Kentucky New Era from Hopkinsville, Kentucky (2024)

July 16, 1973

Publication:

Kentucky New Erai

Location:

Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Issue Date:

Monday, July 16, 1973

Page:

5

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Monday July 16 1973 Demos Say East Is Leading In Voters State News Briefs Truck ire by the Sept stacked Our interest is Bestline Ban Crop Losses Plane Crash Cook Energy PLAN A SECURE UTURE WITH PLANTERS IN A new 24 per cent are unregistered Western Kentucky the 1st District shows 35 per cent are not registered and the 2nd 38 per cent not registered Mrs Wester said that since RANKORT Ky (AP) A temporary injunction prohibit ing Bestline Products Inc from selling or advertising its products in Kentucky has been obtained by the Con sumer Protection Division Asst Atty Gen David Vandeventer told ranklin Cir cuit Judge Henry Meigs II that the San rancisco firm had re fused to supply information to the state about its representa tives in Kentucky in an in vestigative order filed last month Bestline sells home products through an alleged system of local dealers re cruited at sales meetings which describe potential profits to be made from such sales Now earn a whopping 6y2 per cent bank guaranteed interest on certificates of deposit issued for four years in amounts of $10000 or more Invest $5000 or more for one year and earn 5 per cent You have that famous Planters Bank safety a good return and a short maturity date Interest on the above certificates will be paid by check or credit to your checking or blue chip passbook savings account quarterly or semi annually However if you invest $10000 or more in any of the above plans pay your interest monthly if you desire If you invest $5000 or more for a two year period pay you a big 6 per cent interest This is the ideal way to have a good income for a short maturity all tallies are those of more than a year ago there is no con nection with the number of per sons who have reregistered this year She said she obtained the total of residents 18 and older by using the 1970 federal census figures for persons 15 and over who would become 18 by the year of the total count She then subtracted the esti mated deaths applying each 1971 death rate to its population figures for the three year period The death rates came from the state health de vital statistics Mrs Wester said one factor she could not assess was the migration in or out of Kentucky during the statistical period but said it would be relatively minor By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Western Kentucky counties hit by spring flooding may wit ness a loss of about 40 per cent in this anticipated crop according to farm experts in the area The story in our bot tomland and elsewhere for that matter is lateness along with the permanent says Hickman County Agent Charles Padgett And in ulton County farm agent John Watts of Hickman says the county may lose almost 25 per cent of its acres of tillable land this year because they must lie fallow or be planted in beans with no more than a 50 50 chance of profitable production Watts said he expects ulton soybean income may match last $5 million But he noted that the crop fore cast had called for $8 million worth of beans That was before the flooding very said James Pace a bottomland op erator near Hickman be lucky to get 20 bushels of beans an The average soybean yield along the river area is 28 to 31 bushels per acre although some fields produce up to 50 per acre Meanwhile farm experts say summer droughts or early frost could threaten the crops still further and they note that some land has been lost completely through washouts and sand washed up by the river during the springtime flooding five to six weeks be hind ideal time in the bottoms and pretty late in the said Roy Ingrum a Clinton area farmer who said prospects are for his lowland operation corn make half a crop this year This look like a corn year anywhere around It rowed up right or acted In Ballard County agent James Edwards said flooding is expected to reduce the intended soybean acreage from 50000 to 40000 Miller complex of Eck Miller an independent trucking firm Amos said the fire was nitely adding that the cause of the blaze was undeter mined No injuries were reported Amos said the tires had been slashed on the burned truck and some window glass broken on the other truck nearby Earlier this month Hanco*ck County Police reported an Eck Miller truck was discovered near Hawesville with its tires punctured and tarpaulin cut and last month several in cidents of rock throwing were reported In one incident a 23 year old Owensboro man Rex Monroe Payton was charged with shooting into an occupied Eck Miller truck Officials said a car belonging to one of the strikers was fired into June 30 but no one was hurt Daviess Circuit Judge Henry Griffin has issued a restraining order limiting pickets to four at the Eck Miller plant 17 per cent of persons 18 and over are not registered The voting age in this state is 18 the 7th District of East ern Kentucky only 19 per cent are unregistered the 3rd District which includes Louisville and all of Jefferson County for purposes of the survey exactly half the residents are not registered the 6th District com prising much of the Bluegrass 43 per cent are not registered the 4th District which in cludes Northern Kentucky and counties on either side of that OWENSBORO Ky (AP) State Police at Henderson say arson was the cause of a fire that gutted the cab of a truck and damaged the trailer of the vehicle early Sunday at the Eck Miller Transportation Corp here Detective Jerry Amos of the Henderson post said officers be lieve the incident was related to a three week old strike by workers seeking rep resentation by the Teamsters Union The incident was de scribed as part of a recentseries of violent incidents in volving the plant No arrests had been made Sunday night The burned truck was loaded with aluminum State Police said a second truck located near the other was vandalized in the parking lot of the Eck And you'll love these added features as well It raises children to window viewing height so they can sightsee right along with the rest of the car's occupants Your little one is buckled in securely and comfortably with the adjustable Love Seat harness The seat is secured inside the car with the conventional vehicle safety belts It is lightweight providing easy portability And it designed by GM Safety Engineers to meet government standards The ideal protection for little travelers 20 to 40 pounds and 40" in height and able to sit up alone The GM Child Love Seat is made of rugged high impact polypropylene that has been custom contoured to provide support at critical body points You'll love the way this seat provides your child with tender loving care Another possible drawback to the total accuracy of die data is the obvious discrepancy in voter figures supplied by coun ties to the secretary of office or example 23 mainly in Eastern Kentucky reported more persons were registered to vote than lived in the counties The surplus is believed due in part to inadequate voter purga tion methods But many moun tain people apparently maintain their registration in Kentucky even after moving to another state then come back to vote Mrs Wester said that despite the excess voter figures in the score of counties the surplus was not included in her calcu lations Kentucky New Era 5 deadline The statistics indicate 1454 575 persons were registered as of June 1972 in Kentucky under the election law due to expire soon Since the number of persons 18 and older totaled 2226713 this means 36 per cent of eli gible voters in the state were not registered Mrs Wester provided a breakdown by districts and counties of registration trends She drew no conclusions but took pains to explain how she arrived at the over all picture This is the information which area along the Ohio River 47 state Democrats now are dis tributing to reregistration workers the 5th Congressional District in Southeast Kentucky a Republican stronghold only HOPKINSVILLE OICES 8th Main Pennyrile Mall West 9th Street ORT CAMPBELL OICES: PX Shopping Center I Army Hospital By SY RAMSEY RANKORT Ky (AP) igures compiled by Demo cratic Headquarters show that voter registration in Eastern Kentucky is far higher propor tionately than in other parts of the state The data also show registra tion is lowest in percentage in the Louisville area with fully half the residents of Jefferson County not on the voting rolls The information was drawn up by Mrs William Wester a part time consultant with the Democrats as background for the reregistration drive One purpose she said was to show what a tremendous task lies ahead in signing up even those already on the aside from registering voters WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Marlow Cook Ky has in troduced a bill that would es tablish a new federal energy research and development trust fund with guaranteed funding of $2 billion a year The money would come from payments by the oil and gas in dustry on land leases on the outer continental shelf Cook said the bill employs a pays the cost The fund would be used to sponsor research and develop ment of all energy sources in cluding coal gas and atomic power as well as oil HENDERSON Ky (AP) Officials of the ederal Aviation Administration are in vestigating the cause of a plane crash that killed a New Jersey woman and New York man Sat urday on an island in the Ohio River Saturday Officials speculated severe thunderstorms may have forced the plane down in a soybean field on Slim Island about sev en miles west of Mount Vernon Ind The victims were Sofia (Sal ly) Pizzitola 47 of Oakland NJ and Nicholas Barry 50 of Cold Spring Harbor NY Their single engine plane crashed while en route from New Jersey to Springfield Mo pay you 64 per cent interest on $10000 or more when invested for a period of three years Interest begins on date of issue If you have $1000 or more and need it for 90 days or longer why not earn 54 per cent These certificates automatically renew for another 90 days if you redeem them A ULLAOULl) SERVICE UkWUyeari Escapee Caught HENDERSON Ky (AP) Henderson County officials say a third escapee from the Hen derson County Detention Center has been arrested by officials in California Sheriff Ira Bridges said San rancisco officials are holding Cleveland Cox who escaped June 25 with two other men Wallace Ruby and Russell Smith Smith and Ruby were arrested in Lyon County Ne vada Cox was with Smith and Ruby at the time but was re leased before authorities real ized he also was being sought Cox and Smith were being held on armed robbery charges and Ruby was charged with breaking and entering Medical Grants WASHINGTON (AP) More than $21 million in grants to various types of medical schools in eight Southern states including Kentucky has been awarded by the US De partment of Health Education and Welfare The University of Kentucky Colleges of Medicine Dentistry and Pharmacy received $757 648 $455750 and $97224 respec tively while the University of Louisville School of Medicine received $859248 The of School of Dentistry was allo cated $599280 Each depositor insured to $20000 DIC tDERAL DfPOSlT INSURANCE CORPORATION Traffic Toll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two Lexington women and a Versailles man are dead after a one car accident on the Big Sink Pike in Woodford County Killed in the Sunday night crash were Charles Riley 50 Helen Garrett 48 and Rose Robinson 73 Three men in jured in the accident were re ported in fair condition today Sheriff Bill Crain said his of fice was investigating the possi bility the car was forced from the road The office says Mrs Robinson suffered a crushed chest and Mrs Garrett a broken neck The injured include Mrs son Roy 48 Mrs husband William 48 and Charles Boyd 53 A Sunday night crash about four miles south of Sebree in Webster County killed one man and injured three persons in cluding the sister Police said John Schraph 22 of Slaughters in Hopkins Coun ty was killed when a car ran off Kentucky 495 and struck a tree A 21 year old Sturgis man was killed Sunday when his mo torcycle and a car collided on US60 near Sturgis Police said the victim Myron Ray Collins was thrown about 150 feet by the impact No charges were filed Earlier during the weekend three members of a Pennsyl vania family were killed when a tire flew off a truck on Inter state 71 near Carrollton skipped over the median and went through the windshield of their car The victims were Robert Kenneth oulkes 46 his wife Nancy Lou 45 and their son Kenneth oulkes Jr 14 all of Caraopolis The truck then traveled about 75 yards and struck a car driven by Mr and Mrs Roy Taylor of Sulphur Ky The Taylors were hospitalized and the driver of the truck rank Stienf of Cincinnati was treated and re leased State Police also reported the death of a 24 year old Bowling Green man Michael Latent Humes Sunday as the result of injuries suffered July 1 in a one car crash on US 231 near his home town Johnny Downs 22 of Earling ton died Saturday when his motorcycle collided with a car on Kentucky 41 A near Earling ton Stephen Cecil 17 of Louisville was killed Saturday when the truck he was riding in ran off South Park Road in Louisville near Interstate 65 struck a tree and overturned Mrs Dorothy Cox 32 of Louisville died riday of in juries suffered in a car mo torcycle collision July 4 at a Louisville intersection The statewide death toll reached 586 compared with 572 through last July 16 in your favor PLANTERS It BANK STRUST COMPANY NOW AVAILABLE AT Williams Chevrolet Co Inc 512 CLAY ST 886 1207 fi 0 i ris 0 1 4 child nm GM I OX I.

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