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Show I 2A Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, May 29, 1985 Recovery teams slowed by caving ByCHUCKZEHNDER Managing editor ' First, he said, MSHA and toe union have concerns for safety and expedience in removal of toe bodies. There seems to be a question as to whether toe removal of toe bodies can be accomplished with photographers at toe scene. Second, toe wish of the families is to have all media excluded from the mine site during the removal of toe bodies. Henrie said family ' Recovery teams inside the Wilberg mine have run into severe caving problems for toe first time since toe recovery operations began. Bob Henrie, Emery Mining Corp. spokesman, said Tuesday afternoon that teams had run into heavy caving in Entry 2 at Crosscut 32, less than 200 feet from the point of origin of toe fire which took toe lives of 27 people inside the mine on Dec. at the scene photographers would be an invasion of their privacy. The families recently held memorial services at the mine and asked toe company to not allow any media at that event either. Henrie said the families informed toe company of their desire to hold toe service at the mine but said if any media were invited, they would not have a service. 19. They were advancing again today when they ran into quite a Henrie said. bit of caving, are guessing the caving They extends for about 200 feet. From . Health Fatal rollover Photo by Ed McKoovor Helper Rescue team members carry Connie Gaboille, 38, to an ambulance after a rollover accident that inflicted fatal injuries to another passenger. According to Utah Highway Patrol, Mathea Gaboille, 66, was a passenger in the 1971 Volkswagen van which rolled three to four times near Pine Tree Park at the top of Price Canyon Thursday evening. She later died at Castleview Hospital. The report said the van, driven by Franklin B. Gaboille, 71, of Sunset that was turning into the attempted to pass a semi-truc- k van The truck the driven by Roy M. clipped park. Beckstead, 32, of Vernal, and began to roll, throwing two passengers from the vehicle. The fourth passenger, Mathea Ann Gaboille, 6, was transported, along with the others, to Castleview Hospital. Two Carbon County ambulances responded along with Helper Rescue. For advanced classes CEU mining ByARVA SMITH Staff writer The mining department at College of Eastern Utah is seeking to be designated as a western or regional mining center even though coal mining employment is down from its peak of three or four years ago, Richard G. Robinson, chairman of the mining department, said. The department has received national recognition for some of the programs it has already developed and would like to be able to offer advanced mining classes such as some offered in the National Mine Training Center in Beckley, W. Va. People who want to take the advanced mining classes are required to travel to West Virginia. They could save time and money if the classes were offered here, he said. Robinson has made ap- Inc. All rights reserved. All Inc. No part hereof property of may be reproduced without prior written conc'19ft5 sent. San Advocate USPS 5243-800- 0 Published Every Wednesday and Inc., Friday by the 76 W. Main Sf., Price, Utah 84501. s, Phone (801) 637-073- 2 FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS Ext. 7 Phone Dan Stockburger, General Manager Chuck Zehnder, Managing Editor Second Class Postage Paid at Price, Utah Post Office Send changes of address to: West Main St., Price, Utah 84501 Postmaster 76 MEMBER OF THE Member of Utah Press Association and National Newspaper Association Subscription Rate: In Carbon and Emery Counties, $21 per year, published twice weekly. In Utah, outside area, $23 per year. Out of state, $25. seeks regional status plication to the Mine Safety and Health Administration in the form of a detailed letter proposing programs and outlining toe expected results of toe new, advanced classes. A reply has been received from MSHA indicating that the agency will study toe proposal. The college already gets $87,000 a year from MSHA for classes taught both at toe college and at mine sites. The designation as the western or regional center 'would bur" CEU' in a good position for additional funds from MSHA and also would enhance the possibility of building a new mine training center on 500 acres of land toe college owns located north of Price. Even though toe demand for mine training is down, Robinson said the department has outgrown its classroom and shop space on the CEU campus. Plans for the proposed new mine training center were drawn some time ago and would allow for a more practical, hands-o- n approach to mine training. Actual construction of all or part of toe new mine training center would depend on funding from toe Legislature. Robinson said he thinks there are signs that toe mining industry, which has always experienced cycles, has reached the bottom of its present cycle and is on the way back up. The upward trend should be accelerated next December when several area mines will begin shipping coal to the Intermountain Power Project. The decline in coal mining during toe past two or three years has been felt sharply by the college mining department where only about five people a TTAQGDV are taking a preemployment mine training class compared to as many as 60 a week three or four years ago. Many of those taking mining classes are not seeking preemployment training but are interested in refresher courses or are trying to upgrade their status by obtaining fireboss or foremans papers. In addition to these classes toe college offers one- - and courses in mining technology with- either a supervisory or a mechanicalniainteUanCe emphasis. Many of those who are taking the class, week two-ye- ar includes 32 hours of classroom insruction and eight hours in toe mine, are people who have been called back to work after being laid off for some time or are salesmen or geologists whose jobs require them to go underground. which CEU received national recognition for a method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation designed for use in mines, for a computerized program for a analyzing mine gases and for paper on supervision. Robinson and Richard Woodland developed the CPR technique which was demon- strated at a national mining meeting. A version of it was used on some of toe rescuers who were overcome by heat and smoke in the Wilberg mine fire last December. Jay Fairbanks, an instructor in the mining department, developed toe computerized gas analysis program. Many of the mining tasks and monitoring chores in coal mines wifi probably be done by computers in toe future. CEU plans to develop more compuerized programs. In addition, a paper by Robinson on Level 5 Supervision, a technique intended to enable both supervisor and worker to perform at their best levels, was accepted for presentation at a national mining conference in Kentucky. The mining department, for toe past few years, has operated a mobile mine rescue van which responds to mine fires and other ,, emergencies In" which rescue efforts may be required. The rescue van, which carries enough breathing apparatus for two full rescue crews, responded to a 1 a.m. call to toe Wilberg mine fire, Robinson said. All toe rescue equipment on board was used. Two inshifts structors spent filling and refilling oxygen taken testimonies and inAdministration toe was into it fire, vestigation noted toe fire began in Entry 5 near Crosscut 34. Henrie said that as of about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday the teams had found a lot of roof coal down in Entry 1 and some intermittent caving. Right now they are looking into Entries 3,4 and 5, Henrie during toe Mine Safety J2QEQ52LL TIMOTHY HUTTON said. When asked about estimates of being able to get toe entries cleaned out and when toe bodies might be reached, Henrie said, Its just impossible right now to say. A decision has already been made, Henrie said, that when the bodies are recovered and removed from toe mine, no media will be allowed at toe mine site. He said this decision was primarily based on two criteria. RETURN OF THE I JED KINGlCOALllI Starts Frida; 7:10 8 9:00 Tom Berenger Hustons' ftllAPJODY IKINGICOALUI i JusStrikes pfc Back! KING1COAL13 7:05 8 9:00 . Vp 5 Fri. 8 Sal 7 8 9 p.m. Sun. thru Thun, 7 p.m. 87927jroFJJTtffPj2COUON-C- UEQNJCO O Harrison; Control Association. BUSINESS INDUSTRY Serving Carbon and Emery Counties CALL TARGET PEST CONTROL r association 3812609 Castle Dale . Ford ' H - A big city cop. A small country V boy SI U FONjCO U EO NCO U RONjCO U BO N n mm ANNIVERSARY 12-ho- ur bottles. In analyzing toe vans performance, which is intended as a backup to rescue capabilities which toe mines already have, Robinson said that toe response time could be speeded up a little in toe winter if the truck that pulls toe unit could be kept inside during cold weather. This would be possible if toe new mine training center were built. He noted that December and January are toe months when mine fires are most likely to occur. Another need is for each of toe mines to designate a parking space with an available power source for toe van. 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