The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky (2024)

SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KY. SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1973 Nunn: No Mention Was Made To Emberton Of Nixon Funds LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -had not discussed with ton's gubernatorial campaign Former Kentucky Gov. Louie B. Nunn said Saturday that Conflict can Tom Emberton a $100,000 he contribution funneled to Ember- Conflict Quickly Brews Quickly Brews statute for the same offense." Local bookstores and grocery stores will be checked by city police in the near future in releard to book and magazine covers.

on public display, the mayor said. Citizens also can take a warrant for a store if they see a book or magazine cover on display which they feel violates the city ordinance, she stated, addling, the city can continue enforcement of the state obscenity statute. Mayor Mcnu*tt cited 5,435 signatures on petitions "against p*rnography" at the Fourth, Street Cinema as an example of local community standards. She also cited as indicative of local feelings on obscenity the indictments and convictions handed down by two out of three grand juries in regard to films shown by the Fourth Street Cinema. An indictment was not re- turned against the film "Fandango." The case involving "Temptation and Sin" is currently before the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

In a brief submitted to the court, Freeland argues the indictment should be dismissed because the state obscenity statute has been rendered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court's recent decision on p*rnography. The unconstitutionality arises from the statute's failure "to define specifically the sexual conduct to the portrayal of what it applies," Freeland noted in the brief. The Supreme Court has stated the definition of sexual conduct must be made specific. A motion to dismiss charges against Fourth Street Cinema in regard the showing of the film "Room com 11" will be decided soon in McCracken Circuit Court. The projectionist was arrested without a warrant and the film seized under the authority of the Kentucky case, Roaden VS.

Commonwealth, Freeland noted. On June 25, however, the Supreme Court reversed the Roaden case, holding such warrantless seizures unlawful. Mayor Mcnu*tt said government must take a stand on p*rnography which she defined as a "demoralizing, degrading blight on the community." The First Amendment does not protect obscenity, the mayor stated. This decision was made in 1946 by the Supreme Court which recently reaffirmed it, she noted. "The state legislative research committee can hand down all the model ordinances wants to," Freeland observed, in commenting on the ordinance's.

legality, "but I'll stick with the Constitution." Obscenity Crackdown Set (Continued From Page One) said he had "no comment" when asked about the effect of the ordinance on his store. Book or magazine covers at both the Ace Book Exchange and the Readmore Bookstore seemed to be in violation of the city ordinance. The area supervisor of the "quick service" food stores said his company has established a policy to attempt to comply with the ordinance. "We're going to try to do what we can to follow the ordinance," he said. Questionable books are now being placed on back shelves, the representative said, with only the titles showing.

He pointed out, however that there will be a problem with people removing the books to examine them and putting them back on front shelves. The supervisor said employes of the" "stores have orders to replace questionable magazines as soon as they are put into public view, but total compliance with the ordinance will be difficult. If compliance becomes too difficult, he said, the company may take some of the magazines off its shelves. Of the four stores checked in the "quick service" chain, three had apparent violations of the city ordinance. Six of eight drug stores checked for compliance were found to have apparent violations of the city ordinance, including some where managers said they were complying with the ordinance.

Four of the five supermarkets checked seemed to be complying with the ordinance, while the department store had one apparent violation. Comments from store manager interviewed include: watch the covers but it is hard to class" what is prohibited under the ordinance. "Anything we feel objectionable we pull off the market." An apparent violation was found at this store. screen magazines as they are put out and send a few back" to the distributor. No apparent violation was found at this business.

and Penthouse" are sold behind the counter at one store but no objectionable magazines are displayed publicly. No apparent violation was found at the business. or three items have been discontinued, but there are DO big problems." Questionable material is placed on back shelves, but there is "no way of surveillance to keep them on the back row." No violations were found here. haven't made any changes, but we may eventually have to." Some magazines have been kept on back shelves "for a long time." An apparent violation was found at the business. don't make any money" on magazines, compared to other areas of sales, but the ordinance "will make a difference in magazine sales." The business has "no desire" to get "bad publicity" from selling objectionable books, so they will be taken off the shelves.

An apparent violation was found here. One of the last persons interviewed was the manager of a store with an apparent violation. He said his store had "nothing under that class but I wish somebody would stop by and tell me what should and what shouldn't be displayed." City police may do that Monday. Rescue Attempt Continues (Continued From Page One) pares, publishes, prints, exhibits, distributes any obscene matter is punishable "What," Freeland asked, "is the difference between ing and displaying?" The mayor disagrees pre-emption is involved in the fact the ordinance is taken "in from the state statute. She said it has been prepared and researched by the state Legislative Research Committee and carries the intent and meaning of the statute.

A city ordinance that is in direct conflict with a state law would be unlawful and would involve pre-emption, she observed. City Prosecutor Ray Larson concurs with the mayor's statements on the ordinance. There is a difference between exhibiting matter and advertising it, he said. For example, exhibition would encompass the showing of a movie while advertising encompasses only posters and media ads, Larson said. He said the ordinance does raise numerous questions (for example does it apply to cartoons as well as to photographs of persons?) and added the questions will be answered when and if come before the courts.

The questions raised are in a "gray area" of definition, Larson added. The city's hands are still "tied" in regard to obscenity, Larson commented. According to Freeland, one question is this: Under the ordinance, a first conviction carries a maximum fine of $500 or six months in jail, and Paducah's City Court may try the case. Under state statute, the maximum fine is $1,000 or six months in jail, which puts the case out of the City Court's jurisdiction, although it may hold an examining trial. Since parts of the ordinance already are included in the state statute, this involves a lesser fine on the city level and a higher fine on the state level for the same charge, Freeland commented.

Freeland added he feels the only reason the fine is lower in the city ordinance is allow City Court to try the case and, in the event of conviction, levy the fine. He said it is an attempt at making political hay, making it appear that the city has taken action when it really is meaningless." The mayor sees no conflict with Section 168 of the Kentucky Constitution which reads, "No municipal ordinance shall fix a penalty for violation thereof at less than that imposed by state by President Nixon's personal lawyer in 1971. "I have no memory of ever mentioning it to him," Nunn said. "I don't know of any reason to mention it or not mention it." Emberton has denied any knowledge of the contribution. Presidential lawyer Herbert Kalmbach testified in a deposition made public Friday that he delivered $100,000 in leftover funds from Nixon's 1968 campaign to then-Gov.

Nunn in late September of 1971. The Louisville Courier-Journal disclosed Saturday that Nunn had acted as a conduit for the money which was delivered later to campaign aides of Emberton. Emberton lost the gubernatorial race to Democrat Wendell Ford. The donation was never reported to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance as required by law, although Walter C. Herdman, an assistant state attorney general in Kentucky, said none of the penalty provisions of the reporting law would apply in the Emberton case, since the law calls for removal from office and Emberton lost the race.

Herdman also that the statute of limitanoted tion has made prosecution moot. Nunn said Kalmbach delivered the funds to him personin Frankfort. ally, know this was money that had collected honestly and fairly and were entitled to give and Mr. Emberton was entitled to receive," Nunn said. "Mr.

Kalm bach didn't have anything to do with it not being reported and I didn't have anything to do with it not being reported. I have no concern as far as I'm personally concerned because I didn't give it and I didn't receive it and I had no obligation to report it to anybody." Nunn said that he was several persons who had among issued requests for the funds to national party Meanwhile, officialsio told WHAS radio and television stain Louisville Saturday that was unaware, of the contrition bution, but added: "It seems to me that it's not uncommon at all for a national organization to make contributions and furnish help and whatever in any way it can to the various states in either party." Preston Boyd, Murray, Dies MURRAY, Aug. 18 Preston Boyd, 76, 2105 Coldwater Road, Murray, died at the Murray Calloway County Hospital here at 3:23 a. m. today.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church here. Mr. Boyd is survived by. his wife, Mrs. Frocie Lee Boyd; daughter, Mrs.

William Turner, Owensboro; one son, Loyd E. Boyd, Murray; one Nell daughterlaw, Mrs. Margaret Boyd, Murray; six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Max Churchill Funeral Home here: at 4:30 p. m.

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Marguerite Watson, Paducah; a brother, Dr. R.D. Wright, Oak Ridge, a sister, Mrs. J. Thomas Roberts, Nashville, two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Roth Funeral Chapel where friends may call after 6 p.m. Sunday. LI 'Nixon Demos' Linked (Continued From Page One) In December, 1971 a partnership known as the Security Investment Company, which included the Rodgers Brothers, Dickinson, Heffner and Hess, obtained a 20-year government lease (beginning in March of this year) of a building then under construction in the Woodlawn section of Baltimore county. Annual rental of the six-story building is $1,372,364. It houses offices of the Social Security Administration.

The building is next to one rented by the government since the closing days of the Johnson administration. from the same company also for social security offices. This lease was originally negotiated at $1.5 million a year, and was scheduled to run from January, 1969 to February, 1980, with renewal options, covering another 10 years. This Spring, however, the G.S.A. exercised the options almost seven years early, and- added another three years, thus creating a contract which doesn't expire until March of 1983.

This is in addition to the new leases awarded to this group during the Nixon administration. Several months before this action, in December of last year, the G.S.A. awarded the Rodgers Brothers, Dickinson, Heffner, and Hess, all doing business this time as the Airport Investment Company, a 10-year lease at $164,730 a year for two floors of a building under construction near Friendship Airport on which to locate an Army induction station. Three and a half months earlier, Connally announced at a news: conference in Baltimore the appointment of Harry Agnew (Continued From Page One) vate contractors in exchange for government contracts before, during and after he was Maryland governor. "Although I welcome the President's support I think the office of vice president is an important enough one that the man has to stand on his own feet, so I'm not spending time looking around to see who's supporting me," Agnew said.

"I'm defending myself." Support The comment was prompted by newsmen who questioned just how much support Agnew was receiving from the President. White House spokesmen have said the investigation "does not diminish or change the President's confidence in the vice president." Other than that, there has been no ringing endorsem*nt of Agnew such as Nixon gave aides John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. when they resigned in April over the furor of Watergate.

The White House officials also have denied reports of strained relations between the Nixon and Agnew staffs and that a meeting between the vice president and Nixon the day before Agnew's news conference was acrimonious." Reports Persist Despite the denials, the reports have persisted. Until the Agnew investigation was revealed, the vice president was seen less and less in public as his role in this administration diminished. In a newspaper interview last May, the vice president expressed regret that he had not been used more during Nixon's second term. "Although I can't say I'm not busy, I think could be even more productively employed," he said. C.

R. Matheny Dies In Crash Ray Matheny, 27, of Winimack, and formerly of Gary, died Friday an automobile accident at Hoopeston, Ill. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Deborah Duncan Matheny; two sons, Charles Jr. and Walter J.

Matheny, both at home; and his Matheny parents, of New Mr. and Chicago, Mrs. Ind. Lucy Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Kennedy neral Home, pending the arrival lot the body. -(Staff Photo by Ron Clark) tion by Feb.

28, according to Ben Ashby, airport manager. An FAA spokesman said the tower would be used about eight hours a day initially, but its use would be expanded to around 16 hours a day shortly thereafter. Rodgers as chairman of the Maryland Democrats for Nixon. This was at a time when the induction center lease was being negotiated with the General Services Administration. The Maryland Democrats for Nixon collected more than $100,000 for the President's campaign, most of which came in during those negotiations, including $14,400 from the Airport Investment Company partners and their wives.

Harry Rodgers has denied that their efforts on behalf of the national Republican ticket are in any way connected to the dealings he and his partners have had with the G.S.A. nevertheless, since last November's election, the partners have received $20 million in contracts from the Nixon administration. Veteran political observers in Maryland, who asked not to be quoted by name, have told the New York Times that the Democratic party accepts the development partners as loyal members and recognizes that their campaign activities were undertaken to preserve their ongoing relationship with the General Services Administration. The Justic Department investigated the group's contributions to the Nixon campaign, but no charges have thus far been brought. The new federal law governing campaign finances prohibits any "individual, partnership, committee, association, or.

corporation" which has entered into. "any contract" with the government for "the furnishing (of) any material, supplies or equipment" from making contributions to federal campaigns when the contract is being negotiated and while it remains in effect. (Copyright, 1973) the U.S. way of doing things permeated the government administration. In Viet-2 nam today if you have a white face you are an American.

Ten years ago you had to be French. The influence in Cambodia is much less because America intervened only three years ago. There are fewer and fewer Americans left. Officially. There are, however, increasing number of "old Indochina hands," retired CIA operatives and Army officers and former GIs and AID officials.

Like the "old China hands" of the 1950s, these men have been seduced by the way of life, like the Frenchman who said recently, "Indochina at war is better than anywhere else in the world at peace." These Americans sit around the cafes and ruminate about what might have been, how it all could have done much bet- a ter, if only The governments of In-. dochina are growing impatient with that kind of talk. Indochina (Continued From Page One) American way. Particularly in Premier Souvanna Phouma is about to sign protocols that will give three quarters of his country and half his government to the Communist-backed Pathet Lao rebels. That was almost the situation when the United States stepped into Laos late in the 1950s via the Central Intelligence Agency.

"America lost 20 years in Laos," a U.S. diplomat said. "We are now allowing to happen what we should have allowed 20 years ago." If the t-backet rebels are SO well placed in Laos, how does the future look for Cambodia and South Vietnam, the other two U.S. co*ckling pits in Southeast Asia? The major American effort was in South 1 Vietnam. The first American soldiers who went there were Special Forces men posing as anthropologists in the Central Highlands.

They ran around Ban Me Thuot with butterfly nets. But secretly they were arming the Montagnards, the indigenous mountain people who no wore loin cloths and were despised by the Vietnamese. It was minority peoples such as these that attracted the clandestine U.S. operatives all of Indochina. The Meos in Laos and the ethnic Cambodians in Vietnam's Mekong Delta were, like the Montagnards, responsive to the outstretched American hand, even though it had a gun in it.

The Montagnards, like the Meos in Laos, and the ethnic Cambodians now fighting the Communists around Phnom Penh, have been decimated in the last decade fighting for an American-imported ideal of freedom and independence. With the Americans gone, so have the hopes for independence of these minorities. Now they must either be absorbed into the countries in which they roam, or be left as neglected primitives. In a wider sense, however, the American military influence ground into Indochina will remain for a long time. With its vast aid and educational programs that pushed thousands of Indochinese govthrough U.S.

colleges and millernment and military officials tary schools, the United States made as big an impact in a decade as had the colonial French in nearly a century of occupation. I Armies were remade the CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) Rescue crews fought smoke and heat Saturday in an effort. to rech two men trapped for more than 24 hours in a copper mine 1,200 feet below the desert. The state mine inspector predicted the men would be rescued.

Verne McCutchan, who was heading rescue operation, said: "These men are in a 500- foot drift which is shut off from a fire and probably from carbon monoxide as well. The biggest problem is heat and we really don't know how bad that might be." McCutchan said that rescue teams moving into a side shaft had been driven back by smoke and fire, but had made definite progress towards reaching the trapped pair. "We expect to be able to get these men out, perhaps within 24 hours," McCutchan said Saturday afternoon, adding: "These men are well trained in emergency procedures and I think we have every right to believe in their survival." He said the two men had enough air for. 80 hours. McCutchan estimated it would take about nine hours to reach the pair once rescuers start removing the wet sand and gravel that fell into a shaft and trapped the men.

He said the fire was still smoldering in timbers in the shaft through which the rescue teams equipped with selfcontained oxygen units forced their way. Clad in heat-resistant clothing and equipped with oxygen tanks, 10-man crews worked two hours at a stretch trying to clear away the burning debris. Ralph Stallion, Salem, Dies SALEM, Ky. Ralph W. Stallion, 52, Salem Rt.

1, died at 1 p.m. Saturday at Community Hospital here. He had been ill for a lengthy period. Mr. Stallion leaves his wife, Mrs.

Edna Stallion; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Stallion, Salem Rt. two sons, Ralph Vinson Stallion and Phillip Allen Stallion, both of Rt. a daughter, Miss Maurine Stallion, Paducah; a brother, Franklin Stallion, Rt.

a sister, Mrs. Helen Carpenter, Cincinnati, and one grandchild. Funeral services will be at p.m. Monday at Union Baptist Church with the Rev. Herbert Alexander Rev.

Lloyd Harris and Rev. Leon Oliver officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call. at Boyd Funeral Chapel here after 3 p.m.

Sunday. Rites Set Today For Mrs. Glasco FULTON, Ky. Funeral rites for Mrs. Maudie Damons Glasco, 202 6th will be at 1:30 p.m.

today at Hornbeak Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Robert B. Porter will officiate, and burial will be in Obion County Memorial Gardens. Mrs.

Glasco died at 3 a.m. Saturday at Obion County Hospital in Union City, after a short illness. She was 69. A native of Obion County, she was a member of the Methodist church. Survivors include her husband, Albert Eugene Glasco, Fulton Rt.

a son, Aubrey Glasco, Fulton; two daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Hopper, Fulton and Mrs. James Mann, Fulton; a brother, Walter Damons, Fulton; two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Wilson, Union City, and Mrs. Willie Mae Zaricor, Dupo, 10 grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Roy Hood, Toy Dunn, Jack Allen, Coy Midyett, C. A. West and Reuben Ring. Friends may call at the funeral home. Lonnie B.

Haney, Princeton, Dies PRINCETON, B. Haney, 38, of Princeton Rt. 5, was dead on arrival at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Caldwell County War Memorial Hospital here. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Hattie Cotton Haney: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lacie Haney, Eddyville; two sons, Rickey and Terry Haney, -both at home; two daughters, Vickie and Donna Haney, both at home; two brothers, Randolph Haney, Calumet City, and Kenneth Haney, Griffith, four sisters, Mrs. Ruth Brown Sickle, Marion, Mrs. Ray Ayers, Dyer, Mrs.

Juanita Hollowell, Princeton, and Mrs. Eva Lois Mullins, Princeton. Masonic services will be held at the funeral home at 6 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m.

Monday at the Morgan Funeral Home with the Rev. J. R. Bruce and the Rev. Wallace Gray officiating.

Burial will be in the Blue Spring Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. The main features on Mars include white polar caps and elbright and dark regions. Mr. Hicks, 75, Mayfield, Dead MAYFIELD, Ky.

Rupert Hurt Hicks, of 610 W. Water was dead on arrival at Community Hospital here at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Mr. Hicks, 75, became ill suddenly.

A retired employe of the Mayfield Planing Mill, he leaves his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Thomp son Hicks; a daughter, Mrs. Seigle Cash, Mayfield; two sisters, Mrs. Mertie Emory and Mrs. Gertie Rodgers, both of Graves County; and two halfbrothers, Bill Hicks, Mayfield, and Lonzie Hicks, of Oklahoma.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Roberts Funeral Home, here..

The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky (2024)

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