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The Stars in tlie Night steering committee met for the first
time yesterday to begin planning this year's program!
Stars in The Night is presented

honor campus
each spring
women for their scholarship and
service to the University.
The steering committee members and their offices are: Carley
Revell, secretary; Ann Armstrong,
treasurer; Pat Cody, publicity
chairman; Jerry Sue Sanders, decorations chairman; Glynda Steph

77ir Hretizins Mansion

Citizens Oppose Razing
Of Belle Breazing House
Kernel Staff Writer

Madame
Belle Rreazing's
house, which was once called
"a mansion for men," may be
razed when Lexington's Urban
llcuewal Commission launches
its program.
The old mansion, which is located on the Southwest corner of
Northeastern Avenue and Wilson
Street, is in the center of the
'Chicago Bottom" area which the
Commission will be surveying and
planning during the next year.
With the announcement that the
area would be cleared, several
Lexington citizens expressed kern
interest in preseiving the old mansion. This group includes Dr. Earle
Spencer Jr., Winston Coleman,
who is a curator of Lexington history; Geoige Graves, and Owen
Williams.
The Society for the Preserva-t:o- n
of Central Kentucky Monuments was cited by Dr. Spencer
as being the organization most
capable of having the house restored. He said that the society
should consider the old mansion
among Kentucky's most historically interesting landmarks.
"With so much historical interest
attached to Belle's house, I see no
reason why the Hunt Morgan
House should be given priority,"
Spencer said.
"The house is far from dilapidated," he added. "There is still
much of the house which has re

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mained Just as It was while Belle
was alive."
Belle's house and most of her
possessions were sold at public
auction after her death on August 3, 1940. Some of the elaborate furnishings which serve as
reminders of the gaiety and revel
which were part of Belle's life are
still in the house.
Miss Flora Hudson, who now
rents the house from Mary K.
Stoner, has converted the giant
residence into a hotel. However,
she has left a few of the rooms
throughout the house as they
were. One of the downstairs
rooms, which was once the
stene of entertainment and merriment, is still intact.
When Belle's business was flourishing, there were railroad tracks
near her establishment. They were
said to have been used by gentlemen callers from distant parts of
the country to visit Belle without
being seen or recognized. However,
these tracks are no longer there.
Belle was a real and yet legendary madame of the Gay Nineties
and the early 1900's. Because historians have hesitated to write
about her, many amusing stories
have been told and retold about
the colorful character.
One of the shadier of these
stories concerns a Halloween incident in which a group of local
teenagers borrowed a sign from the
front of a downtown malt shop
and deposited it on Belle's doorstep. The sign read, "Curb Service."
In her heyday, Belle was said

ens, awards chairman; Virginia
Wesche, program chairman; and
Donna Wilcox, invitations chairman.
The group" derided that each
women's organization or housing
unit would be sent a letter requesting that a representative
attend a mass meeting at 6 :."!()
p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, in Room
128 of the .Student I'nion Building. These women will act as
members of the various subcommittees.
This is the first year the Stars

in the Night program has been
organized in this manner. In the
past, it has been handled by the
Women's Administrative Council,
a committee comprised of the vice
presidents of each women's organ
ization and hoiising unit.
The council went out of existence when the Association of
Women Students took over women's
government last fall.
Gypsy Barker, steering committee chairman, said yesterday that
no definite date has been set for
the program, but it will be some
time in April or May.

Grand Council Of TKE
To Hold Conference
The Winter Grand Council meeting of Tau Kappa Epsilon
tomorrow at the University's

to have had an ironclad credit.
fraternity will meet today and
She could walk into any Lexington bank and borrow on her Spindletop Hall.
signature alone. When she died
Members of the local chapter
at the age of 80, she was reputed
will give a reception for the
to have made and spent several
fortunes.
group Saturday evening at the
It is also said that Belle Wat-lin- g, chapter house on Maxwelton
of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone Court.
Continued on Page 2
Eight members of the Tau Kappa

UK Receives $76,000

For Language Institute

The United States Office of Education has awarded th
summer
University a $70,000 contract to conduct an
institute for IS public and private high school French teachers.
10
funds for the June
lie schools may receive a mainte- institute will be provided by the nance allowance of $75 a week
eight-wee-

National Defense Education Act
in cooperation with the Languace
Development Program of the federal education office.

plus $15 for each dependent. Pi vate school teachers are eligible
to participate
but will not re
ceive allowances. No participant
John A. Rea, Instructor in the pay tuition.
Criteria for admission of teachDepartment of Modern Foreign
ers will include a bachelors deLanguages, will be director of
the institute. The staff will ingree, two years teaching experclude 10 native French speakers.
ience, two to three years of college French or the equivalent,
The institute .will be open to evidence of good character and
are now teaching
teachers who
teaching ability, no previous
French or will be teaching French
at NDKA institutes,
during the next academic year.
and willingness to participate
The program will consist of fully in the institute program.
formal course work for eight
be
will
A special certificate
weeks supplemented
by a proawarded to each participant who
of lectures, films, and other
gram
satisfactorily completes the course
activities.
and graduate credit will be avail
Participants who teach in pub- - able to those desiring it.

Epsilon Grand Council will attend
the meeting.
Others attending the meeting are
the editor of "The Teke," representatives from the chapter at the
University of Louisville, and the
Province Staff for the Kentucky
area.
Reports show that Tau Kappa
Epsilon is now the world's largest college fraternity, both in
number of chapters and number
of undergraduate
members. It
also has the largest number of
chapters first in scholarship of
any National Interfraternity
('onf'-retHfniternitv.
Officers in the local chapter of
TKE
Tom WiNon, president,
George W. Block, vice president,
Joseph Peeno, secretary, and Jim
Adams, treasurer,

Fitness Tests

Slnii Saturday
fitness and

Physical
swimming
tests will be given between 10 a.m.
and 2 p.m. tomorrow for all students enrolled in physical education service courses for the first
time. Students must sign up in
the main office of the Alumni
Gymnasium today.
Rubber soled shoes are required;
shorts
are recommended
over
slacks or skirts

World News Briefs

President Kennedy Forbids Witnesses
To Reveal Names Of Military Censors

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WASHINGTON (AP) Invoking executive privilege, President Kennedy forbad Pentagon or State
Department witnesses yesterday to tell a Senate
subcommittee who censored specific speeches by
military men. The senators quickly gave up their
demand for the names.

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The address given on this 1893 liquor license issued to Belle
"Breezing" was 59 McGawn St. This was Belle's business site
before officials at Kentucky College requested that she move
away from its young men.

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WASHINGTON
(APt President
Kennedy's
latest plea for action on his general school aid bill
failed to arouse any enthusiasm in the House
yesterday.
And to make matters worse, his college aid bill
suffered a setback when Republican objections to
its scholarship program blocked, at least temporarily, efforts to compromise differences between tlie House and Senate versions.

Leftist Action Fails
,

TOKYO (AP) Communists tried today to inflame industrial workers against Robert F. Ken

nedy, who has shrugged off minor leftist hostilities
and called the Japanese the friendliest people he
knows.
The U.S. Attorney General returned to Tokyo
tour of the Osaka-- ,
last night from a
Kyoto area that took in farmlands, villages, and
four cities. Scattered groups of leftist youths booed
him a half dozen times, but flopped as militant
demonstrators.
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Hid Made For Arms Talk
WASHINGTON (AP) Pi esident Kennedy and
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced yesterday a bid to Soviet Premier Khrushchev for a foreign ministers' meeting on disarmament und hirtted at a summit meeting to follow.
They announced also British pel mission for
U.S.
nuclear tests at Britain's Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, iJlid U.S. permission for a British underground, test0fh Ne.vada.

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Citizens Oppose Razing

Continued from Page 1
With the Wind." was a prototype
of Lexington's own Belle Breazing.
Winston Coleman guessed that
Miss Mitchell must have been told
of the colorful madame by her
husband, John Marsh, who attended the University of Kentucky
before returning to Atlanta,
Georgia, where Miss Mitchell wrote
her famous novel of the Old South.
Coleman

also tells of meeting

the elderly Belle approximately two
years before her death. "A friend

had informed me that Miss Belle

Five previous winners of the State Highway Department scholarships to the College of Engineering study a materials testing machine in the
Highway Research Laboratory. They are from
the left Wayne I' pshaw, West Taducah; Henry

Bennett, Calhoun; W. C. Coronette Jr., Greenville; David C. Cowherd, Greensburg; and Robert Carpenter, Lexington. Thirty new scholarships are to be awarded this spring to high
school seniors.

Department Of Highways
Offers 30 Scholarships
The State

Department of High- ships to Kentucky high school
ways this spring will award 30 seniors.
College of Engineering scholar- Recipients will be designated
student engineering employees of
the Highway Department and will
be assigned to work by the department during the summer preceding their entrance to the UniS ernts arr
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tween S p.m. and 4 p.m. Monday man year at the Highway Research
threntt Friday.
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and all of Eastern Europe, for student
rate. $i80 round trip by air, summer of
1962. Also Nassau, spring vacation ol
'62. For information call Raleigh Lane
PDT house. 3 2X2 or
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ical movement and existensialist
book "Pear
Kierkegaard's
Trembling."
Mr. William H. Reid, instructor
of philosophy at Georgetown Col- lege, will lead the discussion group
on "Fear and Trembling."
The group will meet at 4 p.m.
on Wednesdays beginning Feb. 14.
The first discussion leader on
the ecumenical movement will
be Rev. John King, director of
Westminster Fellowship. He will
discuss "Origins and Objectives

of

Meeting

Gov. Bert Combs and Highway
Commissioner Henry Ward will be
among the chief speakers at the
14th annual Kentucky Highway
Conference to be held February
8
at the University.
Ward will speak at the opening
session of the conference, which Is
expected to draw about 600 state,
county, and city officials, highway
contractors and others interested
In the design, construction and
maintenance of roads and streets.
Gov. Combs will address the
highway planners and builders at
their closing conference session.
The conference is sponsored by
the College of Engineering and the
State Department of Highways.
The program for this year's
event includes three general sessions plus four separate panels on
rural highways, and urban highways and streets.
Prof. David Blythe, head of the
Department of Civil Engineering
and planning chairman for the
conference, said special invitations
to the meeting have gone to all of
the state's newly installed mayors
and county Judges.

of the Ecumenical Movement" at
noon today.
Dr. Franklin Owen, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, will
cuss "The Southern Baptist Posi-an- d
tion on the Ecumenical Move- ment" at noon next Friday,
Dr. Paul Crow, a professor at
the College of the 'Bible who
teaches a course in the ecumenical
movement, will lead a discussion
group on "The Problems of the
Ecumenical Movement" at noon,
Feb. 23.
The public Ls invited. Lunches
will be served at the noon

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relief cottage parents in a children's
home. May continue in school. Relief
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had a large collection of first edition books which she might give
away, and so I arranged to call
on her at the house one afternoon.
"She irreeted my companion
and me dressed In heavy pajamas
with the ruffs tucked Into her
socks and a bathrobe. She was
extremely dignified and talked
very precisely."
He said that Belle was very
small and petite. "You would
never have known her business if
she was taken out of her house
and placed in an antebellum setting," Coleman added.
That afternoon, Coleman said
Miss Belle took him to the room
where one of her girls had been
murdered in 1911. "Other than
showing us the blood stains on the
floor. Belle refused to make any
statements about the Incident.
"Miss Belle also told us the
secret of her success that day,"
Coleman added. "She would have
a party in the front of the house
and one in the back but would
never let one party know what
the other was doing."
Coleman also recalled that Bill
May bum was said to have had an
apartment on the third floor of
the house. "He was supposed to
have been the father of Belle's
only daughter, Daisy Kenney, of
Dearborn, Mich."
Several days after Belle's death,
George Graves, now a Lexington
received a letter
businessman,
from his uncle, the late Joe Cravens. He sent a copy of the August
13, 1940 front page of the Lexing- ton Herald with news that 500
planes had lashed Great Britain
with bombs.
The war news w as nearly pushed
off the page by the ubituary of
Belle Breazing.
The letter and
paper were typical of the shock
felt in Lexington by her death.
A part of the letter read,
"lots of prominent men sigh as
they recall the champagne parties, the full dress dinners, and
that famous Christmas party at
Belle's when a prominent Lexington banker, dressed as Santa
(la us, distributed gifts to the
girls."
After Belle's passing, Graves also
sent engraved cards with a black
edge to many outstanding Lexington businessmen which acknowledged their kind expressions of
sympathy. There were many angry
wives and distraught husbands
when the formal envelopes were
opened.
'At a public auction after her
death. It was rumored that the silver chamberpots and wash bowls
from Belle's house were sold. They

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were reportedly melted down and
made Into a silver tea service.
Joe Jordan, a member of the
Kentucky Civil War Commission,
has done extensive collecting and
compiling of information about the
notorious Madame Breazing. It
was his intention to write a book,
from the information, but he has
put the project aside.
Some question has been raised
concerning the spelling of Belle's
last name. In the Lexington telephone directories of the late
1800s, Belle was listed as Madame
Belle Breazing, with the spelling changing each year from
Breezing to Brezing to Breazing.
In the rather lengthy obituary,
which Time magazine printed after
Belle's death, appeared probably
the most accurate description of
her occupation. It read, "Belle operated the most orderly of disorderly houses in the country."
was known
name
Belle's
throughout the nation, and New
York's widely-know- n
madame,
Polly Adler, mentioned Lexington's
brothel operated by Belle
elegant
Breazing in her book, "A House
Is Not A Home."
Since her occupation was of a
questionable nature, Belle's extravagant life seems to have been
one of selfimposed exile. She always appeared hesitant to make
social acquaintances, yet she was
extremely protective to her girls
and even buried some of them ia
her own cemetery plot.
Perhaps the engraving which
she had put on her mother's tombstone reveals something of Belle's
real character. The phrase reads,
"Blessed Be the Pure In Heart."

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Thrlma Lee Cote, a freshman
political science major from Val- ley Station, and a member of
Alpha XI Delta sorority, to Robert
Teper, a sophomore psychology ma- Jor from Ft. Thomas, and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Judy Pope, a sophomore elementary education major from
Florence, and a member of Alpha
Delta Pi sorority, to David Thom-aso- n,
a sophomore arts and science
student from Smithland, and a
member of Phi Gamma Delta
Jraternity.

Engagements
Berttye Sue Marattay, a senior
library science major from
and a member of Kappa
Delta sorority, to Bob Brown, a
senior agriculture major from
and a member of Alpha
Gamma Rho fraternity.
Jo Anne Beggs, a senior history
and English major from Ft. Thomas, and a member of Kappa Delta
sorority, to Jimmie Lockhart, a
senior pharmacy major from Cor-bi- n.
and a member of Kappa Psi,
fraprofessional pharmaceutical
ternity.
Dunn, a Junior home
Carolyn
economics major from Lexington,
to Don Durham, a former student
..from Lexington.

Weldon House
elected
offirs of
Recently
Weldon House, women's residence
hall, are Nancy Williams, president; Rebecca Watson, vice president; Beverly Cardwell, secretary,
Lou Ellen R u s s e 1 1, treasurer;
Sandra Bedwell, house manager;
and Mary Towles, social chairman.
Alpha XI Delta
Newly elected officers of Alpha
Xi Delta sorority include: Judy
Buisson, president; Pat Cody, vice
president; Sherry Griffin, recording secretary; Phyllis Kirtley, corGretchen
secretary;
responding
Myers, treasurer.
Carol Blake, house president;
Sharon Perkins, rush chairman;
Beverly Gonzalez, pledge trainer;
Ronda Garrison, chaplain; Susan
Hoover, historian; and Emily
Spear, marshall.
Westminster Fellowship will meet
at 5:30 p.m. today for dinner at
the Westminster center.

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Activities Fill" Weekend:

Presuming that all the brave
soi(Vj on campus would manimi; to
survive the shoc k of receiving their
final grades and struggle through
registration, everyone planned to
throw a few parties this weekend.
The Delta Tau Delias are start- ing off the weekend with a party
at the chapter house with the
Continentals furnishing the music.
In order tt show off their Flor- Ida suntaus, the Sigma Nus have
planned a swimming party tonight
at the Campbell House pool.
Also
following the vacation
theme are the Phi Delta Thetas
who will be sunning themselves
at their Florida party.
The Sigma Phi Epsllons will no

doubt be twisting at their cl nice
tonight af the chapter house, while
the Kappa Alphas are busy rush- ing at their ru.h party,
over on fraternity row. the
Kappa Sigmas and the Phi Sigma
Kmpas are going to do a little
pai Lying at their chapter hou. es.
Tomorrow afternoon the Kappa
Kappa Gammas and the Delta Tau
Deltas are getting together at the
Congress Inn for a Jam session
from 2 to 5 p.m.
The wildcats will provide the
rrly entertainment for tomorrow
night when they meet Mississippi
in tne Coliseum.
jn a more ormai atmosphere
the Medical Wives are sponsoring

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weikend with a rc;o:d party at
file chapter house, t. Me the KA..
Kappa Sigs. Phi Sigs, Fijis. and
the PiKAs will hold opf n hou.-e- s
after the game.
Holmes Hall will be the scene of
the Women Residence Hall Council's dance from 8 to 12 p.m. tomorrow night.
Center the
At UK's Northern
students are sponsoring a Swee8 p.m. tomorrow at
theart Dance at
the Center in Covington. The
will provide the music, and
all UK students at Lexington art)
invited to attend the dance which
is free cf charge.

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Judo Club
Practice for all members of the
Judo Club will be held at 11 a.m.
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Pictures will be taken at this
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Wesley Foundation
Wesley Foundation will meet for
dinner at 6' p.m. Sunday at the
Wesley Foundation.
Organization and plans for sec-- end semester will be discussed and
all members are urged to attend.
Westminster Fellowship
Westminster Fellowship will meet
at 5:30 p.m. today for dinner at
the Westminster center.
The dinner will be followed by
a program on "World Missions."

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Ed Van Hook, Editor

Kerry Towf.ll, Managing Editor
Ben Fitzpatrick, Sports Editor
Dick Wallace, Advertising Manager
Bill Holton, Circulation Manager

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Gregory, Campus Editor
Society Editor
Rick McHeynoi.ds, Cartoonist
Bobbie Mason, Arts Editor

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Who's At Fault?
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At times things byome rather
around the University campus.
For quite a long time the Kernel,
along with a majority of students,
hounded officials of the Registrar's
Office about the proceduji-- used for
carrying out registration.
Now, the shoe sPcms to be on the
other foot. If Dr. Charles F. Elton,
dean of admissions and registrar,
chooses to do so, lie could "hound''
a few hundred students about their
unwillingness to abide by the rules
for registration.
We're not sure, and as yet, until
a study is made of an alphabet frequency chart, administrators are not
last
sure what caused the
Monday in the Coliseum. A guess can
be ventured, however, just as the registrar has said, that too many students waited until Monday to complete registration.
Why? Who knows right now except the students themselves. We
could guess, understandably, a lot of
UK students live a long distance from
Lexington; they just decided to take
advantage of that inviting second
weekend of vacation. At the same
time, we would also surmise that a
few hundred students who live not

too far from Lexington delayed registration until Monday.
Then, who's to blame for students
being forced to stand in line? It would
be easy to place the blame squarely
on the shoulders of the registrar and
be done with it. But, it's not that
easy this time.
The Kernel recently called for the
imposing of a penalty on those who
do not preclassify on time. We would
even suggest this idea should be
to registration unless the student could give a good reason for
being late.
With confusion running rampant
on the final day of registration, certainly there are some students who,
just to get it over quick, enroll in
a number of classes they don't want.
What's the result? The student can
always "drop and add."
Princeton University has come
close to solving the "drop-add- "
crutch
by charging a student $20 to do so.
As a result, the number of "drops
and adds" has been reduced considerably.
We're not sure what the best
method would be to .solve 'registration, but we are sure of one thing
if students don't voluntarily cooperate, or if procedural rules aren't enforced by some means, we're all back
where we started
confused and
mad.

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New Kernel Feature
Beginning with our next issue, the
Kernel, will present daily a brief
column which will provide the University community with inspirational
"food for tliought."
The columns will be written and
supplied to the editors by the various-

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ministers connected with UK's religious life through the office of Mr.
Don Leak, director of the YMCA.
The editors are grateful to Mr.
Leak and the campus ministers for
their efforts in coordinating, the
project by invitation of the editors.

(Editor's Nolo: The following letter
to llic editor of the
Courier Journal, Louisville, with
topics mailed to the Kernel and Mr.
A. R. "Happy" Chandler, former governor of Kentucky.)
To The Editor:
At first, I thought the handling
of NCAA tickets by mail was the
fairest method. I still think it would
be if the bulk of the tickets were sold
that way.
According tothe newspaper, all
of tholS,000 tickets, with the exception of those held for participating
schools andothe few held for coaches
and sportswriters, were sold by mail
from midnight and even before 8
a.m., Jan. 13. I do not believe it.
Those postmarked carrier than
12:01 a.m., Jan. 15, were not to be
honored, but now it seems they will
be. This is not fair.
A large number of tickets were
either withheld or distributed earlier
to certain individuals and organizations. It is claimed that organizations
and business and professional men
deserve priority to NCAA tickets be- cause they support all events at the
Fairgrounds.
If this is true, then why the cry
of Fairground officials they are operating in the vred" for most events
except NCAA and University of Kentucky games? Even the Louisville Invitational Tournament is threatened
with cancellation due to lack of attendance.
When UK won its fourth title in
1958 I bought tickets as soon as they
went on sale in November, 1957. Even
then I was told all of the $10 seats
were gone and the best available were
in the end behind the basket. I finally got tickets from a friend after
Louisville lost.
It made me sick to see the small
support UK had last year the night
after Louisville lost. I don't know
what happened to the rest of the tickets, but about 100 went on sale to
the Kentucky students.
And where did these few sit that
night? They sat at the end of the
building, in the curve, up high. The
UK band sat on the floor where it
wasn't even heard above the roar of
the multitude of Ohio State fans, who
had the best seats in the house all
was addressed

around the playing floor. There were
so many it appeared to be Ohio
State's home court.
Some say, why be so concerned?
Even if they make the NCAA, Kentucky doesn't have a chance to get
past Ohio State in the regionals. Why
not? These two schools have met four
times since 1957 and Kentucky has
won three times.
Besides, even though they would
be facing a bigger and more experienced team, Kentucky has, unquestionably, the best coach in the nation, Mr. Adolph Rupp.
I am a fanatic UK fan. Anyone
who knows me can vouch for that.
But I refuse to. support anything at
the Fairgrounds under the present
handling of tickets, even if UK played
all their home games there.
The true fans of the University
of Kentucky, who are not primarily

in the Louisville area but scattered
throughout the state, have as much
chance to get NCAA tickets as the
people in Japan.
Something should be done about
this, and the only person I know who
is willing and might be able to correct the situation is A. B. "Happy"
Chandler. Good luck to you, Sir, in
the next race for governor.
Mrs. K. L. Wilscin
Middletown

Kernels
Eighty percent of our criminals
come from unsympathetic homes.
Hans Christian Andersen.

Market In A Slump:

Where Will The Devil Sell His Wares Next?

By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AI-- Is
sex losing
its box office appeal?
There are some sfgns that it is.
Doom-crier- s
who believe that
America is heading for the fate of
decadent Babylon, Sodom, and
may now take heart.
There seems to be a definite slump
in the sin market.
Moralists cling to the theory that
anyone can get rich quick by making
a dirty film or writing a dirty book.
"
Well, it just ain't so.
Its bedrock tradition of Puritanism
still has a strong hold on America.
It is easier to make a fast buck in
this country selling a new detergent,
filter cigarette, or headache cure than
in the leering portrayal of sex.
You can probably even make more
money by starting a one-da"diaper t
laundering service.
It is true that