Mt. Vernon, Ky.

Office Phone: Office - 256-4545; Nights • 758-8400

COL. BILL RANDOLPH COL. JERRY HAM AUCTIONEER AUCTIONEER

COL. SAM FORD REALTOR-AUCTIONEER

TUB, M O U y r VERNON JBSI>A Y, MAY 2, 1874 PAGE TWO

JKoimt Wemm Signal PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

MAIN STREET IN MT. VERNON, KENTUCKY 40456 Entered at Mt. Voraoa Port Office

In Rockcastle Co. *4.20 - Outride ol County 15.00

JOHN NICHOLS'

Frankfort Watchline Many weeks af ter the 1974

session of the legislature breathed its last, we're still hearing lawmakers' complaints about working conditions, ex-cuses about shortcomings and now Lt. Gov. Julian Carroll is telling about how tough the session was made by . the Supreme Court.

He notes that the high court abolished the death penalty, flow was this a problem? The reinstitution of -capital punish-ment by the General Assembly was one of the easily-handled issues of the session, penal code revision getting little debate.

And Carroll meQtiopqd that the Supreme Court abolished the state 's obscenity law. This was a problem? Hardlg iThe law was put back in adaptable form by a conservative legis-lature with no argument.

Then the lieutenant gov-ermJr contends thai "VM Su-preme Court's busijjg^GJision for schools "brought onTinancial problems." True, but more than that, it brought on emotional problems. A tremendous majority of school parents in Jefferson County didn't want busing and still don't.'

We do agree with Lt. Gov. Carroll that the Supreme Court's abortion liberalization gave \ the legislature some headaches, but we dlsH^efe with hiseafl ier criticism of the press for calling the new Kentucky law a liberalization.

Kentucky had a statute

forbidding abortion except to save the mother's life. It now has a statute allowing abortion and sett ing out some res-trictions. Carroll says the Kentucky law is a curtailment, hut in' line with the Supreme Court, mandate.

Why. play with words on this issue? Well, apparently Carroll, as a Democratic candidate for governor, is anxious to head off the barrage of anti-ibortion bombs that may be coming this way from all section? of Kentucky.

We don't want to pick on our Lt. Governor and, goodness, it's refreshing to hear him expressing views on issues again ... something we didn't hear at alF'&iring the General Assembly session. But there's no point in making excuses for a bad session of the legislature, and that 's what it was. .

Speaker Norbert Blume the other day blasted critics of the , 1974 "do-nothing legislature," pointing to the consideration of some 14 hundred measures and the passage of about 400. That's a defense of quantity and not quality. No one's ever doubted the legislature's ability to make itself look busy. *

Even so pro-press a lawyer as Greenup House Democrat Terry McBrayer -- another whose political star is in the ascendancy - complains that the media points out faults more often than it hands out praise.

Why should the press and

the public expect anything but a good performance from its legislature? Competency and honesty should be the norm. Although we often call the public's attention to these qualities, we shouldn't have to. Newsmen don't set the tempo of the news. Newsmakers do.

Meantime, we support McBrayer's excellent suggestion of setting a.limit on the number of bills a lawmaker is allowed to introduce. A check with the final edition 'of " ' f f i t v""*74 Legislative Record shows that a number of legislators introduced more than ..fifty measures each.

Now what chance did most of them have? None. So, what's the idea? "As McBrayer puts it, "a good press back home." What a waste of the taxpayers' money.

Well, at least maybe we've seen the last drumbeating for annual sessions of the General Assembly for a while.

H—they ' re - ever- - really needed, the proof will come through results ... results conclusive enough to reverse that loud and wise "no" shouted out by the Kentucky voter last fall.

Eat Our Words? - Until now. we've been accusing Gov. Wendell F o r d ' of calculating many moves he's made in recent weeks on the basis of his Senate candidacy.

Well, we certainly can't say that about his decision to support the Red River Gorge dam. that festering ten-year controversy' between conser-vationists and the Corps of Engineers.

If there 's a'nything this move lacks, it's voter appeal, we think. Seems like everytime we turn around we've got a new Senate campaign issue. This list is certainly building: Water-gate. a place for Marlow Cook on the primary ballot, and now Red River.

The Kindly Visitors - There are hundreds of new faces these days in that tornado-ravaged

'community of Stamping Ground,

The following message is published as a courtesy of Parsons Gas and Appliance Service, Inc.:

The story electric company doesn't tell you. T h e e l e c t r i c ut i l i t ies h a v e ta lked a lot of p e o p l e in to bel ieve-ing lhal by s w i t c h i n g lo e l ec t r i c a p p l i a n c e s they'll be r e a d y for Ihe dav w h e n w e run out of fossi l fue l s .

. W h a t they don ' t tell you is lha l more than 110 p e r c e n t of all I he e l ec t r i c i ty yene ra l ed . i n Ihe Uni ted S t a t e s is p r o d u c e d by s t e a m t u r b i n e s tha t b u r n g a s . oil. or coa l .

Not only d o e s t h e eleclric: c o m p a n y m a k e e lec t r ic i ly wi th t h e s e " f o s s i l . f u e l s " , t hey w a s t e a b o u t 70 p e r c e n t of

. t h e fue l e n e r g y t h e y usu in Ihe p r o c e s s , a n d s p e w tha t w a s t e d h e a t in to the very, a t m o s p h e r e w e ' r e t rying to c l e a n up. W h a t ' s t he i r p r e f e r r e d s o u r c e of e n e r g y ? G a s — b e c a u s e g a s b u r n s c l e a n a n d is economica l .

W h e n t h e e l e c t r i c c o m p a n y a s k s you to s w i t c h your h o m e hea t ing , a i r cond i t i on ing , w a t e r hea t i ng , cooking a n d c lo thes d ry ing lo e lec t r i c i ly . Ihev a r e a sk ing you to u s e t w o

- or t h r ee - t imes ajf m u c h gas . at t w o o r - t h r e e t imes t h e cos t . to do a job tha t g a s can d o b e l t e r ^ b y coming . s t r a igh t to your h o m e .

So it rea l ly d o e s n ' t m a k e m u c h s e n s e to ask e l ec t r i c i t y t

to d o jobs' tha t w e r e m e a n t for gas . d o e s i t? Go a h e a d a n d u se e lec t r ic i ty f o r y o u r l ight b u l b s a n d mixe r s a n d tooth-b r u s h e s a n d can o p e n e r s , b u t c o u n t on g a s to cook a n d hea t a n d d ry a n d cool . All t he j obs t ha t g a s d o e s b e s t .

To preserve gas... use gas.

We are prepared to welcome new customers - Farm, Home, Industrial - With prompt, efficient and courteous service.

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near here. They are Merinonite faces.

They're the faces of men . who dropped their plowshares and hay forks the day the killer winds hit Kentucky and other states and rushed by the thousands from thousands of miles away to help ' people they've never met.

For the return of food and a place to sleep, these Godly people are helping towns like Stamping Ground to live again, rebuilding the homes of the poor and elderly. And long af ter the work is done, the memories of those kindly, bearded men in their wide-brimmed straw hats and the echo of their hammers and aws "will linger on J n Stamping Ground.

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...COUNTY STATISTICS...

..Deeds Recorded.'.

Roger C. and Peggy Ann Bray, real property in Rock-castle County, to Claude L. and Zelma L. Hansel. Tax $21.00.

Claude L. and Zelma Hansel, real property located in Rockcastle County, to Roy Dale and Laverne Winstead. Tax $22.00.

W, R. and Eunice Abney,

real property located in ;R0fckj ' castle County, to H. E. Melton. Tax $1.50.

Quinton and Frances Bar-. nett, real property located in

Rockcastle County, to John Singleton. Tax $2.00.

Johnnie and Dorothy Smith, real properly located ql»r the waters of Rockcastle River, to William C. and Patsy Ann Moores. Tax $1.£<Q.

J . G. and Sarah Cox Machal, ' John Cox, Luther Cox, Altie Cox Goodrich, real prapcrty-lbcated in town of Brodhead, to Billy P. and Louella G. Cass.

Bessie Brock, Arvie and Isabella Brock, Glen and Mable Brock, Elwood and Betty Brock, Wayne and Sue Brock Lunsford, real property located on Scaffold Cane, to Elwood and Betty Brock. Tax $10.00.

Aster and Mary Jo Dur-ham. real property located in Rockcastle County, to Roger and Beatric C. Durham. No Tax.

Ray and Mary Ann Chas-teen, real property located at Gum Sulphur, to Thomas E. and Joyed Shafer. Tax $9.00.

Bob and Corine Woodall, real property located in Owens Subdivision, in town of Mt. Vernon, to Robert and Cassie Marshall. Tax $2.50.

Ray and Mary Ann Chas-

'j;"jjrT*r-' '.tl-Vj-Hi— teeri. real property located at Gum Sulphur, to Thomas E. and Joyce Shafer. Tax $9.00.

and Linda Webb. Dean and Jacqueline Webb, real property located .on the head waters of Skefjgs Creek, t o Ethel Lee Webb. No .Tax.

Jea« . Carter, real ,property : located m Rockcastle County in the Green Hill' Acres, to Vester and Ellen Allen. Tax $1.50.

Je r ry and Be t ty tfo'<Carter znd Larry Dale and Linda L. Carter , real property located in the city of Mt. Vernon, to Tharman and Violet Jane Mink. Tax $15.50.

Hiatt Mink, real property located in Rockcastle County, to Flonnie Mink. No Tax.

Cleft Rock, -Inc., real property Ideated on the waters of Skeggs Creek, to Marcus and Margaret Reed. Tax $2.5b.

' Henfy and Rinda Brown, real property located on Ky. Highway- 70,- to-Clarence and Gertrude Eastham. Tax $2.00.

...Marriages...

Larry Cecil. Hubbard, 17, Livingston, unemployed, to Mary Katherine Johnson, 16,

" Livingston. April 19. 1974. Cecil Rogers Childress, 22,

.Mt. Vernon, factory, to Patricia Faye Lovell, 16, Mt. Vernon, April 26. 1974.

Ivory Mitchell Gilbert, 27. Route 2, Livingston, self-em-ployed. to Sharon Ann Broyles, 17, Route 2, Livingston. April 26, 1974

...County C o u r t -

Speeding - $10.00 and costs: Donald Whalen, Dennis Valen-tine, Clarence E. Beck, C." B. Taylor, Edward Transcik, Ed-mund T. Bullock, Reeder L. Wood, Thomas Vandgrift, Jim-my Edward Polly. William Huston Thurmond. Merle D. Black. Stephen M. Keib, Joseph Wm. Laudenslayer, Art L. Shepler,. Lloyd Wirth. Cordie Anderson Goodwin. Earl Hens-ley. Wylie- Green.

.Operating Motor Vehicle While Under Influence of Intoxicants - $100. and costs: Roy Lee Goforth, Edward Arthur Rice.

Public Drunkenness - $10 and costs: Danny Sowder. Cletus E. Willis. Earl Roger Conner, and Russell Thomas

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Estate

The Late Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt

FRIDAY, MAY 10th 1:30 P.M.

LOCATED - Jus t outside (West] City Limits ol Mt. Vernon, Ky. near the Old Brodhead - Mt. Vernon Road [State Road 13261. Turn oil the Old Brodhead Road at the residence of Mr. Leo Hunt. Follow auction signs leading to the sale.

Farm • This productive farm consists of 198.62 acres; wtth approximately 100-110 acres in grass and the balance in woodland. There's approximately 80 acres that is rich, fertile soil suitable for alfalfa, and is comparable to the most productive soils in Rockcastle County. Tobacco allotment on the farm is 2,740 lbs. for 1974 with the basic quota being 2,212 lbs., and the com base is 11 acf t s . Water for the farm is furnished by a creek and 3 excellent springs.

In addition to this exceptionally good farm land, there 's some poplar, white oak, and black oak timber. There's also a good supply of red cedar posts. '' c ,

Improvements • Consist of the above-pictured five-room frame bouse. The-house has living room,', kitchen,^ three bedrooms, and a bath. There is a partial basement. It's heated by an oil heater, and y/ater is furnished by aBandy well. There's a solid concrete cellar next to the house.

, 'U • ... The barn is a good 40 x 60 barn with a 30x60 shed attached and has a solid concrete foundation. Other outbuildings include a c r i b and smokehouse.

Here is truly an opportunity to purchase one ol Rockcastle County's best farms at public auction. This farm has unlimited potential for farming or even developing. Located on'this farm is a natural gas well. Although it has been capped, it could readily be placed into operatipn. •

This prestigious farm has been in the Hunt family for over one hundred years. So-it truly is a onct.-in:a-lifetime opportunity for yon to own a large, productive farm ideally located near town. Mark your calendar now for Friday, May 10, 1:30 p jn . , and attend this sale!

TERMS - 20% down day of sale; balance in thirty (30) days upon delivery of deed. .

For additional information, contact:

ANNOUNCEMENTS DAY OF SALE TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER PRINTED MATTER.

HI Ford Realty & Auction Co. REALTOR* „ .