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By LEO F. REINARTZ Vice President Special Operating Development
EN with burning torches were swarming
all over Old 704 when I last saw her at Hamilton a few weeks ago She had been
a new powerful steam locomotive when she first came to Armco back in 1929. But now
they were stripping her cutting her into pieces After 23 years of Armco service she was being reduced to a pile of junk to be
melted in our furnaces She was the last re-
maining steam locomotive at any Armco plant
Her successor was one of the new Deisel
locomotives T streamlined in design strong with quiet power efficient in operation as it glided over the rails After 23 years Old 704 could no longer compete with modern loco-
motives she cost too much to operate That is the fate of machines - to be cast aside when better and more useful ones comes
along But fortunately that need not be the fate of men and women People are not like
machines
Unlike Old 704 people have the power to change they can adapt themselves to new
dhe circumstances they can grow Machines can
not learn new ways people can Machines are purely mechanical they have no mind
that can discover better methods to do their
jobs A machine can not grow wiser or more experienced or more useful than when it was first created It can only grow older
There are many examples at Armco to show how men improve with age Look in at the
many training courses being held each year at our plants Practically every training class
an with the exception of apprentices contains many men who are in that wide area of our
lives we call middle They ing more about their jobs and for better jobs ahead
are learn preparing
Notice the many subjects these men ------ studying blueprint reading electronics metallurgy the many shop crafts They are learning new knowledge developing their skills and their ability They are making themselves
more valuable to Armco and to themselves They find new pleasure in their work Most
of these men have been with Armco for a
long period of time Old 704 had been
with our company for 23 years and her
period of usefulness had ended But at Armco
there are several thousand men who have been with Armco for more than 25 years
and they are doing jobs that help keep our
company in the front rank among nation's
steel producers
Our company's Suggestion Plan indicates that men of mature years are handing in suggestions which improve safety and effi ciency on their jobs and lower the cost of
making steel More suggestions are handed in and accepted from men over 40 years than below that age And the largest cash rewards the major awards have been con-
sistently earned by the suggestions submitted by the older more experienced men
There were some who feared the Machine Age
meant the end of usefulness of the individual
Yet many of us have seen machines come
in wear out chines - all
and be replaced by within our lifetime
new
Like
ma-
Old
704. As long as we can use our many opportunities to keep ourselves growing mentally and add to our usefulness we need not fear
going the way of machines
Your youth lasts a long time The early years are the beginning of your experience Your wisdom grows Your knowledge and
your ability grow too if you will continue your training and keep your mind alert to
new ideas
People do not grow old by merely living a
number of years We grow old when we lose
our enthusiasm and succumb to a love of
ease
We
do
not
have
to
fear
"
wearing
out
as much as we need to fear rusting out You are as young as your faith as young
as your confidence as young as your
hope Those are virtues Old 704 never had
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EDITOR
C. E. McIntire
CORRESPONDENTS STAFF
James
Craig
Butler
Bertram
Harry Ward
Rigg
Ashland EastWorks
ton Vernon
Cecil Vernon Fabricating River
Mining Capt Phil ElseyElsey
Transportation
VirFgirnaiWnaiklson STAFF Ashland PHOTOGRAPHERS Elam .
Wm Rogerson Butler Arnold Boxwell East Works Ray Miles Juanita Oliver Fred Howard General Office Bert Ruoff Hamilton Okey De
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THE COVER
- By RAY MILES Middletown
Armco jobs sometimes have names that may confuse an outsider For example the man
on the cover this monthis Robert Young of the Fabricating Division and he is pictured at work looking for holidays The word
holiday means a hole or thin spot in the coating of Armco pipe
The tool Robertis using is an electrical gadg-
et called a Holiday Tester Its purpose is to find flawsin the coal enamel coat-
ing we put on spiral welded pipe If thereis a holidayin the coating the tester will sound
a tale buz The operator then circles the bad spot with the piece of chalk he
coating holdsin his other hand A fresh
later is put on to cover up the hole in the coating And that's the end of the holiday The coal enamel coating is put on to do
a special job Inside the pipe it cuts down resistance to water that flows through the pipe enamel gets almost as smooth as
glass when hard - Outside the pipe the coat-
Armco ing protects the
old enemy
pipe from steel's
WISE MEN HAVE SAID
.
Write it in your heart that
the best day in the year
every day is
ABSOLUTELY UNRETOUCHED THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS REPRODUCED JUST AS IT CAME FROM THE CAMERA COULD THE ODD OBJECTS ABOVE OUR HAMILTON PLANT BE SAUCERS
FLYING SAUCERS
We may have a photograph of 3 of them
Bert Ruoff photographer and took a night view of
at the Hamilton Armeo plant set up his camera the big blast furnaces there It was a successful
picture except for some queer looking things that showed up against the velvety black of the sky That was about five years ago and we never did
understand what the things were in the sky But since newspapers and
magazines today are
files to take another
full of flying saucer stories we dug into our picture look at this one Sure enough the objects have that
same disc describe when
shape plus the weird light through the center that people reporting saucers today We just cant believe that ours are
flying saucers although are flying saucers this
we do not know what they are But if year picture may establish our
they really
saucers as
being another of those famous Armco firsts
STRANGE BIRDANIMAL at left might be something we would find in a flying saucer This is not a photograph but a creation of Armeo's Art
Department It was given the name PEATORTOPHANT because it rombines features of several animals It is used to point out the advantages of Arinco stainless steel the beauty of the Pearock the long life of the Tortoise and the strength of the Elephant Its one of the ways we advertise our steel
With more than 2 years service ,
With more than 5 years service .
With more than 10 years service .
With more than 25 years service .
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of Armco men and of Armeo men and of Armco men and of Armco men and
women women women women
Outsiders often wonder why there are
answer is
so many 25 year Armco Veterans The
simple Armco people get along with each other and
jobs Take a look at the
they like their
figures shown above Almost half the
Armco's parent company have over ten
people in
of eight has more than 25
years of service And about one out
year service Few other
On August 2 this year 1600 Middletown
companies have that record
and Hamilton Veterans and their
husbands or wives gathered at Middletown's Armco
afternoon of visiting eating and fun Eat
Park for their annual
pounds of
they did Over 600 chickens 700
potatoes and 225 gallons of coffee
consumed The
were only part of the food
Armco
program
Chairman
included
a
short
talk
by
Veteran
Charles
R.
Hook
A distinguished group at the picnic were the 50
shown at the right They are standing James Pierce D. O. FisheyreaDrenmnein s
Lauderback sitting Orley Moles Charles Greer
Fisher and
John Draut Sr. Arthur
Floyd Barlow Their service with Armco
adds up to 108 years
VETERANS among veterans Each
Each one of these Armco men has over
50
over
continuous service They havi
years
NEW YEAR MEN Edward Krulatz left and Harry Grobe are welcomed into the Butler Veteran's group
BUTLER VETERAN'S |
PICNIC
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by Harry Gibson vice president and George Bayer president right
It was fun for all on July 17 as the Butler Armco Veteran's group held their annual picnic The 25
year men and their families chuckled at an amus-
ing une act play and the kiddies were shown a
comedy featuring old favorites Laurel and Hardy
It was held at Butler's Armco Park
Before supper some lively ball games and horse
shoe pitching stirred plenty of friendly rivalry
Appetites were stirred too Of course everyone
was interested in the prize drawing
ones are shown below But all went
The lucky
home tired
and happy after an enjoyable day with their
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BUTLER VETERANS jasm for softball
have lost none of their enthus-
Guess the batter has struck out
Armco friends Chairman Ed Norton with his
committee of 30 veterans did a fine job
The Armco Veteran's group at the Butler Division is a large one They have over 400 members 62 of them are retired from active service What's
more 19 of them have more than 40 years of service to their credit Besides the newest veterans shown above three more were welcomed into mem-
bership at the picnic but weren't around at picture time They were Anthony Klara Harry Travis and William Gardiner Armco's Founder Geo M. Verity called the Veterans Armco's Legion of Honor
PLAY CONFERENCE The four men in blue are all Butler Armco in their spare time They Ump at the Little League Baseball
They are pictured above getting instructions from the Little left to right John Chuhra Louis Loutzenhiser Wilford Boring
men who umpire games in Butler League President
and Jack Poviick Poviick
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GIRL CONFERENCE Bathing Beauty Judges left to right L. T. Johnston R. A. Dadisman D. S. Hoistein and E. J. Goldschmidt found out that judging a beauty contest could be a damp affair Just as these Armco judges were ready to announce the winners of the Middletown Armco Girls contest the rain came pouring down
FUN CONFERENCE Captain of the entertainers at the show Captain Glenn had who just wanted to talk
tO ema nt
Glenn a Cincinnati Kiddies Television Star was one MiddletownMiddletown Division Armco Family Outing After the a conferenceconference with Hamilton and Middletown children to a real live hero of their home television sors
WORK CONFERENCE Leo Hetzler and
Jim a First Helper in East Work's Second Helper the grain structure
Anon __...
Jim Gutshall have an job conference No. 2 Open Hearth points out to Leo his in a test sample of steel This is one way
winning HERE'S OUR PROOF
cattle says Earl and
that we raise his son pictured
with
ribbons
Part Time
BEAUTY AND EARL WILHOIT pose outside the barn
for the operator cameraman Beauty is a reg-
istered black Aberdeen heifer and according to
Earl the pride and joy of the entire Wilhoit family
CATTLE RAISER
Strange indeed seems the combination of steel-
making and cattle raising But Earl Wilhoit
Slitter Shear Operator at East Works has com-
bined the two profitably Earl lives on a
acre farm about 4 miles from the plant where he works His hobby is raising registered black
Aberdeen cattle This Armco man with
the help of his son Earl Jr. buys young calves
a few weeks old and raises them into fine beau-
tiful prize winners When the cattle are full
grown the enterprising Earls sell them at auc
tions and at fairs Of course they have their
favorite animals There just isn't enough money
to buy one particular heifer the elder Earl
says Her full name is Ericks V. 10.
But we call her Beauty She is our pride
and also our top ribbon winner
and joy
Fact is
Black Beauty is just like one of the family
know ALL ARMCO MEN
the
Earl Jr. and Beauty knee
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value of good housekeeping
deep in clean hay Note the
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The above good barn
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picture shows
housekeeping
RAISING FINE CATTLE is an hours job for Earl Wilhoit His
is running the Slitter Shear in the West
Armoo job
Processing Department at East Works
EARNED HIGHEST AWARD
JACK POVLICK and Mrs. Povlick are shown admiring the Silver Beaver Award that Jack received recently The Beaver is given to Boy Scout Leaders with outstanding records Jack is a Butler Wheelworks man with 30 years in Scouting
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SAFETY SALESMAN
PAUL GRUNDMAN Rustless Safety Advisor is shown above demonstrating how a table lamp with a frayed cord is dangerous With such a bad cord says Paul You can get a shock which can kill Be safe at home as well as on your job
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ARMCO AUSTRALIA & SHEEP
Stowe? ARMCO GRAIN SILOS like that shown above are very popular in Australia Telling
lingth en! about our products at the Sidney Sheep Show were two Armeo men Don Perry
Binet and Tony Bull We hear the two rams pictured are valued at about 4500 each
tneria
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PERSONAL INTERVIEW
CHARLES BELL left Butler tells of his experience to a tape recorder Later the recording of how Charles eye was saved by safety glasses will be played back so other Butler men can hear the story Interviewer is Elmer Best Personal Rel
REGISTRADA
STEVE JACKMAN Butler Shipping Dept. stencils Armeo languages Above Steve marks Marca Registrada for is going to Guatemala The Spanish words translated
speciality steel in several a shipment of steel that mean Registration Mark
THE MYSTERY OF THE
DEAD BATTERY
BANG WENT THE EXPLODING BATTERY WHEN IT BECAME HEATED IN THE TRASH BURNER JOHN WAS UNHIT
Why did the dead cell come
to life at the wrong time
remember that case very well said the Inspector
in the Butler Safety Department
call it The
Case of the Dead Battery He reached into his
files and showed us three photographs You see
here he began That's Pat Sutton one of our
maintenance men He put a new battery or cell in his flashlight He threw the old cell away be-
cause it was dead Then John Schnitzki of the
Inspection Department got the can and hauled it
to the incinerator to burn the contents But look
at this picture There is an explosion John might have been burned or blinded from that ex-
plosion Fortunately he was unhurt that because he was standing off to one side
time
" solved it this way heat from the incinerator
caused the dead battery to expand and explode The way to keep dead batteries from coming alive is to cart them away with brick fragments Or dispose of them some way without heating them Thanks to Pat and John for posing for these pictures It is an accident that has happened and could happen again So. be careful with dead
batteries They may be aliver than you think
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TRASH CANS light
battery
says Pat Sutton Are for trash And he tosses his dead flashinto the can and replaces a new battery in his flashlight case
ALONG COMES JOHN to empty the trash can It will be dumped into the big incinerator John does not know the dead battery may cause him some harm
BUTLER DIVISION
Many Thousands at the Butler Annual Picnic
MINING DIVISION
Play Program Draws Many at Montcoal
THE BEST WAY to win this ace is to get running now
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KIDS AND GROWNUPS TOO enjoyed the afternoon's entertainment
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HUNDREDS OF Middletown folks entrained to LeSourdsville
AW COME ON I know this hoss can go faster than this
this Skee Ball is a really tough game
.
TUBING DIVISION
They Held Their Picnic at Lakewood Beach
THE
COLORED
ASSOCIATION
folks
had
their
n
picnic in
art Middletown Middletown
CLOSEST GUESSER is the winner He takes all
WILLIAM GEALEY Butler's Assistant Supt of Rolling Dept. turned entertainer and cook recently when his
son Bill over for
Jr. had the a feast You
Little Leaguers baseball team can almost taste those steaks
HOW TO MEASURE a Jerk Rustless Safety Inspector Bob Williams is demonstrating a new Rustless
gadget It shows crane operators what happens when a load is hoisted suddenly instead of taking the lift
up gradually The arrow on the right shows the actual
weight of the load the strain that is
The arrow placed on
on the cranes
left and
points to runways
through Jerk methods of handling
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HOME ARTIST Andrew Russin of the Butler Open Hearth has in art most of his life Most of his paintings he does right in Above Andy is pictured with two of his most recent water
been interested his own home color paintings
BIGGER RINGERS M. McMaken and Wm Honeycutt each received a prize for
winning the horseshoe contest at Piqua's Tubing Division Outing And together
they also were given this giant size tossing horseshoe for bigger and better ringers
STEELERS sponsored THE HOUSTON
MP plant
finished
their
by the Houston
season recently They
ended
season
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up with the runner
play The Little
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position after the post Leaguers play in an
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team league The
and they play on
Ed age limit for players is 13 years
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IT'S ALL YOURS say Hamilton men as last car is turned over to R. R. crew
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ARMCO BEAUTY QUEENS
Interesting highlight of the Middletown Armco Girls Association's recent
Jamboree was a Bathing Queen Contest The three winners are shown above
Anthony They are left to right Ella Mae McQueen Sally Boxwell and Pat
Each contestant's sash was lettered with a familiar Armco name such as
Miss Coils Miss Ingot Miss Zincgrgip about 28 in all beauties really got wet it rained hard during the contest
And the bathing
BIG BUILD
The new blast furnace nearing completion at Middletown will need railroad
cars to haul coke within the new plant The Round House tackled the job of making the
men at the nearby Hamilton cars and they turned out a
dooper performance The men obtained parts for the cars from the
scrap pile at the Middletown good parts but used ones This included
frames wheel and axles They built the cars from the ground up and they went up pretty high note picture of the new carst The high sides allow
height larger loads of coke to be hauled than in hopper cars of normal
Practically all the sides and bottoms were made from Armco material
Con-
gratulations to Eugene Miller Foreman and the Hamilton Round House men
BELOW A long string of the new cars start for new plant in Middletown
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girl GIRLS also had a dunking machine Throw a ball - hit the target - dunk a
FUN TRAIN
THE STORY about railroad cars from Hamilton up above this picture reminded
Armeo us that a lot of Armco youngsters this Summer got train rides at their
family picnics Here's the Santa Fe train at Butler's annual Armco family outing
IN OUR
COUNTRY'S ARMED FORCES
ARMCO
ARMCO
Michael Ostwinch Jr.
FABRICATING
Allis Goodson
Lowell Darrell
ARMCO DRAINAGE METAL PRODUCTS Inc.
John I. PoeCentral Div
Bennie A. Cegelski Southwestern Div
YY HONOR ROLL 3%
Killed In Action
= RICHARD ISOVITCH Butler
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JOSEPH FERENCE Butler
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Died In Service
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STEPHEN Bakich Butler
WOODFORD CHANEY Fabricating
WILLIAM DIETZ East Works
WILLIAM McLaughlin Fabricating
JOHN E. MINOR East Works
Georce Richardson MP
Paul Tucker
Carl Smith
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Darrell Lovejoy
Lewis McCormick
Millard Conarroe
Carlos McGinnis
Danny E. Angles
Raymond Rutter
Harry Aldermen
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FREEDOM
IS HARD TO
GET AND
EASY TO EASY
EASY
LOSE .
I Escaped from
the Russians " Russians
We will have to call this Butler Armco man
Mr. X He once lost his freedom to the Rus-
sians And because he has brothers and sisters
behind Iron Curtain he asked what the his name or show
to
his face for fear ofof what mimgihghtt
happen to those members of his family
Mr. X's story came out during one of the discussions at the Butler Armco plant about the movie In Our Hands He told his buddies that the story
in the film could be true for he had had the ex-
perience of having his freedoms taken away He told about the suffering hardship distrust and fear
behind the Iron Curtain Here is his story as he told it
was living in a small pleasant village in Central Europe when
shanghaing men for the Nazi Army Along with other patriots I border into Poland The Russians were occupying Poland
the Nazis started
escaped across the
For entering Poland and Russian border police arrested us We were tried but none of us were allowed to offer any defense and we were all sentenced to 5
year imprisonment The next four weeks after the trial we spent in a box car heading for the interior of Russia Then a short stop and transfer to another box car and up into the heart of Siberia Our destination was a slave labor camp Along with thousands of other slaveprisoners we were put to work building a railroad There were about 15,000 of us at
that camp
Our section of the roadbed was many miles from the camp We walked the entire
distance to work each morning After working all day at hard labor there was always the weary miles march back to camp We would get back long after dark This went on every day seven days a week
Countless prisoners died from exhaustion and hunger Our food was damp black bread and thin watery soup It was a starvation diet Conditions were so bad that of the prisoners just gave up living They killed themselves by running against a mfaenncye
that was heavily charged with electricity
was one of the lucky ones After 22 months of this ordeal I was released to join a nationalist army that Moscow had ordered the puppets who were
to recruit I lost 80 pounds during my stay at the slave labor camprdurnonpipnignmgyfrcoomunt1r7y5
pounds down to 95
Germany When World War II ended with Germany's defeat I was able to start my escape I
first fled to Czechoslovakia and later made my way into the U. S. zone of In 1948 I came to America and found a fine place to work at Armco in Butler
Over here in the United States said Mr. X
have much to be happy for I earn a
good living I have a bank account I live better But most important of all am free
STEEL INGOTS GET
SOAKED IN FLAME
Ingots are placed in soaking pits to heat them thoroughly before they are rolled into long thin strips or coils of
steel This picture from East Works shows
a glowing ingot being taken from one of the soaking pits It will now start the long journey through the mill To get one ton
of steel in ingot form it is necessary to charge into the open hearth furnace about 1.3 tons of materials Of this amount about 1.15 tons could be called metallic
substances The loss between the amount
of material charged and the weight weight of the ingot is accounted for by the slag
oxidation loss and a small amount of re-
coverable scrap
In American strel mills about 75 of the
ingot is able to be shipped to customers
in the form of The other 251
finished steel
is mostly scrap
products
which is
put back in the furnaces ami remelted
REMEMBER
Back in 1951 the April issue of The Arm-
operator had a picture on titled Iron Ore of the Future
its cover It showed
two Armco men amid millions of iron ore
pellets which were being made in our first pilot plant at Ashland An item inside
the magazine said Some day these ore pellets may become a common sight at every blast furnace The information
printed at the right of this page brings the story up to date
The job of every Armco man and woman depends upon a constant supply of iron ore Without that precious ore we could make no steel As the production of iron ore becomes less and less at the Mesabi Range in Minnesota we need to find ore somewhere else It has been found It . requires millions and millions of dollars to develop these new ore sources But it is the only way to protect the future of our jobs
INSIDE INFORMATION
NEWS ABOUT STEEL AND ARMCO
Time is getting ripe for a most important event in the steel industry and Armco Before the end of this year
pei- we can expect to see the first carload of iron ore
lets arrive at an Armco blast furnace
Right now the finishing touches are being put on the
concentrating section of the scale pilot plant at Babbitt Minnesota This plant is located near the
Taconite ore fields It crushes the hard rock grinds it finely and separates the iron from the rock by using filters and electric magnets Product of this process is called iron ore concentrates
Within a few months a second part of the Babbitt will be ready to form the concentrated ore into
plant
small
round balls or pellets From the pelletizing plant
the balls of 60 iron ore will be shipped in railroad
cars to the docks at Two Harbors Minnesota There the
pellets will be loaded into regular ore boats for the Lake Superior trip to Toledo Ohio It then will be
transferred from the boat into railroad cars for the
final trip to Armco blast furnaces for hauling loading and unloading
The equipment used the pellets is the
same as that used for handling regular iron ore The
Babbitt plant is expected to produce 300,000 tons of
pellets a year
Some day maybe 5 years from now another plant much
larger than the one at Babbitt will be built at Beaver
Bay
with
Wisconsin This will require a whole new dock and harbor facilities It will be 45
town miles
by rail South of the Taconite fields on the shore of
Lake Superior Even now before the Babbitt plant is
finished ground is being cleared for building the one
at Beaver Bay All this activity takes a whale of a lot
of money and planning and Armco Steel and Republic are
the companies footing the bill
,
ad
Meanwhile 1700 miles away from Babbitt on the Labra-
Quebec boundary line in North East Canada another
project is underway There the Iron Ore Company of Canada Armco is one of its partners goes ahead with plan begun 3 years ago The iron ore has been located and a 360 mile railroad is being built to get to it It is a very good grade of ore and can be shipped practically as it is scooped up from the surface of the earth The rugged country makes railroad building difficult and slow But the half mark on the mile track will probably be completed this year before cold
weather slows up progress
It will be a long time before we get iron ore from the
Labrador unit Mining will likely begin late in 1954 First shipments of the ore will be coming in to Armco furnaces in the Spring of 1955. The cost of developing this new ore field is being shared by several steel com-
panies besides Armco
NEW VICE PRESIDENT
R. S. GRUVER
be responsible aries Gruver
has been elected Vice President in charge of Planning He will for long range planning throughout Armco and all of its subsidi-
started with Armco in 1925 as a laborer In 1931 he was sent to
England to work with plants associated with Armco He has also been Assistant
Manager of the Fabricating Division Manager of the Ashland Division and since
1949 has been Assistant Vice President of Operations He is located at Middletown
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LOUIS BOEHM has been promoted to
General Foreman sion's Maintenance
Fabricating . DiviDepartment He
started with Armco in 1937 transfer-
ring to Junior
the Fabricating Division as a Time Study Man in 1947
EDWARD C. VOLLETTE has been named
Superintendent of Court House Ohio
the Washington AD MP plant
Prior to being transferred Vollette
worked in the Fabricating Division at
Middletown Ohio as Shipping Planner
CONGRATULATIONS
THAT big 25 on the ladle at the Butler plant is
Butler's way of reminding us that this month that Butler became a
it was 25 years ago part of the Armeo
organization organization
AK
to Butler Armco folks by Chairman Hook and President Schald Butler has 3700 men and women on the payrell 25 years ago it had but 1350. Butler is the
Up
Up
62.1 BILLION
THESE TAXES AVERAGE 1,389 PER FAMILY IN 1952
44.8 BILLION
PEAK OF WORLD WAR II
1940
1945 Fiscal Years
1952
FEDERAL TAXES
HEAD FOR THE
STRATOSPHERE
WHAT DO
CHILDREN
THINK ABOUT ARMCO
This poem was written by 26 fifth grade students after they visited Armco Each child wrote one or two lines of the poem Their teacher thought you
might like to read it
STEEL
A is for Armco that makes the best steel
For your icebox and oven and automobile
is for bloomer which rolls the steel flat
Also the blast that blows off your hat
is the convertor which turns iron into steel
When it blows off a hot geyser you'll feel is for danger that lurks all around
It creeps up around you without a sound
E is for engines that turn the great sheets
With moaning and groaning and grinding and squeaks
is for fifty the long years you have served A shining gold medal you've long since deserved is for golden your steel anniversary
nursery For the products you make in your big big
is for heat thousands of degrees
Even in the cold mill nothing will freeze
is for ingot which lives in a mold
It is rolled into sheets and then it is sold
is for junk the scrap which you use From a huge locomotive to a tiny wee fuse
is for kitchens with cupboards galore
Of stainless fine steel from ceiling to floor is for ladle a giant soup spoon -
Only a giant could finish by noon is for men who endanger their lives
By working in factories that sound like beehives
is for needle that gives you a shot
You might wake up on a big steel cot
is the open hearth furnace so large
Every few hours it has to be
charged is for pigs that are made from iron ore The nation is calling for more more
and
is for quality the very best kind
more
It's made in Armco the best you can find
through is the rolling mill that the steel rolls
After this process it's shiny and new is for stainless that Armco makes
Steel that is strong and hard wear it takes
is for tons and tons and tons
L'sed in peace and in war for guns
is for uses a million or two
It'd take two years to name just a few is for vehicles that carry it far Truck and transport and a long box is for water that keeps the steel cool
As it bounces and bobs and ends
is for xylophone when you play
That's what a steel wire sounds is for you who uses it most
in a spool
it it sings
like when it
pings
We thank you for being a very fine host
is for zest the enjoyment we had
On our trip to Armco
everyone seemed glad
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THE LUCKIEST KIDS IN THE WORLD
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because they live in America
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because they have enough food enough clothing Few other nations of the
world have as many of the necessities of life for their children
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because they attend schools where truth is taught
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because they can attend Church or Sunday School along with their parents
wherever they wish They need not fear to worship God
because they need not fear their government enough they can decide by their votes whom President and their lawmakers
And when they are old they shall have as their
LUCKY
because of their boundless opportunities for the future They may work where they please quit when they please own their own homes live where ever they wish to live They may start up their own business or
work for someone else at the world's highest wages No other boys and girls in the world have as many opportunities
THEY ARE the luckiest kids in the world . because they are Americans
ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION .