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Show THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, June 6, 1963 Slag From Geneva Used As Base On Athletic Track SALT LAKE , CITY, Utah Track coaches, sprinters and steelmakers will soon be tied together by a new use for an bid product blast furnace slag. Big, ten-wheel dump trucks spread some 1,000 tons of slag from U. S. Steel's Geneva Works I'Jiis week to complete the base i:our$e for a new athletic trick now under construction at Salt Lake's Skyline HiKh School. First experiment of its kind, the new slag base, some six inches in-ches thick, holds promise of major changes of the traditional tradition-al cinder path. ' Metallurgical slags, long considered con-sidered "nuisance by-products" of steelmaking, have recently emerged as valuable raw materials mater-ials for highway construction, concrete and asphalt aggregates, rail ballast,, rock . wool and a wide variety of specially applications. appli-cations. Crushed slag's rough-pocketed surfaces interlock allowing slag to "key up" into a tightly compacted, com-pacted, stable base which makes it ideal for this new application, applica-tion, according to Ross L. Alger, T i & V ONE OF A COLLECTION... FABULOUS COUNTRY CLUB COTTONS BY GAY GIBSON! Fresh, and delightfully pretty . . . our 'special occasion' cotton dress with stole, is fashioned with a zest for the sparkling life: cocktails on the terrace, a patio party, the dance at the country club! We note a closely molded bodice with tiny spaghetti straps over a lavishly full skirt. The fashion fuss is all about richly worked lace on skirt and stole. In white, or pink. .Sizes 5-15. Come in to see the entire collection, for your sparkling life! r 7 CAST MAIN AMERICAN FORK, UTAH for your season in the sun by CUIMWL-AD p OllimilLttlY MPIS Sail through summer in 6mooth style with this xciti ng new swioiwear Campus- hit the deck 1 with a boatload of refreshing Btyle ideas in boxers, zippeivfly boxers, one-size stretch knits, lastex and rAvenibles. Trim-tailored for plenty of action. $1.99 to $3.99 marketing representative, U. S. eieei siag products. "in addition, slag is highly resistant to weatherlncr and h. cause it is lighter In weight than most, ouner aggregates, it covers greater area per ton," he said. Skyline's new track is sphorf- uled for completion within the next iew weeks, Rex F. Moss, contractor, said. A thin topcoat top-coat of cinders will be used to finish the surface, he said. Plans call for a 440-track around a center-Island football field. Spectator seating capacity capa-city will be 2,600. Track design is by Dean L. Gustavson and Associates. Marketing of some 15 different differ-ent grades of slag products in the Intermountaln area began early this year with the completion comple-tion of Heckett Engineering Company's new $2.2 million slag preparation plant, located at U. 8. Steel's Geneva Works, near Provo. Legacies and bequests have become a major factor in financing fin-ancing the American Cancer Society's So-ciety's fight to conquer cancer through research, education and service. The Society reports that in 1952 this source supplied more than $590,123 of its funds. Maintenance Crews Opening Mirror Lake Road While most Utahns were perspiring per-spiring or basking in the hot sun, state-highway maintenance crews were battling six feet of drifted snow through the Mir-row Mir-row Lake area. , Heavy duty snow removal equipment absent from Utah's highways for several weeks-were weeks-were In action this week, open-In? open-In? State Road 150 from Kamas northerly toward Evanston, Wyoming. Under the direction of B. L. Winston, Maintenance j Supervisor, District 2, with ; headquarters in Salt Lake 'City, i maintenance forces moved In ; three, pieces of heavy snow removal re-moval equipment with the ob-1 lectlve of opening the road in, time for fishing season which i began June J. By Monday at-! ternoon snow plows had reached ! 35 miles from Kamas about five miles beyond the. Mirror Lake Res6rt. The 54-mile long highway, familiarly known as the Mirror Lake Road, was cosntructed by the Forest Service in 1960. Because Be-cause of " the high elevation in the Uintah Mountains the snow has remained almost as it was during the heavy winter season. The road reaches an elevation o nearly 11,000 feet at the summit. sum-mit. While Utah Highway Department Depart-ment crews expect to complete the snow removal within a few days, motorists are cautioned to check locally before endeavoring io drive the complete distance over state Road 150 to Evanston, Wyoming. S'do roads from State Road 150 continue to be muddy and covered with snow in most areas. Motorists who intend to drive Into the famed Mirror Lake area should come equipped as they ordinarily would during the bleak winter season a shovel, chain, and other emergency equipment. r-irl Deal, foreman of the K-xrr.as maintenance area, Is using two rotary snowplows and a three-bladed "patrol" to pen the highway. Crew members are ueorge lowis, Elden Stembrldge and Ralph McCormlck. The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. KMe r Robert A. T.arson Ranchers Advised Elder Robert A. Larson To Serve Mission A Farewell Testimonial will be Md in honor of Elder Robert A. Lnrron. son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Har-old S. Larson,- prior to his departure de-parture "for the Swiss Mission. It will be held Sunday, June 9, in the Ninth Ward Chapel at 455 East 3rd Nor'h, at 7 p.m. Elder Larson Is a graduate of the American Fork High School and LDS Seminary. Since school he has been bar tering tn American Fork. to Clear Stock From Camp Williams Area SALT LAKE CITY Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant Ad-jutant General, today advised cattle and sheep ranchers In the area of Camp W. G. Williams Military Reservation that Utah Army National Guardsmen will fire artillery on the 22.000-acre reservation June 6 through 23. Gen. Rich said artillery test firing will be conducted June 6, 7, and 8. Regular artillery firing fir-ing practice, as part of the annual ann-ual summer camp"eld training, will last from June 8 through 23. The Genf-ral asked cooperation coopera-tion of ranchers in the area in clearing the reservation of livestock live-stock during the two-week summer sum-mer camp. Help Choose the Roundup Roya by Your Applause .iiiiiiiiiiiiiirMiiiii i wa-, turn - , Ss I I I I I I I I I I I II I I II m I I II I I I t'ftftf .V if Jt :TVTKc, I f kl flak ft . 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