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Show Roy Believed iDMiy I HedBeen Visited By Some Kind of Spirit By Anne Wilson Tribune Staff Writer BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON On April 7, 1929, Roy Newman stood outside his mine shaft, counting the round of charges he had just ignited. The count came up short, and rather than leave the charge in a precarious state, he returned to the smoky hole to set it for refiring Darkness was enveloping the canyon and Roy was exhausted after mining all noxious day, breathing fumes and smoke. As he attempted to remove the old primer, the cap broke from the fuse Digging with a miners spoon to enlarge the hole, he struck the cap and ignited the lodged dynamite. It exploded in his face Blind and Deaf He couldn't see and his eardrums were bioken. A younger brother, Dave, waiting outside the shaft, helped him up Kesler Mountain to his three-roocabin ami went for help. It was more than a day before rescuers reached him. A year later, missing one eye and able to see only a pinprick of light through the other, he was back, working by hand a claim he continually hoped would someday yield pay dirt the old blind Visiting miner lip Big Cottonwood Canyon became something of an excursion for locals and tourists, who would hike up the mountain and take pictures, astounded by this man who chiseled by hand, inch by inch. Pursued His Vision When he finally died of cancer at the age of SO. Rov Newman had been sightless m See ROCKY MOUNTAIN Free Checking Check Guarantee 11-- 9 STATE BANK Tellers Open Weekdays Open Saturdays Drive-u- p Banking ur Page 8-- 6 10-1- 2 486 - 4771 Center Lists ClDTHCA ro Benefit Book Sale HOLLADAY - I iMtIPt JO A book sale to raise needed funds will be conducted by the Children's Center at Cottonwood Mall. 4835 Highland Dr., Thursday through Saturday during regular mall hours. Several tons of books, most donated and collected for the Childrens Center by Boy Scout troops throughout the county, will be sold during the annual event. A sneak preview presentation was held Wednesday evening at the mall to open the sale. Many books will be sold by the pound, according to a Childrens Center spokesman. The centers, located at 1S55 Medical Cl. and 5242 S. 4820 West, are established to provide special care for emotionally disturbed rSX PS... 2163 EAST 3300 SOUTH, SALT LAKE CITY beautiful penmanship, had according to Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff Verl Buxton. Despite his blindness, Roy Newman, an old miner who lived in Big Cottonwood Canyon, i Vr ' i . 7' CcOrtOk r oi BVMtrt Mtmbtr ClCrtl , s c cntat I FDIC MM v- -w r,2; tv v V Ttrw JTMS Cl TROW r--. WM o J V WMf O It berky mt Cl -- SPRING DRESS SALE! 'Kfc1 srv Ck.OO' ,r CHU.DVtrS CtCrtHtB AT m, 272-217- 20 to 50 -- j 'A OFF Engh Village Square PHONE HJ A GREAT SAVINGS Solids and fancies all from famous makers. 1 The Little Ads that pay off At BIG! 1 I $ 4 |
