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Show 14 The Magna TimesSpecial Edition, Thursday, August 6, 1992 nnrj'L1 A FAMILY TRADITION The Summer of 61 I was a third generation member of the Utah Copper Company mining and milling family. My grandfather had helped excavate the foundations of the Arthur and Magna mills. He knew D.C. Jackling personally. My father also got his start on the yard boulder-strew- n gang picking rocks off of the hillsides to use in erecting stone walls along the old highway and the walkways leading to the Arthur and Magna mills. JOINING THE TEAM Being a part of the Utah Copper Company family meant Christmas parties at the Copper Club at Arthur, dances, basketball, and bowling. special tribute to the 3040 year service employees of Kennecott Utah Copper, presented by W. Kent Goble at the 1991 awards banquet. the copper company was our answer DUCK TAILS AND FINS Haircuts were ducktails with fins, to those aspirations. flattops, flattops with fins, and UTAH COPPER COMPANY KIDS cuts. We all had plensquare-backe- d After all, most of us had grown up ty of hair ... none of it grey or as Utah Copper Company kids. We were spoiled by all of the social thinning. The paychecks that we earned benefits that the company provided. working part-tim- e through high Christmas parties at the Copper Club, school were mostly ours to spend, Elk barbecue sandwiches on the 4th with Uncle Sam taking what seemed of July at Magna Copper Park, famia reasonable amount ... but not too ly memberships to the Copper Golf much, allowing us to make payments Course, and fishing expeditions to the on a used car from Paulos Autos duck club at Haynes Lake. Some of Magna dealership. Our cars had us were even hired as pen setters in knickernobs on the steering wheels. the bowling alley in the basement of the Copper Club at Arthur. They were lowered or dagoed and suitour-individu- al to The was. an inpinstriped tastes. of lives. We our were all tegral part of a was it and it ... a part part of us TWO BITS A GALLON a ... first kinship emphasized by The engines of our cars were big Daniel Cowan Jackling, the father of and sucked a lot of gas through Utah mining, and carried on by his carburetors, but nobody cared because gas was only two bits a successors. Whether daypay or salaried, we were company people in gallon. Those are some of the things I a company town. MINING STORIES remember about the good old days when you and I ... and most gathered For as long as I could remember, here tonight were fresh-face- d I had heard stories from my father kids just out of high school looking for our about the mine and mills and the men e who maintained them and kept the first big break ... a job that worlds most remarkable mining and promised benefits, security, and an opportunity to begin living our milling operation running. I had dreams. Dreams of settling down, decided that one day I would work there too. getting married, and starting our own families. In those days, working for WATCHING THE ORE CARS PASS BY As a kid, I watched in fascination as long, unbroken chains of ore cars passed, several times daily, around the mountain above Magna bound for the mills, each car piled high with unprocessed ore. Cars that had moved billions of tons of material from the Oquirrhs, turning a mountain over 9,000 feet high in some places into a manmade hole more than one half mile deep and 2M miles wide at its top. It is estimated that the world Expires August 8, 1992 famous Eiffel Tower, if placed in the bottom of the mine, would reach onh the way to the top of the ly open pit. Because of You by W. Kent Goble Feature Writer The summer of 61 seems like a long time ago. And yet, in retrospect, its as if it were only yesterday. Things seemed different back then. Maybe its because life seemed more certain ... more predictable. And no wonder. It was before the Berlin Wall and Vietnam ... the war that brought us inflation, hippies, and Kent State at home while some of our classmates were shedding their blood in the rice paddies of southeast Asia. Our high school years were good times as well. There were dates to the drive-in- , carhops at the Frosttops, Dairy Queens, and dragging State and Main. ELVIS AND THE EVERLYS A copper-compan- Now it was my turn to join the team. For me, it was like being called up from the minor leagues to play for the New York Yankees alongside Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Dimaggio. Only the names of the players were Hop Ensign, Bud Speirs, Lorenzo Baldie, Tommy Barker, Howard Wadsworth, Lyman Breeze, Joe Ribotto, Darrel Dimond, Rex Paul, Dode Parks, and Nick Sefakis, to name a few. You recall their names and faces and many more. Then there was Lamar Brems, who never walked but always ran and must hold the record for covering the most ground in the shortest time. His energy seemed boundless. UP THE HILL Well, with new lunch bucket in hand I began my first walk up the mill hill at Arthur. From the time clocks, I passed the flotation building and large settling pond in my climb. On my right, at the top of some stairs lined by a stone wall, was the pipe shop a steady, deep throated rumble reverberated like thunder from the bowels of the building. BECOMING A PART OF IT Above the jumble of noise I could hear the shrill, piercing sounds of the overhead crane as it glided back and forth above the floor, lifting machinery and belts from place to place. The entire hill seemed to throb with purposeful activity and I was now a part of it. THE MEN AND WOMEN BEHIND THE MACHINERY For each one here tonight, the experience of being introduced to the operation was no doubt much the same. All of the sights and sounds and faces from the past ... from the 30 years and more ... have become a part of Kennecotts ongoing mining story. A multitude of individual experiences that have made that story one that is a part of us all. We are the flesh and blood and motivation behind all of the machinery. AT THE MINE Some of us work at the mine and are responsible for loading the ore into railroad cars or onto conveyor belts, moving as much as 200,000 tons of material, ore and overburden, daily. THE CONCENTRATOR Others see that the ore is crushed and processed through the concentrating cycle. The ore, ground to the of powder, flows through consistency where the gravel-voiceeasygoing the flotation process where it is Max Chapman presided as pipe shop to 28 copper. concentrated foreman. Just beyond was the door of the roll floor. Through that opening, Continued on page 24 d, y; four-barrel- ed Our music was rock and roll, Elvis, the Everly Brothers, and the ballads of the Kingston Trio. The Beatles were still an obscure vocal group singing in the pubs of East Liverpool. The limbo was new but we still preferred dancing slow and close with our one and only. We wore engineer boots, Levis, with a V neck, and Levi jackets. For the fashion conscious, tucking a pack of cigarettes in your sleeve ... whether you smoked or not, was a sure sign of manhood. full-tim- BACK TO SCHOOL SALE Mention this ad and receive O off anything - in the store FEATURING Steel SftMttowcvi - S(uvit4-- & $eM& FASHION DEPOT 3538 So. 8300 West Magna t 250-375- 7 Text used at Webster School in 1919. one-fift- mit SiBtnrt Publfr d) HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF SERVICE In 1971, 1 climbed the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. At the top, I stood on a small enclosed platform 984 feet above the ground with all of Paris beneath me. It was an exhilarating, unforgettable experience. Yet it pales in comparison to the vastness of the copper Bingham Canyon open-p- it mine, the worlds largest manmade excavation, and you and I are a part of that amazing accomplishment. Together, we represent hundreds of years of service, and we have performed thousands upon thousands of hours of labor from the most menial tasks to some of the most significant decisions of the past three and four decades. You and I were there and made it happen. REMEMBERING ... I remember well my first day on the job. It was June, 1961, and I was just out of high school. I had been hired to work on the yard gang at the Arthur mill. RULES FOR 9 ' . 825G CARE OF BOOKS Books must be accounted for to the by the teacher, and to the clerk I eipal at the dose of the year or before. 1 Any pupil who shall lose, deface, injure troy any book, shall be required to pay il all damages; in default of payment., mpil will be liable to suspension. books should be covered irnmedia mg placed in the hands of the n teacher will be held respond oer account and care of books. Thi book is (be of tin; of Sslt Lake Countyproperly unless this officially cancelled..VOTE District (,' 1 |