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September 29, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the September 29, 1977 issue of the Daily Statesman. Topics included the Adair County traffic survey, George Keltner's move to town, The Pete Walker philosophy of driving, and channelling Jacques Pepin in Adair County creeks. --Pen By Ed Waggener The new 50-unit housing addition being built by Columbia Partners behind the Municipal Housing project on Carrie Bolin Drive is taking a shape. The architecture is interesting, adding a little excitement to the skyline. There is more traffic A complete traffic survey is underway for Adair County. Part of it is complete. It should come as no surprise that the whole world passes Jamestown Street between Reed Street and Guthrie Street each day. In the past four years, the traffic count there has gone from 7,459 cars daily to 9,123 a day. But the most dramatic increase in the traffic flow has come in the area North of the intersection of Tutt Street and Jamestown Street in the area of Food Check. There traffic was 4,135 cars per day in 1973, but the most recent survey shows that 6,933 pass there daily! Still very high in the traffic count business is the section just north of the intersection of Highway 80 and Jamestown Street, around G&G Motors. The traffic count there has jumped almost 1,000 cars a day, to 8,649. Campbellsville Street, toward town from Fairgrounds Street, gets 7,677 cars a day. Another busy intersection is the Supertest-West Side Standard corner on Burkesville Street. The count there was 6,807 (1973), and has held close to the same, if my information is correct. We hope to have a complete report on the traffic counts in Columbia soon, as quickly as the Department of Transportation sends it from Frankfort. Turnpike law of certainties To be sure, Jamestown Street is clogged. One of the answers will be to widen the street, at least upper Jamestown Street. I hope that Jamestown Street from Lowe's Lane to Guthrie Street will be left untouched. That, and the Greensburg Street approach, and sections of Burkesville Street are unforgettably pretty. It is what visitors to Columbia talk about when they leave. Still, there is the old rule that traffic in already congested areas grows to further congest widened streets. Getting through traffic off the Square should be a priority. And maybe, at this stage, Columbia ought to be toying with an idea of low cost public transportation, where, say, a rider could hop a van to go from the Square to the Pizza Hut for a nickel or dime. Traffic increase is a sign of increased prosperity, but it can become a strangling prosperity. Columbia Developments: Pete Walker award? The George Keltners moved to downtown Columbia from Green Hills Subdivision back in the winter. Keltner is enjoying the city life, but a brisk walk to work, in the manner of great pedestrians Cotton Durham, David Wells, Garnett Young, and Judge Joe England has not been one of the benefits he came to town for. "You know," grocer Keltner said, "in the 12 years we've operated K & F, I've got to walk my first trip to town." Now there's a man to win a Pete Walker Award. There never was another man like Pete, and I don't think there ever will be, but a lot of people have some characteristics like Pete. Pete didn't like to walk either. He believed in the automobile more than any one man, other that Jimtown Coomer. Though he lived only a block from the office, he would always drive to work, even if it meant parking two blocks away in the Columbia Christian Church parking lot. Another thing he didn't like was traffic laws. He really enjoyed running a one- way street the wrong way. He was especially angry when the city fathers changed Reed Street from one-way onto Jamestown Street to one-way into Reed off Jamestown. This change meant that Pete's usual driving pattern on Reed Street would be legal. "It makes me mad," Pete said, "now I have to drive four blocks out of my way, up around Houchen's, to run Reed Street the wrong way." It will soon be four years since Pete Walker died. People ask about his writing every little bit. Pete's writing was as singular as his personality, and I think that he is hands down the greatest newspaper writer, if not the best writer period, Adair County has ever produced. We hope to bring out some of his newspaper articles for re-publication in the Adair County News or the Daily Statesman. They are as timeless as Will Rogers or Mark Twain. No. 51 for Houchens Kenneth Scott an area supervisor for the Houchen's chain of supermarkets, has been working some lately on the company's 51st store, a whopping 26,000 sq. ft. super store at Zoneton in Bullitt County. Useful things for children Some parents teach their children how to brush their teeth, how to behave at the supper table, and not to sass. I teach my boys more important things, like how to keep their behinds down so they won't get whacked, lightning bug catching, and crawdad noodling. The two-year old, Tom, is learning well. When he brought in a bug for company at the supper table, his mother, who doesn't understand, thought the insect was an intruder. She smashed him. The little one still hasn't forgiven her. "You broke my bug," he told her, and I wouldn't have faced that mournful look for all the tin in Chile. Now as for crawdad noodling. The six-year old, Pen has learned to raise a rock, make the crayfish hop backwards, and catch him in his hands. I know it doesn't sound Bible in these parts, but we catch them to eat. The tails are delicious when cooked as you cook lobster, and the taste is very similar. It's much more delicate than shrimp flavor. The bad thing is that it takes an hour of noodling to catch 100 crayfish in most Adair County waters. And seines get caught up in rock where most crayfish are. And 100 crayfish barely make a meal. I doubt if crayfish ever becomes a big part of the Adair County diet, or if there ever will be a commercial value in them as there is in Louisiana, but I for one would like to know more about how to catch more, so that I can teach my boys. It is important, however, that anyone giving me the information not risk the scorn of real fishermen. Warden Clem Feese scoffed at the idea of eating crayfish. "You're eating our best fishbait," he said. This story was posted on 2020-05-17 11:52:33
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