The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 40

TELEVISION, RADIO, SPORTS, FINANCIAL, AND COMICS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1966 SECTION 16 PAGES A Good First Day for Those I I czTi -m With Burley Ready for Sale Camping Is the Talk Of the Town Ceremonies Held For 'Campers' Plant In Salyersville i if ing day it sold 210,000 pounds for an average of $68.69 and a top of $73. W. O. Hunt, president of the Seventh Street Tobacco Warehouse, said his warehouse too was only about a third full. It was the smallest amount of tobacco on hand for opening day in his memory, more than 20 years.

"The Agriculture Department estimated we'd sell 75 per cent of the crop before Christmas," he said, "but it looks to me like we'll be lucky to hit 50 per cent." His warehouse yesterday sold 179,330 pounds for an average of $68.68 a hundred and a top of $75. Last year it sold 187.000 pounds for an average of $69.19 and a top of $74. Louisville's other warehouse, Lucas-Hussey, reported sales of 397,182 at an average of $69.87 with a top of $76. That compared with 434.418 pounds averaging $68.62 a year ago and a top of $74. U.S.

Department of Agriculture tobacco grader S. B. Lawson, Bowling Green, said this year's tobacco grades are measuring up in quality to last year's is a little high in case," he said, meaning the moisture content is too high. Lawson said farmers would be wise not to rush their tobacco to market. "They'd be better off to wait until it is fully cured." Several buyers, however, said quality is not as good as last year's.

They are paying higher prices, they said, because the companies need the tobacco, and "we have to pay higher to get it." One said buyers are being a great deal more cautious in their purchases this year, and a lot of the tobacco is being resold immediately at lower prices, after buyers have had time to re-examine their purchases. Staff Photo by Chorlo Ponfrot 'MOMENT OF TRUTH' is when check is handed to a tobacco grower like Howard Priddy, Sonora. Friends gathering around him are Daniel Farris, Rubert Watson and Harvey Bell, all of Leitch-field. Everyone appears satisfied. Bold, New Safety Programs Urged As State Counts Record Road Toll He said Mrs.

Thompson and the other girl, Mrs. Sarah Smith, 509 Virginia, Louisville, are working out just fine. Jackson said his warehouse was only about one-third full for the opening. "Last year we had more than 900,000 pounds and more than 100 trucks lined up waiting to unload." He said he expects the marketing season to be pushed back well into February because of the lateness of the crop. It normally closes about the middle of January.

Yesterday, Jackson's warehouse sold 193.972 pounds for an average of $68.65 a hundred, with a top of $75 hundred pounds. A year ago on open- Stiff Photo VICKI TARP, 5, Hodgenville, hopes things will pick up for her dad's tobacco. Buyer is Rudy Harping. Burley Sales markets as reported by the state Change from Money Paid Avg. '65 Opening 290,058.62 $68.15 .80 571,656.40 69.39 .19 777,626.06 70.75 3.83 91,900.06 54.69 10.74 404,778.20 69.56 4.56 257,241.36 67.83 .38 227,550.94 67.70 3.07 713,800.32 68.31 .90 359,438.70 68.52 1.51 337,370.68 65.62 2.96 265,297.36 68.48 .95 608.359.60 67.75 1.90 410,653.39 67.84 1.99 1,894.022.81 69.20 1.90 293,429.88 66.62 3.38 534,771.16 69.25 .43 1,038,539.10 68.10 .60 367,441.82 72.17 2.03 435,392.06 70.07 1.24 475,233.50 66.55 1.54 256,371.84 69.07 .56 252,817.32 68.40 2.53 443,176.00 68.54 2.44 381,024.02 68.16 2.44 370,478.94 68.66 .15 375,330.58 66.38 3.10 384,476.26 70.25 1.74 of male labor.

By ERNEST L. CLARK CMriarJwrart StaM Wrifor Yesterday was payday for some of the 140,000 Kentucky burley farmers lucky enough to have their leaf on the market for the opening day of sales. In a matter of seconds, as the auctioneers and buyers paraded down the long lines of tobacco baskets, a farmer could tell how profitable his previous 13 months of labor had been. For Mr. and Mrs.

Lou Crawford, Battletown. it meant a new farm truck. Mrs. Crawford had already purchased it "as his Christmas gift" even before Crawford found out his 2,302 pounds of burley brought an average of $70 a hundred pounds at the New Burley Tobacco Warehouse on Poplar Level Road. It averaged $67 a hundred last year, he said.

Next Comes Strawberries For Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Compton, Flaherty, it meant money for the family to operate on until spring, when their five acres of strawberries will be ready for market. Compton is among the few farmers who bring along their families to see the crop sold. With him this time were his wife, a son, Mike, 3, and a daughter, Robin, 10.

The Comply tons have five other children and 13 grandchildren. Compton said his crop this year, un- like the crop in general, is unusually and he said he fully expects I some of it to "top the market." The 2,620 pounds he sold ranged from $63 to $73 a hundred pounds. Howard Priddy, Sonora, was elated 5'at the $64 to $74 a hundred pounds his crop brought, but he seemed even 'iimore pleased that he got an unusually i high yield of 1,500 pounds off a half-acre. Burley is expected to average 2,350 pounds per acre this year. Two Girls Are Hired The opening of the tobacco marketing i.

season this year also means some extra money for Christmas for pretty, brown-; eyed, Mrs. Sheila Thompson, 2802 Smilax Louisville. She is working for the first time in a warehouse as a weigher marker for the graders, and she 'said she finds the work "fascinating." She said she leaves her 22-month old son with an aunt while she is working. Eli Jackson, Shelbyville, manager of the warehouse, said he had to hire two girls this year because of the shortage Opening-Day Sales yesterday on Kentucky burley Department of Agriculture: Markets Pounds Sold Bloomfield 425,616 Bowling Green 823,870 Carrollton 1,099,094 Covington 140,372 Cynthiana 581,914 Danville 379,256 Franklin 336,138 Glasgow 1,044,878 Greensburg 524,578 Harrodsburg 514,112 Hopkinsville 387,412 Horse Cave 897,912 Lebanon 605,318 Lexington 2,737,028 London 440,458 Louisville 772,248 Maysville 1,524,914 Morehead 509,136 Mt. Sterling 621,390 Owensboro 714,092 Paducah 371,188 Paris 369,610 Richmond 646,564 Shelbyville 559,004 i Springfield 539,588 Somerset 565,444 Winchester 547,310 a is past when reliance can be placed alone upon these and enforcement drives by state police.

"We must have a broad over-all approach to try to cope with the many facets of this tragic situation." There now a.en't enough state police to pat vol the oads adequately. Lovern said, noting that the 453 officers on the forcr tm-v are three more than were working in 1960. The number of oiive-; and vehicles has been increasing bv about five per cent annually, H-d. Even if all 40 cadets now in training ci'ul'y complete their courses in February, he said, they would in effect be replacements rather than an increase Talking ill By JIM HAMPTON Cowrtor-Jovraal Staff Writor SALYERSVILLE, Ky. A blustery wind swirled wet snow-flakes across downtown Salyersville yesterday while inside the Magoffin County Courthouse everybody was talking about camping.

The occasion was a groundbreaking" for the city's new industry, a plant that will make truck-mounted campers and eventually employ 200 or more people. Local interests are building the plant for lease to the Honor Built Division of the Ward Manufacturing Co. Ward's president. Ashley Ward, said his firm is the world's largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles. The weather drove the celebrants inside, but the chrome-plated shovels weren't needed anyway.

The plant, a prefabricated steel structure, is under roof and will be finished in two weeks. Production to Start Jan. 1 Ward said the division, which his firm acquired last year, aims for first-year production of 1,000 units and eventually 2.000 units a year. Target date for beginning production is Jan. 1.

The campers, made to be mounted on pickup truck chasses, will sell for $1,200 to $3,500, Ward said. The Salyersville plant will serve domestic markets east of the Mississippi River. The $140,000 Salyersville plant is being financed by a $50,000 local bond issue and loans from the Salyersville National Bank and the First National Bank of Cincinnati. Inclement weather prevented Commerce Commissioner Katherine Peden from attending the ceremony. Her speech was read by Dick Dixon, a Commerce Department representative.

Her prepared text said new industry is coming to Eastern Kentucky "on a scale which would have been deemed unbelievable a few years ago." Since Jan. 1, 1964. manufacturers have built or expanded 131 plants in Kentucky's Appalachian counties. Miss Peden's address said. These additions have meant 10.000 new jobs and capital investment toaling $225 million.

Breathitt to Speak at Louisa Carpet Plant Dedication FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Gov. Edward T. Breathitt will speak Friday at the dedication of the new $1.2 million Louisa Carpet Mills plant at Louisa. The plant, already in production, produces custom-type tufted carpeting for the Ohio Valley and Eastern markets.

The initial work force of 50 is expected to be increased to 150 at the end of its first year and to 250 at the end of the second year, company officials said. Separate Fires Fatal to Baby And Man, 67 From AP and Saocial Oisaatchot Home fires have taken the lives of a four-month-old boy in Covington and a 67-year-old man near Mortons Gap in Hopkins County. The infant, John Belew, died last night in a fire that swept his parents' upstairs apartment while his mother was washing clothes in the basement. Mrs. Pamela Belew tried to get upstairs, but was forced back by heavy smoke, Capt.

William Egger said. A fireman put on an oxygen mask and brought the baby's body out. John Belew, the father, was at night school, firemen were told. The Mortons Gap victim, Archie Lee Bates, was killed Sunday night when fire broke out at his home. Hopkins County Coroner James T.

Craft said Bates was asphyxiated. Survivors include his widow. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday at Reid Funeral Home, Earlington. to Soldier the fire started in the kitchen and that he found no real evidence of faulty wiring or malfunction of the gas equipment in the house.

Gerald Stewart, state arson investigator, gave a report stating that "evidence shows someone started the fire." The report read by Chief Erwin said that some kind of flammable liquid must have been present at the floor level at the point of the fire's origin and that the small kitchen was the "most likely" point of origin of the fire. Disturbance at Funeral Home Carter is still in jail here following an altercation at a local funeral home Friday night. He was reported to have made an attempt to tear open the caskets of the children at the Sapp Funeral Home and the owners took out a warrant for his arrest. Carter was fined on two charges of disorderly conduct and sentenced to five days in jail. He was allowed to attend graveside rites for the children Saturday and then was returned to jail.

Graves County Coroner James Mills conducted the inquest. KiflS I in police strength toward the authorized total of 522. Checks have shewn that many persons "simply do not know how to drive," particularly on expressways, Lovern said. Legislation would be needed, he said, to require driver reexaminations and the implied-consent proposal. Court convictions of state police-prosecuted cases have resulted in nearly 75 per cent convictions lately, Lovern said, but safety officials still are critical of many judges who do not penalize first offenders or who reduce charges.

Kentucky officials say drinking and speeding are the major causes of accidents, Lovern noted. Unitod Proti International It Over in May field husband and that the house was full of flames. The children were asleep, Darrell on a couch in the parents' room and the other two children in an adjoining room of the three-room house. Carter testified that he went to bed about 11:30 p.m. and woke up to find the house in flames.

He said he tried to get out through the front door but the fire stopped him. He dived out a window and kicked open the door so his wife could escape. He said he then went to the side of the house and dived through the window into the bedroom where the children were, but the smoke and fire were so heavy that he could not save them. Neighbor Sees Fire He had to back out of the room, he said. A neighbor, Mrs.

John Mason, said she saw the fire and woke her husband, then went to another neighbor's house to call the fire department. John Mason said that when he got outside he saw Carter running around the window on the side of the house, but he couldn't get in because of the fire. Fire Chief Jack Erwin testified that FRANKFORT. Ky. (AP) Kentucky's record high traffic death toll "tragically points up" the need for "bold, new safety programs," Public Safety Commissioner Glenn Lovcrn declared yesterday.

Thirty persons were killed on Kentucky highways during the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, eight more than the previous record set in 1957 for the same period. The toll for the same weekend last year was 16. The deaths raised this year's highway toll to 968, compared with the previous high of 916 for all of 1965. To cut into the rising rate, Lovcrn called for more driver-improvement clinics, driver-education courses for adults, more state police, periodic e-examination of drivers, stiffcr penalties for traffic-law violators and an implied-consent law to permit administering blood tests to persons accused of drunken driving. Broader Approach Urged "Piecemeal efforts and spasmodic scare or warning campaigns are not the answer" for reducing accidents, Lovcrn said after a top-level departmental safety meeting.

"The time definitely Funds Sought For Workshop For Retarded Special to Tho Courier-Journal BOWLING GREEN, Ky. A drive to raise $8,000 to help pay for sheltered workshop has been launched by the Bowling Green-Warren County Association for the mentally retarded. The major fund-raising event will be a music festival tonight in Diddle Arena at Western Kentucky University. Association president Charles R. Dickson said that the group plans to build an $88,000 workshop where retarded persons can earn money while learning to perform simple tasks for business and industry.

The non-profit workshop would be similar to a Louisville program in which the retarded do such work as addressing envelopes and packaging products. If the association can raise the $8,000, Dickson said, it will be eligible for $80,000 from state and federal agencies. The workshop would serve Warren, Logan, Simpson, Butler and Edmonson counties. Three Ordered Held for Trial SMClal ta Tha Courior-Jturnal BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Two men and a woman charged with the $15,000 robbery of a Monroe County bank were held yesterday to the May term of Federal District Court here.

Charged with the Nov. 8 robbery of the Fountain Run Branch of the Gamaliel Bank are Floyd Edward Richardson, Franklin DeWayne Calvert, and his wife, Linda Lee Calvert. A similar charge against Samantha Sue nrls, arrested with the others Nov. 7 in Lou iiie, was dismissed in btlute a federal Court "rr. I -N havp ben set at f.ir for iiixcrl, and for Mrs.

Calvert. More Kentucky News On Page 14, Section A TWO MARINE CORPS SPOTTERS, Cpl. Douglas Gollihur Jr, of Ashland, left, and Cpl. Scott (complete name unavailable), center, discuss the day's action off Viet Nam with Gunner's Mate 3C R. C.

Lyon aboard the USS Chandler. Children Burned Murder, Arson Charged Special la Tha Courior-Journal MAYFIELD, Ky. A Graves County coroner's jury ruled yesterday that three children who died in a house fire here last Tuesday night met their deaths as a result of asphyxiation and third-degree burns and that there was evidence of homicide. Charges of murder and arson were brought against Army Sp. 4 Tnnyson Carter, father of two of the children and stepfather of the third.

Back From Korea, Viet Nam Carter's bond was set at $5,000 on the arson charge; he is being heid without bond on the murder charge. Examining trial has been set for Dec. 7 on the charges, which were brought by Graves County Atty. William Parham's oiTice. and Commonwealth Atty.

L. M. 1 1 1 en Meed. Ihe dead children are Darrell Carter, 3 months; Caesar Carter, 2, and Teresa l'u( II, 9. Carter's stepdaughter.

had recently returned from a tour of duty in Korea and had previously been in Viet Nam. He was scheduled to leave last week for Germany. At the inquest yesterday, Mrs. Carter testified that she was awakened by her Staff Photo by Martin Padlaa THE CHANT GOES ON Auctioneer Tommy Dowell, on left in dark coat, chanted out the prices at the Nelson County Co-Op Warehouse in Bloomfield yesterday as the 1966-67 tobacco selling season opened. i it.