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The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 6

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The Paducah Suni
Location:
Paducah, Kentucky
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6
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6A The Paducah Sun Sunday, March 31, 2002 Business across line in Puryear is not as good nov we haven't been able to locate; chain at this time, especially with; the slowdown of the economy andj the expansion of restaurants! nationwide. I'm confident we'll bi; successful in getting one in thj' next 18 months." Puryear might get a lift sooj-; er. Chambers said he believes he; has found someone to lease the oJcj" home of the Apple, running it family business. That's about thai; only viable option Chambers see? for being successful in the barj trade in Puryear now. "If we had wanted to, we coujd; have stayed there," Chambers-said.

"We weren't going to go out of business. But we would had to go back to work as we did in the beginning." Chambers made it pretty clear; he preferred moving to Murra; As another weekday dinner rush' began in his restaurant, it's no! hard to see why. other ways, too. "Any time a city loses a business, it's tough on us," Smith said of the Big Apple's closing, "especially when it's a little town like this. You lose not only beer tax, but sales tax as well as the tax on anything else they buy as they come through.

But it has not been as tremendous as one might expect." Though data are limited, Smith said, the city took in a little more than $5,400 from the wholesale beer tax in February, The city received nearly $6,900 in February 2001. Henry County Executive Brent Greer said countywide liquor tax revenue was down about percent, and sales tax revenue has dropped 3.7 percent, although it's difficult to tell how much of that drop was caused by the recent recession. County was affected, too: Bars outside Paris got to stay open extended hours and on Sundays. Puryear, which has its own beer board regulating sales, approved extended hours and Sunday sales a few months after the referendum. "The thinking was that the people who sell beer came to the city board asking for relief," Puryear Mayor Robert Lassiter said.

"We thought if thev could buy it right outside of town on Sunday, why not let them sell it in town? I think the beer halls that are here suffered somewhat from a lack of business." City Recorder Verla Smith said revenue from a wholesale beer tax has fluctuated from month to month but has generally decreased since Murray began selling liquor. The loss of drinking customers has cost the city in Trite site jDiomc i un i in 1 I i 7 vvqxi' limy vmm iliiD Wm "I had expected we would have some leakage of sales tax revenue to Murray," Gr.eer said. "As people from our community go over there to eat, some of them go shopping while they're there. It's hard to analyze, no longer than it's been." Greer said the county is trying to lure a chain restaurant to Paris since the city now allows liquor sales in addition to beer. Although there have been some inquiries, the restaurants are also looking at Murray, made more attractive by its college population, Greer said.

The university's 9,000 students provide both a work force and a customer base. "I felt all along that it would take a minimum of two years to interest a chain restaurant," Greer said. "We've had some discussions, but no one has made the final decision. I'm not surprised TZJZf auusfsess SUPERCENTEN 3901 Hlnklavlll Highway 00 A Half Mil Eaat Paducah, KY 442-44S9 1 0OO-788 i Continued from 1A something to do." Taylor has operated the bar for 26 He said his business is off about 90 percent since Murray legalized liquor sales a year ago. Like most of the bar owners along U.S.

641 in the Henry County town, Taylor depended on the seemingly endless influx of students at Murray State University for most of his business. "It's 10 miles they don't have to drive to have a beer," Taylor said. "At night, I'll still have a few people, but it's slowed down a whole, whole While Murray continues to enjoy commercial commerce has slowed in Puryear, the former destination of choice for Murrayans looking for a drink. The former top destination, the Big Apple Cafe, closed and moved to Murray last fall. "The only reason Puryear had what it did was because Murray was dry," said Skip Chambers, co-owner of the Big Apple.

"Somebody could make a run of it, but the boom days are over." At the same time Murray voters approving liquor sales in restaurants, voters in Paris, were approving liquor by No foul play in missing man's death: coroner Staff report MURRAY, Ky. Daniel Rodden, the 85-year-old Murray man missing since March 14, died of natural causes two days after he was last seen, according to Graves County Coroner Philip McClain. (Obituary, HA.) Rodden's body was found Friday afternoon inside his 1976 blue Pacer on a dead-end road near State Line Road in southeast Graves County along the Tennessee border, Murray Assistant Police Chief Ken Claud said. The body was identified Saturday, and an autopsy was performed in Madisonville. Murray detectives Rollins and Chris Garland examined area where Rodden's body was found Friday night and ruled out foul play pending the autopsy results, Claud said.

"The cause of death was fatal cardiac 'arrhythmia," McClain said. "There was no foul play, it was natural causes. The best the pathologist could pinpoint was that Mr. Rodden died on (March) 16th." A 14-year-old boy, who was riding a four-wheeler in the area, noticed the vehicle and contacted authorities, McClain said. Investigators were unclear why Rodden was in southern Graves County.

Rodden was last seen around 5 p.m. March 14. He was northbound on 4th Street in Murray when ah officer noticed him, but that was before he was reported missing by his family and a caretaker. Rodden received blood transfusions and was due for one on March 14, and he was taking heart medication for a condition that caused him to require a pacemaker. Family members said that although Rodden's medical conditions left him weak, his mental faculties remained intact.

Paducahan faces burglary charge LOVELACEV1LLE, Ky. State police arrested Joshua Greene, 23, of Paducah on a burglary charge after a Lovelaceville homeowner complained a man, later identified as Greene, was acting suspiciously Saturday. Police went to a home in Lovelaceville at 11:08 a.m. after Greene stopped there and asked for a ride to Paducah. Upon arrival, police arrested Greene for allegedly stealing a handgun from the home and discarding it outside.

He was charged with first-degree burglary and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, and taken to the Ballard County Detention Center, where he remained Saturday evening. Greene's bond is set at $750 cash. A jail official refused to give his court date. 11 i 4 Hi i si LANCE DENNEEThe Sun Just waiting: Jack Taylor, owner of Taylor's in Puryear, sits at his bar Thursday. the drink.

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