Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1935, Page 19

IARKFOLKS SO0 10 LEAVE HAUNTS :'45,000 of Nations Most ‘Picturesque Citizens to Be Movad Near Civilization. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, April 27.—“Social re- ‘habilitation” finally has reached the | 1solated cabins of the Missouri Ozarks, | and 45,000 natives widely hailed as the Nation's most pisturesque citizens | are to be transplanted. » Civilization, long foiled by the bleak l'ulls, has penetrated remote sections bt Southern Missouri in the guise of & gigantic Federal reforestation pro- | Ject that will eventually include one- | seventh of the State’s area. | ¢ In a huge “resettlement” movement, largest trek of the State's population zince pioneer days, 45,000 natives are Deing moved within shouting distance of the “progress” they have consist- ently shunned for generations. 11,000 Fke Out Existence. Relief workers estimate more than 11,000 destitute families today are | eking out a bare existence on the rock-dotted mountain slopes of the hree and a quarter million acres of tand being purchased by the govern- Ment in Missouri to rebuild depleted Ozark forests. © Under terms of an arrangement between the F. E. R. A. and the Na- tional Forest Service these families— many of whom have held their land for generations by “squatter” rights— will be moved from their unproductive ' hill patches and given tillable land to cultivate within the borders of the giant forest and game preserve. From their ranks Uncle Sam will draft and train a corps of workers to patrol this, his newest hinterland. | “No attempt will be made to move | families Jong distances.” Paul Kelleter, | forest supervisor, said today. “In most | cases they will not have to travel more | than 10 miles To Keep Near Communities. ‘ “The families will be concentrated, | as far as possible, near existing com- | munities, where they can obtain the fullest social and educational oppor- | tunities.” The Federal program, viewed with | apprehension by some of the moun- | taineers, has been welcomed by most of the residents, poverty-stricken since the spcliation of the State’s rich pine and oak timber reserves in the last century. Each family will be given 10 acres of good agricultural land and per- | mitted to pay for it on a long-time | adjusted basis. During the slack farming season the men will work in | the forests buildings roads, planting | trees and constructing fire Iookaut towers. * Almost half of the land, bought at the rate of $1 to $3 an acre, is now under option, and Pederal officials bave already begun opening up the almost inacessible country. 1 Plan Recreation Center. . Eventually officials hope to convert the section into a vast inland recrea- sion center. Thirty-two game pre- | gerves, four in each of the eight! purchase units, have already been | planned. The entire forest area in- ¢ludes portions of 23 Southern Oxark\ eounties. 2 Midwestern _sociologists hail thrl pro]ecz as & boon to the backward *hill billy,” but see in its completion | €ause for romantic lament. * For eduction of this almost illiter- | #te people will destroy—in a single | ®generation, they say—the most color- | ful body of folk lore yet remaining in | America. - Rich in the traditions of an earlier dnd simpler culture, the Ozark “Hill people still sing and dance to the gld folk tunes of pre-Elizabethan | England and the later ballads of the | erican frontier. - The near-forgotten home arts of hsket weaving and furniture making §till flourish there, and stores of $ha'nts” and witcheraft abound among fhe superstitious. | » The region was settled by descend- Ants of Virginia and Kentucky pl-l oneers who emigrated earlier from the Atlantic Seaboard, bringing with fhem memories and tales of rural England of two and three centuries ”0. BILLINGS ASKS LIBERTY Would Accept Commutation, Says » Man Convieted of Bombing. ;vmpumuunmu . FOLSOM PRISON, Calif., April 27. | —Warren K. Billings, serving a life term here for his part in the San Francisco preparedness bombing, said yesterday he would gladly accept a fommutation of sentence if Gov. Merriam acts on the resolution passed by the California Assembly. + Billings, who applied for parole ice and both times was refused, d his main object was freedom as soon as possible. - In San Quentin Prison, however, Tom Mooney was silent. Mooney, con- | icted with Billings for the bomb kill- | ings of 12 persons, repeatedly has de- ' lnred he will accept nothing less han a full pardon. He has reru.sed to apply for a parole. Sought GIRL BELIEVED PATIENT AT DOCTOR’'S HOME. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. RUTH NEIDMAN. ‘Traces of the 16-year-old school- girl, who vanished seven months ago in Philadelphis, were sought yesterday at Mechanics Grove, Pa., home of Dr. H. E. Zimmerly. Miss Neidman's father told State police he believed she was a patient of the doctor, now jailed charged with llegal opennom Youth's Body Found in Lake. CHICAGO, April 27 (#).—A body identified as that of Lesier Bonsor, | 23, was taken from Lake Michigan | yesterday. His father is Walter Bon- sor, an official of a South Bend, Ind., chemical company. Police reported that his son had been worried over failure to obtain employment after graduating from eollqe SPRING | Yiais goar by MOTOR COACH EVERY bus trip at this time of year takes you through the heart of Spring, giving you close-up views of the awakening countryside. Yet motor coach travel costs less than any other first-class tramsportation —far less than driving. Frequent departures, nationwide service. Plan now to visit the San Diego Exposi- | tion, opening May 29. NEW GREYHOUND TERMINAL 1403 New York Ave. N.W. Phone Metropolitan 1512 GREYHOUND rre s Special—This Week Only! 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