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Ill la By Manly Wade Wellm.n Raleigh New. OhTver Yandro Up in this bosky, peaky part of West Madison Coun ty, paat Asheville toward Tennes see, a handicraft ao old that it's sort of now is about to get crack ing again. Here at Yandro, your mountain friends are potting a cabin to gether for you. Tbrt name ia to do Carl San burg, the Good Gray Poet with the forelock, what he should take aa a favor. More than 40 yean back, the first song ia Sandburg's AMERICAN SONG BAG it was Tie's Gone Away" had a mention of a North Car olina mountain called Yandro: "Look away, took away, took away OTer Yandro . . . I'll go build me a desrick on Yaa- dro's high hill . - Nobody in West Madison, or in East Madison either, ever heard of a Carolina mountain called Yan dro, and it's an even money bet. that nobody but Sandburg the Good Gray ever did. Around here, mountain folks suspect that some body was patting Sandburg on. They allow that Yandro's how to say yonder, look away over yon dro on yondro high hill. So you and they agree to give this part of Walnut Mountain the name of Yandro, so that Sandburg's illu sion in "He's Gone Away" will be correct. Ways Of Talking If Sandburg and you and other outlanders hark, youll hear many special ways these people talk. Not just heared for heard and fel ler for fellow. You can't spell how they say there all you can do is say it rhymes with how they say briar. But your talk sounds fun ny to them, and they politely ask you to tell things over just to en joy your lowland trick of speech. They purely love to hear a man talk funny. Be glad these friends of yours aren't enemies. They can climb higher, hide snugger and shoot straighter than any folks you ev er saw. Tall or small, they're a strong set of men, and their wom ... en are the sort of women they'll kill or be killed for, if necessary. Not that killing is necessary very often. Oh, back a while somebody tried to bust up a West Madison I '66 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe with crisp-lined new Body by Fisher I. NEW TURBO-JET V8's. Three versions of this re markably efficient engine are available, with ratings of 325 hp, 390 hp and 425 hp. 2. RICHER NEW IN TERIORS. They're impres sive even by Impala stand aids. And the fine hand of Body by Fisher craftsman "Handicraft ENRICHED sjBBtBCESSfflV S sl BSsPsCsslIsaS ?L VH issssssKsfel jteSSsteh lh WmtltT!!mTmiST ssBsssasssMr Chevrolet's Jet-smoother Sao the new '66 Chevrolet, Chevelle, Chevy n, Corvair & Corvette at your Chevrolet dealer's Rice, Obray Ramsey Fe 1 church service, came ia with hit gun in his hand to atop it All he got was something started. Ia 90 seconds ha lay weltering in his blood oa the church house floor. The doctor took nine stitches in his scalp. They took back to an old skill that's new again because it's Bead ed: Blame it on how folk singing, including lots of phony folk-sing ing, baa grown big. Factories are old out of banjos and guitars and middle-priced fiddles. They haven't the time to fix damaged instruments. Not even to write back to folks who want to send their instruments in for repair. Going Te Phflly "Got to nave new neck to tola banjo," allows Obray Ramsey, cradling it to him. You dont know what ails the neck his banjo has now. What he does on that banjo is fit for archangels to hark at. He can ring bells on it, sing birds on it, he can play "Steel Guitar Rag" on it better than the next man can play it on a steel guitar. It's possible Obray's the best ban jo hand in the known world. "Got to have a new neck set in, ana g. (that right quick," he says. fore the Asheville festivsl in Au gust, before I go to Philadelphia, Pa., in September." Because they've sent for him up there, got a chunk of money to make the trip easy for him to come and sing. If anybody's in Philly Ithat night, drop over and listen. You've never heard a banjo picked better, no matter where you've been. And here in this hidden home of folk music there are craftsmen, old and not so old, beginning to do such things as extra banjo necks. Why not? They build their own houses, shape out their own axe handles, whittle lovely toys for their children. It's not beyond the man with the skill and the will. You've seen a grizzled old musi cian show around the fiddle he made himself, the wood still raw but the tone sweet as honey. Oth er old fiddlers passed the thing: from hand j to knowing hand, changed the tuning to play "Billy in the Low Ground" or "Laurel Lonesome" of "Cumberland Gap.'1 Trouble is, late men with the old skills are getting burdened with 7 WAYS ship is very much in evi dence. 3. CRISP NEW STYL ING. More elegant from V-shaped grille to new wrap-around taillights. 4. A JET-SMOOTHER RIDE. Refinements in body, frame and suspension (in cluding Full Coil springs tailored to each body style) CHEVROLET COMPANY. INC. Revived" instrument repair, toe. New are learning. "I'm having Paul Rica to do it," Obray tells you. Old Family Paul Rice ia of a family old ia Madison. It was Joseph Rice who killed the tost buffalo thereabouts, either in the late 1780s or the ear ly 1800s. Paul Rice could kill a buffalo himself, If one came past He's built as snag at s eat, he's a good shot, he can make meat things that can be made of wood. You've seen the curly grain, the graceful lines, of a Paul Rice gun stock. You've seen the third of the tall grandfather docks he's built, out at bis Bull Creak noma The wood for Obray's banjo neck, after rejection of seamen1 or wind shaken pieces, is of cherry wood. The grain's chosen to suit the pitch of the neck's shape. A fine ly cut seam shows where a steel rod will be fitted through, end to end, so that neck will be just solid enough, just brave enough, for the five silver-voiced strings . And it must be shaped just right, finish ed just right, smoothed just right, mounted accurately with finger board, clamped truly in place, to make the banjo what Obray must have, though you snd many an other think his banjo's first-rate the way it sounds now. "Takes me back to my young days," allows another of the men, lean and grizzled. "We made oui own tack-head banjos then." "Tack-head?" you repeat, and he explains. First a hoop of the right wood, soaked and steamed and shaped into a ring and clamp ed. Stretched over this, a fresh groundhog hide, aslo soaked in a stew of wet ashes till the fur could be scraped off outside and the grease inside. Tight the hide was drawn over the hoop, and tacks driven in all round to hold it and the loose ends trintmed away. Dry ing, it got drum tight. On that was set the bridge, with a whit tled neck fretted with wire loops, and strings maybe of steel, maybe deer gut. The right hands on it could play your heart out: with "The birds were s'staghWla ' the morning. The roses and the ivy were in bloom . . But these men of skill and sci ence don't make tack-head banjos. make the ride even gentler. 5. RACY SUPER SPORT MODELS. Pick an Impala SS Coupe or Convertible, complete with new Strato bucket front seats and eye catching console. 6. NEW SAFETY FEATURES. They include windshield washer, two-speed electric wipers, rear seat belts and backup lights all standard on every '66 Chevrolet. 7. OVER 200 CUSTOM FEA TURES. You can have a field day ordering luxuries like FM stereo radio. Want to raise your standard of W ing it up? Your Chevrole-. dealer's the men to sn 66 IMPA d I V Article The banjo nook now in the works must be as good aa anything from any high priced factory. It' challenge, maybe, but no" real frus tration to somebody who can sole his own shoes, stock bis own rifle, build bis own clock and set in the works so they dont gain or lose a minute all month. "Carve your name oa the neck, Paul," Obray directs. "Ill let folks read K shore ia Ashevills and Philadelphia. They'll be a-eoming to you with Instruments to fix." "Shucks," Paul says. "I n't reckon I'll suffer tor work to do, if I show I can do it." "The worldll got around," a friend ag i ass him. About Finished Your cabin's just before getting finished. Tight and solid, with a rain-shedding roof and a door with a lack. AU that's needed is pipes to fetch water from the spring Ugh up, wires to bring electricity from RE A Una down on the high way. "I swear," you swear, "I don't know how to pay you for doing this for me." "Who's askin' for pay?" "Well," you persist, "I don't know how to thank you." "Whoo's nekta' for thanks?" "At least, when the can's ready we'll cabin-warm it," you promise. "I want you, Obray, and Paul, and the Hunter brothers and a bunch more." "Well all show up." The banjo again, bringing the song with it: . Ta a-goin to leave this country, Goin to travel round this world, I'm a-goin to leave this country For the sake of a faithless girl . ." But nobody here looks as if he's about to leave this country. Far off, misty-blue peaks; nearer, tree-green ridges. A distant dog voices its zeal to climb a hundred foot poplar and fetch down a squirrel. Your friends lounge against the wall, or squat on their heels with their backs to it, and you and they listen to the music, and yon and theyjoin in: Don't 7u hen. that lonesome sound? Don't yon see that pretty gsl so lovely, Standin there on the cold, cold ground? ..." 81 6209 98 LA CHESTNUT TREI AVAILABLE AT AGENT'S OFFICE " " aj In 1910 chestnut blight first started In the vicinity of New York City. It was brought in on some imported Chinese chestnuts. By 1920, it had spread south into Maryland sad Delaware and north into Massachusetts. Br 1080, it bad covered all of the Now Eng land states sad sooth through Vir ginia. By 1040, it bad effected the chestnuts ia Western North Carolina. Besides chestnut snd chinkapins, chestnut blight will also attack some oaks. It has been known to kill the post oak. It has been found on hickories, maples, snd sumac. The Might fungus grows mainlv In the bark of the tree forming a mass of flattened thread Uke strands. These feed upon snd kill the bark tissues snd grow through the hark much as a plan root grows through the soil. These thread like strands when they encircle the limb or trunk seal off and kill that portion of the tree shove it The disease spreads by spores, tiny microscopic wind spread seeds, they will stick and adhere to in sects, birds, and other animals, which have been known to carry them for long distances. Aa early as 1918, the United States Depart ment of Agriculture started search ing for a blight resistant Ameri can chestnut, but none were found Even though some of the old roots are still producing sprouts, no large chestnut trees can be found at the present time. The United State Department of Agriculture sent an expedition to Asia to try and find a chestnut which was most like the American chestnut but resistant to the chest nut blight. Hundreds of speci mens were brought back and tried out in experiment stations and there is a very vigorous program going on at the present time of crossing American chestnuts and blight resistant chestnuts, to get a hybrid with resistance. One va riety of the Chinese chestnut des ignated as PI 68602 has more of the characteristics of the Ameri can chestnut than any other. It has small sweet nuts and will, with proper care, produce timber. The county agent's office 11 Wj fering for sale this variety of chestnuts for fifty cents per tree: They are two year old seedlings and will be delivered in the mid dle of December. Anyone inter ested in purchasing thse seedlings may contact the county agent's office. Payday Every day is payday for the man who enjoys his chosen work. GILLETTE Foamy SHAVING CREAM SUPER-SATURATES YOUR BEARD I WOODSON W.RAY, INC. INSURANCE AGENCY Route 1 Phone: 689-2021 MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Representing the following old line stock insurance companies: AETNA, PROVIDENCE WASHING, GREAT AMERICAN FIREMAN'S FUND, MARYLAND CASUALTY AND JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE I Writing: Standard Fire, Casualty, General Liability, Workmen's Compensation, Automobile and Life Insurance Home Owners, Farm Owners, and Multi-Peril Package Policies YOUR BUSINESS IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED ACP HELPS CITY SPORTSMEN City sportsmsnt who tales gun in hand and head for the woods and fields in North Carolina this fall have a real stake in the Ag ricultural Conservation Program, according to A. P. Hassell, Jr., State Executive Director of the Agricultural Stabilisation and Conservation Service. With the number of hunters in creasing each year, there's more and mors pressure on wildlife supplies, HaassM points out. And since shoot 86 percent of oar wild life is produced on privately own ed farmland, hunting success de pends pretty much on how wall fanners have dons la providing wildlife food and cover areas. For this meson, conservation practices carried out by fanners with coat -short assistance from the AGP have played a bag part in maintaining aad improving the game supply on over 90,000 farms in North Carolina each year. For example, farmers have im proved or established over 200, 000 acres of permenent cover crops and over 400,000 acres of annual cover crops during the past year with the ACP sharing about half the cost. Both the permenent and annual cover crops provide excellent nest ing cover and food for a variety of wild game, Hassell pointed out. Many farmers carry out practices that are specifically for wildlife. Sportsmen have also benefited from the wildlife produced on acreage farmers have diverted to conservation use under the wheat and feed grain programs, Mr. Has sell emphasised. Not So Scare It may be true that time is money, but it's not so scarce. mm general Electric Steam & Dry Iron $14.50 Value WILD'S RADIO & TV SERVICE FHA CREDIT STR1MTHENS FAMILY FARMERS More than 8 Madison County family farms and the rural com munities where they are located were strengthened during fiscal 1066 by Fanners Hons Adminis tration's ownership loan program, W. E. Hill, Madison County Super- i I i4v rai .4 " re porter today. He said that approximately $67, 000 was loaned 8 families to boy, enlarge or develop farms or to re finance debts and that aa addi tional 68 farm families continued to use Farmers Home Administra tion credit obtained In previous years. "This supervised loan assist ance tailored to the individual borrower's needs was mads on ly to family farm operators de termined eligible by local fanner committees, but unable te obtain reasonable credit from other sources," Supervisor Hill explain ed. Included in this credit total wer some) 8 loans for $40,940 made to farm families last year for purchases snd improvement of needed land and construction or repair of farm buildings. About $46,500 in supervised credit was extended to 6 established farm families needing assistance for improvement of land or buildings. Some 4 loans for $26,060 were made to Madison County farmers in financial difficulty mainly because of causes beyond their control who needed long-term credit for financing debts and de veloping their farms. Supervisor Hill pointed out that most of these 8 farm owner ship borrowers might otherwise have been forced to leave the land and migrate to the cities had they not received Fanners Home Ad ministration credit. He also not ed their contribution to the eco nomic growth of Madison County rural communities. Those using this supervised credit program were primarily young farmers having a sound farming knowledge, but lacking capital to acquire resources need ad for success. "Madison Caunty rural commu nities benefitted through strength ening of family farms," empha sized the Madison Cknaay FHA supervisor. "Viable family farms strengthen tax base supporting community institutions and in crease the cash flow along Main Street." POOR POSE Critic: (eyeing a statue) "Isn't that an odd posture for a gener al?" Sculptor: "That isn't my fault. 1 had the statue half finished when the committee decided it wouldn't afford a horse for him." ALL PURPOSE 3IN0NE0IL Oils Everything Prevents Rust REGULAR - OIL SPRAY - ELECTRIC MOTOR world news in ? ac Tha ChrkHon ! Or Norway , Borton, Most. (Bits . I endow f . tttlMHss 1 YEAR $24 6 month ?U Sasonttaf Oty m I. I aiMmSaMtHSeMSaSM. Monitor for the period dachas' ss MARSHALL. N. C. No. MM
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