Show TWO SCORE AND THREE YEARS AGO hugh J gowans gowana head assayer at international smelting smelling Sm elting ref refining inin g co thoele tooele plant is oldest employee with 43 years service he is shown here using balance so BO delicate it can weigh a pencil line on paper fit company has exceptional number of employees with long employment records seeking permanent job smelter boasts super old timers club any statement that this thi is a young mans world can be successfully challenged by the international smelting smelling Sm elting refining company plant at tooele thoele where an employee with less than 20 years of service falls into come according to T ka K voyer plant personnel head international is well above the average as far as employees with long service is concerned of a total of regular employees 37 or have been with the company for 20 years or more 28 or have 25 years of service 13 or 77 started with international 30 years ago and 4 or 22 go back 40 years or more statistical figure to make the statistical picture even more impressive nine nine employees started in 1910 with international even before the plant was first operated as a copper smelter dean of the old timers is hugh J gowans head assayer who was a member of the original surveying party that laid the groundwork for construction in 1908 when the plant was still in the blueprint stage mr voyer is enthusiastic over the work records of internationals longtime long time employees A newcomer himself with just 15 years of service mr air voyer believes the older men maintain a high degree of efficiency show outstanding dependability pend ability and are tops in understanding of a job that comes largely from years of experience 39 year man dian general superintendent of the tooele thoele plant is carlos bardwell a 39 year man who started with international ter the day after he was graduated radiated from the university of U utah tah according to him the plant was constructed to replace the highland boy copper smelter in salt lake valley which closed down originally designed ta bandit copper ore from bingham the plant started smelting smelling sm elting lead ores in 1911 and producing zinc in the form of concentrates from selective flotation in 1934 today copper production is it a secondary operation md and the plant turns out monthly ight eight to nine million pounds of les lead bullion and pounds of zinc in the form of zinc concentrate slag processed in 1941 the company started to recover zinc from lead blast furnace slag some tons of dump slag flag have been processed since that hat t date in addition to all slag currently produced international takes pride in its safety record which mr voyer attributes in part to the good example set by the old timers in 1960 1950 the company received the joseph H holmes safety award for progressive decline in accident rate over a 10 year period the rate had dro dropped ped from accidents per pei million million man hours worked to accidents the figure for 1961 1951 is about the same as for 1960 1950 unusual record in summing up the reasons for internationals unusual employee record mr voyer said its hard to put your finger on tle the reason but I 1 guess you can trace it all to the fact international is a good place to work and tooele thoele a good place in which to live As a result they stay with us ns fifty five per cent of our men own their own homes and 68 fathers have sons who are fellow employees our men consider this a permanent job |