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...ration-ridden British can take almost any kind of shortage in stride. One that they are at least beginning to lick is a serious shortage of clergymen. Two world wars have left the Church of England with a 4,000-minister deficit (not counting chaplains still in uniform...
...honeymoon was back again, too. Newlyweds shook rice out of their pockets at Niagara Falls, Atlantic City, Hot Springs, White Sulphur Springs, Crystal Springs, Bermuda, French Lick and Mexico City. Most stayed as long as possible, having no homes to come home...
...dogs' fleas, ticks, lice: Dust with a 10% DDT powder-but don't use it on cats, because they lick off the dust. DDT solutions are dangerous to animals...
Smathers' old friend Dr. Warren H. Wilson of the Presbyterian, U.S.A. Unit of Rural Church Work helped with the project. Big Lick's 50 families supplied labor. Smathers was the foreman. Said a grizzled Big Lick farmer last week: "That feller did it all. I seen him a-standin' out there in the sun, day after day, takin' holt of the building." By the time the church was built, the people of Big Lick and their pastor had built more than a church. They had welded themselves into a Christian community...
Since then, Big Lick, and Pastor Smathers have built other things: a small health center which now houses a resident nurse, study clubs to plan and carry out better farming techniques, a cooperative homestead plan to encourage young couples to stay in Big Lick. The state college and TVA have selected Big Lick as a demonstration area to dramatize soil conservation...