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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 TWO--A SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KY. Thousands Of Pills Found Along Road BENTON, Ky. July 14--The Marshall County sheriff's office today reported that between $5,000 to 10,000 pills and capsules of dangerous drugs and narcotics" were found scattered along a 75 to 100-yard stretch on the Road in the Palma Community on Thursday. A spokesman for the sheriff's department said officers were informed of the presence of the pills and capsules at about p.m. Officers then went to the scene.

A portion of the drugs was confiscated and authorities said the remainder will be destroyed. Earlier in the week, Marshall County authorities arrested Timothy Walton, 24, Calvert City Rt. 2 at a trailer on the Needmore Road and him with possession of dangerous drugs and carrying a deadly weapon. Bread Firm Files Suit Over Restaurant Sign Bunny Bread of Paducah has filed a lawsuit in McCracken Circuit Court seeking $50,000 damages from the owners of Dog-N-Suds of Paducah for statements which it said appeared July 10, 11, 12 on the restaurant's marquee at 2083 S. Beltline Highway.

The sign in question, according to the suit, on one side read, "We buy Colonial. Ask Bunny while the opposite side of, the sign carried the statements, "Bunny's fresh and stale are the same prices," "Colonial is never stale," and "Colonial is gooood." The suit seeks damages from W. Tom Saxon and Robert E. Saxon and Saxon Enterprises, Inc. of 4700 Exall Lane, doing business as Dog-N-Suds of Paducah.

The suit alleges the comments on the marquee to be defamatory and derogatory and to be the outgrowth of a civil which Bunny Bread filed against the restaurant June 14. The original suit was for $4,654.02, to cover the cost of goods sold and delivered by the bread firm to the restaurant, payment for which was past due, the second suit contends. The suit alleges the comments to be false and famatory in that they: -Imply that Bunny sells fresh and stale bread at the same prices. -Imply by innuendo that Bunny Bread is always stale. -Imply that Bunny Bread would cheat its customers by selling bread which is not fresh.

-Were published to any and all motorists who traveled upon the S. Beltline Highway. -Were published with "malicious intent" by the restaurant operators and were calculated to injure the reputation of Bunny Bread while the defendants knew the statements were true. The bread firm asks for damages of $50,000 or general damages of $5,000, special damages of $20,000, and punitive damages of $25,000. The special damages, according to the suit, are based upon the facts that the firm's staff has been beseiged by calls from the public regarding the signs and their normal office routines greatly interrupted, and that the firm's relationship with its customers and potential customers has been greatly damaged by the signs and will be for some time to come.

The suit also requested that a temporary restraining order be Pollution (Continued, From Page One) Earl Johnson, chairman of the Paducah association, said the organization is in the process of evaluating various oil pollution control systems for use by the group. The association will determine whether purchase or rental of devices is the most appropriate method for achieving its goal. Another possibility is the hiring of a company to come into the area and clean it up in the event of a pollution incident, Johnson said. Thursday's demonstration, held at the Igert Towing one of the firms affiliated with the mutual aid association, featured the use of an adsorbent boom in of up to 200 feet. The boom, manufactured by a New York-based company, sists of a tubular open knit mesh bag stuffed with an absorbent fibrous material.

Running through the bag longitudinally is a length of line for mooring purposes or tying units together to increase the length of the boom. According to Johnson, the boom could be used to trap a spillage product, such as fuel oil, in a limited area. The area then could be cleaned with the use of skimmer pumps. Other members of the Paducah Mutual Agreement association- include Ashland, Shell, Standard, Gulf and Texaco oil companies, Hougland Barge Line, Walker Towing Walker Boat Yard, and Paducah Marine Ways, Inc. Airlines, Administration Baffled Over.

Prevention By VERN HAUGLAND AP Aviation Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Finding a way to halt airline hijackings has baffled officials of the nation's airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration. Airport security has tightened noticeably since the beginning of the year. Carry-on luggage frequently has been searched. Passengers have been screened for weapons by electronic al detectors. Ticket agents have kept an eye peeled for suspicious persons who fit a secret hijacker profile.

But the hijackings continue. Six jetliners have been hijacked in the past six weeks alone, including two that were commandeered by gun-toting sky pirates Wednesday night. "We don't know what the holes in our security are," said FAA spokesman Dennis Feldman. "We have to take each instance on a case-by-case basis to determine whether there has been proper he said. FAA administrator John H.

Shaffer has ordered an investigation of all hijackings to determine whether airlines are living up to security regulations put into effect in April. Two airlines, United and Pacific Southwest, were fined 000 each after the FAA ruled that lax security contributed to the success of a pair of hijackings that occurred within days after the new regulations went into effect. The regulations require airline personnel to observe all boarding passengers to see whether any of them match a behavioral profile of potential hijackers developed by the FAA. The airlines also have the option of using metal-detecting devices or searching passengers or their hand luggage, but are not required to do so. "There i is no way to calculate Mrs.

Ingram Rites Planned LA CENTER, July 14 Funeral services for Mrs. Grace Ingram, 80, La Center, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Jones Funeral Home here. The Rev. Mike Johnson will officiate and burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Mrs. Ingram, a lifelong dent of Ballard County, died at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Clinic. She is survived by three sons, Jack Ingram of Ferndale, and Allen Rowe Ingram and Burns Ingram, both of La Center; five grandchildren and three great Pallbearers, all nephews, will be Robert Shelby, Terry Shelby, Clifford Shelby, Elwood Crice, George Crice and Billy Bob Crice. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Ashland Man Elected Bishop By Methodists LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. (A.P) The Rev. Edward Tullis, of Ashland, was elected a bishop of the United Methodist Church's Southeastern Jurisdiction in the third day of balloting by delegates. His election was announced today after a count of the 14th ballot cast late Thursday. Two more bishops remain to be elected by the delegates.

Three others were chosen earlier. He is 55 years old and is pastor of the First United Methodist Church at Ashland. He received 342 votes against a required 319 to elect. Second on the 14th ballot was the Rev. Frank L.

Robertson of Valdosta, who received 252 votes. Third, with 250, was the Rev. Robert Blackburn of Orlando, The Rev. Tullis was one short of election on the 13th ballot. Five Handed Suspended Fines, 50-Cent Costs Five persons received $10 suspended fines and were assessed 50 cents in court costs and fees today in Paducah City Court.

City Judge Kenneth Burkhart assessed these fines and costs: Alfred H. Cooper, 700 block of Joe Bryan Drive, improper takeoff; Robert P. Taylor, La Center, speeding; Charles R. Baker, block of Biederman Street, speeding; Alvin B. Webb, 400 block of N.

5th Street, speeding; Joe M. Danneker, 2600 block of Marshall Street, speeding. Buddy L. McKendree, Benton Rt. 1, charged with speeding, was given a fine and costs of $42.50.

The costs in this case were $17.50. Eagleton (Continued From Page One) SILENT SENTINEL Officials of Peoples Bank lost little time in unloading this surveilanee camera following the robbery Thursday at the bank's Southside branch. The film, which took pictures of the robbers, from this unit was turned over to the FBI. -(Staff Photo by Larry Teckenbrock) $25,000 (Continued From Page One) near a field near Clark's River not far from the South Beltline. The other car was found along Oaks Road.

Chief of Detectives Wallace E. Cunningham of the Paducah Police Department said Thursday night it has not been determined whether either car was used in the bank robbery. An automobile firm spokesman confirmed the auto found near Clark's River had been stolen earlier in the week. It reportedly was taken from the lot of Shelton Pontiac Co. The bank's camera equipment photographed the holdup, Rieke reported.

The film was turned over to the FBI after an initial decision to send it to Union City, for processing was reversed. Rieke reported it was the first holdup at any of the Peoples banks since the mid-1950s. The Thursday loss was insured, Rieke said. Carroll (Continued From Page: One) officials on ways they can use the county home rule law enacted by the 1972 General Assembly. That law greatly broadens the police and governmental powers of county governments.

As an initial step in that direction, LRC Director Jackson White announced that the LRC and County Judges' Association would hold a seminar in Louisville Sept. 15. That seminar will seek to. acquaint local officials with the implications and possibilities of both the new division in LRC and with the home rule bill. Carroll said seven similar regional seminars would be held later in each of the congressional districts in Kentucky.

He said those would begin in late September and extend through October and. perhaps into November: Carroll also announced that the LRC planned to have all state laws put into computers by Oct. 1 as part of a statutory information retrieval system. White said the system would allow local officials to get within 24 hours a list of all state laws pertaining to a given area. It also could be used to get all state laws containing even a particular word, he said.

In addition to helping local officials understand and implement state law, Carroll said, the new division would help them draft and enact resolutions and ordinances under the home rule law. He said full time staff mem bers in the division would draft model ordinances, conduct research and studies on local problems and develop service plans and programs and coordinate local efforts to get federal grants. Two field agents will be hired to visit local officials to help them, he said. Another service, Carroll said, would be to have a central file of all ordinances enacted by ery governmental unit in the state. And another would be an inWATS to allow local officials to call the division for help at no cost, he said.

Upwards of 20 million Americans have tried slipping away from urban life for a relaxing afternoon. or weekend in America's hinterlands, according to Himalayan Backpacking Equipment. Mrs. Fox, 93, Dies 'At Home MOUNDS, July 14-Mrs. Kathleen Sullivan Fox, 93, died at 7:40 a.m.

today at her home, 115 N. Delaware. A native of Casanova, Mrs. Fox had lived here 64 years. She was the widow of Jesse B.

Fox. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church here, of which she was a member. The Rev.

Robert D. Gore will officiate and burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Mrs. Fox is survived by three daughters, Mrs.

Mary Helen Sichling of Dalton, Mrs. ine Casey of Cairo, and Miss Madeline Fox of Mounds; two sons, Joseph D. Fox of Mobile, and McLaren Fox of Los Angeles, three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Another son, Jesse W. Fox, died in 1959.

The rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at JohnsonLambert Funeral Home here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Sunday. Fischer (Continued From Page One) World Chess Federation FIDE could step in at.

any time and disqualify him. But Dr. Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because "the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record $125,000 purse to the two. players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of $55,000.

Fox said Fischer admitted he couldn't hear or see the three cameras, but "'he said they bothered him because he knew they were there." Fischer had objected first to the cameras Wednesday night and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat in the first match. Intense negotiations through the rest of the night and all day Thursday failed to coax him from his hotel. room. Spassky had arrived meanwhile at the sports palace and was seated behind the black figures before a crowd of about 1,000. Jivo Nei, a Spassky assistant, called Fischer's refusal to appear "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." Hijackers (Continued From Page One) Wednesday night when a National Airlines Boeing with passengers aboard was taken, over during a flight from Philadelphia to New York.

The passengers were allowed to leave when the three-engine jet returned to Philadelpha. The hijackers had demanded about $60,000 and 20,000 Mexican--worth two parachutes. Authorities said the ransom demands were met in Philadelphia when the hijackers swapped planes, but they would not disclose the exact amount. placed against the restaurant operators barring them from referring to the name of Bunny Bread or its products, or in any way casting the firm or its products in a bad light by the marquee signs or any other way. The temporary restraining order against Dog-N-Suds was signed by Circuit Judge J.

Brandon Price. Irish (Continued From Page One) and Greggan districts, or "Free Derry," as the IRA calls them. Army headquarters said about 700 men remained in control of Andersonstown early today but said it did not know how long they would stay there. The invasion of Andersonstown was ordered by Britain's administrator for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, Army headquarters said. It marked a reversal, at least temporarily, of Whitelaw's policy of reducing military activity in an effort to wean away the grassroots Catholic, support of the IRA.

The retaliation began shortly before midnight. A sandbagged Army tion on Lenadoon Avenue had been under heavy IRA attack with guns and bombs for five hours. At one stage a rocket was fired at the post but the missile missed and hit a neighboring house. About 30 soldiers inside held out until some 1,800 men moved up in armored personnel carriers. A soldier was killed and another wounded as the troops occupied the district, but otherwise the task force met little Andersonstown was quiet resistance.

The army said the IRA was taken by surprise. after the takeover, but violence immediately erupted in the Ardoyne, Falls Road, Ballymurphy, New Lodge and Divis precincts, and in the city center. Fat Albert (Continued From Page One) heavy fighting was reported today on South Vietnam's northern front, where 20,000 Saigon troops are on a drive to retake Quang Tri Province, which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. The Saigon command said its troops had not entered the Quang Fri City limits, but reported a series of battles ranging from two to miles northeast of the provincial capital. Spokesmen said 114 North Vietnamese troops were killed, almost half of them by air and artillery strikes, and 41 weapons captured, Three South Vietnamese marines were reported killed and 14 wounded.

A high-ranking South Vietnamese officer was killed and eight other men wounded when a South Vietnamese helicopter crashed southeast of Quang City. The Saigon command reported artillery and rocket attacks against the old imperial capital of Hue Thursday night and this morning, and said eight persons were killed and 21. Homer Zopf, 79, Funeral Is Set FULTON, July 14-Funeral services for Homer Zopf, 79, a resident of Fulton Rt. 3, who died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Fulton Hospital, will be held Saturday at 2 p.m.

at Jackson Funeral Chapel at Tenn. Harry Owens will officiate and burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery near Dukedom. Mr. Zopf was born in Buffalo, N. Y.

For many years he was an employe in the State Department in Washington, D. C. and at the time of his retirement he was a sales supervisor for Armour Meat Packing Co. in South America. He was a member of the tarian Church in Washington, D.

C. Mr. Zopf is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dixie Williams Zopf of Fulton Rt. 3, and two nieces, Mrs.

Walter Haase of Dukedom and Mrs. Jimmie Milam of Jonesboro, Ark. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today. what percentage of passengers pass through the magnetometers," said Air Transport Association spokesman James McCarthy.

"At some boarding places all passengers go past the devices. At other times or places, only persons believed to match the profile are. sent through the detectors." According to government -statistics, 205 persons have been arrested during the past 18 months for trying to board an airliner with a weapon or for making hijack or sabotage threats while boarding a plane. During the same period, according to government figures, more than 1,100 guns, knives and other weapons have been seized. Last week the White House, concerned by lax security on the easy-boarding shuttle flights, ordered airlines with such flights to begin checking all carry-on luggage and require all passengers to show two forms of identification.

The order came after two Pacific Southwest shuttle flights in California were hijacked on successive days. AEC Security Chief Under Fire Over Debts WASHINGTON (AP) The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed today that William T. Riley, its director of security, has been "placed on leave without pay pending resolution of some allegations concerning his personal financial affairs." An AEC spokesman said the allegations "relate the borrowing of money from other AEC employes and his indications are that it's in excess of $100,000." Riley's job paid 000 a year and he's had it since November 1967. The spokesman said Riley was placed on leave June and has been replaced by Paul Gaughren, 57, a former deputy director of the division of: security, during investigation of the allegations by the commission's division of inspection. Riley, 52, joined the AEC in 1947 at Los Alamos, N.M., as a security and intelligence officer and rose through various levels to become director of security in 1967.

As chief of security, he has been responsible for the physical security of all the diverse installations of the AEC's farflung empire, stretching from Washington, D.C. to Eniwetok and from Brookhaven, N.Y. to the Aleutian Islands. The job also includes responsibility for "personnel security," including clearances of prospective employes and protection against sabotage, the AEC spokesman said in answer to But the spokesman volunteered the comment that "there is no indication that any security matters are involved" in the Industrial (Continued From Page One) Since the industry was engaged in manufacturing tube sheeting, much of its product would have been delivered to the atomic plant in McCracken County, committee members noted. However, Fairbanks Morse Power Systems has been awarded a $2.6 million contract with the AEC for engineering work and production of components which will be installed at atomic plants in McCracken, and in Tennessee and Ohio.

The committee then inquired of Fairbanks-Morse if it would consider locating a plant at the Coleman Industrial Park and was told it would remain in its plant at Beloit, Wis. J. William Howerton, president of the Greater Paducah Industrial Development Association, said an effort will be continued to interest industry in the Coleman Industrial Park. He said he hopes one plant can be secured in the next year and that a program to complete the "availability" of utilities can be achieved. John E.

Farmer Rites Are Held Funeral services for John E. Farmer, 74, a native of Ballard County, who died in Jackson, were held Thursday afternoon at Gorham Street Baptist Chuch in Jackson, of which he was a member. Mr. Farmer was the son of the late David and Mrs. Mary Dowell Farmer of Ballard County.

He is survived by three sons, Bob Farmer, U.S. Army, and Alvah Lee and Jack Farmer, of Jackson; a daughter, Mrs. Maxine Peckman, also of Jackson, several grandchildren; two brothers, Sherman Farmer of Jackson and Willis Farmer of La Center Rt. 1, and a sister, Mrs. Mae Gorden of La Center Rt.

1. Coal Still Top Fuel For Making Power CHICAGO- Coal remained the most important fuel for generating electric, power in 1971 but its share of the U. S. electric utility market dropped from 55 per cent in 1970 to 54 per cent. current situation involving -the security chief.

Asked why the matter had not been made public before, the spokesman said: "We were trying to await completion of the investigation." McGovern (Continued From Page One) Burke, a black Californian, brought Eagleton to the form. After acknowledging the cheers, he praised the gates from Wallace's Alabama for their "gracious courtesy" in supporting the presidential nominee's right to choose a running mate, and vowed to carry "a new message of hope to the American people" in the campaign ahead. And in what seems likely to be his line of attack against the man he hopes to displace, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Eagleton pleaded to "restore the dignity" of the vice presidency as an office "whose occupant must appeal to the highest, not the basest, motives of our fellow Americans." Then came Kennedy, last man of the family which has seen two. other sons fall before assassins, declaring the party "has met the test of greatness" by nominating McGovern and Eagleton.

The thunderous reception accorded Kennedy, who sat out the convention at his Hyannis Port, home, rivaled that given McGovern, whose candidacy fell heir to much of the support of Kennedy's slain brother, Robert. Then, as the convention band blared the strains of "Happy are Here Again" and "When the Saints Go Marching In," McGovern came forth, followed by the rivals who had earlier pledged to back his effort this fall. Often as he spoke, his supporters erupted in applause as he pledged an end of the Vietnam war, as he pledged before all else that "the doors of government will be and that war will be closed." The Wallace supporters, centered in the delegations from Alabama, Texas, Florida and Michigan, sat silently through much of the speech. They filed out quietly as McGovern's supporters stood and cheered, clapped and marched following his speech. The ovation that followed, surpassing his greeting, went on for minutes as the other top Democrats again faced the cheers of the crowd.

Chants of "Let's go, George" filled the hall as the Democratic ticket, beaming and waving, stood before the crowd. Despite public avowals of confidence, some in the hall were unsure. Southern nors, such as Georgia's Jimmy Carter and North Carolina's Robert W. Scott, said they would have preferred a different ticket. But they pledged support.

A big question mark was Wallace, confined to a wheel chair since the May 15 tempted assassination in Laurel, Md. Most thought he would go back to Alabama and sit out the campaign. After returning to Washington today, McGovern flies to South Dakota on Saturday for two weeks of rest and strategy sessions in a secluded resort in the Black Hills, south of famed Mount Rushmore. Fulton Picnic Tickets On Sale FULTON, Ky. Tickets are on sale for the annual Twin Cities Youth picnic to be held at the City Park on Friday, July 21.

All young people participating on a ball team have tickets to sell, and there will be tickets at the park on the night of the event. Stocks of eels in Lake Halaton in Hungary estimated at 16 million. discussions in McGovern's hotel Thursday about the vice presidency. Florida Gov. Reubin Askew and Connecticut Sen.

Abraham Ribicoff, both reportedly on a four-man list of McGovern favorites, were sounded out again Thursday. But both again refused to accept the vice presidential nomination, as had -been widely predicted. Based on interviews and news briefings, here's the way the South Dakotan moved toward announcing his running mate: After breakfast, McGovern instructed one of his aides to get in touch with Eagleton early and let the Missourian know he was still in the running. Downstairs, in a closed room off the hotel main lobby, a group of McGovern's top campaign strategists were meeting to evaluate all the possibilites. One report listed that figure at 25.

At 11 a.m. top staffers joined McGovern and representatives of black interests, women and Spanish-speaking Americans. That meeting had a floating, changing membership. Downstairs, in Room 1609, about a dozen blacks, including Clay, waited 1 for the return of their representatives to the meeting upstairs. Those men were Rep.

Walter Fauntroy of the District of Columbia; Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark, N.J., and California state Sen. Willie Brown. When it was all over and Eagleton had been named by McGovern, Fauntroy explained what had happened. "We reached four general criteria," he said: that the vice presidential candidate be qualified to take over as president, that he have national appeal, that he be "relevant to the urban crisis" and that he be a Roman Catholic. "We batted some names around," Fauntroy said, including Eagleton, and United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock.

There are conflicting reports on the manner in which Eagleton's apparent position as leading candidate held firm while others fell by the wayside. Fauntroy and Clay say that by noon just seven men were still under consideration: Eagleton, Landrieu, Mayor Kevin White of Boston, Woodcock, Askew and Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-Ark. While the fortunes of White and others slid, Eagleton's were on a steady course through the maze of analysis and potential criticism. At 1:50 p.m., while phone calls and conferences were in progress on the 17th floor, McGovern's press office called a news conference.

But an hour came and went and McGovern didn't show. It then was announced that the press conference would be "at some further time." "'The hours really went by," press secretary, Richard J. Dougherty, explained late Thursday. "It took longer than we suspected." McGovern, he said, "has a finely honed concern for dignity" and wanted to keep certain people apprised of the situation and, in some cases, asked for their advice on various candidates. Tubing (Continued From Page One) truck was used in the theft.

He said the thieves made off with' copper tubing and piping ranging from in diameter to four inches in diameter, and from 20 to 100-foot lengths. The theft was discovered about 7:30 a.m. by company employes. Cole said a complete inventory will be required to fix the exact value of the copper taken. He said nothing else was removed from the store.

I. B. Nall, 87, Marshall, Dies BENTON, July 14-1. B. Nall, 87, of Benton Rt.

8 died at 7:58 p.m. Thursday in Benton Hospital. He was a member of Church Grove United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Clara Nall; two daughters, Joe Clark of Benton and Mrs.

Mary Williams of Benton Rt. one son, Joe Nall of Benton; four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Collier Funeral Home. The Rev.

R. Dotson and the Rev. J. Frank Young will officiate. Burial will be in the Provine Cemetery at Briensburg.

Pallbearers will be Willie Jones, J. C. Jones, Boyce Owen, W. J. Brien, Houston Gregory and Dale Williams.

Friends may call at the fuIneral home..

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