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Ironically, the bill does not fully satisfy environmentalists, either. They urge amendments prohibiting strip-mining on steep slopes, as in Appalachia, which are virtually impossible to restore to their original contours. Moreover, complains Louise Dunlap, coordinator of the Washington-based Coalition Against Strip Mining, the legislation fails 1) to protect Indian-reservation land above rich coal deposits; 2) to curb the power of coal companies that own mineral rights to strip-mine then" deposits without the written consent of a surface owner...
Howard Baker is relaxing with his family in his home town of Huntsville, Tenn. (pop. 337), deep in the heart of Appalachia. He likes to play tennis and ride a trail bike around the mountains in the company of his 17-year-old daughter Cynthia. An avid photographer, he has been known to interrupt a tennis game to photograph a flower or a plant that has caught his eye. Last week even a weed captivated him. "The sun had caught the weed just right," a friend explained. "He'd been watching for several days to get the proper shot...
Billy was not the only one fascinated by the combination circus and Chautauqua lecture that last week was playing Zanesville, Ohio, a small (pop. 39,000) city on the edge of Appalachia. Many of his friends and classmates spent hours assembling and disassembling Rufus, a life-size plastic model of a human body with removable heart, lungs, kidneys and brain. Adults, meanwhile, strolled through displays devoted to family planning, sanitation and cancer detection, lined up at booths for tests to detect diabetes and lung disease and learned how to recognize incipient heart trouble...
...health fair, an educational road show that is expected to visit six communities before the end of summer. Sponsored by the United Presbyterian Church, the fair was first conceived in 1966, when a truck loaded with displays and carrying a volunteer staff including physicians traveled to isolated communities throughout Appalachia. Since then the program has been steadily expanded. This summer, five mobile health fairs are touring rural areas in New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, upstate New York, Oklahoma and Arkansas, as well as Appalachia. Stopping in communities for a week at a time, they provide the townsfolk with...
...eastern Tennessee, Baker is known to friends and kinfolk as Howard Henry, to distinguish him from his father, who was simply called Howard. The elder Baker served 13 years in Congress until his death in 1964. Since the early 1820s there have been Bakers in that part of Appalachia, where coal mining, lumbering, dairy farming - and poverty - are a way of life Young Baker was strongly influenced by his maternal grandmother, known as Mother Ladd, who succeeded her late husband in 1927 as sheriff of Roane County. She gained notoriety for cap turing two armed bootleggers singlehanded...