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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1972
Page
9
Governor Cecil D. Andrus said two agencies would inspect the Sunshine Mine after rescue operations end. With 58 missing, officials keep hope alive some may reach lower levels for air while the fire, blamed for 24 deaths, may have started in an unseen area.
Carl Burke counsel for Sun Shine Mining faced a verbal indictment from Byron Schulz a miner among 108 who escaped a deadly mine fire. Schulz criticized organization and communication while Burke defended safety efforts and equipment noting best rescue gear and existing safeguards.
At the Sunshine mine in Kellogg Idaho an elevator operator died after remaining at his post on the No 10 lift at the 3100 foot level to guide coworkers to the surface. Rescue teams could not reach his body due to heavy smoke and carbon monoxide fumes.
President Nixon sent his deepest sympathy to the families of workers killed in the Sunshine Mine disaster near Kellogg Idaho. He directed Interior and the Office of Emergency Preparedness to keep him informed on recovery and to ensure full federal assistance to Kellogg. The president said the tragedy touched all Americans and prayed for the community’s strength.
Survivors of the Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia praise Pittston Co. chief Nicholas Camicia after a stockholders meeting as he promises the seven person delegation will be paid for death and property losses. The disaster on February 26 killed 118 and left about 4,000 homeless.
Fay McCall, former miner and insurance agent from Lewiston Idaho, doubts official statements that trapped miners may survive. He notes the fire’s depth near 4 000 feet and oxygen depletion, citing survivors and a friend who spent hours trapped before hospital treatment.
In Kellogg Idaho during the Sunshine Mine disaster families wait near the shaft head as fire killed 24 and trapped 58. Women in coats and curlers sit under Red Cross blankets listening for word while newsmen are kept at bay. Ambulances stand nearby as the vigil continues for missing relatives.
Hollywood actor Bruce Cabot died of lung cancer at age 69. Born Jacques de Bujac in 1903 in Carlsbad New Mexico, he co starred in King Kong and later became a prominent character actor. He worked with John Wayne and had a feud of colorful exploits before his later screen appearances. He received radiation treatment at Loma Linda University Medical Center and died after hospital admission in Woodland Hills California.
The FHA estimates the average motorist will spend 13 552.95 over 100 years to own and operate a standard sedan. The 100000 mile total includes 2787 for gasoline 2147 for insurance 1350 for parking and tolls 1800 for taxes and 4379 as purchase price with no trade-in value. Compact and subcompact cars would cost less per mile and over the century.
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