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January 30, 1979 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the January 30, 1979, issue of the Adair County News. Topics included the Pickledog Export Economy, what the new Commissioner of Commerce's ties to Adair County might mean, growth versus conservation, and whether a new recreational center might reduce juvenile delinquency in town. --Pen By Ed Waggener More pickle dog shortage Last week I cited the shortage of good wholesome pickle dog in other parts of the United States, as first reported by Pauline Rogers of Columbia, in Around Adalr in the Dally Statesman. . Mary Wilcoxson, of the First National Bank, tells me that I didn't write the half of it. "I just returned from Bremerton, Washington, to visit my Son, Pete," she says. "I took him two gallons of pickle dog, as be insists it is not available there." You'd think, she says, that her son would have shared the delicacy with the Washingtonians. But no. "He had company and they had never tasted pickle dog," she recounts, "and they asked him to let them taste it. He said, 'No, you won't like it.' But he finished one whole gallon in one week." Mrs. Wilcoxson says that the plight of other parts of the country is just as bad. "I have children in Chicago, and Cincinnati, and whenever they come home they always pick up a gallon or more of pickle dog to take care of their needs. And even, my niece, who lives in Parkersburg, West Virginia, has to get her supply of pickle dog right here in Adair County. I would have thought that Parkenburg, West Virginia, would be with it enough to have stores which stock pickle dog. But no. Surely the fact that Joseph Califano is wasting his time fighting a holy war against tobacco and is neglecting to see that the Health, Education, and Welfare of the good people of the United States is protected by seeing to it that pickle dog is available in the contiguous 48 and Hawaii and Alaska will be an issue in the 1980 presidential election. New commissioner good choice The news that Governor Jullan Carroll has named former Glasgow Dally Times publisher Carroll Knicely as Commissioner of Commerce is good news. Knicely takes the post left vacant by the resignation of Terry McBrayer, who resigned to run for Governor. Knicely has been a longtime friend of Columbia physician Dr. M.C. Loy, who was associated with him in the insurance business. Knicely is on the Board of Regents of Western Kentucky University. He has had a longtime interest in Adair County. I would hope that the friendships he has here will mean that Adair County will get an extra push toward securing a new industry. We badly need another plant such as DeLaval which would employ more men. I knew him when he printed our paper I first knew Carroll Knicely when he printed our paper. He owned the Glasgow Publishing Corporation when they printed our first newspaper, The Edmonton Herald-News. The plant had an atmosphere of efficiency which I admired, and I admired the managerial qualities of Mr. Knicely. I was as happy as Dr. Loy to learn that the Governor had chosen Mr. Knicely for this important position. Could the two be connected? I had to wonder last week when I read that Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company was moving 3,000 jobs out of Louisville whether there might be any connection between the Courier Journal's new anti-tobacco stand and the move of the plant. It likely wasn't a major reason. It could be that the company just likes the atmosphere in the Sunbelt better. Whatever the reason, they are gone, and Louisville is the lesser for it. There's no real joy in that for Adair Countians, as Louisville has been our city for many, many years. But I do recall that more than five years ago, before his death, Pete Walker wrote about the probability of Columbia and this end of the state becoming more closely tied to Nashville as the result of the road network. We're seeing that become true even faster than the article suggested. That change and the move to count regional towns such as Bowling Green as "our city" has hastened the move from Louisville. If the Louisville business interests has worked harder, earlier, to get good roads into South Central Kentucky, the ties might have remained, or even gotten stronger. A problem I hope we have I was reading in the Mercer County newspaper last week that people in that community are becoming concerned about the way land is being used up by the industrial and residential needs and by the need for more roads in that county. At present, we don't share that problem. I would like to have to worry about that. I wish our highway and industrial development were that strong. Still, Mercer County is a strong agricultural county. If they are already worried about the changing landscape, Adair County might need to be concerned, too. Maybe we could do a better planning job than Harrodsburg now and prevent the problem. It might be that better planning, with greater use of townhouses, apartments, condominiums, and high-rise buildings might stay a land shortage forever here. I think that, if I had my druthers, if I had to choose between a healthy farm economy with dairying as the mainstay and industrial development, I'd choose to stay small and keep the agricultural base. Still, we ought not have to choose one or the other. We ought to be able to have them both. Doing something about delinquency The question came up in Sunday School day before yesterday as to what any of us would do if we had all the money needed to do it. A suggestion was made that more recreational centers be built for the youngsters who might be in the age bracket to commit the delinquent acts. I thought it was a good suggestion. It shows that there are people in this town who do care. I know there are enough able people in that one class to do something about the problems. And I would imagine that there are as many like-minded members of other churches who would also help. It's our town. It will always be what we make of it. Building a community recreation center is an achieveable goal. I hope we see it before 1980. This story was posted on 2020-11-29 10:06:09
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