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...name sounds like the nonsense syllables of a school yell: Rabun Gap-Nacoochee. The school that bears the name is every bit as unusual. It is half private, half public. Set in the Appalachian foothills of northeastern Georgia, it aims to work not only the minds but also the muscles of its teen-age students. "We believe there is education in physical work, in spiritual development, in living together," says its president, Karl Anderson...
Throughout the Appalachian region where corners of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia tangle together, hundreds of farmers agree with disgruntled Dairyman Beck in blaming cloud seeding for the worst drought in a generation. The farmers are furious at the area's fruitgrowers, who are sponsoring the seeding-and with increasing frequency, the threat is heard that somebody's going to get hurt...
...Prevent Hail. During the warm months, the Appalachian fruit region is occasionally pelted by hailstones as big as golf balls, which smash and bruise the ripening apples and peaches. In 1957, after a year of especially heavy hail damage, fruitgrowers in the four states got together in an organization called the Blue Ridge Weather Modification Association. They hired a cloud-seeding firm to combat the costly hail...
Still in the Hills. But civilization, of a sort, has reached the mountains. TV has penetrated into many Appalachian shacks that have little other furniture. It has brought with it a glimpse of jobs, salaries and luxuries that the mountaineers never dreamed of. Dressed in their mountain "uniform"-tight blue jeans, white sweat socks and open-necked shirts for the men, simple print dresses for the women-they have turned to the cities for a new life...
Most of them find the city a strange and unfriendly place. They long for the hill country, talk of returning to it as soon as they have saved a chunk of money to start anew. "I don't believe Appalachian whites ever get to like the city," says Bernard S. Houghton, director of Cleveland's West Side Community House. "It's simply wages that bring them here. They never get out of the hills." Asked to take part in any community affairs, the mountaineers almost invariably refuse, arguing that they do not intend to be around long...