Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1949 — Page 15

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By VICTOR PETERSON HE hours of the earthly life of Christ were running out. The morrow would see Him crucified. Gathering His disciples about Him, He took bread and wine and consecrated it into His own body and blood. In an act of humility He knelt before each and washed their feet. “Ye call me Master and Lord; and ye say well; for so 1 am,” Christ said. “If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one anothems feet.” This is the brief passage in Christ's life remembered evéry Maundy Thursday. - » » ”. =. » . * WITH REVERENT pontifical pomp the Benédictine monks and students of St. Meinrad Abbey celebrate mass on Holy Thursday commemorating the institution of the Holy Eucharist. In the manner of Christ, Father Abbot Ignatius steps from the throne and kneels to wash the feet of Students. This is the ~ last act of a two and a half hour service”in the near-century-old abbey church with its lofty twin spires. The Blessed Sacrament, removed from the altar, reposes in the tabernacle of the crypt awaiting the mass of the PreSanctified®on Good Friday.

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Father Richard meditates in the abbey rock garden

Irwin H. Reiss, Meadowlark Farms, Inc., general manager, 7% fights to reclaim land damaged by mining. Ba “7 egg

GRICULTURAL surgery today Ts closing the gaping wounds left in Hoosier soil by the drag line of strip mining.CTT al te | , The holes and the sterile ridges of earth once left in the wake of man’s mad scramble for coal are becomh ing productive of crops once more. lI US Just three years ago diréctors of Ayrshire Collieries, a sprawling coal empire in Indiana and Illinois, de- £ “ / po. termined to bring life back to the secourged areas. b a td

Meadowlark Farms, Inc., was created with headquarters in : g Hampshire fo thrive in valleys and on sro of Jk land. Sullivan, Ind. A month ago, go-getting, 31-year-old Irwin H. :

a a Reiss was named general manager with control over some 25,000 Ui IE I acres and Hpward bos 75 employees in the ts States, VL FOR YEARS ‘the powerful machinery of mining companies

has torn the top soil from “black diamond” veins, piled it in saws ‘g towering serrated heaps. Then the giant shovels bit deep into

rr In) Flo ET the precious coal deposits. . : Te a ¥ i | ofr rC A seam exhausted, the s shovels moved on, leaving some holes Ji & TA © nearly 100 feet deep.

The Clinton Farm of the giant corporation nestles by a lake which once was an

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efforts. Waste land was the by-product.

i J ] 2 poy | 1a ing in lakes formed by run-off water in ddmmed valleys, trees i y ae are stretching skyward and pure bred Hampshire hogs graze 4 the ridges.

MA a The mutilated- earth was mute evidence of giant industrial | AY

Today alfalfa is growifig on the spoil slopes, fish are teem-

» ” ~ y » ” PRINCIPAL EFFORTS to date are being made in Clay, Pike, Vermillion and Sullivan Counties. The Clinton Farm, near Clinton, Ind. gives a cross-section of nearly every operation within the project. Here have been planted thousands of trees from the com- ‘; -pany’s million-tree nursery in Pike County. Some 162,000 trees a¥ ; were put out this spring alone. N Meanwhile, airplanes have criss-crossed ihe barren slopes sowing seeds. Sows have farrowed hundreds of litters and baby pigs are adding pounds on young vegetation and grain grown on . company plowable land. While the gigantic land utilization program is bringing beauty and -productivity back to Hoosier soil, the farm sub- ‘ sidiary of Ayrshire Collieries is operated strictly on a ‘business basis.

~ » ” . . vy IT WILL be several years before Meadowlark will be active in the sale of stock, fish and Christmas trees. More years must pass before slower growing trees will be ready for the saw as commercial lumber. But the program ix not alone that of reclaiming stripped " " ¢ land. Much acreage covering valuable coal deposits is being 5 , farmed to the day the shovel moves in. Scientific farming is cr Ed LO ” the creed. : Reforestation is symbolize fo <3" this pr STULL) To 3] 7% ! day the Dealing work of man is bringing beauty back to NCCT re CIEL is making spoiled slopes product : H of Indiana once 50 8 4

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Picture story - by- Victor , Peterson