CALCITE SCREENINGS 1962

fRo.ers City, Michigan C^^—^^^earsofoperations ofthe.oca!taesto

Michigan Limestone Diviston and Bradley

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ionLine

of the United States Steel Corporate

**, proceed then community as the "Umestone City .

An exchange of value beyond our ability to measure has benefited both community and industry making the words "Limestone C7fy"a namesake worthy of our mutual pride

and deserving of our continued cooperative efforts.

Anniversary Issue

1912-1962

HjBUSHED FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OF MICHIGAN

LIMESTONE THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.

oAcross the Desk Fifty years of effort.

Fifty years of progress.

Fifty years of employment.

Fifty years of opportunity.

Fifty years of loyalty and dedication.

Fifty years of service to our custom

their outstanding safety

record

would not have been achieved.

While we are counting our bless ings, let us not forget those but for whom there could be no business

and no anniversary — our custom ers. Not a few of them have been

ers.

Fifty years of cooperation with the community.

with us for forty-eight, forty-nine and fifty years, and most of them for

different

more than a quarter-century. We are

things to different people. To me the completion of the fiftieth year by a successful business enterprise should first be marked by a contem plation of the past with particular thoughts of gratitude to the indivi

thankful for this long association and the opportunity to be of service.

Anniversaries

mean

duals who contributed so much and

in so many ways to its development.

In our case, an outstanding geolo gist of his time, Henry H. Hindshaw, a wise financial counselor, W. F. White, and a man of unusual

organizational and sales capabilities, Carl D. Bradley, created from a wilderness area the basis for

a

tliriving business. To their remark able vision and especially to Mr. Bradley's persistance and devotion to his job must be credited much of the success of the young comp any. Mr. Bradley's brilliant leader ship and the solid foundation he

And of no little account is our

indebtedness to the many suppliers, engineers, designers, and consult ants for their expeditious and skill ful help along the way.

Finally, we should express our appreciation to our friends in the community. Their growing recogni tion of the problems of business has

made possible a basis of understand ing that I am certain will yield the greatest good in the future — for both Michigan Limestone and Rog ers City.

With fifty years of this kind of history, how can we look to the future with anything but confi dence? Despite the many problems

faced by business in general today, and the dim outlook of several com

The cover of this issue contains

laid made it easier for others who

petitive aspects of our own industry',

some of the picrures of the events which took place during the three day community sponsored 50th an

worked with him, and later for his successors, to serve with distinction.

I have an unshakable faith in the

niversary celebration of the Calcite

plant and Bradley Transportation Line which took place August 3, 4 and 5. The stainless steel plaque in the center naming Rogers City "The Limestone City" was donated by the citizens of the community.

But, as everyone knows, sound leadership is not enough. It is effec tive only to the extent each and everyemployee responds in carrying

ability of our own organization, our customers, our suppliers, and our friends in the community to work together to reach a successful solu tion.

out his duties. We should be and are

grateful for the cooperative attitude that has been a tradition with Cal

cite and Bradley employees for a half-cencury. At this point I must add that without such a tradition

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ML Screenings is published quarterly by Michigan Limestone, a Division of United States Steel Corporation.

John H. Rogers, Editor, Publication office, 2650 Guardian Building, Detroit 26, Michigan. Nothing that appears herein may be reprinted without special permission.

Community Honors Calcite And Bradley L B. Worthington Speaks At Industry Appreciation Banquet

as Miss Limestone by L. J. Pat terson, former M.L.D. Northern

District Manager, at the Queen's Ball in the high school auditor ium.

Mother nature took a hand in

Saturday's program forcing the cancellation of the parade until

Sunday.

All

other events took

place as scheduled.

Somewhere over Michigan, and possibly Canada too, are some 1,500 balloons with name tags attached as the balloon derby en trants let fly.

A

sell-out crowd attended the

Industry Appreciation Banquet at the white and gold decorated St. Ignatius auditorium to hear Les lie B. Worthington, U. S. Steel

J. N. Suliot, Northern

District manager,

opens the celebration at

ribbon cutting.

Over 25,000 persons jammed Rogers City to enjoy the commun ity-sponsored 50th anniversary celebration of the Calcite plant and the Bradley Transportation Line of the Michigan Limestone Division of U. S. Steel August 3-

practical facts which cannot be argued away. If, moreover, you run these facts through some sort of 'economic sizing screen,' one overriding fact remains promi nent above all the rest. In order

president, and Ernest R. Breech, Ford Motor Company director.

Mr. Worthington told the audi

to succeed in business, to provide jobs and pay wages, to attract in vestment and meet competition,

ence that "this country cannot

you must have profits."

succeed

Stating that a good many peo ple have somehow got the idea that there is little, if any, con

in

business

without

really trying to understand it. We have come to a point where all of us who reside in the larger com munity that is our nation must recognize and deal with some basic economic facts, or suffer ever more serious consequenc es."

Mr. Worthington pointed out that when you get down to busi ness "you find there are some

nection

between

business

suc

cess and profits, Mr. Worthing ton declared that "there is far

too much misunderstanding, among far too many people, about the essential role of profits in business, their general useful ness to society and their neces sary size. And this, I submit, is

4-5.

Starting with the ribbon cutting ceremonies at the Hospitality Center at 11:30 on Friday by J. N. Suliot, M.L.D. Northern Dis trict Manager, the celebration went into high gear.

Following at 2:00 was the plaque dedication by city offi

cials naming Rogers City "The Limestone City". C. G. Hogberg, Michigan Limestone president, accepted the marker on behalf of the company.

The first shovel of dirt was turned by Dr. Edward F. Ar-

scott, secretary of the school board, in the ceremonies for the new one and a half million dol

lar high school using American Bridge

Division

concepts

at

3:30.

Friday's activities ended with the crowning of Mary Ellen Plume

This plaque names Rogers City "The Limestone City." Left to right are Mayor J. A. Quinn,C. G. Hogberg, MLD president; Robert Haag, chairman of the dedication,- J. J. Parrilla, BTL manager,- Don VanZandt, Calcite plant manager,- and J. N. Suliot, Northern District manager, 3

L. J. Patterson, former Northern District manager, crowns Mary Ellen Plume Miss

U. S. Steel president L. B. Worthington spoke on the need for profits at the Industry Apprecia tion Banquet before audience of over 600 persons. far too serious a situation for us to overlook."

Reviewing what profits must do in a single company or in total

for the entire economy - pay dividends, reinvest for growth and modernization, make up for inadequate depreciation, attract

American industries with its exe

cutive leadership.

Toastmaster Harry Whiteley was interrupted from the floor by

Limestone.

Louis Selke,

a 46-year Calcite

employee, who made two special awards. Mr. Worthington and Mr. Breech were presented with hon orary memberships in the Royal

new investment and provide for new jobs - Mr. Worthington stat ed that "you can readily under stand why profits are so essen tial and why their size must be related to their vital responsibil ities.

This

is the basic fact of

business which, I believe, must be better understood today if our country is to grow and compete in an increasingly competitive

world. And this is the reason, I would like to repeat, why an an swer to our present problem of

how to succeed in business is by really trying to understand it."

Mr. Breech had many stories and humor to make his points as he pointed to the contributions

of small towns

in

providing

Ernest R. Breech, Ford Company director (left), Louis Selke, and Mr. Worthington pose after the Rock Buster presentation at the Industry Appreciation Banquet.

Order of Rogers City Rock Bust ers.

Each man received a framed certificate and a small sack of limestone to which a miniature hammer was attached. The certi

ters.

must "not take our famed lime

Judges for the floats were Fred Fisch, Walter Meyers and Bud Dueltgen, all M.L.D. re

stone quarry for granite" and that

tirees.

the honor "includes toting privi

Other highlights of the three day affair saw 1,000 pounds of meat disappear at the Ox Roast, over 500 people gazing at stars through a telescope provided by

ficate states that the recipient

leges."

The

tables

were

turned

on

Toastmaster Whiteley when J. N. Suliot, Northern District Mana ger for Michigan Limestone, pre sented him with a golden "hard

hat" symbolizing fifty years of owning and publishing the AD VANCE by the Whiteley family.

A replica of the Mercury 7 Space Capsule was displayed all three days.

Sunday the big parade got un der way. Over seventy floats and marching units passed in re view for a hour and three quar

Bill Schultz from Cranbrook In

stitute, a busy day every day at the Space Capsule, and boom

ing business at all booths and the carnival rides.

Dr. E. F. Arscott, Rogers City school board secretary, breaks ground for new high school as Don VanZandt, Calcite plant manager and school board president (left) observes.

Here is the safety float entered in the parade by the Calcite plant featuring green, white and gold colors.

The Union Carbide float took first place for the Most Beautiful entry. The parade lasted for an hour-and-a-half.

Calcite Began Operations In 1912

Crawford's Quarry, now the site of the Calcite plant, was the first settlement in Presque Isle County. Lirtle limestone was taken as timber was easier to obtain and to ship in those early days.

The

world's

largest lime

stone quarry, the Calcite opera tion of the Michigan Limestone Division, United States Steel Cor

river to burn into lime at Detroit

where fuel is expensive and dock

poration, at Rogers City, loaded

rent high, what a bonanza there should be to manufacture it here where the stone is at the water's

its first stone in June of 1912.

edge, fuel cheap, and dockage a

The new industry was first called the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company. Lime stone, as an industry, has been

the years to bring the vast lime

promoted by area residents since

stone resources of the area to the

1884.

In February of that year the

following item appeared in the Presque Isle County ADVANCE:

"If it pays to bring limestone in scows from the islands and from

long

distances up the Detroit

in the Treasury. Location of the quarry was the site of the first

settlement in the county, Craw ford's Quarry, some two miles southeast of Rogers City.

mere nominal expense. Here is a fortune for someone."

Efforts continued throughout attention of some interested com

pany. Foremost and probably the most solid action taken was the

founding of the Rogers City Land Company in 1908.

Principal stockholders were William F. Cowham, Fred D. Larke, PaulFL Hoeft and Alfred Lehndorff.

The Michigan Limestone and

Chemical Company was incor porated in June of 1910. The Board of Directors of the new company were W. F. White, pres

ident; C. B. Humphrey, vice pres ident; J. W. Lewis, secretary and treasurer; A. A. Blow, managing

director; H. N. Hindshaw, gen eral manager; Paul H. Hoeft, J. W. Smith and J. B. Millard.

Capital stock was $2,000,000 with $200,000 preferred shares

One of the early steam powered drills of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co.

The Calcite plant today shows considerable changes from the days of Crawford's quarry and the old timber industry.

Initial plans called for a crush er plant with a capacity of from 2,000 to 5,000 tons daily.

Events leading up to the first

load of limestone as taken from

the Presque Isle

County AD

VANCE are as follows:

October, 1910: "Two large drills, weighing about five tons each, were received from Sagi naw by the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company last Sat urday."

March, 1911: "The Michigan Limestone

and

Chemical Com

pany has a large crew of men at

the

Michigan

Limestone and

Chemical Company."

"The Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company had a long stretch of railroad track laid at

its

stone crusher

plant near

here."

"The concrete foundation for

the power house of the Michigan

work excavating the ground upon

Limestone

which will be erected its immense

pany's stone crusher plant is

stone crusher plant."

April, 1911: "The Loud and

nearly completed."

January, 1912: "The Detroit Shipbuilding Company is build-

Hoeft steamer C. H. Starke will

load 1,500 barrels of cement at

Alpena for the Michigan Lime stone and Chemical Company on

her trip' up from Detroit this week."

May, 1911: "Herman Grieling ol" the Grieling Bros. Dredge Company of Green Bay, Wiscon sin, was in Rogers City Monday figuring with the Michigan Lime stone and Chemical Company on the mammoth dredging job to be performed by the company for its Today's drills are electrically powered and highly mobile pieces of equipment.

H. Starke arrived from Chicago last Monday bringing a large quantity of coal, iron, etc., for

big stone crusher plant."

June, 1911: "The steamer C.

and

Chemical Com

Carl D. Bradley

Calcite, the largest vessel of her type on the great lakes, took her Above is one of the early steam powered shovels used at Calcite. It was a modern machine in its day and did its work well. You can see the M. L. & C. Co. name above the door.

first dip at the Wyandotte yards of the Detroit Shipbuilding Co. at noon today."

May, 1912:

"The Edwards

Bros, large dredge, Majestic, in tow of the tugs James Edwards

and Flassampa arrived early last Friday morning and immediately commenced work dredging the Calcite harbor."

"The Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company had the vari ous

electric dynamos in their

plant in operation last Thursday afternoon.

June, 1912: "A special car was

run to the plant Tuesday evening

and the company's

buildings

lighted up for the edification of the visitors."

t"Next Sunday

from 1 to 5

o'clock p.m. the plant will be thrown open to the public and all are invited to make an inspection of the world's greatest limestone crusher."

"The last few days the large mm •

Here is one of today's modern electric shovels used at Calcite. This bucket takes a "bite"

of dirt or stone at about eighteen yards at a time and is many times more efficient than the one shown above.

ing a steel steamer for the Cal cite Transportation Company of Detroit. The capacity of the steamer will be about 5,000 tons and

will

be

used

in

the

stone

carrying trade."

"The Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company, under the able supervision of manager Carl D. Bradley, is busy with a steam pile driver and crew of men in

driving piles for the unloading dock at the company's stone

crusher plant."

February, 1912:

"Carl D.

Bradley, of Chicago, manager of the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company arrived in

Rogers City last Friday morning.

We understand that Mr. Bradley expects to stay here henceforth

to superintend the extensive op erations of the M. L. & C. Co. which will recommence soon at

the big limestone crusher plant."

April,

1912:

"The steamer

force of workmen have been push ed to their utmost to get ready to start crushing. The loose ends

were gathered up and everything placed in readiness for the first

shipment of stone."

"Wednesday afternoon

the

steamer Calcite arrived and was

placed in her dock. The Calcite is the largest self-unloading ves sel in the world and has a capa city of 8,000 tons of rock."

"After being placed in her dock, the crusher was started up with a reverberating roar that

Steam again was used for this train locomotive used in the quarry. This picture was taken in 1930.

could be heard for miles and the

limestone rock began traveling up the conveyor belt to the hopper and thence to the vessel's hold.

As a try out for the Calcite's unloading mechanism, the rock was

transferred

from

the hold

to make a fill alongside the wharf. Everything worked nice ly. From now on, it is expected to ship a boat load of stone every day, most of it going to the steel

works at Gary, Indiana."

Calcite was originally known

as Crawford's Quarry, and for some time Rogers City and "the

Quarry", as it was called, car ried on quite a battle to see which would become the county seat.

Founded in 1860, little stone came from the Quarry since it was easier and cheaper to concen trate on lumbering.

Actually,

Crawford's Quarry

became an important station for wood burning tugs and later tre mendous quantities of forest pro ducts of all kinds were shipped from its dock.

With the passing of the timber industry, the Quarry withered and passed on only to be revived as Calcite.

Carl D. Bradley went on to be come the first president when the company became a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation in 1920.

Michigan Limestone Division now encompasses the Bradley Transportation Line, Calcite plant and other quarries at Cedarville, Michigan; Hillsville,

Here is a modern Diesel-electric locomotive used to transport stone from the quarry to the

primary crusher. There is even 2-way radio communication between engineer and dispatcher.

Pennsylvania; and Moler, West Virginia. Limestone processing plants operated by the Division are located at Conneaut, Ohio, and at Buffalo, New York.

The growth of the Bradley Transportation Line has paral

terial from small quarries near

leled that of the Division. From the first self-unloader to the

ers as well.

Other able men followed Brad

eight-vessel fleet of giant lime stone carriers, Bradley vessels

ley over the years. John G. Munson took over in 1928, fol lowed by Irvin L. Clymer in 1939. Hugh S. Lewis took over in

have

delivered

limestone to an

increasing number of customers.

Early in its existence, M. L. & C. Co. recognized the need for rapid, inexpensive carriers for its stone. In those days most us ers of limestone bought their ma

their plants and had no facilities for receiving stone by vessel. It

was proved that the use of selfunloaders could expand the de mand for limestone by offering service to these plants and oth

1953 after Mr. Clymer's retire ment. Christian F. Beukema pre

sided from 1955 through 1959 and was succeeded by Carl G.

Hogberg, today's president.

Calcite, Buffalo Get Safety Awards Buffalo 2,000 Days

Buffalo plant employees and their

wives

were

honored in

March for attaining 2000 days without a disabling injury, and six men received safety-service awards.

John

J.

Collins was honored

for his 40 years, and Kenneth J. Fitzgerald for his 35 years.

New twenty-five year men hon ored were Stanley Corpus, Stan

J. N. Suliot, Northern District manager, presents J. A. Holmes' awards to (seated, left to

ley Lis, Benjamin Patsy and Wil

right) Edmund Kihn, William Grambau, Albert Martin, (standing) John Miller and Rudolph

liam Stephany.

Wenzel.

The employees were presented

the

National

Safety Council's

Certificate of Commendation for

436,737 man-hours without a lost-time injury by G. W. Mintz, Eastern District manager.

Lloyd S. Campbell, MLD vice president, congratulated the workers saying, "This nearly five and one-half years without a lost-time injury shows good thinking on the part of all of you.

This

sort of

record could not

have been set if you had not been working efficiently, since you cannot have safety without effi ciency nor efficiency without

safety. They go hand in hand."

"I hope this record will con tinue. There is only one thing that can ruin it and that is be

coming overly complacent. Don't become so proud of your past accomplishment that you become careless," he cautioned.

Calcite 1,000 Days Calcite Plant employees of Michigan Limestone were recog nized at a dinner Saturday, July

21, in Rogers City for having worked 1,000 days without a dis abling injury. Two of the nations most coveted safety awards were presented to the Calcite employ ees after the dinner.

Calcite employees and their wives enjoyed dinner at three lo

cations - St. Ignatius, St. John's Lutheran School, and Westmin ster Presbyterian Church - be fore assembling at the St. Igna tius auditorium for recognition of the safety achievements.

Carl G. Hogberg, president of this U. 10

S.

Steel Division, con-

Twenty-five year safety service awards went to Stanley Lis, William Stephany and Stanley Corpus at the Buffalo 1,000-day safety service banquet.

gratulated the employees on the plant's safety record of 1,000 days achieved July 5, 1962. R. O. Pynnonen, acting district super visor of the Duluth District, Bu reau of Mines, presented the

"Sentinels of Safety" trophy to D. T. VanZandt, Calcite Plant Manager. This trophy, won for the second consecutive year and for the eighth time, is awarded an nually to the quarry in the United States with the best safety re cord of the competing quarries.

In 1961, nearly 50(3 quarries were entered in the competition.

L. C. Campbell, division vice

president, presented the National Safety Council's "Award of Hon or" to Mr. VanZandt. This is the

council's highest award and was

granted for the

quarry's out

standing safety record in 1960 and 1961.

J. N. Suliot, northern district manager, recognized still anoth

er safety achievement by the em ployees of the Calcite Plant -the J. A. Holmes safety association "Certificate of Honor." Mr. Su liot also awarded individual cer tificates of honor to seven Cal

cite employees for having worked 40 years without a disabling in jury. They were Rudolph Wenzel, John Pilarski, Alvin Raymond, Albert Martin, John Miller, Wil liam Grambau and Edmund Kihn.

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11

Knows Calcite Smiling, he recalled that "the tractors were small, and broke down often. We wondered if they

ever would replace the horse!"

The

retired

limestone

chief

has been an active figure in com munity circles here. He was Re

publican county chairman for a1 number of years. He is a former member

and

chairman

of the

Board of County Supervisors.

Currently he serves as chair man of the Rogers City Hospital board of directors and as a di

rector and treasurer of the Rog ers City Power Company. He and his

wife

are

members of the

Westminster

Presbyterian

Church, where Mr. Dueltgen has held a number of positions through the years. He also is a charter

Rudolph

As a youth, Rudolph "Bud"

"Bud" Dueltgen

him upon completion of his col

Dueltgen, Jr. was an interest

lege. Accordingly, "Bud" joined

ed "backfence" observer of the

the plant in August, 1919, as as

events leading up to the birth

sistant engineer.

of Calcite Plant.

In 1925, he served in the op

Later - beginning in 1912 when

erating department and in 1932

the first stone was shipped from the plant - he worked during sum

he became assistant to Presi dent John G. Munson. Shortly af ter he was made a director and

mer months at everything from shoveling mud to assisting in geological surveys. This was to lead him into a number of jobs to that of acting manager of the Northern District of Michigan Limestone Division, the position he held at retirement April 1, 1960.

Mr. Dueltgen resides at 241 South First Street with his wife, the

former Elizabeth Riches of

Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

A native of Rogers City, he

was graduated in 1919 from the University of Michigan with a degree in mechanical engineer ing; while in college he be

assistant secretary of what was then Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company.

and

former

Club.

Mr. and Mrs. Dueltgen spend their

winters in Florida and in

general, "take life easy". They also enjoy bird-watching and working in the garden. Mr. Duelt gen does a lot of reading history, and judging by the large array of mementos and books in his study, still finds plenty to keep him busy.

What about the future of lime

He was named purchasing agent

stone? "I think the demand for

in 1940, retaining the director and assistant secretary titles. In 1952

limestone by the steel industry

with the formation of Michigan Limestone Division, he was given

special assignment capacity.

Four years later he became assistant to the manager of the Northern District; he spent a lot of his time helping to establish the Cedarville operations. In 1959 he became acting manager of the District.

Discussing his early days at the plant, Mr. Dueltgen said that

longed to the U. S.. Army En gineers Reserve Corps.

As a summer employee at Calcite, Mr. Dueltgen had gotten

Today for example, we have alloy

to know President Carl D. Brad

steels that make new develop

ley, who asked him to work for

ments possible."

i:

member

president of the local Kiwanis

"We had the ideas, but not the materials to make them stand up.

has reached its peak", he said.

"Future developments probably will occur in the field of chem

icals."

If We Had To Do It This Way Today....

Scenes From Colorful Past At Calcite

15

How You Can Save Lives Rescue Breathing Techniques Make It Possible To Revive Accident Victims When a person has stopped breathing, what do you do?

If

you

wait,

it

may be too

late to save a fellow employee's life.

The

newest method of reviv

ing victims of accidents, heart attacks, suffocation, electrical shocks, poisoning or drownings is now being shown to all em ployees in the Division. Called mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or

rescue breathing, it is the sur est, simplest way to save a life.

Basically, all that is done is for one person to breathe into

the mouth of another forcing life-giving oxygen into the lungs of the victim. This can be done

by

anyone

reduction

anywhere, in

the

and

the

time the vic

tim is without oxygen is one of the essential factors.

Employee training sessions by use of a movie, demonstrations and practical experience on a life-like manikin have been con ducted in the Northern District and are scheduled for the Eastern District.

The rescue breathing technique

is designed to help the victim un til the regular oxygen equipment arrives. It works in many situa

tions where other methods can't be used because the victim does

not have to be moved or placed on the ground.

Another advantage is that res

THE JAW SAG. Take a deep breath, place your mouth over the victim's mouth, seal off the

cue breathing gets more oxygen to

victim's nostrils and breathe out.

the victim's lungs than any other known emergency method of arti ficial respiration except mechan

rising, you know that rescue breathing is working. If the chest

By observing the victim's chest

ical resuscitators. The rescuer

doesn't rise, clear the victim's

is also in a position to see the

mouth and try again. Remove your

results of his actions and to take corrective measures if needed.

fall.

Physical action is a minimum in rescue breathing, and even a smaller person can breathe for a

Take another deep breath and repeat the mouth-to-mouth breathing at the rate of about 12

larger one.

times a minute. If the victim's

The rescuer's re

mouth and let the victim's chest

serve of air and lung strength is such that he may continue for

stomach begins to swell from excess air, press it gently and

hours without exhaustion.

maintain pressure with the palm of your hand. If the victim is a child, the breathing rate should

To begin rescue breathing, clear any obstruction from the victim's

mouth.

Then

tilt his

head back as far as possible and pull up on the jaw to open the air passage. NEVER LET

be

increased to about 20 times

per minute.

The air you breathe into a vic

tim's lungs contains more than

STEP ONE \Jf

\-fu\A,

«*•*§ t'Z '

11 I

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(v s,

i-ultvM

t-m(^ u— \*,

_

LAY VICTIM ON HIS BACK, OR n

.U-lvl.

SUPPORT HIM ACROSS YOUR KNEES

STEP.FOUR

STEP THREE

BtOCK

steFtw

WITH

BREATHE INTO VICTIM'S MOUTH ABOUT 12 TIMES

TILT HEAD BACK AND PULL UP JAWBONE CLEAR VICTIMS MOUTH AND THROAT

thickness of a handkerchief over

his mouth and breathe through it.

HANDKERCHIEF MAY BE USED

The cloth will not cut down the

STEP FIVE

amount of air enough to worry

chances for recovery:

about.

LET VICTIM EXHALE-.

In drowning cases, water in the lungs or stomach is not important at first. Do not try to remove the water until after you have started the life-giving oxygen through

LISTEN FOR AIR-

WATCH CHEST FALL

mouth-to-mouth

rescue breath

ing.

Begin rescue breathing on the

spot! Only the victim's face has to be out of the water. Between

If air passage is blocked, repeat from Step Two.

enough

oxygen to save a life.

Your exhaled breath has almost

as much oxygen as

room air,

if you breathe deeply.

If you do not want to have your mouth come in direct con

tact with the victim's, place one

Designers See New Auto Ideas U. S. Steel unveiled some new

ideas for Detroit's top engineers and designers this summer which may be appearing on cars within the next five years.

These new designs ranged from

breaths, turn his head to the side and gently press the stomach so liquids may drain from the mouth.

bration absorbing device made

John M. Reinhart, U. S. Steel's

2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9 10

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ed designer to bring them into

in

the automotive design

"We feel it is our responsi bility as a materials producer to develop new materials which sat isfy design and engineering prob lems, and also to suggest alter nate applications, new concepts, material properties, availability and comparative values which may increase the effective and Noting that while there are ap proximately 10,000 different kinds of steel available, Mr. Reinhart pointed out that a good many of them are "sitting on the

from steel cable.

(Out of 100) 98 92

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role field.

comfort

tirely new type of shock and vi

of Delay

Rescue breathing offers a ra pid, sure method of saving lives.

Show it to your family and help insure a safe, long life for you and your loved ones. Your Safety Department will gladly cooper ate with you. Contact them if you have any questions on rescue breathing.

economic use of our material -

less cost to an en

For Recovery

The most important thing in helping a person whose breath ing has stopped is to begin res cue breathing AT ONCE. Each second without oxygen decreases the chances for recovery. After breathing has stopped and rescue breathing has begun, here are the

a fresh approach to seat con struction that provides greater at

Chances Minutes

new and useful forms, to find in one of them alone, or in some combination of several of them, new applications that can marry beauty to economy and function.

steel."

design representative to the auto

shelf," waiting for some imagin

industry, defined the company's

ative engineer or some uninhibit 15

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"You Sure Go To A Lot Of Trouble

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"You sure go to a lot of trouble to make 'little ones out of big ones'," said a friend of ours the other day referring to quarrying and crushing of limestone.

Our answer was "you're darned right we do, and we're proud of it."

High-quality limestone doesn't happen —its made by many people doing many things that are necessary for our customers to get what they want, when they want it and where they want it.

For instance, the geologist knows every square foot of his area

of operations and a glance at his charts points the way for future

operations. His tests have told him where the stone is, how deep the strata reaches, where purest limestone is and how much work it will take to reach it.

The rest of the people at Michigan Limestone know their work, too.

The blasters, the shovel operators, the truck drivers, the train crews, the crusher men, the conveyor men, the engineers, the mail men, the telephone operators, the boat crews all work together with one goal in mind-to make quality limestone and to take it where the customer wants it when he wants to have it.

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MEN AND WOMEN

oAcross the Desk

Carl G. Hogberg

The warmth and joy of the

nized sources. The combined

Christmas Season is welcomed

effect of this kind of support—

not only by the many who observe the period for its

families of our employees and

great Christian significance.

from friends in the business

But to all of us it traditionally provides an unusual opportun

community—is a tremendous force for good in any organi zation. And for this, too, we are grateful.

ity; for now we can reach out in the spirit of friendship and esteem in a gesture that at any other time of the year might seem out of place.

So I want to take advantage of this fine tradition. First, to thank our associates and em

ployees, our customers, our suppliers, and the many others upon whom we depend for their understanding and assis tance during this last year.

Without you, the completion

All of us wish all of you good health, good cheer and a very happy holiday.

The future, with its ever increasing challenges, always appears more difficult than the past. But the future usual ly turns out to be less difficult than expected. I believe this is so not because the problems are actually any easier, but because members of a capable, loyal organization will always rise to meet the challenge. We are all thankful that we have

of our task would have been

this kind of people in Michigan

impossible, of course; with your help, you have made the job much easier.

Limestone

When beset by troubles or some unusual personal diffi culty, we are often amazed by the many and varied sources

dChd^M

much of it from within the

from which aid comes. In the business world we tend to for

and

in

United

States Steel.

It is in this spirit of aware ness that I join my associates in wishing you and your fami lies a very Merry Christmas with hopes that with your con tinued efforts the New Year

will be a successful one for all.

get the importance of all the little daily assists which also come to us along the way, many of them from obscure or even unknown and unrecog

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ML Screenings is published by Michigan Limestone, a Division of United States Steel Corporation.

John H. Rogers, Editor, Publication office, 2650 Guardian Building, Detriot 26, Michigan. Nothing thac appears herein may be reprinted without special permission.

Elwood Elf Has A Christmas Problem

Elwood

Elf

was

sad. All the

other elves in Sanca's workshop were their usual happy selves.

But not Elwood - he hadaPROBLEM.

Ir that

It

wasn't

the

work. Elwood

had become so noticeable even Santa had wondered

loved thac. All che dolls looked

about him. "And he's the best eyebrow painter in the busi

like noching at all uncil Elwood added his eyebrows. Wich a quick,

ness," declared Santa.

even scroke of che brush he seem-

one doll's forehead - something he hadn't done in two hundred

years. "That does it," said El wood. "I had better go back to Reindeer

Tender,

Assistant

Helper, Job Class 1/2."

He

climbed

down

from his

high stool and walked sadly back to see the boss.

"Elwood, what's the matter?" asked Santa who was making some changes on the Standards Revision

Form

from the latest

Brownies' report. "It's too close to Chriscmas for anyone to be

looking that sad."

"Etoss," said Elwood, climb ing up on one of Santa's sacks that was already packed, "I've got a PROBLEM." Santa frowned, "No one has a PROBLEM," he said. "I know,

I'll bet you have a problem."

"Nope," said Elwood, "it's a real

for

sure

capital letter

PROBLEM, and I just don't know what to do. '

Santa's usually rosy complex

Elwood Splashed Some Paint On A Doll.

ion became pale and he too sat down on one of the packs. There hadn't been a PROBLEM around there since the Three Wise Men

ed to actually bring them alive.

There were big dolls, little dolls, baby dolls and grown up dolls, and just plain cuddly dolls.

Elwood Elf knew just how to make each one as pretty as she could be.

Elwood was still painting che best eyebrow. There was nothing more you could ask in the way of quality on any doll that wenc n

pasc him. Still, something was

each tried to think of a worthy

wrong.

All the other elves chattered

gift for the Christ child. "Well, Elwood, lee's hear it."

happily as they scurried about the toy factory. They all worked

Elwood looked around to make sure thac no one would overhear

faster as Christmas grew near

him and began his story. "A long

er, and they all seemed to take on the merry spirit of the holi day. All except Elwood.

cime ago when I was still Rein deer Tender, Assistant Helper, Job Class 1/2, I made up my mind to become chief eyebrow

It became so bad chac one day Elwood dropped some paint on

painter in the factory. I worked

I'll Go See Santa Claus," said Elwood. "Maybe He Can Help.

u

O AiM S

even got to the point where I

didn't really need the doll sitting back there every year. I had be come a real fine eyebrow painter, First Class.

"Everything has been fine over the years until this year. I pick ed out my doll as usual, set her on the back of the paint brush rack and went to work. The first

time it happened, I thought I was seeing things, but it keeps hap pening. It's a PROBLEM.

"At last," said Santa, "we're finally getting there. Please get to the point, Elwood."

Elwood hesitated and then said, "It winked at me."

"The doll?" asked Santa.

"Yep," said Elwood.

"Fiddle," said Santa, who is not given to strong language.

"I Need To Talk With You, Santa."

"It did, it did, it DID," said Elwood jumping up and down and

up to bulb changer for Rudolph

to paint the eyebrows and even

almost in tears.

the Red Nosed Reindeer's nose

"Sit down, Elwood, and stop jumping up and down like a yo

erector sets, race cars, tea sets

looked happier when I did a real good job on one.

"This is the way it went from then on. Every year I would pick one doll to help me, and they really did help, Santa, honest."

and finally into the doll section.

This was it - I had been right

"OK, Elwood," said Santa, "don't get unglued about it, I've

so many years ago.

seen the same thing happen to other elves with other toys be

out there and then got into the factory.

"I went through trains, bats and balls, cap guns, doll buggies,

"I practiced eyebrows until both arms almost fell off, but they were no good. The dolls

fore."

just didn't look right. I wasn't

didn't know that."

adding anything to them at all.

"It's true just the same," said Santa, "but this doesn't get us

"One day I picked out one doll that was especially appealing and set it up on the back edge of my brush rack. This will sound silly, but the doll seemed to tell me how

"Really?" asked Elwood. "I

to your PROBLEM. Please go

yo," said Santa. "Dolls canwalk, drink and wet, talk, hug and kiss,

but our dolls do not wink. You

haven't been sniffing the paint thinner have you?"

"No," said Elwood, "and I

didn't stick myself in the eye

with the paint brush either. I haven't had an accident in two

hundred years."

"Son, you've

flipped," said Santa. "How about a nice long va cation doing good deeds some where?"

on."

"Well," said Elwood, "my sy

Continued on page 6

stem worked fine for years. I

Santa Followed Elwood And Saw The Doll Really Wink At Elwood.

Elwood Was Very Sad When Santa Left On Christmas Eve. "I knew this was going to be

hard," said Elwood, shaking his

do anything about this."

Elwood marked the box care

The days passed and soon the

fully and then went home early.

head sadly. "Look, Santa Claus, the winking is a problem alright,

toys were all finished. Elwood's

He didn't want to be around when

heart hadn't been in his work,

Santa left that Christmas eve.

but that isn't my PROBLEM.

but he had done well in spite of his sorrow. One of the last toys to go in the boxes was the little doll that winked (it really did) at

Santa's hand shook a little as

he took off his hat and mopped

his forehead. "OK, Elwood, what's the rest of it? I'm game I'm tired, but I'm game."

"Well, Santa, it's like this.

I'm, ah - that is I think, ah -

you see, ah -" then in a rush, "I'm in love," said Elwood and bashfully hid his head behind his

apron. "My PROBLEM is that you always take my model with you every year when you deliver the toys to the good boys and girls

and I want to keep this one.

Elwood's voice was still muf

fled by his apron, but Santa heard him clearly.

"You know, Elwood, you do have a PROBLEM. But you know the rules, no personal toys. I wish that I could help, but I

can't. Now back to work, son.

You'll find another one you like just as well next year, just wait

and see," said Santa.

Elwood got up and walked sadly back to his place. He climbed up on the stool and started paint ing eyebrows. He looked at the doll and sure enough, she winked at

him.

Poor Elwood. That did

it. He picked up the doll and turn ed her around so that she faced the wall.

Santa had followed Elwood and

saw the whole thing.

"Well," said Santa to himself, "by golly, she does wink at El wood after all. I wonder if I can

Elwood.

Santa just happened to be pass ing as Elwood placed the doll

gently in her carton. "Don't wor ry Elwood," said Santa to the sad little elf, "I'll pickoutavery special little girl who really wants that doll and will love her

Christmas day

ed at him. Gloom was all around.

There was a noise at the front door. Elwood walked over and

opened the door. There on the step was a box marked with a big

and give her a good home. I'll tell you what, but a big 'X' on

"X

that box so I'll be sure to find

Christmas after all.

it easily."

wasn't very

cheerful for Elwood. Oh, he had presents and candy and a tree and all, but he was just too sad and unhappy to enjoy them all.

He longed for the doll - the first and only doll that had ever wink

and Elwood knew what was

inside.

It was a winking good The End

There Was A Box With A Big "X" On It.

Limestone, The Cake And Mrs. Jones

Mrs. Jones looked out the win

dow of the house, considered the jobs to be done that day and de cided to bake a cake. A nice, light two-layer cake with plenty of icing - the very thought made her mouth water. It would be in

expensive, too.

she remembered, so she would

department truck went by spread

settle for a white cake with choco

ing the ice removal chemical.

late icing - nothing fancy - just a good cake.

Down came the bowl, out came

Thank goodness, she thought, that will be a great help with this

the mixer. No cake mix so she would have to "build" this one

Oops, almost forgot the mea suring cup and spoons. There and the rubber spatula, too. She

she put on her apron, she men tally checked off the ingredients

from the ground up. Where is that recipe? There we go.

Flour, shortening, eggs, milk, baking powder, sugar, vanilla

needed and she needed.

and a little salt. Let's see now, where did I put those eggs -

Off she went to the kitchen. As

found she had what

There wasn't enough chocolate for chocolate cake and icing too,

there they are. As Mrs. Jones was reading the recipe, the street

weather.

commenced the cake.

Wait a cotton-picking minute, you are saying to yourself. Just where does limestone enter into

this culinary scene. There is Mrs. Jones mixing and measur

ing and if you try to sneak in any

other equipment and furniture.

Anywhere you see iron and steel, limestone was one of the basic materials used in the blast fur naces to make that metal.

Mrs. Jones would be hard put to run her kitchen without all the conveniences and necessities

available today. Limestone was also needed to help grow the wheat from which the flour was

ground; the feed for the cows which produced the milk; the chickens which laid the eggs; the animals (or vegetables) used for shortening; and the vanilla beans. It was also used for pro cessing sugar beets into sugar as

well

as bicarbonate of soda

into baking powder.

That's quite a list - just about every item in Mrs. Jones' recipe Mrs. Jones is actually Mrs. Eva Meharg, Detroit office Purchasing stenographer. The reading of the recipe is, however, the real thing as we I as all the ingredients on the table.

limestone, you had better suit up for about six orbits.

A very astute and probably un

derstated thought, we say. It is well known that shenanigans such as that do not get many laughs from

Mom in the kitchen. It is

also a bad practice to slam doors or stamp your feet while the cake is baking and woe unto him who

makes any sly remarks about possible lack of quality in any

part of the finished baking pro ject. It isn't polite, nor is it wise.

The limestone is already in the cake; further, limestone is a part of just about everything Mrs. Jones used in making and baking the cake and we are not being sneaky about it at all. So there.

In her kitchen limestone is used

in che making of iron and steel

for the range, refrigerator, and

has limestone in it or has helped to grow or process a basic food

stuff. And don't forget, all these are included in a cake mix, too.

And we aren't finished yet. The house, the window, the measuring cup, the apron, the chemical for removing the ice, the rubber spatula and even the paper and ink with which the recipe was printed all own part of their exist ence to limestone in some way or another.

Let's take Mrs. Jones' house and

look a

little

closer at the

All the cake ingredients on the table with the possible exception of the extract, have limestone processed chemicals in their background.

The glass, tinware, rubber and even the paper also benefit from limestone.

medicines by the pharmaceutical industry directly or indirectly.

Limestone is important to the

manufacture of many things we all use every day as Mrs. Jones and her cake point out. Its use has

helped to make many things avail able to all of us at reasonable

prices. From the quarry stone pile to the bottle of aspirin is a long trip, but each step along the way splits the stone, adds other materials and a useful product is the result.

One of the largest users of soda

ash is the glass industry. Win dows, drinking glasses, and mea suring cups all play an important part in the house and cake of Mrs. Jones.

Without getting too technical about it, an example of the chain of events goes something like this. M.L.D. limestone is burned

along with coke, salt and water to form

soda ash and the soda

ash is sold to another company which combines it with another chemical to make bicarbonate of

soda. This product is sold and in the final step is used for bak ing powder and many pharma ceuticals.

Out of the oven comes the cake smelling just as good as it looks. Modern kitchens and homes make use of limestone and limestone by-products in many ways to help us all live better.

contributions

limestone

makes

As you have seen, iron and steel, agricultural supplements and chemicals all use limestone in one form or another as one of their basic material. The next

limestone or limestone products.

Textiles for rugs, draperies, and

time you eat a piece of cake, drink a glass of water, drive

slab. Most all paints are pro

many other household items are similarly processed. Limestone products are also important to

your car or try to ease a head ache remember that limestone

cessed by chemicals containing

the

make it all possible.

to a snug home. There is cement for foundations, mortar and the basement

flour or the cement

manufacture of drugs and

and American industry helped to

BUTTER CAKE RECIPE Temp. 375 degrees

Time: 25-30 minutes

Ya cup shortening

3 teaspoons baking powder

VA cups sugar

!4 teaspoon salt

3 eggs

1 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups cake or pastry flour (sifted)

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and beat thoroughly.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together three times. Add alternately with milk to shortening mixture, adding flour first and last. Add extract. Pour into two greased 8-inch layer pans. Bake.

Add icing and a few nuts and our cake is complete.

S>

A padlock key may be the key to a longer, happier life for you or one of your fellow employees.

Perhaps you have seen some of these padlocks on a main dis connect switch box which controls

the power to a piece of equip ment. And you may have won dered why lock a switch - no one is going to steal such a thing.

Ah, no one may steal the switch, but they may throw the switch at the wrong time and rob some one of something even more valu able. Lives and limbs ARE more

valuable, you know.

One of the safety rules in the Michigan Limestone Division is

It is just good common sense to stop a piece of machinery be fore starting to work on it. The next logical step is to make

man who locks the disconnect switch must be the one who un

sure that no one else can start

is in possession of a duplicate key.

the machine again until the work is completed. The padlock in this case is pretty good life insur

the switch and get to work. To

ance.

do some adjusting, you must get

Locked protection is a "must", especially around electrical equipment" or powerful mechan ical equipment which is so abund ant

at all M.L.D. locations and

boats. One slip here can lead to more than just a disabling injury.

One lock and only one key to

that the electrical control switch or mechanical controls of a ma

fit that particular lock is issued

chine must be locked in the "off"

be required to perform any work on the Division's power-driven equipment. Electricians, main

position before anyone begins any type of work on that machine. In other words, lock the barn BE FORE the horse is stolen.

10

locks it since the keys are not interchangeable. No supervisor

to each and every man who may

tenance mechanics, pipefitters and others are so equipped. The

Let's

suppose that you lock

down behind a

motor and reach

through the belt guard. You can not be seen in this position from the aisle where the switch is lo

cated. With that padlock in place and the key in your pocket you're as safe as a baby in bed. With out such positive protection any thing can happen.

Now remember, you can't be seen and possibly can't be heard.

Human nature being what it is, anyone coming along and seeing the machine stopped would won der why, go to the switchandfind it turned off. With the padlock

you're safe. Without the padlock you're in danger.

If more than one man is work

ing on a machine, each man must put his own lock on the disconnect switch. This is important since one may may finish his part of the job ahead of another. If the other

man's lock is not in place, the one who finished first may have no way to know that another per son is still working and start up the machine to try out his work.

With the multiple lock system no equipment can be started until everyone is out of danger.

As with all safety rules, the padlocks on disconnect switches

make real good sense if you stop to think about it. But then think

ing is the basis of all safety in the first place. Perhaps it should be

"Think

First"

instead of

"Safety First" whether you are working, driving or playing.

Signs, of course, would help warn others that you are work ing, and thus give you some pro tection. But warning signs are removable, some people don't believe signs (ever see the fin ger prints around the Wet Paint

signs) and signs don't LOCK any thing.

In some instances the equip

With this main disconnect switch locked in the "off" position, workmen are safe since there is only one key for each padlock.

ment can not be adopted to the use of padlocks. Here special plastic tags are used on the con trols as the signal that someone is working on the equipment. The tags have the name of the person doing the work so that anyone

*

can determine the nature of the

job.

There is a saying that goes like this: "Why isn't there time to do the job right when there is time to do it over?" Where safety is concerned if the job isn't done right the first time there may not be another time to do anything over. Taking time to lock out a main

disconnect

switch

is

the

right way to begin a job. These few minutes may some day prove to be the most important ones in your life.

Likewise, no one would like to

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be responsible for the death or injury of a fellow worker. Follow the safety rules - if the disconnect

switch is locked out and you have some work to do also, LOCK THEM WITH YOUR LOCK ALSO; if the switch is tagged, TAG IT AGAIN; and above all, always make sure that everyone is clear

before

starting

equipment.

any piece of

From left to right are a safety padlock key, a switch tag, multiple lock device and the lock itself. Tags are used where locks can not be attached.

11

AROUND THE WORLD

Christmas Giving

The French Santa Claus is Pere Noel, or Father Christmas.

Who brings Christmas gifts?

Throughout the ages, the act of giving has been shrouded in an air of mystery that surrounds both giver and gift. Since three Wise Men appeared suddenly out of the desert bearing gold, frank incense and myrrh for the new born Infant at Jerusalem, Christ mas gift-bearers have appeared and disappeared mysteriously every year.

In Spain the three Wise Men still bring the presents and dis tribute them on January 6th, the Epiphany. Spanish children put their shoes out on the window sill and fill them with straw for the camels - then awake to find that-

the straw is gone and presents have been left in its stead.

In Italy the gift-giver is La Befana - who is reputed to eat bad

children as well as record

good ones.

Befana 12

was

Legend has it that a

woman

who

had

been too busy with her house

work to offer hospitality to the three

Wise

Men

-

and

asked

them to return when she was not

so busy. They did not come back and

Befana

watches

for

them

to dwell in the family attic or barn - and in some parts of

Scandinavia, gifts are brought by two gnomes - and old wo man carrying a basket of gifts

every Epiphany.

and

French children know that Le Pere Noel will come down from

beard wearing a red hood.

heaven and bring good things if they are well behaved-but if they

often is assisted in his giftbearing by the Snow Maiden. And in Holland, St. Nicholas rides

are not, Le Pere Fouettard Father Spanker - may arrive

In

a

an

old

man

with

a

Russia Grandfather

white

white

Front

horse while his black-

with a load of switches.

clad servant, "Black Pieter,"

In Mexico gifts come tumbling from a pinata - a gay clay bird or animal filled with fruit, can dy, nuts and small gifts. The Pi nata is hung from a doorway or tree and the child, blindfolded, breaks the pinata with a stick.

carries the gifts.

In ancient times the gift giv er was a local bishop accom panied in a procession by de mons who scattered at his ap proach. Perhaps one of these oldest Christmas processionals

In

the

mad

scramble

that fol

lows, each child strives to pick up as many gifts as possible.

In Denmark presents are brought by the little gnome said

was one in which two "ghosts of the fields" dressed in straw

led the way, followed by Pan, and behind Pan a masked and horned creature who carried a

saw him fast asleep, and stealth ily climbed the roof to the chim ney. Here he pitched down three

arrived, bringing with them their own special gift-givers. Two cen turies before the Dutch had come,

gold pieces, expecting they would

bringing St. Nicholas with them,

land at the hearth at the noble

or Santa Claus for short. A Ger

man's feet. But one of the daugh

man colony had moved into Penn

ters had hung up a pair of stock ings to dry and the gold pieces

sylvania along with "Christkind-

landed in the toe of one of them.

Christmas in the New England colonies was not a very happy affair. For a time - from 1642

lein" who was to be transform

ed into Kris Kringle. Swedish settlers brought a gift-giver de scending from the old god Thor.

In 1822 a Presbyterian divinity

to 1652 - the Puritans in England

professor

issued

C.

a

series of ordinances

forbidding church services and

festivities on Christmas Day as well as making plum puddings

and mince pies. And in America, because such celebrations had a heathen origin, the General Court of Massachusetts passed a law

ment returned with the restora

tion of the monarchy in 1660.

But in America, the zeal against

"heathen customs" persisted un til

In Italy the gift-giver is a good natured witch called La Befana.

birch to chastise sinners.

But one of the strangest giftgivers of all flings open a door in Sweden - throws in a gift then vanishes. The gift, called the Julklapp, is done up in so many wrappings that it is hard

the

Dr. Clement

fat Dutchman with red cheeks and hair. The Dutchman had been

telling Mr. Moore some St. Nich olas legends, and now it struck Dr. Moore that the old Dutchman

was the very image of St. Nich olas himself.

in 1659 making the observance of Christmas a penal offense.

In England Christmas merri

named

Moore bumped into a tiny,

Hurrying home, Dr. Moore sat down and started to write:

"Twas the night before Christ mas, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

middle of the 19th cen

The

modern

flesh

and

blood

tury. As late as 1856, Christmas was an ordinary working day in

Santa today is usually equipped

Boston, and often those who re

yak's hair from Tibet. He has had his origins in dozens of coun

fused to come to work were dis missed. In 1870 classes were held as usual on Christmas in

public schools, and children who did not attend were severely punished.

But things began to brighten as more and more immigrants

with an artifical beard made of

tries, Asia Minor, Italy, Africa, Holland, Russia, and Sweden.

But it was from the United States that he re-crossed the Atlantic as Father Christmas

in

England

and

Pere Noel in

France.

to find.

Which toys are popular with contemporary Santas and their youngsters? Surveys report an increase in popularity of science toys, and many children ask for

dolls and toys they've seen ad vertised on TV. Sign of the times: little boys who once wanted a train now frequently prefer a racing car set.

The

red-clad

street

Santa

Clauses who ring their clappers at shoppers have a real life model in the Turkish Bishop St. Nicho las, who devoted his life to char ity and good works more than

1,600 years ago.

An old story tells how St. Nicholas unintentionally origi nated the custom of hanging stockings by the fireplace at Christmas

time.

St.

Nicholas

knew of a poor and proud noble man who had no dowry for his three daughters. Coming to his house one evening, St. Nicholas peered in the nobleman's window,

The Dutch call their Santa St. Nicholas and he is always seen with his little black helpers.

Santa comes on December 6th in the Netherlands.

13

C. G.

HOGBERG

Carl G. Hogberg, M.L.D. pres

SPEAKS AT CEDARVILLE

industry in

30 pet. nationally per ton of steel produced.

Paper- reclaiming stone slur

Michigan as he addressed the

ry cut one of our customer's

annual meeting of the LesChen-

stone

eaux Chamber of Commerce at

pet.

ident, predicted a bright future for

business and

by

90

Chemicals- one company now

Cedarville in October.

However, he pointed out, there

is

requirement

a growing need for public

understanding and action before this prediction is to be met since all businesses today face the need for improved profits in

order to provide jobs and meet competition.

This competition in the stone industry takes various forms, stated Mr. Hogberg, citing the

makes acetylene directly from natural gas with no lime stone; another is using nat ural soda ash from Wyoming instead of that chemical pro cessed from limestone; and even ocean water from the Gulf of Mexico and natural

magnesite from Nevada com pete with the product made from

Cedarville

limestone.

eral price increase for our stone in four years. During that per iod we have swallowed-and pain

fully digestedcost

a new labor

increase

in

each one of

those four years.

"But there are other costs over

which industry has little or no control such as the cost of gov

ernment which, when wasteful, results in burdensome or oppres

sive taxes that discourage bus iness and scare away investors;

the philosophy of welfare statism; the inequitable and confiscatory share of the tax load on business;

a bewildering multiplicity of gov ernmental rules and regulations

and investigations; and costs resulting from a climate that

plentiful supply of raw limestone and the large number of produc ing locations. "We compete with

competitive," pointed out Mr.

tends to characterize business

each other -intensely- and we compete with alternate mater ials such as sand, gravel and

Hogberg. To be competitive it must make a profit of a mar gin sufficient to pay dividends

without principle and opposed or

slag.

attractive to investors and have

detrimental

enough left over to re-invest so that its facilities are always

terest."

"But that s not all.

A more

serious type of competition the

is

kind in which we lose out-

too often permanently- to

a

technological advance that does away with the need for lime stone altogether or drastically reduces it. '

modern, well-kept and- most important- efficient. Efficien cy, which means low cost of pro duction, is one of the indispensible keys to adequate profits.

"If increased labor costs are

Mr. Hogberg, telling how the profit squeeze had made these technological break-throughs a necessity, related the following: Steel- limestone use down over

M.LD.

"To maintain and expand its markets, an industry must be

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not more than matched by in creased efficiency, they can be a millstone around an industry's neck.

One of our problems is that we have not had a gen

men and industrial organizations as something less that honest, to the national in

Calling for increased two-way communications

between busi

nessmen and the community and

the government,

Mr. Hogberg

added the need for new business

es to the need of expanding ex

isting ones.

"The Ship of Op

portunity will steam to our port

or pass us by for another de pending a great deal on the un derstanding and future efforts of all of us," he ended.

EDMUND KIHN

W. K. GWIN

157 N. First St., Rogers City, Mich.

Box 161, Bessemer, Pa.

FRANK MAYES

RUDOLPH C ONASCH

405 S. Fifth St., Rogers City, Mich.

202 Hillcrest Ave., New Castle, Pa.

EDWIN C. EHRKE

THEODORE PARDIEKE

JOSEPH PELOZA

995 Linden St., Rogers City, Mich.

1062 Maple St., Rogers City, Mich.

Box 85, Bessemer, Pa.

GEORGE HOY

ALFRED F. PELTZ

GIUSEPPE RITORTO

598 N. Bradley Hwy., Rogers City, Mich.

1045 Dettloff St., Rogers City, Mich.

Box 121, Hillsville, Pa.

GILBERT C. KEMPE

1733 Arlington Blvd., El Cerrito, Calif.

CALCITE CORDY ADRIAN

166 W. Ira St., Rogers City, Mich.

REINHART FROELICH

426 N. Fourth St., Rogers City, Mich.

WILLIAM GRAMBAU

Route 1, Box 134, Rogers City, Mich.

ARTHUR C GRULKE

HENRY G. SMITH

ROCCO SIMARI

1030 Larke St., Rogers City, Mich.

Box 116, Hillsville, Pa.

LEO SMITH*

WALTER L. STONER

665 S. Lake St., Rogers City, Mich.

1605 W. State St., New Castle, Pa.

WILLIAM WARWICK*

281 Larke Ave., Rogers City, Mich. â&#x2122;ŚDeceased

HILLSVILLE LELAND P. BARKER

23 King Ave., New Castle, Pa. LEWIS BARRIE

R.F.D. #1, Box 279, Rogers City, Mich.

FRANK J. HOFFMAN

P.O. Box 342, Edinburg, Pa.

616 S. First St., Rogers City, Mich.

Box 116, R.D. #2, Edinburg, Pa. JOE CRNARICH 16 Parkdiffe St., Struthers, Ohio

FOSTER L. KELLEY

336 S. Second St., Rogers City, Mich.

14

NICK CHURLEO

MOLER ROBERT P. BLACKFORD

R.F.D., Kearneysville, W. Va. JAMES B. HENRY Ranson, W. Va. FRANK J. NEWMAN Charles Town, W. Va. HARRY C

NICEWARNER

331 N.George St., Charles Town, W. Va. CECIL D. RICKARD

R.F.D. 2, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

Hillsville Employees Win Service Awards

The 25-year safe service awards went to (1st row, left to right) Giuseppe Lombardi, Pasquale Argiro, John Kinkela, Jr., John Vonderau, Nicola Agostine, Rocco Arena, Merle Houk, (stand

Nick Schaville and George Reese received awards for 40 years of safe service.

M.L.D. President C. G. Hogberg gives service awards to (left) Florence Davis, 35 years, and Mildred Shaffer, 30 years.

ing) Frank Lorello, Ralph Book, Francesco Lombardi, Richard Murphy, Vylus Latshaw, Pasquale Scialdone and Raymond Toler.

Pasquale Diana and Donato Lupo received 35-year service pins.

25-year safe service awards and Carl Diana his 35-year service pin from District Manager G. W. Mintz.

Calcite Sets Safety Record

EIGHT AT MOLER GET SAFE SERVICE AWARDS

Calcite employees set a new National Safety Council world record for quarries on Septem ber 25, 1962, as they passed three

million man-hours work

without

a

lost-time in

The former Division safety record was held by the Bradley Transportation Line. Bradley had

without a lost-time injury.

racked up 2,886,224 man-hours with no lost-time injuries, a

Calcite workers also held the

mark that remains a National Safety Council world record for

ed

previous N.S.C. world safety re cord for quarries. The Council listed Calcite with 2,551,692 man hours. This record, set in 1955, was also second highest in

worked

jury.

the

Division

for

man-hours

the marine industry.

Moler employees have also set a new plant safety record, chalking up 2,500 injury-free days.

Harry C. Nicewarner gets his 45-year pin from Moler Plant Manager Carl Benton.

President C. G. Hogberg presents a 35 Year Service Award to Beverly D. Taylor in the picture on the left and 25 Year Awards to (left to right) Harvey V. Briggs, William P. Page, Thomas W. Gray, Aldridge F. Staubs and John W. Russell.

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Screening For Satisfaction Here is Michigan Limestone in the making — screening the slone to the proper size. This may not sound important, but let's think about sizes for a minute.

What would you think of the shoe salesman who tried to sell you a pair of shoes size 10-C when you know that you take 9-D? The same goes for shirts, ponts and what have you. The chances are that it would be a long time before you went back to that store if you ever received that kind of service.

The same holds true for Michigan Limestone and its product. We sell limestone of high chemical quality, but just as important in the customer order specifications is the SIZE of the stone. If his process of manufacture requires our special flux size, he can no more use the open hearth size than you can use shoes that are too large.

The aim of Michigan Limestone is to give the customer what he wants both

chemically and physically. This is the way a reputation is built and maintained. We can't perform miracles, but we aren't asked to do so —just fill the customer's order and he will remain our customer.

Our screens, then, add one more "R" to the Three R's of customer satisfaction —

Right Quality, Right Quantity, Right Time - and includes the Right Size.

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United States Steel Corporation