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...Conley, 30, of Herrin, is a pit committeeman for the union at Old Ben 25 mine in nearby West Frankfort. "Kerr-McGee will hire miners for Galatia out of state, where union tradition isn't strong, and pay better than union scale, scrimping on safety for their profit. With no union, anyone who complains about safety will get fired. I hate to see everything we fought for here go down the tubes. John L. Lewis would roll over in his grave...
DIED. Zerna Sharp, 91, former first-grade teacher in La Porte, Ind., who created the concept for the Dick and Jane textbooks that for more than four decades helped teach American schoolchildren to read ("See me run. See Spot run. Oh, oh! This is fun."); in Frankfort, Ind. Sharp's simple, repetitive prose telling of an archetypal middle-class family with its dog, Spot, and cat, Puff, came under fire from feminists in the early 1970s for stereotyping Jane as subordinate to Dick. "It never bothered the children," replied Sharp. "That's all an adult's viewpoint...
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...preacher and political gadfly, proved so prone to travel that he became known as "the Flying Deacon." She also felt he had failed to provide solid leadership on tax cuts over Kentucky's ineffective legislature, which meets only 60 days every two years. When the legislature left Frankfort without doing anything to soothe the state's increasingly irate taxpayers, Thelma started watching the Governor's schedule. Aha, she spotted a trip. She polished her plans...
DIED. Bruce Catton, 78, pre-eminent Civil War historian and journalist who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his first trilogy's concluding volume, A Stillness at Appomattox; in Frankfort, Mich. As a child, Catton listened to the yarns of Civil War veterans in his Michigan home town. A World War I veteran who pursued a peacetime career as a newspaperman, he tried to write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that...