Her husband left her to go to find Curt and with a bad storm brewing Rosemary doesn't want Mary Ellen to leave her alone. After speaking with her mother she goes over to the Church, where she finds that Rosemary Fordwick has gone into labour. Instead of helping him Mary Ellen faints and feels that she has let Curt down. Martha Rose is having difficulty breathing after she fell from a ladder and in order to save her life, Curt must perform surgery. While John Boy is trying to dissuade the rest of the people from selling their land, Mary Ellen faces her own crisis when she is nursing a badly injured Martha Rose.
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The company aims to buy up enough parcels of land to enable them to set up this type of mining on Waltons Mountain. When John Boy investigates another current land development project being pursued by the same company as he sold his land to, he discovers that the company uses the land for hydraulic mining, a system of mining that destroys the land so completely that nothing will ever grow there again. The land dealer offers him a good deal for his land, and so he sells, much to his grandfather's disgust. The banker suggests that John Boy may be able to investigate selling a piece of land on Waltons Mountain that he owns.
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The point he makes, however, is that if they take his press they will take away his potential to earn the necessary money. John Boy is having trouble making his payments on his newspaper printing press and the bank warns him that if he doesn't come up with the cash to make the payments which are in arrears, then they will seize his press.