The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 43

THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL Sunday February 12 1956 7-hd -vv VANISHING TENANTS Forsaken houses such as these in neglected fields give clues to what has happened to Grainger once flourishing agricultural prosperity The tenants and their families have moved to the cities When the children of Grainger farm owners grow up most of them too go elsewhere since there are no industries to provide them jobs Grainger Only ET County In US Farm Study Program BASIC PROBLEMS Basically Korea is confronted with many of the problems that bedevil Grainger County Charles Bernheisel left director of Save the Children Federation in Korea tells School Supt A Combs center at Rutledge last week Bernheisel is visiting East Tennessee counties gathering information to be used in organizing 4-H Korean clubs Accompanying Bernheisel on his East Tennessee tour is Ralph Brown right Inskip that are essential to complete success in the concert field Many such artists envy the steady income of a good secretary Finally there are the would-be professionals who merely clutter up the scene and make things difficult for all concerned Most of them should be content with being recognized as good amateurs exercising a helpful influence for music in their communities In some cases they are able to compete with their betters by spending money which could be used far more advantageously for the development of youthful talents requiring financial backing Strangely enough these interlopers in the world of art continue to demand recognition regardless of rebuffs and obvious limitations They get repeated opportunities to prove their worth resulting in consistent failure Both as interpreters and as creators of music they are a handicap to progress and should be eliminated from prifessional activity of any kind The Symphony of the Air now definitely a going concern with a Symphony Foundation as beneficiary of most of its concerts has recently acquired Leon Barzin as artistic director with the object of braden-ing its activities in all directions One of Mr plans is to bring the orchestra to the colleges and universities of America where it can go far beyond the mere giving of extraordinary performances1 The tours have already proved the existence of an enormous public hungering for good music and the college campus seems a logical place to meet this potential audience New Municipal Radio Station WNYC presents its annual festival of American music from to Birthday A highlight will be the Carnegie Hall concert of Feb 18 under auspices of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors British critics claim that "Sincerely is borrowed from A-Flat Etude Opus 25 The Julliard School of Music celebrates its 50th anniversary with a series of programs of contemporary American compositions including works by Roy Harris Norman dello Joio Lukas Foss Howard Swanson Robert Ward Paul Creston Henry Cowell Diamond and Wallingford Riegger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: must never offend the ear not even in the most horrifying situation but must give pleasure always remain By SIGMUND SPAETH This is the time of year when the managers of concert artists are beginning to book their clients for the coming season perhaps a whole year or more in advance The big names are sold almost automatically depending only on the price The others require a variety of effort Musi cians fall naturally into several classes and eventually the public may become just as aware of this as are whol deal with their business affairs There are only a few in the top class They are aware of their superiority and the best of them accept their eminence with humility knowing that their extraordinary gifts are a mystery past explaining They do not need to press their claims to fame for their position is self-evident They can ignore criticism and petty' jealousies for they are above them They can drive hard bargains for the demand for their services is obvious and unceasing They are the elect of the musical world Just below these recognized geniuses are a number of performers who can give honest pleasure and satisfaction to a multitude of listeners but need some special efforts to bring them to the attention of the public and keep them in the limelight They deliver the goods most of the time and any controversy as to their abilities may create good publicity in the long run They are not self-selling like a loaf of needed bread that has only to be pushed across the counter But they are staple commodities guaranteed to please the majority of their audiences requiring only some salesmanship and promotional activity in the handling of their affairs In the third class are the artists for whom the concert field is a perputual struggle They often have ability comparable to that of the great stars but lack the capital and consequently the management to make the most of their talents Their supporters may be fanatically enthusiastic but too limited in numbers to create a real career Sometimes there is even a question as to the commercial value of their gifts They may be excellent musicians but lacking in the appeal of personality essential to stardom Whatever the reason their progress is slow and often painful The critics give them generally favorable notices but with reservations and seldom the Voice Of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN THE CELEBRITIES Charlie close friends on the other side of the Atlantic expect him to announce his retirement in the near future with as the reason They be surprised if he shelved the scheduled European production of of New Ralph Meeker and Farley Granger are growling at each other The reason is pretty Janice Rule who was girl before she became in Flickerville new to her in love engaged and she wants to be married But also the hottest property to flash across the screens since Marilyn Monroe and the tycoons guiding her career have let her know painfully unenthusi-astic over the prospect of her becoming Mrs Mac Krim Another well loved celebrity Willie Mays faces the same kind of obstacles in his path of true love A not-to-be-sneezed-at faction of the New York Giants brass disapproves of his impending marriage to Marguerite Wendell and would like to see it postponed indefinitely One representative of the group was sent to call on Bill Kenny ex-husband of Marguerite but that interview yielded nothing that might tend to dissuade Willie from the aisle-march: Bill had only charming things to say about her As Grainger County goes so may go the whole farm economy Grainger is one of 50 counties in the nation the only one in East Tennessee selected by the federal government as a in an effort to get at the heart of the American farm problem It comes under what is termed President rural development program What Grainger finds it needs wants and does about it may provide the riddle of solving and correcting the paradovial crisis of an ailing agricultural economy in a period of unprecedented peacetime prosperity As first steps every element in the community has taken a The findings were wrapped together at a meeting last Friday night and these will be taken to Nashville Wednesday for a statewide meeting with two other pilot counties (Macon and Hardin) What Grainger County has found out about itself thus far includes such facts as these: Of the 1543 commercial farms only 246 sold products exceeding $2500 during the year This is gross not net income There are 2275 farms on record These classed as are those that sell their products and whose operators depend on their farm income for a livelihood for themselves and families Of the 13086 persons listed in the 1950 census as living in Grainger County 42 percent are either under 15 years of age or over 65 POPULATION DECLINES Population declined from 14-356 in 1940 while the remainder of the state registered gains The present day population was less than it was at the turn of the century when Grainger was one of the most prosperous of agricultural areas At present 1887 residents unable to support themselves on their farms have to work elsewhere Many spend two three and four hours daily getting to and from their farms forced to find employment as it is in Knoxville Oak Ridge Morristown Alcoa A survey by the industrial committee reveals 1674 more residents including many housewives want jobs and would take them if they were available not too far from their homes The county has only one industry a tiny hosiery mill in Rutledge which employs about 30 persons Rutledge spends $105 of its $340 county tax rate on its 32 Premier Cross -Word schools with enrollment of around 3000 Supt A Combs reports an acute shortage of classrooms and inadequate transportation About 20 of the schools he describes as bad Yet once Grainger has educated its children an investment of about $10000 for each pupil completing high school there are no jobs for them and they are forced to go elsewhere FAMILIES BREAK UP Families are continually being broken up once the children are grown as there is no work and the farms support them Of Grainger 312 square miles of area 46 percent is in woodlands Farms average 66 acres Per capita income in Grainger County is $521 compared to $1217 for the rest of the state and Tennessee itself is well down on the list of per capita incomes with other states Tobacco like in most other East Tennessee counties is the main source of income with dairying and beef cattle following in that order But as acreage allotments decrease the question is arising as to how small an acreage a farmer can plant and still live Tobacco growing is confining requires a certain amount of work that deprives the farmer of other income producing opportunities Grainger County has no hospital those requiring such service having to be taken to Knoxville Morristown or Jefferson City There are only three doctors for the 13086 persons and one of these is physically able to accept only office calls ADD These are some of the statistics but how they are interpreted is another thing As Lawrence Smith head of the industrial committee puts it got a lot of figures that seem to add County Agent James Grove points out that the median age for the county is 24 yet with 42 percent either too old or too young to work the average seems rather meaningless Crosby Murray UT community development specialist once described an average man in this manner: has one foot in the fire burning off The other foot is in a tub of melting ice freezing off In the middle an average It is with a skepticism of this sort towards figures that Grainger practical-minded close to the soil inhabitants are approaching the answer to: (1) What do we want? (2) How are we going about getting it? (3) When are we to get started on it? WON AWARD IN 1946 Going back to figures Yates head of the agricultural and home group was asked how large a farm was required for a man to earn a living Yates operates a demonstration farm at Buffalo Springs and was chairman of his community club the year it won the coveted East Tennessee Community Improvement Program award in 1946 man can do the best farm job in the said Yates he compete with industry for help at 75 cents and a dollar an hour The income is down and the things he buys to maintain and operate a farm has gone up man with a farm of 50 acres afford the equipment it requires and when the farm is larger labor becomes an item are out of balance and the hope I see for Grainger County are outside jobs for farmers say 30 to 40 hours a week on the Yates said solemnly he say 30 to 40 hours to make a joke are 168 hours in a he declared the farmer works most of them right now this time of year I admit that after we have milked there too much to do until time to milk Curtis Nicely chairman of rural development work lives the at Liberty Hill a few miles from Washburn Roughly one-third of Grainer County is separated from the other part including Rutledge county seat by Clinch Mountain NEED TECHNICAL AID must change our mode of asserted Nicely give the land back to the rabbits and briars We want the government to give us a lot of stuff What we need is technical aid in getting things JS 'S'-' 'V vlAi: A planned out I mean the kind of technical aid where a fellow comes out and talks a couple qf hours and goes hck home I mean aid for weeks and seems to Nicely added are lots of things that can be done For example Tennessee imports a lot of eggs from other states and Knoxville can get only about 40 percent of what it needs from its neighboring counties lot of our land also should be reforested Much of it have been cleared in' the first place but our forefathers did it and reforestation is the answer there Most of the land needs to go back to grass and on it we can raise more son Robert has developed an egg market in Knoxville with a flock of 600 caged hens and a single store takes' his whole supply The son now plans raising broiler eggs for broiler raisers One clue to declining economy undoubtedly is in the vanishing tenants Abandoned tenant homes and neglected land is evident on every hand gone to the said Nicely get more money there but whether they live as well or get as much out of living I UPROOTED BY TVA Mrs Emma Tate a leader in home-making describes herself as of those dam She was uprooted by the creation of the TVA lakes and has established her new home near Rutledge She and her groups are working toward roadside markets hope to develop new sources of income through making quality crafts in their homes Mrs Tate said got to find what crafts are considered It requires educational knowledge have to get Food saving is one thing the women of Grainger County are progressing in however Mrs Tate pointed out that a small garden is worth $500 and at the same time the food is more nutritious tasty and everyone eats better Much progress has also been made toward modern liveable homes Mrs Tate says keep your children with you When they grow up they have to go somewhere else for opportunities that do not exist One daughter teaches school in North Carolina The other is studying to become a doctor Farmers too are making progress County Agent Grove reports in meeting some of their immediate problems Cooperative marketing arrangements are being made so strawberries tomatoes truck crops can be sold at one outlet This lets the farmer get back to work on the soil rather than spending time hauling produce into Knoxville and peddling it Beef and better calves are being sold the same way in Morristown TOWN REINCORPORATED Rutledge (population 839) as Grainger County seat also is doing its part to bring the area out of its slump The town has been reincorporated with Dr Bryan as mayor and Holt as city manager A moving force behind incorporation was the Lions Club of which Smith is president The club already had organized a fire department which the ne(v municipality has taken over The town also had adopted the program for a new waterworks to cost about $140-000 and this is expected to be an inducement to attract industries County Court has approved a tax-free real estate program to further induce industry to set up in Rutledge Grainger overlooking the possibilities in developing the tourist business being bounded on one side by Cherokee Lake and the other by Norris A 125-acre county park has a leased boat dock Members of the 4-H Club are building ball diamonds and tables and a park board of seven members is working on other recreational attractions Ray McElhaney who has spent a year or so gathering in-formation for the industrial committee expressed hope the federal government can lend a hand like for example the guided missiles plant in BristoL come to one commented Smith we are going we are all going A plus new Hotel Khayam has single rates up to $2218 a day Snappy Timing Department: The March issue of a magazine for gun enthusiasts contains a photograph of Billy Daniels holding a 300 magnum rifle a video scuttlebutt that Bing Crosby will let himself be persuaded to MC the televised Academy Awards nevt month This is considered a TV show with a fairly certain audience a natural for his easygoing brand of charm and a program that shove Der Bingle too far out on a limb performance-wise Joan Romano a top-flight fashion model is in Mexico seeking a divorce from her husband a San Diego newspaperman Teddy Vincent withdrew suddenly from her job as production singer at the Copacabana for an exciting reason: she flew to the coast to screen test for MGM on the recommendation of no less a connoisseur than Marlon Brando Max Mattes of Newton Falls Ohio will get his third letter for playing basketball at Cornell after the season closes bride-to-be Now back to being girl Anita (Mrs Tommy) Manville is having problems with a Gotham furrier over a bill amounting to $3500 elegant Colony Club is winging cables to Kaye Ballard whose funny material has been responsible for the crowds at Bon Soir The Colony chaps would like to star her in Mayfair this spring The Madrid buzz predicts an aisle waitz in the not too distant future starring Juan Carols (son of the Pretender to the throne) and Princess Maria Ga-briella Actress Kay Francis has taken a house in the Virgin Islands to be near Dennis Allen her former leading man currently entertaining at thePatio Club in Charlotte Amalie Pals of William Zeckendorf Jr were delighted to learn of his elopment with Guri Lie A couple of years ago when young engagement to another belle was formally announced on the society pages he waited around so long they never did get married Margaret Phillips co-lead of Fallen is being romanced by Billy Matthews director of the national company of of the August Desi Arnaz still is spluttering with fury at the chintzy record distributor who set up a personal appearance for him in Philadelphia then produced a mere 100 platters for Desi to sign Thousands of fans who showed up had to be turned away empty-handed Broadway wUl get a chance after all to view the singing and dancing talents of young Joe Cronin who was to have made his musical stage debut in the ill-fated been signed for the leading male role in the revival of Foot which the Equity Library Theatre will put on at the end of February Rugged Van Heflin could have been found in an odd place the other evening: a very private booth at Eve beauty salon (He was getting his hair dyed back to its normal reddish shade after the required by his just-closed Broadway play) John Wayne just back after the European premiere of still is gasping over the opulence he saw displayed on Aristotle yacht The movie hero was rocked when he heard Mr Onassis say that after taxes his income is are you roughly $100000 a day! Billy swinging new number which has the RCA Victor execs flipping is titled A very hot pancake they believe Obviously Linda Christian run out bf gold mines She bought up a storm at the other day everything from mink to broadtail The motion picture and which has been announced for Hollywood production is title-shopping The producers fear the public will flock to it expecting a biography of Prince Rainier Isham Jones the former bandleader who wrote such hit songs as See You In My and Had To Be is gravely ill in a Miami Beach Hospital not permitted to talk on the telephone so none of his Tin Pan Alley friends and admirers has been able to contact him Comedian Lenny ex-wife Ellie is on the verge of a waltz down the aisle with Johnnie Taps the Columbia Pictures producer Geiger Is Perfected DALLAS Tex Feb 11 (INS) The atom cowboy even have to draw his gun these days to get his loot He simply presses the trigger of his geiger gun reads the meter and if his aim is good he has found uranium The new-type gun looking to all the city-folk like a real six-shooter in its tooled leather holster was dreamed up by Wallace an Arizona man who needed something compact for his prospecting The one-pound wonder is a super sensitive instrument which uses transistors the new electronic rage in place of tubes Not only does the gun tell its user if uranium underfoot it assays the percentage of radioactive material in the ore Southern Instruments Inc of Dallas makes the geiger gun which in its leather holster and with a supply of ammunition (battery) retails for a little under $200 Blood transfusions for ailing horses are a common practice at Hialeah The usual horse transfusion involves a gallon of blood from a pony Puzzle VERTICAL 40 Velar Help 44 Rebuild Com mush Mex 46 Alazar 48 Part of circle Like a flower 52 Lukewarm Land measure 56 Plant disease Stuff 61 Positive pole 63 Mechanical contrivance 65 Cleanse lightly 67 Japanese bream Some-what like 71 By way of Serf Inferior deity 78 Bedaub Cut in two Tamp Jewel East Indian timber tree Animal fat Having thin sharp tone 89 Duct To moo 94 Staircase post Speck 97 Bores Chief Determiner Cuddled Tip Chest sound 110 Harm Dark blue 115 Parsonage 117 Flooring Lie 'in warmth 119 Tropical fruit Yam Glazing material To-do 124 Domineer over Word of asaent 126 Fur- nished Rest Hotel Goren On Bridge 1966: By TtiS Chlcaro Tribune 1 ANSWERS TO WEEKLY QUIZ 1 North South vulnerable and as South you hold: 48 7543 VQ79AKQ3 96 1 club The bidding has proceeded: West North tut sooth What do you bid now? 1 dob I heart Pass tirkn a Two dobs While we lever orig- What do you bid inally dreamed of making a call on A Two hearts While this Is len this hand action has made a than normal trump support partner's bid necessary To pan would be re-vulnerable overcall marks him with a seating the opposition with a clear good enough suit to withstand the lack profit and altho bidding two dubs la of a third heart If you had an addi- attended with some degree of risk It tional trump a jump raise would be seems at (his point to be the least seriously considered dangerous procedure As South you hold: 6 As South you hold: 4KJ9752 2 443 4Q865 4AKQ VAK 109 5 3 43 4Q7 6 The bidding has proceeded: The bidding has proceeded: West North East South South West North East Pass 1 heart Pass spade heart Pass 1 spade Pass Pass 2 hearts Pass What do you bid now? What do you bid now? A prompt withdrawal from the scene Is recommended Partner would Three hearts While it may be expect more substantia values if you tempting to make an immediate jump rebid spades and might be Induced to raise In spades such temptation should be resisted Repeated diamond leads might play havoc with a spade contract whereas si hearts you could take action attended with danger 3 As South you hold: HORIZONTAL Steal (slang) Capital of Latvia 62 Producer Cult 65 Function Direct 68 Landed property Seer Ark builder 74 Boer dialect Performed 77 Repeats noisily 78 More sheltered 81 Esculent S4 tar-flower Companion Varnish gum 00 Numbered by tens Celtic language Biblical high priest Wanderer Cloverlike plant 98 Shoshone Long-legged bird 1 Residence Tapestry Oilbearing Flutter Jot 20 Longnecked birds Gorge Girl's name Turkish coin A thinning River in England Monkshood To fish 30 cloth Old- womanish Mountain Pretense 36 Pique Fold Crave Wild Chamber Weaken Casting mold Circular in cross-section 63 Luzon savage Highway vehicle Postpofi Sign of assent Shred of cloth 104 Shrank Restore to freshness 107 Minister to 109 Length measure Reexamine judicially Asiatic country 114 Eccentric portion of wheel Palm fruits Soldier Early prophet Wind of In the fork Of domicile 131 Citrus fruit Hat-plant 133 Grasp Scorch 135 Elysium Turn over 137 Begin Sea eagles Hollo Polynesian pine 2 Aural 3 African finch Flow Pea tree 6 Narrate again To soak Adrift Herb 10 Bought and sold for quick small profit Abhor Birdof cuckoo family Free Tedium Fawn upon 16 Son of Jacob In a trice Throe 25 Unsightly Dull 31 Deduce 33 Quietest 35 Less Steep descent Inner court Fancy 4 6 3 A K943 5 4 7 5 2 force wthout reat bidding has proceeded North East South West 1 spade Pass 2 hearts Pass 4 hearts Pass What do you bid now? A Five hearts- Possession of an opening bid facing a partner who has opened and jumped spells a probable mediate jump ahift is made aubss-alam The overbid of game will con juent bidding problems are sure to vey your interest and ask partner to arise Partner needs very little to go on if he has adequate controls on produce a slam and the big signal the side A possible alternate call is should he flashed at once A four spades Since it la a bid made tI after gams has been reached it is As South you bold: mildly suggeitlve of an ambitious AKQ98 VA64 4K J5 4 72 attitu The bidding bas proceeded: 4 As South you bold: Easi souta wt worth 4KJ73 VK1095 4J8642 pd The bidding has proceeded North East South West lelub Fsss I heart ass pOUr hearts Prospects for Siam rtM are good (your band on revaluation What do yOU bid now? Is 19 points I end you should Three spades Your band which show vour Interest at this point by cua started out as distinctly mediocre has bidding your side ace A Blackwood blossomed forth into a thing of beauty call would be very (fosound because Tho you have a marked paucity of of tho worthless doubletos In clubs If high cards the fit in both of partner showed on see you would suits converts this hand into a power- have no Idea what further action to ful holding Any lease call would be take Furthermore If a Blackwood bitT a clear underbid It la preferable to la necessary on this hand it should raise spades as the shorter -oad to come from your partner's side of the game table Students of the Hollywood Success Story could have written a poignant chapter after just one glimpse of beautiful Kim Novak as she sat in Chez Vito the other night listening to love songs played by the strolling violinists According to the dreams of those who envy movie stars her companion should have been an attentive Galahad actually it was a female studio press agent Kim should have sparkled with the excitement of the big town and the big time but she looked downcast Her problem? an old one.