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...sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very happy...
...moved medical, nursing and welfare personnel out into the countryside so that the poorest sugar-cane workers' children would get the same medical and dental examinations as city youngsters. Now there are clinics for pregnant women and for well babies-along with proper care for the sick. Where TB patients once languished for lack of treatment in a sanatorium, health workers now give out supplies of isoniazid to be taken at home, and then they check to make sure the pills are really taken...
...weekend meeting of the Bricklayers and Plasterers International Union, received a delegation from Appalachia, attended a couple of parties, invited himself to a cartoonists' luncheon at the National Press Club. Up before 7 a.m. next day, he signed a rural water-and sewage-facilities bill, proclaimed White Cane Safety Day in aid of the blind, chatted by phone with an Army sergeant convalescing in San Francisco from wounds suffered in Viet Nam. He greeted "Miss Wool of 1965," signed a proclamation making Oct. 20 a National Day of Prayer, addressed an international water-desalination symposium, conferred with countless aides...
...interesting to speculate about the motives behind Castro's offer to cut down the "sugar cane curtain...
There is no genuine forward-planning except that forced on the reluctant Cubans by the Russians. With cane-planting time almost upon them, Castro officials were frantically scouring world markets last week for nitrate fertilizers that should have been ordered six months ago. Castro faces the problem of a physical plant that is disintegrating with no way to replace it. Last year a Castro official described the state of the country's railroad system as "desperate," noting that 75% of the locomotives operating in 1959 were out of commission. Havana Radio recently criticized a pulp and paper plant...