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...FILM: "Coal Miner's Daughter"; Levin Ballroom; Friday...
...devastating blow to an economy that is already on the verge of collapse. While the nation labors under a $27 billion foreign debt that is still rising, national income is expected to fall by 15% this year. The statistics for the first half of 1981 are grim: coal output fell by 22%; copper, 11%; refined oil, 19%; animal feed, 14%; cattle herds, 7%; swine herds, 13%; exports to the West, 21.5%. Says John Hardt, an economist for the Congressional Research Service: "The Polish economy is 'growing' negatively at a rate that is unprecedented in peacetime...
...Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Coal Corp. is clearing a 3,000-acre site on both sides of Highway 34, barely a mile east of Galatia, for a new deep-shaft mine. The company plans to invest $185 million in the venture, which will employ up to 700 miners-all nonunion. Many towns would greet such an investment with enthusiasm. Galatia...
...Cafe, where a sign on the screen door decrees NO SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO SERVICE, a jut-jawed miner hunches over a cup of coffee at the Formica counter, digging coal grime out of his fingernails with one toothpick while another bobs at the corner of his mouth. "Ain't gonna give you my name," he growls. "But just remember Herrin and Muddy Bottoms. This ain't but the start." Herrin is a town some 20 miles to the west where striking union loyalists shot 19 would-be strikebreakers to death in the "Herrin Massacre" of 1922. Muddy...
...food and other scarce items. Those with friends or relatives abroad may get some of what they need via parcel post. Others resort to barter: a mechanic might trade two quarts of motor oil to a salesgirl for a pound of coffee; in Silesia, the miners are reportedly trading coal to farmers for meat. For exorbitant prices, or hard Western currency, almost anything can be gotten on the black market. Sample prices: blue jeans, $180; one pint of vodka...