Avenue in are of the church..