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The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky • 18

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J'J '0 tel" rrr "SV Page 18 THE LEXINGTON HERALD Wednesday Morning April 14t 1954 Jailer's Grandson Is Struck By Car Charles a 12-year-old grandson of County Jailer Press Eades 1636 North Limestone street was treated at St hospital last night for a head cut suffered when he was struck by a car while walking along the road Driver of the car that struck the boy county police reported was Clarence Bell 38 of 617 High-lawn drive Bell told the officers he was driving north at about 30 miles an hour when his car struck the youth who was walking on the right side of the road Officers quoted Bell as saving he did not see the boy until his struck him He stated he Kiwanians Told Of Navajo Indian Customs The Navajo Indian's customs and mores were discussed yesterday by Paul Jones interpreter for the officials and the Navajo Council in Window Rock Ariz at the Kiwanis Club meeting Jones a Navajo stressed the Importance of education among his people A divisional meeting of clubs from Berea Fleming County Georgetown Irvine Mt Sterling Paris Richmond Versailles Winchester and Lexington also was held District Governor Robert A Blair and Lt Governor Farris Adams Paris were on the inter-dub program William Murphy was inducted as a new member President Penrose Ecton presided at the Lafayette hotel meeting Accused Accessory Given 10-Day Term A man accused as an accessory In last week-end's safe-breaking at Webb Brothers Distributing Company 260 East Vine street drew a 10-day jail term yesterday when the charge was amended to breach of peace Julius Stevenson Crutcher Negro 28 of 610 deRoode street was accused of warning one of the safe-breaking suspects James March Jr that police were looking for him and of taking $1183 air 1:11 ISi Colas (treat Unl-tM coll Milll Doris 5 dnd on nrrlrol of quad Coum of death unknown 4:3 lit Weal Hlh (tract Occu- £ant of apartment Freds Watte Food ift on a tore 1:03 330 Perry (treat Occupant Scarce Hulett Defective oil cook etove 6:41 Shawneetown Pa lie alarm Window Is Broken A broken plate glass window was reported to police last night by Shepherd operator of a restaurant at 606 South Broadway Shepherd told officers a car passing the restaurant lost a hub cap and the metal disk bounced through his plate glass window He set his loss at $50 mMwuMMMW Patient Escapes Fred Amatheur 64 escaped from the Veterans Administration hospital here Monday night or early yesterday the hospital reported to police They said the man a native of Cincinnati is not considered dangerous Child Is Injured Marilyn 6-year-old daughter of Bodin 110 Woodland avenue was treated for a head cut yesterday at Good Samaritan hospital Attendants said he was hurt in a falL Businessman Faces Payroll Tax Charge Tne owner of a Lexington heating supply company was summonsed yesterday to appear in court next Tuesday on a charge of failing to withhold the one per cent payroll tax from his salaries police reported Summonsed was Charles Owens owner of the Wholesale Heating Supply Company 823 Pine street He will answer the charge before Police Judge Thomas Ready Owens was charged specifically under RCO 2882 the city ordinance dealing with withholding the 'tax and was served with a warrant obtained by the City of Lexington His is the first such charge since the ordinance became effective July 1 1952 Medical Men Will Gather Here Thursday The program for the fourth annual County Society Conference of the Kentucky State Medical Association Thursday at the Phoenix hotel will open with a welcoming address by Dr Rankin Blount president of the Fayette County Medical Society Attending the conference will be representatives of all county medical societies members of the KSMA house of delegates KSMA committee chairmen officers and councilors and board members of the Auxiliary to KSMA Dr Duffy Hancock president of the Kentucky State Medical Association will preside at the morning session and Dr Clyde Sparks president-elect of KSMA will be the presiding officer of the afternoon session Channel 18 Okayed For Station WLEX WASHINGTON April 13 WV-The Communications Commission today granted effective immediately the application of the Central Kentucky Broadcasting Company WLEX for a new Channel 18 television station in Lexington Ky A hearing examiner recommended the grrnt on March 10 Silhanek Chosen Fred Silhanek Lexington a senior in the University of Kentucky College of Commerce was chosen last night as a representative of the 1954 graduating class to serve on the UK Executive Alumni Board next year Board members selected Silhan-eck from seniors In the Colleges of Arts and Sciences Agriculture and Home Economics Engineering Commerce Law Education and Pharmacy The selection was made at a Lafayette hotel meeting Sale! Airlume All Steel VENETIAN BLINDS In 78 Sixes PTA PRESENTATION Luther Jones right principal of the Loiayeite Junior High school was awarded a lifetime PTA membership last night at the school's auditorium meeting by Mrs John Muter president of the organization This is the highest award presented by the Parent Teachers Association (Herald Photo) NEWMAN Cf L'B The University of Kentucky Newman Club a Catholic student organisation elected new officers last night at the Student Union building meeting New officers seated left to right are Bill Miller Louisville president and Marian Frey MaysviTIe secretary Standing left to right are Joe Flster Lexington vice president and Tom Nunsn Winchester treasurer (Herald Photo) stopped immediately A companion of the Eades boy Bobby Winkle 145 Northwood drive was uninjured Man Who Falls Asleep In Theater Is Locked In A fully awakened and very relieved man thanked police and walked away from the Ben All theater shortly before midnight last night after having been locked in the darkened building almost an hour after it closed The man unidentified by police had apparently gone to sleep in the theater and was overlooked when employees closed for the night He was found attempting to open the theater's glass front doors from the inside by Patrolmen Charles Cruse and Prather Walker Officers considered telephoning the theater manager to open the doors until Patrolmen Louis Fowl-er and Bill Lewis instructed the stranded man to go to an emergency door at the side of the theater The emergency door opened from the inside Officers described the man as being elderly but well dressed and speculated he had slept through the closing They reported they checked him carefully and then released him without learning his name Manchester Man's Condition Is Critical Frank Marcum 48 Manchester was listed in critical condition early today at Good Samaritan hospital where he was admitted with a bullet wound in his head Attendants said the man was brought from Manchester arriving here after midnight today The bullet they said was appar-i ently lodged in skull The wound was thought to be Look Your Finest In the EASTER PARADE Send the family wardrobe in NOW have them expertly cleaned end finished ready for the Easter parade Save The Cost Of New Clothes DRY CLEANING Is an investment thru wy end 54" Lg 0n8 I Urns 79 Id each Keep Cool and Comfortable under CANVAS AWNINGS Tailorod-fo-aiMsvra Complete Service Moderate Cost Phone 2-5948 for SAMPLES fir ESTIMATE NO OBLIGATION 23 Are Initiated By Club Women The Lexington Business and Club Inc initiated 23 new members last night at a meeting at the Lafayette hotel New members are Mra Mary Lewis Brown Mias Nella Bailey Mrs Genevieve Carl Mrs Anne Castxier Miss Hazel Chrisman Miss Jane Clancy Miss Lois Duihenil Miss Laura Ford Mrs Evelyn Greer Miss Elizabeth Hartsfield Miss Lillie Highfield and Miss Nell Lake I I Miss Marlfe Ledford Miss Joy McCuddy Miss Pat McG ruder Mrs Gladys Meadors Mrs Aileen Moss Mrs Maxine Schenks Miss Valeria Schoenbachler Miss Maud Thornton Mrs Bette Tilley Misa Bettie Tuttle and Miss Sula Warner Margaret Rowbotham chairman of the membership committee had charge of the induction ceremonies Mrs Helen Phelps president unarm II I GlC in nickels stolen In the break-in to keep for him March and two other men were later arrested in connection with the safe-breaking Yellowstone National Park is two and one half times as large as the state of Rhode Island ONLY THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR CHILD PANY Phone 4-8755 377 Main St explained that he planned to discontinue no course Dr Davis noted that participation in some courses mathematics Latin and others had lagged but that attendance had increased under renewed interest In other actions the board voted to restore an inter-communications system to specifications for the new Clays Mill elementary school and appointed a committee to meet later this month to consider bids for school busses The appropriation to the city-county board of health was increased from $8000 to $9500 for the next fiscal year and a request from Transylvania College to borrow folding chairs for the convocation at which President Eisenhower will apnear was approved A resolution was adopted by the board In connection with the observance this week of Teacher Appreciation Week the devoted service that you are rendering to the youth of our the board said want to express our sincere appreciation f6r the contribution you are making to the general Teacher Appointments Delayed The board deferred the annual appointment of teachers until the May meeting of the board and in another action announced that bids on the Linlee school cafeteria addition would be opened at 2 April 26 Attendance of Edwin Ward assistant superintendent for business affairs and Louis A Yandell supervisor of transportation to separate conferences was approved Ward is attending the Southeastern School- Business Officials Conference in NewOrleans and Yandell is in East Lansing Mich for the National Transportation Conference Dr Turpen was granted professional leave to teach at the University of Tennesee from June 14 through July 20 Members of the hoard were invited to a dinner-open house-band program at Bryan Station school May 6 A motion to consider the transfer of certain annexed Blackerby subdivision to the Lexington city school district was tabled for the time being The March payroll totaling $135-04363 was approved and the board also voted to replace a truck used by the maintenance foreman Bids Awarded Bids were awarded for classroom chairs teachers desks and folding chairs for the newr Clays Mill and Yates schools and to meet needs at Lafayette Junior high school and Linlee school Employed as teachers for the 1954-55 school year were Misa Helen Head and Mra Mary Smed-ley Clays Mill Miss Evelyn Phillips Mrs Reeda Farney Miss Nancy Potect and' Mrs Robert Welsh Picadome Mrs Jessie Ringo Lafayette Junior and Misa Charlotte Van Deren Kenwick Resignations accepted by the board Included Mrs Evelyn Dum-mit Bryan Station Misa Lois Lynn Van Meter on leave of absence now Mrs Barsha Howard Kenwick and Mrs Marlon Baker and Mrs Lou Ann Durbin Picadome Members of the Youth Government Day school board at the meeting were David Brumagen superintendent for Dr Turpen' Huett Tomlin assistant superintendent for Ward Patsy Guilfoil board member for Dr A Whitehouse Malinda Clark daughter of Mrs William Clark Jr board chairman for her mother Arnold Grider for board member Tom Catlett Martha Erie Heiser for board member Jay Wallace and Gaynelle Vance for board member Joseph Morford County Schools Adjust To DST Fayette county schools will open an hour earlier beginning April 26 to conform to voluntary or resolution daylight saving time in Lexington The earlier hours were approved last night at the monthly meeting of the-county board of education which also voted to approve the voluntary polio vaccine trials here this month In acting on faster school time the board noted that its surveys had shown in the past that it was preferred among parents of school children by a ratio of at least three to one The board In approving the vaccine trials stressed that participation was voluntary a matter for parents to decide for themselves The Athens Parent-Teacher Association school improvement committee appeared before the board to ask when the proposed new gymhasium and cafeteria for the school might be built They were told however in an explanation by Dr Turpen county superintendent that the project had not been suspended but had been deferred for lack of money Committee members said they worked for passage of the county system's special building fund tax and were somewhat discontent now that the needed addition at the school has not been forthcoming Turpen Explains Dr Turpen explained that when a court decision proved that the county would not get the $4000-000 anticipated from the tax pressing needs mostly additional classroom space had to take precedence He assured the committee that the project had not been dropped entirely The Athens committee also petitioned the help in an attempt to reduce traffic hazards In the community where the road runs between the two school buildings They were assured that the board would help in every way it could The committee asked about the status of the water supply at the school and Dr Turpen explained that a large storage tank placed there would be connected to alleviate the situation The tank had not been connected pending a survey of the possibility of a city water line in the area Members of the committee appearing before the board were Kelley chairman and spokesman Mrs Sharp Mrs Stanley Couchman Mrs Claude Rhorer Charles Baesler Jr Roy Stivers William Guilfoil Charles Stivers Jr and Grider Athens principal Lafayette Principal Heard Dr Davis principal of Lafayette High school appeared before the board to answer inquiries about reported plans that several courses would be 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