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Largest with TrAMIN Circulation In The City Local News ,CTION Largest and [MS Circulation In Local Pictures The County Insured— ley MURRAY POPULATION 10,100 Vol. LXXVIII No. 85 YEAR 9, 1957 41 United Press IN OUR 78th - Murray, Ky., Tuesday Afternoon, April • Pest Youth Will Serve Alumni Banquet Is Over 'The Planned By MTS I Program Cost ' Cool Air Spreads Dl Assistant Attorney General 4 PTA On April 20 Higher Than Southeast In Wake Of Storms M. B. Holifield Dies Monday The Murray Training School Parent - Teacher Association is F • were Roseboro. N.C.. where four sponsoring an Alumni Banquet By UNITED PRESS persons were killed and 'about 25 FRANKFORT itfl — Asst. Atty. Case meant to the Cernmonwealth to be held at the school. on Sat- Astimated Cool but mostly clear weather cademy 85, of persons .injured, and Falkville, Gen, M. B. Holifield, one and other states, but officials urday, April 20, at 7 p.m. overspread the Southeast Tues- the state's most widely respected here figured that over the years barrage Ala., where _at. least 45 persons Letters have been sent to each FRANKFORT eh —State Sup- day in the wake of a eonstitutional authorities, died the total would eventually run tornadoes, and were injured. member of' lhe graduating clas- erintendent of Public Instruction of death-dealing ward Were late Monday after a long in the hundreds of millions. Northeast The avalanche occurred at ses, and reservations are to be Robert R. Martin Monday an- a snowstorm in the illness. Holllfield had been suffering Berthoud Pass when the Colora- made on or before April 10. nounced that the cost of the moved rapidly out to sea. Holifield was best remembered from an intestinal disorder for rescue workers do...Highway Department ,fired a Winner This is the first Alumni ban- Minimum Foundation Program In Colorado, for his 19-year-long fight to nearly a year. He underwent tons of snow in 75-millimeter howitzer shot into quet to be held at the school and had exceeded the -original ,esti- dug through equalize freight rates between 'operations twice in the past cameraman for Welt a sheer mountainside tn lessen all graduates are urged to attend. mates by about $202.000. search of a '(Best northern and southern states, a seven months but his health Studios who was burredo a dangerous snow accumulation. Kartin -announced. the final al- Disney court victory which saved Ken- declined rapidly in the past few with a companion, under Body Still Missing lotment§ of $54,988.338 in Min- along )irection tucky and other southern states weeks. man-made avalanche. The snow rumbled •down out imum Foundation funds to the a millions of dollars. The venerable public official Smith A United Press count showed of control, burying cameraman of the 1-lerman state's 221 school districts. - In the 'fall of 1928, Holifield had been ailing from a heart at least 19 persons killed in John Hermann of Salt Lake City, The amount distributed includ- instituted the proceedings before condition for many years, but the latest flurry of spring weat- Utah, who was taking shots of Year) ed $54,785,500 appropriated by o , Interstate Commerce Com- he continued to work at his her violence. Four persons were the slide, and Wayne S. Whitlock, a Su- Passes Away 'the General Assembly and $30,- ---r feission which resulted in office in the Capitol leuilding killed in a tuned° Monday at 20, a truck driver for the High- -t.. preme Court ruling in favor of each morning until just a few 545 in federal funds which had ,t Roseebero, N. C., two were killed way Department. .- es the southern shippers in 1947. weeks before his final illness. not been budgeted this year. Herman C. Smith. age 62. pas- in a traffic wreck blamed on Whitlock's body talas recovered ' There was do way of estireat- Holifield had been praised by The fund's • available for the sed away at the Outvvood Veter- high winds and blinding rain night, but no_ trace was that court Minimum Foundation Program Monday ing how much money high state officials of all parties near Raeford, N. C., Monday pre- ans Hospital, Dawson Springs,' short of the found .of Hermann, who was end factions over the years for were $154.263 night, six persons died in Indiana. Monday at 6 p.m. following an according to the sumed dead. his work as Kentucky's most amount needed, three in LUitutis, and two each illness of three months due -- ----- A snowstorm in the Northeast respected constitutional authority. law's formulas. in Colorado and Ohio. complications. toward the Atlantic after Burdette Is Only recently, Gov. -A: B. Gov. A. B. Chandler promised "Tornado Alley" sweei, Thee deceased was a member one to four inches of Chandler gave him the first of to include the $164253 as a de- Monday's outbreak of twister's -dumping of Kirksey Methodist Church. snow during the night across the newly created Governor's (Chuck) MARSHALL, 26, graduate stu- ficit appropriatiiin in the two- -skipped through Dixie's "Tornado new CHARLES a teran of World War I. and Ohio, northern Pen- Awards for public service and year budget to be presented tA Alley" from northern Mississippi northeastern $peaker At dent in political science at Northwestern University, a member of Kirksey Lodge New York cited him for his "constructive Georgia, South nsylvania and much of contentedly types toward -his Master's degree having FAAM. through Alabama, influence on the development of County will receive southeastern^North state. of Evanston, Illi- Survivors include his wife, Calloway Carolina and Kentucky constitutional law." won an upset election as alderman Earlier, the slorm "howled" of the following allotments, accord- Carolina. Cage Banquet Holifield was born in Graves nois, defeating an incumbent of 16 years standing. Mrs. Hutchie Smith Kirksey; through Indiana, blocking at ing to Dr. Martin. The twisters.- touched off by a Suburb's all - time one daughter, Mrs. Wilburn Min- 10 state highways with County in 1872, the son of a "Chuck" will be the Chicago Calloway County $259,080: massive cold air mass, left at least 7: Soundphoto) ton of Fulton: three sons. Ralph drifting snow. Five of •Indiana's Floyd Burdette was the princi- private in the Confederate Army. youngest alderman. (International Murray $99,784. least 100 persons injured and U. S. Army, Frankfurt, Germany, weather deaths occurred in traf- pal speaker at the basketball He practiced ,law in Mayfield some 500 homeless. Damages for years and John B. of Kirksey, and Charles "Yte braldriirZE-sliPPery banquet held at Murray State several served the General A ben -next year. were expected to reach more as county attorney for one term Linn of Farminitton: two sisters, roads. College last night in the dining The $164.263 was cut from the than onv_millisin_rfollarc, before coming here as assistant Is Mrs. Roth Flood of Farmington River levels in the East and room of Wells Hall. Split Baseball Season 36 'school 'districts Which recelee Among the hardest hit sections attorney general in 1928. and Mrs. Ruble Morris of Gaith- Midwest continued to rise after - rhe speaker who is the coach Guy Minimum Foundation state aid One of Holifield's first as- ersburg. Md.; one brother, weeks The heavy rain. About 50 II? University of Tennessee Mar- under the $80 per average daily signments was as legal counsel Smith of Almo Route One; eight School Food Service families were evacuated in In- tin Branch. stressed the funda- To Weather, Beshear grandchildren. attendance formula. for the State Railroad Commis- Answer diana Monday when the Wabash mentals of basketball, but said con- The allotments of all of the sion. The thorough knowledge Funeral cervices will be Association To Meet River climbed nearly 10 feet that the lost art of the game was other school districts but five of freight rate structures he ducted at tbe Kirksey Methodist above flood stage. Two persons defense. He put much stress on By JIM DUMAS of impressing a big league scout' p. m. were computed from the compli- obtained there paid off years Church Wednesday at 2 .in Illinois drowned in flood - classroom activities, scholastic As usual the spasmodic April The world series is approaching cation foundation formula-which The Kentucky School Food later wittr • the elimination of with Rev. Orville Easley and swollen waters. and he said coaches must thunder storms are playing havoc and football is a few weeks 'takes into account the total ex- Service Association will hold its wise, the inequities flrat had plagued Rev. Roseberry officiating. Burial The Alabama River was re- start teaching something besides with spring high school and off. penditures on teachers' salaries, first annual meeting en Saturday, ESDAY southern business for three quar- will be in the Kirksey cemetery. ported at its highest flood crest in the high schools or college sports, especially base- Most vital for the non football Max capital outlay, transportation and April IS.