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'^OyMIL^MMBER 46

Mis: Corioftis Selected "Miss Congeniality"

Don Carci l le Car lof t i s , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C a l i o s C 2 : W t i s of Living-s ton, was named " M i s Congen ia l i ty" during las t w e e k ' s Miss Kentucky-Pagean t h e l d in Lou i sv i l l e .

T h e recipient of the " M i s s Congen ia l i ty" award i s d i o s e n frorr among the c o n t e s t a n t s by the contes t -an t s .

Miss Car lo f t i s was runner-up in the Miss Laurel Coun-ty contes t and had to sub-s t i t u t e for the winner, who could not at tend because of i l l n e s s . T h e Miss Laurel Fes t iva l actual ly i s an area con te s t covering Lau-rel , J a c k s o n , Clay, and Rockcas t le .

Miss Car lo f t i s was Vale-dictorian of. the 1968 Sen-

Local Population Stops Getting Younger

For a number of years , up to 1967, res idents of Rockcas t le County were get t ing younger all the t ime. Not ind iv idua l ly -only co l lec t ive ly .

The median age of the local population, whidi i s the point at which there are

of the previous generat ion. While the report do.es not,

i nd ica te t h e extent to wh ich the pi l l and other relatively^ nfew techniques of family" planning are responsible for t h i s drop, i t dec l a r e s that t h e s e techniques " u n -doubtedly have been a c6n-

any pe r sons above that *~*ributing f a c t o r . " a s below i t , had drop- . T b e lower birth rate and

the t r end toward smaller " fami l ies i s ascribed by the Popula t ion Refe rence Bu-reau to an -awareness among young coup l e s that " rea r ing chi ldren in t h i s complicated and expens ive world pre-s e n t s big p rob lems . "

T h e f igures bear out t h i s trend, according to a recent survey by the C e n s u s Bu-reau. It f i nds that there a re

age ped ebout 7 percent in a period of 7 yea r s .

I t went from 25.3 y e a r s in 1960, a s determined by the c e n s u s taken at that t ime, to approximately 23.8 years ,

_where it remains today. That i s neither younger

than Springtime nor older than Methuselah. It com-pare* with a median age of 27.4 years in the nation' a s a whole and with 25.9 - 2 0 percent fewer young in. the State of Kentucky. children per mother than in

Why the sudden end IS t h e growing-younger pro-c e s s ? It i s all t ied up with the- nationwide drop in the birth rate, which i s attri-buted in par t to the new

of tt>«y<\u«o women "npnj 1 ' . ompfa t ion (

~iovtara-ft:55a-beitfing: • T h i s i s borne out by Cen-

-sus Bureau Vndings that' .. women undTft 30 are having

chi ldren at lower r a t e s and are spac ing them tp a great-er extent than did women

1960. T h i s s f eca l l ed " f e r t i l i t y

r a t i o " refers to theturaiber of children under the age of 5 per 1,000 women of d i i ld-bear ing age.

It\ R o c k c a s t l e County, in I960, t h i s ratio was 5 3 Z

wr f t fcv-Vilr,"' T h e local ratio, although

cons iderab ly lower than be-f o r e , ' a s i s the c a s e general-

ly, i s s t i l l well above that in many sec t ions of the country. (Cont . ToJ2)

ior C l a s s at Livingston High S d i o t U She also re-ce ived the chemistry, geo-metry, _ engl ish, ca l cu lus , and library award, and the Universi ty of Kentucky and Eas te rn Kentucky Univer-s i ty Achievement Award.

She i s presently, a sopho-more pre-med student at Cumberland College.

W.B. ATKINSON DIES SUDDENLY

W.B. ( J ap ) Atkinson, 61, of Brodhead, p a s s e d away suddenly Ju ly 23 in Boyle CounJty. He w a s born in Virginia on September -22, -1907 the son of the la te B .H . and Maude Hall Atkin-son 'and was a retired rai l -

He i s survived by one daughter, Mrs. Yolando Ramsey of Route 3, Mt. Vernon;- one s o n , William -L . Atkinson of Brodhead; three s i s t e r s , Mrs. Iva Wil-l iams of Pennington, . Vir-

- ginia, Mrs. Myrtle HinkJe of Black Mountain, N.C. , and Mrs. Nora Wolfe of De-troi t , Mich.; four brothers , Walter of James town, .Ohio , Ron of Radc l i f f , Roger of New J e r s e y , and R.H. At-kinson of Brodhead, and two grandchildren.

P r i v a t e funeral s e r v i c e s were he ld Fr iday morning, Ju ly '25 at the Watson Fu-neral Home in Brodhead with Bro'. John Zupanc ic of f ic ia t ing . . Burial i a the P i n e y Grove Cemetery.

KIRBY ABOARD USS NORRIS

Boilerman F i r s t Class-. w i i i i c . r . Kitfau. URN. son. oT Mr. and Mrs. ffvin L .

" Kirby of Route 2, MU—Ver-non, and husband of the former Miss E l i zabe th C. Herrmzn of Ph i l ade lph ia , P a . , i s se rv ing aboard the

Members of the Rockcastle County Jaycees are shown In front of the caboose'wfilch'was o l f o rf,em b ) , | t " L ! ' N Rollrood. The caboose, which i f Joco ted behiffd the Dinner Bel l Building on Richmond Street, has been painted red by tbe club members and w i l l be refurnished inside and used for the club's meetings. Shown in the above photo are, from left : Jan Stevens, Davi<LHenderson, B i l l Kelsey, B i l l Gregory, and Buford Parkerson.

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TSe new road around Lake L inv l l l e i t nearly complete, according to Elmo Andeikin, tub-contractor for the pro|ect. Pictured above i i a small section of the road which i« on

. n f w« i t side of the laic*. H i# Ron fro to Br indU Ridgt Road, also natfly constructed, has been open for traff ic for several weeks. This portion of the new road w i l l probably

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' • • "THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1969 ^

Development Corp. Meets

Miss Don Carci l le Carloft is

David Parsons Named Jaycees Candidate

David Franklin P a r s o n s , son of Mr. and Mrs. John F . P a r s o n s of Wildie, has been chosen by the Rock-c a s t l e County J a y c e e s a s their candidate for the "Ou t s t and ing Young Ken-tucky an Aw a i d . "

y e „ w a s chosen for h i s

early enabled him to make ou t s t and ing contr ibut ions to h i s church , h i s community, h i s s c h o o l , and h is country.

Young P a r s o n s h a s been

4rr» j B e s i d e s Winning many oounty and d i s t r i c t . awards , h e h a s won aeveral s ta te , championsh ips . Dur-ing h i s 4-H yea r s , he was pres ident of h i s local club,

. the county organizat ion, and the d i s t r i c t .

In high school , David was e l ec t ed president of h i s c l a s s for four years . A s a s en io r , h e was s e l e c t -ed by the student body a s Mr. M.V.H.S., bes t actor , and bes t personal i ty l^e was a l s o editor of the sen-ior annua l , valedictorian of h i s graduat ing c l a s s , and a member of the National Honor Socie ty . He won top awards in math, s c i ence , and l a t in and also won the C i t i zensh ip Award, a most cove ted award given by the Meridian Woman's Club.

A s tudent of music for. nine yea r s , David h a s served 'for five years a s organis t at the . Wildie Chris t ian Church. He a l so e x c e l s in monologue.

P r e s e n t l y he t e a c h e s a Sunday School c l a s s and i s very ac t i ve in t h e church youth work.

David i s new a Junior a t B e r e a Col lege .

LAUREL HOMECOMING BEAUTY PAGEANT

T h e Miss Laure l County 'Scho la r sh ipBeau ty Pagean t wrill b e held during Laurel County Homecoming's ' F e s -t iv i t i e s in mid-August.

The pageant i s open to girls from. Laurel and sur- -rounding count ies , includ-ing , Rockcas t l e County.

Competit ion for the t i t le will inc lude ta lent , formal d r e s s , and ba'Jring sui t compet i t ion.

Any g i r l s from R o c k c a s t l e in te res ted in par t ic ipat ing in the page'ant should con-tact Mrs. Aubrey f e l l n e r . Chairman of the Pagean t , London, as soon a s poss i -b l e . N o sponsor i s required for an en t ry .

"SNOWSNAKE" RESCUES WOUNDED RIFLEMEN

Mrs. Robert E . Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Ang-lin rece ived the write-up

.below of the i r s o n and grandson, Warrant Off icer Robert Angl ia Robinson ; who is a Helicopter P i l o t s t a t i o n e d in Vi&tnikm.

Warrant Of f ice r Robinson has rece ived the h ighes t medals and awards from the Army s i n c e en te r ing the s e rv i ce , a l i t t l e over a year a g o . rfe - wil l depart V letnara- or» August* 17. fat Honolulu, Hawaii for the ba l ance of h is .tour. H i s fa ther , Co l . Robinson, i s now s ta t ioned at Hickham A F B in Hawai i and wil l re-tire in September af ter 27 y e a r s in the s e r v i c e . T h e ar t ic le rekds a s fol-lows: Moving into a sma l l , bare ly a c c e s s i b l e open ing in the jungle undergrowth near here on J u n e 8, a 9 th Divis ion Arti l lery "Snow-f l a k e " pilot exper t ly ma-neuvered h is OH-6A light obse rva t ion he l icop te r in r e s c u i n g four wourtded in-fantrymen during an emer-gency dus toff.

T h e four men of Company C, 3d Ba t ta l ion , 47th In-fant ry were wounded by a-Chi-Com grenade bobby trap. Moving to the only open a r e a in th£ v ic in i ty , the normal dustoff sh ip found the opening too small to land. A cal l went out for a l ight observat ion he l icopter (LOH).

Warrant Off icer Robert Robinson , o l Mount Vernon, Ky., w a s s i t t i n g on the f loa t ing forward command p o s t of the 3d Bat ta l ion 34th Art i l lery when he re-ceived the urgent c a l l .

" T h e y just asked me if I ' d l ike to pull a dus to f f , and I sa id y e s , " s a id Rob-insog .

" T h e a rea was just b i g enodgh for a LOH. I came in over th? t rees and drop-ped s t ra igh t down and went s t ra igh t up when I l e f t , " recal led t h e 20-year-old Robinson .

His small a i rc ra f t i s made for a maximum load of four, and the infantrymen put only three of the four wounded on the chopper .

" I mc*ioned for them to put the fourth one o n , " sa id

(Cont. To 2)

Rex Wesley of London re-ported to the Rockcas t l e County Development Cor-porat ion las t Monday night tha t h e had made contact with the Universi ty of Ken-tucky Robinson Substat ion at Quicksand . He said that no def in i te da te had been s e t for a visi t to th i s loca-tion by members of - the local development corpora-tion'.

Chairman Roy Brown read a le t te r to the group from * Cong. Tim L e e Carter s ta t -ing that there i s a s t rong poss ib i l i ty of obta in ing low and medium rent hous-ing through the Appalachian Development Commiss ion. Cong , -Ca r t e r ' s let ter s t a t ed in part : " i f you ( the de-velopment corporation) have need of t h i s type of hous-ing in your county, p lease let me know and we sha l l try to a s s i s t in developing t h e pro jec t for your a r e a . ' '

Chairman Brown a l s o ' o f l d " a le t te r from P a u l W. Grubbs,

Commissioner of the State Department of Commerce,-invi t ing rep resen ta t ives of the local o rga i i za t ion to at tend t h e 4th Kentucky In-dust r ia l Development S e m i - ' na r sponsored by t h e Ken-tucky Department of Com-merce and t h e Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Grubbs s t a t e d in h i s le t ter , " t h i s Seminar i s p lanned to help you and your organiza-tion compete for new in-dustry more e f f e c t i v e l y . " T h e Kb/kflrop £ w ' u e a . i s scheduled for August 6 at Sue Bennet t Co l lege in London . T h e r e will be a regis trat ion f ee of. $10

"^charged for- the workshop. N.M. pjfc c. mc t ioa ,

• 'seconatxr ny"~21ap Colsoq, that t h e organizat ion pay

. the fee and t h e ch airman or someone appointed by him at tend thfe seminar . Motion carr ied.

Rex Wesley also talked to the group on the impor-tance of deve loping indus-trial s i t e s in the county. He poin ted out that London recent ly los t an industry which* was in te res ted in loca t ing there b e c a u s e the

. s i t e WEB not properly de-veloped. He s t r e s sed se-l ec t i ng one s i t e and going

a s far a s p o s s i b l e in de-veloping it to the need's of indust ry , T h e s e needs na-turally inc lude adequate water supply for fire pro-tec t ion, sewage d i s p o s a l , and g»s Supply.

Clay Col son made a re-port on the Ottawa Appala-chian P ro jec t to b e sub-mit ted to the proper authori-t i e s for approval . Two such p r o j e c t s have been sub-mitted in the p a s t . These were the Ottawa and Copper Cree lP ' p r o j e c t s . Similar p ro jec t s • were ^ p r o v e d about three y e a r s ago for Whitl'<y, Laure l , P u l a s k i , and Lincoln coun t i e s and . more money i s expected to b e ava i l ab le in the near fu ture for more p ro jec t s of t h i s na ture .

It h a s been sugges ted by a s t a t e Soil Conservation r ep resen ta t ive that the lo-ca l Soil Conservat ion Dis-t r ic t re-submit the^ Ottawa Appalachian P r o j e c t for approval . T h i s p ro jec t ,_as

' s e t .up, h a s bean- approved by the local Soil Conserva-tion Supervisors and the local ASCS committee. T h e pro jec t , which needs the

- approval of the local de-velopment organizat ion, cove r s 150 farms and 10,000 ac res , approximately 80% of the land i s cleared1. T h e a rea l i e s within the Dix R ive r watershed on which an appl icat ion for a s s i s t -ance , under publ ic law 566, was submit ted , deter-

f w i b l e , . Wit w o s in- • ac t ive and finally ' wi tti-drawn b e c a u s e the local people were not in an eco-

' nomic pos i t ion to carry out their par t of a watershed

• m w g u & i — . A ' - I t h e ? - e s t ima ted

that such .a pro jec t would ' i n c r e a s e farm income in the .area by 50%. It i s s e t "up on an 80-20% b a s i s . T h e government p a y s 80% and the farmers 20%. T h e farm-e r s may borrow their part of 'the money from P C A, banks- inc luding • Federa l L a n d Bank, and FHA. T h e County ASCS Committee i s responsibl e for sel ect ing t h e farms within the area that a r e e l ig ib le to part ici-p a t e i n the program.

Gat l i f f Cra ig moved that

the local organiza t ion en-dorse the p ro jec t . " Motion c a r r i e d , . •

On quest ion from Mrs. Zi Graves about the l a t e s t de-ve lopments for, garbage dis-posa l on a county-wide b a s i s . It was^ pointed out that t h e Mt. Vernon City Dump h a s been bulldozed and c l eaned up but that nothing h a s been done in connection with the area-type garbage -disposal pro-j ec t which was d i s cus sed during p r e v i o u s meet ings . •

BRO. MC HARGUE GUEST PREACHER

Bro. Wendell McHargue will be p reaching Sunday morning, August 3 at 10:45 a.m. and Sunday, evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Centrafr' Bapt i s t Church located one-half mile south of the city l imi t s on U.S. 25. Bro. Ralph Sears i s pas to r of the

Bro. McHargue, a nat ive 'of R o c k c a s t l e County, i s now I rv iJ fs - in ' f j f t+as , -Texas where h e i s engaged in evange l i s t i c work and i s Dean of S tudents at the.In-dependent B i b l e Col lege .

The publ ic i s cordially invited to attend these s e r v i c e s .

SUTTON ASSIGNED Army Pr ivate- Tony M.

Sutton i s a s s i g n e d to Com-pany B, 19th Bat ta l ion , Sth Brigade, a t JJni ted. S ta tes Army Tra in ing Cen-ter a t F t . Knoxl- ~ " " " '

Fol lowing the completion of b a s i c t ra ining, PvJ . Sut-ton, husband of Mrs. Judy L,-. Sutton of Mt. Vernon,

*eeeivejil l e a s ! an'ad- ' ditional ^ei'feht ' weelui «>I e f the r advanced or on-the-job training' t o qual i fy him in a spec ia l ized military s k i l l .

GRIFFIN SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR

Douglas Griff in , 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pau l K. Griffin of Red Hill, was found guilty Monday in Cir-cu i t Court of " C u t t i n g and Wounding With Intent tq K i l l " a i d was sen tenced to one year in the Rock-c a s t l e ' County .Jail and fined $250.

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BOARD MEETING * DATE CHANGED

T h e Rockcas t l e County Boatd of Educat ion will meet on Thuts'day, August 7 i n s t ead of August 4, a s . r eg i l a r ly schedu led . W/O Robert A. Robin

Rock bottom . . . . That"* whore this feeder is. I t handles limestone chunks at<big as B Inches at on average rate of 500 tens per hour and surges to 600 tons pe# hour. This model FS vibrating feeder was bui l t by the Carrier Divis ion of Rex Chainbelt Inc., Lou isv i l l e . The unit, 7 feet long and 42 inches wide, is instal led at a 12 degree decline under a ie> claim pile at the Kentucky Stone Company quarry in Mt. Vemon. The feeder discharges the limestone onto on Incl ined belt conveyor for further processing.