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Attend the Lewisburg Christmas parade Saturday at 1:30 pm A 4 4x4 43j "4'X 4 INSIDE Barnes attends last meeting Page A 3 Scott Phillips resigns Page A 3 Court cuts meetings Page A 3 Those UK Cats Page A 9 Police Reports Page A 15 RI Program Page Tobacco High order blamed for lower averages but good burley $140 By Virginia Page Though the average price of burley declined last week on Russellville floors individual good crops brought the highest prices ever On the second week of burley sales this season the average was $12818 down from the first week average of $13022 in Russellville However on Tuesday of this week the highest burley ever was sold in Russellville Mrs Annie Stinson and Mrs Eudora Price of Elkton sold some $140 burley the first time that had been done here The feat was repeated Wednesday when Mack and Jeff Barrow of Route 2 Lewisburg sold four baskets for $140 and one for $141 One sucker sales opened Monday Dec 4 on a disappointing note after the high prices of last season It averaged $9961 on 357212 pounds sold on Russellville floors Last season one sucker averaged $11585 in the period before the Christmas recess with 1753950 pounds selling for $203195070 Top baskets sold for $130 beating the price of burley last season Top prices Monday were $131 and $130 even though the average was low Burley last year before the recess was lower than this season averaging $11504 on 4231356 pounds sold for $486756544 Burley opened this season on the first day of sales at $13286 but the average for the first week was $13022 Then last week (the second week of sales) the average was $12818 on 837530 pounds sold for $107357376 Out of that total the support pool bought 51330 pounds for $6720526 an average of $13092 Burley is being sold four days a week on the local floors Monday through Thursday and one sucker is sold Mondays and Thursdays The last sales before the Christmas recess will be Thursday Dec 14 Tobacco floor owners say the problem with both kinds of tobacco is that being sold wet One warehouseman said sold more wet tobacco you ever We had more rain in Logan than they've had in other parts of the state he said therefore selling more wet tobacco Another warehouseman said a fair sampling of one sucker wasn't sold on the first sale Monday He said 50 to 60 percent of the one sucker sold on his floors was high in order or completely wet He said there was also a lot of low grade tobacco in the first sales Even with the low average however good crops of one sucker sold well Monday One good crop was reported to have averaged $128 Top baskets were bringing $131 A local floor owner said today's (Thursday) sale would be more representative of what the price of one sucker will be as better tobacco was on the floor for sale at that time PRICE 15 CENTS Rev Bob White Director Mrs Larry Reeder Alto soloist xS3Bixz a John Chaffin Tenor soloist a JBi SH 'JSBwX Al SV JMBf MIHHBBBm Mrs Lloyd Sansom Soprano soloist 4 Miss Dowden Soprano soloist Ai i 4 I MV aV 'k wk Msgf Lonnie Coursey Bass soloist Community chorus to present Neius iDeiniicrat RUSSELLVILLE LOGAN COUNTY KENTUCKY VOLUME 171 NUMBER 49 THURSDAY DECEMBER 7 1978 28 PAGES PLUS INSERT Sunday at 1st Baptist A unique Christmas gift for the entire county is to be presented Sunday Dec 10 at 2:30 pm in the sanctuary of the irst Baptist Church Russellville when the Logan County Community Chorus presents the world famous by George rederic Handel The chorus was organized in October by Rev Bob White Music Director at the irst Baptist Church and has been rehearsing each Sunday afternoon since that time Members of the chorus are from all areas of Logan County and represent a wide number of denominations and is active in the Crittenden Drive Church of Christ Choir He has degrees in music from Murray State University and the University of Illinois Lonnie Coursey is the bass soloist He is a graduate of Lewisburg High School and majored in music at Austin Peay State University He is choir director at City County to continue service No bids received on By Jim Turner Russellville and Logan County will continue to operate the local ambulance service County Judge Executive Robert Brown reported to Logan iscal Court Tuesday morning that no private companies had bid for the right to operate an ambulance service here Advertisements for bids had been published for about two months and some companies had talked to Brown but when time came to open the bids Tuesday morning there were no bid ders The city and the county have been operating the service for about three years When losses continued to mount this year toward a projected loss of $75000 the two governmental groups voted to seek private help None came Jack Wofford assistant director of the Bowling Green Warren County Ambulance Service told the court that a Madisonville firm that has been operating some agencies has gone bankrupt recently Wofford was with Mike Borders director of the Barren River Emergency Medical Services Board Borders had been before the court two weeks earlier telling of the services of his agency and requesting a payment of $3274 as the contribution to EMS Hampton and Elliott criticize council but Daniel defends selection of BRADD as agent By Jim Turner discussing the status of the current grant which is being carried out on Councilman Willie Hampton chided East irst Street with the council Bids his fellow Russellville City Council for demolishing some of the property operating ambulances Last week the court delayed payment until the first meeting in January They wanted to see if a private group would The proposed sale of Russellville radio stations WRUS AM and WAKQ has been cancelled A station spokesman told the News Democrat this week of a change in the corporate structure of interested parties negotiations for the sale of the two Russellville stations have been The stations will continue to operate as in the past under the present owner ship with the same management Sosh is an owner and station manager and Herschel Matthews is the manager Roth Hook of Mississippi is one of the owners The Logan Leader first reported a possible sale of the stations in October 1977 when Lon Sosh announced that he take over the service and they wanted to wait until a budget transfer can be (Continued on Page 3) was leaving as manager of WAKQ for change in ownership have been underway for about a year but the interested parties have mutually agreed to end the spokesman said The sale which was reported in a trade magazine at the price of $900000 was to be to a Lexington group which included son in law Rick Leigh The ederal Communications Commission in Washington has acknowledged receipt of the with drawal and advised the station that the case is closed WRUS is a daytime station operating at 610 megahertz and WAKQ is a full time 100000 watt station at 1011 kilo hertz on a 24 hour day While it is customary to select the soloists from larger cities or univer sities the Logan County Community Chorus has found capable vocalists at home to sing the demanding solos Miss Mary Beth Dowden is one of the soprano soloists She is the elementary music teacher for the Russellville City Schools and is also organist and choir director at the Presbyterian Church She is a graduate of Russellville High School and has degrees in voice from Centre College and Peabody College Mrs Lloyd Sansom is the other soprano soloist Mrs Sansom is a native of England and studied voice in Liverpool She is active in the choral program at irst Baptist Church and directs some of the younger choirs Mrs Larry Reeder is the alto soloist Mrs Reeder facilitator of the Gifted and Talented Program at Russellville High School is a graduate of Murray State University and was a pupil of Lillian Olila and Harry Hampshire She is also in the choir at irst Baptist John Chaffin is the tenor soloist Chaffin is the Choral Music Director for Russellville High and Middle Schools Elk Lick Baptist Church are organist Hazel Carver and pianist Martha Schiess Mrs Carver has an AB and MA degree from Western and recently retired from teaching music in the Russellville City Schools She is the organist at irst Baptist Church Mrs Schiess is also a Western graduate and accompanies for several choirs at irst Baptist Handel wrote this work in three parts and it was first produced in Dublin Ireland in 1742 Later he revised it and published it in 1767 The words are taken from the Scriptures Since its first performance it has been popular and is performed more often at Christ mas time than any other single work The original composition takes the Biblical account of Christ from the prophecy to the birth crucifixion and resurrection The Chorus will sing the Christmas portion of the work The public is cordially invited to come and enjoy this county wide group of singers as they present this age old classic There is no admission fee Decorations contest set at Adairville The Adairville Chamber of Commerce and Ladies Auxiliary will sponsor a Christmas Decoration Contest for houses and businesses Judging will beDecember 18 at 7 pm as follows: Homes (Most Beautiful Door) irst $25 second $15 third $10 Homes Yard and House) irst $25 second $15 third $10 Businesses irst $25 second $15 third $10 WRUS sale cancelled members Tuesday for choosing the Barren River Area Development District (BRADD) to submit an ap plication for a third Community Development Block Grant instead of Ward Elliott who successfully obtained two previous grants for the city At its November 21 meeting the council followed the recommendation of Mayor Everett Daniel to let BRADD submit the application Councilman Gary Woodlee voted against the proposal saying he wanted to know if Elliott was interested in submitting an application Hampton was absent at that November meeting and was not present Tuesday morning when Elliott told the council his feelings about that action Elliott began this meeting by were opened but no action was taken because there was such a wide variance in bids Elliott wanted to make certain that all the bidders knew that payment of prevailing wage on the project is not required want to set the record Elliott then said would be less than honest if I did not express my disap pointment that my firm was not given a chance to compete for the right to make an application for the new grant a sad commentary when a quaisi govem ment agency competes with private business when that private sector is do ing a satisfactory Elliott said that he had worked with the city for three years on the two grants and had not received criticism for what he had done He disagreed with some statements made at the meeting when BRADD was selected irst he said he had received 59 per cent of the project in fees not 10 per cent Second he said that the federal government does not favor the BRADD plan over a private planner And third he contended it would be difficult to find someone capable of doing the job who could be trained for temporary work Daniel told Elliott that he had done a good job but that Elliott had expressed no desire for the work while others had come asking for the job Elliott had been at the meeting when BRADD was selected Daniel reminded him Elliott had left that meeting when (Continued on Page 3) A 1 bi 1 1 Machine shop triples space NEW BUILDING AT LET tripled size of Russellville Machine Shop on ranklin Road Owner Dale Shrull above said the new building will contain steel supplies and fabricating while the older building will house the machine shop offices and sales department A little over a year ago Shrull bought the welding business of Weaver Welding Co Effective Jan 1 he has bought the rest of the Weaver business including welding supplies and material handling equipment He will be hiring the Weaver employes Mrs Shrull the former Joyce Morgan works in the shop office They have two children Robin 7 and Adam 14 months and live on the ranklin Road He has been in business in Russellville for two and a half years at present location a little over a year after first opening welding business at Chandlers Photo by Leslie Page AA At.