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...Cumberland Advocate...
...provide a completely accurate cross section of a community. Overall, the registered voters represent only 67% of the adult population, and even after the reforms of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, they are still disproportionately the white, the middle class and the middleaged. In North Carolina's Cumberland County, a detailed study four years ago showed that the jury list based on both voters and taxpayers was only...
...Somerset County, Pa., southeast of Pittsburgh, Standard Oil of Indiana has already sunk three dozen natural gas wells. In the Crab Orchard Mountains of Cumberland County, Tenn., Ladd Petroleum has struck oil and gas at depths of up to 4,000 ft., and expects to keep searching for the next five years before the area's potential is firmly established. In Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, Atlantic Richfield and Gulf are planning to spend up to $26 million over the same period to drill on some 1.2 million leased acres...
Baker has politics bred into his bones. Born in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee, a pocket of Republicanism since the Civil War, he is the third generation of his family to go into politics. (His grandmother succeeded her husband as sheriff; his stepmother followed his father into Congress.) After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law, he became a spellbinding courtroom attorney. Following an unsuccessful attempt in 1964, Baker was elected to the Senate two years later. He demonstrated his independence by opposing his own father-in-law, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, on Dirksen's effort...
...UNDERSTAND BAKER's free reign on national issues one has to go back to Scott County. The only thing that divides the northwestern county, which borders on the edge of Kentucky, is the Cumberland mountains and the southern Appalachians. It has no political machines to run amok during elections, although the Republican label and the last name 'Baker' carry plenty of support. The schoolchildren, mostly sons and daughters of coal miners and farmers, attend lily white public schools and eat free lunches. Bussing has never mattered because Scott County has not had a single black resident for at least...