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70 years ago: Columbia High band brought home Music awards (Not quite) 100 years ago: All the news that was fit to print, April 16, 1941 By "Jim" A number of interesting articles graced the front page of April 16, 1941 News. The Columbia Fair Association had met recently and elected officers for 1941, to-wit: Dr. O.P. Miller, president.; J.P. Kelsay, secretary; and Rollin Cundiff, treasurer. The other directors of the Association were John W. Flowers, S.M. Burdette, F.P. (Fred) Hill and W.E. Harris. Among other momentous decisions, the Board decided to solicit donations from merchants "for defraying expenses of the morning program, the Floral Hall exhibits, the 4-H Club premiums, and the FFA program." The DAR had met on Monday evening (April 14th) at the home of Mrs. J.D. Lowe, Jr, with Miss Mary Lucy Lowe as assistant hostess. "A list of old Revolutionary War soldiers was read and their graves located and described as to whether they were marked or not...During the social hour the hostess served a salad plate." Meanwhile, at the Regional High School Music Festival held the previous week in Bowling Green, several members of the Columbia High band (instrumental division), under the direction of Prof. W.H. Owens, slathered themselves and old Adair with glory, with five of the six participants earning the right to compete in the State Festival in early May. Coronet solos by Louise Knifley and Thomas Nankivell earned "superior" ratings, as did trombone and saxophone solos by Christine Corbin and Billy Callison, respectively; John D. Lowe III's mellaphone performance earned an "excellent" rating (the highest awarded, so he too went to the state competition). In the vocal division, the girls' trio -- the Misses Nancy Lowe, Sara Moore and Margaret Archer -- also earned the "superior" rating. W.J. Cundiff, the Adair County director of the Taylor County Rural Electric Co-op, announced plans for ten and half miles of new lines to be strung in Adair County to serve 28 customers. And, another project which had been receiving considerable press received more in this edition with the nearly half-column announcement that President Roosevelt would soon receive the recommendation "that dams be constructed on the Cumberland River as the first step in [the Cumberland] Valley development." (Work started on Wolf Creek Dam later that year but was discontinued the following year for the duration of the war.) Claude M. Lloyd (Lloyd's Pharmacy) had leased the entire first floor of the Fraser Building. This edition of the News stated that "Mr. Lloyd plans extensive improvements which include enlarging his store, taking in the entire rear-end of the building extending to the alley in order to care for his expanding business." The work was to start very soon. As a result, the offices of the Columbia Times newspaper was moved to "the residence of the late Sallie Fields on Burkesville Street." (The Times was fairly short-lived, it having been started by Sam White in the latter part of the 1930s. It fell victim in mid-1942 to the war-related newsprint shortage.) The Crippled Children's drive for funds, under chairwoman Mrs. Mack Willis, had progressed "far beyond the expectations of those in charge" with Mrs. Rollin Cundiff reporting $115.55 collected to date. (The final tally totaled $129.50.)"Jim" This story was posted on 2011-04-10 11:26:04
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