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Show By LYN CONNELLY HILLBILLY music has come down from the hills . . It's rambling around town In Sunday clothes -.and kicking up its heels on all the musical best seller lists with numbers like "Your Cheatin' Heart." "Kawliga" and "Keep It a Secret" . Juke boxes, home record players and radio are full of it . . . It's getting to be such a big thing that this year a National Na-tional Hillbilly Music Day was declared de-clared by a special Act of Congress For many years these shoeless shoe-less symphonies played mostly for local listeners . Now CBS Radio has got itself a one-hour show called "Saturday Night Country Style." on Saturday nights, which presents the best fiddle-scraping, banjo plucking and accordion squeezing from not one but six southern cities Dallas. Shreve-port, Shreve-port, Knoxville, Wheeling, Louisville Louis-ville and Richmond. In Richmond, the "Saturday flight - Country Style" show is headed up by a bright-eyed lady called Sunshine Sue Only emcee in the business, she can ' sing, pick a guitar, play the organ ' and she sure can read a commer-' cial . . But what makes her really ; popular is her personality She's ; easy going, modest, friendly, the ' sort who might turn out to be a female Arthur Godfrey one of these flays . Her real name, is Mrs. Mary Higdon Workman. All in a Day's Work Sunshine Sue's schedule is enough to make any woman fold up and cry uncle . Her day begins at 6:00 AM and between then and 8:00 AM she gets breakfast, sends the kids off to school, issues operational opera-tional orders to the help and drives 21 miles to Richmond for an 8:30 AM rehearsal date with her cast At 9:00 she's on the air, 6ve mornings a week, for a 45-minute local "Old Dominion Barn Dance" broadcast From then until 11:00S AM she and her crew rehearse re-hearse the next day's show |