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The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 21

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Paducah Sun-Democrat, April 6, 1954 -2l Ike's Health 'Flying Saucers' Korean Livestock Judge Wctherby's Chauffeur Dies Warm Weather Moves Into Central U.S. Herbert Ami His Lost Car 'Break' Turns Into Nightmare For Chicagoan CHICAOO. April 5 (UP)-Tyo policemen did a friendly thing for Herbert Llyermore the night of February 28. With such friends, Llvermore doesn't need an enemy. The officers spotted Llvermore, 35, driving with his lights off.

They stopped him and considered run- nlng him In after they learned he had been drinking. Instead, they gave him a break. NO ENEMY NEEDED The officers parked Livermore's car. gave him the keys, wrote the location of the car on the back of his driver's license and put him on a bus for home. He got there, but the driver's license was lost along the way.

Since then, Llvermore said today, his life has been a hectic one. He has been searching for the spot where the car was parked ever since February 26, with no luck, LOST CAR NOT PAID FOR Last Saturday he was forced to make the second payment of $53.90 on the car he hasn't seen for more than a month and may never see again. The police won't search for it as a stolen car. How, Plan Not Needed, AMA Declares WASHINGTON, April 5. MV-A spokesman tor the American Med ical Assn.

said today there is no need for a proposal, drafted at President Elsenhower's request, for federal reinsurance of prepaid health plana. Dr. David B. Allman of Atlantic City told the "House Commerce Committee his organization Is fearful the plan would be an opening wedge toward socialized medicine." Allman said the measure would not fulfill the purpose for which It is planned and that it would be far better for the program to be dealt with only on local levels. Elsenhower asked Congress in January for 25 million dollars to start a system of government reinsurance of private plans, to help take of some medical expenses beyond those now covered.

He also proposed a five-year plan for expansion of the program for rehabilitation of the disabled. State Income Tax Judgements Obtained FRANKFORT, Ky, April 5 m- The State Revenue Department today obtained Judgements total lng about 117,000 against 41 per sons in Frankfort Circuit Court on delinquent state income tax claims. They Included T.H. Hayden, Paducah, $40. Modern whaling methods permit the extraction of 350 barrels of oU from a 90-foot whale.

Increasing, Keyhoe Declares HOLLYWOOD. April 8 0J.ft)-A retired Marine Corps officer said today information about so-called "flying saucers" has been kept secret by the Air Force because of ficials are afraid the news will cause mass hysteria and panic. Ma). Donald E. Keyhoe, -author of a book on "strange objects," said the Air Force is withholding information because "it fears mass hysteriaperhaps even panic, if it admits we are being observed from another planet." Keyhoe, who appeared on" a NBC television program here, said the Air Force has "some 800 re ports from competent pilots, radar men, weather observers and other qualified observers who atatethey have seen forelen oblects.

"Sightings are on the incYease," Keyhoe said, "but the Air Force has clamped down the lid." Play Scheduled At Hardin Friday Night HARDIN, April 5 (Special) The students of Hardin High School will present the play "Aunt Samanthy Rules the Roost" on Friday, April 9, at the school audi torium. TheTast Is composed of members of the freshman, sophomore and Junior classes. They are, Nancy Hall, Pat Owen, Donna An tierson, Shirley Slrls. Phylicla Sutherland, Shirley Jones, pavld Sain, Howard Conner, Eddie York, Bobby Miller and Mac Tucker. The play is under, the direction of Mr.

and Mrs. Glenn Warren and Mrs. Hoyt Owen. From Injuries LOUISVILLE. ADril 5 (JP County Patrolman Henry St.

Clair, 37, died today of injuries suffered in an auto-truck wreck which killed Jefferson County Judge George S. Wetherby and County Atfy. Lawrence O. Duncan. St.

Clair was driving Governor Lawrence Wetherby'a brother and Duncan to Frankfort when the March 19 aecjdent occurred. St. Clair received rmfHIpie compound fractures and internal injuries when a gasoline transport truck struck the auto, near here. 4 Months Mourning Is Decreed For Princess Martha OSLO. Norway, April 5 (J Nor ways royal.

court entered four months" mourning for Crown Pruv cess Martha who died today. Funeral services for the 53-year old wife of Crown Prince Olaf who died of a liver ailment which had plagued her for three years, will be held in about eight days, an oinclal announcement said. iS To Take Hand In Hydrogen Bomb Race UNITED NATIONS, N. April 5 (UP) The' United Nations Disarmament Commission will meet Friday afternoon at 3 p. m.

to open talks aimed at ending East- Went hydrogen bomb race, it wasJ announced today. India expects to be self-suffici ent in raUway locomotives, as far as normal replacement Is concern ed, by about 1957 or 1958. EVANS VILLE. Auril 8' Ufi Hogs 3.000. Active barrows and gilts 25-50 higher than Friday; sows 25 higher, bulk choice 3 and 3 from 170-240 lb.

barrows and gilts 27.25-27.75: few truck lots choice 1 around 200 lbs. 27.85 240-370 lbs. 26.50-27.50: 150-170 lbs 28.00-27.50: sows 33.50-25.00. Cattle 1.000: slow generally steady, few truck loads and lota nhnlcfi steers 22.00-22.50: good to low choice 19.00-22.00; commercial to low good 17.00-19.00; utility and rrmim.rrlal rnwi ll.OO-13.00: can- ners and cutters 9.08-11O0; shelly canners 8.00 and below utility ana commercial bulls quotable 13.00-15.00: canner cutter and utility 9.00-13.00. dives 150.

Vealers steady, good and choicf 16.00-24.00; few prime 25.00; utility and commercial 13.00- 16.00. Sheep 50, No early sales. Windstorm Rips Roofs At LaGrange LAGRANGE, Ky, April 8 -WV-Flerce winds ripped off rooftops, toppled trees and damaged numerous buildings here today. The stonn, sccompanled by rain and hail, sent people scattered for cover at 2:35 pm. Heavy clouds caused midnight darkness at the height of the storm.

20 Stills Seized By ABC In March FRANKFORT, April 5 m-Agents of the State Alcoholic Bev-erage Control Board took part In seizure and destruction of 20 moonshine stills during March, board chairman Guy. C. Shearer reported today. Thirty-three 11-legal'stills were seized the previous month. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS South winds warmed the central part of the nation Monday on the heels of cold air moving eastward.

Temperatures rose about 10 degrees in the Midwest and as high, as 20 degrees in the middle Miss-' tsslppl River Valley, St. Louts had a reading of 87 degrees Monday-two degrees shy of all-time record for the date set In 1871. However, forecasters said the temperature was due to skid to 35 or 40 degrees by early Wednesday. The official temperature at Midway Airport, Chicago, was 69.3 degrees, compared to 53 degrees In the downtown section where cool kike breezes were an Influencing factor. But lows of 11 degrees were reported in Portland, Maine, and Burlington, Vt, and three degrees In Caribou, Maine.

The weather bureau In Chicago said the huge high pressure area whioh had caused winterlike temperatures from the Missouri Valley eastward to the Atlantic Coast Sunday was moving out to sea. Late Monday temperatures ihad climbed Into the 40s In some spots in New England and Into the 80s In the South. Scattered light showers were reported In Florida and Georgia; light drizzle in New York; rain showers along the West Coast, and a few showers In Virginia and Ohio. Month in and month out, about 40 per cent of all department-store sales are charge-account Items. they ask, can he prove it was stolen? His insurance company won't pay a claim.

How, they ask, can he prove it was ever moved after the friendly policemen parked it? His wife had been spending her lunch hours riding in taxis to search for the car. On March 25 the taxi she was riding in was struck by another car and she was injured. She is now unable to work. An advertisement in the personal columns of a Chicago newspaper has produced nothing but a dozen calls from persons who parked a carbut not 4-HRallyDays Are Scheduled In Marshall Vet Dies i In Crash BARDWELL, Ky April 5 (Special) A Korean veteran was killed, and two other men were seriously injured a head-on collision near here early Sunday morning'. The dead man and one of the injured were residents of Marshall.

County. State police identified the dead man as First Sergeant Joe Lincoln Yates, 27, who was stationed In Washington, D. C. He was visiting his home on Benton Route 1 on a furlough. Injured were Joe Burton Hiett, 33, also of Benton Rt.

1, and Larry KeDler. 30. 'of Oranger, Ind, Rt. I Hiett is a student at Murray State College. Hiett and Yates were in the same automobile.

They appar ently were traveling south. Kep ler, alone In the other car, was traveling north. The. can crashed head-on a mile north of here at about 5:45 a. m.

Yates was killed instantly. Both cars were demolished. Twe Hurt Seriously Hiett and Kepler were taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Cairo, where their conditions were de scribed as serious. Kepler, a member of the Air Force, was flown to Scott Field, 111., Sunday afternoon.

Yates had spent nine years In the service, two of them In Korea. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs Kelzie Yates of Benton Rt. 1. Also surviving are four sisters, Mrs.

Everett race or Detroit, Mrs. Noah Edwards of Benton Rt. 1, Mrs. Garfield Henson of Cincinnati and Mrs. William Hamilton of Padu cah; and two brothers, Clinton B.

Yates of Benton Rt, and Billy Hughes Yates of Detroit Funeral services were held at 3 pm. Monday at Walnut Grove Church of Christ, L. Garner of ficiating. Burial was la Hiett Cemetery. Ike Attends 7 Rites For Gen.

Vandenberg WASHINGTON. April 8 VPh-A sad-faced President Eisenhower Joined hi the last honors today at Washington Cathedral for Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg, former Air Force chief of staff. Vandenberg, who died Friday after a long fight against cancer, was buried In Arlington National Cemetery as Jet planes roared an aerial tribute, and an infantry regiment fired a 17- gun.

salute. The much-honored, well-loved general, only 65 and less than a year out of uniform, was buried high on a hill top overlooking Washington. Nearby are the graves of Adm. Sherman, Navy Secretary Forres tal, and other military heroes. Joe M.

Mills Funeral Today BARLOW, Ky, April 8 Funeral services for Joe M. Mills, 78, who died Friday In Jackson, Mich, will be held at 3 p. m. Tuesday at the Gum Corner Baptist Church, with the Rev. A.

D. Ser-atte officiating. Burial win be in Barlow Cemetery. The body Is at the home of a Earl Mills of Barlow. Doran (Continued From fsge One) association's accredited list In 1948 after the college's regents refused to renew the four-year presidential contract of Dr.

W. H. Vaughan. a Democrat, and a charge of politics was made. Then Gov.

Simeon Willis, a. Republican, replied 4hat politics left Morehead with Dr. Vaughan. Later In 1948. rraents mmM William Jesse Balrd as president.

ana wuus lauded tne appointment. U. S. Senator Earie C. Clements, who succeeded Willis as governor, named a new board of regents In June, 1948, and the school regained Its accredited standing that December.

Eisenhower (Continued Frem Fare One) vances have outrun our social consciousness. None of the questions which bother us today has an easy answer, Eisenhower went on, and "some of them have no answer at DiddleTpBeClub Spei aker At Clinton CLINTON, Ky, April 8 (Special) Ed Diddle, basketball coach of Western State College. Bowling Green, will speak at the annual Rotary Club Ladles' Night meeting to be held Thursday evening st Central School. Honor guests will be wives of Rotary members and the basketball squads of Central and Fulgham High Schools. Plant To Close LrrCHFTEIJJ, HI, April 8 (U.B The American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.

announced today its magnesium casting plant here will be shut down'indefinite-ly on J-one 33. PLACE CLMSfliFBie AO David Moore Rites Held Funeral service for David Moore, 39, who died Friday night at his home, 1107 S. 4th, were held at 3 pm. Sunday at Alders-gate Methodist Church, with the Rev. E.

E. Thurmond and tha Rev. Frank Norfleet ofticlatlnf. Burial was In Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. He wii a nv.ber of tha Royal Order of Mesons No.

127, and Oddfellows Lodgt NO. 218. Survivors Include bis wile, Mrs. Jessie Stokes Moore; two sons, Robert David Moore Jr. and BlUy Moore; parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Joseph Moore of Paducah; a aister, Mrs. Carlton Roach of Paducah, a brother, Claude Moore of Paducah; aunts and uncles, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Palmer of Haley-vtlle, Ala, and Mr.

and Mrs. Vane Hotchklss of California; and several nieces and nephews. Former Barlow Resident Dies BARLOW. Ky, April 8-Mrs. Lovie Mayberry.

48. died Saturday night at her home In Camden, Ohio. She was a former resident of Barlow, where she was reared. She is survived by her husband, Jesse Mayberry of Camden, Ohio; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Virginia Belcher of Camden; an adopted daughter, Miss Linda Mayberry of Camden; a son, W.

R. Mayberry of Hamilton, Ohio; her mother, Mrs. R. E. Blankenshlp of Barlow; five brothers, Garlin Blankenshlp, Thomss Blankenshlp, Kri-ley Blankenshlp, Wesley Blankenshlp, and James Blankenshlp, an of Barlow; and two listers, Mrs.

Margaret Ward of Barlow and Mrs. Alice Messamore of Joliet, X1L Funeral arrangements are Incomplete. The body will be at the home of Mrs. R. E.

Blankenshlp la Barlow after Monday night. Harrington Funeral Today Funeral services for M. O. Har-rington, be held Tuesday at the Llndsey Funeral Chapel In Paducah with the Rev. H.

Us officiating. Burial will be in the Maplelawn Cemetery, Mr. Harrington, a resident of Padueah Route 4, died Saturday at his residence. He had lived In McCracken County for 30 years. He was a retired farmer.

He Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Harrington; aix sons, M. O. Harrington Jr, McCracken County, W. M.

Harrington, Marshall County, Herman Harrington, Flint, Mich, Curtlss Harrington, McCracken County, Donald Harrington. Flint, Mich, and Alec Harrington, Marshall County; one daughter. Mrs. Virginia Reed, McCracken County; two sisters. Mrs.

W. Glvan, Louisville and Mrs. Margaret Harrington, Laurel, Md, and 1 rand-children. The body win remain at the Llndsey Funeral Home until the burial hour. Seven East Germans 'Are Sentenced BERLIN.

April I WV-Seven Fast Germans have been sentenced to prison by a court on charges of spying for the West READ THE WANT ADS DAILT BENTON. Ky, April 5 (Special) Four 4-H Club Rally Days have been scheduled.for Marshall Coun ty during the next two weeks. The Rally Days start tomorrow at Calvert City In the morning and at GUbertarUle in the alter noon. Sharpe and Briensburg will host the event on Wednesday, April 7. Hardin and Walnut Grove Is slated for April 8 and Brewers and Fairdeallng on April 11 The Rally Day programs at each of the schools will Include the Judging of sewing and other pro ecte of the members.

17. Emerson Funeral Held MAYFIELD, Ky, April 8 (Spe cial) Funeral amices for Leland H. Emerson, 49, were held today at the Byra Funeral Home here with the Rev. J. Howard Baxter officiating.

Burial was in the Maplewood Cemetery. Mr. Emerson died Sunday at 13:40 a.m. at his residence here. He is survived by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. C. E. Emerson; four brothers. William H.

Emerson, Memphis, Bradley Emerson, Vlcksburg, Miss, T. C. Emerson Jr, and Gllson Emerson, both of Mayfield; four Sisters, Mrs. Leslie Jackson, Memphis, Mrs. Jerry Adams, Fla, Mrs.

Paul Berry and Mrs. W. H. Harrell, both or Mayfield. Roy Edward Drew Funeral Held MAYFIELD, Ky, April 8 (Spe cial) runerai services for Roy Edward Drew, 35, were held today at the liberty Baptist Church with the Rev.

Allen Roher and the Rev. W. W. Heflln officiating, Burial was In the church cemer tery. Mr.

Drew died 'Saturday at 11 ajn. at his residence in Boas. Coroner Coy Drew4 attributed his death to a heart attack. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Roxie Drew; his father, Dane Drew; three Mrs.

Lurline Harper, Mrs. Nells Dillon and Mrs. Vlrbls BernhiU, an of Boas four brothers, Fred and J. Drew, both of Detroit, Ovil and Ray Drew, both of Boas. Former.

Zynville Itesldent Dies LYNNVTLLE, Ky, April 8 (Special) Dexter Wiggins, farmer LynnvOle resident, died Sunday at 10 pm. at his residence In Akron, Ohio. Funeral and burial services will be held In Akron on Wednesday. He Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clessie Wiggins; one sister, Mrs.

q. A. Weatherly, Wlngo; one brother, Chester Wiggins, Lynn ville; his mother, Mrs. M. Wig gins, of near Lynnville; 'and grandchild.

Mayfield Youth's Sentence Probated MAYFIELD, Ky, April 5 (Spe clal) Robert Acree, 19-year-old Mayfield youth, was placed on a five year probation by Judge El vis J. Stahr In Mayfield Circuit Court here today. Acree was convicted of robbery ana sentenced to three years In the state penitentiary earlier. He and four other youths were charted with robbing the Palmer's Market cere in wtmtmt Just Dial For Anything You Have To Sell, Rentf Trade No need to moke hard work out of an easy job. Every day someone fs scorching The Sun-Democrat classified ads for just about everything under the sun.

Look around you. You no doubt, have many things you no longer want that others would be'glad to buy. There's the bicycle Brother has' outgrown. You don't need the-old vacuum cleaner since you bought the newone. Thaf baby pen just takes up space now that the children have grown.

There are many things around the house you probably need no more, and they're in your way. But they're a source of quick and ready cosh when you advertise them with a low-cost classified. So, dig 'em out, dust 'em off and place a classified ad in The Sun-Democrat. Classifieds are as near as your telephone. Dial 3-1771 And Ask For An Ad-Takcr (el.

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