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Carolina Village Becomes Ghost Town as Last Family Moves Out
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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' 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..
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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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