| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
August 24, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener This article first appeared in the August 24, 1977 edition of the Daily Statesman. Topics include Mayoral politics, local crime, and fad diets, among many other things. By Ed Waggener Columbia is number one on the list of at least one new physician, who is a native Adair Countian. Dr. Ronald C. Kelsay, the son of Hazel Kelsay and the late Samuel Kelsay, is completing his internship in El Paso, Texas at this time. He will have completed the work by June of 1978. Dr. Kelsay holds both a PhD degree and the M.D. degree. Murphy may get endorsement At least one possible candidate for mayor, W.R. Murphy, is about to get a newspaper endorsement, a first for Columbia, as far as I know. B.W. Bernard, the outspoken editor of the Jamestown - Russell Springs RUSSELL COUNTY NEWS (Russell County's leading newspaper) said that he might just endorse Murphy in his paper. For one thing, Bernard is a big Raymond Overstreet support, and he's thankful to Murphy for withdrawing from the race for State Representative. Cornelia Hughes campaign gets boost An article I wrote which appeared in yesterday's Adair County News listed 13 mayoral possibilities, including Mayor Murphy, Rollin Pyles, Coy Downey, Bob Cheatham, Rives Kerbow, Charles Marshall, Hollis Keltner, Glenno Parnell, Bill McClendon, James Reece, Don Wesley, and Cornelia Hughes. When Cornelia Hughes read that she was being considered, she told the whole Circle R breakfast crowd, "Where's Ed Waggener, I'll kill him!" But people are taking Cornelia seriously. Cotton Durham even offered her a campaign contribution. Murphy takes exception Mayor W.R. Murphy did take one bit of exception to the article, which said that Cornelia would be the shot-caller in a Thelma Stovall administration. "I'd be contact man for Thelma if I wanted to be," Murphy said, "I'm closer to her than anyone in the county." Celebrity on campus It's nice to walk around Columbia and meet famous people. Heck, I get a charge out of knowing that Senator Mosely is from Columbia. Now we've got another celebrity from state government here, in the person of J. Robert Miller, who is now on the faculty of Lindsey Wilson College. Miller was Commissioner of Agriculture in the Louie Nunn administration, and he did a great job. It's good to have him in Columbia. Don't criticize police to Mike Stephens The Columbia City Police have a hard job, and they get criticism as often as any public servants, but one guy they won't hear complaining is Mike Stephens of the Prescription Shoppe. Stephens was the victim of a break-in last Monday morning. The break-in was discovered by Officer Gene Conover of the Columbia Police Department. "They're on the ball," Stephens said. "I wouldn't have been able to have gotten a Kentucky State Police unit until the next morning, but Gene Conover was right here." Stephens does criticize the city though, for the way the police are equipped. "One cruiser has a two-way radio," he said, "and the other only has a walkie- talkie. And they don't even have a shotgun," he said. "What if the burglar had been in the drugstore, where I keep two shotguns for protection and he had gotten the guns and used one of them on Gene? It would have been tragic." Stephens complains about high weeds Stephens says that the store would be safer if the city would enforce the weeds law. "That's where the prowler hid," he said, "in the weeds next door. You could see where he'd knocked the weeds down that he'd been there for some time, waiting for a chance to break in." Columbia Developments Beanpole Willis has lived all his life in Adair County and he still doesn't know where Putnam County is located. He made the mistake of asking Pewee Sinclair, an authority on such things, its location. "Don't tell him, Pewee," Dan Waggener said, "he'll aim to spend all his money at the Putnam County Fair." Good Country Tax commissioner Billy K. Neat says that you can always tell Putnam County, the county-within-Adair County, because the countryside just starts looking better. Generally, it's located above the fork of Sulphur Creek, thence northward nigh but not into, greater Millerfield. It is a good country to live near. A.L. Sinclair has roamed it since his boyhood days, when he was growing up at Christine. "We always went to Oak Grove on Sundays," Sinclair said. Marvin Grider's store was the only place you could get a pop on Sunday," Sinclair said, "but you had to go to the back door." Pewee's boyhood days were back in the fifties, so you can tell times sure have changed in the past 20 years. Oak Grove is located about a mile up the hill above Putnam County. It's the home of a number of notables, including Capt. Jim Evans of the Kentucky State Police, and is famous because Hood Lodge is there. Life is simply Catch-22 No matter what you do in the way of self-improvement, it seems that when you gain in one place, you lose in another. Dagwood Gore has gone on a diet, and has been highly successful with it, losing 30 pounds in 60 days. Ask what the diet is, Dagwood said, "It's a very, very little meat and all the fresh leafy vegetables you want to eat. They'll let me eat all the lettuce and cabbage I can hold." "There's one big problem," he says. "I've eaten so much rabbit food I'm afraid to get near a beagle hound for fear he would eat me up." Not the only health watcher Gore is not unique in taking on a whole new regimen, including a definite exercise program, in order to maintain better health. It used to be that men waited until they had their first heart attack before they mended their habits. Now younger active men such as Gore are taking preventive steps. Arlis Downey - Hezzie - is one of them. He's playing softball in Columbia's new "Over 30 and over weight" softball league, eating right, and going to church regularly - and losing weight. Downey is a confirmed town man now. He grew up out at Portland and claims to have been 16 before he saw the bright lights of the city - Columbia. "When we talked about coming to town in the fifties," Downey says, "we were talking about going to Milltown, that was the big town." Portland was a self-contained community, Downey says. Now it's coming back. There's only one store now. Larry Coffey owns it. And he has constructed a major recreational center at Portland. There's a softball-baseball park at Portland, and it draws big crowds every time it's open. There's a sense of community there which is delightful in today's fast-paced world. New doctors at Burkesville Columbia isn't alone in seeking new doctors. Burkesville has been, successfully so. Two young physicians, Dr. Joseph Skipworth and Dr. Samuel Rice recently opened a clinic on North Main Street in Burkesville. One of the doctors, Dr. Skipworth, is a native of Cumberland County. Several Columbians are working to try to get more M.D.'s here, native or otherwise. One native they're after is Dr. Charles G. Young, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Young of Columbia. Dr. Young is completing a three-year residency now in Alabama and will be entering practice soon. We hope he chooses Columbia. Columbia, Texas? When I was a kid there were more hills in Columbia than there are now. I remember watching Clyde Young's development carve out part of the old Wilkerson Hill on Jamestown Street, then, later, after Young sold the Wilkerson house, the whole hill was lopped off to make room for K&F Market and Harris' Barber Shop. At that time I predicted that between the Army Corps of Engineers filling up the valleys with lakes and Joe Russell Barbee moving the tops of hills, that Adair County would one day be as flat as Texas. It may never happen, but I haven't noticed any new hills going up. The latest hill to go is on Ralph Willis' former place on Jamestown Street. That's the price - or the benefits, if you choose - of progress. This story was posted on 2019-06-16 15:33:36
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Around Adair with Ed Waggener:
October 27, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener May 1978 Around Adair with Ed Waggener September 30, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener May 17, 1978 Around Adair with Ed Waggener April 4, 1978 Around Adair with Ed Waggener April 11, 1978, Around Adair Around Adair: It must have happened in Columbia Around Adair with Ed Waggener The BMW Isetta: A vexing car that invited bullying Around Adair View even more articles in topic Around Adair with Ed Waggener |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
