of rabies were confirmed T ^ are not planning to hold any tabre such clinics.

VOLUME 91 MOUNT VERNON. KENTUCKY 40456 NUMBER 42 THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1979

Mt Vernon Resident Dies In One-Vehicle Accident

Alfred Sparks, 55, of Mt. Ver-non, died Tuesday evening, June 19 at the Veteran's Hospital in Lexington. Mr.- Sparks-had sus-tained head and internal iniuries in a one car accident whlcii curred Monday afternoon about 2 p.m. in the vicinity of the Spiro Road.

He is the husband of Eva Sparks, owner of Sparks Flower ShOtt

Funeral arrangements were incomplete at this writing.

Monroe Baker Wins Race' For Railroad Commissioner

Monroe Baker of Livingston has won the Republican nomina-tion for railroad commissioner in the May 29th primary. He carried 30 counties out of 44, according to the official records of the Ken-tucky Secretary of State.

There was some confusion a-bout the'results because the Assoc-iated Press news services had re-ported Uttiii'i £v<.«j Bak-er's opponent won the election, and it takes several weeks to get the dfficial results.

Mr. Baker is the operator of the Central Casket Company in Livingston.

Dinner for.Gov. Nunn A dinner given by the "Ken-

tucky Veterans for Gov. Nunn" is set for Friday, June 29, at 7 P.M. at the Renfro Valley Lodge. Gov. Nunn told organizers that he. would attend if he was within 150 miles of Renfro Valley that even-ing. Tickets are $7.00 and available from David Bales at the court-house ^ Pony League Meeting

Anyone Interested in helping to start a pony league football program should come to a meeting at the courthouse in Mt. Vernon Friday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Revenue-Sharing Hearing Do you have any ideas'how

Mt. Vernon should spent its reve-nue sharing- money next year? Attend a public hearing : Monday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.

College Chemistiy Class To Be Taught at RCHS

Extension College Class, Chemistry 105, is being offered eaqh Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. at Rockcastle County High School. The class is worth four college credit hours (same as on campus). Take advantage of this opportunity to earn extra college credits. Call 256-4424 or 256-4916.

4H Camp Is Scheduled For Week of July 16-20

Rockcastle County's 4-H Camp will be held July 16-20 at J.M. Feltner Memorial 4-H Camp in London. This year's program includes fishing, boating, swim-ming, bicycling safety, crafts, archery, riflery, nature study a-lo'ng with other recreational activ-ities. Campers are participating in a well-planned and supervised program that will lead to a re-warding jveek of fun and friend-ship.

Those Interested in attending, this year's camp should complete a camp application and return it to the County Extension Office, P.O. Box 297, Mt. Vernon, Ky. 40456 or contact Tom Mills, County Exten-sion Agent for 4-H. Deadline for registration is Ju2y 2.

4-H Camp is open to any youngster between the ages of 9 and 19 regardless of race, color, sex or national origin.

Box Numbers Changed For Route 4 Residents

The Post Office wants to an-nounces that the Route 4 carriers are changing the mailboxes num-

\JiSrrs. So far about 250 boces have been picked up by Rogers Graves, who is in the process of assigning the new numbers. Once you have your new number, the Post Office asks that you start using it immed-iately.

Former county judge Charles Carter [left] accepts the Rockcastle County Improvement AwArd from Roy Adams, at a party Sanday in Mr. Carter's honor.

Former County Judge Charles Carter Receives Rockcastle Improvement Award

Surrounded by five genera-tions of his family and many of his friends, Charles E. Carter was given the Rockcastle County Im-provement Award for Kis contri-butions to the growth, of the county during his long political career.

Roy Adams presented the a-ward Sunday at Mr. Carter's 85th birthday party, held at the home of his son, Clarence Carter of Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Adams noted t,hat Mr. Carter had been county judge for 20 years, as well as deputy sheriff, and a state legislator. He recog-nized Mr. Carter's efforts in build-ing the couthouse and library, among other things.

Mr. Carter was bom in Wash-ington County, Arkansas, but moved to Rockcastle County at four years of age. He graduated from Livingston High School, and studied at the State Normal School in Richmond, as Eastern Kentucky University was known in those days.

A pipefitter by trade, he won his first public office in 1929 as county deputy sheriff. He served with Sheriff Lloyd Tipton, and after his death, with Sheriff Lily Tipton, his widow.

He was elected county judge in 1933, and recalled in an inter-view last week the difficult days of the Depression.

"It was the worst time for the county," he said. "We had maybe 22,000 'people here. Many came back from the cities because here they could raise their own food. Every cabin, every house was full. We did what we could to assist the old people with county orders, but the county didn't have the means to do much else."

In those days, the county judge heard criminal cases, includ-ing preliminary hearings in mur-ders. The District Court system changed all that in 1978, after Judge Carter left office.

He recalled his terms of office in the 1960's, saying "We needed a courthouse in the worst way." The

old one was built in 1873, and was small and crowded." The cutrent one was built in 1964 with the help, of $300,000 state grant, and $400,00(1 in county funds.

. . Judge Carter was also instru-mental in building the Rockcastle County Library, which was almost totally paid for with revenue sharing funds.

Librarian Allyne Davis said that Judge Carter had to convince Frankfort it could be built without hiring a special, expensive archi-tect.

"He kept telling them (state officials! we could do it right here with a.local-architect," she said. The building, which was designed with a community recreation cen-ter, was dedicated in 1974.

Judge Carter also helped build many county roads, especially in the eastern section of the Ken-tucky, and several bridges. He was helpful in turning the hospital over to the county for administra-tion, after the Baptist Association here had lost too much money, to continue to administer the hos-pital.

The dates of his -political car-eer are as follows: 1929, elected deputy sheriff; 1933, elected judge; 1937, elected judge; 1941, lost judge election; 1945, elected judge; 1949, lost judge election; 1953, lost sher-iff election; 1957, lost judge elec-tion; 1959, elected state represent-ative; 1961, elected judge; 1965, lost judge election; 1967, lost state representative election; 1969, elec-ted judge; 1973 and 1977, lost judge election.

Mr. Carter was married to Sudda Mae Riddle, who is de-ceased. Their children are: Henry Carter, deceased; EHzbeth McNew, Floyd Carter, lone Parsons, Dicle Ford, Clarence Carter, Kenneth Carter and Glenna Baker, all of Mt. Vernon, and Charles Edward Carter of Ohio, fle has 29 grand-children; 49 great grandchildren; and 10 great, great grandchildren. He is now married to the former Hazel Brown.

New Grandstand Should Go Up This Summer As County Receives $40,000 State Grant

The county baa received $25,000 out of a $45,000 matching grant from the state to build a grandstand exhibit hall a t the Brodhead Fairground*, Judge Hu-bert Thacker announced this week. The rest of the money will come when the Fiacsd Court ap-plies for it.

Judge Thacker said that work on the grandstand won't, begin until after the Brodhead Fair, the •econd week in August, but that the county may start to advertise

-JWQ- for bids on construction The grant came through the

Local Convention and Community

Centers Fund, part of tbe state Department of Commerce.

The county Fiscal Court pur-chased the fairgrounds at a <w»t of over $100,000 this year, usinf a federal grant. Planned improve-ments include a senior citizens center, facilities for sports, and the new grandstand. The senior citi-zens center is almost finished and will be used to house the Brodhead Fair exhibits this summer.

The new grandstand may be built in such a way that the seats are on a slanted roof, under which is the exhibit ha l l

Rabid Skunk Killed Near Willailla: May Quarantine Dogs in County

The Rockcastle County Board of Health is considering a quaran-tine for dogs and cats after another case of rabies was confirmed this week in a skunk killed in the Willailla area.

The quarantine would require all pet owners to keep their ani-mals leashed at all times. Ou«8tntoes have been in effect in Madison' and Boyle counties, fol-lowing outbreaks of rabies there.

Steve Midkiff, county envir-onmentalist, said he is checking With authorities-in other counties to determine if the quarantine is necessary here.

The County Board of Health has conducted severalrabies clin-ics to vaccinate domestic animals last month after the first two cases

The first two rabid animals were skunks killed on. the Old Brodhead Road hear Mt. Vernon in April. The latest involved a skunk killed by Denton Childress, after he was awakened about 6:30 a.m. June 13 by his dog barking.

The skunk had chased the dog, a medium-sized one u'sed for hunt-ing, out of his house. Mr. Childress agreed to have the dog destroyed because it might have been bitten by the skunk. Although this dog had been vaccinated, sometimes the vaccinations don't "take" arid as a precaution, the dog would have had to have been Isolated for 90 days to see if it had contacted

'the disease. Mr. Childress said there was no way he could isolate the dog completely, and he did not want to take any chances.

Four other ddgs were des- . troyed by the dog warden in the Willailla area Saturday after anot-her incident involving a skunk.

This skunk had been chasing a pack of about six dogs that even-ing, and was assumed to be rabid because of its strange behavior, Mr. Midkiff said. The skunk was killed by Don*Hurst, who turned in the report to the Health Depart-ment. Mr. Hurst and John Kirby have agreed to quarantine their dogs for 90 days because they also came jnto contact with the skunk.

Mr. Midkiff said this skunk was not tested because the Health Department had already deter-mined that rabies was in the Willailla area of the county.

Both skunks were killed near the Pulaski Courity line, and aut-horities there were notified.

Mr. Midkiff said that all the cases of rabies in Rockcastle Coun-ty had been west of 1-75, and the highway may be a barrier against the spread of the disease.

Several people Have killed skunks and other wild animals that they suspected of rabies, but the Health Department was un-abl» •rsS Ttoey had been shot in the head. The tests are run on the brain of the dead animal.

See related story on rabies identification elsewhere in the Signal today.

Business and Professional Association Plans to Survey Parking in Mt. Vernon

Preliminary work is being, done on a parking survey of the Mt. Vernon area that will deter-mine where and for how long cars are left in each parking place.

The Mt. Vernon Business and Professional Association is con-ducting the survey with help from local volunteers and a consultant firm, Will Linder and Associates, of Berea.

John Rush, president of the Association, said that a committee Will be working with the consult-ants ' to devise a detailed hiap of the city area. The map will number every available parking space, and volunteers will check each one every 15 minutes between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. over a

. three-day period. The survey will probably be

conducted when the most cars are parked in town, Mr. RuSb said, such as the first of the month or on Monday and Friday. It will be

' ̂ Jone late this summer. T """1

Jphn Armentrout of the Lin-der firm met with the Association Monday and showed them how the city of Danville conducted a simi-lar survey.

Lack of parking is considered a problem in the downtown area, and information from the survey may be helpful in finding solu-tions. The association was reacti-vated a few.months ago to revital-ize the downtown area of Mt. Vernon. Mayor Roland Mullins had pledged the city's cooperation with the Association's efforts.

Among those working on the survey will be The Homemaker's Club and the Jaycees, represented at the Monday meeting by Rachel James,. Shirley Mullins and Tony Hopkins. Among those from the Association to work on the survey are Mr. Rush, Billy Hiatt', Bill James, Dr. Andy York, Kenny Robinson and Ron Cain.

People Have Been Swimmingand Golfing Now For 10 Years at Cedar Rapids Recreation Center

Cedar Rapids Recreation Cen-ter celebrated its tenth anniver-sary this week, and its president, Tom Payne, Jr., talked about how it all began.

"A few of us from Mt. Vernon used to golf together," he said, "sometimes In Bumside, some-times in Stanford. When we learned that Bumside bad built its course using ft Farmers Home Administration loan, we thought why not try the same thing here."

The first step was to hold a meeting for interested people, and then to gather enough names for the FHA to guarantee that the county could support a recreation-al center. The application for the loan had over 200 names, and stock-holders, Mr. Payne said. With that, the FHA loaned the group over $200,000 over a forty-year period kt a low Interest rate.

-With the money, the group was able to purchase 125 acres of land about four miles from Mt. Vernon. A modern building with a golf shop, restaurant facilities <uid

a reception room was constructed. A nine-hole golf course, tennis and shuffle board, along with a good-sized, outdoor swimming pool completed the center.

"We try to avoid the world 'country club' Mr. Payne said, "because some people have the wrong idea. They associate alco-holic beverages with that, or a very expensive style of living, but Cedar Rapids isn't like that: It's Just Rockcastle people enjoying a good time. Your average Joe is a member of this, and we would like everyone to join."

The Cedar Rapids Center, so named because that was the name of a piece of property the group orginally wanted to buy, has an open membership. Anyone can Join. Family membership are $250 per year, and individuals pay $150 per year. This includes comp use of all the sports facilities there, and use of the building fi weddings, receptions and so fo: Private groups can rent the build-ing for $25 an evening. There were 166 members last year.

The Cedar Rapids group has no organized picnics and programs this year, although there is an organized swim team that com-petes in various meets. Between November and March, the facUity is open only for golfing The pools-one is a small wading pool for little children-are open from Decoration Day to Labor Day. Swimming lessons are given.

Some of Use organizers and past presidents Include: Dr. Ge-orge H. and George W. Griffith, Roy Winstead, Jerry Hamm, Dr. Andy York, Donnie Singleton, Hank Hosklns, Robert Robinson, C.B. Owens, and Clay Colson.

Only about half the acreage around thecenter is being used for the golf course. Someday the rest could be used for horseback and hiking trails.

Wehad planned on the trails, or even another nine holes for

lfers," Mr. Payne said. "Some-day we may be able to do that. We feel we have a beautiful facility here that is an asset to the entire

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