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...Standard Oil tax specialist and educated at Michigan's Hope College and Princeton Theological Seminary, thin-faced Pastor Smith had planned to work among miners. When the Presbyterian Board of National Missions offered him the Scotts Run post, he jumped at it. He took up residence in the "Shack," a long, narrow, white and green building sandwiched between the railroad tracks and State Highway...
...Shack was Pastor Smith's home and headquarters. It was also the symbol of his special kind of ministry. Its 24 rooms included an auditorium and a kitchen for community parties. Smith added a steeple and belfry to make it a church as well...
...spiritual activity. Here he has held his Sunday services and conducted his Sunday-school classes; here he has directed public school religious instruction, vacation Bible schools, a 15-minute Sunday night radio program over Morgantown's station WAJR. The Smiths established a 3,500-volume library in the Shack (Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President sent some books). Scotts Run small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table...
...their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope. In Homestead, Pa., smokeless for 26 days, they quickly made some smoke by burning their strike placards, accidentally setting their picket shack afire...
...Then came the blow. MPs swooped down on the nuns' shack. Food, clothing and bedding were confiscated. At the provost marshal's office the bewildered priest was grilled for the names of his benefactors. The Engineer lieutenant and two enlisted men, awaiting a ship at Nagoya to take them home for Christmas, were ordered back to Matsuyama for an investigation and possible court-martial. The entire Engineer Battalion was restricted...