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The Ledger and Times, September 23, 1947 Murray State's Digital Commons The Ledger & Times Newspapers 9-23-1947 The Ledger and Times, September 23, 1947 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, September 23, 1947" (1947). The Ledger & Times. 1596. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt/1596 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]. 1917 Se1ected As Best All-Round Kentucky Weekly Newspaper For 1947 -t WEATHER FORECAST Kentucky-Fair %slat slow- Win- ly rising temperatures today larrett and not so cool tonight. ing in Wednesday mostly cloudy C. C. and vi armer. Toying United Press YOUR PROGRESSIVE HOME NEWS- Olive PAPER FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY Murray, Kentucky, Tuesday Afternoon, Sept. 23, 1947 MURRAY POPULATION — 5187 ark of Vol. XIX; No. 85 Pitts- jest of Waterfield To Open Demo Campaign w, Mr. Murray North Hospital To Be Sold October 27 At Morehead Saturday In Stadium I have by Mr. th 12th Republicans To Kick-Off At Louisville Friday At Public Auction; All Fixtpir - Children's Home Supt. To Go rly of Republicans a n d Demcordts Continues Divine Fast Insurance Cc loses Mortgage Murray Monday disclosed further details Housewives Hear Local Farm Agents r, Miss for their November geoeral elec- CONYERS Ga., Sept. 23 CUP)- Kentucky Cultists The faculty. tion campaign openings Friday and The Rev, G. A. Gaines has lost 30 Attend Management Murray Hospital will be gold Saturday. Testimony of Meat pounds Trek Tigers Will North during 11 days of a fast but School In Paducah Back, Forth Have to at public auction October 27 Mayor 41 he said today Gol- C. I. Ross. Republican state cam- Packers On Prices he could afford it. "Be Ready" to Top George Hart onnounced today. paign chairman, Before ,the fast, he said, his weight County Agent S. V. Foy with his Across Border in the said the GOP Mayor Hart is authorized as mas- kickoff would begin' Friday at 7 was 312. assistants C. 0. Bondurant and R.K. Morganfield Friday CHICAGO. Sept. 23 (UP)---A ter commissioner to sell the prop- p.m. iCSTi at the Memorial Aud- Gaines is superintendent of the Kelley are in Paducah today to at- ST. CHARLES, Va., Sept. 23 Federal grand jury summoned rep- "The itorium. Louisville. Jolly Home for homeless children tend a farm management school iUP)-A band of Tigers will have to be erty. , resentativee snakehandling • of the nation's big here. He plans to fast 28 days to A BROOKLYN BULL for extension wolkers in Tennessee ready_eFriday night if they down The program will last one and cultists, who thwarted Kentucky The hospital property will be four meat packers-Wilso. Armour, obtain divine help to pay off a FIGHTE R-Julian Faria. Valley. Morganfield." was the report of one-half hours, with the last half- and Virginia sold to satisfy judgments which Swift and Cudahy-today to tell $9,000 debt on the institution. The firet session met this police by dodging Coach Ty Holland's scouts who hour being broadcast over a Louis- 21, of Brooklyn, N Y., morn- why meat prices are so high. Gaines strongly denies ing at 9 o'clock in The -aeeemly back and forth across state lines, had returned from seeing. the have been rendered in favor of the -ville radio station (WHAS), be- any stcpped into the arena ir It called the first of 42 meat in- charge that he is a religious fa- room of the County Court House. were concerned Guerillas perform. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance ginning at 7:30 p.m. (CST). he Reynosa, Mexico, and came today that "too dustry officials subpoenaed in the natic. "Our scouts report that Morgan- said. out with first prize-a bull's Additional instruction for the farm much publicity" might cause the Company. government's investigation to de- "It isn't'. fanaticism to me," he workers will be presented tomor- field has a better ball club than ear. A protege of Sidney police to coordinate efforts to The entire property is up for The address of Attorney General termine whether a conspiracy ex- said. "Whenever I've needed help row. Peinceton," Holland remarked. Franklin, foremost Ameri- sale, including the building, Eldon Dummit, party nominee for ists to force meat prices upwards. in the past break up the copperhead-cuddling. "However, all the boys are in good I've fasted and help Foy expected that he and his as- grounds and all of the equipment zuverner, will be laroadeast. as can bull fighter, Faria dis- Kentucky highway shape at present and The peeking exeeuelves and em- alwaye .came. And there .never sociates would come -back with new Patrolmen barring ac- and accessories. will be portions of the speeches of was patched the irate bull with the chanting Cutting-, we will give them ployes faced a critical audience. any doubt in my mind as information, on obtaining a better - a gaud The Murray Hospital, formerly GUN'. Simeon Willis, U. 5 Sen. to one thrust of his sword and draped copperheads and rattlers battle." The 23 grand jurors included 14 where it came from." balance between' crops and live- called the Mason Hospital, belongs John Sherman Cooper. R., Ky., Despite was awarded coveted ear around their necks as they "got the The Tigers have two housewives who themselves faced the loss of 30 pounds stock on the farm. scalps to the-Mason -estate. Dr. Mason Superintendent of Public Instruc- during spirit." But their leader, "Rev." hanging from their the daily problem of feeding fam- tle first 11 days of his fast, belts--Frank- built and operated the hospital dur- tion John Fred Williams and Com- ilies with Gaines Oscar Hutton. led the 50 members lin-Simpson, 32-6, and prices high. Ikent about his duties as Princeton, ing his lifetime. On his death the monwealth's Attorney Frank The usual. He of the Holiness Faith Healers 12-0. Reports have it that grand jury was impannelled fed 20 hogs and wash- Local Demonstrations To Be Held On the for- doctor willed that the property Rotate. Louisville, Republican cam- by Federal ed one of four horses across the Kentucky State boun- ward wall is becoming better daily Judge John P. Barnes at the home. be operated as a hospital by paign manager for Jefferson Coun- He is dary marker into Virginia-as the and that the backs yesterday, shortly after the arrival 6 feet, 5 inches tell. Cyanamide Treatment of are rounding a board of directors. ty. Willis will introduce Dum- of John Gaines was Plant Beds Kentucky police looked on. up in very good style. F. Sonriet, ace anti-trust firm in his belief A new board of 'directors for the mit. man of that divine As a large crowd of spectators It is predicted here the justice department. guidance would en- - • that the hospital was elected in April. head- During the 30-minute pre- 1 • able him to complete A representative of the.American watched the mountain-top cere- Tigers will meet their payment of first real ed by H. J. Fenton, manager of the firoadcast program, speakers will $9,000 on the 325-acre monies, a group of Virginia troop- test of the season this HOW TO SAVE MONEY home which Banks to Show Horses Cyahamid Company will be in Cal- week and Murray Hosiery Mill. At that time Include Mrs. J. H. Kerr. Lexing- now sheltars 25 homeless children ers arrived to enforce the State's a huge crowd is expected to wit- I loway County next Friday. Sep- the name was changed from Mason ton,--etate womeres chairman, and BARRINGTON.• -Tifaets. and is At Fulton Tonight ban against snake handling. 'But ness the designed eti house-100 or second home game of to Murray Hospital. Eugene Clayton. Louisville Jef- (UP -Being forgetful saved John more when it is finished. tember 26, to give two demonstra- Hutton led his clan across into the year. Thomas Banks, horse enthusiast The institution went into receiv- ferson County alderman. Woodruff some money. Arraigned ."I've fasted before-the lions on. treating plant beds with Kentucky and one frezied member The Tigers° will meet longest Morgan- ership in August because at was Democratic Assistant State Cam- in court, he admitted that for 10 was 12 days. But my wife and owner of the Superior Laundry. applied a blowtorch to his face, field Friday night suf- cyanamide, County Agent S. V. at 8 o'clock behind on mortgage payments to paign Manager Robert Hensley Ian- years he had forgotten to renew fered more than I did. will show five horses at the an- shouting. "I'm not burned." in the Murray High She's al- Foy announced today. stadium. the Standard Life Insurance Com- flounced Harry Lee Waterflied. his automobile driving license. He ways worrying about it ruining nual West Tennessee and West Ken- The first demonstration will be pany. Clinton publisher who was defeat- was fined $10. A license renewed my health. But I intend to fast tucky horse show at Ailton tonight. at Clyde Hale's farm on the East The proceeds from the sale Octo- ed by U. S. Rep. Earle C. Clem- each year would have cost him $20 unte Oct. 10, if it's necessary," he James Trevathan horse Beellewee beginning-at 9 o'clock.
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