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DISPATCH: ''Cyrus'' finds new historic parallels to current news events In roads and bridges news: The headline in one of the articles you posted today (Friday), $74 million for roads and projects coming to Adair County, caught my eye. Curiously enough, just last night I came across the 1943-1944 AdairCounty budget in the June 23, 1943 issue of the "News." The sum of$5,200 was allocated for highways, while $8,045 went to road and bridgedebt service. And in sports news And in even more news, (since Ed mentioned sports, a la Haskin Rowe)this little jewel may be of passing interest to your readers. Anyone who doesn't recognize the name mentioned herein should leave Adair County immediately. "Adair County News," May 7, 1941, page one:
Burr, who will graduate at Georgetown College in June, is also agraduate of Lindsey Wilson Junior College where he was captain of thebasketball team in 1939. He has been an outstanding athlete at bothinstitutions and should prove a fine coach. The board also employed Miss Lorena Grant as Attendance Officer foranother year and adopted a budget. And an editorial comment I nearly laughed myself out of my chair reading Ed's deft sketch of theillustrious early career of later-to-be-townie Joe Moore. Cyrus Our diligent central Ohio bureau chief, code name "Cyrus," has dispatched the foregoing communique from the Great Beyond, that fractional surface of the Earth which lies outside the limits of this veritable Eden, this Athens of the Foothills, this Cradle of American literature, this sacred land, this Adair County. Thanks, Cyrus, for the new information on the county budget and the memory of Mr. Burr. The last communique from Cyrus elicited a comment in the form of a question, namely, which narrow concrete side streets were referred to in Cyrus' account. I'm thinking they are the WPA streets: Lindsey Wilson, Merchant, High, Fortune, Frazier, and Guardian. We would welcome another surmise or, better, a factual response. And thanks, Cyrus, for the comment on the item about my hero, Joe Moore. When I grow up, I want to be as much like him as I can be. Joe Moore is Columbia's Renaissance Man: A gifted craftsman, artist, civic leader, and humorist. He's perhaps the foremost collector of Adair County artifacts. Except for the name, his collection is already the Columbia Museum of History. Hope you can see it someday, if you haven't already visited it at Edgewood, the Moore family compound just south of Columbia on KY 55. Ed This story was posted on 2005-04-10 14:20:48
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