Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening in February 1942 Harper & Brothers' Board Chairman Henry Hoyns tuned in on We, the People, heard the easygoing drawl of a preacher recounting his experiences in the Ozark Mountains. The publishers promptly asked the parson to write his autobiography. Last week it was published. Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks ($2.50) by the Rev. Guy Howard, crammed with colorful hillbilly tales, is a lively account of an itinerant minister's work in isolated Ozark hamlets of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas...
...Furriner" in the Ozarks. A onetime farmer and teacher in his native Iowa, 52-year-old Guy Howard felt the Gospel call ten years ago. Although his Ozark people love him now, many of them resented him at first, even to the extent of burning down his school. He was "a furriner" and it took him a long time to live down the mountaineers' suspicion that his Bible was just a disguise to hide a revenue officer's badge...
Unlike some Ozark preachers, Howard never whipped his listeners into frenzied praying and testimony. He spoke gently of redemption, taught that Christianity is greater than any single church, that its great message is brotherly love and service...
Miss Addie Sullivan is the daughter of a hill farmer too old to work his Ozark Mountain farm. In the morning she makes breakfast for her father, works at some of her daily barn, chicken-run, and truck-garden chores before walking a quarter of a mile to the Calamine, Ark. frame school where she teaches all eight elementary grades. The school has no electric light (the nearest power line is eight miles away), no running water...
...young (39), well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...