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? Continued Pram hfi On* CAT AND RABBIT CREEK AREA IS GOING PLACES eye (ell on the Intriguing name, Cat Creek. He decided at once to make a trip to Cat Creek. The plane had to be left be hind because there are no land ing places in these mountains. He had to make altitude by automobile over steep winding roads up the forest -covered Nantahala Range. He visited among the clannish mountain farmers ana found In them an inarticulate pride that the world ought to know about. But the point is that Cat Creek could be Woodchuck Hol low or any other place 40,600 square miles In the valley where the combined guidance of the State Farm Extension Service and Tennessee Valley Authority are lifting the farmers out of a miserable existence. The men measure progress around here by acre yields; the women by the degree of house hold drudgery. Before T. V. A. and the Farm Extension Service came in here with their new art and engineering built around lime and phosphate fertilizer, cover crops and strip and rota tion plantings, these farmers were scratching thirty bushels of corn from an acre. Today they are growing 80 to 120 bushel* of corn to an acre and up to 2,700 pounds of to bacco They are eating a bal anced diet from food grown on their own places under the new diversified cropping and dairy farming. A few months ago they got electric lines into the cove, and now every family Is Installing or planning equipment to light en the load for the old woman ? electric water pumps to save the trip to the well; electric refrig erators to keep cool the butter made In the kitchen by the elec tric churn; electric irons and washing machines. But that's not all. The farm homes are being underpinned or newly roofed or enlarged or repainted Until the T. V. A. and farm extension experts showed the way these farmers never met among themselves in formal session to discuss community matters. Now they can't wait to call a meeting. They held such a meeting at the little White Holly Springs schoolhouse a couple of weeks ago to agree on their next five-year plan, hav ing accomplished the miracle of completing their first one. One problem bothered them most of all. Keeping Youth At Home A visitor to this place of bur geoning fields and green pas tures wonders how the bluebifds and robins that are all around It now could want to leave it for the North, let alone the children of the valley. Yet item No. 1 of the five-year plan was: That boys and girls be encour aged to stay at home, this ob ATTENTION, PLEASE I HAVE FOR SALE, NOW ONE- AND TWO-HORSE WAGONS WIRE ? HAND PUMPS ATOMIC RADIOS ELECTRIC RADIO AND RADIO-PLAYER COMBINATIONS PUMPS Electric Deep and Shallow Well I install your pumps. All pumps and work guaranteed PIPING ? SINKS Also call or write me for your Moving Trips. Friendly and safe drivers. Try my friendly service. Thank you. L. O. HOGSED STAR ROUTE ? HAYESVILLE, N. C. Jectlve to be accomplUhed by Improved financial agreement 1 between parent and child, that children be encouraged to grow crops and livestock of their own and that the profit belonging to the children and be spent as they desire. Since 1936, continued the reso lution of these taciturn farm ers, crop and hay fields have been more than doubled, carry ing capacity of the pastures has been doubled and the grazing period extended. This progress will be continued. However, it continued sadly, we see the folly of all this progress if young people have no desire to stay at home. We are In full agree ment that from here on more attention be given to the living conditions and opportunities of our young people. We are proud of Rabbit and Cat Creek com munity and we want our chil dren to carry on and develop it. High Proportion In Service That is why they are so anx ious to fix up around the farm house now that they have their once-eroded lands and their cropping in good shape. During the war an unusually high proportion of these healthy mountain boys were called off to the war and the girls went out to near-by towns to fill in on the labor shortage. The older folks carried on as best they could. Some of the boys didn't come back. Their names are painted on small white crosses on a1 war memorial green in front of the courthouse in near by Franklin. The others and the girls all got a taste of the out side world and they are begin ning to succumb to its lure. Meet 'Uncle Harve' This correspondent stopped cff at Uncle Harve Cabe's place on Cat Creek Road. Uncle Harve was out hauling manure and Mrs. Cabe made the visitor sit down in front of a blazing wood fire flanked by built-in bookcases filled with a variety of current books, both fiction and non-fiction. Mrs. Cabe runs the Regional Library Services bookmobile station, and people around Cat Creek oome to her house to get their library books. Eighty-year-old Uncle Harve came in and it was hard to get him to talk about farming at first because he had learned by heart and wanted to retell every word and syllable of all the far stories told to him by his three sons ? one who served in the infantry in North Africa and Europe and one who was in the Air Forces in Europe and Patronize Your Home Town Merchants and Businesses GOOD FOOD ? CAGLE'S CAFE , ? GOOD SERVICE MORGAN'S CAFE Near the Depot ? Quick Service and Good PooA at the Home-Like Cafe USED FURNHUKfc Bought and Sold ? Lawson Shook Orer Rays' Groc. ft Feed Co. SWAFFORD'S MARKET ? Groceries Meats Vegetables CLYDE'S CAFE On Main Street WE SPECIALIZE IN Steaka Chops and Fried Chicken CLYDE SANDERS, Mgr. We Appreciate Your Patronage ? Franklin Laundry and Dry Cleaners Phone 136 FOR Office Supplies The Franklin Press Phone 24 West's Florist "Floweri for Every Occasion" West Main Street Phone 234 Macon Dry Cleaners Prompt Efficient Work FOR PICK VP SERVICE PKone 270 Select Your MONUMENT At Our Display Yard ? Located at the Foot of Bonny Crest ? Franklin Granite Works E. E. Angel Fire Insurance I 2 Macon Insurance Agency Bank of Franklin Bldg. Storm Insurance STEWART'S Electrical Appliance Store Everything Electrical Phone 268 NORTON'S CAFE A Good Place to Eat one ' who vu In the thick of the Pacific island fighting with the marines. The laat one Is re maining in the Marine Corps. Talks Crops When finally all the battles were recounted, Uncle Harve talked crops. His family has been around these parts almost since the days when Chief Rab bit and Chief Cat of the Chero kees lived beside the creeks, which was some, years after De Soto passed over this very spot. He told a story of thin crops of the wrong kind in eroded land gradually giving way under the new crops and water control methods to fine fields green nearly all year around. He had just finished sacking up his meat supply, he said. He wouldn't let the reporter leave without showing off a bedroom set he made for his youngest daughter, who works in town and is suspected of feeling the lure of the outside world. It was a beautifully fin ished Job of craftsmanship, bed, dressing table and chest? one farmer's bid against the tin seled baubles of the world. Cites Home Imprjvements Up the road where an older son, Jack, livec with his wife and four children, Uncle Harve's daughter-in-law showed off the new oaken cabinets which she had her husband make and in stall in the kitchen in accor dance with a home improvement program worked out with Mrs. Florence Sherlll, the county home demonstration agent. Still further up Cat Creek an other son, Frank, was building a new concrete-floored chicken brooder. He had filled in erosion gullies big enough to hide a house, and mixed grains and alfalfa were growing on this formerly ruined land. He had so diversified his farming that everything he needed fof food except coffee, salt and sugar vu grown right there on the place. He wanted the chicken brooder In order to get a better cash Income and he has hopes that the county will put through a better road so he can get milk out and build up a dairy busi ness. Up and down the settlement the story was the same. Hope and new ambition burst through the native mountain reticence as farmers walked over their lields with the reporter trying to make make it clear (or city folks that Cat Creek was going places FURNACES COAL and AIR Furnaces Air Conditioning "We Specialize In Home Comfort" WARM-AIRE HEATING CO. Phone 1357 - 58 Broadway Asheville, N. C. 1 HOME OWNERS' SPECIALTIES ? 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