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Show 32 Energy Edition, January, 1994 Coal camps: eye medicine only. The opthamologist operated his eye practice on Main Street in Price until his retirement in 1991. Those three years in the coal camps were a great experience for me, Dorman (Continued from Page 31) when he first took the job in Gordon Creek and also has a daughter, Marcia, bom in February 1937. Dorman returned to college in Pennsylvania again in 1951 and specialized in fSkylino STOVES one-on-o- ne life. J. Eldon Dorman was part of the unique history afforded only to Carbon County and its King Coal. He remembers the miners, how hard they worked and the small wages they earned. Miners shoveled coal by hand with a scoop shovel in the 1930s, and showed up for mine physicals, often lying to him about their health, just so they could go to work and feed their families average pay was 55 cents per mined and Enjoy Economy, Efficiency, Elegance Skyline is especially designed to burn either wood or coal, the most available fuels. The contemporary design is economical, burns very clean, and at an unusual efficiency, a cleaner, safer flue, less ash, a better environment. All explained. I had a relationship with my patients and I was respected. They were three of the happiest years of my Skyline Stoves are designed to supply a lifetime of safe, efficient heating. Each features airtight construction of thick steel with solid welds for superior heat unit retention, interior baffle plates to aid complete combustion, and control flexibility that allows you to adjust the air intake for rate of burn. Skyline Stoves can hold a fire overnight allowing you to wake up in a warm home with no need to relight. Properly used, a Skyline Stove could save you up to 80 of your present home heating cost. Some Skyline owners never turn their conventional furnace on. The cost of the stove and the installation may be recovered the first season. HALF THE FUEL TWICE THE HEAT IfOopks krcifts, inc. 1510 So. Hwy 10, Price 637-966- 3 loaded ton. Tennessee Ernie Fords song Sixteen Tons told the story of an early miners life: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter, dont call me cause I cant go I owe my soul to the company store! In a Deseret News article by staff writer Susan y on March 1, 1990, Dorman recalled one of his most vivid memories at the portal of the mine just after quitting time. The man trip had come up and everyone had gone home except for this one fellow, who was just sitting there on a powder box. I asked him why he was still there. He said, Im so tired I cant walk home. Ill always remember that guy who had shoveled coal so hard to make another dime to feed Lyman-Whitne- Young Dr. J. Eldon Dorman arrives at the coal camps. his kids. He couldnt even walk. That man remains a symbol today, not just to the camp doctor who was part of the history, but to every person whose roots belong to Carbon County. Editors note: This article contains information taken from Reminiscences of a Coal Camp Doctor by J. Eldon Dorman, published by the Utah State Historical Society, 1981; and Carbon County: Eastern Utah's Industrialized Island by Philip F. Ed. Reprinted by permission, with adaptations. Notar-iann- HMnmifM? FREE Continental Breakfast Rooms Commercial Rates Cable TV - In Room Movies Major Credit Cards Accepted Laundry Facilities Non-Smoki- ng PRICE EXIT 243 655 E. MAIN 637-352- 0 Reservations 1- 800 - 666 - 3520 Fax Service 637-405- 8 i, |