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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1961
Page
1
Superintendent John Larson said Atlanta area high schools will integrate next fall after reviewing applications. He noted students are ready and expect the process to proceed smoothly, with plans to complete classroom placement in coming weeks.
Washington reports the House passed a bill Thursday raising tire and truck taxes by 150 million dollars to fund highway construction. The plan would add about 130 million annually from the tax and move toward completing a 41,000 mile federal highway system. The bill, advanced under a no-amendment rule, passed by voice vote with lawmakers wary of record votes.
Mrs Mate furry, longtime Harrogate resident for about 26 years, died Tuesday in Cinthome County Hospital. Funeral services were set for 2 pm today at Tul ton Evineral Beane with Livesay and Rev Cel] McParland officiating. Burial followed in Tare Yorule Cemetery. Pallbearers listed were Tommyt i Bray BHP Brill Bruce ails Prank Overbey Bobby Minad Wine and Ben Sansed. Pishay Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Hospital notes show admissions for Leslie Johnson Fred Lovelace Marié Bales and Till At the Miditesbere Temarle Hospital. Discharges include Nala Gray LaFollette Metharid Wallace Neely Warren Sr and Kya Lovely. Births list a city boy for Kenneth Wilson and another for John Rogers. Visiting hours 4 6.
Kentucky Attorney General notes Mulaski County fiscal court plan to buy road equipment on installments may violate constitutional debt limits without voter approval. Court of Appeals allows Helen Watkins to appear on Breathitt County May primary ballot for county court clerk. Gov Combs appoints Robert Matthews state emergency stabilization coordinator to plan controls over prices wages rents and distributions in emergencies.
Frankfort Ky governor Guy Hert Combs announced Thursday a temporary office will open in Pikeville next Wednesday and Thursday to meet eastern Kentucky residents and hear their problems. The birthhouse lobby will be open to visitors from 8 00 a m EST until 1 00 p m Wednesday and from 9 30 a m until noon Thursday.
The Small Business Administration announced in Washington a 102000 loan to Powell River Industrial Corp. The four percent interest rate applies to this labor surplus area, below the usual five percent. Funds will finance construction of the Big Seven Canning Co., creating 73 to 100 jobs.
Mrs Lula J Grills aged 40 was to be questioned today in the pistals of her husband at their Lynn Garden suburban home amid a dispute over a trip. Grills was a head electrician at a textile mill. Their son Wayne, 22, said his mother shot his father, Jesse Dames Grills, 52, after an argument over travel plans.
A student faculty retreat at Fort Blackmore attended by about four people focused on planning the use of new facilities from the college building program at Clinch Valley College.
A Small Business Administration meeting with Norton and local officials is scheduled for Tuesday at the J. Burenigh School. Topics include loans from the TS H for industrial development and related concerns.
Knoxville, the nation’s largest dry city, votes on legal control of whiskey sales. The referendum pits the 1000-member Legal Control committee against the United Christian Forces as voters decide whether to end prohibition era measures and curb bootlegging amid heavy campaigning and local newspaper endorsements.
A spokesman for small independent distillers attacked a proposed Kentucky ABC regulation that would set minimum prices for whisky. Frank Kraus of Barton Testilling Co claimed the plan favors large distilleries with big offices and advertising budgets. The rule would let the ABC Board weigh production, advertising, overhead, and invested capital to set minimum wholesale and retail whisky prices in Kentucky.
Johnson City Tenn Aubrey The Democratic congressional committee endorses W W Tan for the U S House in the 1st District. Faw, a state representative, faces Republican Mrs Carrall Reece in a district that has not sent a Democrat to Congress since the Civil War. The special election is set for May 16.
Daniel Rawlston Sr who taught Metropolitan Life Insurance offices with former city manager Frank Cater plans a full swap. Sometime this summer Rawlston's family moves into Cater's home at 2919 Cumberland Avenue. Cater will leave his Middlesboro family while serving entry. The new city manager has served since 1987, starting in Chattanooga and then Knoxville before moving to Anniston and Jonesboro. He and his wife are Chattanooga natives with three daughters.
Mrs. Trene Sigeeney of Bellmore was hospitalized in satisfactory condition with chest and back injuries after her car collided with a 43-ton National Guard tank. The tank was among two vehicles traveling to Camp Upton in Freeport for weekend firing practice.
Reported in Miami that Catholic clergy and nuns face forced departure as Cuba tightens control. The government denounces foreign churchmen and tightens security around churches while police halt about a hundred priests under virtual house arrest.
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