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Show UTAH COPPER PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED Three promotions of personnel at the Utah Copper Division mine in Bingham Canyon, effective May 1, were announced by V. S. Barlow, superintendent of mines. Clarence Watkins, Bingham Canyon, formerly general hill foreman (niehts), will become general hill foreman (days). lie succeeds Roy Shilling, Copper-ton, Copper-ton, who will retire May 1. John Niemi of Copperton, formerly for-merly first assistant general track foreman, will berome general gen-eral hill foreman (nights), ami John Helm of Midvale, formerly an industrial engineer, will succeed suc-ceed him as first assistant general gen-eral track foreman. Mr. Watkins has been employed employ-ed at the open-pit Bingham Canyon Can-yon mine since 1922. He started ps 'a locomotive engineer. Hi became general hill foreman (nights) in Mr. Niemi was employed by Utah Copper in 11)37 as a tra:k foreman. He held various positions posi-tions before becoming first assistant as-sistant general track foreman. He served four years in the Marines, Ma-rines, returning to Utah Co;),ht in 1916. Mr. Helm was employed as a track foreman in 1953, becomim; a mine industrial engineer in 1955. Retiring employee, Mr. Shilling, Shill-ing, first worked for the Utah Copper Company and the Bingham Bing-ham and Garfield Railroad in 1906 during school vacations. He served in the armed forces during dur-ing World War 1. |