The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 29

P. 5 Lets entertain friends, while everyone's Stale Approve: Vocational School Centers Ceurir-Jejrnl iurii FRANKFORT, Ky. The Kentucky state Board of Education jestcrday approved plans for the construction of area vocational-school extension centers, two to serve Western Kentucky and one in eastern Kentucky. Their estimated cost is $400,000 each. One is planned to serve Breckinridge, Grayson and Ohio counties, a second is planned for Laurel County, and the last to be built, adjoining Murray State Uni- vcrsity, would serve Calloway County and Entertaining during the holiday season while everyone's home is something very special The warm feeling of renewing old friendships goes hand-in-hand with the joyful spirit this festive time of year.

So think how nice it is when they can share the same wonderful feeling you get then you buy beautiful dining room furniture for the holidays. Bensinger's gets a real pleasure out of bringing you, Ethan Allen, and your friends together. provide a training ground for future vocational-education teachers. Warren Board Backed The board also backed the Warren County Board of Education's plan for a new "North Side" consolidated high school in Bowling Green by approving three proposed expenditures in connection with the school. A proposed bond issue to build the school has been contested by a suit filed in Warren Circuit Court.

Declined to authorize construction of a Daviess County vocational school in Owensboro because a suitable site could not be found. Voted 3 2 to delay decision on an appeal by four students of West Kentucky Vocational School in Paducah who are contesting their one-year suspensions from the school. A dozen students were suspended after a shooting incident Sept. 5. Presented Courier-Journal staff writer and columnist Allan Trout with an award for "outstanding service in promotion and advancement of education in Kentucky, and telling the school story" during his 38 years as a reporter.

Trout is due to retire Dec. 31. No Bias Charge Formally Made At Ammo Plant i jbJ Formal or Informal, you'll find fii jfs ijjyy 3jf jjsij fJ just what you like most in the vast ''JptL jybr Ll Jpi open stock selection of 2000 P'eces ky Ethan Allen. Choose 11 MSOT 1 No formal charges of racial discrimination have been filed against Olin Mathicson Chemical Corp. in its operation of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant at Charlestown, M.

F. Lindslcy the company's plant manager, said yesterday. "We did have a fellow in here from the Indiana Civil Rights Commission who looked into some of the cases, but he went away apparently satisfied, and we've heard nothing more," Lindslcy said. The issue arose in October, when a letter listing nine complaints was sent to the Cleveland, Ohio, regional office of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The letter was sent by the Louisville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, over the signature of the Rev.

W. J. Hodge, president. NAACP Made Complaint It complained of unfair treatment of Negro workers and a "disproportionate number of whites hired -in comparison with Negroes." But no formal charges have been leveled at the installation, which now employs more than 13,000 workers in the production of propellant charges for the armed forces. "We haven't heard any more about it," Lindslcy said yesterday.

At the time the letter was sent, Lindslcy said the company, which operates the plant for the Army Ordnance Corps, "has always been an equal-opportunity employer." Michael Hammond, international representative for the International Chemical Workers Union, which represents the plant's production workers, said that to "the best of our knowledge, the company does not and has not practiced or condoned discrimination." He said his union has been a leader in civil rights. Tininioiis to Join Electric Co-Op FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Hayden Timmons, former executive director of the governor's Commission on Agriculture, will join the Kentucky Rural Eleo trie Cooperative Corp. at Louisville. Timmons, an aide to Gov.

Edward T. Breathitt, will be public affairs director beginning Jan. 1. A graduate of the University of Kentucky. Timmons has been employed previously by radio and television stations at Louisville and Lexington.

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Hrcalhitt EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) Groundbreaking ceremonies for 90 miles of Interstate 24 in Western Kentucky were held yesterday without Gov. Edward T. Breathitt, who was to have been the main speaker. The 1-24 route, when completed, will be from the Tennessee line, south of Hopkinsville, diagonally across Western Kentucky to the Illinois border west of Paducah.

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