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Show 10A Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, December 22, 1982 Eric Kosmus Durrani School For Stocking I I 1 I I I t f Sun Advocate Stutters... with values mm t throughout the years . . see the diamond . jewelry at 1 LEWIS JEWELRY 2 I 2 I. 2 2 I Distinctive Gifts I 2 Continuing recession dims hopes for coal mine production in 1983 - The U.S. WASHINGTON coal industry, with its major markets depressed, sees only minimal growth in coal production in 1983. The National Coal Association forecasts coal production will rmmrrara?m3mra?ra?mim??mr?m?ramm?m May The Spirit of Christmas Fill Your Holiday Season Tony Kokal Sally Mauro Elementary rise 17 million tons, or 2.1 percent, to 837 million tons next year. However, despite this modest National Coal Association 1983 Forecast (million of tons) 1983 be will actually only production improvement, Percent percent higher than the record 824 million tons turned 1.6 out in 1980. With the continuing recession in 1982, coal consumption lagged and stockpiles at mines and consuming industries grew. As a result, coal production began to drop in the last half of 1982 and is expected to continue to be dampened in 1983 as these stockpiles are reduced. The coal industry was slow feeling the effects of the recession and it will be slow coming out of it, said NCA President Carl E. Bagge. The nations leaders must continue working to build long- term, sustained economic recovery and allow the country to make the fullest use of its most abundant energy resource, he said. Expanded use of our vast coal resources can put miners back to work and help America regain her is now economic strength. The coal industry experiencing 23 Economics Committee percent twice the unemployment national average. Looking at 1983, NCAs forecasts domestic coal consumption and exports will reach 837 million tons, 3.5 percent higher than 1982s level of 809 million tons. This projected growth is based on an expected gradual but sustained overall economic recovery beginning in the second quarter of the year, the result of declining interest rates. But, industry forecasters see problem spots in the economy, particularly in the iron and steel industry where UTAH RAILWAY May Your Christmas Be Abundant With All Things! Haley Stevenson Petersen School Bobby Wells Reeves School lss than 500,000 tons does not include Marketed production producer or distributor stockpiles. production held in General industry and retail consumers are projected to increase their use of coal by 4.2 percent from 72 million tons to 75 million tons in 1983. Interestingly, sales of electricity generated by industrial plants to electric utilities bouyed this market during 1982, despite a sharp drop in overall industrial activity. minimal recovery is expected next year. Metallurgical coal use by this sector dropped drastically this year from 61 million tons in 1981 to an estimated 41 million tons in 1982. The steel industry, which operated as low as 31 percent of capacity this fall and has averaged only 48 percent this year, is expected to end 1982 with production of less than 75 million tons of raw steel. Even with an expanded economy, prospects for 1983 do not look much 1982 Exports of coal, which remained very strong during most of the year, but dropped off sharply at yearend, are expected to reach 106 million tons, short of the 110 million tons brighter. Capacity utilization should climb to 58 percent, low by historical standards, and coal use should recover somewhat to 50 million tons. Electric utilities, by far the largest consumers of coal, are expected to increase coal use by 4.2 percent in 1983, based on a projected three percent gain in electricity sales. Despite a two percent drop in electricity generation in 1982 brought on by poor economic conditions and mild weather late in the year, coal use by utilities dropped only slightly from 596 million tons in 1981 to an estimated 590 million tons in 1982. shipped last year. High stockpiles in consuming nations, stable oil prices, increased competition from other coal exporting nations and sluggish world economies are expected to hold 1983 exports to 97 million tons. Coal production is expected to rise only modestly in both the eastern and western halves of the nation. Production east of the Mississippi River is projected to grow from 550 million tons to 557 million tons. Production in the west should grow by 10 million tons to 280 million tons in 1983. It's safer on the job - Its at their safer jobs, says the study of Allied period 0 found that Allied were almost seven personnel times safer at work than off the job. 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