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Show USSR & M CO. HONORS VETERAN JEMPL0YEE5 Veteran employees of the U.S. Smelting Refining and Mining Company were honored for their long service records with tht company at the Eleventh Annu.il Twenty Year Club Dinner hchl Sunday, February 17, ot Hoifl Utah. Over 500 persona attended the affair. This year 22 employees who completed twenty years of service ser-vice were welcomed into the Club and received certificates of membership and gold lapel buttons. but-tons. In addition, lapel button were awarded to one employee who completed 40 years of continuous con-tinuous service during the past year, five employees who completed com-pleted 35 years of service and ten employees who completed 30 . years of service. The Club was organized in 1947 and the dinners have been hold each year since that time. The membership has increased each year until at the present time there are 412 members. Two hundred ninety-five, or nearly one-fourth of the employees at the company's operations in Utah, are active members and 117 former employees now retired re-tired are honorary members. O. A. Glaeser, vice president and general manager of Western operations was toastmaster. He complimented the membership on their outstanding service records re-cords and presented awards to the new members and those completing com-pleting 40, 35 and 30 years of service. F. S. Mulock, president of the company, and a 35-year charter member of the Club, came from Boston to attend the affair. He-has He-has attended each dinner since the Club was first organized. following dinner, Mr. Mulock spoke briefly to the members!-, ip, adding his words of congratuk' tions for the outstanding records of service. J. Rex Mills, a framer 5n the sawmill at the U.S. and Lark Mine, responded on behalf of the 22 new membera,- thanking th? company for the recognition of their service. Receive Service Buttons The lone recipient of . a 40-ypar . , award this year was Carl Serdar, an employee of the Midvale Plant. Thirty-five year service buttons were received by Tom Starkovich, Magnus E. Olson, George W. Jenkins, Franklin E. Reading and Elmer S. Johnson, Midvale Plant employees. Thirty year service buttons were presented to Harold Fox, Milo W. Pearson, Elvin Hughes, Wilford W. Lewis, John Whea-don, Whea-don, Orson T. Jenson and Henry J. Brown, Midvale Plant employees; em-ployees; Walter R. Hansen and Roy V. Peterson, U.S. and Lark Mine employees; and Leonard F. Gran berg, -Salt Lake office. New Members Employees welcomed into the Club as new members : this year were: 'Lorrin Hunt, James Alkn Richards, Peter Loulias, John H. Fritz, Lorenzo A. Oakeson, A. Vaughn Gregory, Ielo E. Goff, Darold C. Dumas, Max E. Baker, John Denney, Vernon L. Gray, Glenn Duncombe, Harry J. Bow-en Bow-en and Frank P. Costello, Mid-vale Mid-vale Plant; Mike Cerrone, Eddie Fenstermaker, J. Rex Mills, Nicholas Penton and Benton Boyd, U.S. and Lark Mine; Francis Webb, Chauncey L. Thornburg and Paul J. Lubeck, Salt Lake office. Receive Safety Awards A special feature at this year' dinner was the presentation of . safety awards to 86 employees in icLuguuiuu ui men lung empiuy- ment in the mining and smelting smelt-ing industries without a disabling disabl-ing accident. Gold buttons for 30 years or more without a disabling disabl-ing accident were presented to 26 men and silver buttons for 20 years without a disabling accident acci-dent were presented to CO men. In presenting the awards to employees, Mr. Glaeser told the members that safety has alway.5 been a company watchword and through the years no effort or expense had been spared in building safety into company operations. op-erations. He pointed out that over the past 16 years, the company com-pany has received from the Joseph Jo-seph A. Holmes Safety Ass'n 10 certificates for meritorious safety achievements. He noted that at the dinner two years ago individual Holmes Safety Ass'n awards were pre--sented to 40 employees who had worked 30 years without a lost time accident and 103 employees who had worked 20 years without with-out a lost time accident. The 86 employees recognized this year were those who had qualified for awards since 1955. O . |