Angel Tree Holiday Cooking ’Sweet' trip INSIDE Page A-3 Page B-6 Page C-3 SONS 6 IN01N& ^ ^g2 8^ 0 0 0 ° ° Eecorti Devoted to the best interest of Cadiz and Trigg County VOLUME 107 NUMBER 46 Your Hometown Newspaper WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1988 26 PAGES THREE SECTIONS PLUS INSERTS Since 1881 Sivills sell? Trigg prepares for 'sleeping giant' grocery store By Janet F. James Editor CADIZ, KY - The "super" stores are putting a pinch on small businesses. CADIZ, KY - Trigg Countians make their home above one That’s one of the reasons of the world’s most potentially dangerous earthquake faults. Scott Sivills has sold his local Scientists call it the New Madrid fault. grocery business after 13 years Locals know it better as "the sleeping giant." in the Trigg County commu­ As Kentucky Earthquake Preparedness Week is observed nity. Sivills, who serves as statewide November 14-16, Trigg Countians should be espe­ Mayor of Cadiz, recently sold cially observant, according to James Flood, the county’s Dis­ his grocery inventory to the aster and Emergency Services (DES) coordinator. owner of the local Piggly Wig­ gly store. He said that he and The odds of Trigg County having a major earthquake in­ his wife Carol decided that crease daily, Flood said. He noted that small tremors are this would be a good time to recorded frequently in the fault area. get out of the business. The New Madrid fault is"adjacent to the western portion "I would have had to enlarge of the state and strongly threatens about 25 counties in that and remodel extensively to region. During earthquake week in October last vear, a keep up with the super grocery tremor was registered just south of Paducah in McCracken stores, and I didn’t feel like County. It measured just 2.5 on the Richter scale, but was now is a good time to go in strong enough to be detectable in five counties. debt." "Remember David and Goliath," Flood said. "We, for the Sivills noted that the last couple of years, have spent a lot of money on earth­ building that housed his gro­ quake preparedness. But, it kind of bothers me that we cery business still belongs to don’t really take this thing as seriously as we ought to," he him. He has a little more than said. two years left on his lease He added, "If we go five to 10 years without a severe agreement. Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale INTENSITY EFFECTS earthquake we can feel, I’m afraid our people will get apa­ "Piggly Wiggly just bought thetic that it’s not going to happen." my stock and equipment," the trees sway; suspended objects swing; Flood said he believes strongly that the earth will move loose objects overturn or fall former grocer said. beneath the feet of local residents - someday, perhaps soon. Besides not wanting to in­ VII Very Stropg general alarm; walls crack; plaster "It is the most serious threat of natural disasters that I vest in expansion, Sivills said * falls can think of," the DES coordinator said. that there is another reason VUE Destructive masonry cracks; chimney fall; poorly In preparing for a major earthquake, local officials have for his decision to go out of constructed buildings damaged;watcr business. well levels may change developed an Emergency Operation Plan. The plan provides "The grocery business has that volunteer fire stations in each of the county’s eight IX Ruinous some houses collapse where ground ■communities will serve as earthquake headquarters. Resi­ gotten so demanding that it begins to crack; pipes break open has become a 7-day week job," dents should attempt to get to their headquarters following he said. "Me and my family X Disastrous ground cracks bad!y;many buildings a major quake if they are in need of assistance or if they are destroyed and railway lines bontL; able to give assistance, according to Flood. The county has like to attend church, which is landslides on steep slopes another reason why I chose to mechanisms in place to supply limited amounts of "lifelines" sell out rather than remodel." Modified from S.T. Algermissen and M. G. Hopper, 198-1 to selected buildings. Lifelines include electicity, water, sewer service and fire services. When Sivills was asked how Thin map is boned ii}xtn a 7.6 Richter magnitude earthquake he felt about giving up his gro­ Please see GIANT, Page A-8 cery store, he said, "I like to have cried." "We’re all just a big family up there, and leaving them and the customers was one of my biggest dreads,” he said. "I Cameron retires from 'wildlife' job like to be around people." All of Sivill’s full-time gro­ cery workers will be employed CADIZ, KY - Sgt. Thomas J. '...there were times that your hair would know that they are armed," he came into effect, larger boats Cameron, 58, Cadiz, has re­ at the Piggly Wiggly store in stand straight up because you don't know said. are used by officers, and edu­ the Gateway Shopping Center. tired from the Department of "I have been very fortunate. cational requirements have what you 're walking into.' -Thomas Cameron He said that his employees Fish and Wildlife Resources "I’ve not even been been upgraded. had to be taken care of in the after 27 years of enforcing scratched. Never been shot at, In addition to departmental sales agreement because he state laws in the county. The former law official cites hunting, better known as but there are times that your changes, Cameron has noted a did not want to leave them During his term the officer two reasons for the high num­ poaching. Cameron admits hair would stand straight up change in the outdoors. without jobs. has written more than 3,000 ber of citations. "One, I was that the "checking" has re­ because you don’t know what "I have seen our deer herd "Kenneth Storey and the citations to game law violators out there after them," he said. sulted in plenty of on-the-job you’re walking into," the come from nothing to a people at Piggly Wiggly are in Trigg County. He led the "Two, I was dedicated and scary moments. sergeant said. tremendous herd," he said. good people to do business state of Kentucky three con­ spent many hours on the job." "When you’re called out for The sergeant said that he "I’ve also seen our turkeys with," Sivills said. "They are secutive years in having the Most of Cameron’s time has deer poaching, you know that has seen many changes in the come from nothing to an hon­ community minded and told most arrests - 1974, 1975 and been spent checking hunting when you stop a vehicle there department over the years. orable flock." me that they would work all of 1976. So far, no one else has and fishing licenses and could be as many as five peo­ Among them are: upgraded One might expect someone done that, he said. watching for out-of-season ple in the vehicle, and you equipment, the radio system with Cameron’s background to Please see SIVILLS, Page A-8 spend time each season hunt­ ing. However, the retiree said Cadiz VFW Post that he used to love to hunt, Please see CAMERON, Page A-8 to erect building CADIZ, KY - The der, said that construction Cadiz/Trigg County Veterans could begin as early as next of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post year on the approximate 8,000 7890 recently took the first square-foot structure. The step towards constructing a Post building will serve as a W e e ke n d new Post building. meeting place for the 62 mem­ Forecast The veterans recently com­ bers of the local VFW. John pleted a transaction with Lynn Stone, Post treasurer, said Partly cloudy, chance of Waller Realtor and Century 21 that the VFW has held its thunderstorms, cooler to acquire a 3/4-acre lot at the meetings at a local restaurant temperatures toward the corner of Madison and since it was organized in 1985. end of the week. Lafayette Streets, just behind Boyd noted that the future the Trigg County Jail. During facility will also be available a brief ceremony at the future for community activities such W e e kly building site, Bill Crabtree, as family reunions and get-to­ representing Lynn Waller Re­ gethers. Q u o te altor, and Betty Ricks, repre­ "We are community ori­ When business is good senting Century 21, presented ented," Boyd said. "The veter­ it pays to advertise; the Post with the deed to the A GOOD DEED: Bill Crabtree and Betty Ricks, right, present a deed to Byron Boyd, commander of the ans are dedicated to the bet­ when business is bad Cadiz/Trigg County VFW Post 7890. The deed is for a lot at the comer of Madison and Lafayette Streets for a property on Veteran’s Day, terment of the community, and you've got to advertise. Post building. Crabtree represents Lynn Waller Realtor and Ricks represents Century 21. November 11. we try to make it a better -Anonymous Byron Boyd, Post Comman- place to live." A-2, The Cadiz Record, Wednesday, November 16,1988 Quakin' OPINION got you shakin'? <Hfje (Gaiitg Eecnrii Has all of the talk about William H. Rawls Jr...................... Circulation Manager earthquakes got you shakin’? Janet Freeman James..............................................Editor James Flood, our local DES Jan Cave...........................................Advertising Director coordinator, has convinced me, Published each Wednesday by Waterland Press Inc.