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April 21, 1978 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the April 21, 1978, issue of the Daily Statesman. Topics included local trash pickup, new planters on the courthouse lawn, the Lindsey Wilson campus in spring, a protest from Pellyton about parking meters, and tricks for getting the best service at the area hospitals. --Pen By Ed Waggener Education will make clean-up last The clean-up now underway should be a success, but whether or not the clean-up lasts will depend upon education of the people. The people will have to want Adair County to remain neat. Gaylon Yarberry says that he has talked with some recent visitors to the states of Oregon and Washington. "The guy said that it is impressive, right at their state lines. The people in Oregon and Washington, he said, would no more think of throwing down a bottle or a paper cup outdoors in their beautiful states than they would think of throwing garbage on the floors of their homes. We've come a long way in Adair County. I can remember when we thought the curb on the Square was the proper place to throw wrappers. Some can remember when the Square was unpaved and farmers sold watermelons by the slice off wagons. I'm told that the rinds were thrown right down in the mud. (And some say hogs were there to eat them.) There must have been a terrible fly problem then. And I am old enough to remember the town drainage sewer rats and the rats which hung out in the old feed barn by the City Cemetery, before we got garbage pickup in Columbia. When I was a boy, riding a bicycle delivering the Louisville papers early of a morning on the Square, and I met up with one of those rats, I gave him ground. I downright avoided against meeting with two of them. I would have sooner tangled with a Great Dane. Garbage pickup stopped that problem. But we still have a good way to go in educating the public, and I believe that stiff fines might be the best educator. We're going to have county-wide garbage pickup; the county is working to get it and the state has practically decreed it. But in the meantime, I don't think we should excuse the thoughtless individuals who befoul this beautiful county of ours with their refuse. The patrols and the fining should start now. Another contribution to the courthouse It won't overwhelm you, and that's the way it likely ought to be, but there are now flower planters on the courthouse lawn, and the flowers are already in bloom. Judge Brock's men have planted Honeycomb and Golden Boy marigolds in the flower beds. Besides that, they are flying the American flag on pretty days. It's a pleasant sight. In bloom, worth seeing... -THE BLAZE OF RED AZALEAS in the yards of Marlene Moore, Irene Reece, and Mary D. Barger on the west side of Jamestown Street at the top of the Hill. Worth seeing... The CAMPUS OF LINDSEY WILSON. The campus of Lindsey Wilson College is considered by many to be the most beautiful in the state, almost seasonless in its appeal. But there are very special times, and the spring is one of them. It's odd how so many people in Adair County don't really know and frequent the campus, almost akin the irony of so many of us living so close to Mammoth Cave, one of the wonders of the world, and never having seen it. But besides the attractiveness of the college setting, there's something else that makes Lindsey a good place to visit now. There's an excitement of anticipation at Lindsey, anticipation that the school is on the verge of even greater things. A recent applicant for an opening at the school told me last week, "You know, there's something exciting happening on The Hill, and I want to be a part of it." That attitude bodes well for Lindsey's future. A protest from Pellyton "I want to ask you why," Betty Jo Phillips, Pellyton, asked me yesterday in town, "that Columbia has people trying to get folks to come to town and shop and then, the minute you park here, they slap a parking ticket on your car?" I told her to address the question to Mayor Coy Downey and the City Council. I don't know which I hate worse, a parking meter or a cheating pay phone. I'm for taking the meters out. They make as much sense as a business based on pulling cars out of mudholes and hauling water to keep the mudholes filled. If the labor expended on passing out parking tickets were put to some good use, as solving the energy crisis, clipping weeds in the town, or even letting the officers pick the lint out of their navels, we'd all be better off. I couldn't agree with Mrs. Phillips more. And there is another side to the argument. Mrs. Phillips says that when she goes to Campbellsville, and parks on Main Street, she never gets a ticket. "Since they've gotten those shopping centers in Campbellsville, the downtown really treats you well." I think we'd be a lot better off if the meter man or maid were to be put to passing out free coffee to visitors to our town. We need to do everything possible to hold loyalties to Columbia, not run people off to other markets. How to get good hospital service Of course you get more attention in most communities when the operators of businesses or services know that you're come from out of town. Restaurant men always notice their irregulars who come in from out. And the recognition is generally better service. I hear people over and over commenting on making doctor's appointments in other towns and say, "Dr. So-and-so gets me in right on time. I never have to wait." And I hear the same thing when patients come to Columbia from neighboring towns, whether the local doctors actually do cater to people from out of town or not. But locals in all the towns do seem to wait. Now I hear from a satisfied patient who chose to go to the Taylor County Hospital instead of to Columbia. "They really treated me nice," he said. And he shared his secret. "When you get over there, just take your Adair County license plate off and hang it on your door. They'll know you're from Columbia and they'll break their butts giving you good care." Sounds okay. And I bet, human nature being what it is, that if you hang a Taylor, Green, or Pulaski County tag on your door at Adair Memorial, you'd might get better service, here, too. Everywhere I've ever been, I've noticed that local business is never quite as appreciated as the trade from afar. But then, I guess, it all evens out in the long run. This story was posted on 2020-07-26 14:59:30
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