The Ledger and Times, December 18, 1947
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Selected As Rest All-Round Kentucky Community Newspaper For 1947 MEMOIR c-- UDIT WEATHER FORECAST nar UREAU Kentucky and Tennessee- the 0 Fair and warmer today., in- Pa- IRCULATI S rt. wit -creasing cloudiness tonight -ent Probably foliose ed by oc- man, " isPrei tasionel rain Friday. a and "Akriat, v4itca • YOUR PROGRESSIVE HOME NEWS- are: United Press PAPER FOR ONER HALF A CENTURY Murray, Kentucky, Thursday Afternoon, Dec. 1 , 1947 MURRAY POPULATION — 5187 Vol. XIX; No. 1 58 S. per. bate !Tobacco State Senators Weaks IniuredLt Propose Export Of ExnansionProuramJ °uun son, Sue Surplus To Germany; Murray Markets Ready Lee, Yesterday By Automobile By Local Teleph bo. An- Senator Cooper Warehouse Charge zzel, Married 55 Years Today ithis Urges Army Buy Mishap Occurs W.O.W. To Elect For Season Down - Offices Murray Tigers 2 •J. Ann As Victim Starts Officers, Hold 50 Million Lbs. From Last Year Mae Meet .ral Benefits Initiation Monday Washington. Dec. 18.-, Memphis slary UPi-Two Tobacl:t1 floor mimeses,. at Mur- To Cross Street tobacco-state senators are pro- ray announced today that the. Included In Plans Murray Camp 592 of the Wood- posing that the United States send Team Tonight r .Jo Joe Weeks, County Attorney. was esrehouse selling charge this sea- men of the World will hold election Germany large quantities of sur- Plans for the atha iiijured late yesterday afternoon en will be ten cents less per hun- immediate ene eif officers and initiation -cere- plus 'Murray High Tigers have one of Governmente0v.med tobacco dredweight than last season. largement of the telephone office when he was struck by an auto- monies at a nieetieg Monday night, the toughest games of the season - as "incinitive goods." They believe here was announced this mornine Mau mobile on the corner of Fifth and The five loose leaf floors here scheduled for tonight when they December 22. at 7:30 'o'clock. - this will spur production by Ger- by Offre Brown, local manager hurt, Olive streets. will begin receiving tobacco on meet Memphis Central The meeting will be held in the man workers ,and also help bol- High at the, for the ,Southern Belt Telephone Cath- Weeks was walking home. from Monday. December 29, fur the firsts!' gymnasium here. WOW Hall and all members are ster the lagging U. S. tobacco ex- Company. and work about 00 p.m. and stepped dark fired sale which will open I 1.!tql tei be present port niarket. Last year the Memphis squad off from the •urb to cross Olive on Monday, January 5. Excavation started yesterday for Sen. William were the. champs of the city, and Street, heading north. That was B. Umstead, D.. construction of a two-stoey ad- Officials have 'announced that played in the semi-finals in the last remem N. C., asked the senate approp- dition on. the rear of the present the ed. Farm Income Up government support prices ere high State tournament. • lateens committee to recommend office. This will give an increase Witnesses state that a car for the current crop of tobacco and making 100,000.000 M poem Coach Ty Holland said today that of thwo-thirds more floor space, • driven by Lee Rees Melugin was Twenty will remain unchanged throughout Per Cent available to Germany immediate . his boys were not afraid of the cep- said going West on Olive. Apparently the selling season. Brown. The tobacco would. be taken from!, ponents, however, beeause. they he-did-out see the pedestrian. but Figures compiled from last year's When the new construction is For This Year reserve stocks held by the com- have been pretty "hot" iii the prac- came to a stop immediately after selling season show that the, Mur- completed two more positions modity credit corporation. tice sessions. the accelent occurred.. ray market is the largest for dark- will be added to the Twitch board, 'Washington. Dec. 18-I UP -The :Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R., According to the coach, 'both the Nearby residents administered fired tobacco. and sells few the making a total of ten. a Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Ky., urged that the army be given first and second teams have been first aid and called an ambulance latest averages of any in the wes- Brown also announced as pro- estimated today that farmers -this funds to buy 50.000,000 IPA, pounds showing remarkable form, so there which took the victim to the Hous- rn dark-fired tobacco belt. gram for enlarging cables \the -McDevitt year received a gross income of from the commodity credit corp- may be' some changes in the start- ton Clinic. I.ast year the Murray market first of next year as soon as mete that $34600000000 IBI. oration for use in "occupied areas. ing lineup for this game. Dr. Hal Houston said today ,ndled over five million More erials become available. He said's. from a frac- This is about 20 per cent more particularly, Germany." The game will begin at 8:00. Weaks suffered Pelt's .unds than the next largest mar- the engineering work had already ture of the right leg and dislocation than they got last year. 4 - t. and the sales averaged $3.00 .betn completed. well and Net income after of the ankle, as as cuts production ex- r hundred pounds higher thse At present the local telephone brumes about the and back. pensed wap Cub Scouts To head $1'8.000,000,000 B Science Building - y other market in the district. exchange is serving an area wen Cash reiepetsr were estimated at Murray. the home if the We•- Have Christmas a radius of 12 miles. With the en- ' $30,000.000,000 iBe. 22 per cent Construction rn Dark Fired Tobacco Crowe! larged cables, it is humped that Paducah Pastor iiigher than last Year. Government -sociation. has five sales floor- Party Friday the entire county can be served, payments to farmers declined tci To Start Soon :My to receive tobacco: Growers said Brown. S340,000.000 .54 i. This was 60 per ose Lea: Floor, Ferris Loose The local telephone office in-_ Main Speaker For Cub Seal pad:: .1", will have .-ent below last year when sub- if Floor. Doran Loose Leaf, Plan- stalled 500 new phones this Katterjohn and Sons, construc- their annual Christmas tree at 7:00 year. .Mies were received for meat !s Loose Leaf Floor, and Religious Week tion firm of Paducah, has given the Out- p.m. Friday night, and at present can take care of inimals arid some dairy products rids December 19, at lion of LoesceLeaf Floor. all requests for phones in the city :urine part of the year. firm Paducah. his been Pictured the W.O.W. Hall. abuse are Mr. and Mrs. A. J. "Sime" Burkeen who arc provided the trunk es. Religious Emphasis Week wilt be given the "go ahead" signal on the Rdlph Shell, magician, will enter- lines are not The bureau said the volume todas celebrating their 55th wedding work of the new science anniversary. Thes were married tain filled. With the enlargement of held here at Murray Seine College ml farm marketings increased building, the group with sleight of hand. according to President Ralph by the late Rev. at. B. Tow ery December 18. 1892. New Courses To Be The Christmas cables, more private lines can oe January IR through 22, -with the hree per cent over last year. It H. tree will 'be deco- Woods. Actual construction is ex- Mrs. Burkeen. esho is 69 years of age, was the former Miss Mary rated at the _assigned. e Rev. Carlyle Manley of Paducah aid this reflected increased rates Offered At College program by the Cub pected to start soon. Belle Peeler. Her husband will celebrate his 76th birthday Scouts with decorations tl At present there are 2300 phones ss the principal speaker. n 1547 from the -record 1946 corn December 24. they have The excavation of the basement For Winter made during the past month. Eash I serviced by the local eechange. Rev. Marney is well known to rop, the record 1547 wheat crop Mr. Jed Mrs. Berkeen have five children, Barnes, Roy and Mrs. Quarter is complete. the dirt having been Cub will Only 400 of these are r•ural. audent groups at Shorter. Carsten nd the relatively good cotton Cleve Parish. counts. Mrs. Hudson Morris. Hardin. and Mrs. 011ie Jones. bring a 35 cent gift for used to help fill in the valley The phy•ical science department exchange during the evening. Brown said that there are many Newman, Murray. and tleiversity rem. Marshall ('ounty: 14 grandchildren and eine great grandchild. ef Kentucky. A prime interest in north of the building site. :et Murray State College has an- . The Cub Scout project for be- rural orders pending, and these Receipts from cash sales were Burkeen served as magistrate of tbe Liberty precinct for sit years is ministry has beenerpnWlions of The $176.865 "I- shaped struc- nounced that a new course Advan- cember was to gather old toys will be filled when the new im- evided as follows: and is a well known farmer and fox I unter in this community.