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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
FinoneioI
9l Business Opportunities

GENDER BLOCK PLANT-For sale. Chance of a life time. Opportunity knocks. This plant is the best buy in town. Consisting of a taping machine and mould, a batch ce- ment mixer, 500 steel pallettS, 5 horsepower motor, a new conveyor. new crusher. 100 loads of cinders racks for blocks. A 3-ton dump truck in Al condition. This busi- ness has a mark up of 75Ss profit. Will sacrifice for $500. Phone 3-7556 between i2-l and 5 to 6 PM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
MINGLED BODY UNIDENTIFIED

North Haven, Dec. Il-(UP)- Police were endeavoring today to Identify the mangled body of man about 50 years old found on a rail- road track. They believed 1t may have been that of laborer whe was working on the line when nit by . train.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
ss Houses For sale
BUNKER HrII,

Most beautiful home of spacious rooms. Fireplaces, h.w. heat, hard. wood floors, rumpus room. Land. escaped grounds, view. Quick oc- cupancy. Must be seen to be appre- ciated.
 MRS. HELEN MURPHY
 Real Estate Win. 3O3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
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PiaRBtnE to aeubmn nsa sahe yOur oWn clOthesf Doar mtss sue Burr nssts daily patSern FeasuFs en the women's pages of The Waserbugy DsnsoeFat. PsesuFes es che outatn ena avesses patterned ras autchIy decide foF yoa whether che style sad fashton ass yOs. It saves slnae aBa money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
HoIrsEa FOR BALE

K1NosBuRY SCHOOL DISTRICT Two family house in one of Wa terbury's finest residential loca- tions. 1st floor apartment of large combination living 6 dining room. kitchen, bedroom and bath. End floor apartment, living room. din- ing room. kitchen. 3 bedrooms. and 2 baths--hot water heat with oil burner. 2 car garage. Lot 6Oxl25. ST FRANCIS PARISH-Ncar Syl- van Ave. family, 6 rooms, hot water heat (oilD. garage, lavatory, lst floor; tile bath. In excellent repair. Early occupancy.
 D. T. HARRINGTON. INC.
 REALTOR - INSURANCE Al West Main D.al 3-3l12
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
TOYS GALORE for the KIDDIES at ALBERT'S

Children's Toy Drum ,,n... 79c Plast. Ringing Toy TelepAbnes $l.00 Folding Type Black Boards .. $229 Miniature Pool Table ,.... $2.95 Thompson Sub: Machine Gun e2.s6 Sturdy Shoo-Fly for Baby ... S3.95 Colapsible Doll Carriage ,.... &S.9e Child's Maple Cricket Rocker SS.ee Outdoor Metal See-Saw ..... T.e8 Outdoor Metal Swing NJ, e6.95 3 Pcs. Table and Chair Set. S0.e6 Platform Type Rocking Horse e0eS Lge. Sturdy Metal Wagons el0.96 Large Size Pool Table ...... $l7.90 Many. many more toys on display, Do your shopping early and avoid unpleasant disappointment.
 A-L-B-E-R-T-S
 ] 2os south Main ct. Phone 4-9lAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11

SUMMIT ST. -3 tenement house and 2 tenement house. Both located on large lot, offered as single unit or divided. si3,000 complete. Part cash. Hotchkiss. Real Estate. Thom- aston. Tel. 61R2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
Rooms, Boord, Hotels

FURNISHED ROOMS - Single or double Hot water: Inquire 1929 East Main St. Phone 5-3802 call after 800 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
FLOORMEN

No experience Is necessary for this job. You distribute work to the various jobs. Sometimes you get the opportunity to help out on the rolls which gives you the chance to learn rolling if you're interested in 1t.
 JHASE ROLLING MILL PLAr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11

MECHANICAL DRAFTSMAN-Sr. experienced. Need not know refri- geration. Good opportunity for right man in a promising field. Bowser, Inc. Refrigeration Division, Terryville. Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11
Ss Building Lots For Sale
Ss Suburban For Sale

CHESHIRE-Immediate occupancy. eBautiful modernized home. six rooms. Large living room. fireplace. downstairs lavatOry. Hot water heat. oil. Garage. Large plot. Own- CT leaving State. J. Casey. SOuth- bury. Phone 674l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-11

WANTED
 MALE HELP The Chase Rolling Mill Plant needs men immediately. This is good place to work and, To- cated on North Main St., it's an easy place to get to. 8 hour day 40 hour week.
 CHASE ROLLING MILL PLANT
 ROLL HELPERS How would you like to learn rolling? We'll teach you and al- though you can't become an ex- pert overnight, once you learn you have 6 good paying job. You feed brass bars into rolls which reduce them to the required thickness and handle the coils after rolling. The pay is good. it's easy to learn
 IASE ROLLING MILL PLANT
Evening star., 1946-04-28

eran of about go, occupied run
down place with his wife. Mr..
Barlow said he had lived there 81
years and it had been painted twice,
once by the company and the other
time by himself. The home was
clean inside, although the chimney
seemed about to fall through the
roof.
Finds Miners Could Help.
There was no doubt that in in
Vulnerable instances the miners
could do much to make their houses
better places. Too many appeared
content to live in dirt and filth, sup
plying a home for rats as we'll as
themselves.
The typical miners house almost
always seemed to have creek
nearby which was a catch-all for
garbage and whatever waste the
family had to discard.
We asked several United Mine
Workers officers why the union did
not conduct campaign to educate
its members in better ways of liv-
ing. Some admitted that much
could be done in that field.
| Mr.. Kiser, the Williamson union
representative, said that for many
years miner could not get a job
unless he lived in company house.
He added that it was the COM
pany's responsibility to keep the
houses in repair with the rents COL
lected, but that in most cases if the
miner wanted anything done he had
to do it himself.
There is little incentive for a
man to do the work himself" he
continued, since he never knows
how long he will live there and is
ever hopeful of getting a better
place to live"
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Tells of Wild Driving.

Eastern company mines are 10
Gated on small stream. Pond Creek
which courses through the Kentucky
mountains some Is miles. emptyine
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Newton
Continued From First Page.)

on the list of the Nations most
profitable railroads.
Generally speaking, the quality
of mine housing varied with the
prosperity of the coal company.
Those companies operating in thick
seams of coal do well financially,
and the houses of their camps more
often than not reflected that fact.
Thin-seamed, marginal mines have
hard job of making ends meet
even in good times, and their houses
showed it. Before the war, coal
mining generally was losing
proposition. Mine workers admit
conditions have improved the past
10 years, but they said things can
be made so much better than they
are.
Find 25 Per Cent Hovels.
1t seemed to us. after viewing
more than hundred mining camps
in West Virginia, Kentucky and
Virginia. that about Is per cent of
the houses are good, so per cent in
state of needing various degrees
Of improvement and Is per cent
definitely bad novels.
Many houses do not have running
water and bathroom is a luxury
in most places. Nearly all appeared
to have electricity. Company
owned houses predominant in the
areas visited, although some mine
workers were said to be building
homes of their own. The topog-
raphy of the coal country limits
this trend. Good building sites are
few, what with the masses of noun
tains and V-shaped valleys and a
railroad track down the middle.
1t was source of some amaze
ment to us that some of the houses,
perched precariously on steep noun
tainsides, did not tumble off. We
mentioned our concern to Charles
Kiser, United Mine Workers repre-
sentative at Williamson, w. Va.
We'll, it just happened" he said
"a house toppled off a hill at War
Eagle. Five people in it, They were
all banged up some, but not hurt
seriously"
G. w. Griffith. union field man in
the Bluefeld-Welch, w. Va, area
told us:
"Our people are so years behind
modern-day living. Only about
per cent of the houses are good. Very
few have bathrooms"
Figures Seem Exaggerated.
His percentage of good houses
seemed exaggerated from our obser-
vations, but the housing situation in
general has furnished UNIV Chief
Lewis with a powerful argument in
the contract controversy with the
operators.
Mr.. Kiser said the two best mine
camps in the Williamson field, about
half of which is across the Tug river
in Kentucky, were those of the Red
Evening star., 1946-04-28

! into the Tug River at Williamson
There is concentration of mines
along the stream and miners houses
dot its sides the whole way.
| A narrow road winds along the
creek. Last summer a flash flood
washed out the road along with
some of the miners families. and
it is in need of repair A William
son cab driver, who said he did a
lively business with Pond Greek
miners at SO head when they were
working, told us something about
the road.
That's the most dangerous stretch
OF road in the United States on Sat-
urday nights" he said. Them
miners get paid, take on load of
likker, and head for town down the
hollow in their cars. Boy, I wouldn t
haul nobody up there Saturday night
for thousand dollars. Tried it once
and got side-swiped three times"
In wandering about hundreds of
miles of coal country roads through
scores of mine properties, perhaps
the most rundown camp we saw was
that of the Kentucky Straight Greek
Coal Co. near Pineville, KY, where
a mine explosion last December cost
the lives of Is men. The houses
were blackened, tumbled down
shacks that appeared never to have
been painted or whitewashed. A
miner said he paid $2.25 a room for
one of the hoveAs, and that in some
cases as many as 10 persons we're
crammed into a four-room shack.
Claim Rents Pay for Houses.
Union officials declared that even
the comparatively low rents charged
for the houses had paid for the
structures several times. They said
the original costs varied from
around $1,000 up to $4,000, depend
ing on size and type of construction
Only a handful of houses built of
material other than wood were
seen.
Neat frame structures marked
the Pocahontas Fuel Co. camp,
Pocahontas, Va. The company was
said to mine the richest coal seam
in the whole region. A subsidiary
Of United States Steel, the U. s.
Coal and Coke Co., supplied its
miners about Gary, w. Va. with
adequate homes. A score of new
homes dotted hillside of the Seco
Coal Co. camp near jenkins, KY.
The quality of houses frequently
varied greatly within a single camp
So II uaS with tho Anericap Goo
Co., near McComas, w. Va. in the
Blueield-Welch section. Some were
fresh and new in appearance, others
rundown.
Often the interiors of those with
a dingy exterior were better, cleaner
and neater than ones in the same
camp which appeared good from the
outside At the American Co. camp
Steve Barlow, a mustachioed- vet
Evening star., 1946-04-28
K. Of {. TO Give Reception
To Latin Envoys Tomorrow

The sixth annual Pan-American
Reception, in honor of the diplo-
matte delegations of each of the
Latin American republics, will be
held tomorrow; night at the May
flower Hotel by the Washington
General Assembly, Fourth Degree,
Knights of Columbus.
Joseph F. McGurk, Ambassador
to the Dominican Republic, will be
principal speaker at the reception
scheduled to begin at o'clock. DR..
Hector David Castro, ambassador
from Ell Salvador. is honorary chair
man of the committee in charge.
The Rev. James A. Magner, procura-
tor of Catholic University, also will
speak
Committeeman assisting DR.. Cas-
tro are Joseph A. Genau, Benjamin
S. Simmons, Richard A. Mahar,
Harry R. Statham, Joseph B. Nc
Cam, Alexander Gonzales, Fran
els A. Mccain, William j. Spring
and Earl T. Noe.
Evening star., 1946-04-28

Lewis. He would like most the FIVE
day week and pay boost; doesn't
understand the welfare demand
Thinks the house is fine; likes to
deal at company store and think
medical and hospital arrangement
good. He attends union meetings
twice monthly. Sold his small car
recently.
Mrs. Sylvania Hackney didn't see
things as rosy as her husband. She
has a daughter, 10, by a previous
marriage. plus 4-year- -old boy and
girl twins and another boy years
old. Also living with them are two
of her brothers. One is miner
for another company. The other was
just discharged from the Army. The
first brother, Clayton Stiltner, 81,
pays $3l month room and board );
the other nothing SO far.
Mrs. Hackney thinks the house a
mess inside and she is right. The
walls are smoke -blackened, and the
whole layout not too clean. She
says it has not been painted inside
IN IS years. Nevertheless, there was
"a lot she could do to make it bet
ter place. 1t is heated by coal
CRATES in each room. There's water
but no bath. She says she needs a
new coal stove and washing ma
chine. They pay $3.50 a month
rent.
The sleeping arrangement was
very crowded. Three children occupy
the living room: the parents and
youngest child first floor bedroom
Her brothers sleep in one upstairs
room. The other is useless when
the weather's bad, because there are
no window sashes. They have COM
planned about that to the company
They have no War Bonds or other
savings.
I'VE could have saved something
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Chicago hi Faces Return
70 Dim-0ut' as Coal
Strike Imperi|s Power
BY TIE Associoted Prsss

Creeping paralysis spreading
through allied industries from the
2T-day-old bituminous coal strike
threatens to wither part of the
Nauons poWer supply, it became
evident yesterday.
Chicago, the Nations second laro-
eStselty, faced return to wartime
"dim-outs" and a possible complete
stoppage of electric power by Nav
Il unless the dispute between John
L. Lewis 100000 AFL-United Mine
workers and the bituminous oper-
etors is settled.
a spokesman for the Common
wealth Edison Co., which supplies
current for Chicago and 600 North
erns Illinois communities, said all
e,ectrlc power will be cut off by
May q if the strike extends be-
yond May IA.
Inc company has only Is davs'
coal supply left and, the companv
spokesman said, seven DAYS will be
required for coal deliveries to reach
generating stations after the strike
is settled.
Inc Midwestern firm , is asking
the Illinois Commerce Commission
TO work out a procedure for cur
tallment of electric service with the
view OF conserving it's limited sup
plies of coal.
Oscar E. Hewitt, Chicago Public
Works Commissioner. asked City
Counclls permission to purchase
coal on the open market because
the supply at the citys pumping
stations rapidly was approaching a
serious point"
Other metropolitan centers east
OF the Mississippi using coal to gen.
crate power and pump water also
Will feel the pinch if the strike is
prolonged, said coal producer who
asked to remain ANONYMOUS.
Evening star., 1946-04-28

Jacket Coal Corp. and the Eastern
Coal Corp. We inspected the latter,
located in Kentucky about eight
miles from Williamson.
The company operates four mines
and officials told us there were 900
company houses, most of them of
four rooms About 80 per cent had
running water and Is per cent bath
rooms. The eXteriors were freshly
rehnished with composition board.
The interiors did not live up to our
expectations. Rent was $3.50 room
per month and $3.50 extra for bath
Rentals at Eastern were about the
standard for all of the coal areas
surveyed. The houses were above
! average.
Complain of Low Rents.
Some of the mine operators
claimed that one reason they could
not furnish better housing was be-
cause they were paying 1916 wages
to the miners and giving them the
houses at 1910 rental rates. Frank
P. Kerr, Eastern general manager,
was one of that group.
What the hell kind of a house
does Mr.. Lewis think we can furnish
for $40 month";" he asked.
We talked with some of Mr.. Kerr S
miners. among them Leon Hackney
Is, who was waiting for a bus. Mr.
Hackney strayed from our subject
Of housing, talked about a lot of
things and, when his bus arrived
waved us over to his house and wife
What he said may be of interest
anyway, as an insight intomine life
He is a native of the area; eighth
grade education; went to work in
the mines at 10 and gets s63.50 q
week as a brakeman on minecars
when he works 81 hours He arises
at am. is at work by 7; out of the
mine by 4, six days a week, says I'm
tired of this six-day business. Eat.
ing in the mine upsets his stomach
as it affects many. so he goes with.
out lunch. He baths after work ane
has dinner at 4:45. AfterWard he
walks "up and down the road" reads
paper or book and retires about 9
Twice week he breaks this routine
and accompanies his wife to the
company movie.
Pleased With Conditions.
Mr.. Hackney doesn't drink. Or
Sunday he rests or goes to movie
perhaps in Williamson. He leave.
off the movies now because he il
broke. All he knows about tn,
miners contract fight he reads il
the paper; he has never seen Mr.
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Veterans
Continued From First Page)

would be approved for guaranteed
loans unless the poor construction
features were remedied.
I'VE can't do anything about the
19 veterans who already have lost
$400 and whose homes are held to-
gether by building paper instead OF
sheetlng,' Mr.. Pavesich said.
MI. PaVesich also called attention
to a group of several hundred homes
being built IN Southeast Washing
ton. Last summer, he said, the
builder planned to price the homes
at S6,250, but after making some
slight notifications he has gotten
the ceiling price raised to S8450.
Congress told us to take current
prices into consideration rather
than normal prices, but I don't think
Congress meant us to approve loans
on homes priced twice as high a.
they would have been in 1885," the
loan guarantee chief asserted.
Outline of Program.
In a general outline of its loar
program, VA reported:
So far approximately 125.0O0 vet.
Grams have borrowed more than hal
a billion dollars under the GI loar
program and more than 80 per cen
OF the loans were for homes.
VA estimates that perhaps two
thirds of the 100000 World Wa
II veterans will use their loan guar
antee during the next 10 years. Or
the basis of this estimate, and fig.
uring $4,000 as the average guaran.
tee used per veteran, VAS tota
commitment may reach O,OOO ,OOO..
600. CThe Government will guaran
tee up to $4,000 on home loans anc
$1,000 on business loans.)
Administering the gigantic loa1
program is made more difficult b,
the most inf1ationary realty marke
In history, the most acute housing
shortage the Nation has ever known
labor instability including strikes
material shortages and production
bottlenecks," as we'll as rising price
which make difficult the establish
ment of a definite appraisal policy
inferior construction and poor ma
terlals IN some houses for veterans
and sharp practices by some lender
and real estate people in CT loans,
VA said.
To offset these problems, VA 1
trying to police the minor elemen
among financial and real estate or
carnations that are preying on vet
Grams" and is advising veterans t,
be wary in buying on the curren
market.
1t has also called the first of :
series OF meetings with bankers ant
appraisers. to be held in New York
with the idea of urging them to fol
low sensible appraisal practices.
Evening star., 1946-04-28

If we tried to, but we're just like
everybody else" she said, adding
that she had stored away more than
sl00 in groceries in anticipation of
the strike, most of which are gone.
Il think Lewis is doing all he can
for the miners, but it seems like
there are an awful lot of strikes.
They put you behind BY the time
YOU get caught up from one, an
other comes along. Boy, I'm all for
the union, though. What I would
really like is union with no strikes.
But I guess it takes strikes to hold
1t together. I say for them to stay
out six monhs if that's needed to
get what they want. We will make
out somehow. I don't know what
we would do though if the company
cut off our credit at the store" (the
union guaranteed the store against
loss up to $1,000"
The Hackneys have no radio. They
subscribe to Williamson paper. and
Mr.. Stiltner, the miner, takes a
Philadelphia paper which arrives q
few days late. Asked about the
paper, he said: Met a lady down
the creek-she sold me a subscrip-
| ton"
Tells of Wild Driving.
Eastern company mines are To-
/ Gated on small stream. Pond Creek
Evening star., 1946-04-28

MINE HOUSING CONTRASTS
above, a group of new and
neat miners houses at the
Seco Coal Co. camp, near
jenkins, KY. At the right,
shackS beside the highway
west of Welch, w. Va. A min
er, his wife and six children
occupy the house at right.
They pay SIS month rent
Star Staff Photos by Elwood
Baker.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-07-12
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Et tn, Miles City Star

This newspapers advocacy Of Missouri Valley Authority
has been attacked with scant respect for tender feelings
by the Miles City, (Mon) Star The Star denounces what it
calls brand of socialism which includes the IVA Natives
of the Missouri Valley section the STAR don't want
truck with that And The Chicago Sun wants to know the
why the Star cites the fact that the bureau of reclamation
recently began supplying from Fort Peck dam RA
Cooperative
Frankly don't get it. That REA Cooperative which has
begun to take Fort Peck looks much like what
people would call "a brand of socialism, 1t is doing in
retail distribution of exactly what IVA does whole
sale produconand nowhere have rural Coops fourshed
Justify the Tennessee Valley AT last report IVA
supplying power to but to As rural REA Coops An
MVA would hamper but greatly stimulate Coop Rural ec
trfcation.
We're for MVA (and incidentally The Sun has lot of
Missouri Valley natives it's staff because just makes
sense you going develop rivers resources
velop them whole and to lodge the responsibility
centralized regional instead Of dilung it half
a dozen competing Washington bureaus
we'd be willing to bet the Miles City Star hatfu of
type that the Missouri Valley will with day.
Chicago Sum-
Before Cooperation any line, there is always
competition pushed point that threatens destruction and
promises then avert ruin devise better way
that and economies and behold found to
be Ce-operaton.--CThe Late Ebert Hubbard)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-07-12

his able secretary, Jerry Sullivan, the
other day-for the first time since be-
fore the war-and | am glad for hav-
ing had it. During recent months
there have been occasions when Mike
and l failed woefully to see eye to
eye on certain isues before congress,
with the result that some doubts had
begun to creep into my former very
high opinion of him. After an hour
of much table-pounding (by your col
umnist) as | pointed out emphatically
why l didn't agree with him, and with
the equally vigorous rebuttals by Rep.
Mike as to why he did such and such,
ETC., all such doubts disappeared. He's
the same old Mike I've known and
respected for the past Is years for his
sincerity, honesty and his convictions,
and his devotion to the needs of west
ern Montana-such as his long Sight
for funds for Hungry Horse, climaxed
by success in securing the go ahead
for transmission lines on June FL
continues to reign paramount in his
mind. 1t all sums up that while |
may not agree with some of the things
he does land in such cases I'll let
him know, his batting average" for
all the people up to this time must
be considered good