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May 31, 1978 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the May 31, 1978, issue of the Daily Statesman. Topics included Jean Moseley's journalism class at Adair County High School, advanced mimeography at LWC, another round of praise for the plan to serve realy butter at the Dillon Dinner house, a seafood review by yours truly, a call for boxes to help move all the books from the Municipal Building to the new library on Greensburg Street, and growing excitement over the Miss Lake Cumberland Beauty Pageant. --Pen By Ed Waggener Another Bob Considine in the making? Somewhere, out there in the halls of Adair County High, there may be another Bob Considine, or a Mike Murrell, or a Sylvia Porter, or an Allan Trout, or a Dr. Harold McKinney, or even a Pete Walker. There just may be another great American journalist there. Likely, the place he or she will be found will be in Betty Jean Moseley's journalism class, which furnishes most of the writers for ACHS' fine high school newspaper, Smoke Signals. Members of the class include Smoke Signals editor Danny Wilkinson, next year's editor Cindy Alley, advertising manager David Martin, and Pam Bailey, Darrell Coffey, Donna Foster, Pat Hale, Lee Barnes, Sherry Cheatham, David Sneed, Benjie McQuaide, Margaret Shirley, Sharon Brock, Sharon Neat, and Nancy Spires. Several are going on to journalism majors in college, and one, Mrs. Moseley says, has a full scholarship in journalism. She's Margaret Shirley, who already has been bylined as a sports writer for the Campbellsville newspaper. Mrs. Moseley has a fine group. Maybe we are a little selfish at the newspaper plant, but we're happy to see the school system put the effort they are into the field. I wish we had the course I wish they'd had a class such as Mrs. Moseley's back in the pioneer days when I was in high school. People have asked me how I got into the business, and I have to admit, it was by accident. The professional training I had was at Lindsey Wilson College, on the Hill Topics. There weren't a lot of us there, then, but we made up for that in quality. To my knowledge, there were approximately 146 people. Four or five of us made up the Hill Topics staff. In those days, we didn't have fancy offset printing. What we did was, we printed the Hill Topics on 11 x 14 paper, one-side, and stapled the sheets together. We didn't exactly print... We mimeographed. Each person on the staff had a job. The bright ones were writers and reporters. And some were typists, who produced the mimeo masters. Then there was Thurston Sullivan and me. Thurston was the mimeographer. He cranked the mimeo machine (a vexing, diabolical instrument) and fed the paper. I was the assistant mimeographer. I caught the finished sheets. We took turns blackguarding the machine. There is joy in dairyland Finally, it has happened. The fourth (or are we already the third) largest dairy county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky has one restaurant which serves real cow butter. The Dillon Dinner House, which re-opened with a new management team which includes Clara and Chester Redmon, Shirley Grant, and Maxine Wade, no longer serves margarine, It may be only a small thing, so far the overall dairy consumption picture is concerned, but it is important for its significance. You'd think, with the rich benefits the entire public gets from the Adair County milk industry, the consumption of dairy products would be more actively promoted everywhere here. Columbia has become seafood town During this past week, the community has gotten a seafood outlet. Billed as "Columbia's first seafood galley," the seafood restaurant is Burger Queen's latest attraction. I've checked the stuff out with my "Icelandic fillets" expert, Pen Waggener, and he agrees that the fish tastes exactly like that served at ---'-. I call no names. But if one is a trencherman, and prefers catfish to Icelandic fillets, he might want to go to the Circle R today, where they're serving all-you-can-eat catfish dinners. That's a new menu item for Columbia, but one that has been popular in some neighboring towns for quite some time. The library is needing boxes There is an urgent request from the library. Not for money or books, but for boxes. Larry Marshall of the Library Board says that the library will need 500 cardboard boxes between now and September. That's when the new library at the corner of Paull and Greensburg Streets is expected to be ready for occupancy. Construction is moving right along Marshall says the boxes ought to be "no larger than a man can carry when filled with books." The library staff will use the boxes, of course, to transport the volumes from the Municipal Building to the new place. The boxes may be left at Marshall's Shoe Store. Needed light is expected The crest of the hill on Greensburg Street, where Jones Street jags across Greensburg to Paull Street, at the site of the new library, appears to be the most dangerous traffic point in town. There is heavy daily school traffic over the hill, and now, with Lakeland Apparel's employees entering the highway just feet from the intersection, it is even more perilous. As the plant builds up production and adds employees, the situation will worsen. When the library opens, unless something is done, there could be a catastrophe with that traffic added. The hill needs to be cut down. But that will hurt the appearance of the street, if past experience with street-widening here is any indication. A traffic caution light would help, and has been requested When it's installed, give T.P. Phelps, the Governor's contact man, thanks. He will have gotten it done. Everybody has Miss America spirit It may be that many who want a Miss Lake Cumberland Beauty Pageant ticket may not be able to get one. The tickets may be sold out by Pageant time Saturday night. But already, the community is gearing up for the biggest event of its kind in Southern Kentucky history. Sue Stivers says that, with Miss America here, the event will draw many more than usual. She's been notified that the Gillette Company will have video cameras here making commercials for national TV. Everybody has been getting into the spirit of the event. It's a chance to show Columbia at its finest to a lot of out-of-town visitors. The local businesses are helping, the Pageant officials say. The Men's Shop is furnishing the tuxedos for the event. Bobby Joe Keen is building the props, as usual. Pizza Hut is furnishing pizza for rehearsals tonight, Famous Recipe will have chicken and Convenient Market will furnish soft drinks for the girls. Burger Queen is offering free meals to the candidates There are dozens of other helping hands for the event. That-the community spirit-is what has been building the Miss Lake Cumberland Pageant in Columbia to a top place in the chain of events which leads to the crowning of Miss America. This story was posted on 2020-06-14 12:01:10
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