Murray State's Digital Commons The Ledger & Times Newspapers 4-29-1968 The Ledger and Times, April 29, 1968 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, April 29, 1968" (1968). The Ledger & Times. 5957. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt/5957 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]. 11" —. , , or. N.,•-••••-• • e• Selected As A Bast All Round Kentucky Community Newspaper 21, MS The Primary • Largest Paid Source of News Circulation In Murray and Both In City 1 Calloway County And In County ILS ;111United Press International In Oar nth Year Murray, Ky., Monday Afternoon, April 29, 1968 10. Pet. Copy Vol. LXXXIX No. 102 EY dor ? Seen&Heard Gospel Meet Calloway Is — Wo- t ready to illy, says Starts Here tier who Around Second In country Inine A gospel meeting began at ire Murray the University Church of Christ Field Day Saturday night. n speak- Nice couple in from California Services are being conduct- School, runner- te others last week visiting in Calloway. ed each evening at 7.00 thr- Lowes High competition, ( centers, While here they renewed their ough Wednesday. up in last year's honors Fri- for fall 'subscription, we had a nice The speaker is Virgil Trout, captured first place PTA Field still are talk and they wanted direct- Oklahoma City, where he is day at the annual State University • That's ions to the house so they could presently serving as minister Day at Murray rear bus- see Old Sport. for the Mayfair Church of farm. to Christ. Second place honors went champion, Calloway Sport never did say whether conducted OWN last year's lee, Her- ' Mr. Trout has they came by or not campus series dur- County. South Hopkins won the in being, 100 lecture ing the last 12 years, including third place plaque. is. I was We have a profusion of Violets Cornell, Michi- The Lowes team won first down to such schools as all over the place. State, place in the general livestock knockers gan State, Washington University of Texas, and Uni- judging and in the tobacco n I made Put out some Altheas common versity of New Mexico. He has grading, and took third place women ly called Rose of Sharon They also served as chaplain for the in dairy cattle judging to help ast don't make a good flowerdy screen of New Mexico. He them out-point Calloway Coun- I. If the University or hedge an active member of the ty, 4193-3801. in at all, is of the Lowes also had the individ- at-homo American Association The Kentucky Airport zonini of Science, the ual winners in three of the s cutting Advancement Commission comes up with the Victoria Institute of Great Bri- events. Carl Dickerson won the for fail,s Since Sides of Antenna Farms tain, the Society for the Scien- general livestock judging, Don- to storeil‘ increase Vandal Writther, U.S. Sell Conservation fotryke prepares to antennas are on the tific Study of Religionk and the leen his dealt save nearly ald Tyler took top honors in 'rancisco, hazard 23 years with U.S.DA. Wrather retires as Sell Corwervationist at Murray, and since each adds a American Academy of Religion April 30. • the tobacco grading, and Don- ick East. group to flying, the idea is to and Mental Health. He w as ald Riley won the auctioneer- 1st were or given antennas in -farms" named outstanding religious ing event. here is that, areas, The thought lecturer of 1966 by the students Calloway County had two in- miss the fazinj Yandal Wrather To Retire After Nearly down a a plane could of Arizona State University. dividual winners with Dwane [Continued on back Rogers in the dairy cattle judg- tot few Pare) MAN OF THE HALF-CENTURY — Dr. Ralph H. Woods, During the summers of 1964- ing and Kennie Hale in the said in president of Murray State University for more than 21 65. Mr Trout was instructor of 33 Years Of Working With Agriculture tractor driving contest. OWTOOMS years, displays the plaque designating him as the Murray Christian Apologetics in Ayles- Third ranked South Hopkins Is one of 2-Car Wreck of Man of the Half-Century. The bury, England. Yandal P• rather, Soil Con- "Conservation Workshop" Chamber Commerce's entist for SCS at Mayfield be- a clean sweep of the soil if they, He also will speak in the etrvationist at Mu ray. Ken- fore !noting to Marshall Conn., teachers_ This workshop gist made award was the first of its kind ever gh en by the Murray taking team ho- ill just Murray Univeaity Auditorium tueky will retire Aoril 30 MR teachers valuable background fudging event, orgasizadan. Dr. Woods, on terminal leave as Murray State's 33 --y`ea—r.S tr as Soil Conservationist ntirs and winning the individ- Is Reported , 1 he presi- at 3'30 p.m. on April 29, April after nearly service was (Continued on Back Pagel president, retires officially on Jun when becomes ineWhtirolemienntaMiarsinhanroSCmoDtinhe ual mpetition with Norman dent emeritus of the university. Dr. Harry Sparks, who suc- 30 and May 1. in U.S. Department of Agri- the rut- and years as Vo- Berry. ceeded Dr. Woods as MSt.: president, was the main speaker culture four of the "Conservation Caravan a mere The Murray Police Depar4 cational teacher. Calloway High Band In the other events Ernest at the Chamber's 41st annual banquet, at which time the Agriculture field days" Seven thousand •-• • .ut every meat investigated a two co Wrather. a graduate of Lynn Hamil of Fulton County won presentat in was made to Dr. Woods. All-County Band people viewed a complete "face eiect.ed. To Appear ifacturer, accident •Saturday at five p.m. High School and Uni- the seed identification and seed Grove I lifting" of a badly eroded farm ruffled in front of Roberson's Hih-Bur-ig Festival Closes versity of Kentucky, taught Vo- At Cincinnati Park tag judging contest, and Farm- ir in one day. spring ger Inn on South 4th Street, in Pulaski ington captured team honors With Concert cational Agriculture the Chaelloewavaey way trimmed according to the report filed in• and Lincoln Counties and was The concert band of Cello- in the dairy cattle judging. !s, trim- Sgt. Martin Wells and Patna- Pvt. Jones Fatally CoAunsstyignSCedD thin County High School has According to chairman of the Injured The All-County Band Festival County Agent of Morgan Coun- • injuries valuable assistance to Murray been selected to participate in State University agri- lam J. D. Grogan. No was held Saturday, April 21 at ty for ten years before joining Murray State University's pace setting Coney Island's annual Band culture department, E. B. How. were reported. Jeffrey Gymnasium at U.S Soil Conservation Service.' eg a n d 1907 Festival in some 700 boys from 37 Cars involved were a In Accident; Two Are Hurt way County High School. Wrather's career has spann- 1968. The local ton, I of ver- driven by will high schools partLipated in the Chevrolet four door Sixty-three beginning and ad- ed some of the greatest ad- Chapter Of Spanish musicians perform at the ruffled Hendricks of famed Cincinnati amusement event Mildred Perry Mayfield Route One near 'Fri vanced band students from the vance in agriculture and nat- ruffled. Pri v a te Michael D. (Mike) Fraternity Installed Dwane Rogers of Calloway Murray Route Five and a 1966 City, was pronounced dead OD SIX county grade schools parti- ural resource conservation. park on Sunday, May 5th. ! even by Jones of Fort Rucker, Ala., son Purpose of the Band County High won the individ- Chevrolet two door driven arrival at the Henry County cipated in the festival The stu- '''We used mules for power, did On MSU Campus Festival, maround of of Mr and Mrs Ralph Jones of according to ual competition in dairy cattle Jerald Gilbert Cooper General Hospital, Paris, Tenn., dents rehearsed from early in our County Agent work on Charles Stanley, gingham Gil- Director of Special Events, is judging and Calloway High Owensboro and owned by after being injured in an auto the morning to mid-atternoon, horseback. sometimes gone for The Zeta Upsilon chapter of se collar to thank the f o r in second in the team bert Cooper. mobile accident late Saturday under the direction of Mrs. three days at a time to the far Sigma Delta Pi, national hon- teen-agers came ind they were Captain Leeper Is Police said both cars night_ 'Carolyn Pigg, band director, cerners of Morgan County The orary Spanish society, was of- their efforts during the past event. 4th Hale of Calloway _11-ave1ing north en South ing In Vietnam Jones. age 20, and two otherI and Phil Cole, student direct. a%:•rage tillable land of h ficially installed last week at school year As a measure of Rennie car Ser was first in the 'Street when the Hendricks persons, Karen Dick. age 18, off or, farms ilia acres"• Wrather• Murray State University. appreciation. Coney Island will County High lion, too was at- tractor driving contest, and the stopped for a car that Capt. David H. Leeper, son Lynnville and Vester Doris in the evening the students commented in reviewing some The installation ceremony give each Participant 22.50 Herman the Rib- worth of free ride Lakers came in second place in tempting to pull off i of Mr and Mrs.