The State Journal from Frankfort, Kentucky (2024)

May 10, 1971

Publication:

The State Journali

Location:

Frankfort, Kentucky

Issue Date:

Monday, May 10, 1971

Page:

5

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RANKORT KENTUCKY MONDAY MAY 10 1971 Houses Set Here group whip up a batch of homemade soap for the No Hazard Kentucky Roundup With Soap rom Hazard 3 Charged In Slaying his unded Holiday Inn To Expand $3000 Is Goal Quarterly Court The Weather Kentucky River orecast TORONTO ROSTON 50 ATLANTA Statewide orecast AIR UPI WEATHER Extended orecast Dollars or Day Care professor emeritus in chemis try and David Scott presi dent of the Allis Chalmers Corp moor were River 50 YORK (AP) that edu will con atthe 140th annual commencement Among those receiving hon orary degrees were conserva tionist Harry Caudill former Sen Thruston Morton Dr Lo gan Wilson president of the American Council on Educa tion Dr Lyle Dawson UK WATER LEVEL rose 19 of a foot during the 24 hours ending at 7 am today Gauge at Lock 4 reads 219 feet No rain high 75 low 42 franchised and operated by AMCON which also operates Holiday Inns at Owensboro Louisville and Paducah The 84 unit property at US 60 and 127 less than a mile from the state Capitol was acquired through an exchange of cash and stock for equity owned by McEachin and Davis Jr both of Lexington The facility also houses a restaurant lounge and meeting facilities to seat 300 persons in the commercial building By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Activities ranging from grad uation exercises to building dedication ceremonies were held on Kentucky college campuses Sunday At Morehead State Univer sity in Morehead 1013 students received diplomas in spring graduation exercises Dr Dennis Kinlaw presi dent of Asbury College in Wil more told the graduates that many of troubles to day stem from the refusal to face the concept of God and oth er metaphysical questions At Eastern Kentucky Univer sity in Richmond 1415 gradu ates heard the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Lex ington say that is the age of the humorless dangerous lit tle The Rev William Moody said a healthy thing it would be if we could get one big friendly chuckle going around the At Transylvania University in Lexington rededication cere monies were held for Old Mor rison the 138 year old administration building that was gutted by fire two years ago The building was reopened last week after $1 million in renovation and redecoration AIR AND mild this afternoon Increasing cloudiness and mild with showers and thunder showers tonight and Tuesday High today in the mid 70s low tonight in the mid 50s high Tuesday near 70 Wednesday showers PIPPA PASSES Ky (AP) ifty nine Alice Lloyd College students received associate de grees or certificates of art dur ing ceremonies Sunday Ichiro Ota from Japan re ceived a diploma and was the first international student to graduate from the two year school State Insurance commission er Robert Preston has reschedul ed for May 4 a hearihg for three firms reportedly earning excess profits The hearing originally slated for today will determine wheth er the Insurance Rating Board Mutual Insurance Rating Bu reau and the Great Central In surance Co Peoria Ill should 65 his MIAMI MILD Club $25 Clements $10 Ralph Gaines $10 Mrs Edward A Strohmeier $5 Anonymous $335 Mrs Edith Montgomery $10 Dr Carl Hill $25 Mr and Mrs Julius Effron $5 Roy and Mary Smith $10 Mary Shaw $1 With the exception of the lye substitute methods of production are much the same as that used by Kentucky pioneers The ladies patiently stir the alkali fat mixture for hours over a hot fire to produce the fine quality homemade lye soap Even the big black kettle is the same BOWLING GREEN Ky (AP) An examining trial was scheduled today for Howard Skillern 57 of Rt 4 Bowling Green charged in the shooting deaths of two ranklin youths early Sunday morning State police arrested Skillern south of ranklin a short time after finding the bodies of Cher ry Kirby 17 and Jimmy Hol man 22 in a parked car near here Authorities said the two were killed when an assailant ap proached the car in which they were sitting and opened fire Two other occupants of the car were injured by flying glass and treated at a local hospital Skillern was charged with murder and lodged in the War ren County jail The batch of soap is then allowed to cool and harden before being cut into blocks for marketing Presently the fine cream colored soap is being sold in the bar and chipped forms The bars sell for ten cents each and the hand grated chips are packaged in twenty cent bags According to Mrs major appeal of homemade soap over the synthetic detergents produced today is that the lye soap dissolves readily in water breaking down without forming an insoluble precipitate which is a contributing factor in water pollution problems happy to be one of the first retail outlets of homemade soap in the state and hope that this folkcraft which has survived for cen turies lh parts of Kentucky will become a revived craft as tourists and other visitors re discover its fine she said The homemade soap is available at handcraft outlets at Pine Mountain State Park Natural Bridge State Park Kentucky Dam Village State Park at the Beaver Dam and Shepherdsville exchanges of the Western Kentucky Parkway and the Kentucky Turnpike and at 108 East Main Street rankfort PRINCETON Ky (AP) Two men and a woman were charged Sunday in the Saturday night slaying of Princeton phar macist Eugene Williamson dur ing an armed robbery at drugstore Police said Williamson was shot three dimes but wife escaped and summoned aid The three were arrested a short time later in nearby Prov idence Charged with armed robbery and murder were Lander Hollo well 23 formerly of Princeton 11 be required to lower their rates on burglary and robbery insur ance policies The delay was granted to give the companies more time to prepare their case PLANNING The National Campers and Hikers Association holds its state convention here May 17 19 and these folks are in charge of planning it rom left to right are Oakley Walts president of Boone Campers rankfort Steve Roosa rankfort president of the State Teen Association Linda arney rankfort secretary to the planning committee 'Charles Wood Lawrenceburg president of the Lawrenceburg Aristocrats and Bob Kelley Lexington president of the Bluegrass Pioneers The convention will be held at the orks of Elkhorn cam pground LEXINGTON Ky remain convinced cation has been and tinue to be the instrument for the fullest development of hu man University of Kentucky President Dr Otis Singletary said at the weekend graduation of 2264 persons here Kentucky Alpha Chapter Delta Theta Chi Sorority $10 Joel Slusher $10 A Scottow $5 Send contributions to the camp fund to The Salvation Army or The State Journal The goal is $3000 Previous contributions: West rankfort Kiwanis Club $25 Downtown Kiwanis Club $75 Mrs Simeon Willis $5 Lions Club $100 Mrs Claude Monhollen $10 Rogers uneral Home $25 East rankfort Kiwanis Club $50 Kenton McDonald $20 Circle No 6 South rankfort Presbyterian Church $25 rankfort Optimist The new owners of Holiday Inn say they plan to spend about $160000 this year on renovation Don Harris vice president in charge of mergers and acquistions for AMCON In ternational Inc which bought the motel said plans call for expansion of the property by adding another 50 rooms in the next 18 months This will cost about $500000 he said The inn is the fourteenth to be MEMBERS of a Hazard Senior Citizens i Kentucky Arts and Crafts shops sponsored by the state parks department trying to establish a market for the antique craft Mrs Cora Robinson 75 and Mrs Rachel Turner 78 stir the mix ture while Mrs Betty Allen 83 provides music for the occasion (Photo by Karen Tam) Sylvester Bellamy Indianapolis speeding fined $29 Robert Carrier Rt 3 fishing without license fined $34 David Elliott Valley Station speeding fined $29 Leslie Holekamp Lexington speeding fined $29 Larry Douglas Hicks Warsaw Ky speeding fined $39 Edward Davis Killough Louisville speeding fined $29 Barry Neil Levy Lexington speeding fined $29 Bobby McCreary Lexington speeding fined $29 Damon Shelor Louisville speeding fined $29 By LOIS CAMPBELL In view of the continuing arguments about the virtues of soap over the detergents which contain polluting phosphates the state Division of Arts and Crafts is attempting to market a line of homemade soaps made by the senior citizens of the Hazard community Mrs Mary director of the state agency and Mrs Betty Morton eastern regional supervisor are working with the senior citizens organization to develop a high quality of this ancient home craft to sell in the six handcraft outlets The classic soap is made by reacting an alkali soda lye with animal and vegetable fats and a recipe that has survived for centuries Eiciruer soapmaKers useua biigiiuyuuLcicni KENTUCKY Increasing cloudiness today with widely scattered showers or thunder showers west during the after noon Cloudy tonight through Tuesday with occasional periods of showers and scattered thun dershowers and continued mild Highs today and Tuesday most ly in 70s Lows tonight 50s to lower 60s AN RANCISCO COOL DURING MONDAY night shower and thunderstorm activity will occur from the central Plains Southeastward through the mid Mississippi valley the Eastern Gulf coastal area and into the states of South Carolina and Georgia Clear to partly cloudy skies should prevail elsewhere No major temperature change is expected from last night Minimum readings include: Atlanta 55 Boston 41 Chicago 46 Denver 39 Duluth 42 Worth 64 Jacksonville 65 Little Rock 61 Los Angeles 56 Miami 72 New York 52 Phoenix 53 San rancisco 48 Seattle 47 and Washington 50 Plans for establishing a block house system for the City School district for next year are being carried through by the ranklin County PTA Council Mrs Jane Webster council president said letters will go out late next week to parents of Second Street Holmes Street Murray Street and Bellepoint schools Mrs Webster said each school PTA is being asked to form a committee to institute the plan Ralph Berrie president of the Second Street PTA is chairman of the block parents committee The plan has been in Operation in Cincinnati One house in each block is established as a haven for children of school age who ex perience any kind of trouble being molested ill or inclement weather The block house will carry an easily recognized symbol so children will have no problem finding it Mrs Webster said the plan will be needed next year because of the consolidation of schools Murray Street and Holmes Street will be closed and children will attend Second Street School children will be walking longer Mrs Webster said we feel the children need this The Salvation Army State Engineering Service $25 Journal Camp und took a leap Suter $10 A riend $2 forward over the week end with $132 being received toward sending more than a hundred boys and girls for a free super vised fresh air vacation this summer The total received now is $904 Mrs John Hopkins a member of the Salvation Army advisory board and co chairman of the Youth Committee will supervise collections of contributions this week Camp und contributors over the week end are: Civitan Club $25 Pauline Hudson $10 Haynes and Elizabeth Bruce $10 rank Sower $25 Municipal Arson Probed In Maysville MAYSVILLE Ky (AP) iremen are continuing investi gations into two blazes which they estimate caused more than $500000 damage to four build ings and a portion of the stock yards Saturday Maysville ire Chief Stanley ivicvruwan saiu ouiiuay mai uie blaze at the stockyards was' and that two boys were spotted leaving the scene Cause of the other fire was undetermined ire following an explosion nearly destroyed two buildings in the business district and dam aged two others Saturday morn ing Carpenter Motors a new car agency where the blast oc curred alone had damage of about $350000 The entire lower portion of the stockyards where the calves and lambs yard is located was hit by fire later Saturday but the main yards were not damaged AIR MONTREAL EATURED Rev Daniel Crawley III pastor of the East rankfort Baptist Cbuch will be guest speaker at the Wednesday night bortherhood meeting of the irst Baptist Church on St Clair The meeting will be at 6:30 pm fa) the church social room More Negro Teachers Are Sought In a letter to superintendents of all Kentucky school systems the state Commission on Human Rights has called for increased recruitment of Negro education majors for teaching posts Galen Martin the commis executive director told the educators that although 91 per cent of the pupil en rollment is nonwhite only 46' per cent teachers are black ncMvra mill Lil I Showers KENTUCKY Chance of showers Thursday and riday and oyer the east half Wednes day Cool Wednesday through riday highs mid 60s to low 70s lows mid 40s to low 50s Joseph ranklin Blythe no address flourishing a deadly weapon fined $19 plus 30 days suspended sentence James Russell Eastman no address making a false report to law enforcement authorities fined $36 Howard Ray Moffett 308 Thistleton Terrace no operators license fined $29 Elizabeth Ann Rausch Louisville speeding fined $29 Danny Bryant Smith 828 ifth Ave reckless driving fined $29 Wayne Wentworth 133 Butler dumping trash on a right of way fined $39 TWOR COOL SEATTLE AIR Ind his sister Minnie Hollo to campus polarization Saturday wen zo or rrinceion ana Hen ry Galbreath 26 of Clarks ville Tenn AURORA Ind (AP) Pri vate tug boats were trying to corral four of six barges today which broke loose from ings Sunday night and drifting down the Ohio toward Markland Dam The barges had been moored at the Aurora Terminal Co here and four had drifted about 20 miles down river to within about but now residing inEvahsidUe Singletary called for an end 10 dam Two barges nau run ugrouiiu In May of 1967 nine barges broke loose from moorings at Warsaw Ky and wedged in gates of the dam so that the flow of the river could not be controlled and that barge traf fic was halted for a number of days The gates were not com pletely cleared for two weeks wirst Rev Charles Brice county developer for the ranklin County Community 190 tn Mrs Debra Tavlor director of the Clinton Street Dav Action Lvullvll UiCaCAAAO a yvjxov Care Center for the training two instructors The check to the CAC was given by the Depart ment of Economic Security under Stat: Steps Program (Photo By Ray Cohn) Colleges Have Day Of Honor Day Care Center The Clinton Street Day Care Center has received the first Earlier soapmakers useda sllghtlyS different $3120 of a contract it has td train kind of potash made by leaching wood two trainees for the Department ashes with water A of Economic Security The trainees will spend 22 training periods in the center under the State Step Program which is designed to train instructors for day care centers The $3120 check was presented to the ranklin County Com munity Action Program the agency operating the center There are presently 18 children from low income families or families receiving welfare registered at the center They range in ages from eight months to five years Rev Charles Brice County Developer for the ranklin CAC said the center is designed to help mothers who are on relief now find a job by giving them a place where they can keep their children while they work The center has a staff of five and is financed primarily from $31000 in contributions it has received from local governments and businesses The fee varies according to the ability to pay but a minimum fee of $5 per week is charged Alpha Kappa Alpha of Kentucky State College has been one of the strongest supporters It has supplied the center with book materials and dental aids and has provided it with dental instruction Camp und Totals $904 $132 More Is Received 'y car a Wfe" 11 Molly WXiawi ry rp I tWZrniiclIMl A Erhi I 1 i t' ft I fe isa 4 few W7 I 4 kUW fw: LAH Il I C'zOX MILWAUKEE 1 i a i i a i rM 6 IlUj.

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