New Britain herald., 1930-02-25
HOOVER SCHOOL
 HOLDS OPENING
Mountain Folk Turn Out to Sec
 New Seat Of Learning

CrtslersvilIc, Va. Feb. 25 c PJ-- President Hoovcr's little backWoods school tucked away in remote sec- ton of tho Blue Ridge mouniaju~ whcro poverty and ignorance go hand-in- hand. opened for business yesterday and Inc whole countr&- side rcjoiood.
 Little Ray BUrakcr, r years old. who started tho school project last summer when ba wandered into the presidents Eapidan camp nearby and revealed hc never had boon to school, was up at dawn and went without his breakfast so he could plod up the mountain and raiS" the American flag in front Of Inc brown and green bungalow school His father. George Burrakcr, Is care takor of the presidents camp.
 His T year old grandmother, Mart Burrakcr's wife, put on q faded blue sun bonnet, took her cane in hand and struggled over two miles of muddy mountain trail 10 the school house. old Mart himself was thorc, vou1rable patriarch with flowing white beard, expecting to see Nr, Hover and feeling right bad" because the president did not come.
 Baby Also Attends
 About 20 children of the hill country, fairly scrubbed and wearing their neatcst clothes. mostly over alls, arrived carly in the school building and waited inpatiently for the opening, Five year old Virginia BuHrakcr, who has plenty of other clothes. wore q dress Mrs. Hoover had sent her in honor Of the occa- sion, Celia Burrakcr, II, wore an orange hat with morning glory trim mings, vintage of ahout 1905. The youngest was q 19 weeks old baby, brought in its mothers arms over the mountajnsjdr.
 The Burrakers seemed all over the place. Mrs. Mart, weary from her tramp and resting in front of the fireplace, counted eight grandchi4- drcn among the pupils, The Hoov- CTS had done much for fine family. offering employment to George. thr father of Ray and keeping guiding eye on the simple country folk.
 The school. &20o feet above sea level, overIooks magnificent pauo- rama stretching for miles to the cast
 The boys in this isolated region know nothing of Babe Ruth or Charles A. Liudbergh. idols of most boys their age, The girls seemed a little more worldly Most of their faces were rouged, ineNportly, q few had been to dances and one r years old "alloWod q" she had sweetheart They were q plump healthy looking lot
 The picturesque talk of tho nIoun- tains sounded strange to city cars. The hills "Wero over yonder' or "un thar.' Tho word used for emphasis was ''dcody."
 Poses for &l.
 "Noycr say ''deody" unless you really know its true, counselled old Mart Burraker to his grandson Ray. when the boy said "deody, mo-" 10 photographic who wanted q close up picture.
 Ray finally capjtulatrd for a SI bill while some ancient hiIl-bilIies, sitting on a log whiting sticks, cackled in amusement at inc boys aslutc mind.
 Miss Christine Nost the teacher, k 25 years oId a graduate Of Borca college, Kentucky. but veteran of the mountains. She has taught in rural schols before
 lis going 10 hc difficult to gct them start"d,' she said. Most of them never have been 10 school and IU have 10 sort them. love inc work though and don't feel . bit afraid up here"
 Her school room has "2 desks, maps, a globe of the world, black boards. plenty of to>t books.
 Narrow twisting roads, built by marnps ied to tho school The }hemSeIT-s wrrr in q ioyial hmuor and H"lnoBcd visitors hoart- lE Tine datachu,nt oC a dozen is guarding President Hovnr4 camp
 bactors who write prescriptions in t1loaiolr hands are liable to b. fined under a unw Nor~o sian laH.