The Ledger and Times, August 17, 1962
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Murray State's Digital Commons The Ledger & Times Newspapers 8-17-1962 The Ledger and Times, August 17, 1962 The Ledger and Times Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt Recommended Citation The Ledger and Times, "The Ledger and Times, August 17, 1962" (1962). The Ledger & Times. 3831. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt/3831 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Murray State's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Ledger & Times by an authorized administrator of Murray State's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. o I. • 'ST 16, 1962 Selected As A Belt AS Round Kestucty Community Revrarispee Largest Circulation in The City Largest Circulation In The County rear United Press International IN OUR 83rd YEAR Murray, Ky., Friday Afternoon, August 17, 1962 MURRAY POPULATION 10,100 1=mineene.. Vol. LXXXIII No. 195 eINSMINEY .HOSPITAL BID IS WITHIN CAPABILITIES • Duel Fought ' Low Bid Yesterday Leaves' Over Refugee Funds For Equipment ttrs. Alice Too 4, of Wash- BERLIN !UPI: — East and West ms at Re- "The apparent Berlin police fought a tear gas low bid of have to receive approval of the ii Hospital Hartz-Kirkpatrick duel today over the body of a Construction is Calloway Fiscal Court and the es of daily within the refugee shot and killed by the capabilities of the city Murray City Council. er in tutla and county" Mayor Communists as he tried to scale Holmes Ellis On approval the construction said yesterday following the wall. the open- of the new hospital will begin. ing of bids for The wounded man died with the new city- Bidders 'had five alternates county liospital. bullets in his stomach and beak. aiaaich were hated which either He lay screaming for help far The company had the low base IlEuld add to. the base price or 45• minutes While the Communist bid if $1.398,366. The addition of be deducted from it. police who shot him made no the tunnel construction between Items which could have been 41 effort to go to his aid. the existing hospital and the deducted had the base bid been The (7ommuni5ts hurled tear new hospital would add $6,500 for too high are as follows: gas grenades over the wall at a total of $1,404.886. Change the interior concret Wear -- Berliners gathered there The city and county has a block and plaster walls to metal shouting "murderers" and West total of 51.700.000 to spend on (Continued on Page 3) Berlin police retaliated with tear- the new hospital so this will gas of their leave ample funds own. Rev. Donald Morehead for the pur- The slain man tried to climb chase of equipment for the hos- the wall at Zommer Strasse one pital. Murray To Get and a half blocks from the U. S. In the first bids taken on the Army's checkpoint Four Wa'ev Charlie with Test hospital on May 17 of this year, a companion. the lowest bid exceeded all avail- $5,000 For The Conimunists fired 25 ma- able funds. Hartz. was low bidder chine pistol shots at the men. Rotary Topic at that time with a bid of $1.530,- One fell just before the wall and 000 I arts-Kirkpatrick Construction Company Airport Work of Owensboro. the other got over safely. Some features of the hospital Kentucky.. was the apparent low bidder yesterday at 2:00 The wounded man screamed On Thursday were eliminated in new draw- p.m., The on the new city-comity hotipital. The firm bid $1,398,386 for help but the Communists ings by Lee Potter Smith of state has allocated $237 alai for fiat: the construction of the new modern hospital pictured stood there with machine pistols Paducah. Architects, in an effort airport eonatructaim .sr im- above. The bids ,were pointed westwards at a crowd of to lower the construction provement in elevan Kentucky. opened in the Calloway County court Rev. Donald Morehead, campus coat West Berliners gathered on their of the hospital. cnies this fiscal year according .0 house. The hospital will be constructed just south of the minister for t h e Methodist side of the wall. , The city and county Aeronataties Commissioner Philip present hospital. Church, spoke to ,he Murray voters ap- The dying man's trousers were proved a tax which Rotary Club yestertify on "What would pro- soaked with blood. duce $'750.000 L.MStv:rra'tft y will receive $5.000 on the City Can do for College which is to be His cries became weaker and matched by Hill-Burton funds. its new terminal at Kyle Field. Students". In keeping with the weaker and finally stopped. This totaled $1.500.000. Since 1960, new airparts halve •, Five Americans Are Released theme of the program Rev More- In recent A Communist policeman then bonds which are to be matched been built to serve 15 Kentucky head applied the Rotary Four- slung the man over his shoulder also by Hill cities. Airports at- Princeton, Way. Test to the topic. -Burton funds. This and carried him away. will give the planning commission Roush River State Park. More- Today By Laos Eyewitnesses said he head Communists was dead The Rotary Four-Way Teat in an added $200,000 and a total of and Glaagow were completed As the shooting victim lay there life is as follow: Is it 'True? Is $1,700,000. thaw year Calepletion S expectant eastern and western police fought it Fair to all City, county and „hospital Oakley Jan I or. the Williamsburg By RAY HERNDON , lyn. N. Y , and Grant Concerned? Witl it auth- Wolfkill, their tear gas duel. Build Goodwill orities were pleased with and Whet-game airports. ' United rams International of Shetton, Wash. and Better Fri- the The Communist* hurled four eadabilia? VIENTIANE. Laos 1UPI — Five and WM' It be -Berte- alidcalka yeotenian wimp four btd..-t grenades out of a asecond floor fieial ders placed Americans held captive by the Sometimes Fell Exhausted to all Concerned" their bids. H.'Thurman window in a house on Zimmer Robert C. Crouch pro-Communist Pathet Lao for and Company Bailey. who spent almost 17 Strasae. Western police in return lie told the club that the col- of Memphis. more than a year were flown to Tennessee. bid SI,- Returns To Home month., in the hands of the Pa- threw 12 grenades into the win- lege composes a smaller com- 441,500 Seth freedom here today in a Soviet Giern and Associates thet L.10, said his captors did not dow and forced the Communists munity of scholars within the of Paducah W. R. Howard Illyushin transport plane. bid $1.495.384 and Bro. J. H. Thurman return, Dr. E. ksevil Judy beat or torure him. But he said back from it. city itself and that the truth is Hal Perry of Benton bid hame The Americana ware released $1,429,- yesterday by ranbulaii,• ....Song Leader he was made to stand during Six U. S. Army military police being sought by the scaelarb. 000. under terms of the agreement from the Baptist Hospital In NA-a - hours of interrogation and -some- rushed to the scene of the shoot- The city can hap by appreciat- Although Hartz - Kirkpatrick ending the Laotian civil war that ing the position of the times fell to the floor from et- mg but retreated when the Com- scholar, Construction Company is the ap- Mrs Thurman reported tat was signed in Geneva last July he continued. Also hauation. munists hurled their tear gas the creation parent IOW taidder, the' bid will that tie is doing fairly well Dinner Meeting Of 21. grendaes. of a good climate fen learning One of the men said he was Wolfkill. a Local cameraman for the The Americans were booed by will be of help to the student Church Club Held Thursday kept In wooden stocks 14 hours National Broadcasting Co. told of the crowd of 250 West Berliners and professor. daily during the first six months being confined in the stocks. He gathered at the border when they In the area of fairness, Spotlight On Bandit Search T h e regular monthly (linnet of captivity. Another said he un- did not say whether the other went back. Rea Will Begin meeting of the Bustinews rind Pro- derwent hours of instense inter- captives received similar treat- Morehead told the club that stu- tel.:aortal Wonten's Club was held rogation, sometimes collapsing ment. dents are young adults and should at the new lodge at Kentucky from sheer exhaustion. be treated as such. "We can help Moves To Rhode Island Today Revival Sunday Darn -Mile-day night at 6:30. Those released were U. S. Army The prisoners were allowed to by setting an example as adults" T w y members were prag- Mai Lawrence R. Bailey, 36, of talk only briefly with newsmen Farmers Can he continued. Store owners can 49c lb or By JACK V. FOX that the ent, acal three gueas, Mrs Gear- Laurel, Md.; Sgt. Orville R. Bal- during a brief stopover here. be of help by giving counsel in aerial numbers ore a I NSW rnems Internam I lemma I gio Heiert Dawards, Mrs. William lenger of Spring Lake, N. C: John Wolfkill left by commercial air purchases. Many students are known Dr. E. Keevil Judy. pastor of the 'BOSTON — 'flue spotlight Windrum, and Mrs. Eat Hue. Shore Jr.. 30. of Galloway, Tenn,; liner for Zew York while the Graze away from home for the first Investgators were expected First Baptist Churn, Henderson, Land In in the search tee- the bandies who Mrs.