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Show THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1957 - ' v " N , , - - S V V - ' .1 7" r -hit, ' ' v-fjwisil " l Open heorfh sfacfcs before "Operation Good Neiahbor" . ' " li IT-" Open hearth sfacks af Geneva NOW The sfory behind the news. . . rn WTO WOUCT n These photographs dramatically show how smoke is being stopped in its tracks right in the open hearth stacks before it reaches the air at the Geneva Works of United States Steel Corporation. The stacks at the right, from which virtually all dusts and gases have been eliminated, are typical of the clean smokestacks at the Geneva open hearth furoaces and the sintering plant. The '. photograph at the left shows how these same stacks appeared before Geneva learned the smoke contained fluorine and before steps were taken to eliminate it. "? ;vi-v j These once-smoky stacks at Geneva have been virtually clean since the spring of 1955. But the story of how Columbia-Geneva cleared the air for its neighbors has never been fully told before . . . Now the story can be told. i PIONEERING FOR This story is one of pioneering in new research fields, of scientific experiments, of trial and error, a story involving the expenditure of many millions mil-lions of dollars. ' The element fluorine largely has been stopped from reaching Utah skies by installation of specially-designed cleansing units. Fluorine is contained con-tained in the Utah-mined ores used at Geneva. In critical amounts, it sometimes can be harmful to cattle eating the substance in their feed. Fluorosis, Fluo-rosis, the disease sometimes caused among cattle by an over-abundance of fluorine, appeared to be a matter of serious seri-ous concern to agriculture agricul-ture in central Utah. As soon as Geneva ! learned of the presence of the fluorine late in 1950 officials ordered or-dered an all-out project to find out what was causing the problem and how to correct it. No steel plant in America had ever encountered a similar problem before, so U.S. Steel began its research pioneering from scratch. This effort, which came to be known as "Operation Good Neighbor" because its aim was cooperation with Geneva's neighbors, achieved its goal to reduce emissions of fluorine to a safe level more than two years ago. But the research, re-search, the tests, the agricultural experiments experi-ments will go on to continue to make the Geneva Works a good neighbor now and for generations to come. "Operation Good Neighbor" is pioneering for prosperity the modern way. This is a success story. Harmful smoke has been controlled at Geneva. Industry and agriculture agri-culture thrive side by side, and Geneva continues to make steel for the nation, to provide jobs for more than 7,000 Utah citizens, to bolster the state's economy. Trn riATTUnTA r T7 VT TT T 7 A CTT7T?T rT7TCT"NT W Si IT g S ir P it Is St S if is, )s L |