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While the President of the U.S. last week toured the Appalachian areas of poverty, bringing attention once more to the fact that unemployment as well as prosperity is a major fact in the land, statistics showed that the paradox of the employment situation is becoming even more pronounced...
Galbraith asserted that in spite of general increases in national and personal income, some people remain poor today because they lack necessary mental and physical skills. These people are now located principally in congested urban areas and in the rural Appalachian Plateau running from eastern Pennsylvania to Alabama...
Cecil Dawkins, a handsome 36-year-old woman graduate of the University of Alabama, falls within most of these categories. Her special region is the inland South and the primitive or recessive social types of the trans-Appalachian Piedmont. Within her limits, she is very good indeed...
They are the rural dispossessed-Southern Negroes, Appalachian whites, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans-who fill the urban void left by middle-class migration to the suburbs. They share the American dream of salvation by education and go to the public school that everyone says will save them. Why is it that just the opposite happens so often in city schools across the country...
Better Blends. A good example of the coal-rail partnership is the Norfolk & Western, which runs coal directly to port out of the rich Appalachian fields. In operation at Hampton Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos...