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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Arundel Newspapers Special Writer
In a small black notebook in an old fashioned hand, Ferdinand Zerkel recorded the results of his field survey of the mountain people.
His notebook is preserved in the park archives, along with -correspondence that shows him to be a compassionate as well as an efficient administrator.
Mr. Zerkel's assesment of the conditions and abilities of the people that would be moved out of the mountains convinced him of what he already knew: That the majority of them where intelligent, healthy and hard-working — not so different from people of modest incomes living down below.
Family size, said Mr. Zerkel's study, averaged 5.1. Fourty-four (out of 465 total) had no father; 37, no mother; 80, no children.
Researchers labeled 57 percent of the fathers bright, 39 percent average and 4 percent dull. Of the mothers, 52 percent of the mothers were bright, 42.3 percent average and 5.7 percent dull.
About three-quarters of the parents and more of the children were considered to be in good health, with the remainder mostly in fair health and a few in poor health.
The houses averaged 3.9 rooms, but only 88 of the 465 were considered to be in good condition.
From Mr. Zerkel’s report:
“Out of the 465 families, only 348 had gardens and only 230 had adequate garden tools . . . Average of 5.27 acres per family . . . however, more than half the families have less than 2 acres under cultivation.
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