16-A THE PADUCAH SUN, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1979 Sniper proof? One of the Jericol Mining Inc. buses reinforced with steel armor, steel plating over most of the windows, plexiglas pal over the windshield and $700 foam-filled tires that do not blow out if punctured. The buses carry non-union miners "to 'a strikebound Harlan, Ky. coal mine. (PA.P laserphoto) Miners riding in armored vehicles since shooting United Mine Workers Local 8771, and about 100 members of the local seem as far from a contract now as when they began a strike at Jericol Mining Glenbrook mine in December 1977.
Violence and gunfire have Circus HARLAN, Ky. (AP) "If President Carter can go over and get Egypt and Israel talked into a peace I don't see why the union and Jericol can't agree on a contract we can both live with," said Gerald Cornette. But Cornette, president of (Continued From Page 1) break in the verbal descriptions during what we considered a lag in the action, Joe could tell by the music that something was about to happen. "What's going on now?" he'd ask. When we had told him earlier that six tigers were in the ring and then said that five were lying on their backs in the center of the ring, he'd be ahead of us with his next question: "What's the other one doing?" His alertness amazed us all.
Telling him that the tight-rope walker was about to descend a rope stretched from near the arena's roof to the floor, he wanted more information. "Is he lifting each foot up.as he goes, or is he just sliding?" he said. Joe's curiosity was genuine. Like most teenage boys, the seemingly-impossible acts intrigued him. "I like daring things," he said.
But Joe was not like others at the circus. He couldn't see the daredevil, Elvin Bale, when he slipped atop a moving wheel and then quickly caught hold to rideo safely to the floor. Such spontaneity left Joe wondering, when we with the crowd gasped and couldn't tell him quickly enough what had happened. Still, he sensed the excitement of the moment by the oohs and aahs and heartily cheered the performer when he attempted the same treacherous act and succeeded. We talked constantly to Joe, but couldn't adequately picture for the color, the sparkle of the circus and the grace of its performers before one act had ended and another began.
Just when we were pitying him for not having been able to take in all the splendor as we had with our eyes, he reminded us in a subtle way that his other senses had grasped enough of the performance to make him feel as good about the event as we did. "I thoroughly enjoyed myself tonight," he said. Good old (Continued From Page 2) The local sheriff set out in pursuit of the Normands, but returned only to record they could not be found in his "bailiwick" (jurisdiction). What happened to the Normands? They likely would be charged with theft by unlawful taking if they were alive now. That brings up another question: Is there a theft by "lawful" taking? as the old-timers wouldn't understand our charges, some of theirs were just as perplexing.
In 1879, Adolph Reiber was fined $50 for "violating the Sabbath." Turned out he was just selling booze on Sunday. It was not uncommon for certain shady ladies to be charged with "keeping a bawdy house certain common house of Common law was used extensively before, during and after the Civil War, McCracken County records show. Black people and those defending them often were the victims. It was illegal to steal a slave, "entice" away or sell liquor to him. In 1860, a woman identified solely as "Mrs.
Trowell" was fined $40 for "permitting a slave to trade as a free man." Another warrant charged "Thomas, a free man of color," with "migrating to Kentucky with intent of remaining there." The law, however, gave evidence of civil rights being represented as early as 1880. That year a black man named Scott Smith was charged by his employer, Abram Grant, with "unlawful killing of a mule not his own he killed same by broken out several times since Jericol hired 50 to 60 non-union miners in their place last year. Odus Griffith, 23, was killed and two men were injured March 15 when shots were fired from a wooded mountain into a bus carrying 35 non-union employees home from work. When -the mine reopened, Thursday, the men rode to work in makeshift armored vehicles. Friday was a day off.
Monday the armored caravan again will travel the 20 miles of Kentucky 38 along Clover Fork, from Evarts, near Harlan, to the Glenbrook mine near the Virginia border. A state police helicopter hovered overhead during Thursday's uneventful ride, state police cars preceded and followed the caravan, and state police Capt. Marion Campbell said, "Beginning Monday, this escort convoy will be a regulartype thing." Eleven UMW pickets stood silently at the Glenbrook entrance as the convoy passed. The UMW disclaims knowledge of the people responsible for the shooting. "There's no love lost between us and those scabs goin' in there, but it's bad that that boy got killed," Cornette said.
"We don't condone such acts of violence, and that whole damn mountain up there isn't worth a man's Cornette said members of his shooting it with a gun loaded with something unknown to the grand jury." Smith, however, placed his mark on an affidavit stating he merely was "examining the mule to a view of finding out what was wrong," and that the animal was not wounded but "had a bad case of colic from eating green corn or other food." Smith's lawyer asked a special judge to quash the indictment against his client because the grand jury was "selected exclusively from the white citizens and excluded colored citizens." Smith won the case. It didn't matter how odd the offense was, folks back then called it as they saw it. On Aug. 28, 1855, A. M.
and Thomas Lyle, who might be considered vagrants today, were accused of being "common gamblers." Thomas McAlyea, Robert Wakefield and Ignatius Martham were arrested for "running a horse race on the public highway." Both cases later were dismissed. In our current bag of wordy charges we boast theft by deception, terroristic threatening, criminal mischief, custodial interference, harassing communications, misapplication of entrusted property, criminal facilitation, desecration of venerated objects, unsworn falsification and on and on and on. No wonder the wheels of justice turn so slowly. It almost takes a dictionary just to figure out what a person is charged with. Buyers, builders suing.
(Continued From Page 2) counterclaim alleges the contractor used funds obtained by Ms. Milburn from a loan to purchase materials and then retained the 10 percent discount often given to contractors. Robbins said the issue in the suit concerning the amount the contractor paid his employees centers on what Robbins claimed is a practice of some contractors. He said the practice is to charge the buyer more for his employees than a contractor actually pays them. For example, while a contractor might charge the buyer $8 per hour for a worker, the worker may receive only $4 an hour, and a contractor may spend another $1 for his workmen's compensation and social security benefits, leaving the contractor a $3 profit for each hour the man works, according to Robbins.
"If the agreement was for a 'cost plus' (commission), then it should be based on the cost only," Robbins said. Since confusion over such charges has Mall. (Continued From Page 1) and "I-24 separates the site from Paducah's residential west end. In this instance, the Council feels the Commission may not have given enough study to the past history of the Hocker site prior to refusing the Hocker request. "The chairman (Dr.
Andrew Wood) at the close of the meeting complimented Mr. Hocker on his professional presentation and indicated that had Mr. Hocker chosen a site on one of the less desirable interchanges, his application would have been approved. The Council believes this to be direct coercion and an indication that possibly some or a majority of the Commission had reached their decision prior to the hearing. The council also said the decision adversely affects the livelihood of 6,000 to 8,000 area trade union members and their dependents.
The mall would have employed as many as 2,000 during a construction period of two years, and would have employed 1,300 area residents once it opened, the council said. The decision against the $24 million mall also denies the city $750,000 to $800,000 a year in property, payroll, business and other taxes, the council said. "If the information presented to the Commission is accurate, Barkley Square Mall would become the largest single taxpayer to the City of Paducah and the second largest employer." "This Council respectfully requests that you gentlemen Commission members) take some step to save this valuable project before Mr. Hocker, like so many others before him, quits in disgust. Let's make him welcome rather than turn him out because he is not a third-generation member of the club." The resolution was signed by W.
B. "Bill" Sanders, president of the council and representative of the carpenters; Lewis Dawes, council secretary and representative of operating engineers; Martin Skaggs, council vice president and representative of the ironworkers; Gary Seay of the electrical workers union; Bobby Hammond of the millwrights; Wesley L. Smith of the roofers; Robert Stevenson of the painters; Chester Wright of plumbers and steamfitters; Daniel Everett of the boilermakers; J. D. Birdsong of the Teamsters; carpenters; Ray and Ed Blaylock Holder of of the laborers.
The planning commission's special meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday. In the unusual meeting, the commission probably will schedule a public hearing on both a zoning change that would allow construction of Barkley Square a zoning change which would allow construction of a mall at another site. The commission last a week rejected a planned unit development at the Barkley Square site. That is different from a simple zoning change.
Hocker SO far has not committed himself publicly 'to seeking a change in zoning from a residential to a business classification for the area. But the commission has scheduled the meeting in anticipation of that request. The public hearing on the request would be held April 16, according to Joan Nelson, city zoning director. A hearing on zoning for land alongside U.S. 60 where another firm plans to build a mall also would be held then.
'Mama' (Continued From Page 2) But it did not last. He got the death sentence again for killing a fellow prisoner, and this time it was final. Cobb, who was 5 feet, 4 inches tall, was electrocuted March 11, 1949. Samuel Taylor was luckier. He got a reprieve only five minutes before he was to die after his head had been shaved and he had eaten his "last meal." On another night, he escaped the chair by two hours.
When there were no more reprieves, and on the day he was to die, on May 9, 1949, Taylor's sentence was commuted to life. Condemned prisoners seldom make last-minute confessions. E.J. Burns was no exception. On March 15, 1946, at the age of 65, he died protesting his innocence and telling witnesses "I hope everybody who lied to electrocute me burns in hell." But a prison chaplain disclosed later that Burns had confessed to him a few hours before his execution with the understanding that if he managed somehow to beat the chair, the minister was to forget everything he had been told.
Area deaths, services A. Paul Owens, 71, Paducah, is dead A. Paul Owens, a resident of Alben Barkley Drive, died Saturday afternoon at Lourdes Hospital following a lengthy illness. Services for Mr. Owens will be held Monday at 2 p.m.
at Roth Funeral Chapel. Danny Cottrell, minister of Broadway Church of Christ, and W. Ralph Nance, Mr. Owens' son-in-law, who is minister of the Natchez Trace Church of Christ in Nashville, officiating. Burial will be in Mount Kenton Cemetery.
Mr. Owens, 71, was a native of Benton and the son of the late James Lloyd and Mrs. Frances Estella Copeland Owens. He moved to Paducah at an early age and attended Paducah public schools. He was in the tire business here for 31 years, serving as manager of the Sears, Roebuck and Co.
tire department from 1928 to 1942. He then managed the B. F. Goodrich Store here from 1942 to 1948, when he began Owens General Tire Service at 7th and Kentucky Avenue. He retired in 1957.
He was married in 1927 to the former Margaret Virginia Wilhoite of Mayfield, who survives. He was a member of the Broadway Church of Christ for 45 years, serving as Sunday School teacher for 23 years and song director for eight years. Mr. Owens had been a member of the Paducah Lions Club for 34 years. He served as president of the local club in 1960-61, and was governor of District 43-K during 1965-66, That same year, he served as chairman of the Kentucky Council of Governors.
He was chairman of the Lions Club Telethon Committee in 1959; had served as club secretary continuously since 1963, and was secretary of the Lions Club-WPSD Telethon of Stars for the past 18 years. He was honored by the Paducah Lions Club as its "Man of the Year" in 1973 and a special day was held in his honor here. He also was active in many other community projects. Survivors, in addition to his wife, include two daughters, Mrs. James E.
(Barbara) Story of Eddyville, and Mrs. Ralph (Betty) Nance of Nashville; three brothers, James P. Owens of Owensboro, Harold Owens of Los Angeles, and Lloyd Henry Terry, Bardwell, is dead at 62 BARDWELL, Ky. Henry M. Terry, 62, Bardwell, died at 4:45 p.m.
Saturday at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah. A retired construction worker, he had been a member of union Local 1214 for 27 years. He also was a member of Mississippi Baptist Church in Carlisle County. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Gerleen Gray Terry; a daughter, Mrs.
Garth Petrie, Cunningham; two sons, Donnie Terry, Bardwell, and Bobby Terry, Calvert City; three sisters, Mrs. A. C. Kelly, Bardwell Rt. 4, Mrs.
Margruette Fowler, Memphis, and Mrs. Robert Adams, Cunningham; four brothers, Monroe Terry, Bardwell Rt. 2, Pete Terry, Cunningham, J. D. Terry, Los Cruces, N.M., and Curtis Terry, Bardwell Rt.
2, and six grandchildren. Services are incomplete at Milner Funeral Home here. T.D. Joiner, Hickory Rt. 2, is dead at 83 MAYFIELD, Ky.
Thomas Denver Joiner, 83, Hickory Rt. 2, died at 8:05 a.m. Saturday at Community Hospital. Survivors include a son, Thomas E. Joiner, Lantana, a daughter, Mrs.
Marjorie White, Hickory Rt. two sisters, Mrs. Audrey Farmer, Boaz, and Mrs. Maude Hopwood, Hickory Rt. five grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.
Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Byrn Funeral Home with John Hoover and Dan Tomlinson officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Jay D. Youngblood, Glenn Gough, Charlie Moses, Robert Copeland, Ransey Joiner and Marvin Beasley.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. Lowell Travis services set BENTON, Ky. Services for Lowell P. Travis will be held at 4 p.m.
today at Filbeck-Cann Funeral Home. The Revs. L.E. Moore and Rodney Travis will officiate. Burial will be in Benton Cemetery.
Mr. Travis, 76, of 403 W. 8th died at 11:45 a.m. Friday at Marshall County Hospital. A retired millwright, he was a member of United Cumberland Presbyterian Church and T.L.
Jefferson Benton Lodge No. 622 and AM. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ola Travis, Benton; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Proctor, Mrs.
John Ed Collins, both of Benton, Mrs. Huie Duncan, Almo; two sons, Charles and Donald Travis, both of Benton; one brother, Vinon Travis, Benton; one sister, Mrs. Tony Duminski, Benton; 16 grandchildren and 19 Pallbearers will be Glen Travis, Joe Brooks Travis, Roy D. Travis, Harold Travis, Gerald Travis and. Bobbie Travis.
Friends may call at the funeral home. A. PAUL OWENS local and their families have been targets of violence and harassment, which he blames on the company. Jericol officials deny responsibility for such incidents. "There's one dead and five wounded on our side, but there's been no union blood shed to my said Doug Shackleford.
The violence has included gunfire between guards with the miner convoys and snipers hidden in the hills, a firebombing that damaged the local UMW hall, and explosions that have damaged tracks used by. coal trains attempting to serve the mine. Some non-union miners are leaving, though Jericol pays well $350 a week and a bonus for each ton of coal shipped. Daniel Boggs and Tommy Creech picked up their last paychecks Wednesday before quitting after two months on the job. "I'm too young and pretty to die," said Boggs, 21.
But Matthew Lewis, 30, who has worked at Jericol several months, has a wife and seven children to support. "I'm afraid, but I have to work." And Gary O'Dell, who would have quit before if he could have found as good a job elsewhere, said the shooting changed his mind. "That boy was killed trying to support a wife and two kids," he said. "The shooting hardened me and a lot of people. There's no way I'm leaving now." Jericol has equipped two buses with steel plating and $700 foam-filled tires that will not blow out if punctured, and two coal trucks with half-inch thick steel boxes in which miners can ride.
Charles Sigmon, Jericol secretary-treasurer, sayd the company offered the UMW a a contract 10 months ago but has received no counterproposal except for the national contract negotiated last year between the UMW and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Jericol, not a BCOA member, had turned that contract down last year, and the Glenbrook strike, which began with the national UMW strike in December 1977, continued. Sigmon and Cornette agreed that a pension plan for the workers is one key area of disagreement. Jericol has proposed its own pension plan, saying the UMW pension fund is in bad financial shape and that under federal law, some of Jericol's assets might have be turned over to the UMW to bail out the fund if it went broke. been common, Robbins encourages buyers home on South 10th Street would cost no to request written contracts.
"You need to more than $34,500. The Wrights claim in have it in writing know who gets the their suit that the home has cost $54,540.93 discounts and how much the men are being and is not completed. Carter's he said. A properly-drawn contract counterclaim denies allegations of fraud would help both parties understand what is and demands $2,263.27 in payment due. A expected of each of them and could save trial date has not been set.
costly confusion later, he said. Paducahans John and Jen Stewart Monetary damages being sought in the have charged Mayfield builder Austin five cases show what costs could result. Copeland with misrepresentation of costs Besides the $25,000 Gargus seeks and the of materials and labor on their home on $40,000 sought by Mrs. Milburn in that suit, Gum Springs Road in McCracken County. the other suits include: They seek more than $5,000 in damages.
Builder Teddy Gene West is seeking Copeland has filed a countersuit against the payment of $10,000 from Randell and Stewarts seeking $257,000 primarily for Sherry Cope, who in turn are asking for defamation of character. The trial is $7,500 in damages from West. The Copes scheduled May 14. claim their home on Broadway Terrace The fifth case, involving contractor exceeded the estimated cost of $45,000, and Chester Bostic and homeowners Nick and still was not completed. A trial date has not Sue Silvestri, was tried last November.A been set.
jury awarded the contractor, Bostic, Buyers Scott and Cynthia Wright are $16,352.50. Bostic had sought $23,700 for his seeking about $20,000 from builder Mike costs not paid, while the Silvestris had Carter who, they allege, estimated their asked for $3,000 in damages. P. Owens of Paducah; five sisters, Mrs. Pearl Lamb of Orlando, and Mrs.
Pansy Mullinax, Mrs. Phelicia Devinney, Mrs. Jean Meadows and Mrs. Patsy Hawkins, all of Paducah; 12 grandchildren and three great -grandchildren. Pallbearers, all sons-in-law, grandsons and grandsons-inlaw, will include James E.
Story, Paul Mark Story, Paul Nance, Mark Nance, Phil Henry and Steve McQuigg. Honorary pallbearers will include B. Akers, Ernest Walls, Joe Barnett, Fred Cole, E. W. Nance, Bill Etter, Al Bryan, William Austin, George Beiderwell, Joe Butts, Bob McKeown, Harold Rhear, Dr.
John W. Kraus, Dr. William Blalock, Dr. Frank B. Crawford D.
M. Marvin, James Meadows, Dale Hawkins, Harry Devinney, Horace Green, Virgil Harris, Bill Jones, Louie Jones, Eldridge Jones and members of the Paducah Lions Club. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon today. Mrs. Holt, Belknap, dies at 79 METROPOLIS, Ill.
Mrs. Lydia Ellerbusch Holt, 79, died Saturday at her home on Belknap Rt. 1. Survivors include her husband, Arley Holt; a daughter, Mrs. Adali Schmidt, Belknap Rt.
three sons, Norman Ellerbusch, Tuscola, and Melvin and Marvin Ellerbusch, both of Massac County; three sisters, Mrs. Albert Kruger, Mrs. Herman Bramer and Mrs. Verna Korte, all of Massac County; four brothers, Johnny Logeman, Barney Logeman, Henry Logeman and Martin Logeman, all of Massac County; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Services will be 2 p.m.
Monday at St. John Lutheran Church with the Rev. Willis Yaryan officiating. Burial will be in Zion Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 p.m.
today until 11 a.m. Monday at Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home. After 11 a.m. Monday, friends may call at the church. Ricky Crowell services set BENTON, Ky.
Funeral services for Ricky Charles Crowell will be held today at 2 p.m. at Filbeck-Cann Funeral Home here. The Rev. Gary Frizzell will officiate and burial will be in Symsonia Cemetery. Mr.
Crowell, 15, died at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday at Mt. Clements Hospital in Warren, Mich. His survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Crowell, former residents of Symsonia. Pallbearers will be Randy Smith, Rodney Smith, Steve Hathcock, Mark Fisk, Darrell Portis, Carlyle Crowell and Mike Reid. Honorary pallbearers will be Vern Simmons, Wallace Roach, Loman Powell and Luke Thompson. Friends may call at the funeral home. Mrs.
Backey dies at 92; rites Monday METROPOLIS, Ill. Mrs. Mayme Backey, 92, died Thursday at Massac Memorial Hospital. She had been a resident of South Gate Nursing Home here. Graveside services will be at 9:30 a.m.
Monday at the IOOF Cemetery with Father Jerry Wirth officiating. Friends may call between 5 and 8 p.m. today at AikinsFarmer Funeral Home. Mrs. Hodge, 92, services today MARION, Ky.
Services for Mrs. Mary Edna Hodge, 92, Marion, are scheduled for today at 2 p.m. at Tucker Funeral Home. The Rev. J.
W. Hansen will officiate and burial will be in Owen Cemetery. Mrs. Hodge died Friday at 9:25 a.m. at Salem Nursing Home.
She is survived by three sons, Harold Hodge, Marion, Wilbur Hodge, Gary, and Bruce Hodge, Hobart, two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Matthews and Mrs. Josephine Corey, both of Hobart, 35 grandchildren and 34 greatgrandchildren. Glenn Henson rites scheduled BENTON, Ky. -Services for Glenn T.
Henson, 63, Dearborn, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Collier Funeral Home. The Rev. Don Gunter will officiate with burial in Maple Springs Cemetery. A former resident of Marshall County, Mr.
Henson died at 3:45 p.m. Thursday at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn. A member of Olive Baptist Church, he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emogene Henson; several aunts and uncles, and several nieces and nephews. Miss Phillips is dead at 41 MURRAY, Ky.
Miss Marion Phillips, 41, 802 Hurt Drive, Murray, died at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the MurrayCalloway County Hospital. Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Ernestine Norman of Murray, Mrs. Glenn Koerber of Bellville, and Mrs.
Houston Ray of Murray Rt. ix brothers, R. J. Phillips of Plymoth, Mozelle, Garvin and Joe Phillips of Murray, Edward and Carl Phillips of Calloway County. Services are pending at Blalock-Coleman Funeral Home here where friends may call after 11 a.m.
today. Riley H. Huie is dead at 72 ESCONDIDO, Calif. Riley Hafford Huie, 72, a former resident of McCracken County, died here Friday at 7:15 a.m. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m.
Tuesday at Alhiser-Wilson Funeral Home here. Mr. Huie, a McCracken County native, had lived in Escondido for several years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Merhl Huie; a son, Jimmie Huie, Escondido; a daughter, Mrs.
Sue Birtwhistle of Cora, two sisters, Mrs. Herbie Cosby and Mrs. Vada Cope of Reidland; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. H. T.
Simmons services today VIENNA, Ill. Services for Harold Thomas Simmons, 50, Buncombe, are scheduled today at 1 p.m. at Whitnel Funeral Home. Burial will be in Vienna Fraternal Cemetery. Mr.
Simmons died Friday at 4:15 a.m. at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale..
