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See Increased Attendance For Atlantic City Sport Expanding Highways in Growing Industrial Area to Help Track ATLANTIC CITY, May 1.— Expanding industrial growth and -constantly improving highways in the southern New Jersey area should result in increased attendance at the Atlantic City race course during the next several years, John B. Kelly, president of the Atlantic City Racing association, said today. Addressing the annual meeting of the stockholders at the offices of the seashore oval on the Black Horse Pike, he also reported that "rumors that the National Air Facilities Experimental Center at Pomona will take over our property are entirely untrue and unfounded." Construction of the 12,000 foot runways at the air center to a point across the road from the track may have been foundation for rumors that the air facility was taking over the track property with the track moving operations to Trenton. He said that the stakes program for the coming 50-day meeting opening on August 10 would be announced in the near future. The top two attractions have already been scheduled. The 00,000 invitational United Nations Handicap will be run on Saturday, , September 19, and the 00,000 Worlds Playground Stakes on Saturday, September 12. Members of the board of directors, all of whom were re-elected, include, in addition to Kelly, J. Griffith Boardman, Frank D. Fiore, Paul F. Harron, I. D. Levy, Dr. Leon Levy, Daniel G. Kelly, Lloyd O. Koons. Dr. James Mason LTL, and Louis Stein.
