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Selected As A Best All Round Kentucky CoracunIty Newspaper , 1968 The Primary —1°111118Mo— 4-ire Source of News Largest Paid In Murray and Circulation Calloway County Both In City And In County olinited Press International Murray, Ky., Tuesday Afternoon, May 7, 1968 10* Per Copy Vol. LXXXIX No. 109 Seen&Heard W. H. Perry Woman's Club Circuit Court Around Claimed By Board Meets Starts Here Murray • The May meeting of the Mur- The Calloway County Circuit '—I Death Today ray Woman's Club executive Court opened Monday morning $111 Furgerson is one of the board was held at the Club- at nine o'clock in the court est salesmen we have ever W. Herbert house on Monday. This was the house with Judge James M. nnwn Perry of 518 t Broad Street succumbed this final business meeting of the Lassiter presiding. morning at five o'clock follow- club year, and Mrs. David Gow- Rev. W. Tommy Jackson, • lumps into the coaching ing an extended illness. He was ans, retiring president, presid- pastor of the South Pleasant ,-- usiness (football variety) last 88 years of age. ed. Grove Methodist Church, ,open- i ear, comes up with a good ..- Mr. Perry had been a farm- Mrs. Don Keller, president- ed the court with a prayer. „•season and literally sells folks er and a carpenter his entire eiect of the Murray Woman's The Grand Jury was chosen . on the idea that the Racers can life He was one of the or- Ciuh, reported on the recent from the list of jurors and will go meeting of KFWC. She describ- • iginal incorporators of the Soil report back to the court on Improvement Association and ed the awards and citations Wednesday, May 15 This late Last week we get a letter from an original board member. won by the Club, which were date for the Grand Jury report Bill (along with about a 1000 Wallis The deceased Ilk a director varied and many. E. Perry is set due to the meetings of .7_ other folks) pointing but how of the TVA Farm 'Land Use it ysas also announced that on the Kentucky Bar Association ro 4 important support for the Rac- Association. He was a member May 12th, at one p.m a tape and the Kentucky Circuit Jude ers is. By golly this person to Per of the Board of Directors of the of the state music competition Wallis E. Perry es being held this week which person contact will do ihe job. Soil Conservation District In which was held at the convent- .Judge Lassiter and other law Makes us wonder if Bill didn't Dies In Germany; - I Wn- Western Kentucky serving u iun, can be seen on WPSD-TV. yers plan to attend. major in psychology. tf the secretary-treasurer of the Dis- The First District representa- Retired Sergeant The Petit Jury will report tc Assoc- trict He county commit- tive, Ernie 'Williams, of Mur the court on Monday, May 13 New comes some was a i will definitions ray', will be seen on this show for the opening of regular which we stole teeman for the PMA farm pro- t the from the Fulton Mrs. Don Hunter and Mrs. Wallis E. Perry, SSgt. • gram Perry was a member of (U court With Judge Lassiter pre 441 Daily Leader which in turn 13, 11. the War Board USDA, farm Tom Brown, who have handled Retired) died in Germany on siding. picked them up from the Pub- machinery ration board. the sale of the Favorite Re- May 2 as the result of a myo- Members of the G••ascl Jury a *- lisher:s Auxiliary, and so on cipes Cook Book, reported that cardial infraction, It Colonels Warren and Brandon Parker meet In Vietnam. Warren retired The Calloway County ma n according to are Johnny McCoo• :eman ad infinitum. recently and would en- Limas now was member of profit from the sales Brigadier General George E. Henry Hohon. L. , lison works with the state department. Brandon is a former resident of Murray and was a the First 'oach- with the Murray ROTC Baptist Church and the H. M. able the Club to retire the debt McCord, Military( Personnel Bob Billington, Bobby , ogan, Says the Publisher's Auxiliary State unit. His family still lives here while Col. Park•r is In Viet Nam. Perry Sunday School Class of incurred when the parking lot Center Headquarters, United Mary Alice Garner, Mrs. Ernest — In these news-saturated U.S. Army Photograph that church. He and his wife. was srecently paved and en- States Air Force. ' Madrey, Mrs. Charles Caldwell, times when much of our infor- Nannie, who survives him, had larged and the patio carpeted. Perry. age 31, spent thir- Mrs. Paul Shahan, Mrs. Cole mation originates with "ex- City Resident Is been married 62 years and six Mrs. Gowans, announced the teen years in the service and man McKeel, Mrs. Rob Ray, Perta." ."special committee," months. general meeting to be held on was a civilian employee of- the and Mrs. Ann Woods, 'official spokesmen," etc., Overcome By Brothers Smoke Survivors are his wife, three May 20th at six p.m. This is a Air Force in Germany. His wife need a phrasebook to interpre If Street.ssons,ns40a5adRoHbeerbrtertof ft h dinner meeting and reservat- and son were with him at the the obscure language of certain Mrs. Winfred Jackson of 108 Mason of ions should be made with de time. pronouncements South 12th Street was almost Meet Again A ray Route One, and Clarence of partment chairmen by May He was the son of Mr. and Funeral Held overcome by smoke last night Jackson. miss., one sister, Mrs. 17th. Installation of new of- Mrs. Fred Perry of 405 North To aid in this direction, they about 8.30 at her home. Martha Grogan of ficers will be by Mrs C. C. Second Street who survive him carried the following **transla- She was taken from t h e 1" North Tan Son Nbut 10th Streit; one niece, Mrs. So- Lowry, retiring president of He is also survived by six Today For tions of some familiar instances house by Murray Firemen who lon Darnell who was reared by KFWC. brothers and sisters Brendell of gobbledygook": were called to the scene after the PeIT) -s •- two nephews Ken- of Chicago, Saforina Holland of "The committee met and smoke had filled the house. LTC Warren E. Parker, re neth and William Grogan. five Washington, D. C., Helen of evaluated the situation" (Half- Mrs Jackson was taken cently retired, and now a mem Mr. Hargrove next grandchildren, eight great Chicago. and Lewis. and Char. the members showed up and door where she was her of the State Department given oxy- grandchildren. onor lea both serving in Germany talked for a while). gen by James Coleman was greeted upon his arrival and ex- Funeral services will be held ,and Ordrain of Murray. Avery Hargrove was claime(' • I "We explored every conceiv- amined later by a doctor. at Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Saig- Wednesday at 2:30 p.m_ at the Rutledge Funeral Home has by death Saturday' about 11 able solution to the problem." Fire Chief Flavil Robertson on by his brother LTC Bran- chapel of the J. H. Churchill students Are of arrangements which are at his trailer home at (Everybody talked a lot but said Mrs. Jackson was not hos- don L. Parker who is with the Funeral Home with Dr. H. C. are incomplete at this time. Coldwater. Reports are that th- nothing was said ) pitalued. He said the smoke Operational War Plans. Branch, lo. Chiles and Rev. L. V. Henson couch in the trailer was smold- "The results were inconclu was from grease on the J3, in General Westmoreland's stove officiating. ering and Mr. Hargrove died sive." (Nothing was accomplish...and the firemen used Hqs. Named Today , at the Active pallbearers will be from asphyxiation. etki smoke ejector to remove the Warren is returning to Viet- Ily Igo, 1.1irlerit Alta" Max Beale, 011ie Barnett, per Hargrove, age 75, was a mem "It is widely accepted that -smoke from the house. nam for his fourth tour., .Murray High School Three Hendon, Bill McClure, Ken- • Top honor students of the her of the Coldwater Method (One other person agrees previous tours from 1962-66 TY I ." neth Grogan, William Grogan, graduating class of 1968 at Superlatives ist Church He was an Army in with me) were served with the Special Revival 0 Bondurant, and Guy Bil. Murray High School are Vale- Veteran of World War I. te "Therefore the consensus is Services Governor Forces of which one tour be C I.ngton dictonan Beverly Paschall and Survivors are three dough sy "(A couple of others think was on loan to the State De Planned At Church Honorary pallbearers will be • Salutatorian Jan Cooper, ac- ters, Mrs.