The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 17

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1965 SECTION 16 PAGES TELEVISION, RADIO, SPORTS, COMICS, AND LOCAL NEWS 1 Air Guard Traies At Home unit is expected to test its mobility of a California air base for aerial ohotn- annually and the unit tries to combine graphs, the whole unit packed, moved a mission with this training. to California, did the job and re- For example, in fulfilling a request turned all within a four-day period. A Vi Staff Photos by Al tlunk HELPMATE Mrs. Phyllis O'Hara pitches in to help husband John get his boat crane-lifted to shore between heats of yesterday's Marine Derby Inboard Regatta. The O'Haras live in Dayton, Ohio.

The Wives Heln By WILLIAM GRANT Two weeks of summer camp is an experience familiar to many men who are serving or have served in the reserves. It means they pack up their gear and leave home for two weeks at a distant base as a foot soldier, a cook or some other service job. But for most members of the Kentucky Air National Guard, summer camp this year means they live at home and just leave in the morning wearing different clothes and bound for a different job. At Shewmaker Base This year for the first time the Kentucky Air Guard is taking its summer training at its home post, Shewmaker Base at the south end of Standiford Field. So professional men and clerks and merchants leave home dressed in Air Force uniforms, drive to Shewmaker and become pilots, mechanics or air policemen.

Brig. Gen. William H. Webster is a vice president of Citizens Fidelity Bank in Louisville. He is also commander of the 123rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing of which the Kentucky guard is a part.

Gen. Webster explained that this summer's training was taken at the guard's home base so the crews who service the planes could familiarize themselves with the new RF-lOls that will eventually replace the B-57s now used. 40 Are At Other Bases There are about 600 guardsmen now training at Shewmaker. Training started Saturday and will continue until Aug. 21.

A group of 56 men trained at Shewmaker July 24 to Aug. 7 and some 40 of the guardsmen are receiving special training at other bases. Housing turned out to be a problem when the guard stayed) home this summer. Normally the men would all be housed on base while on active duty. But there are no housing facilities at Shewmaker and regulations require that all those living 50 miles or more from the base must be housed nearby.

So the guard took bids for housing and is bunking about 60 of its men at the Standiford Motel. Gen. Webster said the guard must also have mobility training, so in future years it will do as it has in the past: pack its gear and move to some distant base. Lt. Col.

William H. Beck, deputy commander for materiel of the 123rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, is supervising the prime objective of this training His job is to see that the unit's technicians are ready when the wing receives the new RF-101 jets. Three of the jets are at Shewmaker now; two of them are on loan and one belongs to the unit. Ground and maintenance crews must be fully familiarized with the new plane before the unit make sa complete switch from the B-57s it's now using to the F-lOls. Fourteen of the unit's B-57s are now in service in Viet Nam.

Col. Beck feels the F-lOls will make the Kentucky guard a "first line unit." He cites figures to back his point: It took about 17 man hours on the ground to service a B-57 for one hour in the air. It takes 32 ground hours to put a F-101 in the air for an hour. About 6,000 parts had to be stocked to service the B-57s. The stock for the F-101s will be more than 20,000 parts.

Schooling for an experienced technician is still nine months more before he becomes an F-101 "expert." New camera equipment that will be installed in the plane will make the (F-101s stationed at Shewmaker "one of the finest, most up-to-date reconnaissance planes in the entire service," Col. Beck says. The planes the Kentucky guard will get are now stationed in England and are used as fighter-attack planes. Col. Beck explains that the Air Force is now taking bids to revamp the jets into camera-carrying reconnaissance planes.

He expects the whole process to take about a year before the Kentucky unit has the 21 planes that will eventually be based there. The new plane will more than double the maintenance hours required by Col. Beck's crews but he will only be able to add about 20 men to his 90-man staff. Even though this summer training period is planned around schooling for crews who will handle the new planes, the main work of the unit goes on. Maj.

Stanley A. Worsham, the photo interpretation officer, works closely with all of the reconnaissance missions. He noted that the unit has flown missions in Alaska, California, Canada, Puerto Rico and other distant places as well as in Kentucky and surrounding states. Maj. Worsham explained that the For Racers, If Love Me, Love My Boat Apy L.

Stiff Phot By LINDA BORSCH With her blonde ponytail bobbing in the breeze, Phyllis O'Hara helped heave her husband's hydroplane racing boat out of the choppy Ohio River and onto the dangling hook of a crane waiting to lift the boat ashore. Phyllis and her husband, John, a i laboratory technician for the Atomic Energy Commission, came from Dayton, Ohio, to race the 145-cubic-inch hydro-- plane in yesterday's 19th annual Marine Derby Inboard Regatta at Jeffersonville. With her work done until the next James Noonan called "handsome trophies and modest cash." Others didn't have to travel so far to reach the 1 23-mile-long course off the Indiana shoreline. Mr. and Mrs.

Marion Cooper of 605 Blankenbaker Lane belong to the Falls Cities Motor Boat Racing the group that cospon-sored the regatta with JUMP (Jeffer-sonville United to Make Progress). Likes Boat Best On Trailer 1 "I like Cooper's boat (Louisville Kid II) best of all when it's on the trailer," Mrs. Cooper said. "I wouldn't get in it, even if it were full of mink jackets." Cooper's seven-litre boat can go as fast as 150 m.p.h., he said. After Mrs.

Cooper helped fasten the hooks on her husband's orange life preserver, she nervously backed away from the hydroplane. "If Cooper got as nervous as I get, he couldn't drive the boat," she said. But, Cooper's had the hydroplane hobby since 1934 and hasn't been critically injured by it, so she tries to i heat, Phyllis stood dripping wet in her black knit fishnet suit as she explained that about 45 members of the Dayton Motor Boat Racing Association were at the regatta. They hauled about 20 boats to vie for what race director AERIAL STUDY Maj. Stanley Worsham, foreground, of the Kentucky Air National Guard calls out his findings to Airman 2C.

Russell V. Quick as he studies negatives of an aerial survey of the Standiford Field area shot from one of the air guard's planes. 6 1 Good Shane9 rv I KEA Urged To Campaign On Tax Issue Head-On Crash Kills 2 Women In Louisville Interstate Road Work 37 Per Cent Complete Race details, Page 4. "love him and his boat." She does her part by serving as program chairman and hospitality chairman of the racing association. "See that rooster tail picking up," blared the loudspeaker as the hydroplanes picked up speed and the wakes splashed into plume-shaped funnels.

The funnels were apparently seen best by a group of Indiana University students who perched on top of their Majestic Showboat, docked next to all the activity. "They didn't have to go to all this trouble just for us," said the joking Bob Moran as he watched with about 20 other I.U. students and family members who had joined Majestic's crew for the races. On one side of the Majestic was the "pit" where hydroplanes entered and left the water. On the other side was the racing officials' tower atop a barge.

With wind lashing about the open room supported by a stilt-like structure, about 15 officials milled about. Some manned telephones; others kept time or refereed race. "It's all just to promote hydroplane racing," said Mrs. Noonan, the race director's wife. BOOM! Kathy Beckham, Miss Hydroplane of 1965, strikes up a smiling pose at left during regatta races.

Then, at right, a shroud of smoke upsets her. Cause: Somebody fired a nearby miniature cannon to start a hydroplane race. Two women were killed early yesterday in a head-on collision on River Road. Mrs. Lucinda Thomas, 41, of 1618 Dumesnil, and Mrs.

Elizabeth Lenahan, 44, of 1827 Mary Catherine Drive, were among eight persons killed in Kentucky's weekend traffic. Police said that Mrs. Thomas was east-bound on River Road about two blocks west of Zorn Avenue shortly after midnight when she apparently lost control of her car near the Louisville Gas Electric Co. substation. The automobile slipped off the right shoulder and then careened across the road into a car driven by Mrs.

Lenahan's husband, Joseph E. Lenahan 53. Deputy Coroner Lloyd Roemele said that Mrs. Thomas was dead of a broken neck and internal injuries on arrival at General Hospital. Mrs.

Lenahan died of a skulll fracture at 1:40 a.m. at General, Roemele said. Lenahan was admitted to the hospital with hand and leg cuts. Mrs. Thomas' husband, Andrew, 42, a passenger in the Thomas automobile, was treated for bruises.

The deaths brought the city's traffic toll to 23 so far this year, compared to 28 at this time last year. Mrs. Lenahan, the former Elizabeth Lankford, was an employe of Southern Veneer Co. and was a member of St. Helen's Church.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Sherron Baker; a son, Joseph E. Lenahan and four grandchildren. Mrs. Lenahan's body will be at the W.

G. Hardy Shively Chapel after noon Monday. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Helen's Church.

Mrs. Thomas' body was taken to the A. D. Porter Son Funeral Home, 1305 W. Chestnut.

Other weekend fatalities were reported earlier. Cturltr-Jonrnil turtiu FRANKFORT, Ky. Kentucky has not reached the halfway point in opening its interstate highway mileage, but Highway Commissioner Henry Ward says the program is "in good shape" to reach its 1972 completion goal. Latest Bureau of Public Roads figures for the nation (March 31) showed 37 per cent of Kentucky's 833 miles open to traffic. The national average on that date was 47 per cent.

Indiana had 45 per cent open. But mileage figures aren't the whole story, said Ward, especially when comparing with other states. "Some states have concentrated on rural mileage which is relatively inexpensive and easy to build," he said. "Kentucky has concentrated on more difficult (and shorter) urban-type projects which serve the greatest volume of traffic." Bonds Approved In 1956 And 1960 On a money basis, the Highway Department estimates it is 45 per cent done, having spent as of July 31 $416 million of the $930 million total estimated cost. Another factor, Ward said, is one that "kind of shocked me" when he became commissioner in 1960.

"The state had not moved aggressively in getting routes established I've concentrated on public hearings and getting locations settled. "I would say the state is probably a year behind where we could have been. We're proceeding now in an orderly way. In another year we'll catch up with no problem, if financing is available." Ward was referring to the proposed $176 million bond issue, $139 million of it for highways. If voters defeat the bond issue in November, the Legis lature would have to either raise road taxes or cut existing programs, or else lose federal interstate money.

Voters approved a total of $190 million in highway bonds in 1956 and 1960. Of those bond funds, 23 per cent has been spent for the $9 state interstate program. The rest has gone for other matching programs, primarily 50-50 primary and secondary road projects. Ward sees nothing wrong with this allocation and said the policy will continue with the new bond funds if approved. Under present law, the federal interstate trust fund will expire on Oct.

1, 1972. That means the state should have its last interstate projects under construction by mid-1970 in order to get all its share of federal funds. The latest breakdown for Kentucky shows: .37 per cent open to traffic; 11.5 per cent under construction; 49 per cent in engineering or right-of-way buying and 2.5 per cent not yet in progress. 1-471, a five-mile spur route through Newport, and portions of 1-24 in Western Kentucky, a total of 18 miles, have not reached the preliminary engineering stage. Forty-three more miles of interstate are due to be opened to traffic this fall: Two sections of 1-65, 12 miles between Upton and Munfordville and 24 miles from U.

S. 231 southeast of Bowling Green to the Tennessee border. Seven miles of 1-75 from Williamsburg to Saxton. Interchange ramps near the John F. Kennedy Bridge (1-65, 1-64) in Louisville.

Counting this mileage, Kentucky will then have 43 per cent of its interstate miles open. By PHIL NORMAN Courltr-jMirnal South Kentucky Burtu BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Kentucky's teachers were urged here yesterday to campaign against any crippling restrictions on the local property tax rates that help support the schools. The call for support of the state's new full-valve assessment rule came from Dr. Harry Sparks, state superintendent of public intruction.

He spoke at the opening session of the Kentucky Education Association's 16th annual leadership conference, attended by an estimated 600 educators, at Kentucky Western State College. Dr. Sparks called on teachers to start to work through their friends and through the "power structures who influence the state legislature," which will meet in special session Aug. 23. In view of the 100 per cent tax assessment ruling of the state Court of Appeals, proposals have been made to lower the $1.50 maximum rate that can be levied by school boards without referendum.

"We may be prohibited from supporting our schools, even if we wish to, at the local level," Dr. Sparks said. Cites Opposition Sources He said that "noisy opposition" to any increase in school revenue comes from persons with no children, those who own under-assessed property, and those who believe education isn't important. The importance of teachers was stressed by Richard Van Hoose, Jefferson County school superintendent and president of KEA, who made the opening address. "Those teachers of yesterday's astronauts-to-be and engineers-to-be were the hope of their tomorrow," Van Hoose said, "just as our children's teachers today are the hope of our tomorrow." Dr.

Sam Lambert, assistant secretary for information services for the National Education Association, will speak at today's general session of the four-day conference. Dr. J. M. Dodson, executive secretary of KEA, will also be on the program.

Gregory Says Job Camp Biased In Hiring Policy I By MARTIN PEDIGO Catirltr-Journil Orion Rivtr Bureau 1 MORGANFIELD, Ky. Negro come- dian Dick Gregory charged last night i that the Job Corps Center at old Camp Breckinridge used subtle discriminatory hiring policies. I Center officials denied Gregory's charges. He also contended the center was hir- Man Arrested In Break-In Frank Jackson 27, of 923 Marshall Court was arrested at 5 a.m. yesterday and charged with storehouse breaking.

Patrolmen Marion Green and William Jackson said they found him and eight portable television sets outside a new Goodyear appliance store at 401 E. Broadway. They said the store is still being stocked with appliances in prepara- ing only applicants with college degrees and said that uneducated people didn't have a chance of passing a test given for staff jobs. Gregory addressed about 650 persons from the steps of Union County Courthouse here. The rally was sponsored by the Council of Anti-Poverty Groups, which hopes to find jobs for poor people.

The comedian's charges were general; he didn't cite examples. Nor did he refer specifically to racial practices. He intimated the center was hiring people from Southern Illinois. "We've got some people checking," Gregory said, "and if they can't find things that will stand up in court, we know they'll stand up in the streets." He said there might be demonstrations "if the situation doesn't improve. If you local people won't demonstrate, we can bring them in who will." Earlier Gregory refused to put on a scheduled free performance for en-rollees at the center.

He said at least 400 of the 700 enrollees should have turned out to hear him. Center Director James Hughes said "about 150 boys showed up. There weren't many more here this weekend." About Gregory's charges, a center official said of 435 employes more than 200 are Kentuckians 164 from Henderson, Union, Webster and Crittenden counties. Of 246 nonteaching employes, he said, 139 are from the four counties. All take tests conducted by the Southern Illinois University, which operates the center.

He said he couldn't give the. number of Negro and white employes because the center doesn't keep such information on its records. Gregory also complained about the lack of jobs generally in the area. The Henderson office of the State Department of Economic Security said the region's unemployment rate is among the lowest in Kentucky. JdieOVINGTON Open to Traffic r65l E3BB Under Construction AK Planning Stages l0u.sv,uf- XsY fllZABETHlWNAcfwr.

KY. PKWY -f lRICHMOND W. KY. WtWY. i i TV- 7XJ rm 0MN IN WILLIAMSBURG 'vi JLr Snake Hunt Oldham Reptile Still Not Caught That giant snake in Oldham County apparently is pretty good at shaking hunting parties.

At any rate, it still hadn't been captured last night, despite a weekend search around Reynolds Lake near LaGrange. Roy Lindell, who lives near the shore of the 70-acre lake, said last night the search was still on. Nobody had reported seeing the snake since Friday night Before the search, several persons said they had seen the snake swimming in the lake. They described it as dark in color and as thick as a stovepipe. The snake is said to have eaten all the fish and frogs in the lake, then turned its attention to hogs penned nearby.

The hogs have been moved. tion for its grand opening, The loss of about $4,500 in cash and property worth more than $1,835 was reported in another weekend theft. Mrs. Virginia Worley, 433 Park told police the money and property were taken from the unlocked trunk of her car Saturday, while it was parked at her home. She said her loss included a file box containing the money and two pistols, a $1,100 ring, a $735 wrist watch and a mink stole.

Other theft reports: Consolidated Tire 1408 W. Jefferson, theft of 76 tires valued at $735, taken last Monday. i Lawrence Marshall, 9310 Preston Highway, the thirft of jewelry worth $750 from their home yesterday. OF KENTUCKY 733 MILES of interstate highway, 271 miles are open to traffic. Eighty-five miles are under construction, 43 of these to be opened Stiff Map by Stivt Durbin by the end of 1965.

Of the remainder, 18 miles of 1-471 and 1-24 have not yet reached the preliminary engineering stage. i.