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...years ago the Springfield hillbillies began moaning and wailing on a two-hour KWTO show called Ozark Jubilee, and ABC put 25 minutes of it on its radio network. Six months later the show was on the ABC-TV network, soon grabbed 90 minutes of prime television time (Sat. 7:30 p.m., E.S.T.) three weeks out of four. Last week Springfield could lay claim to being the hillbilly capital of the world...
...didn't pitch long enough"), he obviously rated a favored spot in Rice's heart. After reeling off a flock of other peoples' stories about Dean, Granny tells of the time he sat on the train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark hog callers won 49 games for the St. Louis Cardinals. Paul was lustily swigging a bottle of pop when the train roared into a long tunnel. "Diz," exclaimed Paul. "You tried any of this stuff?" "Just fixin' to," replied Diz. "Don't!" cautioned Paul...
Charley Gilliland. a towheaded Ozark farm boy, learned to kill a rattlesnake and throw a mule by the time he was ten. He put in his turn milking and plowing, bought his first shotgun when he was 13, played football and refused to play basketball ("for sissies"), grew strong enough to hold a 98-lb. anvil over his head, but never once stopped dreaming of the day he would become a soldier. He sent away for cereal buttons, collected old CCC caps, medals and sheriff badges, and wore them all, strutting around the house...
Faubus, onetime highway director for ex-Governor Sid McMath, was accused of attending Commonwealth College in the Ouachita Mountains. Commonwealth, which folded in 1940, was later branded a Communist-line school by the U.S. Department of Justice. Faubus admitted he had hitchhiked to the school from his Ozark home in 1935 to accept a proffered scholarship, spotted the Red danger signals after a few weeks, and hiked right back home. Cherry refused to let the matter drop, suggested Faubus was lying. Faubus fought back with a charge that Cherry was the tool of special business interests; he chortled happily when...
...April 20, the Rev. J. J. Ivie, 57, a traveling Ozark evangelist of the fundamentalist Assembly of God Church, went home to his cottage in Cherryville, Mo. and quietly told his wife that he was going on a religious fast. In 27 years as a preacher in the foothills, he had come to feel an increasing depression about human sinfulness, and a sense of personal failure in his efforts to lead his fellow men to repentance...