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FIRST, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO JASPER COUNTY AGSNT W.C. JEFCQAT, FORHIS FINE HELP IN PUTTING TOGETHER TODAY �S
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YOU MAY RECALL A FRIDAY IN JANUARY BACK IN THE YEAR 1955 WHEN I TOLD THE STORY OF A COURAGEOUS WIDOW LADY OF JASPER GOUNTY AND HER ACCOMPLISHES IN REMAINING ON THE FARM TO RAISE FOUR DAUGHTERS, YOU MAY RECALL THAT I DESCRIBED THE FAMILY AS ONE FROM WHICH WE COULD ALL GAIN NEW STRENGTH FOH THE FUTURE THAT LIFE MAY OFFER. AS I OPENED SLIDE THAT STORY BACK IH 1955 IS SHOWED THIS PICTURE AMD I SAID, THIS IS THE STORY OF MRS. ROSIE MCKESZIE AND HER FOUR DAUGHTERS, TRUMAN, DOT* JEAN AND JUDY...A STORY OF SUDDEN TRAGEDY AND HEARTBREAK...A STORY OF FAITH IN REBUILDING A HOME AND A WAY OF LIFE. SOME OF YOU WILL RECALL THAT I WENT ON TO TELL OF LANE MCKENZIE, THE FATHER OF THOSE FOUR GIRLS...A MAN WHO HAD ALWAYS BEEN A HARD WORKER WITH A GREAT LOVE FOR HIS GIRLS AND HIS LAND. YOU MAY RECALL OF MY TELLING SLIDE FARM-2 HOUSS ABOUT THE 280 ACRES OF LAND HE HAD BEEN ABLE TO ACCUMULATE AND BY KEEPING TENNANTS ON THE LAND, HAD BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IT PRODUCE WHILK HE CARRIED ON A JOB ON A COUNTY ROAD MAINTAINER. I TOLD OF
HOW LANE MCKENZIE HAD BUILT THIS MODEST HOME FOR HIS FAMILY AND OF THE BRIGHT AND SECURE
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THAT SEEMED ASSURED... ..ENOUGH TO SEE HIS GIRLS THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND SEND THEM TO COLLEGE. BUT, AS I TOLD YOU IN JANUARY OP 1955, LANE MCKENZIE WAS NOT DESTINED TO SEE HIS DREAMS COME TRUE...FOR flNA A JUNE DAY IN 1951 LANE MGKENZIK DROPPED TO THE GROUND STRICKEN DOWN BY A HEART ATTACK WHICH SNUFFED OUT HIS LIFE. THE STORY I SLIDE gARM-3 HOUSE TOLD IN 1955 WAS OF THE BLEAKNESS THAT CREPT INTO THIS FAMILY'S LOTS AND THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE WITH WHICH THEY FACED THAT FUTURE TO STRIVE TOWARD THE THINGS THAT LANE H1KENZIE HAD HOPED FOR EX6 FAMILY...OF HOW THEY TRADED FOR SMALLER MACHINERY THAT GIRLS COULD OPERATE..*OF HOW THEY WORKED NIGHT AND DAY TO PUT IN, TEND ANB HARVEST THEIR GR0PS....AND GO TO SCHOOL AND BE * NORMAL PART OF THEIR COMMUNITY LIFE. THROUGH THE-YEARS SINCE 1955 I HAVE KEPT TRACK OF THAT BRAVE WIDOW LADY AND HER FOUR DAUGHTERS...AND SO, I AM SURE HAVE OTHERS.,..MANY HAVE WONDERED HOW THEY HAVE FARED IN THE Y^ARS SINCE, AND SO TODAY, I THOUGHT I MIGHT BRING YOU UP TO DATE ON THE STORY OF ROSIE MCKENZIE AND HER FOUR GIRLS. THEY STILL SLIDE FARM-4 TWO HOUSES LIVE ON THE FARM WHERE THEY DETERMINED TO STAY OS THAT FATEFUL DAY IN 1951 BUT CHANGES HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE ON THAT FARM..,.CHANGES FOR THE BETTER...CHANGES THAT REFLECT THE HOPiaS AND
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HE OLD FAMILY HOME STILL STANDS BUT TODAY IT IS NTED OUT TO A TENNANT AND THIS MEW HOME HAS TAKI SLIDE S PLAGE AS THE FAMILY'S LIVING QUARTERS. MRS. [CKENZIE SAYS THAT AS THEY BUILT IT BECAME PPARENT THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BUILD ALL INTO THEIR HOME THAT THEY HAD HOPED, SO THEY ELIMINATE! THE FRONT LIVING ROOM AND DINING ROOM AND BUILT WHAT THEY COULD AFFORD. THE HOUSE INCLUDES A COMBINATION KITCHEN AND FAMILY ROOM, THREE BEDROOMS AND BATH. THEY HOPE MAYBE ONE DAY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO ADD THE LIVING ROOM AND DINING ROOM. SLIDE FARM-6 FAMILY DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THOSE FOUR YOUNG
LADIES LfflOKED LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO.. .WELL HERE TH� ARE TODAY AS THEY SURROUND THE MOTHER THEY LOVE SO MUCH....AND GROWN UP YOUNG LADIES THEY ARE, JUDY|l THE YOUNGEST TOO. THAT'S mSSE. ON THE LEFT, THEN JEAN, MRS. MCKENZIE, DOT AND TRUMAN, THE ELDEST....FOUR CHARMING YOUNG L8IDIES BELIEVE ME....AND MUCH OF OUR STORY TODAY CENTERS AROUND THEM. BUT FOR A
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SOME COMPARISONS IN THE MCKENZIE FARM PROGRAM OF THEN AND TODAY. DO YOU REGALL SEEING THIS LONG HORNED BULL THAT MRS. MCKENZIE HAD GENTLED SO WELL THAT IT CONSENTED TO BEING LED AROUND BY HER GENTLE BUT FIRM GRASP OF A HORN. THEN,
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BULLS THEY WANTED TO SELL. THEY SOLD THIS BOTI BEFORE NIGHT OF THE SAME DAY WE TOLD THEIR STORY A GRAPHIC EXAMPLE OF THE WAY PEOPLE HAVE RESPOND] TO THE NES5S OF THIS COURAGEOUS FAMILY THROUGH THE YEABS, MRS. MC&ENZIE HAS TOLD ME MANY TIME THAT IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE WONDERFUL HELP OF THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THEIR COMMUNITY NOSE OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. THOSE WERE PICTURES OUT OF THE PAST...NOW HERB SLIDE T PARM-9 BULL 3 THE PRESENT. TODAY THEIR LIVESTOGK HERD BOATS TH2B FINE POLLED HEREFORD BULL...BUT THERE HAVE BEEN PROBLEMS AND HEARTACHES BETWEEN THAT OLD LONG HORN AND THIS ONE. THEY LOST A FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULL THAT HAD GOST THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY, SLIDE FARM-10 CATTLE BACK IN 1955 MRS., MCKENZIE HAD l. HEAD OF HEREFOE j0 13 OF THEM REGISTERED. TODAY THEY HAVE $$ HEAD OF CATTLE.,..22 OF THEM REGISTERED. CATTLE BEING CARRIED ON IMPROVED PASTURE THAT GETS PROPER SLIDE FARM-X1 COW & CALF FERTILIZATION ANDIS PROVIDING THE GRAZING TO PRODUCE A FINE CALF CROP. TO RAISE CATTLE MRS. MCKENZIE AND HER GIRLS HAVE NEEDED HANDLING
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FACILITIES AND SO THEY HAVE SET TO WORK TO BUT AT THE OTHER END OF THE FAGILIT3JS IS A BACK RUB FOR PARi SITE AND INSECT CONTROL. OTHER CHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE TOO. HOSIE
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SATS ONE OP 78E THINGS LANE MGKENZIE OFTEN SAID HE NBEDED TO GET DOHE WAS TO DRAIN SOME SWAMPY
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JUST THREE WEEKS AGO, THAT DITCH WAS COMPLIED MAKING ANOTHER OF HIS DBEAMS GOME TRUE, IN RECBN3 YEARS MRS. MGXENZIE HAS HAD TO GIVE UP HOW CRGPP3 AND CONCENTRATE MORE ON CATTLE, GOOD GRA&ING AND TIMBER, AND SO THAT PASTURE AREA PROPERLY �RAINEX WAS A VITAL NECESSITY. BACK IN 1955* WHBN WE TOLD THE STORY OF MRS. ROSIE MCKEl^IB WE SHOWED YOU THIS PICTURE OF HER TIMSIR, WE TOLD YOU THA5 IT WAS WELL M&NAQSD AND PROTECTED FROM FIRE... THAT THEY PRACTICED SELECTIVE CUTTING AND THINNH AND THAT IT WAS PAYING DIVIDENDS, TODAY THE D1JVIDENDS WHICH IT PAYS ARE EVEN MORE HSRB IS A PICTURE OF THE SAMS AREA, TAKEN LAST FRIDAY. YOU CAN JUST BARELY SEE THOSE TALL TREES IN THE BACKGROUND. THEY ARE ALMOST HIDDEN Et NEW GROWTH OF THE LAST FIVE YSARS. MRS. MOKENZIE HAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF EVER3T POSSIBLE HELP FROM AGRICULTURAL AGENCIES. SHE HAS BEEN ENROLLED IN THE EXTENSION SERVICE BALANCED FARM AND HOME PROGRAM EVER SINCE IT STARTED. WE HAVE TOLD YOU OF MANY OF THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF R O S H MGKENZIE, BUT WHAT ABOUT HER HOPES FOR HER FOUR LANE MOKENZIE BIGURED HE WOULD BE ABLE
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SEND THEM THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AMD OH TO COLLEGE. THAT HOPE TOO IS BEING HEALIZED. HOW MANY T D E S HAVE YOU SAID, GOSH IT COSTS TO SEND A GIRL TO COLLEGE"....AND IT IS COSTLY.. .BTJT THINK OP THIS FAMILY WITH THREE GIRLS IN COLLEGE THIS PAST YEAR...ALL OP THEM ENROLLED AT MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN AMD ALL OF THEM HOME EC MAJORS,..AND ALL OP THEM HELPING PAX THEIR WAY SY WORKING WHILE IN SCHOOL, IT HAS GALLED FOR SACRIFICES SLIDE FARM-17 FREEZER OK EVERYONE'S PART, IT HAS MEANT THAT MRS. MCKEM2IE HAS HAD TO RAISE MOSEY EVERY WAY POSSSBt AND THAT HER GARDEN AND FREEZING PROGRAM HAVEPLAYED IN IMPORTANT PEST IN HER ABILITY TO DO THAT. SHE HAS A HALF ACRE OF GARDEN, AND AS TEE GIRLS SAY...THREE HOURS PICKING OF STRAWBERRIES. ALL THE GIRLS HELP FREKZE AS THEY ARE AVAILABLE* SLIDE THOUGH TESIRE NOT ALL ALWAYS AVAILABLE. DOT WENT KITCHE TO SCHOOL LAST SUMMiR AHD JSAM AHD TRUMAN WORKED IN TQWlf SO THAf MEAHT JUDY AMD HER MOTHER HAVE HA TO DO MOST OF KEEPIHG THE FARM GOIMK AND THTS BEAUTIFUL AND COKVENIENT KITCHEH IN THEIR NEW HOME IS NOT SO MUCH A LUXURY AS IT IS A NBSESSITY FOR IT PLAYS A MIGHTY IMPORTANT PART IN THEIR SCHEME OF OBTAINING MONEY NEEDED TO KEEP THINGS GOING. YOU SEE THEY DO SOME CATERING. THEY USED SLIDE TO DO MORE THAN THEY DO NOW, BUT LESS GIRLS AT
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HOffi HAS MSANT A NECESSARY CU8TAXLHENT OP THIS , SOUBCE OP NLBDBD INGOHS. HOWEVER, THEY STILL CATER THE LIONS CLUB TWICE A MONTH AW THEY RUM THE CONCESSION STAND AT THE STOCKYARD IH BAY SPRINGS EVERY THURSDAY. SO YOU SEE, JUDY IS COOK* CATERER, AMD FARMER TOO. WITH THE OTHER GIRLS WORKING LAST SUMMER SHE DID MOST OF THE PASTURE WORK AND HAY MOWING AHD THIS SUMMER WITH DOT AMD JEAN WORKING AHD TRUMAN LEAVING HOME, XT LOOKS MUCH LIKE THS JOB WILL PALL TO HER AGAIN, JUDY IS JUST 15 AHD REALLY PROUD OP HER NEW DRJVH LICENSE, LET ME TELL YOU BRIEFLY OP THESE THIEE
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COLLEGE GIriLS, TRUMAH, OH THE LEFT, GRADUATES THIS WEEK. WEILS II SCHOOL SHE HAS BEEN PRESIDED OP THE HOME EC CLUB, A POSITION WHICH DOT WILL .
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BEEN ANXIOUS TO BRING THIS STORY UP TO DATE AT PARTICULAR TIME IS BECAUSE Tig FAMILY AS A
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TO WONDER IP IT WERE EVEN POSSIBLE. ROSIE MCKENZIE REPEATED WHAT SHE TOLD HE FIVE TEARS AGO...HERS IS A LIFE WORTH LIVING BECAUSE OP HER FAMILY, HJ3R CHURCH AMD COMMUNITY LOVE, CAMERA ON FAMILY COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING. .. .THAT A FULL LIFE HAS KEPT HSR FAMILY GOING...KEEPING BUSY WITH HBGESAAHY WORK AND TAKING PART IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. SHE REFLECTS OH THE YEARS AND SAYS.,., WHEN THE GIRLS WERE LITTLE I CARRIED THEM TO CHURCH...NOW THEY CARRY MB. THE VALUES THEST HAVE RECEIVED FROM THEIR (HURCH AND THEIR LORD ARE EVIDENT IN THiilR LIVES. YES t AS I SAID FI�! YEARS AGO.. ,LANE MCKENZIE CAN LOOK DOWN KTTH PRIDE AT HIS LITTLE FAMILY FOB HE LEFT BEHIND HIM A REAL HERITAGE FOR HIS HAVING WALKED THIS WAY*..AH INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US...AND I WOULD ADD:THIS TODAY.*.,. LANE MCEb-NZIE LEFT A HERITAGE FOR HIS GIRLS.,..ROSIE MCKENZH HAS BUILT TBEH A FUTURE. NOW, I WANT YOU TO ONCE AGAIN MEET THSM
