Clark County

Jan. 14, 1962 NEW¿YORK (AP)¿ - The highball sign went up today for merging the giant Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads into a 20,300-mile 5.4 billion assets Goliath. Carrying an “economic necessity” label, the plan dramatized creeping financial ills that threaten major, rail, air, highway and water segments of the country's transportation system, a $100 billion yearly industry. MURRAY (AP) - ¿Murray has received a $73,176 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service to help finance a sewage disposal project.

County firefighters spent nearly four hours on the scene of a burning farmhouse Sunday night on White Turley Road, the cause of which is under investigation. The Clark County Fire Department was called to the house at 1184 White Turley Road at 9:12 p.m. Sunday. When the first truck arrived, the two-story house had already collapsed from the blaze, firefighter Lon Gordon said. The house, owned by Don Lee, was vacant and burned quickly, he said. Several other outbuildings around the property burned as well, he said.

Ruth Ann Winburn, 71, of Clark County, passed away on Tuesday.  Arrangments are incomplete at Scobee Funeral Home. The online guestbook is available at www.scobeefuneralhome.com and the 24-hour funeral information line can be reached by calling 744-2122.