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December 28, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener The article below first appeared in the December 28, 1977, issue of the Adair County news. Topics included Fairview Church Road, an update on the Inaugural Chili plan, the bypass at Glasgow, and Hughes Walker's plan for an Adair-County-built toll road to Louisville. --Pen By Ed Waggener A New Year's Resolution: Get Adair Countians out of the mud When you take a look at a map of Adair County which has little square black dots for houses, you can readily see that the most concentrated population outside Columbia is up Highway 206 and along its connector roads. It is surprising to find that even the concentration of people has not meant that all the people live on hardsurfaced roads. Perhaps the greatest inequity is on the Fairview Church Road at Ella. There, at least 17 families live on a 1.2 mile stretch between Ella and the drybridge on Sulphur Creek, according to Greg Redford, one of the residents. The stretch is in Adair County Magisterial District Number 1. It would have been a good road to have blacktopped, so far as Democratic politics are concerned. But it wasn't done. "They aren't even talking about it," Redford says. The families which live on the road are the Jack Holts, Hollis Morrisons, the Paul Goodins, Charles Neat, Bertha Hardwick, Bonnie Grant, the Johnny Hitches, the Robert, Biggerstaffs, the Dan McClisters, the Morris Pikes, the Edward Roberts, Mary Ellen Dillingham, the Joe Goodins, the Jim Whiteds, and Florence Pike. A good New Year's Resolution for those with the power of yea or nay on blacktopping would be that they make 1978 the year which gets all Adair Countians out of the mud. A good place to start is with the Fairview Church Road. It's a pretty road The road is one of Adair County's prettiest, despite the gravel and mud. The homes are neat and well kept. Old Fairview Church, which used to house a Brethren in Christ, or "Whitecap" church, is a stately old frame building, now owned by Hollis Morrison. The old Fairview School is now a residence. On the creek hill are two of the finest modern homes ever built. And Sulphur Creek runs as clear and as clean as the mountain streams in the Smoky Mountains. Yet the job of keeping the lawns and the drives clean and neat would be greatly improved if the road were blacktopped. Something there is about a hard road which gives a quick definition to borders and yardlines which instills new pride of ownership in those by the wayside. Surely this road ought to be taken care of before another winter sets in. Chili ingredients are here The chili ingredients have been ordered. James Brock and Coy Downey purchased a 1300 pound steer for the chili at the Greensburg Stockyards on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, today, the steer is to be made into hamburger by Columbia Locker & Market, whose owner, Carl Harris, is donating the service. The other ingredients have been ordered, at cost, for the big chili vat. The vat itself is getting heat coils, to be ready for the big day. The plans call for the Great Chili Cooking to take place on Friday night, January 6, in time for the Free Chili on Inauguration Day, January 7. More floats added Already, floats have been announced for the Louisville News Company, Burger Queen, Waggener-Walker Newspapers, and Oshkosh. Another float is planned from the Adair County Rescue Squad. Others are expected to be announced in the coming days. Corridor Road hearing There will be a hearing on the KY 61 Corridor for the highway from Hodgenville to Elizabethtown in the Student Lounge, Elizabethtown Community College Student Center, at 1:00 p.m. (EST) on January 5. The meeting should be of interest to Adair Countians as the corridor will be a big part of the improved highway system to Louisville that Adair Countians have long been seeking. Interested persons should contact Paul Hibbs at (606) ###-####. We are closer to the West Adair Countians are closer to the West than before. At least on the free highway system. A new bypass around Lecta in Barren County, recently opened, makes a straight shoot from the Glasgow High School to near the Metcalfe-Barren County line. I rode for the new stretch on Sunday, and it makes a big difference in the trip from Columbia to Glasgow via Kentucky 80. Maybe calling it a "bypass" around Lecta is stretching it a bit, but it is a fact that the widened, straightened road will be a big asset to Barren County's growth. We're happy for them. Now for a bypass around Columbia, a straight road to Burkesville, and a super road to Louisville. Then watch things happen in Columbia. A far-out idea: Build the road ourselves R. Hughes Walker, Pete Walker's oldest boy, is now in lawyer school at Northern Kentucky University. He has always been a great thinker, a great man of ideas. His latest proposal is a little far out, but it's worth repeating. Over Christmas he thought up the plan for Adair County to get a super-road to Louisville: Just let Adair County build a four-lane toll-road to the Green County line. "We could build it, own it, collect the toll on it." Walker said. He thinks we could get the right-of-way by giving landowners shares in the road. There's enough engineering talent in Adair County to design the road, Walker believes, and everybody knows there is enough equipment here to do the job. Of course, it would cut out all the Federal and State red tape which runs up the cost of the road. That might halve the cost of the road. The right-of-way would come cheaper. And the "steal" used in construction projects would be cut out, which might halve the cost again, to one-fourth the cost of what it would be if the State or Federal Government did the work. "We'd expect Green County to pick up the road at the county line," Walker said, "but if they didn't; we could continue on, and let it be an Adair County project all the way to Hodgenville." Walker says that the-road would be limited access coming into Columbia. "That way, the traffic would all have to come into town to buy things. But on the going-north side," he said, "we'd allow all kinds of businesses, selling anything to be sold which would make money in Adair County." There used to be an old law on the books which required able bodied men to bring their tools and work on the roads for two days a year. If it's still there, it would be revived. If it isn't, maybe Fiscal Court could pass a new one.' We'll get that road north one day, someway. This story was posted on 2020-12-06 12:33:45
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