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Show L18? 6B SUNDAY HERALD j op mciais . at Full Geneva Production of Steel pfrimistic Speed t in .1 ?. In 11 ;" ;. .sapr:. : Western ... States Expected to Grow By 3 Million Tons During, I960 Use About Future of Western Stee t' $719 MILLION PEGGED t ' rV 'v J: ' -- : rT ( FOR PROJECTS IN V w-- j 116-da- million over 1957's. ; op-portu- . ingot-produci- ng steel-maki- ng -- n; " N "Red" C. C. emy graduate Mor- of distinguished Of the 1960 total, $398.4 million is scheduled for service in! the western steel Industry; "I Mr. Morgan's tenure at Geneva became short-live- d when he i was appointed, in late January, to the post of general manager of operations for Columbia-Geneva- ! Division with headquarters in San Fran ' .' ' ; . I cisco. Despite the promise of the future, Utah's steel industry fates a serious challenge from foreign steel and a wide variety of sub stitute materials, Jocal U.S. Steel I officials say. To meet this challenge, more effort will go into the task of producing top quality steel at the lowest possible ' production cost. And, ; across - the country U.S. Steel will place heavier emphasis into the search for new kinds of steel and new uses for steel products in our economy.! A major part of this effort will be built around the theme: "To-day's modern steels lighten your work brighten your leisure widen your world." With this theme will go an industrywide effort to identify all steel prod ucts with the modernistic Steelmark," symbol of the new mar keting approach. Among the most noteworthy achievements marked up by Utah steelmakers last year was' the presentation in November of an Award of Honor highest recognition of the National Safety to the 5,600 employees Council of Geneva Works who: continue to set a hot pace in safety peri . j ' . !v Utah.' Expenditures in Utah for the search of oil and minerals are expected to be $60 million; for Utah manufacturing, $34.2. million; commercial construction, $30 million; public utilities, $49.6 million;, public construction, $107.9 million, and churches, hospitals and private schools, $26 millioni Residential construction in the state, it is anticipated, will drop from 1959's high of $105 million to $75 million. , " I ''- ""'- -. - -- - - .a LJk.-- WESTERNERS AT THE HELM These three top Westera steel officials all optimistic as to the future of steel iii the West are, from left, L. B. Worthington, Steel head recently elected foraier Columbia-Genev- a Steel U.S. Corp., the nation's biggest steel- president of j 4 '60 There's growth ahead! That's the word from EIRoy Nelson, vice president of First Security Bank, whose studies indicates whopping $719 million will be spent on capital improvements in the Intermountain Area during 196Q. The anticipated I9601 capital expenditures represent a gain of $12 million over 1959's figures and $139 With production going full speed ahead following last y steel strike, top officials of U.S. Steel's long year's Columbia-Genev- a Division look to the future for western steel during the next decade with confidence. Backing up this optimism are steel industry forecasts that the consumption of steel by the 11 western states will grow by about 3,000,000 tons during the 60's roughly double the rate of Increase expected"' for ' .the rest of the nation. forecasts present a t These treat challenge anil future for the nearly 7,100 men and women who make up Utah's steel industry. , Already the annual capacity of Geneva Works, U.S. Steel's big integrated mill near Provo, has almost doubled since 1946 to some 2,300,000 ingot tons. This increase in basic capacity has resulted in higher operating rates and modernization at the Geneva and Columbia coal miles, near Drager-toColumbia Iron Mining's open iron mines in Iron. County, pit and the Keigley Limestone Quarry located near Payson. - Of special significance for western steelmakers was the election in November of L. B. Worthington, former president of Columbia-Geneva Steel, to the presidenof U.S. Mr. Worthington Steel. cy ' to takes thus the helm of the nation's biggest steel producer a first-han- d knowledge of western and steelmaking opportunities problems. His, successor to the presl- - . dency of Columbia-Genev- a Steel, J. D. Call, is a native westerner who has spent his entire working career in the western steel industry. Donald E. Rice, former general manager of operations, was named to the post of vice president for Columbia-Genev- a Steel. At Geneva, U.S. Naval Acad- Area Intel-mountai- n Inter-mounta- - Materials Research in . 3500 Years Ago D. McCall, native westerner promoted making team; J. Columbia-Geneva to 'helm of 'the Division; and C. C. '"Red" Morgan, superintendent newly &p- pointed as general manager of operations for the Diyi- j sion, with headquarters in San Francisco. Iron Was Precious Metal ex-Gene- va Iron was a precious metal used to make valuable ornaments, 3500 years ago. It was five times more expensive than gold and 40 times costlier than silver. So archaeologists have discov ered by translating writing of the ancient Hittite Empire in r, dating back to 1600 B.C. In those writings, the Wcjwd "amutum Is interpreted to mean Scheduled for completion early f114, north of Geneva's administra- - plant's extensive water distribu rein 1961, the new.j y tion and recovery network. tion building. Work also moved ahead in The needs for cleaner water search laboratory will contain 1959 on a new coal drying created by rising offices, analytical and instru- at Geneva ment laboratories and a wide va steel capacity and recent quality plant, a sister facility to . mbia-Geneva met of Steel's modern ore. coal last iron were and coke improvements riety coal cleaning plant at Welltesting equipment, The building May when a new water clarificawill be located on Utah Highway tion system was added to the ington, Utah, two-stor- Colu- Asia-mino- "iron." IMS mS Laboratory-hai- led as among fhe most advanced of its kind in the world. The new research center will conduct extensive studies western-produce- d iron on other and coke ores, coal, raw materials used in making V steeL , formance. v, at Boosting Quality of Steel New Research Center Aimed After a decade filled with accomplishment, Utah steelmakers face the '60's with optimism in the industrial future of the area and the role that steel will play in that economic growth. This faith continued to be reColumbia - Geneva in flected Steel's Utah operations during 1959 in the constant effort to produce top quality steel to meet the growing western demand. Late in November, ground was broken at Geneva Works to start construction of a modern Raw i iii niii l i ji .i ii ... ii if-- r .:i i hi i f Letters have been discovered searchers in which Pharaohs beg the Egyptian Hittite kings for irpn. The replies are for c e f.u 1 rejections. From this some scholars have deducted that the Hittites had a monopoly in iron , manufacture in the Near East at that time. The date 1600 B.C. is about four centuries prior to the time popularly designated as the beginning of the "iron age." by modern mm. - FR MO, Y y ill This latest award highlighted gan took over.steelmakingrelns in February as general superin- a new plant safety record of over tendent of the big mill. Here-place- d seven million manhour? worked age, six times as safe as workers as A. E. "Bert Terry, xa without disabling injury, miking In aU industries and as muchthan well known Intermountaln steel--J Geenva workers three times at 20 itmes safer at work man who retired after S5 years safe as the steel industry aver- - while off the job. . j . i mmmm Stop and Save at the Sign of the Hammer I. 1 T '"''X wyywf"- - - I - - ' ' i t ' t I i - j " i ' - :i ' I The Backman Foundry serving the west and tne world from right here in Provo, Utah has cast these Inside seam welder pipe supports lor the Consolidated Western Steel Division in Los Angeles. California. 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