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Show i RETIRES Shown above is Paul Warren, Geheva Works Central Maintenance sign painter, bring congratulated by his superintendent, M, F. SvVain, upon retirement from United States Steel after 27 years servire at Geneva Works. Geneva sign painter retires after ! 27 years at Geneva Steel Works i l-thc beautiful mural lie painted in the Electric Shop and hjis last job, the Central Maintenance Mainten-ance Errors Zero Bulletin board. Dean R. (Dick) Lueck, raana-ger raana-ger of Western Electric Coiit-pany's Coiit-pany's U t a h-Idaho-Montaiu area, Salt Lake City office,, will serve as volunteer chairman chair-man of Utah's "Share in America '69" Savings Bond' drive. He succeeds James Qj (imimines of Salt Lake City; Paul S. Warren, the convivial Central Maintenance sign painter, pain-ter, retired recently after twen-i twen-i ty-seven year's service at Ge- neva Works. Born and raised in I Salem, Utah, Mr. Warren went j East as a young man in 1922. He studied commercial art, drafting' and civil engineering i at the Marine Corp Institute in ' Washington, D.C., and worked i for the United States Reclamation Reclama-tion Service from 1928 to 1937. Returning to Utah, he worked as a carpenter until 1942, when he began his career in steel as a carpenter foreman during the construction of the Geneva plant. He worked for the Fuller Company, who constructed the No. 2 Blast Furnace at the Ircnton Plant, and later worked work-ed at Ironton in the Maintenance Mainten-ance and Transportation Department. De-partment. He came hack tc Geneva as a blacksmith helper in 1944. He also worked as a carpenter for some time before being promoted to the position of sign painter in 1954. He I worked as the Geneva Works sign painter until his retirment. the last of January. Anyone who has been around the Geneva Plant will recognize recog-nize the work of Paul Warren as he has painted all of the 1 safety signs on the various mill buildings. He remembers best the challenge which came to him in laying out the ten-foot high letters cn the west side of the Hot Top Building to identify the plant for passengers passen-gers of passing trains. Another of his interesting feats was the ' painting of the corporation I trademark on the spheres at ! the Nitrogen Plant. ; Paul, as he iikes to bo called. ; is an ardent bowler and has a lifetime average of 165. with ; a high game of 273. He and his j wife Maria, reside at 376 East ! Seventh South in Spriv.gville. I They raised two boys and two j girls, two of which have since ! passed away. Paul still likes to do wood-i wood-i work and plans to continue his I pi-ofession of commercial artist j at his home. He has been painting paint-ing since he was five years old and enjoys doing special projects pro-jects for any of his friends. Many of the programs for retired re-tired steelmen have been designed de-signed by Paul, and perhaps one of the fondest memories he leaves behind at Geneva is |