Word: ruralization
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...knows yet exactly what gas rationing and the rubber shortage are going to do to churches and churchgoers. Nearly everybody agrees that these short ages have already caused changes in U.S. churchgoing habits, are due to cause more and bigger changes in the near future. Hardest hit are the rural areas, where countryfolk often have to drive miles to get to church. In cities, however, gas rationing is proving a blessing in disguise: more people, unable to use their cars, are now going to church for diversion. Some other changes noted by churchmen...
...gave youth something more toughly tangled than woodsy trails to worry about. CCC camps recently dropped to 400, enrollment to 80,000 boys. But even that was 400 camps too many for some Congressmen. CCC boys, they pointed out, now came mainly from rural districts where they were badly needed...
...worries: about help during the harvest, about harvesting machinery, about boys who might be drafted and girls who could get war work in the cities, about bin space to store the huge crops, about high wages they must pay. Most of all they worried about next year-gasoline, tires, rural isolation, hired men, machines wearing...
...Average membership of all Methodist churches is 185, with 73% located in small towns or rural areas. Average Methodist minister's salary is $1,496 ($28.77 a week...
Georgia has its rural high schools operating 376 canning plants on a twelve-month basis, to produce ten million cans of fruits & vegetables this year...