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! | JOE McDONALD, disabled survivor of two Nova Scotia mine disasters, stands be:ide the sealed-up opening of No, 2 colliery in Springhill, N.S, "JUST SITTING AROUND' it where 76 men died last Oct. 23. An underground upheaval shook the pit, trapping many miners, Joe was one of entombed for six days. His leg was so badly broken that he still has to use crutches, He | was trapped for three days in | another Springhill mine disas- | ter in 1956 when 39 men died. "ih Hard-Hit Springhill Awaits Third Miracle By IAN DONALDSON Canadian Press Staff Writer The night shift won't be going down tonight. The boys--that"s what they call themselves--instead will be plav- ing cards over at the Miners' Hall, shooting darts at 'The Le- gion" or just sitting around---any- where--talking. It's been that way for a year now in Springhill, N.S. And most Eri" MAURICE RUDDICK was one of the heroes of the mine disaster at Springhill, N.S., a year ago. Now he picks coal from the mining company's dump to heat his home. Rud- dick was one of 99 miners who TORONTO (CP)--Hugh Bailey, year ago. Leonard Harman willl general manager of the United become general manager of the Co-operatives of Ontario for the|United Co-Op. T. E. Brady, as- last 14 years, will retire Dec. 31,|sistant general manager of | lit was announced Wednesday. He|United Dairy and Poultry Co-op, will also retire as general man-(will move up to general man- ager of the United Dairy and'ager. 1 i = MANAGER TO RETIRE Poultry Co-operative, formed a ORGAN MUSIC NIGHTLY AT THE GENOSHA HOTEL THE OSHAWA TIMES, Priday, October 23, 1959 At Last... ' } A CHORD ORGAN NOT $1,000.00 NOT $500.00 of But only . . . 169.50 since FREE HOME DEMONSTRATION ON REQUEST - or drop in to ALTO MUSIC SUPPLIES | 447 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH RA 5-1501 ADULT ENT, AY 1ST OSHAWA SHOWINGS! ST DAY: "CRY TERROR' TOMORROW §ckY rit BILT MOR fA oo ns 75 died. His hymn-singing dur- ing nine days of entombment in the depths of the pit kept up the spirits of a small group of miners awaiting rescue. Like most of his fellow workers, Ruddick is u loyed that the mine has been closed. SAT. MATINEE War Drums IN COLOR Saturday, Nov. 1, was the ninth|The provincial government says survived the disaster in which day, and the anniversary of a|no one with enough money has of-| {1956 explosion in No. 4 colliery|fered to start mining operations. | THEATRE GUIDE that kiiley 50 Iigiers, Early that : But no one wants to go back morning discourag rescuejinto No. 2. An ex-coal miner, bat-| " " workers, advancing as little as tering down the pithead with a Brovk (Wiens) The % Sipe eight inches an hour through the crowbar, -said: "If they'd done Mati an 1.30 Dam. y rubble, heard tapping up ahead.|this long ago there'd be a lot atinee 4 pm, Four hours later, "digging like|more men walking around to-'Marks -- "From Hell to Texas", hell," Leonard Boss and his com- day." 3.05, 6.35, 10.10 p.m. "Berna- panions broke through to a tiny| No. 2 has been sealed with con-| dine" 1.25, 4.55, 8.30 p.m. Last hole and found Barney Martinihave returned. \More than 690 complete show 8.20 p.m alive. "God must have saved this men are drawing relief from the * ing concussion drove the floors of change anybody's mind," says| of the talk has been about the same thing: tha' cold night, one year ago today, after the 3 p.m. shift went down for the last time, There were 17 men working the shift that night in Cumber- land Railway and Coal Com- pany's No. 2 Colliery. They hole for me," Martin told his res-|$2,000,000 disaster fund. Mr. Gil- cuers. |roy says it will be drained in Minutes later the diggers/about 60 weeks. reached six others. Wao tat there's nothing left The saddened town, its: spirits|Put the coal," says the grey- lifted bv the "double miracle", haired mavor, who also guided clung to a hope that more of its the town through the 1956 mine _|disaster and a major fire in 1957 moved from the wash - house,/men would be found alive. Res-|,) destroyed half the business |cuers clawed their way through| Jere ha haa | changed | 010 the final feet of debris, but found district. ~~ ; thelr little "brass number tags|no more life. Seventy-four men) --O® LIBR Tl Feporiers i and battery-powered lamps in the| were dead. i Amp siory, Uny a hale |dozen overheard the answer that Jamphouse and headed into the a irueles Were all the town), sweat-streaked, blackened res- mine. . DEATH STRUCK FAST cle," says 86-year - old Mayor|Year to the newspaper man who A little more than five hours/Ralph Gilroy. The mine -- the| asked iy Jo you fellows stay later more than 70 of the boys on|town's last--was closed and so n nes "Now we need a third mira-| | Plaza -- "'Biue Angel" 1.35, 3.30, | 5.30, 7.20, 9.15 p.m. Last com- plete show 9.05 p.m. |Regent -- 'South Pacific" in | Technicolor. Shown daily at 1.30, 4.05. Evening show 8.15 p.m. SPORTS AREAS INCLUDED OAKVILLE (CP) -- Plans for 1a $15,000,000 subdivision which |would include a golf course and, tennis, curling and badminton facilities were announced Wed- | |nesday. J. B Hamilton, president |of Linbrook Estates Limited, said |the company would pay for club facilities, estimated to cost $1,- 000,000, and turn them over at less than cost to three Oakville |clubs. TO-NIGHT DANCING TO THE MUSIC OF "The Rhythm Airs" 9 TO 12 P.M. Y.W.C.A. EE ---------- A ---- | DANCE TONITE OLD TIME -- MODERN | "Because its a good job... an honest job and something God |wants me to do or he wouldn't {have put all that bloody coal |down there," sald the miner. {cue worker gave one night last| At least some of those report. ers remembered the miner's ans- wer a year later--even though they didn't ask him for his name. the three o'clock shift were dead. /far a drive for new industry has No. 2, deepest coal workings in produced only a small w k- North America, had been misbe-|ing plant, employing about 15. A having. Almost every shift there prison farm planned for here will) were reports of "bumps"--sud-|give jobs to some of the older | den upheavals of the mine floor men. A proposed battery factory | that could shake the pit, stir up/may employ 50. dust, knock down coal and some-| Most miners vowed after the times kill a man. bump never to return to coal | At 8:05 that night the big one|mining. But they're changing] hit their minds. i "A year of doing nothing would | Saturday, Oct. Without warning, the scream- the mine upwards to crash into|Mr. Gilroy. "I know I could find | the falling roofs, trapping and|400 men at least would killing dozens of men instantlv. |gladly go down again." Within minutes, word of the| "I made $20 a day on a good | bump was flashed to the world day in the mine," says Gorley, and the first rescue parties en- Kempt, one of the second group | CLUB LORELEY | DANCE 24th - 8 p.m. ® UKRAINIAN HALL ¢ Corner Simcoe and Bloor, Oshawa EVERYBODY WELCOME tered the pit with fears for the of "miracle miners." worst, Coal has been in the blood of} For six more days the world the men of this town for 125 heard reports of the death toll'years. "And it's still there," says) rising, and the rescue workers Maurice Ruddick, whose hymn- inched through the debris to re-|singing kept up the spirits of one move bodies and search for life.|of the trapped groups. But there would be no life, said| Mr, Gilrov feels the answer to the exhausted rescuers and mine the town's economic problems officials. There couldn't be lies in a pew Fue to tap. He] as estimated 2,000, ons of high- FIND 12 ALIVE : : quality coal beneath it. "We're Then a team of grimy miners|gying", , . and we could sell 500 reached an open air - pipe and|tong a day." He estimates 200 heard a voice. Sixty feet away men could find work in a mine here were 12 weak and starving of that capacity. men who had survived the bump| in a 50-foot prison and lived with- PROSPECTS POOR out water for 6% days. Ten hours| But the growing fear here is later they were freed. that coal will never be dug again. BOX OFFICE OPEN AT 7:00 SHOW STARTS AT 7:45 # A STRANGER TO BRAZIL GLENN FO 0 AMERICANO J FEcHNICOLOR A FM VEOH ESE OVER URL TES 6 AE DOUBLE --FEATUR PLAYING CHILDREN under 12 FREE! ALWAYS A (0 TONIGHT! 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