The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 9

SECTION 1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1950V of K. Vice-President Dedicates Exodus to Sugar Bowl Memorial Coliseum as Sports Arena tucky and their representatives in nnvpmment and it besDeaks the May Be State's Biggest With U. of K. Teams In Two Sports Events, Many Kentuckians To Head for New Orleans A migration smacking of the annual Kentucky; Derby influx will be thrown into reverse toward the end of this month.

expected to leave Kentucky in the biggest sports exodus another 2,500 persons via temporary stands and standing room, provides the largest collegiate basketball playhouse in Dixie. Dr. Chamberlain, delivered the dedication speech at the half time of the Kentucky-Purdue basketball game. The arena was opened for basketball a week ago when Kentucky trimmed West Texas 73 to 43. Earlier today a plaque was unveiled at the outgrown Alumni Gymnasium where Kentucky played its home" games the last 26 years, winning 262 of 287.

Because of its small, capacity, the old gym was opened only to student audiences during some of Kentucky's most successful years on the hardwood. Dr. Chamberlain said the coliseum "reflects the vision and generosity of the people of Ken- Ceremony Held During Half Time Lexington, Dec. 9 (JP) Kentucky tonight dedicated its mammoth field house that was "inspired by a great basketball coach and a succession of great basketball teams and con ceived by superior educational leadership." Dr. Leon M.

Chamberlain, university vice-president, applied the description to the elaborate, Memorial Coliseum at its dedication as a sports arena. The coliseum was opened earlier as a war memorial and later as a concert hall. The auditorium, with its 12,000 permanent seats and facilities for V5 li i -vf. XT'- Man Sending Christmas Gifts To Convicts' 2 Million Children Oklahoma City, Dec. 9 (JP) Who are the most neglected children on Christmas? That problem worried Dan Vinson for years.

The kindly, 66-year-old Samaritan finally decided the loneliest children at the happiest time of year were those of convicts. So in 1944 Vinson bought a few gifts. But his project grew and last year 200,000 children of convicts received presents. This year, Vinson called Uncle Dan by millions will see to it that 2,000,000 are remembered. He will not accept money, but takes donations of material to make toys.

Vinson, a jolly, robust salesman who with whiskers would be a natural Santa, always has more than enough volunteers to help fashion the toys and mail them. While most people still were worrying how to pay their 1949 Christmas bills, Vinson was planning for this year's work. He stockpiled material for toys and had dies made for turning out the presents. Expects 10,000 Letters A Day Thousands of persons are and head for New Orleans in the state's history. The University -of Kentucky will send two teams to the annual Sugar' Bowl athletic events.

Its football team will play Oklahoma New Year's Day. Its basketball team will compete in tournament with St. Louis University, Bradley, and Syracuse December 29 and 30. At least two special trains will run from Louisville for the sports extravaganza. Like residents of the miniature "Derbytown" in Louisville's railroad yards each May, Kemuckians i 1 live aboard their trains in New Orleans.

Wetherby To Drive Governor Lawrence Wetherby and his family will drive to New Orleans from Frankfort. Baseball Commissioner and former governor A. B. "Happy" Chandler is expected to be there. It is unlikely any members of the Kentucky" Congressional delegation will attend; The reason: the international crisis.

Kentucky's new senator, Earle C. Clements, said it appeared he would not be able to go. "However, it all depends on conditions in Washington at the time." Other Kentucky senators and representatives polled yesterday in Washington indicated they would be "lucky to get home for Christmas" and probably would not go to New Orleans. All New Orleans hotels are reported sold out for the week preceding New Year's Day. The Louisville Chamber of Commerce said there still are a few accommodations in private homes and tourist courts.

All are charging for a full week's stay even if accommodations are rented for only one night. Dyed in the wool fans will have no trouble getting reserva Associated Press Wire photo THE HECK WITH IT Says Mr. Great Dane: "It ain't enough the bone I stashed around here is -buried under 37 inches of snow; these kids gotta make a horse out of me. Well, they're barking up the wrongvDane; I'm squatting right here a while." Not too well pleased with sitdown are Duluth youngsters Janet Spang, 5, and brother David, 2. i i Unauthorized Car Ride Last month, Vinson sent out letters to more than 400 penal institutions in the Western Hemisphere explaining his project.

He asked that each convict write how many children he has and their ages. The mail started coming in, and its volume rivals anything the North Pole Santa gets. Right now it's more than 2,000 letters a day. Vinson expects it to reach 10,000 a day next week. The packages are mailed directly to the convicts, who in turn readdress them to their children so they will have a personal touch.

This year there are a dozen different toys Uncle Dan will mail out. Included are little aluminum airplanes, jigsaw puzzles, balloons, hair ribbons, scarves, and cloth dolls. who personally has helped more than 500 paroled convicts, feels his project is paying off in aiding prison authorities as well as making a real Christmas for the children. Warden A. F.

Dowd of Indiana State Prison at Michigan City estimates the project has increased prison morale 50 per cent at his institution. tions at Baton Rouge, where Kentucky's football team will train. Plenty of rooms also are expected to be available in such cities as Meridian, Biloxi, and Hattiesburg, Miss. The 12,500 tickets received by V. K.

for the football game were "pretty well eaten up by priority purchasers," a university spokesman said yesterday. "We're still filling mail orders," the source said. "I don't know how many we'll have to sell to the public but the public sale will begin Monday." Basketball tickets went even faster. Applicants outnumbered the tickets and no public sale was staged. Trains Include Tickets The special trains include football and basketball tickets for their patrons.

Illinois Central's 14-car, 225-passenger train was nearly sold out yesterday. It leaves at 4:30 p.m. December 28 and will be back about 4 p.m. January 2. Louisville Sc Nashville Railroad has sold tickets for 10 cars of its special train and may add four or five The train leaves at 4:40 p.m.

December 28, arriving back in Louisville about 4 p.m. January 2. Southern Railway System, the third railroad with passenger service to New Orleans, said it also might run a Sugar Bowl special. U. 100-piece marching band will play at the football game.

It will leave here at 11:15 a.m. December 30 aboard the L. N. Pan-American. Eastern Air Lines reported it may run a special flight New Year's Day morning, returning the same night.

Greyhound Lines here had received no notice concerning special buses. Gojd of SHver kid, 1095 Fbwersd silk print, 8.95 Black, Red, Green or Topaz velvet, 795 rm.m- i MISS ELIZABETH WILSON At her desk in Germany Social Worker Begins Duties In Germany TV.T ice TiiraHpth Wilson, formerly with the City Division of Recrea tion, has begun her auties ior me United States Department of State as a community-activities adviser in Wiesbaden, Germany, Dr. James R. Newman, land commissioner of Hesse, announced yesterday. Hesse is the second largest state in Germany.

Miss Wilson, whose address here is 2001 Emerson Avenue, will encourage, advise, and assist German youth in developing programs to promote a more democratic way of life. A native of Louisville, Miss Wilson received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Louisville. She also is a graduate of the Louisville School of Social Work.

Air Force Seeks 2d Lieutenants The Air Force yesterday announced it wanted to call to duty second lieutenants interested in making the service a career. Those interested were asked to call the Air Force Reserve Training Center at Standiford Field. fashionable strapless plgnge bra A he V'dtc hy UoUywood-MaxKrll The barest. yet the most comfortable uiu vtt Founu ii HQs its own sorr roam rubber pillows at the strategic' places. Rayon satin and net in Black or White.

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The coliseum was planned more than 10 years ago but construction was delayed until after the war. The vast arena covers more than two acres and houses athletic facilities and offices of the athletic department. The bronze plaque commemorating athletic successes at the old Alumni Gymnasium was unveiled with speeches by Coach Adolph Rupp, Dr. H. L.

Donovan, university president, and Judge Edwin R. Denney of Mount Vernon, president of the alumni group. State A.B.C. Approves Permit Denied at Paris Frankfort, Dec. 9 (JP) Guy Shearer, chairman of the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said today the board has approved a retail package-liquor license for John and Hazel Lay-cock, Paris.

Shearer said, however, that the case probably will go to Circuit Court for action. He said Herman Santen, Paris liquor adminis trator, had denied the application and had opposed it at the board meeting. The application has been pending since summer. Lack of Police Closes Mine Near Sturgis Sturgis, Dec. 9 (JP) The Poplar Ridge Mine, scene of recent picket-line violence, was idle today An official of the mine, owned by the Union Electric Company, St.

Louis, said it was decided to suspend operations because of lack of police protection. It was- reported that State po lice, on duty here for the past few days, had been withdrawn The mine has been picketed by members of the United Mine Workers protesting the recent re opening with nonunion labor. JL it ti our 7 i ft i jfrjs- I fi tS 1 I 1 I 1 37 Senegalese Soldiers Killed In Plane Crash Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, Dec. 9 (JP) A DC-4 transport plane, carrying 50 Senegalese soldiers and a crew of seven, crashed today in the jungle, 10 miles from Bangui, French Equitorial Africa. Reports reaching here said 37 of of the soldiers perished.

Unofficial information indicated 16 survivors three crewmen and 13 soidlers were in a hospital at Bangui. No trace was found of the other four members of the crew. Slipper satin billowing clouds with an applique pocket that's removable) of big satin Mint Grfeen, Champagne a aalden UUl sparfcle for dancing VByck's Exdusiveifor glamorous 'toes! Whimsical strips of kid on towering heels or lower heel heights as well as flats in our complete evening in' the igay, enchantrng spirit of the holiday whirl I Kills Boy's Brother Tampa, Dec. 9 Thirteen-year-old Russell Davis, driving the family car without permission, crashed into a bus today, killing his 6-year-old brother, Ronnie, County Officer W. C.

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