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Show Geneva Steel Plant Notes 25flh A nniversary As Orem Ciiy Celebrates Golden Jubilee Two significant anniversaries -a Golden Anniversary and a Silver Anniversary-are being celebrated cel-ebrated in 1969. The Golden Anniversary, An-niversary, of course, commemorates commem-orates 50 years this week since the Town of Orem was incorporated incorpor-ated under the laws of the State of Utah. The Silver Anniversary is one which notes the quarter of a century cen-tury since the first heat of steel was tapped in an open hearth at the Geneva Steel Plant, located at Orem's west city limits. . The first heat of steel was tapped tap-ped at Geneva on Feb. 4, 1944, following the smelting of the first pig iron at the plant a month earlier. The giant steel plant was built for the United States Government by U.S. Steel's Columbia Steel Company as a precaution against the possible closing of the Panama Canal by enemy attacks during World War II. The new mill known first as the Geneva Plant was named for the once-flourishing Geneva Resort Re-sort located on the edge of Utah Lake. The plant was built in a dairy farming area extending from 300 South to 1600 North, and west from Orem's 1600 West to the shores of Utah Lake. The site selection was made at the Orem City limits because adequate transportation facilities were available to nearby sources of iron ore, coal, limestone and dolomite. The accessibility of an . adequate fresh water supply was another important consideration in the site selection. Under the pressures of wartime, war-time, the huge Geneva Plant was completed in record time and operated op-erated for the government by Geneva Steel Company, a new Unites StatesSteel subsidiary organized or-ganized in 1943. Overnight, Orem farmers and fruitgrowers became steel workers, work-ers, many of them maintaining their agricultural pursuits as well as working regular schedules sched-ules at the Geneva Plant. When completed,' the Geneva Plant included 252 by-product coke ovens, nine 225-ton open hearth furnaces, three 1,110-ton 1,110-ton blast furnaces, a 45-inch slabbing and blooming mill, a 132-inch semi-continuous complementary com-plementary facilities required to operate a large steel works-f -this character. tt v The scheduled capacity of the Geneva Plant in 1944 was 1,150,-000 1,150,-000 net tons of iron, 1,283 net tons of steel ingots, 700,000 tons of plates, and 250,000 tons of structural shapes. The end of World War II on August 14, 1945, brought cancellation can-cellation of wartime contracts for shipbuilding and other de- "feMliiiai V 'if v J 'VUVmA. , i i I'll -NJ With constant growth in mind, Jo-Lene Jo-Lene Company this year added 6000 square feet of warehouse space in downtown Provo. Our manufacturing manufactur-ing plant now cleared for production, we .added sizes 7-14 to our 0-6x sizes in girls' apparel, making up to 1500 garments a day. The JoLene Company, Inc. Manufacturers of Exquisite Children's Apparel PROVO, UTAH n m y 0 nfe 1 l,- tfrvJ I I (. li fit v X) A HELPING WITH THE U.S. Savings BondDrive at Geneva Works during the week of May 5-10 are seven Vietnam veterans from Orem, (left) fense production. Consequently, the emergency need for Geneva's vast plate and structural steel capacity vanished. Gradually, the plant slowed to standby operations while postwar disposal plans were negotiated. Many bids and proposals to lease the plant were submitted to the government by private industry, but the War Assets Administration adjudged U.S. Steel's bid for Geneva's plant and inventories to be the best, and their bid was accepted May 23,1946. With the transferr of the steel plant to private ownership on June 19, 1946, U.S. Steel Company Com-pany proceeded to get the facility back into full production. In late 1946 all operations of U.S. Steel in Utah were consolidated consoli-dated under the management of Geneva Steel Company, with the exception of the iron mines which were still operated by the Columbia Col-umbia Iron Mining Company, . a separate U.S. Steel unit. Gene va S teel Company and C ol-, umbia Steel VCompany ; were merged on January 1, 1952, into the Columbia-Geneva Division of United States Steel Company. Since 1946, new facilities have been added to the Geneva Works, increasing substantially the quantity quan-tity and variety of steel products which can be rolled in the mills. ' A nitrogen products plant completed com-pleted in 1957 has added 70,000 Since most of these clothes are sold outside the state, our sales bring new income to Utah Valley. UVIDA recognized recog-nized our youthful growth this year presenting us with the "Sapling Award." It I It 111 i Antonio Maez, Gary Anderson, Royd Moss, David Finch, Stanley Multine, Dennis Kirk, and Brent Johnson. tons a year capacity to the coal chemical output of the plant. First of its kind in a major steel plant in the United States, the new facility combines hydrogen hydro-gen from coke gas and fertilizers fertili-zers and nitric acid for farm and inductry. In 1960 a new Raw Materials Research Laboratory among the most advanced in the steel industrywas in-dustrywas built at the Geneva Works. This modern research center conducts intensive studies on western-produced iron ores, coal, coke and other raw materials ma-terials used in steelmaking. Steel products used all over the world bear the "Geneva" label: structural shapes, plates, hot-rolled hot-rolled coils and sheets, and large diameter pipe. Also manufactured at the Geneva Ge-neva Works are pig iron from the blast furnaces, coke and coal chemicals such as coal tar, ammonium, am-monium, sulfate, benzene, toluene, tol-uene, zylene, and naphthalene. ,The nitirogen plant produces ant hydrous ammonia, ammonium ni, trateand nitric acid. -' As the employeer of over 1,200 Orem residents, the giant Geneva Works plays an increasingly important im-portant role in the economy of the community. - Raymond W.Sundquist, general superintendent of Geneva, and many of the top supervisors at the plant call Orem home. Only the better made, highest quality children's dresses and playwear carry the Jolene label. Now sizes 0-14. II 'fc:l mmSm 'mm gup Jolene Company, Orem Industry For Little Miss By Connie Wilkinson If you don't have a little girl in your house the name Jolene might not mean anything to you. But as a Utahn, interested in Utah economy, the Jolene Company, Com-pany, 1980 Columbia Lane, should be important to you. The outgrowth of a privately owned proprietorship which started start-ed about 1955, Jolene, a publicly owned company, has been located locat-ed in Orem for four and a half years. Jolene manufactures clothes for little girls, from infant to 14 years of age. Sizes which are most popular are those of infants to 6x. Production reaches between 100-150 dozen articles per day. The annual payroll is approximately approxi-mately $150,000. Jolene distributes all over the United States, with only two per cent ofits production sold in Utah. Distribution is primarily to chain stores, internationally as well as nationally, such as J.C. Penney s, Learners, Sprouse Reitz and Sears Roebuck. The result is to bring revenue from out of state sources into Utah. An expansion program was developed de-veloped in the past year which has brought about an increase in the range of products and opened new accounts. Because of this expansion program, production mm 1811! ill on the our fmrttm mil coin should double by the end of this year. As part of the expansion program, pro-gram, design talent from the California Cal-ifornia market has been brought in to help in the styling of new merchandise. Another aspect of the expansion program is to make the company known in the garment industry world. A year has been spent in establishing the ground work and results are beginning to show. Last year the Jolene Company received the Sapling award from the Utah VaUey Industrial Development De-velopment Association (UVIDA). A new production facility is in the future plans. It will be located lo-cated in the Utah County area. "Utah County people have supported sup-ported us well in buying our stock. Our aim is to continue to bring new business into Utah County" stated C. O'Neil Rasmussen, president and general manager of Jolene. CEMETERY 79 Years Of Service To Orem and Central Utah SAVE AT Sesiu Jonummt 725 South State Street i'i tvli X ' ' v " ' s ,J 25th anniversary of Geneva Steel pledge (glbw rip " : ; : . -- ;: ' -;.-.":; ,;. r: 'm ;::::.v: fW&:& llillililiilH Orem-Geneva Times Wesko of Orem Builds First Camper In 1953 Wesko Inc., located at 296 No. State in Orem, began as a one-man one-man operation in 1937. After graduating from .high school, Weston Kofford began building kitchen cabinets to make a living. Two years later, in 1939, "Wess moved to Salt Lake City to work for $.50 an hour. In 1941 he returned to Orem and re-opened his cabinet shop. By 1945 his business included selling building materials and builder's hardware as well as cabinets. Wess began building eight-foot campers in 1953 and decided he wanted to build a camper that. MARKERS in Provo, Utah ft renewed.. OTTRYHTfTP Thursday.. May 8 1969 could sleep more people. - He originated the first over-cab over-cab camper in this area in 1954. He took his new camper to YeUow Stone Park and only saw one other camper with an extension over the cab. It was not his intention to get into the camper business, but he soon found himself doing repair work and selling camper supplies. sup-plies. ' : " - Now the business employs from eight to 12 people working with plastic faced cabinets, post-formed cabinets, camper repair work and they have even produced a few trailers. Ageless Granite & (ault Co. 374-0580 mmmmmmmm |