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Show Geneva Works observes 25 years of steel making Since 1944, many new facilities facil-ities have been added increasing increas-ing the quantity, quality and variety of steel products which can be rolled in the mills and adding nearly one million tons to the plant's original steelmaking steelma-king capacity. . " v I Geneva Works, the ":. -jkbone ' of Utah Valley's economy, ob-( ob-( served its 25th anniversary of i steelmaking Tuesday. The 5,000 Geneva employees marked the occasion with determination de-termination to make it 50. While the plant has produced nearly 40 million tons of steel in its first 25 years, the Tuesday Tues-day celebration was focused on the start of production for the second quarter of a century of steelmaking in Utah . Governor Calvin L. Hampton pulled a switch that signaled the tapping of an open hearth furnace. He was assisted in this ceremony by veteran steelmakers steel-makers who tapped the first heat of open hearth steel in Utah 25 years ago. As the furnace poured out its burden of 350 tons of molten mol-ten steel shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday, the second quarter of a century of steelmaking in Utah began. In an anniversary message to employees, Raymond W. Sund-quist, Sund-quist, general superintendent, set. the theme for the week-long week-long anniversary observance: "In keeping with the responsibility respon-sibility we share," he said, "this occasion must be a time for each of us to renew his commitment to uphold the future fu-ture of cur industry and to set as our goal the achievement of 50 years of steelmaking in Utah." WINNER "Memorial Day," a landscape oil painting by Omar M. Hansen, won first prize of $75 in the All-Utah Amateur Division Divi-sion Art Show now being exhibited at the museum here. The painting is of the home Mr. Hansen was raised in, and the people shown are his parents as they gathered flowers from their garden on Memorial Day. |