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THE COLA MINAL. LOUISVILLE. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 12, 1965 SECTION 2 Abbott Jurors Seated Venue Change Denied: Jury To View Scene Associated Press Cincinnati--The seating a jury to try Robert R. Abbott, 21.

for first-degree murder was completed yesterday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court after the defense exhausted its six peremptory challenges. Judge Louis J. Schneider said the jury will be sworn today after an alternate juror has been chosen. Testimony is not expected to start until Monday. The judge also overruled defense Attorney Harry Ilwain's motions for a change of venue and for a year's continuance of the case because of publicity after the body Miss Wanda Cook.

24, Bellevue, was found last Oct. 21 in a trunk at the Cleveland railway terminal. Reporter Called Schneider said he felt that "publicity follows any case wherever it and that the questioning goes prospective jurors did not show any of them had formed a firm opinion about Abbott, a salesman from Dayton, Ky. While the motions were being argued, prosecutor Melvin J. Rueger called Robert Ryan, a television reporter, as a witness and questioned him about a news conference Abbott gave after his arrest the night of Oct.

26. Ryan said he was contacted at station WKRC and that Patrick Flannery, one of Abbott's attorneys, was present at the news conference in jail at Newport, Ky. Defense attorney Mellwain replied that the news conference was called to counteract newspaper headlines resulting from a statement made by Abbott's fiancee, that she helped to move the body from a Cincinnati hotel. The fiancee, Alice Ewing, 22, Fort Thomas, has been charged with illegal removal of a body. McIlwain also said there is no assurance that lingering feelings in jurors' minds may not emerge during the trial to Abbott's prejudice.

Rueger countered that the defense was in no position to claim pretrial publicity, had hurt Abbott's chances for a fair trial since defense attorneys had also taken part in publicity. In ruling on the continuance motion, Judge Schneider said he did not think anything could be gained by keeping Abbott in jail for another year before his trial. No motive has been disclosed for the killing which police believe took place Oct. 15. Abbott has admitted having luncheon date with Miss Cook that day, but denies he killed her.

Judge Schneider said today's proceedings will include a tour of the alleged scene of Miss Cook's slaying and opening statements by prosecution and defense. Classes To Resume At Burned School Courier-Journal West Kentucky Bureau Paducah, Classes will be resumed Monday at Brazelton Junior High School despite A stubborn fire Wednesday night that swept through the north wing of the school's old central section. Eight classrooms were destroyed and smoke and water damaged other sections. Loss was placed at about $150,000. Principal Charles McClain said Brazelton would return to a near normal schedule by using a library nearing completion and other facilities.

He said there would be no double sessions. The school has 750 students. Candidate Files Frankfort, Ky. (A) John C. Bourne, D-Nicholasville, filed vesterday for nomination for state representative from the 52nd House District of Woodford and Jessamine counties.

State Requests Spindletop Study Press Education Department has asked at Lexington to study vocaKentucky. Wednesday during the regular of Education, which will also vocational education matters. Asks Central Kentucky's Needs For Vocational Training By SY RAMSEY Associated Press Frankfort, Ky. The Spindletop Research Center tional-training needs in The subject will come up meeting of the State Board be asked to approve other Spindletop has prepared a work outline for education officials. It estimates the study will take six months from the time the state board approves and will cost $33,400.

Closely linked with the proposed study is a Fayette County School Board request for the state to take over Lafayette Vocational School at Lexington July 1. The Fayette board has dedicated about eight acres of land as a potential site for a new state area vocational and technical school for Central Kentucky. Sam Alexander, assistant superintendent of education, said yesterday the Spindletop study might give, clues to the size of the Lexington operation. For project purposes, Central Kentucky will be defined as these 20 counties: Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Menifee, Mercer, Montgomery, Nicholas, Powell, Scott and Woodford. The Spindletop study has these aims: To find out how many Hopkinsville Man Heads Tour Group Special to The CourierMadisonville, Ky.

Officers were elected at a meeting county representatives of Region 2 of the Kentucky matching funds tourist promotion program at Madisonville Wednesday. W. W. Bryan, Hopkinsville, was elected, chairman. of Region 2.

It includes Hopkins, Henderson, Webster, Union, Muhlenberg, Christian, McLean, Todd and Logan counties. Ben Ashmore, Madisonville, was named vice-chairman for advertising; J. R. Lintz, Morganfield, vice-chairman, fundraising; Gene Croft, Hopkinsville, secretary, and Louise Moss, Henderson, treasurer. The officers will work with two delegates from each county, named earlier, to plan tourist promotion for the Region 2 area.

If local funds can be raised to match it, the state will furnish $8,141.02 for the project. Hopkinsville Girl Departs To Seek Title Special to The Courier-Journal Hopkinsville, Ky. Donna Faye Johnson was given a rousing send-off here yesterday as she departed for Mobile, to seek the title of America's Junior Miss of 1965. The talented 17-year-old senior at Christian County High School was honored at a student assembly and then escorted by motorcade through the city. The brunette beauty was designated an "official emissary" of Hopkinsville by Ernest Lackey and commissioned a Kentucky colonel by Gov.

Edward T. Breathitt. Since winning the state Junior Miss title last month at Louisville, Donna has devoted practically full time to preparing for the national contest. The week of judging ends with nationally televised finals the night of March 19. Trevathan Guilty Of Slaying Son, 32 Courier-Journal West Bardwell, -Robert of voluntary manslaughter Court jury in the pocket-knife Trevathan, 32, in 1963.

The jury of ten men and two women fixed Trevathan's punishment the years in the penItentiary. had been indicted on a murder charge. First Sentence Reversed It was Trevathan's second trial. The first time a Hickman Pircuit Court jury set his punIshment at 5 years in prison. The Court of Appeals reversed the decision and Trevathan von a change of venue to Carisle County for the second trial.

At both trials a commonwealth witness, Mrs. Mary Byassee, described as a girl friend Sewage Plant Purchase Tried City Of Lexington Hopes To Make Annexation Of New Areas Easier By LAWRENCE PRYOR Courier-Journal Bluegrass Bureau Lexington, city is trying to buy the Bluegrass Disposal large, private sewage-treatment in the county-for $533,848, it was revealed The plant now serves three large subdivisions the south of the city and will serve four future subdivisions in that area. technicians and skilled workers will be needed by Central Kentucky professions and industries in the next decade. To Predict Number To predict how many vocational students are available and would enroll in specific categories or occupations. To develop a guidance for state vocational officials.

The study will involve a survey of employers, comparison other states, interviews with parents school officials, "analysis of population growth and any new ideas on vocational education. It will be directed by Dr. W. W. Wilkinson, manager of Spindletop's behaviorial seience division.

Also up for state board consideration are requests to build area vocational school extension centers in Garrard, Letcher, Marion, Russell and Mason counties plus an area vocational school in Boyd County. All would serve several surrounding independent and county school districts. Park Plans Square-Dance Weekend Special to The Courier- Journal Frankfort, Ky. Success of the State Parks Department's first spring package programa duplicate bridge weekendhas led to a rosy forecast for the next one, the square dance weekend, March 19-21, at Rough River State park, Falls of Rough. "We had 100 per cent occupancy at General Butler State Park (Carrollton) for the bridge weekend," Parks Commissioner Robert D.

Bell said. "So we're looking forward to another big funfest with the dancers at Rough River." Ray Bohn and Joe Haase, nationally recognized callers, will call the dances. Other Programs Planned Other spring package programs will be "Fishing Unlimited" weekends, April 2-4 (already sold out) and April 9-11, both at Lake Cumberland State Park, near Jamestown; "Wildflower Magic" weekend, May 7-9, at Cumberland Falls State Park, near Corbin; "Campers Conclave" weekend, May 14-16, at Carter Caves State Park, near Olive Hill; and a golf tournament weekend, May 21-23, at Pennyrile Forest State Park, near Dawson Springs. The package price, per person for the weekends is $25. This includes two nights' lodging and meals Friday night through Sunday noon at Park Lodges, Bell said.

Insulated Rod Saves Lineman Hit By Wire Nicholasville, Ky. (P) A rural electric crew foreman's quick use of an insulated rod was credited with saving the life of a lineman Wednesday when the lineman was struck by a hot wire carrying 7,200 volts. Russell Peel, foreman of a five-man crew working on a pole near U.S. 27 south of here, used the rod to keep the wire away from lineman Richard Young while two other linemen climbed the pole and brought the unconscious Young down. Young suffered third -degree burns on the right arm and foot when the line struck him, then gave him a second shock when an automatic circuitbreaker re-energized the shorted-out line.

Young was knocked unconscious, but his safety belt prevented him from falling. Young was listed in satisfactory condition at a Lexington hospital. UK Plans Seminar On City Development Lexington, Ky. (P More than 150 city, state and Junior Chamber of Commerce officials are expected Saturday at the University of Kentucky for a centennial community develop; ment seminar. The seminar continue Sunday.

Dr. Richard W. Poston, research professor in community development and planning at Southern Illinois University, will deliver the main address of the seminar Saturday. Purchase of the plant "would make it very simple to annex these developing areas," Mayor Fred E. Fugazzi said at yesterday's City Commission meeting.

"We are trying to protect this community and (maintain) proper urban development." 2 Being Annexed The four unfinished developments are Camelot, Donnybrook, Landsdowne addition and Holly Tree Manor. Landsdowne Addition and Camelot are now in the process being annexed by the city. The other two cannot now be annexed because their developers have sewage-treatment contracts with the Bluegrass Disposal Co. Brigadoon, Blueberry Hills and Stonybrook, the three subdivisions, that are now by the private treatment plant, are all in the county. However, home owners in those (county) areas would have pay a $100-a-year sewer-rental fee if the city buys the plant, which would be a strong inducement for them to seek annexation.

Mayor Fugazzi said the city's offer had been rejected but that negotiations were continuing with the plant's owners. He added that the city would buy the plant "at a figure that would be justified." The city has paid $1,988.50 to George Reynolds Watkins, an engineer, to appraise the plant. Watkins' estimate of the original cost minus depreciation came to $533,848. The city would also have to pay another $50,000 in engineering fees at the time of purchase. Mayor Fugazzi said the city commissioners had voted 4-1 in executive, session to make an the plant's owners.

Commissioner Tom Underwood said yesterday he had voted against the measure because the city's bid was "over twice what they (the owners) paid for Lexington Church Will Grow CONTRACT AWARDED This is Cincinnati architect Edward J. Schulte's sketch for a new church and parish house for Christ the King Catholic Church in Lexington. The Rev. Garland O'Neill, pastor, said a $1,100,000 contract has been awarded to Contractors Lumber Supply Co. for the construction.

The Bedford-stone building will enlarge nave's capacity from 650 seats to 1,060. Kentucky Deaths, Funerals The funeral for James Davis Chappell, 75, Central City, will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Parker Parker-Washburne-Pannell Funeral Home, Central City. He died Wednesday at Muhlenberg Community Hospital, Greenville, after a short illness. Perry Monroe Cole, 90, a barber in Owensboro for more than 50 years, Wednesday night in Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, Owensboro, after a short illness.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday in the Crabtree Avenue Baptist Church. The body is at Owensboro Funeral Home. The funeral for Mrs. Effie Baize Crowder, 84, Beaver Dam, will be at 2:30 p.m.

Friday in the Beaver Dam Methodist Church. She died Wednesday night in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Jesse Stevens, Beaver Dam. She is survived, also by another daughter, Mrs. Louis Cooper, Elizabethtown, and a son, Dr.

M. O. Crowder, Owensboro. The body is at Casebier Funeral Home, Beaver Dam. Mrs.

Evelyn Sparks Inman, 46, Owensboro native, Thursday in a hospital at Atlanta after a short illness. She is survived by her husband, Arthur Inman, Atlanta, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Sparks, Louisville. Funeral, 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Delbert J. Glenn Funeral Home, Owensboro. Mrs. Minnie C. Turner, 86, formerly of Owensboro, Thursday at Colonial Manor, Bowling Green.

She was the widow of Francis A. Turner, Daviess County farmer who died in 1950. She moved to Bowling Green two and a half years ago with a daughter, Miss Helen Turner, supervisor of nurses at Bowling Green's City-County Hospital and former supervisor of nurses at Owensboro-Daviess County Hospital. Funeral, 2 SatJames H. Davis Funeral Home, Owensboro.

The body will be at J. C. Kirby Funeral Home, Bowling Green, until 10 a.m. Friday. Bud Hugh Beasley, 28, construction worker and native of Mercer County, Tuesday in Philadelphia of a heart ailment.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Bethel Baptist Church, Mercer County. The body is at Alexander Royalty Funeral Home, Harrodsburg. Mrs. Catherine Fields Smith, 49, Wednesday night at University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington.

Her husband, Frank Smith, survives. Funeral, St. Dominic's Catholic Church, Springfield, 10 a.m. Saturday. The body is at Hale Polin Funeral Home.

R. C. Harrell, 64, Carrollton carpenter, Wednesday at Norton Memorial Infirmary, Louisville. He is survived by his widow, Florence Tomlinson Harrell. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Tandy Eckler Funeral Home, Carrollton. Henry Hotfil, 47, Carroll County farmer, Thursday at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. He is survived by his widow, the former Virginia Darnold. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Lutheran Church, Hunters Bottom.

The body is at the Tandy Eckler Funeral Home, Carrollton. Milos G. Davis, 80, prominent retired Allensville farmer, Thursday at his home following a long illness. Funeral, p.m. Saturday, First Christian Church, Guthrie.

The body is at Cook Webb Funeral Home, Guthrie. Survivors include his widow, Bessie Craft Davis, and a daughter, Mrs. Jim Craddock, Louisville. Richard Henry Gibson, 95, retired farmer of Millerstown, Thursday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Aubert Williams.

Funeral, 1:30 p.m., CST, Saturday, Little Flock Baptist Church near Clarkson. The body is at the Rogers Funeral Home, Clarkson. A. J. Burrus, 48, Mercer County native, Wednesday at Hot Springs, Ark.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Bruner Sims Funeral Home, Harrodsburg; burial, Kirkwood Cemetery, Mercer County. Mrs. Emma Louise Moore Kieghtley, 67. Harrodsburg, Wednesday night at Good Samaritan Hospital, Lexington, after suffering a paralytic stroke five days ago.

She was the widow of W. B. Keightley, former president of the State Bank Trust Harrodsburg. Funeral, 3 p.m. Saturday, Harrodsburg Methodist Church (tentative).

The body is at Bruner Sims Funeral Home, Harrodsburg. Mrs. Susie Mullins Claunch, 73. Harrodsburg, Thursday at Harrodsburg Nursing Home. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Alexander Royalty Funeral Home. UK Press Clinic Workshops Today associate professor of journalism; editing, J. A. McCauley, associate professor of journalism; the women's side. Miss Yvonne Eaton, The CourierJournal, and Miss Florida Garrison, Kentucky Press Association; advisers' problems, Perry Ashley, instructor in journalism; Kentucky Kernel operations, William Grant, Kernel editor; the sports side, panel of professional and school sports writers with Dr.

Plummer presiding. Ben Reeves, managing editor of The Courier -Journal, will speak at general session at 11 a.m. in Memorial Hall. Fred Luigart, Courier Journal Blue Grass Bureau correspondent; David V. Hawpe, Ker.

nel executive editor, and Miss Ward Hemlepp, Lafayette Times editor, will outline what should go into a school newspaper during a concluding session at 2 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Special to The Courier-Journal Lexington, series of workshops will be presented during the University of Kentucky High School Press Clinic today to acquaint representatives of school newspapers with journalistic practices. The clinic is sponsored annually by the Kentucky High School Press Association and writing, Dr. William M.

Moore, the UK School of Journalism. Workshops will be repeated up to three times during the day to allow students to attend as many sessions as possible. The following workshops will be presided over by panelists and these directors: News, Dr. Robert K. Thorp, UK assistant professor of editorial writing, Dr.

Lewis Donohew, instructor in journalism; advisers' problems, Dr. L. Niel Plummer, director of the School of Journalism, who will discuss "Sense or newspaper production, R. W. associate professor of journalism, who will conduet a design workshop in the printed newspaper at 9 a.m.

and on the duplicated newspaper at 10 a.m.; photography, Richard Ware, instructor in journalism. Feature writing and column Robert M. (Mitt) Harper, 71, retired carpenter and farmer, Wednesday at his home in Horse Cave. His widow. Annie B.

Harper, survives. Funeral. 2 p.m., CST. Friday, Winn Funeral Home, Horse Cave. Mrs.

Mary Merritt, 68, Providence, Monday in Hopkins County Hospital, Madisonville. Funeral, p.m. Saturday, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Providence. The body is at Mason Funeral Home, Madisonville. The funeral for Mrs.

Viola Crews Isaacs, wife of Roy Isaacs, who died Wednesday in Cincinnati, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Lebanon Church of Latter Day Saints; burial, Old Liberty Cemetery, Bradfordsville. The body is at Don V. Drye Funeral Home, Lebanon. Mrs.

Lula Malone Smothers Evans, 68, wife of William Evans, Bradfordsville farmer, of a heart attack Thursday at her home. A long time Sunday school teacher at Pleasant Valley Christian Church, she was recently presented a gold pin for 18 years attendance without an absence. Survivors include a son, Leo Smothers, Louisville. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Pleasant Valley Christian Church.

The body is at Don V. Drye Funeral Home, Lebanon. Mrs. Margaret Raley, 91, Waverly, Wednesday. Funeral, 9 a.m.

Saturday, St. Peters Catholic Church. Mrs. Sudie Stevens Bond, 80, Thursday at an Irvine nursing home after a long illness. She was a native of Anderson County.

She was the mother of Mrs. David Reed, Louisville. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Gordon Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. The funeral for James T.

Pardue, 64, Hays, Warren County, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Oak Forest Missionary Baptist Church. Hays, retired farmer, Thursday at his home. Surviving, besides his widow, Bessie Dunn Pardue, are three daughters, Mrs. Neal Allen, William McDonald and Mrs.

Virgil B. Gilbert, and a son, James Roland Pardue, all of Louisville. The body is at the residence. Herbert P. Sharp, 57, Garrard County farmer, Thursday in Ephraim McDowell Memorial Hospital, Danville.

He was a Lincoln County native. Survivors include his widow, Julie Mae Sharp. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Pleasant Grove Christian Church, Garrard County; burial, Maple Grove Cemetery, Nicholasville. The body is at Stith Funeral Home, Danville.

20 Pass Test For County Tax Commissioner Frankfort, Ky. (P Twenty applicants for county tax commissioner have passed the state's examination given Tuesday, Revenue Commissioner James E. Luckett said yesterday. Luckett said 95 persons took the exam. On an earlier test, 143 of 317 applicants qualified, and several who failed the first test repeated.

Kentucky law requires that candidates for tax er must pass the examination. Latest to qualify are: James Wallace, Caldwell County: Milton Zachary, Casey County: James Scott and James Haggard, both of Clark County: Horace Ford, Franklin County; Gene Lewis and Paul Baker, both of Greenup County, William Penniman, Charles Hall. John Douglas. Joe Monson and Inva Vaughn, all of Harrison County: Janet Aldridge, Hickman County: Clinton Noel. Mercer County: Henry Jones, Montgomery County: Charles Joseph English Edwin Montgomery Hagan and Louis Ballard, all of Nelson County: Clay Ford, Perry County; and M.

Stallard Smith, Shelby County. Syndicate Owns Plant The plant is owned by a syndicate of four men, two of whom live in Lexington and two in Louisville. In other action yesterday, the board of city commissioners declared an emergency at the city incinerator plant on Old Frankfort Pike. One of the plant's two furnaces broke down and the commission appropriated $6,149 to repair it. The commission also gave first reading to an ordinance financing expansion of the incinerator.

The ordinance called for sale of $977,000 in bonds to retire the plant's original bonds and provide enough capital to complete the expansion. NLRB Accuses Owensboro Store Courier-Journal Green River Bureau Owensboro, National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against the store of Fashion Fair, here. It upheld three sets of unfair the Retail Clerks International sentation election in December union. Lester Newell, representing the clerks union, said the NLRB ruling came down yesterday and a hearing on the matter has been set for April 27 in Federal District Court here. The store will be allowed to appeal the complaint at that time.

Newell said the charges come under the categories of "hindering an organizing campaign, discharging an employe or discriminating against an employe because of the employe's activities with a union, and refusal to bargain although Officers Hunt For Missing Nortonville Boy Special to The Courier -Journal Madisonville, search has been under way for two days for a 15-year-old Norton. ville boy who disappeared about 7 a.m. Tuesday on the way to catch a school bus. Dennis Craig Cisne, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Johnnie Cisne, has not been heard from since. He was wearing black trousers and slipover sweater over a red shirt with an olive green corduroy jacket. He is 5 feet 3 inches tall, fair skinned, has light brown hair and blue eyes. Anyone having information about the boy is asked to call the Hopkins County sheriff's office or state police. A Courier-Journal carrier boy and a freshman at South Hopkins High School, he had no known problems, his parents said.

labor practice charges that Association filed. A reprewent 13 to 10 against the the union represented a majority of the employes at the time the election was requested." A store official had no comment. In-Law Gets Life In Slaying Courier-Journal West Kentocky Bureau Princeton, C. Felker was found guilty of murder yesterday by a Caldwell Circuit Court jury slaying last April of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lois Harper.

The all-male panel fixed the 23-year-old Felker's punishment at life in the penitentiary after deliberating about two hours. His attorneys indicated they would appeal. The jury rejected Felker's defense that he was temporarily insane when he entered the home of his estranged wife, Mrs. Lois Felker, and fired a shotgun and a pistol at Mrs. Harper.

Three bullets took her life, according to the commonwealth. $104.260 Bid Low On Butler Lodge Job Frankfort, Ky. (P -Apparent low bid to build eight more guests rooms at General Butler State Park Lodge is 260, the Finance Department said yesterday. It was submitted by Garst-Receveur Construction Louisville. The lodge now has 25 rooms.

twostory addition will match the original building. Lebanon Slates Clearing Of Land Kentucky Bureau Trevathan, 69, was found guilty yesterday by a Carlisle Circuit slaying of his son, Gene Ed of the slain man, testified she was present when the elder Trevathan slashed his son's back with a pocket knife. She quoted the son as saying, "Daddy, you've cut me bad." Trevathan, who has, spent more than two years in jail since his son's death, denied the slaying from the start. At both trials he said he saw Mrs. Byassee and an unidentified person run from the Trevathan home at Clinton, after he awoke and heard a struggle in an adjoining room.

He said he found his son's body on the floor. Special to The Courier-Journal Lebanon, City Council has employed a contractor to begin razing substandard houses at the $1 million Cleaver Avenue urban renewal project. Forty buildings are to be removed. Lebanon Mayor W. C.

Mc- Duffee authorized city crews to begin installing storm and sanitary, sewers immediately after the land is cleared. Former residents the site, now relocated in nearby areas, will be offered first choice of the 20 new housing units to be built there, said H. A. Johnston, executive director of the Lebanon Public Housing Commission. Six units will be for elderly persons.

Scheduled simultaneously with the Cleaver Avenue work are 30 new units on a nine- acre tract off West Main Street. These, with the already completed Rosenwald Village and Sunset Terrace projects, would bring Lebanon's public housing to 110 units. The Cleaver Avenue area will include tracts to be offered for sale for commercial use. The city Lebanon will contribute $79,239 in services for improvement of the site. Johnston said bids on the new housing will be asked in about six weeks..