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Eddleman, starting halfback on the Orange and Blue's 1946 and 1947 football teams and the Big Nine's top punter, scored an amazing 969 points in one basketball season while leading Centralia High School to a state prep title...
John Lewis, who had ordered a spectacular "memorial" strike in all the soft-coal mines after the Centralia disaster in March, had little to say this time. He said morosely: "I'm here to facilitate payment of benefits to the dependents...
...late in March Lewis ordered the mines shut down for a week as a "memorial" to the Ill miners killed at Centralia, Ill., an accident he blamed on the "criminal negligence...
...what of the owners, the Centralia Coal Co.? Could it be possible that they too are somewhat at fault? After all, who knew better than they the condition and safety of the mine? Who, ultimately, gives the go-ahead signal to the miners to work a certain mine...
Observers conceded that the G.O.P. state administration's part in the Centralia mine disaster (see Labor) accounted for the loss of about 75,000 votes. For the rest, the Republicans could blame their own blunders and the political genius of the new Democratic boss, Jake Arvey. Little Jake's astute handling of the old Kelly machine and his timely dumping of Boss Ed himself had gone far to retrieve last November's disaster...