Mountaineers Cherish
Freedom, Says J im Perry
When We** Virginia took as its
motto "Montani semper liberi"
(Mountaineers are always free)
they were making a gross under
statement. or maybe they just
?hadn't seen our North Carolina
vari?ty, Jim Perry writes in the
current (June 20th) issue of The
Saturday Evening Post.
The author says he has been
living in the Blue Ridge Moun
tains for twelve years, having re
tired from the practice of law in
Columbia, South Carolina, and is
still marveling at the Fourth of
July characteristics of these den
izens of the hills.
"For sheer rugged independ
ence and don't-give-a-darn-what
the-rest-of-the-word-thinks atti
tude, they do beat all and, though
I find them difficult at times
when I would like to make them
see a few things my way, I can't
help secretly admiring their
freedom of spirit which refuse*
to conform to modern notions
and customs," the author says.
"Many of their sons have been
drafted in two World Wars and
yet they still feel free enough to
eye the Government with a good
deal of suspicion, and don't want
it to be meddling too much with
their business, which, contrary
to public belief, covers a wider
range than the making of moon
shine."
Perry explains that his moun
tain friends near Hendersonville
are not so much "agin" the Gov
ernment ? they just ignore its
existence as much as possible, be
it moonshine, income tax, hunt
ing licenses or what have you.
They are also more independent
of the almighty dollar than seems
possible in this money-mad age.
Perry believes that these peo
ple would rather reduce their
needs to a few and live in meager
splendor than bow the knee to
anybody or anything. One re
sult of this magnificent independ
ence and sense of adequacy, he
finds, is that you can hardly find
a mountaineer with an inferiority
complex.
The Post article, entitled "How
My Hired Man Handles Me," in
cludes numerous anecdotes about
Bud Camp, from whom Perry I
learned the hard way that Blue
Ridge men don't "work" ? they
help a fellow out ? always pay
able, however, in coin of the
realm.
When several hours late for
''work, Camp it apt to explain.
w on i maice no amerence a
hundred years from now." And
an offer of Perry's power saw to
cut a winter's supply of wood
brought a refusal, accompanied
by an explanation, "I might die
and t hat'd be a lot of work
thrown away for nothing."
Perry says that in spite of all
his hired man'f contrariness, he
could not have stuck it out in the
rugged surroundings this long if
it had not been for the faithful
ness of Bud and his brother,
Hoyt, "who is surely thes alt of
the earth, too."
FINGERPRINTS STILL TELL
Cleveland, O. ? James M. Dunn,
49. was recently held by police
fdr his connection with the theft
of $4 made twenty-four years
ago. Fingerprints Dunn made re
cently on a cab-driver applica
tion led to his arrest.
When They Meet
Junior Order
1st and 3rd Mondays
Lions Club
1st and 3rd Tuesdays
Veterans Foreign Wars
2nd and 4th Thursday nights
Chamber Commerce
2nd Tuesday, 12 noon
Dames Club <
Second Tuesday
B. P. W. Club
3rd Tuesday
? Rotary Club
Every Thursday, 6:30
Worthwhile Woman's Club
Home and Garden, 2nd Thursday
Lit and Ed. Dept., 1st Thursday
Music and Art Dept, 3rd Thurs.
General Meeting, 4th Thursday
Gardenerettes
3rd Thursday. 4:30
Junior Woman's Club.
1st Thursday
Civil Air Patrol
1st, 3rd, 4th Fridays
Snow Chapter 220, Order
Eastern Star
Second Monday nights
Port IN
Second and fourth Frtdsyi at 7:30
meeting time of your
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Yonahlossee
Camp Announces
A New Venture
Camp Yonahlossee for girls,
located thiee miles north of
Blowing Rock on the Shulls Mill*
Road, opened its thirty-second
season with a new venture. Be
cause of the great demand for a
short period, a two week9 session
was offered this y?ar. The re
sponse was very assuring for
without special promotion work
the enrollment filled right up
and ran over with 1125 girls.
This period closes Sunday the
21st. The regular 'season begin
on June 24th with 1135 girls with
no places left for late applicants.
The campers for the short per
iod are mainly from North Car
olina but there are others from
South Carolina, Georgia, Floiida,
Alabama. Virginia and Ohic.
In the main season of eight
weeks where all stay for the
whole period about half are from
North Carolina and the otheri
rome from tome twelve different
states. Blowing Rock is represent
ed by two, Linda Lee Jones and
Janice Iiene Rnbbins. Boone is
represented by Barbara Muthe
son
The staff for the short period
is made up of thirty young wo
men and ten in the service staff.
The counselor staff come from
North Carolina. South Carolina.
Virginia and Florida. The coun
selor staff for the long period will
be about 36 with the service
staff of ten. Horses for the two
periods, twenty-two in numbtr,
come from the Alamance Saddle
Club of Eton College, North Car
olina, Mrs. Verdie Caddell, in
structor.
Total U. S. agricultural exports
are expected to drop about 28
per cent in 1952-53
BISCUIT SANDWICHES SERVE
WE1J FOP SUMMER LUNCHES
?MBHwv . ?
When you hear the thump of
small-fry's feet on the front porch
coming in from summer play with
the cry "what's for lunch", make
them a nourishing sandwich of
bacon, tomato and cheese over
fluffy biscuits.
The biscuits are so easy to
make with self-rising flour that
has all the baking powder ingre
dients scientifically mixed right in
it by the millers to guarantee a
success every time.
JH&t lunch y?u can have
ready jff most the minute it's asked
for,*Hlth very little trouble.
BACON TOMATO CHEESE
SANDWICH
2 large 3%-inch biscuits mH? r#*
1 cup self-rising flour
m tablespoons shortening
V* cup nnlk (about)
4 slices cheese
4 slices tomato
8 slices broiled bacon
Sift flour once before measuring.
Cut fat into flour until texture of
coarse corn meal. Add liquid all at
once and stir until all flour is well
dampened. Knead lightly. Roll to
Vfc inch thickness, cut with a large
3^*incH cutter, and bake on un
greased baking sheet in a hot ovtyi
(430-F.) for 12 minutes. Break
biscuits in half. On each half place
a slice of cheese, then a slice of
tomato. Broil jftst enough to soften
cheese. Garnish with broiled
bacon. Yield: 4 servings.
T*here ft little or no value in
grinding corn far calve* as the
additional cost usually offsets
any advantage.
North Carolina has about M
livestock poisoning plants. But
only about lp arc responsible for
most deaths.
Foreign-aid spending next year
will exceed this year's, the Treas
ury and Mutual Security Agency
estimated.
Atlas 'wheat, introduced in
1948, has averaged seven bushels
per acre more than the two most
widely-grown older varieties.
Silue made of corn, catte,
grassK or legumes, preserved in
the trench silo is increasing in
popularity as a winter feed.
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