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DECEMBER, 1967 WINTER ISSUE NUMBER 4 VOLUME 5
Soulé News
*Expansion in Utah*
NEW SOULÉ SHOP COMPLETED IN SALT LAKE CITY
*By TONI GOULDING*
Fourteen years after it opened its original office in Salt Lake City, Soulé completed, in January of this year, its newest fab shop. This was especially welcomed by the shop men who had been working in the snow all winter!
The shop is a 412 Series Building especially designed for a heavy snow load (and completed, incidentally, in freezing temperatures). The proportions of the building are 50 x 120 x 23 feet. It has Soulé high-rib sheet walls in adobe tan and roof sheets in white.
The first Soulé office in Salt Lake City consisted of two rooms located in the Greyhound Terminal Building. Today, the spacious facilities include a large engineering room, a reception office, and a manager's office.
Heading-up the office staff is Arnold Dunyon, a 14 year veteran with Soulé. He is assisted in the office by Loren Mead and Noval Ewing, detailers, and Toni Goulding, Secretary.
The shop is run by John Adams, Shop Foreman, Victor Ure, Night Shift Foreman, Hal Bemis, Eugene Luna and William Ross. James Brown is Field Superintendent.
Some of the major reinforcing steel jobs completed in Utah by the Salt Lake City fab shop are: The Bonneville Tower Apartments; Sunset Tower Apartments; Canyon Crest Apartments; University of Utah Chemistry Building, Physics Building and Library Building; University Club Building; Internal Revenue Service Building; and a project for the Utah State Highway.
Three major jobs are currently under construction: J. C. Penny's Parking Garage; First Security Parking Structure; and the L.D.S. Hospital. The J. C. Penny Parking Garage will be 1400 tons of rebar.
Salt Lake City, home of the famed Mormon Church Temple, offers employees a wide range of sports facilities. Bowling, square dancing, deer hunting and skiing are among the most popular.
*Photo: District Manager Arnold Dunyon joined the company in 1953 in Los Angeles and was transferred to Salt Lake City in 1965.*
*Photo: Soulé's new fabricating shop. On left is John Adams, Shop Foreman, right is Hal Bemis.*
*Photo: Fabricating shop personnel: John Adams, Eugene Luna, William Ross and Victor Ure.*
*Photo: Soulé's Salt Lake City office building.*
*Photo: The J. C. Penny Parking Garage currently under construction showing columns with Soulé rebar.*
*Photo: Office staff detailers Loren Mead, Noval Ewing and Michael Brown.*
*Photo: Office Personnel, left to right: Noval Ewing, Loren Mead, Arnold Dunyon, Jim Brown and Toni Goulding.*
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Soulé Expands Long Beach Steel Mill
The Company is expanding its Long Beach mill facilities, it was announced by President Edward Lee Soulé, Jr. The expansion will include the installation of an additional electric furnace and a new finishing mill and hotbed. The new equipment is for the rolling of a full line of strip and merchant bar products in addition to the mill's regular production of reinforcing steel bars.
This diversification in mill products will allow the Company to supply steel products to manufacturers and Steel Service Centers on the West Coast thereby participating more fully in the continuing growth of the West.
Work has already begun and Soulé expects to have the new furnace in operation by October 1, 1968, and the new mill facilities ready for full production by January of 1970.
The Long Beach mill was the first steel mill on the West Coast to install a continuous casting machine and its success will permit immediate production of a limited range of merchant bar sections which will be expanded upon completion of the new mill.
Mr. George S. Ford, General Manager of the Special Products Division, will assume complete responsibility for the merchandising of these merchant bar products. He will continue in his present function as Vice President of Purchasing.
*Photo: Standing in front of the new Commodity Products Building in Los Angeles are: (l. to r.) L. Howell, Regional Sales Manager, J. Tekell, Production Control Sr. Sales Coordinator, G. Beekman, Architectural Sales Consultant, D. Scott, Metal Lath Sales Representative, D. Grage, Sales Coordinator, and V. Ward, Secretary.*
*Photo: Soulé's continuous casting mill facilities at Long Beach. This was the first unit of its type in the West.*
*Photo: Concast operating crew (l. to r.) D. Russi, Crane Operator, B. Grass, Shear Operator, R. Buttler, Machine Tender, M. Cheek, Mold Tender, C. Cetra, Mold Tender, S. Herrerd, Shear Operator, Knappenberger, Leadman, and J. Meijerink, Supervisor.*
Teamwork in L.A. Plant
*Photo: Fence post punch press department (l. to r.) F. Perez, L. Burns, G. Tello, H. Messerschmitt, I. Morgan.*
*Photo: Fence post bundling area (l. to r.) W. Smith, A. Carmonate, Dave Holginn, and S. Garcia.*
*Photo: Temp-Con Panel department (l. to r.) Willie Wolfe, Gilbert Negrete and John Ford.*
Associated For Thirty-Seven Years
Associated Specialties Company of Salt Lake City, the first distributor of any Soulé product, is entering its 37th year as a Soulé representative. Associated was formed in 1931 by Abe Bernstein with the help of Elmo Guiles who was formerly Sales Manager of Soulé's Window and Door Department. The Company is presently in the process of furnishing and installing a window wall job in an eight-story high rise dormitory for Weber State College and a curtainwall job at Mercy Hospital in Nampa, Idaho.
Soulé and Associated Specialties, both family concerns, have maintained an excellent and strong relationship during their 37 years together.
*Photo: Associated Specialties Company directors (l. to r.) Elliot Bernstein, Vice President, Abe Bernstein, President, and Herm Bernstein, Secretary.*
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NAMES AND FACES IN THE NEWS
Architectural Products Division
RICHARD BRAIN has been appointed San Francisco Plant Manager, replacing Al Schurner who will retire on January 1st.
DEL GARNER has been appointed San Francisco Assistant Plant Manager.
Buildings Division
BOB ZBIKOWSKI has been appointed San Francisco Sales Representative.
J. GRAHAN has been appointed Sales-Coordinator, San Diego Division.
Reinforcing Steel Division
JACK SIMONSON has been appointed Los Angeles Inside Sales Representative.
*Photo: BOARD OF DIRECTORS TOUR MILL. In September Soulé's Board of Directors toured the Long Beach mill facilities and saw the continuous casting machine in operation. (L. to r.) Craig Carpenter, Bud Williamson, V.P.-Steel Mill Operations, Lee Soulé, Howard Soulé, Ian Wishart, George Mattos, Max Theben, Jr., Stan Soulé and Frank Bowman, Plant Manager. Bud Williamson and Frank Bowman acted as Tour Masters.*
*Photo: On a 1967 vacation in Hilo, Hawaii, Ken Hopper of the San Francisco Reinforcing Steel Division, came across this sign for the new Sun Sun Lau Restaurant — a Soulé steel structure.*
State Champion Truck Driver
This year Soulé has the California State Truck Driving Champion.
Luther Burns, a truck driver from the L.A. Plant, drove away with honors in the Southern California Truck Rodeo held last April in Los Angeles, California.
Luther then proceeded to Oakland, California, to compete against the top drivers throughout the state. Once again he skillfully outmaneuvered all entrants to win the State Championship heavy semi division.
Next step was the National Championship in Tulsa in September. Luther did extremely well and reached fourteenth place in the semifinal scores for the five axle tractor semitrailer class.
For the past ten years "Luke" has driven all types of rigs under all types of conditions without a chargeable lost time accident, proving that skill and safety go hand-in-hand.
Congratulations Luke from all of us.
*Photo: SOULE SOFTBALL TEAM — San Francisco Industrial League. (l. to r.) Back row — Mike Carnevale, Allen Dunbar; Middle row — Jay Bowerman, Ray Michael and Bob Brown; Front row — Clint McFadden (non-Soulé employee), Leo Garcia and Larry Catanach.*
*Photo: SAN FRANCISCO BOWLING TEAM. Members meet for a mixed Tuesday evening game. (l. to r.) Ray Michael (President), Elaine Wheeler, Bob Wheeler, Joanne Christensen, and Gene Amato (Captain).*
*Photo: LEFT: ED ESCHENAUER RETIRES. Ed Eschenauer, Foreman of the 700-2100 Series, retired September 29 after more than 35 years of Service to Soulé. Ed will be missed by his many friends in the plant and office. Shown with him above at a luncheon held in his honor are Scott Anderson (left) and Stan Soulé (right).*
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Soulé Conducts Fire Training Programs
Recently Soulé's Safety Department started a fire training program for plant supervisors and key personnel in various departments in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Fire Departments of both cities demonstrated the correct use and handling of fire extinguishers and instructed personnel on the proper action to be taken in case of fire in a building. A thirty minute color movie was shown in which emphasis was placed on the location of alarms and fire exits and various types of extinguishers were discussed.
John Rogachenko was in charge of the Los Angeles program, while Mike Mickel supervised the San Francisco program.
— In Los Angeles
*Photo: Captain Ben Reynolds, training officer for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, instructed personnel in the correct use and handling of fire extinguishers.*
*Photo: L. A. plant and office personnel practice using various types of extinguishers.*
— In San Francisco
Fire Extinguisher Training — Maintenance Department
*Photo: Elmer Murphy.*
*Photo: Rich Wassmer.*
*Photo: Above: Eric Frank.*
*Photo: Above right: Emmet Donovan.*
*Photo: Right: Helmut Ploessel.*
Soulé News
Published quarterly by the Soulé Steel Co.
**Howard S. Soulé, Editor-in-Chief**
**Associate Editors**
**Mike Mickel** San Francisco
**Robert Liley** Los Angeles
**Kathy Thomas** Seattle
**Furman Davis** Phoenix
**Dolores Bedgood** Portland
**Jo Davis** Fresno
**Toni Goulding** Salt Lake
**John Rogachenko** Dominguez
**Esther Longnecker** Santa Ana
**Grace Johnson** San Diego
Safety Column
*By MIKE MICKEL*
Good housekeeping is the first rule of fire prevention. Oily rags, paper, shavings, trim, turnings, etc., shall be kept cleaned up and in the containers provided.
Flammable liquids shall be kept to a minimum and stored in closed metal containers. Such containers shall be labeled and bear the word "FLAMMABLE" in large letters.
Flammable liquids, gases, or dusts shall not be used in the proximity of open flames, sparks, incandescent surfaces or other sources of ignition.
All electrical circuits shall be protected by the correct capacity fuse or circuit breaker. Fuses or circuit breakers which "go out" shall not be put into service again until the cause of the overload is located and corrected.
The proper fire extinguishers have been distributed. Know where they are located and how to use them. Keep them unobstructed at all times.
All fire extinguishers cannot be used on electrical or flammable liquid fires. Read the labels on the extinguishers and remember what type of fire they are used on.
Know how to turn in a fire alarm in your area.
Report every accidental fire to your immediate supervisor.
Welding and cutting torches start many fires. Be *sure* it's safe. Don't let hot slag fall on combustibles.
Don't block fire doors or sprinkler heads.
Don't smoke in hazardous areas. Be sure the match and ash are out!