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MOUNT VERNON, ICBJTUCKY 10f PER COPY VOLUME 82 - NUMBER 35 . THURSDAY. MAY 15.1969

Election Officers Named For Primary Election officers foj, the No. 12, Bro wn-F6rester Brown,

MaJ 27Primary Election have cleric, H-C. Anglin, judge; been named. Chosen to serve Rinda Brown, sheriff; Robert at their precincts were: Gentry,, Judge. No. 1, East Mt. Vemon-Vir-ginia McKenzie, clerk; Robert No. 13, West Brodhead-Mary Fish, judge; Ernest Bullock Roberts, clerk; ,.£dd_ Brown, Jr., sheriff; Mrs. Joyce Baker, judge; Bradley Brock, sheriff; judge. Amanda Lafevers, judge. No. 2, South Mt. Vemon-Chris-tine Hensley, clerk; Mossie No. 14, North Brodhead-Dew-J. Sowder, judge; S.S. Lovell, ey Brock, clerk; Myrtle Wood-sheriff; Wiletta Owens, judge, all, judge; Albert Rigsby,

sheriff,—Mrs—John—Houston,. -• No. 3, West Mt. Vemon-Faye judge. McCauley, clerk; Irene Wolfe. ' »»«****» judge; Mrs. Homer Scott, she-riff; Lena Daugherty, judge.

No. 4,'North Mt. Vemon-Car-ter Hoskins, • clerk; Mary

.'Brock, judge; Etta Noe, die-riff; Victor Hysinger, judge.

RADIO AUCTIOfi NETS $1,480 The Mt. Vernon Recreation

Council netted about $1,480 from last week'vs Radio Auction. The proceeds will

County Tax Assessment Increases By $1,897/271

LHS JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET- Mike Norton of Cincinnati, Ohio who portrays Ste-phen Foster in the "Stephen Foster Story" at Bardstown, standing right, and Marian Schmidt, seated right, who has portrayed Jeanie in the same show, provided the enter-

Mist

Rockcastle County's 1969 Property Tax Assessment increased by $1,897,271.00 to a total assessment of $39,606,497.00, according to the first estimate filed this week with the Depart-ment of Revenue by Robert Crom'er, County Tax Com-missioner. The 1968 as- ' sessment was $37,709,226, 00.

Accordng to Mr. Ctomer, the big gain wasinTKe" Relfl~' Estate assessment which is up $1,235,910 ovei last year's assessment of $27, 658,030.00 for a total 1969 assessment of $28,893,940. 00.

There was ^ a surprising drop of almost $500,000 in the Motor Vehicle as-

Bank Shares were up a total of $43,350 for both county banks with the Bank of Mt. Vemon valuing their shares at $377,340 and Citi-zens Bank in Brodhead valued at $159,915.

A breakdown of the 1969 assessment is as follows: Total Real Estate, $28,893, 940; Total Tangible Per-sonal Property, $5,581,375; Total Tangible Personal

' Property 'OTvesKcTiT~ fariri" machinery, etc.), $373,700; Stocks, Bonds, anrt/other Intangibles, $2,207,775; Annuities, $202,536; Bank

Shares, $537,335. This first estimate is .the

one which will be. used when theEquilization Board meets to hear complaints or questions concerning personal assessments. Any taxpayer, desiring to meet with this board? should go to the County Clerk's office between now and May 19 and state their reason for desiring a hearing. Th« -01 wit" wilt- then- give—

the taxpayer the needed in-formation about when they may meet with the board. ~

'W»T«S7- Co-riway*eas|>&. Sc ^ - ' «Uaht. K— .. _ w v . Cracken. clerk; Mary Cope. ?. y g . . P E Schmidt and Mr. Norton sang several songs, accompanied fcy Bol&y" CarteftH,' seated - iii ^ v ost . rJ

Vernon this summer. left. Mrs. George McCowan, standing left, a teacher at Livingston, was in charge of the w a s ^ 7 , 5 3 2 compared banquet and procured the spocial guests for the banquet. Governor Louie B. Nunn has granted Mr. Norton and Miss Schmidt permission to be married this summer in My Old Kentucky Home at Bardstown, a privilege granted only to two other couples. The gymna-sium was decorated to depict Federal Hill, Ky., which is" what My Old Kentucky Home was known as previously.

judge; Willie Lamb, •sheriff; Henry Wynn, judge.

No. 6, Roundstone-Minnie Brock, clerk; W.C. Burdette, judge; Willie Bullen, sheriff; Rector Coffey, judge.

No. 7, Climax-Henry Martin, clerk; Andy Cox, judge; Shel-lieMullins, sheriff; Mis. Boyd VanWinkle. judge.

•No. 8, Orlando-Robert Witt, clerk; OscarHead, judge; Mrs. Lucille Stewart, sheriff; Emily Falin, judge. .

DALE COFFEY PITCHES NO-HITTER

M V HS Commencement Exercises Tonight

Mt. Vernon High School opened the District Base-ball Tournament at Casey County Monday by winning 6-0 over McKinney High School. Sophomore Dale Coffey pitched a no-hitter for the Red Devils.

Leading hitters-for-Mt. Vernon were- Dale Coffey with a double, Howard Say-Ior had a double, and Rudy Burdette socked a long triple. •

Dr. Richard Lee Gentry LHS Commencement Speaker

No. 9, East Livingston-Eli Mers{r«rii,<tolfrc .*»'»••

. judge; Fieldon Carpenter, . „ ^ T" 1 ««— sheriff; Mrs. Burgess Abne\, V.,1Ie W?dn.esd?y "Vmng in judge.

No. 10, West Livingston-Mrs. defestfed Pulaski County 3-2 Tony Browning, clerk; Ray a n d C r a b Orchard 11 to 1, Scoggins, judge; Mil die Faulk- w i ( h H o w a r d S a y l o r h i u i n g

a home run and getting four hits in four tic:-d^at bat.

,, , , „ ,, , __ Friday, the Red Devils No. 11, Bullock-W.M.McClure. d e f e a t e d E u b a n ) { M ^ clerk; Dock Graves, judge; D a v i d McCauley. hitting a~ Henry Owens, sheriff; Wade h«me run ' T

Richard Lee' "G'enfty tl\p semi-final game with sociate Professor of Physi-Rudy Burdette on the mound, cal Education at Eastern

Last week, the Red Devils -Kent-^y University.

? Graduation exercises will principal of Livingston in be held Friday night,~ttiy T94^1950,~has been'super-" 16 af 8 p.m. for members intendent of schools at East of the Livingston High Bemstadt and Marion, Ky., School Senior Class. and was State Supervisor of

Delivering the Commence- Health and Physical Educa-be D/.. tio.n with, the^State Depa-

rt! Lee G e n t r y / ' p r e i R -

to this year's figure. of $3,551,765.

This figure is obtained by using the blue book figure for each truck and automo-bile licensed in Rockcas-tle County in 1969. It is not known' exactly what caused the drop but possi-bly the increase in license plates and the new jnotor vehicle inspection law ac-counted in some measure

net, sheriff; Lottie Wyatt, Judge.

and reared in "Rockcastle County, Dr. Gentry is a graduate of Brodhead High School, holds a- B.S. and M.A. degree from EKU, and the Ed.D. degree from the University of Kentucky.

I>. Gentry was a teacher and coach at Livingston

1956-1964. Members of the LHS 1969

graduating class are: Larry Allen, Robert Bames, George Carloftis, Elijah Clark, Jimmy Clark, Linda Clark, Luther Cox, Priscilla Cummins, Laura Delph, Phyllis Francisco, Billy Gambiel, Earl Jackson, Benny Kirby, Douglas 'Lewis, Carolyn McCracken, Carolyn Mahaffey, Lonny Mink, Jerry Mullins, Pamela Mullins, Elizabeth Oliver, Norman Owens, Douglas Phillips, Vickie Renner,

to , h e ^crease in assess --Jerry Smith, Patricia Smith fewst,

MIDDLET0N PROMOTED William R. Middleton Jr.

Wurtsmith AFB, 'Mich. .unit of the Strategic Air

^Command. He is a graduate of Mt.

Vernon High SchooL His wife, Ethelene, is the daugh-ter.of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Caldwell of Route 1, Brod-head.

Dr. Richard Lee Gentry

Injuries Fatal To Woodrow W. Lamb

Commencement Exercises for sixty-eight graduating seniors will be held at the Mt. Vernon gymnasium Thursday night, (tonight) May 15 at 7:30 p.m. E.D.T.

The invocation will be given by Bro.- Norman How-ard; followed- by the presen-tation- of two songs by the Mt. Vernon High School Chorus. •

The guest speaker for the occasion will be W.L. Hamp-ton,- of the State Department of Education. "The-Bhie and the Gray" will be pre-sented by the Rockcastle

of Mr. and Mrs. William County High School Band R. Middleton of Route 3, following the commencement.

« - - ' Z " : - - : : -the , Awards of Honor will be

Force. made by Cleston Saylor, Sergeant Middleton is an principal, and WilliamLan-

administrative specialist at drum, assistant principal. in a Charles B. Parsons, Super-

intendent,-will'present the seniors with their diplomas.

Benediction will be given by Rev. Ray Cummins.

Members of the 1969 grad-uating class are: Cecil Ab-ney.Jr./Roy Adams,Frances Allen, Andrea Anglin, Linda Baker, Pamela Ballinger, Lois Bell, Ben Bullens, Earl Bullock, Janice Burdette, Victoria Burdette, Sharon Childless, Doruiie Ray Car-ter, Benny Childress, Henry Coates, III, Janice Coffey, Steve Coffey, Larry Cook, Larry Cope, Willard Cope, Robert Cox, Glen Cromer,

Powell, Phillip Price, Am-bres Radcr, Clarice Renner, Charles Reppert, Gary Rep-pert, Russ.ell" Robbins, E. Howard Saylor, Linda SealS, Carl Sears,Connie Shepherd, Patsy Singleton, Edward Smith, Sharon Sparks, Wil-liam Spillman, Donna Kaye Stanley, Donald Stewart, Linda Stokes, Brenda Thacker, . Barbara Wheat, Doris Wilson.

KIT CARSON DISTRICT CAMPOREE MAY 10-18

Boy Scouts and adult vol-unteer leaders from the Kit Carson District will hold a historical camporee at Oil

F FA AWARDS-- These Mt. Vernon Future Farmers of -America Chapter members were presented awords for their achievements in FFA programs at last Friday night's banquet held at the school. The youths and the awards which they received were, seated, from left: Roy Adams, best hog project; Bobby Cox, best strawberries, best hay, Star Farmer Award; Dennis Renner, farm mechanics. Standing, from.left: Bill Stewart, best forming program in freshman class; Tommy Coffey, best farming program, sophomore class and best completed record book; Ronnie Gobbard, best farming program, and George Powell farm mechanics.

Woodrow Lamb, 20, of Route 2, Mt. Vernon, was killed and two others injured early Sunday when their car, which Lamb was driv-ing, ran off Interstate 751 about 18Vi miles north of Georgetown.

Scott County Deputy Cor-oner, Kenneth Grant, pro-nounced Lamb dead at the scene of the accident. Don-ald Bowles, 29, Cynthiana, and Wayne Mink, 20, Callo-way, were taken to the John Graves Ford Memorial Hos-pital in Georgetown and later removed to the Univer-sity of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington.

State Trooper William Irvin said the mishap occurred about 1:30 a.m. when the trio's car ran off the'right side of, the highway, travel-ed approximately 102 feet, struck a highway sign, went another .180 feet, hit a con-crete bridge abutment, turn-ed over, skidded* 20 feet and came to rest upsidedown on a concrete retaining wall.

Two-of the men were pin ned inside the car and

Springs, (Clark County) May T e n y Cromer, Mary Fletcher, Kj-18. George Griffin, Garry Hansel,

Approximately S00 Boy Larry Hansel, Timothy Han-could not move until a wreck- " Scouts have been invited to s e '» J e r o s s Harding, Janice er moved the auto.

Late Sunday night, Mink was listed in serious con-dition at the Medical Center. He sustained a skull fracture and a fractured leg. Bowles was reported in good con-dition"with a fractured leg and multiple facial lacera-tions.

Lamb was the son of Caleb and Kathryn Bullock Lamb and a native of Rockcastle County.

He is survived by his par-ents, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Doan and MissMaggie Lamb, both of Calloway; four brothers, Douglas of Marion," Ind., John, Letoy, and Frank, all of Calloway, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Maggie Bullock of Calloway.

Services were held Tuesday afternoon at Sparks Funeral Home with Bro. John Durham officiating. Burial was in the Elmwood Cemetery.

attend the 1969 Kit Carson Herrel, Anna Hines, Joseph District Spring Camporee Howard Gary Kidwell, located on the Linden J a m e s K i r b y ' J a m e s

EastonFarm. P a u l Ki rbV' Loretta Kirby, The theme of the camporee Michael Lovell;. Linda Mc-

is the "200th Anniversary Cauley,. Linda McKinney, of Daniel Boone in the Blue RoV McNew Jerry Moore. Grass." Deborah Mullins, William

The Kit Carson District is Parsons, Robert Phelpk, composed of Clay, Clark, J a m e s Phillips, Lonnie

" :kle, Roy Pickle, Jesse (Cont.

Dr. Bob Ogletree "of the ^Usiversifsf oL Kentucky wiU deliver 'The vicCSroMvctinietit..-'' Address for forty-four grad-uating eighth graders next Tuesday night. May 20 at 8 p.m. at the Roundstone Elementary School.

Rev. Cecil Daily .will give the Invocation and music will be provided by the Roundstone Glee Club. Charles B. Parsons, Super-intendent, will present the class with their diplomas and benediction will be given by Rev. David Woods.

MembefS-of the Roundstone class are: Donald Abney, Roger Alexander, Doris Anglin, Paula Barnett, Larry Bullen, Roger Bullock, James Carmack, Eva Jean Cobb, Nancy Coffey, Vickie Cof-fey, Donnie Damrell, Eugene ^ Dees, Brenda Gadd, Wanda Gadd, Brent Harding, Perry Harding, Eva Helton, Letty Ann Howard, Anthony Hunt, Darrell Isaacs, Hobert Isaacs, Freddie Kidwell. Margaret Lamb, Deanna Leger, David Lewis, Terri . Loudermilk, Douglas Millar, Captain Mullins, Joy Par-sons, Lloyd Pickle, Edith Ponder, Francess Powell, F rank Powell, Thomas Poynter, Debbie Ramsey,

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HONORARY MEMBERS-- Three adults were presented, at. thtf banquet, with Hdnorary Memberships. One, Aster Burdette, was not present when the picture was taken. The other odults who received the awards were, from left: J6e Adams and Andrew, Cox Jr.

4.4 MILES OF PAVING APPROVED FOR CO.

Two. paving projects for Rockcastle County, involv-ing State Highways 1955, the Richmond-London Road, and State Highway Kentucky '89, the Livingston-McKee Road, have been included in thff Department of High-ways' initial treatment

"..jiacktop) program for this summer. . ,

Three miles of the Rich-mond-London 'Road, ""begin-

ning at the end of the black-top surface which is ap-proximately. 4 miles north of Livingston, and extending north . three miles will be paved and a 3.4 mile, section of Kentucky 89, beginning from its inter-section with Kentucky State Highway 490 approximately 7 miles east of Livingston and ending at the Jackson County line' will be paved. These two projects are in

addition to the roads already set up in the county by the stnte Jor repair and blacktop.

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CHARTER PRESENTED- W. Robert Ellis, a -33rd Degree Representative Sovereign Grand Inspector General, from Covington, far left, was on hand last Friday night to present the Charter to the Rockcastle County Scottish Rite Association. This a'ssocia. tion was organized in the county a few months ago with 43 chorter members. Mt^EMis is shown presenting the charter to Judge Wqyne Van Hoolt, president. Looking on are Ki/mond Baker, vice president,and Paul Blevins, secretaryand treqsurer. M.U. "Sparky" Striwge, 32 degree, K.C.C.H., Cordinator of Scottish Rite Associations was also present at the dinner-meeting and spoke on the "Philosophy of /kneient Croft Masonry." The lor ul organization is composed of 32 degree Scottish Rite Masons.