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Ss. •-• .10N1)AY, MAY A, 1954 THE LEDGER if TIM, HURRAY, KESITUCIT dint= -4411/•••1•111••••••••• sala'a --POLICE-NEED-OLD-CAR PLINT, Mich. et - City com- Have You Read Today's Classifieds earrinewara -• mission members, recently -aai- proved a palace dept. request for $1,827 for purchase of an ''old au- tomobile." The car 'is ncecied far PROTECTION FOR PANAMA CANAL1 6. • SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1954 A FULL WEEK'S Selected As A Best All Round Kentucky Community Newspaper TV gartall PROGRAM iIagion In The ity; Largest ircnlation In 3:30 Wild Bill Hickok Ile County, • 4:00 Captain Video • 4:15 Flicker Comics A 4:25 Weather 4:30 Dinah Shore IN OUR 75th YEAR MURRAY POPULATION 8,000 4:43 News Caravan Murray, Ky., Monday Afternoon, May 31, 1954 Vol.-LXIXV 5:00 Grouch() Marx 5:30 Cavalcade of America 6:00 Dragnet 6:30 Theatre 7:00 Martin Kane f. 2 7:30 Jackpot Calling 8:00 Playhouse Of Stars 8:30 News 8 40 Weather SESS.t,TN INCREASE TO BE PROTESTED 8:45 To Be Announced 9:00 To Be Announced 9.30 News Death 9:40 Weather .alities Delegation Of County Officials 9.45 Greatly Noted-find imiq Remembered-What Here To World Ilas They Be Did Announced 10:45 Tee -roll *-9..,.!le Sign Off OUONSET POINT, R. I. - r---- • - Yh Over Crewmen and officers of the ill- • Will Appear it Frankfort Meet FRIDAY, JUNE 4 fated aircraft carrier Bennington mourned their dead in a special 4 50 Meditation , e Nation memorial service today shortly It was announced taday by Judge Rayburn stated that it 5:00 Today after the death toll in the disaster county officials that effort was would be necessary for the Fiscal 5:25 News - rose to 100. being made to organize a group Court to pass a resolution direct- 5 30 Today UNITED PRESS The latest victim was Lt. Robert to go to Frankfort Wednesday, ing county officials to pcatest thiS 5-55 News humbug ,f traffic fatalities Wright, 34, of Marlboro, Mass. He June 2, 1954. to protest the tax proposed raise before such a pro- 4 ateadly today 6:00 Today and headed died in a naval hospital of injuries raise given Calloway Caunty by test could be lodged bete re the flew Milord for a 6.25 News Memorial received when the big ship was the Kentucky State Tax Commis- Commission. Judge Rayburn also veekend. 6 30 Today ripped by an explosion and fire sion. This pratest will tc made stated that - any other interested while It cruised at sea last Wednes- citizens and taxpayers cf Callo- United Press survey showed before the Tax Commission in 6:55 Charm day. County who wanted to attend with Cathy ersons had been killed an the Frankfort, Wednesday afternoon way 7:000ing Dong A special naval board of inquiry this hearing before the Commis- School vays since 6 p.m. Friday. at 3:00 o'clock. 7.30 adjourned an investigation of the contact Betty White eight persons drowned, nine sion were encouraged to 8:00 disaster until after observance of At present is could not be stated Frankfort Home Show In plane crashes and 35 died him or be present in. 9 the Memorial Day holiday. lhe exactly who would go to Frank- on 00 Bride and Groom lianairma accidents, for a total at the Tax Commission (farce explosion fort to lodge this prctest. but 9 15 • Hawkins Falls 7. death toll in the was the Wednesday. June 2, at 300 o'clock ond worst in peacetime in U.S. Robert Young. County Tax Com- 9 30 Shopping at Home %Ise p.m. not, ked the naval history. missioner, Waylon Rayburn. Coun- 1000 3 Steps To Heaven states with 27 It was further statel by the c ty Judge. Bob Miller. County At- 10.15 Storyland tagghties and Gov. William county officials concerned that ton figued a special appeal torney. Senator James Lassiter. every effort would be made to (Continued, on hulde page, ate driving. Ohio and Califor- and Randall Patterson. County have the proposed tax increase Weekend Is Court Clerk, all stated toaay that each had 17 traffic deaths, set aside and that steps were rac- York and Texas each had 13, they would make the trap in be- ing taken to protest and fIght thia igan and North Carolina 11 half of Calloway County, tax raise by .every renedy pros Indiana and Wisconsin 10 Marked By aided by law. , Plant lawns easier Vukovich Wins The action came about whan ety experts expected the num- the State Tax Commission directed if tragic deaths to exceed the Accidents . Speed Race At that a blanket- Increasa. in the with lidge-M e Ct 340 they had estimated. property tax assessments In Callo- Blistering Pace way County be increasel by 35 prevIntv, record was 335 set A number of accidents were re- 152. per, cent. The increase was direct- over the weekend by State ported By KURT FREUDENTIIAL ed 4toward upping asser-ments to POWER Police-and -City and - County auth- arborri, president of United Press Sports Writer 30 per cent of the fair market aaritiera - -• Safety Council, point- value. No one was killed but several INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. May al. TOOLS ut last day of the holt- The commission has gone an people were injuled. .1.1a-Bullet Bill Vukovich, the de- ys the worst. record as saying that the ratio of Charles White and Bobby Byers fending champion. won the 500 assessments amounts to 22.8 per Is w up to the motorist were traveling in 1948 Hudson Mrs. S. Miller mile auto race today, after leading Cent for town lots and 23.3 foe her this will be the bloodiest Sunday morning about 4 o'clock on a record breaking Real at the Attends Meeting farms and acreage, origkday holiday in history. the North Highway warn White Story About Hurray Is Printed In Memphis half way mark. --- County Tax Ccimmissianer Rob- aid, ror whether drivers will lost -antrol of the car in front MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Mrs. Early showers surrendered to ert Young said that this ratio is dagy have had enough and of Lie Raj.° aation WNBS. Both Sanders Miller of Murray. Ky. hot sun and near-perfect racing now 27 per cent and no: 22.8 p-n• put en the breaks on the way admitted to hospital boys were tan (in Paris District, was one of Paper. Variety Qf Income Is Featured weather today as the :a! fastest cent. Get behind the Triple- M Power however their injuries v ere not more than 5.000 Methodist women cars in history lined ur for the He said that the Ccmmission Unit (2.5 hp or 3.6 hp) and 17" reported as serious. The car was 6 *Iist Memorial weekend from every state and numerous 38th annual 500-mfle auto race. used the 1153 aseesenten• list and notary Tiller, and see bow a total loss. nations attending .dy Ilit-ept out of the skies onto the ffaurth quad- George Ffarmrn of the Memphis today. Mayor Hart considers the students, it is the second laripait Lanky Jack M.Grath was the fa- not the 1954 list. Young said they fact and easily you can Mildred Hodges who war driv- rennial Assembly prepare northeast Nebraska area sur- of the Woman's Commercial Appeal was in Mur- city's favorable position as a institution of higher learning in vorite driver. did not want the 1954 1,*1. the ing a 1950 Ford was attempting to seedbed, 6'' deep or more. dinglablorfolk Sunday night. A Society of Christian Service in the ray last week getting a story to source of labor to main Young admaed to a Ledger and turn into a driveway an Syca- be the the state. Use the seine Tiller for power ido - lipped through farm Auditorium here May 25-28. run in the Memphis daily paper. reason for this expansion. But he Showers pelted the sprawling Times reporter last week that more, Saturday afternc on when cultivating, too. • at least six persons - Delegates representing 30.101 Harmon talked with several Mur- also credits enterprise such as Famed for the calibe- of its speedway grounds about 8:30 a.m. thare was some inequali.y in as- David Orr, who was traveling children - were killed societies in local churches with ray citizens and was a visitor that displayed by Murray mer- basketball teams, Murray State EDT. while many of the 150.000 ses.sments, but said that the Com- 21" ROTARY MOWER - east on Sycamore, hit the car. It a total 'membership of 1.733.a t3 in the office of the daily Ledger chants, when they raised a77,1100 is the scene each June of the spectators already were in their mission rulini would Lally make Quick-Hitch Lock ir ren of the Ben Kohl is reported that Oir could not stop were there.