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
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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!
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There's only one thing wrong with the younger generation
... a lot of ua don't belong to it any more.
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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."
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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
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