Changes of the Week

P: Edward George Fox, 55, for four years the hard-coal industry's chief negotiator with the United Mine Workers, was named head of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, soft coal's biggest spokesman. He succeeds Harry Morgan Moses, who died last April 1 after helping give soft coal five years of labor peace through man-to-man bargaining with his lifelong friend, John L. Lewis. A Pennsylvania banker's son, big (6 ft. 196 Ibs.) Ed

Fox went into the mines during high-school vacations, studied mining engineering at Penn State ('24). After graduation, he went back to the pits, by 1936 worked up from assistant foreman to general manager of Madeira Hill & Co., later became president of Phoenix Contracting Co.

Since 1951 the president of Philadelphia's Reading Anthracite Co., he will remain on Reading's board after joining the operators' association in Washington Sept. 1.

Fox feels bullish about the future of the soft-coal market, predicts an upswing in exports and domestic industrial demand.

P: J. (for John) Stafford Ellithorp Jr., 61, former president of Beech-Nut Packing Co., was elected to the same post in the recently consolidated Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. (TIME, June 18). Ellithorp broke in as a chemist with the company 39 years ago, shortly after taking his B.S. at Syracuse University ('16). Still very much the chief executive of the combined companies: Life Saver Pioneer Edward John Noble, 74, board chairman.

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