European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 violence escalating in bloody Coalfield feud a a new bloody Battle is raging in the Remote Border area of Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia where the hat Fields and Mccoy feuded their Way into folklore 100 years the pitting workers for nonunion Coal companies against striking United mine has grown increasingly violent in recent a nonunion truck Driver hauling Coal was killed and four others were wounded last wednesday when snipers opened fire from surrounding residents say they expect More violence and possibly More its a said Joby its we live it every Fields operates a Fleet of trucks that since january have been carrying nonunion Coal from mines along Blackberry Creek in ancestral Home of the Mccoy to a West Virginia preparation Plant near where Anderson Devil Anse Hatfield once made his the multimillion Dollar preparation guarded by a heavily armed Security is owned by a sprawling Enterprise that is part of a International conglomerate headed by Royal dutch since the ump has waged a selective strike aimed at forcing the company to sign the Union contract approved by All of the other Large Coal companies in the the strike was peaceful until january when Massey began running Coal from its formerly Union mines on Blackberry at first the Union responded with demonstrations at the preparation Plant and blockades against the there was sporadic Rock but residents believe the stage was set for increased violence in March when Federal and state judges banned the they left the Union no said a Matewan businessman who asked not to be when the courts limited the they took away the unions Only Way of stopping the flow of Union officials deny any knowledge of the picketing is one but when it comes to shooting were out of said Ernie outgoing president of ump District who also owns a Small said he initially tried to remain Neutral in the we were a Union company last fall and i wanted to sign the ump con tract but the Union  let presumably because of my connection with he i tried to stay out of it but everything Ive got is mortgaged and when the Bills came due i was forced to haul Coal or lose everything Ive worked for All these in Good friends with a lot of those he said of the but if it we rent for those state police those pickets would be tearing up my trucks right weve had 343 windshields broken since we began hauling Coal Back in said Tom fore Man in Fields trucking and this Doest count All the door Glass and Side the violence has been getting worse and probably will get even worse before its said Robert a direct descendant of the feeders and until recently the mayor of it wont Stop until these labor disputes Are Mccoy said he has tried to be Neutral but now cant help but think Massey should Settle with the the company used last weeks incidents to pull out of negotiations but this was strictly a Public relations he Massey is engaged in Union bust pure and the company will dispute but what Treyve done is put those miners out on the Road to Massey officials have made no secret of their desire to rid themselves of the company president mor Gan Massey said last week that his company wants unspecified concessions from the ump and is prepared to continue operating nonunion unless it receives guns will not bring us to the negotiating he we Are looking for links 23 safes Marsh opens billion waterway up of the army John Marsh saturday officially opened the billion 234mile Long  ending More than a Century of planning and 14 years of Marsh and Tom turned a wheel and symbolically merged the Waters of 23 states that will be served by the waterway linking mid America to the Gulf of i officially declare the Tennessee a Terway said Marsh As some people ahead of schedule the waterway actually was opened to Commerce last two years ahead of the waterway links the Tennessee River at Pickwick Dock and dam on the Mississippi Tennessee Border with the  River near de Opp by connecting the two Rivers in North the waterway cuts 800 Miles off the River route to the Gulf of the corps of engineers said the water Way will save shippers 9 million Gallons of fuel and million a year in transportation principal products that will be shipped along the waterway Are Coal from Tennessee and Kentucky and Wood and Grain products from Mississippi and Ala second ceremony a second dedication ceremony was held later in the Day at the Alabama state docks in near the site where for Mer president Nixon dedicated the Start of construction on the project May president in a message read by congratulated the people of Mississippi and Alabama and the friends of the ten Tom for their Perse Verance and this truly remarkable achievement of environmentally sensitive engineering and cooperation Between private citizens and their government is a Model for the rest of the Reagan hard work and the hard work and dedication of a state and local scores of commercial enterprises and the United states army corps of engineers have Ful filled the dream of Reagan Marsh said Spanish explorers first pro posed to link the Tennessee and to big be Rivers in the Early 18th Century to Kentucky j Tennessee Tennessee to Bigbee waterway to Bigbee River Mobile Louisiana Gulf of Mexico provide a better Access to the Gulf of mex centuries that vision is being he the beneficiaries Are the its Impact will help not just a but a the  shows the extraordinary importance to the United states of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean he it reminds us of our interdependence especially with the nations of the Hemi Marsh the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico Are the Mediterranean of America just As just As and just As pollution closes shellfish Beds in Massachusetts Boston a an estimated 40 per cent of the shellfish Beds along the Massachusetts coast May be unfit for harvesting because of state officials James assistant director of the state division of Marine said there has been a 28 percent increase in the number of areas closed to shellfishing in the past four years and officials fear that May Lead to Beach if you cant eat the its a warn ing sign that the Quality of the water is he officials said the pollution responsible for contaminating Mussel and Clam Beds can be traced in Many cases to inadequate sewage in other it is run off from fertilized israeli poet Roleah Dies Munich up israeli poet David Roleah has died at the age of 69 of a heart attack while on a lecture tour of his German publisher has Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today june 1945 it was announced from Guam that the 10th army had Cap tured the battered Keystone in the main japanese de tenses on 30 years ago today 1955 Yugoslavia signed a declaration of principles with the soviet Union in but president Tito did not yield his 20 years ago today june officials at Cape Kenne announced that astronauts James Mcdivitt and Edward White had been Given a tentative go for a space walking Mission set to begin before a satellite linked television audience in 13 70 years ago today june 1975 president Ford and Egypt president Sadat ended two Days of talks in with Ford prom Ising a Middle East peace