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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1968
Page
2
In Mannington and nearby communities the Number Nine mine dominates daily life. Families shop, attend school and church beside the mine's belts and toll of coal. The Farmington disaster and the mine’s omnipresence shape a town where life centers on coal and its industry.
The Johnsons remain at the Pedernales River ranch for Thanksgiving with Mrs. Johnson visiting East Texas relatives. Rain drifts over the hills as the president receives Washington reports. The piece notes coal mine dangers and the miner’s life, reflecting on workers and a miner’s family.
Mrs Sheila Thorns of Birmingham England leaves Birmingham Maternity Hospital eight weeks after giving birth to sextuplets with one surviving baby Julie. In West Virginia miners cling to small-town life amid past disasters at Consolidation Coal Co. Number Nine mine. Many residents refuse to move despite 1954 and 1921 explosions, valuing neighborliness, safety, and long work histories.
Jersey City police station attacked as 13-state alert issued for men believed to be Black Panthers. A speeding car fired about 20 shots through windows, one bullet grazing a officer's hat. seven militants from Newark arrested earlier in the week on concealed weapon charges and held on $10,000 bail.
At Stanford University Lambda Nu, a 21 year old coed living unit, has invited 26 women to share the former all male fraternity house. The move follows Stanford’s policy expansion of coed residence halls and aims to reflect campus-wide integration.
United States conducts reconnaissance over Laos at Laos request while political controls limit disclosure of the six mile DMZ buffer zone along the 17th Parallel. Commanders may authorize actions inside the DMZ to protect troops, but official comment remains withheld. Since November, enemy shelling targets nearly all major South Vietnamese cities except Saigon, with over 200 sightings in the DMZ. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford says shelling lacks a pattern warranting renewed bombing, and President Thien will decide on further moves after peace talks. The war’s political dimensions grow as pacification efforts accelerate in rural areas and violations of Hanoi Washington understandings are debated amid the bombing pause. Vietnam’s population in government-controlled areas remains high as the war widens into political and military confrontation.
Families of 78 men killed in the Mountaineer No. 9 mine disaster endure quiet grief as sealing ends the search. Officials warn of possible further explosions while rescue crews stand by and workers from Consolidation Coal move to other area mines.
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