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STAN YANK Blind Musician to Sound Post Call at AkSarBen AkSarBenNative Native Nebraskan Stan Yank Hopes to Become Bandleader OMAHA May 13 Its not news for a race track to have a trumpeter But Ak SarBen will offer something different for its patrons during the forthcoming May 20 through July 5 meeting meetingFor For calling the horses to the pbst will be Stan Yank handsome 24 year old trumpet player And Yank is blind blindA A native of Pleasantdale Neb he grad ¬ uated from the Hollywood Calif School of Music a few years ago before he was struck with blindness blindnessYank Yank moved back to Nebraska and two weeks ago came to Omaha in search of music work His main ambition is to have his own band and he hopes to start on this after the AkSarBen meeting is over Commented AkSarBen General Man ¬ ager J JIsaacson We hope that our ex ¬ ample of hiring handicapped persons whenever possible will be followed by our entire community