Thanks Brenda!

Dear Editor:

  I'm usually the first person to complain when our public buildings are in disrepair or aren't as clean as they should be. Therefore, I thought I ought to be the first to publicly brag on Brenda Hester who not only keeps our Benton Post Office spic 'n span, but goes the extra mile and put all those beautiful potted plants on the porch knowing full well it will take her extra time to keep them watered and looking great - and they do. Aren't all of you enjoying them? I know I am, and just wanted to say, "Thanks Brenda - your efforts to help beautify Benton are appreciated!"

Marian Bailey Presswood

"Hard copy" replaced

Dear Editor,

FOL persons—if you want a “hard copy” of reading material buy it. Do not use the taxes paid to pay personnel to maintain an index of where they can find “that” book in a building  with alphabetic locations of “hard copy” books or articles. One suggested source is Daedalus Books.

Internet language is simple and if one can read one can find any “thang” one wants to read. Allow the entry of a location into a “browser”, or “google it”, as our president has stated, and let the internet software display the information one wants.

Hardware is the computer and software is a program utilized by the hardware to perform specific operations.

FOL persons—it was not my intent to suggest I approved the libraries, as the latest FOL letters imply, I approve buildings with computers as a source to obtain information.

We, as tax paying persons, would want the latest in technology, and that is “computer” buildings.

Lets get rid of the word “Library” and substitute “Computer” in its place. I am sure you can swing the language and usage conversion with your support organizations and people.

“Hard copy” has slowly been replaced by computer displays. If “hard copy” is required I am sure a printer could be found to supply that print out.

Sincerely,
Stan Hall

Hwy 64 needed

Dear Editor,

I am very shocked about the letter to Cleveland Daily Banner and Polk County News mentioning against a possible new highway at Corridor K. I always drive my car on Highway 64  on the way to Statesville, North Carolina for a long. I stop in Murphy, NC for a breakfast on the way to Waynesville, NC to get on I-40 Interstate.

I-40 Interstate through the mountains between Tennessee and North Carolina has windy roads and if I remember correctly, there is a tunnel in the mountains on I-40.

Knoxville has money while Polk County doesn’t have money. If a new widened highway is built on Highway 64 there will be less windy roads. There were so many windy roads on former Waterlevel Highway before becoming Highway 64.

Benton, Tennessee, is a county seat but for a long time there has been poor communications between Ducktown, TN and Copperhill, TN because there is a mountain ridge separating Benton and Ducktown and Copperhill. One time Copperhill was flooded in 1990 and was damned when it was denied emergency disaster fund when across the river there was another town called McCaysville, GA received the disaster funds.

There were several accidents on Highway 64. The couple went over the road not far from Ocoee #2 powerhouse and met their deaths in the river. My father drove the pickup truck for Ocoee #3, and there was a huge bluff rock on the road. The lumber truck crossed the line to avoid the huge rock and forced my father off the road. The truck landed in the river rock bed, and my father was hospitalized.

There was Kathleen Wrinkle going over the road into the lake and still was in the water for 56 years. I don’t like it.

Don’t damn Polk County and please help it out by making Highway 64 a new widened highway. Copperhill area people come to Cleveland to shop at Circuit City, Target, Kohl and the others. They also love to eat at a Chinese restaurant.

Give the people the jobs. Build tunnels. Bring new economy since Copperhill mines have been out of business.

I always remember Old Copper Road because it brings us good memories.

Sincerely,
Lawrence J. German