News-Democrat and Leader from Russellville, Kentucky (2024)

December 23, 1960

Publication:

News-Democrat and Leaderi

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Russellville, Kentucky

Issue Date:

Friday, December 23, 1960

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1

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DEDICATED TO MAKING A GREAT COUNTY GREATER! CIRCULATION THAT SELLS! RUSSELLVILLE LOGAN COUNTY KENTUCKY 10c A COPY riday December 23 1960 1 HIGH IN STATE HERE i Logan Sportsmen attendance at Repay $3650 On crown particularly warm cents Loan rom Bank on and Deadline Jan 10th it Who Will Succeed Master Stark? Drake was I Mrs inley Offers Story By Boster Cub Scout Pock 204 To Receive Awards prize $15 MRS BYRNE A EVANS DANIEL KNOTTS Li COL BYRNE A EVANS AL SMITH MRS DANIEL KNOTTS MRS HAROLD KNOX Ril'ey Dark Assn Ancestor County Pan their Reg of this 7:30 period three I 9 mow Weather told us Thurs ARRIVING JUST IN TIME for Christmas was newest mem ber of News Democrat family She's Beverly Gail Jones daugh ter of Mr and Mrs Roy Jones of Russellville and grand daughter of linotype operator rank Waltrip Beverly Gail weighing six pounds was born at Logan Hospital Dec 11 RANK WALTRIP EUGENE CARNALL JOHN ROBERTS LOUIS CROSIER JOHNNIE CARTER Thurs 147418 for an a when of 21 in the region a 10 0 mark They have 37 of their last 39 starts two seasons That lifts Baz (Continued on page 7) be a time of in los of big old coun VOLUME IM NO 52 Applications will be accepted until Jan 10 1961 for persons wishing to take the examination for postmaster of Russellville The postmastership is now be ing held on a temporary basis by Mrs Arthur Kemp who was appointed last May 13 on the recommendation of Kentuc two Republican Sen ators 1 A number of ap pointments for Kentucky post masterships under the Repu blican Administration were not confirmed before Congress ad journed until next year The group included the office at Russellville which pays $6255 In annoucing the deadline for applications the Civil Ser vice Commission said competi tors for the vacancy must have at least twp years of experience showing that they have the a bility to conduct and manage' (Continued on Page 8) MRS REUBEN KEMP MICHAEL ANN KNOTTS Six three junior guard Wayhe Calvert was the acme of consis tency in the two big games belt ing 23 at Russellville and 22 against Bundle The Patriots now are the only unbeaten team with won over for last across the was the coldest winter according Observer Bernice A Evans editor who said this extremely for able to share irst child born Logan County this year was Stephen Harold Stark son of Mr and Mrs Jim Harold Stark of Rus (Continued on page 8) Mrs Walter inley of Leav enworth Kansas a member of the newly formed Logan County His torical Society is offering $50 in prizes for essays on the subject: My Most Interesting Who Lived in Logan $25 is offered as first as second and there are two $5 prizes The essays should be in the hands of Granville Clark presi dent of this society by the first of June There is no age limit and the contest is open to anyone Essays must be written on reg ular typing paper 8 by 11 inches white in color and must have a two inch margin on the left of the paper and be double spaced When all essays are in they will be bound and indexed lussellville's banks and most of its stores county and city offices will be closed Mon day following Christmas The News Democrat office will close at noon Saturday and reopen Tuesday morning Papers will be on sale else where at Riley's Drugstore the Howard Pharmacy Park view Restaurant Settle Evans and the Kaintuck Hotel There will be a meeting Cub Scout Pack No 204 Tuesday night Dec 27th at in at Teen Town One of the main orders of business will be the distribution of awards All Cub Scouts and paren's are urged to attend be cause awards will not be given to any Cub unless a parent is with him There will also be a short program Refreshments will be served after the meeting A total of $3650 in notes money loaned by the Southern Deposit Bank of Russellville for clearing of land at Rocky Creek dam was repaid this week The money was paid back by the Logan Sportsmen Club Inc which borrowed it March 16 1957 Bill Hurt club president and Martin Williams secretary said 33 $100 notes were redeemed one $50 note and one $300 note The club originally borrow ed $8150 This week's payments leave a balance owed at Citizens National Bank of $900 the club officers said Hurt apd Williams said they believed the balance can be re paid with funds from the mem bership drive which is now in progress Club memberships have been raised to $10 Those paying their dues 'now can avoid an initiation fee which will be charged after the new home is completed on the Lewisburg Road Benjamin Whitakers who was the great aunt of Mrs Eugene Nourse of Russellville The diary is the property of Mrs Nourse the former Ce cil armer who is making it available for publication as a contribution io the Centennial celebration Mathilda Whitaker was a young woman scarcely out of her teens when the war broke (Continued on Page 5) Excerpts from day by day account of the Civil War years in Logan County will be pub lished in forthcoming issues of The News Democrat as a high light of the Civil War Centen hial This was announced this week by Mrs Byrne and publisher newspaper tunate to be this valuable and important his torical journal with its The story of Logan in the Civil War will be taken from the diary of Mathilda Lucret ia Whitaker daughter of the 1 The Pool took 95 percent of this ottering Jesfe L4 manager of the Eastern ired Tobacco Growers said The new mark was 40 higher than Russellville's pre vious record set last day Dec 15 when pounds brought $57913 average of $3928 The average season was $3o26 state and $3632 in Russellville average of $3968 was the highest since just before Christmas of 1958 when an aver age of $4145 was recorded sales of one sucker on the Russellville Springfield ranklin and Westmoreland mar kets through Monday amount to 1884254 pounds and an aver age of $3768 The Pool took 92 percent of this for an average of $3788 One sucker sales on the Rus sellville market this season through the week ending Dec 16 total 494434 for $188095 and an average of $3804 The one sucker sales con cluded Thursday Dec 22 un til after the holidays They will reopen on Thursday Jan 5 arid be held on Mondays Wednes days and Thursdays Total one sucker sales for the season this time last year when the markets closed for the holi days amounted to 1153399 pounds The one sucker crop had (Continued on Page 5) Christmas Day 'in the Year of Our Lord 1960 will find Logan faith ful again flocking to the churches of their choice for celebration of the Nativity or many of us Christmas day will begin with the opening of presents at the traditional tree followed by worship services Christmas will family reunions homes across this fy the joy of being together once more warming the heart more than any hearth side ever could Some of our people will be away joining their kin in other places Some of us the police men firemen drivers of buses and taxis service station folks hospital workers and people who keep our utilities going will work Christmas but they too will find a time for cele (Continued on Page 5) A new high average of the season for dark tobacco markets was set in Russellville Monday when 140284 pounds' of one sucker sold for $5565790 and an average of $3968 Clnsing Uft Tnn Taylor Assigned ulltime Duties As Logan Officer Conservation Officer Joe Tay lor of Auburn has been assigned fulltime to Logan Taylor formerly shared duties in Logan with Conservation Offi cer Jim Bryan who retired Dec 1 Taylor previously worked in part of Warren and part of Logan but will now be in Logan alto gether Taylor has been with the De partment of ish and Wildlife Resources eight years He is married to the former Miss lorine Turner and they have four children Mrs Joan Gilliam Mrs Barbara Jean Max well Charles Edward Taylor and Lula Mae Taylor Auburn Defeats Rickardsville Hi or Homecoming Auburn High hit 58 per cent of its attempts from the field in the first half of its homecom ing game and rolled past Rich ardsville 57 42 riday night James McKinney led the charge with 14 points while Joe Wheat got 12 and Way mond Biskay 10 The top scorer though was Richardsville guard Jerry Basham with 21 points The Bobcats threw up a claw ing zone defense in the first half but torrid shooting wrecked it Richardsville more than held its own in the last half percentage took beating in the last reserves sank just flips Junior LaValle crowned Basketball Sweetheart of Auburn The coronation was by last year's sweetheart Mar lice Pillow Auburn has a 6 2 record now bowing only to Russellville and Edmonson County (Continued on pagq 7) Brown Renamed Naf 1 Director Of Milk Producers Macon Brown of Russellville has been re elected to the board of directors of the National Milk ederation Brown who is a director of the Ohio Valiev Milk Assn was named at the feder 44th annual convention in New Orleans Some 1400 persons attended the meeting at which Glenn Lake North Branch Mich was elected president Brown is one of two Kentuck ians on the federation board Ruling Asked On Assisting Jailer In 2 Law Suits Logan iscal Court members decided to ask the State at torney general for a ruling on whether the Court can pay anything on the cost of ari at torney to defend Jailer Karl Vick in two damage suits totalling $65600 The Court is also a defend dant in the suits which seek damages and medical expenses for two men injured in sepa rate accidents while they were county prisoners The City of Russellville is also (Continued on Page 8) or Applications or Postmaster $3968 Average At Russellville Tops Last Week's By 40 Cents In Magazine Of University Of Ky weekend No predicted this ASSS ADV DEPT KY CENTRAL OICE KY PRESS LEXINGTONJ KY lT An inch of snow blanket ed Logan County Tuesday night froze solid Wednes day and the temperature went down to one degree below zero early Thursday Thursday day of the io Weather Cox It Wednesday morning either when young Mr Cox recorded a low of nine degrees Highest temperature all week was 48 degrees Tuesday There was 32 of an inch of precipitation bringing the total to 34 72 Main roads in the county ice bound Tuesday night and early were quickly clear ed and are passable state police said Rural roads however remain ed icy with little hope for re nei nerore tnc further snow is week Spaaking of Observer Cox day how he scientifically re corded it with the official equipment of his uncle Wil liam Porter who is back hom*o now mending from a heart at tack catch the snow in a big Bernice said "melt it in a little thing and measure with a big stick" $50 In Prizes In Historical Contest Widen 68 Doc! and rename it Rayburn's Route One of Xmas wishes 2 Tigers held to sixth Lewisburg clung to but the Russellville were toppled from ranking in the ifth Richard Boster a son of Mrs Stuart Russellville has had a short story accepted for the fall 1960 edition of Sty lus University of Kentucky liter ary magazine A graduate of Russellville High School Boster is a sopho more in College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Eng lish The title of short story is Day of the Clock" It is his first appearance in Stylus Copies of Stylus may be pur chased for 25c each from the English Department University of Kentucky Lexington rWt Mercury alls To 1 Below As Snow Blankets County Thursday Coldest Of Season Here AUBURN HIGH Homecoming queen LeVelle Drake is ed by last year's queen Marlice Pillow At left is Della Rust and at right Pat Pillow who were attendants In front is the homecoming princess Jane Howlett Tigers Sixth Rangers Ninth Christmas Day In Logan Includes Worship Services Many Reunions Of amilies Planned To ou and You and ou Our Readers Our Correspondents Our Advertisers and Our Custom ers who make possible the publication of your Home Town Paper we say THANK YOU and Paper Will Publish Civil War Journal 2 Teams Hang On As Panthers Slip place ninth thers No 1 ion this week defeat last Tues day Dec 15 by the Allen Coun ty Patriots made the difference Champions of the ifth Region three times in the last eight years the Patriots are back on top of the Daily regional rankings for the first time this season Coach Jimmy Bazzall's opera tives got there the hard way knocking off last week's No 1 choice Russellville 51 49 and then taking out Glasgow Bun che No 3 last week by 55 42 Logan Quota 01 Blood Net or Coverage or All LogUn County has met its quota for Red Cross blood do nations and will have blanket coverage for all of its citizens until the next Bloodmobile visit Mrs Wellington Lo gan Red Cross chapter secre tary said 260 pints were do nated when the Bloodmobile was in Russellville last riday Although the quota was 267 pints enough pints had been previously credited to Logan at the Nashville Regional Blood Center to make up the differ ence Mrs Wallington said The next visit will be eb 8 MATHILDA LUCRETIA WHITAKER inset was author of Civil War diary a page of which is in background of photo graph above Above entry was dated Sunday Eve July 16ih 1865 and described how ''Eugene Kennedy was arrested last night by the soldiers and carried to Russellville being charg ed with being one of the band who burned the house of old Porter the night of the eleventh of July eighteen hundred and sixty four "The diarist reports that her brother Ben has been asked to be an alibi witness for Kennedy "as he knew that he was not in the state that night" Mathilda Whitaker Story IT'S CIRCULATION THAT TELLS! 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