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Show U.S SMOKE STACKS IN MIDVALE CAME DOWN JULY 4TH U. S. Smelling Refining and Mining Min-ing Company Monday afternoon blew down three smoke stacks with dynamite in Midvale, before a crowd of over 25,000 persons. The carefully laid charges of dynamite sent two high smoke stacks falling to the ground and crumpled a third. The explosions were delayed for one hour while officials of Ketch-urn Ketch-urn Builders Supply Co. wrecking department kept an anxious eye on a large black thunderhead which moved over Midvale at 2:30 p.m., I time scheduled for the blasts. Jerry Calloway, demolition expert ex-pert from Arizona, delayed the explosion ex-plosion because of a cloud which sprinkled some rain and caused I gusty winds. . The two smaller, 250-foot stacks i fell as expected. The larger stack broke in the middle as shockwaves ricocheted through it. It paused for a moment I then started telescoping spewing thousands of bricks in the immediate immedi-ate area. Approximately one-quarter of the stack remained. Officials were unable to determine just what went wrong, but said the remainder of the main stack would be blasted down as part of the cleanup operations. opera-tions. Midvale was jammed, Utah Highway High-way Patrolmen stated, and estimated estima-ted the crowd at 25,000. |