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
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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
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spent seven months in a hos
pital and was home recuper
ating for six weeks when a
ruptured appendix forced him
back to the hospital for
another long siege.
Nine days after his second
return home, he broke his
knee which was in a cast for
more than two months. It
will be year or more be
fore he can go back to work
again.
The father of three school-
age boys, MacDonald said he
would return to the mines if
he had the chance, but would
"try everything else first.1
"L don't want to go back,"
he said. "But I wouldn't go
hungry. A fellow over 40
can't get a job. You have to
be in A-l shape to work in
the mines."
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
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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
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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
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held every other week
throughout the school year.
The course to be offered will
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Teachers enrolled in the in
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the country next year.
Poole will be director also
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institute for 50 high school
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OSC is one of the nation's
leading centers for the science
and mathematics institutes.
MAIL TRIBUNI, M.dford, Or.
Thursday, April 21, 1960
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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
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ed the guests and other Copco
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courages all -electric homes,
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Frank Rush talked about wir-
and
ing. Jay Elliot, lighting,
Leo Vertrees, mechanics.
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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
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Penn Yan, N. Y.-flJPD-Fred
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