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Show ihtSm-Sdwcdi- get mm & Second Section Price, Utah Thursday, July MILK for the WEEKEND 21, 1966 Coal, Energys Black Sheep, Has Prospects for Brighter Future Coal, for years a sickly child in tlie nations industrial family, is putting on muscle and pulling off new stunts. Even coals glamorous competitor, atomic energy, is finding coal a tough opponent in their battle to feed the growing appetite of a power-hungr- y America. But even as coal warily eyes the atom, coal researchers are testtubing it as the base for dozens of new consumer and other products as springing from unrecognizable those big black lumps in the mines. Gasoline Coming Some of the gasoline for your car may be refined a few years hence not from the black crude of an oil gusher but from plain old coal. Bricks for factories and homes may be kilned from fly ash, a cinder dust that is now a wasted nuisance of coal burning. Coal is being tested as a key agent for desalting water. It is being tried out as a filter to decontaminate sewage and other wastes that are polluting rivers and lakes. Diesel-typ- e fuels for railroads, trucks and buses are being developed from coal base in an effort to recapture part of the big diesel market that coal has lost to the oil industry. Coal is not going to do all this on a big scale overnight, but it is coming out of the doldrums it fell into after World War II. And even if only some of its dreams for new uses come to pass, the coal industry could enjoy a boom that would, d among other things, help the depressed areas of the nation get back on their feet. Output Highest in 15 Years Production of soft coal, which most coal is and which is the type abundant in Carbon and Emery counties, increased in 1965 for the fourth consecutive year to 515 million tons, highest in 15 years. The possibility of being able to make high-tegasoline from coal toe-to-t- coal-base- at a price that could compete with servoir of energy. There is an estigasoline from oil wells is one that mated 1.7 billion tons of coal still in has excited not only the coal but the ground in the United States. the oil industry', too. Gasoline has been made from coal for some time by the Germans in but World War II, for example the process has been too expensive to meet competition. Whipping Contamination Most plants now catch and harmlessly dispose of the sooty fly ash" that used to contaminate the air, but many still pollute the atmosphere with large amounts of sulphur dioxide gas. This irritant gas can be trapped as it is burned and converted into sulphur, a basic chemical, but the high cost of the process under presently developed methods has prevented its being used on a large scale. Research is continuing to find an economical process. Now, however, improved laboratory-tested techniques have convinced some experts in the coal and petroleum industries and in the governg coal-fire- coal-base- inental Oil Company, eighth largest in the country, is in the process of taking over Consolidation Coal Company, one of the two largest in coal reand a leader in search. Coal is now building, g a gallon wholesale, which is actually a cent or so below the wholesale price now in some regions. Supplemental Source This doesnt mean that coal mines are going to put oil wells out of business or anywhere near it. But with gasoline consumption due to Eyes keep chmbirg, the nation may need a new source in the next few decades. Besides coal, the source could be shale rock or tar sands. The Carbon County Community But if coal accounted for just 10 Action Committee has approved a cent of the gasoline burned by 1966-6- 7 NYC per for a project proposal 19S0, it would add 175 million tons program for the county. a year of coal production and create Tentative approval for a proposal up to 40,000 more jobs in coal minto employ seven senior citizens as ing, according to industry estimates. aides in cooperation with the Utah Biggest Reserve Travel Council and the Price ChamOne of the chief arguments for ber of Commerce was received from making gasoline from coal, aside the state office. It is hopeful that from the price factor, is that coal an early approval will be received is by far the nations biggest re by the committee. In cooperation with the southeastern executive committee, approval was granted Carbon County to employ three survey aides and one coordinator for four months. canThey will make a vass of the economic status and other related data in Carbon County. The aides for the county are Mrs. Rosalee Prettyman, Price; Mrs. Hilda Yaklavich, Helper and North Carbon, and Mrs. Due Gonatakis, East Carbon. Mrs. Taro Aoyagi of Helper will serve as coordinator for the Community Action Committee County Projects their Vitality Quota every day . . . JOHNNIE JACKSON, Rodeo Announcer Rodeo Announcer Nationally-Know- n To Work 66 Black Diamond Stampede rodeo announcer Nationally-knowJohnnie Jackson of Woodlake, California, will handle the announcing chores behind the microphone at the Black Diamond Stampede rodeo to 0 be held July at the new grounds southwest of Price. Jackson is no newcomer to rodeo. For the past 17 years he has been an active contestant working all of the roping events. He was one of the top rodeo producers and rodeo contractors in the nation for a four-yea- r period until he sold his string of bucking horses and bulls. He announces an average of 25 rodeos a year, covering the states of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. With a complete knowledge of all rodeo events and a personal knowl n 29-3- edge of most of the background and history of the more than 3,000 professional rodeo cowboys, Jackson will keep spectators on the edge of their seats throughout each performance. When he says Keep your eye on chute No. 5" you can expect lots of action at the Black Diamond Stampede rodeo. AMERICAN DAIRY ASSOCIATION S"1' OF UTAH Vid,,Dv fwn NEW SHIPMENT Trused Trading Since 1890 JUST ARRIVED ! unit-trai- under a federal research contract, a $10 million pilot plant at Cresap, West Virginia, to tap coal for high grade gasoline through a relatively new extraction process. The plant is due to start operations late this year. If advance market. calculations are correct, it will turn out good gasoline for about 11 cents Honor st d get non-urba- n d ments research arm that gasoline can be made at a price that is competitive. Oilmen Enter Field Apparently with this in mind, a number of big oil companies have hedged their bets by getting into the coal business. For example, Cont- Consolidation Even if only half of this is economically recoverable, it would last for more than 1.500 years at the current consumption rate. The electric power industry is still by far coals biggest customer. In its drive to not only hold but expand this market in the face of nuclear power competition, coal has done some fast footwork. Air pollution is less of a problem when power plants are built in areas and the electric energy is shipped by wire into cities, as in the West poject. Meanwhile, the coal industry has found ways to cut costs, both in mining and transportation. By automating mines, the industry has tripled the output per man since Wold War II. This has taken a severe toll in human misery. The number of U. S. miners at work has dropped in two decades by 200,000 to only about 140,000. Hourly wages for miners have gone up 2 Y2 times over the same span. By cutting costs, producers have managed actually to reduce the price of coal by around 50 cents a ton in the last decade and at the same time to increase their profits. Freight Rates Cut railroads meanwhile, have cut freight rates a major factor for an item as bulky as coal on big shipments by using of specially built coal cars. They are loaded at the mine in a few hours with 10,000 tons or more of coal and dumped just as quickly on a big customers doorstep. Nuclear power is also finding ways to cut costs and is capturing an increasing share of the electric power Be sure they Airman at March Alma Marshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clee Marshall, Price, has been selected as the 22nd Bombardment Wing maintenance Man of the Month runner-ufor May 1966. This honor is bestowed once each month on the airman who has contributed the most toward the improvefnenf of aircraft maintenance at March Air Force Base, California. p Sole Bidder on Coal Land Independent Coal and Coke Company of Salt Lake City was sole bidder July 13 for lease of 1,240 acres of Bureau of Land Management-administere- d land for coal mining 10 miles northeast of Helper, reported BLM State Director R. D. Nielson. Independents sealed bid was at a minimum of $3 per acre or a total of $3,720. Two Sentenced on Burglary Charge, Placed on Probation Joseph Frank Vigil and Roger Barela, charged with second degree burglary, have been sentenced to a term of not less than one year nor more than 20 in the state prison by District Judge Fred W. Keller. However, a stay of execution was granted for a period of two years providing the two submit themselves to the regulations of the ytak Adult Probation and Parole Board, restitution to the owmer and that defendants restrain from violating any law's or ordinances. The two, after waiving preliminary hearing in the Price City Court, entered pleas of guilty in the district Heathertones in Full 54 Widths to 60 Excitement in texture weaves and wild new heathertones that mixn match to make conversation wear, suits, jackets, dresses, slacks, all for Campus. 350 court. 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