FIRE DFSTROYS HOME--Aftefotwas all over, the Jacob Vanwinkle family w . r . home-!•••< wlthoutony of the p r«« i t« "Sonlo" hod brought their three children, and hod no clothes, furniture, or cny personal possessions. The fire, which burned tho Vanwinltles out last Thursday morning, caught behind a kitchen stove..Th. three children wore o-sleep in tha house at tk# time it caught fire but wore cah i td to safety by their mother and two Rigsby children.

I Under i t s program of aid to • surrounding counties, Keene-• l a i d Assoac t ion , with in-

H B come from Thoroughbred me-ing and sa les , ha s made i t s annual grant of S22S to the

j Mt. Vernon Lions Club. „ S I Otherserv ice organizations

f and agencies which received ! funds included the Woodford

iL County. Community Chest; J * the Franklin County United

j £ F u n d the Rotary Clubs of B Georgetown, Nicholasville, • Par is , Richmond, Winchester, • Carl is le , Lancaster , L a w

renceburg, Mt. Sterling, and • Owenton; t h e L ions C lubs pf • Cynthiana, Danville,Harrode-

H I burg, OwingsMlle, and Wil-liamstown; and the Kiwanis Clubs of Irvine-Ravenna and

a t * Jadraon County. "8 TheS6,150 made under this **' program was a part of$31,250

Tta ivcrs i ty of Kentucky W>TBT7 I o x i n g t o n , Kentucky Htfltmt ^igtral

$225 Grant Given To Local Lions

nrtmfer, I f , •» Fa r t Huron, Michigan wo. kilted instantly eotly Sunday evening when the above emt, which he was driving, le f t the Interstate about 9 miles north Mt. Vernon. Bomtnger and h i t wife, Nancy, were travelling south when Mi car l e f e j h e road, went onto the median, andturned over about six times. The Bwntragers had been married December 27.

contributed by Keeneiand to non-profit organizations dur-ing 1968.

The largest s ingle grant was $5,000 to the Lexington and Fayet te County Commun-ity Fund, and $3,000 was given to t h e P a r i a and Bour-bon County YMfcA Building Fond. T h e Grayson Founda-tion, an equine research o r ganization, received $2,500; Transylvania College. SI.600; and t h e Lexington Baby Health Service, the,Lexing-ton-Fayette County Urban League, Trooper Island, and the Blue Grass Council of the Boy Soouts of America, each , $1,000.

Contributions of J50Q each, were made to 14 other Lex-ington-based a g e n d e s , nyny of which serve the ent i re Central Kentucky area.

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M W T VERNON, KENTUCKY 1P< PEP COPY v o l tlME 81 NUMBER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1968

Fire Destroys Home; AUC on tents Lost.

A t ire completely destroy-ed the fouriooni home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Van-winkle early Thursday morn-ing. T h e home was located in the Burt section of the county.

t h e fire started in a wall behind a gas cooking stove. The Van winkle's three children, a g e s 5 t o 6 a o n t h s , were asleep in d ie house at the time the fire started.

Mrs. Van winkle had gone to the home of her mother in-law, which was located about 100 feet from her home, to care for the elder Mrs. Vanwinkle, who i s bedfas t . She sent a neigh-bo r ' s ' ch i l d , Wayne Rigsby about 10, to see if her children had .awakened. The Rigsby child found the wall 'behind the s tove blazing and ran -back to get help with the children. Mrs. Vanwinkle, Sue Rigs-by and Wayne Rigsby got the children out safely but

• were unable to save any-thing.

Mr. Vanwinkle was in Lon-don at work at the time of the fire.

If anyone wishes fa do-na te anything, food, cloth-ing, bed clothes, furniture or money, to th e Vanwinkl es who saved nothing from the fire, you may do 90 by tak-ing your donation to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hu-bert Vanzant on Brush

MASON DEGREES C0NFERRE0

Three members-of A'sh-IandLodge640 F 4 AM were raised to the Sublime De-gree of a Master Mason in ceremonies held recently at the job. They wertf: J ackR. Craig, Rex Eldon McGuire, and Robert L . C o x *

Fivemembers attained the Entered Apprentice degree recently. They were: Ijfilli-am Barrett, Lonnie Reppert, Gary Cromer, Arthur Bul-lock and Terry Cummins.

Brodhead Gets Partial Grant

T h e Economic Develop-ment Administration (EDA) have given their okay of Biodhead's water and sewer pioject except that part Of th* sewer system has been

^removed from the original application, according to Bobby Proctor. Chairman of the Town Board at Brod-

- head. Mr. Proctor said that EDA had given t h d r ap-proval of the water system, a 75.000 gallon storage tank, aiid a partial sewer system; one that would cover the bus iness section and a part of the residential section. However, Mr. Proctor said that the Town Board had de-d d e d to delay accepting the project as i s with the hope that the entire sewer

- project could b e gp(ten i n the grant and loan. -

Total cost of the complet-ed project i s about $650,000 with approximately $400,000 of the amount a s a giant from EDA. The Bro<fliead_ water system would h o o k ' onto the Mt Vernon water Qpe near Ben Cra ig ' s farm at Maretburg.No pumps wiH benecessary but a pressure reduction valve would b e

ASSIGNED CANNONEER Army Pr iva te First C l a s s

M.B. Mink, 20, son of Mrs. Irene Reynolds of Mt. V e r noo,.was ass igned a s a can-noneer with the 32nd Artit-lety in Vietnam on Novem-ber 26.

H i s wife, G ^ l e , l ives at 8778 "Dayton Road, West Cheater, Ohio.

BANKS CLOSED WED. Both the Bank of Mt. Ve r

non and the Cit izens Bank in Brodhead will be closed New Year ' s Day, Wednes-day, January 1.

Mich. Man Killed In 1-75 Accident

needed to redi Brodhead had already re-

ceived approval from the Federal Water Pollution Control Board of a $54,000 grant- to aid them in their p ro j ec t

MRS. IVA WHEELDON DIES AT STANFORD

Mrs. IvaMae Brown Wheel-don, 81, of Route 1, Brod-head, died Saturday, Decem-ber 28 at the F t Logan Hospital in Stanford. Mrs. Wheel ckm had been ill for several years.

A l i felong native of Rock-cas t le County, Mrs. Wheel-don was the widow of Evan Wheel don, a veteran of World War I, who died in 1953.

She W£S the daughter of Ranee and Maty J a n e Rey-nolds Brown and a member of the Providence Church of Christ .

Survivors i n d u d e a num-ber of n ieces and nephew^.

Funeral services were held Monday at the Provi-dence Church of Christ with in ternent in the Provi-dence Cemetery. Off ida t iog were Rev. Charles Brown and Rev. John Craig.

Spades Funeral Home was in charge of all arrange-ments.

William Frederick Born-trager, 19, of Port Huron, Michigan, was killed about 6 p.m. Sunday night when the car, which he was driv-ing, le f t the southbound lane of Interstate-75 and turned over on the median. According to Coroner Bill Dowell, death, was ins tan t

The acddentoccured about 9mi les south of Mt. Vernon.

Also injured in the a c d -dent was Bomtrager 's wife of two-days, Nancy, who

was admitted to Berea Hos-pital for minor injuries.

Accordingto reports, Bom-trager left the shoulder of the roadon the median side and in trying to get back on the road; the car began skid-ding and turned over ap-proximate! y s ix times com-ing to rest on the median s ide ways.

The body was taken to Co* Funeral Home in Mt. Vemon and later transferred lo Michigan.

State Will Build Road At Renfro

And, who 's toad i s it? No one has d e d d e d that impor-tant question yet and mean-while residents along the Renfro Road a tLakeLinvi l l e still have to come to Mt Vemon via Brindle Ridge. However, there i s a partial solution in sight s ince the State Highway Department has agreed to build a "tem-porary" road so that the residents can at least get o u t The work will b e done by the highway department and will begin as soon as_ the necessary right-of-ways can be obtained.

The State does still does feel that it i s t h d r place to build a permanent road

SCHOOL STARTS THURSDAY

Thursday, January 2, i s the day kids . Sorry,, about that, but you'U have no more week-day mornings to a laop late until spring va-cation because schools in Rockcast le County will be-girt Thursday morning after the Christmas Holidays. Hang on Mothers, i t ' s al-most Thursday.

into the area and neither does Greer Brothers, who undermined the old road for dirt to put in the core of the dam causing it to cave in. The county says i t i s not t h d r responsibility and the City Coundl has in-formed the State that they will not be held responsible for rep ladng die toad.

So meanwhile at least , the s ta te will help out by build-ing a gravd toad while the argument gpes on as to who 's responsibility it i s to replace the road. *

WATCH PARTY SERVICES TUESDAY NIGHT

A Watch Party will begin a t 9 : IS p.a>. « t the Mt. Ver-non Christian Church on Tuesday night and will con-tinue until midnight. Games will b e played and refresh-ments wilt b e served* Every-one is invited to attend this service .

PRAYER MEETING THUPS Pfayer meeting services

normally h d d on Wednesday night at the First Baptist Church in Mt Vemon will be h d d on Thursday night, January 2 instead.

Cong. Carter Speaks 0 Development Group

MRS. LILLY M. HELTON DIES DECEMBER27

Mrs. Lilly Mae Helton, 72, of Brodhead, died Friday, December 27 at the Rock-cas t le County Baptist Hos-pi ta l . She was a native of Rockcas t le County.

The daughter of the late ' Charlie and Martha Dow - Debprd. she was a member \ of the LockJand, Ohio Bap-tist Church.

Bes ides her husband, Hen-ry Howard H d t o n , she is survived by five daughters. Mrs. Hope Brock of Lock-land, Ohio, Mrs. Mattie Con-do of Hartwell, Ohio, Mrs. Ddor a Bowling and Mrs. Alice McKenzie, both of Lovelahd, Ohio, and Mrs. Viola Baxter of Shatontflle, Ohio; three sons, Harmon

•^Helton of Hartwell, Ohio, Delbert Helton of Carthage, Ohio, and Emes t Helton of Brodhead; one step-son; five brothers, George, Char I je , Walter, Mace, and Harve. all of Brodhead, 20 grand-children, and 5 great grand-children.

Funeral se rv ices wereheld Monday, December 30 at the Brodhead Baptist Church by Rev. John Zupancic. Burial was in the Piney Grove Cemetery.

Watson Funeral Home in •Brodhead was in charge of arrangements.

SBA REPRESENTATIVE LONDON,JAN. 8

Small Business Adminis-tration b u s i n e s s loans have helped thousands of small firms get started, expand, grow and prosper a s s tated by R.B.*Blankenship, SBA Regional Director.

Ir^ i t s continued effort to serve the c i t izens of Lon-don and surrounding area, •n SBA representative will b e at that Agency's part-time of f ice in the County Court Room, County Court-house, London, Kentucky, on Wednesday, Jan . 8, 1969. Theof f i ce will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Fifth District Congressman Tim Lee Carter spoke to approximately 50 persons last Monday night at a meet-ing of the Pcfckcastle Coun-ty Development Association.

Congressman .Carter re-viewed recent progress in Rockcas t le County such a s construction of Lake Lin-ville; construction of Harry Spares Vocat ion^?* School; the extension of the Mt. Vemon Water System, sewer system and housing development. Carter told the group »thfit a great deal of progress had been made in the past three*years in each county of the Fifth Congres-sional District.

Congressman Carter re-quested help from everyone in recruiting qualified young men for all the military ser-vice academies. He stated thpthe found it-very difficult to find h i^quota .

He empfiasized to the group that "helping you is my purpose for being in Congress ."

In answer to Clay Colson's

CHANGES MADE IN MEDICARE

Older pfcople who enter the hospital ' under Medicare on January 1 or after will be responsible for an addi-tional $4 of their hospital bi l ls .

Up until now, M e d i c a l ha s paid all but the first $40 of a beneficiary 's ho» pital bill in each spell of i l lness . Effect ive January 1, it will cover all but the f irst S44.

The hospital bill for an average stay by a Medicare beneficiary now runs about

query about the disposal of solid waste mSterial. Con-gress Carter suggested that the county look into the availability of a pilot pro-ject for this district since^ federal money has been appropriated by his com-

. mittee in Congress for such projects.

In other business before ' the Development group,

Wade Ray and Clifford Bales gave brief reports on the proposed airport for Rockcast le County. Mr. Ray told.the group that the com-mittee was waiting on f u r ther data on the airport from Arthur Pope, consulting en-gineer from Owensville. Mr. Bales told the group that he had visited the Department of Aeronautics and talked with Edward LaFontaine, Director of the Division of Airport Development. He reported that Mr. LaFontaine s a id theF i sca l Court needed to official ly approve the committee appointed to study the feasibility of an airport. The committee cons i s t s of: Wade Ray, chairman; Clyde Linville, Lewis D. Nicely,

•Dr. Jack Lewis. Clifford Ba les ; and Hobert Harris.

Mr. LaFontaine suggested that a si te other than, the Harris .airport (owned by Hobert H a m s and situated in the Brindle Ridge section of the county) be considered. However, Mr. Bales reported that he tofd Mr. LaFontaine that <he Harris aiiport s i te was. probably the best one available in Rockcastle County since more 1 and around it coulc/ be pu rchased if necessary.

Rep. William H. SeMarcus. who was present at the meet-ing, told the group that he would work with the Aero-nautics Committee and also gave assurance of the Gove-

nor*s cooperat ion. Fiscal Court, which will meet Jan-7, 1969. is expected to ap-prove the Airport Committee and when this is done fur-ther action can be taken.

Clay Col son gave a report on the lake development at the Cedar Ri*>ids Recrea-tion Center, He said that a sinkhole had appeared in the water area of the impound* ment s i t e and that af ter ex-amination by engineers and an expert in thi"s problem, it was found that the lake was located and constructed properly and no cavi t ies

• were underlying the dam it-self. It *a s suggested that the dam be lef t a s i s and a valve be placed at the lower end of the water pipe and the lake allowed to fill up in order that further tes t s may be made. The building of the club house is progres-sing rapidly, according to Mr. Col son', and the bath-house and pool are also nearing completion.

-Wayne Stewart, a member of the tot. Vernon City Coun-cil. told the group that the construction of the water l ines in the Mt. Vemon Water System is progressing rapid-ly and the l ine toward Brod-head on U.S. 150 should be completed by March 1.

A nominating committee was appointedby Roy Brown, president, and asked to pre-sent a s la te of nominees for the January meeting of the group. Appointed were: Gatliff Craig, chairman, Wayne Van Hook, and Clyde Linville.

A motion was made by Wayne Stewart and second-ed by Hubert Th acker that Rockcast le County be t ran fa-Terr ed. from the Lake Cum-berland Tourism Area to the Wilderness Trail Tourism Area. The motion carried.

The Signal Staff

H o l i d a y C K e e r It is with thanks that we extend a most happy new year to everyone.