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Besides teaching members how to be good unionists and how to think about economic problems, I. L. G. W. U.'s education department gives them lectures on sex and marriage, shows them how to paint, takes them sightseeing, brings them together for dancing, singing. The department has distributed over 200,000 pamphlets, produced songs, radio programs, phonograph records, films. It runs a vacation resort, Unity House, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where for as little as $19 a week union members may go to swim, sail, dance, play tennis, hear concerts...
...Fall River, Mass., a union local has a rifle team, teaches men and women workers to shoot straight. In Philadelphia is a union riding club. "Once," says the union, "it might have been said that horseback riding was too good for the common people, but the I. L. G. W. U. feels that nothing is too good for workers...
With total assets of but $2,563,208 and a net for the past fiscal year of only $100,427, K. P. L. & G. is still a puny bubble in the ballooning natural gas business. But it asks FPC for permission to construct a $21,470,000 line (financed by a $20,000,000 RFC loan) from the Hugoton fields in southwestern Kansas through unexploited territory across Nebraska and the Dakotas into northwestern Minnesota. If permission is granted,* the company expects to sell 13,623,080,000 cu. ft. for $3,024,447 in the first year of operation...
Although K. P. L. & G.'s application stressed the communities its new line would serve, the company hopes to find a pot of gold at the end of its modest rainbow. The extremity of the projected line will reach the Mesabi Iron Range, richest in the U. S., whose ores now go to the blast furnaces of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. However, Mesabi has also much low-grade ore which has not been considered worth shipping out for smelting. K. P. L. & G. hopes by bringing a low-priced fuel to the site of Mesabi's low-grade...
Married. Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 35, onetime G-Man who directed the capture of Bandit John Dillinger, now practices law in San Francisco; and Mrs. Rosanne Willcox Taylor, 30; in Charlotte...