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Show TRUCK UPSET KILLSDRIVER A 42-year old Salt Lake truck operator was killed Friday, September Sep-tember 21 about 6:30 p.m. when the waste dump bank in the Kennecott Copper Corp. open-pit mine here, gave way and his truck rolled 200 feet down the embankment. Victim was Clifford Eugene MacArthur, 42, of 687 2nd Ave., Salt Lake City. His head was pinned 'beneath the right side of the truck cab. No one witnessed the accident. It was discovered when Mr. MacArthur failed to return to the loading machine and another truck was sent out to look for him. He was an employee of Isibell Construction Co., which holds a contract with Kennecott for waste stripping on the huge open pit mine. The accident was investigated by Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff Elmer Pantalone and Bingham City police officer, Lloyd Houston. Mr. MacArthur was bom June 5, 1914, in Ontario, Canada, to the Rev. C. C. and Minnie Swan MacArthur. He was a Baptist and had worked as a truck driver dri-ver and as a postman. He wes divorced from his first wife and later married Leona May Raleigh on October 27, 1945. They were later divorced. Surviving are a son, Walter, with the U.S. Marine Corps at San Diego, Calif.; his father and stepmother, Howell, Mich.; a. sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Alice Barr, Howell; brothers, Robert and Donald, and a half-brother, Nyland, Lansing, Mich. Funeral services were held Wednesday, September 26, at 2 p.m. at 260 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Burial was in Salt Lake City cemetery. |