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Show lv H" 4 - I " - ,J H.' ' - jX I ; ; u , , r.- r I ; I M'i; . l ! i " If - i f - -' 1 l I V -. - (, 1 I r f - - .' I ' 1 1 "PITCH IN" Showing the Way to end Uttering are Edward B. Anderson, Frank M. Hogan, Henry A. Huish and LaMar Wilde and Val E. Christensen, at Geneva Steel Company. 5,000 Steel ma Iters Are Waging War on Litter The 5,000 steelmakers at Geneva Works today opened an all-out effort to end littering. litter-ing. Picking up what is fast becoming be-coming a nation-wide effort, the Utah County steelmakers began a "Pitch In" program that is designed to stop the littering that spoils the beauty of our environment. Throughout the huge plant, ''Pitch In" signs, the reminder to stop littering, have gone up on billbords, posters, bumper stickers, hard hats, lunch boxes box-es and on litter containers throughout the facility. The Geneva Pitch-In drive is sponsored by the Geneva Joint Union - Management Productivity Producti-vity Committee: Edward B. Anderson, United Steelworkers Local 2701; Val E. Christensen, Local 3736; LaMar Wilde, Local Lo-cal 5236; and Frank M. Horg-an, Horg-an, Geneva general superintendent superinten-dent and company chairman. All of Geneva's . employees are pledged to "Pitch In" and they are counting on all residents resi-dents of the area to follow their lead. The drive has special meaning mean-ing at Geneva because employees employ-ees and their families share a special stake in the fight against again-st litter. For example, a determined deter-mined effort by enviromental interests is now underway to gain enactment of "Ban the Can" law by the legislature of Utah and other western states. Whatever form it takes, the effort of such legislation is to restrict, if not eliminate the sale of soft drings and bever-idges bever-idges on nonreturnable containers con-tainers such as cans. The Utah steelmaking team is the primary producer of steel for tin plate in the western west-ern United States. Each year approximately one - third of Geneva's annual total production produc-tion goes to Pittsburg Works near San Francisco for finishing finish-ing into tinplate. To produce the steel required requir-ed to make this product takes approximately 5,000 Geneva employees working the equivalent equiva-lent of nearly three months each year. This represents at nearly $20 million. And of the (Continued on page 3s Litter Campaign (Continued from page 1) total tin plate market in the 13 western states, canned soft drinks and other beverages account ac-count for a major share. Members of the Geneva Union Un-ion - Management Productivity Committte believe there is a better way to fight litter than to pass laws that jeopardize the jobs and oconomic contribution contri-bution of Utah citizens; that is to set an example for others oth-ers in the state and put litter where it belongs into trash barrells and receptacles provided provi-ded for it. |