SUN-DEMOCRAT, KY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1972 TWO Minimum Foundation Program Called 'Scapegoat' For Defects FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Alto state education expert said Monday the Minimum Foundation 1 Program "has been made a scapegoat for every defect in Kentucky education." James Melton, a deputy su-, perintendent of public education, said the state's basic aid to local school districts, implemented in 1956, has been widely misconstrued "and is being blamed for everything unjustly." As the name implies, he said, the main purpose of the foundation program is to provide a disirable minimum education in every district, not necessarily FEDERAL-STATE MARKET NEWS SERVICE, West Kentucky Land and Cattle Marion, Sept. 25 Cattle 1,163. Calves 40. Compared to lastweek, slaughter steers and heifers fully steady.
Cows and bulls steady. Calves and vealers 50c to $1 higher. Feeder steers 50c to $1 higher, with full advance on weights over 450 lbs. Heifers steady to strong. Slaughter steers, load choice 941-1083 lbs, good and choice, 725-967 lbs, 33.50-34.50.
Slaughter heifers, part good and choice, 834-1060 lbs, 30.50-33.50. Slaughter cows, utility 22.50- 24.50; cutter, 21.50-22.50;' canner, Slaughter bulls, utility to good, over 1,000 lbs, 29.50-31.50. Slaughter calves and vealers, good and choice, 250-325 lIbs, calves, choice vealers, 180-240 lbs, 50.50-52.50; good, 47- 49. Feeder steers, choice 250-300 lbs, 49.50-51.50; 300-400 lbs, 50; 400-500 lbs, 500-600 lbs, 42.50-44.50; 600-700 lbs, 39.50- 43.25; 700-800 1 bs, 38.50-40.25; good and choice, 300-400 lbs, 45- 48.50; 400-500 1 bs, 42.25-45.50; 500-600 lbs, 40.25-42.75; 600-700 lbs, 38.50-40.75; good, 300-500 lbs, 40.50-44.25; 400-500 lbs, 39.50-41.- 25; 500-600 lbs, 37.50-40; 600-700 lbs, 35-38; 700-820 lbs, 33.25-35.25. Feeder heifers, choice 255-300 lbs, 42-44; 300-350 lbs, 40.75-42.50; 350-400 lbs, 400-500 lbs, 37.75-39.50; 500-600 lbs, 35.50-38.- 50; 600-700 lbs, 34.50-36; 700-800 lbs, 33-35; good and choice, 300- 400 lbs, 37.50-39.75; 499-500 lbs, 36-38; 500-600 1 34.50-36.25; 600-700 lbs, 32.25-35; good, 300- 400 lbs, 400-500 lbs, 500-600 lbs, 32.50-34.50; 600-930 lbs, 31-33.
Stock cows and calves, choice pairs, 310-355 per pair. FEDERAL-STATE MARKET NEWS SERVICE, Mayfield Live-' stock Auction, Sept. 25 Cattle 950. Calves 56. Compared to last week, all represented slaughter classes steady.
Feeders $1 to $1.50 higher. Slaughter cows, utility 23.50- 26.50; cutter, 20.50-23.50; canner, 17.50-20.50. Slaughter bulls, utility over 1000 lbs, 29-30. Slaughter calves and vealers, mixed good and choice, 180-240 lb. vealers, 45-52; mixed good and choice, 240-350 lb calves, 40-45.
Feeder steers, choice 300-400 lbs, 47.50-50; high choice up to 55; 400-500 lbs, 44.50-47.50, with several high choice up to 49; 500-600 lbs, 41.50-44.50; 600-700 lbs, 38.50-41.50; mixed good and choice, 300-400 lbs, 44.50-47.50; 400-500 lbs, 41.50-44.50; 500-600 lbs, 38.50-41.50; good, 300-400 lbs, 41.50-44.50; 400-500 lbs, 38.50-41.- 50; 500-600 lbs, 35.50-38.50. Feeder heifers, choice 300-400 lbs, 41-44; 400-500 lbs, 40-43; 500- 600 lbs, 38-40; mixed good and choice, 300-400 lbs, 39-41; 400-500 lbs, 38.50-40; 500-600 lbs, 36-39. Mrs. Osbron, 61, Dies, Rites Set MURRAY, Sept. 25-Mrs.
Eleanor E. Osbron, 61, wife of Otis D. Osbron, Hamlin Star Route, died at 7:30 a.m. Sunday at Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Mrs.
Osbron was a member of St. Leo Catholic Church. Besides her husband, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Kate Polit of Chicago, and Mrs. Florence Gerhke of Cary, and two brothers, Leonard Mickes and Roy Mickes, both of Chicago.
Funeral services are set: for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Max Churchill Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Martin Mattingly officiating. Burial will be in Murray City Cemetery. Pallbearers will be John Fallwell, Gene Cohoon, Paul Bogard, Andrew Farris, Edward Fitts and Noral Young.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Tuesday. Prayers will be offered at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. I Youth Convicted On Drug Charges dispense equality where.
Melton said his remarks, made in an interview, are not intended as response to critique of the program, sounded last week by Dr. James Peyton, a specialist with the Legislative Research Commission. Peyton told a legislative committee the foundation aid considerably short of providing every child with an equal education, an issue which is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Melton called the report accurate and informative, but said it centered around "leeway money" for schools.
The foundation program, operating through complicated formulas, basically is simple in concept. The state allocates each of the 190 local districts a certain amount each school year. The district also must raise a minimum amount through its own Graves Boy (Continued From Page One) ducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Lynnville Church of Christ by Dalton Vaughn. Burial will be in Mayfield Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call at Jackson Funeral Home in Dukedom, Tenn. after 6 p.m. today. Kentucky counted eight other highway fatalities during the weekend, according to the Associated Press, among them two Louisville teen-agers killed on the Kentucky Turnpike. Kevin Landrum, 18, and Michael Ellis, 18, were killed Sunday in a crash involving their car and a tractor trailer about five miles north of Elizabethtown.
Landrum was a student at Western Kentucky Un48-liversity. A Morehead student Jerri Frankita Hayes, 21, of Jackson, was killed in a two-vehicle crash on Kentucky 15 near Campton. The deaths brought the state toll this year to 796. Mary K. Bradshaw, 16, of Covington, was killed when the convertible in which she was riding ran over a 10-foot embankment at Covington and rolled over her.
The occurred on Montague Road. Billy Jackson McGhee, 43, of Lewisburg, was killed when his car ran off Kentucky 178 in Logan County west of Russellville. Gladys Fuson Weir, 31, was killed when she was hit by a truck while walking on U.S. 119 three miles north of Pineville. No charges were filed.
Michal Engle, 5, of Wooten, died Saturday when he was struck by a car in Wooton. A 34-year-old a Paducah WOman, Jeannine 1 M. Connole, a nursing instructor in Paducah, was killed Saturday in a twocar crash on Highway 60 north of Marion, Ky. The toll stood at 718 through last Sept. 24.
Mrs. Hayden, 56, Services Today MAYFIELD, Sept. 25 Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Louise Hayden, 56, Milburn, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Byrn Funeral Chapel with the Rev.
Alvin York and the Rev. Ronnie Stinson officiating. Burial will follow in Salem Cemetery in Hickman County. She died Sunday at the Community Hospital. Survivors include her husband, Robert Hayden; mother, Mrs.
Pearl Cannon, Mayfield; three sons, Bill Stewart, Sedalia, Bobby Stewart, Coeburn, and Jimmy Stewart, Detroit; three step-sons, Billy Joe, David Rudy, and Don Hayden, all of Milwaukee; a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Pigg, Detroit; a step-daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Yarbrough, Milburn; a brother, R.C. Rickman, Graves County; four sisters, Mrs. Mable Greif, Mayfield, Mrs.
Opal Edwards, Frankfort, Mrs. Carmel Hicks, Chicago, and Mrs. Jane Wiley, Mayfield; and 11 grandchildren. Mrs. Aldridge, 80, Services Conducted WATER VALLEY, Sept.
25 Funeral services for Mrs. Blanche Aldridge, 80, Water Valley, were held at 2 p.m. today at the Water Valley Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Jobe and the Rev. Tom Brann officiating.
Mrs. Aldridge died Saturday at the Westview Nursing Home in Murray. Survivors include her step-sister, Mrs. Viola Aldridge, Cayce; two grandchildren, Don Aldridge, Owensboro, and Mrs. Larry Mayfield, Murray; and five great Burial was in the Water Valley Cemetery with Jonah Bennet, Ewing Wilson, Murrel Stephens, Edgar Harrison, Tuck, and Richard Childers I serving as pallbearers.
efforts by way of the property tax. The combination is what the district spends on public education. Nothing prevents a district from raising extra funds for its schools through the same property tax and "enriching" the education program. This additional money is called leeway revenue. Melton said the wide disparity in expenditures per child cited by Peyton last week involves the leeway revenue, not the basic aid.
A list of all districts for 1971- 72 shows that most spent from $400 to $500 per child in basic aid for average daily attendance. However, the leeway revenue varied sharply-from a low of zero in Wayne county to a high of $351 per child in the Fort Thomas district. "The foundation program is not the problem," Melton said. "It allows any district to spend more money for education." He said he constantly receives mail from concerned parents--and even misinformed school officials complain that the formula school won't allow obtain al particular to physical education 1 equipment, start a special education class or do many other things. Melton acknowledged the foundation program does lack provision for incentives to ceed the minimum school expenditures.
In too many instances, 1 he said, the minimum becomes the maximum. As a suggested remedy, the state education department five years ago released a study recommending incentive money from the state for districts which meet a statewide average district tax rate and then exceed it. "The funds were not made available by the General Assembly to implement this program," Melton said. He indicated that however the supreme court rules on equality of education cases from several states, the ture of the Minimum Foundation Program could remain sound. But what may substitute for current methods of raising and distributing money to schools is purely speculative at this point, he said.
"But if Kentucky is going to achieve equity, there are only two basic ways," he said. "One is for the state to levy a uniform tax rate and the other for districts to levy a uniform local rate, with the state making up the difference in revenue in poor counties." The state education department is in the thick of a massive study of the foundation program. Melton said 10 consultants, a 100-member citizens' committee and more than 200 "educational technicians" already are taking part. Thousands of citizens soon will be added, he said, when each district is asked to form a local citizens' advisory committee. Mrs.
Edwards, 62, Rites Scheduled Today At Mayfield MAYFIELD, Sept. 25 Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Alta Edwards, 62, Mayfield, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Byrn Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Herman Luter and the Rev.
Lillard Dunn Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Arnett Cemetery in Graves County. She died Sunday at her home. Survivors include her mother, Mrs.
Rosa Whitt, Paducah; a son, John Robert Edwards, St. Charles, two step-sons, Deward Edwards, Des Moines, Iowa, and Ralph Edwards, Cape Girardeau; three daughters, Mrs. Sammy Myatt, Wingo, Mrs. Randell Miller, Lynnville, and Mrs. Bobby Parham, Mayfield; two brothers, Raymond and Rymon Whitt, both of Mayfield; three sisters, Mrs.
Roberta Doran, Mayfield, Mrs. Hazel Mathis, Hazel Park, and Mrs. Pauline Doughty, Wingo; a half-sister, Mrs. Ruby Reed, Mayfield; and five grandchildren. Mrs.
Grace Rector Dies At Golconda; Services Today GOLCONDA, Sept. 25 Mrs. Grace" Rector, Golconda, died Sunday morning at her home. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Della Taylor, Golconda, and Mrs.
W.F. Dempsey, Marion. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Aly Funeral Home here with the Rev. Marion Mosley officiating.
Burial will be in the Golconda IO0F Cemetery. Friends may call at the fuIneral home. By SUE MILLER Sun-Democrat Staff Writer A McCracken Circuit jury late Monday found Ronald Wayne Smith, 20, guilty of possession of dangerous drugs for sale or disposal to others and set his sentence at two years confinement in prison and ordered payment of a $2,500 fine. A similar charge against his brother, Gerald James Smith 17, was dismissed during the afternoon session of Monday's trial. A motion of probation of Smith's sentence will pend until Oct.
6. The charge was dismissed Record On (Continued From Page One) tionship between the big oil companies, ITT, Penn Central and Lockheed and these other firms that have been benefited by the administration that it would make it impossible for President Nixon to carry his campaign to the ordinary people." McGovern said that under Morton and his assistant secretary for water and power resources, James Smith, the Bureau of Reclamation "has become a full partner of the private power companies." McGovern accused Nixon of talking a great deal about protecting the environment while opposing spending federal money to protect it. "I've never been able to understand how the President is able to tell us in one breath that a few hundred million dollars spent to save the water and the air and the land of this country is inflationary, but somehow it's not inflationary to spend $250 million every week chasing little people in black pajamas around the jungles of Southeast Asia," he said. Tom McChristian, Bardwell, Dies Tom McChristian, 55, Bardwell, died at 4:30 a.m. today at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah.
An employe of the Flegle Lum-ling ber Company, Mr. McChristian was a veteran of World War II, an auxiliary policeman, former Bardwell night marshall, member of VFW Post 5409, a member of the Bardwell Volunteer Fire Department, and a member of the Bardwell Baptist Church. Survivors include 1 his wife, Mrs. Roxie McChristian; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Sue Dennis, Wickliffe; a son, Gary McChristian, Athens, five sisters, Mrs.
Dorothy Walker, Bardwell, Miss Christine McChristian, Bardwell, Mrs. Arley Gorham, Milburn, Mrs. Clifford Riddle, Bardwell Rt. 3, and Mrs. Harry Ballewe, Titusville, two brothers, James McChristian, Paducah, and McChristian, Collinsville, five grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Milner Funeral Home here where friends may call after 11 a.m. Tuesday. Colie Aldridge Rites Conducted CLINTON, Sept. 25-Funeral services for Colie Aldridge, 82, were conducted at 2 p.m. today at Hopkins and Brown Funeral Home by O.
K. Vick, with burial in the Clinton Cemetery. He died Saturday at 11:30 p.m. at Clinton-Hickman County Hospital. Mr.
Aldridge, a retired barber from the Dukedom, community, leaves his wife, Mrs. Audrey Aldridge; a daughter, Mrs. Martha Cannon, Clinton; two brothers, Stanley Aldridge, Clinton, and Fahrney Aldridge, Cleveland, Ohio; and a sister, Mrs. Luna Johnson, Wingo. Jesse Belt, Tolu, Dies; Services Today SALEM, Sept.
25-Funeral services for Jesse Belt, 68, Tolu, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Whites Chapel in Crittenden County. Mr. Belt died Sunday at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Katherine Belt; a sister, Mrs. Ollie Finley, St. Louis; two brothers, George and Roy Belt, both of Sikeston, Mo. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Boyd Funeral Home.
Autos Rise 4 Million WASHINGTON The Transportation Department reports 112,922,354 motor vehicles registered in the United States in 1971, a gain of over 4.5 million in a year. The totals included 92.7 million cars, 19.7 million trucks and more than 297,000 buses. when an order from McCracken County Court holding the youngSmith to the grand jury was found to be insufficient. Smith's attorney, Joseph Freeland, sought the dismissal when it was shown that the court order contained no findings by the Juvenile Court that it would be in the best interests of the juvenile to be transferred to Circuit Court for trial. The present law requires such findings to be made a part of the court record, Freeland said.
The verdict in the trial was returned after only about 30 minjutes of deliberation by the jury of seven women and five men. No testimony was offered by AT MONEY MEETING Robert S. McNamara, right, president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, confers Monday with Paul Schweitzer, man- Four File In County Board Race L. G. Williams, Paducah Rt.
8, and Harry W. Coovert, Oaks Road, filed late Monday as candidates for the Fifth District post on the McCracken County school board being vacated by Bobby L. Threatt, who is not seeking reelection. Earlier in the day Dr. David H.
Leeper, S. Friendship Road, became the third candidate in the Fourth District, joining Carlton Draffen and incumbent Carl Watkins. Leonard Elrod, of the Heath community, was the first person to file in the Second District. District incumbent Walter Mayer indicated he might reconsider his decision not to run. In another filing, Van A.
"Tony" Fiser, 920 Jefferson became a candidate for the city school board. Previously filing for city school board posts were incumbents Ted W. Brian, William R. Black and Robert Harriford, former board member Lawrence Albritton and Quandt Adams. Monday night was the deadline for filing for school board posts.
Aircraft (Continued From Page One) initiated or accelerated during the Nixon administration." A spokesman for the Air Transport Association, which represents the scheduled airlines, said the airlines have reduced congestion by operating fewer flights because of: -The advent of larger, roomier aircraft such as the Boeing 747, Douglas DC10 and Lockheed L1011. -Interairline agreements to eliminate wasteful over-scheduling and excess capacity between California and Chicago, New York and Washington, and between New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico. -FAA-imposed hourly operational quotas at the major airports serving New York, Washington and Chicago. The quotas, introduced in June 1969 for a trial period, have been extended three times and the FAA recently proposed a further extension until Oct. 25, 1973.
Grady Jeffery, 64, Former Livingston Resident, Dies SALEM, Sept. 25 Funeral services for Grady Jeffery, 64, formerly of Livingston County, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Cedar Grove Methodist Church with the Rev. Alfred Robbins officiating. Mr.
Jeffery died Saturday at a hospital in Newark, Ohio. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ruby Jeffery; two daughters, Mrs. Sue Chrisman, East Detroit, Charleston, a son, Jeffery, S.C.; sisters, Mrs. Ina Lampkin.
Wynaet, Mrs. Annbell Davenport, Monteagle, Tenn. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Boyd Funeral Home. Mrs.
Lizzie Sells Rites Conducted PRINCETON, Sept. 25- Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie Sells were conducted at 2 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Home by the Rev. H.G.
Sullivan and the Rev. Bobby Jackson, with burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Sells, 85, died at 4 a.m. Sunday at Caldwell County War Memorial Hospital.
She leaves four brothers, Frank and on, Caldwell County, Jesse or, Paducah, and Jimmy Wilson, Detroit. McGovern's (Continued From Page One) aging director of the International Monetary Fund, at the opening session of the Fund's meeting in Washington. -(AP Wirephoto) Nixon gained 1, in 1956 Adlai Stevenson lost 2, in 1952 Stevenson gained 3, in 1948 Harry S. Truman gained 9, in 1944 Thomas E. Dewey lost 2 points, and in 1940 Wendell Wilkie showed no change.
Gallup has noted that the trailing candidate gains ground particularly when he is the candidate of the majority party in the country, as is Democrat McGovern. Meanwhile, McGovern's polltaker claimed Minday that his poll, showing McGovern 22 popularity points behind President Nixon, is more recent and thus more accurate that the 39-point lag reported in another poll. Pollster Patrick Caddell told a news conference also his findings showed "tremendous tility" among voters- one-third of those polled had changed their of minds since a previous poll the same people July. Caddell's poll was at odds with a just-published poll by Daniel Yankelovich, which showed Nixon leading McGovern in popularity by 62 to 23 per cent, and even leading among Democratic voters by 43 to 40 per cent. The Yankelovich poll was taken between Aug.
25 and Sept. 12, on behalf of Time Magazine and The New York Times. Caddell, president of Cambridge Survey Research, said these results were out of date compared to his private poll taken for McGovern last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This gave Nixon 56 per cent, McGovern 34. Another prominent pollster, Louis Harris, told the same House subcommittee that low standing in the polls can create a sympathy vote for the underdog.
Humphrey says the polls do not reflect what is happening in the key electoral-vote states, which are the real battleground. Nixon Calls (Continued From Page One) sentence to placate the AFLCIO and others who have accused U.S. multinational corporations of closing production lines at home and setting up plants abroad. The U.S. companies argue they must set up foreign subsidiaries because they cannot penetrate foreign markets with exports.
"I want to see new jobs created all over the world," said Nixon, "but I will not conthe export of jobs out of done, United States caused by an unfairness built into the world's trading system." Nixon gave no clue to what method Shultz will propose for giving the United States a means of adjusting the dollar's value. currencies Since are all valued Communist of the dollar as a standard it is not possible for the United States to move as other countries do to correct a payments imbalance by a currency devaluation. American officials have urged new rules permitting small and possibly more frequent shifts in exchange rates. W. E.
Jamison Rites Held In Central City BEAVER DAM, Sept. 25 -Funeral services for William Earl Jamison, 71, were held today at Tucker Funeral Chapel in Central City with burial in Fairmont Cemetery. Mr. Jamison, an engineer for Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, died at 2 p.m. Friday at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah.
He resided at Beaver Dam Rt. 1. Mrs. Turley, Librarian At MSU, Dies MURRAY, Sept. 25-Mrs.
Olivia Turley, 59, Murray, died at 2:30 a.m. today at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital. She was a librarian at Murray State University. Survivors include her son, Daythel Turley, Murray; a sister, Mrs. Velda' Johnson, Smithland; and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Livingston Chapel with the Rev. Doyal Webb, the Rev. Julian Warren, and the Rev. Malcom Couch officiating.
Burial will be in the Ferguson Cemetery. Friends may call at the Boyd Funeral Home in Salem after 6 p.m. Tuesday. Fred Neuman, Paducah Native, Dies At 54 Fred Neuman, 54, a native of Paducah and a former employe of the NCRR here, died at 9:30 a.m. Monday of a heart attack in Mashall, Mich.
He had been an employe of the State Farm Insurance Company in the administrative division of the regional office in Marshall for 13 years. He was a member of the United Methodist Church. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W.
Neuman were pioneer residents of Paducah and his uncle, the late Fred G. Neuman was a columnist for the Sun-Democrat for several years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Riddick Neuman; a son, William Neuman; mother, Mrs. Ruby Myrick, Paducah; a sister, Mrs.
Dorothy Parker, Neptune Beach, and two grandsons. Funeral arrangements are incomplete in Marshall. Benjamin Drennan Services Today MARION, Sept. 25-Funeral services for Benjamin F. Drennan, Marion Rt.
8, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Sugar Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Ray Latham and the Rev. Clifton 1 Vandiver, with burial to follow in the church cemetery. Mr.
Drennan, 87, died Sunday at Crittenden County Hospital. He leaves two sons, Herschel Drennan, Johnson City, and Hinkle Drennan, Marion; a sister, Mrs. Mabel Hilliard, Newburg, two brothers, Virgil and Ray Drennan, Marion Rt. three grandchildren and one great Friends -grandchild. call at Hunt Funeral Home.
C. R. English Rites Scheduled MAYFIELD, Sept. 25 Funeral services for Charles Raleigh English, 71, Mayfield, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Byrn Funeral Chapel with the Rev.
Tom Wright officiating. Mr. English died Sunday at the Community Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Vallie English; a daughter, Mrs.
Bill Taylor, Murray; three brothers, the Rev. Howard English, Scott City, Lannes English, Mayfield, and Joe English, Piedmont, five sisters, Mrs. Jim Bostic, Mayfield, Mrs. Eliose. Woodson, Mayfield, Mrs.
Lillian Thorpe, Mayfield, Miss Georgia English, Mayfield, and Mrs. Ruth Doran, Nashville; and two grandchildren. Burial will be in the Highland Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. No testimony was offered by the defense at the conclusion of the commonwealth's testimony.
Defense attorney Freeland, in his closing argument to the jury, said he would not try to tell the jury members that Smith was not in possession of drugs. However, there was not a great enough quantity of drugs in Smith's possession to uphold the supposition that he was selling them, Freeland argued. He asked jury to find Smith guilty of the misdemeanor offense of possession of drugs for personal use. The brothers were arrested, along with five other youths, on March 19, 1972, after a raid on the mobile home in which the Smith brothers were living. The trailer was parked on the rear of the property on which their parents home is located on Navajo Drive.
Others at the trailer were charged with possession of drugs for personal use, and charges against two of the five later were dismissed. Three still are to be tried on the charge. Testimony Monday by law officers indicated the raid and search of the trailer took place shortly after midnight. During morning testimony, officers were questioned about what items were found in the trailer and on the persons of the youths and where the items were found. A Kentucky State Police laboratory technician testified durthe afternoon as to identification of each of the confiscated substances.
Officers testified they found a red plastic Paducah Police Deparment "no parking" bag (used to put over parking meters) containing a large quantity of what appeared to be marijuana. Other plastic bags and boxes found in the trailer seeds, capsules and tablets, syringes and needles and a substance wrapped in aluminum foil, officers said. One box containing capsules and pills was wrapped and tied with a rawhide thong, they said. The items were found hidden in various places throughout the trailer behind a partition in the bathroom, behind light fixtures, in a camera case, beneath towels in the bathroom cabinet and in a kitchen cabinet and in a chest in the bedroom, they said. Walter L.
Hopper Services Today PRINCETON, Sept. 25 Funeral services for Walter L. Hopper, who died here Sunday at 10 p.m. at his home, will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Morgan Funeral Home by the Rev.
Russell Bow and the Rev. John Gentry. Burial will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Hopper leaves his wife, Mrs.
Laura Coleman Hopper; and a sister, Mrs. Jesse Kellerman, Evansville. Mrs. Halpain, 79, Dies At Princeton PRINCETON, Sept. 25 Funeral services for Mrs.
Elva Kinbrell Halpain, 79, died at 10 p.m. Sunday at her home here, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Morgan Funeral Home by Stanley Williams, burial will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Mrs. Halpain leaves a son, Otis Halpain, Salem a sister, Mrs. H.0. Worsham, Ringling, and five grandchildren. Walter Quillin Services Today CAVE-IN-ROCK, Sept.
25 -Funeral services for Walter P. Quillin, 88, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Rose Funeral Home here with the Rev. Arthur Austin, Jr. officiating.
Mr. Quillin died Sunday at the Carrier Mills Nursing Home. Survivors include two sisters. Burial will be in the Cave Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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