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For more information, please contact [email protected]. omaamsea awauesessierari.c.- - •.1. • •II • !Selected As A Best AR Round Kentncky Community Newepsper Largest Largest Circulation In The Circulation In The City; Largest '10We City; Largest Circulation In Circulation In The County 57 The County • No. 62 IN OUR 76th YEAR Murray, Ky., Monday Afternoon, March 14, 1955 MURRAY POPULATION 8,000 Vol. LX.R.V1 Rotary Letters Bring Replies SAFETY IN NUMBERS Strikes Put Over 65,000 Seen &I-lewd Foreign Out Of Jobs In The South Around From Several Clubs ATLANTA V —A nine - state about 90 per cent of the railroads The International Service Com- He enclosed a pamplet of Swit- strike of union telephone workers of the nation have accepted the mittee of the Murray Rotary Club zerland showing the scenic and started today and within hours the compromise plan proposed by a MURRAY of a which historic points of interest. is in the midst Project l committee main BirmIngnam to New Orleans presidential ernergeney will undoubtedly improve relations Joseph Hungs. president of the sa cable was severed in what a South- after a threatened strike in 19fi3. the between a small segment of Ostende, Belgium club wrote that soy they Mr. and Mrs. Karl Frazee must ern Bell spokesman wild was "de-! The railroads involved United States and an equal area although Ostende 'was very badly liberate sabotage." will nut adopt any plan requiring derive a lot of pleasure from their in forty-five foreign nations. damaged and suffered heavily from The strike. acneduled to begin compulsory wage deductions. pLee on Main street. D. L. Divelbiss. chairman of the enemy action during the last War, ( at 6 a. m.. EST, ill the Southern The Communitations Workers of committee and Prentice Lassiter, and from sea floods in 1953, it Bell territory, put approximately America demanded a substantial ulaid across a member of the committee have has, owing to the indomitable 50.000 union telephone workers off general wage increase for its mem- 1 fArelinet af the min of the nthe written a letter to a Rotary Club spirit of its population, already the job. Picket lines were set up ber employes, but the detailed el.orentary school on South Thir- in forty five different nations. fully recovered from its dreadful at many points two hours ahead terms of the donand hove never teenth street This will carry the The letter described the Murray experiences'. of expiration of the old contract- ben disclosed, Water that has been washing a Rotary Chib and the city of Mur- Mr. Hung, ended his letter to last midnight. Contract negotia- , The Major point of disagree- ditch across the campus. ray. Mr. Lassiter with 'trusting that tion s have not bragken off, how- ment -between the telephone com- 1 The points of interest in Murray, some day we will have the agree- eh ever. pany and Its union employes has It won't be known for sure whe- Galloway County and Western able surprise to receive the visit A Southern Bell spokesman said been over the company's efforts to 11•$.her the first and second graders Kentucky were described in the of some of your members on !by at Birmingham the company was write into a new °tantrum a ban on 4''of the city and county will get letter. Lassiter expressed a feeling tour in Europe, we du extend offering a $5,000 reward 'am per- "wildcat strikes" which it said i the polio shots, until about April of goodwill and cooperation an the meanwhile our very best regards sons responsible" for the cable caused frequent local tieups in .1 10. letters. and heartiest wishes to all our service. Seven answers have already been Murray Rotarian friends, and beg cut. Weary company and Union nego- Southern Bell had offered a wage . 1, Mans are being made however, received from some of the .letters you to accept for yourself. dear tiators called a halt to their mara- increase of II to $4 a week totaling to go ahead .with the inoculations. and are from widely scattered Mr. chairman, our amiable thou- thon discussions at 8:45 a.m. after about 56.000.000 a year but this l so when the green light comes, points of the world. ghts.' session was spurned because it was things will be seedy. Countries included are Italy: Eric Beyer, chairman of the being in since 11 a. m. Sun- day coupled with a demand for a no- — — Lausanne. SwAzerland; Ostende. International Serviee Committee of Another meeting was sched- 'a 2 strike clause, and because it would " I1 There la Alie' danger in the shots Belgium; Copenhagen. Denmark; the Copenhagen, Denmark Rotary uled for p.tn. today. I/ big cover only about 45.000 employes. ''.whatauever. Essen, Germany.; Capetown, South club sent his best wishes to the Another strike tar in the -- -- Africa: Goteborgs. Sweden. Murray Rotarians South today — a walkout of 15.000 the and TV commercial songs still ring Stephen A. Crump, member of ,Hans Krawhal in his letter from employes of Louisville ram' ar t the house. Eating din- International Contact Com- the Essen, Germany club said Nashville Railway system. Cold Front Pushes throughout the TWO MEN reach to join Nude as they battle a roartng torrent in a street of Maitland, Australia. Milan, Italy club at is necessary About 20 operators walked off ner the other day one of the kids mittee of the that 'we think towns hard in New South Wales. (fetereationed) Maitland Is one of the kit by floods their jobs at 4 p.m. from Southern Down Into Deep wanted 90TYIS crackers so he gave wrote that Milan was the 'industrial that young people learn the cond- 7 it out to the tune of Dragnet. It and financial center of Italy and itions of foreign life in other Bell's headquarters building in South Today arlowit went Imething like, -Pass the is a city bf 1.390,000'. He extended countries.' He added that 'we PVT. GLENN EAKFR Gunman Holds Plane downtown Atlanta They Immed- ----- - crackers. p-1-e-a-e-e." Murray Rotarians an invitation to accept your greetings in Rotorian SAILS FOR GERMANY iately set up picket lines there. By UNITED PRESS attend their meeting at the Hotel spirit as a symbol for understanding Passengers At Bay Most Money' Picket lines also formed at other A cold front whi_h touched off veeney a More excitement when our eat Duomo any Tuesday at 12:30. and fraternity between nations Pvt Glenn T Eaker son of Mr. points in the south by 6:01 a.m. a death-dealing tornado drove deep dragged in the other night obvious- Paul Dufour, secretary of the all over the world' and Mrs Charlie Eaker of Murray NEWARK. NJ I? —A crazed when W A Smallwood. district di- into Dixie today and high March i dly frurn an altercatIon His left Lausanne. Switzerland Rotary club Vf J Savage of the Cape Town, Route four left this morning from airhne imssenger terrorized- 30 fel- Is Going rector of the Communication Work- winds fanned vast forest fires in iof leg or foot was injured in some wrote that 'the main idea South Africa club says that his Camp Kilmer, New Jersey for low passengers and the plane's ers of America. CIO. said "the three southern states. the principles 'living strike is on.'• Way and he refused to walk on it. Rotary) being that club is doing its best in Germany. crew for five tense minutes Sun- The unpredictable 'March weath- Rqtary are well in mind, and to the motto 'Service Above piece wood Smallwood added that "negotia- er was turning its full force on of up his exact day night with a of To Asia In after as much It is not known what tions are continuing" with the com- The entourage was made this this we are looking that he said Was a gun the Southland. ne' 5 Rotary location in Germany will Vie at morning up to Dr Converse to as possible'. The Gotenborgs, Sweden pany even after the strike dead- A cold wave moved into the ire this time. The passenger. who identified By ARTHUR J. OLSEN it see what could be dune with Club sent in their letter a picture- i`01 line. The negotiators had been in northern Midwest, but springlike himself as Edward Koen. a former United Press Staff Correspondent le 151. inSured member. sque folder of the City of Cote- session all netted. temperatures dominated 'catch of stood up in the WASHINGTON IP --President Ken Slaughter To borgs. Boston policeman, The railroad's last attempt to the nation. Ohio River flood watch, aisle shortly before the Eastern Eisenhower reported to Congress prevent its strike ended Saturday NW. Disk obliged the kids by Mayfield Mr Lassiter said that he felt Local Men To were falling and ,gentle itioda Head Airlines plane landed here use a today that the United States now with the ro: dating al8 ma, ia try aed that by writing the letters to the afternoun reatini the flowed across the Southwest flight from Washington With one is pumping the bulk of its foreign contact Dr Converse He was out Junior Chamber forty-five different clubs, that some Attend Convention Kentucky Court of Appeals to Bowl" area.