Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - January 14, 1977, Middlesboro, Kentucky Weather A IB In effect for today Snow occasionally mixed with rain or freezing rain beginning today and continuing as inov tonight and Saturday Highs today will he in the mid to upper 30S VOL 64 NO 248 The Home Daily of the MIDDLESBORO KENTUCKY FRIDAY JANUARY 14 1977 Schools May Not Make Up All of Missed Snow Days By RANDY FRANKFORT Ky UPI Kentucky's schoolchildren ing up to two weeks of makeup days because of the weather can take heart from some comments by the state's top education ia I regarding rescheduling of classes later in the year Dr James P Graham Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction said day because accrediting usually rely heavily on the recommendations by the state some school districts may not have to make up all the cancelled schooldays of the past two weeks He added he state would understand in some unusual cases the problems in making up the necessary days Because of recent storms and the prospects of another for today a majority of school districts in the state have had lo cancel classes for most of this week And about one fourth of the counties in Kentucky had to cancel classes for most of last week meaning some districts haven't had any classes since shortly before Christmas when the annual holiday recess began Graham explained under regulations school Fiscal Court Pays Stone PINEVILLE The Bell County Fiscal Court paid its back bills this week for road surfacing materials such as stone in the amount of Judge Willie Hendrickson stated that he did not know how that large a sum could accrue The was owed to Virginia Stone Company and was incurred by the four rural district magistrates Alva Miracle Edmus McGeorge Curt Hoskins and Matt Taylor Hendrickson stated that the magistrates had proximately remaining as the total in their rural road accounts but that the bills were paid from Coal Severance Tax and funds The court hired Tracy Eldridge of Page to operate the county's which has been idle since it was purchased about one year ago Eldridge will be paid the salary that was and did not require an additional propriation The court paid W B Browning Construction Company approximately for work on the thouse It was such payment made to the company with approximately per cent of the renovation complete A termination date is set for July It was also announced that the court will hold a public meeting to discuss roads with Otto Ingram deputy road commissioner on January 25 at p.m The purpose will be to plan next year's road program districts must have a of 175 school days or face a loss of accreditation However he explained the cases are usually reviewed in a basis We are usually flexible enough to look at a county school's situation and mine whether an effort was made to reschedule the days that had to be cancelled because of the Graham said We look at them individually and urge all to make up all the days and meet the necessary i nes If the inclement weather were to continue however Graha m said ma ny school districts would be facing a serious problem in making up the necessary amount of time in order to meet the 175 Complicating the situation is an attorney general's opinion which has said the school districts musl make up the cancelled school days before the end of the fiscal year July 1 And some districts if the weather were to c nue mi ght have some problems doing Graham At the present time a majority of the school districts lo have built-in safeguards to prevent a problem in meeting the 175 day rule Graham said Several of them have built in snow days allotted so they are actually meeting several more days than the minimum requirement of 175 he said School districts that haven't done that or those which have had more than 15 postponed days face several alternatives according to the tendent He said they Cancel spring vacations and make up some of the days at that time Hold classes during the traditional in-service days held by faculty and staff Hold classes when the Kentucky Education tion convention is held which is usually a holiday for students Add on classes at the end of the term which would mean classes would be held in June Many of the school districts faced with large numbers of makeup days would have to use several of those natives including the add-on classes at the end of the term Of course you run into a problem with attendance Graham conceded Many dents would rather be down at the fishing hole than in class in the summer and this is a problem the districts are Graham said he hoped the weather would break and classes at all county schools would continue at a normal pace But he added the decision to postpone classes each day is made by the school district not the stale It's their decision not the state's he added Enjoy Current Weather It May Get Much Worse Name your winter weather and you can probably find H somewhere in Kentucky today Weather conditions in the Bluegrass State early today ranged from rain to freezing rain and sleet to rain and snow and just sleet The Weather Service said the new winter storm could dump up inches of new snow on tucky with more possible in New Harrogate Restaurant Opens Specializing in Italian and Sicilian sly led pizza The Oasis restaurant Is open for business at Patterson's Crossroads near Harrogate It Is being by Walter Poppa Wally Jones rear and BUI not Helping Poppa Wally serve his our sizes of pizza spaghetti and chili features are Carol Blakely front and from left Mrs Patty Jones and Mrs Betty Poore The restaurant opens at 11 and closes at 12 midnight the extreme northern tucky area The Frankfort and Lexington areas reported nearly an inch of new snow before dawn A winter storm warning was issued for northern Kentucky and the Cincinnati area with motorists warned to stay off the roads A freezing rain warning went up for extreme western Kentucky while travelers ad- were issued for most of the state weather summary early today showed hazardous driving cond over the wes tern and northern counties of Kentucky Road conditions were expected to continue to deteriorate over the western and northern sections of the state River interests hoped the warmer temperatures in most of Kentucky today would keep the Ohio River from freezing over completely Bank to bank floating ice had reduced river traffic from 50 to 75 per cent by Thursday Rain falling over Kentucky today will wash away the snow and ice blanketing most areas of the state but an expected drop in temperatures tonight should turn the wet roads to sheets of ice making travel extremely dangerous for motorists The forecast called for rain today possibly mixed with snow at times and high temperatures in the 30s Goudy tonight with snow likely ending gra dually Sa turd ay h from the upper 20s to low 30s following overnight lows in the 20s More of the same on tap for next week around Kentucky Weather forecasters predict partly cloudy Sunday and Monday and cloudy Tuesday and a chance of snow will prevail Very cold during the period with overnight lows 10 degrees or below and daytime highs in the upper 20s to low 30s Most of the school systems across Kentucky forced closed by inclement weather out the week remained closed again today On plus side of the Continued oo Page 8 Bolher to Abe Photo by Giry Carter A recent snow over a two-day period completely covered the Lincoln campus the Lawyer never complained once and he Hi through It ill Seven of mow and a layer of ice on top driving hazardous and day of claim and a basketball game were canceled by due to one of the mow to hit In many years Carter Staff Mostly Young Georgians Hughes Beneficiary Admits Planting Fake Morman Will By JAMES LOS ANGELES UPI Melvin Dummar Ulan service station attendant who was named as an heir of Howard Hughes in the so-called Mormon will admitted he lied about how the will was found and renounced any part of the huge estate attorney Howard Rhoden said Thursday Rhoden attorney for former Hughes aide Noah Dietrich named executor of the will ing the purported will to the Mormon Church headquarters in Salt LaXe City last April 27 Rhoden said told him several stories about how he came into possession of will They're all he said said he talked with Dummar and his attorney Roger Dutson at Ogden Utah Wednesday Dummar Rhoden said We had several hours of a grilling session He finally admitted he wrote ope note inside the envelope saying it will was found by Joseph Smith's house And he admitted he delivered the will We still know who wrote the will Dummar said he would renounce any part in estate even if the will is found to be legitimate Rhoden said He's just out of it As soon as he signs a renunciation Dutson said the matter of where the will originally came from investigated said he would ask for a formal court hearing for Dummar and see what he says about it when he faces jail or perjury But he said Dietrich would continue to support the will until it was finally determined who wrote it He said that could be determined by an FBI examination which was under way We expect lo have the results of the tion very Rhoden said He said Dummar still insists he picked up an man in the as Howard Hughes and included Dummar in his will for of the billion fortune Hughes died on a plane en route from Acapulco Mexico to Houston Tex last April 5 Several wills have been since his death but the Mormon will was the only one taken seriously by those who would benefit including the Summa Corp the company that controls the Hughes holdings Rhoden said Dummar has not violated the law by lying to attorneys or the news media But if he tried to defraud the intestate heirs or if the will is a forgery or he attempted to defraud the court that's another mailer By HELEN THOMAS UPI While House Reporter PLAINS Ga UPI President elect Jimmy Carter weary from sive briefings in Washington preparing to announce a White House staff predominantly made up of young men from his native Georgia Carter flew to Plains Irom Washington Thursday evening saying it's always tal when I come home but next week I'll have a new home I'm he told reporters after spending eight hours in intensive discussions with the Joint Chiefs of Staff before leaving Washington Carter said he would look over prospective staff tees by his Cabinet officials today He also expects to announce the names of his White House aides and expects Inauguration Hamburgers For Carter WASHINGTON UPI President-elect Jimmy Carter will break with custom and pass up a sumptuous luncheon to have a hamburger or other such bite with family and close his Inaugural The Inaugural ceremonies are tailored to Carter's wishes and right at beginning he ruled out the luncheon ing to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies The luncheon hosted by Congressional leaders in the Capitol is traditional but Carter is not the first president to pass it up To allow lime for clearing he easl plaza Inaugural site so the parade can start Carter will spend about 45 minutes in the Capitol eating a light lunch with family and friends Another indication Carter wants to keep the Inaugural ceremonies simple is that there will be only two prayers the invocation by Bishop William R Cannon of the United Methodist Church and the benediction by John R Roach the Archbishop of St Paul and Minneapolis Richard Nixon had five to spend time on his Inaugural address which he wants to be great and to set a lone for the country he said During his two days in Washington Carter talked by telephone to the leaders of Great Britain France West Germany and Japan to start preparations for an economic summit meeting this spring probably in Europe He apparently also British Prime Minister James Callahan to visit Washington soon after Carter has indicated that invitations are in the works for many heads of state to visit him this year Carter spent much of day with the Joint Chiefs discussing strategic arms tation and U.S military ability to meet a Soviet threat The chiefs headed by Air Force Gen George ns chairman and other Pentagon officials nre believed lo have taken a harder line on SALT than have Carter's diplomatic advisers and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Vice Waller participated in the session with the Joint Chiefs along with Secretary of designa Vance Defense Secretary designate Harold Brown security and CIA Theodore Sorenson Vance told reporters discussions included an ment of U.S forces worldwide and whether are ready and able to take on various commitments and cies He said there was no discussion of when a SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union might be reached but this Is a terribly important objective for our country to Vance said the assessment was that U.S forces are ready lo overcome threats to U.S security and that o state of rough strategic equivalence exists between the United Stales and Russia Carter continued a series of phone calls started the before to foreign leaders whom Mondale will visit shortly after the Inauguration He talked for 10 to IS minutes each with Callaghan French President Valery Giscard and Weal German cellor Helmut Schmidt Ellen Myers Construction Slowed but On Schedule TAZEWELL The Claiborne County School Board heard a report last night from Superintendent Clay Neely concerning the construction of the additional classrooms at Ellen Myers Elementary School Neely stated that weather had slowed work somewhat but that the construction was still on schedule and should be completed by some date in March He stated that the contractor bad requested that a certain percentage of his earning be held in escrow so that he could draw interest on that amount an action that is within his legal rights to request Neely staled that he and the board had been criticized severely in a letter from the contractor to himself and the school's architect because the money had not been paid The superintendent stated that he had taken the initiative to request that the architect present him with a percentage of completion and an estimate of how much of the school's utility bills are costs incurred by the contractor using the system's water and electricity That amount will be deducted from the money to be placed in escrow He is going lo owe us some stated Neely firmly Neely stated in summary that the work being done is according to specifications and is moving along at a normal pace despite the contractor causing interruptions that he agreed earlier not lo cause In a discussion that required no action by the board Neely stated that he and his and maintenance people had met lo discuss ways of saving on utility bills while the school children are out of school due to Inclement weather The superintendent staled thai were saving in every fashion that they could think of but that utilities were running higher than in previous years Neely stated thai he felt the situation was not too critical concerning number of days missed due to snow stating that they had aliened one day since noon December 22 The schools were not in operation today making it a total of 11 days missed In a discussion that followed it was agreed that going to school on Saturdays was not the way to make up the because the resulting student morale problems caused them lo not accomplish much on days Adding lime to each day was agreed to not be the answer either but using part or all of Easter vacation was just about assured If the days are made up it will be at the end of the regular school year Neely staled that with so many of the state's schools out piling up so many missed days it looked favorable that the total days that the students had to could be waived He slated that there was a question as lo whether or not State School Commissioner could waive those days but the state legislature had indicated that if it took action on their part it would be forthcoming The board provided maternity leaves for Mary Prances Fultz of Forge Ridge High School Rebekah Fultz of TMT Elementary and Sherry Surber of Powell Valley High School It hired as replacements at and TMT Montgomery and Sandra Smyth
