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Mystery photo: Who are those fellas with Morris Butler? Where? 2012-07-29 - Photo from the collection of Ralph Roy Waggener. An old photo and a little history - Another great old black and white photo from the collection of Ralph Roy Waggener, who sent them to CM in a portfolio and without explaining what was in each of the photos. Part of this one is obvious. Everybody knows that the man seated second from left in the photo was Morris Butler, who was not only famous as the sidekick of Metcalfe County native and Greensburg lawyer Robert Dowell, but famous in his own right as a Great Green County Attorney and one of the Butlers of Sulphur Well. The speaker favors former Governor Happy Chandler, and the guy on the left looks like one-time candidate for governor Terry McBrayer. It could have been in the Democratic primaries of 1979, when the fried chicken faction of the party took over and eventually put John Y. Brown in as Governor of the State. Among those Brown defeated were the great Stateswoman Thelma Stovall, Julian Carroll, long tall Hopkinsville Mayor George Adkins, Carroll Hubbard, and maybe others. With not a great deal of help from Adair County voters, Brown, better known as the husband of Miss America Phyllis George Brown, defeated Republican Louis B. Nunn, who had paved practically every mile of main gravel roads in Adair County, the Cumberland Parkway opened Adair County to the world, and Nunn and Bob Shirley of Edmonton established Kentucky State Police Post 15 in Columbia, and put an awful lot of people to work on the state payroll from this area. During the KFC administration, Adair County got all of two-tenths of a mile of new road, the stretch from Russell Road at the Murphy Place to Westlake Regional Hospital, that through acquaintance of a Lindsey Wilson College President with a Western Kentiucky Contractor, Drua Scott of Henderson. That's all we have on the picture. If anyone has a further update, let us know. - ED WAGGENER Permalink | Comments? Tweet

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