After 52 Years, 'Hard Worker' Is Ousted From Office

In 1940, Kentucky law deemed Rudolph Turner qualified for a seat on the Owsley County school board. He had turned 24. He ran, and won.

Fifty-two years later, his standing appointment on the second Tuesday of every month is about to end. State law, it turns out, has now declared him obsolete.

Mr. Turner's 8th-grade education was sufficient for a number of jobs he held while farming burley tobacco for most of his life, but it falls short of the high-school diploma now...