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Huey Perry grew up along Gilbert Creek in West Virginia's Mingo County and later taught history in high school there. He seemed safe and sound enough to local politicians to be selected as director of a new Economic Opportunity Commission project in 1965 The stated purpose of the program was to fight poverty in an isolated region of Appalachia, sprinkled with towns with names like Cinderella Hollow and Magnolia, but inhabited by people 50% of whom were officially classified as poor...
...dominant political clans and the courthouse crowds in Mingo County had always used welfare programs, patronage jobs and outright cash to buy the votes of the poor and keep their own positions on the public payrolls. They expected that the new poverty project would give them a chance to get a handle on nearly $2,000,000 in federal funds...
...Perry gradually got the poor of Mingo County to feel happy in ways the politicians had not expected; they found joy in banding together to exercise a power they had never known before. Their projects were hardly radical. They kept their children out of class to force stingy school boards to expand hot-lunch programs and to repair schools and outhouses. They established cooperative grocery stores to bypass merchants who raised prices on days when food stamps were issued. They exposed officials who used state-financed work gangs to improve their private property. They documented the practice of bureaucrats...
Thursday, October 12 DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When ole Dan'l sets out to recover some stolen gold for Guest Star Maurice Evans, his Indian buddy, Mingo (Ed Ames) keeps the hijackers occupied with an aria from The Marriage of Figaro. Operation successful...
Cowboy Cutout. Still, it is likely that at least 10 million people will persist in remembering him as the Mingo who threw the Johnny Carson Tonight show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took...