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Show Mining Leader States Philosophy men cannot afford to live in town because of the high cost of living. Norem is currently current-ly examining those areas zoned for trailer parks in hopes of finding a solution to the housing problem. With regard to unions, Bill Norem feels that they are very important to our lives, but like anything else, unions have their good points as well as their bad. He feels that the Right-to-Work bill is a good and viable piece of legislation in that it offers of-fers a counter balance to a closed shop situation. Mr. Norem has a wife and four children, three of whom are in college in Arizona, but none pursuing a mining engineering career. He plans to move his family to Park City as soon as he can find quarters. i v- f '" ; . t ' plans to be here permanently, permanent-ly, he'll answer, "Permanent "Perman-ent in the mining business means you'll be at a site long enough to bring your lunch." Bill Norem has no particular partic-ular changes in mind as far as normal operations go. He plans to follow the five year plan established at the project's inception with the exception of a restructuring of priorities as well as scheduling. "My philosophy," philos-ophy," states Norem, "is to first decide what you are going go-ing to do, then establish how you will do it and the how includes the when." As far as the crew goes, Norem feels that he has "as good a bunch of people as you will ever find." He is amazed at the mining spirit in Park City and the loyalty to the industry inherant in the people. "I went down in the shaft the other day," rambles Mr. Norem, "there were men down there, older than I, who were breaking a rock and doing a damn good job of it. I think that's something. some-thing. I've never seen that outside of Park City it's something to be proud of." Bill Norem is keenly interested in-terested in finding housing for his steadily increasing work force in Park City. He realizes that many of his Bill Norem Park City Ventures' new General Manager, Bill Norem, Nor-em, is a man who likes to fish and golf but most of all he likes his work. Norem replaced NilesAn-drus NilesAn-drus as the top man in the Park City operation last week when major stockholder, stockhold-er, The Anaconda Co., decided de-cided to realign top management manage-ment at the mine in an effort to speed up their production produc-tion schedule by placing individual in-dividual men in areas where their particular expertise could be better utilized. Bill Norem graduated from the University of Washington Wash-ington in mining engineering. He started his mining career as a contract miner and since that time he has worked in most phases of the mining industry in-dustry all over the world. Before he took the Park City assignment, Mr. Norem was associated with the Anaconda Ana-conda Co. in their General Mining Division. Norem, in an engineering capacity, has been involved with the Park City project since it was given the go ahead two years ago. "I've always had a particular partic-ular interest in Park City," asserts the new manager, "Not only because I think it can potentially become one of the finest mining operations op-erations in the country, but because of the unique situation situa-tion in Park City where you have a viable mining econ-. omy co-existing with a resort re-sort economy and more importantly, im-portantly, a mining lifestyle co-existing with a resort life style. I don't think you have a situation like this anywhere in the country," he continued. Bill Norem looks at miningresort min-ingresort co-existance as a chance to prove to the world that mining can exist in an area where the ecological ecolog-ical preservation of the environment en-vironment is of primary con-" con-" cern to many. "Most people feel that mining is unattractive" unattrac-tive" rambled Norem, "I don't feel that way. I maintain main-tain that mining, if pursued with the correct attitude in keeping with an ecological point of view can be beautiful. beau-tiful. The unique situation found in Park City," continues con-tinues Bill Norem, "gives us a chance to prove just that." Maintaining a good rap-ort rap-ort with the City as well as playing an active role in local affairs is a major consideration consid-eration of Bill Norem. "Mining "Min-ing is an important part of the Park City community," says Norem, "and we are conceited enough to feel as important as anyone else. Therefore," he continues, "we see ourselves at Park City Ventures as citizens like anyone else and expect to behave as such. However, according to Norem, Park City Ventures plans to take no part in local government in the extent of influencing policy making or placing representatives in key governmental positions to do their bidding so to speak. "We are not interested interest-ed in influencing local government gov-ernment or throwing our weight around but rather, we are intently interesting in working with local government govern-ment and all of Park City for that matter towards a better place to live." Although Mr. Nor em's most immediate goal is to get the mill and mine operations op-erations coordinated at a full production level of 1,000 tons per day, he says he is not a trouble shooter and plans to be around for awhile. But when you ask him if he |