Show Utah County Groups Seek More Coal PROVO Utah county Provo Prove city Provo chamber of commerce and Columbia Steel officials Friday Fri Fri- day ay united behind a program to secure additional coal for use by Utah county citizens many of whom are defense workers engaged engaged engaged en en- in construction of the steel plants at Geneva and Ironton it was reported by Clayton Jenkins secretary of the Provo chamber Telegrams Telegrams' to Governor Herbert B B. Maw who is now in in W Washington Washing Washing- hington hing- hing ton D. D C C. and members of the Utah congressional del delegation e g a a. t i ion o n were dispatched Thursday night by officials of the four groups urging that drastic action be taken taken taken tak tak- en by the government to speed up coal production in Utah A plan suggested was that government government government gov gov- officials get the sanction of the coal miners' miners union to allow the miners to work one additional hour per day Mr Jenkins said Such a plan would increase the coal production in Utah from 15 to 18 per cent and would alleviate the present coal crisis he said The miners are willing he re- re ported Unless some method is devised to increase the coal production residents of this area will suffer greatly and many workers at the Geneva and Ironton plants of the Columbia Steel company will leave thus retarding progress of these vital plants Mr Jenkins stated Records and facts pertaining to the coal shortage in this area were presented present d to Governor Maw and other state officials some sometime sometime sometime time ago Mr Jenkins said |