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Vol LXVII No. 10
Iriday 25 1975

Keeneland soles

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Cadillac’s abound
as royal stand-ins

dabble in sport of kings

By JOHN SCHAAF
Kernel Staff Writer
Horse racing is sometimes called “the
sport of kings.” However, there is a
distinct shortage of US. royalty, so it’s
inevitable some kingly substitutes emerge
to shed blue blood on American race
tracks and thoroughbred breeding farms.
Many of these royal stand-ins have
become wealthy through such non-royal
pursuits as earth-moving equipment,
insurance sales and hamburger chains. It
doesn‘t matter where the money comes
from, the important thing is it allows
earth-moving moguls and burger kings to
dabble in hobbies like horse racing.

@mmentory

To “dabble” in horse racing, it is
necessary to meet, drink and spend money
with fellow hobbyists. These demanding
tasks are most pleasantly accomplished at
the Keeneland Summer Sales; an annual
auction of young horses and attracting
more rich people than a tax loophole.

Earlier this week, driving into the
Keeneland parking lot, it was difficult to
determine if the prestigious sale was in
progress or if someone at the track had
just received a Cadillac franchise. Rows
and rows of Fleetwood Cadillacs, many
bearing out-of-state plates, filled the lot
surrounding the ultra-modern sales
pavillion.

Rubbing their silver. thoroughbred hood
ornaments for luck, the horse hobbyists
strolled into the cool, glassy pavillion to
await the auctioneer‘s first call.

Inside, the bar was jammed with buyers
and sellers of the best horseflesh in the

 

world. Holding glasses of Jack Daniels,
many wandered outside and stood on the
lawn talking to each other. Voices
periodically rose, as big jets took off and
landed at nearby Bluegrass Field, their
red, green and white lights flashing in the
darkness of the cool night sky. _

As they milled about, the scene
resembled one of Gatsby’s backyard af-
fairs except the music for the Keeneland
party was provided by Tom Caldwell, a
chubby auctioneer. Caldwell’ s sing-song

voice was amplified and piped to every"

corner of the area. The partygoers listened
with one ear as colts and fillies were
paraded around a ring before being
quickly auctioned off at a price usually in
excess of $50, 000.

Occasionally bidding became heated
causing outdoor revelers to stand
motionless, diinks in hand and reverently

listen to Caldwell prod would-be buyers to .

fork over another five, 10 or 50 thousand.

“Take a look at him, he’s a beauty isn’t
he folks? and out of a stakes-winning
mare who’ll give me $100,000 for him...”

As the bidding got higher, a charge_0f
electricity went through the crowd while
the auctioneer attempted to squeeze every
drop from the ripe financial melons in the
audience. “Sir, I hate to see you lose him
when you‘ve come this far how about
$350,000 and you can close the door on
”em..." Thehammer falls, another horse is
sold and the crowd resumes their con-
versation — usually horse-talk.

“Yeah, that’sall they talk about,” said a
waiter. whose job is to circulate through
the crowd serving drinks. “They tip pretty
good they got lots of money,” he said.
“But [wouldn’t give that kind of money for
a whole slew of horses.”

Continued on page 4

EN TUCKY

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Those who are drawn to the Keeneland yearly thoroughbred sales ramble
around outside the sales pavillion. listening to the auctioneer, who at-
tempts to “squeeze every drop from the ripe financial melons in the
audience."

 

University

blasted

before

legislators

By WALTER HlXSON
Assistant Managing Editor
FRANKFORT — Leaders of the UK
unionization drive leveled charges against
the University during a legislative sub-
committee hearing on collective
bargaining Wednesday.

Margaret Roach and Jim Embry, UK
Workers Organizing Committee leaders,
made one of several presentations on the
volatile collective bargaining issue The
six-hour meeting was the fifth state sub-
committee hearing on the issue.

The subcommittee is attempting to
formulate collective bargaining proposals
for public employes to be presented to the
General Assembly which convense in
Januaiy.

Roach, a University hospital employe,
began organizing a UK union for non-
academic employes in February. She

charged the University with unfair
treatment of employes concerning salary
and working conditions

She urged the committee to enact
collective bargaining legislation to protect
University employes from the “dictates of

the Board of Trustees." The board is

“composed of big‘ business interests” and
consequently has no interest in fair

treatment of employes, Roach said.
University blacks and women are

discriminated against daily, she said.
“Worker's have no input into rules and
regulations.”

Roach and Embry urged the sub-
committee to allow employes the right to
strike for better working conditions should
other measures fail. “The only thing we
own is our laba' power and to be without it
would be slavery," Embry said.

Roach told the subcommmittee the
union’s proposed ,affailiation with the
American Federation of State, County and

Municipal Employers represents “about
400 University employes.”

Roach said she is “firmly opposed” to a
substitution of binding arbitration for a no-
strike clause. “The supposition that there
is a neutral boa rd (of arbitrators) is false
because the labor board is appointed by
the governor,” she said.

Big business interests dominate ar-
bitration boards, Roach said. “I think you
can begin with the composition of this
committee where there are members of
the Chamber of Commerce which comes
out consistently against labor uniors," she
sail.

Rep. David Karem (D-Louisville)
quickly responded to Roach's statements.
“1 resent the implication that this com-
mittee is slanted in one way or another,”
he said. “If you want to charge this
committee with pre-determination then I
want to see some facts right here and

now." Continued on page 7

  

 

 

  

   

Letters

Larson

should do
his homework

Editor;

A letter in Tuesday’s Kernel by Steve
Winkle, coordinator for Free University
discussed particular problems his
organization has had in gaining use of
University space for fund-raising
proiects (i.e. a film festival). At least one
other student organization that I know of
has run into the same difficulty.

Last Spring, the Patterson Literary
Society(PL$) chose to bring a series of
films produced by the Appalshop Film
Workshop to UK as a money-raising
project. The proceeds were to be ploughed
back into another of the club’s proiects:
the Focus Forum on World Food Shortage.
Any money made on the film festival was
to be used to pay travel expenses for
speakers of national stature.

Like Free U the organization was in-
formed use of space in the classroom
building would automatically prohibit
charging an admission fee. Needless to
say, this threw a large wrench in our
plans. We found it wasn’t practical to rent
a hall off campus, especially since we were
trying to draw the campus community to

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the Appalshop Film Festival. Also costs
were prohibitive.

In the end, we were forced to utilize

classroom building space, and simply ask
for donations. This at best only works
poorly. The net result was the festival
actually lost money for PLS. This also
disappointed members of the Appalshop
organization as their existence depends in
part on film rental fees.

The rules and criteria for registration of
student organizations, published by the
Office of the Dean of Students, states in
section four that, ”The (student)
organization must be non~profit by
nature.” I submit that since student
organizations, by definition, are non-profit
any such recognized student group
should be allowed to charge admission,
etc., when utilizing University
auditoriums for money—raising proiects—
as long as individual students are not being
subsidized monetarily by any such fund-
raising activity.

It seems to me Col. Larson, apparently
in charge of this within the University
bureaucracy, needs to do some homework
and come up with a fair and com-
monsensical solution. Otherwise, students
will be thwarted from utilizing the space
that has been created for their use,
resulting in an increasing dearth of
already scarce supplemental funds.

Greg Hofelich
PLS member

Editorials

 

  

 

 

 

Kentucky ripe for
collective bargaining

Public employes constitute one of
the remaining bastions of non-
unionized workers in Kentucky and
throughout the country. Organizers are
concentrating their efforts on making
unions—and collective bargaining in
particula—a reality for public servants
at the federal, state and local levels.

The time is ripe for a Kentucky
collective bargaining law for public
employes. Sucha law is essential to
avoid the confusion produced whenever
groups demand union recogniton.
Guidelines must be enacted to prepare
for inevitable future bargaining
demands.

For instance, recall the Lexington
firefighters strike last fall. The Urban
County Council exhibited their own
peculiar brand of stubborn ignorance
when the firefighters first made union
recognition demands. It took a 10-day
walkout to “enlighten" the council
about the realities of modern day
employe relations. That controversy is
still not resolved due to lack of
adequate legislative guidelines.

A special state legislative sub
committee is presently studying
collective bargaining for public em-
ployes. The subcommittee has heard
testimony from management and labor
over the past few months and is ex-
pected to draw up legislation for the
1976 General Assembly to consider
when it meets in January.

True to nature, opposition to a
collective bargaining bill comes from
management—in this case mayors,
county officials, school boards and
other atministrators. Their chief ob-
jection to public employe bargaining it
its potential effect on state, county and
city budgets. One Chamber of Com-
merce official said at a subcommittee
hearing Wednesday it would be the
most expensive piece of legislation
“ever consideed.”

But this rationalization reveals a lot
about the actual status of public em-
ployes. Fear of mushrooming wmes

after bargaining occurs is an ad-

mission employe labor subsidizes
costs of government services.

For example, take the current UK
unionization drive. The Employe
Organizing Committee, besides lob-
bying for a $1 hourly wage increase for
non-academic employes, has requested
union recognition by the Board of

Trustees.
One estimate has it that the hourly

wage increase would cost the
University $12.4 milliona year, certainly
an awesome figure. But the benefits of
bargaining with employes, such as
increased productivity due to employe
input in decision-making, would
outweigh the costs in the long run. The
time has come to stop treating public
employes as second class citizens by
insuring participation in decisions
affecting their daily lives.

Kentucky must enact collective
bargaining legislation to provide a
framework enabling employers to cope
when bargaining demands arise. Such a
comprehensive framework would have
eased the antagonisms which existed
during the Leiington firefighter's strike
and would spell out what the Board of
Trustees should do about demands for
union recognition. Other state agencies
could also benefit from such a law.

Collective bargaining is bound to be a
hot issue when the legislature meets
next year. Passage of a workable bill
first depends on the work of the special
subcommittee presently studying the
issue. Once a bill reaches the
legislature, its success largely depends
on the will of the governor. Gov. Julian
Carroll is maffling on the issue, while
his gubernatorial opponent in
November, Republican Robert Gable,
opposes collective bargaining.

No one can accurately predict what
the Frankfort political climate will be
come January, but whatever happens
with collective bargaining should be
interesting. The issue provides a test of
whether the state can meet a twentieth
century challenge by rejecting its
antique, piecemeal method of dealing
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Spectrum

Defending
'trash
journalism'

By Leonard lipton

When Kernel Editor Nancy Daly asked
me Wednesday to write something about
Jay Gourley, I think she was looking for a
kind of professorial treatise on journalistic

ethics.
At the risk of making inferences based

on little data, I sensed in her the reaction
many people have toward Gourley’s ex-
ploits—a mixture of embarrassment,
amusement and reluctant respect.

Gourley, you probably won’t remember,
is the reporter who hit the nation's front
pages recently for making off with Henry
Kissinger’s garbage. “The Man from
T.R.A.S.H.” was Newsweek's title.

Well, Nancy, this isn’t going to be a
treatise on ethics and professionalism.
Because in my case, that feeling of respect
isn‘t at all reluctant.

I haven't seen Gourley’s story on the
garbage. From the news reports, it doesn’t
look all that revealing. Still, you can ad-
mire the style without liking the result.
And if I have to choose between a style of
reporting that looks at real garbage vs. a
style that accepts without question the
fogging phrases ot statesmen—then I’ll
take the real garbage anytime.

Theth ing lenjoyed most aboutthe whole
Gourley and the garbage episode was the
reaction of Kissinger’s unnamed
spokesperson. Everybody else treated it
as a joke. Kissinger’s office issued sanc-
timonious statements about invasion of
privacy. This for the man who
unhesitatingly approved wiretaps on his
own associates.

Recent articles in various media
reviews have pointed out how Kissinger
staves off journalistic scrutiny by his
ability to awe reporters. That's one thing I
like about Gourley‘s style. Anybody

 

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wiiling to paw through Kissinger’s gar-
bage obviously isn’t awed.

But then, from my perspective, Gourley
has never been awed by anything.

I first met him in I963 when l was a
brand new, very nervous journalism
teacher at Harding High School in
Oklahoma City. Jay was a 15-year-old
student who had already terrorized the
English department faculty—so much so
that nobody but new teachers would have
him in their classes. Despite his
reputation, I found him to be a puppy—
invariably polite, kind of charming and
very eager. I personally was terrorized,
not by Jay, but by his father — a well-
known Oklahoma publisher, former press
secretary to the governor, and at that time
a successful banker.

Jay survived that high school. I didn’t.
And at the end of the year I split.

We briefly crossed paths again 10 years
later here at the Enoch Grehan Jour-
nalism Building. Gourley by then was

working for the Kentucky Post.This was in
1973 and the Kernel had just exposed the
Dinky McKay scandal.

McKay, you probably won’t remember,
was a UK quarterback whom the Kernel
blew the whistle on for some hanky-panky
in correspondence courses. While the
Kernel reporters were painstakingly
tapping around the edges trying to nail the
story down without letting anybody know
what they were up to, Gourley was talking
to McKay. And more importantly, getting
Dinky to talk to him. Rule Number One for
journalists: go where you can, get what
you want.

Gourley was asked down from Covington
(actually down from Frankfort since he
was the Post’s state capitol correspon-
dent) to talk to some to the UK journalism
classes. I’m not sure what the student
journalists expected. Maybe a patsy they
could nail for his lack of ethics and
professionalism. Instead, Gourley
presented this cool, self-possessed, un~

flappable demeanor that everybody
hated but nobody could puncture.

”A newspaper‘s responsibility," he told
them, "is to give its readers as little of
what you think they need and lots of what
they want.”

Not really all that different from the
sainted William Allen White’s advice: ”A
good newspaper is one that’s a little bit
better than what its readers want."

But it somehow sounds different coming
from a joumalism saint than from a
Kentucky Post reporter. The Post, as all
journalism students know, is an
anachronism, the kind of paper you want
to put a velvety museum rope around.

Having a personal interest in Gourley, I
began to pay attention to his work. Gourley
stories kept floating back from Frank-
fort—about Jay luring secretaries out of
offices so he could rifle through papers;
about Jay and his Paparazzi pictures of
Wendell Ford playing tennis, about Gov.
Ford’s declaration of Gourley as persona
non grata.

l was really amused when Wendell Ford
went from the governor’s mansion to the
US. Senate and Jay wentalong too—as the
Kentucky Post's Washington corres-
pondent.

But before that Gourley had become a
news object himself. It was during a
federal grand jury investigation of

”alleged,” ”illegal,” ”fund-raising” by
'Kentucky Democrats. I still don’t know
much about what was going on or what the
grand jury found out, since, like Will
Rogers, all I know is what I read in the
papers. Gourley tried to find out himself
by talking directly to the grand jurors. He
quickly found himself hauled before Judge
David Hermansdorfer for contempt of
court. Oklahoma journalists, prodded
largely I guess by the senior Gourley,
issued a statement lauding the younger
Gourley’s efforts as being in the best
reporting traditions. Kentucky journalists
remained noticeably sitting silent.

After Jay went to Washington, the
Gourley stories continued to filter back—
about some unknown intruder sawing
through the bars on hisapartment window,
about his freelancing for the National
Enquirer. Water seeking its own level and
all that.

The National Enquirer, you probably
don’t remember, is the tabloid you see as
you go through the superma rket check-out
stand. lt bills itself as having the "largest
circulation of any paper in America." It
also pays very well, which is why many
journalists write for it—under a fake
byline of course. Gourley at least uses his
real name.

American reporters take offense at
iGourley’s sorting through Henry
,Kissinger’s trash—though they didn’t
sneer when the original proponent of
garbology was going through Bob Dylan’s

trash. There’s a lesson to be learned.
People are interested in trash. How else
:ould we live with so much of it? And even
the ”elite”—reporters among them——
might do well to consider the typical
reaction to Gourley as a model of jour~
nalistic aims. Provoke a response, any
response—especially if it’s a mixture of
embarrassment, amusement and
respect—however reluctant.

 

Dr. Leonard Tipton is an associate
professor in the UK Department of
Journalism.

 

 

 

 

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Keeneland sales bring out
‘Miami Beach mentality'

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Many of the carefully-styled
and fashionably-dressed seemed
to have a preconceived notion of
how wealthy people are supposed
to look as they all appeared to fit
the mold. Standing around in
leisure suits and long dresses,
.dangling jewelry and looking
light and breezy, these people
present a unique picture of
American life. Most of them are
tan and healthy looking, perhaps
5 the result of many days on tennis
courts and polo fields at summer
homes.

They seemed to reflect a way of

 

life alien to most of us. A life free
of the everyday tension which
plagues many people w money
problems, jobs. food, housing —
things. which a great number of
people struggle with. Such things
are foreign to these people‘s
lives. They live the Miami Beach
mentality.

At the Keeneland Sales there’s
an aging. bald man in a green
coat. His only job is to stand in
the show ring with a small rake
and dustpan and clean up horse
manure after each horse is led
from the ring. Perhaps better
than anybody else, the man

 

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Potential buyers view thoroughbreds at the annual Keeneland

sales.
described the entire two-day
spectacle of beautiful horses and
fashionable people when asked to

sum up his duties.
“A lotta shit," he said with a
grin.

PIanningCommiSSion endorses
housing complex near UK

By MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff Writer

Citing a need for increased
multi-unithousing in the UK area
and rejecting Aylesford Neigh—
borhoood Association protests,
the Urban County Planning
Commission endorsed 3
Woodland Avenue zoning change
Thursday afternoon.

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In an 8-0 vote, the commission
approved developer William C.
Taylor’s petition to classify his
Woodland Avenue property as a
low-density apartment zone.

If the zoning change is ap-
proved by the Urban County
Council, Taylor plans to con-
struct a 24-unit apartment
dwelling at the site.

in response to the proposal,
John Calkins, Aylesford group
president, said “The commission
is eliminating the incentive for
Aylesford area residents to
improve their property."

While admitting the site at the
corner of Euclid and Woodland
avenues, is appropriate for
apartmentdevelopment,Calkins
said the zoning change would set
precedent by allowing other
builders to enter the Aylesford
district.

“There is a shortage of UK
housing, but there are 150 lots
that are closer to UK than the
Aylesford location,” Calkins
said.

“This piecemeal zone change
destroys the credibility of
zoning," Calkins said. With the
exception if the University Plaza
Shopping Center, most of the
Aylesford area consists of sin-
gle unit residences, he said.

Henry Simpson, 420 Woodland
Ave, said that Taylor, who owns
the Library Lounge at 388
Woodland Ave., planned to

construct additional parking

space at the apartment site for
patrons of the Library. Simpson
said this would create traffic
problems in the area.

But Taylor’s attorney, Weldon
Shouse, said any additional
parking would be for guests of
apartment dwellers.

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Summer theatre—opens

Something is missing in 'Hot I. Baltimore'...

By WALTER lllXSON

Assistant Managing Editor

More is missing than the “E”
from the UK Theatre's Summer
Repertory performance of Hot l.
Baltimore. An apparent lack of
cohesion in the production
disrupted a potentially en-
tertaining performance. '

It‘s not that Hot l. Baltimore
was bad, or even not good. It
simply could have been much
better.

The award-winning drama — a
story about the characters in a
soon—to—bedemolished Baltimore
hotel —— had all the ingredients of
a great show: some excellent
characters, hilarious lines, and a
thought-provoking, melancholy-
comedy theme.

The first of four performances
t the others arescheduled for July
26. 28 and 31) failed to quench the
viewer‘s appetite. The show
opened at a slow, dragging pace
leaving the viewers waiting for
achon.

The performance finally picks

up with the entrance of April — a
buxom whore with a hilarious
script. A regular at the hotel,
April’s laughing outlook on life
and complimenting lines start the
ball rolling.

Kathryn Wilson plays the role
well, delivering her lines con-
vincingly. Her description of
some past customers often
proves totally ludicrious. She
describes someone’s head, for
example, as being “as hard a
bull‘s dick.”

Lem

April contrasts nicely with the
Girl (she can‘t come up with a
suitable name). She's another
whore who, like April, realizes
her place in life but, unlike April,
searches desperately for a new
life filled with “people who
care.“ Sandra McCulley is more
than adequate in the role.

 

Less prominent but equally
entertaining characters include
Millie (Roseanna Royce), who

observes all but gets involved in
very little.

Jackie (Jeanne Ross), a
flamboyant naturalist who
believes garlic will one day solve
the world’s problems, provides
some Ia ughs although she and her
unstable brother are perhaps the
most tragic characters.

With these excellent characters
and a sometimes hilarious script,
it is difficult to understand why
Hot L wasn‘t a complete and total
success. But it wasn't.

Perhaps it was the slow start
that forced the audience to
constantly anticipate some ac-
tion. Or perhas the UK Theatre
bit off more than it could chew
with Ilot l. and failed to com-
pliment the good dish with the
right seasoning.

At any rate. Hot 1. Baltimore is
not a total loser and is sure to

provide some laughs. Un~
fortunately. the production is not
a winner either _ a sad fact

which only leaves the viewer
wishing for more.

m‘Brecht on Brecht' without rhythm or context

By W. GRANT STRAUB
Kernel Staff Writer

During one portion of the UK
Summer Reportory Theater’s
production of Brecht on Brecht,
which started July 23, the stage
darkened and the simple words
“Brecht appearing before the
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