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Show LKuirtLLiiiiV mi keep POSTED OX mxnn 'it Significance in "Jw Vol. 27. No. 42 A The OH and Mining Wetld" Salt Lake City. Utah. Friday. Decembei 14. 1956 U.S. Steel Retires V. P. Crfstin; Frisco F awarded Contract At Grant. Junction AEC Office Appoints Sentner, Successor Company, of Grand Junction, which has performed these services since 1948. Notice of acceptance of their proposal has been given Swinerton & Walberg by the commission, pending the drawing up and execution of a formal contract, which will run for two and a half years from January 1, 1957. This contract will be a costplus-fixed-fe- e type of contract, which means that the contractor receives a fixed fee for the services, regardless of the volume and dost of the work performed. Selection of Swinerton & Walberg was made after a study of ten proposals submitted by various firms, including Hie commission had in24 vited qualified firms to submit proposals. The services to be performed by the contractor include purchasing, receiving, storing, accounting .for arid issuing materials, equipment and supplies; repairing and maintaining equipment and other Government property; preparing construction Texas American Oil Completes New Well Texas American Oil Corporation No. 5 Percy Jones has been completed for a new producer in the Howand-Iata- n field, Howard The well was Texas. County, a for completed daily pumping Walker-Ly-barge- potential of 162 barrels of oil per day. Gravity was 28 degrees. Production is from the San formation through 86 of perforations from 2556 to 2893. The well was fractured with 9,000 gallons of oil and 500 r. pleted numerous construction and engineering jobs throughout the western states, and has had considerable experience in administering service contracts. The company has performed over a hundred million dollars worth of work in Colorado, beginning in 1942 with the construction of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal for the War Department near Denver. This company also constructed an addition 'to the Rocky Flats installation of the AEC near Boulder, Colorado. an agreement to pur- . T-l--S, Utah Mining Association Appoints New Officers Utah Mining Assn. Monday at made available to Utahs congres-it- s 39th annual meeting, an-- sional delegation, Three new. firms were admitted nounced addition of five new k Member firms and election of to membership Monday. Two L. Wilson, vice president ers were elected last month, They include Sunshine Mining of New Park Mining Co., as pres-- 1 . operating the Ransom Mine ident. i Co., .near Blanding, San Juan County; Mr. Wilson succeeds L.F. Pett, Zinc Lead and Smelt-DivisioAmerican general manager of Utah Copper which recently establishKennecott Copper Corp., jing Co., es president. Mr. Pett presided at ed western operating headquar-th- e McFar-Charle- s Hotel Utah breakfast session, j ters in Salt Lake City; G. A. Steen, Moab, pres- - land and Hullinger (F. of Utex Exploraton Co., Farland and S. R. Hullinger), was elected first vice president, Tooele mine contractors and Oscar A. Glaeser vice presi-- , erators; Lisbon Uranium Co., and general manager of ,erating mines in San Juan Counwestern operations of United ty and headed, by A. P. Kibbe, States Smelting, Refining & Min- - Salt Lake City, and National Lead at ing Co., Salt. Lake City, was Co., operating a uranium mill of elected second vice president. jMonticello under management A. G. MacKenzie, former asso- - Brower Dellinger, elation manager, was renamed j H. F. Mills and R. E. Calhoun vice president and consultant; Represent American Zinc Lead Miles P. Romney, manager, and and. Smelting and E. E. Eddy, Walter M. Home, assistant man- - Blanding, Sunshine Mining. Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. and Vitro Rare Metals of Canonsburg, Pa. The sales coverage of both firms will be increased. Vitro Manufacturing Company is one of the nations leading manufacturers of ceramics colors. Vitro Rare Metals Corn-firpany is engaged in the refining and recovery of rare metals, metallic salts and fine chemicals for industry and the processing of uranium and other ores chiefly for the Atomic Energy Commission. m Vitro Corporation' of America is a diversified industrial organization engaged in a wide variety of technological and scientific fields. Vitro operates across the board in the field of atomic endelphia. ergy from the mining, milling and The new subsidiary will con- - processing of uranium through tinue its own business intact and, the design and engineering of in addition, will handle sales for complete nuclear facilities. are anticipated. Berkshire has five branch offices located in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, and Phila- s Board and served successively as executive consultant, assistant director, deputy director, and acting director of the Iron and Steel Division. Returning to the vice presidency of Carnegie-Illinoi- s Steel Corp. in July, 1943, he was elected vice president of the U. S. Steel Corp. of Delaware in 1945. In January, 1951, Mr. Austin became president-commerci- Vitro Corporation of America two Vitro divisions, the Vitro hag signed in 1938 was elected vice president in charge of sales of the Camegie-HlinoiSteel Corp. During World War II, Mr. Austin joined the War Production and Mr. Austin began his career with United States Steel in 1918 in the New York office of the After serving in corporation. Vice minor capacities, he held several executive of U. S. Steel Co. and since sales assignments, served as manJanuary, 1953, has held the same ager in three district sales office, position with U. S. Steel Corp. Vitro Corp. To Buy Berkshire Chemicals chase Berkshire Chemicals, Inc. of New York, chemical sales organization, according to an announcement by J. Carlton Ward Jr., Vitro president. Vitro will acquire all outstanding shares of the chemical' sales in exchange for 12,667 shares Vitro stock effective December of designs and cost estimates; proMr. Ward said. 1st, viding camp facilities In the field; doing certain types of construcBerkshire Chemicals, Inc. will Government-owne- d become a wholly-owne- d of Vitro subtion; disposing mosidiary. Malcolm McAllister, Berkproperty; operating a shire president, will continue in that post. No personnel changes gallons of acid. Texas Americans No. 45 Jones is on a 320 acre lease approximately 6 miles SE of Coahoma. Location is 990 FWL and 1652.5 FSL of Section 13, Block. 30, T & P Ry. Co. Survey, Howard County, Texas. David F. PITTSBURGH, PA. president-commerciaexecutive vice Austin, United States Steel Corporation, will retire on Dec. 31 after nearly 39 years of service, it was announced this week by Clifford F. Hood, president of the corporation. At the same time, Mr. Hood announced that Mr. Austins successor will be Richard F. Sentner, presently assistant executive vice president-commercial- . l, Hie Grand Junction Operations neering firm with headquarters tor pool, and related services. Office of the U. S. Atomic Energy at 200 Bush St., will succeed the Swinerton & Walberg has comCommission announced today that Walker Lybarger Construction Swinerton & Walberg of San Francisco, Calif., will take over a contract involving construction, maintenance, and related services for the Grand Junction AEC office on January. 1, 1957. The San Francisco company, a management, construction and engi- - 10 Coats al Mr. Sentner began his business career in New York City in 1926 as a salesman for the Wheeling Steel Corp. He served in various capacity with that company from 1926 until the end of 1947, becoming successively assistant manager of tin plate sales, manager of tin plate sale, and assistant general manager of sales. From March of 1942 until September of 1945, he served on the War Production Board in Washington and was appointed deputy director of the boards Iron and Steel Division. He also served as director of the Iron and Steel Division of the. National Production Authority, Washington D. C. from March to September, 1951. Mr. Sentner joined the U. S. Steel Corp. of Delaware in January, 1948, as assistant vice president-sales. With the formation of the U. S. Steel Co. in 1951, Mr. Sentner became assistant executive vice president-commercial- , and in January, 1953, when the U. S. Steel Corp. became an operating concern, he retained that position. oth-Clar- ( n, Mc-ide- nt op-an- d op-de- nt ! Mr. Wilson is a graduate of the University of Utah, and a veteran of World War H. A former em-of Kennecott Copper Corp., joined New Park in 1940.. group took no new stand way of passage of resolutions, because the membership is waiting to see what sort of minerals program the administration will come up with for consideration by Congress. A legislative position will be taken upon disclosure of the na--1 ture of this program, an assoc la spokesman said. However, of members are now being long-rang- e . Koiiold DlTGCtOFS Return From The East John F. Laiiy and C A. Haupt-ploye man park Konold directors e confer-ThGently returned after a Asso-bence with Doctor Lee and e re-h- y y elates. This concludes their tlation with Doctor Lee and they have returned with the contract to represent the Lee Geophysical System. This system Hag been 'used sucessfUlly in the MidGon- tinent, Southern and Gulf States, Park Konold Mines Corporation proposes to use its system effec-tio- n tively in their oil and gas tlvities. nego-largel- ac-vle- . A Caterpillar D2 Tractor, one of the increasing number of diesel powered machines approved by the U. S. Bureau of Mines, works in a Wyoming trona mine. |