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Show Pare 4 Friday, December WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY 13, 1957 U. S. Steel Corp. Uses Unique Methods In Building Huge Air Force Structure COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo- UJS. Steel is scheduled to raise the roof December 20 at the Air Force Academy building site near Colorado Springs. Specifically, American Bridge Division, the Corporations and fabricating erection unit, is planning to raise steel a block square, 1150-totruss over 24 feet to form the roof of the new service schools cadet dining hall. ' Veteran builders of American Bridge describe the steelwork at the dining hall as one of the most unusual construction jobs tackled by the Division. The 308-fosquare roof frames was complete, ly assembled on temporary supfeet high, ports, two an done-hal- f that were laid on the floor slab of the new building. Sixteen steel columns, weighing nine tons each, have been set in place to carry the roof after it is jacked Into position. The extraordinary building procedure is necessary, according to Lewis Hack, erection superintendunent, because of the 266-foAsroof. of .the supported span trusses the and sembling welding in their final position would have required erecting an excessive amount of temporary falsework. Employing a technique similar to that used in some reinforced concrete construction, hydraulic jacks will be placed on top of each column. The jacks will turn nuts which will draw up bolts attached to the roof beams. The entire operation, scheduled to take about six hours, will be managed from a remote console where the fovement and force exerted by each of the 24 jacks can be n ot ball and socket on the top of each column to support the roof. To allow for expansion and contraction resulting from temperature changes the entire roof will float diameter hemisfreely on h less steel supports. All of the steel for the dining hall was fabricated at American Bridge Divisions plants at Gary, Indiana, and Minneapolis. Despite the fact that most of the 1600 tons of trusses and columns were prepheres. The action is the same as with fabricated, 27 welders have used a trailer hitch on the family car, more than 11,500 pounds of weldexplained Mr. Hack. The balls ing rod to assemble the big roof and sockets are made of stainless at the building site. steel because of that metals wear Steelwork at the cadet dining and corrosion resistant proper- hall is scheduled to be completed ties. early in 1958. At that time other When the roof is completely in- crews will come in to finish the When ready for ocstalled, the American Bridge building. crew will build a mezzanine floor cupancy, the hall will boast a for the dining hall. Supporting stainless steel ceiling, aluminum columns fo rthe mezzanine will clad columns, and over 94,000 be slip jointed to allow free square feet of virtually unobmovement of the roof on its stain structed floor space. ball-sock- et six-inc- Salt Lake Stock Exchange A 'PEESEKr WftR AflCEiRe ot controlled precisely. As far as we know, Lew Hack said, this is the first time technique has been attempted for a steel truss roof. After the roof has been lifted to a point one inch higher than inch 5 the top of the each timbers, columns, temporary with two Jacks, will support the roof while it is being permanently steel caps welded to two-tocolumn. on each placed Another unusual feature of this Job is the use of a stainless steel lift-sla- b 26-fo- ot n Friday, December IS, 1957 Lleted Btoeki Banner Mlnnlng Big Hill Bonanza Oil Ac Mng. ... Bristol Silver Bullion Mining Bullion Monarch Chief Coni Chief Cons. Pfd Chief Cons. Warrants .. Colorado Con. Clayton Silver Combined Metals Comet Coaln. Commonwealth Lead ... Comstock Uran. Ac Oil . . Cons. Eureka Crescent Eagle Oil Croff OH Crown Point Dragon B. Crown Point East Standard Corp Empire Mines Eureka Bullion Eureka Lilly Cons Eureka Mines Eureka Standard at 200 Dragon 100 at Mono Kear sarg Park City Cons at .06 Tlntlc Standard Zuma 1000 at Zuma 500 at With Oil Vapor Safer sterilization of hospital equipment is the latest of oil s contributions to the medical world. Sterilizing with the petroleum product ethylene oxide vapo, researchers found not only permits the use of materials such as plastics which cannot be heat sterilized, but alsl additional sterilization of equipment right In the shipping carton. This is a plus safety factor because both equipment and carton absorb some of the gas during the process prolonging sterilization effects. Out of oil research come new medical and surgical techniques and new drgs that help add years to the lifespoan of the average Curb Sales A T-14- R-10- Kerr-McGee- Thing of Butyl Ageless buyls a real queen of rubbers, Ordinance Corps officials agree. butyl (a .03 Mass-produc- ed . . . . New Line for Supermarts For Guided Missiles New Mexico boasts the worlds service station for guided missils. Here special petroleum chemicals and other components which go to make missils fuels are blended and stored. Guided missiles are not loaded directly. The fuels are ready mixed and first rubber derived from oil refinery gasses) was psed in making the first allsynthetic heavy duty truck tire ever to pass rigid Army tests. Under gruelling and highway conditions, its performance was fbund to be at least equivalent or superior to military tires presently being manufactured. Butyl tires, which can be made on conventional equipcross-count- ry wont crack, chio, or age premetered, then the fuel blend ment, in storage as conventional types is shipped in containers to the do, sometimes in as little as 60 to missile area. loading 90 days. Elimination of this stormissile fuels are one of age problem alone will bring the oil industrys latest and most vast savings in the nations about important contributions to nation- defense High-power- ed al defense. Packed in plastic, most things stay fresher longer even geological cores. Core samples taken from a well as its being drilled furnish important clues in detecting oil. But the cores must be studied before they dry out, to be of any use to the scientist. Imbedding cors in plastic, oil researchers find, preserves them so that they will be permanetly available for study. Even mud core samples can be preserved so perfectly that structures and fossils remain undisturbed. Oil mens skill in getting to the core of Jany projblcfm fast, ensures consumers of plentiful supplies of oil products for today and to- the Word On Lube Troubles 'Service Station' Scooter service stations have added gasoline and motor oil to the long list of some G,0G0 different products already on sale at supermarkets. Busy homemakers can pull into the supermarket parking lot, an l phone in an order for gasoline, oil, water, or tire check. The dealer scoots up, hooks a hose from the service scooter into a valveinthepave-men- t, which is connected to underground gasolitte lines and fills er up. A meter located on the scooter (which also carries canAmerican. ned oil and other service aids) records the sal; and issues the check to the housewife who can U-- W then pay it at the store checkhas recently out counter. Taking the service United Western acquired leases from the U. S. statioin to the customer marks a Indian Bureau on approximately historic first in oil marketing. 2,240 acres in the Ambrosia Lake area of New Mexico. The Company plans to drill immediately the E of Sec. 28, s which lies to the south of Section large ore body, on the west by and joined 22, Pacific Uraniums ore body on Section 27. A 100,000 foot drilling is planned In connection with this lease. Gets Lease ed Plastic Pack .03; New Quincy North Lily No. Standard Park Bingham Park City Cons Park Konold Park Premier Piute Uran. Corp. Plutus In these bituminous blossoms' bee specialists hope to find answers to such agricultural problems as protecting bees against insecticides, pollinating forage and food crops, and finding correct locations of bee hives for both honey production and polination. For .90 to help them in their morrow. materials .8716 more often 2000 at .05; 3000 at .05 research, scientists 2000 at .07; 1000 at .06 ft; than not make a bee-li- ne for the 1000 at .42 versital products of petroleum! . No Soap's 2000 at .03 Bonansa Oil 1000 at .04 Bristol Silver 600 at .16 Clayton Silver 1000 at .18 Mono Kearsarge 729 at .04 Royston 1000 at .03 Willis ton 1000 at .12 Nalldrlver New Park Cold-Sterilizi- ng . Dragon 1000 . . . are born suckers, but whether scientists can feed them remains to be seen. The flowers are Lucite blocks set in pans of sirup, and borer with holes just deep enough for the bee to feed. Sirup formulas are varied to discover bees food preferences, while) equipment attached to the blossom automatically records on graph paper the amount of sirup gathered. By means of oil-bas- East Tlntlc Coaln East Utah ... Cores Slay Fresh Bees Cardiff Central Std Gold Chain Grand Deposit Orest Western Horn Sliver Intermtn. Pete. Inc. Kennebec Keystone Leonora Little May Majestic Oil Ac Mng. Mammoth Miller Hill Mono Kearsarge Moscow Mt. States Dev Mountain View Where the Bee Sucks program. Litter of the Law Neither fly in the ointment nor bug in the grease fouls up lubrication process. Five years of intensive oil research has resulted in a new non-soorganic thickener, which when added to jindu serial greases greatly improves their stability and resistance .to water and oxidation Because they remain grease-likand give lubrication at higher tempratures over longer periods than conventional products, the new greases will be espically useful where high' temprature and excessive moisture conditions prevail. Knowledge gained from years of fruitful oil research ha helped industry give many of its lubrication problems the slip. ap e Under regular peacetime operations the jet fuel output of from 25 to 35 large refineries is required to' meet the demands of the nations jet aircraft. Fine for litterbugs a good stiff one, says the law of 47 states. But the jmotorist can avoid being bagged for littering if he takes along his own litterbag. News in traveling wastebaskets is a neat, colorful bag made of plastic. Twin sets of rings make it easy to snap the bag to instrument panel, window crank, or robe rail. oil-base- d And they snap open just as easily so the trash can be emptied at wayside litter baskets . Attractive though homely, the car litterbag is a good example of how bright, durable oil products have helped change our idea of utility. It costs an average of $5,800 per day, plus 2 to 2 and one-ha- lf cents per foot for drilling pipe rental, to drill an offshore oil well in 40 feet of water; Oil men spend just about as much moneyy in the 20 or 30 days it takes to sink a well, as they do to produce the oil over the 20 or life of an oil well. 30-ye- ar Oklahomas oil and gas producing industry i8 among the rs in the State. largest In 1955, employees of oil and gas producers earned nearly $220 mil wage-paye- lion. |