Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Not many coal-mining towns are pure-aired health resorts, but Carbondale, Pa., 15 miles northeast of Scranton, has a special problem. Deep under the streets of a good-sized part of the town (pop. 14,000), a stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put...
Under Carbondale run four thick seams of anthracite coal. Over the years, mining operations honeycombed the earth beneath the city with tunnels. Where the seams came close enough to the hilly surface, great machines stripped away the worthless overburden, exposing the coal. The city government found abandoned stripping craters handy...
Nasty Job. The first trenches will connect stripped-out areas and so make a perimeter beyond which the fire cannot spread. Then the draglines will work in ward, digging both burning and nonburn-ing coal from the whole 130 acres. Says Mining Engineer Robert W. Bell, consultant to the Carbondale...
In his New Jersey farmhouse last week, Selden Rodman, 50, showed reporters his own swelling art collection, which ranges from Haitian primitives to an abstraction painted on the spot in 1 min. 40 sec. The collection crams every room of the house, is growing so fast that Rodman recently added...
He was at his proletarian best. In the mining town of Katowice he proudly proclaimed: "I used to work as a miner myself." insisted that no smell was more "dear to my heart" than the smell of coal dust. He felt so confident, in fact, that at one point he...