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FILE NAME Armco ARM DATE 1953 DOC ARM024 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The operator operator Arm Arm - co ARMCO LINESMAN 2 $ 2 Do You Want A Better Job By W. W. SEBALD President I F YOU ARE ambitious anxious to get ahead hopeful of a better future here's news for you we are always looking for men who will SI, be able to fill jobs of leadership in our com- pany In fact it is a general problem of all eR. industry to find enough trained men to take Roa over responsible jobs of management in the ie plants and offices of industry Armco is proud of the men in its grow- ing family who are foremen superintendents managers and other positions of management They have come up through the ranks But we continue to search through plants and offices to discover more men whom we can nemlyame promote when the needs of the future require ils Pe more management leaders dteys It is surprising how often it happens that a ae man actually promotes himself at Armco thn He does it by his own actions his own activi- ties from day to day He learns all he can about his company its policies its plans for the future He attends training courses or otherwise fits himself for improving his work and learning about the next job ahead He is the fellow who is willing to help his buddy who does his job safely who takes pride in turning out a ordinary product or service In other words everyone can see he is interested in getting ahead And when the time for promotion comes it is usually so very obvious that this is the man who should get the better job that his ad- vancement seems almost automatic The chan- ces are that right now the men in your own department could readily agree on whom among their number would be the choice for a promotion to a supervisory job the choice would narrow down to a individuals At least very few Natural born leaders some people say of those who have responsible positions There may be such natural leaders but they are So rare that industry cannot depend upon them alone to fill the ranks of management I am convinced that it is how each of us spends his time that decides his future One man goes about his work in a matter fact routine manner He does what is ex- pected of him more Each hour on the job brings him one hour nearer to quitting time more When he punches out his time card his concern with his job ends until he returns next day to go through his daily routine He is faithful to his duty but works only for this hour this day the next paycheck Perhaps he dreams and hopes for a paying job but his efforts end there The Man Who Gets Ahead has the same num- ber of minutes as the other man more In fact the two may work side by side Yet this second man fills each of his hours with sixty seconds of accomplishment of which he can be proud He knows what happens in other departments he understands what the production difficulties are in his own depart- ment He studies ways in which he might improve his work cut costs increase pro duction Some of his evenings are spent in studies at home or in class He is thinking ahead preparing himself for the better job which he too hopes to attain And he is the one who most likely will get it We cannot all be supervisors But for men who are seriously seeking management jobs and are willing to pay the price of leadership there is opportunity at Armco It isn't pull or favoritism or any mysterious inside track that decides who gets those better jobs It is the constant daily efficient use of something that each of us possesses in the same exact amount our time operator NAGARINE operator , operator of Published once every month by the Division Personal and Public Relations Armco Steel Cor- poration Middletown Ohio for all Armco men : Member Miami Valley Industrial Editors AssocoifaItnidounstarfifailliaEtdeidtowristh the International Council | PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR Hugh W. Wright ASSISTANT EDITOR Don Frisby EDITOR C. E. McIntire | STAFF CORRESPONDENTS Bertram Rigg Ashland; James Craig Butler Harry Ward East Works Cecil Kindred Fabricating Millard Bechtel Hamilton Vernon Barnhart Mining Capt Phil Elsey River Transportation Virginia Spedden Rustless Francis Angleberger Stone Hugh Ross Tubing Harry Wilson Zanesville STAFF_PHOTOGRAPHERS STAFF_PHOTOGRAPHERS Frank Elam Ashland Wm Butler Arnold Boxwell East Works Ray Miles Fred Howard General Office Bert Ruoff Hamilton Wayne Lewis Mining George Torney Rustless Morris Brookhart Stone Chas W. Cover Zanesville CARTOONIST Robert Heck Fabricating THE COVER By FRANK ELAM Ashland High in the air with his tools dangling from his belt Robert Adkins of Ashland Kentucky makes a hot repair on a cold day Like other Armco members of the line gang Adkins depends on safety equipment to large degree He wears long rubber gloves covered with another pair of leather gloves He has a rubber safety blanket with wooden clamp to cover any hot wires His tools are either well insulated or have wooden handles His Linesman's belt holds an assortment of tools including those in the canvas pouch The leather body belt goes around the pole and fastens so it can hold his weight while his hands are free His steel spike climbers called spurs are securely strapped to his legs Electrical construction crews are ready to go into action whenever there is a threat of power failure Hot sun and icy blasts sometimes complicate their work But above all they must depend upon the equipment provided for their safety WISE MEN HAVE SAIDI If you don't know where you are going you are lost before you start THE ARMCO IRON MAN MANY GROUPS at Armco have perfect safety records covering years of work Typical is this Slab Mill Maintenance Dept. at Butler 10 clear safe working years WAS 1952 ae ARMCO'S SAFEST YEAR Armco men had fewer accidents last year When we learned that our company had fewer major in 1952 than any prior year we asked ourselves Would our best year for safety Here's what C. M. Allen Engineer told us in his office in Middletown time accidents that mean that it was Armeo's Chief Safety From the standpoint of less actual accidents 1952 was our best year in Armco history But when you judge it from the standpoint of manhours worked our frequency rate was just a little higher We worked fewer hours in 1952 than in 1951 because of work stoppages Even so several Armeo Divisions had the best safety record in their history At Armco we have found out that when work is performed in the right way it is performed safely Production and safety always go hand in hand The divisions and departments that have the best safety record likewise have the best record for quality for production and for costs One Armen Division the Tubing Division at Piqua Ohio went through 1952 without suffering a single time accident Their fine safety record won for them first place in last year's Armeu Iron Man Contest Several days ago the Tubing Division folks welcomed the Iron Man - Armco's symbol of safety to their plant The Armco Iron man shown at right was sculptured by Mr. Clement J. Barnhorn and cast in Bronze He is the composite picture of some fifty Armco men whom the sculptor studied On the base of the Iron Man Mr. Barnhorn inscribed these words The straight thinking man respects safety Since June 1926 the Iron Man has been annually awarded to the safest group of men and women at some Armco plant TOP TEN - IRON MAN DECEMBER 31 1952 CONTEST DIVISION 1. TUBING 2. MIDDLETOWN Group 3 3. MIDDLETOWN Group 4 4. ZANESVILLE 5. HAMILTON 6. MIDDLETOWN Group 2 7. FABRICATING 8. MIDDLETOWN Group 1 9. RUSTLESS Group 3 10. RUSTLESS Group ) NO of ACCIDENTS 0 2 4 2 2 3 4 6 2 | FREQUENCY 0.00 0.83 1.06 1.15 1.53 2.23 2.12 2.56 2.73 3.15 STEELMAKING scenes were common in the operator last year but this picture of an Armco man and his cow agreed our panel of readers was so unusual they wanted to know what's the story about It was in the August issue and told of an Armco man who is also a time cattle raiser and breeder erie) . 31 FLYING SAUCERS over an Armco plant As a result of our printing this in our August issue we heard from many folks outside of Armco as well as from in- side our organization ture newspapers and One man magazines came from California to see us about this also carried pictures and stories about it pic- wy Ae s PRETTY MODELS combined to make this cheesecake picture trouble made a of Armco girls Our panel didn't have any in deciding that these Armco Beauty Queens good picture August operator ARMCO FOLKS are not accustomed to of product from a steel mill This seeing this carload of kind steel grinding balls from a Sheffield plant was declared unusual It appeared in our Sheffield issue DARKROOM MAGIC made this picture unusual in our February issue It shows construction going up at an Armco plant But our photographer did some hocus in his darkroom to this different effect EXTREME CONTRAST of light and dark in the unusual class The picture put this photo shows one of our Armco servicemen using the lighter he and other servicemen received for a Armeo Christmas present WE HAD HUNDREDS of pictures last year of Armico men in the armed forces but could get only one of an Armco girl in uniform The attractive young lady was pictured even though her eyes were closed we 2. Ti dai. te We asked a panel of our readers to choose the most most unusual from pictures we used in The Arm- operator in 1952. Here are their selections barbequeing APPETITE APPEAL of this Asado or picture from Argentina made this favorite of the selecting panel The picture had the peculiar qual- ity of making you feel as if you were there yourself as one panel member stated It was sent in by Armco folks in Argentina was in the April issue . A Sm RN aetge AO! STG Te neues A te cate yn Ne . ee a cutting PLEASED LOOK on this man's face was the cause for selection of by our panel of readers Occasion this picture was the ceremony when our company's Chairman Charles R. Hook observed his 50th service Anniversary of Armeo This picture appeared in the November issue of The operator FREEDOM IS HARD TO GET AND EASY TO LOSE NO FACE or rather painted out made this an attention Story had escaped from the to have his face shown told that this Armco man Russian Communists feared because of possible reprisals OBVIOUSLY something unusual happening made this picture an eyecatcher to our panel From our March issue it told of an Armco man whose hobbies in- cluded diving under water and his many experiences 7 : on * ~~ a CROWNED QUEEN surrounded by her court caused our panel issued it queen - elected to linger over this photo From the April showed an Armco lady operoapetraotorr - of - the - year by folks at her plant MAYBE the fact that the title under this said LEPER caused this one to be chosen picture Armco folks in India gave the wheel chair to a leper colony It was an Armco Founder's Day good turn in India GOSH readers what a lot of of this picture pipes was the from our June response I issue Man contrasts with height of pipe graph chosen as unusual by in this boiler photuour panel of reader ae UNDER THE HELPFUL eye of Foreman a new control rheostat for Russell Rice Harry Perkins learns about big motors Norman Weis watches the operation LEARNING NEW TRICKS Ashland Ashland Ashland men men study new new electric electric elctric electric electric equipment equipment equipment equipment equipment Jobs at Armco are constantly getting better Newer equipment machines and improved working conditions provide the opportunity for an Armco learn more about his job land Division man to The picture above and the two below show Ash- men getting helpful pointers about new help of their plant supervisors they find it easy to learn enqeuwiptrmiecnkst onWithteh jtohbe aL abe Sere Fo oF ee ' NEW TIME STUDY man Frank Dietrich gets job at the Butler Division Joseph Peytas performs the . NOES J wd instruction from John Benz job the men are studying : ' training Armco training helps personal progress For the Armco man who wants to i there improve himself more about his are many ways for him to increase his skills these are the Training Courses offered in Important among tice most Armen plants also the appren- programs More experienced workers pervisors are ready to advise and are willing to help and su- help a man move up in the Armeo family NEW Guy EQUIPMENT means that all hands Coffman Ashland Power Engineer must be trained to operate it explains new relays for power Above panels Weis Norman Weis and Harry Perkins learn how to operate new type air circuit breakers IN BUTLER'S Machine perienced aduina f Shop Shop on Donald Finucan apprentice right wete comp nv- BIG STORIES HAPPY VOICES THE THREE MEGUIRE sisters pictured above are To date they have appeared on Kate Smith's familiar to millions of TV viewers TV show and on both of Arthur Godfrey's TV the daughters programs The sisters former Middletown Ohio of Asa McGuire a 1st Helper at East Work's residents are Open Hearth ee SMOKEHOUSE HELP hours A LONG illness kept an Ashland Kentucky Division man from house he needed to building a smoke- store meal William McNeil Earl Preston and Ivan McClain Armco buddies of the ill man built the smokehouse for him in less than 5 The new smokehouse was ready for killing time in Ashland Kentucky POSTHUMOUS AWARD spensored BOY SCOUT Robert Ductor a member of Butler's Troop 16 com- pleted all of the work for Scouting's Highest Rank - the Eagle Badge Robert died before he received his Badge Rev. Cyrus Smith left the Eagle Badge to Robert's mother and posthumously awards father Mr. and Mrs. Geza Doctor MIGHTY SQUEEZE DAILY AT Armco's Research Laboratories Armco men use large powerful ma- chines and delicate electronic equipment to test our steels Above L. to R. Don Wolford Cam Perry and Clair Smith are shown checking the strength of Armco Multi pipe to see how well the nina wil vernd x tee toe g- anesta a ARMCO'S 76 NEW COKE - OVENS ABOUT READY TO BAKE COAL Modern making methods require three princi- pal materials to be placed in a blast furnace ore coke and limestone One of the early units to be completed at the site of Armco's new blast furnace at Middletown was the coke ovens Each of the tall slender ovens in the picture above is fed with coal from the top Each oven is air- tight the gas burns around each oven and the coal is baked inside Fire is the enemy in a coke oven the coal must bake but not burn Temperatures sometimes reach 2000 degrees Fahrenheit and the baking removes the gas from the coal The coal becomes coke and is pushed out of the oven into waiting ears ready for the trip to the blast furnace The nearby gases that come from the coal while baking are converted into many useful prod- ucts coal dves oils fertilizer and other chem- cals To make one ton of pig iron in the blast furnace requires almost two tons of iron ore one ton of coke and slightly less than half a ton of limestone In addition about 140.000 cubic feet of air weighing nearly four tons are blown through the blast produced -- for furnace for each a world waiting ton of pig iron for our steels AFRICA HAS SOME MODERN wn EFFICIENT BLAST vad FURNACES it BUT IT ALSO HAS SOME OF THESE CRUDE CLAY ONES TOO WHERE IRON IS STILL BEING MADE IN THE OLD WAY THE AFRICAN BLAST FURNACE The African blast furnace pictured above is built from packed clay It is fed from the top with bearing earth and charcoal and produces only a few pounds of iron daily This furnace operates without machine power The draft or blast de- pends upon the prevailing winds Trees for char- coal are chopped by hand and reduced to charcoal in hand clay ovens The bearing earth was scratched from the surface with crude hand tools and carried to the furnace in baskets on top of women's heads The tiny trickles of iron that come out of the furnace are cooled on then cast or hammered into cooking heads and points for rakes and hoes the ground pots spear Some im- proved furnaces have bellows arrangements which are worked by human native African power Hit Ta at a FIRST American iron works used this blast furnace It chusetts around the year 1646. The site and was at Saugus Massaequipment have recently been restored and a musuem there is visited by sightseers each is reproduced from summer a souvenir plate available at the musuem This picture near Saugus Mass CHARCOAL instead of coke was used in America's first iron works It in heaps as illustrated by this old wood engraving published in 1850. was made Wood was scientifically piled on the ground and covered with leaves or turf and dust The idea was to bake the wood let the gases escape but not allow any flame which would consume the wood Even in today's modern coke ovens flame is the of coking process enemy Charring was considered an art among the early iron makers - _ ge Pee OLD PICTURES SHOW THE HARD WAY j of making iron 80 years ago America was quite proud of its modern iron- making methods back in 1873 when HARPERS WEEKLY showed its readers these 3 pictures Description of the blast furnace of those days stated The furnace itself is a solid and massive structure generally of granite lined inside with the hardest firebrick capable of sustaining heat of almost inconceivable intensity These structures vary in height from 50 to 100 feet and in diameter from 30 to 50 feet When properly constructed they will last from 15 to 20 years in constant use Huge piles of reddish scoriae slag may be seen in every manufacturing district BLAST FURNACE SLAG CALLED SCORIA WAS CARTED FLAMES AND GASSES escape continually from the doors at the top of the furnace and at night the illumination is often strikingly picturesque Thus was described the process of filling the blast furnaces of BELOW THIS ENGRAVING MADE IN 1873 SHOWED MEN AWAY IN 1873 BY TEAMS OR BY STEAM POWER 80 years ago The engravings made in in 1973. also show a peculiar load of scoria slag being carted away by horses The scoriae when cool assume a reddish color Production and wages were low ATOP A BLAST FURNACE FILLING IT WITH COAL LIMESTONE These glimpses of the makers of the past and their crude equipment and methods would cer- making tainly be called the hard way of Contrasted with Armeo's modern blast They They serm wasteful inefficient and costly costly furnaces No doubt they were much cheaper furnaces than today's but efficient our the modern efficient furnaces have helpedhelped to keep price of steel down to its present low level IRON ORE PRODUCTION CONTINUED NIGHT AND DAY hit Hee ny SN HOW THEY TAPPED A BLAST FURNACE IN 1873 Today's makers with their modern equipment have a much easier job than the men who were making iron 80 years ago The description of this old engraving says Tapping a furnace presents an extremely interesting and picturesque sight The melted metal rushes out through the main channel with a roaring hissing sound and is dispersed through minor channels into the several rows of moulds until all are filled The castings are re- moved when cooled and new moulds are made in the sand to receive another cast That was iron making in the year 1873. Jobs weren't so safe then a | IN Me 1 . La was DECEMBER 5 1952 John A. Ingwersen was on death 10 YEARS OF SAFETY ASHLAND'S Bellefonte Blast Furnace Crew re- cently completed 10 years without a major injury - 3 pictures below show the safe crew YEAR SAFETY Certificate is presented to Fore- man Nelson Ross by George Todd Ashland sae nop ARMCO YEAR MAN EARLY in January Clinton W. Davis became a Armeo year veteran On the occasion of his 50th anniversary Armco Chairman Charles R. Hook also a year veteran presented Davis with watch and year service pin At the his golden time of his retirement Davis was serving as Armco's Treasurer ar UA y SAFE crew members who are present for the ceremony get together their picture taken EACH MAN receives both congratulations and a souvenir from his Armco plant management FIRST PAYCHECK TWO BUTLER Pennsylvania youths Russell Shelok left and Willard Pollock first paycheck Both boys are are shown receiving their members of a Junior | Achievement Company sponsored by Butler Armco folks Handing out the paychecks is Joan Skal Treas- urer of JA Company called Armwood Enterprises Inc. LEAD SLUGS or cartridge cases bullets Harry are cast by Harry Critchlow and later uses 1 part tin to 10 parts lead for the * inserted into the hardened bullets THE MOST DELICATE part of making made bullets is weighing of the gun- powder above Too much powder could damage a gun injure a shooter CARTRIDGE CASES that have been fired are loading press Harry is putting the squeeze made ready for loading to a cartridge that is to be in this loaded HOW TO ae LOAD A BULLET Butler Armco man with unusual hobby In his garage Harry Critchlow an Inspector at the Butler Division spends much of his spare time making bullets He can load the brass year- tridges for most American rifles and pistols and also some for Japanese and German guns First he punches out the old primer from the cartridge Next Harry fits in a new primer Then the car- tridge is ready for powder which must be care- fully weighted The builet or slug is then forced into the loaded cartridge case Harry says making bullets and handling gunpowder takes good common safety sense With this hobby you are only allowed one mistake Being safe is just as important at home as when I'm on my Armeo job Division COLD WEATHER and snow start most Butler deer hunters thinking about " tting their Buck Above Clarence Gilliland Butler and his trophy IT WAS QUITE a job Stainless Department How do you like this but George McIntire Butler's got his manie manie * deer into the tote: trunk . ZANESVILLE'S Stanley Brenlish went to West Virginia to do his deer hunting He is shown above with the INSIDE INFORMATION NEWS ABOUT STEEL - AND ARMCO Those modern wizards who work in our Research Laboratory at Middletown have done something which the old Alchemists tried to do for centuries The Alchem- ists you may recall were men who lived in the Middle Ages One of their objectives was to discover how they could change ordinary metals into gold bo ir g silver - preferably gold because it had greater value They mixed this and that then tried adding a little something else - but they never produced metal that had the value of gold Yet they never a it's worthy effort for gave up hope and even today anybody to take ordinary materials and create from them a substance more valuable than gold Armco men believe it it and here's how or not have done Early in this 20th century our company produced a special kind of electrical different and better than any other steel company had ever made like the old Alchemists our Armco research Then research men kept trying and experiment- ing and discovering It took years of time and the costs must have been very great And just a few months ago they completed and put on the a special steel which today sells for more than 1,000 a pound market That makes it almost twice the value of gold which sells for 35 an If those oldtime Alchemists were alive ounce or 560 a pound today they would be green with envy Armco research men accomplished their modern marvel in two ways First they created an silicon alloy which had special electrical Technically that means a lot Among other things it was qualities steel whose lay- ers of atoms were oriented or pointed in the same approximate direction Controlling the atomic structure this way is in itself an ment That was the first outstanding achieve- step in their production of a valuable gold product .. : But the real trick was turned when they did something the Alchemists couldn't possibly have done Armco men made In fact this new super their steel thinner Really thinner steel if laid 8000 sheets high one on top of an- other would total only one inch of steel in thickness The actual decimal gauge measures .000125 That means each sheet of steel is of an inch in thickness one thousandth Such steel is needed to meet the needs of our Electronic Age Because of its special qualities our company had to spend vast sums of money to create spe- cial rolling mills to produce it Because of its thinness a little of it long way and purchases are not for large amounts Like goes user does not buy it by the ton but in gold the average sible an small quantities But it has made pos- increasing number of products which have given our nation edge in the great competition for world an free and the slave nations leadership now going on between the It is thrilling to realize that it was Armco ful to America that it is valued more than gomledn who created a product so use- RAMMING YELLOW sand into a core form Brambell Lambert Foundryman prepares a core for baking JUST LIKE ann iia BAKING A CAKE Fabricating Foundrymen make castings for Armco plants At Armco's Fabricating Division in Middletown a group of men actually works for other Armco Divisions They are the Foundry Department They work with piles of sand and a small ton electric furnace that looks almost like a toy The products of the Foundry Department are alloy castings 10 to 12 thousand pounds of castings a week Many of these castings are used on hot strip mills and annealing furnaces Watching these Armco Foundryinen work reminds one of preparing batter for a cake First they riddle or sift the sand Then they mix other ingredients with the sand using a powerful electric beater The butter is then ready to be molded For molding they use forms to hold the sand in place while they ram or tamp it around a pattern Just as a cake baker has various kinds of flour available our foundrymen have different kinds of sand A fine yellow variety expensive used as facing and goes next to the pattern Another sand is black and is used outside the yellow When the sand molds are ready foundrymen pour molten alloy steel into them In a short while the metal hardens and another casting is ready to keep production going at some Armco Division MOLTEN by two we a N STEEL is carefully poured into sand molds Foundrymen Although not as spectacular as big electric furnaces the Fabricating's small furnace tapping and takes close teeming of teamwork SAND IS RIDDLED screened Charles Ingram who shovels into small pieces by it on the screenerator LOOKING LIKE loaves of breadbread cores are readied for baking in nearby ovens These cores are made of sand which has been tamped or rammed very tightly Cores are used to make cavities in the castings | ARMCO MEN and and WOMEN ARMCO OUR COUNTRY'S ARMED FORCES ' . ' Arnold Boggs Dayton Peters . : William J. Worley ; DRAINAGE ARMCO & METAL PRODUCTS Inc. . + Nortwestern > Ezra J. Redington | | wt North Pacific * TY HONOR ROLL Killed In Action = JOSEPH FERENCE Butler RICHARD ISOVITCH Butler Died In Service = STEPHEN BAKICH Butler WOODFORD CHANEY Fabricating WILLIAM DIETZ East Works WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN Fabricating JOHN E. MINOR East Works GEORGE RICHARDSON MP MARCELLE A WOODWARD East Works i sot KOREAN PALS PRIVATE Jack Wheeler a Machinist Apprentice at Ash- land before entering service is shown above while on patrol duty in Korca are assigned to the Third The dogs are used to lead reconnaissance to ambush Jack and his K friend Army Division in Korea United Nations Patrols on and at listening outposts r . as ary Communist soldiers have learned it is useless to hide when our Army dogs are around Jack and his dog named Grey are members of the only K group in Korea Jack's father is a foreman at Ashland Ky WINWAW WNAWEMcRCALLS ARMCO MAN se trip PENS A LETTER And wins a national prize Kenneth Billman Armco Drainage & Metal Prod ucts Order Department heard a radio announcer urging any husband listening in to write a letter about his wife's homemaking ability Ken wrote a letter and entered the contest family He told about the home life of his Armco about their small home located near Armco's General Office in Middletown He wrote about the paintings his wife Phyllis does and of their two small sons Jamie and Peter Several months passed then the Billman's received a long distance telephone call from New York A voice on the other end of the line said Your let ter was chosen the best Can you accept a new gas range one of the contest prizes and an all- expenses trip to New York City Ken and Phyllis Billman had won the contest sponsored jointly by Cincinnati radio station WLW and MeCall's Magazine In short order a writer and photographer from McCall's appeared at their home to do a story The Billmans appeared on radio and television shows They took a trip to New York City as guests of the sponsors The whole family including their two sons appeared in a feature ar- a wrote ticle in the December issue of McCall's Magazine Ken says And it all started from letter I AT BIRTHDAY Party Phyllis cuts cake for friends KIDS IN BED and sound asleep Ken and Phyllis Billman enjoy a quiet evening in their small home reading MIDDLETOWN DIVISION EAST WORKS - HAMILTON JOHN POAST was named Supt of East Work's new Blast Furnace Dept. He started in '33 as laborer Ra EDWIN A. KERCSMAR was appointed Supt of Ham- ilton Blast Furnace Dept. Started in '35 as laborer ON THIS AND THE OPPOSITE PAGE ARE PICTURES OF 51 ARMCO MEN WHO HAVE MOVED UP - THE LADDER OF ADVANCEMENT WILLIAM DANNECKER ad- Foreman vanced to Gen. East Works Blast Fur- nace Dept. Started in '33 TOM C. SMITHSON was made Gen. Foreman of East Works No. 2 Coke Plant Dept. Started 1928 ERVINE ROGERS was pro- moted Coal & Coke Foreman No. 2 Coke Plant Dept. Started in 1945 WILLIAM GILLESPIE was made Heater Foreman of No. 2 Coke Plant Dept. Started with Armco '27 HERBERT HOMAN was ad- vanced to Product Foreman No. 2 Coke Plant Dept. Started 28 GEORGE KAllick was ad- vanced to Coal & Coke Foreman of No. 1 Coke Plant Dept. in Hamilton HERBERT BISSEL was promoted to Product Fore- man No. 1 Coke Plant Hamilton Started 1927 RUSSELL MOORE was pro- moted to Turn Foreman Blast Furnace Dept. in Hamilton Started in '28 HENRY COLLINS was ad- Foreman vanced to Turn Blast Furnace Dept. at Hamilton Started in '30 FRANKLIN ROSE was pro- moted to Turn Foreman Blast Furnace Dept. at East Works Started '29 HAROLD HOFF was ad- vanced to Turn Foreman Blast Furnace Dept. at East Works Started '20 GARLAND DAVIS was ap- pointed Turn Foreman Blast Furnace Dept. East Works Started in 1937 RUSSELL ROHKEMPER was appointed a Turn Foreman No. 1 Coke Plant Came to Armco in 1929 STANLEY TUTAS was pro mated to Turn Foreman Dept. No. 1 Coke Plant Came to Armco in 1931 JOSEPH OKRUHLICA was appointed a Turn Foreman No. 1 Coke Plant Started at Armco in '32 ICHABOD STOUT was advanced to Turn Foreman No. 2 Coke Plant Started as laborer in '39 Foreman OSCAR PABST was pro- moted to Turn No. 2 Coke Plant He started as Chemist in '28 Be txe f i RUSSELL HERING was ap- pointed Turn Foreman No. 2 Coke Plant He started as Oiler in '28 EDWARD KINKAID was made a Turn Foreman No. 2 Coke Plant Started as Painter Helper in '28 CLARENCE BERTCH was made Turn Foreman HiLine Sec Blast Furnace Dept. He started in 1937 JAMES RICE was promot- ed Turn Foreman HiLine Sec Blast Furnace Dept. Started in 1935 A ee BERT HOLT was promot- ed Asst Turn Foreman Blast Furnace Dept. He started with Armco '33 GEORGE HELTON was ap- pointed Turn Foreman Blast Furnace Dept. He started with Armco '33 DABNER MAUPIN was appointed Asst Turn Fore- man Blast Fur Dept. Started with Armco '34 & LEWIS TRAUTHWEIN was made Asst Turn Foreman in Blast Fur Dept. Started at Armco in 34 ry nil WILLIAM SMITH was ad advanced to Turn Fore- man in Blast Fur Dept. Started as laborer in 37 SALES DIVISION WALLACE B. QUAIL was ap- pointed Manager of the Sales Division He started with Armco 33 years ago as a Salesman in Armco's New York Of- fice Quail has been Manager of Central Area Sales in Mid- dletown since early in 1947 oa Rae a ee MURRAY B. WILSON has been named Manager of Central Sales Wilson started in the Middletown Division in 1923 transferring to Sales Depart- ment in 1925. He became Manager of Dayton Ohio Area District Sales Office in 1945 ASHLAND DIVISION VICE PRESIDENT ~~ LOGAN T. JOHNSTON was elected Vice President in charge of Sales He was a salesman of railroad car wheels for the Columbia Steel Co. at Butler Pa when that company was acquired by Armco He later became President of the Armco Railroad Sales Company In 1945 he was made assistant to Armco's General Sales Management and two years later General Manager of Sales Johnson fills the office held by John A. Ingwersen deceased GEORGE YOST JR has been named Assist Gen. Superintendent of Ashland's plant rolling and processing operations WILLIAM VERITY was appointed Asst to the Manager of the Ashland Div Verity started at Middletown Division in 1941 is TOWNSELL G. MARSHALL Ashland's new Personnel Advisor Started in 1937. He has been a suggestion ordinator RUSSELL T. RICE has been named Foreman of Power Section He came to Armeo in '26 as a member of Electric Shop crew JAMES TRIMBLE has been appointed Gen. Foreman Maint Shops ai charge of Power and Elect work Started in 1923 GUY M. COFFMAN was appoint- ed Foreman of Elec Repair Coffman began in '36 in the Industrial Engineering Dept. EDWARD A. MOON has been appointed Foreman of Elec Const Started in Middletown in '33 transferred to Ashland OKEY B. SPANGLER was promoted to Lubrication Advisor Joined Armco in 1935 and be- came Senior Time Study man- has WILLIAM L. CLARK JR been named Senior Power Engr He started in Industrial Engineer- ing Dept. as a checker in '36 JAMES L. KIMBRELL has been named Maintenance Foreman for Processing Galvanizing and Shipping He started in '27 BUTLER DIVISION on y 4, rn an LEONARD LOCKWOOD was appointed Asst Maint Foreman of Blooming Bar & Jobbing Mill Dept. He started in '24 DONALD KILLEN has been ap- pcinted Foreman of Hot Strip Mill Killen started in 23 as member of Maintenance Dept. Warehouse WILLIAM L. McKEE was promot- ed to Maint Foreman Sheet Mill & Jobbing Mill He started in Maint in 1933 A wi: EDWARD M NORTON was nam- Manager ed Admin Asst to Butler Div Norton started with Armco at Ashland Division FRANK BURDETTE was appointed Supt of Butler's Processing Finishing Dept. Burdette came to Butler from Ashland in '29 PAUL CHEAP was advanced to position of Suggestion Coordi- nator He started with Armco in '47 as a Checker Ind Eng GEORGE R. BROWN moted Foreman in was proAshland's Machine Shop Brown started with Armco in '24 as Mach Ap LLOYD S. FEARING was advanced to Turn Foreman in Mch Shop Started at the Ashland plant in 1933 in Machine Shop JOSEPH C. SLATER was appoint- ed Supt of Strip Coating and Silicon Anneal Dept. Slater started in 1933 as a Recorder EDWARD W. PLATT was made Gen. Foreman of Strip Coating Dept. Platt started in 1935 as a Laborer Employment Reserve FIRST TO LOSE men and women stop and they somewhere else when a company fails are the who work there Their paychecks must suddenly hunt new jobs REASON for not making a profit may be the fault of the company's management its employees the Government or several other causes wf BUT whatever the cause everybody loses when profits disappear We sincerely hope the no profit sign of failure never hangs on the fence of an Armeo plant