Coal Miners Well Paid
AP reports coal miners earn 34 to 37 dollars a day with a push for 50 dollars as new contracts loom. The piece profiles Diz Kirk in Charleston and notes 140,000 nationwide miners, 100,000 in UMW, and shifts in wage, safety, and migration shaped by mechanization and a surging demand. It discusses training programs, government and company recruitment, and the economic contrast to Appalachian poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diz Kirk
Charleston
Kirk
United Mine Workers
UMW
Appalachian
West Virginia
Hazlett Cochran
Consolidation Coal Co
Kentucky
Appalachia
Oms
American Mining Congress
Mining Congress
Congress
Washington
Department of Labor
Leonard
Fairmont
W. Va
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Arch A. Moore Jr
Colleges Embrace Shorter, Independent Study Curricula
A nationwide AP survey shows hundreds of colleges moving away from rigid four year programs toward independent study and accelerated degrees. Deans and professors cite student demand and market needs as driving reforms including three year degrees and open colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert Mahon
Catholic University
Maurice A. Crane
Michigan State
Crane
Sarasota
Fla
Nixon Nominates Parker for Tariff Commission Post
President Nixon announced the nomination of Joseph O Parker a local expert in food and agriculture law to be a member and vice chairman of the Tariff Commission Parker 68 a Pratt Kansas native will replace Bruce E Clubb whose $36000 year term ends next Wednesday Parker previously served as attorney for the Agriculture Department and the House Agriculture Committee and has practiced privately since 1952
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Joseph O. Parker
Tariff Commission
Parker
Pratt
Kan
Bruce E. Clubb
Department of Agriculture
House Agriculture Committee
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S. Central
Caryl
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Martin Johnson Airport
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Chanute Community Church
Chanute
Kansas
Highway
Clymena Bowling
William J. Waugh
New York University
Open
Harvard
Ernest R. May
Carnegie Commission
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Commission
MIT
B. Lamar Johnson
UCLA
California
Glenn S. Dumke
Manhattan Mutual Life Ins. Co
Manhattan, Kansas
Man From
Manhattan
Orville Hedges
South Lincoln - Chanute
Evenings Coil
Truitt
N. Steuben
Kansan
Don Divine Restaurant
N. Santa Fe
Mo Mego
The
Marilyn Michaels
Funny Girl
Starlight
Nelson Art Gallery
Teria
Putsch
Chanute Tribune
Lowing Starlight Theatre
Starlight Theatre
South Highland
Neosho Valley
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