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Show Out of the Coal Mines to College By GLENN SEA8E NEA 8pecUl Correspondent JOHNSTOWN, Pa (NEA)-f The "all brown-no brain", days are over at the coal mines. rJ.,,j In a bygone era, coal town : youngsters unable to grasp the three R's were hustled off to the principal's office. The school master scrawled his signature to the, then common "blue papers" passport ' out of the halls of learning. Next day the "premature graduate", grad-uate", lugged an oversized pick and a broad coal shovel to the Eits where dad and a couple of rothers initiated him . into the life of a miner.. ' There's a different picture around the coal camps now. Today, To-day, coal miners who can master the books are taken out of the mines and handed a passport to college. " . , It's part of a broad educational program set up by coal companies to' train ambitious, intelligent . young men for important roles in the industry. , Coal companies during the past several years became startled -when other industries skimmed off the "cream of the crop." Operators Op-erators conferred and decided something must be done to beckon beck-on promising youths into the coal mines. . Central Pennsylvania Coal Pro ducers Association, - headed by Charles O'Neill, operator spokesman spokes-man in wage negotiations, took action which typifies the mine , educational movement. A summer mecca for coal miners was established in tradition-steeped St. Francis College, . nestled in the pine-clad Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Alleghanies which yield much of the nation's soft coal. Fifty-seven coal miners ranging rang-ing In ages from 18 to 39 are students this summer at the col-. col-. lege, which has added to its campus cam-pus the former sprawling, beautiful beau-tiful estate of the late steel king. Charles M. Schwab. The college program Is spon sored by the operators' association, associa-tion, which has made two annual gifts of $50,000 for upkeep. Promising young men are selected se-lected by coal companies in the Central Pennsylvania region. They $ are sent to the campus yip V t - -V f ' Up from the mines for the summer, sum-mer, young Frank Nastlc winds up his work at the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. in Johnstown, Johns-town, Pa. . . . , where they spend the summers digging coal from textbooks. Operators declare the investment invest-ment in the program will begin paying dividends in the next several sev-eral years when they reap the benefits of the young men's training. train-ing. It's a summer of college life for the miners, many of whom yearned without success in previous pre-vious years for an opportunity to broaden their education in college. col-lege. , Miners used to hard labor spend a busy day poring over mine textbooks, attending physics, mathematics, English, labor relations rela-tions classes. There's time in the afternoon for a snack at the college soda v I V V -is ;-: '.. A . . . and takes np ttbook mining" at the company-sponsored summer sum-mer course at St Francis College. Col-lege. He's one of 18 young miners selected. fountain, a game of pool with some miner friends or a walk about the campus with a coed. In setting up the summer college col-lege course spread over three years the coal operators included includ-ed as long-range objectives: Encouragement of young men to enter the mining industry; development de-velopment of favorable attitudes toward the industry and the possibilities pos-sibilities of mining as a trade or occupation; development of favorable fa-vorable attitudes toward the American system of free enterprise, enter-prise, the capitalistic economy and the profit motive; broadening the background of young men entering en-tering the industry and increasing increas-ing his opportunity to advance ir technical or supervisory work. North Sanpete District Plans School Opening MT. .PLEASANT The Asso ciated Principals of the North Sanpete school district met here Thursday with Supt W. N, Ball, in the school office building and discussed plans for the opening of schools throughout the district on Sept. 6. A committee was selected to make plans and arrange for the opening teacher's Institute. The committee represents the various school departments with President Lowell -Hansen, Spring City and past president and now vice president; Mrs. Mlram T. Nielson, Mt. Pleasant, of the North Sanpete Teacher's Associa tion; J. Sejvnour Jensen, Mt Pleasant from the senior high school division: William C. Curt-iss. Curt-iss. Fountain Green, Junior high school; and Abe Little, Moroni, of the elementary school department The Heiress and the Shoe Clerk NO MORE 'FREE CHOW TRAVERSE CITY. Mlrh. ttJ.P) With food prices zooming, municipal muni-cipal judges here have decreed a Dreaa ana water diet for vagrants who court arrest for a few ancxi meals. . - ,.;-- Suzanne Froedtert pretty 18-year-old neiress to a MUwaukee, Wis- malt fortune, poses happily with her new husband, Nick George Poulos. Poulos, 26, a shoe clerk, eloped with the girl who figured in headlines two years ago, when she disappeared from a fashionable boarding school, starting kidnaping rumors. DAILY HERALD Friday, August 6, 1948 10 Killed In Florida Crash HOLLYWOOD. Fla- Aug. 6. U.R The navy announced today that 10 persons were killed when an ' R4D transport plane collided with a small civilian trainer and crashed in the south Florida mucklands near here last night. Medical officers determined that only 10 bodies were recovered recov-ered from the flaming wreckage instead of the 11 reported by the Florida highway patrol. Naval authorities said the condition of the bodies, some badly mutilated, was responsible for the miscount. REPORTS PROFITS RICHFIELD OIL LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (U.R) A profit of $8,489,525 was reported report-ed today by the Richfield Oil Corp. for the first six months of the year. The amount equaled $2.12 per share, a 76 cent increase over the same period last year. Profit for the first six months of 1947 was $5,438,807. The victims were all men, the ' navy said. A fragment of a & wave s uniform reportedly found at the scene earlier had led to! the belief that a woman might have been the 11th victim. All persons aboard the military ; plane were killed. But the two occupants of the small plane a" student pilot and his instructor: leaped out when the collision tore one wing from their craft and parachuted to safety, Later the navy announced that all those killed were from the' east. One was a coast guardsman'; and the others were regular navy ! personnel. KILROY WAS HERE DENVER, Aug. 6 (U.R) Kilroy was here once too often, and tho cops have him now. Police arrested Leroy F. Kilroy, Kil-roy, 36, for complicity in the burglary of a penny arcade. Kilroy Kil-roy admitted he was there. Let Us Replace Your Cracked Or Broken Auto Glass Specialized Glass Service AHLANDER'S 490 South University Avenue PHONE 100 Prescott 'Indians' Practicing for Tribal Ceremonies PRESCOTT, Ariz., Aug. 6 (U.R) The nation's most unusual Indian tribe, which doesn't have a single Indian among Its 300 members, practiced war whoops and dances today for its 28th annual tribal ceremonies Sunday. The tribe, which calls itself the Smokis, was founded in 1921 by Prescott residents and now includes more than 300 businessmen, business-men, housewives," clerks and others interested in perpetuating Indian rituals. Members are identified by a small, fang-like tatoo on the back of the hand. They'll get together Sunday before tourists and students of Indian lore to revive half a dozen ancient tribal ceremonies, including the famed Hopi snake dance. In place of the rattlesnakes that twine around the Hopis' bodies in their annual prayer for rain, the Smokis will get the same effect with bull, gopher and king snakes and other non-poisonous non-poisonous breeds. Preparations Vor the dance have been going on since early summer. Smoki leaders consulted with Hopi tribal chieftains to be sure the dance would be authentic authen-tic to the last detail. They got special bronze makeup make-up from Hollywood cosmetics maker Max Factor to make themselves look more like red-men. red-men. They collected sea shells from the gulf of California to wear tied around their legs, as the Hopis have done each year for centuries. They collected rabbit skins, signifying death, to sew into their costumes, and pine boughs, a sign of everlasting life. Some paid as much as $80 for Indian wigs to add authenticity, and all collected feathers to sew into kilts, headdresses and beaded gowns. If the Smokis do everything Just right, and the Hopi gods are fooled, it should rain. ITS 'FLAWLESS DIAMONDS NOW, NOT 'PERFECT' LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (U.R) The American Gem Society has ordered that the term "flawless" be substituted for "perfect" in advertising or describing dia monds, executive director Alfred L. Woodill announced today. It also outlawed use -of "blue-white diamond" by its 1,500 member jewelers and ordered that gems be described as either blue or white. Bank Robber Kills Himself Vith Gun Snatched From an FBI Agent OAKLAND, Calif., Aug, 6 (U.R) A prepossessing bank robber, who looked like a prosperous businessman, snatched a gun from an FBI agent and killed himself in a police station yesterday after he was caught fleeing from the scene of his crime. Isaac G. Fox, 48, spent months planning to rob a Berkeley, Calif., branch of the Bank of America. He took a train from San Francisco to Oakland, stole a car there and drove to Berkeley. Slipping Slip-ping in just after the last customer left, he held the bank up for $8,000. Then Fox drove to Oakland's Oak-land's industrial district and parked the car. Placing an overcoat over hjs arm to hide the satchel of money, Fox walked down the street Here he made the mistake that proved his undoing. He tried a short cut. Leapfng a fence, he dropped drop-ped into the yard of Frank X Goldfuss. The Goldfuss dog. "Buggs," a 12-year-old bull terrier, snarled at the intruder. in-truder. Fox kicked the dog. The ruckus brought Mrs. Goldfuss to the window in time to see Fox run from the yard. . Mrs. Goldfuss called her husband and both got into their car to pursue Fox. They collared him two blocks away. Taken to Northern police station, Fox began making statements-to police and FBI agents who were called in on the case. While in the middle of his confession, Fox leaned over, and pulled a .38 caliber revolver from the holster of FBI agent Hal Vogelsang. 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