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6-B SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1978 with shops and hotel rooms. The Delta King, sister ship of the Delta Queen, was built Sacramento River between San Francisco and Sacramento. Paddlewheeler's new owner Fat, a Sacramento, Cal. restauranteur, stands alongside the paddlewheel riverboat Delta King after buying it Tom at a sheriff's auction Friday for $32,000 near Rio Vista, Cal. He said he might convert the old boat into a restaurant in 1927.

It once sailed the (AP Laserphoto) $32,000 family runs a downtown restaurant frequented by legislators and lobbyists, said he thought it would take $3 million to $5 million to restore the riverboat, which today is musty, dirty and scarred by decades of neglect and vandalism. Inside, only a few warped hardwood panels remain from the two decks of compartments built for overnight passengers when the Delta King sailed in the late 1920s and the 1930s between Sacramento and San Francisco. Benches, furnishings and the co*cktail bars are all gone. "I really didn't think I would get it. But I feel it belongs in Sacramento," Fat said.

Solano County deputy sheriff J. Roger Wilson conducted the auction in a cold morning fog from the hood of a sheriff's car about 50 yards from the muddy, weed-covered river bank where the Delta King has been tied up the past three years. About 175 persons attended the auction of the riverboat, which was being sold for back taxes and other liens after the latest of a long series of owners went bankrupt. A former Navy cargo ship and work vessel was sold in the same auction for $37,000. Only Fat and Woodside investor Arthur Atherton bid on the paddleless, engineless hulk.

After 18 bids, which increased the price by $500 to $1,000 each time, Atherton dropped out. However, neither sale is final until a federal bankruptcy court hearing Feb. 10, when higher bids may be considered. "We're not terribly disappointed, because the sale is not over," said Robert Lieff, who represents the bankrupt former owners. The 248-passenger Delta King, built in 1927 in nearby Stockton, is sister ship to the Delta Queen, which was recently refurbished and now is a tourist ship sailing out of Cincinnati on the Ohio River.

But the Delta King hasn't fared so well. After only 15 years on its Sacramento-San Francisco run, both ships were pressed into military service between San Francisco Bay bases. After World War II, the Delta King operated in Puget Sound until 1959, when new owners returned it to the San Francisco Bay area. Several previous attempts to convert it into a restaurant have failed. Tag deadline is extended in Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill.

Severe weather conditions throughout most of Illinois has prompted an announcement by Secretary of State Alan J. Dixon that the deadline for displaying 1978 automobile license plates will be extended to midnight Feb. 15. Dixon noted that his office has issued repeated reminders in recent weeks that the Jan. 31 deadline for license display would not be extended.

"The blizzard and near blizzard conditions now existing in Illinois could not, of course, have been anticipated, and I feel that an extension is necessary in fairness to our citizens who simply cannot get to a location to obtain their plates," Dixon said. Area deaths, funeral services Mrs. Hart, 56, funeral set Services for Mrs. Thelma Lee Hart, 56, 1241 N. 13th will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m.

at Lindsey Funeral Home with Sid Maddox officiating. Burial will be in Maplelawn Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Gardner Page, Edwin Overstreet, Guy Buchanan, Richard Cooper, Don Harmon and Carlos Newman. Mrs. Hart, a member of Twelfth Street Baptist Church, died Saturday at 3:25 p.m.

at Bartholomew County Hospital in Columbus, Ind. Her husband, G. H. Hart, and' her mother, Mrs. Ella Lowe, preceded her in death.

She is survived by three sons, Richard L. Johnson, Oakville, James M. Hart, Columbus, and Mark S. Hart, Scottsburg, one daughter, Mrs. Janet Lee Sturgill, Flint, one brother, John Evans, Clark Lake, one sister, Mrs.

Helen Herrington, San Antonio, and six grandchildren. Friends may call at the funeral home. Former pastor here dies at 60 SALISBURY, N.C. The Rev. William W.

Williamson, 60, the former pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Paducah, died today in Salisbury following an extended illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Virginia Williamson; two sons, The Rev. W. W.

Williamson Senatobia, and the Rev. Charles Williamson, Hernando, one daughter, Ms. Virginia Williamson, Charlotte, N.C. Services will be conducted at First Presbyterian Church in Salisbury at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Burial will be in Danville, Va. Mr. Mitchell, Fredonia, dies PRINCETON, Ky. Louis Floyd Mitchell, 77, Fredonia Rt. 2, died Monday at 9 a.m.

at his home. He was a member of White Sulphur Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hazel Burnam Mitchell; three sons, Amos Mitchell and Sonny Mitchell, both of Caldwell County, and Eddie L. Mitchell, Princeton; one daughter, Mrs.

Donald C. Rogers, Caldwell County; one brother, Clinton Mitchell, Trigg County; three sisters, Mrs. Edgar Darnell, Hopkinsville, Mrs. Ollie Oliver, Princeton, and Mrs. Sam Burnam, Cadiz.

Services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Morgan Funeral Home with the Rev. Eugene Wyatt officiating. Burial will be in Boyd Cemetery in Trigg County. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Frank Harper dies at 96 METROPOLIS, Ill. Frank Harper, 96, Magnolia Manor Nursing Home, died today at Massac Memorial Hospital. He is survived by several nieces and nephews. Services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Aikins-Farmer Funeral Home with Lake Riley officiating.

Burial will be in f*cks Cemetery in Marshall County, Ky. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Wednesday. Joe Zaricor Sr. rites are set METROPOLIS, Ill.

Services for Joe Zaricor 313 E. 4th will be conducted Wednesday at 10 a.m. at AikinsFarmer Funeral Home with the Rev. Roy Fowler officiating. Burial will be in Massac Memorial Gardens.

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Sanderson rites are set Mrs. Pearl V. (Tommie) Graveside funeral services for Harold Sanderson, 73, who died late last week at Medco Nursing Center, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Oak Grove Cemetery with the Rev. Joe Gardner officiating.

A resident of Elmwood Court, Mr. Sanderson was a retired real estate and dry goods salesman. He was for many years associated in the real estate and insurance. business with his mother, Mrs. Grace Sanderson, who died in 1969.

Survivors include several cousins. The body is at Roth Funeral Chapel where friends may call after 6 p.m. Wednesday. Eldon Travis services held MARION, Ky. Services for Eldon Ray Travis, 75, formerly of Crittenden County, were conducted today at 11 a.m.

at Tucker Funeral Home. The Rev. Robert Phillips officiated. Burial was in Sugar Grove Cemetery. Mr.

Travis died at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Medco North Nursing Home in Evansville, Ind. He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Carrie Herrin, Mrs. Lear Fendrich and Miss Oline Travis, all of Evansville, two brothers, Albert Travis and Gilbert Travis, both of Marion.

Mr. Courtney dies at 83 MAYFIELD, Ky. Monroe Jefferson Courtney, 83, formerly of Milburn, died Saturday at 3 a.m. in Toledo, Ohio. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Emma Courtney; two sons, Leon Courtney, Mayfield, and Clemon Courtney, Toledo, Ohio; one sister, Mrs. Lucille Mahorter, Toledo; seven grandchildren, 11 greatgrandchildren and four greatgreat-grandchildren. Services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at Beulah Baptist Church with the Revs. James Tharp and David Stephenson officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Byrn Funeral Home after 1 p.m. Thursday. J. W.

Johnson dies at 76 James W. Johnson, 76, Paducah Rt. 6, died Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Western Baptist Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Estelle Johnson; one daughter, Mrs. Joseph Wall, Jacksonville, one brother, Robert Johnson, St. Louis, two grandsons, Richard Wall, Jacksonville, and David Linger, Buchanan, W. and one great-grandson, Bryan Linger, Buchanan, W. Va.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Max Churchill Funeral Home in Murray. Mrs. Evans rites set Services for Mrs. Bessie M. Evans, 516 Adams will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m.

at Kennedy Funeral Home with the Rev. Russell Joiner officiating. Burial will be in Iuka Cemetery. Grandsons will, serve as pallbearers. Mrs.

Evans, 89, died Sunday at 10:30 p.m. at Lourdes Hospital. Friends may call at the funeral home. Mrs. Robertson, Lyon native, funeral set for Mrs.

Alice Services 90, a former resiof 418 S. 17th will be Robertson, dent at 1 p.m. at Roth Wednesday Funeral Home with the Rev. William G. -Adams officiating.

Burial will be in Maplelawn Cemetery. Mrs. Robertson, a native of County and member of Lyon Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church, died Monday at Cedar Crest Nursing Home. Friends may call at the funeral home. L.

H. Weaks, Fulton, dies Delta King brings only By DOUG WILLIS Associated Press Writer RIO VISTA, Calif. (AP) The rickety shell of the Delta King, a 280-foot paddlewheeler and sister ship to the Delta Queen riverboat, has been tentatively sold for $32,000 at a sheriff's auction. Sacramento restaurateur Tom Fat outbid just one rival Friday to purchase the steelhulled, four-deck riverboat. Fat said he might convert the onceluxurious Delta King into a restaurant with shops and hotel rooms, but he said he hasn't any firm plans.

"To tell the truth, I don't have any idea what we'll do with it," said Fat. "I'm a nostalgia buff. I'm an antique buff. I just read about the auction in the newspaper and came down and saw it for the first time earlier this week." The 37-year-old Fat, whose Emergency power plans made as coal dwindles By MARTIN MERZER AP Business Writer Power companies in many Eastern and Midwest states are preparing emergency curtailment plans as coal supplies dip to critically low levels due to the coal miners' strike and frigid weather. Utility and goverment officials said the most-affected power companies appeared to be in Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

But PCC class changes, registration extended Registration for the spring term at Paducah Community College will continue through Thursday. A school spokesman today announced the extension of registration, noting that openings still are available in classes in most areas, both in day and evening sessions. Students may register at the conference room of the Learning Resource Center building on the PCC campus. Day class registration is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

daily, with night class registration each evening from 5:30 to 6:30. The spokesman also announced a change in the schedule of the "for-credit" photography class evening session. The class had been scheduled to meet on Friday evenings at PCC, but has been changed to Wednesday evenings at 6:30 in the art lab on the PCC campus. The spokesman also noted that the wine appreciation course will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Peddler Restaurant.

Fee for this course is $35 per person or $45 for a husband and wife. Violence way of life for Buenos Aires police EDITOR'S NOTE Police stations in Buenos Aires, after more than a decade of terrorism, resemble the Maginot Line. Police cars are miniarsenals, each manned with three, sometimes four, cops. Nevertheless, three dozen officers and more than 650 citizens were killed last year in political violence. By WILLIAM F.

NICHOLSON Associated Press Writer BUENOS AIRES (AP) The 31st Precinct is hardly your neighborhood police station. Three concrete pillboxes guard the entrance to the white two-story stucco building. Wary police sentinels with bulletproof vests and steel helmets check identities before allowing strangers to enter. In front, signs along Cabildo Avenue caution motorists not to make sudden stops; sentries may open fire with automatic weapons. Argentina is in a virtual state of war against the far left.

Violence began here in the 1960s, with the birth of several guerrilla groups seeking to build a socialist society atop the ashes of the revolving-door governments that had failed to bring stability. The military has been in charge of the country after toppling President Isabel Peron in a coup in March 1976. The armed forces now claim the far-left is on the defensive, its ranks nearly decimated by vigorous anti-guerrilla operations. In 1976, 1,480 persons were reported killed in political violence, about half of the them suspected leftists. The rest were security men, FULTON, Ky.

Leslie Hunter Weaks, 203 2nd died Monday at 5:45 p.m. at Fulton Hospital. He was 84 years old. A graduate of Vanderbilt University in 1916 and a veteran of World War he was past president of Fulton Rotary Club and the Fulton Chamber of Commerce. Mr.

Weaks, part owner of P. H. Weaks department store, was a member of First United Methodist Church and the board of directors of City National Bank for 45 years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Neil Weaks; one son, Parks Weaks, Fulton; one brother, Louis B.

Weaks, Fulton; three granddaughters, Mrs. Leland Moore, Mobile, Mrs. Henry Richardson, Nashville, and Miss Caroline Weaks, Lexington. Services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Hornbeak Funeral Home with the Rev.

Gordon Henderson officiating. Entombment will be in Fairview Mausoleum. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Wednesday. businessmen, politicians and those who happened to be in the wrong place when bombs exploded or shooting broke out.

In 1977, 677 died in political violence. Federal police, run by the Ministry of the Interior, control security in Buenos Aires, the capital of some 8 million people. Figures are secret, but it is reliably reported the force numbers about 30,000 4,500 more than in New York City, which is of comparable size. But in New York, four policemen were killed in the line of duty in 1977, compared with 36 policemen in Buenos Aires. Patrol methods in the cities also differ.

To save money, New York is sending some police cars out with a single officer. Never fewer than three policemen ride in a Buenos Aires patrol car, often four. Consider car 131. Officer Pasqual Papaleo, 27, is the driver. Raul Rodriguez, 28, is the car commander and Hector Gelso, 39, a noncommissioned officer, is in the back seat as "gunner." He accompanies Rodriguez outside the car to cover him in case of attack.

In addition to the patrolmen's handguns, the car is equipped with combat helmets, two 12- gauge shotguns and a 9mm submachine gun. At least one patrol car in each of the city's 48 precincts has a small computer terminal near the dashboard. It broadcasts a continuous signal SO headquarters can electronically track the car on a television display map. There is also an emergency button to signal for help. utilities serving customers in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia also reported low stocks of coal.

When the United Mine Workers strike began eight weeks ago, utilities reported coal stockpiles that would last 100 days or more under normal conditions. But the severe weather cut deeply into those reserves, officials said. In Ohio, where nearly 95 percent of the state's electric power comes from coal-fired generators, Gov. James Rhodes said some utilities had less than a 40-day supply of coal. Lee Sheppeard, a spokesman for the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest power company, said the TVA has a 47-day average supply of coal, omitting one plant with an abnormally high supply.

"That doesn't sound bad, except that five of our 12 plants have less than a 30-day supply," he said. The TVA serves million customers in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Sheppeard said the TVA, which already has requested voluntary curtailments of power, is preparing recommendations for mandatory curtailments that probably would begin with industrial customers. "We would hope to avoid curtailments that create real hardships for anybody," he said. "I expect that within a few days we will announce some kind of contingency plan." The American Electric Power which serves about 2 million customers in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia, said it has 58 days worth of coal.

"At 50 days, which is going to come up next week, we'll get into our emergency curtailment plan," said spokesman J. Donian Piedmont. He said that plan involves cessation of power sales to other utilities. When the supply reaches 40 days, mandatory curtailments to some industrial customers will be made, he said. In addition, Alex Gakner, a coal expert for the U.S Department of Energy, said that the coal being used by many utilities is of poor quality.

"They're getting deeper and deeper into stockpiles where dirt and slush have been gathering for years and years," he said. "That coal is very poor for producing electricity." Officials said the situation was better for coal-burning utilities in the West, which are using coal from nearby nonunion mines, and in the Northeast, which are using larger amounts of more-expensive oil to offset coal. Mrs. Forrester dies in Chicago TAMMS, Ill. Mrs.

Cleta Moore Forrester, 70, Chicago, formerly of Elco, died Sunday in Chicago. She was a member of Elco Methodist Church. She is survived by her husband, Clifford Forrester; two brothers, Norman Cauble, Alfred Cauble, Baudette, two sisters, Mrs. Elsie Dillow, Jonesboro, and Mrs. Ruth Basilio, Chicago.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home here. Mrs. Bishop is dead at 85 BARDWELL, Ky. Mrs. Edith Bishop, 85, Bardwell Rt.

1, died Monday at 2 p.m. at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah. She was a member of Mississippi Baptist Church. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Mary Vann, Bardwell; three sons, Robert L.

Bishop, Ypsilanti, John W. Bishop, Elmo, and Marvin K. Bishop, Troy, 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Milner Funeral Home in Bardwell. Flowers say you care, share, remember: For a complete selection of sympathy flowers, call your FTD Florist.

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