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...burrowed into the hillside. One chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole in the hill roared thick black smoke, fire, machinery fragments and a flutter of paper currency, the money ripped from the pockets...
...view of the miners' advocates, from United Mine Workers officials to Congressmen who represent the impoverished Appalachian valleys, what is going wrong is the Government's system of policing. There are at least 250 fewer federal mine enforcement officials than in 1978, yet hundreds of new mines to oversee. In coal-rich Logan County, W. Va., for instance, the local Mine Safety and Health Administration inspection staff has dropped from 33 to eleven, and of the county's 91 mines due to receive a quarterly inspection last spring, only 62 were visited. U.M.W. Safety Officer Donald Fleming...
...example, operates 20 mines and has the industry's best safety record. But the U.M.W. and many MSHA inspectors-believe that only strict enforcement can stop the upsurge in accidents in small mines, where new economics encourage imprudent scavenging. As coal prices quadrupled during the past decade, Appalachian entrepreneurs set up small mines to root out coal from veins too narrow to attract major companies. And while only 15% of the industry's work hours are now spent in mines with fewer than 50 workers, 43% of the deaths occur there...
...Appalachian St. 62, E. Tenn...
With enlargement, however, would inevitably come problems in administration, as well as a loss of spontaneity, Spitzer believes. "When the MIT Outing Club and the Appalachian Mountaineering Club decided to become more structured and systematized, people began to lose interest,' he says. "It takes a lot of the fun out of a trip when you have to sign up weeks in advance; one of the most memorable trips I took was planned the night before my final exam in the winter We took off 15 minutes after my exam ended and had a great time...