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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, January 13, 196
Broken-Do wn Shacks In Kentucky Mountains Hide
Poverty Stricken People Groveling In Illiteracy
Family Homes
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DESIGN 299
Houi. 1,203 Sq. H.
- Cu. ft.
Big Window
Floods Home
With Light
Exterior of this design is made
attractive with wide roof over
hang and combination of wood
aiding with brick veneer.
L-shaped living-dining combina
tion shown in this ranch home
has many luxurious possibilities
as you can see for yourself. Wide
top - to - bottom picture window
floods the front room with plenty
of sunshine. Fireplace adds
warmth and cheer during winter
evenings. Dining area is con
venient to kitchen, also features
access to rear outdoor terrace.
Kitchen will certainly please the
homemakcr. There are comer
windows above the sink, ample
space for a breakfast table and
just loads of counter and cabinet
space. Stairs leading to basement
are also within easy reach trom
kitchen.
Another feature of the kitchen
is, it, too, provides access to the
outdoor terrace. This will simpli
fy meal preparation when you
wish to dine outdoors on warm
summer days.
Closet space is abundant
throughout. Master bedroom, quite
large in size, boasts a Mr. and
Mrs. closet. Notice that windows
here are placed high for maxi
mum privacy. Bath features
vnnltory and linen closet, which
also opens out to bedroom hall
Two extra closets in center hall
provides accommodation of ward
robe and storage space in this
home.
This plan conforms to general
FIIA. VA and Building Code re
. qulremenla. You can obtain build
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Ladies Lured
To Billiards
By Mosconi
PHILADELPHIA ILTU - The
fahulous little guy who has spent
most of his life in potl halls has
decided to gel the ladies interested
in knocking the ivories around.
Willie Mosconi. one of the great
est billiard expert who ever
lived, has established Willie Mos
coni Enterprises primarily to lure
the female of the species into one
of the last refuges lor men only.
Mosconi's idea has two parts:
first, attractive billiard centers
not. please, pool halls. Second, i
handicapping system that will put
the duffer on a competitive level
with the expert (formerly known
as shark).
Mosconi will franchise Willie
Mosconi Billiard Ceners, each
to be built to his specifications
and featuring specially loomed
carpeting and an attractive color
.scheme in addition to custom
made colorful equipment.
Glvea Novtre A Chance
The handicapping system, which
still Is In the final development
stage, will let the beginner or
lady compete wiih the skilled
player. It is hoped it will fosjer
billiards as a husband-ana wife
sport, something along the order
of bowling.
An added attraction will be Mos
coni, of course. Willie will tour
his franchise bowling centers
giving exhibitions and pointers on
how to plav the game.
Mosconi. 4. was horn in South
Philadelphia. He gave his first ex
hlbition match when he was 7
vears old. Normally this would in
ciicate a mis-spent life, beginning
early.
1 Developa Talent
But In Mosconi's case, it meant
that a top athlete simply began
practicing early and developed a
natural talent to the point where
he won his first tournaments
while still in his teens and was
competing with the championship
calibre professionals when he was
only 18 years old.
He has held the world's title
for IS of the last 18 years and
holds the record of scoring a high
run of pocketing 528 straight balls,
beating his own previous record
of 3tt.
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Wild Animals
Operation Of Colorful
Alaskan Railway Train
ANCHORAGE. Alaska (UPll-
The blue and yellow diesel en
gines of the Alaska Railroad
(ARID shuttle back and forth to
day on one of the most colorful
storybook tracks in the United
States.
With only 538 miles of road
reaching from Seward at the Gulf
of Alaska to Fairbanks in the
heartland of the 49th state, the
ARR is a unique little line that
captures smiles from veteran
railroaders, railroad buffs and
thousands of tourists.
The ARR's passenger trips arc
not famous for being on time. A
note on ARR timetables advises:
Attention: NOT responsible for
train delays because of moose on
tracks.
Passenger runs between An
chorage and Fairbanks, a 336-
mile trip, have been as much as
three and four hours late because'
of the stubborn critters.
On the ARR they don't call the
front part of the engine a cow
catcher. Moosccatchcr is much1
more appropriate.
During Heavy Snows
The animals generally slay off
I he tracks until I he heavy snow-
comes. It's hard for tliem to walk
in Ihe deep snow so they stay
on the tracks where the snow ha
been cleared.
"We've chased Ihrm for as loni"
s 15 miles," veteran railroader
Bob Prator said. "Sometimes
they run hke hell and other times
we have to follow them at
speed of three or four miles an
hour. Blowing the whistle doesn't
help
vinen uie engineer muiles
them with the engine, sometimes
they Just kick back. Other times
they turn around, lower their
heads and come charging straight
at the engine
Sometimes the moose have to
be shot. Other tunes they are ac
cidenlally run over.
The animals that are killed
uno-joo a year' are picked up hv
railroad maintenance crews and
skinned out. The drawn meat is
given to orphanages and state in
stitutions.
Owned t)y U.S.
The Alaska Railroad is the onlv
commercial railroad in the Unit
ed States completely owned and
operated by the federal govern
ment.
Under the jurisdiction of the In
tenor Department, the ARR has
paid jta own way since It was
first started in 1915
The ARR today is one of the
main supply lines to interior
Alaska and serves miners, mis
sionaries, prospectors, traders
and trappers by way of tranship
ments to river barges on the Tan
na and Yukon rivers in the Alas
ka Interior. The ARR owns the
hsrres and also has up-to-date
piggyback rail tiuik Ucililics.
Although 45 diesel . electric en
gines haul the ARR s 5 014 pieces
of rolling freight stork and 72 pas
senger coaches of all I) pes, one
Hazard
steam engine is still kept in op
crating condition since the ARR
converted to diesel ten years ago.
The steam engine is brought out
of semi retirement only when
diesel engines can t get through
water deeper than four inches on
Ihe tracks during the spring
months.
The old steamer has had it's
insides converted to keep up with,
the times. ARR spokesman say
it is probably the nation s only
steam engine fired by diesel fuel
Proud Of Record
ARR officials are proud of their
safety record not a single pas
senger fatality in 47 years of rail
roading as well as their treat
ment of passengers.
"We try to be casual but slilli
always efficient." traffic manager
J. I). Triber explained. "This rail
road belongs to the people, not
to us."
The ARR is easily Die most
casual in the nation.
ARR conductor Bob Porter told
of stopping the train once so a
doctor could deliver a baby in
the baggage car.
Another time. Porter said, a
woman passenger with a plane
to catch misread the timetable on
a run to Fairbanks. Site would
have missed her plane but the
engineer radioed ahead, the air
line held the plane for her, a
taxi was wailing at the station
and she made the flight.
"We like our passengers to be
comfortable." Porter said "And
that's the only way to run a rail
road "
Route Is Colorful
Happy. Clear. Windy. Hurricane!
Gulch, Honolulu. Talkeetna and
Matanuska are among the color !
ful hllle towns on the rail line
Mt. McKinley. the tallest peak
in the Northern Hemisphere at an
altitude of 20.MO feet, is visible
in all its majestic wonder (or
nearly 120 miles of the trip at
least when the weather is clear
and the days are long. The scen
ery is some of the most breath
taking in North America.
"You have to stop." engineer
fireman Jim Ie ficco said "You
never know if someone may be
sick or hurt "
Do Cicco is like many of the
ARR's !18 employes who are ded
icated to Ihe road. Hi came from
Brooklyn. N Y., to Alaska in 19.13
with a United Press Correspond
ent, got a) job on the ARR and
iked it so well he slaved.
Former OSU
Professor Dies
CORVAIX1S (UPI' - Services
were held today for Dr. Sigurd
II. rrtcrson. farmer head of the
If paitinenl of Kni'lish al Oregon
Male University
Dr. Peterson. Tf. died Jan. 5 at
his Springfield home. He retired
lium Oregon Stale in 1:'.4.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Life la
hard in the wild mountain areas
of eastern Kentucky, a region
which makes other depressed
areas of the United States look
prosperous. But steps are being
taken to lift the "mountain folk -out
of generations-old poverty
and Ignorance. These steps are
described in two dispatches by
the manager of L IT bureau in
Frankfort, Ky., the first of
which follows.)
By JOSEPH VARILLA
United Press International
CHENOA, Ky. (UPI)-A trip
into the mountain areas of east
ern Kentucky is like finding your
self in a Lil Abner cartoon strip.
Except it isn t funny.
Broken-down little shacks are
all around in the hollows of the
Appalachians. Corn likker stills
are a fact of everyday life-for
many the illegal production of
whiskey is the only way to make
V
HAND-MADE DOLLS Mrs. Nanny Partin, a little' wom
an who weight lest than 100 pounds and is older than
bar 45 years, took up a pile of corn shucks and began
fashioning them Into the oldest dolls known on the Ameri
can continent. Here, Mrs. Partin puts the finishing
touches on one of the hand-made dolls for which she re
ceives about 18 cents apiece, UPI Telerjhoto
Corn Shuck
Supports Five Children
In Tiny Mountain Cabin
CHENOA. Ky. 'UP!- Mrs
Nanny Partin. a little woman who
weighs less than 100 pounds and
looks older than her 45 years,
took up a pile of corn shucks and
becan fashioning them Into the1
oldest dolls known on the Ameri
can continent.
The money she gets from the
coi n shuck dolls the going rate is
18 cents for an unclothed doll-
supports five children.
The four oldest wouldn't have
licon able to go to school (his
year." she said, "if 1 didn't git
money for sew-in cloth dolls and
makin' corn shuck dolls."
To get In Nanny's house, locat
ed in a hollow between two moun
tains, requires a three-mile trip!
from Clicnoa deep into the Appa
lachiiins over a bumpy and treiu li
ciously curving dirt road. Nanny
and her family are more fortunate
than manv of their mountain
neighbors who don't have a n v
kind of road leading lo their prop
erty. The house itself is a four-room.
unpaintcd shack. Tie floors arc
crude and tlie inside walls cov
ered with cardboard. Toilet faul
Hies are outside and water is hard
to come by. After a rain, Nanny
and her husband try to get a-
much as they can off the roof.
Hushand Coal Mtncr
Like most mountaineers, Nan
ny's husband has been a coal min
er hut for years has done little ex
cept a few parttime jobs. In the
mountains, work and the cash
money it brings is hard to come
bv.
For Nannv. the dolls are a new
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a living. There are no paved
roads once you get off the princi
pal highways. .
The plight is a shock even to
one who had spent most of .his
liie in northeastern Pennsylvania
the depressed hard coal region.
Some of the shacks are so far
up in the hollows and in such iso
lated areas that one wonders how
the inhabitants ever got there. I
asked the question of a number
of mountain folk during a three
day visit. Nanny Partin explained:
"It come easy for me. I was
born here.
But even being born isn't easy
in the mountains. Ruth Carr, a
sort of angel to some of the
mountain people who has dedicat
ed her life to helping them, told
about visiting a newborn child
high up in a hollow. The string
tying the umbilical cord had been
knotted in four places. The family
didn't have one piece long enough
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Doll Money
hope. She and about 2.500 other
mountain folk in Eastern Ken
tucky are taking part in a proj
ect headed by Paul Hadley, chief
of the Division of Arts and Crafts
in the Department of Commerce.
Hadley says tlie most difficult!
part of tlie craft industry is mar
keting, and this is where he and
his crew are tlie most active in
their aid and advice.
More successful than most is
the project in Rrcathitt Counly
where local people formed a cor
poration and brought in a wood
working expert, Barney Grecnlct,
to manage il.
The firm, which produces bas
kets, rocking chairs and other fur
niture, has only a fraction of its
personnel working in the small
shop in Jackson. Most of the
products are made in home work
shops back in the hills.
Visits Shops
On a recent tour, this corre
spondent visited the shops of
three of Greenlee's producers.
Ralph lawson is typical of them
He went -in hock S1.400, backed
by Greenlee's word, to buy lathes)
and other machinery.
Working tlie fe acres of lard
he owns. Lauon and others like
lum rarely can make more than
$800 or $:W a year cash. His
barn, his house and the little
shack thai houses his equipment
are unpaintcd and wealher-bea'ten
in contrast with the new ma
chinery. Hut Ihe gamble paid off
in tlie past 12 months Lawson
rarned about ja.ooo according to
Greenlee.
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and had to scrounge through the
cabin (or the four parts.
Home Is Castle
The mountain folk don't leave!
because many own their little
shack and a nearby plot of
ground. It is land thai has been
in the same family for genera
tions. In their picturesque dialect,
the mountaineers say they got the
property through "heirship."
They stay, too, because they are
frightened of the lowland way of
life afraid they might look fool
ish. Lack of education is respon
sible for this many are unable
to read or write. Plenty of moun
tain folk still use an "X" to mark
their signature.
Of course, the more intelligent
and talented leave the mountains
to pursue a living elsewhere. But
many remain. There are families
who for as long as two or three
generations have subsisted pri
marily on public assistance.
Attempts now are being made to
rectify the situation. Children are
forced to go to school, but often
the schools are second and third
rale. Many go no further than
eighth grade. Because of the lack
of roads, one-room school houses
are scattered through the moun
tains and it is not easy to find
teachers for them.
For an example of the ones who
stay, take the case of Ralph Law-
son, and his father. Lawson has
a natural gas well on his prop
erty. He uses the gas now to heat
a little shack in which he has a
workshop, but his two-story house
still is heated by a couple of pot
bellied stoves. Lawson was w illing
enough to put the gas into
his home, save money and get
better heat, but his old pappy
overruled him.
Father Stands Fast
"It'll blow up," the elder Law
son said and no amount of coax
ing could convince him gas could
be safe.
But the mountains are filledi
with incongruities. I visited the!
little cabin owned by Helen bhep-
ard near Bcrea. In the main room-
of the two-room dwelling was a
double bed, a pot-bellied stove,
couch and a whittling bench
where Miss Shepard carves ani
mals to support herself and her
aged mother. All of those were
typical furnishing. But there also
was a library of about 300 good
books.
It is typical to walk into a cabin
and find an expensive television
set, in contrast to the crude wood
en (sometimes dirt floor, poor
furniture and cardboard-covered
inside walls. Usually, 1 was told
the TV sets are gilts from chil
dren who have moved away to
work.
Despite their poverty, these
proud and generous people are
willing to share with anyone the
little they have. Their hospitality
is overwhelming. The frail-looking.
Baldness In
CHICAG'O tUPD-ls baldness in
women increasing?
The American Medical Associa
tion (AMAl Committee on Cos
metics says that dermatologists
hesitate to give a flat answer.
But the skin doctors do say that
in recent years the number of
otherwise healthy women consult
ing them about severe loss of hair
has increased as much as 10
times.
What causes the condition? No
one knows for sure, but every
thing from cheap hair dyes and
ponv tail hair styles to emotional
upsets and air pollution has been
blamed.
Drs. William B. Guy and Waller
F. Edmundson of Pittsburgh said
in an AMA article that "diffuse
cyclic hair loss in women is rath
er common" and is entirely dif
ferent from permanent hair thin
ning that occa-ionally occurs in
women in middle or late life.
Thev said the hair that falls out
usually is replaced by new hair
growth, and that the process can
be stopped by the use of cortices-.
tenod hormones.
The condition is known as dif
fuse alopecia. Raiding begins half
an inch behind the hairline and
Involves mostly the center area or
dome of the head, 'ihe part wid
ens and (he scalp becomes more
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woman at the door' calls "howdy"
and says "Won't y'll come in."
Children Are Shy
K the older mountain (oik are
embarrassed about their poverty,
they don't show it. However, chil
dren of high school age appear
embarrassed when a stranger
comes in.
There is embarrassment evident1
loo, among those who live in the
towns of Eastern Kentucky
Paintsville, Harlan, Jackson and
the others. The first question they
ask a newsman is if he is going
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WHITTLES FOR LIVING The mountain areas of Eastern Kentucky are grim these
days. Broken-down little shacks are all around in the hollows of the Appalachians.
Here, in Berea, Ky Helen Shepard, who whittles for a living for herself and her moth
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Women Thought To Be
visible. After brushing,' the brush
may he full of dull, limp hair.
A large number of women who
suffer from (his disease are un
der age 40. many under 30.
Usually, (he condition begins
with a scarcely noticeable but
regular increase in hair lost w ith
each brushing or combing. The
loss frequently occurs in spurts
Sometimes patients report thai the
condition began suddenly and that
hair "came out by the handful."
The healthy scalp loses about
100 hairs every day, but the loss
is replaced by new growth, said
the AMA.
The AMA said hair loss fre
quently occurs about three months
alter a woman gives birth and
lasts about three months. This is
due to a temporary shortage of
estropen'or female sex hormone,
production, and the chance of re
gaining lost hair is very good,
said the AMA.
Other known causes of tempor
ary loss include certain medicines
illnesses accompanied by hich fe
vers, and normal loss and re-
growth of hair.
The AMA said permanent' wave
solutions can act as a depilatory
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to write about how poor East
ern Kentucky is. They point to
other aspects o( the area, includ
ing its great beauty. But, once up
in the hollows, poverty seems to
obliterate the other aspects.
Deep in the mountains, medi
cal care is inadequate. There is
a high in(ant mortality rate com
pared with the rest o( the country
and people often die of ailments
that could be cured elsewhere.
Their major source of medical at
tention is the Frontier Nursing
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when left on the scalp too long.
Apother possible cause is ex
cessive oiliness. The AMA said
that squalcnc. a chemical found
in the natural oils of (he hair,
is a depilatory. ,
Other actors (ha( might play
a role in balding are tight rollers,
too-trequent dyeing or bleaching,
(he AMA reported.
Other possible causes reported
to the AMA committee were: in
creased exposure lo synthetic de
tergents, additives in commercial
shampoos, increased use o( an(ibi.
otics in the diets of mea( animals.
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Over the years in the hills, a
special culture has persisted. Of
almost a pure Anglo-Saxon strain,
the people still use words long :
out of common ' use. Musicians
play the dulcimer, whose plaintive
sounds seem to cry for the plight
of the people.
Is there hope for the mountain
people? Gov. Bert Combs of Ken
tucky says there is. He advocates
a domestic Point Four program
for the area to provide roads, ed
ucation and medicine. These are
the great needs of the mountains.
Increasing
air pollution, crop sprays and ra
dioactive fallout. But the commit
tee said no' one knows the role
these by-products of modern liv
ing may play in the increased
incidence of female balding.
The AMA said there is a wide
range of treatment for temporary
balding.
A number of dermatologists rec
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a liquid soap such as castile,
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