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October 1, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the October 1, 1977 issue of the Daily Statesman. Topics included development on Jamestown Street, the race for Jailer, a novel idea to boost church attendance, and a nod to the Library Board for the new (now current) Adair County Library. --Pen By Ed Waggener A happy man is Aaron Davis, administrator of Adair Memorial Hospital and Summit Manor Nursing Home. Yesterday Mr. Gale Gilbert and Mr. Larry Bloyd of the Department for Human Resources inspected Adair Memorial Hospital to investigate the charges of unsanitary conditions at the hospital leveled by Mrs. Rachel Lea of St. Petersburg, Florida. The inspectors said that the charges were "non-valid and unwarranted." They were happy with what they found. Third group interested in building shopping center Two major groups are going ahead with the idea of a Columbia Shopping Center. The Columbia Development Corporation seems to be in the lead at the moment, with plans to develop the Sine Turner property on Jamestown Street. Kermit Grider has been quite active in checking the possibilities on completing the former Doc Walker property on Burkesville and Hudson Streets. Now a third developer, who said it was "off the record," says that if the other two do not get something under way, that he and his partner will build it themselves. And they have the lettuce to do it, between them. If you vote for Hailey, you get Rachael Hailey Neagle, the Adair County Jailer, takes a lot of ribbing about how good a jailer his wife, Rachael, is. They'll say, "Hailey, if it were Rachael, I'd sure vote for her." Now he has a stock answer, that, "The only way you'll get her is to vote for me." Gene Young, the Democrat, is campaigning hard, though. Young asked one businessman to vote for him recently. He was told by the businessman that, being a Republican, he would have to vote for Neagle. "Aw, come on," Young joked, "you know neither one of us is worth a damn, so why don't you vote for me?" Hailey heard about it, but he doesn't agree with half of that assumption. How they could up church attendance All that is needed to get more church attendance in Columbia is to get the churches to openly compete on attendance. That would really get them in. They say that it is a close call now between Brother Martin's Christian Church and the Columbia Baptist Church for top stop, with the number three slot being fought over by Trinity, The Church of the Nazarene, Columbia United Methodist, and the Church of Christ. A scoreboard could be put up in public view, and the ranking could be published in the paper. But it will likely not happen. Most of the clergy will likely think the idea is too worldly. There could be side bets. And some might resort to giving illegal premiums, such as real Mogen David in the communion cups. And there might be side bets on the matter. And there would have to be verifiers. Because if it's anything like the political rallies Coy Downey estimates, you need a second look to understand who is right. But since everybody likes to know rankings, I'd like to see it at least one Sunday. Save those old newspapers Used newspapers are the basis for blown-in insulation, and they are in great demand at present. In fact, the last load of salvage newsprint shipped from the printing plant was at the highest rate the insulation company ever paid. That looks good on the one hand, but on the other, it is a bad sign, because insulation is getting scarce and winter is at hand. Newsprint collection may not make anybody rich, but it is patriotic, and helpful to builders and homeowners. (Look for insulation prices to soar as winter sets in.) I'm glad they waited until September to change traffic It is a good thing that the State waited until late in September to screw up the traffic flow on the Square. (See front page story by Mike Murrell). If they had chosen the Dog Days of August, surely someone in an un-air conditioned car would have gone nuts and started on a killing spree. At least give the traffic engineers credit for timing. (Although I wish they had waited until April 1, 1978) Give the library board credit The new library being built will be quite an asset to Columbia, if for no other reason than that, with it, Columbia should continue to merit being the regional library. There has been some criticism of it, particularly over the site -- some favored putting it in the Trabue - Russell House -- but on the whole, I think most Columbians will find that it is a worthwhile endeavor. We should always take seriously the idea of Columbia, with Lindsey Wilson College here, being a center for art, culture, and learning. A regional library does give Columbia a reputation for having an appreciation for such things. "I've just always thought that books are the most important things in the world," library board member Terry Hodges said, "so you can see how happy I am to know that the project is finally underway." Does it matter? Look at Louisville's pride There is something about being the headquarters town which gives us pride. We are proud of the State Police Post, the multi-county State Highway maintenance garage, the headquarters here in state government. Can anybody from Columbia say that there wasn't a warm feeling which came over them when they met a Lewis Transport truck on the road 200 miles from Columbia? Knowing that the central office for the company was Columbia? Or when they saw a Columbia Candy truck in Russell County? Or a Louisville News Company, Columbia Division, delivery van in Manchester? Sure, it does something for our pride in our community. We had been able to take a borrowed pride in Louisville's importance. We grew up believing that the University of Louisville Medical School was the greatest in the world. We liked knowing there was a Louisville Colonels baseball team to follow. That there was a Kentucky Colonels basketball team. That maybe the Courier-Journal was one of the greatest newspapers of the nation. That Fawcett-Dearing Printing Company was headquartered in Louisville. That you couldn't go any higher in Kentucky Fried Chicken than on Watterson Expressway. That National Industries, one of the nation's largest conglomerates, was in Louisville. But today, none of the above is really so, unless the newspaper is, in fact, still one of the best in the nation. Twenty years from now, I want to be able to take pride in the fact that Columbia is still a regional library center, that the State Police still cruise out of Columbia, that the maintenance barn has grown, that the city is known as the distribution center of South Central Kentucky. But there is more to dream about. I hope that then, Columbia will have achieved its destiny as a medical center, that the newspaper group will be larger, more prestigious, and employ more people; that the radio station is the most respected in the area; that Columbia has the district jail; that merchandising and financing will have equaled the potential geography endowed us with; and that Lindsey Wilson College will have enlarged on its grand tradition, and will have reached a new level of the highest regard. Each success in each field will effect individual successes in others. There is a distinct interplay - and safety - in the elements of the diverse economy we have built and plan in the future. 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