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The Voice Of St. Matthews, January 3, 1957: Highlight 1956Mallon Plan, Church Growth, Court Decision Highlight 1956The St. Matthews Music Club, a member of the National Federation of Music Clubs, was formed.The Y.M.C.A. membership drive went over the top with 3,543 members subscribing $14,890.00In September, the St. Matthews Community Center held a successful Booster day which netted $3,258.57 for recreationalfacilities for the children of the community, surpassing $2,889 collected in 1955.The St. Matthews Little League and Babe Ruth League, aided by Minor League players, canvassed homes and came upwith $1,685 toward putting Booster Day over the top.In August, a new Optimist Club was started in Lyndon, sponsored by the Buechel Optimist Club. Jim Harp was electedpresident.In June, the Y added a Handicraft Room to its recreational program, complete with $550 worth of power and hand toolsdonated by Lions, Kiwanis, and Rotary Clubs of St. Matthews.In May, the Woman’s Clubs of St. Matthews and Lyndon again sponsored the Junior Students service Center at the Y,which found summer employment for a number of teenagers.Jaycee Road-E-O: The Jaycees conducted another successful Road-E-O for County High school students, allowing theyoungsters to “drag” their cars in safety.Mrs. William Cruse, Jr. who retired as president of the St. Matthews Woman’s Club, was honored at the General Federationof Woman’s Clubs convention in Kansas City, for her work with the state Youth Conservation Department.Jack Dempsey, and art instructor at Ballard school, won the St. Matthews Woman’s Clubs first Outdoor Art Exhibit.The Harrods Creek Lions Club, sponsored by the St. Matthews Lions Club, received its charter.In April the St. Matthews Woman’s Club burned the mortgage on its clubhouse after only seven years of payments. Theclub had borrowed $25,000 on the property in 1948 to be paid in 15 years.Mrs. W. C. Cruse, Jr., witnessed the signing of the Comic Book Bill by Governor A. B. Chandler, which she helped to pushthrough the legislature. The bill restrains the publication, sale and distribution to minors of comic books denoted to crime,terror, brutality, and illicit sex.In February, the Jaycees approved a resolution calling upon the City of Louisville to give up its attempt to annex Ford andgeneral electric plants.