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November 23, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the November 23, 1977 issue of the Daily Statesman. Topics included the best Adair County films, the missing exits on the then-Cumberland Parkway, Hunter Durham's working lunch in Philadelphia, Adair County's High Standard of Happiness, and a comparison of tobacco prices in Greensburg and Lebanon. --Pen By Ed Waggener AFI missed it I watched the American Film Institute's tribute to the 50 greatest American films on TV Monday night. It astounded me, how little the critics know. They left out the three best ones, at least as far as Adair County is concerned. First, the classic American film of all times, "Your Cheatin' Heart." I have seen it, I guess, at least six times. It makes me cry every time. What a sanger, Hank Williams. He could make you see the light. Then, "Moses," or as some call it, "The Ten Commandments." I'll never forget the scene where Aaron brings down the Golden Calf. It was a scene never duplicated until Jerry Lee Lewis attacked Miss Frances Russell's piano at Adair County High School in the late 1950's when he gave a concert here. And the other truly magnificent film, "Thunder Road,"--it was omitted. Of course, it had the greatest actor, Robert Mitchum. Must have played here 50 times, in the Rialto, the Columbian, and the Adair Drive-In Theaters. Funny, but they did something to improve it each time it returned. And it really helped our driving. Lonnie and Raymond were The Law then. Then, not among the top three, but a great piece of celluloid, is the Bugs Bunny cartoon in which Bugs goes, in a dream, to the castle with the neon sign, alternatingly flashing, "Boo!" and "Evil Scientist." My favorite line in the movie is when the evil scientist, disappointed at the performance of his monster, says, "Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist." It was Darrell Young's favorite quote. Pen and I watched Bugs the other night and I had him memorize it. It is worth several "Call me Ishmael's" with a "The Place Was Not Always a Cafe," thrown in. The Caneyville exit The Commonwealth is not building roads any more. Believe that only if you live in Adair County. Just this week, it was announced that the state planned to add an interchange on the Western Kentucky turnpike at Caneyville in Leitchfield. The Cumberland Parkway is getting another exit. True, a long overdue interchange in Pulaski County will help, but two major interchanges which would make the Parkway much more useful--and therefore more profitable--keep being left off the lists. The most badly needed interchange is the one which should be built for US 61 South of Columbia and the Parkway. That would give a giant boost to Columbia and to Cumberland County residents who want to travel to Columbia or east or west on the parkway. The other interchange vital to Columbia trade, and to Edmonton, is the one which should have been out in Edmonton in the first place, on US 68--the Greensburg Road. The late Albert Van Zant and I told them so, but Louie Nunn and Tom Emberton didn't listen to us. This interchange would make travel to Edmonton from Columbia, Russell Springs, and Somerset much money attractive by Parkway, and would mean that persons from Metcalfe and Monroe Counties would have a fair choice of going east as well as west. As it now stands, the Parkway feeds traffic toward Glasgow and Bowling Green, involuntarily. The interchange at Edmonton is located three miles west of Edmonton, making the trip from the Square Edmonton to the Square in Columbia some two or three mile further by Parkway than by Kentucky 80. And 80 is free. There would be a problem with the toll plaza, but I can't see why the toll booth in the eastbound land couldn't be moved to the US 68 exit in Edmonton and leave the one in the westbound lane where it is. For traffic exiting in Edmonton from the east-bound lane, there could be an unmanned coin-catcher which could be used only if the travelers have the correct change, and the same would be true for traffic wishing to exit from the westbound lane at US 68 in Edmonton. Rural Eat-out Capitol The chairman of the Adair County Inaugural Committee, Dan Ellis, commented at a meeting Monday, "All you have to do in Adair County is serve food, the people will come out." He's right, whether the meal is free, potluck, or paid. There'll be some of two, maybe three, of the above, on January 7 in Columbia at the Inaugural. The chili will be free, and the fairly stiff tab on the Inaugural Banquet will pay for a most sumptuous meal, if it is served at Lindsey. The food service at Lindsey is excellent. I don't think any of the students will be writing home to their parents about the meals there. Marsha Grider is the person primarily responsible. She's the dietitian for the college. We just close down here at noon There is always comment on Columbians' attitudes toward the noon hour. It is as sacred here as the siesta is in Latin Countries. Hardly anyone here sends out for lunch to eat at the shop or office. And very few, if any, pack lunches to work. H. Hunter Durham told me about meeting with some lawyers in Philadelphia, in offices which looked out on Independence Hall. When lunch time came, the lawyers all stayed in the office while a secretary went out for sandwiches and drinks. Here we eat with appetites of field hands You hardly ever see anyone here eat just a sandwich anymore. When we take that lunch hour, whether we go to a fast-food place or a sit-down restaurant, we go all the way. It's a part of our High Standard of Happiness (Highest in the U.S. I believe in Adair County, not to be given up even for a seven-story building or a bypass. Tobacco bringing more near what it's worth Delmon Baker was showing off his tobacco check yesterday morning. He'd hit the first sale over at Lebanon. He got $1.27 for one basket, $1.25 for another, and sold two baskets for $1.19. Adair County Tobacco Specialist "Ira" Livesay said that Greensburg had the second highest average in the state, at $1.2499. Cynthiana was first, Livesay said. Garnett Baker of Portland had the highest basket sold on opening day in Greensburg: it brought $1.32. The house bought it. Livesay said that Don Mitchell, Dorothy Shelley's brother-in-law, who lives just across the line in Green County, had 15 baskets, every one of which brought exactly $1.27. Some of the farmers who are selling at Greensburg are complaining about the warehouse fee. It's a straight five per cent there, while Lebanon's is $4.50 per hundred. Greensburg market farmers argue that the leaf is higher there, to make up for the difference, but some farmers insist that Lebanon is closer. They don't say whether they mean it's closer going or coming. Livesay says--and he takes no part in the warehouse argument--that no matter where the farmers are selling, they're getting about $6 more a hundred this year, causing the moriah to really go up. This story was posted on 2020-08-09 11:04:15
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