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Mount Vernon, Kentucky 40456 Volume 91 - Number 14 Two Sections Thursday, December 6,1979

1979 Blood Mobile Drive Nets 173 Pints; County Extended Total Coverage For a Year [Editor's Note: This is an article from the Central Kenucky Blood Center concerning the recent blood drive in Rockcastle County.]

On Tuesday, November 20, 1979 a blood drive was held at the Bank of Mt. Vernon. This blood drive produced 61 pints which.is the best drive ever held in Rockcastle County. The 1979 County Goal for Rockcastle was 195 pints and with the 61 pints donated on November 25th, the total amount of donations for the year reached 173 pints. Even though the county is 22 pints short of their goal,. Central Kentucky BLood Center is granting "total coverage" to Rockcastle Countians for the coming year in the hope, that more people will see what a vital and important program this is. i

Those who came to donate were:

Thomas Hayes, Jennie Han-

SANTA CLAUS COMES TO BRODHEAD

Santa ,Claus will arrive in Brodhead on Saturday, Decem-ber 8th at 6:30 p.m. with candy for the children.

This event Is sponsored by the Brodhead Homemakers and there •will be special singing.

sel, Mardella Carpenter, Harold Ballinger, Nora Putnam, Wade Hopkins, J immy Whitaker, Sheila Whitaker, Marion North-ern, Gregory Ennis, Glen Rigs-

by, Roger McClure, Ernest Brooks. Janet Brooks, Robert Cromer, L.C. Mink, Merita McGuire, Wallace Stamper. Dol-

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Automobile Accident Claims Life of Johnny Ray Allen, 23

Johnny Ray Allen, 23, of Route 1, Brodhead, died early Sunday evening from injuries received in a one-car accident late Saturday night, December 1.

The accident occurred 5 8/10 miles south of Mt. Vernon on Ky. 1250 (the Spiro Road). Mr. Allen was alone in the car.

State Trooper Guy Blevins, who worked the accident, said Mr. Allen's small truck left the road in a curve, hit an embank-ment and overturned. He was taken to the Rockcastle County Hospital and then transferred to St. Joseph Hospital in Lex-ington.

Mr. Allen was bom in Wayne County, Indiana on Jan-uary 30,1956, the son of Quentin and Joanna Norton Allen and was a member of the Army National Guard, the Ottawa Baptist Church and a 1975 grad-uate of Rockcastle County High School.

Besides his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Quentin Allen of Brod-head, he is survived by: two brothers, Jerry Allen and Larry Allen both of Rt. 1, Brodhead; two sisters, Mrs. Connie Wilson of Junction City, and Miss Diane Allen of Rt. 1, Brodhead; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Norton, and his pa terna l grandmother, Mrs. Mayme Allen of Rt. 1, Brod-

head. Funeral services were held

Tuesday, December 4, at the Ottawa Baptist Church by Rev. Marion Brock. Burial, with full MiUtary Honors, was in the Ottawa Cemetery.

Active pallbearers were members of the Army National Guard. Honorary pallbearers were: Dennis Bray, Bobby Wil-son, Danny Bruce Hamm, Cat Atkins, Eddie Hamm, Randy Bullock, Wendell Brown and Larry Napier.

Dowell and Martin Funeral Home was in charge of all

Sand Hill Residents Petition Fiscal Court for Guard Rails, Road Paving and Maintenance

A Monday afternoon fire completely destroyed the 4-bedroom home and contents of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Raines and family. According to Lisa Raines, "who was at home at the time the fire broke out. a

smoke alarm went off and when she check, a wall behind a wood-burning stove was ablaze. The home was located just out of the city limits ort U.S. 25 south.

Department of Education Approves

told that the new Highway 461 was now in the design stage and the next :step would be right-of-way purchase with construc-tion beginning no sooner than 1982--and that would be depend-ent on whether there was fund-ing available.

It has now been decided where the center line of the road will be and if you are interested in knowing exactly where the road will be located, you may find out by visiting the District Highway Engineers office at Somerset.

County Attorney James Lambert brought before the court the problem of janitorial service in the courthouse. Mr. Lambert said he had been ap-proached by some of those rent-ing offices in the courthouse who complained that no janitor-

ial service was being provided. The court discussed the matter very little and no definitive action was taken.

In other action, the Court amended the 1979-80 budget to include $882.25 surplus from the New Road Machinery account in the 1978-79 budget. The money was amended to the same ac-count. The budget was . also amended to show the receipt of $15,567.50 in unanticipated funds from the county's share of strip mining permits. TheJjinds were distributed as follows: $10,000 to the road n^intenance material fund; $2,000 to the miscellaneous reserve account and $3,567.50 to road mainten-ance. The court also authorized Judge Thacker to borrow $3,400 to be repaid from receipts of the stat Rural Rock program.

Moth Ball Rumors Not True District Ranger Thiels Says

The Forest Service reports that several employees were stricken from exposure to moth balls in an attempt to drive deer into the Management Area. Not really, says Berea Ranger Leo D. Thiels who hunted Jackson County in the recent deer seas-

I was really surprised that mahy hunters actually believed that the Forest Service or De-partment of Fish and Wildlife Resources would waste the tax-payers' dollars or do such a

foolish thing. Any of us would be glad to

sit down and discuss game ma-nagement goals and objectives with any hunter or hunting group and would be open for suggestions, Ranger Thiels an-nounced.

He said that he hoped that the people in Jackson and sur-rounding counties would not think that we would pull such a dirty trick.

/s/ Leo D. Thiels District Ranger

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State Senatoc John Rogers was £uest speaker for the annual Farmers-Businessmen's Banquet held last Friday night at the high school. Sen. Rogers spoke on the state of the economy. Seated at the speakers table are: C.T. HuffineS, president of the Bank of Mt. Vernon; Mrs. Jane Parr'ott and her

mother, Mrs. Francis Moody, who provided musical entertainment for the evening and Sam Ford who welcomed the farmers on behalf of the businessmen. Tommy H. Mink responded for the farmers and Robert Robinson served as Master of Ceremonies.

Amendment to Facility Survey

A petition from residents of the Sand Hill Road was pre-sented to the Rockcastle County Fiscal Court Tuesday asking for guard rails and paving and maintenance of the road.

The petition, containing al-most 200 signatures, called Sand Hill Road, the "poorest road in the county," and went on to state that, "We hereby serve notice that we, as citizens, in-tend for our road to be better maintained and that we will, if necessary, follow the petition with appropriate action against those whom we feel are no longer serving in our interest."

The Court took the petition under advisement and promised to look into the situation to see what could be done to improve the road.

An employee of the Depart-ment of Transportation was also before the court to request that the Court pass a Resolution assuming maintenance respons-ibility for those portions of old 461 which are to be'deleted from the State Primary System due to reconstruction of 461 in Rockcastle County.

It was explained to the court that with construction of the new road, several portions of old 461 will be left which will still be ususable to motorists and these are the sections the state is asking the county to resume responsibility for. The court was assured that any of the sections damaged by construction of the new road would be properly repaired.

On Question, the Court was

An amendment to the Rock-castle County Facility Survey conducted In August, 1978, has been approved by the State Department of Education.

The amendment deals pri-marily with priorities for capi-tal outlay expenditures.

The first priority listed in the amendment calles for the first phase of a new elementary school to be constructed on the present Mt. Vemon Elementary School site "to include a new cafeteria, physical education fa-cility and 12 basic classrooms to replace substandard relocatable classrooms and the concrete block building.

The recommendation goes on to say that this construction is to be the initial phase of the complete replacement of the old Mt. Vernon Elementary School and should not be connected to the present school.

The second priority calls for construction of four additional classrooms and shower dressing rooms at the Roundstone Ele-mentary School.

Priority number 3 provides f o r a n addition to be construct-ed to the area vocational school to provide for programs in Auto Body and Carpentry. The busi-ness office area, two related classrooms, radio and TV area to be air-con%tioned.

Extensive planning for the replacement of Brodhead and Livingston Elementary Schools is the fourth priority.

Three projects afe listed to be carried out at the discretion \ of the district as money becomes ' available. They are: upgrade/ lighting at Brodhead and Roundstone Elementaries.' ° A project of window replacement to be carried out at Brodnead

Roy Brown, right, presented John Houston with a plaque for his contribution to soil conservation in Rockcastle County through the years. The plaque was the Master Agricultural Conservation Award. Mr. Houston has been a member of the Soil Conserva-tion Service since Its inception in 1944. Mr. Brown is a supervisor in the service and chairman of the Public Relations Committee.

Supt. Charles Parsons also told the board that the Dept. of Building and Grounds in Frank-

jjftrt had agreed to accept the verification of Property Valua-tion Administrator Robert Cro-mer that the present school site at Mt. Vernon contained 12.7 acres. Mr. Parsons said this would leave the site 1.3 acres short of the required 14 acres and that this could be possibly be obtained by acquiring some adjacent land which is reported to contain aboilt 2 acres.

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Elementary. And, a general pro-gram of site improvement at all permanent centers.

The amendment also pro-vides for Rockcastle County School District to use the K8-4 plan of school organization for the immediate future and lists all schools presently being used as permanent centers, except Blue Springs which is listed as an interim center.

The report was presented to "the local Board of Education at Monday night's regular month-ly meeting.