Coal industry shifts west as mining battles reform efforts
United States coal companies plan a western expansion from Appalachia as pressure grows to curb strip mining. The piece notes industry ads claiming reclamation success, congressional testimony, and sharp critique of past practices, with experts debating economics and environmental damage in Virginia Kentucky and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A
South Dakota
Colorado
Congress
Ken Hechler
D-W. Va
Virginia Coal Association
Virginia
Kentucky
Bethlehem Steel
Fishpond
Bethlehem
Environmental Action Magazine
Fishpond Lake
National Coal Association
Carl Bagge
Association
William H. Miernyk
West Virginia University
The social costs of strip mining outweigh private gains
The article argues that while private benefits to operators may be substantial, social costs of strip mining are high and long lasting. It cites restoration challenges, ecological damage, polluted streams, noise, wildlife loss, employment decline, and large long term impacts, with experts noting limited land restoration and long term obligations for future generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Dunlap
The
Coalition Against
Great Plains
Montana
Robert L. Smith
West Virginia University
Southern Mountains
Ken Hechler
Congress action updates on major bills this week
In Washington AP reports the week’s status of key bills. Vocational rehabilitation on a $2.6 billion authorisation saw a veto sustained. A $120 million rural water and sewage grant program also had a veto sustained. Elderly aid programs were enacted along with rural electrification revised and extended. Price and rent controls enacted. Senate confirmation for the OMB director faced a sustained veto. An $18 billion three year highway program passed both chambers and awaits compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
Office of Management and Budget
New Hampshire Considers Tuition Voucher Experiment
In Antrim, New Hampshire, a pilot tuition voucher program may let about a thousand school age children choose their schools with $800 vouchers funded by the community. Backed by state leaders and educators, the plan faces federal opposition from HEW officials who fear unregulated vouchers. If approved, grants totaling $2.5 million annually could begin, with data available by 1978.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antrim
N.H
New Hampshire
U.S
Adam Smith
Smith
Milton Friedman
Chicago
Christopher Jencks
Harvard
Virginia
Supreme Court
Friedman
Office of Economic Opportunity
Alum Rock
California
William Bittenbender
New Hampshire Board of Education
Newell Paire
Education Committee
New Hampshire House of Representatives
Meldrim Thomson
U.S. Office of Education
Frank Carlucci
HEW
Thomas Glennan
National Institute of Education
Glennan
Carlucci
Caspar Winberger
Nixon
Ohio lawmaker seeks 1.5 million for SEED math push
Columbus Rep Phase Hale introduces a bill to fund statewide SEED Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged, expanding a Columbus pilot that teaches advanced algebra to disadvantaged fourth and fifth graders. The plan outfits districts with grants, contracts for evaluation, and mandated four weekly SEED classes of 40 to 60 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Phase Hale
Brian Stetcher
Columbus Seed
SEED
Hale
Stecher
Battelle Memorial Institute
Bell Laboratories
Ohio State University
William P. Johntz
California
Michigan
Senate
House
Fair Ave
How They Voted on Economic and Health Legislation
The record notes three votes. A bill removing barriers to joint labor management legal funds failed 79 to 15 with Saxbe against and Taft for. An $705 million HMO authorization passed 69 to 25 with Saxbe and Taft for. A disaster relief amendment passed 59 to 22. Taft for, Saxbe did not vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saxbe
Taft
Hmo’s
Robert Taft Jr
William B. Saxbe
Kissinger Birthday Reflections Dimmed by Staff Bugging
Washington insight credits Henry Kissinger with reshaping global power through China and Russia diplomacy and exiting Southeast Asia, but his 50th birthday is shadowed by staff bugging. The piece notes Nixon’s support, three enabling conditions, and shifting diplomatic focus to Europe and Japan, ending with critique of Kissinger’s evasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Kissinger
China
Russia
Southeast Asia
Castlereagh
Bismarck
Nixon
Dr. Kissinger
Peking
Moscow
Chou En-lai
Leonid Brezhnev
Europe
Japan
State Department
Athens Messenger Publishing Details and Rates
The Athens Messenger lists daily and Sunday editions with pricing for in town delivery and by mail. Rates include weekly 60 cents, 5 weeks 2.50, 10 weeks 5.00, 3 months 6.00, 6 months 11.00, and 1 year 20.00 within Ohio and West Virginia, with higher rates for elsewhere. It notes publication as a daily paper with Associated Press membership and second class matter status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Associated Press
D&s Pol Ee
D&s Ois Rescue
Ohio
West Virginia
U.S. & Possessions
Athens
Messenger Publishing Co
Johnson Road
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Fred W. Weber
M. W. McDargh
G. Kenner Bush
Charles W. Reamer
Richard R. Paynter
James Kilpatrick
Robert E. Miller
Joseph Kraft
Kissinger
Ment
Treasury
Small Society
Bkicky
Che Athens Messenger
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