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Page 4--THE DENISON HERALD--Sun., Mari'31; 1957 LX / ~ - i*-- /(_ Cl. > - J o h n s - M a n v i 11 e Plant Marks Fall Operation Start Due At "We expect to'have the steel erect ed for the main buildings by the end of this week. .The- roofing and Huge Transite Pipe Factory siding arc approximately 25 per cent complete." The railroad spur into the plant Industial Week finds one of Den-, with the promise that the indus- is being completed. This connects ison's most dramatic industrial try will be in partial operation with the line to Denison Dam. strides of the community's his-1 during the last quarter of this Sulewski said that work' is start tory still taking shape as con-1 year. ing on the office, which will be a struction continues on the $10 mil Chet Sulewski, resident engineer one-story structure 160 feet long lion Johns - Manville pipe plant for Johns - Manville on ject, reported last week the pro that the and 60 feet -wide. Within a month J-M hopes to north of the city on-Highway 75. battery of sprawling buildings are start construction of the intake Announcement that this plant for j roughly 30 per cent complete. facility for the pumping of` water the manufacture of asbestos-ce The overall project is slightly from Red River for use in the ment pipe would be established behind schedule because of repeat pipe manufacturing operation.- here electrified Denison late last ed rams during the last several This will include a tile struc year. It climaxed years of nego weeks. But company spokesmen ture housing two pumps, each of tiation with the company that describe the rains as "wonderful" 1.000-gallon capacity, feeding wa started originally as a routine in and aren't too perturbed about ter into a 14-inch Transite pipe line quiry. time lost on their account. stretching south almost a mile to Now the steel skeleton for the NEW STEPS DUE the main plant. There the water vast plant is stead<ly coking shape, Sulewski. announced that will be pumped into a 50,000-gallon Inc WORKMEN ASSEMBLE a structural stee I member that soon will be riveted into the skeleton for one of the seven build ings that will form the backbone of the Jchns-Manville Transite pipe plant here. BACKBONE OF NEW PLANT--Steel skeletons near complet the new Jchns-Manville plant here. This cluster of buildings storage and pressure tank atop a his staff come here will be a 180-foot tower. comprehensive training program OTHER PLANS PUSHED for key personnel. This will be a The, tank has been -purchased formalized type of training con from the Chicago Bridge & Iron ducted by professional talent im Co. and will be assembled on the ported for the purpose. Most of job in six'weeks. j the training will be done here. Sulewski announced that thfi Austin Co. of Houston and Cleve land, geheral contractor on the project, is completing plans for building service facilities, includ ing heating, ventilating, air con ditioning, and others. Work is expected to start about July 1 on two other phases of the project, the boiler plant and the a: I PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT sales demonstration building, Backbone of the panoramic in stallation will be cluster of seven manufacturing buildings' of rigid i frame steel construction In -an in tegrated row. They will range in height from 20 to 52 feet. The cluster will be 500 feet .long and the overall width will be 375 feet. Work on the plant started Dec. 3 after A. R. Fisher, president .of Johns-Manville,' and. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn turned the first dirt in a formal cere mony. KEY PERSONNEL First key personnel has been named for the plant, which is ex-' pected to start with approximately I 270 employes. Jack Hesse will be plant man ager and already has made an initial > visit from New York to Denison. He and key members of his"ifaTf'are expected to establish headqu&rters here about July 1. Two other key appointments hare been made, L. C. Stenger, plant finance manager, and Jim Bradley, industrial relations man ager, both from New York. The first persons employed locally were two college students who will be trained for special roles. The first project after Hesse and 3|ant Marks Industrial Epoch Here BACKBONE OF NEW PLANT--Steel skeletons near completion for the seven manufacturing buildings that will form the central portion c the new Jchns-Manville plant here. This cluster of buildings will be 500 feet long and 375 feet wide.' storage and pressure tank atop a his staff come here will be a 180-foot tower. comprehensive training program OTHER PLANS PUSHED for key personnel. This will be a The tank has been-purchased'formalized type of training con- horn the Chicago Bridge & Iron ducted by professional talent im- Co. and will be assembled on the .ported for the purpose. Most of job in six/weeks. I the training will be done here. Sulewski announced that thr----------- Austin Co. of Houston and Cleve land, general contractor on the project, is completing plans for building service facilities, includ ing heating, ventilating, air con ditioning, and others. Work is expected to start about July 1 on two other phases of the project, the boiler plant and the sales demonstration building. Backbone of the panoramic in stallation will be cluster of seven manufacturing buildings of rigid frame steel construction in an in tegrated row. They will range in height from 20 to 52 feet. The cluster will be 500 feet .long and the overall width will be 375 feet. Work on the plant started Dec. 3 after A. R. Fisher, president-of Johns-Manville, and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn turned the,first dirt in a formal cere mony. KEY PERSONNEL > I First key personnel has been) i named for the plant, which is ex pected to start with approximately ;270 employes. Jack Hesse will be plant man ager and already has made an initial visit from New York to Denison. He and key members of his'staff are expected to establish headquarters here about July 1. Two other key appointments have been made, L. C. Stenger, plant finance manager, and Jim Bradley, industrial relations man ager, both from New York. Tile first persons employed ocaliy were two college students vho will he trained for special oles. The first project after Hesse and