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...lawmaking to make a territory a state. Along with weighing a balanced $26.6 million budget and passing a reorganization bill setting up a dozen executive departments to replace 100 assorted agencies, the lawmakers found themselves blizzarded by so many minor bills, chores and diversions that the Fairbanks News-Miner accused the new legislature of "doodling, dawdling and dillydallying." Full of eager novices (only eleven members out of 40 ever served in the old territorial legislature), the house in the past fortnight...
Accepting Liabilities. In Brussels. Socialist and Communi&t Deputies made a tumultuous attack on the coalition Catholic-Liberal government. Cried one: "You not only condemn to death the 18,000 Borinage miners but the entire region-its shopkeepers, all other industries, everyone who is dependent on them." Catholic Deputy Fred-Bertrand, a former miner, shouted in reply: "Do you think you'll attract foreign companies and new investment by creating this revolution?" A government minister promised "replacement jobs" for the miners but was hooted down when unable to give any details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing...
...conveyors and tipples are being sold for scrap metal; white-frame company towns such as Red Bud, Golden Ash and Kenvir are boarded up and rotting; in Closplint and Punkin Center, streets rust-colored from a half century of "red dog"-slate and clinker dust-are quiet and deserted. Miners who could afford to have gone off to Paducah, Louisville, Cincinnati or even Chicago. Others, who could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal Co. closed its mine a year ago and left 450 jobless, Miner Orville Gibson...
...contrived to fit them into a sort of chronological narrative, in which the reader can follow the broad outlines of Mark Twain's hectic life-his days on a newspaper in Hannibal, Mo. (he worked for board and clothes), his career as printer in St. Louis, silver miner in Nevada, correspondent in the Sandwich Islands, river boat pilot on the Mississippi. Clemens fondly speaks of one "charmingly leisurely boat, the slowest on the planet. Upstream she couldn't even beat an island; downstream she was never able to overtake the current...
Life of the Party. In Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, Concord magazine discussed a woman who works in a mine, said: "Her unique experiences as processed by a lively wit make the lady miner-when she takes off her trousers and puts on her cosmetics-the most amusing evening companion south of the Sahara...