Word: paducah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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, 44, stays behind because he cannot afford to move...
Never had one of Lois' releases invoked such attention from newsmen. Sniffed the American Motel Magazine: "The lowest form of humor." Fumed Executive Editor Bill Powell of the Paducah (Ky.) Sun-Democrat: "If you birds have no more respect for your place, or no more judgment than this, please stop sending us stones." Mused amused Columnist Stan Windhorn of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune: "In sheer honesty, we must express an admiration for this curious bit of candor, but from the practical point of view we must confess that it seems a terribly long...
...Central High's cherished football schedule. Faubus got out of that by accusing the school board of being integrationist, and the hapless board, already threatened with recall by petition, gave a green light to football practice and the game between Central High and Tilghman Trade School of Paducah, Ky. (Central 25, Tilghman 14-Central's 35th straight victory...
Also elected were E. Eugene Pell '59, of Eliot House and Paducah, Ky., as vice-President, and Daniel M. Selznick '58, of Eliot House and New York City, as Secretary...
...Southern Co.'s Eugene A. Yates, eventually contracted with AEC to build a steam plant at West Memphis. Its 600,000 kw. were to be fed into TVA to replace the power drained off by the AEC, and thus would only indirectly have supplied the AEC plant at Paducah. Nonetheless, as crinkly-eyed Joe Dodge cracked: "When it comes out of the end of an electric power line, the source is not particularly noticeable...