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Source of News )horte Circulation In Murray and Both In City Calloway County ski• And In County web WM* In Our 89th Year United Press International Murray, Ky., Tuesday Afternoon, March 26, 1968 10. Per Copy , Vol. LXXXIX No. 73 Van Johnson Servuig' Nin-e-Vrom Army Girt, Honor )County At Bracket System in In Vietnam Is Held By Governor Nunn Vetoes State Meet For Sales Tax Troop 77 70 Bills; Troop 77 of Signs the Boy Scouts Of 98 To Nine women from Murray and America held a Court Calloway County left Murray this of Honor in the basement of morning at 6:30 for the University' the First Christ- ian Church on of Kentucky, Lexington, to attend Is Announced Monday evening. Earl the annual meeting of Kentucky Douglas, advancement • -hairman of Federation of Homemakers Club. the Chenubby Dis- Become Law; Holds 50 trict, was a The meeting will open at noon FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPI) — The special guest to pre- sent the today and continue through Thurs- bracket system retailers must use Autry Carroll Dies awards and merit badges. Douglas praised CITY CANVASS day night with some 1,500 home- beginning April 1 to collect the the troop for Suddenly Today its growth during the past year makers from thnsughout Kentucky 5 per cent sales tax was announc- Members of the Has Not Yet Acted On Auto nd for its winning the recent Student Gov- attending the annual event. ed Monday by state Revenue Com':' At The Age Of 44 ernment of Klondike Derby of the Chenubby Murray State Univer- You and Your World" is the missioner James E. Luckett. sity PFC. Van A. Johnson District. The scoutmaster, 0. B will canvass the city of Mur- theme of the meeting. The local The tax, highest in the nation ray for the benefit of the Ken- Inspection, Open Housing Autry Carrol died suddenly this Boone, Jr.. was praised by Mr. women accompanied eighty-four on all consumer items, will not be of tucky Crippled Children's Society morning about 8:45 while at work PVC. Van A. Johnson, son Douglas for his work with the members from clubs in the Pur- collected on items of 10 cents or on Wednesday, March 27, fiatit at the Williams Radiator end Glass Mrs. Pearl Johnson, 307 South 5th troop. — By DREW 1 chase ares.to Lexington going in under. Consumers will get the 3:3(1 to six p.m., according VON BERGEN ense plates ended with a numeral Company on Street, is now serving with the Charles Kemp, representing the to Mar- two buses. first bite of a penny on items Chestnut Street. tha FRANKFORT. Ky. (UPI) — Gov. "3". United States Army in the Quan Loyal Order of the Moose, pre- Crafton, assistant dean of wo- Those attending from Calloway priced from 11 to 25 cents. men at the Louie B. Nunn Monday night gave But the 1968 General Assembly Carrol, age 44. was a resident of Huong Phey province in a village sented a fifty dollar bill to Scout- University. The people County are Mrs. R. D. McDaniels, The brackets, approved by Gov. of strong indications he did not ap- repealed the compulsory annual 404 South 8th Street, Murray. called Phu Hai. master Boone for the furtherance Murray are urged to contribute County president; Mrs. Max Far- Louie B. Nunn: prove the work the 1968 General inspection provisions of the older Johnson left for Vietnam Feb- of the work of the troop. to the cause, Miss Crafton said. ley, county secretary and Subur- Cost Tax Survivors are his mother. Mis. Assembly by vetoing 70 bills the law. Inspections now are only ruary' 26 after completing training Awards were presented as fol- ban Club president; Mrs. James 1 10 cents none Nellie Carrol of Alma; one son, legislators approved. necessary when a vehicle changes at Fort Carson. Colorado. He iS a lows: Witherspoon. South Murray Club; 11.25 cents 1 cent Danny Carrot of 608 South 9th ownership. is brought into the graduate of Grove High School Life — Thomas Keller, Allan Nunn had another surprise for Mrs. Larry Curd, New Providence 26-46 cents 2 cents Street; one sister, Mrs. Asher state for the first time, or an own- and is married to the former Gail Cunningham. and Ken Harrell. Directors the legislators He said a clerical president; Mrs_ Lowell Palmer, 47-67 cents 3 cents Farris of Murray Route Six. five er may have a voluntary inspect- Kalberer of Paris. Tenn. He is First Class — Dennis Burkeen mixup in a legislative budget bill Wadesboro president: Mrs. Ernest cents 4 cents brothers, James Carrot of Hardin, ion. Under the new law, state po- 68-88 twenty years of age. and Steve Kemp. with the awards may cost the lawmakers the $150 Madrey, Penny president: Mrs. 89-S1 09 5 cents Raiford. Norman, Frank, and Jer- lice are empowered to make ran- II Mrs. Johnson received a letter being presented by Steve's father, Are per month pay boost they voted Carol Harrison, Lynn Grove presi- tax ry, all of Almo. Named dom inspections of vehicles with- On sales above S1.09, the from her son's commanding of- Charles Kemp. themselves on the last night of dent; Mrs. Ann Kelly, and Mrs. will be computed by applying the out an inspection sticker if they Funeral services will be held ficer, Capt. Stephen E. Inman, Second Class — Steve Porter, the session Barletta Wrather. area extension 5 per cent tax rate to the sales feel the vehicle constitutes a men- Thursday it 230 p.m at the Sul- telling her of the unit her son Gene Parker, Jerry White, and agent in home management. prices, rounded off to the nearest For Chamber Earlier Monday. Nunn ace to highway 'safety. phur Springs -Meth•dist Church is with in Vietnam. Chuck Hussung signed in- .Speakers at the meeting will in- cent. by eliminating any fraction said the First Bat- to law his record $2.5 billion bien- with Rev. Johnson Easley and Capt. Inman Tenderfoot — Rickey Latimer, Critics of the watered-down in- clude Mrs. Ruth I. Saunders, act- under a half cent and increasing talion of the 44th Artillery is stat- nial budget. He approved the Rev. H. L Lax officiating. Burial Mike Alexander. and Mitchell Five new directors were named spection bill fear it will not be • ing chairman of the UK Extension any fraction of a half cent or over ioned, in a basecamp in a valley boost in the state sales tax from will be in the New Concord Ceme- Cunningham. with Scoutmaster for the Murray Chamber of Corn- acceptable to the U.S Department home economics programs; Dr. to the next higher cent. between three mountain ranges 3 to 5 per cent, the nation's high- tery'. Boone, assisted by the troop, mak- merce in the election concluded .., - of Transportation and thus cost Michael P. Church, assistant dir- Luckett said his department and to the east are the sand dunes e. t without major• exemptions, In charge of arrangements is ising the awards. at one p.m. on Monday, according the'state some $10 to $12 million ector for cultural activities. Uni- consulted officials in other states of the Gulf of:Tonkin, seven miles earlier in the week. , the J. H. Churctiill Funeral Home Merit badges — David Keller, to a release from the office of in federal funds under the federal versity of Michigan Extension with a 5 per cent sales tax be- away. The governor handed Secretary where friends may call. Thomas Keller, Mike Finley, Mike the Chamber of Commerce. The Highway Traffic Safety Act Service, Sgt Ernest H. levees, fore computing the tax brackets The officer said each individual of State Elmer Fitzpatrick. David Gore, Ronnie new directors will serve Begley 168 bills Nunn's repiarte):1 trip to Wash- public information officer. Ken- for Kentucky. three IP• is issued a personal M-16 rifle to Garland. Ken Harrell, Allan Clip- shortly before midnight, signing tucky State Police; Miss Kath- the guiding year terms. ington presumably would be to He said principle be carried_at all times, and that ningitam. Richard Hall. Steve 98 into law and killing the rest. erine Peden, Kentucky Cornelis- behind the brackets was "so seek a clarification 'on the state's limit the unit is armed with the M42, Kemp, and Allen Lemons Named in the balloting were:. He still holds some 50 bills. The 'loner of Commerce; Dr. G. W. the aggregate collections of tales eligibility for federal funds if the better known as the "Duster". , Scoutmaster Boone presented a Joe Dick, president of the Bank deadline for executive action is Schneider, associate director el by a retailer, so far as may ips new law were to take effect. The.address of the Murray wo- splicial award as a Scout Life Of Murray, Ray Brownfield, vice midnight Wednesday.