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12 NATWNWORU) THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES SUNDAY, JUNE 21. 1998 Report charts rise of South years shows "the connection between education and economic growth, between education and sound progress and the future." He said the South will continue to be a place of "remarkable progress if we recognize that our infrastructure now is as much intellectual as it is physical." Unemployment, underemployment and poverty are still problems in parts of the South, according to the SREB, but the region now has the resources to deal with them. These problems are centered in a band of more than 600 counties across the midsection of the South that has 35 percent of the nation's poor. The SREB report says: "The absence of attention to racial inequities in the report of Roosevelt's National Emergency Council is notable. "And it is in such inequities that the continuing challenge for a dynamic, prosperous South can be seen most starkly." WASHINGTON The South, once America's Third-World nation within a nation, is now a flourishing center of commerce.

By GENE MARLOWE of Media General Newt Service Sixty years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the South as "the nation's No. 1 economic problem." The Southern Regional Education Board reported Wednesday that the region has overcome virtually all its earlier deficiencies to become "a locomotive driving the American economy." In both income and education, Southerners are more typical of the country at large today hardly the case when a National Emergency Council commissioned by Roosevelt found that the South was like a Third-World country within the United States. Per capita income in the South was barely half the national average then, compared with 92 percent now, according to the SREB report "Education and Progress in the South." Many Southerners left the region to find work in the 1930s, but the South has had more than half the country's job growth in the 1990s. The SREB says mat in health, education and most other measures of quality of life, the region mirrors the rest of the country.

"I believe President Roosevelt would flash a smile of approval," said former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles, chairman of the SREB Commission for Educational Quality. The reality of Southern life in Roosevelt's day was grim. Children were more likely to work and less likely to be in school. Malaria reduced industrial output by one-third.

Southerners "had been living so close to poverty that the South found it almost impossible to scrape together enough capital" to adequately educate its people and develop its resources, the SREB reported. Baliles said the region's progress in 60 -f i- f1 I Tribune file photo (1992) Stonewall Jackson's arm is buried in a family cemetery at Ellwood, a Virginia plantation that served as headquarters for both the Union and Confederate armies. family 4 Membership Stonewall Jackson's arm can rest in peace Special JusttSZ in the right hand by his troops, after venturing beyond the front lines to assess the battle. In the moonlight, Jackson and eight of his men were mistaken for Yankees and fired Be the first to see our new exhibit Frights of the Forest: Truths or Tales? and enjoy incredible value and membership benefits. Now through July 26, 1998, become a member of The Florida Aquarium and receive special discounts and additional incentives.

Unlimited Admission to The Florida Aquarium (For 1 year) FREE Tampa Bay Mutiny ticket for each member (August 29 game) on at point-blank range by a North Carolina contingent, according to Donald C. Pfanz, a Park Service historian. Jackson's injuries were made worse, Pfanz said, when a dropped Jack FREE Admission to Lowry Park Zoo (August '98 only) FREE Admission to MOSI (September '98 only) 2 for 1 Admission to Busch Gardens (November '98 only) FREE Members' Nights REE Parking FREE Admission to Splash of Music Series FREE Subscription to WaterColors (Members' newsletter) Great discounts in the gift store, Cafe Ray ond on Special Programs Adult Name(s) i Address- I prefer to pay for my Address membership with: I I Cily Stale Zip a CHECK Day Number in Family AM EX Family Membership $50 (For A members of same household jyg rqdjj I Basic Membership $40 For 2 adults or 1 adult a guest DISCOVER I I Senior Membership $35 For 2 adults I I Cardholder Signature Account Exp Date ATT6798 Stonewall Jackson's left arm was amputated after being shot by his troops. THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM I lf moilingncludec 701 Channelside Drive Downtown Tampa 33602 813-273-4000 7 WILDERNESS, Va. The grave that contains the left arm of Gen.

Stonewall Jackson finally gets some attention. By DONALD P. BAKER of The Washington Post It is an enduring symbol of a legendary Civil War tale, of a gritty general who survived battle after battle, only to lose his left arm and eventually his life because of friendly fire. And yet for more than a century, the grave that holds the severed arm of Confederate hero Gen. Stonewall Jackson has been a monument-in-hiding, located on a farm here about 15 miles west of Fredericksburg, near where Jackson was mortally wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.

Although the grave has not been off-limits to the public, neither has it been readily accessible. That changed this month. Along with the restoration of the farm's antebellum house, the National Park Service and a local group called the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield erected signs and created a parking lot that shortens what had been a quarter-mile walk through a field to the obscure landmark. JACKSON'S ARM is buried in a family cemetery at Ellwood, a plantation whose fields and main house were a battleground and headquarters for both Union and Confederate armies. Volunteers will be on hand through Labor Day to talk about the farm's historic role in the war and direct visitors to the cemetery.

Jackson's arm was amputated in a field hospital about a mile away. The general's chaplain, the Rev. B. Tucker Lacy, scooped up the bloody limb, carried it across the rolling fields and buried it on his brother's estate. fH 1903, the Rev.

James P. Smith, who had been a member of Jackson's staff and later married a daughter of one of Ellwood's owners, marked the spot with a granite tombstone, inscribed, "Arm of Stonewall Jackson, May 3, 1863." Jackson was shot accidentally twice in the left arm and once Introducing Digital One Rate. Fifty states. One rate. Never a roaming or long distance charge.

son on his shattered arm. The men carried their leader a couple of miles to Wilderness Tavern, where surgery was performed. The shooting occurred less than 12 hours after the highlight of Jackson's career, in which his troops surrounded and surprised the Union forces of Gen. Joseph Hooker. A day later, Gen.

Robert E. Lee reacted to the surgery by saying, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm." Lee ordered Jackson moved 27 miles by horse-drawn ambulance to Guiney Station, after which, according to the plan, Jackson was to be transferred by rail to Richmond. But at Guiney, he contracted pneumonia there. Six days later, a delirious Jackson looked up at his wife, Mary Anna, and their infant daughter, Julia, and murmured his last words: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." Thomas Jonathan Jackson who earned his. nickname in the first major battle of the war, near Manassas, when Confederate Gen.

Barnard E. Bee proclaimed, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall" died May 10, 1863. He was 39. Jackson's body is buried in Lexington at Virginia Military Institute, where he was a professor. Lis Let freedom ring.

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