Page FOURTEEN LETTER FROM FARM YOUTH DELEGATE Trip to Mountains Provides Most Exciting' Day for Jane in France THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1961 IITH BREAK-IN WITHIN 2 YEARS Jane Owen, college-student daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Owen of upper Moore Coun ty, has spent the summer in France as North Carolina's delegate in the International Farm Youth Exchange pro gram. in which yoimg Ameri cans live on farms in Europe and young people from those countries come here to visit American farm families. Jane stayed with families in vari ous parts of France and tells in the letter below about a trip into fhe mountains from one of these farms, in the Grenoble area. The letter was made available for publica tion through the North Caro lina Agricultural Extension Service. A portion of the let ter follows. On Sunday, September 10, I had an experience that I’ll never forget. It was one of the most exciting days I’ve had in France. My hostess, Marthe Trillart, age 24, and her friends and I left around 10 a. m. for a skiing re sort in the mountains. The road was narrow, steep and curvey. The mountains were beautiful with their small pastures, stacks of straw and spruce pine. We passed a dam that had been built between two moymtains. As the passage way where the dam was, was narrow and deep, and the small river swift, it dammed up a large amount of clear water, so ■ clear that one could see the bot tom of white rock. We rode on, passing in and out of tunnels, rounding winding curves overhung by rock. We passed through small villages and saw the families going to mass. We saw people bringing the cows in from the field, and saw dogs and goats chasing each other over ^the hillsides. Like Post Card Around 12:30 we arrived in the skiing resort. At first sight I would have sworn I was in a pic ture post card of Switzerland. The houses were made of wood with overhanging rooms. Wooden bal conies hunk over the. doorways with pots of geraniums. Cement houses were trimmed with wood of brown, yellow, green and red. The hotels themselves carried out the theme. We drove through the village which was crowded with tourists looking for a place to eat or having coffee in one of the many sidewalk cafes. Our car came to a stop in front of one of the hotels—it was white cement on first floor, and brown wood on the other floors, three to be exact. Shutters of brown and white were closed to keep out the heat of the day. Flowers were hanging in pots on the house. We descended from the car and en tered through the gate of brown wood to find ourselves' in the middle of a tailored garden with chairs of iron and tables made with tops of the rock from the mountains. ^ Our host, a friend of Marthe’s greeted us. He is a university student, and his father owns the hotel. He had come up for the weekend and invited oH of us up for the day. Felt Like Angel Alter a wonderful dinner in the hotel dining room, we went for a ride in the mountains. Again we saw many people working with their duties as farmers. We saw the young girls taking afternoon walks. But the most exciting event of all was yet to come, when we rode on the telepher- eque, the device for taking skiers to the top of the mountain. Two people rode in each car. I chose a yellow one, and Marthe and I got in. Marthe, an excel lent skier, wasn’t excited, but she seemed to enjoy my excitement. As we rode over the tree tops and went up, up, up, all I could say, and I said it I know a thousand times, was ‘‘Ah, oui, oui, oui!” in EngUsh this is, “Oh, yes, yes, yes!” Marthe asked me if I couldn’t think of anything else to say, and I told her yes, but This Time, Burglar Alarm Worked: 2 Youths Arrested at Wall’s Station it was much simpler to just say ‘oui.” She laughed and said that she felt like a bird and couldn’t wait until winter to start skiing. I told her I felt like an angel and to prove it, I polished by “halq.” We laughed and sang the rest of the way up. It took ten minutes. At the top, the mountains were more beautiful than I had ever seen them. The sun_ was shining and they seemed to shine also. The air was cool against your face and the wind blew and twisted in your hair. The moun tains were bare except for a few trees, and a few white flowers and grass.'The rock glistened as if it were snow S.inoe it is September, this area was bare of snow. In two months there will be plenty. Started Singing The people who were there as we were, were taking naps in the grass and on rocks. They seemed to be lost, as I was, in the heav ens. The sky seemed so close you could touch it, and yet, we seemed so far from the world. The feeling made you want to sing, and that is just what we did. We started singing, and our voices carried and echoed. As the sun began to hide be hind a mountain to our left, al though not hiding from us, it was stjll bright, we could see in the valley that it was becoming gray. We descended with sounds from the two passenger cars of ‘Ah, oui,” songs, and “Don’t rock the boat,” an expression I taught them while riding on a bumpy road. The day closed with regret that it had not been longer. Curtis Wall’s Gulf Station was ibroken into again last Friday and two Lee County youths were caught red-handed inside. This was the 11th break-in within about two years at the sta tion on US Highway 1, close to the Moore-Lee county line. A few ofmonths ago Wall, weary of continual robberies, installed a burglar alarm connected with his home a couple of hundred yards away. 'When it sounded Friday at 1:30 a. m., he phoned Constable L. F. Woods of Camer on and Wall and Woods got there about the same time, a few nun utes later. Woods arrested Billy Gray, 17, of Sanford and Milton Carlyle Thomas, 16, of Broadway, whom he caught inside with their pock ets stuffed with cigarettes, packs of chewing gum, lighters and other items from the coimter. He recovered from them also a four- bladed knife belonging to Wall, which had been stolen three times before and recovered every time. Taken to Moore County jail, the boys were placed under $1,- 000 bond Saturday, which they failed to make, for their appear ance at the November term of Superior Court. Woods said Gray has a record of juvenile breaking and entering, and spent a year at a state training school. They had broken in by the same door from the greaserack shed used in all the other br.eak- ins. About half the thieves who have entered there over tbo years have been caught, and some of the goods they stole re turned. One time, before installing the burglar alarm, Wall placed a big, savage-looking dog inside to guard the place, but the next thieves that came along made friends with the dog and helped themselves to the merchandise. The first time the alarm went off after it was installed. Wall got there fast and held the in truder at gunpoint till Constable Woods drrived. One night about two weeks ago the burglar alarm failed to work Musicians Can Train in Army Young musicians who have a military obligation are now be ing offered professional training in the field of music while serv ing their country in the United States Army. While fulfilling their military and some thieves made quite a haul. 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