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1 THE COURIER -JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1959 5 M.S.D. Gives General Broad Responsibilities Brig. Gen. John L.

Person duties and responsibilities as the Metropolitan Sewer Board. He was hired last week as politan Sewer District at $20,000 Still to be obtained is Army approval of the former Louisville district engineer's release. from military service. This is expected soon. will have served 30 years June 30.

A copy of his contract with the Sewer Board, read yesterday at a board meeting, showed he will: Supervise all activities of M.S.D. 2. Study the entire field of sewer and drainage in Louisville and Jefferson County, including needs, governing statutes, and sources of revenue. 3. Study and evaluate the entire M.S.D.

organization. procedures, and methods of operation. 4. Examine M.S.D.'S properties and facilities and promote their proper use. 5.

Review M.S.D.'s relationships with the people of, the city and the county, the State, the Kentucky of Health, and the Kentucky Water Pollution Control Commission, and any other agencies -public and private--that use or might use M.S.D. facilities. Will Advise Board In all these fields Person will make recommendations to the board. He will be paid for "all reasonable expenses" and given two weeks vacation. The contract is for three years.

Person, 51, is now assistant chief works with the Army of Engineers in Washington. He was district engineer here from 1948 to 1950. Board Lets 2 Contracts The board let two sewer-construction contracts yesterday totaling $331,869, to serve 298 new users. Louisville Asphalt Company, lowest of eight bidders, will install laterals in the Mill Creek area for $248,434. The area includes parts of Seneca Trail, Evangeline, The Esplanade, Seminole, Carolyn Road, Kenwood Drive.

South Side Drive. Thalia, and Homestead. The other contract went to Jefferson Plumbing and Heating Company, also lowest of If at First British Are Again Using Superhighway That Failed London, Feb. 24 (P) Britain got its only superhighway, an eight-mile stretch only 82 days old, back into operation Tuesday. Embarrassed politicians, officials, and builders felt a lot better.

Rain, frost, and cold wrecked the motorway, which bypasses the city of Preston, and it had to be closed to traffic January 21 after it had been in use only 48 days. Cracked and buckled sections were resurfaced. British newspapers and politicians in opposition to the Conservative Party charged that more thorough studies should have been made of superhighways in the United States and West Germany before trying to build one here. Police Sabers Halt Students Quito, Ecuador, Feb. 24 (P)- Police swung sabers at university-student demonstrators Tuesday in a renewal of violence growing out of widespread strikes.

Rodrigo Borja, president of the Law School students group at Central University, said seven of the demonstrators were wounded. About 300 students of the Law School went on strike, joinuing thousands of labor unionists who have walked out in sympathy with striking dockworkers at The the Port dockworkers of out 14 days ago to protest the dismissal of eight co-workers. They refuse to return to work unless they get wage increases as well as reinstatement of the discharged workers. Louisville Native's Book Is Published "Authors of Liberty," a book by John Coleman, a native of Louisville, ha been published by Vantage Press, New York. Coleman, Lake Forest, is a former broker and investment counselor who writes a syndicated column called "Tue Meaning of America." In this book, he pictures America through its historical shrines and sites.

Ex- Luxembourg Premier Dies Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 24 (P -Former Prime Minister Pierre Frieden of Luxembourg died Monday night. He was 66. -Advertisement- How to Act on Your Honeymoon Too often a young bride and groom look upon this escape together as a sexual testing period course of marriage is determined by the wedding night." Tostatements like that the authors of this article condensed in March Reader's Digest, take vigorous exception- -urge "a holiday from Get March Reader's Digest today! has been given a wide scope of new executive consultant of operating head of the Metroa year, starting July 15. eight bidders, for laterals on Clarks Lane, Pindell, Parkway Drive, and Ardmore Drive.

The cost: $83,435. 431 Customers Added Eugene McSweeney, a board member, said five contracts let this month will serve 431 new customers in Louisville and two 1 outside the city. The two are on South Side Drive, which is the city boundary. J. J.

Wilburn, assistant engineering consultant, said plans for getting sewers to most of the unsewered parts of Louisville are running ahead of schedule. A 12-month timetable for this purpose was adopted last month. The board also adopted resolutions to build sewers in two areas, one bounded by Mellwood, Lindsay, Hite and Country Club Road, and the other southeast of Trevilian Way, including parts of Fleming Road, Woodfill Way, Dundee Road, Gresham Road, Forest Hill Drive, Newburg Road, Strathmoor Boulevard, and Lowell. Associated Press Wirephoto GIANT TIMBERS Believed to be the largest shipped by rail from Oregon for at least 10 years, these 100-foot long timbers are part of a shipment of 24 being sent to Jersey City, N. for a marine dock.

The load extends over two flatcars. Burnside Mayor To Head Waterfield Campaign Unit J. Heber Lewis, Mayor of chairman for business and Lieutenant Governor Harry cratic nomination for governor. It also was announced that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, through M. C.

Northeutt, Fort Mitchell, had endorsed Waterfield. Northeutt is chairman of the group's state legislative board. Lewis is a past president of the Kentucky Petroleum Marketing the Association, petroleurntcount cil. and vice-president of the Kentucky Petroleum Jobbers Council, Lewis is chairman of the board of trustees of Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, and a lay leader and lay speaker in The Methodist Church. He is a member of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and a past president of the Burnside Chamber of Commerce.

Northeutt said the labor group he represents had always found Waterfield "to be a constant friend, ready and willing at all times to work, speak, and vote in support of any legislation beneficial to the people." Two Admit Killing Aunt During Robbery Kosciusko, Feb. 24 (P)- Freckle-faced Albert Lepard admitted that he and a cousin Tuesdana burned their elderly aunt to death while robbing her of $340, police reported. Sheriff Roy Braswell said the 26-year-old Thomastown man admitted slaying Mrs. Mary Young, 78. at her farm home last Wednesday.

Lepard implicated Joe Edwards, his 20-year-old cousin, under arrest in Cleveland, Ohio. GETS MORE USE OUT OF HEAT! Coleman Blend -Air Comfort Guaranteed with $1,000 BOND! Vertical, Console, Horizontal Models and COLEMAN SERVICE 912 Baxter Ave JU 4-0193 Burnside, yesterday was named professions in the campaign of Lee Waterfield for the Demo- 22,000 Attend Graham Service Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 24 (P About 22,000 packed Evangelist Billy Graham's meeting Tuesday night in the Melbourne Open Air Music Bowl. His service was televised throughout Victoria State. More than 1,500 mainly teenagers, responded to his call for "decisions for Christ." The evangelist read a letter from a converted Melbourne bodgie-the Australian term a juvenile delinquent- and promised to devote to American Baptist leader is conducting a five-month crusade in Australia and New Zealand.

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Kentucky Sestage Accounts Insured 4p to by FSLIC Future Home 2 U. S. Aides Will Survey East Kentucky Goal Is To Suggest Economic Remedy By The Associated Press Frankfort, Feb. federal officials will leave here Wednesday for Eastern Kentucky to explore problems in the depressed area and recommend solutions to them. They are Ed Baxter, Charlottesville, regional director of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and William V.

White, special agent for the agency. Baxter said he would go to Whitesburg for a one-day inspection trip, but that White would stay in the area two or three days. The two spent Tuesday consulting with Economic Development Commissioner George Hubley, John Whisman, executive director of the Eastern Kentucky Regional Planning Commission and others. know that out of this meeting will come vigorous, cooperative action in the future," Hubley said. White said the fact-finding visit is being made to determine how his Department can use its resources in finding immediate and long-range solutions to the area's economic plight.

Baxter said he will make recommendations to the Department head in Washington, Secretary Flemming, basis of his staff's inventory of the problems. Baxter said plans future trips to the 32-county area. His regional office includes the states of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. Warinner Enters Race For No. 2 State Post By ALLAN M.

TROUT The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau Frankfort, Feb. Senator Ed P. Warinner, Albany, Tuesday filed for the nomination for lieutenant governor in the Republican primary of May 26. His papers were signed by Welby Hoover, Albany, Eighth District chairman of the young Republicans organization, and the Rev. Ernest L.

Dixon, Al- in the Third Railroad District. bany, A housewife, she said this is Warinner, 49, has been in the her first try for public office. State Senate since the session of 1952. 16th-is Her husband operates a garage His district--the at Bethel. comprised of Clinton, Cumberland, Russell, Monroe, and Mrs.

Crouch's papers were Wayne counties. He was minor- P. signed by Luther Leggett and ity caucus chairman at the last E. Hickey, both of Bath three sessions of the Legisla- County. ture.

Party Chairman 12 Years Senator Warinner has been Republican chairman of Clinton County 12 years, is president of the Eighth District Lincoln Club, and was chairman of the speakers bureau in the 1954 race of United States Senator John Sherman Cooper against the late Alben W. Barkley. In private life he is a businessman and a banker. His wife is the former Josephine Harriet Dempsey, Lewisburg, V. They have four children.

Senator Warinner was the third to file in the Republican primary Pleaz for, lieutenant Manchester, governor. Mobley, filed January 21, and J. Phil Smith, Jackson, filed January 28. Woman Seeks Railroad Post In addition, Mrs. Robin Belcher Crouch of Bath County Tuesday became the first woman to file for railroad commissioner in the May primary election.

Mrs. Crouch filed her papers for the Democratic nomination Distiller's Daughter Dies Special to The Courier-Journal Lebanon, Feb. 24. -Miss Ella Dant, 89, Loretto, died at' Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was a daughter of Joseph Washington Dant, founder of the J.

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Goldsmith, 83, retired Hart County farmer, died Tuesday at his home at nearby Leitchfield Crossing. Survivors include sons Cecil, Jessie, and Artle Goldsmith, all of Louisville, and two brothers, Vernon Goldsmith, Louisville, and Harvey Goldsmith, Upton. Get in pocket vial, tin or the economical 100 tablet bottle ON SALE AT WALGREENS.

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