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Show WhdtHdpp ened U n de rg rou nd B etwee n Tuesday B last and Rescue of 7 Men? niiwMwmnninii Y ii ii i - ii - - ?" ' j - ' f v- (Continued from Page One) "The concussion caused a painsion has not been determined, but ful pressure in my ears," Clark one person in authority said it said. "Iwas hit by a blast of hot may have resulted from a dyna- air; then the air seemed to be mite blast at 4:20 p.m. in the sucked back to the main shaft." West: tunnel. Presumably, this Clark, who had been working released methane gas which drift- near the end of the tunnel, began ed to the shop area at the foot of walking toward the main shaft, the main shaft where, it was joining up with the others. But theorized, a spark of undeter they soon encountered smoke mined origin ignited the disast- from the blast and decided to turn rous explosion. J back toward the end of the tunnel. ' 2 SUNDAY HERALDL58,1'1 Mi ne nspector Says 99 By DON REED T United Press International SALT LAKE CITY (UPD A state mine inspector who headed a commjttee which drafted revised safety regulations issued nearly two months before the Moab potash mine disaster is convinced thaf "practically 99 per cent of all " SALT a white, to fertilize One of these is potash used salt substance plants. The Cane Creek area of southeastern Utah, site of the $35 mil lion Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. mine, contains one of the largest deposits in the world. A belt extends from the Colorado River, near where the mine is situated, to the Colorado state border, 50 miles awav. Robert Hite of the U.S. Geological Survey said the Paradox salt basin in which Cane Creek is located covers about 12,000 square miles'. Oil and gas drilling led to discovery of the belt in 1924 but no one knew what to do with pot- ash. Twenty years later, during World War II, it was learned the area contained large quantities which were feasible to mine. Commercial fertilirers were being developed and, thus, a use for potash. j Hite said potash could be used in its natural form as fertilizer. However, he said, in most cases it must be refined. Mining operations for potash in Cane Creek differ from those used near Utah's famed Bonneville salt record was set by a jet-- c ax early this month. Potash taken from the Salt Flats is recovered from natural brine and involves surface mining, safer than the tunneling . method used in Cane Creek. The' nation's other large potash area is near Carlsbad, N.M. - - 1 talh Published by Herald Corporation, fit) West Fourth North Street, every afternoon, Monday through Friday. Sunday Herald published Sunday morn- ing. Entered . as second matter at the post class in Provo. Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription terms by caroffice rier in Utah County: $ 1.75 month $10.50 6 months in advance $21.00 One year in advance in the mail anywhere By ' or its States posses United sions;. $1.75 per month; $10.50 for six months in advance. Per Herald telephoneanimbers: for all departments call FB - sections from the rubberized ventilation ducts and hang them from the ceiling of the eight-fohigh I tunnel. Three Barricades "We put up three baricades, one about 350 feet from the face, then two more 200 feet back," Clark said. "That kept the smoke away and we had enough air." After making a brief reconnaissance, Hanna and Mc Kinney left to take another look. They moved up the shaft, and past the bodies of the three men who had elected to stay at . the air duct. Their heads were inside the opening. They never knew that the ventilator had been crushed by the explosion, blocking passage of the air. Hanna and McKinney finally reached the bottom of the main shaft where they banged on a metal pipe leading to the top. Rescue crews brought them up and they reported that five more men were still alive. The pair also reported that an air compressor pipe leading to the trapped men was broken near the bottom of the shaft. The line was repaired and fresh oxygen was piped in. Identification of Moab Mine Victims Proceeds Quietly (Continued from Page One) Industrial Commission's mine in- spection policies. "I think such' an investigation should be made, by people from labor and management people wlfc know, what needs to be done," he said. "If the investigation shows that legislation i s needed to correct the situation, I will ask the governor to call a special session of the legislature to do this. "If miners lives are at stake, to be done ought something . - " h New Edition Collegiate DICTIONARY r ANNOUNCES THE .OPENING OF HIS OFFICE FOR THE GENERAL PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY Crash Head-O- n Kills Two 7 ' 1 I I' ll :--t By United Press International Utah recorded, its first two highway fatalities of the long, labor day weekend Friday night when head-o- n a two-ca-r crash about three miles from the mouth of Parley's Canyon killed two Salt Paul Robeson's Wife Decorated By East Germans Nine-year-o- ld n, tlT- BERLIN (UPD Eslanda Ro beson, wife of Negro singer Paul Robeson, was. decorated with an East. German medal Friday, the .bast German news agency ADN announced. The "Clark - Zetkin" medal was awarded to Mrs. Robeson "for her struggle for peace," the agency said. Mrs. Robeson arrived in East Germany last Sunday with her husband, who is recovering from illness in an East German hospital. Tornado Chews Through Area Of Texas Plains 5 Soviet Scientists Detect Oxygen In Venus Atmosphere 30-d- ay Causes Confusion one-four- lar and demand is expected to grow, according to the North Dakota State University College ident Kennedy has included Utah in his September tour of conservation and natural resources o o areas. Moss said he discussed the trip with the White House before re turning to Salt Lake City this weekend. The Senator said that he has in vited uie President to make a major address in Salt Lake City on the evening of . Sept. 26. The President is expected to remain overnight in the city. "President Kennedy has expressed to me his .desire to renew acquaintance with President David O. McKay," ' Moss said. "The President's Utah schedule has not been finally determined. Now under consideration is my recommendation that it include a flying observation trip of reservoirs, recreation areas, and defense plants." The Utah Democrat .said he has proposed that the President fly over Flaming Gorge Dam and Reservoir, the Primitive Area of the High Uintas, and over our canyon reservoirs such a s Strawberry, Deer Creek, Wan-shiEcho and Mountain Dell, and land at Hill Air Force Base. "Mr. Kennedy's inspection of reclamation and recreation developments will be most welcome to the West. It will be good to have him see .what our states and our. federal agencies charged with resource conservation and development are accomplishing. We also want him to see our missile plants." p, Quotes In The News By United Press International SoLJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, looking toward the future: "The banner of communism will fly over the world." CHICAGO Mrs. Lawrence Smith, commenting on the troubles involved is supporting h e r daughter-in-law'- s five children, are of whom four quadruplets: "If you ask me how I will manage, I wouldn't be able to tell you, but I'm not really worried. I feel it's all coming from God above. The Bible said there was never a mouh he couldn't feed with the power He has." 64 , te ;. Troopers Quell Demonstrators, Enable Negro Familylo Occupy Home In Pennsylvania By United Press Internaiional Police Chief Lloyd. Banks said none of the trfficers struck wa4 seriously hurt but that a Negri girl received a severe laceratio on the head from a thrown bot- State troopers Saturday guarded the home of a Negro family in a neighborhood previously all-whi- te at Falcroft, Pa., to prevent further demonstrations by angry tle, ; whites. A force of 60 troopers Friday night pushed back a crowd of 5Q0 whites outside the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Baker, who moved into the house Friday afternoon. Several persons, were injured by stones thrown by white teen-ageand a news photogwas rapher .punched in the mouth. Police cleared j a area 150 yards deep on either side of the Baker home and set up roadblocks around the area. Falcroft - is a ' community of 7,800 about two miles southwest of Philadelphia. State troopers also reinforced local police at Williams ton. N.C. Saturday to help preserve order in the event of renewed racial demonstrations. Around 400 Negro students hurled soft drink bottles at ?police Friday when officers turned back an attempted march on downtown' Williamston. 'H, . rs Elsewhere in the nation: St. Louis, Mo. 80, Negro and white demonstrators surged Into a bank Friday and hampered teller service despite a court order bar.V. ring disruptive protests. A' La. small Plaquemine, group of Negroes picketed stores as a prelude to more street 'den onstrattions in the- racially trou- - A 100-cBirmingham, Ala. motorcade petitions bearing signed by 30,000 Birmingham residents protesting the scheduled school integration left for Montgomery. Saturday. Delegates to the See-on- d Chicago Methodist Conference on Ho- man Relations recommended Friday that church fundi.be with- held from any Methodfsl school or college which practices racial :' discrimination. ar MEN WANTED; Utah Has Fourth Lavvest Illiteracy Rate In America No Experience Necessary Ages 18 to 38 To train for fobs in the Electronics i ndustry. Excellent starting salaries and advance ment. Employment available while training to ' help pay tuition and living expenses Full or part time. World Electronics r " By United Press International The U.S. Bureau of the Census says only 0.9 pen cent of Utahns over 14 cannot read and write. Utah has the fourth' JIowesiL .illiteracy rate in the United . States, andHt has been steadily "cteciining since the turn of the century, according to census figures reported by the Utah Foundation. The illiteracy rate for the na-ti- o was ?.4 per cent. Only Iowa, with 0.7. per cent; Idaho, 0.8 per cent; and Oregon, 0.8 per cent, Gen. ranked below Utah. HYANNIS PORT, Mass. Lucius D. Clay, planning to lead Ohio 'ranks first among states a campaign to reinstate funds which the House slashed from pf the Union in production of j . president Kennedy's foreign aid dolomite and limestone. technology Corporation To qualify send name, address, phone number, age & amount budgeted income needed' of while training to: WELTECH Dr. Frank Q. Sessions Industrial Sociologist-Bra- nch Office i J "The main principle is to try to make the American people understand that while cuts are desirable, what the House did was to cut too fast and too far." MADRID, wether, longevity: 54 Spavin Les Meri-commenti- ng on his 101, 19X Have your carpets and furniture cleaned "I never drank, I never smoked and I never went with women until I was 14 years old." six 7r "You're In The Navy Now' No messy soakinc. No harsh scrubbing! Ererythmg is jor iiabe same day. See fibers revive... colors come alive! Don't; settle for' messy, old-- f ashiom! methods insist on the Duraclean Absorption Process " ; 3jl McCain Ik starring OMIT eiMoipf Mfc f I For REE qootation phbs Gary -Cooper JANE GREER JACK WEBB 1 'W'Mlh 1 East Center, Provo;, Utah or phone FR Ext. S 135 program: Navy crew assigned to a special test mission. Fun for the entire family. 3-02- Young- Delmar Village development at formerly Pa. The NegTO family finally gained entrance Folcroft, to their new home after two days of demonstrations by T' whites. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto). all-whi- , The hilarroys story of a green as grass FR YOUNGSTERS HURL VERBAL THREATS sters jeer as. moving men tote possessions of. the;Horace Baker family up the steps of their new home' in the dry-and'read- J PROVO J Duraclean WE MUST KEEP OUR CUSTOM FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO. - (UPD SUMMER SALE NSW n f JFK Will Visit Utah SENSATIONAL MASTERCKAFT'3 MATERIAL EXTRA v-.3- said that he was delighted that Pres- Utah Farmers Troubled by Lack of Water $3B - D-Ut- - DAVENO AND t': r..j Moss Happy SALT LAKE CITY Sen. Frank E. Moss, Lake City men. The victims were identified as Garry J. Beck and Jerry Kilgore, both of Salt Lake City. Beck, 23, was apparently driver of a car that collided with another car. Injured in the other ve hide Were the driver, John Hog-a38, Coalville, and Bonnie Jean Grove, 23, Evanston, Wyo. Hogan suffered he id lacerations while Miss Grove received a back injury and cuts on 'the chin and legs. By United Press International Both were in fair condition SatA cool front which carried re GenerLake at Salt urday morning to the sweltering South lief al Hospital. land a and to tornado Texas trigKilgore and Beck were pronounced dead on arrival at the same gered thunderstorms along the Gulf Coast Saturday. hospital shortly after midnight. collected 1.88 Mobile, Ala., inches of rain in six hours. Pine Bluff, Ark., measured, 2.47 inches of rain in six hours. Ardmore, Okla., had more than an inch in a few minutes. A tornado chewed through Texas City, Tex unroofed five hdmes, lifted a boat from a trailer and hurled it against a house. By United Press International Three funnel clouds were sighted The lack of water continues to near Hereford, Tex., but appartroubw Utah farmers, although refailed to touch down. cent rains have helped the situa- ently U.S. Weather Bureau reThe tion in some areas, according to a tornado near Albuquerported the. Statistical Reporting Service, N.M. que, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Thunderstorms dropped heavy Alton R. Larsen, statistician in in North Texas. Brownfield rain charge, said that recent rains streets flooded. Abilene, have improved the range, pasture reported 2.87 inches of rain in had Tex., feed 'and water supply conditions a few hours. in most areas. Cattle and sheep Another belt of thunderstorms are generally in good condition. was around a low presHay production was normal ex- sure reported in area the northeast states cept where the drought reduced today. During the night a thundthe first crop, Larsen said. 50 erstorm with mile winds hit The harvest of sweet corn and Pa. Williamsport, and tomatoes has begun, witk yield Friday Charlotte, N.C., had 1.34 quality good and damage from inches of rain and Lubbock, Tex., insects minor this year, 'according 1.13 inches. to crop reporters. The U.S. Weather Bureau's hurLarsen said planting of 1964 ricane hunters at Miami, Fla, winter wheat is also underway were watching a low pressure and harvest of spring grain gear- area 500 miles northeast of Puering completion. to Rico for signs that it might develop into a tropical storm. In Washington the Weather Bureau released a outlook than for cooler normal calling conditions in the east half of, the country' during September. It will be warmer than usual in the western half. Above normal rain was expected in much. Of the east Soviet scien- two-thirMOSCOW (UPD of the nation. tists have detected oxygen in the atmosphere of Venus, Moscow Radio reported . Friday night. But the broadcast gave no indication of life existing on that planet. The presence of oxygen was deLONDON (UPD Big Ben, duced from a spectrum .analysis over towers the famous clock that of Venus performed at the Crihouses the caused of Parliament, mean Astronomical Observatory, some confusion in London SaturMoscow Radio said. day morning. It stopped for 52 minutes, utes. MEATY A? spokesman said a workman Meat FARGO, ND. (UPD accidentally had left a paint brush th now accounts for about in the works. of the shopper's food dol- of Agriculture. (UPD Douglas Morris, son of "Mr. and Mrs. Steve Morris, was reported in critical condition today in Dee Memorial .Hospital being struck by a truck. Witnesses said the boy2 ran between two cars out onto Syracuse Road. He was struck by a pickup driven by Brian Glover, 33, Layton. The truck threw the boy 46 feet through the air. Highway Patrol Trooper Sterling Christenson said Glover was traveling under the speed limit and had done everything possible t o avoid hitting the child. Glover was" treated for shock following the accident. -- Salt Lake Men MASTERCRAFT 374-285- 3 Severely Hurt By Pickup Truck Oeupholsfr Now! C 374-098- 'V' Big Ben Stops, or LIKE RES. ' . REBUHT & fcEWHOtSTClED IN THE SMITH-CLINIBUILDING - 146 EAST CENTER PROVO, UTAH OFFICES Ogden Boy, 9, after & REUNITED! Charles Clark, one of seven survivors of Texas Golf Potash mine disaster", is shown reunited with his family at home in Moat). From left are Kathy, 8; Mr. Clark, holding Linda, 3, and Jeff, 2; Mrs. Clark, and Scotty, 6. Eighteen men met death in potash mine blast which occurred Tuesday. (Herald-TjP- I Telephoto). EMPLOYEES BUSY DURING THE SUMMER SEASON OFFICE "T I C now." DAIL W. MAGEE, D.D.S. OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT ;jr ' ds In Carbon County, about 90 miles away, coal miners walked out of the mines in protest of state safety inspection practices. The state has only one coal mining inspector and union leaders said two were needed. In the small community of Moab, 18 miles from the mine, the survivors recuperated, while members of the junior chamber of commerce conducted a door-to-dofund drive for the victims widows and children. 50 AC - - MtfrS. Ttvf. 'VV , STANDARD OFFICE SUPPLY 40 W. 1st NO FR Orem office number. V "Hanna went back and tried to get them to come with us," Clark said. "He knew there was 'better air at the face end of the Tun nel). But they said they were stay ing." f minerals. ' air. sponsibility."' Pett's committee completed its revision draft of the safety regulations after a study. Meanwhile, when nothing furthThey were adopted by the state was heard from Hanna and Mcer industrial commission "essentially as proposed," effective July 1. Kinney, the five men at the end-othe tunnel began to fear the The old regulations had been in worst. They lay quietly on the effect for 18 years. floor of the tunnel, their boots "The revision was ordered befanning themselves with cause the industry had modern- off and shirts against the their ized, using new methods and heat. They talked little. Forequipment," said Pett. "In form- tunately, there was still water in ing the committee all segments of a broken pipe. the industry were contacted. It "We thought the shaft was took time but it wound up that blocked, that we weren't going to the very people governed by the foe rescued. We had no way of rules wrote them." knowing what was being done to The regulations, contained in a get us out." 96 page booklet, cover safety conAt 11 o!clock Wednesday night ditions for "metal and nonmetallic air began gushing out of the commines; mills, smelters, tunnels, pressed air pipe signaling that quarries and gravel pits." Viola- help was on the way. Saw Lights tions by mine operators can produce court injunctions. "Thursday afternoon we were on the ground, dozing, half They also govern workers and lying We had been imagining awake. their conduct. Fifteen sections we had seen lights for quite that are devoted to the use of exploand didn't pay much atwhile a sives and blasting. to them, but when I saw tention The Moab mine .had nine com- some lights coming through the plete inspections, plus three " part- last barricade, I said 'Well, I see ialis " following the deaths prior more lights coming. I think to Tuesday's blast in which seven real this time.' " men were rescued. The most re- they're They jumped up to meet their cent inspection was on Aug. 7 by rescuers. on There were commissioner Casper A. Nelson the back and remarks ofclaps "Thank and inspector John W. Holmes, an God" and "Where the Hell have expert "on shafts and blasting. you been? "The inspections are made as "We put our boots on and startour personnel feel they are need- ed down the drift but we had to ed," explained a spokesman for slow down a .couple of times to the commission's safety division. let these seven catch up with us. "Naturally, they try to make them We were in a hurry all right." often enough to determine that Clark and his family held a joymine conditions are safe." ous reunion. His wife said she had The spokesman said the mine given up hope for him before contractor Harrison International Hanna and McKinney brought the Co., "has been most cooperative," news that he was alive. while drilling the shaft and drifts Is he going back down in the for the Texas firm. He said Har- mine? Clark said he hasn't derison officials "had con f e r r e d cided. But his wife has a posimany times by telephone from tive opinion: "I don't want him to Moab on mine conditions and state go down there again because regulations." every time he left for work I'd be Natural gas is blamed by most worried almost constantly until experts for the Moab disaster. An he was back home. I don't care initial wildcat well drilled in the what else he does. The amount of area in the 1920s is capped about money he makes doesn't matter to me." a half mile from the mine th (UPD Utah's towering, mountains and desolate badlands country are dotted with hundreds of mines that have produced fortunes? and death as men sought after a variety of ' le y CITY LAKE sv k . (Continued from Page One) J t- ' ' One was K. J. Kxt, mine superintendent for Texas " Sulphur who was on Pett's committee composed of representatives of industry, labor, federal and state agencies. Pett said he knows the. firm "is accidents are preventable." safety conscious." "The only real type accident is The four when a person gets hit by light- aster were deaths prior to the disdescribed Marling ning," said inspector -- Victor G. T. Ankeny, director of by the Federare Pett. "Lots of times people al Bureau of Mines as being precot smart 'enough to see in ad- ventable vance that their actions can trig- burst in a except for one a rock drilling cycle; His stateger an accident." ment prompted an order for a Pett has never "put a foot" on ivestisationl aie :wV? naye big in- Sulphur Co. facility where 18 menN to too," Pett. to vesugation, promised were killed Tuesday bring 22 the number of fatalities since "The federal government, under construction began in 1961 on the law, has access to mines at any time, but there also is state re- Blast Delays Moab Mine Construction f ot commercial fertilizer mine. But, he has been in contact with co full-sca- i 5i et knife which they used Of Accidents Preventable . " One of the men had an old pockto cut I ; ' OGDEN Part way down the tunnel, three of the 10 men dropped opt of line and conferred. Next to them was the torn opening of the main ventilation duct,; a rubberized pipe one yard in diameter. The three decided to stay close to the opening in the bopes it would provide life-givi- ng v 374-141- 3 - ' |