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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1958)
f. 1 Carolina Village Becomes Ghost Town as Last Family Moves Out Otter's KaU A vtllaa ! eta. aMaria frwa Um ( Nartk CtnUM. TIM l Iwlir ku WIS Cava, hleh tpw4 lf haaaraO run la tht n Malar a? mnurm Carallaa. la waa always ' inlraaial UaUU4, ka ImUNm U wkat MUtO M. a y DORIS DUMOND BURNSVILLE. N. C. March 1 1 Velmer Bailey and hia family hava left Lot Cava. Now there's no one left. "We don't want to leave." said Bailey, "but we have no choice. The othert have left We can't Kay here alone." During the part 100 yean at many ai IS families lived and prospered in the strsnge and be lated community in thia little known corner of mountainous west ern North Carolina. Hie Baileys Velmer and hit wife, Servilla, and their children, PritcUla, Horea and Isaiah were the last to turn down the steep mountain trial, leaving behind nine still-sturdy, well-built homes, The Welfare Unit Budget Tops $71 Million PORTLAND, March 1 u - The 1957-5. state Welfare Commission budget was Increased again yes terdayto a total of 171.067,(81, or $4,417,000 more than was ap propriated by the Legislature. The increase had been accom plished without going to the- state Kmergency Board for more mon ey. Thia has been dpae by book keeping procedures,, such as transferring tome exclusively state-paid-for programs into other programs for which there is fed eral support. But, "If the situation becomes any worse, we'll have to go to the Emergency Board," aaid Jean Jewett,, commission administra tor. The commission said welfare payments for January reached a record high el $3,211,499. There cere 14.111 cases that month, compared with 13,001 in December. Baileys went to farm near Joneabore, Ten, Lost Cove is a good two-hour tramp, from Briscoe Peterson's store In Poplar. The only route from Poplar is by way of the Oinchfieid Railroad tracks. Walk Trestle Yon walk the railroad trestle across the angry Toa Riverr-Vou Walk the tracks through a gorge where the river thunders from rocky wall to wall. Then you see the sign painted en a rock that points Into the forest of hemlock. Surrounded by the Flat Top Wildlife' Refuge and hidden high above the restless Toe. Lost Cove is a plsce to excite the wonder of any visitor. Cleared fields, open to aua and rain, are protected from erosion by rock walls. White clapboard houses stand primly amidst close-clipped lawns. Glear cold springs well up, gather force and run singing through the grove. The cove ia a 100-acre tract of land, believed to have beea ac quired shortly before the . Civil War by Morgan Bailey, who bulk the first cabin there. Five gener ations of his descendants not only survived there in primitive isola tion but proposed .nd lived to gether in peace. They attended one church, one school Once a Sawmill Aa far back as any of them can remember, there was a saw mill. Once there was com mill and even a store. But no doctor. "We've stayed pretty healthy.' said Bailey. "The water is the best la the world and contagious disease seldom reached us. But, aboveMalL we had 'faith ia the Lord. Inside the homes are doors of unusual panel design. Joined with wooden pegs. There are fireplaces of stone and clay and cookatovee intriguingly named "Diana." la the yards are the aeat barns. 100 Men Out Of Work at Merlin Mills GRANTS PASS, March 111 -Effective Monday Jhe night shifts in the Bate Sawmill sod Planing Mills at Merlin will be taken off for an indefinite period, C. L. Lindquist, general manager, said today. The curtailment will mean a layoff for about 100 men. The reduction ia plant opera tions is due to-"market conditions beyond our control," Lindquist said. There ia no present plan to curtail operation in the Bate Ply wood plant, also at Merlin, Lind quist said. corn cribs and a few ancient hew -log structures belonging to homes of past generations. Bee hives everywhere. The early settlers profited well with lumbering; and when that played out turned to farming caUle, milk, butter, chickens, eggs. hogs. Ia addition to the route from Poplar there are two other ways of reaching Lost Cove. Neither of them ia simple. Shipped by Rail One ia a rough road leading up from Lost Cove station, two miles around the bend. From there household furnishings of people moving out were loaded on a freight car and shiDoed to their destination. The other is the old sled road which winds up over a shoulder of Flat Top Mountain. U was a county road in the old days, kept in condition ny a system of- lee labor' that was common at ooe time throughout the mountain re gion. Now it Is run down and rarely used. ' It was. for lack of a road that Lost Cove has lost its people. The emigrants have not sold their land or their homes. No one has offered to buy. Yet the 16 er 12 lots which make vp the original Morgan Bailey tract are for sale either to the Wildlife Commission or to anyone with vision and means to keep the lovely land Literary Corner Teddy Roosevelt, Fighting Roy THEODORE ROOSEVELT: , Volume I. T H E FORMATIVE YEARS 1I5-188, By.CarletesI Putnam. Scribners, $10. The Bullochs, of Georgia, and the RoosevelU. of New York, old and distinguished families, were united In 185 with the marriage of the Southern daughter Mittie and the Northerner Teddy. One son, born five years later, was the future President Theodore, Aa a key he suffered frees ghostly Ulaeeaes. s I e k stomach, a heart sappeeed net to be of a diamond to be proud of at an investment price! Prudonco V. Your best choice . . , a bigger diamond . . . over thro quarters, of a carat. Absolutely flawless solitaire, sot in a classic mounting of 14kt gold. 725 pits Us , UP TO 38 MONTHS I tltiMon enT TO PAY no down to.show detail payment on approved credit, Othert from owr connoisseur collection of flawless dia monds prudently prked from $300 to $2500, ; FINI JEWELRY STREET FIOOR . t - ' ' - J the strongest beat, aad asthma. vlch wore bias dewa at hesne aad ks -Ewees when be spent endless eights wheexlag, eeagb lag and sitting ap miserably ks bed. The boy fought R. He appears to' have been endowed with, or to have whipped up, a fantastic, desperate amount of energy. The '..youth who could have been ex pected to drop dead threatened to exhaust relatives and friends till indeed they dropped dead ' .with his interminable walks, his ' mountain climbing, his tireless winter bunting and his riding an his ranch. His work at law led perhaps Inevitably to Albany. While ia the Legislature, after the loss some years before of his beloved ' father, he tost his wife Alice and ' his mother within 24 hours. This volume, first of a projected four, - gets hjm engaged to Edith Carow - and nets him well along on the path to fame. .' Having the feed fortaae U see paper aa prerlens Roosevelt bi ographer had worked with, Pat- 1 nam ia extraareUaartly thereaga. Thia h) net just a complete ae- '.- count, bet anper complete. We know en what lawa oa what elope Teddy Bret walked with AHee, what rente be fetUwed from the Oraad Central oa a certain night 71 years age; aad when he sets out, say. If eeaqaer the Matter, bora. Pntnam. as indefatigable aa his eabject, briefs ae on prevloas clunks, the smoker deed, the natare of the dlfricalUea before lettlaf Roosevelt blmeelf start at exactly 1:41 a.m. Some . readers may .ask whether, in the perspective of history, Theodore Roosevelt is worth this detail. He had a gory record as a hunter, be certainly exaggerated the quality of cour age, and bis obsession with mat ters of health and wbolesomeness risked in a sense being unhealthy and unwholesome Itself. But he became the indestructible symbol of a certain valorous aspect of our America, which be intensi fied more than any ether man. This shows best, perhaps, in Put nam's anecdote of the day Roose velt, thrown by one bronco after another, still refused the friendly offer of a real cowboy to "break" the next animal for him with the remark: "Cowboy, I know you can ride him; what I want to find out ia if I can ride him." But whatever you think of 'Roosevelt, you have no doubt about Putnam; be is a major bi ographer. This sort of achieve ment wins the coveted literary prises. W. G. Rogers Dispute Over Hamburgers Leads to Death of Husband N"Msjm 1 wrstjit laUeJ. w in.iin.il, i m u iL HHRMMMHMai)H 0 . springtime special! Desert Flower rtg. '1.50 lotion, and toilet water Via fflilL Shulton offers you these two Desert Flower luxuriet ... petel-pink hand and body lotion to make "winter-weary" skin soft and lustrous . . . plus the exquisitely fragrant Desert Flower Toilet Water to make you sparkle with ele gance this spring.' Buy yours' todayl "Waft awn! phong orden;. TOILETRIES STREET FIOOR Him' ?Mln v3 . Of I -I- .-, a iT" BARTOW, F1a March 1 tWA Bartow insurance salesman was shot to death by his wife in the aftermath of a dispute over the way she was fixing hamburgers, Sheriff Hagan Parrish said today. Mrs. Rae Eloise , Lankford said C. L. Lankford had been beating her and she intended only to scare him with the shotgun, the sheriff added. Parrish said their son, Charles, IV confirmed . that Lankford, M,' had been beating his wife but the boy was not present at the shoot ing. . Mrs. Lankford, a nurse, also M, is in a hospital ia a state of ex treme shock. ' She has not beea charged, and the sheriff said he plans to present the case to a county grand jury now In session. The sheriff said Charles told this story: Lankford began fussing with his wife last evening while she was preparing hamburgers. Later he began beating her with a belt Charles got a 12-gauge shotgun, a Christmas present from his father, loaded it and threatened to shoot his father if he didn't stop beating his mother. Lankford atopped, and Mrs. Lankford made the boy put the gun away. Then Lankford ordered Charles out of the house and Charles went to see some neighbors. Mrs. Lankford gave a statement to this effect, Parrish said: She confirmed what Charles had said, adding Lankford also hit her several blows with his fist and knocked her down while the bey was not present. After Charles left, Lankford beat her again with the belt. She went to bed, and her .husband threatened to beat her again. She got the shotgun, intending to scare him into leaving her alone. The gun went off. Two other children, Robert, 12. and Jeannie, 5,. were in the house at the time of the shooting but did not see it. ' Ait 1 x ,.Vvf. -..- "t 4 .0 M v A foot In the door.. . with vitamins If s peddler rmss your bell and tries to sell you seme vitamins, hen's something you should hear in mind. He's S trained telftmoH. Hell sound convincing. But chances are he's not i physician or a pharmacist He's no judss of your health, and there's no way he can know what sort of vitamins or nutritional supplements you need if you need any at all. So, it's just common sense to gat profeaMindnisdicmls4vicebafoie yon speed yourssonsy. luiseniiiL? WW V Medical Crater BldgV r t44l Grear-Ph. EM S-1157 ULCCU epetntttxom4 Court and Commercial , " f hone EM S-123 '". ' l Soath Liberty Bt.Pheae EM Mill ' from melting into the forgotten past. Oa the wall of the scboolbouse, the building that for more than half a century served both as a school and church, can be seea these words: "Last Sunday School, Nov. 28. 1,000th Year Due WARSAW, March 1 UV-PoIand begins ia 1M0 a six-year observ ance of iu 1.000th anniversary. King Miesxko I founded the first dynasty when be married a Ctech princess and accepted the Chris lias religion for Poland in tea. 1S7: Last revival, Nov. 11M: Clyde Fender, evangelist. School closed forever at Lost Cove, Dec. 17. 1SS7, Sinclair Conley, 71 years. Conley, despite his years and occasional bouts of rheumatism, trod the path from Poplar to the Cove week in and week out for years during the school season to give the boys and girls of Lost Cove an education. There are ae children's shouts in Lost Cove today. Except for the chuckle of the streams, the whispering of raia on wooden shingles, the occasional shout or shot of hunter, the Cove lies silent, Oalcrifige Man Feces Homicide Indictment EUGENE. March 1 UP) A Lane County grand Jury indicted Eldoa Raymond Wilcox of Oakridge yesterday on a charge of negli gent homicide. Ha Is accused in the death of Eddie William, 11, who waa struck by an automobile en Highway 17 last November. Nasser Plans Visit MADRID. March 1 U-The Egyptian Embassy reports Pres ident Nasser of the new United Arab Republic will visit Spain soon. Spain was ana of the first to recognise theUXR, Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun.. March 2, "58 (Sec. III)-23 Eugene Sewage Study Approved EUGENE. March 1 - The Eugene City Council voted Ust night to authorise the hiring of a Corvallis enrineerine firm to make a study of the city's sewsge prooiems. Eufene is one af a Mimhur nf Willamette Valley cities which received notice from the state Sanitarv Autluvttv 1 nvuWk ta stop pollution of the river. Ralph Roderick, engineer with the firm ot Cornell, Howland,, Hays and Meiryfleld, which de al mad the Rueana aawava trml. ment system, told the council the city probably could get by with a M00,0 secondary treat meal.. plant- '.,-:',, ' ' : Migrants Problem ; MEXICO CITY.. March 1 U The Interior Ministry expects an , employment in the United States may be reflected seriously here in a reduction of migrant Mexl-. can farmhands wanted north ef ' ' the border. Officials, figure the . reduction , may be as much as 100.M or per cent of what had been expected for 1951. . . 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