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Show Frank Hogan cheBatetiterala “"~"" AA Appointed Sunday, February 10, 1974 Page 31 Business News By U.S. Steel FM. (Frank) Hogan, a 22-year veteran of steelmaking at U.S. Steel's Gary(Indiana) Works,is the new assistant general superintendent at Geneva Works, Raymond W. Sundquist, general superintendent, this week. Mr. Hogan was Oil Embargo a Blessing division Superintendent of the tin and stainless division at Gary. He replaces He: ty A tiuish, who recently moved to San Francisco as administrative assistant of production of the newly formed Western steelmakingdivision Mr. Hogan is a native of Beverly, Mass., and a graduate __ Beston College, where he a degree in business randin 1952. He joined US.Steel that same year as an industrial engineering trainee at Gary. Ranks He was promoted through a numberofmill responsibilities at Gary, beginning in 1955 when he became an_ industrial engineering analyst and then was promoted to assistantto the t in the merchant mills in 196° He became a generalforeman in the merchant mills in 1962, and twoyears later was named superinterdentof the merchantmills. ED KANADEL,right, managerof the newiy opened Mr.Brake operation in Orem,does a little grinding as a part of replacing a set of brakes on a car. Behind him is LaMar. Mortinson,oneofthe partnersinvolved in the Mr.Brake operation. Mr. Brake Specialty Operation Does Just One Thing—Well 1969 by Ken Bastion at498 E. 3300 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Mr. Herald Business Editor ‘The two men unceremoniously Bastion was encouraged by Ken pulled the four wheels off my car Amold whoa at the time was a and after reaching around, distributor of brake parts and looking under and about,told me equipment. Mr. Arnold has subsequently that only my rear wheels needed to be relined and that the rear joined in the managementof the eee cylinders needed to be firmas has Mr.Mortinson. The second and third Mr. vt It LaMar Mortinson and Brake shops were also opened in Ed Kanadela little longer than Salt Lake City. their average of 20 minutes to do Mr. Mortinson has admitted the job, but that’s because they that the Orem shopisa pilot for were talking me through the the pippores fanelising operation. operation which will hopefull So far as Mr. Mortinson can begin sometime this year. eck tell, the specialized services of “We're very pleased with the the Mr. Brake program outcome of the business so far,”” represent ve por such operation he said. “In six weeks we have ceveloped more volume here inthe count All they aat Mr.Brakeis fix than anyof the Salt Lake shops.” brakes on carsandtrucks. Orem Mana; ‘The shop which just opened a The actual manager of th few weeks agoat1025. StateSt., Orem shop is Ed Kanade!, who in Orem, is actually the fourth has been in the automotivefield Mr. Braketo see thelight of day some 26 years. Mr. Mortinson —ortheinsideof a brake drum. knew him in the Eastandcalled him to the state when the firm First Shop The first shop was opened in was ready 1o open thefirst Utah By JERRY W. YOUNG PipelineFirm Officially Operative, After Trials County operation. Mr. Kanadel is from the Philadelphia area. He foundlittle diff:culty talkinghis wife, Violet, into the moveafter a visit last year to the Wasatch Front. They are the parents of two grown children; a daughter who is working at Utah Valley Hospital and is studying to be a nurse and a son who is taking commercial airline pilot trainingin Salt Lake City. Marketing Cluse The business is based on the automotive axiom that one out of every three cars on the road reeds some kind of brake work. Mr. Mortinsonpointed out that after studying competition it was found that75 percentofall brake work was done in service stations but that only three percent of them were fully equipped to doit. The job pericrmed by Mr. Brakeincludes an inspection of the linings, hydraulic and mechanical linkages, relining brake shoes on the spot, turning all brake drums,arcing the new shoes to fit the drums, and many otherservices. Mr. Mortinson said that the 2%-minute average was the amount of time he and Mr. Kanade! had been able to meet on a regular basistofix a set of brakes. But he pointed out that SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — 1964 that the merger tended to The Northwest Pipeline Corp. create a monopoly and wasin has officially become the major violation of Section Seven of the natural gas distributor in seven Cayton AntiTrust Act. northwestern states after one of ft took another 10 years and the largest anti-trust divesti- two more trips to the Supreme tures in history. Court to work out the divestiThe Salt Lake City based ture plan. y Thursday gained conThe new Northwestern Pipetrolofthe old northwestdivision of the El Paso Natural Gas Co. lineCorp. acquired 3,100 miles of —properties worth more than main and branch transmission piepline, 1,160 miles of supply $343 million Lawyers signed the dozensof pipelines, four gas dehydration divestiture documents mark- plants and two liquid hydrocarbon extractionplants. ing the end of a 17 year court struggle in which the U.S. Supreme. Court finally ordered El Paso to sell its northwestern they give themselves an hour-and-a-half in their advertising as a margin in case they run into a problem — such as having to unplug a bleeder valve on a wheelcylinder. “Every tool in this shup is a braketool, and everything we do is designed to give the customer the best possible brake job,”’ said Mr. Mortinson. He admitted the statement mighttendto soundlike boasting “But it’s not,” he claimed, “because wereally believe it to betrue.” F.M.(Frank) HOGAN Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Denver. The purpose of the new alignment is to unify the managementof production and sales in the west undera single headquarters at San Francisco. The benefit will be to shorten the lines of communication between Geneva employees and customers in the western states. Alpine's First Bank Branch OpensFacility In Januasy, 1966, he was to superintendent of the blooming mills. In 1967, he became assistant division superintendent of the Gary ALPINE — TheAlpine Branch merchant mills, holding that position until 1972, when he was of the Bank of American Fork is made division superintendent of completed and opened. This the tin and stainlessdivision, the community's first banking position heheld prior to his move facility, and Orville Gunther, to Utah to take over his new Presiident, announced the the responsibilities at Geneva institution will offer full services including checking and savings Works. accounts, bank safety vaults and An Armyveteran, he served toneyorderservices. with the U.S. Occupation Forces The bank has two service in Japan in 1946 - 47. He and his windows in the lobby and office wife, Marilyn have four space. Employed at the present children: Richard, a student at time are two tellers, Barbara Notre DameUniversity; Martha, Whitson and Dorene Clawson. Robert and Mark. Larry Minora representative of Mr. Hogan comes here as the bank said the managerwill Geneva Works joins its sister be announced later and an open operations in California in the house will be held nearthe first new U.S. Steel division for the part of March. The lobby of the bank will be west. Called Western SteelDivision, opened from 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. the new grouping includes Monday through Thursday and on Fridayuntil 6:00 p.m.Thereis Geneva, Pittsburg Works, near San Francisco, and Torrance also a drive-up window which Works in Southern California, will be open every day until 6:00 and district sales offices at San pm. ‘The United Statesis fortunate director of the Office of Coal that Arab nations have put an Research under the US embargo on oil shipments, Departmentof the Interior, said according to an official of the the Arab embargo served a good Electric Power Research because it brought Institute (EPRI) attention to a problem that Dr. George R. Hill, EPRI alreadyexisted. Nowthat U.S. citizens are assistant director for fossil fuel research, said in a speech this painfully aware of fuel week at Brigham Young Shoriages, they are willing to back energy research and push University that the Arabs erred in their oil squeeze “and we for new developments to should be verygrateful for that “maintain the integrity and independenceofour natien.”’ kind of error." The year - old EPRI is an ‘The energyexpert, who was example of the new emphasis on Guest speaker for the pubiic production of alternate energy lecture series of BYU's College sources, Dr, Hill noted. The of Engineering Sciences and nationally known organization is Technology, explained that fuel doing research and development shortages were predicted a tothe tune of $100 million year. decade ago in the United States He said that if the United butthe public paidnoattention to States continues its present the warnings. course of obtaining fuel from Purpose Served foreign sources, the balance of “Until we can’t get gasoline at payments deficit relating to fuel the pumps, we don't believe purchases will reach $30 billion there is a shortage although we by1985. In 1970, it was$4 billion. have seen.it coming for some Need for Alternates time,” Dr. Hill said. ‘The U.S.will not runoutof oil The native Utahn and former but that commodity will become The 4,200 mile pipeline sysfem serves 11 million customers ‘n Utah, Idaho, Washington. Oregon, northern Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado. The court gave control of the new pipeline company to four companies known as the APCO Group. The groupconsists of the Alaska Interstate Co., Apco Oil Corp., Gulf Interstate Co., and the Tipperary Corp. By EDWARDS. LECHTZIN UPI Auto Writer DETROIT (UPI) — Full- sized cars that deliver no less than 15 miles per gallon in city and suburban driving will be a reality in three or four years, said General Motors Corp. chairman Richard C. Gerstenberg. Facing threats that Washington will set a timetable to force Detroit to build carsthat use Jess gasoline, Gerstenberg said y the 15 mip.g. goal is just a minimum. He said GM already is switching to more economical engines customer demand. to meet “T think there still is a good marketfor full-size car, but we have to be innovative enough to find some way to get a rather substantial improvementin fuel economy for a larger car,” Gerstenbergsaid. 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Larger-size hean-bag, 19.88. a OFF ANY PATTERNED SHIRT $5.00 off any patterned shirt in our entire stock with this ad four companies pur- a voting trust arrangement. “This ends nearly17 years of uncertainty as to who owns the pipeline system serving distributors in the Northwestern United States,” said John G MeMillian, president of Northwest Pipeline and spokesman for the APCO Group. The “uncertainty” began in 1957 when El Paso acquired the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Justice Department filed suit charging that the merger violated anti-trustlaws. Tt took sevenyearsfor the case to work its way up to the U.S. Svoreme Court, which ruled in “STOREK EEPERS FOR GENTLEMEN” —The “Home”offriendly personal service— FREE STORESIDE PARKING IN REAR AZAOM I SALT LAKE to lowerits living and production standards if it develops alternative fuel sources. “We must sJift our energy base from oil andgas to coal and oil shale as quickly as we can,” he said. “‘I only wish we had been smart enough to do it 10 years ago instead of on a crash basis now,” he continued. There are enough cval reservesin the United States to supply demands for 200 yéars, according to Dr. Hill. The western states havethree to five times the coal reserves as the easter and central states, he noted. Dr. Hill called for development of huge “‘coalplexes” which could process up to 75,000 tons of coal a day to produce fuels and electricity. There are some 88 sites in the U.S. that could accoramedate suchoperations.It will take about 16 years to develop these huge complexes. COTTONWOOD VALLEYFAIR, plished unless business is allowed to earn fair return on its investment. The drop in big car sales in the final three months of 1973 saw GM profits drop 22.5 per cent from the final quarter of 1972. GM,with its heavy dependence on standard-sized cars, was hit hardest by the shift as people began worrying about keeping gasoline tanks full. Switchingitsentire line of 1975 modelcars, with the exception of the sub-compact Chevrolet Vega to catalytic mufflers to control emission should result in an cette met with newsmen following a conference on areasof public concern in which he told financialandinstitutional investors that the word “‘profit”’ has become a “‘grubby, selfish sound." He warned that none of average13 per centfuel economy our national goals can be accom- boost, he said. chased 20 per cent of Northwestern Pipeline's stock for $21 million. 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