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Show FOUNDRYMEN TO HEAR LOS ANGELES EXPERT Kermit Skeie, manager, Western Region, Magnaflux Corporation, Los Angeles, will be speaker at the April meeting of the Utah PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, Chapter, American Foundrymen's Society, April 20, at 7 p. m., at Hot Shoppes, in Salt Lake City Reservations may be made with in Angus Backman, FR Provo. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959 UTAH. 20, Mosquito Control Groups Study Utah Encephalitis Danger at Joint Meeting Weber County mosquito abate-By JOAN GEYER ' as winter cephalitis in Texas may have The garter snake host' and the culex pipiens been transmitted by the culex mosquito as a carrier of St. Louis pipiens mosquito,, said Dr. encephalitis were added to lists of Utah County has culex tarsalus suspects in recent epidemics of encephalitis (sleeping" sickness). mosquitoes and a few pipiens. But in Utah, an explosive build- The moquitoes themselves do not g up in populations of necessarily bite human and do culex tarsalus :in 1958 appar- not necessarily carry the virus. off the state's out- But they are deemed a constant ently kicked ' break of western equine en- hazard. cephalitis in humans and horses. ment records showed an explocurb sive build-u- p , to in numbers of the Mosquito control 1 lo w culex tarsalus last malaria, encephalitis, ye year due to fever and other diseases was unusually favorable weather conunder discussion Sunday through ditions for this species. In Davis Wednesday during joint County and Box Elder this mos ConAmerican of tions Mosquito quito was "very definitely attack trol Association and Utah Mos- ing man ; the culex pipiens apquito Abatement Association at parently was not. Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City. Dr. Leo A. "Thomas, Hamilton, While' Utah County was on the Ont U. S. Public Health Service, extreme perimeter of the said garter snakes have been exbreak area, the county did have perimentally infected with equine three cases of human equine en- encephalitis by cephalitis and a considerable num- mosquitoes and- may be winter ber of cases in horses. It is quite host for culex tarsalis. Utah Tests Made possible, says Dr. C. "M. Smith, He said federal health men director, City County Health Department, that ersidents may have moving into Utah last year tested suffered light attacks and built up blood of birds, animals, people Immunities. and mosquitoes in northern Utah Utah Potential and mosquitoes in pools from Dr. Alton A. Jenkins, Utah Payson to Preston, Idaho. Some State Department of Health, told humans gave positive reactions the joint conventions Tuesday apparently from old as well as that "awareness had existed for from fresh infections. A substanyears that Utah had potential tial number of horses and some for a western encephalitis out- chickens were positive, but Engbreak, and that Box Elder Coun- lish sparrows negative. ty had a quite extensive" number They found an "unusually low of cases in 1936. ratio of virus in the mosquitoes' Dr. Jenkins described the 1956 as compared to the human outUtah epidemic as '. "largest labora- break of western encephalitis tory-confirmed in the state." possibly due, said Dr. Thomas, Dr. Rudolph Donath, Atlanta. to the fact the epidemic was Ga., U. S. Public Health Service, subsiding as much of testing was called in by Utah, placed 120 cases being done. under surveillance and encourUtah records of mosquito popuaged physicians and hospitals to lations in' the epidemic areas of submit blood, stool and throat Salt Lake to Box Elder showed washings for laboratory diag- close correlation between rising nosis. He said 31 cases haoSbeen curve of the human epidemic confirmed by Utah State Health. and numbers of culex tarsalus. labMr. Ogden was scheduled lo Department and 16 more by ' confirmations. oratory speak this evening to Utah Coun' One death was confirmed by ty Mayors Council, meeting in laboratory analysis of brain tis- city and county building . at sue, but seven more fatalities, 7:30 p. m. not confirmed were "probable." he said. There is indication from clinical symptoms that the demic was much larger than confirmations prove, he said. California Outbreak, Dr. R. Edward Bellamy, Calif., U. S. Public Health Service, said California had an 'abortive outbreak" last Utah County Parm Bureau offiyear, in Kern County, . which had cers announced today they will 1952 a very bad outbreak in and - due to a "partially susceptible" vigorously oppose any increase in V population and a "high virus rate" sales tax. The county, as well as "in culex tarsalus," has some en the state organization, ha had cephalitis from year to year resolutions for the past two years Kern County has both Wesfern opposing any-- increase in this tax. The following is an excerpt, from ;and St. Louis encephalitis. Even in highly alerted Kern that resolution: "We are opposed County about half the; cases of to the enactment into law of any brain fever have to be written off legislation td'provide a sales tax as of "undetermined" origin, to cities and counties on a statesaid Dr. Bellamy. Some cases of wide or county optional basis. brain fever are caused by Cities already have authority to mumps, measles or herpes, a skin collect a gross business tax and disease, . but western equine, should use the same if they need eastern, Japanese B and St. Louis additional revenue. It is wrong to encephalitis are the epidemic enact any law that would make varieties which worry health de- captive taxpayers of all citizens of partments 'and, which appear to rural areas and small communibe transmitted by mosquito bite. ties which do not have local shopOutbreak of ' St. Louis ping facilities, to get revenue for J. Ogden U. S. Public the purpose of financing the de-Health Service officer, "Greeley, mands of increased services in Colo., Tuesday said Salt Lake andjlarger cities." vircus-carryin- g - . ' . Bak-ersfiel- r d, Farm Bureau Of County Opposes Any New Sales Tax " , (Editor's note: Herald City Editor Theron H. Luke recently visited the huge steel center of Gary, Ind., near Chicago, on a flying trip to that area, where he lectured on early Utah history to the Chicago Westerners Club and spent a fascinating day in the heart of the nation's steel Industry.) neva Plant is something' to be wheels. We saw rails made, and! proud of, and certainly no pigmy watched a bar mill where the in itself yet Gary Works fairly steel travels so fast on the rolls dwarfs it. For instance, Gary has it's sort of here one second and 54 open hearths in five "shops." gone the next. The bars are so Geneva has 10 furnaces in one long before they are cut it would shop. Gary has 12 blast furnaces, be impractical to roll them in one Geneva has three. Gary has 1162 continuous stretch so they curve coke ovens, Geneva 252. Gary has them around, and start them back 140 soaking pits, Geneva 16. Of in the opposite direction. The course the comparison may break bars whip around those curves down a little because all the com- like a sled at the peak of a bobBy THERON II. LUKE parable facilities aren't the same sled, run. and of Works the Geneva 'Town Just Growed size or capacity, but you get the Gary '. ". U. Steel Corporation illustrate idea. The town of Gary, Ind., grew from the mill, not the mill from 20,000 Workers perfectly the contrast between the crowded East and the expansive From the standpoint of overall the town. The mill was built, and West..' employment, Gary Works has then the town, like Topsy, "just Each occupies exactly the same about 20,000 employees, Geneva growed" along side of it. The city, amount of space 1600 acres. Yet around 5500. And believe ine, Gary about 175,000 to 200,000, depending Gary has 3 times the capacity is booming. Everything seemed on whose figures you take, crowds of Geneva 8,000,000 ingot tons an going full blast, and the various the mill gates something Dr. Wal-thMathesius set out to prevent nually to Geneva's 2,262,000. rolling mills sat side by side thickis count. U. er I S. could than he took over Geneva. The Steel's when ; largest Gary Remember, all on this workers the is fact that 'no milltowri sits right plant employing 20,000 capacity' jammed 1600 same 40.000 and and making acres, as Geneva under Geneva's stacks, you can space, shapes sizes. The latter fiugre sounds in occupies. credit to him. Rolling processes and products credible, but that's what they have Gary is 40 per cent colored, but on a big sign inside their plant, I had never seen were particularly it has no serious trouble as a I watched t hem rule. All schools are integrated. and when you think of every prod interesting. uct, and every different size of forge, roll and machine railroad There are no segregated buses. Jhat product, it can add up to a lot of shapes and sizes. I didn't see all of them on my recent trip through the huge Gary plant, and the nearby Gary Sheet and Tin Mill, but I saw enough to give you an idea of the immensity of the operation. Built In 1906 The Gary plant, named after the late Judge Elbert H. Gary, who i' started out as a Chicago lawyer and ended up one of the world's greatest steel tycoons, was built in 1906 Surprisingly enough, most of v i V it was built then and in the few v years ' to follow. Gary has made substantial additions (it's just finmill now) but ishing a new Judge Garyhad a vision of an "integrated" steel mill which has all the processes from the raw materials to the finished product and he built a mighty big plant to start with. It is on the shore SPECIAL GUESTS TO ADDRESS UTAH SECRETARof Lake Michigan about 35 miles IAL INSTITUTE Mrs. Vontella Kimball, Denver busifrom Chicago over the bumpy bid ness woman, left, and Vera Pennekamp, national second Illinois Central Railroad. ( I'd alvice president of Executive Secretaries, will be among ways read about the Illinois Central the special guest speakers at the Utahi Secretarial Instiand envisioned it as a sort of comtute Saturday at Brigham Young University. Hundreds bined California Zephyr and Prospector. The part I rooe on was of secretaries from over the state are expected to attend just another old Orem electric the event, which will be held from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the foyer of the Smith Family Living Center. The institrain, only dirtier.) tute is sponsored by the Utah County Chapter of the A few comparisons will serve to show Utahns that while their' Ge Executive Secretaries and the university. r: PHOTOGRAPHERS ELECT OFFICERS-Newly-elec- ted officers of the Utah County Photographers Association are, from left, Don Pugmire, vice president ; Palma Van Wagenen, secretary ; Glen Van Wagenen, president ; and Art Gordon, state board member. Mr. Gordon is retir ing president. . U tah County Photographers Association Picks Officers Gordon will serve on the state board of Utah State. Photographic .! Association. Purpose of the organization is to improve photography. The group meets monthly. Composed of professional photographers, the group is open to people engaged in the business of photography. Guest speakers discuss related problems and bring new and advanced techniques to the members. Utah County Photographers Association elected new- - officers at the annual election meeting Tuesday evening. Glen Van Wagenen of Provo was elected president. Art Gordon of American Fork is retiring president. Officers who will serve with Mr. Van Wagenen are Don Pugmire of Provo, vice president; Palma Van Wagenen of Provo, secretary. Art . Around and About UTAH COUNTY 1 er - 4 , 43-in- ch . " Gary Works Occupies Same Space As Geneva, With 3Vi. I imes the Cap acity - virus-carryin- . Biggest U. S. Steel Plant Has 20,000 Employees By MILDRED B. HALL FR 4-14- 47 Mr. and Mrs. William Griffiths of Orem returned during the n week after a spent in their native England and Wales. The Griffiths, who have planned the trip'for many years, went by air from Salt Lake City to London and return. They report flying by jet plane from New York to London in six hours. While away they visited Mr. Griffith's six sisters' and dream-vacatio- one-brother- . Mr. and Mrs. William McQuillian of San Francisco, Calif., have been visiting with the following relatives, in the area: Mr. and Mrs. Willard Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Jacobs, Provo; Mr. and Mrs.' WiKord Pierccr-JOTem- ; Mr, and Mrs. Henry Pierce, and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Pierce, Salt Lake City. Welsford "Gus" Clark is recovering satisfactorily after surgery performed recently at Utah Valley Hospital r Mrs. Fred Bawls, (Lois Stewart) of Seaside, Ore., has been the guest of her aunts, Mrs. Edith Y. Booth and Mrs. Beatrice Y. Moore for the past week. She has also been entertained hy her cousins, Mrs. Bill Whittaker, Provo and Mr. and Mrs. Pat Stewart and Mi", and Mrs. S. Paul Stewart in Edgemont. Mrs. Rawls left April 11 for Cedar City to meet her husband, Dr. F. F. Rawls who has been in El Paso, Tex. Together they will go on to California to visit Mrs. Rawls' sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Barton Giller in Long Beach and other relatives and friends as they motor up the coast to Oregon. . Pansy Plants, (adv.). FR 3 Fertile, mountain top soil, finest in the state, any quantity. (adv.). Airplane (adv.). ambulance, FR H: 08. Western's Champagne Flights Reservations and tickets available. Christopherson Travel, 290 West Center, Provo. (adv.). I : "V--- - . ll re me the spring, summer and fall months and stockpiled when Lake Michigan is frozen in the winter. There's a lot of dirt. A lot mor than. there seems to be at Geneva, but then it's better than thre; times as big on the same space. Coke plant division employees drive their cars through an automatic spray which washes off the day's grime before they go home. It's a big place, and they make a lot of things, but they do it the same as we do. At the soaking pits (where I once worked at Geneva) they put 'em in and pull 'erarmt tiif lilro uo AA Tho nntv Hif ference is, there's an awful lot ' ' more of it. - MDn fCTA iniiinivu OPTICAL )jj,.y ' ; ) jcF;x o . - -- V'J' V' I The only way to travel anywnere, split into t i wnne ana coiorea sections. Tne mill itself has about 25 per cent of its working force colored. As one public relations man said to me: "We don't have any serious trouble here in the mill, and when they go home after working side by side all day, it just doesn't seem to occur to them to be mad at each other off the job." Negroes have equal opportunity in the-miunder union seniority rules. Paul' McGough, personable and live-wipublic relations man at Gary, told me Negroes-hav- e become rollers" in the mill usually the top pro. duction job.! De Esprit Corps There seems to be quite an e de corps among Gary employees. They have five, musical organizations choruses and instru- -, mental groups sponsored by the company. An employee gets regular wages for rehearsals and trips, if they fall on his shift. They have an employees golf league, a flying club which owns two planes, nine baseball teams, and so many bowling teams I lost count. A full-timusical director is on the company payroll. The carolers group from the musical activities dresses up in authentic Old English costumes, and makes appear, ances all over the Gary and Chicago area during. Christmas time. 3000 Car Movements a It's huge plant. Everything, however, seemed to have a sort of; confused orderliness, if you; know what I mean. Three thousand railroad car movements a day bang and shuttle around on the tracks within the plant. 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