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Record-Journal Meriden Ct Sunday January A-3 UMW charg es negligence in deadly Utah mine fire is stm burning but the team pieced together its report from mine mape official safety reports and interviews with CASTLE DALE Utah (UPI) The United Mine Workers charged Saturday that fnduafry negligence contxib-nted to the Wuberilline fire that killed 27 people but a company apokes-man dbmbaed the allegation aa aelf-promotion UMW International President Richard Trumka laid Emery Mining Corp need a fnulty deaign in ite mines and Ignored report! Oat electronic waning and telephone lyitemi were inoperable He aiao accused the company of doing nothing about blocked escape routes and lying about a safety chamber Trumka's chargee came before a mass memorial service for the men and one woman killed Dec If in the nation's worst mining disaster in a dozen years He said the UMW investigative team was not allowed in the mine near Orangeville because the stubborn fire hats on themselves and the blame oh someone Trumka also said Emery knew the telephone and emergency alarm' systems were not functioning Tt had been listed three times in the books and they were well aware that the system was he said But Henrie said federal mine safety officials inspected the Wilberg two weeks before the disaster all the safety violations they had noted had been The blocking of tunnels leading to other sections of the mine -was due to cave-ins that are common in mlned-out tunnels Henrie said was never raised as an issue by the union state or federal safety in-1" Henrie said they (the were to concerned about (the cave-ins) why they say anything about Confused 9 winner wants out of contract with child PITTSBURGH (UPI) The winner fly Division that he signed the six-year The former technician at the Mobay of a 5l million lottery says he only agreement to pay Timmy 12 £0000 Chemical Corp said he agreed to make agreed to pay $360000 in child support annually and to put another $40000 the payments in October after a news-to his teenage daughter because he yearly a trust fend for her underdo- paper article me look like I was was "very very ress a derelict Ronald Mack 30 of Peters testified 1 Mack is trying to cancel the was totally devastated and dis-Friday in Common Pleas Court's Fam- agreement fraught Mack said Fairtrade Employees of a New Orleans equipment coitf-1 items in an effort to pay off some of its $100-pany load some of the 44 flagpoles bought by million debt The exposition which drew their business from the 1984 World's Fair The sistently disappointing crowds closed in No- fair auctioned off the poles and many more ember (UPI photo) Bernhard Goetz: portrait of a reluctant New York hero Elizabeth They lived in -Orlando for about four years until they were divorced They had no children' Wben the marriage ended in 1075 -Goetz moved to New York rented an apartment at 211 Thompson Street in Greenwich Village ana incorporated hb business the Electrical Calibration Laboratory Inc Goetz the company' sole employee ran the business out of hb apartment though he traveled widely in hb work which Involved testing repairing and maintaining electrical equipment for manufacturing companies Hie business technical and the equipment highly sophisticated For tunpli a manufacturer who wanted to sell power cable would need to conduct various tests to ensure that the cable was working properly before it was delivered and Buried or otherwise installed what Goetz did was to ensure that the cable testing equipment was working properly He did not test the cable Itself Traveling to manufacturing plants across the nation on appointments scheduled weeks or months in advance he calibrated repaired and tested a wide range of testing equip-' menL To do this Goetz had to buy and Trumka said the mine should have had a separate Mr intake tunnel which could have eerved as an pscape route "That is something the United Mine Workers has been be said it had been there the miners could have Emery Mining spokesman -Robert Henrie said- "In all our negotiations with the union that issue has never-been discussed with ns or to my knowledge any other mining company in Utah Our system is the one commonly used in the state union is a Henrie said They have to sell memberships to survive see them taking a tragedy like this and using it as a marketing 1 tool to get media exposure to put white Sedita said he believed that by three thugs in 1161 was a point in his life was around and beaten pretty he said and afterward he became fa scared individual vulnerable and fragile "As hr as Bernie was he added "it was equivalent to a woman being Bernhard Hun Goetz was born at Kew Gardens Hospital in New York City on Nov 7 1647 the youngest of four children of Bernhard Willard and Gertrude Goetz His mother was Jew ish and Ms father a Lutheran had immigrated to New York ta IS2S Iran Osnabruck in northwestern Germany Young Bernhard a studious ehm nicknamed Bn (pronounced Boo) had a brother George now a Detroit resident and two sisters Bernice Goetz now of Winter Park Fla and Barbarn Weinstein of Woodside Calif Though his father had been trained as a scientist and engineer in Germany he turned to business here He attended New York University and went to work for a bookbinding company In a few years he owned the company Mutual Specialty Products which made picture frames and albums for weddings and bar mitzvnhs In the early 1140s Goetz bought a 300-acre dairy farm near Clinton NY in' Dutcheea County and for jome years he ran the bookbinding company during the week and the farm on weekends In 1040 when Bernhard was 2 the family moved to the farm Soon however they moved to hear-' In 1060 tar RMnebeck the Silver Luke Dairy aa eight-county distributorship that the family still owns A few years later he moved the bookbinding company to RMnebeck In RMnebeck the family built three redbrick homes on Wynkoop Lane living in one and renting the others In the 1050s as his father became a major property owner in RMnebeck young Bernhard became a good student at RMnebeck Central School One who preferred science to sports and never gotinto trouble "He would rather do research on sun spots than play with the reet of the Ms sister Bernice recalled She said Bernhard was also very dose to Roth Ms parents Father's troubles InlMO a serious trauma Confronted IS REDUCED MARK VIII FLUSHMOUNT WHITE 52-W42-W 52" FAIRBOURNE ANTIQUE OH I 3 8PEED $0 BOO REVERSIBLE UO times had to carry pieces of equipment-worth $15400 to $20400 started with nothing five years -ago and today I have somewhere between $150400 and $200000 worth of Goetz told the hearing of- freer "He was a genius" said Josh Kates owner of Trans-Am Electronics at Canal St who said Goetz had Men fix- ing and buying hb equipment for years "He did stuff few guys could do" Describing himself to acquaintances who knew nothing of hb business as a consultant to uUlitbs Goetz some-' times let it be known that he was one at only five or six such experts In the country He seemed to take a qufet pride in hb accomplishments In April 1977 with business thriving he moved into a one-bedroom apart-' ment at 55 West 14th St Hb rent today about $650 a month The mugging If there was a turning point In life In recent years it was the mugging He was not badly hurt he suffered only a torn cartilage in his chest but the episode and in particubr the way he and a suspect were treated In tter courts and by the police afterward appears to have left Mm with deep emo-: tional scars It happened about 2:30 pm on Jan -M INI In a subway station on Canal Street Goetz had just bought equip-: ment valued at $800 to $1400 at a near- by store and he was taking it home he recalled at the hearing in 1162 on hb application for a pistol permit 'Three fellows jumped he said! "and I ran They took they took the! items I was carrying I ran out of the! subway station up the steps They: came after me Fortunately for my-: self a police officer was on the street He apprehended one of the perpetra- tors The other two took the things I was carrying put them down and ran away They were very came to be known as Park Manor The homes in a semirural area east of Orlando were told for prices ranging from $75000 Jo $60000 The family which made millions of dollars continues to operate the development company Bernice Goetz is the manager The Goetz home a four-bedroom -one-story structure of stone and brick at 6067 Gronau Court an address found on some of the receipts between the time of the shootings and hfe-surrender Is at the end of a cul-de-sac in Manor Park There if a pool in the backyard and the neatly kept property overlooks a lake It wag to this home that Bernhard Moved wMoWteftSwttiarUnd In 1664 and It was here that he stopped on Me frequent visits to Florida later in life His father the family said spent much of hb fortune over the last two and a half yean battling an illness that the femily declined to identify Goetz died last September at the age of 76 leaving an estate of unknown size to be divided equally among hb four children Hb wifenad died in 1977 In 1665 Bernhard enrolled at New York University He majored in nuclear engineering and graduated with a bachelor of science degree In 1970 "I remember Mm as a good student one of the better ones by far a really nice said Raphael Aronson a former professor of nuclear neering at the uni vers now-fund Bronx campus "He was friendly personable the kind of student we like to have He was intellectually fnqubi-tive He loner He had After graduation Goetz returned to Orlando and worked in the early 1970s with hb father in the development company According to hb sister Bernice he also managed to avoid the military draft during tne Vietnam War by feigning mental illness and seeking psychiatric aid Childless marriage In 1671 he married a woman named the family On Feb 23 the elder Goetz was indicted on counts of He was accused of mo lly farm at Clinton on Jan 1 8 and 10 After a Jury -trial Gbetz was found guilty of eight counts and was sen-tencedto six months in jail Appeals continued for three years and the Court of Appeals the highest court finally ordered a new triah At this point Goetz agreed to plead guilty on June 21 1963 to a single charge of disorderly conduct Saturday Ludwig Goetz speaking for the family denied that the fatter had done anything wrung and said that the boyenadlled and attempted to blackmail Mm In addition he charged the Dutchess County district attorney at the time was biased in the case because his brother and Goetz had bear opponents for a seat on the local school board But the case widely discussed in the Mil towns of Dutchess County 'had taken a heavy toll in the family CM1-dren teased and bullied young Bern-hard about his fetter Ludwig Goetz said that to ease their OTgnish in 1M0 the family sent Bernice and 13-year-old Bernhard to one of the moet expensive private boarding schools in Switzerland the Institut Auf dem Roeenberg at SL Gallen near Lake Constance There in an Alpine setting of equestrian and ski trails and flower-decked homes in a medieval cathedral town of 75000 people Bernhard spent his bur hirii school years Bernhard and Bernice joined a group of British American and other En-students according to principal Otto Gademann He said the school which charges $12-000 ayaarJn feesJias5S0 students Movw to Florida In 1663 the family moved to Orlando Fla There in what would become one of the fastest growing areas of the nation in the 1660b and 1970s Goetz developed a tract of 1100 homes in what sometimes assemble from separately purchased parts hbown electrical testing equipment much of which he obtained from suppliers in lower Manhattan or at auctions in Queens Brook- lyn and Harlenf L-- Because such equipment purchases were often cash-and-carry he frequently traveled with Urge sums of money $2000 to $4000 sometimes as much as $6400 he told a hearing officer In 1982 when he applied for a pistol rmit Cash withdrawn as needed i his bank accounts enabled him to buy bargains on the spot he said Once he said he got a $20000 piece of equipment for $3786 on another occasion he said he got a $4000 item for $302 On the way home or traveling to and from jobs he explained he some- NY Times News Service NEW YORK To his admirers Bernhard Hugo Goetz is a personable -scholarly self-reliant man who cares about bn neighbors and his community despises hoodlums and has long been frustrated by what he sees as a drift toward criminal anarchy To Ms detractors he is a captive of naive idealism a profoundly introverted and secretive man whose friendliness falls short of real friendships and whose outspoken views on crime mask a darker personality obsessed by irrational fears The emerging picture of Goetz is a hinMMi-ma qf clashing opinions reflecting the harshness if not the scope of the debate over vigilantism and public safety that has enveloped the hation since he shot four youths who harassed him on a Manhattan subway train Dee 22 Frustrated Interviews with relatives acquaintances-former teachers and others in recent days have drawn fee portrait of an inward-looking socially awkward man who was raised in small-town comfort and educated in private schools who divorced once succeeded in his own electronics business but 'was frustrated in his efforts to fight drugs dirt and crime It is also a picture of a lonely 37-year-old man who has sustained mior traumas in life including a 1M1 mu that shattered his faith in the adml tration of justice a young about the best way to said Ludwig Goetz Jr a cousin in Florida who noted that Bernhard had never been in trouble with the law not a vigilante a pdrson who tends to mfed-bb mm -Some of neighbors at 55 West 14th St however spoke negatively of him They described 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