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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 17, 1947

Page

4

UMA welfare fund pays first benefits after Centralia mine disaster

Capt. N H Collisson federal coal mines administrator and John L Lewis UMW president signed the first welfare and retirement fund checks. Ninety one beneficiaries each receive 1000 dollars from the fund created for 111 miners killed in the Centralia Illinois mine explosion of March.

N. H. Collisson Federal Coal Mines John L. Lewis The United Mine Workers UMA Welfare and Retirement Fund Centralia

Beatrice Pace Starts Bone Bank Treatment in Conn

Beatrice Pace a 13 year old crippled child from Newington Connecticut smiles at home as doctors remove a cupful of bone chips from her hip and fuse five vertebrae to correct her curved spine. Remaining bone chips are stored in a bone bank for future use to fuse five more vertebrae when the first fusion heals.

Bone Bank Beatrice Pace Newington Conn Beatrice

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