Snnmmiranaiiry cofi itDa Weelks News TTEnimiragltacroiiint ffieimttiracelky South Central Kentucky The Bluegrass Section Todil Man Is Winner of Weed Prize U. S. 60 Bids To Be Opened January 14 Bawling Green Has Big Xmas Docket Fines and cost levied by City Judge Frank Patterson at Bowling Green in a session of court after Christmas totalled $942.38. The fifty-nine cases on the docket constituted one of the heaviest days in the court's risen! Court of Madison Praised After the Madison Fiscal Court heard a financial report of the county by County Treasurer J. G.
Baxter at the court's final meeting. Judge Vernon Leer said: "The Fiscal Court operated well its budget and al' the bills have been paid." 'ge Leer selected a commiti to investigate and report on the possibilities of making a map of Madison County. ill i i ill i i i I jri-- i.m w.y.,liJl;''''!"y"ll'A 11 i' j. -f-jVV i.iii u. ii ii .,11., i ffmt i i i im ii i i -it, i i ii ii 1,1 ') 'I't'j'l 1 "') LKyyjf 'i Miiiniiiyi 1 mh, mun.
"riMi' i mj' frn i "Vt i 1 i 'v4 i-v-' m.m i ft, i j. ij (, i inj mwi 11 im A (: 7 iinij) I I vK r. IC-J. Pnoto by Joe Reister. In the Lett Jackson Wilderness Road Slate Park in Laurel County, this museum has been built to commemorate some of the historic associations connected tcith the site, tchich was called "Defeated Camp," because of thirty prisoners held there in 1781 by a band of Indians, only ttco escaped massacre at the hands of the savages.
The park is near London and contains 373 acres. Southeastern Kentucky Pulaski County To Get Loans For Tenants Somerset. Pulaski County was designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as one of eleven Kentucky counties in which the Farm Security Administration will make tenant-purchase loans before June 30. Fiscal Courts of Pulaski and McCreary Counties met jointly at Whitley City, compromised a dispute of several years over the boundary line between the two counties. Barbourvllle's new City Council held eight meetings for the purpose of electing new city officers, could agree only on Bert Catron for Police Judge.
A rift in the Council over appointment of the Police Chief, City Clerk, Jailer and other officers could not be compromised. Knox County health officers took precaution to prevent spread of spinal meningitis at -Beaver Creek near Barbourville, where two deaths occurred. The situation was reported improving. The total bonded indebtedness of Bell County as of January 1 was $933,000, it was announced by Jim Henry Lee, County Auditor. County warrants were outstanding in the amount of $33,000, making the total debt $966,000.
Officials of the new Corbin city administration named by Mayor-elect Wade II. Candler and the new commissioners are as follows: Bradley Peace, city collector; Anderson Campbell, clerk; M. A. Gray, attorney; Fayette Wells, street commissioner; Harvey Oaks, treasurer; W. F.
Rutherford, assessor, and Dr. H. L. Wadlen, health officer. Citizens of Evarts decided to name the educational and social hall of their new community building, Dizney Hall, in honor of Elijah Dizney, pioneer school teacher of Harlan County.
The new building will replace one destroyed by fire in November. White F. Varden, receiver of the closed Bell National Bank of Pine- ville, announced a dividend of 15 Green River Area Boy, 12, Is Bitten 13 Times By Dog Owensboro Bernard Franklin Marks. 12, was attacked by a Ger man police dog while walking on a highway near Nebo, and bitten thirteen times before the dog fled when help arrived in response of cries of Paul Bumpas, 10, the boy's stepbrother. Dr.
C. R. Morton, Hopkins County health officer, ordered Mrs. Grace Townsend, Nebo, alleged owner of the dog, to keep it confined for two weeks to determine whether it is suffering from rabies. Two hundred and fifty persons attended the second annual banquet of the Greenville High School Alumni Association, which was held in the basem*nt of the Methodist Church at Greenville.
William Smith, 33, Detroit, formerly of Earlington, who had been visiting relatives at Earlington for several days, was killed and three companions, Mrs. Calvin Stears- Paintsville Wipes Out Municipal Debt judgment of the Floyd Circuit Court awarding property damages to T. E. Neely, Ballard Osborne and William Dingus at the expense of the Prestonsburg Water Com pany on the grounds that the supply of water was not adequate for fighting a fire which destroyed their property. A new trial was ordered.
Milt Nelson was fatally injured in the blaze which occurred in West Prestonsburg some three years ago destroying the Greater Savings Store and several residences. Cheaper coffins is Magistrate Will A. Wills' idea for saving Floyd County some money. He will lay before the Fiscal Court at its next meeting at Prestonsburg his plan of having coffins for the indigent made by county employes, thus saving the undertaker's profit He says that for $10 a coffin can be made that is just as good as those for which the undertaker charges the county $50. The sixth killed this year on a "death stretch" of the Mayo Trail between Harold and Betsy Layne, Charles B.
Layne. 53, died within a few minutes after being struck by an automobile. State police arrested Herman Ford, Pikeville youth, as the driver of the car. Bowling Green. Named grand champion of the Todd County Tobacco Show held at the Community House in Elkton was Richard Hatcher.
Winners from among the growers of the eighty-seven samples entered took down prize money totaling $100. Elkton's Rotary Club, County Agent Stuart Brabant, business men of Elkton, the Dark Fire Dobacco Growers' Co-operative Association and a tobacco concern sponsored the event. Re-elected president of the Glasgow Railroad Company at a meeting of the stockholders was Robert Lessenberry. Other officers chosen were Howe Ralston, vice president; Mrs. W.
R. Dickinson, secretary, and Alanson Trigg, treasurer. The officers, together with C. B. Latimer, Brents Dickinson, W.
R. Dickinson, L. W. Trigg and George Ellis, were named directors. Called to the rectory of Grace Episcopal Church, Hopkinsville, was the Rev.
William S. Hill, assistant rector of St. John's Church, Detroit He succeeds the Rev. C. E.
Craik, who resigned last October. Among eleven counties named by Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace in which loans will be made before next June 30 by the Farm Security Administration to help tenants become land owners under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act were Logan and Barren Counties. Thirteen cases of smallpox in Logan County caused the closing of four rural schools, orders to prevent the gathering of children in other public places until the disease was brought under con trol. Probated at Bowling Green in Warren County Court was the will of the late Mrs. Georgia Grov-er Galloway, making the bequest of her entire estate to charity with the exception of $5,000 left to a brother.
Burglar Frightened Away. Apparently frightened away from the scene of an attempted burglary by the noise he thought he was making was the plight of a burglar at Hopkinsville, police deduced after receiving a report that nothing had been stolen from the hem of Dr. Gant Gaither after a small glass in a door leading into the house from a screened porch had been broken. Members of the Gaither household said they had heard no noise when the glass was broken, but the intruder evidentfy" New County, Gty Officials Take Offices Ashland Among the many new city and county officials who will take office Monday are: Miss Martha T. Manning, who will become Police Judge of Maysville, and the Rev.
Ester Hopkins, Republican, who will become County Judge of Pike County. His defeated Democratic opponent withdrew a contest suit last week. Dr. George Bell, Ashland dentist, Republican, will be County Judge of Boyd County. A recount demanded by his Democratic opponent, incumbent P.
H. Vincent, resulted in a substantial increase of Bell's majority -of twenty-two votes. Four matrons will become "Councilwomen" of Louisa. When an envious male questioned their eligibility Kentucky's Attorney General wrote: "Give them a chance; they can't do worse than men have done." Appeals for Buttons. Miss Ophelia Francis, in charge cf the W.P.A.
sewing project in Pike County, sent out a last-min-nte appeal for buttons with which to complete $500 worth of cloth ing, otherwise ready for distribu tion to the poor. At Paintsville the North East Coal Company put into operation modern coal grading equipment at its loading tipple. Conveyors, screens and crushers take the coal ps it comes from the mine, quickly end almost automatically change it to the size required to fill current orders. As stockers and oth-fT conl-handling machinery come Into more general use, consumers demand more coal of the small sizes, an official said. To Carter County's Sheriff Roy E'ankenship and his two deputies, llrs.
Arthur Walker and Harve Burton, were born grandchildren with the space of a few hours. Paughters were born to daughters of Mrs. Walker and Mr. Burton at Ashland while a son was bom to a daughter of Sheriff Elankenship st Hitchins. Grayson and Carter County yoted dry June 26 in local option election.
Liquor continued to be fold, however, while the wets contested the election on technicalities. The Court of Appeals recently dismissed the contest suit, and legal sale cf anything stronger than three point two beer came to an end. It will be three years before the wets can have another election. Wednesday night Grayson's Prichard High School initiated its new W.P.A.-built gymnasium vith basketball. A white ceiling and modern lights are said to make it one of the best-lighted gyms in the State.
Addressing the Paintsville Ki- Lexington. Bids for construc tion of the Woodford County end of the new four-lane Lexington- Versailles Highway were asked by State Highway Engineer Thomas Cutler, who notified contractors that bids submitted would be opened at 10 a.m. Monday, January 14. Engineer Cutler's notice stipulated that the 4.041-mile proect be completed within 200 calendar days from the date work is begun. The road will be built in two 20-foot one-way lanes divided by a 4-foot grass center strip.
The Woodford County end will require 95.684 square yards of paving. A note attached to the announcement stated the Highway Department reserved the right to delay issuance of the work order after the low bid was accepted until the spring of 1938, indicating that first work on the project would be started within a few months. Fayette County's portion of the Lexington-Versailles Highway, almost twice as long as the Woodford end, has been held up by delay in obtaining rights of way. Fayette County officials said this would be completed in January. The entire highway will cost more than $700,000, with approximately $495,000 being spent for the Fayette County end.
With work beginning on construction of the Inter-County Rural Electric Co-Operative Corporation, Harry J. Achee, superintendent, announced receipt of approval from Washington of the scale of retail rates established by the corporation. Co-operative members will pay $2.75 for the first 40-kilowatt hours, minimum amount to be consumed monthly; 42 cents each for the next 40; 2'z cents each for the next 120, and l'-a each for the next 200. Approximately 275 miles of line will be erected in Boyle, Mercer, Washington, Marion, Garrard and Lincoln Counties. When University of Kentucky College of Law students return to the campus at Lexington Monday after the Christmas and New Year's holidays, they will resume their studies in a new building.
During the vacation, equipment of the old College of Law was moved into the $100,000 structure just completed. The new building was named Lafferty Hall in honor of the late Judee William Thornton Lafferty, first dean of the college T. N. Patton of Ashland was elected president of the Kentucky Automobile Dealers' Association after the association was formed at a meeting at Lexington of approximately 100 dealers from twenty-nine counties of Kentucky. Other officers chosen were: Vice president, Turner A.
Summers. Louisville; secretary, Dixie McKinley, Lexington; treasurer, H. M. Howard, Paintsville. Suit for $40,000 Filed.
Clyde M. Stewart, Carlisle, filed suit in Nicholas Circuit Court against the Louisville Nashville Railroad Company, and asked for $40,000 damages, alleged due as the result of injuries suffered (when he was employed by the company. The suit alleged that March 14, when Stewart was employed as a switenman, nis leu foot struck a lever on a switch, breaking and crushing the foot. The suit further alleged Stewart will be permanently crippled. The Rev.
E. Van Houghton was elected president of the Wilmore Evangelistic Association at a meeting at Wilmore, to serve during 1938. McVey Flays Dictators. Modern dictatorships were termed "destroyers of individual freedom" by Dr. Frank L.
McVey president of the University, in a T.V.A. Pushes Work for Dam At Cilhertsville censes issued between 10 p.m. and 8 a Take it from Miss Miller, "Dan Cupid never sleeps." Since enactment of the Illinois marriage law requiring medical examination and filing of intention to marry three days before a permit is granted, the McCracken County Clerk has issued 421 licenses, an all-time high. There died: George S. DuBois, 52, Paducah wholesale drug firm head and cmc leader, at St Louis following an operation Mrs.
Hazel Flood, 34, Paducah Bob Thompson, 55. Paducah Pete Soloman Williams. 62, Mayfield Mrs Sarah Calhoun, 73, Cadiz James E. Edwards, 53, Kevil Earl Dewey Cooper, 39, Paducah Miss Hannah Bonds, Paducah school teacher for thirty years Robert Wade, 59, Paducah Thomas Englert, 68, Paducah Len Hopkins, 72, Mayfield Dr. G.
T. Abernathy, 78, Mayfield Walter H. Chandler, 71, Benton James B. Greer, 67. Benton J.
H. Jordan, 60, Fulton Mrs. Mary E. Irby, 62, Arlington J. J.
Roberts. 32. May-field Judge E. P. Phillips, Murray Carlyle Rice, Fulton Oliver Jones.
70, Mayfield Allen Barber, 44, Mayfield Mrs. J. W. Caldwell, 59, Louie A. Sykes, Murray Mrs.
Ada Marshall. 75, Murray Leslie Ellis, 56, Murray, at Lexington, Ky. Levi B. Mc Gregor, 72, Paducah Mrs. Ada May Halstead, 75, Hickman.
gave them credit for keener hearing. Bowling Green's City Hospital went under the direction of a new superintendent with the arrival from Nashville of Mrs. Olive Alex ander Harder, graduate of Charity Hospital Nursing School, New Orleans. Mrs. Harder, elected by the Board of Public Works to the position, succeeded Mrs.
Mable Blair. Boy Killed By Blast. Gerald Patterson, 17, at an Allen County Christmas Eve "noise party," held in his hand a small tin box containing fifty dynamite caps while another merrymaker set off other dynamite caps. The concussion from one of the explos- sions was blamed for the explosion of the caps in Pattersons hand, causing his instant death. Acting city clerk since the new Callis Administration took office at Bowling Green December 6, Hugh Moore Manar resigned to accept a position with a gasoline distributing concern at Nashville.
Former students of Ogden College at the annual Ogden Alumni Association banquet at Bowling Green elected Ward C. Sumpter, Bowling Green, president, for 1938 to succeed William H. Natcher. Dr. Oscar Bloch, Louisville, was named vice president; Jo Tilden Orendorf, Bowling Green, secretary, and Herbert Moltenberry, Bowling Green, treasurer.
There died: George Cook, 58, Westmoreland, at Bowling Green, as result of automobile accident in juries. Belmer Glover, 24 Slick Rock, in automobile accident on Edmonton Road near Glasgow Mrs. Martha Thomas Whit-aker, 69, Warren County Tom B. Renfro, 63, Cave City, at Glasgow Mrs. Lucy R.
Dial, 77, native of Warren County, at Masonic Home in Jefferson County Ernest S. Gibson, 28, Albany, at Glasgow of auto accident in juries James M. Barger, Simpson County J. S. Petty, 60, native of Warren County, at Paris, Tenn.
William E. Mill- iron, 73, of New Washington, Ohio, at Bowling Green James E. Johnson, 80, native of Christian County, at Des Moines, Iowa W. B. Campbell, 77, Edmonson County J.
E. Matheny, 91, formerly of Allen County, in Illinois Mrs. J. B. Johnson, 77, Bowling Green.
Robber Breakfasts As "Guest" of Store V. P. Jones, held at Grayson for robbing a grocery store, is said to have confessed entering the store early one night, eating a big supper of pies, cakes and soft drinks. He then slept through the night on a cot in the store, arising about dawn to eat breakfast "on the house" before leaving through a rear window, as he had come. warns Club Mayor F.
S. Van-hoose said: "Paintsville's debt has now been wiped out; the city owes nobody one dollar. Work has been started on a $77,000 Court House for Greenup" County at Greenup. Last win ter's flood completed the ruin of the century-old structure there, and W.P.A. funds were asked for a new one.
Dr. Marvin Ransdell, head of the Floyd County Health Depart ment, sent a deputy sheriff to a home near Wayland to disperse neighbors disregarding his warnings, had gathered there fol lowing the death of a young child from meningitis. Within two weeks two children and an adult had died of the disease, and Dr. Ransdell said he feared the con sequences if such violations of his quarantine continued. New Officials In Maysville.
Maysville's three city commissioners, Duke White, James Buck-! ley and Andrew Clooney, respectively Mayor, Mayor-elect and a former Mayor, last week wound up their administration of that city's first year under the commission form of government. Monday a new commission will be sworn in, and it will include two of these men. Commissioner Buckley becomes Mayor and Mayor White becomes a mere commissioner. i sioner Clooney, reputed to have issued more statements and to have voted "no" more often than any Maysville official in history, will be succeeded by a former Mason County Coroner, Albert S. Knox.
C. F. Edwards, Louisa, C. O. road supervisor of the Big Sandy division, has been transferred to Columbus, Ohio, as supervisor of the Hocking Valley division.
He will be succeeded by O. C. Ewers of Pikeville. The Court of Appeals reversed a Aitcfiloriiitit For State Is Urged Frankfort's City Council was requested by H. A.
Gretter, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, to urge that Gov. A. B. Chandler provide for a large auditorium in the new State Office Building to be used as a site for conventions and talk at a luncheon-meeting of the Georgetown Rotary Club. Jewelry valued at $350 was taken from the display window of the A.
J. Winters Co. store at Paris by a thief who broke the plate-glass window with a brick. It was the third robbery of its kind at the store. A newspaper carrier reported the robbery at 5 a.m.
to police. The brick used in smashing the glass was left in the store. First recapitulation of assessed valuation of property in Scott Countv shows a total of of which $12,628,420 may be taxed for county purposes. This represents an increase of approximately $60,950 over last year. Georgetown property is assessed at $5,820,085.
Applications for probation of sixteen Floyd County men, including Former Floyd County Judge W. L. Stumbo and Arthur C. Carter, former Mayor of Pres tonsburg, who were convicted of using the United States mails to deffaud in connection with handling Federal relief funds in Floyd County and sentenced to two years each in a Federal penitentiary, were denied by Federal Judge H. Church Ford at Lexington.
Woodford County Sheriff-elect Frank Watts qualified for his term of office, which begins Monday, and executed three bonds aggregating $100,000. County Judge James R. Bond qualified by exe- cuting bond of Jailer John Redden. County Clerk John M. Gray.
$10,000, and Tax Commissioner Mrs. Ora H. Dale, $1,000. There died: Mrs. Lillian Sharp Kerns, 46.
Winchester. Mrs. Lou Ella Clendenen Dettwiller, 81, Clin-tonville. Mrs. lone Kirkpat-rick Brack, 43, Lexington.
John A. Carrick, 78, Lexington. Miss Beatrice Smith, 85. Lexington. Marion Ewen Atkinson, 24, Charleston, W.
formerly of Lexington, in automobile accident near Winchester James S. Gayle. 44, native cf Georgetown, at Hammond, Ind. Hopkins Moore, 66, Scott County. Mrs.
Virginia Carroll, 66, Winchester. Jonathan Maberry, 76, Clark County. J. Higgins Tarlton, 68, Lexington. Mrs.
Cora Bowers McGregor, 71, Lexington. James D. Cobb, 26, Winchester, in automobile accident near Monroe, N. while he and his bride of ten days were on their honeymoon. Grover Cleveland Robinson, 7, Lexington, struck by automobile while on his way to nearby grocery.
R. C. Renfro, 81, Harrodsburg. William Smith, 56, Lexington. W.
W. Hedger, 85, Lexington. Pierre Muth, 76, Lexington. Mrs. Rebecca Ellen Holtzclaw, 67, Lexington.
Albert "Jake" Smith, 27, Fayette County, of injuries suffered when automobile he was driving hit telephone pole, fence, tree. Eugene Davi3 Gortney, 40, Lexington, of injuries received when struck By automobile. Irvine Lynch, 52, Marion County, victim of hit-and-run motorist. Newton Remley, 72, Lexington, of inju ries suffered when struck by automobile. Letcher Birchum.
4, Nicholasville, of self-inflicted shotgun charge. Mrs. Amelia Elizabeth West, 63, Nicholasville. Mrs. Sarah A.
Rothenburg, 65, Lexington. Robert D. Adair, 68. Bourbon County. Nelson W.
May, Danville. Z. T. Lamb. 76, Madison County.
George Norris, 35. Richmond, at Lexington. Mrs. Mary Ann Masters Foster, 78, burned to death when fire destroyed her farm home, Madison County. Miss Kitty Sandusky Smith, 76, Versailles.
R. A. Hudson, formerly of Berea, at Paola, Kan. Mrs. Bertha Hord Whisman.
39, Perrv Countv. Robert Austin Williams, 60. Lexington. Nelson Mays, 72. Danville.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols Simp son, i9. Lexington. William Reed, 42, Jessamine County. William Branham Cogar, 64, former Sheriff of Woodford County, at Versailles.
Casper Sowders, 20, ML Vernon, at Cynthiana, of injuries received wnen struck by train. Mrs. Anna May Hopper, 32, Franklin Countv, at Versailles. Robert Kidwell. 30, Brassfield, Madison County, killed when a pistol which he kept beneath his pillow was accidentally discharged while he slept.
Mrs. Eva Payne Henry, 57, Mt Sterling, at Lexington. Amazing hour stiff neck pmla yields to Here's why Laboratory comparisons of Eaume "Ben-Gay" -with 5 -widely offered rub-ins CONTAINS UP TO 2i TIME9 AS MUCH methyl salicylate and menthol active pain relieving agents. Dr. Jules Bentrue's original formula assures (I) long contact at local pain area, and (2) splendid balance of pain-relieving ingredients.
Dr. Bengne's sipnature on package is your safeguard against substitutes. Culprit Ordered to Stand On One Foot Judge Charles E. Barnett at Madisonville has ordered Charles Taylor, 16, Negro, to stand on one foot with hands upraised in the corridor of the Hopkins County Court House at given periods during the day. The youth was arrested recently on a charge of attempting to break into a Madisonville business house: Heretofore the court had ordered the boy whipped for alleged offenses.
man, Lawrence Laughary and Miss Sallie Brown, the latter two of Madisonville, were injured in a truck-automobile collison three miles west of Madisonville. The Owensboro Lions Club has added a contribution of $100 to a $120 fund that it gives annually to the Daviess County Tuberculosis Society for its work among tuberculosis patients in Daviess County. Ben Kilgore, Louisville, executive secretary of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, will deliver an address at the annual meeting of the Hopkins County Farm Bureau at Madisonville January 5. Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, has included Daviess County as one of eleven Kentucky counties in which loans will be made before June 30, 1938, by the Farm Security Administration to help tenant farmers become owners, as authorized by the Bank-head-Jones Farm Tenant Act. Henderson City Commissioners have directed that 15 per cent of the gross waterworks income be applied to the retirement of in bonds issued under a Pub lic Works Administration im provement project.
The project includes "flood proofing, mstalla tion of new equipment at the water plant and an extension of the water mams. The McQuady Turkey Pool, made up of farmers of Breckin ridge County, cleared $4,500 dur ing the recent holiday, selling 200 fine birds on the Louisville market at an average price of 19 cents per pound. There died: Mrs. Guy DeLacy, formerly of Owensboro, at Lawrence, 111. Mrs.
Ollie Clement Fcnwick, 80, formerly of Owensboro, at Evans-ville, Ind. Mrs. Matt Green-well, 69. Curdsville. Mrs.
Ada Pearl Powell, 58, Muhlenberg County. Mrs. Thomas Warren, 64, formerly of Hopkins County, at Hammond, Ind. Mrs. Mabel Williams, 47, Henderson.
James B. Satterfield, 79, Hopkins County. Mrs. Lou Bascom Gibbons, 50, formerfy of Earlington, at Eldorado, 111. Mrs.
Jess Kinche-loe, 64, Hardinsburg. Mrs. Ella Hanco*ck, 79. Waverly. James Bullock, 58, Earlington.
Green Royster, 68, Madisonville. the State's 150th anniversary in 1942. Several hundred baskets of food and toys were given away by local churches and the Salvation Army for Christmas. The Fire Department delivered to poor families eight truck loads of old toys that it had repaired. There died.
William Fitzhugh Dandridge, Mrs. Mona Tracy, 75, McCager Coins, 79, Mt. Zion Charles Morris, 57, John M. Coins, 71, Mrs. Sarah J.
Deakins, 77, Miss Annette Rogers, 1 Marshall Allen B. Johnson. Youth Nabbed As lie Buys Gifts His desire to visit his mother on Christmas Day resulted in the capture of Eugene Hayden, 17, Paducah, who escaped from the Tennessee Reform School, Nashville, where he was serving a year for complicity in the wounding of a Tennessee deputy sheriff. A policeman spotted the youth in a shopping crowd while looking for a gift for his mother the day before Christmas. He spent Christmas in the city jail, but his mother visited him.
Couple Wed in Funeral Chapel A minister and a young couple appeared at a Somerset funeral home, requested use of the funeral, chapel for a wedding. In a dark and solemn setting the marriage ceremony was held to the tune of "The Old Rugged Cross" played on an electric pipe organ. per cent was available for depositors of the institution. The bank closed in January, 1932, since has paid a total of 73 per cent in dividends. Bids received by the War Department for construction of Mid-dlesboro's proposed flood control project will be opened January 18.
There died: Palmer Howard, 33, City Clerk of Harlan in a Corbin hospital from injuries received in an auto- mobile accident on the Corbin Williamsburg road Charles Ira 81, at Harlan Phil L. Senters, 50, Circuit Judge of the 34th Judicial District, at his home in Barbourville from a heart attack Elbert O. Robinson, 49, at his home near Middlesboro G. P. Sweeney, 79, at his home near Somerset Charles B.
Cundiff, 62, at Somerset Mrs. Huston Watson, 54, at Science Hill Mrs. Stella Dykes Wheeler, 31, near Somerset Newton Conley, 56, near Somerset Mrs. Laura Vaught Sisson, 59, formerly of Science Hill, at Ridge- farm. Ill Mrs.
Marv L. Smith, 66, formerly of Pulaski County, at Royal Oak. Mich. Mrs. Mary J.
Norflect, 73, at Nancy, Pulaski County William M. Owens, at his home near Corbin Lee Hamblin, 40, when struck by a falling limb near Gatliff, Whitley County Bill Bunch, 13, from shotgun wounds accidentally inflicted by himself near Barbourville Caster Sowders, 22, of Rockcastle County, when struck by a train near Cynthiana Scott Mathis, 65, near Middlesboro Mell Sharp, 85, at Evarts James Estes, 70, at Science Hill Nat Walker, 1 76, at Savoy, near Corbin Mrs. Paris Parks, 33, at a Harlan hospital. proposed merger as a "political move." Game Laws Favored. Graves County sportsmen voted 619 to 13, favoring revision of existing Kentucky game laws as a move to conserve the State's wild life.
Many favored enactment of a State law declaring a closed hunting season for two years. Employes of Paducah's street department, after forming a union, affiliated with the A. F. of asked the Board of Commissioners to recognize the organization as a bargaining agency. Action on the proposal was deferred.
Graves County officials launch ed a move to "clean up" the Court House and jail after County Health Officer H. H. Hunt de clared the buildings "a disgrace to barbarism." Dr. Hunt reported that both buildings were dirty and unsanitary. Decreased revenue from other sources prompted Paducah Board of Commissioners to boost the automobile license tax from $2.50 to $5, with a 10 per cent penalty added for failure to purchase tags before March 1.
Hickman's levee system, which withstood the onslaught of the great January flood, was reported in better condition than last Jan uary, after completion of repairs and additions designed to with stand a crest of sixty feet. Disturbed almost nightly at all hours by couples from Illinois who come to Kentucky to obtain mar riage licenses in order to beat the "red tape law of that nearby State, McCracken County Clerk Sarah Miller hung out a sign which read: "No marriage li I TSiic Jaclksoira IPuurcliiase The State Capital Judge Holds Bank Nights Lotteries Paducah "Bank Night" or "Thrift Night" awards, offered by the Columbia Amusem*nt Com pany, Paducah, and many other movie houses throughout the State, were declared to be "lotteries" and a violation or the laws of Kentucky, by McCracken Circuit Judge Joe L. Price. The decision was the first given in a Kentucky court on the scheme. The Paducah concern brought the action to test the validity of the "gifts" after the Attorney General held that the manner in which the awards were made constituted a lottery.
The Paducah company discontinued the awards pending a final decision by the Court of Appeals. The Tennessee Valley Authority pushing work at the Gilbertsville dam site, renewed land options offered by farmers of Marshall County. Reports were that the T.V.A. engineers eliminated pro posed sites for the $50,000,000 hydro-electric dam at Aurora and Birmingham. State Representative Henry Ward, Paducah, directing a move to save Western Kentucky Industrial College for Negroes at Paducah from consolidation with the Kentucky State Industrial College for Negroes at Frankfort.
declared at a mass meeting that "If Governor Chandler doesn't get too bull-headed W. K. I. C. will remain in Paducah." Paducah's vice crusading Presbyterian minis ter, W.
O. Parr, addressed the Negro gathering and described the Fiscal Court In Franklin Hit By Sewell Frankfort The Franklin County Fiscal Court was scored for its loose handling of fiscal affairs which brought a deficit for this year of $9,476.18 and also for allowing each member $4 a day for approximately 125 days services during the year for supervising county roads, by Nat B. Sewell, director of post audits. "What was wasted in this manner could well have been applied to the payment of a competent engineer's salary," Mr. Sewell added.
He also called attention to the fact that the county had a floating debt of $60,000 in 6 per cent warrants, and also owed 5 per cent paper at local banks. A city budget calMng for expenditures of $116,000 for the coming year was approved by the City Council. Walter W. Mulbry, secretary to Governor Chandler, was named head of a Kentucky Sesqui-Cen- tennial Celebration Committee, to prepare plans for celebration of Page 6 The Courier-Journal Sunday Magazine, January 2, 1938.
