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pint Weaiher Partly cloudy and slightly cooler today. Clear and cold tonight. Fair and pleasant Wednesday. High this afternoon and Wednesday near 70. Low tonight in the low 40s.

Partly cloudy and warmer Thursday. High Monday 80, low 54. "Serving Madisonviile And Hopkins Counfy In The Heart Of The Western Kentucky Coal Field" Volume LXIII Number 460 Madisonviile, Tuesday October 16, 1973 Two Sections 18 Pages By Amended Priorities 111 1 -if'i I a 4 ,1 Sfafe Joins HEW Jn Effort To Close Waddill Ave. Schoo standing school boundaries. A DISCUSSION of technicalities occupied the bulk of time at Monday night's five-hour meeting, ending in a 3-2 vote, the board's first split of the year, as to what steps would be taken next.

The confusion arose early Monday when the board received the second amendment to the April, 1970 Hopkins County Facilities Survey Report, specifically the recommendation priorities for future and immediate building plans. The first priority listed is: "Provide the necessary additions at Anton, Hanson, and Pride to accomodate increased enrollments of these attendance areas plus redistricted students from the Waddill attendance area." This is the boldest statement yet from the state on Waddill, and one local board members feel is the result of HEW pressure on the state. The technicality is the prior to receiving the amendment, the board this month received state approval on similar building additions without the Waddill stipulation. BOARD ATTORNEY Rudy Thomas advised that the amendment does not nullify the unstipulated prior approval and the next step in construction (architectural) need not be postponed. The three "yes" votes carried the motion to proceed on the basis of what had already been approved.

Discussion preceeding the vote included a statement by board member Walter Prowse that "If we approve the (state's building priority) recommendations, we're releasing the stale of the responsibility for closing Asst. Supt. Patrick McNeil echoed the sentiments, explaining that if the board approved the closing, parents of bused children would direct their dissapproval at the board. Supt. Compton C.

Crowe, having no strong recommendation, said the board could either "do what they say or wait them out." turn to page 10 iii fi 'im jf II VI i 3 1 i ft if if! i if ,1 Illnlii'il r-l r' -4 til pm it i 1 iliJ ill VI L. A' Vif i V'( I i "-'zl it XI' I I Pj Gasoline Cost Allowed To Go Up; Pump Prices Remain Stable Here price of gasoline costs the nation's motorists $1 billion. CHARLES OWENS, head of the council's energy division, said he felt the original regulations forcing gasoline dealers to absorb temporarily Football Game te I 1 tes Amazing Facts About Telecast I 1 Photo By Stewart Jennison Outstanding bills totaling $7,405.19 for October were approved for payment. Good news came in the form of an increase in the federal government's revenue sharing check received last week. THE CHECK was for $12,688, an increase of $1,060 over the last check received.

It was also reported that a federal financing program may help with the inproving of the city water and sewer system. A STATE PKKMIT renewal and approval of the city landfill was received by the council. The state, in renewing the permit for the landfill on U. S. 62E four miles out of Dawson Springs, requested only improvement of surface drainage run off facilities.

Filling a pavement hole on the railroad bridge on main street was approved by the council. Hot 1 MCC Proclamation Prices of gasoline here ranged from below the ceiling price to the top, with 37.9-42.9 cents for regular and 40.9 to 46.9 cents for premium. One station manager said his prices will not be increased unless they are increased at the terminal, and he has no indication of a price increase yet. Another manager said that his prices were raised two weeks ago but they seem to be more stabilized now. ONE STATION manager said he will probably "go up as the ahers go up." According to the Cost of Living Council, about one-third of the nation's 185,000 independent gasoline stations will be able to increase prices those receiving wholesale gasoline price increases since Sept.

28. The council also promised dealers the right to increase prices automatically after No. 1 to cover any future increases in wholesale gasoline costs, and authorized retail price increases for heating oil and diesel fuel. An official said he did not expect widespread increases for these items. The council estimates that everyone-cent increase in the By STEWART JENMSON Staff riter The on-again, off-again question of what to do with Waddill Avenue School resurfaced at Monday night's regular meeting of the Hopkins County Board of Education where the general feeling was that the "monkey is on the back" of the local board to make the school redisricting decision.

Since the beginning of charges made by the Department of Health, Education, and. Welfare, the board has maintained its belief in the neighborhood school concept even if the racial composition of a neighborhood is such that "substantial racial disproportionment," (an HEW phrase) is the result. The board, despite HEW demands, has been proceeding with long-standing building plans and the continuance of Waddill based on advice that courts have in the past not required redistricting of long Decision On Lease ue aved By ERNEST R. VAUGHN Staff Writer "We need the gas bad," Daly Bales, Texas Gas Transmission Owensboro, told the Madisonviile City Council Monday night. With this plea, Bales told the council the company wanted to lease city-owned property in order to extract gas and oil from it.

BALES SAID they were interested in leasing some 94 acres for three years and would pay $3 an acre the first year and $1 an acre the next two years or $5 an acre paid in advance. The gas company representative explained the property locations as a 30-acre tract in Lake Pewee; a 12-acre tract on the east side of Tucker Schoolhouse Road; and 52 acres west of Tucker Schoolhouse Road. Bales said the company already has a tentative drilling site located to begin drilling immediately upon approval of the lease by the council. AFTER BALES' proposal to the council, Mayor David A. Parish said the council would study the proposal and advise him next week of their decision.

Four men were employed as firemen upon recommendation of the Civil Service board, subject to completion of physical examinations. The four are Gary Vandygriff, Dennis U. Gentry, William D. Metcalf, and James G. Hud-dleston.

Line "THURSDAY, OCT. 18 Is "Community College Day," according to the proclamation read by Mayor David A. Parish to MCC director Dr. Harold Massey. The proclamation was made in recognition of dedication activities to be held at 2 p.m.

Thursday when Gov. Wendell Ford and University of Kentucky president Dr. Otis Singletary will be featured speakers. At Dawson Springs Ciiy Council Approves Raises For Officials By LYNN SANDUSKY Staff Writer DAWSON SPRINGS The Dawson Springs City Council Monday night approved pay increases for the mayor, judge, and councilmen. The council cited the need for the raises due to the growth of the city, increased traffic, and the increased responsibilities of building the new municipal building.

Councilman Bill Haupt proposed raising the mayor's some higher wholesale costs led to widespread confusion. The council has argued that the increase in gasoline prices this past year partly resulted from gasoline retailers taking advantage of the spring and turn to page 10 It is a "first" for Madisonviile: the first live telecast to originate here. WDXR-TV Operations Manager Larry Weatherford said the idea came about four weeks ago when it began to appear the Maroon-Tilghman game would be in the state that night. A contract was arranged with the school and the necessary technical steps were arranged with the telephone company. SHOULD A person living 200 yards from Maroon Stadium prefer to stay home and watch turn to page 10 photo By Stnvart Jcnnlion By MARLA HORNER Staff Writer Gasoline prices may be up across the nation today, costing the nation's motorists another $1 billion, but the pump prices of gasoline in Madisonviile remain the same as Monday.

Monday, the Cost of Living Council put into effect immediately permission for independent gasoline stations to increase prices from one-tenth of a cent to 1.5 cents per gallon. For some dealers it will be the second authorized increase within a month. Local service station managers said they do not have plans to raise prices, and said they hope prices will not go up. A PROBLEM in addition to high prices for some stations is a shortage of gasoline. One service station attendant reported having to close nine days last month because he ran out of gasoline, and just this morning he ran out of regular.

Another manager said he was "just squeezing by." Many service station managers reported an increase on pump prices in September and October. They expect no increase unless the wholesale price goes up again. Nightmare Come True Agnew WASHINGTON (AP) Describing his political ruination by criminal charges as "my nightmare come true" and praising President Nixon and the man Nixon nominated to succeed him, former vice president Spiro T. Agnew has taken leave of American public life. His valedictory Monday night was a 19-minute, nationally televised address in which he also urged reforms in political campaign spending, government contract bidding and the use of immunity by prosecutors.

Speaking in a calm and deliberate manner, Agnew denied again all allegations of extortion and brilery raised against him by the Justice Department. And he said his decision not to contest a felony charge of having evaded some $13,500 in Federal income taxes in 1967, when he was governor of Maryland, was not a guilty plea but "the only way to quickly resolve the situation." It was done, he said, "to still the raging storm." But coupled with his reassert ion of Innocence was a veiled acknowledgement that by some Interpretations his activities could have been deemed improper. "Beyond the Insinuation that I pocketed large sums of money, which has never been proven and which I emphatically deny, the intricate tangle of criminal charges leveled at me Ixiils down to the accusation that I permitted my fund raising activities and my contract-dispensing activities to overlap In an unethical and unlawful manner. Perhaps, judged by the new post Watergate political morality, I did," (urn to pane 10 Hopkins Gets $7 Million Governor Reports On Funds, Services For Fiscal Year By STEWART JENNISON Staff VV riter Friday 7:30 p.m. 29 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL The Paducah Tilghman Blue Tornadoes meet the Madisonviile Maroons at Madisonviile.

(Live) That's an Oct. 19 listing in TV Guide magazine, and, according to Madisonville-North Hopkins School, WDXR-TV in Paducah, and South Central Bell Telephone Co. here, it is not a misprint. Dishing It Out salary to match the city judge's salary. Mayor Eugene Davis then proposed that the councilmen should also receive an increase in their salaries, citing the increased work load and council business travel expenses.

THE COUNCIL voted to raise the mayor's salary from $50 a month to $150; the city judge's salary from $125 to $150 a month; and city council members' salary from $6.50 a meeting to $10. from child welfare; from mental health; and $88,000 from health. Economic security received $2,500,000, of that going to aid to the aged, $12,250 to the blind, $304,000 to the disabled, and $540,000 to dependent children. A NEW SERVICE under the Ford administration, the office of public defender, received $10,000 this past year. An additional $248,000 was spent for services from the departments of public safety, corrections, military affairs, and the administration of justice.

The department of education allotted $3,448,000, part of which was funding for the foundation program, adult education, state food services, and the disadvantaged. ANOTHER $1,214,000 was received from the department of transportation, the majority of which was stale road funds. "This administration has adhered to the motto that government exists to serve people," said Gov, Ford, "These county expenditures represent tax dollars being returned to the people la the form of services for the people," the governor said. Do you have a problem, question, or want information? Then write or call Hot Line. In writing to Hot Line (Hot Line, P.

O. Box 529, Madisonviile, Ky. 42431), include your name, address, and telephone number. If you call ask for Hot Line and identify yourself by name, address, and telonhone number. Q.

When will the annual Halloween window painting contest be held? E.J., Madisonviile A. The downtown store window painting contest is scheduled to get under way at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 30 (Tuesday), the day before Halloween, says Mrs. Irene Wells, director of the Hopkins County Youth Center.

Mrs. Wells explained that the youth center, along with the Elks Lodge and the Retail Merchants Association, sponsor the annual event. By MARLA HORNER Staff riter Of the $7,368,000 Hopkins County received in state monies and services during the past fiscal year, Gov. Wendell Ford pointed out that the largest amount (about $3,395,000) went to human resources concerns. The state government analysis reveals that funds for human resources included $2,500,000 in the form of services from the state department of economic security; $272,500 Keniucky Soldier Honored WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has awarded the nation's highest honor for gallantry in combat, the Medal of Honor, to a Henderson, native, Army Sgt.

l.C. Gary Lee Littrell of Hopkinsville. Littrell was one of nine Vietnam war veterans to receive the Medal of Honor In ceremonies Monday at the White turn to pa 10 I. 1 Q. I filed a complaint with the Division of Consumer Protection in the state attorney general's office, but after four months they have failed to help me.

Why? G. Madisonviile A. The consumer protection division told Hot Line that the reason they were not able to assist you with your consumer problem is that the business you complained about refused to cooperate with the division in resolving the problem. As a result, the division is helpless. The division explained that unless there is sufficient evidence of consumer fraud, they have no legal authority.

In your case there apparently was no fraud involved. IN PREPARATION FOR the Friday night telecast of the Madisonvillc-Paducah football game, a crew from South Central Bell Telephone recently installed this micro-wave dish atop the prcssbox at Maroon Stadium. The television signals will be carried from there to another dish at the main tower, forwarded to Paducah, and broadcast over WDXR-TV..