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Show THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, n THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1943 THE LEHI SUN, LEHI, UTAH Steel Company Breaks Production Records Since Pearl Harbor Raid NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 7 More than 2,000 production records rec-ords have been broken by United Steel corporation subsidiaries in producing 60,000,000 tons of steel THE LEHI SUN Pnblished Brery Tfcvnday at Lehi, Utak, hj tb Lett Sum PbIWirnj C: Entered as Socond Class Matter Mat-ter at the Postofflc at Lehi, Utah, under the aet of March 3, 1878. eutwortpttoa Rate 11.00 Ptr Tear since Pearl Harbor, Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board of directors, said, today. The new records included high marks in production of raw material, manufacture of pig Iron, steel Ingots and finished products, and outstanding accomplishments in the construction of naval craft. "United States Steel alone shipped more than 82,000,000 tons of ore from the Lake Superior Super-ior district since December 7, 1941," Mr. Olds said. "For five consecutive months in 1943 these shipments shattered all previous monthly ore shipping records for comparable months." In addition to this outstanding production record in mining and shipping of basic iron ore, U. S. Steel has been active in moves for conservation of natural re sources. Electrolytic tin plating lines, plus facilities for chemical treatment of black plate for containers, con-tainers, have made possible the saving of more than 4,000,000 pounds of the nation's vital tin supply. U. S. Steel's research metallurgists metallur-gists also played an important part in developing national emergency steels, designed to produce high quality results but use much less of such alloys as nickel and chromium. Paying tribute to the men and management of various subsid iary companies for their produc tion achievements, Mr. Olds dis closed that nearly 100,000 employees em-ployees have entered the armed services and that to replace these workers and man new facilities, U. S. Steel has trained approximately approxi-mately 200,000 new employees. "Women," Mr. Olds said, "have played an increasingly important import-ant part in steel production since the beginning of the national emergency. Before Pearl Harbor steelmaking was considered a trade for men, and most of the women employed in the industry were in clerical positions. Today, however, 37,056 women are employed em-ployed by the corporation, a large portion of them in mill Jobs formerly held by men." Among outstanding shipbuilding shipbuild-ing accomplishments, Mr. Olds pointed out that U. S. Steel's shipyard at Kearny, N. J., holds all world's speed records for building destroyers and that its New Port Newark, N. J., yard, constructed in record-breaking time since Pearl Harbor, is now delivering a destroyer escort every five days. Among the types of ships being built for the navy are destroyers, giant troop transports, cruisers, destroyer de-stroyer escorts, cargo ships, infantry in-fantry and tank landing craft, tankers, and cargo combat ships. U. S. Steel's inland shipyard on the Ohio River in October delivered de-livered to the navy more LSTS landing ships for tanks than any other inland yard. Mr. Olds disclosed that to meet war-time demands, U. S. Steel embarked upon an $811,000,000 expansion program. U. S. Steel funds for this program amounte 1 1 ' ; ' ill m spite of Hitler ana, WroMto LI One hundred years ego this month Charles Dickens wrote his immortal Christmas Carol . ; : a brave, bright lesson ' in kindliness which a world dark with intolerance has failed to dim: It is true that gifts will not be as plentiful this year. But there will be something for everyone . . . something to express the sinceregood wishes . which have always been the foundation of the Christmas spirit in the American home.- ' And this year is a special Christmas year. For this year every heart will be filled with a special hope ... the hope that before next Christmas all the world will have received the most precious gift of all ; . . the gift of "peace on earth, good will toward men.' upman mere. uo. mm American Fork 3 7 pnt lasl wkad ert horn hemic to torn wll drU-' lan who tfartUd la th mlddl of th wk. You . lots ol vt stationed soar homo can wangU weekend learee. hop a bu and tUU the iolke U we can get on the bus. It meant a lot to us a lot to them. So thanks to the thoughtful thought-ful person who saved me a seat And Mom say Thanks' tool"' Carlton F. Wilson, Agent Texaco Oil Statiom Phone: 110-J to $330,000,000, with the government govern-ment financing the remainder. The new facilities, plus conversion conver-sion of peace-time equipment to war production, enables U. S. Steel, among other accomplishments, accomplish-ments, to more than double its plate-making capacity and to increase in-crease armor plate output sixfold. six-fold. Block - buster aerial bombs, shells, shell casings, steel landing land-ing mats, armor plate for ships and tanks, and special helmet steel are among the important military products manufactured by United States Steel subsidiaries. sub-sidiaries. In addition, many of the corporation's corp-oration's tubular and wire products pro-ducts are used extensively in manufacture of aircraft, ships and mechanized equipment. Tubular Tu-bular products and pipe also are vital to both the production and transportation of petroleum products. The 24 inch pipe for the "big inch" pipeline was produced pro-duced by U. S. Steel in the only mill in the United States capable of making pipe of this diameter in the large quantities needed. Demand for high-quality steels for mechanized warfare has increased in-creased the importance of electric elec-tric furnaces. '.'It is interesting to note," Mr. Olds said, "that U. S. Steel subsidiaries, in addition to greatly increasing their own electric furnace capacity, have designed and built Heroult electric elec-tric furnaces accounting for 75 per cent of the nation's increased increas-ed capacity for alloy and stainless stain-less steels." "Taxpayer" Gives Living Cost-Tax Cost-Tax Figures A table is presented in the December Taxpayer showing the cost of living trends during the past 23 years. The assertion is made that the cost of living in September, 1943 is exactly the same figure as the average for the ten years of the 1920s. In the meantime individual earnings earn-ings have increased greatly. It is pointed out that from January, Jan-uary, 1941 while the cost of living liv-ing has increased 20' that average aver-age weekly earnings have jumped jump-ed 57. The TAXPAYER asserts that various County Treasurers are not obeying the law in the matter mat-ter of apportioning the taxes they collect. This hoarding of the collections forces taxing units to borrow money despite the fact that they have tax money in the county treasury. Treasurers are warned to comply com-ply 'with the law. An important contribution to sound thinking on government fiscal policies is given in an article ar-ticle by Senator Harrv F. Bvrd. "The Road Back to Representative Representa-tive Government." Every taxpayer tax-payer in the country should read this article, Senator Byrd points out the waste of our tax money by government bureaus. F.B.I. Enforcement Conference At Provo Sat. Mechanics of Arrests, Disarming Disarm-ing Methods and Road Blockades are to be featured at an FBI Law Enforcement Conference to be held at the Utah County Court House in Provo on December 11, according to an announcement made by Jay C. 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" i & t a charge of FBI Activities in this area. The conference is to take place from 2:00 to 4:30 p. m. and law enforcement officials and officials offi-cials and officers from Utah, Wasatch, Duchesne, and Juab counties have been invited to attend. Mr. George Ballif , prominent prom-inent attorney of Provo is to be the guest speaker at the opening session to which the public is invited. Ira J. Kellosrz. an frt Firearms expert and Sergetnt L. A. Christensen of the Utah Highway High-way Patrol are to assist, in tho scheduled police training -work. Aiouon picture rums are also to be utilized in connection . with the training. In scheduling this conferee Mr. Newman pointed out '- -. the FBI has conducted &;f- police conferences on a Quarte-basis Quarte-basis since 1939 and that S; were inaugurated following : President's Proclamation donating do-nating this organization as t ; coordinating, agency in lnter Security Matters. Mr. rj stated that in view of the P J quent changes in Law Enfo ment personnel occasioned' ' the war, basic police traifr; subjects in addition to di sions on Internal Security ters, have been included in conference program. i i I |