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Call Siegel reopens next week; first 100 called back The good news that approad- is another mapti4 if the construc- replacing wood beams with steel that it will take anotner three to over 280 at work in the South mately 100 operators will be called tion work continues at its pres- beams is moving right along after four weeks to complete similar Fulton plant, an increase of back to work at the Fulton (Ky). ent pace, Mansiger Jim Huffine a delayed start. work in the "old" half of the around 85 in the last two months. plant of Henry 1. Siegel Company told The News. The 100 operators who will be building, and that when this work All of these will be retained in plant when the next week was learned Wednes- A News representative visited called back between June 15 and is finished the balance of the en- the South Fulton tire work force will be called. He Kentucky building reopens, af- day. the Siegel factory Wednesday with 20th will work on the ground and stated that the firm expects to fording an all-time peak of "close how much of second the new The entire work force of the a camera to see just floors of buildng, call back all who were working to 600" in both plants by mid- Kentucky plant, numbering a report could be given our read- where concrete and steel work has before e late-winter shutdown. summer "if we can find the work- around 300, will be back at work ers, and found that the work of been completed. Huffine stated In t1 , meantime, Siegel has ers", Huffine stated. Yearly: trade area $3.00 WFUL rwAy•IN TUNS Ced'Elsewhers In US 84.00 WITH YOU RA 10 E NEWS Single Copy, 1Cc on each floor will support APPROXIM‘TELY 130 new steel columns aseles 102 these big beams. Above picture was taken on the seelind flour it Ole new building, as workmen prepare to heist another Warn in plisse. Volume Twenty-Nine Fulton, Fulton County, Kentucky, Thursday, June 9, 1960 Number 23 Dispute Over Whether To Rezone Fulton County School Board Members Carr Brought Before Council State Lot On ge 55. In one of its shortest meetings in owners object to the move, while Appeal To Public To Settle Controversy many months, the Fulton City the Church of Christ seeks it in night, dis- order to utilize the property for a Council met Monday tion taken in spite of warnings listened to full-width-of- property Church Three members of the Fulton County School Board posed of its business, from the State Board of Education gradu- different extension. After deliberating the several delegations on appealed to the general public today in an attempt to that they would intervene if the hour decision, the Council tabled it until shoes. matters, and adjourned in an the controversy was not ended. its next meeting. solve controversy still raging among the school Ion to and 20 minutes. In what was called a "harmony up board members concerning the appointment of a super- wsical If the Council was not quite In other busbsess, the City of move." a majority of the members to its usual jovial mood, there was Fulton: intendent. James Shaw, Earl Taylor and A. B. Dement of the Fulton County board of edu- en ex- no sign of friction or embarrass- — — Announced employment of placed their case before the public today in a signed cation Friday night proposed em- ment over the recent May 20th Horace Stephens as new City ployment of a school superinten- caucus, in which Mayor Tripp was patrolman replacing Carmi Page, statement asking the public to prevail upon certain dent not identified with either )ost or relieved of his supervisory activi- resigned; board members to rid the-school system ef all figures faction in the school system. ties for making unauthorized city — — Voted to buy a new "fogg- The "minority" group of the purchases. involved in the four-year old controversy. I. ing" machine for Fulton for fly board turned down the proposi- Most important item of business In an executive session of the as sunerintendent while the ma- and mosquito control and an- tion. support alignment Monday night concerned a dispute board following the public meet- joritv group sought to hire Slim- HAROLD WEST ;left) and BUDDY SWIFT cheek nounced sale or Fulton's half-in- County Superintendent Beanl ware approximately 20 feet apart.: over whether or not to rezone the ing, attended by the press. those mers as assistant superintendent of new beam. Old wood beams terest in the present one to South Darnell's contract is expiring on new steel beams, of equal streneth, will he half that distance apart. lot next to the Church of Christ on attending heard charges of alleged thereby bringing in a new super- Fulton, who now owns it outright; July 1, and the board last fall Steelwork in the new building will be completed in another week Carr Street as a "central busi- profiteering and counter-charges intendent to close the ranks of — — Announced plans for a big elected Robert L. Summers, for- and then work will begin on floors and beams in the old build/me. ness" zone. The rezoning from its of alleged bribery hurled at key feuding patrons and school offici- mosquito and fly eradication drive mer principal of Fulton County present status as a "residential" figures in the controversy. als. in the city and suburbs this year, High School, superintendent for area was recommended by the Ful- The "minority" group clung to Last Friday night's meeting to commence soon as the new ma- two years. ton Planning and Zoning Board, their plan to hire Bobby Summers ended in a statement with no ac- chine is ready; _ Summers, was called to the but referred to the Council for — — Moved to file suit against meeting Friday night, and was final decision_ Adjacent property asked those delinquent with payment on if he would accept the posi- of their street improvement accounts; First Baptist Pastor To Leave On tion assistant superintendent at the he — — Voted a $250-per-month same salary was offered as superintendent. Teari salary for City Attorney Rodney Revenue 14,000-Mile South American Tour Summers he would Miller, a reduction of $50 monthly said not and that he planned to take office July under that paid his predecessor. John D. Laida, pastor of the 1. He said he had been told by the Here Thursday (The reduced pay scale has been First Baptist Church for the past state board of education that his in effect since January 1st). seven years, will begin a 14,000- Revenue Commissioner William election was legal and said if the The Mayor and all councilmen mile missionary tour of all coun- E. Scent reminded Fulton coun- tried to else were present with the exception of board employ anyone bans this week that a revenue tries of South America on Monday J. 0 Lewis. he would "take the entire board to team would be at Fulton, 2:00, of next week. The month-long trip Continued On Page Floe Thursday, June 9, to explain the will be by air with Miami as the new sales tax to retailers. starting point. A group of 14 other The meeting will be held at City Man Burned As pastors from Kentucky and Tenn- Jaycette News essee will join Bro. Laida in Hall. By Shirley Hawks sales tax effect Miami. The goes into Tractor Explodes Husbands have been neglected, the new tax Major cities to be visited include July 1. Income from -rrieabs we been hurriedly pre- -finance the veterans' bonus Kingsto, Jamaica; Barranquilla, will Roy Etheridge was burned, but pared, children left with baby-sit- provide for services Columbia, Maracaibo and Caracus and increased not seriously, on the face and arms ters. and house cleaning left un- 45c BEAMS now replace the old wooden beams is and expanded facilties. in Venezuela; Port of Spain in HEAVV STEEL EYE and his hair was singed when a done, for the past few weeks while the lienry I. Siegel building su the Kentuehi side of the TwinAtlielk said a better understand- Trinidad; Belem, Recife, Belo Scent tractor he had been driving ex- the Jaycettes worked whole-heart- giving proper support to the second and third floors. previously -de- ing of the new the Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro in tax at outset ploded on the Dewey Johnson ly on the Tiny Tot Review. Last clared unsafe. would make it easier for retailers. Brazil;Montevideo, Uruguay; La farm off Highway 307 northeast Thursday night they were well re- There will be made Paz. Boliva; Buenos Aires, Argen- available to of Fulton at 1 p. m. Tuesday. warded when the event turned out those attending the meeting all tina; Lima, Peru; Guayaquil, Ecua- --jottings the Mr. Etheridge was planing to to be such a success, and everyone Fulton Job May necessary forms and dor; Panama City and Mexico City.