1963 -
Begley's sales: Begley's lunch counter had fish, fries
and cole slaw for 79 cents and Christmas cards for 98 cents for a box of 50.
Baker's Prices: Baker's Super Market was offering picnic hams for 33 cents a pound and whole frying chickens were only 27 cents a pound.
Car deals: Martin's Auto Sales had a 1953 Ford for $150 and a 1958 Studebaker for $295.
Nunn and Breathitt in govenor's
race
Louie B. Nunn and Edward T. "Ned" Breahitt were running for govenor.
Breathitt claimed support from Former govenor Albert B. "Happy" Chandler early
in October.
But Chandler said his faction of the democratic party was not pledged to support
Breathitt. Later in the month, under a headline that read, "Cheap Political
Tactics" there was a story which told of Breathitt claiming the support of a 30
member team of Republicans, including former Jackson County Sheriff Charley Smith.
Like Chandler Smith denied the story, saying, "I have at no time nor will I in the
future authorize the Courier-Journal anyone else to use me or my name to influence my old
friends to hurt the Grand Old Republican Party, under whose banner I was elected Sheriff
of Jackson County in 1941."
The meeting of the fiscal court appeared in the classified section of the paper, but not
on the front page. The ad said the meeting was presided over by County Judge Executive
Homer Powell and attended by the magistrates Sam Brewer, Donald Turner and Ed McGee.
The court had by a unanimous vote decided to accept bids on a used Caterpillar No. 12
Motor Grader or on of equivalent size. The bids were to be turned in to the judge's office
by December 10, at 10 a.m.
Other interesting ads included one from Johnston's Southern Dollar Store. It featured mens
gift boxed socks at 3 pairs for $1, gift boxed jewelry for $1 and men's ties for 2 for $1.
Martin's Auto Sales also had an ad in the Sun.
The cheapest car in the ad was a 1949 Plymouth for $50. The most exspensive vehicle was
a 1955 Chevrolet pickup for $595 and there was a 1957 Chevrolet for only $550.
Front page stories told about Pvt. Harold Chrisman of Sand Gap finishing his basic
training at Fort Knox and moving on to Fort Carson in Colorado; said Buncomb Reformed
Church at Maulden celebrated Thanksgiving with its annual turkey day supper;
and thanked all the folks who had subscribed in that week.
McKee H.S. looted for $230 in food
Thieves, with a taste for food in large quantities, raided the McKee High School
during Christmas week, and escaped with about $230 worht of food. Sheriff Melvin Riley
said the thieves took seven 22 pound turkeys, 175 pounds of ground beef, 50 pounds of stew
beef, 65 pounds of fish, 32 pounds of butter, and some other items from the school's
freezer and refrigertor.
Walter Power, school principal said the school cafeteria had been robbed twice before but
no one had been convicted in either case. The first theft of about $250 worht of food
happened at Christmas time in 1961 and the second in May of 1962 netted thieves $196 worth
of groceries.
There was a $100 reward offered for the arrest and conviction of the thieves, thought from
the footprints to be one man and one woman.
Sand Gap P.O. robbed
The Sand Gap Post Office was broken into between Christmas and New Years. The thieves
got $4.03 in cash and a box of change of address forms. They pried open the front window
of the post office, and left behind a flash light and a crow bar.
William Gabbard died
William Gabbard, 90, of Sand Gap died at Berea College Hospital. He was a retired
farmer and had been a member of Clover Bottom Baptist Church for 50 years. He was survived
by his wife, Rachel Marcum Gabbard and seven children.
His two daughters were Maude Tillery, Clover Bottom and Luda Jones, Sand Gap. His sons
were Moss Gabbard, Sand Gap, Ernest L. Gabbard, Ferndale, MI, Edgar Gabbard, Gray Hawk,
Leonard Gabbard, McKee and Everett Gabbard.
Dr. Eppling coming to McKee
Dr. William Eppling of Berea College Hospital staff announced that he was opening a
part time office in McKee. He said that he planned to be open from 6-9 p.m. every evening
but Thursday. Jackson County had been without a doctor for about four months.
The previous doctor, Leon Bowling, had moved to Flemingsburg in September. The Jackson
County Developement Assoc. and Sears-Roe-buck Foundation had built the Jackson County
Medical Center three years earlier, and equipt it for two doctors.
Submitted by Sarah Thompson - Granted
permission by George Ferrell, Editor to re-post
"Out Of The Past" as reprinted in The Jackson County Sun ( Formerly The Laurel
County Sun )