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Show Sunday, May 16, 1948 SUNDAY HERALD Nearly $3,000,000 Put Into Kaiser Plant Rehabilitation Nearly $3,000,000 has been poured into the rehabilitation and modernization of the Kaiser-Frazer Kaiser-Frazer Parts corporation Ironton furnace and accessory Columbia coke ovens during the last three months in one of the hardest pushed, race-against-time construction con-struction jobs ever seen in UHih. Under direction of K. G. Hunt, "dynamic young superintendent of construction for the Kaiser company, com-pany, substantial additions have been made to many phases of both plants and a complete rehabilitation re-habilitation and modernization achieved all within the 90-day New Kaiser Furnace To Be Blown In (Continued from Pare One) tana, Calif., Is manager of operations oper-ations for the new Kaiser-Frazer Utah properties. He estimates that normal production can be achieved within six weeks from Monday, at which time the Iron-ton Iron-ton plant will be employing about 215 people, with a payroll of 75 more at the Columbia coke ovens in Carbon county. Key personnel who will assist Mr. Duffy in running the Utah operations will include: M. W. Lenhart, assistant superintendent, formerly with the Kaiser company com-pany iron and steel division at Fontana; G. A. Jackson, superintendent superin-tendent of maintenance, formerly construction engineer at Fontana r hffore that with the Arthur G. McKee company of Cleveland; Owen A. Marron, assistant to the superintendent 4n charge of works fnxiliries. formerly general foreman fore-man of raw materials at Fontana: R. B. Burns, supervisor of indus trial relations, formerly assistant snnervisor in charge of labor relations rela-tions at Fontana; J. R. Banks, plant comptroller, formerly gen eral accounting manager at Fon tana; C. E. Dunmire, purchasing agent, formerly process technician, techni-cian, iron production department at Fontana. All of 'the foregoing will have headquarters at the Ironton plant. At the coke ovens will be George J. W. Morlock, superintendent of operations there, formerly of Fontana, and P. S. Connell, assistant coke ovens auperintendent, formerly with the Great Lakes Steel company at Detroit, Mich. In keeping with blast furnace tradition, the Kaiser-Frazer furnace fur-nace will be officially christened "Mary." honoring the mother of Henry J. Kaiser. Where Kaiser-Frazer Will Produce 300,000 Tons of Pig Iron Annually Northern Utah Clamoring For State Road Work OGDEN, Utah, May 15 U. Representatives of northern Utah counties were on record today as demanding more road work be done in Box Elder, Cache, Weber and Rich counties. They made their demands at a meeting of tne state roads advisory advis-ory board held in Ogden. The northen county representatives representa-tives complained that there Isn't enough work being done in the northern counties and that most highways need widening and straightening before they are safe or even properly useable. Occidental LIFE INSURANCE CO. of California Announces the Appointment of John A. Wightman as Special Agent in Utah County 552 Beverly Ave. Orem Telephone 0674-Ja deadline which Hunt set when he began the job. The furnace is scheduled to be "blown in" Monday. Hunt said construction work will be com pleted the last of this month with exception of some house construction con-struction in Carbon county. Kaiser-Frazer has expended approximately $4,000,000 on the Utah properties. This includes the purchase price from WAA of $1,150,000, whch leaves about $2,850,000 that has been spent on construction. Of this amount, Hunt said Saturday that expenditures expen-ditures at Ironton and Columbia have been "roughly 50-50." One of the largest single units of the entire project was the construction of 60 new modern, two and three bedroom homes at Sunnydale in Carbon county for coke oven workers. Erected by the Utah Construction company, 20 of the houses are now ready for occupancy and the balance will be completed within 30 days. The total construction force at its peak on the two jobs reached 60 Omen, which again, Hunt said, were divided "about 50-50" on the Ironton and Columbia jobs. The Ironton work has included includ-ed general rehabilitation, plus several new features. A major unit of the job was construction of a south approach trestle to the plant's "highline"' over the material ma-terial storage bins for the blast furnace. Heretofore, it could be approached only from the adjoining adjoin-ing Geneva Steel highline to tne north. The facilities were built adjoining when the plant was constructed during the war, and now may be approached from either side. This will be a safety factor for both the Kaiser-Frazer and Geneva plant at Ironton, in case of an accidental track blockage block-age at either end. The blast furnace itself has received a new mud gun, new tuyeres, new cooling plates, considerable con-siderable new plumbing, a new inspection platform and other improvements: Additional improvements to the Ironton plant include a modern machine shop in the southeast end of the blowing engine en-gine building, a new fuel oil system for the plant, new kerosene kero-sene distribution system where the latter fuel is used, a completely com-pletely new and modern laboratory labora-tory within the former change house, enlarged office facilities (now under construction), new ore handling bins and coke facilities; fa-cilities; new and relocated rail road trackage and numerous , other improvements and addi-' tions. j At Columbia, the contract has just been let for the haul road between the coal mine tipple at Sunnyside to the coke ovens, a distance of 2.7 miles. Giant semitrailer semi-trailer trucks, pulling a second trailer, will haul the coal from the mine to the ovens. The road, to be asphalt surfaced, is being built by Anderson and Sons ot Price and Nielsou and Sons of i Huntington. j ine ouu Deenive-xype coKe ovens, so-called becaue they are built almost in the exact shape of a beehive, have been extensively exten-sively repaired and modernized. A complete conveyor belt system along the ovens has replaced the former methods of running a railroad car along the top and dumping the coal at intervals. New coal storage facilities have been constructed. The ovens themselves fiave been largely rebuilt. re-built. Several modern diesel locomotives lo-comotives have been acquired for the coke oven operations. Contractors on the two jobs, besides those already mentioned, include Tolboe and Harlin. Mor rison and Knudser., Hartmen and Jensen, machinist contractors of Price, Utah, Utah Crane and Rigging Rig-ging company of Salt Lake Citv, Christenson and Sons of Provo. P L. Larson Plumbing company of Provo, and Foley Electric company of Philadelphia with offices in Salt Lake City. In addition, ad-dition, a substantial Kaiser force has bee non the jobs, principally in supervisory capacities. I I r - mmm '; j ; v Two Oregon Boys Killed In Crash HUNTINGTON, Ore., May 15 (U.R) Two Oregon youths were killed on the highway near here last night When their car smashed into a power pole, Huntington authorities au-thorities reported today. Dead are Rodney King, 17, son of Mrs. Fred Leech, Huntington, and Phillip Davis, 19, Baker. Critically injured was Charles Yates, Jr. 21. He was taken to th hospital at Weiser, Ha. iTNf s ". Or ft t J a 4 j 0 i Santaquin Holds Bee Hive Event SANTAQUIN One of the out-; standing events of the week Was the Santaquin - Tintic stake "Swarm day" at the stake house. All wards of trie stake participat-l ed with Ethella Peterson, stake YWMIA president, in charge. Miss Irene Haile of the general board was present and discussed the Bee Hive program and the responsibilities of the girls, their mothers and their leaders. Awards were made by the ward leaders. Following the program, a box luncheon was enjoyed with 125 attending. Top, Rehabilitated Kaiser-Frazer Parts corporation blast furnace furn-ace plant at Ironton, to go Into operation Monday with formal "blowing In" ceremonies conducted by Edgar Kaiser, son of Henry J. Kaiser and vice president and general manager of the Kaiser-Frazer Parts corporation at , Willow Run, Mich. Left, worker opens door to one of the 500 beehive-type coke ovens at Columbia In Carbon county, where the coke necessary to run the Ironton blast furnace will be produced. Reconditioned Blast Furnace d Li. u c, ni:M; uruuym i icic i iuiii iiiuiuid IT'S AMAZING Chicks, growing and adult poultry, turkeys, rabbits, livestock live-stock all need it. Kills and prevents pre-vents lice, mites, worms, diarrheas diar-rheas the easy way. Promotes healthy rapid growth. Simply give in drinking water or feed. Get CALFURDINE today to-day at CLUFF'S FEED MILL THfRCS QUITE A DIFFERENCE i BETWEEN A HORSE RACE AND A . POLITICAL RACC. IN THE HORSC RACE THE MHQLC .HORSE RUNS! MTCH FOR tV IN THE ADS RUN EACH CJEEK BV UNITED iscl 470 WEST FIRST NORTH "PHONE 666 DAY0RMTE 4in't.Wt0 mt . . .... - t rrjirrTr When an eastern steel company com-pany built a blast furnace plant at Joliet, 111., in ,1902, little did it dream that some day the furnace fur-nace would set at the base of Utah's mountains, turning out pig iron. Yet such is the history of the Kaiser-Frazer Parts corporation blast furnace to be "blown in" Monday at Ironton. The plant was rebuilt, according accord-ing to sources available here, in its Joliet setting during the 1920's. The furnace was one of four, two of which were torn down sometime prior to World War II. The remaining two were called back into service when the war necessitated increased pig iron production. Both were dismantled and shipped to dif ferent sites, one to Duluth. Minn. tion that all of the plant is old and second hand. This is far from true. Taken all in all, the present plant has considerably con-siderably more new material in it than old, particularly after the rehabilitation just completed by the Kaiser company. All that was shipped from Joliet was the structural steel (which will last indefinitely and was practically as good as pew steel), the outer shells of the blast furnace itself and the accessory "stoves" which heat the air, the giant steam blowing engines which make the plant's compressed air, and much of the boiler house equipment. equip-ment. All of the plant's buildings, with exception of the structural structur-al steel, were of new, permanent brick construction The pig cast 2&rr-& SHeafferS CXEST Di LUXS TUCKAWAY ENSIMH1 and the other to Ironton. The one i ing machine was installed new, Utah Raw Materials to Go Into New Kaiser Operation IV I a q n a w o 3 it 10 J X NONOCMrN DINKLF.VS MUSIC MART 136 West Center rI?0Etejfia!113 BDG. FADTwl ANNOUNCES SALE of 25 HORSES " 4 ' t Nuvy Draft Horses out ton or over 10 Middleweight Draft Horses 1500 lbs. tr over 3 Lightweight Draft Horses about 1450 lbs. 1 S-year old Pinto Gelding Show Horse 2 2-year old Quarterhorse Colts 1 3-vear old Reeistered Oiurteriiorc This tine selection of farm. mM tail pullint and sheep camp mn mVt tM horses may be inspected at the LEWia- tirtOa. r'ARM. S000 West on 33rd South. Turn left to 3680. For further information write or Dhnne 360 So West Temple. Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone 36211 CHARTER SERVICE ...onvwhr...iaVti. SO. WIST TIMHI SAIT LAKI CITY. UTAH MMNK ttU The state of tUah, rich in raw materials, will furnish all but a very small percentage percent-age of the materials needed to make pig iron at the Kaiser-Frazer Kaiser-Frazer Parts corporation blast furnace plant at Iron-ton. Iron-ton. The iron ore, 45.000 tons of It a month, wil come from Lindsay Hill near Cedar City, in the same general area that furnishes Geneva Steel's ore. Kaiser-Frazer will get its ore from holdings in that area of Utah Construction company, which also furnishes part of the ore for Kaiser's Fontana steel plant in California. The Utah operations of the Kaiser-Frazer properties will consume about 43,000 tons of coal per month 35,000 at the Columbia coke ovens and 8000 at Ironton for the plant's boilers. It will come from Utah's rich carbon fields, with two sources meeting the demand de-mand part from the Kaiser company mine at Sunnyside. and part will be purchased from the Utah Fuel company's com-pany's Carbon county mine. A small percentage of the coal, about five per cent, will come from Oklahoma and Arkansas Ar-kansas a low volatile coal which will be mixed with Utah coal to strengthen the final coke product. Manganese, another basic raw material in the manufacture manufac-ture of pig iron, will be procured pro-cured for the Kaiser-Frazer plant from Utah sources at Delta and Marysvale. Limestone, Lime-stone, of which the furnace will use 250 to 300 tons per day, will be purchased from the "Geneva Steel company - quarry at Keigley. The plant's water problem was stacked from several different dif-ferent angles, including the proposal at one time to buy Deer Creek water from Provo Pro-vo City. It was finally solved by an agreement with the Geneva Steel company to catch and re-use the water from that company's Ironton plant. which came to Ironton had been idle for some time prior to its dismantling. Early in 1942, first shipments began to arrive at Ironton from Illinois. The plant was erected, in slightly more than a year's time, under direction of the defense de-fense plant division of Columbia Steel company, the same super visory head which directed construction con-struction of the giant Geneva Steel plant. The furnace began operation, under supervision of the present Geneva Steel company Ironton plant management, in July of 1943 and was shut down again in February of 1944. It has been idle from that time until now, a period of about four years. Early this year, the Kaiser-Frazer Kaiser-Frazer Parts corporation bought it from the war assets administration, adminis-tration, into whose custody it had gone as war surplus. The report that "the plant was shipped here from Joliet, 111.," has given rise to the misconcep- a duplicate of the machine at the Geneva plant. The sintering plant, where dust ore is coagulated coagu-lated into chunks suitable for furnace charging, was new, as was all of its equipment. 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