Arizona sun., 1948-01-30

who has supplied the leadership
which has made Big Lick a better
place to live and work.
Promote Health.
One Of Big Lick's finest public
services is it's community health
clinic. There is a building specially
constructed for it, in a grove ad-
joining the church yard. A graduate
nurse is stationed there to aid in
guarding the health of the people
and to assist in emergencies.
Big Lick also has a soil conserva.
ton program, and is carrying on
adult education and demonstrations
in fertilizing, crop rotation, better
livestock breeding, introduction Of
new fruits and plants, and good for
estry management. Homemaking
and home decoration, health and
child care are studied by the wom-
en-. There is also a study Of the CO.
operative movement, and commit
tees are developing plans for future
cooperative undertakings, possibly
in marketing of home crops, proc
essing and a credit union. Big Lick
has its own machinery pool, includ-
ing a tractor, a hammer mill and
saw mill.
Build Own Church.
Wooton community, under the
ministry Of Benton Deaton, has
fine community church and play
ground, built by the people them
selves. In the recreation center the
children Of the neighborhood have a
place to enjoy their games and the
whole community has it's picnics
and outdoor religious gatherings.
WOOtOn owns a cooperative
truck, which provides transpOr-
tation for the farmers who want
to send things to market, and
have things bought for them in
town. Very few Of the people
have cars, and their usual
means Of travel is by mule
back.
Wooton also has circulating IL
brary. the beginnings of a demon
stration farm, and a training course
in handicrafts and cottage indus
tries, for both men and women.
Similar work, especially in health,
soil saving and better farming, is
going on at Alpine. Morris Fork,
Frakes and Sevierville. The pro-
grams vary according to local needs
and the resources that can be put to
use.
Productive Enterprises.
For example, the parish at Alpine
is the owner of forest of 1,50O
acres and a farm Of 100 acres. A
trained forester and an expert
farmer make those enterprises pro-
duce earnings, and furnish exam
Piles for other farm and woodlot
owners. The Alpine program is in
charge of the head of the mission,
the Rev. Bernard M. Taylor, and
Mr.. Taylor has made the mission
responsible for developing the COM
munity's full resources through the
activities of the citizens themselves,
and their labors are being reflected
more and more in better health and
living.
The same can be said of the COM
munities at Frakes, Morris Fork
and Sevierville, all Of which have
vastly improved their ways of living
because practical economic plans
for conserving the land and finding
more useful employments for sur
plus labor have been made principal
aims in the community plan. The
pastors, of course, have not neg
lected their religious duties. They
simply have added economic con-
Germs to their other responsibilities.
The next article 1UiU tell OF THE inn.
bOrfant community deVeIObment plan
now being carried on in fVe counties
centering around THbeLO, MISS. Tbs
TabelO plan is one of THE most Gnn6i'
hoHs that bas been undertaken any.
wbere is' the unfolding rural life move
nnent.