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Show Page 10 THE HERALD. Provo. Utah, Friday Utah-Regional The latest de velopments in Utah and around the Intermountain West =. Ruled Out, NewspaperSays LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The Reagan Administration has indicated it will scrap the controversial mobile basing system that would scatter MX missiles throughout the Utah - Nevada desert, the Los Angeles Times reports The newspaper said in its Friday edi tions that presidential counselor Edwin Meesetold their Washington D.C. bureau the president thinks the basing system 1s a badidea. dictated only because of the Carter Administration's slavish adherence to SALT II. and that was the only reason for 4,600 holes in the ground a Priorities a nonprofit public interest group, said the plan to deploy 200 nuclear The plan in which 200 missiles were to be hidden among the 4.600 horizontal shelters as a method of protecting them missiles randomly among the shelters in Utah and Nevada “‘could wind up costing from Soviet detection, has been fiercely each taxpayer $2,500." fought by environmentalists. the Mormon The system, it said would escalate the arms race, increase the risk of war and rather than improve the state of our economy make it more sickly.’ Church, political leaders in Utah and Nevada and some defense experts A research group said Thursday the proposed mobile missile system could cost up to $232 billion far greater than Air Alternatives to basing the MX in Utah and Nevada, opposed by local residents, include placing the missiles on aircraft,on ships in a fleet of small submarines or Forceestimatesof $35billion — and ‘add nothing” to US. ability to deter a Soviet nuclear attack even suspended from blimps. The report by The Council on Economic Ee Three Companies Bid $14.2 Million To Buy Coal Leases E Only debris, craters remain after explosion. Cause of Grantsville Plant Blasts May Never Be Known BUY A “USED” TUX “25 SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Three Utah companies bid a total of $14.2 million Thursday to buy five federal coal leases in Carbon and Emery counties from the Bureau of Land Management BLM spokesman Don Baxasaid half of the income from the sale will go to Utah as thestate's share of revenue proceeds. Hesaid15 firms.including companies from Utah, REG. $200 NEW 8 COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM— (Coat-Pant Only) California Colorado Illinois Ohio. Pennsylvania By STEVEN CHRISTENSEN GRANTSVILLE, Utah (UPI) — Federal agents say they may never know what triggered three violent explosions which disintegrated a mining detonator manufacturing plant and its five workers. But residents of the small farming communityof Grantsville will never forget the daya hugefireball reduced the factory to a moon-like crater on the western Utah desert Thursday. “We estimate the first blast had the force of 15 000-20,000 pounds of explosive — the equivalent forceof 14 tons of TNT,"’ said Nick Dereta, agentin charge the U.S. Bureauof Alcohol, Tobacco and tim in Utah. “They never knew what hit em. Dereta said the cause of the blasts may never be determined. He said the explosions were probably accidental and may haveoriginatedin the plant's chemical mixing area. But another ATF agent. Warren Wheeler, said they might have been touched off by a lightning storm which buffeted the region 50 miles west of Salt Lake City during che predawn hours. All the victims who vanished in the explosions lived in the 3.000-member town. Among them was one of Utah's outstanding high school athletes — Phillip Diderickson, 18 who graduated from high school in June after winningstate titles in football. baseball basketbal!, tennis and track “I can't remember anything that comes even close to this ’ said Larry Harrison, a residentfor 16 years and coach at Grantsville High School “This is a tragedy no matter what.” Harrison said. “But when it hits a communitythe size of Grantsville, there isn't anyone who isn't touched by it. This will be a source of conversation here for a very long time.’” While citizens reeled with newsof the explosions at the Mining Services International factory. ATF agents walked amid the steel and concrete rubble — some of which wasscattered for a mile-and-ahalf. The agent said the plant manufactured a highintensity explosive used as a ‘‘booster charge’ to ignite less-volatile blasting material used in mining. He said the booster is 1.4 times as powerful as TNT. MSIVice President Robert Mouritsen said the factory ‘‘was a modern facility, equipped with every conceivable safety device.’’ Company President Steven Brockbank said firm officials were “shocked"’ by the accident. Other employees besides Diderickson who were presumed deadin the explosions wereidentified as Jeff Boyer 19 Gary Gilbert 19, Richard Higley. 48 and Jeanne Mabey, 51 The 4,000-square-foot main building literally vanished in the blasts which began about4:19 a.m Whenauthorities dared to approachthefiery scene. all they found was a smouldering crater 45-feet Crimes Declined was in West Vally City where the rate was up 18.5 percent. 24” Vanities with Onyx top Trimline style 534% feat by any standards. His techniques still Ouk Cabinets $3895 List Tappan Dishwasher 5299°° 7 cycle Model #61-1341 Con get any American car Provo © Consistently lower prices 207 W. 300 W. 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Grantsville, said “It hasn't really hit meyet, andI thinkit will take a long timebefore it does.”’ The young mother had taken the job only two days before the tragedy‘‘to eam some extra money for this year's Christmas and the holidays.” She was assigned to pack explosives into small cylinders,then load the cartridges into boxes. “I was only going to do the job for a few weeks. just until I earned enough money. But there isn't enough money to make metake another job like that again,” she said. Ms. Sandberg said two other women also decided to call in sick for the shift instituted by the company this week to boost productivit “As soon as I heard about the ecsions and the deaths, I took a mimuteto pray in thankfulness — and for those who lost their sons mothers and Felony ‘‘He wasthefinest athlete I have ever coached.” said Coach Larry Harrison. husbands" said the member of the Mormon Church Slant! The track contains 31 million tons of coal. One of those who showed up for the graveyard shift was Didericksen, an 18-year-old state champion in five sports who graduated last June from Grantsville High School. deep and field covered with debris. OPEN: Mon.-Fri, 8:30-5:30 Sot. 10-5:30 nine miles west of Huntington in Emery County. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Statistics show that the rate of felony crimes dropped about 25 percent in the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County during the first six months of this year. compared to the sameperiod of 1980. But at the sametime. the incidence of serious crimes was up in the county's incorporated cities. The biggest jump Illness Saved Lorrie Sandberg By STEVEN CHRISTENSEN GRANTSVI! LE, Utah (UPI) — Lorrie Sandberg called in sick {. the graveyard shift at the MSI explosives plant — and it saved her life. Phillip Didericksen, one of Utah's finest high school athletes wasn’t as lucky. 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