to s lay ahead at the end of L home of the late Dr. R. G. up Glen Edward Lewis of the third quarter 65-60. In < Webb. Mrs. Jones lived in the New Lebanon. Ohio, and for-the f inal s tanza , Brodhead b ^ s e parttime s ince Dr. merly of the Hiatt section of knocked one point off the Webb's death. She was inj the county, Mrs. Lewis ' half-lead but lost 84-80. ! Central City at the time of! s i s t e r . Mrs. Blanche Bald-

High point man for the night l , , e f i r e - w ' n - s a ' d s h e w a s sure Glen was Barry Vanhook with 25 Livingston does not now had not written a book, but points , followed closely by ' *"ave a f ' r c department, but' he is a jet pilot and at one Coy Brown with 31. Others volunteers were able to save time was at Wright-Patter-scoring were: Earl Reynolds I 'h® adjoining buildings oni son. She gave the Signal h i s 15. Bruce Sargent 10, Ronnie Main S t ree t , I (Cont. To* Pog» 2) Bray 5, and Gary Scott 4. i

a game Friday night 1 W W q U B f j J P B p H M Brodhead took the lead, in ^ I the f i rs t s tanza and were i ' 1 never headed as they downed ' XI;. - j Eubank 65-58 at Brodhead. i . j

At the quarter s tops . BHS j I led 21-14. 36-29. and 5 2 - 4 3 . ' , V < >

Tieing for high scoring ! -S' ; j honors in the game were ' ' J

THU RSPAY.vF EBR UARY 17. 1 9 ^ ° VOLUME 7 ? MOUNT VERNON, KENTUCKY

HERE and THERE They made it off ic ial Fri-

day night. U- S. Senator John Sherman

Cooper, and Fif th District Congressman Tim Lee Car-ta? are both candidates for r e e l e c t i o n \hia .year .

The two lawmakers made it off ic ial at the 28th annual Lincoln Day Banquet of the Fif th Distr ict Lincoln Re-publican Club at Cumberland F a l l s State Park.

Carter, there had been l i t t le doubt that he would be a can-dida te . But t he re had been speculat ion that Senator Cooper might seek the Re-publican nomination for Gover-nor next year.

But Senator Cooper got a-round h i s plans when he a -rose to make the principal

NEW HEALTH OFFICER-- Dr. Virginia Wallace of Irvine h a , taken over a t health officer for Health Departments In Rock-cas t l e and Madison Counties. She replaces Dr. J a n e s Raid who left last May. Dr. Wallace wllf be In M*. Vernon each Monday and Friday, Doctor Wallace, and her "husband, M. F. Lewis, and their 12-year-old son, l ive In Irvine. She dropped Lewis from her name while In Rockcast le because of a possi-ble conflict with Dr. Jack Lewis . The new officer Is a grad-uate of the University of Kentucky and Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She practiced 30 years In Irvine before going Into Public Health Service.

Lee Rice Run Over By Truck Lee Edward Rice , 24, oi

Mt. Vernon, died in a Lexing-ton Hospital Feb. 11 af ter he w a s struck by a pick-up truck near Mt. Vernon earl ier in the day.

Mr. ' R i c e was walking on the Chestnut Ridge Road near i t s intersection with US 25 when h e was struck by a truck driven by Tom Burdette of Mt. Vernon. •

T h e truck loft the road an overturned down an embank-

Route 2, Mt. Vernon. Funeral se rv ices were con-

torted Feb. 13 at the West Main Street Holiness Church witb ' B r o s . George Murphy and Char les Shivel officiat-ing. He was bdried irt P ine Grove Cemetery. Cox Funeral Home was in charge of ar-rangements.

Crash Kills 2 Two Rockcas t le County

residents were killed Monday when the car in which,Jfcey were riding reportedly hit a bridge near Newtonsville, Ohio.

Killed were Mrs. Mamie Belle Brown, 19, recently of Norwood, Ohio, and for-tnsrly of Orlando, and Leon* Mullins, 57, of Orlando. Mr. Mullins had been !n Ohio about one day.

Uninjured was Merville Brown, husband of Mrs. Brown.

Deta i ls of the accident are not avai lable . But both Mrs. Brown and Mr. Mullins were reportedly thrown into the water.

Mrs. Brown was bom in' Rockcas t le County the daugh-ter of William and Ethel Mc-Guire Durham of Orlando, who survive. One small s o f f j Phi l l ip , a l so survives.

She is survived by three brothers and f ive s i s t e r s : Charlie Durham of Goshen, Ohio; Robert Durham of Nor- ' wood, Ohio; Curt is Durham

of Orlando; Mrs. Ollie Single-ton, Mrs. Yvopnle Durham, and Miss Emma Jean Durham, all of Orlando; Mrs.. Bertha Childress of Williamsburg, Ohio, and Mrs. Ellen Dur-ham of Cincinnat i , Ohio.

pi tal ixed for undetermined in jur ies .

Mr. R i c e was born in Rock-cas t l e County, the son of Edward and Ruby Thomason Rice. He was an employe^ of Parker* Seal Companu/of Berea.

Bes ides h i s parents; he i s survived b y h i a * w i f e , 'Mary McMulI insJHce, a son, Ed-ward Lewis , and a daughter, Brenda Lee , both at home.

T h r e i . s i s t e r s and one bro-ther survive: Mrs. Barbara Sturgill Of Livingston Mrs. Norma Lee Swallo of Cin-cinnat i , Ohio, and Miss Pamela Helen Rice and Paul Martin Rice , both at hoqie, a s wel l a s h i s grandmother, Mrs. Maggie Thomason of

Two bus ines s p laces were broken in at Mt. Vernon dur-ing Tuesday night-

Thieves entered Cromer's Sinclair Service Statioa through a r es t . room window and took c igaret tes . They a l so broke open two vending machines and took change from a cash register.

Instead of using an open door, th ieves entered the Duds 'N Suds Laundromat at Mt. Vernon, broke open a vending machine and took a new coin changer from the wall containing about $75. Owner Carl Kelley estimated h i s loss a t about S400.

Mr. Mullins w a s bom in Rockcast le County, the son of Mitchell and Rebecca Mason Mullins.

He is survive d by h i s mo-ther, of Gaffney, S. Car. , and one brother and s i s te r : Wheel-er Mullins and Mrs. El iza beth Ledford, both of Gaff-ney, S. Car .

Four half-brothers survive: U lysses , Harvey, Ernest , and Curt is Barker, all of Gaff-ney.

A double funeral will be held for Mrs. Brown and Mr. MOllins a t 1 p.m., Friday fit Sparks Funeral Hope Chapel arith Bro. Leater Arnold off ic ia t ing. They will be bur-ied in Briar Fie ld Cemetery.

William O. Yadon Dies Ai Louisville

William 0* Yadon, 73, of Brodhead, owner of Yadon's Department Store for the last 46 yea r s , died early Tuesday at St. Anthony Hospi tal , Louisvi l le , after an i l lness of several weeks.

Mr. Yadon for many years was ac t ive in Brodhead civic enterpr ises including the Brodhead Fair . He was a dea-con a t the Brodhead Bapt i s t Church and a member of tlie Brodhead Masonic Lodge.

He i s survived by three daughters: Mrs. Willene Bus-s e l l of Brodhead,. and Mrs. Edra Hesterman and Mrs. Lctene Hyslngef , both of Louisvi l le , a s wel l a s cne s i s t e r , Mrs. Sus ie Haggard of Hamilton, Ohio, and s ix grand-children.

Funera l , s e rv ices for Mr. Yadon will be held a t 2 p.m., Fr iday a t the Brodhead Bap-t i s t Churdi with Bro. Cor-ne l ius Horn off iciat ing. He will be buried ia P i n y Grove Cemetery. Fr iends may ca l l a t Watson Funeral Hone ,

A RECORD HIGH

Attendance at Kentucky State Parka and shr ines climb-ed to another all-time record high l a s t year , according to f igures re leased by the State Parks Department. There were 15,400,000 viai tora. We bear , unoff ic ial ly , that ad-vance reservat ions a t State

YOUNG PARMER D E G R E E - Carl Lewis , . a m b e r a t the Brodhead Chapter of Kentucky Young Former Associat ion (YFA) recently received the Kentucky Young Farmer Degree e t the s t a t e convention a t Louisv i l le . He received an engraved plaque In the shape of Kentucky, and g cer t i f ica te . He Is the son of Mrs. V e n a Lawls of Bee Lick . Carl has bean a diopter member fof three years . Accompanying him to Louis-vil le was_Keijaetti Persons, a delegate to the convention.

sy I ajn going ! hope I wil l

" I want to to run. Am w i n . "

Dr. Carter left h i s announce-ment until near the end of the meeting:

"Most everyone h a s figured I would be a candidate for re-election, and I defini tely a m , " he declared.

" T w o years is only an ap-prenticeship. A man has to

• "««rve" severa l years in Con-gress before he can serve his people, h i s s t a te , and h i s count ry ," Dr. Carter sa id .

Among the 460 who attended the banqaef w«w*!lreral from Rockcas t le County. They included: '

Judge, and Mrs, .Wayne- Van Hook, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford

"Ba le s , Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. ' Parsons , Mr. and Mrs. Char les C. Carter, Sim Hos-kina, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carl-of t is , "Roy Brown, Lloyd Owens, Paul Griffin, R. R. Wolfe, Miss Delta Melton Mrs. Bernice Holcomb," and Money E . Cummins.

Others aasoc ia ted with Rockcas t le County, but from other count ies , who attended were: State Rep. Harold De Marcus, Judge R. C. Tar-tar, Atty. and Mrs. Homer y e He irk, andt-OiS Reid. *

Senator Cooper told hi8 au-d ience that " w e all think of the Republican Party as the hope of the n a t i o n . "

He cri t icized President John, son and h ia administration charging:

" T h e president says we are living in a period of the greatest prosperity, and in a way that i s t rue. We have material wealth, but there are other things to be con-s idered. Never have we had such a great amount of doubt, a feel ing of insecuri ty. The people lack confidence in their president and in fbeir government ."

The senator d iacussed the f i sca l , foreign and domestic pol ic ies of the administration, but concentrated on the war in Viet Nam. He haa inspected the battlefronta there twice in recent months.

" T h e greateat concern of everyone ia about the w a r , " h e aaid, "We a re all worried about a larger war, but my chief concern and that of many others i s that the peo-ple are not receiving all the

(Coat, to P a a a 2)

FOR THOSE WHO ASKED No, we dom'Lknow whether

Sta te Highway Henry Ward h a s approved changes in t raf f ic on Main Street in Mt. Vernon. Nor do we know when the changes will be made. The weather will probably have a lot to do with i t .

SHOT OF THE YEAR Congratualtions are in or-

der to MVHS forward Sandy Chi ldress who hit a 48-foot shot during a game with Bur-gin Tuesday night. (See Basketbal l ) Sandy undoubted-ly qua l i f ies for the shot of the year award. We've seen longer shots scored, but tha t ' s the longest we have seen in Mt. Vernon's low ce i l -ing gymnasium.

BUY GROCERY L e s . Anderson and Kenneth

Cummins have purchased Cof fey ' s Grocery in Renfro Valley. It has been named the A & C Grocery. They a l so plan to move their used car lot next door to .the s tore .

ON CRUTCtfES We see Atty. John Allen on

crutches these days. Seems John was carrying a log into the house , during the bad weather and twisted his leg. Later the pain showed up , and h e (factor put him on crutches for about six weeks .

NARROW ESCAPE State Trooper El l i s Ross ,

who from time to time works in Rockcas t l e County, had a narrow escape Monday after-noon. Chasing a s to len car tKth four wanted men, tha men fired ahots at the cruiser , hit t ing a t i re . The cruiser overturned. The men were later apprehended. Trooper Rosa was not injured.

RAINFALL Since fas t Friday, " a n d

through Tuesday, a total of 1.76 inches of rain had fallen in Mt. Vemoo, according to Weather Bureau records kept by Bill Cox. Largest amount, 1.48 inches fel l Sunday. T h e measurement does no t Include rain that fel l Tuesday nig^it and Wednesday.

TRASH CANS We urge all res idents to

use the dark green trash cans that have been placed a long Main Street , ' courtesy of the Meridian Womarts Club. They ' r e remodeled oil drums. You' l l only be a f e w s t eps from one at nearly any point. Keep our c i ty c lean! 1

EGG MONTH Gov. Edward Breathitt has

of f ic ia l ly proclaimed March as " E g g Month" in Kentucky, and s a y s that the poultry and egg industry can play a sig-nif icant role toward his gotfl of achieving a cne billion dollar annual farm income.

MYSTERY AUTHOR COUNTY NATIVE

MOBILE CLASSROOM •Help In Reading Starts Here-<

An extensive reading pro-gram opened in Rockcas t le County schools t h i s week that could eventually serve up to 1,100 children.

Under a grant of J2S2.000 from the federal go\prnment through the Elementary and Secondary EducaUav Act ci

' 1965, (he new program that will aid s tudents in reading, is under the direction of

.Clyde.. . Linvi l le , a s s i s t s ' , superintendent. Roland D.

' Mullins is helping teacher and supervisor . "

According t o Mr. Mullins, "tests Indicate that sdtoel children . .across the nation have problems with certain reading sk i l l s , and that the sk i l l s can be improved."

" T h e lack of reading sk i l l s among our youth may not be suff ic ient to cause severe reading handicaps , yet they j

On The Hardwood-

The voice a t the other ,end of the l ine was the .Dayton, Ohio, information .operator.

" N o , " the'" voice sa id , '"There i s no listing for a Hunter L e w i s . "

Another .voice at the end of another l ine was the voice of

j the operator for Wright-Patter-; son Air Force Base , Dayton, j Ohio.. j " N o , there i s no Hunter

Lewis on our roster. But we ' l l connect ' you with our

j Locater Opera tor ." The ans-wer again, was no.

The housewife at the o the r end of the line was Mrs, Glen Edward Lewis of New Leba-non. Ohio.

" I a ssure you . " s h e sa id , "If my husband had written a book about Kentucky I would know about it. I wish he h a d . "

may prevent a youngster from 1 cation has literally beat the who i s Hunter Lewis? a t ta ining h i s potential aca-1 bushes and comc up with 13 i Th i s name h a s become the demically In fac t , the child | well qualified teachers to | most talked about name in a with a ski l l deficiency may be s t a f f ,he reading c e n t e r s . " decade th is week in Rock-hindered in all subject mat- i There will be four teachers cas t l e County as res idents ter a r e a s , " Mr. Mullins s a i d . j a t Brodhead; two a t Living- ; {yoang and atij sea,shed

He* noted that in order t o ! s ^ o n i two at Rouridstone, and their.memory for a inkling to de.al effect ively with the com- f o u r B l M t Vernon. In add.-p l e n t i e s of diagnosing and j t i o n _ e a c h t e a c h e r will have developing reading sk i l l s , a . a n a i d w h o will perform cer-special classroom cl imate , a i n c ler ical dut ies which is des i rable . j will relieve the teacher for

Experts recomo^ad that no f planning and developing a more than s i * to 10 pupils j stronger curriculum. be in the reading laboratory ; "Mater ia ls and classroom at one time, and that the tea- j climate do not faci l i ta te chers work with 50 to 90 pu- • learning; therefore, each tea-pi Is per day. ' * - ' cfie? must accept the respon-

Mostof the work, if not a l l , sibility of motivating each in Rockcas t l e will be done in child on an individual bas i s

Reading Program Begins

the identity of Hunter Lewis . The name cropped up in the

news when Doubleday and Company, of New York, an-nounced this week that a novel. "Cry to the H i l l s " by Hunter Lewis, a native of Mt. Vernon, in associa t ion with Esther Kellner, would be .published Match ll^by Double-day. The announcement was no

l i t t le item. Doubleday i& one

At Mt. Vernon Tuesday night belonged,

lock, s tock, ' and barrel, to MVHS forward Sandy Chil-

With Burgin leading 47-45 with one inch showing on the clock a t the end of the third period, Sandy let fire with a ahot eight feet behind (he center s t r ipe. The ball sa i l -ed through the air, ringed the baske t , and dropped through to t i e the score 47-47 and end the quarter . MVHS then went on to down Burgin 71-63 . '

Sandy had another chance. With' the. score 58-58 midway of the last quarter, he drop-ped through two crucial foul shc*s to put Mt. Vernon ahead to s t a y .

Nt* only that , he a l so un tied the score two previous times In the c lose , but other-wise lack-luster game.

The long shot (48 fee t ) was one of the longest ever made in regulation play at Mt. Ver-non, and may have been the longest in the history of the school. The audience gave Sandy a 3-nri'nute standing ovation.

Sandy "ended the game with a total of 14 points, the high-est of the season for the for-ward usually notable for h i s floor fight in a„game. But he did not carry of f scoring ho-nors. Both Ronnie. McClure and Jerry Hodges got 16 points e a c h . . David Niceley got 13, and George Cl9ud and Jimmy Hines 6 each.

The game was c lose from start to f inish. At the first quarter Burgin led 17-13. At the half it was Mt. Vernon 34-29.

iWith the win, MVHS made the two in a row, to bring its s eason record to six wins and 14 losses .

Friday night, Mt. Vernon up-set Berea High School, that had defeated MVHS'twice be-fore th is season , in an over-t l n # « l - 5 9 at Berea.

Only one Devil, Jerry Hod-ges^, could manage to hit in double figures'. Jerry got 26polnts to spark Mt. Vernon to i t s win.

In the game, which ended regulation play 57-57, Hodges s to l* • p a s s and raced to the bash»t to score the winning two poin ts .

A l i o Scoring in the game

mobile uni ts taken to the ! Their reading plan will allow of the two largest publishing schools . The units were pur- for motivation and sequential firms in the world, and the chased from the initial $252. ski l l building in a manner publication of a novel is a 000 grant. never before possible in major event, including the

Mr. Mullins said the "Rock- Rockcas t le County ," Mr. major event of several thou-cas t l e County Board of Edu- Mullins declared. s ands of dollars to the author.

i. To adequately diagnose and A n d that the author was an remedy reading d i f f icu l t ies , unidentified Mt- Vernon na-various materials are used," l ive, only made the news more

i including overhead projec- important locally. were: Niceley 9, Cloud and ! l o r s . opaque projectors, speed The Doubleday announce-Childress 7, .McClure 6. j readers, shadow scopes , tape ' m e n l w a s t e rse . It merely Hines 4, and Eddie Warf 2. recorders, record players, s a ' d : "Mr. Lewis was bom

phonic games, syl lable , n Vernon. He now works A I o r o a h e a d games, vowel char ts . B n d | at Wright-Patterson Air Force

primer typewriters. { Base. ' f c-1t did not give- fur-McKinney blazed away with Tes t ing of children in i *ber biographical data."

30 points in the secend quar- Rockcas t le schools was com-' At^ th is point, the Signal, ter Tuesday night to s ink pleted early th is week. The! s ens ing an obvious important Brodhead 84-80 in a h igh, program will " rea l ly ge t ' accomplishment by a nat ive scoring game at McKinney. ! go ing" by the beginning o f son. went to work, but obliv-

Leading 19-17 at the end i next week, Mr. Mullins s a i d . ' ious of the frustration ahead. of the first s tanza , Brodhead I Numerous cal ls- to^residents appeared to have the situa- H O U S E B U R N S around the county turned up tion well in hand. But McKin-ney broke the game open in k

the second quarter to lead 47-33 at half t ime.

In the third quarter. Brod-head made a strong comeback • scoring 27 points, but McKin- :

ney came up with 18 points at the end of

55-60. In Brodhead

off the

SI

1! Bray 5,

Vanhook and Reynolds with 16 each , Sargent scored 14. Bray 9, Brown 6, and Scott 4.

At Livingston The Livingston Blue De-

vi l s made it two wins over Tyner th is seasod when the Devi l s downed the Jackson County team 64-50 at Tyner.

Livingston jumped into an early lead and gradually pull-ed away behind the sharp-shooting of Billy Wyatt who scored 27 points , that was high for the game and his high for the season .

Livingston led a t all the quarter s tops 12-11, 29-22, 45-34.

Also scoring for LHS were: Lee Smith 18, Vemoo Sams 8, Delbert Owens 5, Gary Mink 3, Bert Newcomb 2, and Lon-nie Vanzant 1.

LHS h a s now woo 16 games and lost 7 .

. » a few people connected with A T L I V I N G S T O N ! the Lewis name, but no one

A house ana tumishinss ecu Id remember a Hunter belonging to Mrs. Est i l l Lewis . Jones a t Livingsfon was The Dr. Lewis family of destroyed by fire Tuesday Wildie was checked off. Dr. night. . Lewis had several daughters.

The house was the former Next came a lead that turned home of the late Dr. R. G. up Glen Edward Lewis of Webb. Mrs. Jones lived in the New Lebanon. Ohio, and for-h o i s e parttime s ince Dr. merly of the Hiatt section of Webb's death. She was inj the county. Mrs. Lewis ' half-Central City at the time of! s i s te r , Mrs. Blanche Bald-the f i re . win, said she was sure Glen Livingston does not now had not written a book, but

and at one

MEDICARE AT 100— Mr». Laura Hiatt Baker, who recently celebrated h»r 100th birthday and a l t o gat her Medicare card at Bloomlngton, Ind. She a l i o received a socia l security number for the f i rs t t ime. Mrs. Baker I t the s i s t e r of J . A. (Pappy) Hiatt of Renfro Valley and vlal ts a t Renfra fte-quently In

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rx.7-l.ngton, Kentucky