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Show U. S. Steel structural mill start-up welcomed by workmen Geneva Steel's structural mill shut down since December 29 resumed operations Monday with a resultant call back to work of approximately 115 men, George A. Jedenoff, Geneva general superintendent, announced. an-nounced. "The structural mill went back into operation to meet local lo-cal customer demands and to provide structurals for an important im-portant railroad construction project in the northwest," Mr. Jedenoff explained. The structural "mill, a unit of Geneva's rolling mill division, divi-sion, rolls structural shapes angle irons, channels, reinforcing reinfor-cing rods and I-beams for use in heavy construction. Although no company figures fig-ures were available, it was believed be-lieved Geneva's total payroll before the structural mill callback call-back stood in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 4200 or 4300 workers. Before the national slump in steel began taking its toll, Geneva Gen-eva and Ironton were operating at a total rate of about 5500. Officials of a steel fabricating fabricat-ing firm which is planning to establish a plant in Provo, also al-so reported this week that proximity to Geneva was the No. 1 factor in location of the plant; that steel from Geneva is the cheapest, "lowest base rate," to be found in the entire en-tire country with one exception and the difference in this case is negligible. Citizens welcomed the news of the resuming of operations at the structural mill and are hoping with the advent of spring, other activity will call back workmen who have been idled several months. |