Show DEATH OF HOWARD BLOW TO SE UTAH john C howard president and general manager of the utah oil he fining company died thursday night as the result of a six story fall to the marble foyer of the newhouse office bunding in salt lake city mr howard had started to walk up the stairs from the sixth to the seventh story when he toppled over the banister and fell to his death it Is believed he suffered a heart attack in the death of john C howard eastern utah loses a staunch friend mr howard personally and through his companies had expended hundreds of thousands of dollars in oil exploration work in this district it was his ambition to open up an oil field in utah and he had implicit faith that eventually utah would become an oil producing state mr howards interests are now cooperating with the utah southern oil company in drilling the new salt valley well north of moab which was studded in last week mr howard was a brother of mrs i ella stew art of moab |