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The Voice Of St. Matthews, January 3, 1957: Other 1956 News EventsOther 1956 News EventsJanuary: Thirty minutes after the New Year opened, builder-architect John Walser’s offices and storage facilities at 4050Westport Road were wiped out by fire. Damage was estimated at $50,000 to $55,000.Four St. Matthews and one Lyndon Volunteer fire trucks were called to fight the blaze. (Altogether during 1956, the St.Matthews Volunteer firemen were called to put out an even 100 fires.)A. P. Bell, health engineer, was appointed a director of St. Matthews Sanitation District No. 1.February: Quincy R. Tyler, Mayor of Richlawn was elected chairman of the board of St. Matthews Sanitation District No.1.Forty-five Eastern High Juniors and Seniors were initiated into the National Honor Society.March: St. Matthews photographer Frederic Beck was elected president of the Louisville Professional Photographers’Association.May: Fourteen of the 20 Eastern High school Band entries to the State High School Music Festival won Division 1 ratings,the highest.Explorer Post 314, sponsored by St. Matthews Methodist Church, went down the Kentucky River on a raft from BoonesboroBeach to Frankfort Yacht Basin, a distance of 105 miles. Led by Pete Kouns, the Explorers were Bill Schultze, LanzSchulze, Ronnie Howard, Jim Painter, Ronnie Calhoun, David Smith, David Pattison, Roger Pattison, and Jim Kouns.August: Miss Darlene Scheibel, 15, of 3947 Massie, was chosen Miss Jefferson County Fair.The Voice started carrier service to subscribers with a crew of 20 boys.The Lyndon Volunteer Firemen built a third truck.Miss Diane Reed, 19, of 2214 Manchester, and Miss Betti Webb, 21, 3410 Warner, finished second and third respectivelyin the Miss Kentucky contest.September: Kent Campbell, 25, took over direction of the Eastern High Band.The Voice published its first annual Get-Acquainted edition on the 27th.About 100, armed men of the St. Matthews National Guard, were called to Sturgis, Ky., to help keep down trouble resultingfrom integration of schools there.October: The Eastern High School band, for the second straight year, won top honors at the Southeastern Band Festival inBristol, Va.November: The Anchorage and Harrods Creek Telephone exchanges went on the dial system. All Belmont numbers in St.Matthews were changed to TWinbrook 5.December: Fourteen-year-old Barry Barmore became a United States Marine in a touching ceremony at WaggenerSchool. The crippled boy was made a sergeant with uniform and strips after he wrote to the Marine’s NationalCommandant explaining his life-long ambition and his desire to have a Marine uniform.The Eastern High School Band was one of only two throughout Kentucky picked to play at the Presidential Inauguration.