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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ot. • 4, 1957 _ Selected As A Best All Round Kentucky Community Newspaper oeis- •••••••• Largest Largest Circulation In •••••• The City „I Circulation In The City Urged 7;,serr•---04 Circulation In • Largest Circulation • The County e. • •Aa.; In 1 The County • United Press IN OUR 78th YEAR Murray, Ky., Tuesday Afternoon, February , 1957 MURRAY POPULATION 10,100 Vol. LXXVIII No. 31 Deaf Mute Makes Murray The 6972nd City To Hair, Flesh Is Mr. And Mrs. Collie Visit In Travels Studied In Crime Are Home Following Former Hits Of Campus Lights A deaf mute who has not yet Accident On Trio heard col the word "quit" strolled CHICAGO. Feb. 5 — Scien- tists into Murray this morning mark- studied .today bits of human Will Be Presented In Show hair and Mr. ad Mrs. Leon Collie re- ing up the 6972nd city which he flesh and a chalked appeal for turned to Murray Sunday night has visited since 1928. The year help found near a ditch where the -about 9:30 follotving a trying Hit musical numbers from pre- t will, will be presented include 1928 stands out in his memory nude bodies of two teen-aged sisters experience which- oceurred as vious Murray State College Arved Larsen, 1940; Billy Shel- because it was in that year that were dis- covered two weeks ago. they were enroute to Topeka. "Campus Lights" shows and ton, 1942: FranceS Sledd. 1944: he set his sights on travelling one Kansas to The possible new clues in the visit Mrs. Collie's sis- presentation of directors of some Mary Grace Land, 1945 - 46; million miles. ter murder of Patricia Grimes. 13, who was, and still is. a of the shows will be featured in Wayne Johnson, 1948; Vincent Thus far he nas travelled 895,- patient at the and her sister. Barbara, 15.' were local hospital in the 20th anniVersl.i-y. show to be Perrier, 1951; Bab Behr. 1953, 900 miles toward his goal. Ralph Topeka. found Monday by police. staged February 21-.23. and Bill Robins. 1955. Jerry Wil- Kennedy Bradford who was born The Collies were traveling The crudely printed appeal a- The annual music - comedy hangs, '52 director is expected deaf, says that he will stay in bout thirty miles an hour on an for help was scrawled in chalk show, produced by Phi Mu Alpha back for one appearance. Murray about a week working icy highway about three miles en a support ai the back of an and Sigma Alpha Iota,. will be edbe.Some of the hits to featur- ' at odd jobs to pay his from Odessa, Missouri when s way. abandoned corrugated me'al preseoted in the- college auditor- include "The Man I Love" At the end of his million miles shack. The they came over a hill and saw message—read: ium. It _will offer /1. masical from the 19419 show. "Boogie oses in of travel he plans to come to a "Help help — help a complete • road block about help." numbeA from shows of former Woogie" from the 1943 produc- work- halt long enough to write a book A short time later, searchers seventy-five feet in front of them sears and nine fornier directors. tion. -Great Day" from 1945, "I Death -, entitled "How a Deaf Mute Finds found a cardboard box contain- The road block consisted of a In addition, the production will Got Rhythym" from the '53 show. enginet Things With the Hearing People." ing' locks of human hair, one semi-trailer truck loaded with d automobiles feature four new musical num- The 120. member cast and pro- ph oto ) As if being born deaf was not of them with bits of 'flesh. wrap- and two cars that were sitting side by side reach- bers by Orchestra and chorus and duction staff was completed re- enough, Bradford was stricken ped in newspapers. The papers ing, across....the...entire of a selection of old and n e w cently with the namily of a with polio When he was two Vit•Fe- elated- in September and the --highway. Mr. Collie said comedy- skits.- • quartet. "The Murray Men." and—. years old. His home was destroy- November, 1956. he immediately tegan trying to Former directors of 'the shows two vocal -soloists. ed in the Ohio River flood of Dr. Harry- Kearns, a patha- miss the truck and cars but - - "The Murray Men" are Joe 1913 and Ralph and his family Itogist who examined the victims' bodies, Barbara was completely unable to do so. Prince. Crossville, Ill., Jerry moved to Indianapolis. He finish- said apparently had lost no hair, but an oval When he applied his brakes. Winder, Manteno, Ill., Dick Nor- ed school at the Indiana School slash was found in Patricia's he slid all over the road and *Twentieth. ris. Harrisburg. and Sammy for , the Deaf in 1922. head. He said he would examine then collided with the truek Orr, Rock Hill, S. C. lit spite of the difficulties un- the and flesh. v.hich had been stalled. Mrs. The vocal soloists are Charlotte der which he hair labored, fate was .Collie said apparently the reason Reagan. Dresden, Tenn. a n d° to strike him Game Goal two more cruel for the accident was that the Margie Whitmer. Louisville. Ky. blows. He was in si..bus accident Mrs. Weeks Doing truck and one or two cars .had Miss Reagan will sing serious and wears a back brace to this stalled in the snow and ice and Although fate dealt him several blows, the courage of Ralph Well Following type. number. Miss Whitmer will day, and in 1951, he was Siruck Kennedy Bradford has carried him evidently another car had trier Of Winners almost to the end of his Million mile do the popular music. by a train. goal. Murray is the 6972nd city he has v Surgery to pass them and had gotten When he started his Work on the show was be.gurt This apparently pilgrimage. stalled also. only increased With their newly won .Callo- last ,March when Boob Hogan of the challenge before him and he The last one was Murray. Okla. Mrs. Jean Weeks is•recuperat- Mrs. Collie said when she saw 1928 but most states have laws In 1932 he visited Governor way Tournament troy tucked Princeton and Gene Deaton of bowed his back to meet it. - Bradford came to Murray ing at her home on Olive-Street. the sollision was inevitable, she via against it now, he said, so he Ruby Laffooh and was away in their cabinet :of honors, Jackson, Tenn. were named 'di- He set out on his million mile made a She returned one week ago from leaned over and tried to hold Mayfield. Paducah and Benton. travels by bus, train and some- the county champion Lynn Grove rector and assistant director. Journey with pencil Kentucky Colonel. Gov. Wether- Vanderbilt Hospital where she to her husband, who was driv- And pad and From Murray he will continue times flies. Wildcats have sharpened their ' Production staff - members were had collected by also -made him a colonel in was a patient for .about a week. ing. This might possiblY have postmarks along to Fulton, Clinton. Bardwell then soon named, and began Murray is another one of those 1955. He walks over most of the saved her life because the dos,r claws for a new honor, that is to work i the route. His first task this into Illinois at While a patient at the hospital, Cairo.. "bone dry" cities, he said. He has cities he win twenty games for the season. planning the show. This fall, morning was to add the visits and thus far has Mrs. Weeks underwent surgery on her "side of the car was Muray He soon filled two scrapbooks passed many of them in The happy Cats, who received members of the chorus. band, postmark in his "Kain- worn out over 600 pair of Shoes. on both feet to correct a condi caved in about eighteen inches. growing volumes after his journey began and now Lucky" he said. quite a welcome ft-urn Me Lynn dancing chorus, the skits cast of scrap _His travels will come to an tion that had developed over She, received a fractured foot books. has 44 in five bags which he He Grove yesterday, were chosen and all have never wears a hat or long end, for a little while anyway, a long period of time and was and an injured spine as a result residents will been Incidentally Murray is the takes with him. • in rehearsal overcoat. Bradford sayso he is when he meets his one growing steadily worse due to of the accident, according to have to. earn the "20" figure the since October. sixth "Murray" he has visited. It was million easier to hitch hike in used to any kind of weather. ile goal. the fart she stands so much the doctors who attended her.