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JIM: sixty-five years ago in Adair County, KY By JIM In early December 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower had been president since January 20, the Korean Conflict had drawn to a weary close scarcely four months earlier, and a gallon of gasoline cost about twenty-nine cents (somewhere around $2.70 in today's money). Meanwhile, back in The Shire... News items and ads from 65 years ago All sorts of items dotted the front page of the Adair County News published 65 years ago today -- December 9, 1953. The Adair County High basketball team christened the just opened gymnasium by upending Campbellsville High 75-62. Rowe and Shearer combined for well over half of the Indians' points. In the most recent Lindsey Wilson games, Russell County High (in its first year of existence), picked the pockets of Lindsey's "B" team 70-58, but the Blue Raider "A" team quintet took Bethel College to the woodshed with a 101-43 thrashing. The Dr. W.J. Flowers family, whose stately home on Burkesville Street had burned early on the morning of Sunday, November 7, had bought the property on Greensburg Street, formerly known as the W.W. Jones place; they had resided there for a number of weeks before buying. Dr. Flowers announced plans to convert a double garage near the residence into his office space, with accessibility from Merchant Street. Meanwhile, his office would temporarily remain above the News in the south corner of the square. The Columbia Fire Department, led by Chief Paul Young, continued to search for a fire truck, one with a storage tank so the crew could start battling the blaze immediately upon arrival at the scene. Completion of another city improvement in the works, new lighting for the square, had been pushed back to early 1954 due to circumstances far beyond the city's control. The plan called to replace the iron standards, erected some nine years earlier, with aluminum standards topped by "the most up-to-date fixtures available." Not only would this double the lighting, said the paper, the increased illumination would help dissuade "marauders of any type" bent ill-intent. In military matters, Uriel C. Sparks, late Airman 2/c Sparks, had recently separated from the armed forces after completing a ten-month stint in Frankfurt, Germany. Cpl. Charles Sandusky, on leave between a year-long assignment in Iceland and his next post of duty at Fork Knox, was spending a long leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sandusky. The advertisers offering Christmas wares included Grimsley Jewelry, Ed & Ed's Kentucky Auto Store, Columbia Supply Store (the Firestone Store, dial 2411), Nu-Art Studio, Nell's Variety Store, Marshall's Shoe Store, Wooten's Department Store, Brown Drug Company, and Kentucky Utilities. Perhaps the full page ad for Columbia General Appliance (phone 4191) presented the most interesting items of the lot. Among the deals offered: A "Super-Size" 21" Philco television, $289.95; a multiband radio (standard AM plus selected shortwave bonds), $34.95; a "perfected" portable record player for 7", 10," and 12" discs, $29.95; a "Night Light Automatic Clock Radio ("Just push the switch and the translucent cabinet Glows!"), $54.95; and (a personal favorite), the "wonderful new easy Spiralotor Automatic clothes washer," available for only $289.95 on convenient terms. The attached image depicts the above-mentioned Night Light Automatic Clock Radio. $54.95 in 1953 dollars would have the purchasing power of over $500 today. This story was posted on 2018-12-09 06:00:48
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