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...Some still live in log cabins heated by wood stoves. When new safety laws went into effect last May, scores of men at nearby coal mines were permanently laid off. Unfortunately for the locals, workers on the 25 new oil wells are mostly skilled outsiders brought in by independent drillers. (The big oil companies have not yet come to Scott County.) At least one driller, however, is starting to train Cumberland men for the jobs...
Looking back, Jeannette Kleinhans Lussier, 64, recalls most fondly the "wonderful times" playing games at lunch time, such as Last Man Out, run sheep run, Pom-Pom-Pullaway, red rover and, after the first snow, fox and geese. Homer McClarty, now an affluent well driller in Kalispell, still boasts of how his "big yellow dog Snipe" attended school with him every day for seven years, huddled close to the stove with the kids on the worst days and really deserved "a graduation certificate...
OTIS REDDING, 25, a onetime Georgia well driller, made his first recording in 1962, has since successfully toured England and France and drew frenzied applause from an audience of 7,000 at this spring's Monterey Pop Festival. On King & Queen (Stax), he shares the throne with Carla Thomas. With rich growls and husky shouts Otis mixes jokes and blues, first down tempo, then up tempo, almost missing the beat and then catching it at precisely the right fraction of a second...
...went further. After Yale, at a stage when his brothers were selecting wives from the proper families and digging into the New York-based family businesses and philanthropies, he became a roustabout in the Texas oilfields at 75? per hour, moved up to roughneck, or assistant driller, at 83?, and lived in a $4.50-a-week room. When he came home three years later, he worked briefly at junior jobs in such family-dominated enterprises as the Chase National Bank (now Chase Manhattan) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (now Mobil). He began taking on charitable responsibilities and helped organize...
...largest manufacturer of steel for tools. Sharon Steel of Sharon, Pa., is a major producer of the strip steel that goes into office furniture and such auto parts as dashboards. Texas' Lone Star Steel converts local ore into pipes for oilmen, boasts overnight delivery to almost any driller in the Southwest. Says Lone Star Chairman George A. Wilson: "We've just got to give better service than the bigger companies, and do a good job of salesmanship...