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8 MAIL TRIBUNE. MedforJ, Oregon, Mondy, Norember 10, 1938 Hesidents of Nova Scotia KViisiing Town Look Toward Village's Future rditnr's not: What will be the fat of Springhill, Nova Scotia, now that the fir fhock of the Oct- 21 Camberlaad mine disaster ba begun to wear off? t'PI reporu er Dick - Baron talked with sur vivors, widows, and mine and town officials and wrote the following report on tbe community's gloomy future. By DICK BACON UPI Correspondent Springhill, Nova Scotia -(CPD - The earthquake-like shock that shattered the gas filled Cumberland Colliery Kb. 2 two weeks ago and sealed 74 victims in its depths appears also to have sealed the economic fate of this small community. With each passing day it becomes more unlikely that Springhill ever will recover from Elack Thursday, Oct. 23, 1953, when 174 men were trapped more than 13,000 feet from the pithead of North America's deepest coal mine. Only 100 came out alive, 19 of them after spending up to ' jff r$ - TEMPERAMENTAL DIVA Maria Meneghini CaHas is shown singing the title role of "Medea" in Dallas, after her contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York was canceled by Manager Rudolph Bing. Quotes From the News By UNITED P RES s' INTER NAT IO N All"" '''' Miami-The Rev. Roy C. Angell, pastor of the Central Baptist church, who withheld from parishioners knowledge of a bomb threat on the church until after the services were over: "It went off all right but we sweated it out and I held my breath all the time. It was a crank. I guess." Knoxville, Tenn.-Hamilton County Sheriff James Turner of Chattanooga, on the riot in which students of the Univer sity of Chattanooga and Tennessee participated after a foot ball game: "The police provoked it when they interfered as our boys broke down the goal posts." Montreal-Mrs. Jenny Jones, one of the injured, about the explosion and fire that swept a tenement house: "It was just like a fiery hell." Lisbon-Lt. (jg) Joseph P. Jackson, pilot of a U.S. Navy search ship, on the disappearance of a Portuguese flying boat over the Atlantic with 36 persons aboard: "If the pilot succeeded in landing, I would pay high trib ute to his skill since the seas were really rough." Dallas -Diva Maria Meneghini Callas, on Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolph Bing, who last week can celled her contract: "I am willing to forget being fired but I don't think any gentleman should insult any artist. I won't even say woman, they keep forgetting I'm a woman." Jacksonville Museum Has 2,289 Visitors Jacksonville-A total of 2,- 289 persons visited. the Jack sonville Museum last month, according to Miss Mary Han ley, curator. The total is an increase of 109 more than visited the museum during October, 1957, and the largest number to visit it in any October. The total brought the num ber of visitors to the museum to 309,332 since the museum opened July 10, 1950, Miss Hanley said. Visitors came from 35 states and Canada and Alaska. Groups included Boy Scouts from Jackson school and Cub Scouts from Den 5, Medford, Bluebirds and Robins, Talent, Brownie Troop 26B and Girl Scout Troop 87, Medford, and Girl Scout Troop 129, Grants Pass. Read Article Miss Hanley said many vis itors commented on having read Ken Metzler's article about Jacksonville in a recent issue of Sunset Magazine, and one man, waiting for a plane at the Medford airport, rented a car and visited the museum. Microfilms of old newspa pers are now available and are being used by students and other interested persons, she reported. Gifts and loans during Oc tober were from John A. Le- -vine, camp wnite; Alfred Mercer, Medford; F. C. Cross lin, Ashland; Joe Johnson, Jacksonville; Jack Sutton, Grants Pass; LeRoy Hubbell, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Mrs. C. H. Raymond, Medford; Edwin I Jones. Ashland; Mrs. Rosella jNygren, Medford; G. E. Hue- ber, Holtville, Calif.; and Mrs. Robert McColley, Zenith, Wash.. Snark Repeats Round-Trip Flight Cape Canaveral, Fla. fUFD The Air Force, in an unprece dented feat of missile ecom omy, fired a long-range snark on its second 6,000-mile round trip Saturday and again land; ed it safely back at home plate. The air-breathing snark, ac tually a radio-controlled bom ber without a pilot, was the first missile ever flown twice from this Atlantic missile test center. More than 60 otlier snarks have been tested, many of them completing the round trip halfway down the Atlan tic tracking range. But this was the first ever fired a sec ond time. The snark is equipped with landing skids to allow it to return intact, nursed home by radio. Today's missile was be lieved to be the one that made a round trip on Oct. 23. An original goal in the snark program was to build a "test version that could be recovered and flown again in order to save the money in the training program"' of launching crews, the Air Force said. nine days of harrowing help lessness before rescuers al most miraculously found them. Twice before Springhill has rebounded from mine disas- Family Council Margaret S. - Mother won't let me serve drinks. Mrs. L. S. - One drink leads to another. Margaret S. - I am a career wofnan in my early 40's. I live with my widowed moth er, who is very strong-willed and opinionated. One of our worst problems is Mother's strong objection to drink. She will simply not tolerate it in the house. When I come home from work I would love to have a cocktail pick - me - up before dinner. Sometimes I go to a cocktail lounge with friends, but you can't do that every day. Be sides, I would like to enter tain more and you can't invite people over these days with out serving drinks. I respect Mother's attitudes, buit I don't think she has a right to impose it on others. I see no harm in moderate so cial drinking. Mrs. L. S. I am not im posing my attitudes on any one. I merely feel that I can't live in a home where alcohol is used for any but medicinal purposes. Margaret is free to do as she chooses. If she loves cocktails better than her mother she can go to live where she can get them. The mere fact that Mar garet finds it impossible to en tertain unless she serves al cohol shows how far this thing has gone. Nobody is even in terested in keeping up decent social relations. They only want to visit a home for how many drinks they can get. Unfortunately, I have seen too much alcoholism in my early life. I know that one drink leads to another. ' The Council: Mrs. L.S.'s po sition is strong and clear-cut and we don't think there is any possibility of getting her to change it. Margaret ought to give up on that score. It is useless to discuss the rights or wrongs of such a position. . Margaret is left with only two- choices - launching a new, independent life for her self or putting up with her mother's attitudes. Probably she doesn't want to live alone and to leave her widowed mother alone simply because of this area of disagreement, so the chances are that Mar garet must make such adjust ment. , We don't feel that Margaret should resign herself to a lone ly, friendless existence be cause of this social, handicap. She should use her ingenuity to create a social atmosphere in her home that is so attrac tive that friends will look for ward to visiting her despite the lack of stimulating bever ages. We would suggest that Mar garet give a lot of thought to planning interesting parties. Food is often as great a social stimulant as drink. Margaret might try pleasant luncheons, relaxed dinners and late sup pers at which she serves un usual, foreign dishes. An at tractively set table with spe cial features such as an ar resting centerpiece or surprise gimmick at each place will help stimulate conversation. More thought should go into getting together the right combination of guests and Margaret should plan a few conversation - stimulators of her own. The best hostesses find ways of getting their guests to put forth their live liest tidbits. Mrs. L.S. is certainly right on one point. Far too many people depend upon drink to make the party. All too many guests do not even know what an enjoyable social evening consists of. Margaret ' should make up her mind to refuse to be stymied by the limitation imposed on her. It is a chal lenge, out of which she may be able to create an extremely successful social life. (Copyright 1958. General Features Corp.) The first " aerial passenger tramway in North America was opened 20 years ago at Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire. We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central ters. In 1891, 125 miners died. Two years ago this month, a subterranean rock fall took 39 lives. They Always Returned But always before, the doughty Springhill miners have gone back to work in the mines of the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company. Unless they left town, they had little choice, for Spring hill is a one-industry town mining. All of its 5,000 resi dents depend, directly or in directly, on the mine which sinks deep below the Cobe quid Hills of eastern Nova Scotia. Most of the town's working force of 1.300 is either em ployed at the mine or on the company's 32 - mile railway spur between here and Parrs boro, Nova Scotia. By tradi-tion-and lack of other em ployment all are tied to the mine. Now, the town appears to be on the verge of economic chaos. Neither the Cumberland Company, nor its industrial parent, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corp., has said defi nitely they will close the mine. But the mines have been idle since the latest disaster. And a few days ago, a spokesman for a group that controls the parent company expressed doubt that the Springhill mine will ever operate again. "We wanted to close the mine last year," Sir Roy Dob son said, "but the people of the town pleaded with us not to do it because the mine is the major source of employ ment there. "But we don't want to go on mining coal and killing people there." The Death Knell The disaster appears to have accomplished the final shut down. This was apparent to the people of Springhill im mediately after the under ground rockfall, Mayor Ralph Gilroy said: "This may be the death knell for Springhill." For the townspeople, de spite their attachment to the mine, realize that besides having become profitless, it is too dangerous. Its gassy seams alone make it the most hazardous mine in Nova Scotia. Since the first major disaster in 1891, more than 600 miners have lost their lives digging coal out of the deep pits below Springhill. In all, there have been 463 "bumps" - underground shocks - ranging in intensity from minor shifting of coal to the earthquake-like upheaval of Oct. 23. If the mine closes forever - and this seems likely - what then for Springhill? The question of SpringhilFs survival is being studied on all levels of government, clear up to the Canadian cab-' inet. Many residents are open ly skeptical, however, over Springhill's chances of at tracting new industry. ' As miner Layton Amon put it, "Springhill is off the beat en track. A new industry lo cating in Springhill might fold in a year or two. And by that time the public will have forgotten about us." He shares his loss with yctsr children This man was a college pro fessor. Unfortunately, his tal ent to inspire young minds will not be used again. Why? An incredibly low salary drove him from the classroom. He was forced to take a job elsewhere to make ends meet. Alarmingly enough, this sort of thing is happening with increasing frequency. As a nation whose destiny de pends on the development of brainpower, how can we afford to let it go on? Help the college of your choice. Help it plan for a stronger, better paid faculty. The returns will be greater than yau think. . If you wont to know more about what the college crisis means to you, write for a free booklet to: HIGHER EDU CATION, Box 36. Timet Square Sta tion, New York 36. New York. Published as a public service in cooperation with The. Advertising Council and the .Veitspaper Ad vertising Executives Association. Car Strikes Ashland Teacher Ashland Miss Mary Mc Larnan, Ashland high school teacher, 318 Hargadine st., is in the Ashland General hos pital with a broken left leg following a pedestrian-car ac cident Friday night, Ashland city police reported. Hospital attendants said Saturday Miss McLarnan was in fair condition but not al lowed to have visitors yet. A car driven by Laurel Hakes, 1010 Clay st., Ash land, was going west on Siski you blvd. when it struck Miss McLarnan as she was crossing the intersection at Sherman St., police said. . City police reported it was a well-lighted street. How ever, the driver was not ar rested. Neither the pedestrian nor the driver saw each other, officers said. Sarasota, Fala. (DPD The Clyde Beatty circus and the Cole Bros, circus announced they have signed a 10-year merger agreement ' to make them the "biggest tented show in the country." Mecca, sacred to millions as the birthplace of Mohammed, is 65 miles east of the Red Sea Port of Jiddah. Rainfall on the Atlantic Coast of Central America is three times heavier than on the Pacific side. More than 2,000 delegates attended the 43d Esperanto Congress in Mainz, Germany, in August. 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