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Red Oak Students Get A* Book Of Their Own every tingle one of thera, was a free book ? to take home, to read and to keep. And they were excited about it. One grade at a time, they swarmed into the library and twirled around tables piled with colorful new paperbacks. Ubw of them had any trouble finding the book they wanted among school-age favorites: mysteries, animal stories, cartoons, novels about farm and frontier. families. When the floodgates were opened and the fourth grade flowed in, Melissa Dawn Bis sent cho6e a mystery called "Against Time," by Roderic Jeffries. Jeffrey Dean Davis went for "Swiftwater," a story about a bear in the wilderness. Sandra Crawford decided on "Helen Keller's Teacher," by Margaret Danielson; at first she wasn't sure what it was about until classmates told her that Helen Keller was a well-known blind girl whose courage has become legen dary. Melinda Gunter zeroed in on "The Amazing Mr. Pro thero," a book about a dog, because "I like stories about animals." The source of all this hap piness is the RIF program, which stands for Reading Is Fundamental. The program is advertised by Carol Burnett on TV and funded by the Department of Education in Washington. As explained by Red Oak librarian Marilyn She lien berger, who organized the project, the program of fers 75 percent of the money 'All wc had to do, said Marilyn Shellenger, "was ap ply to the federal government under the RIF program. We had to make out a proposal and describe how we were go ing to give the books away, how many children were in volved, who would be our sponsor, how we would publicize the program, and so on. "The idea is to get books in to the hands of children. There are many children in elemen tary schools in this area who just don't have any books of their own. Some of them were still asking today when they had to bring their book back to the library. I had to tell them several times that they didn't have to bring it back, that it was theirs to keep." They seemed to have an ap petite without limit for reading. Though they said their two favorite categories were mysteries and animal stories, they all gave a loud ' yes ! " when asked if they like funny stories, space stories, the Hardy Boys, "Little House on the Prairie" books, hidden treasure stories, baseball books, football books, Winnie the Poo, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Bugs Bunny and on and on. It was a book-starved group, and they clearly would have been hap py with 10 books instead of one. The idea for the RIF pro gram came originally from Mrs. Robert S. McNamara of Washington, D.C.. in 1968. It finally began to function in December 1975, when Coo gran established the Inexpen sive Book Distribution Pro gram for Beading Motivation. This program required a 90/50 local match to federal money. In 1978 this act was amended to make the federal share 79 percent. , X ? "*4 School personnel may And out more about the program by writing the lnexpei?lve Book Distribution Program, Reading to Fundamental Inc , 475 L' Enfant Plaza, Suite 4800, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. KMO The Red Oak program for this year has two more sea ?ions to go ? one uj April and one in May. It appears that the program is alao spreading to ^neighboring Madison County, thanks to the help of Red Oak principal. Bill Brigman, who notified people at Marshall Elementary School about it. Marshall has already made plans to apply for RIF funds. RED OAK READERS pursue the paperbacks laid out for them as Principal Bill Brigman and Librarian Marilyn Shellenberger (rear) supervise the selection pro cess. Any school may apply for such books under the Reading Is Fundamental program. Calvary Church Plans A Week-Long Revival caivary Baptist unurcn in Mars Hill will have a spring revival beginning Easter Sun day, April 6 and continuing through April II. The services will begin each evening at 7:30. Dr. James H. Johnson, pastor of the West Asheville Baptist Church, will be the preacher. Dr. Johnson is a native of Latta, S.C, and has degrees from Wake Forest University and Southeastern Baptist Seminary. He earned DR. JAMES H. JOHNSON his doctorate in theology from Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. EUen Johnson, wife of the visiting speaker, will lead the singing. Mrs. Johnson is a graduate of Meredith College with a major in music. She is an outstanding soloist and will sing as well as lead the revival choir. Various groups and in dividuals from the community and Mars Hill College will also present special music. Revival Service At Chapel Hill A series of revival services will begin at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, March 24 at 7 p.m. The Rev. Spivy Penland will deliver the message each night. The Rev. George Massey, pastor, welcomes all singers and listeners. 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In the first two sessions, topics will include: how com munities can select the type of industrial growth they want; matching up community at tributes and goals with in dustry needs; and "selling" the community to the in dustry. The final session, conducted by the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Com munity Development, will be on ways of revitalizing downtowns. Topics will in clude financing and attracting investment to downtown. The workshops are part of the state's Community of Ex cellence program, which is an economic development pro gram to assist communities under 15,000 people. The workshops will be open to the public. Representatives of all sued communities can attend Business and community leaders, as well aa industrial development professionals, are encouraged to attend. "Many communities have the basic tools to recruit in dustry. We want to help com muni ties aggressively recruit the types of industry they want, in addition to assisting industries that might walk in the door," Gov. Hunt said. This will be the first time the State has ever conducted such extensive industrial develop meat workshops for communi ty leaden, according to Jack Stewart of the N.C. Depart ment of Commerce. All workshops will begin at t a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Loca tions and dates for the workshops in Western North Carolina are March 25, April 15. and May ? at Southwestern Technical College in Sylva. Children's Exhibit Coming To Library The Madison County Child Development Program and the Madison County Public School Kindergartens will feature their annual art ex hibit at the Madison County Public Library beginning April 1. The third annual display will highlight work of young local artists from ages S months to 6 years of age. Each year the display has been one of the most popular window exhibits sponsored by the library according to library personnel. Everyone is encouraged to stop by the library during the month of April to view the col orful and creative work of some of Madison County's youngest artists. Charles Lindbergh in augurated the first airmail service between the United States and the Panama Canal Zone in 1U9.
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