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FARMS LARGER, FEWER.? The total number of farms de
creased by more than one fourth between 1904 and 1080.
The sharpest decline was in the number of small farms with
less than $2,500 of marketings. Farms with sales of $10,000
and over increased by more than a third.
Town, Country
H-D Club Meets
The Town *nd Country Home
Demonstration Club met on Feb
ruary 21, at the home of Mrs.
Hugh Hagamap, with Mrs.
Frank Steele as co-hostess.
After the business session, in
the absence of Mrs. Norman
Isenhour, Mrs. Joe Worth gave
an interesting program on quick
and easy meals, giving three
tempting menu*. The different
members also gave some time
saving tips for quick meal*.
The club voted to give any
assistance they could to the
Watauga Rescue Squad, such as
food and labor. It furnished
some of the food for their an
nual barbecue supper Saturday
night.
The club welcomed Mrs. Rob
ert Bumbaugh as a new mem
ber.
National Guard "Operation Muster 1963"
Recalls Practice of Early Colonial Days
CLOSE SUPPORT!? An Army National Gurd Mantryman hags Uw
ground as jets scream low oTerbead providing cioae battle amit Field
training exercises with emphasis on realism hc^ keep Gaarina at a
high state of readiness.
97.3% of Army Guard Units
Rated Excellent or Superior
Of the some 3600 Army Na
tional Guard unite rated by the
Regular Army during their 1962
Annual Field Training session
last summer, 97.3% of them re
ceived Excellent or Superior rat
ings, the highest percentage in
Guard history.
The Guard spends two weeks
in the field each summer sharp
ening their combat ability and
being rated under the tough eye
of regular Army evaluators. But
this is just one part of National
Guard training which has en
abled it to earn the reputation
of a ready reserve force in every
sense of the word.
At the very time these Army
National Guard units in State
status were earning their high
ratings, two Guard divisions, one
armored and one infantry, and
some 260 non-divisional units
were proving that their years of
training had paid off. These were
the units called to active duty
during the Berlin crisis. Their
performance is a matter of
record including the fact that the
two divisions were designated to
8TBAC, our fast-moving, crack
combat command which is ready
to move into combat anywhere
in the world at any time.
The high state of readiness of
the National Guard stems largely
from the fact that since October,
1968, all of the elements of the
Army Guard have been fully en
gaged in unit training, learning
to function as an effective mili
tary team through application
of platoon and company tactics.
'This is.?oss:ble because every
tieardman with so prior mill- ]
tary service la now required to
get his basic military training
through a tour of sir months
active duty at an active Army
training center soon after he en
lists in the Guard.
General George Washington,
whom we traditionally honor on
Muster Day, would most cer
tainly be astounded at the mod
ern missile-age equipment, the
morale and professional training
level of these Up-to-the-Minute
Hen.
""The fact that all Guardsmen
now have six-months of active
duty under their belts or are
veterans of active service is no
small part of the reason why to
day's National Guardsman is the
best trained, most ready militia
man in history. But there are
other ways Guardsmen keep
themselves ready at all times.
For example, last year more
than 7000 Guardsmen took ac
tive duty courses at U. S. Army
service schools. These courses
range from one week refreshers
to fullscale resident courses of
ten months duration. More than
50,000 Guardsmen were enrolled
in Army extension courses
last year.
Potential National Guard of
ficers must attend an accredited
State Ofllcer Candidate School
or the active Army's Fort Ben
ning Infantry School. Almost
every State OCS now applies the
rugged Fort Benning standards
to their course.
All these facets add up to a
more effective fore* today and *
nan affective lores fwiw.
National Guardsmen all over
the U.S. will be helping to pot
new meaning into an old prac
tice u they observe "OPERA
TION MUSTER 1968" during
the month of February.
With what has been termed by
Major General Donald W. Me
Gowan, Chief of the National
Guard Bureau, a* "a great chal
lenge to be met,"
the Guard is
opening wide ita
doors to new re
cruits, men with
out any previous
military service.
"In a sense,"
Gen. HeGowan
comments, "this
takes us back to
the old puirose
of Muster Day,
as the day desig
iwunt oaui /cbc uni. mcvmwni
when all of th? able-bodied men
assembled an the village green
for a roll-call. Thus, in every
community, it Iras known ex
actly how many men could be
coon tod on in the event of an
emergency. Today we again have
a situation which requires young
men to stand 19 and be counted
? to show they are trained and
ready should they be needed by
their country and community."
"Operation Muster" marks the
start of an intensive year-around
recruiting drive designed to keep
the Army National Guard at a
strength of 400,000 and the Air
National Guard at about 72.000.
In every community where
there is an Armory or an Air
Guard base, both officers and
noncoms will be on hand to an
swer questions and to outline de
tails of National Guard service.
The origins of the Guard are
rooted deep in the country's past.
A number of present-day units
can trace their ancestry back to
the "trained bands" which pro
tected the colonies in the middle
ISOO'i, well over 800 yiars ago.
So many National Guard out
fits celebrate their own "Muster
Day" on or around February 22
in tribute to the memory of one
of the most famous militia sol
diers in history ? George Wash
iofton.
It was Washington, as Presi
dent and former commander of
the Continental Army, who first
called national attention to the
need for a strong and effective
militia system.
Just how strong and effective'
this system has become was ex
pressed recently by the military
analyst, George Fielding Eliot,
and underscores the particular
significance of "Operation Mus
ter IMS."
Mr. Eliot writes: "The days
when the National Guard went
into action a year and a half be
hind the Regulars are long gone;
we might easily see a situation
in which the first available rein
forcements for a NATO emer
faney would fee Guard 4M>fe*a,"
TWO APPALACHIAN COLLEGE PROFESSORS served as
judge* for scholarship competition in the District 4, North
Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs contest at Cliffslde
Saturday morning. Dr. Ben Horton, right, head of the de
partment of education, and Rogers Whitener, left, assist
ant professor of English, served on the panel of judges to
select the district winner who will compete in the state con
test to be held at a later date at Woman's College of Greens
boro. ? Larry Penley photo.
Timbered Ridge Club Meets
The Timbered Ridge Com
munity Club held its regular
meeting Friday night in the
Community Building. Many fu
ture plana were made which in
cluded painting the inaide of
the Community Building.
A family night program haa
been scheduled for March 8 for
the Timbered Ridge Commun
ity and area. This program will
begin at 7 o'clock and will in
clude a covered dish supper and
a program given by Hrs. Martha
F. Jenkins, assistant Home Ec
onomics Extension Agent, and
W. C. Richardson, Associate Ag
ri cultural Extension Agent, on
the community 4-H Club pro
gram.
The program will include a
film entitled "Han Enough (or
the Job," and should be of in
terest to all people in the Tim
bered Ridge community and
area.
BUSINESS PEACE CORPS
Dr. Mordechai Kreinin, Mich
igan State University econo
mist, has suggested that a busi
ness Peace Corps be enlisted to
give technical assistance to un
derdeveloped countries.
Doctor Talk
By JOHN B. REMBERT, M D.
The term "heart attack" U
beard to often these days that
it has become a familiar "house
hold word" ? but, just what does
the term mean?
In medical circles the term
heart attack refers to the term
"coronary thrombosis," which
usually meant that one or more
of the arteries (coronary artery)
supplying the heart musculature
suddenly become obstructed (oc
cluded) by a blood clot (throm
bus).
In an individual experiencing
such an incident there usually
will be the sensation of severe
crushing pain in the chest, ac
companied by weakness, sweat
ing, and pallor ? this pain is
often mistaken for acute in
digestion. The typical heart at
tack or coronary thrombosis, as
described, will never occur In
normal coronary arteries, only
occurring in vessels' that have
undergone disease changes as
described in an earlier column
explaining coronary arterioscler
osis (thickening of the coronary
arteries).
So often one hears of a per
son dying from a "heart attack"
after experiencing what the in
dividual hu thought to be
"acute indigestion" for a matter
of hours to several days. No
chest pain, regardless of its
severity, can safely be labeled
indigestion until proved other
wise ? in any case of severe
chest pain, a doctor should be
called immediately!
After the diagnosis of cor
onary thrombosis has been made
the doctor will prescribe various
drugs to aid in healing, but the
majority of the healing process
is done by the body itself. In
the healing process the coronary
arteries surrounding the area of
the thrombosed or occluded
artery dilate and new branches
develop to nourish the area of
the heart musculature sur
rounding the closed artery.
While this healing process is
taking place the heart needs as
much rest as possible, so the
period of bed rest will continue
for ? long period of tiro*.
Most individuals experiencing
this initial heart attack will
survive, but medical supervision
will be necessary and supportive
drugs continued to maintain the
successful healing process.
Marine Corps lance corporal
hiked 100 miles in Okaniwa in
less than 17 hours.
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