CALCITE SCREENINGS 1957 by Presque Isle County Historical Museum

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Mackinac Bridge Opened, page 22

-WINTER 1957

PUBLISHED FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OI: MICHIGAN

LIMESTONE DIVISION, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.

Ocfds arxAEhofe

A Christmas

With the year drawing to a close,

Message From

ihere was a great deal of activity around MI.D. Kaylor observed a 500-day safety

record at which time the subsequent

I lie President

closing of the plant was announced, story starts on page 3 •.. Moler put a

new electronic shovel to work, page 6 ...and the Mackinac Bridge, world's longest suspension bridge, was opened Nov. 1, page 22...You might be inter ested in a story of the home towns of the

s we come to the end of another year we k wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to the many employees, customers, suppliers and other friends of Michigan Limestone Divi sion who again have been associated in attaining

people working at Moler, page If)...

and a tug boar crew turned hero at Galcite, page 26. An Annandale employeetakes part in a community theater, page 28. These are only some t)f the stories in this issue. We are sure they will be of interest to you. •

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the excellent performance we so

frequently accept as routine. We are reminded appreciatively that production records have not been broken at the expense of the "Safety First" funda

dom that permits us to enjoy so fully the results of our labors; die comforts of our high standard of living; the privileges and respon sibilities of our freedoms

of speech, worship, anel

mental, that again Michi gan Limestone miners, e|tiarrymen, sailors and millers have demonstra

self

in these, the true values

While we realize that

of life.

the past year has present

As we gaze skyward Mr. Betikema

pectancies have not ma terialized, we hope that everyone will join in the spirit of Thanks giving that marks the Christmas season. Let us approach the New Year forgetting the little successes and failures we have known, the ON THE COVER

irritations we have felt, the oppe>r-

On Nov. 1, the world's largest suspen

tunities we have missed, the things that have hurt us, the transgressions of others against us. Rather, let us resolve to remember rhe happy k>vc of our dear ones; the kindness of our friends; the blessings of a free-

sion bridge opened for hu.sine.ss. This

from

this

world

which

not only is changing but

to all of us as earlier ex

striking picture on our cover was taken from the Mackinaw City side by Dick Allgire former editor for "Screenings," now with public rela tions, U.S. Steel. Story on page 22.

and

Loving God. May we al ways find our greatest satisfaction and happiness

ted knowledge of [heir safety responsibilities.

ed some disappointments

determination:

above all, the mercies of a

seems

times

elissolving, let tis resolve that the passing glow of a man-made satel lite will

not divert our attention

from the brightness of the Star e)f Hope that was established that first Christmas two thousand years ago. May we so keep Christmas in our hearts that we may be kepr in its hope for abiding love among men of good will in the year to come.

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MLD Screenings is published quarterly by the Michigan Limestone Division, United States Steel Corporation. R. J. Wheaton, Editor, Publication office, 2650 Guardian Building, Detroit 26, Michigan. No tiling appearing herein may be reprinted without special permission.

Mr. 3. N. Suliot, left, presents plaque to Mr. J. \V. Baird, assistant manager of opera

tions for 500 days without a disabling accident. Presentation followed employees' dinner.

KAYLOR PLANT CLOSES, MARKS 500 SAFE DAYS Last September, at the ceremony marking the celebration of 500 working days without a disabling accident, Mr. C. F. Beukcma, Michigan Limestone Division President, an nounced the planned orderly closing of the Kaylor mine at Hast Brady, Pennsylvania. An official letter from the President as early as February of this year alerted each employee to the possibility that the mine might close this summer or fall. The letter listed decreases in limestone requirements due to metallurgical procedures and the high mine producing costs as reasons for suspension of operations.

Speaking to the 180 employees who attended the safety dinner at East Brady High School, Mr. Beukcma congratulated them on their safety accomplishments and especially on re ceiving the Certificate of Merit from the Pennsylvania Depart ment of Labor and Industry last year. CONTINUE!) ON

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The ladies from the Parent Teachers Association at

East Brady dish out apple pie and ice cream following the dinner they prepared for safety banquet. 3

Part of crowd which attended Kaylor banquet. The men and women were treated to a turkey dinner and presented

the Division President's award for their accomplishment. The banquet was followed by entertainment.

Banquet, Entertainment "We regret the necessity of closing," said Mr. Beu-

kema, "especially since it might cause the relegating of some families when seeking new employment." The employees were thanked for their many years of loyal service and their tmtstanding safety accom plishments.

For those whe) are unable to secure employment in the Division or elsewhere in U. S. Steel, severance

pay, supplemental unemployment benefits (S.U.B.),

and retirement pensions where applicable have been discussed wirh each person on an individual basis. The mine was started in 1909 to provide limestone for the iron and steelmaking furnaces in the eastern United Stares. During chis period, the men of Kaylor have mined more than 36 million tons of stone dur

ing which rime they have won many outstanding Wilber J. Miles and Clifford E. Robinson are served a turkey dinner at the 500 day safety celebration of the Kaylor plant.

safety awards. Included in these awards was a citation

for <S6i accident-free days, which spans from Novem-

Mr. C. F. Beukenia, MLD president, congratulates the men on their safety record and also makes final announce ment on the closing of Kaylor. At the speakers table were,

from left, H. C. Farrell, director of industrial relations, Mr. Beukenia, Carl Benton, supervisor of operations, J.

\V. Baird, manager and H. H. Forginer, safety director.

Are Featured At Kaylor ber, 1930 to March, 1953. During this time more than 1,200.000 man hours were logged. In addition,

there was a span of accident-free days from March, 1954 to October, 1955 or 574 days.

The mine started as an open pit mine but went underground two years later. The present crusher was installed in 1913. Air shewels were used fre>m

1918 to 1925 when they were replaced by electric shovels. Electric locomotives were put into service in

1924 replacing gast>line types and electricity replaced steam for plant operation. The present washing and screening Operation was erected in 1933 anel addi tional modernizariem was accomplished through the following years. The first superintendent of the Kaylor plant was Charles Rhodes. He was followed by F. L. Jackson, R. S. Mitchell, H. W. Louis and C. A. Pratt. Present

manager is J. W. Baird, also manager of Annandale.

Enjoying- the entertainment are, from left, employees Martin Flander, Leroy Sigworth, Archie Rossman and Harry Hillwig.

MOLER GOES ELECTRONIC The arrival of the Moler plant"s new four-and-a-half yard shovel last month, roused curious interest among

TV control rooms. These highly sensi tive controls arc the brains behind the

unit, that rose up in a little better than

machinery and provide instant response and near perfect handling of each load. A device called Magnate>rquc ( mag netic clutch) provides smoothness to the hoisting Operation. The Magnatorque transmits turning power by means of magnetic forces. The unit con sists of two simple rotating parts, an outer member made up of an alloy steel ring with coils and an inner member

two weeks time, is electronic controls

which revolves within the outer mem

that provides seemingly effortless and smooth handling of every load. It is first

ber and carries no electrical windings.

in MLD and one of first in U. S. Steel.

ber at near constant speed. When elec tric current is applied, a magnetic attrac tion is set up between the two members

many quarry hands. Although to outward appearances it looked no different than any other shovel, those charged with assembling it knew that it was the newest of its

type, different in operation than any other around MLD.

The principle behind the 150-ton

Within its pressurized cab is as much electronic equipment as found in many

An AC motor drives the outer mem

causing the inner member to rotate in the same direction and hoist the dipper. A difference in speed, called "slip," exists between the inner and outer mem

bers of the magnatorque and is deter mined by the amount of pull on the dipper. As the pull increases, the amount of slip increases causing a corresponding increase or turning power by the magnatorque which automatically compensates for the increased load.

Prcssurization keeps out dust and dirt. Temperature control dissapates heat from the electronic gear. The new equipment is the largest te) be put tt> work at Moler. Present shovel

equipment consists of two four-yard electric and one two-yard diesel.

In the final stages of construction, the main boom for

new shovel at Moler is swung into place, below, while left, the completed product goes to work in the quarry. In all, the construction took a

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Cranes from Moler, left, swing the boom into plaee as workmen wait to make final adjustments and secure it.

little over two weeks.

KEEP ON YOUR

TOES Injuries To Feci Rale High In National Accident Figures There are five men at the MLD Cal-

cite Plant who can prove in a matter of minutes that it pays to wear safety shoes. They are John Dietlin, Al fred Peltz and John Hanson of the ma chine shop. Adelor Dulac, track crew, and Adolph Fuhrman, pipe shop. Each avoided a serious injury because he took the necessary safety precaution. Take John Dietlin of the machine shop as an example. Back in 1955 he was working on a heavy steel angle. He-

had it propped up ro do some welding

-Jolm Hanson, machine shop, demonstrates aboard M. S. Henry Ford how hatch cover landed on toe. The only thing that saved his foot was the safety shot;.

job being done, there is still the possi bility of injury, unless all proper safety devices are utilized.

The National Safety Council claims that handling objects is the principal source of work injuries. They base their

Safety shoes are designed to protect against all ordinary foot injuries, such

as falling objects on toes. Since the vital part is roe protection, the accepted stan dard strength is that the toe box must be capable of supporting a weight of 2,500 pounds, (more than half the weight of an automobile; or capable of

The steel plare in his safety shoe was hardly dented and he got a new pair of safety shoes free for being prepared. Last year John Hanson was replacing a hatch cover on the Steamer Henry Ford. As he eased the pinch bar under the cover, it slipped and the hatch cov

claim on figures received from many state labor departments covering com pensated injuries. Closely allied to hand ling objects, of course, is the fact that these objects are very likely to fall and the first parr of the body to absorb the shock is usually the foot. Safety shoes can prevent serious injury. Further statistics prove that injuries

er landed on his toe. As in the case of

ro the feet rate third in relation to in

make the wearer look like a Franken-

John Dietlin, there was no injury. The only damage to the shoe was a split in the leather covering the steel plate in

steinian monster. Modern design has made safety shoes resemble the shoes

even

juries to the rest of the body, thumb in juries are most frequent with finger in juries second. Fractures rate first in roe injuries and almost all are preventable by good safety practices and safety shoes. Of the total 2,000,000 injuries during

though a worker takes the ordinary safe ty precautions necessary to the particular

1956, 140,000 were to the feet with 80,000 specifically to the toes.

when the props slipped and down it

came on his roc. His injury? None at all.

the toe. The others mentioned above-

had similar experiences. Each

case

demonstrates

that

withstanding the impact of a 50-pound weight dropped one-foot. The inside of the roe box must not come closer than

one-half inch of the upper surface of the sole after any one of these tests. Ce>ntrary to some beliefs, safety shoes are nt)t ugly, heavy boxes designed to

worn to church or on social occasions.

Of course, there are the regular working type shoes also, with the high sides and ge>od ankle support. A variety of styles may be ordered at all the plants. Even the cost of the shoes is reason-

Stanley Wozniak shows a pair of shoes to Norval Wirgau. Also on display are some of the styles of shoes that are available to all employees in the company storeroom.

A 50-pound piece of iron, similar to one shown, fell on toe

of John Dietlin, machine shop. Steel plate in toe must withstand weight of 50-pound steel ball dropped 2 feet.

able, in many cases cheaper than shoes purchased in a commercial store. But regardless of the cost, the savings to the worker, if a serious foot injury is pre vented, far outweighs the cost e)f the item itself. Shoe cost canne>t be meas

ured in the amount of lost working days and smaller pay checks due to an injury. Compcnsatiem paid for injuries does not equal on the job income and the plant suffers because a trained man is not on

the job. In short, everybody is the taser. Proper protection for feet and toes is no further away that the plant store room. The people on hand are trained to help in the selection of a proper fit and a pleasing style. Proper fitting re sulting in foot comfort, plus the know ledge that the feet are being protected will benefit both the worker and the

efficiency of his work. Safety shoes are by no means the whole story in foe>t protection, safety awareness is also necessary.

Alfred Peltz, machine shop, shows how his safety shoes saved his foot from ser ious injury from falling; steel bar. Shoes withstand pressures up to 2,500 lbs.

BUFFALO PLANT:

Serving Agriculture For 40 Years Michigan Limestone's headquarters in the Lake Erie District for the past 40 years has been located at Buffalo. During this time, and longer than most present emplewees can remember, the Buffalo plant has been a prime supplier of agricultural limeStone tt) the farmers of western New York.

The original plant was built in 1917. A rnodern fireproof structure was built in 1936 after the old plant was destroyed by fire. The present plant facilities provide sufficient flexibility to satisfy the varied cus tomer demands for be)th bulk and packaged limeStone products. The plant is built alemgside the Buffalo River and is within easy access ro Lake Erie by lake freighter. Through the narrow channel of the river, the Divisie>n's fleet supplies limestone from both Calcite and Cedarville for the three pulverizers which can handle be>rh qualities of stone simultaneously. Production, which is rated at about 350,000 tons

annually, is accomplished by using modern methods and techniques. Fast mewing rubber conveyor belts transport the product from one stage to another, starting with a 400-foot tunnel that extends under the stone storage pile, to the dryer kiln that heats the Stone to 300 degrees F. CONTINUED ON PACiE TWELVE

John Kowalski, left, maintenance gang leader, and Hank Podraza check the oil for the cater

pillar tractor. In the background is the main manufacturing: plant at Buffalo which processes different grades of agricultural limestone.

An important function at Buffalo is the accounting department which handles all the business for the Lake Erie district. The department includes, from

left, DeWayne Sheffer, district accountant, Lorretta Glavey, bookkeeping machine operator. John Collins, plant accountant, and Grace Engright, bookkeeper. 10

Agricultural limestone is loaded on a truck for spreading on nearby farms. The plant, shown in background, handles both Calotte and ( edarville stone simultaneously. Stone is shipped either by bulk or bag, truck or train.

Al Swiatosz, far left, oiler, checks the giant kiln that heats the limestone before

tile grinding operation. Oli ver Robinson and Hardy Johnson, left, load bags of agricultural stone.

SERVING AGRICULTURE

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The dried limestone is carried up a 70 foot bucket elevator to be deposited in a 200-ton hot stone bin prior ro the pulverizing operation. Steel balls held down by 1,900 pounds pressure and rotating at ewer 60 mph start one of the pulverizing processes. The finished pro duct is then run ewer vibrator screens to

remove oversized particles before ship ment by railroad or truck, bulk or bagged, to the waiting farmers. Twe> other pulverizing processes are also utilized On an impactor where stoneis channeled through a narrow opening

and then thrown against the inside of the pulverizer ar a high rate of speed, and a ring roil method that first dries the stone and then feeds it into the path of grinders and the grinder ring ro start

Mr. G. W. Mintz, manager of Lake Erie district, above, in his office at Buffalo, which is headquarters for the district. Other plant is at Conneaut, Ohio.

as Fort Dodge, Iowa. Agricultural limestone is also stored

ments* mine dust â&#x20AC;&#x201D; used to prevent spontaneous combustion in coal mines â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and as a filler in fertilizers.

the pulverizing operation. After the pulverizing process rhc

in a concrete silo with a 600-ton capacity at Silver Springs, New York for farms in Steuben, Wyoming, Allegany and Liv ingstone counties.

to the New York and Pa. farmers who

stone is shipped by railroad or truck, bulk or bag, to waiting farmers and in dustrial users, in one case as far away

In adelition to the agricultural pro ducts, pulverized stone is used as asphalt and roofing filler, stock feed supple

each year reap the benefits of needed cal cium and magnesium supplied to their soil by Michigan limestone.

Through the use t)f modern methods,

MLD provides a high-quality product

James Ferrino, brakeman, couples the engine to hopper cars as William Collins, motorman, waits to pull out another load. The hopper cars contain a bulk product to be sold to truckers.

Ed Weymouth, manager of sales, holds the tape for O. B. Shearer, accounting, as K. W. Long, right, assistant comptroller, makes sure the measure is right. Mr. Shearer was closest on the 15th and 17th.

Detroit Holds Golf Day Shortly before the cold winds whippeel down from the north and the leaves e>n the trees turned their golden hues, the Detroit Office golf league staged its annual golf day. The office crew gathered at Sylvan Glen Country Club just north of Detroit. At stake were the top player awards for the season, special cash awards for the day and everyone's golfing reputation. This season is ended but they are expected to be out again next year. And probably the first thing to be heard on the first tee will be, "I've been practicing all winter e>n my slice and boy, I've got it licked." And the first drive will sound the start of the season as it rebounds off

the nice big t>ak at the edge of the tee. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAOE

Earl Block, tecs off on final outing e>f season, at Sylvan Glynn. 13

Straddling the creek. Bob Landis pre pares to hit his ball from the bank. Be fore the day was over, Bob was far luck ier than most, who had to fish their golf balls from the water.

Up the path to the club house comes, from right, Earl Block

and Hoy Wallin, accounting, Henry Baltzersen, comptroller, and Don Knowles, industrial engineering.

Bob Engelhardt, purchasing agent, and Roy Slump, senior cost analyst, walk the path between holes. Roy went on to win third place.

Ray Wallin receives award for first place during the regular season. Mr. C. F. Beukema presents trophy.

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Don Knowles receives his trophy from Mr. Beukenia for taking second place during the regular season.

Mr. Beukenia presents Roy Shoup with his third place award. He was closely followed by Bill Crocker.

Tom Foster, far left, and Chet Ludos, far right, won team trophy from Mr. Beukema and George Reilling.

STEAMER TAYLOR CARRIES IRON ORE The Str. Myron C. Taylor established a historical first recently when it be came the initial Bradley Transportation Line vessel tt) carry and unload a cargo of iron ore. While Lake Superior district natural iron ores frequently are too sticky for ready handling by self-unltiader equipment, this cargo of nodules, sinter and screened

natural

iron

ore

posed ne> problem. While other Bradley ships followed the Taylor's precedent and the fleet transported approximately 200,000 net tons of ore during the sease)n, this movement is not predicted to become a regular annual operation. The Steamer M. C. Taylor unloads iron ore at Gary, Indiana.

Mr. Valentin Retires Joseph A. Valentin, vice president and norrhern district manager of Mich

igan Limestone Divistin, has retired after 39 years of service. During his employment at Michigan Limestone, which started in 1918, hewas a brakeman at Calcitc, locomotive-

engineer, dock office car checker, plant chemist, personnel director and manager of operations before his appointment as manager of the northern district. A graduate of Ferris Institute in

pharmacy, Mr. Valentin lived in Flint, Michigan until ill health of his father

head gcobgist tor the Division.

forced his return to Rogers City.

administrative assistant to the manager

He has been a resident t)f Presque Isle County and Rogers City for more than 40 years.

窶年orthern District.

Mr. Valentin still maintains an in

terest

in community affairs. He

Raymond A. Grigg has been named

James G. Hunt has joined the Divi sion as Industrial Relations trainee. He has an MA in labtir and industrial re

lations from the University of Illinois,

director of the Presque Isle Bank and a director e>f the Rogers City Power Company.

and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan College of Mining and Technology.

Mr. L. J. Patterson has succeeded him

as northern district manager.

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Personnel Changes Herman W. Ferguson, geologist sen ior grade, has transferred to the

Safety HAT/

Division from Tennessee Coal and Iron

Division. He will rake charge of all geological duties with the Division. Eugene M. Luttrell, geologist junior grade, has also transferred from Tennes see Coal and Iron Division. He will be

assistant to Mr. Fergusein. Furman M. Burge, geole>gist senior grade, has transferred to U. S. Steel Raw Materials Divisie>n. He was formerly 15

The Jenkins' visit the Harpers Ferry National Monument headquarters on their round of visits to the historical spots.

Home Is A Place Just a few hundred yards down the street from where Arnold Jenkins,

Moler Conveyor tender, lives, is the grave of the founder of his home ttiwn. His name was Robert Harper. The name t)f the town he founded is Harper's Ferry, located at the junction of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers in the

beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Wind and rain have all but oblite

rated the inscription on the headsrone that marks his final resting place, and

the large maple that grows next to it seems as though it were trying tt) crowd Mr. Harper out of his private plot t)f ground.

story crowded with civil war heroes, benh

North and South, and delivers papers to homes that have srood alme>st as long as the name of the town itself.

Not tex> many years ago his grave-

On many of the steep paths that

could hardly be found for long grass and weeds had almost completely cov

young Mr. Jenkins has to travel, the rock

ered the scene that had played such an important part in this country's history. Arnold Jenkins' oldest boy, David, has a paper route in Harper's Ferry, and daily he travels the paths that were once

steps arc crumbling with age and the buildings where he usee! tt) have cus tomers are returning to their ancestors. Much of Harper's Ferry is a ghost town, deserted after constant turbulent

floods and rhe passing of fighting men.

Kable Johnson, with booklet, treasurer of Charles Town, W. Va., points out

important city history to Willard Willingham, Moler employee, right, Norman Willingham, left, Mrs. Willingham and daughter Nancy. Behind them stands the court house in which John Brown was tried and convicted of treason.

The only thing that is preserving the history is the American government which is returning the town ro its for mer beauty as a national shrine. Much of the history of Harper's Fer ry contradicts itself. Here John Brown staged his famous raid to free the slaves â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the slaves never came to his aid.

Here, a young general named Lee and a younger captain named J. E. B. Stew art, both honorary officers in the U. S. Army, fought and captured John Brown but later returned to defeat Union forces

in rhe roaring battles of the Shenandoah Valley. Here the river periodically races over its banks to reclaim the land only CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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the crowd rhe day t)f execution was a

Beallair, home of Colonel Lewis Wash

to have the land slowly win back its possessions. Here also was an area of the

man who became famous on his own, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. Down the sidewalks that Me>ler em

ington, captured by John Brown during his raid on Harper's Ferry.

ployees trod every day have walked

per's Ferry and in general the people of Jefferson County are a proud pee>ple; proud of their history, proud of their

slave holding South now the site of Storer College, one of the first all Negro colleges in the country. But hardly less historical is the home

of Willard Willingham, loading leader at Moler. He lives on the edge of Charles Town, founded in 1787 as the

seat of Jefferson county on lands owned by Charles Washington, youngest broth er of General George. Even the streets are named after Washington's family. Willingham's home town still uses the court house where John Brown was tried and convicted and has marked the

such people as Edward Tiffin, first gov ernor t)f Ohio, Horatio Gates, hero of Saratoga, Charles Lee, major general in the Continental Army under Washing ton, VV. L. Wilson, U. S. PosrmasterGeneral, who started the first rural free

delivery, and many civil war heroes fighting for their respective sides. Within short rides from both Jenkins' and Willingham's homes are such his torical sites as Antietem, Sheperdstown, the first free school, the place where

The peeiple eif Charles Town and Har

future. There is a story told of an old,

old woman who had lived through the Civil War. When some of her kin were

going North for a vacation, she said,

"Remember, when you register, put down 'Charles Tenvn' not 'Charleston'

and be sure to write, 'Old Virginia' not 'West Virginia'!" And many residents swear the story is true, for when West

site where he was hanged while Major Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, com

army. Iron Furnaces, site of the first

manding 1,500 troops stood guard. In

Virginia was formed after the war, many of the old timers clung to their historical background, for in Jefferson County,

iron works west of the Blue Rielge, and

home is a place in history.

Rt)bert Rutherford defied the British

Visiting the ruins of the church which housed wounded Northern soldiers during battles with Lee and "Stonewall"

Jackson, the Jenkins' make one of their periodic trips to the area's historical sites.

Mr. Willingham and son Norman, right, leave the Peoples

Bank in Charles Town as wife and daughter Nancy wail OUtside. George, like many other Moler employees, plays an important part in the community's activities.

Willard Willingham, above, and Ar nold Jenkins, below, on their jobs as leading leader and conveyor tender,

respectively, at the Moler plant.

wSSaBm Overlooking Jefferson's rock, the site that Thomas Jeffer son said "is worth a trip across the Atlanlic," the Jenkins look down the Shenandoah River toward Washington.

Main street of Harper's Ferry is the paper route of David Jenkins. Many of the homes are over 101) years old.

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One of the mobile cranes swings the

track to its new location at Calcite plant.

Rudolph Schaeelig, left, and Arnold Wen/el remove bolts

from track before moving it closer to the working face.

Ballast is spread over (he tracks by the track crew. This

will be followed by tamper and "jack all," see next page.

Securing railroad ties With automatic hammers are from left, Martin Sobeck, Ralph Smith, Adelor Du-

lac, Melvin Sehaedig. Crews are constantly moving.

The railroad track crews at the Calcite plant

are charged with the momentous task of supplying a road of rails, for theirs is the job of . . . .

Keeping Limestone Moving times a year to keep up with expanding production. The track crew is separ

erating season they relocate near the

runs one of the smallest and busiest rail

ated into two, 12-man gangs, each res-

roads in the world. Behind its bustling activity is a 36 man track crew con stantly on the go to make sure that the

ponsible for servicing three shovels and equipped to do identical tasks around the vast area of the quarry.

months locate track to speed the strip ping e)perations. In addition to the regular crews, each group has track walkers who act as trouble shooters seeking our danger be fore it can happen. Daily they make

Across the floor of the weirld's lar

gest limestone quarry at Calcite

trains keep moving and the quarry keeps

Part of the crew's equipment includes

operating.

a 35 and a 25-ton mobile crane, a shift

The track crew seldom operates in the same spot for more than a few days at a time, for as the face of the quarry keeps moving back to meet the demands

er that lines up track, a track jack, called a "jackall," by the crew, which leans steadily tin steel legs as it levels the track, and a tamper that accurately packs ballast around the ties to give maximum suppeirt. Added to this is the regular maintenance equipment for re pair, welding and cutting.

of customers, much of the 58 miles of track must move back te> meet the de

mands of the shovel crews who load the

quarry cars with limestone.

Almost every inch of track, except

The two crews are almost continuous

main lines, are relexated two e>r three

ly laying track. During the regular op

Wally Hein directs the "jack all" as it levels the track. Behind him, ready to move into position is the tamper which will pack ballast around (he ties.

operating face and during the winter

their rounds e>f rhe main lines and side

tracks taking care of minor repairs them selves and notifying the main crew in the event of major difficulties. As each of the 10 engines hauls its load to the crusher house for processing, they roll with confidence over some of the best track anywhere, made possible by Calcite's crews who keep limestone moving.

Martin Sobeck, center, and Albin Idalski, right, pack bal last by hand before the tamper takes over. They also help to insure an even looking road bed.

JOINING TWO PENINSULAS The World's Longest Susjx'iision Bridge Unites Upper and Lower Michigan Across the roadway t)f the world's longest suspension bridge last November 1, rolled a motorcade com

meeting was the bridge. Cornelius Vanderbilt said, "We now have the largest well-equipped hotel of its kind in the

posed of dignitaries from the State of Michigan, U. S. Steel Corporaritm and

what we need is a Straits bridge."

members of the press. The ceremony that followed marked the official open

ing of the Mackinac Bridge connecting the twe> peninsulas of Michigan. The brielge, three and a half years to build ing, was the culmination of a dream that had begun many years before. Long before many of the men who te>ok parr in the opening ceremony were even born, a front page article in erne of the state papers, dated February 5, 1884, pointed out that all year service by boat

$30 million was submitted by the official reporting group btit further planning

But no further action took place. The Mackinac crossing planning stood still until 1920 when the state highway com

was dropped until later years. In 1934 the project was revived as a possible P.W.A. job. In extra session, the Michigan legislature created the Mackinac Straits Bridge Autht>rity of Michigan and empowered it to investi gate the feasibility of such construction and ro finance the weirk by issuance of

missioner suggested a iloaring tunnel.

revenue bonds.

world for a snort season business. Now

No Action Until 1920

He also invited engineers to submit their

plans for rhe possible crossing. One man, C. E. Fowler eif New York City, sug gested a series of bridges and causeways that would start at Cheboygan, 17 miles south of Mackinaw City, traverse Bois Islands, touch

the

bridge across the Straits ft)r $32 million, which would include a combined two

lane highway and a railway bridge. Twe> attempts to e)btain loans between 1934 and 19.36 as well as grants from the Federal Emergency Administration

across the Straits had failed and that the

Blanc and

only proper way to provide efficient ser vice was through a tunnel or a bridge. Although much talking was done from the rime the article was printed, the lirsr action of any kind rook place at a meeting t>f the board t)f directors

southern tip of Mackinac Island and leap across the channel to St. Ignace. After three years a ferry service was started by the state highway department years that the late Goveme>r Fred Green

The first real we>rk was de>ne between

of rhe Grand Horel on Mackinac Island

again revived the idea of a bridge ro

1936 and 1940 when a new direct route

on July I, 1888. The main topic of the

relieve the congestion. An estimate of

was selected, traffic, geologic, ice and

Round

The Authority's first studies concluded that it would be feasible to construct a

but it became so overloaded within five

of Public Works failed. These failures

came despite endorsement by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and a report that it was favored by Pres. Roosevelt.

water current studies were completed and a causeway 4200 feet long from St.

ture into passing an act appropriating S417,000 a year for maintenance of the

valued at more than $4 million.

Ignace was built. Plans for a double sus pension were drawn but before construc

bridge thus freeing more of the bridge revenues for paying e>ff the le>ans. The Bridge Authority thought this a logical request since the ferry service, which would be replaced by the bridge, was operating ar a loss of about S417,000 a year, a loss that was being absorbed by

towers, engineers had to ram a dough nut-shaped sreel caisson foundation down 210 feet to rock and then pour

the state.

since the water at Mackinac is covered

This action, plus a renewed effort by Bridge Authority officials and an upturn in business activity in 1953, resulted in

with ice during the winter months, this was impossible. Construction was sched uled so that once work had begun on a pier, it could be brought to founding depth within one "open water" season.

tion could be started, World War II in

tervened. In 1947, the Mackinac Bridge Authority was abolished.

But bridge backers refused to give up the fight for something they thought was necessary to the expansion of Michigan. In 1950, they forced the enactment of legislatitin recreating the bridge author

ity which was ro consult with three of the world's foremost suspension bridge

almt>st $100 million worth of bonds

engineers for advice on feasibility of the

being sold to investors,

structure becoming self-liquidating. In 1951 the authority submitted a report that the bridge could be built for S86 million but because of the shortage t)f materials caused by the Korean con flict, no direct action was taken. With

easing of shortages, the authority re quested S85 million from the Recon struction Finance Ct>rpe>ration ( RFC). Private Investment

However, private investment bankers became interested in the project and of fered the sale of bonds. Shortly after the Bridge Authority accepted the offer, the money market weakened and ntit enough takers were available to insure success.

In order to make the bonds more at

tractive to investment people, the Bridge Authority talked the Michigan legisla

U. S. Steel Contracted

With rhe money in the till, rhe bridgeauthority contracted with Meritt-Chapman and Scott Corporation for over $25 million to build the foundations and rhe

In order to construct one of the main

161,200 tons of reinforced concrete. All this work was done under water.

Usually, construction of the 34 piers weiuld have begun simultaneously, but

To make these piers capable of with standing a pull of up to 66 million pounds, each caisson forming the pier was sunk approximately 90 feet to rock footing and was filled with 184,000 tons of concrete and steel reinfeircing.

American Bridge Division of U. S. Steel for over $44 million ro build the super structure. Official ceremonies on May 7 and 8 e>f 1954 started the construction. It had taken just 70 years to get the

project underway. The actual building of the bridge was one of the most formidable engineering

MLD Plays A Part

To help construct the main pier sub structures, the Michigan Limestone Divi

sion supplied aggregate from its Calcite plant. Utilizing its self-unloading equip ment, Bradley Transportation ships were able tt) place the aggregate directly into

tasks in the world. The builders had to

the caissons that feirmed the foundations

battle freezing cold weather, shifting winds and turbulent waters. To perform their task, they collected one of the larg est fleets of delating construction equip ment ever assembled on a single jeibâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

for the main piers. In July, 1955, the work was started on the superstructure. The main towers rose 552 feet above the water and steel tei

complete a suspension of 8,614 feet was fabricated.

At the official bridge opening ceremony were, from left, former Governor

Murray D. Van Wagoner, Prentiss M. Brown, chairman of Bridge Authority, George Osborne, bridge authority, Mrs. G. Mennen Williams, Governor Wil liams, John C. Makie, liighway commissioner, C. F. Beukema, president of MLD, B. B. Hunter, V. P. American Bridge Division (ABD), A. A. Porter, V. P. erecting ABD, A. B. Drilling, project manager, ABD, C. H. Sander, contracting manager, ABD, C. E. Webb (retired) chief engineer, ABD. D. C. Kline, erecting manager, ABD.

One of the most difficult building tasks that the American Bridge Division CONTINUED ON

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Two ships pass under the partially completed bridge. One a Bradley Transportation boat, the Sir. Clymer

JOINING TWO PENINSULAS of U. S. Steel had to perform was the spinning of the giant two-foot thick cables for the main suspension. The cables contain about 41,200

(CONTINUED)

a new era for the upper peninsula, Wis consin, Minnesota and Canada. But the

real proof of its success will come only in time. What is really important is

miles of galvanized steel wire less than

that Michigan's two peninsulas have

one-fourth of an inch thick. Each cable

finally been permanently joined.

is composed of 37 strands of wire or 12,580 wires in all. Tt) accomplish the job, catwalks were set up between the two main towers and spinning machines were installed. The actual operation, going day and night, took 94 days. The final stage of the building was the roadway itself. When this operation began, the piers were completed, the towers, the cable anchorages and the cables, themselves capable of supporting the roadway, were ready. Before the ac tual construction starred, many of the giant trusses were assembled during the winter on land; when weather permitted they were floated to the bridge and hoisted intei posirion.

Motorists no longer have to wait long hours, as pictured here, lo cross the

Straits of Mackinac. With the opening of the bridge, the ferries were retired

from service. Trip by ferry took ;><) minutes, via new bridge, 10 minutes.

These pre-assembled trusses were each 120 feet long, 70 feet wide and 40 feet high. Each weighed more rhan 100 tews and each added another 80 feet tt) the

bridge when assembled. The extra 40 feet eif each truss was used as an overlap to strengthen the framework. When the major construction was finished, the four lanes for traffic were

laid. The two inner lanes are composed of a grillwork of fine mesh steel that al

One of final operations prior to opening bridge to traffic was winding cables. Here workmen guide the donut shaped wrapping machine up one of the cables.

lows wind, rain, and sntiw to sift through. The two outside lanes have the

mesh steel filled in with a lightweight concrete, less than half the weight of regular concrete. This is topped by as phalt two inches thick and strengthened with a special mineral filler of pulver ized ceincrete.

Standing at the Straits of Mackinac,

that for hundreds of years had split Michigan in two, the completed bridge reaches out like a giant steel arm to

grasp the upper peninsula in a perman ent handshake. Many of the thousands who crossed her in the first few months were thrilled at the massive steel con

struction. Many, among them important

state officials, hailed it is the coming of 24

Workmen for the American Bridge Division of the U.S. Steel Corporation put

final touches to bridge prior to openin,. Here they weld steel bridge flooring.

Photos Courtesy of Presque Isle Comity Advance

Restless Nesters

Banded By Testers Along the breakwall jutting out inro Lake Huron at the Calcite plant

availability of protectiein from preda tory animals.

are thousands of grass nests belonging to the local contingent of sea gulls. Daily thousands e>f birds flutter undis turbed from water ro land, shrieking

2,100 birds in rheir sray ar Rogers City. They estimated that there were between

rheir lonely cry re) the passing ships.

which were babies.

Jusr a few monrhs ago, the Calcite gulls came under observation by a team of naturalists from Cranbrook Institute

of Science. They invaded the gulls' pri vate nesting place to band them in tirder to study migratory characteristics. Most people in the area thought that these were the same birds rhe year round, but banding has revealed that some migrate as far as Ecuador, South

America and only a few months after banding. There has been nt> set pattern of mi gration. Some of the birds from Calcite go south and elsewhere while they are replenished by birds from the North. Great Lakes sea gulls usually nest tin sandy spits or lonely rocky islands, but many, as the birds at Calcite, have-

adapted themselves ro man made changes and have rhrived berrer rhan in

The

naruralisrs

banded

rhan

5,000 and 6,000 birds there, 3.000 of

The death rate of the young is high since the adult birds protect tinly their own but will attack and kill any strange lleglings rhar stray from rheir nesrs. In rhe first 24 hours, the young birds will ear their own weight in food and until it can supply its own food must exist on the regurgitated food e>f its mother. Banding is not limited to sea gulls.

Banding gulls at Calcite, harbor in background, are, from left, Walter Nickell, William Stapp, William Scbultz, David Schultz, Rinia Nickell.

All sizes of birds are banded from the

Walter Nickell, Cranbrook

bald eagle down to the smallest, the ruby-rhroarcd humming bird. These bands, which are supplied by rhe U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

of Science, bands a young sea gull.

Institute

sponsored by the Department of the Inrerior, are made of aluminum and contain rhe name of the area in which rhe bird was banded.

A story is told of a man who killed a

turkey buzzard. On his leg was a band from the Washington Biological Survey,

rheir natural habitat.

abbreviated to read. Wash. Biol. Surv.

The naturalists stated that the gulls pick their nesting places according to the adequacy of feeding facilities and the

The man, reading the band, interpreted it to say, wash boil anel serve. He said it tasted awful. 25

OPERATION RESCUE To rhe crew of the tug Dolomite of the Calcite plant, the trip out te> the Steamer Princeton, one day in Sep tember, was a routine tow. But what

starred our as part of the regular day's

duties ended as another important pagein the annals of Great Lakes history. The leig book at the start of the dayread, September 6, 1957. The time was

6:15 p.m. As rhe Dolomite cleared the

around him and pulled him alongside.

breakwall, rhe Steamer Princeton blew

It took the entire crew, Captain Cook, Tony Yarch, Percy Heward, and Ed Am acher, to get the limp, nearly lifeless

the familiar four long blasts on her whistles signaling for a tow. Coming alongside the Princeton, Captain John Cross called out to the Dolomite skipper, "Captain Cook, my first mate claims he saw a man and a

submerged beiat off the Calcite Light house. Would you leiok into it?" Captain Cook shouted back his agree ment and wheeled the Dolomite on a

course North East by East from the Cal cite light. Scanning the lake with binoc ulars, they saw what appeared to be a man in a life jacket sitting on the water. On Course, just twei miles off the light house, they came upon a man sitting tin the berw decking of a submerged beiar. He was completely exhausted and weak. Ctinracring Joe Hasserr at rhe ship-toshtire starion, WLC. Caprain Cook asked him to arrange for an ambulance and doctor ro meet them when they docked.

Dolomite crew inspects rescued boat. From left, P. Heward, Capt. Cook. E. Amacber, B, Berg, T. Yareb. 26

man aboard. He was laid on the deck

and covered with blankets for the trip back tei the deick.

This was Friday evening. It was not until Tuesday that the man, whom Cap tain Cook and his crew had rescued,

was able to tell his full story. His name was Marvin L. Mallis, tif Birmingham. Michigan. He was the sole survivor of a crew of three who had set sail in an

18-foot beiat from Cheboygan, Aug. 31. His other two companions, Richard A. Gardner and Dr. Donald N. Aikens,

both of Birmingham, had died from exhausrion after their beiat overturned in

a squall the previous Tuesday. Their

bodies, which had been tied by Mallis to the capsized boat, had breiken away somewhere off Btiis Blanc Island, just

north of their starring point.

Ed Amacher, linesman, threw a life

Doctors claimed rhat Mallis would

ring within six inches of the survivor but he was toei weak tei get it. When the ring was tossed direcrly to him. he man

recover, but the roll of rhe trip rhat started out as a pleasure cruise could have been three if it had not been for

aged to get one arm through it. The

rhe alerr first mate of the Princctein and

crew then rossed a couple of loops

rhe crew of the tug Dolomite.

AT 750, REACHING FOR 1,000 A

little over 250 days ago, the Cedarvillc plant was hailed feir attaining a safety record of 500 days without a disabling accident. But in Octeiber, the plant in the upper pen insula tif Michigan broke their own rectird by reaching 750 days. At individual meetings with the diff erent shifts, C.A. Pratt, plant manager, extended his ceingratulations to the em ployees and prcscnred each of rhem with the Division President's Safety Award, a U. S. Steel measuring tape bearing the U. S. Steel insignia and 750-day safety inscriptitin. Mr.

C.F.

Beukema,

Division

C. A. Pratt, Cedarville Manager, presents safety award to Michael Hank for the 750 day safety record the Cedarville plant recently achieved.

Pres

ident, sent a message to the employees commemeirating the event.

He wrote,

"It is indeed encouraging to realize that this span tif time has passed without one persein in the Cedarville Plant suffering injury while engaged in the perfeirmance eif his duties. "I congratulate every Cedarville em-

ployee.

My earnest wish is that each

one will remember the happiness that 750 injury-free days have brought to his family and assticiates. Such recol lections will, 1 am sure, srimulare safety consciousness rhar will result in greater arrainments in rhe future."

In serting the 750-day receird, the plant weirked 623,000 man hours; safely fired 2,000,000 lbs. of explosives; quar ried, processed, and shipped 5,500,000 tons of dolomite limestone.

The next step in the safety record

is 1,000-days, less than 250-days to go.

HILLSVILLE CELEBRATES 250 SAFE DAYS In August of this year, the Hillsville

employees were awardeel the Divi sion President's award for completing

250 days without a disabling accident. The plant's previous best rectird was set in December, 1956. when they celebrarcd 723 days without a disabling accident tir 884.293 hours of work.

Ar rhe rime their 723 days record was established, they were alsei presented the Sentinels of Safety award for neiteworthy safety achievements. This is given to the

quarry having reip honors in rhe Unired Stares Bureau of Mines competition. They also won the award in 1952. In addition, Hillsville was also pre sented a merit plaque from the National Safety Council and a certificate of honeir from the Pennsylvania Deparrment of Labeir and Industry for a perfect record. In the five year pcritid rhar the plant participated in the national ceinresr, only eight disabling accidents occurred dur ing 2,353,221 man-hours of work.

CONNEAUT REACHES 2,000 SAFE DAYS As the "Screenings" went tei press,

the division's Ceinneaut plant ctimpleted its 2,000th consccurive working day on December 10th, 1957. without a dis

abling accident. Mr. C. F. Beukema, Division presi

dent, said, "This plant has operated for

nearly five and tine-half years without a leist-time accident. This outstanding safety record is the best for any plant in rhe history of the Division." The next issue of "Screenings" will carry full details of the rectird and rec ognition of the employees.

John Bonderau, quarry foreman, pre sents president's safety award to Natale Luscre for plant's 250 safe days. 27

"Is my makeup on straight?" asks Joan Christy, Annandale employee, of a fellow member of the Butler Little Theater, Joan played in "The Desperate Hours," which is her third major part for the group.

Part Time Actress Annanilale Employee Stars In Little Theater Roles Joan Christy is a comely little blond who works in

rhe office at

the

with

the

Butler

starrled as she strolled into work, her

suggested she try out for a one act play

golden tresses now a flaming red.

entitled, "Bedtime Story." She got the part and has been a leading member of the group ever since. There is a wealth of experience tt) be gained with the little theater, from act ing through scenery preparation, promeition and the numerous other things

called for red hair in the Butler Little-

Theater production of "The DesperateHours," and thought nothing e>f making the change tei insure her chances. Although her friends might chide her playfully, she knew they would under stand.

Joan's interest in acting started when she starred in her high school presenta tion of "Father of the Bride." Although she has given some thought to a pro fessional career, she has taken no steps at getting professional training tir

contact

group came about two years ago when she lived in Butler, Pcnna. Her landlady

gold to auburn was Joan's avid interest in little theater. She wanted a part that

her red hair.

Her .first

MLD Annandale plant. One day early in October, her fellow employees were

The cause for the transformation from

At her desk in the Annandale plant, Joan is a steady and conscientious employee. Well liked by her fellow employees, she created a stir with

coaching.

that are connected with the production of a play. When you earn a part in a play," says Joan, "There is a ltit of hard wtirk before it finally reaches rhe audience." Ir involves ser prepararion, programs, ticket selling, properties, costumes and last and most important, six hard weeks of rehearsal, three nights a week. "We usually rehearse Sunday, Wed-

Just minutes before the play, the dir ector makes a point with one of the main characters. This type of duscussion before they go on stage helps them to give a better performance.

On stage Joan feels at home. Here the actors file on stage for curtain calls. The play is now over, planning will soon start on a

nesday and Friday evenings," she said, "and many times I dtin't get home until one tir one-thirty in the morning." To get in a Little Theater play, any member of the organization is free tei try for a part fcir which he tir she is in terested. Most of the time a successful

applicant must compete againsr feiur or

five for the same part. Joan has bid successfully in rhree playsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rhey present four each yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"The Tender Trap," in which she played rhe lead, "The Country Girl," and her last part in "The Des perate Hours." She has also played in summer stock for the group in Feixburg and Butler.

For each of her roles she puts on a new face and enjoys each one, whether it be a blushing bride, a pretty girl in love, a show girl and even if it means she has ro dye her geilden tresses to flaming red.

new one.

Eyebrow pencil, one of the final steps in making up, is ap. plied by Joan. Her fellow actors all share a small room for makeup tin the second floor eif the Little Theater.

Three Division Plants Set Production Records

Three plants in the Michigan Lime stone Division have set production rec ords during 1957 with the honors going tei Hillsville. Cedarville and Moler.

Leading the figures were Cedarville's with 2.500,000

net tons of dolomite

shipped as the plant closed regular op erations on Neivcmbcr 29. This is 600,-

Andrew Sbawley air tool repair at Annandale, receives Jo seph A. Holmes Association Award for 40 years without a lost time accident from Roy H. Kerr, master mechanic.

Bradley Fleet Sets Record

Rogers City and Cedarville tei irein, steel

As 1957 Season Ends

chemical, cemenr and concrete industries

in the Great Lakes Region.

The fleet of the Bradley Transporta tion Line went into winter lay-up start

ing the first week of December after setting a new record of tons hauled in a single season.

The cargo record approximates I I,500,000 net tons of stone, coal, clinker and iron ore. With two additional ves

sels this year, the fleet was able to stirpass lasr year's receird of lO'/i million tons despite the half month earlier terminatiein of the sailing season. The additions to the Bradley fleet were the Steamers Cedarville and Myron C Taylor, The Taylor saw limired ser vice as a self unleiader in

1956 after

joining the fleet late in October. The Cedarville joined the fleet as a converted self unkiaeler late in April, one month

after opening eif the Bradley season. Final lay-up began December 2, when the Cedarville returned to its home port at Calcire. The last vessels in were the

John G. Munstin and Carl D. Bradley. Orher vessels laying up at Calcite in clude the Steamers T W. Reibinstin, the

W. F. White and rhe Calcire. Laying up

George Robbins Attends

Training Program Geeirge Robbins, budget and appropriarions engineer ar the Detroit Office, is attending a nine month U. S. Steel Corp. training program designed to give participating engineers a well rounded

kneiwledgc of corporation industrial ac tivities.

Mr. Robbins is visiting various en gineering departments and manufactur ing eiperations in the steel plants and will spend some time with Raw Mater ials Divisions including coal anel iron mining. At each srep in the program, rhe par ticipating engineers prepare oral or writ ten rcpeirts which assist them in better

understanding rhat particular phase of their training. In the present ceiurse, there are 21

engineers averaging about 28 years old and with an average of abour eight years service. When the course is completed, they

000 ner tons more than during its two previous years of operation. Hillsville, which as yet hasn't com pleted the 1957 season, ser a one day record of 9,889 ner tons on July 5. This was a teital eif 1,236 net tons per hour. The best previous record was set on Jur.e 25 when the mill turned out 9,817 net tons or 1,227 net tons per hour. Moler, which also hasn't completed

its season, established its single high production day on Scprember 25 with 6,371 net tons for a total of 796 net tons

per hour. Best previous day was July 5 when 6,348 net tons or 793 net tons per hour were processed. Cedarville's highest single day was OH October 15, when a teital of 18,876 net tons were processed. Seime of the other records ser during 1957 include: receird mill hour, 2,535 net tons on October 10,

record net tons per hour for one month, 2,052.9 in September and record 40 hour week, 86,255 net rons in Septem ber 9.

Six Plants Participate In Local UF Drives

A total tif six plants participated in their

local

United

Foundation drives

recently pledging a total of more than $5,800. Ar Calcite, plant participation in the drive feir the Presque Isle United Fund

anel Red Cross and local agencies paced the rest of the community with a total of over $4,500. Bradley Transportation had 87 percent participation while Cal cite had 69 percent participation.

at Pent Dolomite at Cedarville arc the

will return to their own divisions with

Steamers Rogers City, the Myron C. Taylor and rhe I. L. Clymcr. The Bradley fleet delivers shipments of stone from the Division's quarries at

a berter understanding of rhe reasoning

Other plants and offices which took part in their local drives included De-

behind many tif the corporation's operarions and rhe part rheir division plays in the overall picture.

rroir. Buffalo, Conneaut and Hillsville. There were no drives at New Casrle, Cedarville. Annandale or Mtiler.

A HISTORY IN COINS The collecting of the coins for most people is a frugal enterprise, like the filling of a piggy bank for rheir children eir saving dimes for someone's birthday present. But feir Leonard Heivis, Annandale laborer, it has been an in

teresting hobby that he has enjtiyed feir more than 10 years. Leonard is not just a coin collector, however, ftir in his files he has confed

erate paper meiney, early American bills worth less than a dollar and some small

denomination bills from foreign ceiuntries.

The pride of the collection is a Ro man ceiin dated around 103 A.D. during the reign of Trojan (98-117 A.D.). He purchased it during a meeting eif a coin club in West Virginia. Other old coins include one from Fgypt dated between 276 and 282 A.D. and a Greek coin

dated between 193 and 211 A.D. Leonard started his collection when

service men from his Sunday Schtiol class started sending coins from foreign countries. Since that time he has gath ered specimens from Germany, a 1921 clay inflation coin, Panama, the world's smallest at [4-ineh in diameter anel var-

Lconard Hovis, Annandale plant, displays his collection of coins and paper money. The small coin in the foreground dates back to about 98 A.D.

ious parts eif the United Kingdom. In all, 48 countries arc represented.

Steine Mountain,

192 5; Connecticut,

1935 and President Monroe, 1923-

His U. S. collection ceintains many

Some of his meist valuable coins arc

scries coins printed during certain per

proof coins, perfect reproductions of a new series issued by the government anel

iods and including his oldest, a 1794 penny. He also has a series of commem orative coins put out by the treasury de partment to mark a special historical event tir tei honor some American citi

prepared especially for collectors. Leonard enjoys his collection because feir him they tell a history eif the coun try that issued them. He can see changes

zen. Some of the people and places hon ored are Booker T Washington, 1946;

in governments and economic systems by simply going through his collection.

AAOLER'S TV TECHNICIAN Most of the people at the MLD Moler plant have little tei fear from television troubles these days, sincejust a few doors away sits George Wirtington, maintenance department, who is

fully qualified ro remove any of the elec tronic bugs from their sets. Although it is primarily a heibby for George, he takes a professional interest in television and has completed a tele vision repair course from the National Radio Institute. He has also taken ad

At his workbench. George Wittinglon. demonstrates testing equipment be built himself from available kits.

vanced courses in circuit building. George's interest in television started in 1949 when he bought his first set. Being a man eif natural curieisity and

possessing a great deal tif natural mech anical aptitude, he had to know what made

it work, hence the

course at

National Radio Institute.

Much of the complicated testing equipment George uses, he built himself from kits. He also built a television set

with a three-inch picture tube. He claims the first picture he received was Mike Garcia pitching for Cleveland against the Washington Natieinals. Through his hobby, George gets much satisfaction out eif his off-work hours

and enjeiys giving his fellow empltiyees a hand when they have trouble seeing their favorite programs. 31

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back in .service. The owner expects to gel eight mure (/ears of service out of it"

Observatory Skeleton, rids is what a.. astronomical observatory looks like hejiiri i.'ie skin is applied. Naturally, all the im portion! parts are marie from steel. The dome is on rollers, and a small five -horse

power motor rotates it to any part of the

sky. The shatters (through which the tele scope looks) are opened with a one-horsei .>\\er motor. Why did they use steel? What

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SPRING 1957

PUBLISHED FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OF MICHIGAN

LIMESTONE DIVISION, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.

A Message

Qc/ds and Ehofe Have you ever felt a little envious of

From 1 lie President

the painter, writer or someone who works at home? Perhaps you thought he was safer than if he had to work at

your job. But records show that work men in industry arc safer on the job

It is a pleasure for me to extend

greetings to fellow employees and their families, customers and friends

of Michigan Limestone Division

than at home.

'The U. S. Rubber Co- has announced

a new line of truck tires with a steel wire shield between tread ami carcass.

The line is designed for heavy service such as quarrying, mining and logging. United States Steel's Tennessee Coal

& Iron Division is putting its steelmaking facilities on display again this year. Last year 10,000 visited the plant

this, the first

issue of MLD

SCREENINGS.

Actually we prefer to think of Screenings as expanding rather than a new venture. It has had a long, proud history as men dedicated to

friendly, sound employee-manage ment relations and "safety first" at home as on the job have labored with enthusiasm

at Fairfield, Ala.

dedicated to you, the people who are Michigan Limestone Division. As we pass the milestone from Calcitc Screenings to MLD Screenings we humbly wish that our efforts may not do disservice to the splendid work and vision of those who have

presented the Screenings message in the past. In keeping with the "Creed of Human

Relations"

which

marks

United States Steel's approach to sound employee relations, we believe that every em ployee is entitled to re ceive "adequate informa tion about his job and the

Employees at Hillsvillo, Annandalo and Kaylor go to this lovely spot for picnics. Known as McConneIl*s Mill, il is on Slippery Rock Creek 10 miles east of New Castle, Pa. Originally

for more than 30 years in the publication of "Calcite Screenings." We of the present business." So we will use this page from time to management of Michigan Limestone earnestly ap time to bring you mes proach the modification sages about your com of the magazine to in pany, its objectives, in Mr. Beukema clude the story and in terests, problems and fu terests of the employees ture- Since we know thai of the entire Division. We sincerely each employee is aware that his hope that the issues may be a wel own individual well-being depends come experience in the lives of the on continued economic health of families of our Eastern and Lake our business activity. Erie District employees, who have With this knowledge our remarks not previously received it regularly. will be briefly addressed so that wc And, as we broaden the story it will may all gain a wider appreciation of tell, we hope that their interest and our mutual responsibilities for safe that of our Northern District read ty, earnest productive effort, sincer ers will result in even greater pride ity and loyalty. We will feel honored

huill in 1852, it was rebuilt after it

in association with this division of

burned

1946 Thomas H.

the United States Steel family. We

Hart man, nephew of a former owner, sold the mill to the Western Pennsyl vania Conservancy which opened the area to the public for picnics, swim ming and fishing.

hope all are inspired to safety ac complishments beyond those pre viously attained. This then is to be a magazine

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to receive the courtesy of your com ments and suggestions at anytime as you may wish to extend your opin ion to us.

ML!) Screenings is published quarterly by the Michigan Limestone Division) L:nitcd Stares Steel Corporation.

Allaire,

Publication

ifclmg, Detroit irinted without special permission.

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Nothing appearing herein may be

Newest Michigan Limestone plant is at Cedarville, Mich. Large picture shows quarry and road to plant and Port Dolomite [inset)

Let's Look At Michigan Limestone by C". F. Hood, president of United

and transport it can be said that few minerals command a position of greater industrial importance. It is a primary raw material in the production of iron

States Steel Corporation, Nov. 1956.

and steel. And it is a basic material in

We must recognize that the people of

any given organization represent its greatest asset .

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Michigan Limestone Division is about 2.000 people scattered from the pine forests of Northern Michigan to the historic hills of West Virginia. Its people also live in Ohio, Pennsyl vania and New York.

They work on the land . . . beneath the ground . . . and on the water. They take stone from the earth, pro cess it and transport it to steel mills, cement plants and chemical industries. Of this stone they quarry and mine

the manufacture of a wide variety of other important commodities. Michigan Limestone people arc min ers .. . engineers . . . stenographers . . . accountants . . . railroad men . . . drill

ers . . . sailors . . . men of almost any skill or trade you can mention. There are mechanics . . . truck drivers . . .

chemists . . . cooks . . . carpenters . . . salesmen . . . radio operators. And each individual is important in

this division that pionered development of this important raw material resource.

Turning from the people to the phy sical aspects, Michigan Limestone Di vision had its beginning in Northern Michigan before the turn of the century. A few far-sighted residents of Presque Isle, Alpena and Cheboygan counties realized that the outcropping of high calcium limestone, which extended for

miles along Lake Huron near Rogers City, would someday be of great econ omic importance. Yet, from the coming of the first settler in I860 until 1908,

little was done toward its development. About this time, the Rogers City Land Company was formed, a local company organized for the purpose of attracting investment capital and industry to the

Confidence is the feeling a man has before he knows better.

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Michigan Limestone Continued From Page 3

region. Two years later, the White Investing Company of New York purchased the 5,000-acre holdings of the Rogers City Land group and organized the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company. The first shipment of commercial limestone was made in 1912 and, despite early financial and opera tional difficulties, the new company grew steadily. Directors of Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company were quick to understand the potential value of shipping in providing a low cost way of de livering limestone quickly to customers in a huge industrial area, limited only by the shores of the Great Lakes. However, they also faced the problem that many users of limestone were not equipped with dock and unloading facilities.

To solve this difficulty and broaden the potential market for Michigan limestone, the young company pioneered in the development and operation of selfunloading type Great Lakes vessels. The first of these carriers, named the Calcite after

the company's quarry at Rogers City, was built by the

Detroit Shipbuilding Company and chartered by Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company in 1912. Other larger, improved vessels soon followed and now comprise the Bradley Transportation Line, an essen tial part of Michigan Limestone Division. In 1920, Michigan Limestone & Chemical Com

pany was acquired by United States Steel Corpora tion, for years its major customer, to assure a steady source of the raw material so vital to the iron and

steel industry mushrooming in the GreatLakes region. A reorganization of the Limestone Company in 1952 consolidated the Michigan operations with other U. S. Steel limestone plants in Pennsylvania and West Virginia under the new name of Michigan Limestone Division with headquarters in Detroit. The Eastern District, which formerly was the Pitts burgh Limestone Company, now includes an office at New Castle, Pa.; two mines, one the Annandale mine

at Boyers, Pa., and the Kaylor mine at East Brady, Pa.; two quarries, one at Hillsville, Pa., and the Moler plant near Charles Town, West Va. The Lake Erie district of the division includes re

ceiving docks, shipping facilities and grind plants at Buffalo, N. Y., and Conneaut, O. On April 16, 1954, the Str. Calcite, first of the Bradley self-unloaders, carried the first load of stone

from the new Cedarville dolomite quarry, in Michi gan's Upper Peninsula, construction of which had

begun two years earlier. The Cedarville quarry and Port Dolomite, shipping point for the quarry, thus became the newest additions to the Division.

CENTRAL OFFICE

Detroit, Michigan

CONNEAUT PLANT

Conneaut, Ohio

MOLEK PLANT

HILLSVILLE PLANT

Hillsville, Pa.

Millville, West Virginia

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men U. S. Steel stainless steel watches at the annual Northern

Krawczak. Calcite. Ernest Bruning. Cedarville, Joseph Urban. Louis Selke, Fred LaLonde. Alex Karairn. John Modrzynski.

District 2)-year service dinner. They are, left to right. Alex

Ro/laud Rains. Cordy Adrian. Calcite.and Lester Pines. Bradley.

Forty years' service with Michigan Limestone brought these

Honor Ten Northern Men For 40 Years Service Service Dinner Largest Ever Held Ten employees whose service spans almost the entire history of the Northern District were honored at the annual 25-year banquet held at Rogers City Feb. 2. Each of the 10 received United States Steel stainless steel

watches for 40 years of service. There were no additions to the 25-year service group.

The 1957 dinner and program was attended by the largest group ever at one of these service functions. Wives of the 25year veterans were included this year as honored guests. To accommodate the 575 men and their wives it was neces

sary to hold dinners at three different places and then have them gather at the theater for the awards and entertainment. Dinners were held at St. John's dining hall with L. J. Pat terson, Manager Northern District—Stone Operations as toastmaster; St. Ignatius school with N. O. Hoeft, Manager Brad ley Transportation Line; and at the Westminster dining hall with Donald Van Zandr, Assistant Manager—Calcite Plant, as toastmaster. Ladies of each of the church groups did an out standing job in preparing and serving the dinners. Very brief programs were held at the dinners and favors were given to both the men and the women. In opening the program at the theater, Mr. Patterson enrolled the help of the wives in Calcite's goal of an accident-free year. "We want you," he said to the wives, "to become self-ap pointed safety directors for your husbands. Say to him each morning when he leaves for work, 'Play it safe today. 1 want you back tonight." "With concerted efforts by all of us we can get through 1957

Fred LaLonde receives a 40-year watch from Mr. Beukema

But we can and we are mighty proud of it," he said. C. F. Beukema, President of the Division, presented the ser vice awards, made several announcements of interest, spoke briefly on safety and discussed certain economic problems fac ing the division in the competitive stone market.

One familiar figure was missing from the service dinner, Joseph A. Valentin, Vice President and Manager of Sales, who has attended all the service dinners either as a 25-year man or as a company official. But from Detroit, where Mr. Valentin was convalescing, he sent his greetings by telegram. After Mr. Patterson had read Mr. Valentin's wire, Mr. Beu

kema proposed that the group send a telegram to Mr. and Mrs. Valentin expressing regret that they were not present but voic ing pleasure of the news that Mr. and Mrs. Valentin were soon to return to their home in Rogers City. This action the entire group heartily endorsed.

The program at the theater included a movie produced by U. S. Steel and titled "Treasure Chest-" It told the story of the lowly tin can and served as a tremendous pictoral illustration to

the words Mr. Beukema had spoken of the need for large in

without an accident I am sure." Mr. Patterson noted that Calcite now has 224 men with 25

years or more of service. Their service totals 7,486 years, a period of rime that goes back beyond the earliest times re corded in the Bible," Mr. Patterson said.

vestments to support the productive efforts of the employees in our steel industry. Additional entertainment included music by a group of radio entertainers, an act by a magician, and the Michigan State University Men's Choral Ensemble all of which

"Not many organizations can boast of records such as this.

added much to the success of the occasion.

If you would have friends, he one.

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Turkey and all the trimmings was served at the three dinners.

Left is crowd at St. Ignatius; above are those at Lutheran hall.

Mr. Beukema Discusses Economic Problems In talking to the employees at the theater, Mr. Beukema frankly discussed economic problems facing the Division. He referred to the cut-back in the

Eastern District operations resulting from diminishing needs for limestone in certain U. S. Steel operations and high production costs that have put the

plants at a disadvantage in the competi tive market.

Mr- Beukema also noted that the

Calcite operation is losing tonnage of customers who are able to get stone delivered cheaper from another source.

"We face a challenge that can only be met by working together," he said. "Unless we have productivity increas es, unless labor cost increases are limited to benefits gained by increased produc tion, unless wc can continue to sell at

a price low enough to preserve a proper volume, justify new equipment to help

keep productivity high, and unless we can continue to make adequate profits

to pay for equipment, we will produce less and less stone each year." "Michigan Limestone Division man

agement has as one of its goals," Mr. Beukema continued, "the maintenance

of wages which will allow its people to continue a high standard of living. "But this will only be possible as long

as productivity, production per man hour, tons transported per man day, all increase.

"We must have," Mr. Beukema em

phasized, "adequate sales volume and profits to justify spending the money

Air. andMrs. Albert Hopp receive favors from Norm Haselhuhn at St. Ignatius.

John Modrzynski doesn't know it but his pocket is being picked by the magician.

we must spend to give you the tools to do your job properly." Mr. Beukema gave full credit to the employes for their contributions in the

force would of necessity be greatly re duced and the economy of the commun

past. "You have," he said, "contributed materially to the success of this Division. 1 want you all to know that we in man agement all recognize that the success of our operations would never have been possible without the cooperation of the people who make up the Michigan Limestone family." Rather than wait for our economic

problems to become grave at a date probably too late for correction we should think about this problem now and constantly do everything we can to work a little more effectively for more production," Mr. Beukema cautioned"I have a sincere faith in the ability of all of us to meet the challenge." He listed as one of the primary goals

of the Division the preservation of a public market, stating that without the volume of public sales the working

ity consequently suffer. "We can only preserve this market if our price is right," he said- "And our price can only be right if our cost of production is right, and we can only have a cost that is right if we increase our production rates constantly to match the increased benefits and increased labor rates that

wc grant from time to time." The President ended his discussion of

economic problems on a note of faith in the employees and hope for the future. "You have demonstrated repeatedly your ability to accomplish record-break ing results in safety, in construction and in production," he said. "And even as we have faith and a deep sense of loyalty and responsibility to you as we face the future, we also know that you will re

turn to us faith, sincerity and loyalty as wc work together for the best interests of ourselves, our Corporation, our cus tomers and the nation."

Initiative is doing the right thins without beintf told.

Keren Smolinski going fast and still upright.

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Skiing At Black Mountain Newest tourist attraction in the Rogers City area is the Black Mountain Ski Area 30 miles from the Calcite Plant. Pictured here

are MLD people enjoying the facilities on a cold sunny weekend.

And awa-a-a-a-y we go! Dick Brege scoots down slope for picture.

Skiing is a new experience for Shirley Grigg and she gets an assist from Loretta Przybyla.

In lodge building, Mrs. William Ransom prepares for day of fun. Betty Robbins. wife of George Robbins. De troit ofjice. watches son, David, start out.

HillsviUe employees admiring Sentinels of Saftey are, left to

Agostine, William Navarra and Frank Tutino. Trophy, which

right. Joe Pngliese. Biagio Gallo, John Kinkela. Jr.. Nicola G.

can be held for a year, is displayed in front of the plant.

Hiilsville Plant is Awarded 1955 Safety Citation Each Employee Receives Certificate For His Contribution To Achievement They did it again at Hiilsville. For the second time in four years, Mich igan Limestone employees at the Hiilsville quarry won the coveted Sentinels of Safety award for noteworthy safety achievement. The Hiilsville quarry operated 400, 053 man-hours without a disabling in jury. This was the best safety record maintained by any of the 235 quarries entered in the contest. Certificates For All

worker to carry with him a mental pic ture of his wife and child, whose hap piness depends upon his safe return after the day's work. Thus, these loved ones become his surest sentinels of safety. The award was presented at the plant in November. W. P. Druschel, plant manager, accepted the trophy and flag, donated by the magazine, The Explo

sives Engineer, for the quarry's outstand ing record. Other Awards Given

The plant previously won in 1952. The trophy, a bronze figure of a wo

At the same time the plant also re ceived an award of Merit plaque from rhc National Safety Council for the 1955 safety record and a Certificate of Honor from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry in recognition of a perfect safety record. The first announcement that the plant had won the Sentinels of Safety was

man and child, is a reminder for the

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Each of the 216 employees at the plant received a Certificate of Achievement

in Safety for his contribution in en abling the Hiilsville quarry to win the

top safety honors in the United States Bureau of Mines quarry safety competit ion for 1955.

/-/. C. Farrell, director of industrial re lations, complimented men for record.

The path of least resistance leads to nowhere.

Hiilsville Safety Continued From Page 9

made on June 21 by C F. Beukema, President, at a dinner marking the plant's achievement of 500 days without a lost time accident.

In the five-year period that the Hiils ville quarry has participated in the Nat ional Safety competition contest only eight disabling accidents have occured during 2,353,221 man-hours of work

for an injury-severity rate of 0.236 days lost per thousand man-hours and a fre

quency rate of 3.400 per million manhours of work.

The Hiilsville quarry annually sup plies LI.S. Steel's Pittsburgh and Youngstown District plants with 1,200,000 tons of high calcium limestone for metallur

gical uses in iron making blast furnaces and steel making open hearth furnaces. All Can Be Proud

In accepting the awards at the gath ering of all employees for the occasion

Looking over the individual Certficates of Safety each Hiilsville employee received in addition to bronze trophy are Earl Wohlgemuth. Vito Marzano and Jess Conli.

Mr. Druschel said, "This national safety trophy we have just won should make

all of us feel very proud." "Our outstanding safety record could

Baird, assistant manager of operations-

limestone; drilled approximately 700,

Eastern District, and H. C Farrell, dir

000 feet of blast hole; blasted about

only have been achieved with the fullest

ector of industrial relations for the di

cooperation of you men while working

vision. All spoke briefly. Mr. Suliot, in congratulating the em ployees, said, "It is with pride in each of you that 1 congratulate all of you here at Hiilsville in the achievement of your fine safety record, and the attainment of the Sentinels of Safety Award." "Each of you, personally, has made this splendid record possible. In work ing 400,053 man-hours in 1955 without a disabling injury, you have demonstrat ed that you are safety conscious, careful and alert in accomplishing your various tasks at the plant."

700,000 pounds of dynamite; loaded nearly two million tons of stone in

at your daily jobs."

"Safety first during our working day is a subject that should always be fore most in our minds. We have certainly proved to the industry that our Hiils ville quarry is one of the safest to work at in the entire nation."

"As you all know, today marks the 705th day that we have operated here without a lost-time accident. Let's all do

everything possible to continue this re markable safety record."

The Sentinels of Safety trophy was presented by Alexander Morrow, as

"Take your safety knowledge home

and Safety, Bureau of Mines. Earl Stephan, industrial safety con

with you, too, and realize that valuable

Division Represented

Representing the division were J. N. Suliot, manager of operations, and J. W.

150,000 miles.

This stone was processed through the

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Safety Protects Family

sistantsupervisor, Departmentof Health

sultant, Western Pennsylvania Safety Council, presented his agency's Certif icate of Safety to the plant.

trucks that were driven approximately

safety dividend of happiness for you and all of your family."

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The work the men at Hiilsville did so

safely to win the award included quarry ing nearly two million tons of stone. To do this they stripped nearly two mil lion cubic yards of overburden from the

Many a quitter makes an opportunity for a go-getter.

Individual Certificate

Employees of Hiilsville plant gathered in the shop for pre sentation of the award by Alexander Morrow of the Bureau of

plant and most of it loaded into 27,000

Mines, left. Here he watches as the individual Certificates of Safety were passed out to employees after trophy presentation.

Moler Gets Award

The Moler quarry received a Certifi

railroad cars. Other mobile and station

ary machinery was operated more than two thousand hours and auxiliary work performed—all without one disabling

cate of Safety for being among the first

accident. No wonder the entire division

abling injury during the year. This annual competition, one of sev eral conducted by the Bureau of Mines,

can take pride in the achievement at Hiilsville.

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four in its group. The Moler men work ed 202,835 man-hours without a dis

has an extremely useful purpose: to alert and hold the interest of employees and officials in accident-prevention work. Statistics reveal that the average mine or quarry that has participated in the contest attains a better safety record than the average mineral operation that is not in the competition.

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CERTIFICATE OF HONOR To the

manac.emf.xt and Employes ov tub HILLSVILLE PUNT

MICHIGAN LIMESTONE DIVISION IX RECO6MTI0H OF A PEBFECT SAFETY REC086

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Honor Certificate From State of Pennsylvania

National Safety Council Award

Never admit to yourself thai you are beaten and you won't he.

Jurors Tread Historic Path iJ OCTC/i^JU^

Moler men called to jury duty sit in judgment of prosaic crimes in an historic setting in their home town.

It is the court house in Charles Town, West Virginia, where John Brown, abolitionist, was tried, convicted of treason and sen

tenced to hang for deeds that played an important part in the Civil War. History and literature both record the event. There is little in Charles Town today to reflect the events of nearly 100 years ago.

It is a peaceful, pretty town and the few who go before the

bar of justice in the hallowed old court house are charged with lesser crimes.

1 wo Moler men. J. F. Cameron, Sr.,

quarry foreman, and M. C. Fields, car

rider, were jurors recently.

Snow Birds Are Roof Guardians Proud is the owner of a house in

Harper's Ferry, W. Va., near the Moler plant, whose rooftop is dec orated with snow birds.

These pictured at the right are on the home owned by Raymond Biller, Moler storekeeper, and probably date back to the Civil War era. The decorative cast

iron

birds

serve a useful purpose. They hold back snow from clogging eave (roughs. They also allow the snow to melt and run off as soft water

that is caught in cisterns. Local snow birds have an indi

vidual design and are made, as they have been for more than 100 years, This is the Charles Town court house much as John Brown saw it in 18)V.

by Matthews Foundry, Marrinsburg, W. Va., from the original mould.

The higgest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Foreman J. C. Wagner demonstrates West Virginia boating.

Shenandoah catfish caught by Wagner are tasty eating.

WEST VIRGINIANS POLE THEIR BOATS In the shallow waters of the Shenan

doah River, that provides water for the Moler plant, anglers always take two poles when they go fishing . . . one for the catfish they arc after and the other

to push their flat-bottomed boats. To Michigan boatmen, who are used to deep lakes, this may seem like a strange way of propelling a boat. But the West Virginia fisherman is an

expert with his long flexible pole used from a standing position on the stern. He'll match the oarsman in speed and outdo him in maneuverability in moving his boat like a Venetian gondalier. He'll also claim his catfish, properly prepared, arc as tasty as any fish.

Secret of success: Be ready when opportunity comes.

THE ACCIDENT MAKERS Hard hats and safety goggles are symbols of one of indus

the core of his problem. He tends to evade the rules, both of

try's deepest convictionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that properly equipped, prop

working and of living. A medical investigator who has visited the homes of accident victims reports that he frequently finds social and economic difficulties. In most cases, the potential accident victim has a long service record and is well trained

erly trained men can work safely. Yet there exists a small group of workers whom no amount of equipment or train ing can protect. These are the troubled persons who un consciously but deliberately hurt themselves. Who these people are and how they can be helped are matters that a Du Font's psychiatrist is investigating closely. Here he reports some of his findings.

By Gerald Gordon, M. D.

For years one group of Du Pont maintenance and construc

for his job. But all too often he's a victim of his own bottled-

up emotions, which he turns against himself. His plight may

be further complicated by childhood experiences that taught him to gain attention and sympathy by being sick or hurting himself rather than by good behavior. Sometimes these people are called accident-prone, but I dislike this term because it implies their weakness is inborn and can't be corrected. Actually, they can be helped fairly easily if they are discovered early enough and something is done to

tion workers had posted probably the worst safety record in the entire Company. Supervisors shook their heads sadly at help them. annual performance reviews, claiming they did everything but Direct psychiatric work is one way, but this is obviously think for their men to protect them from injury. Year after not always possible or desirable. A second approach, however, year they expressed the hope that the "bad luck" would stop. proves highly effective. This, as I mentioned earlier, involves It did not. Finally, the department management called in requiring employees to follow safety rules and develop sound the superintendent and told him he must work habits. In my opinion, the fact that a accept direct responsibility for the safety of worker violates a safety rule is more im YOUR H his men. Supervisors were warned that their portant than why he violates it. Pampering performance was unsatisfactory so long as the emotionally disturbed individual only they continued to tolerate unsafe acts. No serves to increase his demands and, at the changes were made in type of work, per same time, aggravates the severity of his sonnel or safety procedures. Yet during the illness. next three years, this same group created If a supervisor openly and honestly exer what might well be a world's safety record DON'T LET NEGLIGENCE ROB cises his authority to obtain good perform THEM OF ITS CARE 1 for construction and maintenance work. ance, he is helping both the employee and the company for which they both work. On Why the abrupt drop in accidents? The the other hand, a supervisor who evades responsibility for the answer, although simple, is startling to many people: Accidents safety of his men becomes mentally ill himself and spreads don't just happen; they are caused. Moreover, in most cases the this illness to others. cause is something the victim himself did or didn't do. The When the safety, attendance and medical records of an acci accidents decrease when the men responsible for them are dent maker are compared, the correlation may be amazingly made to work safely and productively. close. We had the performance of all the workers in one plant Industry spends prodigious amounts of money and effort checked over a five-year period. Analysis showed a persistent, to provide safe working conditions. Du Pont's efforts have 12 almost straight-line correlation between the number of visits times won the National Safety Council's highest award. Yet to the dispensary for incidental complaints and the number of even in a company where the injury record is about 18 times injuries suffered by the same individuals. Such persons also better than that of industry as a whole, workers still hurt them are likely to have more minor ailments and more trouble get selves unnecessarily. ting along with their supervisor and fellow employees, other Our studies have revealed a small group of individuals studies show. around whom occupational injuries seem to cluster in dis I have tried to point out an existing industrial problem proportionate numbers. Obviously there is something more and suggest one thing that can be done to correct it. More than hard luck plaguing a man whose career shows a long studies are needed before we can consider this area satis series of injuries. What's back of his troubles? The answer is factorily explored. It is already apparent, however, that we that the accident maker is suffering from a form of mental illness so widespread that it may be found to some degree in can do much to improve the safety performance and mental most of us. Because it is so universal, we find it difficult to health of the accident makers by requiring them to meet the see in others, and all but impossible to see in ourselves. job responsibilities of normal people. It is the failure of the employee as a whole person that is (Reprinted from Du Pont Magazine)

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Limestone Essential

to Many Industries Steel, Cement and Chemical Makers

Are Our Principal Customers

Limestone is used so extensively that it touches the extremes of human ac

tivity . . . from fragments trampled un der foot to filler for poultry feed. Be tween these lowly extremes are uses es sential to multitudes of industries.

Three hundred and forty million net tons of limestone were produced in the United States last year. Michigan Lime stone Division supplied an important

are within economical shipping distance by rail to the steel mills of the Pittsburgh and Youngstown areas. This, plus the fact that we produce good quality stone, gives Michigan Lime

many cement and chemical industries. Through the chemical industries, lime stone touches hundreds of products that arc in every day use.

stone Division an important position

lime, the paper and the sugar beet in dustries; for coal mine dusting, fillers for asphalt, fertilizer, poultry food; and for rip rap and road building. And at Michigan Limestone Division's two grind plants, one at Buffalo and the other at Conneaut, the predominent product is agricultural lime. To deliver the product, Bradley boats during the shipping season regularly sail to Sauk Ste. Marie, Chicago, Cleveland, Ashtabula, Detroit, Buffalo and many other ports in the Great Lakes region.

with some of the major stone consuming industries in the Midwest.

share of that total in the area of its

Most familiar of all our customers is

transportation network of rail and water.

the parent organization, U. S. Steel Corporation which takes approximately 50 per cent of our total production for use in the great open hearth and blast furnaces producing iron and steel. Use of stone in steel making, how ever, is but one of the many applications it has in industry. Next in volume consumption arc the

The customers are as varied as the

uses to which the stone is put. The principal ones, however, are steel, cement and chemical makers.

Michigan Limestone Division's great

quarries at Calcite and Cedarville supply major markets on the Great Lakes, and the Eastern District quarries and mines

In addition our stone is used in the

You can run into debt but you havn to crawl out of it.

First step is take chunk of bread dough

Pizza Pie Popular Italian Dish Is Easy To Make And It Will Please The Entire Family

Dough shaped by hand to fit pizza pan

n every main street in America

glowing neon signs attest to the opopularity of Pizza Pie, a tasty Italian dish made with tomatoes, spices, cheese For most Americans it is an "eating out" dish but in Italian homes, like that

spoons of cooking oil. On top of all she

of Dominick Lorello at Hiilsville, it is

Lorello, who learned to make it when

uses green pepper and anchovies or Italian sausage. The pie is baked for 20 minutes in an oven at 350 degrees and served piping

she was a child.

hot.

always home-made. Making a pizza is easy, says Mrs.

American cheese and seasons with a

teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of pep per, a sprinkle of oregano and parsley and garlic to taste. Over these she spreads two table

and meat or fish.

Anthony watches mother add tomatoes

On this she sprinkles \â&#x20AC;˘'.=, cup of grated

She uses a regular bread dough for the pie shell, usually making enough for several pics and for some bread. As the pictures show, she does not roll out the dough but works it with her hands into the pan. Into the large pie shell she puts dough, then two cups of whole tomatoes.

There is no vaccine against accidents.

Pizza is not a new dish. Mrs. Lorello's

father-in-law, Antonio Lorello, a former Hiilsville employee now retired, remem

bers eating it 60 years ago in Italy. Dominick, a mechanic helper, has been employed at Hiilsville 15 years. Hehas two brothers and three uncles work

ing at the plant.

Bradley Boats Given New Names Two new names â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rogers City and Cedarville â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will make their appearance in Great Lakes ports and shipping lanes this year when the 1957 season opens. But veteran Lakes sailors will recognize familiar Bradley line ships beneath the new name plates. C F. Beukema, president of Michigan Limestone Division, announced the re

Two tablespoons of cooking oil is added

Grated cheese is sprinkled on

naming of the Strs. B. H. Taylor and A. F. Harvey to the Rogers City and Cedar ville respectively, at Calcite's annual 25year service dinner. "Because of our long, happy relation ship with the people of Rogers City and

the fact that we arc so much a part of this community, wc feel that it will be most appropriate for one of our ships to carry the name of the 'Limestone Capi tal of the World' into all of the ports of the Great Lakes," Mr. Beukema said.

"It is also fitting that one of our ves sels be named after the community of Cedarville, location of our newest dolo

mite limestone quarry and shipping port of growing importance on the Lakes." Tng Is Re-named

Re-naming of the two stone carriers

Put either anchovies or sausage on top

Anthony and Josie wait for it to bake

Dominick and his father, Antonio, are all set to fill up on fresh home-made pizza

necessitated re-naming the Calcite har bor tug which has carried the name of Rogers City. It will become the Dolo mite. The other Calcite tugboat will con tinue to carry the name Limestone. The Str. B. H. Taylor was constructed lor Bradley Transportation Company in

1923 by the American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain, O. The vessel was

originally named in honor of Benjamin H. Taylor, a former U. S. Steel raw ma terials executive who was instrumental

in the acquisition by the Corporation in 1920 of Michigan Limestone and Chem ical Company and the then three-vessel Bradley fleet. The Harvey, now undergoing conver sion from a bulk ore carrier to a self-

unloader for the Bradley fleet, was named after a former president of Pitts burgh Steamship Division.

With the longest reach of any equipment in the division, the boom on the dragline reaches out 200 feet, can dump 83 feet high. Dismantled Dragline Re-erected by Hiilsville Men

Workhorse of stripping operations at Hiilsville is the huge walking dragline that the men there still view with well-justified pride of accomplish ment for they re-erected it. Bought from Oliver Iron Mining Div ision last year, the mammoth piece of machinery was dismantled and shipped to Hiilsville on 17 railroad cars.

Helped only by an erector from the Bucyrus Erie Company, the erection and repair of the dragline was done entirely by regular plant employees working un

500 tons. The boom reaches out 200 feet

der Walter Stoner, master mechanic.

and swings an eight cubic yard bucket that weighs 16,700 pounds. It can dump overburden to a height

And not only did they do the job in good time, they performed the hazardous task without a single lost-time accident.

of 85 feet approximately 190 feet away.

This

most 31 feet in diameter. On this is a

work by 43 different men. Key to the safety was the short safety meetings held each day before work began. Thus, despite the fact that the men were doing unfamiliar and often dangerous jobs, they did the work with

"house"' measuring 50 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet high housing the machinery. Motors include a 650-hp

involved

15.000

man-hours

out accident.

The dragline weighs approximately

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

The machine sets on a tub or base al

motor generator set, a 325-hp hoist

motor, a 325-hp drag motor and two 75hp swing motors. The estimated digging capacity is

3 I I cubic yards per hour.

Moving the dragline is accomplished by "walking" the 500-ton giant. Pontoon-like "shoes" on each side lower to the ground, raise the dragline and take a step of seven feet six inches.

At the left the dragline is shown resting on its base. Above it is in motion with the shoes on the ground and the base tub lifted of] the ground. The walking shaft weighs about 20 tons.

Construction pictured above gives some idea of the task the Hiilsville men faced in erecting the dragline. None, of course, had experience in this type of work but they adapted quickly.

Safety meetings were held, each morning before work began. Every hazard of the day's work, such as working high on the A-frame, was discussed thoroughly. The job was done safely.

The Most Important Day! There are many things in life for which

we can plan ahead. We can plan trips or vacations or get-togethers — for next week or next month or whenever suits our con venience.

But there's one thing we can't plan be

yond each working day — and that is our personal safety.

As we begin each day's work — as we start each job during that day — that is when our planning for safety must be done.

Getting through today without an acci dent is our goal. That goal can be reached if we will use safety devices where necessary if we will regard safety rules as a

protection from accident rather than just a list of "dos and don'ts." Tomorrow —

next week —

and next

month will take care of themselves if we

will just remember that being careful is an cvery-day job and today is the most import ant day of all.

It. is hetter to be careful 1,000 times than killed once.

His Guns Are Loaded

With Artistic Carving Annandale Workman Is Expert Gunsmith A s a youngster around the Annandale mine, Tony Vitale whittled his own toys out of discarded dynamite boxes. Today he has turned his ability with a knife into a profitable and satisfying hobby of carving decorative gun stocks. Tony, who has 16 years service at Annandale and works now as a flagman, also is an expert gunsmith and has rebuilt a num

ber of ancient muzzle loaders into beautiful, working firearms. He likes best to take a raw piece of walnut and carve out the entire stock, fitting the grip to the hand of the man who will shoot the gun. To stocks already made he adds his own artistic touch of intricate carving.

Fifty to sixty hours of delicate hand work goes into one of Tony's hand-carved stocks. Many of his tools he made himself.

Close-up shows the intricate work on the hand grip of a rifle.

Tony tries the sights of one of his rebuilt muzzle loaders. 20

Daughter Kathy shows a perfectly detailed miniature rifle.

Common sense is seeing things as they are and doing things as they should he done.

Author Lists Five Mistakes To Avoid In Retirement Your pension is not the only thing you will need for a happy retirement. You need planning and recognition of the problems you will face. But with proper planning well ahead of the time you retire, that period can be one of the happiest of your life. Without proper thought beforehand, it may be a period of unhappiness, frustration and fading away.

It's a long reach for Tony's son, Bruce, to load the old-timer.

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the Golden Years.

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Tom Collins, feature editor of the Chicago Daily News and the author of a book on retirement, The Golden Years, says that American men simply do not know how to retire. "They make mistakes they would never have made in their working years. They make mistakes which you, if you follow the pattern, will make, too." Mr. Collins lists five. Avoid them, he says, and you increase your chances of a happy retirement. The first mistake is to get your pension and pull up stakes. One of the greatest fallacies ever sold to mature Americans is the idea that the finest place to retire is somewhere else and that if it's just got sunshine you've got it made. Florida and California are crowded with miserable retired people who wish to Heaven they had stayed where they were. They have found that once they pull up stakes at home and move their possessions far away, there is seldom the spirit or the money to ever go back. If you could pick up, say, a square mile of the town that surrounds your home, gather on it your old friends and the casual acquaintances who say hello in the morning, maybe a couple of familiar streets — if you could pack this up and cart it off to Miami, then you might have something. But it is the things you cannot pack up — not the climate you are getting — that are essential to a good retirement. There arc circumstances that warrant your picking up and moving after 65. Just don't believe that is the only path to

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The second mistake is to think yon can loaf it through. A man who has worked all his life for his daily bread can not stop working when he gets his pension. Things happen to the body and the mind when he does — it's a sort of rusting

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away.

Almost without exception, the retired man who goes to the cemetery first is the one who retired and sat down. The idea of loafing is almost as bad as the idea of moving away, and there are some serious psychological factors involved — as well as your health.

The day you retire you're just another old gent on a pension. You have no identity beyond that. You had better get a little. And you can't get it loafing. All of us hunger for attention. All of us want recognition.

Seek activity that will give you identity, and try hard to make it an identity that will give you recognition, and that will These are some examples of the work Tony has done on rifles.

Continui-u On Page Twenty-Two

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Author Lists Five Mistakes Continued From Page 21

demand some attention from the people who know you. The third mistake of retirement is to refuse to give up what you really can't have any more — your job. Once you get your pension don't try to hang around. You can grow bitter about it. But it is far better to accept this thing that must come, to prepare for the freedom it will bring you, to arrange a new life and possibly a new career that can be built on top of the old. The fourth mistake of retirement is to expect too much from your children. Don't give them the major part of your money. Don't let them know how much you have. Don't let them take over your business. Don't sign any papers that will allow them to run your affairs. Don't plan for them to spend too much time with you. You have always been the parent. Don't surrender that role. If your children are to stay close to you as you grow old, they will do it because you seem to have integrity and stability in a world that is beginning to slap them around. The fifth and greatest mistake of retirement is to fail to un derstand how wonderful you are. That jounds like a phrase from a love song. But nothing else quite fits the men who at this point in mid-century are now approaching retirement. In a world that still caters to the survival of the fittest,

you have survived- You have survived one of the most mo mentous 50 years in all history. If you are past age 50 you survived World War I. You did not die in the flu epidemic. You did not poison yourself on bathtub gin of the 20's. You survived the stock market crash. You lived through the Depression. When World War II came, however you managed it, you survived. And up until today you have sur vived the H-Bomb and the automobile.

You are a remarkable human package.

What a foundation you have for faith in yourself as you move toward your Golden Years. What a heritage you have — not from blooded ancestors but from you yourself and your 50-odd years. It's a heritage of eating every day, and always finding clothes to wear, and shelter. It's a heritage of getting along with your fellowmen. It's a heritage of humility and patience because you wouldn't have survived until now without them. And it must be a heritage wherein over 50 years you have

Gold service watch is presented Andy Isacco by C. F. Beukema. president. With them, are J. W. Baird, manager Annandale and Kaylor, and ]. N. Suliot, manager of the MLD Eastern District.

Honor Veteran Employees Fifty years of work with one employer is quite a record. But when that 50 years is worked without a lost time accident it is a notable achievement.

Two Michigan Limestone Division men, Andio Isacco of the Annandale plant and Vincenzo Commisso of Hiilsville can boast of such outstanding records in safety and service. Both were presented U. S. Steel gold service watches by C. F. Beukema, president of Michigan Limestone in December.

Commisso, now retired, started work as a boy of 14 shortly after he came to this country. He recalled early working con ditions when safety depended mostly on the man himself. "To day the plant is a safe place to work," he said. Isacco, also a native of Italy, has worked at numerous jobs both on the surface and underground since 1906. Two of his five sons, Louis and Patsy, work at Annandale.

had character, when character was called for, and you have shown courage.

With retirement and a pension there is freedom to explore. Flow do you know you can't write a book? How do you know you can't invent something that will benefit mankind?

How do you know you can't preach a sermon that will sway men's hearts? . . . Have you really tried? Age 65, retirement, a pension, Social Security, and freedom

from organized work — these may be the most precious gifts

Vincenzo Commisso of Hiilsville receives his service watch

ever handed to you. Make the most of them.

award from A\r. Beukema and Mr. Suliot at the Hiilsville plant.

Nobody has a good enough memory to he a successful liar.

R\ Festive Christmas decorations appeared on the boom and- stack of the Str. Clymer when she docked in Detroit late in December to unload stone at a cement plant.

Bradley Boats Set New Record Latest Lay-Up Keeps Boats Sailing; To Doc. 21 Sailing until Dec. 21, the eight boats of the Bradley Trans portation Line set a new record during the 1956 season by hauling nearly 10'/2 million tons of limestone and coal. The Str. Munson, the world's largest self-unloading vessel,

ceptional cooperation and teamwork of officers and crewmen. "The fleet could have accomplished this result without the extension of the season late into December had not the steel

and tug strikes last summer interfered with normal dispatch."

carried a total of 2,100,000 tons

Mr. Beukema said that the

of cargo to better her own

addition of another vessel to

mark of 2,080,00 tons in 1953.

Boosting the 1956 fleet ton nage figures was the new boat, the Str. Myron C. Taylor, which joined the Bradley ships in October after undergoing con

A SHIP IS A SHE BECAUSE . . .

the fleet next season and pros pects for near-capacity opera tions continuing throughout the year, "lead us to expect an even bigger season in 1957. This will be reflected in increased pro

version from a bulk ore carrier

Thcrc's always a great deal of bustle around her... There's usually a gang of men around ... She has a waist and stays ... It takes a lot of paint to keep her looking good ... It's not the initial expense but the upkeep ...

duction at our Calcite and Ced

to a self-unloader.

She's all decked out...

arville quarries.

It takes a good man to handle her right... She knows her topsides, hides her bottom and, when

Wintering at Rogers City were Strs. Carl D. Bradley, T. W. Robinson, I. L. Clymer, W. F. White. B. H. Taylor and Cal cite. Str. John G. Munson was layed up at Toledo and Str. My ron C. Taylor at Port Dolomite.

However, the previous fleet record set in 1955 would have

coming into port, always heads for the buoys.

fallen even without this addi

tional tonnage.

The outstanding Bradley per formance was credited by C F. Beukema, president, to the "ex-

(For the above, thanks to W. M. Defoe of the Defoe Shipbuilding Company.)

Whether it's ideas, or children, our own are always wonderful.

handled the truck stripping on the Solvay property with five trucks on the haul. Shift foremen on this operation were Clarence Stewart, Russell Kuhlman

and John Bruder. Stripping from this work was dumped in the test hole made many years ago north of the target house. Walt Meyers, general quarry superinten dent, says the filling of the water hole created in the quarry is causing some headshaking among the fishermen who claim it has been the source of some big fish. But while the stories are plentiful Walt says he's found no one who has

actually seen the fish supposed to have been caught there. No. A shovel underwent some repair on the main herring bone gear on the hoist and was late getting started. It was used on the north half of the west bank-

No. 2 shovel cut the south part of the west bank working in a sand bank that appears to be losing some of its height. No. 1 I worked in the Bell shale on the south bank and encountered more

than normal water problems. It was nec

Paul Liedtke works coils into place on the main generator of the Str. Robinson.

Calcite Winter Work

Brings Many Changes With the usual heavy load of routine maintenance and repair work as well as special projects, Calcite has been a busy place during the non-operating season. Fortunately the winter was a fairly good one weather-wise and all work has progressed satisfactorily. There were few snow storms, relatively little snow and comparatively uniform cold weather. The usual January thaw did not hit un til the last week in February so that out side work went on steadily almost until the end of the season. Quarry There were two innovations in the

winter quarry work. For the first time two shovels were used in the dump area as casting shovels. No. 10 shovel handled number 1 dump and No. 12 shovel was used at number 4 dump. Toward the end of the season No.

10 moved

after filling number I dump to the base of number 5 dump. With the two shovels operating in the dump less track shifting was required, thus speeding up dump operations- Us ing a shovel to cast in the dump was tried out on a limited basis last year. Also for the first time drilling has been carried on through the winter months with the rotary air drills. The drilling was done for a test explosives program rhat got under way the first full week in March. Alva Meyer was the drilling foreman and Hugo Sorgen-

frei was brushing and blasting foreman. The drills not in use were revamped to drill 7 and 7/Sth-inch holes. Two

compressors were installed on one of the drills and the other two were equipped with bigger compressors. Elsewhere in the quarry. No. 6 shovel

essary to pump most of the time to keep the shovel dry.

The P and H drag-line worked a gravel deposit south of Adams Point. The gravel was used for track ballast and proved very successful. ("rushers Cheeked

Winter work began at the crusher house with the complete dismantling of both crushers. The usual checks were

then made for worn parts. The eccentric in No. 2 was found defective and was

returned for repair. The crushers will start this season

with new oiling systems. Conveyors C-l and 2 were rcpowered to adequately handle the increased load from the extension to crusher No. 1.

The usual repairs and the maintenance

of chutes, hoppers, etc., was performed under the supervision of Eli Mulka. Mill

In the mill Cash Sobeck and his crews

had their hands full with the normal

maintenance work that kept them busy every day until operations resumed. All operating equipment was checked

and repairs made where necessary. In many places worn parts were replaced to assure steady operation.

It is far easier to prevent a mistake Ihan to correct one.

Flumes and decking were replaced where rust and corrosion had taken a toll. A number of screens were over

hauled and many of the chutes relined. Changes were made in the F Conveyor under the special-flux storage to facili tate truck loading.

installation and removal of propeller blades. Charles Robinson was squad leader on the fin job. New life boat davits were installed

on the Clymer to facilitate boat handling easier and faster. This work necessitated

extending the boat deck to the ship's

Major work on the White included refractory work in the boilers and in stallation of sectional boiler grates. On the Rogers City, formerly the B. H. Taylor, there was thorough examina tion of some trouble spots that devel oped last year. A new vent system was

normal

side. The new winch has a brake to

installed on the main reduction gear;

winter work and for the first time got into boat work with the Str. Myron C. Taylor in lay-up there. It is to the credit of the Cedarville men that they adapted well to boat work, and the job of putting

control lowering boats and provide a means for hoisting the boat aboard after lifeboat drills.

considerable refractory work was done; and the cargo hold lighting was renewed. On the Robinson the main generator

Also on the Clymer considerable re fractory was repaired in the furnaces of

done on board while the rotor was re

in new underfeed stokers to eliminate

the two boilers. Frank Bader did the

hand firing went along in good shape.

boiler work. Examination during lay-up

The Taylor also underwent changes in

showed that the induced draft fan lin

electrical equipment to cut maintenance. At Calcite's lay-up harbor boat crews

ers were beyond repair. New ones were ordered for installation by the crew at

Cedarville crews

had

their

had their hands full the entire season.

On the Bradley the old flow control fins were removed and new ones were installed about 26 inches lower for more

effect while running at lighter drafts. The new fin also will make for easier

fit-out.

Center elevator cables on

the

conveyors were replaced as were wearing plates in the chutes. On the Calcite a new after spar was installed, and extensive repairs made to the side conveyors and center elevators.

was rewound. Work on the stator was

moved for shop repair. Additional quar ters for two men were completed. The forward half of the cargo hold and rank top plating was renewed. This entailed replacing conveyor supporting steel, gates and hoppers over the conveyor as well as side slope and top plating. New tunnel lighting was installed by the elec tricians. The crew also should appreciate the installation of electric screens for

the galley and the dining room. .

Track lifter was big aid to track crew in dump.

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No. 10 shovel finished the season loading trucks at No. 5 dump.

Extravagant praise troubles a wise man.

Chicken pickers arc Pamela Du Lac, daughter of Adelor Die Lac. Calcite. and her cousin. Mr, Du Lac is a plant trackman.

KIDS' PAGE Picture picked as best is this one of Billy Silves. 7. nephew of Carl Reese, employeeat the Kaylor plant.

Sharon Ott is three. She is the grand daughter of Ellis R. Williams of Moler.

You are invited

send

pictures of your children or grandchildren in for this

page. Five dollars will be paid for the best photograph each issue and $2.50 for every other picture used. We cannot useall pictures sent because of space limitations but all photo graphs will be returned. Be sure to include your name, plant and name and age of child in photo. Address entries to Editor, Screenings, 2650 Guardian Building, Detroit 26, Michigan.

Proud father of these boys, Richard and William, is William Navarra. Hiilsville.

Calcite's Franklin Wirgau sent in this pjct//re Qf hh so,h G//7 U).months-old.

John Childs. Cedarville mechanic helper, sent this shot of grandson. Mark Childs.

Patricia Wilt. 15. is the daughter of

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Three daughters of W. A. Reese. Kaylor, are Linda. 7. Nancy. 10, and Sue Ann. 4.

Paul E. Will, an electrician at Moler.

Look for the best in Iho other fellow—you will find something good.

Carl G. Hogberg Is Advanced Detroit—Carl G. Flogberg, who joined the Division June 1, 1955 as assistant to the vice president, has been named a vicepresident of the Division.

Born in Escanaba in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Mr. Hog berg attended Michigan College of Mining and Technology. He began his employment with U. S. Steel as a blast furnace apprentice at South Chicago works. He was transferred to Pittsburgh in 1941, where he was associated with blast furnace

raw materials development and quality control problems on U. S. Steel operating committees. In 1945, he received the J. E. Johnson award of the Ameri

can Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and, in 1950, was honored by a Kelly Award from the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers for his technical contributions to the steel industry.

Mr. and Mrs. Hogberg reside in Dearborn. They have a son, David, a student at Alma College, Alma, Mich., and a daughter CEDARVILLE SAFETY RECORD CLIMBS — Safety conscioies CedervUle employees take great pride in this daily record of their safe days worked. It was Jan. 23 when Russell Sims and Willard Thon recorded the 481st day worked without an accident. They've set this record because every man working in the plant recognizes that safety is an individual responsibility.

Bradley Boat Pictures Are Featured In Fortune Magazine Picture Story Two pictures of Bradley Transportation Line steamers in winter lay-up were featured in color section of Fortune maga zine for January. One picture showed a crew of men painting the sides of one of the boats and the other was a bow picture of two steamers tied up in the lay-up harbor. Both pictures were in color and were part of a picture story tided, "The Deep North, U. S."

Detroit Personals Detroit—There arc several new faces around the office since

the last issue of Screenings . . . Donald P. Knowles, Jr., whose father was manager at the Hershey mine, is working with T. J. Foster in industrial engineering. Don worked in the mine two summers while attending college at Easton, Pa., and spent a summer on the B. H. Taylor. He is just back from army ser vice,spending 18 months in Germany. He and his wife, JoAnn, live at 14176 Riverview. Detroit. Don's father now is with the

Corporation working on a mining operation at Urucum, Bra zil .. . Howard T. Brown, who is in the accounting department as a clerk, comes to us from the General Motors photograph it-

department. He is married and has two children . . . Other newcomers are Jacquclyn Albert, records clerk, Alice L. Ayers, statistical typist, Mary Jones, switchboard operator and recep tionist, Mary Levergood. accounts payable clerk, and Marilyn Shultz, typist-clerk.

Janet, attending high school.

Calcite Pair Coaches Young Cagers Hobbies make our living worthwhile. Clem Urban and Jack Soda are basketball fans and their hobby is coaching basketball teams. They have a group of boys at St- Ignatius school who are in the twelve to fourteen year age group who are known as "The Iggies." They win a good share of their games every year and help develop some good players. In fact the teams

have only lost two games in the last six years. So far this year they have won nine straight. Clem and Jack should feel well

pleased with their hobby of teaching boys how to be good players and good citizens. Most of the players are sons of Calcite Plant employees.

Two Oldtimers Pass On

Calcite—Two of Calcite's retired oldtimers passed away this past winter. William Haselhuhn, carpenter, who retired in December 1953, passed away on December 23, 1956. Richard Lamb, powerhouse repairman, passed away on January 29, 1957. We express our sympathy to the families of these old friends.

Cedarville Personals We have always known that the members of the Cedarville crew were resourceful and the latest example was by that mechanical wizard Pete Promo. Only this time Pete's talents were not in the strictly mechanical line. He headed in a hurry with his missus for the hospital but did not make it before the lastcst family addition had arrived. A fast return to home and the local doctor relieved Pete of his medical duties- Mother

and child arc doing fine. Pete's complaint now is that his hospital and surgical insurance does not cover the situation.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Wins Big TV Award

Calcite窶年ew infant members of the

Calcite Boy Carves

Calcite family since our last report in Screenings include: Jean Marie, born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Benson on Nov.

2, 1956; Anna Marie, daughter of Mrand Mrs. Harry Jaeger on Nov. 3; Chris Alan born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strzel-

ecki on Nov. 15; a son, Timothy John, born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Horn Nov.

18; Mr. and Mrs. William Dagner's son, Thomas Edward, born Nov. 28; a son, Theodore John, born to Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore King Nov. 29; James Warner, son of Mr- and Mrs. James Russell, on Dec. 12; a son, Daniel Edward, born to

Mr. and Mrs. Earl LaLonde on Jan. 16; Brian Arthur, born to Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Gapczynski on Dec. 28; a daugh ter, Julie Ann, born to Mr. and Mrs. Owen Kroll Jan. 25.

Bob Landis. Hiilsville quarry engineer, and his wife won a mink coat and a trip to Switzerland on TV's Big Payoff pro gram last November. But Bob is still de bating whether or not to accept the prizes. He has until March next year to make up his mind. Taxes on the coat and conditions for the trip accoient for his hesitancy. The trip covers only transpor tation. In the above picture Mr. and Mrs.

Landis are in the center with Bess Myerson. left, and Randy Merriman at right. Harold Pollock, track employee, re marked after finishing his first aid in structor's course, "I never knew there was so much to learn about a little old

Some of the fellows at the quarry set up a stuffed deer head down a survey line and then made sure Forrest McCord

saw it. Forrest said, "I just kept shooting and sneaking closer, shooting and sneak ing closer, until finally I could see the glass eyes." The boys got a good laugh and Forrest says it's the biggest thrill he's had in years.

Using only a jacknife and sandpaper, Richard Wright, 15. son of Harold

Wright, Calcite locomotive engineer, shows /enusual talent at wood carving in these figures he has done. R'chardhopes to become a draftsman. Crew members of the Str. B. H. Tay lor contributed S34 to the fund for de

velopment of the Black Mountain Ski

Gordon Merchant, mill employee, used artificial respiration to save the life of a new-born calf on his farm. His method

wasn't quite according to first aid stan dards but the result, claims Gordon, was satisfactory.

area opened during the winter. In send ing the money they wrote: "Even though we are on the lakes away from Rogers City most of the time, we know of the financial and physical effort that has to go into such a project as Black Mount

human being."

ain. We know that we and our families

Walt Meyers left the short wave radio turned on in his car one night when he parked in his garage. Later his wife came home and parked the other car next to Walt's. Suddenly the radio started to op erate with a quarry conversation. Mrs. Meyers lost one shoe and added a few gray hairs getting out of there.

the winter at the ski tow-"

will find many hours of enjoyment in

Robert Yerks, an employee in the ma chine shop car repair crew, likes his new 98 Olds very much. Reports have it that the car does not go on long trips be cause Bob likes Rogers City too well. Electrician John Meyers shoots to kill

Harry Meharg's new Dodge has the quietest running engine in the lot. As a matter of fact it is so quiet that Harry parked it outside the office and left the engine running. One of the shop em ployes passing noted the fact and got

word to Harry. How is the gas mileage with this type of operation, Harry?

and rarely misses. In last year's hunting he shot two bucks but the Conservation

Cash Budnick was willing to pose for a

picture with the four ducks but clammed up when it came to talking about where he shot them last fall. Anybody got a good dog we can put on his trail?

Department can't touch him. The first was a nice 8-pointer. Trouble was it was

a stuffed animal. John took the situation with the usual kidding but showed the boys he wouldn't be fooled again by getting a real one before season ended.

Most, of the shadows of life are created by standing in our own sunshine.

Ten Calcite Men Are Added To Retirement List

The nine men pictiered here, and one, Karl Daniels whose picture was not available, have retired since the last is

sue of Screenings was published. They

are. left to right above. Joseph Urban. 40 years service: Paul Wirgau. 37 years, Dominic Micketti. 31 years. Alex Krawczak, 40 years, and Arthur Gram ban, 36

years; bottom row, left to right, John Zielinski, 34 years, Frank Rnbeo. 35 years, Holland Rains. 40 years, and Michael Yarch with 44 years of service.

Locomotive engineers Art He in and Fred Dagner claim that the fish are bit ing real well at Cheboygan- They say that the limit can be caught in no time at all at the little tavern by the cross roads. Sounds like a good deal for those who are looking for comfort too.

Quarry Foreman Fred LaLonde has some advice to give. He says, "If Dave Grigg is stranded in his pickup truck

and calls for help via the radio — just let him sit." Seems the advice came out

of an experience when Fred came to the rescue and while towing Dave and his pickup in got some back end damagewhen Dave couldn't stop. Sounds like a surprise was in store for everybody

A little remodeling was the order of business in the main office recently. Car penter Dick Zempel gave the girls in purchasing quite a scare by bursting a hole in their wall. The first reaction by Margaret Radka and Enid Ritzier was to be long gone. But when Dick pushed his head through they invited him to use

involved.

Seems like it would pay some fellows

to carry a can of gas along — just in case the tank runs dry. All wc will men tion is that it couldn't happen to a nicer fellow than electrician Royden Schefke

Someone has to fill the larder and, if the

— but docs it have to happen so often?

men can't, the women must take the

the door instead.

open my square knots is with a pocket

Roeske who killed her first deer in three years last fall- Her husband is a carpen

If you hear the nickname "Big Top" around Calcite you will know that John ny Meyers is in the area and has his

knife. It works every time."

ter at Calcite.

size 50 coveralls on.

situation in hand as did Mrs. Arthur

Ralph OToole: "The only way to

It lakes less time to do if right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Calcite Men Trained As First Aid Instructors

CRADLE ROLL

Cedarvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A son, George Lawrence, joined the Jerry Dunns on Nov. 2, 1956. George has four sisters. Daddy is a mechanic.

On Nov. 3, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ozak

announced the birth of a daughter. Nancy J. Nancy has three sisters.

Mr- and Mrs. Stanley Bickham an nounce the birth of their fourth son,

Robert Glenn. Robert joined the family Nov. 10. Daddy is a bulldozer operator. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Al-

vin Winslow who had a daughter, Patri cia M. on Nov. 13.

Winter at Calcite has seen a 100 per cent first aid training program carried out. Every man in the plant now is trained to act in an emergency in carrying out basic

first aid. Furthermore the widespread program served to increase the awareness of the need for accident prevention. This picture shows the training of the groiep of men who served as instructors. Left to right are LeRoy McLennan. Arthur Flopp. Russel

Franklin Dean was born to Mr. and

Mrs. William Otto Storey Nov. 20. Franklin has two sisters and a brother.

On Nov. 22, Hiedi Ann was born to

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Rose. Papa is a

Smart, Marvin Clans, Duane McLennan, Harold Pollock. Harry Cicero, Beverly Tatro.

loading foreman. Hiedi has two sisters.

Vern Pauley and Floyd Redes giving first aid to Frank Strzelecki and to the American Red Cross field representative and instructor. Theodore Breuzler.

Edlor Haskes Dec. 29. Charles is the

A son, Charles John, was born to the

sixth boy in the family. Congratulations to the John Tominacs who had a baby girl, Karen Sue, Dec. 21. Karen is their first child.

A daughter Beverly A., was born Jan5. to the Clifford Andersons. Beverly has a brother, David.

The Anthony Malkowskis announce the birth of Randall David on Jan. 21. Thirty-three of our men got their deer last fall and one, Wilson Izzard, shot a

bear as well as a deer. Raymond Nowicki topped the deer hunters with a 12-pointer. Four got 10-pointers. They were James Waybrant, Edward LaMay, Sam uel Cruickshank and Jerry Dunn. Other successful hunters were Anthony Malkowski, Gerald Burns, Russell Sims, Theodore Rose, Paul Kreft, Bernard

Heath, Frank Brenzie, Jay Fahner, Ernest Spencer, Emil Hurban, John Bickham, Russel Alto, Earl Shaefer, John Tassier, Marshall Cruickshank, C. R. Dolsen, Lylc Nye, George Markey, Rudolph Shortly after conversion of the Myron C. Taylor last year at Sturgeon Bay. Wis,,

C. F. Beukema. president of the division, received this accurate anil attractive carving of the ship displayed here by Miss Alice Flarvey of the Detroit office. The carving was done in solid oak by Ernest Domrowe of Steergeon Bay.

Wisner, Robert Smith, James Storey, Joseph V. Storey, John D. Steel, Jr.. Alick Patrick, Marshall Patrick, Russell

Goetz and William O. Storey.

People and Places

CALCITEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;There's safety in numbers when they mean, as these do, accident free days. In the above picture five electrical

25 V2 years represented by their 9.300 safedays, are justly proud

department men display a figure for more than 31-years of safe

of their achievement because they work throughout the plant.

BAY CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Shipyard workers at the DeFoe Shipbuilding Co.. Bay City. Mich., are fast transforming the Str. A. F. Harvey

most of the old holds had been torn out and much of the new put in. In addition, extensive work is being done lopsides to

from an ore carrier into a self-nnloader for the Bradley Fleet of stone carriers. By mid-January, when these pictures were taken,

accomodate the unloading boom and improve crew quarters. At

working days. Construction and maintenance men. with almost

left is a general scene; at right, crane lifts side slope into hull.

STEEL can do so many jobs so well

ThrOUgh The SlOUgh. This 75-ton gasoline "splitter" was made by U. S. Stfee Consolidated Western Steel Division in San Francisco. It was so huge that, it had to be

shipped on a sea-going barge through an old slough (tidal creek) that hadn't been used for 50 years and was specially dredged out for the journey.

12-Ton Stainless Steel Propeller. A typical Great Lakes ore boat will de velop about 4,000 horsepower. But newer models turn out 7,000 hp., and need stronger propellers to harness this extra energy. These blades were made from Stainless Steel: it casts easily, resists fatigue, and is easy to weld.

111 m

The Mysterious Bends. This -sucker rod was pulled from an oil well in which the casing had collapsed. This 14-foot sucker rod had been

twisted into an 18-inch pretzel, yet it didn't break or even crack! The rod was made by the Oil Well Supply Division of U. S. Steel.

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TENNESSEE COAL & IRON . . UNITED STATES STEEL HOMES . . UNITED STATES STEEL PRODUCTS

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SEE THE UNITED STATES STEEL HOUR. It's a full-hour TV program presented every other Wednesday evening by United States Steel. Consult your local newspaper for time and station.

PUBLISHED FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OF MICHIGAN LIMESTONE DIVISION, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.

Qcfds and Einck

Message

We hope, as you read this issue of MLD SCREENINGS, you will catch some of the feeling of pride we felt as

F toi11

lJie President resii

we traveled around the various division

planes gathering the material. In this issue you will read of some

of the end uses of the stone you quarry and process . . . there is a story about the laboratory where a minute but rep resentative sample is the key to quality of tons of stone . . . you will find inter esting and unusual stories about the people who make up Michigan Lime stone Division . . . and there are stories

Previously I mentioned that this column would

achievement.

from time to time com

On behalf of all my as sociates in the manage ment group I wish to ex

ment on phases of the ac tivities and achievements

of Michigan Limestone Di vision. I am pleased to share with you at this time

of achievements you have made in safety

and service.

gives me happiness and pride in our

You can be proud of the job you do and of its importance in our economy; you can be proud of the company you work for and of the people you work with from day to day. •

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9.58, it is a most unusual

item

which

press our congratulations to eveiy one whose co operation and dedication to safe workingpractices has made this record pos

fine organization. At the half-year point, we are very grateful that but one

division

sible.

and the sincere in

em Mr. Beukema

This has given us what is termed in the industiy an "accident frequency

In recognition of the great contribu tion two Northern Michigan towns make to Michigan Limestone opera tions, the Division this spring re named two of the ships, the Rogers

know

that our planned safety programs

ployee has suffered a disabling injury in 1957.

ON THE COVER

rate" of 0.47 per million man hours worked during this period. This may not seem to be an impressive figure, but when compared with the the Division's experience for the year of 1956 of 2.55

terest in safety which we express

will be of little value in the

Division's safety accom plishments without con stant attention to safety by every employee. It is my earnest hope that we will all continue

to keep safety uppermost in our minds as we con tinue with our various

daily responsibilities at home as well as at work.

and the entire stone indus

try's 1956 performance of

City and the Cedarville. The cover records peak moments of the events.

MLD Screenings is published quarterly by the Michigan Limestone Division, United States Steel Corporation.

Allgire. editor.

Publication office, 2650 Guardian Building, Detroit 26, Michigan. reprinted without special permission.

R. E.

Nothing appearing herein may be

Stone)$1^nn Steelmaking

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Stone, an essential raw material in steelmaking, lays stockpiled near a blast furance at Lorain Works ready for use.

Limestone Is One Of The Three Raw Materials

That Go Into The Making Of Steel W e live in an Age of Steel. Hundreds

of thousands of

Americans earn livelihoods in the man

ufacture and processing of this import ant metal for which our civilization has

found no substitute. From mine and

quarry to the rolling mills, those who labor in its cause have one great thing in common—each is making a vital con

and largest steel pipe and tube manu facturing facility in the world. Here, five giant blast furnaces and twelve open hearth furnaces consume great quantities of Calcite and Cedar ville stone in the production of more than two million tons of steel annually. Limestone for Lorain Works arrives

produce and deliver one of the three-

at the plant's docks on the Black River in BTL ships or Pittsburgh Steamship Division vessels and is piled by size in the large raw materials storage area. In the production of iron by blast

basic raw materials needed in steelmak

furnace, limestone or dolomite are a-

ing, limestone and dolomite. At the sprawling Lorain Works, lo

mong three raw materials required in the process. The large quantities of stone used by a blast furnace can be best shown by the fact that one-half ton of limestone is required to make one ton

tribution to his fellow man.

Among these are the men and women of Michigan Limestone Division who

cated in Lorain, Ohio, near the shore of Lake Erie, some 11,500 fellow em

ployees of U.S. Steel look to the Calcite and Cedarville plants for limestone and dolomite to operate National Tube Division's biggest integrated steel mill

of iron. Several blast furnaces at Lorain

Works each produce about MOO tons of pig iron each day.

Raw dolomite is a source of lime in

the basic open hearth. It is used for making up banks, blocking doors, and for general refactory repairs. It is usually crushed to about '/i-inch for use. The other raw materials of ironmak-

ing are iron ore and coke. The ore, an oxide of iron, provides the soughtafter metal. Coke has two important

jobs to do: first, it delivers the high temperatures—as hot as 3600 degrees F.—necessary for the reactions inside the furnace to take place; and, second, it removes the oxygen from the ore, leaving free iron. Raw materials for the blast furnace

are carefully weighed in the stock house and emptied into a "skip car" which runs up an incline and dumps material into the top of the furnace. The blast furnace gets its name from the continuous "blast" of air, preheated to a temperature of about 1000 degrees F.. which is blown into the furnace, CONTINUED

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Stone

in Steelmaking

causing the coke inside to burn fiercely at white heat. It takes more air by weight than raw material to make a ton of steel.

(Continued)

During this process, the stone acts as a purifying or purging agent. Impurities are removed from the iron ore and coke,

descends deeper into the hottest part of the furnace, iron forms into liquid drops

forming a liquid slag which floats on top of the liquid metal. While slag seems to perform a sec ondary role in this process, its import ance is difficult to overemphasize. Slag provides the only means of removing sulphur, a troublesome impurity, from the iron and gives a way of regulating

which trickle down to form a pool at

hearth temperature.

Inside the furnace, as the raw ma terials, or "burden", work downward,

carbon monoxide gas from the coke burned at the bottom rises through the burden and removes some of the oxy gen from the iron ore. As the charge

the bottom or "hearth" of the furnace.

While blast furnace iron is used to

Here 115 tons of molten sleel is being tapped from one of the present open hearth furnaces of American Steel and Wire's Worcester Works.

From atop Calcite\s screen house the

start of stone's journey is pictured.

Behind piles of Calcite limestone and Cedarville dolomite are Lorain Works

Blast furnace skip cars are part of a continuous haulage system. One car carries load of stone to be dumped inlo top of furnace; car on right returns for another load.

blast furnaces and the open hearth.

Bridge is to fill stockpile, load cars.

One of spectacular operations in iron production is casting of pig iron from blast furnace. Here molten iron flows

from tap hole. Slag is skimmed from surface of liquid iron.

manufacture many cast iron products,

by far the greatest percentage of this iron is retained in a molten state for

further refining into steel in open

quired to make a heat of steel, lime stone again acts as a flux or scavenger, removing impurities and rising to the surface of the "bath" as slag. The form

ers. In the open hearth process which is used to make more than 90 percent

ing of slag provides the only means for removing impurities, except carbon, from pig iron. Lying on the surface of

of the steel produced in the United

the molten metal, slag also acts as a

hearth

furnaces

or bessemer convert

States, limestone and dolomite are vital

blanket to protect the metal from the

ingredients.

action of hot gases and serves to reg ulate the temperature of the metal. At the end of the refining period of the heat, as much as 250 tons of

To make a heat of steel, limestone

is first charged into the empty furnace. Next, the machine adds iron ore, fol lowed by iron or steel scrap.

The charge is heated for about two hours. Then, molten pig iron from the blast furnace is poured into the furnace from a huge ladle suspended from an Overhead traveling crane. During the eight to nine hours re

Steel In The News In April the United States Steel Foundation, Inc., announced a program of aid-to-education with grants payable in 1957 totaling nearly $1.8 million to over 600 of the nation's privately-sup

ported liberal arts colleges, universities, technological institutes, medical schools.

newly-made steel is tapped from the

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back of the furnace into a giant ladle, where alloys may be added to give the steel the chemical composition called

A new kind of nitrogen plant, the first of its kind in a major steel facility, was opened June 29 at U.S. Steel's

for by the customer. As the ladle fills, slag floating on the surface overflows

Geneva Works near Provo, Utah. The

into a waiting slag pot.

of the air and combine it with the hy

new plant will take nitrogen right out

drogen in coke oven gases to produce anhydrous ammonia. •

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Cyclone Fence Department will soon begin full-scale production of fiberglas insect screen cloth at its Greensburg, Ind., plant. •

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Construction of modern, high-speed rolling mills replacing the present fa cilities for the production of billets, blooms and slabs will soon get under way at U.S. Steel's Duquesne Works. •

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America's busiest ore unloading port, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh & Conneaut Dock Co. at Conneaut, O., established an allTo prevent the moll en slag and metal from running onto charging floor, a

bank of dolomite limestone is piled over sill of open hearth furnace door.

time high mark during July when it handled 2,119,169 gross tons of iron ore. •

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Blast furnaces, open hearths, coke ovens and other steelmaking facilities appear in all the colors of the rainbow through the lenses of an "evaporograph," a new type camera now in use for the first time in the steel industry at U.S. Steel's Fair less Works, Fairless Hills, Pa. •

The Charging machine is about to add an extra box of limestone during

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working period of heal at Lorain fur

A push-button "Bird Cage" garage with a capacity of 255 automobiles, due to open in September, will go a long way in helping New York theater-goers find a place to park their cars. American Steel and Wire Division is supplying the wire rope guard cables and other wire materials for the unusual looking wall-

nace. Doors are operated electrically.

less garage.

Skills of the chemist are brought to hear in the chemistry lab to maintain quality demanded by MLD customers.

Key... to Quality

contains silica, iron oxide, aluminum oxide, magnesia, sul phur, phosphorous and moisture in varying degrees that de termine the purity of the stone.

The steel, cement and chemical industries that buy and use our stone demand rigid controls on the content of the stone they buy.

Seeing the stone handled from blast, through screen house

and loading, it would appear that customers take pot luck on Calcite Chemical Laboratory Has Important

what they get. Exactly the opposite is the fact for behind the

Job In Maintaining Quality

scenes a hard-working crew of chemists and laboratory tech

Limestone is a complex rock. It consists principally of calcium carbonate but it also

the key to Michigan Limestone Division product quality. Although the function is at the Rogers City plant, samples

nicians at Calcite keeps a constant check on the stone that is

Division chemist is Paul Tliornley

Assistant Chemist Duane McLennan.

Samples are screened and divided for

.shown here checking analysis results.

Duane also is Calcite photographer.

analyses in lab by Wallace Mulka.

Stone samples are taken by small conveyor directly from mill run. Rudolph Grote spots sample cart at the belt.

flow into the lab daily from all MLD quarries and mines for the same quality control that assures all customers they will get the product they want. Most important of the lab's functions, which include oper ation of a photographic department, is chemical analysis of the stone. This begins at the Calcite plant with 500 to 600 pounds of stone taken directly from the run by a continuous automatic sampler in the screen house. It represents 50,000 tons. The quarter of a ton of stone finally ends in the labora tory as a carefully weighed one-half gram sample that reveals all there is to know about the chemical content of 50,000 tons of limestone.

In the chemical analysis the one-half gram of pulverized stone is broken down with chemicals and by heat to deter mine the percentages of impurities in the stone which, in turn, reveal the exact amount of impurities in the 50,000 tons sampled from the mill.

In screen house Grote puts sample in small crusher, then divides stone in four parts; one part will go io the lab.

Since the stone will vary somewhat in chemical content from different parts of the quarry, the chemical contentof lime stone shipments can be controlled under the expert guidance of the laboratory technicians to meet customer requirements and specifications. In addition to maintaining the chemical analysis, the chem ical lab makes Calcite and Cedarville cargo analyses and re

ports them to management and customers; it analyzes core and geological samples for division and plant exploratory programs for present and future limestone production; it samples Calcite plant production and cargo shipments for sizing; it makes hardness tests for road stone; and it periodi cally analyzes coal for the Calcite plant. The laboratory staff consist of Paul Thornley, chief chem ist, Duane McLennan, assistant chemist; Orval Pines, lab

oratory assistant; Owen Kroll, Calvin Meyer, Rudolph Grote and Wallace Mulka, technicians.

uses, can weigh

Percentage of lime is found by Orval

Cal Meyer finds sulphur content by

accurately to l/10tli of a milligram.

Pines by titrating sample solution.

burning sample in induction furnace.

Scale, Owen Kroll

>mm

Northern Are Honored in Thousands See Vessels Christened

Almost the entire populations of Rogers City and Cedarville turned out when two Bradley Line steamers were re-named

Rita Smith christens Str. Cedarville watched by Capt. Chain, Chief Specht, C. F. Beukema, Norman O. Hoeft

honor of

those two towns on May 20 and 25 respectively. The Rogers City was formerly the B. H. Taylor and Cedarville was the A. F. Harvey. With the naming ceremonies, both plants held open houses for visitors. The event at Rogers City was followed with a civic dinner for 400 persons. At Ced arville there was an evening dinner hon oring plant employees for the plant's achievement of 500 days without a dis abling injury. The dinner also recog nized construction of the plant and for that reason wives were invited.

Rogers City made the event a day of

Gift presented to Rita Smith, who christened ship, by

Crowds move toward gangway for tour of Str. Cedarville.

Mr. Beukema. Plant Manager Clifford A. Pratt, right.

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Communities

Ship Namings And Visit Plants In Open Houses

city-wide celebration, schools and stores closing for the event in the afternoon. It was estimated that more than 2,000

persons attended the naming cermony and open house program. Open house tours at both plants were arranged so that visitors had an oppor

tunity to see a quarry blast. And at Cedarville, the steamer was open for in spection before it left Port Dolomite with a load of stone.

Nancy Santini christens Rogers City. With her are L. J. Patterson, Chief Chibola, Mr. Beukema and Capt. Kempe.

Jill Biedler, Susan Hubbard perform.

Nancy Santini with parents and grandparents arriving for christening. -$

Part of the crowd of 2,000 at Rogers City ship christening.

Rogers City high school girl's club sang for musical show.

Richards

Conneaut plant superintendent.

Mrs. R. W. Met-

calf, stenograph er-clerk, at Con neaut plant.

G. H. Swanson, chief clerk, Conneaut plant.

Steve Chervinski, left, and Joe Konopa at Conneaut show bags used for stone.

LIMESTONE GOES TO THE FARM Soil Liming;, Practiced Since Colonial Days, Pays Off In Higher Crop Yield Agricultural limestone is one of the cheapest commodities which a farmer can purchase, according to Mr. E. D. Longnecker, extension specialist in

soil scienceat Michigan State University. Research data indicate, according to Mr. Longnecker, that lime used where soil tests show it to be needed will re

turn from $5 to $10 for each dollar ex

pended by the farmer. Michigan Limestone Division

is a

supplier of this important agricultural product, grinding the stone at its Con neaut and Buffalo plants for marketing in bulk to lime-spreading operators and in bags for lawn and garden use and for

culture when virgin soils were first put to the plow most of them contained enough lime (calcium and magnesium) to grow good crops. This is no longer the case. Crops use calcium and magnesium as plant nutrients. An even greater loss is through an unseen process known as leaching. As rainwater soaks down through the soil, it dissolves the lime and carries

out into creeks and rivers.

he says, consumption might level off at approximately one million tons each year for normal use. Room To Grow

Byron T. Shaw, administrator of ag ricultural research service for the U. S.

Department of Agriculture, says that against a current national use of 20 mil

Mr.

Longnecker estimates that in

Stone also is sold to independent ag ricultural limestone producers.

face or plow layer per acre each year.

using Wi to 2 million tons of lime each

year during this period. Following that,

found that it averages around 200 to 500 pounds of limestone per acre each year.

farms under an MLD label.

In the early days of American agri

the soil at the lime level we should be

Scientists have measured this loss and

Michigan the combined effects of crop ping, erosion and leaching take approxi

Soil Needs Lime

content of their soil up where it belongs during the next 10 years and maintain

mately 250 pounds of lime from the sur Mr.

Longnecker estimates

that

Michigan farmers were to put the lime

lion tons of lime annually, the actual needs are estimated at 80 million tons.

Research, expanded educational pro grams by colleges, universities and other

agencies, and better marketing programs all are being aimed at increasing the use of agricultural limestone to the benefit of the farmer.

PURCHASING AGENT RETIRES; ENGELHARDT NAMED TO POST

Conneaut plant is located on shore of Lake Erie. Stone is loaded directly into trucks from storage bins, foreground.

F. G. Corregan, left, received record player from friends when he retired. Successor, Robert Engelhardt, at right.

Frank G. Corregan ended 36 years in the limestone busi ness on May 1 when he retired as purchasing agent for the Division. He is succeeded by Robert Engelhardt who has been with the corporation since 1935. Bagging machine operated by Steve Chervinski loads 50 and 80-pound bags. Stone also is used in mine dusting.

Mr. and Mrs. Corregan have returned to Charles Town. West Va., where they lived for 21 years and where both have many friends and arc active in civic and church affairs. Mr. Engelhardt began work for the corporation in the mail department at Pittsburgh in 1935. A year later he joined the accounting office of Pittsburgh Limestone Company and en tered the purchasing department in 1941. He became the assistant purchasing agent in 1956.

Mr. Corregan, who had served as purchasing agent since 1945, also had served as manager of the Moler plant and of the old Pinesburg Quarry of the Pittsburgh Limestone Co.

Hillsville Adopts Safety Glasses Spreader operator washes his truck and wets top of load before he starts trip through town lo farm customer.

Trough on back of spreader distributes limestone evenly over fields. Here operator lowers arm in position.

Hillsville on June 17 joined the list of Michigan Limestone Division plants that have 100% eye protection programs in effect. Patsy C. Pugliese, above, putting his safety glasses on at the plant safety record signboard, says he sees a better chance now for the plant to raise its safety record.

Honor 74 For Service In Eastern District Officials Pay Tribute To Men A t four Eastern Division service dinners held from late

March to early June, 74 long service employees of Michigan Limestone Division received awards for faithful service to the Division totaling more than 2,000 years. First of the dinners was held for Annandale on March 28

followed on March 29 by the Hillsville banquet, April 24 for Kaylor and ending on June 5 with the Moler dinner. At each dinner Division, district and plant officials attended and paid tribute to the men. The 32 Annandale men honored represented more than 1,000 years of service. The oldest employee at the mine in point of service is Andio Isacco who received a gold pin. He previ ously received a gold watch for 50 years service. In making the presentations, Mr. C. F. Beukema, Division President, called the occasion "one of the most heart warming

aspects of my position. Ir is men like you," Mr. Beukema said, "who have placed U.S. Steel in a position of leadership." Fifteen were honored from Kaylor and their service totaled almost 500 years of service. The veteran of the group was Char les H. Hiles, chief accountant, with 40 years.

Hillsville honored 13 for more than a total of 400 years of service. The dean of the veteran employees was Vincent Corn-

George S. Whittington, Moler, receives 30-year pin from Mr. C. F. Beukema, president. Entire group shown below.

isso, who recently retired after more than a half-century of accident-free service at the plant. Fourteen men were honored at Moler. Their service totals

445 years. Harry C. Nicewarner, senior payroll clerk headed the group with 40 years service. Included in the Moler group below, was Robert O. Cronise, procedure supervisor at Detroit and a former Moler employee, with 25 years of service. Not present for pictures were: Annandale, William C. Cuppies, Chester D. Johnson, Raffaelc Leone, Earl J. Ross, George E. Heslop; Kaylor, John J. Dolmovich, John A. Galbraith, James R. King; Hillsville. Guiseppe Portolese, Guiseppe Pannuto; Moler, Samuel H. Hawks, Harvey F. Garrett.

Lester E. Hoffman

Paul D. Stewart

30 years

William

Rihel

30 years

Philip Labor 30 years

KAYLOR PLANT Robert T. Smith

Glenn A. Sweetapple

30 years

Kenneth W. Fitzgerald 30 years

Alfred L. Yough 30 years

Kenneth P. Hopkins 30 years

Arthur V. Reighard 30 years

Victor J. Wiles

Andrew J. Olzak

30 years

John L. Buzzard 30 years

Earl W. Slmltz

Homer G. Vogt 30 years

John J. Dolmorich

30 years

Domenieo

Galassi

Charles H. Biles

40 years

Edward W. Hiwiller

30 years

ANNANDALE

MINE a Cecil

Roy H. Kerr 35 years

John M. Craig 30 years

Marcel P. Ferrere

Domenic Covuto

35 years

40 years

Clarence L. Russell

Andrew M. Shawley

John P. Sloboda

25 years

40 years

30 years

Pietro U. DeMatteis 30 years

Fisk L. Gaiser

Chester D. Cariantonio 30 years

30 years

Frank Paulovich

Frank D. Ohidean

30 years

40 years

45 years

James F. McCinnis 25 years

John C. Snyder 25 years

Roy W. Eakin 30 years

Donald I'. Kohlmeyer

James W. Blakney

30 years

Domenic R.

I-l

Bell

25 years

Martarelli

Total cost of accidents in the U.S. last year was $10,800,000,000

John

Biagio Gallo 35 years

Loose

30 years

Arthur H. Paden

35 years

Florence C. Davis

Carl N.

30 years

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Diana

30 years

Pasquale Diana 30 years

Carl

Onasch

35 years

Safety Glasses Save Workers' Eyes Safety glass eye protection has paid big dividends for two

Annandale employees, George Hughes, shovel oiler, and

Kenneth C. Hamil, ramp cleaner. Vincenzo Commisso

William A. Klem

50 years

35 years

In the pictures at the right both men are wearing glasses they had on when the lens of

their glasses were hit by flying material. Without the glasses each man probobly would have suf fered a serious eye injury. A piece of stone from a shuttle car struck and shatter

ed the left lens of Hamil's

safety glasses. The eye was unhurt.

Hughes was holding a cut ting chisel on a drive chassis pin on a shovel. When the operator hit the chisel with a hammer a chip of steel broke from Herman F. List

35 years

the chisel

and struck

Hughes' glasses, craking the lens. He also escaped injury. Since Annandale has had

the 100'/ eye protection pro gram, not one man there has

suffered an eye injury that re-

Accidents are costly—especially to VOL'.

Kenneth

C. Hamil

quired the attention of a doc tor. During the two years pri or to the program the plant recorded 28 eye injuries.

DON'T Take A Chance Playing Long Shots With

Safety Doesn't Pay Off

Everybody who's had much experi ence investigating accidents knows that chance-taking plays a big part in their occurrence. We all know it, too, but

probably every one of us will take a chance once in a while. Usually we get away with it. If we don't have an acci dent—if we don't get hurt—it's be cause things weren't quite right for it. We were just lucky, that's all. Wrong: Attitude

Why are we like that? It's most ly because we've grown up with the idea

of a lot of teen-age trouble. A young

rather than climb down and move the

ster often knows better, but he doesn't

ladder. Or he'll drive a nail with a

want to be "shown up" by the gang. The thing for each of us to do is take a good hard look at ourselves, dig way down deep into our own minds. No one can do it for us. We've got to do it for ourselves. We've got to dig that silly attitude out where we can get a good look at it. We'll realize, if we do, that it's teen-age foolishness. Do we want to act with the immaturity of

monkey wrench rather than walk ten steps to get a hammer.

Teen-age Stuff

One reason why men take chances

is that way down deep in the subcon scious they think they're sissies if they don't. They've grown up with that feel ing. Any active, husky boy will risk his neck any time to keep the fellows from calling him a sissy. That attitude is back

One more reason causes a lot of

right, in a way. We all keep some of

trouble, a lot of injuries. A good many guys, when they don't know for sure the safe way to do a job, don't want to ask their foreman. Probably some of them think they know more than he does about it. Maybe they do sometimes, but at least they ought to realize that two heads are better than one. Anyway, part of every foreman's job is to take some responsibility for the safety of

the attitudes we had as kids, and we'd

everyone in his crew.

a teen-ager?

Some writer once said, "The boy

that it's O.K. to take chances. That

attitude seems to be a part of human nature, but we can change it if we want to. Lots of things that aren't good are a part of human nature—like being envious of some other fellow or always wanting our own way. Right guys con trol feelings like those. They don't yield to desires they know are wrong. But even such right guys will take a chance with their own safety once in a while. Why do they? They usually know they're running a risk.

Foreman's Job

father to the man." He sure was

be better off without some of them.

Some fellows don't ask their fore

The feeling that there's something brave about chance-taking is certainly one of

man because they're afraid he'll think they're dumb. But that's being dumb for

those we'd best be rid of.

sure, because sooner or later their mis

Other Reasons

There are other reasons why we take chances, too. Waiting is disagree able to most people; so they'll crowd a light to save two minutes even though they know, if they stop to think about it, that in the next hour they'll almost certainly waste several times two min

takes will show them up. It doesn't pay to take chances. Take the safe way always. If you aren't sure, ask.

Don't be a teen-ager. Don't take a chance.

utes.

Another reason is that we don't like

to go to extra trouble or extra bother or take any extra steps. A guy on a ladder, for instance, will over-reach

Everybody likes a man who knows when and how to say thanks.

Management Changes Affect MLD Men

New Northern District Manager

L. J. Patterson Is Named

Northern District Manager Recent appointments by Mr. C. F. Beukema. President of Michigan Lime stone Division, moved L. J. Patterson up from Calcite plant manager to North ern District Manager. In other appointments Mr. Beukema named Donald T. VanZandt Manager of the Calcite plant; moved Clifford A. Pratt from Manager of Moler to the same position at Cedarville; and nam ed Robert R. Ross Manager of Moler. Mr.

Patterson

takes

over

the

Robert R. Ross, new Moler Manager, left, stops on a tour of the quarry to talk with John Butts, shovel oiler. Ross went to Moler from

Annandale.

pMS^-^tri'M m

dut

ies previously performed by Mr. J. A. Valentin, who continues in his post as Division Vice President.

Mr. Patterson began his employment with U.S. Steel in 1940 as an engineer at Calcite. In 1951 he was named as

Donald VanZandt, Calcite Manager

sistant manager and two years later ap pointed operating manager. He became plant manager at Calcite and assistant manager, Northern District stone pro duction in 1955. Mr. VanZandt has been assistant man

ager of Calcite. He joined the Division at Calcite in 1947 as an engineer, served as drilling and blasting foreman from 1954 to 1956 when he was promoted to assistant plant manager. Mr. Pratt has been with the Corp-

oration since 1939 serving as an eng

ineer at Annandale and Kaylor and as manager of Kaylor and Moler. Mr. Ross joined the Division in 1950, serving in the engineering office at New Castle. He became plant engineer at Kaylor in 1952 and was transferred to Annandale in 1954 as plant engineer and assistant manager. He was moved to Moler as acting plant manager April I

Clifford A. Pratt, Cedarville

and was appointed manager on June 1 of this year.

You can eliminate enemies by making them friends.

Part of the crowd of Cedarville employees and wives at dinner marking 500 safe working days and plant construction.

Plant Employees Are Praised For Efforts In Achievement of Notable Safety Record Formal recognition of the Cedarville plant's attainment of 500 days without a disabling injury was given at a dinner on May 25 in conjunction with the naming of the Str. Cedar ville and open house at the plant. But even as they celebrated, Cedarville employees were look

ing forward to 1,000 safe days for at the time of the dinner they had completed 603 days. As Screenings went to press they had passed the 650 mark. Mr. C. F. Beukema, President of the Division, presented the National Safety Council plaque and the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association Award, conducted by the United States Bureau of Mines, to the plant for the achievement. Mr. Beukema pointed to the fact that the Cedarville plant was constructed with only one employee being injured. "We feel," he said, "that a splendid job was accomplished especially when we consider that the majority of the ones do ing this work were inexperienced in construction occupations. "I sincerely congratulate every employee for the part he has played in making this record," Mr. Beukema continued. "The record, however, is not the important thing. The joy of the occasion stems from the fact that no employee has suffered the pain of injury, loss of earnings or brought sadness to his home."

Mr. Beukema presents safety plaque to Manager Pratt.

Bradley Fleet Reaches 500 Mark Sailors Are Now Aiming At 1,000 Days Without A Lost Time Accident

RRADL

Bradley Transportation Line employees, after celebrating their 500-day safety mark early in the spring, are now well on the way to 1,000 days without a lost time accident. Bradley men and Division officials marked their 500-day record at three locations. The first was held for the Munson

crew at Toledo where the boat was in lay-up. On March 20 crews of the remainder of the fleet, with the

exception of the Cedarville, were feted at Rogers City. The final dinner, for the Cedarville men, was held April 22 at Bay

City where the vessel underwent conversion. In recognizing the fleet achievement in safety, Mr. C. F. Beukema, Division President, reminded the crews that with

growth of the fleet there were many new men to indocrinatc into Bradley's safe working ways. "Now, more than ever before, it is important that officers and older members of the crew

Ladies of St. Ignatius Church, who served dinner, made decoration shown by Chief Chibola of the Rogers City.

help the new men keep safety foremost," he said.

Alva Budnick, Str. Bradley, Norman

Capt. Nauts of Str. Munson displays

Hoeft, BTL manager, inspect model.

his musical talent at dinner in Toledo.

Str. Rogers City has pianist of no mean ability in Capt. Gil Kempe.

At Cedarville dinner Capt. William Chain talks with Shipbuilder DeFoe.

Paul

Crew

is made a part of the entertainment.

Pearson

the

Cedarville

To have a carefree summer, have a care!

members

the

Cedarville

receive lighters from Norm Hoeft.

As Producers of Essential Raw Materials, MLD People Share Pride in Industry Accomplishments

being a poor businessman, he neglected to patent his process. However, when Bessemer, who had recived an English patent on the process in 1855, obtained American rights in 1856, Kelly filed a claim of priority of invention and was granted a patent in 1857 after dem onstrating priority of his claim. The

large quantities at low cost and by 1864 the commercial production of Bessemer steel was under way. From then on steel has supplied us with an ever wid ening range of commodities which have constantly increased our high standard of living.

can, and two Englishmen—started the

new device, however, bears the name of

"Steel Age" a century ago.

the famous English inventor.

Today, the steel industry continues to pioneer. New machines incorpora ting the latest technical advances are making their way into steelmaking. Re cent years have seen such developments as the continuous casting of billets and

A s the steel industry marks its Cen tennial this year, Michigan Lime stone Division people, as producers of an essential raw material in the making of steel, will share in the celebration of

an industry that has made our nation great.

Three inventive geniuses—an Ameri

While steel had been made in small

With the invention of the Bessemer

quantities since ancient times, the in ventions of William Kelly of the United States, and of Sir Henry Bessemer and

process in the mid-1850's the "Steel Age" was born. With converter process steel then could be made rapidly in

Robert Mushet of England made it pos sible to produce large tonnages of steel speedily and economically. It was Kelly and Bessemer—thou sands of miles apart—who developed almost simultaneously the process of blowing air through molten iron to remove impurities. And later Mushet discovered by adding spiegeleisen, an iron-manganese alloy, that steel could be made purer and stronger. Although the English metallurgist Bessemer was honored by having the steelmaking process named after him, it is generally conceded that Kelly, a native of Pittsburgh who moved to Ken tucky, conceived the idea in 1847. But

Pioneering Continues

Dolomite from Moler quarry supplies Pennsylvania steel mills.

Visitors at Smithsonian Institution

Bradley boat, with help of tugs, negotiates Collision Bend at Cleveland.

slabs from molten steel; the shaping of

steel by hot extrusion through a die instead of by rolling, casting or forg ing, and the oxygen converter method of steelmaking which promises cheaper and faster production of high-quality,

Significant Steel Industry Developments of the Past 100 Years 1847 1856-57

low-carbon steels.

Steelmaking has changed a lot in the past 100 years. Automatic controls and mechanical devices have greatly re duced manual labor all along the line. Science has become the king. Yet, the same progressive spirit exists among today's steel men as it did with Bessemer and Kelly. Today's steel men's sights are set on the next hundred years.

CENTURY OF STEEL PROGRESS

1859

William Kelly of Eddyville, Kentucky began experimentation on a pneumatic steelmaking process. Bessemer steel process patented in England and the United States by Henry Bessemer and William Kelly. Process made it possible to produce large quantities of steel rapidly and economically. Cold rolling of iron and steel invented and patented by Ber

nard Lauth of Pittsburgh. Method later adapted to give steel strength and deep drawing qualities which make possible the sweeping lines of today's autos. 1869

Bessemer steel made on a commercial scale at Wyandotte, Michigan. First continuous wire rod mill in U. S. erected in Worcester,

1870

Mass. Supplied the needs for long lengths of wire used in telegraph lines, suspension bridges and wire rope. First commercially successful open-hearth furnace built at

1864

1879 1884

Stone loaded on BTL boat at Calcite.

Bay State Ironworks, South Boston, Mass. Process permitted quality control in addition to mass production. Steel industry celebrated its first million-ton year. First 12-inch and 15-inch steel beams in the U. S. rolled in Pittsburgh.

1895

The first American seamless tube plant, using rotary pierc

1899

Steel production for the year exceeds 10,000,000 tons.

1906

ing, was constructed in Elwood City, Pennsylvania. First Heroult electric furnace for steelmaking erected at

Halcomb Steel Company, Syracuse, N. Y. Furnace was the

key to making fine alloy and "high speed" tool steels for

1917 1923

1927 1937

America's growing machine tool industry. Steel industry spurred on to support the allied effort pro duced for the first time in a single year 50,000,000 tons of steel. First successful continuous hot strip mill built at Ashland, Kentucky. A major steel achievement, the continuous rol ling mill made it possible to produce in abundance and at lower cost sheet and strip steel for autos, refrigerators, wash ing machines and other consumer products. Ruslless and stainless steel first produced commercially. After long search and experimentation on laboratory and

pilot scale, there was installed at Gary Sheet and Tin Mill

of United States Steel Company an electrolytic tinning line

proved to be the first successful unit for commercial pro

duction of electrotinned plate. 1951

Steel production for the year first exceeded 100,000,000 tons.

1956

Three billionth ton of steel made since the "Steel Age" be

1957

gan a century ago poured at on of nations 430 steel plants. With annual steelmaking capacity at 133,459,150 tons, expan sion Dlans call for 143,000.000 tons by January ,1959.

Destination

CONNEAUT Reliable ships

and

men of Bradley Fleet

perform important task in carrying stone to ports along the Great

Lakes

There was little unusual about the 463-mile trip of the Str. Myron C. Taylor of the Bradley Trans portation Line from Port Dolomite in Les Cheneaux Islands of upper Michigan to Conneaut, Ohio on Lake Erie.

But in the uneventfulness of the trip lies much of the value of the long gray ships that carry millions of tons of stone to Great Lakes ports for steel mills, chemical industries, cement plants and farmlands. Ships Unlock Quarries

Without these men and ships the vast quarries of Calcite and Cedarville might still lie unbroken be neath stands of cedar and pine. But the reliable ships and men provide the vital economical link of trans portation in the movement of stone from quarries to industry hundreds of miles apart. The trip pictured here began at 6:14 on a Tues day evening and ended 41 hours later just before noon on Thursday. The cargo was 13,535 net tons of grind stone destined to be ground into agricultural limestone at the Conneaut plant for the productive farmlands of Northern Ohio and Pennsylvania. Sail Long Season

It was, for the crew of the Str. Taylor, just an other of the 100 or more trips they would make in a season that began last spring while ice fought to hold its tight grip on the lakes and which will end against the rough edge of next winter. The Great Lakes form one of the busiest water

ways in the world and the vessels of the Bradley fleet have been the first to sail in the spring and last to lay up as the season ends. Wheelsman Theodore Strand settles down for his four-hour trick at the

wheel of the 530-foot long Str. Myron C. Taylor as it heads south

Here, then, in pictures of the Str. Taylor and its

men at work is a typical trip of a Bradley ship.

When you're weary, be wary.

Loading at Port Dolomite

Cargo hatches are cleaned

Steel cable bridles close hatches

Bill Elliot refinishes chair

Chief Nidy checks records

Dorus Simmons peels spuds

Anthony Rosmys operates wincl

Sailors eat well

There's always another meal

Machinery is kept in repair

Painting goes on endlessly

Another painter at work I

Mate and captain on duty

Papers and mail come aboard from Wescott in Detroit River

Blue Water bridge astern

BRADLEY FLEET LEADS IN SAFETY It has been more than 800 clays since a man in the Bradley fleet suffered a disabling injury. That period, figured to June 30, 1957,

produced an impressive 17,300 vessel days of safe sailing and safe working on the nine steamers. Furthermore, Bradley's 1,749,289 man hours worked without a

disabling injury to that date leads the entire Division and may be a marine industry-wide record. The all-time record for the industry to the start of this year, as reported by the National Safely Coun cil, was 1,525,140 man hours for fleets reporting. Ship by ship Bradley steamers have the following records of days worked without a disabling injury as of June 30, 1957: Str. Calcite 5310; Str. White 4350; Str. Rogers City 1720; Str. Munson 1772 St. Clair River traffic

(none since ship commissioned); Str. Clymer 1687; Str. Robinson 1331; Str. Bradley 802; Str. Taylor 261 (none since ship commis sioned); Str. Cedarville 67 (none since ship commissioned).

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Off-duty swing detail

Crewman is put ashore

Mate checks course on radar screen.

Stone for Ohio farmlands

BRADLEY FLEET BEGAN IN 1912-STILL GROWING The first ship of what later was to become the Bradley Transportation Line sailed from Calcite in 1912. It was the Str. Calcite, one of the

Then in 1917 the Str. Bradley (later the

a distance of about 500 miles at approx

Str. J. G. Munson and now the Str. I. L. Clymer) was built. It too sailed under charter until 1923 when the Bradley

imately 17 miles an hour loaded, and

Today, nine self-unloaders of the Bradley Fleet sail close to 500,000 miles

Transportation Company was organized to include the Calcite Transportation Company, the Limestone Transportation

Company and the Bradley Transporta

iirst self-unloadcrs ever built.

season.

After

the Calcite,

the Str.

White

was built in 1915 sailing as did the Calcite, under charter to the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company.

tion Company.

Less than three days are usually re

quired for one of the Bradley vessels to make an average round trip, covering

You will never stub your toe standing still.

1.9 miles an hour "light." An averageload totals about 10,000 tons of lime stone with cargoes of coal from lower

lake ports often carried on return trip. Bradley employees number about 335 men. Although the vessels do not sail in the winter, repair and maintenance work

on the ships has been available to giveeach man year around employment if desired.

Les Cheneaux Islands from the air. Michigan limestone's plant and Port Dolomite can be seen in right foreground.

1 <Watet WonckxLwJ Michigan's slogan of "Water Wonderland" reaches a peak of perfection in Les Cheneaux Islands, adjacent to MLD's Cedarville plant in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It ranks as one of the best areas in all of Michigan for hunting, fishing, boating, and sheer natural beauty. From the air the Snows, as they arc popularly called, form an unusual panorama, the dozen or so large islands lying

just off the mainland shore being accented by many smaller bits of island land.

Virtually all the islands are heavily forested. The largeest is Marquette Island, five and a half miles long and four wide. Some of the smaller ones are scarcely large enough to Famed Les Cheneaux Club, center, is an exclusive resort.

give footing for a summer cabin.

One of the many inhabited islands in the beautiful Snows.

sort of wealthy city dwellers. In more recent years many

For many years the area has been a favorite summer re fine accommodations have become available for the two-week vacationer and tourist.

The islands, with their nearby towns of Cedarville and Hessel, are only 35 miles from St. Ignacc, the northern terminus

of the ferries and the bridge from the lower peninsula. The water of the area is blue and crystal clear and abounds with perch, muskies, northern pike, brook trout, bass and

other panfish. Grouse, ducks, rabbits and Michigan's famed white-tail deer entice the hunter after summer ends.

Within easy driving distance arc other vacation attractions

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Soo locks atSault Ste. Marieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;picturesque Tahquamenon Fallsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the new Mackinac Bridge and many other lesser places to be seen and enjoyed by families on a summer tour.

Student exchange program takes Jan et Hogberg to New Zealand to study.

Two MLD Girls

Study Abroad Participate In Foreign Exchange Student Program Two 16-year-old daughters of MLD employees, Janet Hogberg of Dear born, Mich., and Nancy Santini of Rog ers City, are half a world apart this sum mer as students in the American Field

Service student exchange program. Janet is the daughter of Carl G. Hog berg, Vice President of Michigan Lime

Nancy Santini plans her trip to Germany as a foreign exchange student with her parents and grandparents, showing them on globe where she was to go.

her grandfather, Angelo, who came to this country from Italy, is a retired Calcite employee. She is in Germany. Janet, an honor student at Dearborn high school, will study and tour in New Zealand until early in December. Her foster "parents" in New Zealand are

fluently, has had two years of Spanish in school and began learning German before she left on her trip to Germany. She is at Memmingen, a town of 28,000 near Munich, and is living with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fuchs. They have a daught er 16 who speaks English and in a letter

Mr. and Mrs. Kendal Nisbet of Dunedin.

to Nancy, promised they would "swim

stone Division. She is in New Zealand.

Nancy Santini is an honor student who will begin her senior year in the

Nancy's father, Andrew Santini is a maintenance employee at Calcite and

fall and then will go on to college for

in the Danube and tour the Alps." Nancy will end her six-weeks stay with a trip to Paris before returning to

a career in teaching. She speaks Italian

her home in early September.

Youth Wins Art Award A

career in art appears to be in the offing for William Kohlmeyer whose father, Floyd L. Kohlmeyer is chief

electrician and master mechanic at Moler.

William Kohlmeyer works at easel on steel mill drawing. 31ill drawing and scene of John Brown hanging at right.

In a recent student art exhibit at Charles Town, West Va., William took a first and a third prize for his entries. He won first place with a water color of an airplane and third for his steel mill drawing. His only training is that given in school.

Knowledge, like timber, is best when well seasoned.

John Paradise, steward, and his 3Iunson galley crew line up for a ceremonial kiss from the newly-crowned queen.

Queen Is Crowned On Str. Munson Miss Port of Detroit Selection Brings Wide Publicity To MLD and Flagship The Str. John G. Munson again figured in Detroit news papers last spring when Mr. C. F. Beukema, President of Mich igan Limestone Division, and Capt. Donald S. Nauts were hosts aboard the vessel for selection and crowning of a queen for the Port of Detroit Commission.

Six girls competing for the title, five newspaper and TV men serving as judges, and members of the Port Commission were guests aboard the Munson for luncheon while it was unloading at the Solvay Company dock. Winner of the queen title was Miss Kathleen O'Sullivan, secretary at Kelvinator division of American Motors. Accounts and pictures of the event were carried in all threeDetroit newspapers and films were shown on two TV stations.

Mr. C. P. Beukema, President of MLD and Capt. Donald

A. Nauts of the Str. Munson, pose with Queen Kathy.

Display Munson Model At Detroit Boat Show Although the model of the Str. John G. Munson has been displayed several times in Detroir, it attracted wide interest again when shown during the winter at the Detroit News Boat Show.

The six-foot-long model of the Bradley Line flagship, near perfect in every detail, was built in Oslo, Norway. The model also was part of displays at the

Calcite and Cedarville open house programs.

If it

weren't for tomorrow, we'd be in a

terrible fix.

Pugil stick demonstration witnessed here by Lois was not part of the girls' training. They did have plenty of drills. Pvt. Collins chats with drill instructor during break while

learning the new 13-man squad drill.

(Marine Photos)

The Lady Is A Marine Detroit Engineering Secretary Joins Marine Reserve, Trains at Parris Island, S. C. It takes more than a uniform to make a lady a Marine. Lois Collins, Detroit engineering secretary, learned that

during two weeks of basic training this summer at Parris Is land, S.C., with the Detroit Platoon of the USMCWR.

During her tour of duty at camp, Pvt. Collins found out what it is to be a "boot." There was seemingly endless drill ing, often in 100 degree temperatures, rising far earlier than her secretarial duties ever called for, countless "details",

standing formations, and learning the Marine way of every thing from running an office to making a bed that would stand Marine inspection. Lois frankly admits it's no snap to be a Marine yet she is eagerly looking forward to next year's trip to camp.

Lois had first look at Parris Island from steps of plane that brought her from Detroit dressed in Marine fatigues.

Chosen For West Point

At Annandale Andrew Guerin shows West Point-bound son,

John, the operations. He began Academy training July 2.

John A. Guerin, son of Andrew Guerin, plant foreman at Annandale, has entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point the hard way. He is one of the 30 men from the army to pass rigorous tests and requirements this year for the Academy. John, who has two grandfathers that were pensioned MLD employees, graduated from Grove City, Pa., high school in 1955 and then enlisted in the army. After basic training he spent 10 months in radar repair school and then went to the electronic navigation school as an instructor. He was re-assigned to Stew art Air Force Base, N. Y., for West Point Prep school, having earned this chance through competitive examinations. Of the 120 in the school, 30 were accepted. John was one of them.

SEWING IS

HER

SOLUTION Detroit Office Receptionist Designs and Makes Her Own Clothes

Mary Jones, Detroit, puts dress design on paper.

Women sometimes find it a little difficult to satisfy their desires for all the pretty clothes they may see and want. Mary Jones, Switchboard Operator-Receptionist at the Detroit office has found a way and her closet is filled with beautiful dresses and suits.

Her solutionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she sews. Mary sews everything from her loveliest blouses and lingerie to her tailored suits and coats. In preparing for the fall and winter seasons, she has al ready made nine suits and 22 dresses. Total cost â&#x20AC;&#x201D; under S500.00 plus a lot of hours work. It's interesting to watch her start work on a new dress. Often she designs it herself. Then material is spread out on

the living room floor of her apartment. In this way, she can be sure that her material and pattern are correctly matched.

Her pattern is unique. It is buckram and is used as the basic design of all of her dresses.

The details, such as collars and sleeves, are changed to make each dress different. After the pattern is cut, the ma terial, inside out, is fitted to a dress form. Mary takes great care in fitting because the fit means either success or failure in the finished product. The dress is then ready for the sewing machine. Mary does not have one of the new "wonder" sewing machines; she uses a rotary portable that is 12 years old. Mary makes sewing a dress look so easy, and she claims ir is if you have patience. "Don't try to finish it in one night," is the advice she offers to novice seamstresses. Enthusiam is fine but it may give one a tendency to slide over some important detail thus ruining your dress.

Dress form is important part of equipment. Surrounded by part of self-made wardrobe, Mary studies magazines for new ideas.

i^ROUND^

704$

Probably the shortest but one of the busiest MLD rail roads is Buffalo's 2,500 feet of plant track. Here William

Collins, with almost 40 years service, spots cars at pack ing house. Left, trucks load lime from storage bins.

Kerry Lee Dagner was

born

CALCITE DEATHS

the Frederick D. Dagners on Feb. 14. CALCITE QUARRY

Mr.

Rogers City. Michigan

and

Mrs.

Emil Zielaskowski

have a son, Allen, born on March 3.

Mr. and Mrs. John Fanning (he works at

Central Radio)

have a

daughter, Natalie Diane, born March

Richard Lamb, retired Calcite em ployee, died Jan. 29. He was buried

in Memorial Park Cemetery.

John Smolinski, Sr., 79, died April 5. He retired 11 years ago from his job in the mill department. Andrew Nedeau, conveyorman on

the Str. A son, George Arthur, was born to the Clarence Kelleys on March 3. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Milo Grulke have a

A daughter, Kim Marie, was born

to Mr and Mrs. Donald Wagner April 29. Don is employed in the construc

daughter, Laurel Jo, born March 8. Catherine

Jane

was

born to the

Ronald Klees on March 24.

tion department. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith have

a daughter, Kathleen Sue, born May 5. He works in the shovel department.

Susan Kay was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Filipiak on March 25. Jeanette Ann was born to the Wally Heins on April 20.

Jenifer Alane was born May 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haneckow. He

works in the machine shop.

Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Schaedig have a daughter, Geraldine Elizabeth, born April 22.

Phil Henry is the father of a daughter, Karen Sue, born May 30. He is employed in the powerhouse.

Clarence

Curvin

was

married

Mrs. Lois Swallow on March 16 by Michael Timothy was born to the James O'Connors on June 7.

the

Rev.

Frederick Steen at

the

home of the bride.

IS THIS THE LARGEST

MICHIGAN

Whether or not this is MLD's largest family, none could be prouder of their children and grandchildren than Frank

LIMESTONE

Munson,

died suddenly

April 4

Fred Stone, retired employee, died on April 16 at the local hospital at the age of 62. He was a former loco motive engineer at Calcite. Louis Dambra, 74, died in Detroit on May 23. He was a retired Cal

cite employee. Ferdinand E. Dost, 67, who was employed as a member of a shovel crew at Calcite for 34 years prior to his retirement, died June 23.

James Edward Soper, 70, a retired ; hovel operator, died June 29 after a brief illness. Mr. Soper was a life long resident of Presque Isle County. Michael George Kerr, 50, an en gineer with Bradley Transportation L'ne for 26 years and a gate watch man at Calcite for the last eight years, died July 12. DIVISION

FAMILY?

Richards and his wife, Vivian (center). Frank has worked

Saginaw. Left to right are Mr. and Mrs. Gamble (Kathryn) and family; Mr. and Mrs. Gould (Patricia) and fam ily; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richards Jr., and family; Mr.

at Calcite since 1925 and

has worked on shovels since

and Mrs. Richards; Constance Richards; Mr. and Mrs.

1933. He is now a shovel operator. His family includes five daughters and one son. None, however, live at Rogers City. They are located in Flint, Pontiac, Bay City and

Debniak (Francis) and family. If there is a larger family in MLD, send a picture for Screenings.

Mroczkcwski (Mary Rita) and family; and Mr. and Mrs.

FIVE CALCITE RETIREES HAVE TOTAL OF 176 YEARS OF SERVICE

Frank Flewelling

Russell Pollock

Anthony Zielaskowski

Calcite lost five long service employees this spring in the retirement of these men whose length of service ranged from 30 years to 41 years. None has special plans for re tirement. Mr Flewelling, who retired May 1, worked as

Karl

Daniels

Fred

LaLonde

chief tug engineer. Mr. Pollock was a shovel oiler and re tired April 1. April 1 also was the retirement day for Mr. Zielaskowski, a track man, Mr. Daniels a shovel engineer, and Mr. LaLonde, quarry shift foreman.

CONNEAUT GETS A 'LIMESTONE' DRIVE o

Thousands of tons of agricultural limestone pass over this Conneaut, Ohio street annually from the Michigan Lime stone Division plant, left background, to northern Ohio farms. It is this roadway which recently was designated by the Conneaut City Council as "Limestone Drive." Structures right are facilities of USS Pittsburgh & Con neaut Dock Company.

June and January At New Yorker's Home

CALCITE YOUTH BUILDS HI-FI OUTFIT When hot weather begins to bother Dewayne S. Sheffer and his family they just get out the picture on the right taken shortly after they moved into their new home in January. Sheffer is Lake Erie district accountant in Buf falo. He began work for MLD in 1937 at Annandale.

Mike Mulka. 15-year-old son of Eli Mulka, a boat load ing foreman, built this hi-fi set by himself, buying the

parts with $225 he earned working in a bowling alley. Mike spent a lot of time studying to learn how to put the set together. His next project is build and operate a short wave radio station.

sympathy to Ted Strand. There has been a prolonged illness in the fam ily and he lost his mother and broth er recently.

BRADLEY TRANSPORTATION

Rogen City, Michigan

remember

STR. MYRON C. TAYLOR

our crew this year, either from other

lines or just, beginning their sailing

"build a nest—catch the bird" Andy?

We wish

them

success in Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kowalski are

Elliott who

the parents of a daughter, Mary

came here from the Boland Line as

The summer season is here and the

a repairman with third assistant en gineer's license. He is a Wisconsin man but married a young lady from

fellows are looking forward to a little fishing, and catching up with their re pair work at home. While having

Rogers City and now resides there. They have a strapping young son.

your fun and doing your work always keep safety in mind. STR. T. W. ROBINSON

either built or purchased new homes and are busy landscaping when home at Calcite. This not only beautifies your homes fellows, but also im proves your community.

Now that Bradley Transportation Line is increasing in size we see more and more strange faces from far and near. We would like to take this op portunity to welcome all our new crew members and hope they are happy in our Bradley family.

mate and friend,

has

been with the Bradley Line all his sailing career. We also extend our

STR. CEDARVILLE

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Purgiel are the parents of a son, Jeffery Allen,

STR. ROGERS CITY Gerald Tulgetske was married to Miss Georgina Gezequel Feb. 18.

STR. W. F. WHITE

was the date and Richard

Edward L. Plume, deckhand on the Str. White, was married June 29

Peacock had better never let it slip his mind. That was the clay pretty

to Miss Mary Jane Larsen. They will make their home in Rogers City.

Allen Strand. He

veteran sailor and

Elizabeth, born Feb. 19.

born May 1.

Several of our men, Royce Wickersham, Robert Adrian, Wilfred Kortman, and Marvin Karsten, have

was an old

that

Eugene Andr/.ejewski is building a "cottage" on the balmy shores of Lake Huron. Seems it is brick, 90 feet long and suitable for year-around occupancy. Could this be a case of

careers.

We regret the death of our ship

month—after

and transfered to the Str. Cedarville.

their new jobs. William

each

each year.

We have several new members in

welcome

And don't forget the anniversary date, Dick. For the first year you

Our friend, William Borrousch, has been promoted to second cook, Good luck, Bill.

Donna Selke became his bride. Many years of happiness to both of you.

June 3

BRADLEY LICENSED OFFICERS HOLD PRE-SEASON When the meeting of Bradley Transportation Line li censed officers was held at Bay City prior to the shipping season, the Screenings camera was on hand for this one

MEETING

BAY

CITY

and only chance for a picture of the group before they were scattered among the Bradley vessels. Also present were officials from Detroit and several plant, managers.

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BUSY MOLER MAN MOLER QUARRY

Millville. West Virginio

NEW CITIZEN

CHAMP COON HUNTER

Harland

Anderson,

automotive

chanic at Moler, is a busy fellow dur ing his off-work hours. He operates a grocery store and garage and still finds time to lead a very active string band

known

"Harland

Hillbilly Rangers."

and

His

In the picture

above Harland is dressed for his role

as band leader and guitar player. For 10 years the group has been a regular feature

radio station

WEPN at Martinsburg, West Va.

Tlie

dream

American

citizen

ship became a reality on May 24 for

Lloyd Watson, crane operator, is an authority in orchard work and does

most all of the plowing of gardens for the Millville employees with his tractor.

We have a champion coon hunter in Bob James, mechanic helper, who claims that with the help of this dog and another that wouldn't stand still

for a

picture he collected 15 coons

last season.

Clayton Fry, second shift crusher operator, is a faithful baseball fan

Charles E.

"Ed" Keiter, repair

man, is an active member of the Jef

ferson County Chapter of the IsaacWalton League. Ed attended the state convention in May at Elkins, W. Va., as a delegate-at-large.

Mrs. Rosemarie Kubis, wife of Mario V. Rubis, a Michigan Limestone em ployee at the Kaylor plant for 15 years. Mrs. Rubis was born in Ger many and came to this country in 1952. They were married in Great Falls, Mont,, in 1954.

record of 45,000 life insurance

death claims were paid in 1956 as a result of motor vehicle accidents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 3,000 more than in '55.

COACHES LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM

for the Charles Town Legion team. Clayton would rather miss a good meal than a Legion ball game. Tom Gray is one of the big potato growers in Jefferson count y. He claims he always has a ready mar ket for his spuds. Bob Blackford, foreman, is another

of Jefferson county's prosperous farmers.

KEEPING A LEVEL HEAD Earl "Reds" Peacher, a painter at Moler plant, spends his spare time coach

DOESN'T MAKE YOU ASQUARE

ing Little League baseball. Reds is coach for the Harper's Ferry Tigers of the Potomac Little League.

RETIRED

CENTRAL OFFICE

Detroit. Michigan

Our sympathy is extended to Mrs.

HONOR STUDENTS

Eva Meharg, purchasing department, in the loss of her father, Louis Dam-

bra, who died in May. Mr. Dambra was a retired Michigan Limestone Division employee. He worked at Since he retired April 18 after 12 years service as a car coupler, Dom enic R. Lucca has given most of his attention to a backyard garden. David L. Hennon, 69, died May 3. He had 14 years and seven months service at the plant and at the time of his death was working as a gen eral laborer.

Malcolm C. Mortimer, 72 who re tired in 1950, died May 25. He re-

Calcite as a

machinist.

Some of the new faces around the

Detroit office are: Barbara Shartell,

statistical typist in

the accounting

department—Bill Crocker who is op erating the new multilith machine— Lorraine Kuscera, records clerk in centra] files—June Burtner, secre tary to Mr. Carl G. Hogberg and Mr. E. A. Weymouth—Kay Kushner, sec retary in the MLD Screenings office.

Shirley (Harris) Ludtke, clerk-typ

tired with 24 years of service and

ist has returned to work in the mail

at the time he left he was working as a general laboi'er.

room.

Blenn

F. Cook has been

transfer

red to New Castle, Pa. as Supervisor ANNANDALE TWINS

of Industrial Relations for the East ern District. Vacation time in Detroit had MLD

people headed in all directions. Eileen Hoenicke, accounting, motored to Colorado, the Grand Canyon and points west. Also travelling west are

Mary Mardoff, accounts payable, louring the Canadian Rockies from Seattle, Wash.; George Breach, en gineering, and Mrs. Breach went to Los Angeles to see a new grandson, Mary Francis Keller, top, daughter of Michael R.

Keller, section fore

man, and Gary G. Best, son of Vern

E. Best, safety inspector, were both honor roll graduates from the Grove City, Pa., high school. Since gradu

Barry and Bruce Smith, four and a half years old, are the twin sons of Joseph T. Smith, senior accounting

ation, Mary Francis has been em

Clerk at Annandale who has been an

ployed at the Harrisville Bank. Gary,

employee for 20 years.

who has been working this summer as a lifeguard at a Grove City pool, will go to Penn State College in the fall and will major in accounting.

Frank Paulovich, 69. retired April

27 after 40 years of service, all with out a loEt time accident. At the time

of his retirement sharpener helper.

he was a

drill

William H. Druschel, son of Wil liam P. Druschel, Hillsville plant manager, was married June 8 to Miss Myra Mechling at Worthington, Pa. Druschel, who spent two sum mers working on Bradley steamers, is now employed by the Sperry Gyrascope Co., at Long Island, N.Y., and is working on guided missiles.

and renew acquaintances with three other grandchildren they hadn't seen for two years. Ardis Hopp, secretary to Mr. C. F. Beukema, is planning a trip to Cape Hatteras, North Caro lina; Bea DiGiacobbe, bookkeeper, went all the way clown the coast to Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Fla. Pvt. Louis Collins, U.S.M.C.R., spent Iwo weeks in basic training with the Women's Reserve Platoon at Island.

Parris

S.C.

Wedding Bells rang for Bill Crock er, our new multilith operator, and Jean Marie Pitcher on July 7 at St. Henry's Church in Lincoln Park. Bill and Jean spent their honeymoon in Northern Michigan.

John Fenech, who worked in the

A son, Jeffery Ernest, was born to

engineering department about four

Mr. and Mrs. Pete Promos, Feb 10.

months, left June 21 to attend Wayne University engineering school as a full

time

student

Congratulations folks. This is the

CEDARVILLE QUARRY

Promos

Cedorville. Michigan

second

son.

after attending

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kott who had a son, Kent Carr, on Jan. 24. Kent has three

night school for two and one-half years.

Charles Furtaw, trainee engineer ing, isn't really new to the MLD family. He was employed in the elec

brothers

trical Department at Calcite from

Methods Improvement Program Is Started

1941 to 1947. His father, Clarence, had 37 years service as a storehouse

WINS SCHOLARSHD?

present he also has three

brothers with the Bradley fleet, Ed on

the

Str.

Str. Calcite Robinson.

Mr.

Calcite, Bill on the Dick on the Str.

and

Mrs.

Donald

Wade A. Sims,

designed to make better use of exist

who worked in

ing facilities without capital expendi ture, is being started in Michigan

the blasting de partment dur ing the sum mer of 1955, has

A son, named Donald Silas, was born

been

warded a

S500

Knowles, Jr., on Julv 26. Don is in

scholarship

industrial engineering.

the General Oil Products He

will

by Co.

senior at Michi

gan Tech, Houghton, in the fall. He recently was elected to the Alpha Omicron Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemical society, in recognition of his scholarship. Wade EASTERN DISTRICT OFFICE New Cmtle. Pa.

Samuel H. Foringer, 72, father of Foringer, Safety Director,

Henry

Eastern District,

died June 16. He

was a resident of Craigsville, Pa. J. N. Suliot, Eastern District Man

ager, is now making his home in New

Castle, moving from Birmingham, Mich. Mr and Mrs. Suliot and family are living at 211 East Euclid avenue in New Castle.

was married June 15 to Miss

Limestone Division under the indus

trial engineering department. The program is being introduced in the division at Hillsville and An nandale with the conferences con

ducted by H. S. Lampe, Jr. Herb is a newcomer in our Division, having come from the methods division of

industrial engineering at the Youngstown District of the Corporation. The M.I.P. plan involves a training program for supervisory personnel in which they learn to look at each operation with an inquiring mind to develop better ways to do the job.

Elva

Essentially it is a systematic ap

Stevenson and the couple is spending the summer in Orange, Tex., where Wade has a summer job with Du Pent. Wade's father is George Sims, a bulldozer operator at Cedarville.

proach to using the extensive know

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelly who had a son, Mich

ledge and experience of these people in improving job performance. The Methods Improvement Pro gram has been in operation within the Corporation since 1951.

ael, on March 6.

On March 21 a son, Richard, was born to the Reid Crawfords. Richard has one brother.

Mr.

and

Mrs.

ACCIDENTS COST—

Ivan Sherlund are

Total cost of accidents in the

happy to announce the birth of a son April 7. Papa is a shovel oiler.

U.S. last year was $10,800,000,-

A daughter, Linda, joined the

000 . . .

That sum would have clothed

Thomas Portices on March 30. Dad

every man, woman and child in

dy is a truck driver.

the land . . .

Ernest C. Bruning returned home in March after serving two years in the Army. Ernest returned to work in April and at present is a tunnelman. His father, Ernest E., is Quarry Foreman. It's good to see you home

—would have built a million new houses worth $10,600 each

again. The

Donald

Nettletons

announce

the birth of Danny Brian on May 14. Congratulations folks.

'CALLING ALL UNSAFE CARS-ANP DRIVERS J*

two sisters.

Methods Improvement, a program

clerk at Calcite before he retired in

1954. At

and

Congratulations to Paul Kreft and

—would

have

built

300,000

new Class A schoolrooms for an

additional 9.000,000 kids . . .

—would have paid for all 3 shots of Salk vaccine for every person in the world. Accidents are costly—espec ially to YOU!

Bernice Kosier who were married March 2. Paul is a mill shift foreman.

The Million Dollar Lathe Have you heard about the lathe that cost S 12,000 in 1942, but which took

more than a million dollars to replace? Employees at Thompson Products Co., Inc., heard about it in the company's annual report. The Cleveland

Plain Dealer

heard

about it and made the million dollar

lathe the subject for editorial page treatment.

This is the story: In 1942 Thompson Products bought a lathe. The cost was $ 12,000. Under Federal tax laws the cost could be de

preciated over a 14-year period. So, last year, when the lathe had to be replaced, Thompson had $12,000 set aside, plus Dorothy Matuszewski finishes a northland painting in her kitchen studio.

an additional Si,000 which was the re sale value of the old lathe. However, in 1956 the same model

lathe that had sold for Â§12,000 in 1942

Kitchen Artist Paints The North

was selling for $35,000, and a new

Wife of Calcite Shop Mechanic Finds Fun

advanced needs of the industry cost

model with attachments to meet the

S67,000.

In Hobby of Oil Painting From cooking to artistic painting

man who must mix her art with daily

is a short step for Mrs. Dorothy Ma tuszewski, whose husband, Eugene,

household tasks and the demands of

two growing children, Mark, 5. and

is a shop mechanic at Calcite.

Luann,

Mrs. Matuszewski does her paint

ing in the kitchen brushing the can vas from dabs of oil paint smeared on a dinner plate. Paints and brushes are stored in a kitchen cupboard close to pots and pans. It is a practical method for a wo

Her paintings have won more than a little local success although she has had no formal art training beyond that

she

received

local

schools.

She has been interested in drawing

since she was a youngster and has worked in oils for about eight years.

So the company found itself with only $13,000 to buy a $67,000 piece of equipment. The additional S54,00() had to come

from profits. But in order to clear 354,000, Thompson had to make a profit of 3112,000 before taxes, and in order to

make that much profit, the company had to sell more than $1,250,000 worth of

products to customers. It took a million and a quarter dollars of sales for the company to replace one lathe, and not one cent went to the stockholder!

A million and a quarter dollars to re place one machine so three Thompson employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one shiftâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;could continue working! The Cleveland Plain Dealer's editorial

reaction to this method of presenting the business profit picture is to-thepoint: "This is something to think about when agitators scream about high cor

porate profits. No profits, no new ma Two of Mrs. Matuszewski's finished paintings picture Rogers City area.

chines, no jobs."

James Waybrant, Cedarville, three youngsters, Kenny, Peggy, who recovered from rheumatic fever, and Randy.

KIDS' PAGE

Five dollars goes to Nicola Ricciuti, derrick driller at Hillsville for this picture of his grandson, Patrick.

You are invited to send

pictures of your children or grandchildren in for this page. Five dollars will be paid for the best photograph each issue and $2.50 for every other picture used. We cannot use all pictures sent because of space limitations but all photo graphs will be returned. Include your name, address, plant and name and age of child in photo. Address entries to Editor,

Screenings, 2650 Guardian Building, Detroit 26, Michigan.

No double exposure but twin daugh ters, Wendy and Elain, of June Lin neborn, stenographer.

Leroy Patch, retiring at Kaylor after working 33 years, sent us this picture of his grandson, Junior Snyder.

engineer on Str. Myron C. Taylor are Valerie, Susan, Betty and David.

With their dog, Lassie, are children of Joseph Caruana, Buffalo. Joseph, Gregory, Douglas, Mark, Michael.

This little girl is Roxanna Lynn Shir ley, 9-month-old grandchild of Amous C. Holler, mechanic helper, Moler.

Look-alikes Barbara and Betty Sterns are twin daughters of Ralph Sterns, a locomotive brakeman at Calcite.

Children of Eugene Kwiatkowski, 3rd

Only STEEL can do so many jobs so well

Stainless Steel Porcupine. This ferocious-looking machine bristles with Stain less Steel spikes, and for a good reason, too. It's the main drive compressor for a

supersonic wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics" Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleve

land. It delivers a ton of air per second at a velocity of 1200 to 1800 miles per hour! The tunnel will test full-size turbojet and ramjet engines.

It's Mowing Time Again. And a cieancutting all-steel rotary power mower like

this can help you do the job faster and with less work. The all-steel deck is tough and unbreakable. The mower blade is steel,

too, because steel is the only commercial metal that will take and hold a keen cut

ting edge.

41,000 MileS Of Wire. This picture was taken on the world-famous Mackinac Bridge, now under con struction by American Bridge Division of United States Steel. The all-important main suspension cables contain 41,000 miles of'•'n.-inch-diameter tough galvanized steel wire supplied by American Steel & Wire Division. The cables are laid four wires at a

time by a traveling "spinning wheel." Each cable is over two feet in diameter and contains 12,580 wires.

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