Murray State's Digital Commons The Ledger & Times Newspapers 12-24-1948 The Ledger and Times, December 24, 1948 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, December 24, 1948" (1948). The Ledger & Times. 7075. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt/7075 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]. s. • A 40. • sae" Selected As Best All-Round Kentucky Community Newspaper for 1947 .948 Iststaticsaiasecusnocurtivissispisnr WEATHER FOREGAS1 an for calves ▪rlf Kentucky — Snow in north inuary. w portion today. likely mixed itil the •/f with sleet tonight. Rain mix- re sold W cd with 'sleetand some freez- , with- ing temperatur es in south • t(portion today and mostly rain eclared 413mAkianala3aSi3t3t3a3tedlalklideliik3i. Hick- to (la- YOUR PROGRESSIVE HOME NEWS- — 8,000 Vol. XX; No. 160 id ends, United Press PAPER FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY Murray, Kentucky, Friday Afternoon, Dec. 24, 1948 MURRAY POPULATION MRS. SAUNDERS Not Too Late CAL161/14‘,a4St a Market News Oa't" 9 'C'15 To Bring Santa ICE In Kentucky PASSES AWAY 7 osie 1.1 To Local Family j, This is a report on the work of AT HOME THUR AND SNOW the markets division of the Ken- and Calloway county Mrs. Susan Saunders. age 93. Contributions started coming In Murray tucky department of Agriculture. to the Ledger and Times office awoke this morning with ice cov- passed away at her home at 9:15 It is being substituted for the reg- yesterday for the Breford Miller ering streets, trees and houses. a.m. yesterday of complications. contributors Weathermen predict ,colder and ular market price summary be- family yesterday. Most pfie 'had been in ill health for requested that their names not be possible snow for some sections of employes are on holi- cause state mentioned. the state. • some time. day vacation. The family is having a difficult by Her home is near Locust Grove No accidents were reported we to tell you about time since Mr. Miller received a • Today wish press time today. on Murray Route 5. an accident about other activities of the markets broken back in A snowstorm is spreading a white news She was the widow of the late division. In addition toe the Thanksgiving. Christmas—and hampering holiday prepares take some- program, the department J. F. Saunders who died in 1935. It is not too late to travel—over the northern half of if you wish. For those weekly reports for the trade and She is survived by one daughter, thing to them the United States. interested individuals on poultry who wish to take something to Mrs. Walter Trevathan, of Murray The storm rose east of the Rocky MIA dairy products, grain and them today or tomorrow the family nd Saunders mountains and is moving east- feeds, and a weekly news letter, Route 5, one son Rufus lives just beyond the Shady Grove ward. It is expected to reach the presenting a review and digest of Murray, three nephews, Homer. Market on the East Highway, off east coast before tomorrow night. concerning all farm products. Williams, and the highway to the left. George, and Neville The Chicago weather bureau has During the tobacco season, a daily Williams, James, age 7 and Mozelle, age three nieces, Mrs. Mary issued warnings that highways are report, by markets in the state, is Mrs. 11, will have a good Christmas af- Miss Rowena Williams, and dangerous in many areas--but Issued; and in season, daily reports ter all, thanks to the people of the Mabel Shipley. particularly in Illinois, Indiana, on friuts and vegetables are pre- city and county. She has four grandchilaren. Iowa, Oklahoma: Kansas and Miss- pared. Mrs. Saunders was a member of ouri. These mimeographed reports are the Locust Grove church. Sister of Mrs. The bad weather closed in as available to anyone upon request. The funeral will be held today hundreds of thousands of persons Should you wish to receive regular- at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. H. F. Pas- McElrath Injured started holiday trips by auto, train, ly any one or all of these reports, chall officiating. Burial will be in bus and plane. The National Safsty division of markets, write to the the family cemetery. Mrs. Wallace McElrath has just Council warns that sonic 265 per, Department of Agricul- Kentucky received word of a serious accident sons will be killed in traffic acci- request that your name ture, and which befell her sister, Mrs. J. E. dents over the Christmas holiday. placed on the mailing list for the be Record Shop Joke Lassiter of Lone Oak. Mrs. Lassiter In Washington, the weather DU - reports desired. Be sure to include tripped on a rug and fell breaking rc.0 has furecsst far to six inc'ess your mailing address. There cis no Backfires, Front her hip and wrist. She is in River- of snow today for parts of Ohio, the service. st,arge for side Hospital, Paducah. Kentucky, West Virginia and Pen- . The marketing division has a Teeth Plentiful Mrs. Lassiter lived in Murray nsylvania. Some air fields in the ioperattve agreement with the for several years and has many middle west have reported that the inspec- Oregon—Since the federal government for the PORTLAND. friends here who will regret to storm may reduce or halt air travel. This of the radio disc jockey, life say they tion of fruits and vegetables. birth hear of her misfortune. New York authorities inspection is given when requested, has been full of rich humor—things expect air travel to be heavier than mo- except in the case of strawberries, like; "tear off the top of your HE BELLS OF caais-rmits ring out, filling the air with their sweet, melodious tones . last year if the storm does not in- which are inspected by another ther-in-law and sent it in for a T Citizens of World terfere wita flying. agency. bottle of wumpledinks little liver Most observers believe Kentucky tablets." filling men's hearts with overwhelming joy. Voices are lifted up in happy unison. Bells Can Stay in France s would be seriously handicapped in That's just a sample. And an far port Briefs fruits and as we know, no one ever sent in the sale and shipment of PARIS — Th e American v.nn re-! Columbus—The Columbus sports markets the tablets. and people join in chorus — pealing out — singing out the merriest greetings of vegetables to terminal for nounced his citizenship to become a!arena has been authorized to sell inspection But Sammy Taylor of a radio citizen the world been without the federal-state of nes grant- ; 5,000 shares of stock to finance a quanity station in Portland, Oregon, went to in as /ice. That's because most the Christmas season. Familiar music to all ears — music that proclaims ed permission remain France I proposed million dollar arena at and vegetables too far and he's paying the piper. the end of Mrach. ,lspments of fruit at least until Columbus. basis. Sammy decided to get funny .re sold on the U. S. grade Friends of 2.5-year old Garry Da- Oxford—Miami University is Si,- the new Christmas ! necessitates both a certifica- while ;haying has born" —.music that inspires ▪ This -unto us • Savior been happiness vis say Ms visa waiewleeadad_31131h- g141'.10%sfty lekter and trtahoian and an inspection cer- record called "All I Want For tion of grade out his asking for it. 4numeral awards to members of Otherwise, the shiper Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth." T tificate. Davis is the son of American the football and cross-county teams at the mercy of the buyer As a gag, he told his listeners to .. n- isic that carries from one to the other the very best of would be dance band leader Meyer Davis. and student managers. losses might result. send their two front teeth to a re- rid drastic Bellefontaine—A Bellefontaine state marketing division al- cord shop and exchange them for The v..; .les — good health, good cheer, good fortune and above PEDANT DISAPPROVES trapshooter—Levi Shick—has been • so helps to supervise the inspectors a record of the song. "ROMANTIC LOVE" named as president of the Ohio during the season to assure corn- Well, to date. 43 pairs of front Trapshooting Association succeed- petent work in maintaining high teeth have appeared at the record all — a message for a most wonderful Christmas. 0. (UP)—"Roman- trig K. E. Mitchell of Greenville. grade standards. This Is for the ben- shop - mostly small fry, front teeth COLUMBUS, Athens—Harold Wise, who re- efit of both the buyer and seller. It in hand, demanding a record. tic love" and "the free choice sys- three persons signed as head football coach ae also contributes to a more orderly The last we heard, tem of mate selection" would be Ohio University yesterday, says he marketing program by assisting have come in with false teeth in is banned if an Ohio State University is not negotiating for a coaching producers in assembling, grading their hands and the proprietor fact. he's now professor had his way. job at Cincinnati University under ancl packaging their products in ac- getting desperate. In The Staff "The tooth Sid Gillman.