Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painting began for Spruce in back-country Arkansas with local landscapes, rabbit hunters and deer. He went to a rural Arkansas school, did farm chores, picking apples and digging sweet potatoes, soon won a county competition with his first watercolors and oils. At 18 he went to the Dallas Art Institute on a scholarship. There he studied life drawing and painting, made ends meet by doubling as school janitor and fabricator of canvases and panels that the school sold to its students. Eventually he became assistant director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University...
...RURAL DEVELOPMENT...
...some 2,500,000 marginal farmers. These underfed and ill-housed families are a farm problem that few Congressmen talk about. Last week Congress grudgingly voted $2,500,000 for their benefit, a cut of $1,500,000 below the amount President Eisenhower urgently requested this year for Rural Development, the nation's newest farm program...
...rural county in eastern North Carolina, Negroes complained that it took a white man only a few minutes to. get registered, while Negroes often had to wait an hour; thus only a small percentage of Negroes was registered. In Green County, Ala. Negro registrants had to be accompanied and vouched for by "a good white man." In Caldwell Parish, La. the registrar refused to accept whites as witnesses for Negroes because they were of a different race...
Last week in many rural outposts their presence made news...