Mine Workers Welfare Funds face curtailment as coal output falls
In Washington, trustees of the United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund plan further benefit cuts due to lagging coal production. The 49 cent per ton employer levy funds the pay-as-you-go system. nine months of strikes last year caused suspensions and later reductions in home medical care, dental benefits, rehabilitation payments, and widows maintenance. The fund and the separate Anthracite Health and Welfare Fund, created in 1946, escape Taft-Hartley Act standards. if operated in New York they would face state insurance scrutiny.
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Anthracite Health and Welfare Fund
New York
State Superintendent of Insurance
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Local notes and events in Crawford County and beyond
Twenty years ago a road grant contingent on federal funds affects Crawford County. Erie boosters meet Harrisburg to discuss highways. Corry High School to compete in district finals April 20 21 with band and Bernard Bennett. Voter registration in Corry April 25. Ruth McGinnis to perform at Finch Billiard Parlor April 21. federal investigations on welfare funds underway. A current events quiz challenges readers with seven questions on government and society.
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Erie County
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Ol City
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Erie
Ruth McGinnis
Packet Billiards
Finch Billiard Parlor
Niles Woman Injured In Train Crash At Crossing
Mrs. Ralph Wood, 53, of Franklin, was critically hurt yesterday when a New York Central freight collided with her sedan at a level crossing on the State School grounds. She was dragged 200 feet, underwent surgery, and is in Franklin Hospital in poor condition with chest and spinal injuries and severe leg wounds. Eyewitnesses said the train whistle blew three times as the locomotive approached.
Woman Critically Hurt As Train Hits Auto
Harrisburg lawmaker Rep Paige Varner protests United Natural Gas Co rate hike in a letter to the Public Utility Commission. He questions the $1.6 million annual increase and urges public hearings in Clarion and affected counties. PUC chair Leon Schwartz says data insufficient to study the request yet.
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Paige Varner
Clarion
United Natural Gas Co
Public Utility Commission
Varner
PUC
Leon Schwartz S
Schwartz
Warner
Youth Buried in Coal Car Rescue Near Randolph
Dennis Conklin, 15, narrowly escaped death when he became buried up to his head in coal in a hopper car at Randolph Furniture Works. His 10-year-old companion Craig Inkley leaped free from his boots. Rescuers worked an hour and a half to free him as conveyor operations were halted and coal was removed to free his legs. The youth suffered only shock.
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Randolph
Dennis Conklin
Craig Inkley
Randolph Furniture Works
Young Conklin
Eddy Brace
Prtfits
Hope fades for 23 Japanese fishermen burned by fallout
Tokyo: A Japanese doctor said he had no optimism for the recovery of 23 Nihemen fishermen burned by radioactive ash from the March 1 Bikini H-bomb blast. Dr. Kazuo Miyoshi warned the next week would tell if they will live, with several already critically ill and two previously listed as critical.
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Tokyo
Bikini
Kazuo Miyoshi
Thomas Sparks Thomas Confirmed as Navy Secretary
Washington Senate confirms Charles Sparks Thomas of California as secretary of the Navy. On voice vote, also approved Robert B. Anderson of Texas as deputy secretary of Defense and Thomas J. Herbert, former Ohio governor, to a new term on the Subversive Activities Control Board through April 9, 1987.
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Eisenhower
Charles Sparks Thomas
California
Navy
Robert B. Anderson
Texas
Secretary of the Navy
Defense
Thomas J. Herbert
Ohio
Subversive Activities Control Board
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