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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 19S2 g jj Poverty of fountain Folk of Eastern Kentucky More Pronounced By JOSEPH VARILLA United Press International Frankfort, Ky -iUPl The mountain lolk of Eastern Ken tucky always were poor, but ! in these affluent limes their j poverty has become even i more pronounced. They find themselves lack-. ing the basic facilities of a' modern industrial society. i Roads, schools, power plants, flood control dams, sewage plants and airports are inadequate in most of Eastern Kentucky's 32 counties. As a result, industry refuses to locate there, unemployment mounts and income drops. Kentucky Gov. Bert Combs maintains that until those basic facilities are provided, Eastern Kentucky and other areas just like it in the eight state Appalachian region will continue to hold the bottom rung on the economic ladder. His administration is pull ing out all stops and the stale is going deep in hock on bond issues in an effort to provide those facilities. But he does not feel the Federal govern ment is providing the aid it should. The governor argues that present federal development programs are not geared to the underdeveloped areas of the Appalachian region ureas which he says are most in need of aid. He claims the programs are geared rather to areas that already have been industrialized but have fallen off in recent years. ' Even the much-heralded area redevelopment admin istration (ARA) is not hitting the mark in Appalachia, ac cording to Combs. He contends ARA still is wed to the old plant-location concept of development and consequently its outlook is too narrow. "The plant-location idea might be fine for the indus trialized areas of the cast," he said. "But Eastern Kentucky isn't ready for that yet. We've got a lot to do first before we're in a position to really compete for plants. Combs is chairman of the conference of Appalachian Governors, made up of the chief executives of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Vir land. North Carolina and Ala bama. The Appalachian areas of all eight states are beset with the same kinds of problems evident in Kentucky.- But the 32 counties of Eastern Ken tucky are viewed as present ing the most intense expres sion of the region s problem. Not even in severely de- pressed West Virginia is there a contiguous area so large with so little. i Family income in most of the 32 counties barely reaches the subsistence level. In 22 of , them, the median family in-1 come is less than $24 50 a I j week. : The reason is painfully sim I pie there are almost no I jobs to be had because there I are almost no industries in ! Eastern Kentucky. In the ! United States as a whole, there are 1.72 manufacturing establishments per 1.000 pop ulation. The part of West Vir ginia considered most de pressed has 0.95. Eastern Ken : tucky has 0.7. And none of ' the plants employs a large number of people. ... There was a time when most of the area residents made their living by mining coal. But many mines have closed down and the others have' become highly mechan- j ized. I Farming in most of the area is all but impossible because of the mountainous terrain. I There are small farms, but the I' ' if : &w . - ONE-ROOM SCHOOL Schools like this 1,000, most of these one-room schoolhouses one-room schoolhouse near Campbell's creek are located in the eastern part of Kentucky, in Perry county. Ky., serve the small 10 considered by many to be the most dis- Pnd 12 l""c" h-jmlnlc (hot lip in Jlig 1h11q,V'S trnecnrl largo arna in Ihg rminlrv. (UPH be'wccn the mountains. Numbering about ' day when the small farm was ' profitable is gone. j Kentucky has tried to at tract industry to the area. But John Whisman, who heads the state's area program office, explains industry is re luctant to move into an area where the roads are bad. where there is a threat of flood, where there are few airports, where power often is inadequate, where schools are poor. Transportation Is the big problem. Because of the mountains, the area has been land-locked. The inability to get raw materials in and pro ducts out is often a deciding factor when an industry turns down bids to locate there. The state decided to attack the problem with a toll road. the first section of which is scheduled to be completed in November. But the toll road won't com pletely solve the problem. There will still be counties in Eastern Kentucky with only a few paved roads. The transportation problem has contributed greatly to the education problem in the area. With the lack of roads, consolidated schools are al most impossible in many of the mountain counties. As a result, there still are almost 1,000 one-room school houses in Kentucky, most of them in the mountainous eastern part. The situation on flood con trol has been basically the same as on highways, accord ing to Whisman. Many jobs needed In Eastern Kentucky are trivial compared to the large projects constructed by the Corps of Engineers and creeks present the biggest headaches. In total, the little riveij and streams present a serious problem. Whisman was encouraged recently by a report from four Federal cabinet officials which will permit regional ef fects to be used as a criterion to determine whether the Fed eral government will partici pate in a particular water pro ject. Under the old policy, such benefits as stimulation to labor and business activity, development of industrial and tourist activities, land en hancement and provision of municipal and industrial water were not acceptable as criteria. Now they will be. But it may be a year before the me chanics of the program are worked out. Officials here do not view the problem of Eastern Ken tucky as insoluble, but they insist that the full resources of the Federal and State gov ernment must be used to launch an overall program of development. The Conference of Appa lachian Governors already is working on a regional pro- grain. The staff lepresenta- j Sulphur Springs, W.Va., lives of the governors are Sept. 18-19 to work further on scheduled to meet at White . it. Combs and several other Eovernors will attend. All the i to the Drugram will be the governors will meet later. I support of the Federal gov But Whisman feels the keylernment. He feels ARA is the logical agency to coordinate the effort and provide tech nical assistance. 5iM niv:i H:s ' i. s At 1 s?t ONE OF BETTER ROADS - This is a sec- the first section of which is scheduled to be tion of Kentucky Highway 15 one 01 tne opened in rovemDer. Siaie ofnciais say lick better roads in eastern Kentucky. Parallel- of adequate roads has kept industry out of ling it now is a new state-built toll road, the area. (UPI) 1 rr&T Area Farm Tour Set by Northrup Because of the increasing use of hybrid corn, alfalfas. and permanent pastures in the southern Oregon area, North rup, King, and company, Al bany and Portland plant breeders, have developed good varieties during the past few years. As a service to Interested farmers, the varieties will be shown on Northrup King's farm tour, Tuesday, Sept. 18. The tour will begin at, the Southern Oregon Experiment station, located about two miles west of Medford. Included in the tour will be field corns for grain and sil age, alfalfas, and grasses in test plots at the experimental station; the A. D. Christcnscn ranch in the Applcgate area, where alfalfas will be shown; the Jerry Stone ranch in Pro volt, for corns for silage; the Howard Pruitt ranch, on the lower river road, where farm ers will see 75 acres of West land pasture mixture; and the Hoot's Angus ranch, where they wil lobserve Latar Or chard Grass-Ladino Clover mixture. From there they will continue to Dale Martin's, on River Banks rd. at March Loop, where they will check on corn and alfalfas, and to the Bill Spratling ranch on Helm rd. for corn trials. Director of the tour is Mel vin Atwood, Northrup, King and company, Albany. NAMED PRESIDENT Portland - il'Pli - The Rev. Paul E. Waldschmidt, C.S.C., has been named president of the University of Portland. He has been vice president since 1955. 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