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Howard Langfitt
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TA F IA
AM INDEBTED F O i A LOT OP WOIDJ^FUL FOLKS FOR CAMERA OK LAHOFITT E I R VMY FOT5 HELP IH PUTTING THIS STORY
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BUT IT WAS SELECTED PRIMARILY THIS FAMILY FOR SOME TIME AMD
TE mOW
SOMETHING OF M E COITHIBUTIO& THIS KMT I S m TO A BETTER AGRICULTURE I I M I S S I S S I P P I . WAIT TO THAHK THE SOIL COSTSHRVATIOJT DISTRIC OF COVI1GTOH COUHTY FOR ffiSIR
I I T E E S T IK THE STORY AID THIIR VMY F I K I (JOOPEMTIOI. SLIDE PA8M-1 IHIS I S TBM STORY OF WL AID MRS.
J&LFH H. HJ^RHf WHO LIVE I I THE SALBM COIMJKITY OP COYBfGTON CWNTY, IT I S THE STO�Y OF A FAHM BUT HAS MDE THAT HAS DO�M AH (XJTSTAHDI I
!AMILY WHICH HAS LITTLE l&m HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE AM
i 1 BU1LDIHG M D COISMVIIG THE SOIL.
TO TELL IHIS STORY BECAUSE I T SHOWS WHAT m PARSER CAIT 30 WITH 1HE HELP OF TEE
GRICULTUHAL WORKED IH HIS CCOTTY, TO REAP TRE
mm %mwi?$ FROM HIS SOIL,
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MR. AID MRS,
H HEHRIH OKLY HATE 82 ACRS^ OF LAND BtT ACRE ( F I T I S HIGHLY PRODWTIVE WITH ULESt FERTILITY. WU ATO MRS, HH?RII MET
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THEY W ^ E SWIORS TOGETHM AT SMITH COOTTY .H.S. HALffl WAS PUKSTflKTF at?
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tND THE YOUNG LADY WHO IS H P MRS, HEHRIN WAS I PRESIDENT, HE REALLY GOT SERIOUS ABOUT HE
SHE POLITICKED FOR HIM AND HELPED HIM BE PRESIBiiNT OF THE SWMM CLASS
I D THEY TELL ME I T WAS QUITE SOME DOING FOR HAD SOMEONE FROM OUTSIDE WE COUNT WW ELECTED TO THAT OFFICE* AT ANY RATE THEY
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ERE MERIED IN 1930 AND AFTER ffiBIR HARRIAGE EY BOTH Wmt 0 TO COPIAH-LINCOLN JUNIOR THEIR WAY THROUGH TWO YMRS PRESSIGN GOT SO BAD IN 1932 TO TEE SALEM COMMUNITY mm.)
COLLEGE AID WORK OF COBIiSGE. THE
WT
THEY CAME H
HAD
AND RALPH WORKED ON THE THE SECOND
FES W I f i HIS FATHSt FOS A Y M t ,
THEY FAHIED ON THE HALTES ON AN ADJOINING FARM OWNED BY IflR* H^F # PICKMING AND mm IN
9 3 S THEY MQVm TO THEm P R J ^ l ^ T LAND AND RENTE! ROM THE FEDERAL LAND BANK AID WITHIN THREE YEAJ AN OPTION mm SLIDE FJkM*>4 HAD TO BUY THE LAND*
COURSE mm
DIB^T LIFE IN THIS HOUSE,
THEY
a oust;
AN OLD HOUSE WITH HIGH SAILINGS II 11 ROOMS EATED BY SIX OPEN FIREPLACES, 1BEY LIVED IN II ROM 1935 TO 1940* IN 1940 THE? TORE IT DOWN
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COOKED IN fHAI SMOKE HOUSE TO FEBB fAMILY AND IRE HANDS WHILK OTBf WIRE BUILDING, i s SOOH AS OHE 100M WAS COMPLETED THEY MOVED
mo msm ROMS AID casrTmnsn
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IflllSHEB. mu
TO COOK IW IHE
$MOKH!ttJSS UHTIL THE KITCHEN I I TEBI1 HOME WAS . AM MRS. RALPH HEKRIff HAVE ALWAYS
IVED CLOSU TO THEIR LQHB AID MVE M I S S D THKE8 fAMILY I F KITS SAME HELATIOHSHIP. TREf HAVE THEIR
Y BS.^ C03'S STMARBS El" S ? r a Y WAY+ A I D IIQM^ U F B MAS A1MJS
BEM .CLOSELY
] a T E K � U U T E D AW) IHTEKTIflMKD WITH THE HCXJSB OF 11J3 LOHD. SO fOO, mm mVll B S ^ GOOD STMAUDS
SLIDJS
flP HIS SOIL,
T-JHEST MR. ABfD M S . lALHi HEERII
�DrTXOIT
0 ? � TO THIS LAID I f M S HOW OUT, WASHED 0SPL13TBLY OFF, WAS SOLID US STtJMPS AST) MS A GULLY EVMY T�H S f � S . mWE
TOMY AS M L I � HE CAH SSE
IfERRIH LOOKS OUT OVER THAT SAME JAm
RACLE THAT HAS WESVLTEB PEOM BEING A GOOD TO GOB'S RESOURCES� RALM HER^IM
A COfTOK M D COOT PROGRAM TILL 1 9 5 0 ATO A I S E f ) A PSf CATTLE. WS 1950 HE QUIT HAISIFG HE SATS
OTTOK AND EASH'T RAISES) A STALK SIHCE #
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HEY QUIT BECAUSE I T WMS WORKING THE WHOLE FAMIL'! TO DimUl, THEY OJTLY M B I PAY DAY I F THE PALL AB) m S L I D E , FARM*? ALL �IE EXPENSES BAD BEEN DEDUCTED THEY SSV3 MONEY, PALM HI3REU" REALLY GOT #
;
tADB MY
)H HIS PRgSEiTT mOQTtA** OF CAfTI� AHB GRASS 1 9 3 8 WBKif TES SOIL CCWSERmTICM DISTRICTS 0RGA1IIZSB, HE MmAhLS HALHi M S ME 0� ITS FT^ST COOPEHATd BlAf FOLICS WJ3RE AFRAID OF I f BECAUSE
MEY HAD TO SIGH A CONTACT FOR VIVB YE4HS, RA^PH RECALLS "fflAT Hfi TOL3) K I M HE WOULD SIGH Tjp F 0 8 tm H I S LAID. tmtS I F THisY COULD B0 AFYfHIIG WITH
1U SAYS MIfHBT A YMR MOST OF Till WHAT HAS
POLES AHOUMD ItAMTS) OH SUE PROGRAM*
XMT C00PE3ATI0H TMT STARTiSD UT 1 9 3 8 AHB C O I J I N U 2 S TO B U S GAY DOIS. Offi EXAMPLE. WELL, B I B HILL I S
RALPH RECALLS JHAT HE ARGUED WITH
H I S SOIL COSSiSRVATIOJ TECUHICUITS FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE HE WOULD LET MM H I E WHAT COVER ffiBRE
WAS OFF THAT EBB CLAY AND HIIXSIDfi OF GULLIES*
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WM& QEkSS
AFD OF COURSE YOU FEED O$LY TO LOOK TO SEE WHAT XHS SOIL CO1SESVATIOW SERVICE PROVED TO SALra#�, WAT YOU COULD SOB A PLACE L I E WJkt AND I T WOUl
HSAL OVSR*
TODAY THAT ST1EP HILLSIDE IS A BAVM RALPH M B M*.E* MWMm OF THE
OF FIHE GRAZIIG.
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{SOIL CCKSERVATIOH" SmflCE
POINT TO A SMALL PATCB
3P BARE GROUND THAT IS WE LAST TRACE OP WHAT � WAS ON THAT HILLSIDE* MM RALPH HERRIN CALLS
AGRICULTURAL SPECIALIST IN THE COUNTY FOR
in
IpLP,
THESE A1E ONLY A ?T� OF THEX MANY WHO
iAYB RESPONDED Wlffi SCXM) FARMI1SG PRACTICE 1HAT AVB n a P E P THE SALHi HEEII1* FAMILY TO CQNSfiRfE M" BUILD THEIR SOIL. LEFT TO HIGHT THEY ARE (WARD BTMETf, ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT, M.B. REIfHR OF HIE SOIL CdTSB3^�AtION SE1VICB, PMNKLI IpJGliiS OF WM LOUSTY hXTsJSSKKS SM\TICE^ W.C# 1 I I T O T G T 0 M OF WM PAUKfiRS HOME ABMIIISTRATIOH 1 D MNICEFc, ELLIS I C I O T I S , JOTIOR* 1HR0UGH THE
f l T t i TUB HELP OF SUCH MEV AS THESE M L M IL4S IL4D COHST^JCfED 3 ^ U I ^ S OP TBE1ACE, PROPER I'ATER OUTLETS HAVE BBiIs BUILT AW SOBED AH) THE
MUMPS M � B BfiM RiKMOTED AID WITH PROPER SOIL SLIDE FAljUlO PASTURE 1'ESTIKG M B PMTILIZATIOI FIFE GRAZIHG HAS I1ESULTE3). $mm PASTURES COMPRISING 60 A C R ^ Of
IAKD WITH MXXTORES OF ARGMTIHB BAHAI, RED CLOVE MM RESCUE 1ST SOME, RB*SEEDIIC RYE, WHITE DUTCH PBHSACOLA BAHAIA I F A10THES, BERMUDA, WILD INTER PEAS AID BAHAIA IH AHOTHI� AHB SO OF
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1HESE KEF TOO, HAVE HELPED TO MIKE ALL THIS AND
I OSE POSSIBLE FOR flifc RALPH HEREIN FAMILY,
0 P.IGHT,.�AR12iliR OBRIEM COUNTY AGENT.. .ODKLL OF S . C . S . . . . H R . TOIK. � . TOH MAI1T, WMK-�
ttTIT CONSERV/TIOITCST OP HIE S . C . S . , , ��KBLSOf BprNEDY OF THE A . S . C . OFFICE AND VOCATIONAL ULTURE
�
rmcnm
w.c. ROBSRTSON.
THESE ��xHG TO
ASTURSS ARii F i S f l L I Z E D �ACH Yi^AR ACC OIL TEST
GRAZED All?) WEfclBS ARE CLIPFEI) 1EREE TIM^S
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R . G . BRASSFIEU), DISTRICT SUPMYISOR OF
FARMSH'S HCHB ADMIIIST.RATION HELPS US TO GET GLOSE LOOK AT thlS F I ^ E GRAZ1HG,
tMPomiiY Hxmm GRAZBK. CCMSISTS cr 25 ACRES
4 J HYK, QATS, WHMT AFD KBSUCfi SOP SEEDED INTO NT PASTURE A M S . BESIDES P f f i S OT
FOR HIS CATTMS MLPII HERRH PUTS UP THOUSAND OR MOHE BALI5S OP GRASS HAY EACH YlSAR. SLIPS FARM-12 MfeJ" IN PASTURE US Mtm TRIMS BACK TO THE BEGINNING HE R.0CAIJLS
OLD T-.-RRACE BRMK AT THIS POINT I F HIS 1X1131 HE RECALLS THAT IN 1 9 3 9 KB DIBN'T 'S AFT T M m C E S BECAUSE THE LAID WAS SO .SHED OFF THAT I T TOOK TWO Y1A1S TO BBU1W
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WOULDIPT WMML
HE TELLS C
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AND TOM MAIN HERE THAT I I 1 9 4 0 , DUE TO 6 S OF TIME J I WORKING WITH WE SOIL CONSERYATK SERVICE I I BUILD HG UP THE FARM HIS D I M ' ? MAKE A CIROP SO HE WORKED A YEAR ON THE R0kD AND UP TO ' TIM2 Tim? WAS THE FIRST KORK HE M B BONE CFF IE FAT� . � HE TOOK PART OF TEE JOTEY RE M 0 E
0R1OTC OH THE ROAD AJO) BOUGHT A 0Kb MOUSE 0 IIAUL FARM PRODUCE TO SftRKET, ME SAYS FROM
1935 TO 1950 EE NEVER WMt TO fGWF WITHOUT
ING E&GUG& PRODUCE TO M Y FOR WHAT EE HAD TO EUY# IN 1947 HM BODGEf A PICKUP THICK Aim OTBB* IT
IEJS FIRST MOTOR V^iOTLE HE EVER
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TSff LE CATT
FARM*!
D MRS. RALPli HEaSlB GOT TEBIR START WITH WMii^ MRS� HBRRIN'S MOTHER GAVE THSf * 0 CC�S VBES TEEY WKRE m E E I E D . "
THEY liAVE IEVB3
BOUGHT A COW SI1CE*
WMR
PRISEIT EfSC OF 3S TWO C d S . THEY
ALL ORIGIMTED FROM WME H
1 25 BROOD C d S AND BWEB THEM fO A REGISTERS
l
HJER
OSB BULL.
THEY FOLLOW A COMME^IAL CO� AID
CALF PROGRAM AID SELL THEIR CALVES MILK FAT OFF TEE COW. E L f f i SAYS HE HAS FOUIB HB CAM MAKE
M IE HONEY PRODUCING CALVES THAI FATTEMIIG COWS, A W HE SOLD 19 HEAD TO GET ENOUGH MONEY U I L B A CA1P0RT, EXTRA ROOM AID E3CTBA BAKU
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FEE VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE TEACHER, ff.C. ROBERTS OK HELPS HIM CULL TELE HERD EVERY YEAR AK1 � SEDsCT HIS BEST HEIFERS FOR BFRD REPIACEKEKT, LSO HR. ROBERTSOK, F AKKLIK HUGHES AKI> CHARD
r E r B T T OF FPe COTXY AGFKT'S OFFICE HA�E BEEff fVALUABLE TO RALPH AKP SOK HERHAff IK CARRYING 0fcTT 1 GOOD MRASIfE MV IKSBCT "CONTROL P
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FARM-IS BOY & CALF
OK' IBEEE CATTIB. tkhF FBS
BY TEE WAY THEY GET A 90 %
CROP I F F TfiEY ARE CARRIED OK GRAZIKC I.AY A^D GRAII I I TEE BEAD OF FIOTER,
OK HISKI K I S IS" HIS THIRD YEAR OF 4 - S < W U K A K D OKE OF HIS PROJKTS I S THIS EI B|SEF CALF. MIJ ALSO M J S E S SOME CHICK-IS AID
I HELPS TM$ RflS GARDM#
HE IS F t B S m V f OF HIS EIS SISTERS IEU., AND Mim
4t-E CLUB Af SAL0i SCHOOL.
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SSE 4-H CLUB K^mtMB BEFORE HIM, 8 0 M S 25 ACRES IK F I I E PHE TB1BER* E EAS SET CUT 5 # 0 0 0 P U B SEEDLIIGS, SOLD ALL
IE JfKFCHAlTlBLE HARDWOODS AID KILLED THE REST* rtlE SOIL COISEWATIOI SERVICE WE~& ILf ALL HIS WITH CCC LABOR ' RALPH FUHISHBB THE IREES ISTS AIT? THB WIRE AFP THEY FU1FISHED THE
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IlBOR AM) BUILT TMB FMCES. MtfR POIHTS OUT TO SOIL COISERVATIOK BIST1ICT COMMISSIONERS ,
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I ROGERS AFT] ELTON MCINNIS, JUNIOR, THE KIN] 0 P WORK HIAT HAS REHST DOSE GIRDLING THE MOST UNDESIRABLE HARDWOODS TO KILL THEM. RALPH ,
JEBRSX9 HAS ALWAYS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF A . S . C * AND HAS AOfAYS USED THE LATEST JPG RfgCOfffiESnATIONS, IN HIE HOHEHAKING
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FABML8
GAWSS
T TEE RALPH H23KRIN FAMILY ALSO SXCELLf* THEIR HALF ACRE TSAR KOUFI) GARDEN AMD MEAT FRUIT SUPPLY MRS, HEREIN PRESERVES MOST ALL FOOD THS FAMILY NEEDS MCK YEAR, FOR
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DCAMPLB, SHU Fmmm SICH Y3AR AM
ABOUT 2 # S 0 0 POU1DS OF POOD
ALSO PUTS UP ANOTHER 200 QUARTS " S1II3 LOVSS TO COOK AND I IAN EXCWLMf COOK,
? FOOD I S �MHS#
5LL YOU P O S T HAND, S1IS I S M SLIM
t l HiH VBRY MODBRM ICITCHM SHI HAS ALL TEE T HSCESSA1Y TO BRING CONVEKIEKCE AHB I 0 H S H0H,3!AKIHG H10GRAM, BY THE WAY, * GBQKXIj SHONTN HH?S WITH BKR M01HER, FUT THE COVERING 0 1 THE TOPS OF IRE JtTTCHM CABINETS AND LAYS� TILB 0 1 THE EITCH^T LOOR. BY THE WAY, GEORGIS ATTENDED JOWS
J O T I O ^ COLLEGE THH? TRANSFERRED TO WILLIAM CA11 O L L ^ B I I HATTIISMJ1G TOME SHE G1ABUAT1B IN 1 9 5 7 WITH A DBBRJ
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}>UI?I3SG THE SCHOOL YEAR SEE TEACHES IN IATCBBZ,
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JfcRS. HEHRII
LOVES TO SBf AND DOES HER (WN UNTIL R E M ! TMRS SHE
OST OP THE GIRLS SEWING,
$Hfi SQKH MDE MOST OP HERMAN'S CLG1RBS, SLT B PARM�,22 YARD
iso
LOVBS
Fhmms
AND SE?>? BP,SSY ANS SHB LOVES SUB HAS
0 CBT OUT I I ffiS YARD A l l TfORK Hil^F*
,5 MOST CF THE MIBSCAFING � A D ?Jar THAT THET K 1 AWED IH3 CARPOUt I S WORXIIG (M HEIf PUNS 5 R ADDITIONAL BBA.UTIFICAT1OK OP HSI LAWN, AS
8 A I ? ) 111 THE BEBIlBiING, TIES IS A FAMILY WHICH SLIDE FAR1W2
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VSS CLOSi^ TO miBBi LORD, AHD AUfAYS MVE* ;i5Y BM.CWG TO Ui� SAVM lURCi! IN raiOi BAPTIST C1R-RCH, THE HE I S A
.SALHI GRSf UP AS A BOY* WILDIEG
If SAC ON, CliAIRMIN OP M3
COHKITTEE
FAST3 Wli AID CHURCH ffHBN ffiEY WERE RECENTLY $DILT. HE IS SOT�Hffi^DEMT OP HiE ADULT SOTMY FOE ffiS PAST NINE YMRS HE
CliOOL DiSPARTifiSHT,
itAS SSKYSI AS PRESIDENT OP THE COVIIGTOH COOTTY
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M P T I S T B^OISEBHOOD.
HE I S AN OUTSTANDING
BAPTIST LAYMAN AND U S T YEAR PILLED 27 PULPITS
I
r
RGUGH0UT TEE STATE,
HERB WE SBB MLPK WITH
;
REVEREND BOB LEDBETTER, M O I S ICHf PASTO1 AT ITEESr|S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH AT FLORENCE, BUTH0 WAS PASTOR OP THE SALM BAPTIST CHURCH AT
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B U I L f Tlii3IR NSC CHURCH BU
, HSRRXK I S A 7JSACH2R IN 2BS B K i n f l R /RKIESFT AIP HAS TAUOHT H A7X BEMRfMMTS OF CAMERA FAMILY SIB SUM4Y SCHOOL, K.Jf#U. SUB I S A CIKCU3 CHAITOIM ( F GBORGIA I S HATCH�
D SIHGS JH BUS CHOIR.
XSHBfiR OP THIS FIRST BAPTIST CHUBCH H
O I T I L M I S Yi^l^ -ms A ! ! S � M <F SAJLM CHURCI ME SMJiS HALF OF 111? fYUffi MCK TO SILiJI CllimCfi
LID CON'TniBUTSS Ei^ULAlLY TO ITS BUILDI1& FCffll* �IB ^JAS 3,L;iCfSI> MISS SBUGIClUS ETIUCATIOI AT JOEES JU1IOS COLLHrE IM 19S4 All) 5 5 ' * BOTH SHB
ifiSRJS GOOD CITIZMSHIP GIHL OF f i l l YEAR I HIGH SCHOOL AM} ^i�U JGIOH M^sIML OP HOMOR* \kIXBBK& OF HIE AMERICAN BY THE MAY, HELL WILL
IS HQECS I^COIOICICS i f H I S 8 I S S I P P I S RALPH HJ3K:� HAS SE1TED AS i CODITY SOIL QOmmVAtim DISTRICT
siQT:ns wm TUB PAST 15 YEARS,
HE I S
:>R�SIDBHT OF THE COOTTY CQSfSS?MTI(M LEAGUE, I S ACTIBE IK TIISEOLLIHS ROdtARY CLUB, JAYCSSSV R J S I M I S AHD mmESSlQML CLUB, CHAIRHAN OF TIE BOTH ARB ACTIVE
'OLLBFS INDUSTRIAL COItflTTEE, I PT.A # AID BURMU,
ALPS I S A LiGISIATOH O F 1 1 1 . AKFft
COYII&TCW COOTTY AID -IS
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THEHS ARE S r MS.IY RUNGS I COULD TELL
ABOUT HIS ACTIVITIES IK
aiai
OP HIE
r-S 1 HAVE MKTTIONED BUT TIMB WON'T SIGHT NOW I RANT YOU TO MBM1 THIS F J I E * M I L Y PilOlf C0T1KGTCF COOUTT AVD HBI? FROM SOICS OF THEIR imOBLEMS AND ACCOIfFLISHKElfS THE T-ARS.
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WHAT DIB YOJ FAI3- WITH Sffi FI1ST YMR? MiAT FSXT..* # J A K ) TIIBST WHAf? HHBRE DIB YOU GET TEE ilQllEY TO BUT YOUR FAi nOI* LOSS DID I f UMB TO PAY I T MCK? QOV BID YOU M E A COUFLB OF YimRLT PATHEffi ON' SHE FAM IK mOSE i^RLV M Y S , IIRS. HEER2
3, 4, S.
6*
IMLlfi WHAT WERE SQffi OF TEE WAYS YOU M f ) l SCTRA P A B f ^ T S OF HIE FAim?
7,
HO: DID YOU BUY YOUR HMSIIf
SJLMNG-
MHCHI3SE, MRS#
8� 9* 10,
WHAT BO Y(HJ BO TO SUPFLEMEK'T PARK HICOMEf BO YOU HAVE A PHILOSOPHY OF LIVING? TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE YOUR SUCCESS, M S HERRIN
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