HERE and THERE

TRAFFIC SIGNALS We heai Highway Commis-

sioner Henry Ward h a s ap-proved the new t raf f ic routing and s igna ls through Mt. Ver-non. The engineers were due In Hi la week to begin pre-parations. But w e h a v e n t noticed them yet.

INCOMPLETE For the many who are writ-"

ing, we are sorry but Signal f i l e s before 1959 are very incomplete. We have some cop ies of each year , but not all cop ies . However, s i nce 1962 all Signals have been bound and a re complete.

WE'LL STILL TRY News may not be as com-

plete in the Signal for the next few i s s u e s . The editor h a s been summoned for fede-ral jury duty at London. We tried t o get off the. . jury in other years , but didn' t make the grade. We didn' t even try th is year. But we ' l l s t i l l try t o g e t a s m u c h news as possi-b le . P l e a s e bear with us .

THEY HAVE BEEN BUSY- The group above hove been busy t h e t e pas t few days parti-cipating in a spvech fes t iva l at Richmond, and malting plans to enter Bereo College th is fa l l . The group in the front row participated in the speech fes t iva l . Le f t to right are: Billy Helton, Ann Stewart, Suiy Hayes, Joe Lambert, and Howard .-Saylor. In the back row, left to right, are those who plan to enter Berea College this fa l l : Donnie Singleton, Bucky McNew, Doris Coffey, Warren Berry, and Paul McNew. Paul a l so participated in the speech fes t iva l .

Food Stamp Program Underway May 1 WE'RE NUMBER O N E " Mt. Vernon's youngest basketbal l teom won the Lions Club "smal l

f r y " tournament a t Livingston Friday downing Livingston in the championship game 41-23. The Mt. Vernon youngsters got to the f inal game of the tourney, sponsored by the Livingston and Brodhead Lions Clubs, by defeoting Brodhead 41-39 and East Bernstadt 35-18. The youngsters , left to right, front row, ore: Douglas Muilins, Donnie Chi ldress , _ Troy McClure, J . Boone Saylor, Pool "Travis, end Cffsey Carreer. .lih to rights Quentin Childress, Frapk Bullock, Glen Whiteaker, Jimmy Muilins, Lorry Carter, and John Mark Bray. Jimmy Muilins was hlg*h scorer in all games with a total of 43 points . He scored 22 points in the Brodhead game.

NO PASSING Motorists on US 25 in Rock-

cas t l e County should t a k e note that " n o p a s s i n g " zones have been chehgeD in many sec t ions of the county. Cur-rency , s igns t o t h a t - e f f e c t have been erected. The yel-low l ines will come la ter . Be care fu l . You may get a t raf f ic t icke t . Judge Vacates Bench

In Anderson Trials REPAIR WORK We s e e the L &"N Railroad

is concentrat ing t h i s week on the c ross ings at Mt. Vemon, a s you probably have no t iced . They a re making repai rs . T h e US' 25 crossing was getting very rough and needed the repai rs .

NEW SIDEWALKS We s e e workmen laying con-

crete for connect ing walks In ftont of the courthouse. Th i s is a good idea. Most fo lks were using the grass t o get around the building rather than go " a l l the way a round . "

-CLUB-TO-MEET' r The Womans Republican .

•Club banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m., Apr. 7 at the Ren-fro Valley Lodge. T i c k e t s ' may be purchased from-club merr f je rsoca t the door. Every-one i s invited. There will b e a charge for the dinner.

FOR THOSE WHO ASKED For our out-of-state readers

whoasked , Shelby County de-feated Male High §chool for the championship of the Ken-tucky High School Basketba l l Tournament at Freedom Hall. For the record, our represen-tat ive (13th Region) in the tournament, Knox Central , was defeated by Shelby County 71 to 70. Central almost won coming from 14 points behind. Central (lad the ba l l but .there were only 4 seconds le f t .

ANOTHER "BOONE" " T h e Daniel Boone S to ry , " '

an outdoor drama will b e pre-sen ted this year_ at Indian ' Fort Theatre at Berea Col-lege. I t ' s the first t ime in several years a summer-long drama has played. It wil l open June 25 and c lose Labor Day, with shows at 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Sponsoring the drama is the Exchange Club of Richmond. . We hope th is " B o o n e " i s more accura te than the one on te levis ion.

Circuit Judge R. C. Ta r t a r wil l give up his bench tem-porarily during this term of Circuit Court in favor of Judge Gilbert Wilson of Lan-cas te r who will hear f ive iSjuor c a s e s involving Wil-liam Anderson, formerly of Orlando.

option territory. Roscoe Kidwell of Mt. Ver-

non was fined $100 for as -sault and .ba t t e ry , amended from malicious shooting and wounding with intent t o k i l l .

A e a s e of detaining a fe-male against her wi l l , brought

.against John Pigg of Pine Hill, that was scheduled for

attorney for Anderson in Ju ly / 1965 asking that Judge Tartar vacate the bench in all criminal ac t ions pending against Anderson because , according to the motion, " t h e sa id R . C . T a r t a r is so-biased and prejudiced against th is defendant a s to be unable to give th is defendant a fair and impartial t r i a l . " • -

LIQUOR CHARGE BRINGS FINES

SUPERIOR-- Howard Saylor, ^on o f - P r i n c i p a l and Mrs. Cleston Saylor of Mt. Vernon, received a superior rating ot the Regional Speech Festi-val ot Richmond las t week. A freshman, he will go to the Sta.te Speech Fes t iva l to par-t icipate Apr. 23 at Lexington.

A Mt. Vernon merchant and h i s clerk were fined in Rock-cast leCounJyCourt Saturday on liquor charges after both entered a guilty plea .

Sixteen new condemnation su i t s have been fi led in Rock-c a s t l e County Court against property owners that own property south between Burr and tfce Rockcas t l e River.

The su i t s are in connection with land needed in the con-struction of Inters ta te-75 through Rockcas t le County.

Report Bond Sales s a l e s of Ser ies E ana h

Savings Bonds in Rockcas-t l e County for the month of February were $4,181 while • a l e s for the f i rs t two months totaled $14,729 of the annual -goal of $71,950.

Kentucky 's s a l e s for Feb-ruary were $4,153,706 while

I cumulative s a l e s for the year reached $9:237,760 of the $51,400,000 annual goal. raNatlonally, the s a l e s of Ser ies E and H Bonds to ta led $345 million during February. The cash value of both s e r i e s ' outs tanding reached a to t a l of $49,314 mill ion.

HONOR SOCIETY- The Livingston Chapter ef t h« National Honor Society named (our LHS students to the society In a ceremony Mar. 29. They are , left to right: Bertha Howard, Lavada Bowman, Martha Sue Leach , and Billy Gene Robinson. Off icers of the society for t h e y e a r a r e : Peggy Phi l l ips , president; Mr. Robinson, v ice president; Miss Leach, secre-tary; JoAnn Hellard, t reasurer , end Nell MuHins, reporter. Advisor Is Mts«. Joseph ine

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Soe Ky. Statutes Article 433.660

THURSDAY, MARCH*, 1966

Burr-To-Renfro Section Of 1-75 Bids To Be Let By SHD On April 22

MOUNT VERNON, KENTUCKY

Judge Tartar stepped down iter a motion w a s filed by * Mar. -24 was continued by

: J u d g e Tartar until Apr. 27.

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Bids, to grade and "drain 3.106 miles of Interstate-75 in the Mt. Vernon area wil l be opened.at the Sta te High-way Department at Frankfort Apr. 22.

The sec t ion extends from the •soutW'end of t h # i M f t f r o Valley Interchange to the south end of, and including, the Burr Interchange. .

Noticeable in the new bid was the exclusion of b ids on on a sect ion of the new super-highway from Green Hill School Road to the Renfro Valley Interchange.

Although the highway - d e -partment did not s ay why it " s k i p p e d " the Renfro Valley area, most observers fee l it was-done so that the City 'of Mt. Vernon could have more time to plan for i ts lake at Renfro Valley.

^Currently, the department and its c o n t r a c t u s are at work on 1-75 between Green Hill School Road and the Madison County l ine. But work to date had been mostly right-of-way clearing.

The City of Mt. Vernon i s . s t i l l waiting for approval of

a grant a s the Signal for the . highway department to go

ahead with a dam across Ren--fro Creek at Renfro Valley.

, The dam will serve as a road-bed for 1-75-

I The city expects approval I of a grant of 60 per cent for : the SI , 185,000 water project ! any day. or about $711,030. I Thec i ty would tidrtow the re-

maining $474,000 ' to b e paid back with revenue from the

. water works.

i Most observers be l i eve j highway bids on the Renfro

Valley sect ion of 1-75 will | be called for in May, with a • June bid opening. I The highway department

a l so announced it would pave two rural roads in Rock-c a s t l e County.

Judge Tartar waited until t h i s past week before an-nouncing he had decided to • s tep dowrr in favor of Judge ! Gilbert:

Anderson c a s e s to be heard i by Judge Gilbert i n c l u d e : three for se l l ing alcoholic I beverages in a locaL option territory. A f i f th c a s e against Anderson will be an appeal ' of a $100 fine and 60-day ; jai l sen tence meted Anderson in county court for possess ion of a lcohol ic beverages in a j local option territory.

Irt other c a s e s s ince court I opened, J e s s Hurley of Pine I Hill was sentenced to one j year in ja i l on a charge of I carrying a concealed deadly ! weapon. He was probai'ed by the court .

Clarence Howard of Brod-head w a s fined $20 and given • 30 days in ja i l for se l l ing al- I coholic beverages in a local

Carl Brown, former Mt. Ver-non mayor, w a s . f i n e d $100 and given 30 days on a .charge of possess ion . of • alcoholic beverages in a lo-c a l option territory for the purpose of s a l e .

Jimmy Allen, clerk at the s tore , was fined $20 and sentenced to 30 days in jail on a charge of se l l ing alco-holic beverages in a local option territory.

Judge Wayne Van Hook in both c a s e s suspended a por-tion of the. jai l sen tence s i nce it was a 'first o f fense for . both.

Sheriff T ip Reppert report-ed he and his deput ies , and State Po l ice raided the s tore Saturday morning and found twoone-half p ints of whiskey in the s tore and 39 half-pints of-whiskey in Brown's

One project i s the Brush" Creek Road from the end of the blacktop, two miies north of KY 1004. and ex t end ing , northward 2.4 miles . . The second project is the— Wabd-Jones* Creek Road (KY 1566) from the Brodh'ead-Spiro Road ex tending southwest a d is tance of 3.215 miles . •.

FHA Week Observed National FHA Week. Mar. ; Week. T h e s e ac t iv i t i es are

27 through Apr. 2 , will be 1 designed to focus public a t -observed by 600,006 high tention on the objec t ives and school youth ac ross the na-tion who are members of the Future Homemakers of Ameri- j c a . including Rockcas t le . |

Th i s national youth organi-zat ion of home economics i s tudents in junior and serifor high schools provides oppor-tunit ies for developing ind i : '

accomplishments of FHA in meeting the respons ib i l i t i es of today and preparing fee the cha l lenges of tomorrow.

Duringthe week, the L i v i n g - . ston Chapter will launch a campaign to clean-up the school. Members will c l ean all the high school c l a s s -

vidual and group ini t iat ive rooms and paint the outs ide planning and catrying out garbage c a n s .

ac t iv i t i es related t o the sc i ence of homemaking.

The FHA Chapter in Living-ston has arranged a busy schedule of ac t iv i t i es in ob-servance of National FHA

Under the supervis ion of Anne Cole, FHA Chapter Advisor, these young people carry out a program of work designed to improve personal ,

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Navy Needs Men Hunting, Fishing Licenses To Be Increased The commission a l so created " I feel that the league mem-

a f a k o m y peiukiljlt t r ^ o s t o f bers will approve the-_ig-$2 for ' resldents. , ^ ^ ^ c r e a s e s , ' * he said. "Af t e r

The commission said i n - i a i L added-revenue is needed creased revenue is necessa ry j to increasing oos t s , and " t o take care* of constant ly j the only way to get -