"I'm going nowhere," says Picher resident Jon Finn. "I'm staying here 'til I die." The State of Oklahoma is paying Picher residents to relocate from the town for health reasons. Finn, who earns a living constructing model mining derricks, lost both his father, William, and brother, Don, to tuberculosis caused by inhaling coal dust.
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