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November 1, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the November 1, 1977 issue of the Adair County News. Topics included football, speedtraps, the Marching Indians continued success, the idea of a Garden Club, Tompkinsville congressman Tim Lee Carter, and some speculation about gubernatorial politics. --Pen By Ed Waggener When Jimmy Harper picked up Saturday's Daily Statesman and saw his daughter, Lisa, as one of the football experts, along with H. Hunter Durham, Hack Rowe, Mike Murrell, Don Moss, Travis Paul Scott, Paul Hayes, and Marshall Loy, he said, "I don't care if she is my daughter, I'll still have to say that she is a rose among a lot of thorns." So far, looking at the outcome of the predictions, she knows a lot more about football, too, even though the "experts" say it is beginner's luck. Watch out for the smokeys When the caravan of Adair County Marching Band supporters were traveling down the Western Kentucky Parkway to Greenville, Charles Sparks radioed to John Humkey, John, let's watch out for the 'smokeys.' If we can keep them off our tails, we make good time." It wasn't so funny to Lt. John Humkey, assistant post commander at Kentucky State Police Post 15, Columbia, where he is in charge of several "smokeys." But he took Sparks in good humor, and only answered, "Aw, that's enough, Charles." It was a great day The day at Greenville was great for the Adair County Marching Indians. They won their sixth straight first-place field competition award in as many contests, and their fifth straight parade band competition, at Greenville. Sparks said he heard a spectator from another town say, when Adair County hit the field, "Heck, can't anybody beat that band?" The biggest contest is coming up Sunday, at Lexington, when Dan and Marcia Harris' Marching Indians compete in the Kentucky Invitational Contest at Lexington. Smokeys deserve to be cheered In the great sporting tradition of our Anglo-American background, the smokeys deserve to be cheered if they ever catch anybody. I was driving north on US 127 between Danville and Harrodsburg on Sunday and three cars in a row blinked their lights on and off. I wondered what was up so I cut my speed. Sure enough, in just a quarter of a mile, I came upon a Kentucky State Police Cruiser crouched for the kill, fairly well hidden under a little knoll in the median of the four-lane highway. I don't think he was snaring too many. Mrs. Murphy has a good idea I saw our Gracious First Lady, Maggie Murphy, at the Trinity United Methodist Homecoming on Sunday. I suggested that she try to get the Beautification Projects going again. "I think we ought to have a Garden Club here," Mrs. Murphy said. But she declines to lead one. "I think that Doc and I have been too political to get involved in that," she said, "but, of course, I'd be happy to help." It's a good idea. And I'd be glad to volunteer my wife, Linda, and her two boys for duty in the first Garden Club of Adair County. The Parable of the Talents I have been to several of Dr. Tim Lee Carter's speaking engagements, and lately, at almost every event, he is telling the Parable of the Talents. I think it is particularly timely for those in Adair County today. We have more opportunity today than we've ever had before, maybe more than we'll ever have again, unless we produce to our fullest potential today. I never believed I was put here on earth to suffer, but I have never felt that I will be held unaccountable if I don't work to make this a better place for the next generations. You know, I don't believe that my attitude is any different from that of the overwhelming majority of Adair Countians. We're printing 1,000 copies-FREE We're printing the Parable of the Talents on the editorial page of the NEWS today. It's bordered, and you could frame it. But we're also going to run off 1,000 on fine paper suitable for framing, with a notation that it is one of Dr. Tim Lee Carter's favorite passages from the Bible. We will be giving these 1.000 away, one at a time, for the asking. Either come by the NEWS-STATESMAN office and pick up one per family, or, write for one, sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to PARABLE of the TALENTS, Box ###, Columbia, Kentucky 42728. Remember that if you do not wish to have the document folded, send an 8.5 x 11 manila envelope. Otherwise, we will fold to fit the envelope you send. It looks like Tim Lee will run It looks as though Tim Lee Carter is serious about running for Governor. I had wondered about it, but I don't see how a man who is so comfortably entrenched as congressman would put up with the arduous schedule Carter is maintaining if he were not campaigning. I'm happy to see it. I'd like to see a man either from South Central Kentucky or sympathetic to South Central Kentucky elected. It appears that that is the only way we are going to get any recognition when roadbuilding time rolls around. Art Gowen put it bluntly recently. "You aren't going to get anything in this country until you get a Governor, again, from South Central Kentucky." I think maybe he's right, but as a Democrat I'd have to say that when we've had Democratic Governors who were concerned about our area, as with Governor Chandler, we fared: okay. The trouble is the next Democrats in line to be considered for-the-governorship from this way are Herbie Sparks of Edmonton or possibly Representative Bobby H. Richardson of Glasgow, unless lightning strikes Representative Jody Richards of Bowling Green who is really an Adair County boy. Most of these young Democrats aren't even being mentioned, yet, for the higher state offices. Someday, though, one of them likely will be Governor. For now, we have to count on either electing a Republican who is from this area, or making sure we get a Democrat who is pinned down enough to know that Columbia is in Adair County and that we'd really get moving if they'd build the truck bypass and give us a half-decent road to town. That's the price the Democrats are going to have to pay for South Central Kentucky votes, if they get them. And that's true whether the nominee be George Atkins, Terry McBrayer, John Berry, Jr., or Martha Layne Collins or anyone else. The campaign manual for Columbia and Adair County is simple: It's a new road map with a bypass around Columbia and three lanes or more to I-65. This story was posted on 2020-08-30 10:17:03
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