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James Hatfield quickly learned blow off wasn't sound of jet planes 2017-07-09 - Behind Plum Point Baptist Church - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c). James Hatfield of the Plum Point community said the Columbia Gulf pipe line blow off, "Sounded like a whole bunch of jet airplane motors." He was startled by the LOUD - just as Adair County Emergency Manager Mike Lewis had warned, though he didn't know it at the time it first occurred between 4pm & 5pmCT, and that even the horses between his house house and original settler Plum Pointer Billy Rice just went on about their grazing. At first, he said, he remembered the nearby air strip, and wondered if maybe some jet aircraft had landed there. That strip, however, built about a half century ago by Randall Pyles, et al, was built to accommodate small planes and bigger Lincoln Town Cars for celebrities such as the then Mayor of Columbia. Hatfield's family goes back in recent times to Logan County, West-BG-Virginia, of feuding fame. He's no longer into that kind of thing, and is enjoying the serene peaceful co-existence ideals of Rice and others he's met in the neighborhood, which, until a year or so before his death, included Joe Gadberry, who was knowledgeable of feuds but took no part in them, not even when invited to do so, when an opportune chance to join kinsman Bannard Gadberry in his, Bannard's feud with the Kelly Bros. in a Chicago bar. Though feuding is out, the neighborhood looks out for each other. - EW. Photo by Linda Waggener, 8 Jul 2017. Permalink | Comments?

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