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May 1978 Around Adair with Ed Waggener This article probably dates to May of 1978, and first appeared in the Daily Statesman. It has been edited slightly for the Internet. Topics in that issue included the school board race, a fishing tournament, tourism in Lexington and Edmonton, and an interesting bit of trivia about the move to ANC dialing in Adair County. "DRake-plus four" hasn't come up yet in the Fairplay discussion this week. --Pen By Ed Waggener Dogwoods need water, plant food The dogwoods which were transplanted are showing need of water, an inspection of the trees shows, says Forest Warden A. L. Sinclair. Sinclair has recommended watering the trees personally, if showers of blessing don't fall from the sky. Sinclair reports that Mayor Downey has ordered plant food pellets for the trees, which can be placed in the ground now and should help the trees to thrive. The best looking ones now are the dogwoods which the Mayor planted day one of the project. They've got leaves and a few blooms. You can see them on the Tutt Street side of the Rock House. Lexington tourist homes high A fellow who just returned from Lexington and stayed in the big downtown hotel, told me Sunday, "That tall tourist home in Lexington is a rip-off. They want to charge $45 for a room for two, and a jug costs you $21." He said he called room service to see what a jug would cost. They told him $21. He answered, "Fine, you keep it. I'll walk a half-a-mile and buy it myself. I can work 14 minutes for $15. I'm from Adair County." We apprise you of this fact so that you'll know to be sure and get to Lexington and get your business done so you don't have to stay the night. But for sure, buy your own jug. A hot one in District Three They're predicting a hot race for the school board in District Three. There, Chester Humphress, the incumbent is seeking re-election in a district which has seen North Columbia added to Knifley, Roley, Holmes, and Cane Valley. Columbia is the imponderable. Humphress has announced. And Buck Perkins of Cane Valley is expected to be a candidate;. There is also talk of a third man running. The thinking is that the third man vote would have the effect of splitting off Humphress traditional Knifley support, giving Perkins the nod. But more titillating consideration is given to the notion that Mary Dunbar, retired School Supervisor and wife of former Adair County Superintendent John Dunbar might run. The thinking? Mrs. Dunbar, with her reputation as a professional educator- and a good one-would run well at home in Knifley, and would be a fromidable candidate in North Columbia. Some think her standing would make her the top choice of many in Cane Valley and Holmes, too. Mrs. Dunbar is known to have earlier considered the race, but lately she has been reported leaning to not running. If she does, the Third District would have an interesting autumn. The way it used to be Thinking back to the old days, I am reminded of the days when I was back in Edmonton. I remember that Jim Walden opened the old opry house, The Strand Theater, about 10 years ago, and the crowds there loved it. One night a much feared operator rode into Edmonton on his horse, and amused himself for a while steeple-chasing on the courthouse lawn (they have the biggest, prettiest courthouse lawn in Kentucky). After the horseman tired of riding on the lawn, he went over to the theater box-office, where Jim Walden was selling tickets. "I want two tickets," he said. Jim eyed him and said, "Now Jack, you're welcome to see the picture show, but your horse will have to stay outside." Whereupon an argument ensued, but not a very big one, and Jim won out. The horseman left, with his horse. If one couldn't go, he reckoned, neither would. Mistaken identity Junior Samples was at a Fishing Tournament at Spring City, Tennessee, last week which was covered by a contributing writer for one of our papers, Marcia Ficklen. When the television stations from Knoxville got an interview with Samples, the first thing asked him was, "Sir, what is you name." I'm Buck Owens," Samples said, without cracking a smile. Ms. Ficklen said that Samples is even funnier in person than he is on TV. "And," she said, "he is a sincere fisherman. He didn't want to have his picture taken, but he did allow us to take it when he could be pictured fishing or with some of the famous featured from across the nation." More doctors in the ACHS class of '67? Kyle Young's nephew, Chester Raymond Young, Jr., will be graduating from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 14, with an M.D. degree. Dr. Young is the son of Professor Raymond Young, formerly of Columbia, now professor of history at Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky. "You could say that Raymond C. is a Columbia boy, with his father, Dr. Raymond Young being from here," Kyle Young said. Dr. Young, the elder, was once a Baptist Missionary to Hawaii and has spoken frequently at the Columbia Baptist Church. Last week we questioned whether or not the ACHS class of '71 had more physicians than any other. This week I received a letter saying that the class of '67 had five doctors. The anonymous letter said that there were five doctors in the '67 class: Dr. Jerry Gilpin, dentist, now of Springfield, Ky.; Dr. G. Barry Loy, dentist, now practicing in Columbia; Dr. Louis Merkley, dentist, practicing in Elizabethtown, Ky.; Dr. Billy Joe Parson, M.D., now practicing general surgery in Columbia, S.C., and Dr. Charles Garnett Young, now practicing family medicine in Huntsville, Ala., but who has joined Loy Clinic and will begin practice in Columbia by September. Dr. G. Barry Loy says that another classmate, Mike Rogers, is in medical school in Arizona. It's true that that's a longer list of physicians and dentists than the list of physicians in the Class of '71. It is just according to how you look at it which class has more doctors, I guess. Still, I wonder if any other high school in the area has produced more professionals than Adair County. (Or if any area has been so unsuccessful in luring them back home to practice as we have been.) A Rolls-Royce for Adair County? It has been brought to our attention that there are no Rolls-Royce automobiles in Adair County, and furthermore, that there probably never has been one locally owned, licensed, and regularly used here. There are scads of Cadillacs and Lincolns, and Mercedes automobiles are commonplace. As is well-known, we are not ones to promote superlatives or records, but someone could be entitled, were he or she to buy a Rolls, to have inscribed on his or her grave marker, "First man (or woman, as the case may be) to own a Rolls-Royce automobile in Adair County." This would be a fitting tribute. I know that either Hartzell Hodges or I or both would be rightfully entitled to inscribe on our tombstones that we were each one of the only two persons ever to own the only Isetta in Adair County. (See: The Isetta) CETA program helps again The Comprehensive Employment Training Act is getting a lot of flack in the state papers now,l but when I talk to local people who see what CETA employees are accomplishing here, they are very enthusiastic about the program. Two people who have been hired under the CETA program in an advisory capacity are Orville Ellis and George Reed. They're working with the pepper and tomato growers of Adair County. At this stage in Adair County's development as a big shipper of horticultural products all the instructional personnel the county can muster should be utilized. These two advisers are both knowledgeable, capable men, who, if it weren't for CETA, might not be able to give the help that they are. Monroe County is moving closer Tompkinsville, Kentucky, is world famous for a particular brand of barbecue- the real thing, pepper-hot, mean, pure agony to eat but at the same time, the grandest culinary delight known to man. There was a time when it required a whole hour's drive to Tompkinsville to get the real thing.; But now, B&S Barbecue has opened in Summer Shade, a good 13 miles closer to Adair County, 15 minutes closer for those Monroe County barbecue addicts who need a quick fix. I've sampled it, and it's close enough to the genuine Monroe County article to pass for it. Want to call Fulton 4-3631? I was looking over some old newspaper issues in 1958 yesterday and I noticed that the numbers for Columbia were all either 4-plus the last four digits or FU4-plus the last four digits. I had forgotten the phone changeovers. I remember that when we had a crank phone in the hallway on Jamestown Street at home the number was 192A. I think the ring in to our house on the old party line was two longs and a short. The "FUlton" prefix hasn't been gone too long. It was only 17 years ago, when some of this year's graduating class at ACHS were born. The change came on August 2, 1961. General Telephone heralded the big technical break-through as "ANC," or "All Number Calling." (I had forgotten how difficult life was before "ANC" until I re-read the old article from the Adair County News.) Moreover, all of Adair County was benefitted from the change. Fairplay, which had been known as DRake-plus the last four digits, became 378-plus the last four digits. Ain't science wonderful? How the old folks ever made it without ANC I'll never know! One thing hasn't changed in the phone business since 1961. Young & Wilson Drugs is still the last listing in the Columbia section of the directory. But A&R Stone now comes before Dr. Oris Aaron at the head of the book. (Fulton 4-3631 would be the NEWS office under the old system.) This story was posted on 2019-06-02 08:14:51
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