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Show Geneva Works Celebrates 25th Anniversary Geneva Work, the backbone of Utah Valley'es economy, observed ob-served its 25th anniversary of steelmaking Tuesday. The 5,000 Geneva employees marked the occasion with determination de-termination to make it 50. While the plant has produced nearly 40 million tons of steel in its first 25 years, the Tuesday Tues-day cleberation was focused on the start of production for the second quarter of a century of steelmaking in Utah. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton pulled pull-ed a switch that signaled the tapping of an open heart furnace. fur-nace. He was assisted in this ceremony by veteran steelmakers steel-makers who tapped the first heat of open hearth steel in Utah 25 years ago. As the furnace poured out its burden of 350 tons of molten steel shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday, Tues-day, the second quarter of a century of steelmaking in Utah began. In an anniversary message to employees, Raymond W. Sundquist, general superintendent superinten-dent ,set the theme for the week-long anniversary observance obser-vance : In keeping with the responsibility respon-sibility we share," he said, "this occasion must be a time for each of us to renew his commitment to uphold the future fut-ure of our industry and to set as our goal the achievement of 50 years of steelmaking in Utah." He said that "there is no guarantee for us that we will reach this goal. We musi. work for it. Progress like this has to be won the hard way." The day's observance centered center-ed on this visit of the governor and the start of steel production produc-tion for the second 25 years. Plant officials and about 50 civic and business leaders toured tour-ed the plant after the brief ceremony at the open hearth. At the conclusion of the tour the guests viewed a presentation present-ation on Steelmaking in the West and were served refreshments refresh-ments in the GRA building. Beginning Wednesday and continuing through Saturday, plants tours will be held for Geneva employees and their partners. Buses will make regularly scheduled trips thru the plant for employees beginning begin-ning at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m. each day. |