Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, there are exceptions; among hundreds of thousands of black, Chicano and Indian families, among many of Appalachia's people and in our urban ghettos, which seem to grow and grow, one finds children who are hungry, malnourished, plagued by a variety of untreated illnesses and certainly not catered to-not at home, not at school, not in the neighborhood. There are even children in this country in this century who are born in circumstances no better than those obtained in 1775. If medical knowledge was, at best, primitive at the time of the American Revolution, the first-rate...
...Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn collects pictures taken in the 1930's. Shahn began by photographing people in the streets of New York's Lower East Side. Later, when the Federal government gave him a job, he took pictures of sharecroppers and farmers and small-town people in Appalachia, the Ozarks, and Ohio. When he didn't photograph people, he photographed the artifacts which were closest to them--the circus posters which advertised their entertainments or their hand-painted signs with messages like "This is the car HOOVER promised ME, ROOSEVELT gave ME, FOR GODS SAKE DON'T LET LANDON...
...Massachusetts Congressman, founded the Wednesday Club - Republican moderates in the House - in 1963. A group meeting regularly to exchange ideas, the club often antagonized the party leadership. Mathias led fights within his party for civil rights legislation, supported such welfare programs as the Job Corps and aid to Appalachia, and questioned the growth of defense budgets...
...Choice. Other critics of the bill contend that the main impact will be felt by small strip miners in Appalachia, who cannot afford the reclamation costs, or by consumers, whose electric bills could rise as much as 15% because utilities would either buy more high-priced oil to substitute for lost coal output or pay more for coal itself. Some electric companies, in fact, may not even have a choice. Last week the Government announced hearings on whether to order nine Midwestern utilities to use coal as fuel instead of oil or natural gas. Before the Government's authority...
...Operators must pay 35? for every ton of strip-mined coal, and 15? for every deep-mined ton, into a new fund for reclamation of abandoned mines. The aim is to restore some 100 million acres of already stripped land, primarily in Appalachia where deep hillside gashes mark worked-out steep-slope mines...