STATE ACCEPTS THREE 4-H
PROGRAMS OF INTEREST TO GIRLS
Three national 4-H awards pro
grams of special Interest to rural
girls have been accepted for the
current year by the North Caro
lina State Club office, it is an
nounced by the National 4-H Com
mittee. They are ftirlB' Record,
Canning and Drew Revue.
County winners In each will re
receive honor medals, and State
champions will get educational
trips to the National 4-H Club
• Congress in Chicago next Novem
ber.
National awards are $300 col
lege scholarships in Girls' Record
and Canning, and leather-cased
scissors in Dress Revue. Donors
of awards in the respective pro
grams are Montgomery Ward,
Kerr Glass and Simplicity Pattren
Co. The programs are conducted
under the direction of the Coop
erative Extension Service.
North Carolina state winners in
the programs last year were: Doris
Strickland of Halifax Canning,
and Carolyn Miller of Statesville
in Girls' Record. They also Won
national honors. State winner in
Drees Revue was Audrey Pearce
of Fort Plain.
County Extension agents will
furnish full information on these
programs.
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Indian Drama Opens
In Great Smoky Lafid
Cherokee,—Under a full moon
and a canopy of stars in the cool
Mountainside Theatre, nearly 31
000 persons gave a thrilling ova
tion to the great Cherokee drama,
"Unto These Hills," which opened
here Saturday night for a sum
mer-long run.
Under the direction of the
Carolina Playmakers' veteran
Harry Davis, the premiere of Ker
mit Hunter's tense and brilliant
drama gave promise of many
years production. Performances
will continue nightly through July
9th, then go on a five-night
schedule, Wednesdays through
Sundays, until Labor Day, Sep
tember 4.
Indian dances, folk dances,
U.S. WARSHIP SET FOR SEA DUTY
RECENTLY RETURNED from an eight-month tour with the Seventh Fleet,
the USS Toledo stands at her dock in Long Beach, Calif., as crewmen
carry cases of food aboard in preparation for a quick run to Pearl Harbor.
The USS Toledo, together with the heavy cruiser, USS Helena, will
Join the carrier Philippine Sea and other fleet units. (.International)
colorful and authentic coBtumes,
brilliant lighting effects, native
scenery, stirring music written by
a Cherokee and sung by the choir
with organ accompaniment — all
these blended to give vivid excite
ment to the play.
Visitors from every section of
the country were on hand for the
gala opening. Numerous dignitar
ies were seen in the audience,
and plans are being made for a
dedication ceremony early in Au
gust by President Harry Truman.
Saturday night, however, the au
iience as watching the tragedy
md triumph of the Cherokee
Story.
From the stormy and reckless
Shawnee chief, Techumseh, all
the way to the great peace-lov
ing genius of the Cherokee, Se
quoyah, the audience witnessed a
cavalcade of impressive characters
that included Andrew Jackson,
Sam Houston, Daniel Webster,
William Henry Harrison, and
such famous Cherokee greats as
Junaluska, Drowning Bear, Tsali,
and a host Of others.
With easy access to the theatre,
with comfortable and convenient
seating, and with perfect accous
tics, the Mountainside Theatre
nestles in a lush setting of moun
tain greenery which is a thrill to
see. As the house lights were
dimmed, the audience could
glance around and see sky and
mountainTtops bathed in clear
songs of whippoorwills. The music
of the organ rose, then the choir,
and finally the galaxy of colorful
lighting effects, as the perform
a nee began. The vast stages of
the theatre were suddenly filled
with Indian dancers, trained un
der the expert supervision Of Fos
ter Fltz Simons, well-known au
thor of "Bright Leaf," and cos
tumed In elaborate and authentic
'creation of Suzanne Davis. The
scenery, also authentic in every
detail and deftly arranged to
blend Into the great log palisades
and the surrounding forests, was
created by Lynn Oault.
The music, a blend of the Chero
kee mood and. the modern manner,
was written especially by an Okla
homa Cherokee, Jack Frederick
Kilpatrlck, Of the music faculty
of Southern Methodist University.
This thrilling drama, sponsor
ed and produced by the Cherokee
Historical Association and the
Western North Carolina Associ
ated Communities, is considered
to be a new and Important step
In the social civic life of the
Great Smokies, and the recreation
life of the Nation.
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Alfalfa Crop Talk
Of Wake Community
Willie Chavis, Negro farmer of
Route 6, Raleigh, gave ail alfalfa
harvesting recently that was the
talk of the community.
Farmers from both the Jeffries
and Fletchers Grove Community
of Wake County laid aside their
work and gathered on the Chavis
farm because they "just had to
see" the demonstration that every
body was talking about.
Before starting to mov the al
falfa, Chavis told the group just
how the crop had bene grown. He
said he began last fall by turning
under a heavy growth of lespedeza,
applied lime at the rate of two
tons per acre, disced the land
three times, and added 800 pounds
of 2-12-12. He used inoculated,
certified seed at the rate of 35
pounds per acre and covered the
seed in a firm bed.
"After doing all this," he said,
"I left it to the season."
After a brief period of ques
tions from the visitors, Chavis then
grabbed the reins, spoke to his
mules, and began cutting his fine
crop Of hay. Each time he made a
round the farmers stopped him to
ask more questions. They stay
d to watch him cut the entire plot.
According to W. C. Davenport,
Negro county agent for the State
College Extension Service, the
seeding of Chavls' one-acre plot
cost about $35.25 — far less than
a ton of hay would <6»t him on the
retail market. Chavls figures on
a minimum of four cuttings this
season, with not less than a ton
per cutting. .He plans to seed an
other acre and a half in alfalfa
this fall.
Davenport says the farmers Id
every community of Wake are
growing alfalfa and are highly
pleased with the results.
Latest Civil Service
show that the U. 8. Bureau of
Indian Affairs employs 12,741
pepole to care for the 333,969 In
dians in this country. This is an
average of one bureaucrat for
every 27 Indian*.
HEAP PLENTY BURBA
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