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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1960)
Nova Scotia Miners, Cut From Jobs By Disaster, May Soon Have Work Springhill, Nova Scotia (UPD The miners of Springhill, cut off from their only means of livelihood by a mining disaster that took 75 lives nearly a year-and-a-half ago, may soon return to the col lieries. Hopes are soaring with the anticipated opening of a new pit in this hard-luck town which won world-wide re spect for its tenacity and courage after the tragedy of October, 1958. But the 250 to .300 jobs that the new mine is expected to offer will only partly re store the shattered economy of this community of 7,000. Some 750 unemployed miners are still drawing bene fits from the dwindling two-million-dollar re 1 i eY fund raised by an international ap peal after the "1958 bump." . Slowly, however, Springhill has been emerging from the paralysis of a town whose Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF SOUR ' KENTUCKY MASHi ij BOURBON locffirauB- KENTUCKY to STRAIGHT p BOURBON" omoiHu. WHISKEY S AND GENUINE iimi linn iniir COPPBK DIHTILI.RD $80 $Ol5 1. 1. KEMDEISON CO., LOUISVILLE. KT. St PROOF HAVE WE been taking the Russian threat to our economie supremacy too lightly? C. S. Mortimer, chairman of General Foods corporation, thinks maybe we have. "Those Russians are able and re sourceful people, and dedicated competitors," he warns. "We need to wake up and fast. Re member that big Harvard football team many years ago and how it complete ly underestimated little Center College!" Two starlets met at the MGM commissary one noon and the following dialogue ensued: "Guess who I ran into at the track yester day." "My ex-husband." "No." "Your ex-husband." "Wrong again." "OUR ex-husband." "RIGHT!" "One sure sign that you're growing old and decrepit," sighs Orville Read, "is when you don't feel your oats as much as your corns." C by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Futurts Syndlcit only industry has been shut down. In the past year, a bat tery plant, a wood-working plant and a photo-finishing company have been estab lished, and a new Federal jail is scheduled for construction just outside the town limits this spring. But these have meant little to men who have known noth ing but mining as a way of life ... a way of life that suddenly came to a halt on Oct. 23, 1958. The bump, a violent shift ing in the deep underground coal strata, caught 174 miners in No. 2 colliery of the Cum berland Coal and Railway Company, the word's deepest coal mine. World attention was focused on the sorrowing town as rescue workers dug feverish ly in the f lickerhope of res cuing the 93 men who failed to come to the surface. Six days after the cave-in, with hope all but extin guished, 12 men were miracu lously found alive at the 13, 000 level in a cramped pocket three feet high and a few hundred feet square. Then, after nine days of of digging, a single miner was rescued from a coffin-niche. A few hundred yards farther along, six more men were found in a fairly good medical condition despite their har rowing ordeal. 13 Still Living Of these 19 miners who were found alive in the ter rifying shambles of No. 2 col liery, 13 are still living in Springhill and refuse to leave. Misfortune, for 100 years a by-product of mining in the Cobequid Hills of Nova Scotia, continues to dog some of them. Joseph MacDonald, 40 was rescued with a broken leg after six days in the mine. He FREE PARKING FREE PARKING CORNER OF 4TH AND FRONT STREET . 24-oz. Bottle SyrUP Nalley Lumberjack W.ml, Fleess Hungry 4-lb. Peaches Bagley Salad Pieces 29 2V4 Tint Fab Detergent PureX ''l,u'1' bleach large Pkg. J Gallon Jug SOUP Campbell's Tomato T.V. Dinners Swanson's Beef Chicken Turkey 5.c Each Margarine HOLIDAY Mb Pkg. o STEAK Fancy Steer Beef SIRLOIH , 69c ROUIID t, 79c Chuck Roast n, 55c 39 SLICED BOLOGNA Morrell'l lb. pkg. 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Thinks About It As for his six days of en tombment, MacDonald thinks about it "almost every night, It s something you don t forget quickly," said the man who had also survived an ex plosion and fire in No. 4 col liery in which 39 men died in 1956. "Once we get started, we'll come around in a year or two," MacDonald said. "But it has to come soon. Everything is running out. Only three of the 11 men trapped with McDonald have moved from Springhill. Bow man Madison went to Alberta Harold Brine is working in Toronto. Levi Miller took his family to Alabama. Eldred Lowther, Ted Mich- inak, Hugh Guthro, Wilfred Hunter, Harry Leadbetter and Maurice Ruddick are all un employed. Joe H o 1 1 o w a y works about two days a week for the Edison Electric Com pany. Caleb Rushton, who vows he will never return to mining, finds relief work at the post office. Offered To Trade Song Ruddick will be remem bered as the "singing miner" who offered to trade with his rescuers a "song for a drink of water." The 48-year-old father of 12 kept up the spirits of his companions with hymns and songs during their en tombment. Herbert Pepperdine, anoth er niner, said he has worked only about four weeks since the bump. But he will go back to the mines. "There will be at most about 300 jobs," he said, "and more than that number of miners after them." . Mrs. Gorley Kempt, a miner's wife, admits work seemed slow In coming. "But things look pretty good now," she said, adding that her husband had work ed last Christmas for the first time in three years. In-Service Institute Planned for Teachers Corvallis - A special Na-I tional Science Foundation in service institute for junior and senior high school mathe matics teachers will be offered on an evening "commuters" basis during the coming year at Oregon State college. The college's department of mathematics has been giv en a $3,500 grant by NSF to conduct the special program that is designed to give teach ers an opportunity to increase their knowledge of advanced mathematics. Twenty-five senior high math teachers and five from junior high schools will be selected for the program. One two-hour night class will be held every other week throughout the school year. The course to be offered will be "Probability and Statisti cal Inference." Teachers enrolled in the in stitute will receive travel ex penses and a book allowance. They will be selected from schools located within driving distance of Corvallis. Dr. Al bert R. Poole, professor of mathematics, will be institute I director. ' The In-service institutes i are part of a nationwide pro gram sponsored by National Science Foundation to im prove science and mathema tics teaching, to increase the U.S. supply of top-flight scientists and teachers, and to stimulate g r e a te r interest among young people in sci ence careers. Some 9,000 high school teachers of science and math ematics will be enrolled in the in-service institutes across the country next year. Poole will be director also this summer for an eight-week institute for 50 high school and Junior college mathema tics teachers. It will be one of four OSC summer session institutes sponsored by NSF. OSC is one of the nation's leading centers for the science and mathematics institutes. MAIL TRIBUNI, M.dford, Or. Thursday, April 21, 1960 .7 Medallion Home Program to Start A dinner meeting to start a Medallion Home program in this area was held Tuesday night at Kim's Restaurant. Over 150 local builders, archi tects, electrical con tractors and realtors attended. Jim Mowrey, sale super visor for the California Ore gon Power company, welcom ed the guests and other Copco representatives described the Medallion program. The Medallion program en courages all -electric homes, "adequately wired, heated and lighted, with many ap pliances," Mowrey stated. Frank Rush talked about wir- and ing. Jay Elliot, lighting, Leo Vertrees, mechanics. Manufacturer's representa tives came from as far as Portland and San Francisco for the meeting. The program is to be car- ned on indefinitely "in an ef fort to point out to both build ers and buyers that minimum standards are seldom suffic ient to meet electrical de mands of modern living," Copco reported. GOP LEGISLATOR DIES Penn Yan, N. Y.-flJPD-Fred S. Hollowell, 77, a Republican state legislator for 20 years, died Tuesday. 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