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.
Sheikh Is an Arabian and
Moslem title for a chieftain
or magistrate, meaning literal
ly "old man."
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