Word: coal
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Indiana: Running for the seat of retiring William Jenner, Republican Governor Harold Handley, 48, onetime coal shoveler (at 25? an hour) and former (1953-56) lieutenant governor, is in the hot seat. Issues: unemployment (mostly around South Bend), high taxes (raised in 1957), highway scandals (during the administration of Handley's predecessor, George Craig), right-to-work (last fortnight Handley went all out for right-to-work). Handley is throwing the book at his opponent, Evansville Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, accusing him of running a corrupt administration in his home town and of being a tool...
There was another way of looking at the mess of bodies, tears and coal dust up in Springhill, Nova Scotia last week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...
...read in the papers. Even without the services of a municipal press agent, Springhill has scored with an impressive number of headlines in the last two years. Back in November, 1956, about 127 men with black faces were working in Mine No. 4 of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company when they heard and felt an explosion. The result did not become clear until two days later when all precincts were heard from and 39 men were counted dead. The newspapermen on hand for the occasion were figuring on an even higher total, but the miners, who are a courageous...
Things did, of course. Sometime between the original event and the recent event--last winter, I think--misfortune befell the 7,000 citizens of Springhill once again. A fire destroyed many of the buildings belonging to Dominion Steel and Coal (known in the brokerage houses and luncheon clubs as "DOSCO"), and the chief misery of the fire, as I remember, seemed to lie in the effect it might have on the future operations of the company. With No. 4 functioning only as an expensive, spacious grave for the victims of the first event and with much surface equipment lost...
Night of the Soul. The one stable relationship of Vincent's life was with his younger brother. And it is to Theo, first cautiously, then in a torrent, that he pours forth his doubts and his struggles. From the coal pits of Belgium, he confessed to Theo his failure as a lay preacher, crying: "How can I be of use in the world? Can't I serve some purpose and be of any good?" But only a few months after this night of the soul, Vincent could write, "Well, even in that deep misery I felt my energy...