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ASK BETTER SCHOOLS
BETTER SCHOOL CONDITIONS ASKED
COMMITTEE OF CENTRAL STUDENTS AND TALBERT SCHOOL PARENTS AT BEEF SESSION Indications are that good results will come from complaints [about?] the "deplorable" conditions at Central High School as made by a group of students at the Mayor's beef session recently, and by a committee of mothers, who complained about the conditions at the Mary B. Talbert elementary school. Among the things cited by Claude A. Orton, 17, 2316 W. Chestnut, a senior at Central, who was spokesman for the students were the overcrowded classrooms, limited facilities in the vocational departments, and the leaking of the roofs of parts of the Central High School plant. Orton emphasized that conditions at the school were getting worse every year.
The committee of mothers from the Parent-Teacher Association of the Mary B. Talbert School, 802 W. Kentucky, was composed of Mrs. Margaret Yeager, Mrs. Loreta Westfield and Mrs. Claude Ducharmene, all of Cottage Court. Mrs. Yeager complained at the beef session about the poor drainage of the school yard, the unsanitary outside toilets, the slopping classroom floors, the stove-heated rooms, and many other structural faults of the portable school which houses 265 children.
Mayor Charles Farnsley told the groups that he would see what could be done about the conditions complained about both at the Central and Mary B. Talbert School.
M. F. Dumeyer, chief housing manager, told the Central students that in his opinion had families living in the proposed new Central High School city area, between 11th and 12th (Continued on page 4)
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR J. A. CALLERY, PROMINENT CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Funeral services were held for J. A. Callery, prominent citizen and contractor at Calvary Baptist Church, Friday, January 24, following an operation. He had been ill for several months, but not completely confined to his bed. Mr. Callery, who moved from the city out to Harrods Creek, was one of the most successful contractors and builders in the Louisville area, having constructed several of the finest churches in the community. At the same time he was a leader in church and civic activities. For several years he was an officer of the Calvary Baptist Church, and at the time of his death he was superintendent of the Sunday School, and in the eloquent eulogy delivered by the Rev. D. E. King, pastor of Zion Baptist Church and a friend of Mr. Callery, high tribute was paid him as a great builder not only of the material but in the spiritual. He was characterized as a true and tried churchman, citizen, friend and husband. A beautiful tribute was paid him by his widow, Mrs. Bertha T. Callery, well-known Louisville school teacher to whom he was married 31 years ago, in the obituary read by Mrs. Juanita Offutt Holt. Appropriate remarks were made by the Rev. W. F. Wilson, pastor of Centennial Baptist church, and the Rev. L. A. Offutt, acting pastor of Calvary since the death of his uncle, the Rev. W. P. Offutt, who also served as master of ceremonies. A church resolution was read by Miss Alberta Barry, and from the Sunday School by Atho- (Continued on page 4)
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A Scene at the Mary B. Talbert School[Photo] Dart Through Rain from Unheated, Flooded Rest Room Talbert School youngsters, shown leaving the unheated, unlit, outside rest room (at right) in the school yard at 802 Kentucky, found the floor inside almost as wet as the poorly drained school yard. Water draining from the yard into the rest room adds to the deplorable condition of the toilet which has only two units working out of seven, and no toilet paper.
SCHOOL BIAS, CRIME IN ONLY 3 STATES Speaking at a meeting of the Kappa Pi Epsilon social fraternity of the University of Louisville Thursday, James R. Merritt, member of the Law School faculty of the institution, said that Kentucky is one of only three states in the nation which makes a crime of teaching whites and Negroes together. "In 20 states", said the speaker, separate public school laws are set up, but only in Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida, is non-segregated education made a crime not even in private schools. In explaining the court interpretation of the 14th Amendment, Merritt said "there is a sharp division of opinion on whether the separate but equal theory is correct," and that there are eight states in the nation that forbid segregation in schools. He said that the reasoning in the case of the separate but equal formula set up by a court in 1895, was very unsatisfactory and was in opposition to that against the enforcement of restrictive covenants in deeds, as w  as recently decided against the states.
CHILD BURNED IN THREE-STORY FIRE Bobby Jean Styles, 3-year-old child of Mrs. Lela Styles, 1506 W. Chestnut, was burned to death as a result of a fire which firemen believed started when an oil stove exploded in the room.  The child was declared dead from burns when carried to General Hospital.  Mrs. Leola Wooden, who lived in the second-floor apartment saved her six months old baby by dropping her out of the window into the arms of the firemen, who took four other persons from the upper floors by ladders.
DRYING OUT AT MARY B. TALBERT SCHOOL [Photo]
Shoes, Socks Need Drying After Trip Outdoors Soaked through as the result of conditions shown in the top picture, these Talbert School sixth graders, studying health books, toast their bare toes around the pot-bellied stove in their class room while their shoes, on the floor, and their socks, hung on the stove, dry out. From left they are Leola Gaines, 11, of 113 W. St. Catherine; Mary Lizzie Kelly 11, of 1483 rear Levering, and Margaret Franklin, 12, 1871 rear Levering.
--Courtesy The Louisville Times.
Capture White Men Wanted for Slaying of Three Children in Mississippi
Lawrence Drafts Legislative Bills
Jesse H. Lawrence, State Representative from the 42nd District, and the only race member of Kentucky's law making body announced to The Leader this week that he has prepared two of the bills which he will introduce to the Assembly during its present session. Bill H. B. 12 has to do with provisions to give more assistance to the "needy aged with a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health." The bill would increase the monthly allotment from the present $21.60 to $45, as a minimum to a maximum of $50. The second bill to be offered by Mr. Lawrence has to do with a formal course in citizenship to be "taught in the ninth grade as a part of the regular curriculum, in all the common schools ... having for its goal, the development of the pupils, of a more tolerant attitude toward all their fellowmen; the [inculpils?], of that quality of character and integrity of mind which is consistent with a democratic heritage as expressed in the Federal Constitution and Bill of Rights; and the forceful recognition by the pupils of those individual responsibilities arising out of citizenship in a political and social organization founded on freedom and justice for all.
Mother and Brothers Witness Execution
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