Miners Recall Their Bear Sam at Cedar Coal
In Boone County West Virginia Cedar Coal Co miners recall Sam a young black bear who befriended them by eating sweets and cookies at the mine. Officials warned against feeding him and he disappeared recently prompting calls for sightings. Reports say a bear matching his demeanor may have been struck by a car or seen limping nearby.
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Seth
W.va
Sam
Cedar Coal Co
Cedar Coal
Ira Jordan
Boone County
Buzz Fish
Pines
Fish
Jordan
Bear
Department of Natural Resources
West Virginia
Picketing at Kentucky mines prompts court hearing
A hearing on an injunction to stop picketing at two eastern Kentucky surface mines near Royalton is set for 1 p.m. Monday in Magoffin County Circuit Court. Ashland Addington Bros. Coal Co. seeks the order as workers protest out of county hiring, with 200 to 300 demonstrators involved.
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Associated Press
Kentucky
Magoffin County
Ashland Addington Bros. Coal Co
Royalton
Teddy Flynt
Salyersville
Flynt
Coal Pier
Norfolk
Suffolk
Portsmouth
Parsons, Brinkerhoff, Quade & Douglas
Parsons-Brinkerhoff
Chicago Bridge & Iron
Pig Point
McGinnty
Virginia Port Authority
Discrimination settlement paid to 17 N W brakemen
Seventeen current and retired black Norfolk and Western brakemen in Bluefield receive 107666 in checks after the state Supreme Court upheld HR C findings of illegal racial discrimination by the union. The award covers lost wages through 1974 with future HR C proceedings planned to determine further recoveries. 15 attendees accepted checks, seven still employed, others retired.
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Charleston
W.va
State Supreme Court
Wendell English
Caleb Lilly
Harold G. R. Hobson
P. H. Wilson
J. W. French
E. D. Campbell
M. Lilly
A. L. Palmer
G. 0. Baumgardner
R. H.scruggs
Commission
N&w
HRC
Howard D. Kenney
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Coalfield News
Lexington, Ky
Julian Carroll
Arch Moore
James D. Stacy
Advance Coal Management Corp
Lexington
Randolph County
Demotto Peerless Coal Co
Patrick Park
State Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Federal Office of Surface Mining
Park
Holly Grove Buckhannon
Upshur County
Kanawha
Environmental Protection Agency
Holly Grove Coal Co
Canaan
EPA
Holly Grove
Dean
Pick” Ee Ype Wei
Yur
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
UTU
Meypyrre and
Oriental Rug Corporation
Stemmens Freeway
Dallas
Texas
Sheraton Inn
Bluefield
Thurs & Fri
Georgia-Pacific
Truckload Sale
Georgia Pacific
BIRD
Mr. Citizer
Bluefield Ave
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