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LETTER FROM FARM YOUTH DELEGATE
Trip to Mountains Provides Most
Exciting' Day for Jane in France
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1961
IITH BREAK-IN WITHIN 2 YEARS
Jane Owen, college-student
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Owen of upper Moore Coun
ty, has spent the summer in
France as North Carolina's
delegate in the International
Farm Youth Exchange pro
gram. in which yoimg Ameri
cans live on farms in Europe
and young people from those
countries come here to visit
American farm families. Jane
stayed with families in vari
ous parts of France and tells
in the letter below about a
trip into fhe mountains from
one of these farms, in the
Grenoble area. The letter was
made available for publica
tion through the North Caro
lina Agricultural Extension
Service. A portion of the let
ter follows.
On Sunday, September 10, I
had an experience that I’ll never
forget. It was one of the most
exciting days I’ve had in France.
My hostess, Marthe Trillart, age
24, and her friends and I left
around 10 a. m. for a skiing re
sort in the mountains. The road
was narrow, steep and curvey.
The mountains were beautiful
with their small pastures, stacks
of straw and spruce pine. We
passed a dam that had been built
between two moymtains. As the
passage way where the dam was,
was narrow and deep, and the
small river swift, it dammed up
a large amount of clear water, so
■ clear that one could see the bot
tom of white rock.
We rode on, passing in and out
of tunnels, rounding winding
curves overhung by rock. We
passed through small villages and
saw the families going to mass.
We saw people bringing the cows
in from the field, and saw dogs
and goats chasing each other over
^the hillsides.
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Around 12:30 we arrived in the
skiing resort. At first sight I
would have sworn I was in a pic
ture post card of Switzerland. The
houses were made of wood with
overhanging rooms. Wooden bal
conies hunk over the. doorways
with pots of geraniums. Cement
houses were trimmed with wood
of brown, yellow, green and red.
The hotels themselves carried out
the theme. We drove through the
village which was crowded with
tourists looking for a place to eat
or having coffee in one of the
many sidewalk cafes.
Our car came to a stop in front
of one of the hotels—it was white
cement on first floor, and brown
wood on the other floors, three to
be exact. Shutters of brown and
white were closed to keep out the
heat of the day. Flowers were
hanging in pots on the house. We
descended from the car and en
tered through the gate of brown
wood to find ourselves' in the
middle of a tailored garden with
chairs of iron and tables made
with tops of the rock from the
mountains. ^
Our host, a friend of Marthe’s
greeted us. He is a university
student, and his father owns the
hotel. He had come up for the
weekend and invited oH of us up
for the day.
Felt Like Angel
Alter a wonderful dinner in the
hotel dining room, we went for
a ride in the mountains. Again we
saw many people working with
their duties as farmers. We saw
the young girls taking afternoon
walks. But the most exciting
event of all was yet to come,
when we rode on the telepher-
eque, the device for taking skiers
to the top of the mountain.
Two people rode in each car. I
chose a yellow one, and Marthe
and I got in. Marthe, an excel
lent skier, wasn’t excited, but she
seemed to enjoy my excitement.
As we rode over the tree tops and
went up, up, up, all I could say,
and I said it I know a thousand
times, was ‘‘Ah, oui, oui, oui!” in
EngUsh this is, “Oh, yes, yes,
yes!” Marthe asked me if I
couldn’t think of anything else
to say, and I told her yes, but
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it was much simpler to just say
‘oui.” She laughed and said that
she felt like a bird and couldn’t
wait until winter to start skiing.
I told her I felt like an angel and
to prove it, I polished by “halq.”
We laughed and sang the rest of
the way up. It took ten minutes.
At the top, the mountains were
more beautiful than I had ever
seen them. The sun_ was shining
and they seemed to shine also.
The air was cool against your
face and the wind blew and
twisted in your hair. The moun
tains were bare except for a few
trees, and a few white flowers and
grass.'The rock glistened as if it
were snow S.inoe it is September,
this area was bare of snow. In
two months there will be plenty.
Started Singing
The people who were there as
we were, were taking naps in the
grass and on rocks. They seemed
to be lost, as I was, in the heav
ens. The sky seemed so close
you could touch it, and yet, we
seemed so far from the world.
The feeling made you want to
sing, and that is just what we did.
We started singing, and our
voices carried and echoed.
As the sun began to hide be
hind a mountain to our left, al
though not hiding from us, it was
stjll bright, we could see in the
valley that it was becoming gray.
We descended with sounds
from the two passenger cars of
‘Ah, oui,” songs, and “Don’t rock
the boat,” an expression I taught
them while riding on a bumpy
road.
The day closed with regret that
it had not been longer.
Curtis Wall’s Gulf Station was
ibroken into again last Friday
and two Lee County youths were
caught red-handed inside.
This was the 11th break-in
within about two years at the sta
tion on US Highway 1, close to
the Moore-Lee county line. A
few ofmonths ago Wall, weary of
continual robberies, installed a
burglar alarm connected with
his home a couple of hundred
yards away. 'When it sounded
Friday at 1:30 a. m., he phoned
Constable L. F. Woods of Camer
on and Wall and Woods got there
about the same time, a few nun
utes later.
Woods arrested Billy Gray, 17,
of Sanford and Milton Carlyle
Thomas, 16, of Broadway, whom
he caught inside with their pock
ets stuffed with cigarettes, packs
of chewing gum, lighters and
other items from the coimter. He
recovered from them also a four-
bladed knife belonging to Wall,
which had been stolen three
times before and recovered every
time.
Taken to Moore County jail,
the boys were placed under $1,-
000 bond Saturday, which they
failed to make, for their appear
ance at the November term of
Superior Court. Woods said
Gray has a record of juvenile
breaking and entering, and spent
a year at a state training school.
They had broken in by the
same door from the greaserack
shed used in all the other br.eak-
ins. About half the thieves who
have entered there over tbo
years have been caught, and
some of the goods they stole re
turned.
One time, before installing the
burglar alarm, Wall placed a
big, savage-looking dog inside
to guard the place, but the next
thieves that came along made
friends with the dog and helped
themselves to the merchandise.
The first time the alarm went
off after it was installed. Wall
got there fast and held the in
truder at gunpoint till Constable
Woods drrived.
One night about two weeks ago
the burglar alarm failed to work
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