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Labor Day, 1941: A shovelful of dirt and an abundance of optimism It was the time of the groundbreaking for Wolf Creek Dam, when foresighted Congressman uttered prophetic words, declaring to parents that the industries brought to the region by the dam "would halt the migration of their children northward to industrial centers." By "Jim" Research for a non-CM-related project (don't tell Editor Waggener!) occasioned a look at the News from the late summer of 1941--the Wednesday, September 3rd edition, to be exact, seventy years and two days ago. The lesser front page headlines included this eclectic mix: Good Enrollment in City Schools (194 in elementary school, 190 in high school); Former Adair Citizen to Sell Fine Hogs Mrs. Flowers Speaker at Church Dinner (Educator Berenice Flowers had made "a brilliant talk on a Christian woman's responsibility" to a church group); Baldwin Store to be Doubled in Size (referring to the Baldwin Cash Grocery). A banner headline, however, dominated the page: Thousands See Ground Broken At Wolf Creek Dam Celebration This great event occurred on Monday, September 1st--Labor Day,1941, and the article noted Hundreds from Columbia and Adair County mingled with enthusiastic delegated from more than fifty other counties of Kentucky and Tennessee. What caught this rheumy old eye, however, were the remarks made to those in attendance after Julian Schley, chief of the army engineering corps, turned the symbolic first spadeful of dirt. Keynote speaker Tom Stewart, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, "told the crowd that it was witnessing the birth of a new era--'The Cumberland River Era.'" U.S. Congressman Albert Gore, also of Tennessee, avowed the celebration and groundbreaking to be "the declaration of independence of this region, industrially," and Kentucky Congressman John Robinson declared to parents that the industries brought to the region by the dam "would halt the migration of their children northward to industrial centers." And deponent sayeth not farther. -Compiled by "Jim." This story was posted on 2011-09-05 10:39:53
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