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Show tainment and R. S. Stone, coordinator. coordin-ator. The dance committee includes: in-cludes: J. Ray Clark, chairman; George Nuttall, refreshments; Roy Rowland, dance manager and Leonard Leo-nard Harris, tickets. Sof the Geneva plant on June 19 1946, by the United States Steel corporation, Ironton became a part of Geneva Steel Company. Over one-third of the plants em- 'ployees have 20 .or more years of continuous service. Over 60 of these employees will achieve 25 years of continuous service in 1949. Grace Cheever, secretary to the general superintendent, is general chairman of the 25th Anniversary Jubilee committee. Members of the open house committee are: J. T. Carter, chairman; J. Alma Huff, refreshments; George Alexander,' host duties; John R. Clark, enter- Ironton's 25th Anniversary To Be Celebrated At Open House Friday 9 The 25th anniversary of Geneva Steel company's Ironton plant will be celebrated Friday, May 6, with an open house and "jubilee" dance for employe, their families and friends, it was announced Saturday Satur-day by H. B. Makin, general superintendent. sup-erintendent. Beginning at 10 a. m. Friday employes and their friends will go on guided tours of the Ironton plant. These tours will continue throughout the day until 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served and music provided by Utah county high school bands. At 9 p.m. the same day a "jubilee dance will be held for employes and their families by the Geneva Recreation association in the association's hall near the Geneva plant. 25 Years of Production For 25 years the Ironton plant has produced iron for Columbia Steel company's open hearth furnaces fur-naces in Pittsburg and Torrance, Calif. The plant has also supplied iron for numerous foundries throughout the west. Before the advent of the Geneva Steel plant, Ironton served as a pilot plant in the use of Utah's borderline coking coals. The experience ex-perience gained at Ironton's coke ovens and blast furnace proved valuable to the government when it was decided to build the Geneva plant. 600 Tons Daily The Ironton plant consists primarily pri-marily of a blast furnace, with a daily production of 600 tons of iron, and two batteries of byproducts by-products plant, a sintering plant and a pig machine. A short time after the purchase |