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FILE NAME Armco ARM DATE 0000 ~ DOC ARM020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The operator Arm BOTTOMS UP THE Arm.co.operator Published once every month by the Personal Relations Division of Armco Steel Corporation at Middletown for all Armco men and women Ohio Member Miami Valley Industrial Editors Interna- Association affiliated with the tional Council of Industrial Editors EDITOR Hugh W. Wright MANAGING EDITOR C. E. McIntire STAFF CORRESPONDENTS William A. Jordan Ashland James Craig Butler Harry Ward East Works Cecil Kindred Fabricating George Stephenson Hami ton Vernon A. Barnhart Mining Divi- Huntington sion Captain Phil Elsey Carl Skytte Rustless Harry Wilson Zanesville STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Frank Elam Ashland Robert Johnson Wm Rogerson Butler Bert Ruoff Hamilton Thos C. Portsmouth Ray Miles Harry Kremer Arnold Boxwell Middletown Okey De- Mason Raimo Mining Division Clogg Rustless Harry Wilson Zanesville CARTOONISTS Robert Heck Fabricating Carl Skytte Rustless THE COVER Photo by ARNOLD Boxwell E. Wks It's a giant ladle filled with 100 tons of molten pig iron that we picture on our cover this month Into the front door of an Open Hearth furnace at Armco's East Works the glowing iron is being poured Temperature of the iron is 2550 degrees This iron will mix with melted scrap inside the furnace after a few hours it will become a heat of Armco steel ready for the rolling and processing that will make it into steel strip or steel sheets for our customers Handling this big ladle and its seething contents is a job that requires a high degree of cooperation between the man on the floor and the crane operator overhead who moves the ladle William Baird is the First Helper pictured signalling to the crane operator It's a massive piece of equipment but the men who run it can tilt the big ladle as expertly as you could pour from a teacup at your dinner table MUST BE AWFUL IMPORTANT AT THE Jobs for Tomorrow By W. W. SEBALD President INSIDE INFORMATION You can't expect much of a future from a job of making horsehocs wagons or buggies Industry's onward march of progress leaves behind it a trail of products of the past needed machines and date jobs When automobiles became popular earlier in this century the buggy makers of that day had to convert to more modern products or go out of business In the auto industry competition resulted in the scrapping of old designs and models almost every year in favor of new improved products The airplane industry shows the same pat tern of progress last year's latest model plane may be a back number by this year end You and I benefit from this constant and rapid change When we buy articles for our homes or our families use we get increasingly better products for our money But such changes affect our jobs in industry our own steel industry is no exception How can you and I find any security in the future of jobs which might be out of date in a few years That is one of Management's many problems up with the parade of progress for 18 years offers more opportunities for the future than it At Armco we've kept An Armco job today has at any time in the past This is due to many things all of them costly We have spent millions of Armco dollars in research and other millions to develop new products to meet tomorrow's demands More millions of Armco dollars were spent through the years to keep our machines our tools of production our jobs equal to the task of turning out improved products at lower costs Hundreds of thousands of hours of training were provided without cost to Armco men and women to give them the opportunity to learn new skills and better ways of doing their job No Armco man need become rusty on his job He has the oppor- tunity to not only keep up to date on his present job but to study for a better job ahead We have never found an easy way to provide for the future When your next payday arrives Armco to pay your wage or salary check must have the money in the bank When new machines new methods jobs new raw materials are needed to produce the things we make we must have the money to finance them too To keep our jobs modern to meet the changes which the future is sure to bring there must be profits from our business The amount of that profit determines how much Armco can invest in the future of our Armco men and management have done a good job of cooperating together through the years That spirit of cooperation and understanding of each others problems has helped create more jobs more history opportunities than we have had at any time in our company's Our continued security for the jobs of tomorrow will come from the teamwork and profits of today If you ever get on a radio quizz program and they ask you How much does a ton weigh better be careful or you won't win the jackpot In 1942 a ton of Armco steel ingots weighed more than a ton of Armco steel sheets That was be- cause the pound Long or 3 Cross Ton was used in the Open a Hearth departments while the Pro- cessing departments measured their sheets in the pound Net or Short Tons In January 1943 Arm- co changed all its mill records to the Net Ton figure However we still pay freight rates on many items Long iron ore for example on the Ton basis dete * * aves There are some more kinds of tons besides Long and Short tons which Th have been used over the years A Special Long Ton of 2268 pounds it was used for sand cast pig iron 14 above the Long Ton being added to represent approximately the adhering sand Back farther in he history was the Double Gross Ton of 2464 pounds a weight 10 above that of the ordinary Long Ton Then there's the Metric Ton of 1000 Kg equal to almost 2205 pounds . . + The reason we got started on such a weighty subject was from looking at our cover picture this month That ton ladle of hot iron is really a heavy cupful to tip a o * The story on our back page reminds us that we have always looked forward to bigger and better things at Armeo That brings up a matter of history Back in 1912 an automobile maker publicly advertised his new model as his Farewell Car His ad said The car I now bring out is regarded by me as pretty close to finality I do not believe that a car materially better will ever be built So I've called it my Farewell Car The car cost 1,055 with an additional 125 extra for starter top windshield and acetylene gas tank . Point is we all need to have faith in the future That is where we are all going to spend the rest of our lives JOHNNIES DAD SAID YOU WERE IN CHARGE OF THE DECEMBER NO ACCIDENT CAMPAIGN AND , THAT YOU WERE THE BIGGEST = THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE INFLUENCE ON SAFETY IN THE NOPE THE BIGGEST HAZARD IN THE WELL ITS . JOHNNIES DAD IS ELECTRIC FURNACE SPECTACULAR AS SOME OF THE OTHER BIGGGER ELECTRIC FURNACES YET THIS ONE DOES A BIG JOB IT IS IN THE FABRICATING DIVISION AT MIDDLETOWN SMALL FURNACES DO BIG JOB Fabricating Division's -ton furnace produces castings which are used in other Armco plants welding Not so big as the doopers but just as useful is how the 15 at Armco's Fabricating Division Foundry at Middletown refer to men their 14 - ton electric furnaces When they make a heat of steel the two is weighed as carefully as a housewife baking a cake The special scrap furnaces the same as the larger size electric furnaces The work castings made from special resisting products they make include alloys and from Armco's East Works plant they send carrier blades for copper To rods By the thousands items are sent from furnaces the their special Armco's Ashland and Butler plants too It's a safe group of Fofuonudnrdyrymetno no major accident for over 3 years We're not big but we're good they say JACKETS are placed on the sand moulds before the metal is poured into them MAITEU MAITEU Barwar babbitt BUREN CHANDLER Mining Division had molten splash in his face His eyes were unharmed he is pictured with the safety glasses he was wearing TOM HAMILTON and PETE BOS5 working together at Butler were peppered with slag Today they're still both working unharmed Reason safety glasses CHARLES MILES left lens of his a broken lens Ashland plant was struck safety goggles by hot metal instead of a badly seared on the He has eyeball ARMCO IRON MAN SAFETY CONTEST DIVISION STANDINGS - SEPTEMBER 30 1948 DIVISION Major Accidents STANDING FABRICATING ---- MIDDLETOWN ---- BUTLER ------- 1 -----.-.. FIRST 17 ---.-.. SECOND 36 ---.---.-. THIRD ASHLAND RUSTLESS : ; : . ; 22 : : . : : : : FOURTH SAFETY Butler Safety ADVISORS plant in the group from various Armco plants met in annual conference at the September Headed by C. M. Allen Staff Supervisor o planned ways and means of keeping us safe while at work A. WELD SHOP crew at Ashland pictured here com- 28th By that date the crew had amacced " tatal P a os ~ * JOBS WITH ODD NAMES SAND SLINGER reef AT ASHLAND'S new Foundry this man operates a machine which throws slings sand into the moulds at high velocity Sand is mixed with conditioning agents before being used for moulding purposes MENDING BROKEN NECKS NECKS of broken rolls are mended at East Works Weld Shop by Thermite Welding The weld is made by meiting steel with a thermteherme mixture and then BOTTOM MAKER small EAST WORKS Bottom Makers put Coke Breeze pieces of coke into the bottom of soaking pits to keep slag and rinders from stinki 42 AL_ = SOmeBh fet at 4 HARDESTY DIVISION FROM ITS HEADQUARTERS AT DENVER COLORADO IT SERVES CUSTOMERS IN FIVE STATES They call it the Hardesty Division of Armco Drainage & Metal Products Inc. because Mr. Rudd Hardesty started a plant in Denver back a few years before this Century began He started by making tin cans as containers for baking powder Years later the business now greatly expanded became a part of the Armco organization No longer do they make cans but a variety of products including corrugated pipe straight seam welded pipe water control gates and other such drainage and irrigation products They also sell Armco Steelox panels for constructing buildings There are 288 Armco men and women working at the Hardesty Division Their plants are at Denver Colorado Salt Lake City Utah at Twin Falls Jerome Boise and Caldwell Idaho at Nyssa Ontario Oregon and El Paso Texas The Divis- ion serves the MP customers in Colorado Wyoming Idaho Utah New Mexico and a few Oregon counties in Texas Nevada and They fab- ricate their products from Armco steel made at the Ashland and East Works Armco plants Pic- tures on these pages show some of the shop views at Denver and the plants and people from some of the Division units SALT LAKE CITY PLANT REBUILDS AFTER FIRE From the ashes of a destructive fire a more modern plant has risen at Salt Lake City Utah Part of the Hardesty Division MP this plant below is now better equipped to serve its customers than ever before o DIVISION PRODMETUAL CPRTOSDUCTS 631 CORRUGATED CULVERTS CULVERTS IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT - : WELDED STEEL PIPE CONCRETE PIPE BOISE PLANT IS HOST TO IDAHO AND OREGON Out west picnics cover large territories F'rinstance the Boise Idaho plant of MP Hardesty Division was host to 50 Armco families from Boise Caldwell Jerome Twin Falls Idaho and Nyssa and Ontario Oregon SALT LAKE CITY plant of AD see carries a good 7 ... " stock of Armco Corrugated Pipe TRUCK was used for stage where entertainers performed for the picnickers oP aS . t made the picnic lunch taste really scrumptious rs DENVERPLANT PLANT OF MP MAKES STRAIGHT SEAM WELDED ry) rity) oe TG A 2 IRRIGATING the great open spaces of the West requires miles of pipe and many gates to control the flow of water Here are Armco gates being made MAKING A PIPE starts with this forming roll Steel sheet is formed into shape with the edges touching pipe Diameters made at Denver from 6 to 72 inches LARGER GATES have cast iron frames Here at Denver MP holes are being bored fittings placed to complete assembly on gates ordered by customers PIPE IS WELDED machines they on this automatic welding machine Denver produce a strong butt weld which makes plant has the seam 2 such secure GRINDER smooths castings for gate frames Machine shop at Denver MP plant is well equipped to handle tooling work for the plant's many operations TESTING straight plant Pictured seam above welded pipe is a foot under water pressure at Denver lanith af h soe 1 ae MP . GETTING MOLTEN PIG IRON FROM OUR BLAST FURNACES THAMILTON OHIO T Lavon wade Y AVA NIGHT AND (Nea ee *: DAY THE HAMILTON PLANT FROM MIDDLETOWN PIG IRON FOR MIDDLETOWN ON GRAPH Hamilton analyst receives order from Middletown Open Hearth for cast of pig iron " FURNACE CREWS SIGHT pounds BELOW ON ITS AT HAMILTON COMPLETE THE CAST POUR WAY FROM HAMILTON TO MIDDLETOWN MOLTEN PIG IRON INTO THE SPECIAL THE HOT METAL TRAIN IS AN ODD THERMOS CAR WEIGHING the scale This car car and of hot metal requires a contents weighed 615,500 special TRACKS ARE A DIVISION OF THE O RAILROAD BUILT FOR THIS JOB OP OE MERED EAL TOR IOC ALD nest FROM Bee Ss HAMILTON each trip roundhouse man inspects ladle uses 2 gallons journal oil car before each trip along MIDDLETOWN Open Hearth gets phone call from the route There's a load on the way Coming in BELOW BACK TO HAMILTON ACROSS GREAT MIAMI ARRIVAL AT MIDDLETOWN OPEN HEARTH END OF MILE TRIP IRON STILL RIVER GOES THE EMPTY HOT METAL TRAIN , EACH CAR HAS DELIVERED ITS LIQUID IT REQUIRED COOPERATION 125 TONS OF VALUABLE PIG IRON SOUTH AFRICANS ANOTHER group of South arrived in Middletown for African steel men training They are have from no the Iscor firm there they are learning more about steelmaking Above with the Armco Iron Man eas NEW LOOK completely ASHLAND'S Diesel Engine No. 47 was rebuilt by Armco men from the Weld Rigger Pipe and Round House Picture shows No. Shops 47 and weeks job cost crews who worked 23,000 on her COMES OF AGE NOW IN its 21st year Zanesville's Boy Scout Troop 6 has been sponsored that long by the Zanesville Armco Association The Scoutmaster of this gressive Zanesville scout scout froon is pro- ... Death claimed Newman Ebersole on September 22 1948 at the age of 61. He was Armeo's Director of Purchases and one of Middletown's outstanding industrial and civic leaders Armco men in all Armco plants knew him as Bud Mr. Ebersole became associated with Armco in 1911 as a weighmaster in the East Works Bar Mill Later he was promoted to Assist- ant to Purchasing Agent and in 1937 was named General Purchasing Agent He was advanced to Director of Purchases in 1944 Before World Armco the entrance of the United War I Ebersole headed a men which served as a States in group of volunteer ambulance corps in France The unit was outfitted by Armco When America entered the war the unit was taken into the United States Army He served in the Army until March 1919 the group engaged in many campaigns Ebersole received decorations for bravery He was sent to Europe by our government after World War II as a member of a sixman commission to study the return of scrap metal from battlefields He was prominent in civic activities in Middletown For 17 years he was a member of Middletown Hospital's Board of Trustees second Commander of Middletown's American Legion Post 218 active in local Red Cross work He was a member of the National Association of Purchasing Agents and member of the American Iron and Steel Institute He was born in Cincinnati attended school in Avondale Ohio and graduated from Cornell University in 1910 Armco will miss Bud Tein THANK YOU SO MUCH Says outgoing PresidentPresident Helen Bissell right to the installed President Jean Croll left of the Butler Armco Girls Club oh YIPE says Doug Ross Ashland Metallurgical department It Rodeo held at Ashland sponsoredsponsored by Boyd County Saddle Horse w Asassocaitattihoen LETS TRY FOR A NO ACCIDENT MONTH in December Central Safety CommitteeCommittee They investigate , say accident accident causes study FOR section 20 YEARS WE'VE HAD section William Norman is NO ACCIDENTS say members of Zanesville Masonry General Foreman Foreman They're now on the second twenty b SNAP UP YOUR GAMEGAME with a parade of the Rustless Division becure the ball teams had a game played the Bobby Saxers Fleischer stands DESKORATIONS MRS FORD'S desk Personal Relations General Office was brightened up also he PRODUCTION OFFICE Butler had household gadgets for groom Ray Huntsman ASHLAND'S Maxine Muncy is now Mrs. John Chinn both Blast Furnace folks RUSTLESS DIVISION supervisors took their wives to their annual .... 10,000 SQUEEZE In this giant press at Armco's Butler plant a railroad wheel is being formed With a pressure of 10,000 tons the dies closing down on a glowing steel slug or ingot slice heated to a temperature of 2050 degrees This is one of a series of 3 big hydraulic presses at Butler which help form railroad wheels for strong safe railroad transportation -7 : - eet. we as Rete a Ay. IAF oe ar ~ tee, 3 ond a ean yi Meg Pico tae cabled OPPs AES Ee ne ER AR eee taknds hive See lange a S a , a NEW LIFE FOR GIANT PRESS Believe it or not the big press pictured above is a delicate piece of mach- inery Keeping it in first class working condition is a constant job of maintenance Recently the Butler Wheel Works maintenance crews gave it a complete overhaul - and that's a mighty big job Before the press was dismantled there were days of planning The cap or top of the press weighing 94 tons was removed and shipped by a special railroad car to the manufacturer for machining A branch machine shop was set in up our Wheel Works for the precision machining of the ton base and ton platen The big press rises 21 feet above floor level but there is a base 1 which extends 17 feet underground It took thousands of Armco dollars and more thousands of hours of work to get Old Number in top con- dition Now completely rejuvenated it tackles its job with new life MAINTENANCE STAU nt ..... t oe INSIDE STORY How the wonders of Ray guard our health at Armco Taking an inside look with an Ray machine isn't a new idea But it that Armco has had this isn't type generally known of equipment at several plants for many years At our Butler plant for example they installed new equipment earlier this year It cost 18,000 But its use in the plant hospital has been a tremendous help in treating ailments or injuries of Butler Armco folks Dr. J. A. Llewellyn and his Assistant Dr. J. Van Donaldson at the Butler plant use Ray for employment examination of prospective em- ployees general chest surveys to detect early presence of tuberculosis and routine diagnostic work in the plant hospital Butler is proud of its well- equipped hospital Pictures on this page the Ray apparatus in use at their plant show ere Prenat AEP RR 1. Ray Roentgen IN BUTLER Armco's plant hospital is a modern Here a Butler Armco man is unit having a chest picture taken with the " camera this IT'S AN ELBOW time being photographed The patient may have had an 2 . elbow injury the Ray will discover if there was any damage to the bones 3 IN CONTROL BOOTH sends electric power Technician Wallace Billek into the Ray tube The operates the mechanism that rays will penetrate the skin 4 EIGHT MINUTES after exposing the film to the rays ture to look at Latest darkroom and develanmnes the ' Doctor has a pic- INTERESTING PEOPLE ay poacgess- NECK STICKER FRANK ROSE bowling his Furnace teams scored 234. first game His BEAT of the season THIS challenge with Hamilton's Blast pepped up the league THE FIRST 100 HENRY KLAUS Butler Weld Shop made a ings of 5,400 Under Armco's new suggestion which has estimated savSuggestion Plan Henry got 100 note smile gets 440 more in a year if actual savings prove estimate was correct FUN PLANNERS BOWLING LEAGUE OFFICIALS at plant Bowling Tournament next Ken Robb League President C Butler .are deep in plans for Armco's Inter- Spring Butler will be the host Left to right E. Leasure Vice Pres Victor Shoup Treas ARMCO OFFICIALS went everywhere saw everything at our recently Identifiable here left to right are H. W. Wright Public Relations C. W. Connor Manager Mining Vice President W. W. Sebald President and F. Division E. Vigor Montcoal mines Staff Supervisor C. H. Murray Vice President TRIPLE THREAT MAN RUSSELL BROWN Butler Butler loaf at Rerawn an : Armco ' . Park Maintenance dept is proud of party He is President of the his ability to cut meat Butler Faramanl~- ... ten ce !. was being created Years ago we were planning stronger more dependable for all of us Today's profits become future Job Insurance for us and