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COMPLETED FLOODWALL looking east from Quincy and Adams Streets is in the
often inundated "Point" section. Economy dictated building wall in the street.
Louisville Soon Will Get A $15,000,000 Gift A Floodwall From Bullitt to Fairgrounds
Costly Operation
Will Pay Off
In Protection
By JOIIX ESCIIRICH
Louisville will soon get a gift
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valued at $15,000,000.
Like many expensive gifts it
will be costly to maintain. The
gift is the new flood-protectiv-
works from Bullitt and Main to
near the old Fairgrounds.
It will require a crew of men to
''inspect, operate, seed grass on
levees to prevent erosion, and pro-
tect pump plants and closure
vaults. Also, occasional running
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of pumps wyi require much
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! Mrs. Zangwill --Jenkins, 2121 Mur- in Jefferson County are scheduled
GETTING INSIDE PICTURE OF Iroquois Homes, new public housing project under
construction near Hazelwood School, are Michel Marot, France; Ibrahim Elsammak, Egypt;
Miss Imogen Lee, England, and R. Martin Pilch, Scotland.
Planning Expert Says
Learning To Map Their Oivn Growth
Group on Tour
Is Visilini Here
America's .cities are learning
how to plan their own growth bet-
ter than ever before, a Columbia
University planning expert said
here yesterday.
"Everywhere we go, we find
that more and more people espe-
cially the business leaders real-
ize they've got to plan the orderly
growth of their own communities,"
said Prof. J. Marshall Miller, as-
sociate professor of planning at
Columbia.
He spent yesterday in Louisville
as leader of Columbia's annual
U. S." With him
"Studytour-Urba-
n
were 10 graduate architects and
city planners from the United
States and four foreign countries.
There are still too many cities,
however, with shelfloads of "paper
plans" but nothing else to show,
said Miller.
"The thing that encourages me
is to see more and more cities
are working out their own plans
for parks, thoroughfares, with
their own citizens committees
instead of buying somebody's pa-
per plan for their town."
iVeicKnox County Oil Well
Called Million-Dolla- r Kind
Barbourville, Ky., July 5 (P) What may be a million-dolla- r
well was struck this week in Knox County.
Dr. Daniel Bower said the well, on Moores Creek of Stinking 1240 Wolfe, on a charge of selling
Creek, is the best yet discovered in this section. He said it was pro- beer to a minor.
ducing the "Pennsylvania gravity oil that will burn in a
high-grad- e
tractor."
The oil was struck in the carniferous sands at 2,590 feet and of selling six bottles of beer to
the well is believed to be the deepest one to have been drilled in Pvt. Eugene E. Longnett, 18, Fort
this section of the county.
Comparing this oil with other strikes in the county, Dr. Bovver
said it was of the same type as found in the Virginia oil wells which drunkenness, disorderly conduct,
have been known as million-dolla- r wells.
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But the red-in-
k cost can be bal- -
anced by protection. Lt. Col. Clar-
ence Bidgood, Army district engi-
neer, said the whole northwest
section of Louisville will be pro-
tected henceforth from floods as
large as that of 1945.
Over-al- l floodworks construc-
tion has been going on for five
years. It will be two years more
before all the floodworks will be
delivered to the city. Now the
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levees and walls are completed
except for about 100,000 cubic
yards of levee between upper and
lower Paddy's Run, southwest of
the city.
The project is stupendous. It
is 17.3 miles long and will cost
an estimated $25,700,000, besides
nearly $2,000,000 for rights of
way. . Plant, second largest of its type in
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U. S. Cities
The group visited the Planning
and Zoning Commission office to
interview Erwin Hoffmann, com-
munity planner; spent a question-and-answ-
session with Nicholas
H. Dosker and other Municipal
Housing Commission staff mem-
bers, then toured old and
housing projects here most
of the afternoon.
Likes Open Areas Here
Their impressions were as
varied as their backgrounds. Ob-
served Vernon Read, Canadian en-
gineer now with Architectural
Forum magazine: "I'm surprised
at the large amounts of open
areas in your downtown sections."
Most impressive community yet
visited by the group was Green-hill-
Ohio, near Cincinnati, one
of the New Deal's "greenbelt
towns," according to Miss Imogen
Lee. a former planning officer
with the London, England, County
Council.
All the group members were
filled with- admiration fpr the
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Tennessee Valley Authority, which
they 'inspected for three days last
week. Their tour began June 16
in New York, and continues to
July 25. It covers housing and
other projects in 25 cities.
The group included David
oil Vice Squad detectives last night
arrested Thomas R. Sams. 32, of
Sams, manager of Nick's Big Six
Bar, 308 W. Jefferson, is accused
Knox.
Longnett was charged with
and buying beer illegally.
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The work was divided into six
sections. Required were 56,755
cubic yards of concrete, 5,321,185
pounds of steel, and 2,721,774
cubic yards of earth.
The concrete walls were built
where it would be too expensive
to buy and destroy buildings for
land on which to build levees.
These walls run from a few feet
to towering concrete almost three
stories in height.
Thirteen pumping plants will
pump sewage and rain water dur-
ing severe floods. They have
capacity . enough to pump dry
many a small river.
The biggest plant, and one on
which construction is expected to
start in six or seven months, is
the Beargrass Creek Pumping
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Courier-Journ-
Ardito, Columbia graduate stu- the water up to his chin and sank
dent; Allan J. Barker, secretary-treasure- r after swimming a f w strokes.
of the London, Ontario,
er
and Suburban Planning Board; body lVz hours later about 50
Miss Helen J. Cady, instructor in yards downstream from the point
housing and design, Cornell Uni- Ball was last seen.
versity; Ibrahim Elsammak, Alex-
new-publi-
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andria, Egypt, graduate student; 2d Alienation Suit Filed
Gerald W. Hopper, St. Louis
architect; Miss Lee; Michel Marot, Involving Two Couples
of Paris, France, a graduate stu-
dent at Harvard University;' John
B. Moore,
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city-plannin-
student,
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Rutgers University; R. Martin
Pilch, architect, Glasgow, Scot- against
land, and Read.
James French Winn, year.
Masonic Leader, Dies divorce,
s,
Winchester, Ky., July 5 (P)
James French Winn, 93, a former against Mrs. Buster.
member of the Kentucky Legis-
lature and grand high pries't of Air Force Commissions
the Kentucky Royal Arch Masons
since 1920, died at a nursing home Harrods Creek Man
here tonight.
He served in the Legislature was one of Lord,
from 1885 to 1887. From 1890 to Harvard
1893 he was Clark County master Air ForceUniversity
commissioner. Winn was one of commission
Kentucky's oldest practicing at- lieutenant in recently
torneys.
He had been a Mason 72 years.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs.
Charles R. White, Paris. The fu-
neral was set tentatively for Mon-
day.
Bar 3Ianager Charged
With Selling to Minor
LOUISVILLE,
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EXCAVATING for the Fairgrounds Pumping Plant
resulted in a canyonlike gash that dwarfed oil tanks.
the world. It will pump 2,970,000
gallons of water a minute. It would,
take 2,970 fire engines
pumping at capacity to move that
quantity of water.
The pumping plants are a good
example of and inte-
gration. The plan of
the Army engineers and the Met-
ropolitan Sewer District provides
that the pumping plants will be
used in the City's proposed
disposal
system. Where the
two systems parallel, City and
federal funds were combined for
the job. This step led to consid-
erable saving for both the United
States and the City.
The flood pumps can do two
jobs, pump floodwater when nec-
essary and ojimp sewage at other
times. Hence, by constant use, the
Whitlow's Divorced Wife
Sues To Get Parking Lot
The divorced wife of the late Roger W Whitlow yesterday
filed suit to obtain possession of a parking lot from Mrs. Eliza-
beth N. Whitlow, whom Whitlow married after the divorce.
Whitlow, 60, parking-lo- t
Kentucky Highway Patrol, died June 11.
In her Circuit Court suit, Mrs.
Lillie P. Whitlow, 2513 Green-
wood, said she is entitled to in-
come from the lot at 450 S.
Fourth until June 1, 1954, under
terms of a 1946 divorce agree-
ment.
Asks $600 A Month
The agreement said that if he
died the divorced wife should be
awarded the lease for the re-
mainder of the lease's life.
The suit said the defendant,
administrator of Whitlow's es-
tate, had refused to give the
plaintiff possession of the prop-
i erty. It asked the court to order
the administrator to surrender
it, pay, $1,000 damages, and pay
S600 a month until the lot is
turned over.
Jack Sherman, an attorney for
Mrii, 39, Droivns
In Ohio River
Photo
During An Outing
Manuel Ball, Jr., 39, of 2336 W.
Walnut, drowned yesterday after-
noon while swimming in the Ohio
River off Chickasaw Park.
Police said Ball and several
companions had gone to the park
for an outing earlier in the after-
noon. They said Ball waded out in
Coast Guardsmen recovered the
Robert Buster, 4322 Taylor
Boulevard, yesterday filed a $60,-00- 0
s suit
alienation-of-affection-
Daynon W. Hicks, 4832
Dixie Highway. The Circuit
alleged Hicks caused
Buster's wife to leave him last
Mrs. Hicks, who is seeking a
last month filed a $50,000
alienatio f ections suit
Nathan S.
Harrods Creek,
58 members of the
unit of the
R.O.T.C. to receive a
as second
the United States
Air Force Reserve.
2 Men Charged With Murder
Of Sheriff; Confession Claimed
Somerset, Ky., July 5 (IP)
Willard Sprinkles, 28, and George
Kinder, 23, today were charged
with the murder of Pulaski County night killing. Kinder said he is
Sheriff James B. Jasper.
Commonwealth's Attorney Rus-
sell Jones said examining trial fordriver of the car in which they
the two Barbourville men will be
July 16 before County Judge C. I.
Ross.
Funeral for Jasper, who was 63 bootleggers Pulaski County is le-
and a veteran of- gally dry when he was shot in
ficer in the area, was held this the chest and lung. He died
afternoon.
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big-typ- e
long-rang- e
operator and former chief of the
the divorced wie said thelease search for Robert Zide, his 31, who
had been renewed since the 1946
not
Court-petitio-
af
Jones said Sprinkles, in a signed
statement, admitted the Thursday
innocent Sprinkles, in his state-
ment, identified Kinder as the
fled after the sheriff was shot.
Jasper, acting on a tip, was at-
tempting to arrest the suspected
nt
SUNDAY MORNING,
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investment win be made more
useful and cheaper.
The plants at 27th Street, 34th
Street, and Shawnee Park are
completed. Those at Fifth, 10th,
and 17th Streets will be completed
in October, according to schedule.
The plants at Buchanan, Fourth
Street, State Fairgrounds, Paddy's
Run, Lee's Lane, and Mill Creek
will be finished next year. The
sewage--
Beargrass Creek Planet is planned
for completion in 1954.
The Fourth Street pumping
plant, now under construction, is
part of an ingenious system. A
large interceptor sewer runs east-
ward along Main and gathers all
the sewage for the pumps to dis-
charge into the river during
floods, or to pump toward the
treatment plant when it is built.
Jeffersontown Resident
Gone More Than Week
Police have been asked to
has been missing from home
in Jeffersontown since a week ago
agreement, but he did believe
that affected the agreement.
Lawyer Has Doubts
However, Frank A. Logan, at-
torney for Mrs. Elizabeth Whit-
low, 1805 Algonquin Parkway,
said he doubted that a person
could provide for a future lease
to pass to another person at his
death.
He also said a man's obligation
to pay alimony dies with him.
Moreover, he said an adminis-
trator under a will must con-
tinue to administer the estate
until the end of the period for
filing claims against the estate.
At one time Whitlow operated
13 parking lots in Louisville.
Judge Upholds
Curd's Silence
In Court Case
Suit Seeks To Recover son, Robert Michael.
Alleged Gambling Losses Zide hair
5 Ed is of husky
Lexington, Ky., July (JP)
Curd does not have to answer
questions about gambling if the tucky license
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replies would incriminate him,
Circuit Judge Chester D. Adams Legion Corps Wins Prize
held today. The ruling came as
a result of a suit seeking to re-
cover alleged gambling losses.
When depositions were given in
the case a year ago, Curd refused
to answer many of the 202 ques- Forestville, Ohio, The
tions asked him. Many concerned held
activities at the Mayfair Bar,
longer in operation, and Curd's
connection with them.
Enjoined From Gambling
Curd once was enjoined in a
civil suit from gambling at the
n
East Main Street address listed
for the bar.
Mrs. H. R. Craig brought suit
against him for $26,325. She acted
under a Kentucky law which per-
mits a third party in some cases to
sue for three times the amount
claimed lost at gambling if the
loser does not sue for recovery.
A similar ruling was given in a
$3,150 suit against Carl Johnson
and Carson Atkins, identified as K
operators of another bar.
Man Arrested as Drunk Driver
City police last night arrested
Moses Walker, 31, of 1417 W.
Madison, on a charge of drunken
driving.
JULY 6, 1952.
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Army Enginctn Pnoiss
SNORTING TRACTOR dressts the riverward slope of eight-mil- e levee in Paddy's Run
section of the
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works in the southwest part of Louisville.
flood-protecti- on
The sewage is dropped through not have to be high, and are Third Street, and Falling Run
Creek. There will be 10 closures
t therefore economical.
baffle plates to reduce the noise
of falling water. The pumps also Also under construction across at New Albany four streets, two
the Ohio is the New Albany flood
will handle sewage of the Fourth
railroads, 1 combined street and
railroad, one sandbag, and two
Street sewer during floods.
In addition to pumps, levees
works. N The project was started
in 1948 and consists of 2.5 miles
pedestrian-servic- eclosures.
Colonel Bidgood recalled that
and walls, the works includes of earth levee, .2 of a mile of the 1937 flood in Louisville caused
closures. There are 41 street concrete wall, and six pumping an estimated $52,000,000 damage.
plants. Still to De ouiit are 6,8S5
closure, nine, railroad closures, Flood damage at New Albany in
one combined street and railroad
feet of levee and 210 feet of con- the last 10 years has been esti-
crete wall.
closure, 10 service closures, and mated at $3,500,000.
11 sandbag closures. Contracts for three of the The latest approved cost esti- - ,
The closures 'are easily erected
pumping plants have been let and mate of New Albany flood protec-
metal parts that keep water from
it is estimated the six will be tion is $6,295,000. but this may be
entering through a street during
completed by December, 1953. reduced to $5,663,258.
a flood. The parts for such New Albany's protection line will The big Jeffersonville - Clarks-vill- e
closures are stored in vaults at
extend from Indiana Highway 62, works has been completed
the site. These vaults are of near Silver Creek, to near Silver for several years. In the big flood
heavy concrete with heavy steelHills. of 1945, by use of the uncomplet-
doors. The pumping plants will be at ed levees and walls and tempo-- ,
The sandbag openings are at Slate Run, East .Market Street, rarily erected works, the two
places where the bagging will Chambers Street, 10th Street, W. towns escaped heavy damage.
Police Asked
To Help Find
Mayor To Start Tests
For Link Hill-Burne- tt
Missing Man Mayor Farnsley will turn geological engineer at 10 a.m.
tomorrow.
Operating a rig , he will bring up the first rock
core-drillin- g
in preparation for an extension of Hill Street east to
samples
connect with Burnett at Preston The samples will tell engineers .
what to expect when excavation extension probably would be
and construction begin.
ready in four or five months.
The two-bloc- k
extension of Hill, They will be drawn up by the
yesterday. which now dead-end- at First, will
s Louisville engineering firm of
,
His wife said he left about 4:20 be the first part of a project Hazelet & Erdal.
eliminating the Louisville & Under proposed plans for the
p.m. to report to work as a fry Nashville Railroad grade crossing grade-crossin-
separation, an
g
cook at Pryor's Drive-I- Restau- n
at Preston and Burnett. The ex- overpass would carry Treston and
Road. He tension also will create a major the proposed North-Sout-
rant, 4170 Shelbyville
didn t reach the cross-tow-
n
route, since Burnett
at Third.
pressway over Burnett, the newr
Ex-
restaurant. dead-end- s
extension, and the railroad tracks.
if hr
Zide. was sub- The over-al- l project will be the This would be at a point just
first under a $2,850,000 west of the Preston-Burnet- t in-
ject to severe
grade-separatio- n
headaches and bond issue voted in tersection.
1950 as part of bond issues total- Cost of the project has been
naant seemea estimated as $3,200,000. The State
well in recent ing $13,350,000.
weeks, Mrs. Zide W. W Sanders, City engineer, Highway Department and the
said.
Providence,
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A native of
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said plans for the Hill Street
Louisvillian To Head
L. & N. will help finance it.
25 Miles In County
i., ue was un-
charged from IIosj lital In Chicago Slated for Resurfacing
the Army at Mortimer Zimmerman, son of Sections of 14 rural highways
Fort Knox in
Zide 1948 after more
than six years ray, has been- - appointed adminis- for bituminous resurfacing. They
trator of Louis A. Weiss Memorial total 25 miles.
in the service. The Zides lived Also scheduled are 2.6 miles of
here for three years after his dis-
charge, moved to Providence and
Hospital, Chicago.
He is a graduate of Louisviile the Bardstown Junction-Bardstow- n
New Haven, Conn., and returned
Male High School an the Universi- Road from KY 61 to Clearmont
here last June.
The Zides have been married
ty of Louisville. He holds a mas- Road.
ter's degree from the University of They are among 130 miles of
Chicago and has studied hospital roads in 21 counties on which the
4Vi years and have a
administration at Northwestern State Highway Department will
is about 5 feet 2, has
and brown eyes, and
dark-brow- n University. open bids for improvement on
July 18 in Frankfort. j
build. He was driving Catholic Alumnae Plan
3 la n Is
a 1946 Nash club coupe with Ken-
Moiini Mercv Retreat Arrested
A closed retreat will be held For Smoking In Bed
July through 20 at Mount
17 Gus Coates, 35, of 645 S. Second,
Second prize of $75 in the
Mercy, Pewee Valley, under spon-
sorship of the Louisville Circle,
was arrested last night on a charge
of setting his mattress on fire
American
and bugle
Legion's interstate drum
corps contest went this
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International Federation of Cath-
olic Alumnae. The Rev. Alfred
while smoking in bed and drunken-
ness. City firemen put out a mat- -
year to Jefferson Post No. 15. The Horrigan, president of Bellarmine tress fire at the address about
corps won the College, will be retreat master. j 6:30 p.m. Coates was arrested on
$100 first prize. contest was Reservations may be made by a warrant sworn to by Edwin Mc- -'
at
no Friday Ludlow, Ky. phoning WAbash 2024. Kinney, owner of the property.
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U. S. Army Photo
KENTUCKY TANKERS in Japan include these four from the Louisville area. In front
are Cpl. Charles Freeman, Shepherdsville, left, and Pfc. Robert L. Young, 1029 Ellison.
In rear are Sgt. Roy Cochran, Jr, 301 N. Bonner, left, and Sgt. Robert R. O'Keefe, 2712
Virginia. All are members of the First Cavalry Division.