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Show a ii ILLUMINATING THE PROBLEMS. THE 1'EOIM.E. THE ISSUES OF OUR THMK. Utah Valley Bids Affectionate Farewell To Its Adopted Son, George Jedenoff, As He Departs Tonight, hundreds of citizens from all over Utah will gather together in the Wilkinson Center at Brigham Young University to honor and pay tribute to the man who for the past seven years has headed up United States Steel Corporation's steelmaking operation in Utah: George A. Jedenoff, general superintendent of the Geneva Works at Orem. M3. JEDENOFF leaves Friday for Gary, Indiana, where he will take over the operation of United States Steel's largest steelmaking facility: the Gary Steel Works. Informed observers ob-servers say they will be surprised if he stays at Gary more than five years before he is elevated to one of the vice presidencies of U.S. Steel Corp. . Meanwhile, Utah is losing one of its outstanding out-standing industralists, as George Jedenoff leaves to accept the inevitable promotions to which his vast experience and abilities entitle him. No starry-eyed Idealist, he came to Utah back in 1960 with a clear understanding of the handicaps under which the Geneva plant was operating. BUILT IN 1941 by U.S. Steel for the federal government as a hedge against the possible closing of the Panama Canal by enemy attacks, the Geneva Plant provided a new steel supply to Pacific Coast shipbuilders. Under the pressure of wartime, the huge Geneva Plant was completed in record time and operated for the government by Geneva Steel Company, a new U.S. Steel subsidiary organized in 1943. Overnight, Orem farmers and fruitgrowers became steelmakers, many of them maintaining maintain-ing their agricultural pursuits, as well as working regular schedules at the Geneva Plant WHEN COMPLETED, the Geneva Plant included in-cluded 252 by-product coke ovens, nine 225-ton 225-ton open hearth furnaces, three 1,110 ton blast furnaces, a 45-inch slabbing and blooming bloom-ing mill, a 132-inch semi-continuous plate mill, a 20 -inch structural mill, and the numerous complementary facilities required to operate a large steel works of this kind. The end of World War II on Aug. 14, 1945, brought cancellation of wartime contracts for shipbuilding and other defense production. Consequently, the emergency need for Geneva's vast plate and structural capacity GRADUALLY, THE plant slowed to standby operations while postwar disposal plans were , negotiated. The following year, the government govern-ment accepted U.S. Steel's bid to purchase the plant, and with the transfer of the Geneva Plant to private ownership on June 19, 1946, efforts were made to get the facility back into full production. During the next 14 years things hummed at Geneva, with production slowed only by periodic peri-odic strikes and slumps in the national economy. Also, during this same period, foreign steelmakers were expanding and modernizing their plants, and turning out an increasing quantity of steel with cheap labor. WHEN GEORGE JEDENOFF arrived at Geneva in 1960, he found that the Utah plant was operating under two significant handicaps: 1. Geneva's prime West Coast steel market was feeling the economic impact of steel produced by not only foreign, but other domestic domes-tic sources. 2. The distance from Geneva to its important markets added higher freight rates to the cost of steel. Mr. Jedenoff saw that not only the growth of the Geneva Plant, but survival, itself, depended upon producing a superior product and getting it delivered to market at a competitive com-petitive price. From the very beginning of his administration adminis-tration at Geneva, that has been his goal. This program was formallized last year when he launched the "Errors Zero program at the Geneva Plant. CALLING AN INPRECIDENTED meeting of both steelworkers and community leaders in the BYU Fieldhouse, he not only fed them a delicious chicken dinner, but he outlined plans for a crusade for excellence which would thrust the Geneva Works into the national competitive steelmaking picture. Enlisting the wholehearted support of both management and employees alike, he dramatically drama-tically outlined their stake in the future of Geneva. The continuing success of this crusade has been rewarded with important investments in new plant facilities by U.S. Steel's top management. manage-ment. The most recent announcement was made last week by. Mr. Jedenoff, himself, regarding the construction of a multi- million dollar addition to the structural mill. During his tenure at the Geneva Works, George Jedenoff has been active in a number of professional and civic organizations. Most significant among these, perhaps, have been the roles he has played in the organization of the Utah Valley IndustrialDevelopment Association Asso-ciation (UVIDA) in 1965, and the creation of the United Fund of Utah County in 1964. IT IS DOUBTFUL if either of these organizations organiz-ations would be as effective and successful as they are today without the personal interest and dedicated effort of George Jedenoff. Less well-known has been his continued interest and support of the Orem Community Church. As a trustee of the church for several years, he has been one on whom the church could always depend for assistance of any kind. As George Jedenoff leaves the community to which he has contributed so much in the way ' of inspiration, dedication and plain hard work,-the work,-the OREM-GENEVA TIMES takes this opportunity oppor-tunity to articulate the feelings of the many, many people who wish him well in his new assignment, and thank him for what he has left behind. WE WISH HIM every success in his new position, and hope that he and his family will remember with affection the beautiful Utah Valley where 'people make the difference." WomenPast21 WITH BLADDER IRRITATION Suffer Many Troubles . After 21, common Kidney or Bladder Irritations affect twice as many women as men and may make you tense and nervous from too frequent, burning or itching urination both day and night. Secondarily, you may lose sleep and suffer from Headaches, Backache and feel old. tired, depressed. 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Fotheringham received M.S., education degree. Why do so many coin laundries use Speed Queen? Because: (1) They are so dependable (2) So simple to use (3) Wash so clean Why don't YOU buy the Washer proved in thousands of coin laundries ... and save on repair bills SPEED QUEEN. ill Jl Top of th Hill South Orom-N Parkins Meter 1 691 S. STATE, 225-3420 IT NEVER FAILS acuDi Tue aovic uDAiP RCEfM FlGHTlNG v.. rsr-j i-vw- fiw-itM T nPMAND THAT YOU OO in nrsu oivt mttv. " " " ' Z, VOU'VE BEEN) EnTivccCi iw cT IV 4P OH. wi SK3HT ' ' ... "1 a : ' ..... "iitk V1 i O - tfav HAL IMMUJUISf f THE VIEWS expressed in this column or any previous column are those of the author, Mr. Williams and not those of the Orem-Geneva Times management. OUR FRIENDS, THE RUSSIANS How elated Americans must have been this week when the two grandfathers" (President John son and soviet Premier Alexl Kosygin) met in a friendly, re laxed, propaganda-free atmosphere atmos-phere in New Jersey this week end! Most "happy to see the picture in the paper would be the Amert can fighting boys as they read the Saigon newspapers. They know that the friendly Russians are supplying most of the war materials (and even some men to THE TRAINED NURSE by Tom Berg What a woman she was. . . that Florence Nightingale whose great heart, moved by the horrors of the Crimean War gave to the world its first real conception of Nursing. And to this day how worthily her many followers have carried car-ried out her ideals of am eliorating human suffering. There is a good deal of the child in all of us, when we are ill and so we turn instinctively instinc-tively to that eternal mother which is in every trained nurse. She does not disappoint us. She has been surrounded by hardening sights but she has not become hardened. She knows only too well the features fea-tures of the arch-enemy, Death, whom she has set herself her-self to fight unceasingly. She brings to her work mercy, mer-cy, understanding, tenderness, tempered by training and judgment. judg-ment. Her starched cap is her crown. And none of the world's courturiers, striving with all their resources to create beautiful beau-tiful garments for woman-kind, has been able to design a costume cos-tume as supremely becoming as her plain white uniform. Berg Mortuary 500 North State Street OREM, UTAH 84057 Phone 225-2131 you CM GET RELIEF FROM HEADACHE PAIN STAN BACK gives you FAST relief from pains of headache, neuralgia, neuritis, and minor pains of arthritis, rheumatism.. Because STANBACK contains several medically-approved and prescribed ingredients for fast relief, yqu can take STANBACK with confidence. Satisfaction guaranteed! Taxi STANBACK gainst any preparation' you've ever used "T j run the airfields) used to kill them in the war. And what is it they are inveigling in-veigling us for this time? (President (Presi-dent Johnson said about Kosygin: He has been a grandfather longer than I have, and he and I agreed that we wanted a world of peace for our grandchildren." America saved the Communist (so-called) revolution after it had forcibly established itself using a real blood bath to gain power. Individual alien Americans (mostly those Jews deported from Russia in the early 1900's for attempted over-throw of the Russian Rus-sian King) were trained in New York under Trotsky (Lev Bron-stein) Bron-stein) and comprised a core of the revolution along with those trained in Switzerland by Lenin (also Jewish). American troops were actually in Russia during some of the post-World post-World War I fiascos. After the Communist government govern-ment had trouble forcing this Orem-Geneva Times Thursday, June 29, 1967 dictatorship down the Russian throats, the U.S. (under FDR) recognized" the Soviet Union diplomatically, giving it credit on the world markets and thus keeping keep-ing it from crumbling in 1933. Then in 1936, Americans volunteered vol-unteered to help keep the pro-Communist pro-Communist government of Spain from being over-thrown by General Gen-eral Franco and his anti-communist forces. With the help of the newGerman armed forces, Franco succeeded in throwing out the Commies their first major defeat outside of Russia and actually their last total defeat Friendly America, after being forced into World War II with a so-called sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, began giving the Russians aid as early as 1942 (read The Gold Swindle," by Major James Jordan), some of which was not even intended for use during the, war but afterward. A total of approximately $11 billion is still owed to the friendly Americans by the friendly Russians. Rus-sians. America helped East Europe by being friendly to Russia when it took over country after country. And one knows how all those folks love the Communist regime. And one knows that they all got to vote it into powerl In 1948 the friendly Russians established the Berlin blockade. And that was very considerate of them to cost the friendly U.S. taxpayer so many millions just to fly food into the starving folks in Berlin. Our friends the Russians helped the North Koreans in a shooting war that killed 35,000 American boys. The Russians were so friendly that they hardly lost a man. Americans let the Russians have atomic materials during the war and eventually the actual atomic bomb (plus the device to set it off). This, of course, led to a costly arms race and a more costly space race. America remained friendly in August of 1961 when the Berlin Wall was constructed. And in the meanwhile, the U.S. was making treaty talks on nuclear arms and disarmament. Then the Russians got hungry and America sold them wheat at a 50? per bushel taxpayer subsidy. And that was a very friendly gesture. And Russia, which couldn't take care of all the countries that it has taken over, asked the friendly Americans to give aid to East European countries (more than $3 billion to Communist Yugoslavia Yugo-slavia along). And we did! And now the second Russian Butcher in seven years appears in America. And what a frlenrilv reception was given, especially Kosygin. (Although one cannot, forget that Khurshchev toured the U.S. except Disneyland; they wouldn't let him inl) And with friends like the Rus sians, who needs enemies? Apparently, there are many powerful Americans in Wash ton who believe that the Russi; are actually our 'friends." Orem - Geneya Times HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday at Orem, Utah. 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