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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-05-17, Page 2:Disirict...The. LLB A .01 § DOeSn't-Brag, AhOUf. . • • Blue gale, Mu41Lck OteaSey Pork, Stinking Creek: these are the naines of mountain cemintini- -ties located aleng the creek beds here, in eastern -KentztekY, Here, Where paved roads are few, lives segment of the 10,000,000. moun- tain people of the Southern Ap- palachians, - These southern Mountaineers lent the major part of that group Of citizens whom President Ken- nedy has called the "UnderpriVi1. eged in America." High rates of illiteracy and low economic op- portunity makes this region one of the most problematical and challenging areas in the United States. The people of these hills live a life as deceptively simple as the direct folk names by which they cell thole places. They do not seem to move fast or push hard; when a man wants to shoot sqairrels, he leaves what he is doing and hunte. He has time fax conversation, and time for "jest settin'." Underneath this leisurely sur- face, however, is a many -colored society, a complex pattern of life which often becomes torn and imperfectly mended when the mountaineer moves to the eity, or when the city reaches his home. The area commonly referred to as the Southern Appalachians eonsiets ot' approximately 130,000 square miles covering the moun- tainous parts of seven states: Ala- bama, Georgia. Kentucky. North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, Over 1,500,000 people have left this region in the last ten years, following teell- worn migration pathe north to urban centers such as Chieago, Indianapolis. and Cleveland. In recent years their destina- tions are being extended over longer distances. Many of thee migrants .are not equipped to participate in the urban environ- ment. The most poorly trained form ghettos in the (tides, or move. of neeeseity, to the eltims. Statiettos dealing with the mountain area itself are signifi- cantly enough below the na- tional norm to reflect upon the prosperity and well-being of the nation as a whole. In eastern Kentucky the average wage earner makes $650 a year, one- third the average annual income in the United States. This figure inoludee welfare payments and other state and federal subsidies, Eastern Kentucky has not been self-supporting in 30 years, and receives some S15.000,000 a year in direct relief. and a correspond- ing sun,. in mollygrub." free come-odities distributed to those who qualify for welfare. The reasons for this local de- preesien are asaity. and involve the explosion of severe: myths whieh. have become the s- teles through which this area is commonly viewed. In the past, natural resources of ceal and tin - were ;he primary source of inoome nere The mountains have been wastefully stripped; treee which c.'wei: their slopes are all seoond third growth now. en- euttable for lumbering on a nificant scale. But the oral is by no means exhatisted, and the coal inthyxsnct dead. Rather. it is the nenn a coe! 'nee which is dying. The rape mechanization ot the mines veneer began trthe early 105(re has pet neeee then 50 per cent of the eeeil out of work. Those- tortunate'enpugh t retain. their' loi* receive 4' good salary under the union pay scale: Over. three.dollars an hour, $12.0 a week, But the not -beenable to maintain work for over hali. the men. Except for the technologieal eleangee whleh Managements have introduced and the union aecepted, the industry might have lost still more of its market, A royaltyis paid into the union welfare fund, which helps the retired and the disabled, but little seems to have been done to help the displaced and .unemployed coal miner. To an .extent,, new sources of energy such as natural gas and petroletun have decreased the demand for coal. Even it the de - mends of the United Mine Work- ers for increased embargoes on the importation of Crude petrol. eum were met, however, and even if new synthetic uses for coal are developed, it is improb- able that this would create work in the mines forall those who are now laid off, The "claw"has replaced the man, writes John W. Dower in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. Agriculture too offers no real solution to the lack of economic opportunity in the mountains. Al- though local teams of . agrarian experts are working to develop maximum utilization of the soil, there is simply not enough culti- vatable land to make farming a major economic prop here. Eighty per gent of eastern Kentucky is too steep for habitation. In Clay County, Kentucky, the figure rises to 90 per cent, in Leslie County to 991-2 per cent. And much of the rare flatland is river and creek bed. i &Vet 710t attractive to most indnstries. A- gainst the lure of a cheap labor force lie the .detrimental factors of poor transportation and power facilities, and the lack of educa- tional and technical skills. Prof. Joseph Mobley, agricul- tural economies expert of the University of Kentucky, esti- mates that 50.000 new jobs are needed to Meet the present de- mands of unemployed and under- employed people in eastern Ken- tucky alone. In addition to this number over 16,000 young people join the labor force here each year. Extending these figures over the next 10 years, it is ap- parent that more than 150,000 new jobs must be created in eastern Kentucky alone in order to employ the local labor pool. Faced with the lack of rural job opportunity on the one hand, the lack of urban skills on the other. the individual mountain- eer finds himself trapped. His words are black and often bitter. There is among many a sense • ef having:, been aken advantage of. of having been used and ex- ploited Underlying this situation are conditions of environment which provide a further set of sobering statistics. Only 10 per cent of. the farm homes in Clay County, for example. have running water, less than 6 per cent have tele- phones. and less than 5 per cent have inside plumbing. Of the :0.000.000 likzeratee she United States. ever 2.000,000 live in the Scothern Appalache tans. Mere than 80 per cern of the eounte peeple in eastern Ken- tueky fail te eintsh nigh echeol. Thee leek ot edaoe.tier.. togethee with peer diet and hyeeene. caus- ed the rejection of almost half the :nen eel:eel up fee military eery lee free-, neeemain re- gion during, World War II. Le,lelne opperthnity h.e. lterzelene. and ill-prepared to :neve te eite- -.::es. the menn - taineer taces a bleak teet ........ Yee there ie briehte: elde te sinneeten alse. tee :n recent; years :he peeple ef the Southern Apated - palachlane ;11C:-.S:VeS erzeranee of development and etieteatem ,.7.n a srna7.1 scale. These peograres. and the unique way 'of life ef the mtaineer. are the f two s,:bse- ;..r..ier.t articles. ISSUE IS — 1962 404, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS hARCUSs. WA E ii>"‘SON ts, 8 SixNi S. "ci.goilsE ts. Puit241. CHKI )S DANGER AREA — ittvtac,ot,:n -:r a rev- sees 0f enettenr tests n ti e Pepe fe: ene j 5 efe-Se Atterec En- er ay Czerereee.en leaee Zee ez'z,z(Aar space around Ch.{- strrtz,s lscn s tiee ce-erzt test s'Ite The area,. Ne%sn-co s 603 rrvies de and 800 rallies Iong. The r',e'ett s aixno for manners, reme lgotters, aeectors cr.?. etrers s-eer clear of the ore.o METER MEDIC — Charles Murphy has a most unusual job. He uses an electronic stethoscope tc check the "heart beat" of parking meters London officials keep a close watch on timing mechanisms to make sure that motorists get full value out of their money. He inspects about 200 per day. TABLE .rf k•-• ,i.Jaw, Anzttlews. Here's an easy dessert that can be made the day before serving. Serve it with scoops of ice cream or with whipped cream. BAKED LEMON PUDDING 1 cup. sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch l,"! teaspoon salt 1 cup cold water 2 eggs, beaten cup butter lie. cup fresh lemon juice Combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt in saucepan: add water grad- ually and cook over direct heat until thickened. Stir about le the hot mixture into the beaten eggs; -stir back into pan, Cook 1 minute longer. Remove from heat: add butter and lemon juice. Pour into crumb -lined baking dish, Crumb Topping: Mix together lie cups crushed cornflakes. 1 cup brown sugar, a .cup melted butter,1 cup flour, teaspoon soda, and 1 cup shredded coconut. Pour 4 of mixture into a 9 -inch -square. greased pan. Pour in lemon fill- ing. Sprinkle remaining -mixture on top and bake at 350' F 20-25 minutes, Cut in squares when you serve it. either hot or cold. * * BANANA -APPLESAUCE CAKE 36 graham crackers 3 cups fresh applesauce 4 tnedimn bananas e cup heavy cream 1 tablespoon sugar 14 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Sliced bananas for garnish Ground nutmeg Arrange 7 graham crackers in the bottom of a 10x6x2-inch bak- ing dish. Cover with a 4 -inch layer of applesauce. Top with a layer of bananas sliced 14 -inch thick. Repat until dish Is filled hiavng graham crackers as top layer. Refrigerate Ili to 2 hours. 1%15: before. serving, combine cream:. eugar and pure vanilla extract. Whip tint!) cream stands in soft. peaks. Spread over top of padding. Serve as dessert gar- nished with eliced bananas and a -des!: .greund rmeineg. Y-IFLT): set -eines. APRICOT BAVARIAN CREAM 1 envelope plain gelatin 114 cups cold canned apricot nectar I a cup sugar '.. -teaspoon salt 2 egg yolks. slightly beaten 1 tablespoon lemon juice le teaspoon vanilla 2. egg whites. stiffly beaten 1 cup heavy cream, whipped Se:7*n gelatia in cold apricot el:lee la its, doable beiler. Add and ealt and place over frz stir until disse-lv- ed. Siewly peur hot inixecre eye: iteeten rt*its, cenetently. Retern te dee:tie stirring eerie:Int, :y •••••,! •”,tirs ceses spen. Re- -eve 4- -7 .r.f.:e; v".•••'•.= ar.d a 1: eensiseer erle„ r eee Feld in eL.eec wh;.:Es, BANANA LUNCHEON SALAD Head lettuce 1.i cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon milk 4 medium bananas 1 sup minced dried beef or cooked ham Fresh parsley Arrange seai Mix ntayonr.a;se "' Cut - bans. c:-.s,nks Dip c (EA in mayonnaise and then rol] in minced dried beef or cooked ham. Arrange 5 pieces bananas on each serving. Garnish with fresh parsley. YIELD: 4 servings, PEPPERMINT ANGEL 1 cup milk 16 marshmallows 1 cup heavy cream, whipped Few drops red food coloring 34 cup crushed peppermint stick candy Angel food cake Chocolate sauce Heat milk in saucepan over low flame; add marshmallows and stir until melted. Chill until thick and syrupy. Fold whipped cream into marshmallow mix- ture. Add food coloring to tint a delciate pink. then fold in candy. Pour into freezing tree - and freeze until firm. To serve, top angelfood cake with the pep- permint mixture and drizzle chocolate sauce over it. YIELD. 6-8 servings. A Sour Note About A Sweet Lady • Warning: This is going to be a sour one.... Xo one should blame Jackie Kennedy for being good-looking. Nor should anyone expect the V.S. President's wife to ride a bicycle in from the airport or slop over te the Governraent HOUSE reception in blue jeans. We expect her to look like a lady. But it seems to be ne accident that the crowds in Rome and the crowds in New Delhi shouted the same thing—"America's Queen" — only in different languages. -Jackie has certainly put on a queenly perfermarice, backed by her Sister. Princess Radziwilie of London. wife of a. one-time Pol- sh mince. N'Vt-, are intorrned by leased wire wnenever Mrs. Kennedy changes from 8leek black to -stun- , nine white. whenee-er pearls give way to dtamonds. N7 ers: of all. the mese incense- . quentle.1 statements cf the First Lady . are reported with ap- parent awe. Jairkle'e earth-hak- ntg like, "I have a little girl abet:: your age," or "That's a pre , ty name," are - enough to send :he press eorps ea:loping :o the nearest telegraph office. Maybe it's the fault of the press. Twenty re.porters are free- loading en Jackie's junket and, beeline some tremendous devel- opment ake a cobra getting away from, a snake charmer or some Indian official saying that they've had abut enough foreign aid, these folks will naturally be preeeed ler copy. A let of the werld has the idea the: American's are s: rich feom. having etelen mucor wealth freer: the peer Latin Americans and the peer Afreans and the peer Asia:tee et.e. that foreign aid tieeetth hurt us a bit and the nly cring shame is that we den': really :sen up and atone for :rt.:: materialistic sine. Somelnew. it self-intere,,!-: would lie in tryiee tee convince these people Th:: we are a hard-working race t.vhc bail: an empire etit of a wilderness by getting up early and petwing etel:: and ehop- ping with a w. A:ea, that we leave he ate:lee-et ra:e ineome taxes. an earth and the most mag- . infieent national debt. This idea will neve:- be sold by e lovely lady, an aristocrat to her fingertips representing :he tiny and vanishing fox-hunting set of N7i-g.r. ie.—Telea. Tribune British Can't Afford Tu Buy Lunch Surely the oddest thing about the British economy is that prtie- tically nobody can afford to buy himself a lunch any more, A house, a car, a television, clothes, a holiday? Yes, one can just afford them. But lunch? No. Probably a majority of corn. merciai firms now issue their clerical staffs with luncheon vouchers. Which is why every other restaurant has a little sticker "LV" in the window. With a voucher the staff can get 3s, 0d. (50 cents) worth of lunch at one of the restaurants without paying. The firm pays later and writes the cost off its taxes. Where there is no luncheon voucher there may be a canteen, with a subsidized meal at a give- away price. Where there is no canteen meal, may be a kitchen where the staff can cook itself a little l Where there is no kitchen the staff probably brings its own sandwiches. Virtually half the people lunch - mg in the 'crowded restaurants where 3s.6d. would not even tip the porter are doing so as guests of the other half. And most of the other half are -either going to sign the bill (on behalf of the firm), get the cost back out of the petty cash account later, or claim an allowance against tax when they send their form (and. theb, ill) in to the Inland Rev- eriue What is certain is that practi- cally nobody will be having a proper lunch at his or her own expense. Very few people in this coun- try today could afford to do so. No fooling. That's a fact. It seems a very odd state of affairs. It may be that the party that will win the next election will be the party that adopts as its slogan the words, "Let us pay our own way." For when people pay their own way each gets the lunch he wants and deserves, writes John Allan May in the Christian Science Monitor. When others pay—or else one doesn't eat—not only does the luncher usually oat a meal he does not want but society loses by introducing into its system a new and random set of privileges. New the reason why people cannot afford to pay for lunch is simply that taxation is too 'nigh. The tax on a car has been reduced—three cheers for that! — but it still stands at 45 per cent. On 4 basically am ($1,400) car the tax is more than 61200 ($500). Par A200 you could not eat at the Savoy every day. But you could eat =WS the street, Or look at it anether way. Because people cannot afford to pay the fell economic fare on the railways the railways are losing more than 61150,000,000 a year. So this 61150,000,000 is simply collected by the tax man instead of the railway clerk. Now that would buy lunch tor a week for every man, woman, and child in the country. Which means that not having it causes 61150,000,000 to be unavailable for lunch. In other words, running rail- ways at a loss means going with- out lunch. This is indeed an economic fact -of -life that people seem un - Alvan of and yet cannot avoid. Nothing is free, The state never pays for any- thing; the taxpayer does, At the present moment, in this country "the state" is said to spend 40 per cent of the national income; i.e., the taxpayer pays out 40 per cent of the nation's income in taxes. If a nation, or a man, pays 25 'per cent of income for housing, 25 per cent for housekeeping, 10 per cent on motoring, and 40 per cent on government, there is not going to be much left over for lunele KNEADS THE DOUGH — Singing wildly as he works, Mickey Rooney works with a large pile of dough. He is rehearsing for a scene he plays in a television show. Fashion Hint FOR WARMER WEATHER • .111,I •