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Show U. S. Steel Awards Money for Ideas Ideas and money went hand in hand this week when U. S. Steel paid more than $3,100 for three suggestions turned in by employees em-ployees of Geneva Works on how to improve their jobs. The payments pay-ments were presented to C. C. Morgan, general superintendent. Two of the three cash awards were the largest paid since the Employee Suggestion Plan, was inaugurated two years ago. Biggest cash recipient was Richard H. Forsyth of Geneva's metallurgical chemical and inspection in-spection department, who had a check for $1,612.80. His suggestion sugges-tion was to reduce the amount of certain alloying elements used in making heats of special alloy steel. He is a resident of Provo. Tom M. Nichol, also of Provo, an electrican in Geneva's maintenance main-tenance and utilities unit, got $955.20 for a cost saving suggestion sug-gestion on the repair of bearing assemblies on rolling mill motor. Two other maintenace employees, em-ployees, Paul J. Kuhni of Sandy and James M. Davis of Orem, split an award of $584 for developing devel-oping a new design for securing the tong bits on the big cranes that lift red hot ingots from their soaking pits for the rolling mill. Nearly $42,000 has been paid to U. S. Steel employees in Utah since the Employee Suggestion Plan began on May 1, 1957. The plan is designed to stimulate constructive thinking and to reward re-ward individual ingenuity and creativeness. Bulk of these payments has gone to Geneva Works employes who have picked up nearly $30,-000 $30,-000 for suggestions adopted during dur-ing the past two years. Of about 6,500 ideas submitted during this period almost 1,300 have been accepted and many are still under un-der consideration. At Consolidated Western Steel Utah Pipemill, some $4,000 has been awarded on about 100 accepted ac-cepted suggestions. The largest awards at the Pipemill this year were $785 to Lewis Warren, design de-sign draftsman, Orem; $575 to Don C. Kirk, industrial engineering engineer-ing department, American Fork; $464 to Arthur C. Meredith, production department, Orem. Employees of Columbia-Geneva Steel's Columbia and Ge: neva coal mines and Keigley Quarry have pocketed more than $4,300 during the two year period peri-od for 243 adopted ideas. And at Columbia Iron Mining Company Com-pany near Cedar City, more than $3,500 has been paid on 180 suggestions. sug-gestions. ' Another large cash award paid this week at Geneva w.as for $342 presented to Ronald Carson of Pleasant Grove, for his suggestion sug-gestion on a better, way of saving sav-ing iron ore that is cleaned from ore cars. He works at Geneva's coke plants. The Employee Suggestion Plan provides awards up to $10,000. For cost reduction suggestions, employees are awarded a percentage per-centage of the net savings. The adopted suggestions that do not result in .costv reductions are judged by suggestion committees commit-tees at each U. S. Steel facility. . |