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Berea Grant To Finance Study! Of Conditions In Appalachians Berea College haa been granted $250,000 by the Ford foundation for the purpose of financing the work of the Appalachian Religious Workers Conference, formed at Berea in June, 19S6, to make an exhaustive two-year study of con ditions in the seven-state Appal achian South. The award was part of $14,284, 530 in grants announced December 29 by the Ford Foundation. The proposed study will in clude 17 faceta of mountain life in Kentucky, Tennessee, Vir ginia, West Virginia, North Car olina, Alabama, and Georgia. The study will cover agriculture, economics, religious life, health, education, industrialization, mo rals, arts and crafts, and local government Study Has Wide Scope Some of the aims of the study are: 1. To discover what changes have taken place in the mountains in the last 25 years, and whether or not these changes denote pro gress. 2. To find where the mountain people stand in all phases of life, that is, what are their needs now and what are their ultimate needs. 3. To learn what agencies are needed to meet these needs ,and how to make specific the contri butions which the social agencies can render. 4. To find what present agencies have been working for progress. 5. To learn the attitudes of the people toward industrialization, and to decide what problems and benefits industrialization would give the area. 6. To survey the problems caus ed by migrants from the Appala chian region into northern indus trial cities. 7. To help coordinate the activi ties of churches in the region. 8. To discover motivations of mountain people as well as collect objective facts and statistics about how they live. 9. And finally to make the col lected data available to all the colleges, universities, church de nominations, and government and social agencies operating in the area. Dr. W. D. Weatherford, vice chairman of the Berea College board of trustees, will be admin istrative director of the project Headquarters for the study will be Berea College. Berea College will furnish of fices for the research staff. The College also plans to raise, in ad dition to the Ford grant, $50,000 to establish a library on mountain life. Dr. Weatherford stated that all organizations would be consulted which could provide data pertain ing to the study or provide a means of checking data which the research staff produces. A book collecting the results of the study will be published, in ad dition to several papers on special phases of the investigation. Three other men will help Dr. Weatherford direct the program. Or. Howard Been, rural sociolo gist at the University a I Ken tucky, will direct general research. Dr. Earl Brewer, research heud of Emory University, will direct re ligious research, and Dr. Rupert Vance, University of North Caro lina, will be research consultant. A representative from each of the seven state universities in the southern Appalachian region will be appointed to conduct a phase of the research. They will be aided by 14 graduate students working on Ph. D, degrees in field work. Backing the research project 's a 19-member committee composed of representatives of Berea Col lege, the Council of the Southern Mountains, 10 religious denomina tions, and seven at-large members. Happenings Of Week In Foscoe Community The Foscoe community was sad dened recently at the passing of Mr. Herbert Wagoner after a long period of illness. Mr. Wagoner was one St our most civic-minded cit izens and contributed to many ma jor projects in the community. He was instrumental in starting and a faithful worker, in building a kitchen and recreation center in the basement of the Foscoe Chris tian Church. Mr. A1 Chamberlain, son-in-law of H. O. Aldridge of Foscoe, has bought out and ia now operating the N. F. Church grocery in Fos coe. We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin and son and daughter, Johnny and Kim, to Foscoe, where they moved from Norfolk, Va. Miss Betty Sue Fox of Lees McRae College, daughter of Mrs. Bertha Mae Fox of Foscoe, spent spring vacation at her home from the 20th to 26th of March. The Ladies Aid Society of Fos coe met as usual on. Thursday at the home of Mrs. Arvil Shook. Plans were made to give the church a spring cleaning. AU members are urged to attend meetings and urge all non-members to start com ing. Meetings will be held at var ious homes over the community this summer. Mrs. Art Sluder is president, and Mrs. Ralph Church secretary-treas urer. Meetings are held each Thursday at 2 p. m. Another recent welcome develop ment in the community is the Nor wood cafe. It is the building own ed and operated, by Whealar Nor wood, which itto boasts a recre atMfrftlHi and a second hand clotk ing store. .. I Week end house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cole were Wade Wagoner of Abingdon, Va., Mrs. Ethyl Wyke of Boone, and Major Wagoner and his wife of Hunt ington, W. Va. Mr. Dillard Aldridge of Hickory, son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ald ridge, was home for a visit over the week end. He was dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. A1 Chamber lin. Mr. Herbert Aldridge, who was a patient at Watauga Hospital in Boone for a few days, is now at home in Foscoe and recuperating nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Varden Shook are spending a few weeks in Winston FREE CHICK DAY Saturday, April 5 1? FREE ] CHICKS 1 Will Be Given Away ABSOLUTELY FREE WITH THE PURCHASE OF 25 LBS. OF Purina Chick Startena These Are Heavy Breed Cockerel* and Will Make Fine Eating in Eight to Nine Week ? BRING YOUR OWN BOX ADDITIONAL CHICKS WILL BE ON SALE FOR 10c EACH I ' I . i " \ ^ J' : ? i- 'v ' ? . ?i"*' ?. Watauga Feed and Milling Company WILKESBORO ROAD Salem at the home of Mrs. Shook'i lister. Mr. and Mrs. Creed Taylor and children, Ned, Larry, Mark and Jody, were Saturday night guests of Mr. and Mrs. Meade Taylor. Mrs. C. P. Moore has been ill with influenxa. Marriage Licenses The Watauga County Register of Deeds office issued marriage licenses - during the month of March to the following: Thomas Milton Coffey, Chuckey, Tenn., and Leslie Church Coffey, Blowing Rock; John D. Houck, Sugar Grove, and Susie Jane Cro well, Charlotte; William H. Need ham, Greensboro and Colleen Triplett, Blowing Rock; James Clyde Miller, Todd, and Margaret Elizabeth Hampton, Boone; Wil liam Larry Miller, I-enoir, and Blanda Ernestine Pitts, Blowing Rock; Kenneth T. Leist, Brookline, Mass., and Ala Evelyn Hodges, Rt 3, Boone. David W. Whaley, Jr., Bristol, Virginia, and Patricia Ann Nichel son, Washington, D. C. DOG SKINS MAKE SHOES Vienna ? Hungary is producing shoes of "excellent quality" from the skins of stray dogs, a Buda pest paper reports. Good Seed Beds Vital To Crops Sometime* ?e are not very care ful when (owing seed. Nothing can take the place of good aead bed preparation. The land should be prepared in such ? manner a* to assure fine *ofl particle* so that they ? will come in cIom contact with the *eed. The depth of planting i* vary important and will be regulated by the *eed size. Such crop* a* cabbage, kale and lettuce shOuld not be planted more than one-hall inch deep. Tomato, turnip and pepper from one-fourth to one half inch, while the larger seed, such as inap bean, should be planted three-fourths to one inch. This is more or less common knowledge but carelessness when planting may materially reduce germination of the seed. Msny soils bake, and cru*t be fore the *eed ha* a chance to germinate and puih out of the soil. Here is a suggestion. After you have planted your seed, mulch lightly over the row with either pine needles or ground corn cobs. Both of these materials are light and will prevent most of the crust ing and baking of the soil. These materials should not interfere with the growth of the young seedlings but you (hould make frequent observations and adjust the mulch as needed. You are now, no doubt, familiar with nematodes which cause root knots. The knots formed by the feeding "eel worms" prevent the normal functioning of the roots by blocking intake and movement of water and nutrients. They pre sent a knotty problem and can be serious, as rniny of you have found out. Your county agent can supply you with information con cerning the control of this pest In the lower Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina, it is time to plant cool season vegetables such as cabbage, mustard, spinach, garden peas, onion sets, beets, carrots and Irish potatoes. Maybe some of you have already planted these crops, but not if the weath er has been like ours. This is a [ good time to plant strawberries for next year's crop in the lower Piedmont and Eastern North Car olina. Better wait a whi)e to do this job in the mountains. DEMOCRAT ADS PAY Easter To Be The 1908 Easter Seal campaign in North Carolina ends on Eastor Sunday with many contributor* yet to be heard from, according to Felix, S. Barker, President of the North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children and Adults. Pro ceeds go to provide rehabilitation services for handicapped children and adults here in North Carolina. "The goal of the Easter Seal Society is to create bettor lives for more crippled children and adults through a well-Integrated rehabilitation service." Mr. Bark er declared. The Society's efforts are geared to treat the whole per son and restore him to the greatest possible physical, mental, social, vocational and economic uaeful ness. "We have come to know that the crippled dure the hope*, Interact*, abilities and ambition* of all of us. A* a remit Jite luperslitiou* dread which once surrounded the handicapped i* being removed and the human being beneath ta dis covered and helped to live crea tively with hi* fellows," l(r. Bark er stated. During the past year, the Easter Seal Society provided services to 2,836 children and adults in this state. Services include physical and speech therapy, education, ap pliances, recreation at the two summer camps for whit* and Ne gro children, treatment and train ing. Ninety per cent of the money raised finances these services. The remainder supports the national Paul said to Mr. Ed: Tolerance: The uncomfortable suspicion that the other (el low might be right, after all! ? ? ? ?, There's only one thing wrong with the younger generation ... a lot of ua don't belong to it any more. ? ? ? ? The lix sweetest phrase* in the English language are: "I love you," "Dinner is served," "All la forgiven," "Sleep til noon," "Keep the change," "Here'a that five." The saddest: "Buy me one," "Out of gas," "Dues not paid," "Insufficient funds," "External use only." ? ? ? ? A taxpayer la a person who does not have to pass a civil service examination to work for the government Paul f Watauga Insurance Agency NOBTHWESTEBN BANK BUILDING ? PHONE AM UW BOX 267 ? BOONS, N. C. E. A. GAULTNEY AND J. PAUL WINKLEB Plan a nasfer with [j^kt refreshment A picture of tlimnofr? . that's the Easter look. Lighter, less-filling food and drink keep today's moderns looking slim and trim. Today's Pepsi-Cola, reduced in calories, follows this sensible trend Never heavy, never too sweet, Pepsi is the modern, the Ufctt refreshment. Have plenty of Pepsi around to brighten your Holiday. GO. Contribution* may itill b? mail ed to your local Easter 8eal unit, or to "Crippled Children" in ear* of the local Post Office. SEATO AND UNIFIED Manila ? Foreign ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organ ization countries have reaffirmed their determination to maintain national and collective defenae against the possibility of Com munist-inspired armed aggression. They alao pledged themselves to work earnestly for international disarmament "with adequate safe guards covering both nuclear and conventional elements." Sharp drop in tax borrowing is indicated. TELESCOPE Local Realty Values G.I. and F.H.A. Loan* Not* Available THIS IS IT: S bedroom cottage, 2 baths, large (tone fire place, completely furnished. 2V4 acres land, beautiful view of Grandfather Mountain. Located 8 miles from Boone and Blowing Rock. Telephone service. Good terms. GOOD 2 BEDROOM, den, living room with fire place. ' Beautiful trees. Car port. VA loan can be assumed. 60 ACRES OF CLEAN, FRESH COUNTRY LIVING? Can be farmed with tractor, under good fence, fair house, new silo and barn. The best terms ever offered to the right person. A very small down payment will buy this farm. Carries a 1 tobacco allotment. 78 ACRES OF BEST GRAZING LAND and farm Und in the county. No buildings, under good fence. Csn be bought lees than $180.00 per acre. No down payment to the right person. Tobacco allotment WOODSMEN, SPARE THAT TREE ? They did when they staked the grounds for this beautiful lot and 8 room house. Just out o t the city limits, city water, attached garage, small down payment. GOOD BUILDING AND LARGE HIGHWAY FRONTAGE and - parking facilities Ideal (or produce buiinet, building supply, or any other type of business known aa Watauga Produce building. Priced to sell. IDEAL BUILDING FOR CHICKEN PROCESSING, or produce dealeri. Over 4,000 sq. feet Including refrigeration equipment Known ai Waatuga Frozen Foods building. Priced at about Half of actual coat of land and building. Good term*. WE NOW HAVE AVAILABLE FHA financing on new home*. If you are planning on building this year contact us, and look over the house plana we nowhsre. GOT TIME TO TINKER? Cm be bought far below actual value. S3 acres of wooded land With real old timey houae, good site for trout lake, plenty of water, good commercial shrub bery. Ideal for summer hideout. Price $4,000.00. Terms if needed. NO ROOM FOR ARGUMENT BUT PLENTY FOR LIVING? You wont argue over the value of thia 3-bed room houae, bath, hot water, 2 acres land, with stream running through, small work shop, located Just off highway 821 between Boone and Blowing Rock. Ideal for summer home or permanent home. MAKE IT A TWO FAMILY and you will have additional income to make your payments? This large stone bouse located lust 1-4 mile west of Boone on Highway 421. Good financing. DONT FENCE ME IN? YouH never feel fenced la in this roomy 3 bedroom bouse, 9-10 acre lot, heat in every reom. Located just one mile west of Boone. BUY A PLACE that's in the path of rising values. Larfta S bedroom house, full basement, heat and 1 acre of land, lo cated in PerkinsviUe. Would be interested in trading for good farm. > NOT TOO FANCY, trat ? rati buy? Located on Beaver Dam an hard lurfaced road. 16 acre*, 6 room houae, 6-10 tobacco beae. Price 14,800. Will trade for aomethlng in town. A PERFECT SITE for tummer borne? S3 aerea wooded land with 3000 white pinea aet One acre fish pond. S good aprings. Located on good State road 7 miles from Boone. Will sell as a whole or sell 21 aerea separate. BIG FAMILY? Then youH want to look at this S bedroom bourse, large living room, den, enclosed porch, carpets wall to wall, full basement, 3 full hatha, garage, located to center of town near school and stores. Good flninrtin. HIGHLAND AVENUE: 3 bed room house, bssement, large family room, beautiful lot, a picture window with something to really look at Small down payment THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE between land and a farm. Han is a real farm compriaing 86 acres, 40 acres of bottom land, large feeding marn, silo full of teed, dairy ban, 14 bead of cattle, 4 bedroom bouse, bath, good location near achools. Good terms. 90 ACRES OF CLEAN, FRESH COUNTRY LIVING. New S bedroom brick house, all modern conveniences,' located at KIDS WANTED! They'll be happy In this 4 bed room A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH A little finishing and painting on your week ends and youll have a beautiful Ranch type hone located at Rutberwood. Make me an offer. LET YOUR NEIGHBOR PAY FOR THIS PROPERTY. Buy thk 4 apartment plus living quarters at college entrance. Make offer? It has to go. TWO HOMES ON ONE LOT. With this little houae In rear yon I Will have additional Income to pay for this comfortable ipeeiowa 3 bed room bouse, 2 seres lend Just out of city limits. Would consider a trade in. Will -consider any offer. List Your Property with Ua for a Quick Sale HAVE DEMAND FOR SMALL BUSINESS ? ALIO FOR MM COE INSURANCE
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