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'ted Press IN OUR 76th YEAR Murray, Ky., Saturday Afternoon, December 31, 1955 MURRAY POPULATION 10,100 Vol. LXXVI No. 367 viii go to array DEBRIS IN THE WAKE OF THE CALIFORNIA FLOOD oftt State Murray JCs Thomas Doran Big Safety Campaign Holds am Honored Hold Dinner In Chicago Down Holiday Traffic Deaths Give -• The Murray Junior Chamber of By United Press with four deaths each. New Hemp- Citizens Recital Dakota, which ,Commerce held their • annual Din- One of the biggest safety esernm 'tire and South. ner - Dance at the Kenlake Hotel pa.gne in the nation's history ap2ilboth got through the beeod y victorious Murray Thorough- Thursday night. A fine dinner Thomas Do r a n. ec:omplished peered to be holding down traffic Christmas weekend witintot a were welcomed home yes- followed by dancing to the music young concert pianist of Murray. deaths on the start of the New single traffic death, were among e Year's '- by a large crowd of fans !of the Dec Barton Combo was will be the featured piano soloist Yeer's holiday today. the first to report New " ell wishers. The squad was enjoyed by the Jaycees. their on the Jaruery 0 progri m of the The United Press count stifrting auto fatalities. • t the Eggner's Ferry Bridge wives and guests. Lyon-Healy Young .Artiets Recital Friday night showed that at 6 p.m. Five Deaths An Hour large crowd, even though A highlight of the program was Ssries. The program will be edie- death on the 35 persons had met If the National Safety Council's 1 is not in session, the presentation of the Spark tented in the Lyon-Healy Concert streets and highway. There were prediction of 420 New year's dead procession eame int() Plug Awards to the following Hall, Chicago. and four in Murray two deaths in fires proves true, it will mean that they were met at the city Jaycees: William Boyd, Merrit Ma- miscellaneous accidents for a hol- Lyon-Healy. famed music re- more than five Americans will die by the white fire truck. rine. Ed Fenton, •Harold Beaman iday total of 41. tailing firm, is sponsoring for the in smash-ups during every hour of the city police car State and John Sammons. The Spark Across the nation, a small army third consecutive year a . cries of the 78-hour holiday man Guy Turner led the Plug award is given by the Na- of police and .National Guardsmen recitals presenting outstanding It will also mean an all-time rec- rage from the bridge to the tional Organization to local Jaycees waged war against death. Their iv- young artists who represent the ord for- New Year's-SIsughter--five for outstanding service to the signment was to prove the fore- very'asnstt talent in the Chicago above the record 415 traffic deaths circling the square the Club. cast of a record-breaking 420 traf- area, and wham are -pupils of counted over the 1952 holiday. and coaches were placed fic deaths by midnight Monday prominent teachers. Thes onday n improvised stage in front wrong. Only one week ago, the nation ' H-Bomb War Evening Recital - twenty-t e in e courthouse. J. R. Mitchell ee. H(Avever. the hours of greatest set an all-time, all-heliday traffic .11 - give these young people, a short talk and introduced Possible Says dangers were still to come. The death • record of 821 during the who have been selected by audi- ✓ George Hart who praised death rate was expected to pick three-day Christmae holiday. It Soviet tions, an oppertunity perfarrn team and coaohes for (her Premier up rapidly tonight. where hordes of was this staggering total wpich before good-sized and appreciative .ng the Kentucky Invitational merrymakers will welcome in the aroused today's all-out, tho-holcls- MOSCOW. Dec 31 IP --- Soviet audiences. lament IN SCOTIA,• bulldozer foundered to washout of U. S lel Hundreda were homeless. fisiternanona0 New Year by demiting too much barred drive ..te save lives. ..taPremier Nikolai Bulganin warned ext Saturday well sheet, Uncle For his performance on t and then trying ta drive home. Uniformed National eauardsmen. day H-bomb warfare is possible h e Diddle) that the game Thurs- Lyon-Healy Young Artiste -Recital The early -count-- showed" Mich* left • Mir • herfres-Tor-the-thrtidaysi- even though both East and West did amount to somethingl gan. New York state and Ohio all aqd aided st 'te pol.ce Louisiana_ these weapons of mass ✓ Hart told the crowd. Coach poises' Wiseorisia. Kansat, Arizo- destruction le of Western is reported to na.. Michigan.. and Tennessee. In Soviet Premier sounded his Mid after the game, that The Thousands Of Terme, ee. Louicana. Kansas and a question and answer pme did not amount to much. warning in Illinois, they were aided' by planes with the American Tele- Polio Shots Go ently meanisg as far as the Interview which Sifipt a 'sky pOral for dan- Television Company erence went Murray pleys. news To Waste In 1955 gerous drivers poszr1tr.:7 or thee- tern in regelar season play He said the -- — Forces Beefed l'p manuelesr agar between East and Saturday ee rsowling Green By MICHAEL J. (YeiEll.I. Police forces across the nation West was not "automatically ex- ayor Hart then presented Coach United Press Staff Correspondent were beefed up to their top force the fact that both aelexandee with two hams. elided" by WASHINGTON MI -Thousands and efficiency -1.eeves were can- atomic and hydrogen he and the squad. Sides possess of Sells polio shots went to waste celled and shifts wre lengthened fling bombs. in the 1965 mass inoculation pro- to as long as 18 hours. - Pennsyl- replies to a series of In his gram. it eves learned todae vania reported •ri "unprecedent- Relaxing submitted by the agency. In questions State health authorities revealed ed" force of 1200 state troopers' expressed hope for peace y West Sun Ibileanin in a nationwide United Pres sur- on the roads. Indiana had a rec- in the New Year But, he warn- --- vey that enough serum to inocu- ord-breaking 420. and Texas or- ed: By MERRIMAN SMITH late more than 35.000 children bee dure:I publie safety inspectors to used reads I ied Press White Horse Writer Says War Not Serino/lid came "stsles before it was go oi'i the r.y 'EST Fla. Dec 31 MI - They blamed distribution ntixups: Tennessee westnie one 'if the sident Eisenhower relaxed un- '11 is wrong to assert that the safety testing snafu this aum- most ..intesor tattles ageiret high' the warm Floeida son at eetsmiseh as Rest and West pommy sner and other - - easy , lagghter. rut 14911volunteen. ars end today, still uncertain hydrogen - ariallanui isis poesibility Mots of this favaNte Was ear- guardsmen. 200 evert jeep* and the- the new year ahead wrrild of a thermonuclear war is auto- marked for the school program of ambutences ton the highways. him toward a hot campaign matleallsteexcluded. the Nationjil Foundation for Infan- About 200. of the trea-d-men were • •e-eleetion or toward retire- "Assertions of this kind can in Thomas Da. tile Paralysis. stationed on Memph.s• ets to fact lull the vigilance of peoples More than 11.000 additional warn motorists to 'drive :defy 'among belongings left on a highway. (I'it/rotational) on January 9. Mr. Doran will share is main concern as he soaked IN KLAMATH, a refrigerator and furnace ate who support the elimination of the doses, it wait . 1earAed, also have In Chicago, which pootel the program honors with Marion the sun's rays and exercised threat of an atomic war." been- returned to manufacturers worst rretrapolitan death record Dirins Flaherty. gifted lyne so- orously remained the continuing Bulganin added "Of course, the reale the start of the government's over Christmes, bartenders a n d Weather Study prano For his first group. Mr 'ale for fuller recovery from fact that under present conditions voluntary distribution program night club owners were warned weapons can- Doran has chosen "Sonata F P heart attack that made 1955 This Week's Balance Sheet .rn Contrasts atomic and hydrogen Says Record Good not to let any. tipsy Lustomers try has Mlnor" a n d "Sonata G Major" sm one 14 the more eventle,' - not be used without impunity to drive home both by Searlatte and **Sonata Dr G Foard McGinness. of an action-packed life By UNITED PRESS some deterrent effect on thaw "Don't even fetch their cars for In The Hot And Cold Wars unleash Op. 90" by Beethoven Mr Doran Clne director of the foundation. !•I members in • position to The last day of the year was circles which would like td them." Traffic Chi.f Michael will close the program with said he estimated vase:ne tomes reported that he had not cold and sunny in much of the was, using weapons of mass an- Ahern Ordered.