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Show Clf. States Steel Supports Economy Everybody loves a success story. And when it happens to someone in your own backyard, it's even better. Such a tale in the great American tradition involves involv-es two Orem brothers with no more than a high school education educa-tion and a dream who traded everything they owned in 1951 for two tons of steel and a cornfield. corn-field. From this they evolved one of the most progressive industries indus-tries in Utah, Mountain States Steel, located on the Geneva Road in northwest Orem. Clyde L. and Jack D. Olsen, (joined in 1953 by their brother William H.) and their wives, all sisters, first began MSS fashioning fashion-ing steel signs in a 20 x 60 tar-topped tar-topped shed. "Our next job was a little bigger," remembers Clyde, "... a small addition for a nearby school. We cut Unties day and night and whatever cash came in was used to buy more steel." Humble beginnings it was for a company which now ships between 8 and 9 thousand tons of steel a year throughout the United States and South America. A 26 acre industrial site with several huge warehouses has replaced the cornfield and the original shed still remains, a learn-to next to the largest warehouse. There an average of 110 men prepare for shipment massive girders, some weighing 35 tons. The steel is purchased in large plates, stripped, cut, welded, beveled, bev-eled, and put together. Before shipment every joint is x-rayed by a portable x-ray machine. "If there are any defects in the joint, they'll show up under x-ray," x-ray," said Mr. Olsen, "If a joint is less than perfect, the seam will be re-welded." All welding equipment equip-ment at Mountain States Steel is automatic and semi-automatic. - More than half of the steel used at Mountain States Steel is purchased pur-chased from Geneva Works and a 1400 foot railroad spur brings the steel direct from Geneva across the road to Mountain States Steel. "However, Geneva is not a completely integrated mill and some steel must be shipped from Pueblo, Colo., Pennsylvania Pen-nsylvania or other places," Mr. Olsen said. In another warehouse at Mountain Moun-tain States Steel, Unties and trailer frames are cut and JV Mountain States Steel lb packaged. "It's really a do-it-yourself shop for homebuUders as far as steel work is concerned," con-cerned," said Mr. Olsen. Complete Com-plete steel work for four trail er frames are bundled together for shipment or purchase. Rancho Trailers in Nephi is one of Mountain Moun-tain States Steel's biggest customers. cus-tomers. Other customers for Mountain States Steel range from uranium miUs in Utah, to Las Vegas hotels to industries in Peru. Mountain States Steel manufactured manufactur-ed for Utah Construction for eight years in Peru. Jobs recently re-cently were completed at Hen-efer, Hen-efer, Utah and San Bernadino, Calif.; and girders were readied last month for shipment to Sacramento. Sac-ramento. The Starvation Bridge at Strawberry Reservoir used about $800,000 worth of Mountain Moun-tain States Steel Products. The newest building at Mountain Moun-tain States Steel is the paint shop, a special warehouse where the temperature must be kept above 40 degrees. Here the beams and girders are primed and painted .before shipment. Located near the front entrance of the site, the attractive gold-colored gold-colored brick office houses a staff of five engineers, and assistant, four bookkeepers an the managers, mana-gers, Clyde, president; Jack, vice president and Kenneth Bre-reton, Bre-reton, vice president and purchasing pur-chasing agent. Clyde's wife Ilene is the secretary and treasurer. Bill and his wife left the company to operate Bill and Iva's Cafe in Orem. AU work completed in the warehouses has its beginning in the front office. Two to three months before a plate of steel is cut into for a specific job, structural struc-tural steel designs by registered Engineers outline every step of the fabrication process for each piece of steel. Are there any problems in steelmaking? "Raising capital always al-ways is the biggest problem," says Clyde. In 1964 the company secured a Small Business Loan, and since then Mountain States Steel has grown four times in volume and shop space. Not willing to pass up a good opportunity, Clyde and his wife recently added the WesternWare-house, WesternWare-house, a five and half acre site adjoining Mountain States Steel. for t Clyde Olsen, president of the company, standing along side of steel tied ready to ship to Nephi where it will be used in the manufacture of trailers. FABRICATORS - ERECTORS OF STRUCTURAL STEEL -ANGLES - PLATES - FRAMES OFFICERS Cl.vclr I.. (Mson I'rrs. mill (.rn'l Mar. ,li k I). Olson-Vice I'rcs. nd Pnnl. Mm. Kenneth Brcrelon V ice Pres. and Purchasing Mer. Ilene II. Olsen Sec. anil Tresis. fine THIS IS NO SNOW JOB. Mountain of amonium sulphate at Western Warehouse stands almost 60 feet and appears to be a craggy snow-covered mountain peak. Mountains of buff colored and white ammonium nitrate ferti-Uzer ferti-Uzer are stored and packaged in two large steel warehouses. Annually An-nually approximately 20,000 tons of fertilizer are processed at the plant. With such industrious leaders at the helm you can be sure Mountain States Steel will continue con-tinue to progress' at a rapid pace. But whatever the future holds, the industry has had a phenomenal beginning and has contributed much to the local economy. Cordial Club The Cordial Club was organized organ-ized in 1959. The purpose was for the educational, cultural, civic and social advancement of its members. "Cordial" was selected selec-ted as the name because it sym-boUzed sym-boUzed kindUness, giving heart, and imparting vigor and joy. There were 22 charter members. mem-bers. The current membership is at 30. Mrs. ClanStilson served serv-ed as the first president. Succeeding Suc-ceeding presidents have been: Mrs. Lee Kirk, Mrs. MelvinBur-gener, MelvinBur-gener, Mrs. Mark Wood, Mrs. Leo Smith, Mrs. David Packard, Mrs. Herald Vance, Mrs. Leon Robinson, Mrs. Fred Baird, Mrs. Farr Hatch, current president and newly elected president for the 1969-70 season, Mrs. Ronald G. Hyde. Through the years many worth-whUe worth-whUe service projects have been sponsored such as a bowUng project pro-ject for handicapped children and rul Ml providing textbooks for exceptional excep-tional children at the Lindon SchooL Also every Christmas the club sponsors aid for a needy family. Many appreciative letters have been received from those famiUes the club has assisted assist-ed in having a joyous and memorable mem-orable Christmas. The group have enjoyed many varied and interesting programs and special events through the years. One such special treat was when John Goddard, famous explorer and his lovely wife, P early ne, a sister of a charter member, spoke to the club and showed motion pictures of their expeditions and world tours. An other was the informative lecture lec-ture given by Daryl V. Hoole, authoress of "The art of Home-making" Home-making" and Linda Whiting and Mary Ann Wrights, own original "Tour of Europe on aShoestring." Another noteworthy event was Mrs. Alice Buehner, Mrs. America Ameri-ca of 1965 who was the featured speaker at the annual Mothers-Daughters Mothers-Daughters Banquet in 1967. This year's Mothers-Daughters Banquet Ban-quet wiU be held May 10 at 1 p.m. at the Oak Crest Inn. Q. I recently received my National Na-tional S ervice Life Insurance dividend div-idend check. I am now drawing 100 percent service-connected disabUity compensation and, because be-cause of this, the premiums on my policy are waived. Since I do not pay anything into the insurance fund, should I return re-turn the dividend check? A. No. You need not return the check since you are entitled to this dividend. mm Huge girder produced by Mountain States Steel goes into place on the Strawberry project. Utah's longest water span is being completed, near Starvation Dam at the BonneviUe Unit of the Central Utah Water Project, with a big assist from Mountain States Steel who fabricated and erected the gigantic steel beams that will support U.S. 40 traffic. The Span, some 1674 ft. long and requiring more than 1,710 tons of Here or there, no job is too large or too small for Utah County's home-grown" industry - Mountain States Steel. The recently completed complet-ed contract with Reynolds Metal Company for 950 tons of structural steel indicates the aggressiveness of this company.This job, from start to finish was completed in 3 months even though the erection site was located several hundred mUes from the fabricating plant. Also, most of the steel used in the Reynolds project was purchased from the United States Steel Geneva Works. Just another indication that Mountain States Steel supports local industry when possible. Growth of this company is evident by the fact that a record 7,500 tons of steel was fabricated and shipped to various parts of the United States and South America last year. Mountain States Steel is a large contributor to the economy of Utah County and the State of Utah. During peak production periods, employ- WW WW Geneva Road West Sharon Stake By David J. Stone In southwest Orem, south of 1300 South and west of State Street, lies the area of the West Sharon Stake in our community. At present it comprises four ecclesiastical wards in this area of Orem, along with four in northwest Provo andoneinLake-view. andoneinLake-view. West Sharon was created by a division of the Sharon Stake on November 30, 1958, with Elder LeGrande Richards of the Council Coun-cil of the Twelve and Elder Alma Sonne, Assistant to that Council, Coun-cil, officiating in the organization of the new units. Clyde M.Lunce-ford, M.Lunce-ford, a progressive horticulturist horticultur-ist whose well-kept and productive pro-ductive fruit farms are among the few remaining in Orem, was chosen from the presidency of the parent stake to head West Sharon. Shar-on. He chose as his counselors H. Verlan Anderson, a lawyer and educator then Uving inOrem,and Karl W, Johnson, a dairyman Uving in Orem. The initial stake population totaled 3,228 members; it has now grown to over 5700. President Lunceford led the stake for a period just over ten years, until March of 1969. Other counselors who served with him included Ellis T. Rasmussen of Orem, Verlin M. Clegg of Provo, Pro-vo, and John H. Adams of Provo. The new presidency includes Dr. Wayne A. Mineer, an Orem physician phys-ician and surgeon, as president, with David J. Stone of Orem State Band as one counselor and Mack L Par cell, a Provo merchant mer-chant as the other counselor. A far-sighted building program was drawn up and followed in the stake. At the time of its inception, two old meeting houses and one partially completed new one constituted aU of its physical physi-cal facilities. The new one being built to accomodate the functions of two wards and the stake was under construction at 1700 South and 400 East in Orem. It had been completed sufficiently for partial use by January 1957. It was aU finished and ready for dedication by September 25, 1960. Dedicatory s e r v i c e s were con ducted by President Lunceford, with Elder JohnLongden, Assistant Assist-ant to the Quorum of the Twelve, presiding and giving the dedicatory dedi-catory address and prayer. This building still graces one of Or-em's Or-em's most rapidly growing areas, providing faciUties for worship, for learning, and for cultural STATES and athletic and social activities of the Orem 14th and 15th Wards and the stake. Foreseeing the potential of the area for development, President Lunceford secured as soon as possible two other meeting house building sites. One of these, at 140 West 1600 South, was developed de-veloped during the years 1964-66 and now accomodates a lovely modern church edifice housing the Orem 22nd and 29th Wards on the brow of the bench, overlooking over-looking Utah Lake on the west and picturesque Timpanogos on the east. The other, at 150 East 200 South is to be developed soon as a meeting place and cultural center for the Orem 29th Ward. (New buildings were also built during the late '50's and early '60' in the Lakeview, Provo 17th-21st 17th-21st Wards and Provo 18thWard, West Sharon Stake.) Another type of development of an Orem area under the ages of West Sharon took place near the center of our community. At the time of its creation, the new stake received the west half of a fruit farm occupying the interior in-terior of the territory between 560 East and 800 East, and 400 South to 800 South. Fruit was produced on the farm for the Church Welfare System for the benefit of the needy. As homes increased in the very desirable locations near the farm in the vicinity of Lindon, the Scera, and Orem High School, it became evident to stake leaders that fruit-farming could not be expected ex-pected to continue indefinitely in this area. Some horticultural pioneering by President Lunceford Lunce-ford in the West Mountain area west of Payson opened the way lor the procuring of an excellent ex-cellent 80-acre farm there, just coming into productionwith pie cherries, sweet cherries, pears, apples and peaches. It was possible pos-sible therefore to seU the West Sharon part of the Orem farm. Wayne Mttls bought it for home development and under his organization or-ganization new homes wiU soon occupy what was the farm. These are a few of the physical physi-cal developments of West Sharon. Its spiritual and cultural impact, more important still, is making itself felt in our community. Orem-Geneva Times fsr w' v t -. ?-7 ! f : 1 U Mae Morgan BPWClub By Lurleen Hansen The Orem Business and Professional Profes-sional Women's Club was organized organiz-ed in Nov. 1949. It was sponsored sponsor-ed by the Provo Club. Lucile Haws and Jen Eggertson met with Edna Durham to see if she could caU a group of working womentogeth-er womentogeth-er to discuss and organize a club. Flo Beck (County Nurse), Edna Ed-na Durham, Lenore Johnson, (now in Calif.), Bessie Meiling, Dorothy Dor-othy Campbell,(now a member of the Spanish Fork Club), Erma Farley, Julia Swan, Evelyn Terry, Ter-ry, Norma Cannon attended. The first meeting was held at the "Twin Pines Cafe" with our State President attending. She installed in-stalled the new officers and gave the club its charter. Members from the Provo Club attended, also. The Business and Professional W omens Club aims and objectives are: to elevate the standards of women in the business and professional pro-fessional field, to bring cooperation cooper-ation among the women of the United States, and to extend opportunities op-portunities to business and professionals pro-fessionals through education in industrial, scientific, and vocations. voca-tions. We have had projects that have covered these fields. We have sent girls to Girls State for a number of years and are now giving giv-ing scholarships to girls who wish to attend the Utah Technical College Col-lege at Provo. We have raised money for the first ambulance and the present ambulance. We have contributed totherhuematic sm structural steel, was fabricated in Orem, Utah and was completed better than three months ahead of the contract schedule. Mountain States Steel is presently working on a 3200 ton bridge to be erected in Sacramento, Sac-ramento, California. Also, the men at Mountain States Steel have the contract to build the CartervUle Road bridge as it crosses the new 1-15 BYU Diagonal. ment wUl exceed 150 people with an annual payroU in excess of 1 miUion dollars. The employees and officers of Mountain States Steel foresee tremendous tre-mendous potential for industrial growth in Utah County. Their faith in the future is shown by the fact that 14 acres have been reserved for industrial development in the confines of their site in Lindon. These industrial sites now have power, water, access roads, and is completely zoned for industrial uses. In addition, a quarter-of-a-mUe of railroad spur has been laid to serve these sites as well as Mountain States Steel. They are prepared to produce and erect any structure that a locating industry might require or need in a relatively short time, Yes, indeed, Mountain States Steel is a Progressive Company with an eye on the future I C Thursday, May 8, 1969 fever project which was ourState Club's project. We were the very' -first club in Orem to have a State Convention here, attended' by women from all of Utah and '' representatives from National Headquarters. We have bought a-";: complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica for our city Ubrary.'; We have sponsored the Spanish 1 Fork Club. Our Club now has 27 members, mem-bers, AU working women are-- eligible to belong. It is a fun-" loving group that meets once each month at a dinner meeting ' with good programs and speak-' I ers. We wiU celebrate our twen- : tieth birthday, November, 1969; ' New Warehouse Near Completion ! : Another Orem "Happening" is; the recent construction of J & J '' Distributing Co., at 345 South' Main. The nearly completed building build-ing is under construction north of the old warehouse now used by the ' company. The present warehouse ' wUl be torn down when the new ' building is ready for occupation.' ; J & J Distributing is a dist ributing warehouse for Coors!' Beer out of Golden, Colo., and'-, wholesales to businesses south ' of the Point of the Mountain-and Mountain-and west of Heber. Owners are cousins John and ' Joe Elegante who moved to Orem from Helper, Utah, in 1961. At'-that At'-that time they remodeled the old warehouse and have been in bus-' iness since then. General contractor of the $75,000 buUding is Eldon Luck, " E.C. Luck Construction, and Jen- ' sen Construction sub-contracted ' the concrete. Masonry contractor ' is Glen Close with Denver Blat-' ter contracting the plumbing and ; Floyd Cook over the excavating;' B & D Electrical of American ' Fork and Draper Roofing of' Pleasant Grove also assisted in' the construction. ' ; Hot Chambers The thrust chambers used in'; the first stage of Project Apollo's' : Saturn rocket must withstand " heat of 5,000F half the temperature tem-perature on the sun's surface. The fuel is used as a coolant by circulating it through tubular thrust chamber walls made of a high - temperature nickel - chromium chro-mium alloy. This cooling system lowers the thrust chamber walls to a mere 1,000F. |
