Montana Standard (Newspaper) - May 5, 1972, Butte, Montana Montana Standard 96th 279 Good It's May 5, 1972 10 Cents Sunshine toll 32, others may still live Idaho Rescue workers found eight more bodies in the Sunshine Silver Mine bringing the known death toll in Tuesday's flash fire to 32, a company official The 80-man crew cleared smoke and gas from Shaft No. 10 to reach a un- room which houses the machinery for a vital It was there that the ad- victims were said Marvin general manager of western operations for Sunshine Mining Co. The hoist room is at feet and mine officials calculated that the remaining 50 missing miners are much at GOO or The elevator shaft was not useable for the trip down be- cause it still was not cleared of smoke and they Chase earlier had expressed optimism that of the miners were alive and could he But he was cautious in his brief statement by saying only that least eight more had been There was no immediate in- dication how long it would take to activate the hoist for the cue A toll had been until the rescue fighting smoke and gas along the main managed tn erect timber bulkheads all the way to the hoist Quick action saved 108 others shortly after the fire broke Eight Montana cities Butte may host regional jail Wildlife greets the season The male Sage grouse will frequent his strutting ground from March 15 until around May 15 each year and goes through an elaborate display to attract a He inflates two air sacks equipped with skin pouches on his which he puffs up by forcing air into them from his This causes the air to vibrate against the exposed skin pouches to produce a vibrating The Sage grouse is always found in or around sage and must be seen on the strutting ground to the beauty of his breeding Standard photographer Cliff Moore took this photo near Wisdom in the Big Hole By J.D. HOLMES AP Capitol Writer HELENA dated jail to serve as regional tion and correction are suggested for eight Montana cities in a report sued by the Governor's Crime Control Proposed as locations of the regional centers are Great Miles City and Havre was Poison gas Labor plots path kills three of Miles City Three men are another two hospitalized after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning as they worked beneath Sand Creek at near Miles Dead are Tom Dolan Billings and Don and Gordon both of Miles Hospitalized in satisfactory condition are Don Zabel and Clarence Authorities said the men were about 100 feet beneath the in the farming community and were working on a A spokesman for the Custer County Sheriff's office said the deadly gas leaked from a gasoline One of the five noticed the caped and sought Firemen from Miles City rescued another man and recovered the bodies of the dead men after donning gas masks and entering the underground Carpenters seek further talks Butte Carpenters Local 112 at its union meeting Thursday night kept its negotiation avenues open with the Jim business said going back into negotiations with the employers and I hope we can resume talks the first of the He said he and his local had agreed upon a need for further talks with the some 16 of whom belong to the Butte Contractors to if a mutual understanding or adjustment of STRIKE Page 4 Ennis resident dies in crash ENNIS John Houston 57, of died early Thursday in a accident 5 miles west of Harrison on the to Highway Patrolman Kerry Keyser said the Todd pickup truck left the road and plunged into a borrow pit between 4 and 5 a.m. Keyser said the death has not been listed as a way traffic death pending further The officer said Todd may have suffered a heart attack or other seizure at the HELENA With some dissension among their leaders of the Montana CIO meet in Helena this end in a session that probably will determine the ultimate fate of the state's proposed new James executive of the said the labor group probably will take a position on the proposed new The AFL-CIO is likely the single most powerful voting force in the senting more than Some union locals have voiced reservations about the proposed document on pocketbook The Operating Engineers numbering some union are reported viewing the new constitution with alarm because of a controversial change in the state The ment to the existing 1889 con- precludes spending of highway funds for The revenue and nance article of the proposed document would allow spending of highway monies On other purposes if of the members of each house of the legislature give their The worries by the Operating Engineers puts them in line somewhat with such strange political bedfellows as the Highway Users which includes con- Some segments of the engineers reportedly fear the possibility of the legislature di- money to other purposes could interrupt the free flow of federal money and cut out some jobs and Murry said the convention may be counted on to take a strong stand one way or the other on the constitution and to work hard to implement ever is There is some reported labor over a provision that allows the Montana University System more leeway in spending Individual labor union cals from time to had disputes with the various university system units on bargaining Some union leaders have expressed a fear that the university system might be even harder to deal with if it is less accountable to the Montana's proposed con- does not contain the designated as an or ninth creates many the report concludes following visits to more than 30 combined jail is beyond comprehension why a small community would want two separate and distinct facilities serving the same pose when upkeep of one jail is more than many communities can financially says the report prepared by Robert As a the is that any federal funds for upgrading jails be given on a priority basis to those considering con- The in other supports jail consolidation as well as the regional center It views as political any ob- jections to combining or consolidating root problem is deciding who will administer such an the only way to re- solve this the report to put the jail its operation and management under the direction of a administrator and leave the sheriff's office and police free for law ment The plug for regional centers begins with this many counties are small and have few in- the logical conclusion is to establish facilities for The commission says the re- gional center must have ficient space to segregate the various types of The eight sites were selected because they are located to available employment vocational training and Also proposed is the ment by each center of a equipped team to trans- port persons to and from local and The team would be based at the center and be on call to all local Mine officials reported the smoke levels had dwindled so much that the possibly started by welding equipment or a short may have burned itself They said consumption of air pumped down the mine could mean the miners were tapping it from the network of Wives and families of the men clustered around the mine near exhaustion from an almost constant 48-hour President Nixon messaged Kellogg Mayor Roger Fulton his and pledged full federal A mine spokesman said the men would have access to wa- ter by tapping pipes with cial tools they carry but would be without that carbon monoxide in sonic parts of the mine are still at lethal A task force of eight men from the United Steel Workers Union in ar- rived during the day to in- safety The silver miners are bers of that Elburt F. director of the U.S. Bureau of said infractions found Names of dead on Page 4 during inspections in 1970 and 1971 had all been corrected as of this past He saw no connection between the earlier safety violations and the Sixteen bodies have been brought Rescue efforts were directed toward the men who may be Removal of the remaining eight known dead was postponed Emergency air useless in mine Model City agency backs Port of Butte concept By RICK FOOTE Standard Staff Writer The proposed Port of Butle received a boost Thursday night when the Model City Demonstration Agency Board unanimously approved the The project was given a greenlight to continue negotiations with the Port of Seattle to develop a cargo delivery and distribution system in Board member James Shea raised several points about the Local Development Cor- which will govern the port He suggested the articles of in- corporation for the LDC need strengthening to protect the Butte weather Considerable Chance of Outlook 57 and 30. More weather Page 4. public interest and to protect corporation members from possible conflicts of Local Development Cor- President Shag Miller explained the function of the LDC and said the main ob- of the organization is to diversify industrial capacity and reverse a trend since 1919, has drained jobs from the Butte A proposal by the Boy Scouts MODEL Page 4 U. S. sending more planes to Vietnam WASHINGTON The United States is raising its air power strength in Southeast Asia another a possible prelude to an intensified ing campaign aimed at halting the North Vietnamese Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim told newsmen Thursday that some additional land-based U.S. war planes will be sent to the war He provided no but other sources indicate the ments will fly from the United The move was announced soon after peace negotiations in Paris broke down again and amid a battlefield crisis in South Friedheim did not link these events to the new air but described the forcement as part of over- all plan to make sure Gen. Abrams has available to him all the air and PLANE Page 4 mystery believed solved Tex. search team said Thursday it has discovered the probable bi- ological cause of the splitting disorder that remains one of the most difficult to treat mental illnesses The reported to the American Psychiatric may open a door on the eventual ment of an effective treatment and possible cure for which an mated 2 million The often striking the young and almost in- variably requiring has baffled for It severely disturbs thought processes and interaction with others and its victims often acquire delusions and Drs. Jacques S. a and Charles E. a said their group at the Lafayette Clinic and Wayne State University in Detroit has discovered that an enzyme deficiency in the brains of schizophrenic patients appears to upset the It leads to ab- normal production of that are known to have a mentally disturbing The Wayne State group found that an which they named appears to work in the limbic and lower stem portion of the The enzyme deficiency causes a chemical called tryptophan to flood certain areas of the producing excessive amounts of other chemicals called methylated These some of which have been isolated from are known to have a Because of the enzyme excessive production of methylated be- comes possible probably responsible for the symptoms of the disorder Gottlieb and Frohman said in their The Protein enzyme is easily isolated from beef brains the Wayne State scientists now are stockpiling the chemical and launching an intensive research program to meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations requiring proof through animal studies that the enzyme has no harmful side If none are clinical trials with schizophrenia patients will The scientists will seek to learn if increasing the of Protein in the brain will restore the delicate biochemical reducing the disease or perhaps even curing it. The could take five Gottlieb Idaho The safety engineer for the Sunshine silver mine said Thursday that miners were not trained in use of individual air resuscitators throughout the haven't tried to teach our hourly employes how to use but if we did we would have to train them again a month said Bob He described the saving devices as to Some miners who escaped from Tuesday's fatal fire com- that some of the citators didn't work when they tried to use The safety engineer said he had inspected the devices during the previous and all of them in ing sections of the mine were verified charges by several miners that they had received no formal training in what to do if fire erupted in the There had been no fire he On Marvin mine said spontaneous combustion of old shoring timbers might have caused the flash fire which killed at least 24 men and left 58 said Thursday he believed this was The safety engineer said he talked with miners who ed hearing what sounded like an explosion just before smoke began rolling through the He said it could have been the bursting of a door sealing off an unused portion of the A fire of some origin could have built up pressure in a con- fined area and burst the He said the miners who ished apparently were trying to reach the surface by way of the main Jewell which was clogged with instead of using the alternate No. 10 cess to the Their he con- would be that the Jewell route was The men probably believed that the smoke would thin soon and they would get to clean he Since the Summit shaft was used as an exhaust channel in the mine's forced fresh air any supervisor have known they would be going through exhaust air that would include some if they chose that Former Butte man in mine John 27, formerly of is among miners trapped in the Sunshine Silver Mine in Rawson's Kenneth 32, was among miners who escaped the fire disaster at Kellogg about four hours after the fire broke out Mrs. Linda of a sister-in-law to said in Butte sday the family is awaiting word of Rawson's She said she believed Riley is not hospitalized and is at the mine with other family members from Riley is the son of Mrs. Bertha 141 Capital Hill in Rawson's wife is the former Theron Riley of The couple has two miss these Page 5 delegates seek help Page 7 Butte has new police manual Page 12 horse in Derby Sunday Standard on the range
