Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi, 46 No. 24
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1949
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Sewickley Kiwanis_Cluh Visits National Tube Co.
Photos by Edith Elias, National Tube Co.
Members of the Sewickley Kiwanis Club and several guests toured the plant )f the National Tube Company, Ambridge, Monday evening of last week. Shown ibove, first row, kneeling, I to r., Harold McK. Grubbs, Harry L. Staniland, John 1. Macdonald and Charles F. lleott.
Second row, Alex Taylor, Wilbur W. Willson, Edgar W. Shader, Richard C. vfcPhcrson, in front of Paul E. Bess; Joseph Buzard, Jr., and Senior, with Nelson llark in front of Mr. Buzard; J. K. Webster, William R. Carson, George M. Watson, T, Wilbur Eshenaur, Louis H. Shadduck and Ross W. Buck.
KIWANIS CLUB VISITS PLANT
Members of the Sewickley Kiwanis Hub and several guests had a very inter-sting, but warm, tour through the Am-iridge plant of the National Tubo Com-)any, formerly Spang-Chalfant, on Mon-lay of last week. Kiwanian R. J. Johns ^ranged for the tour and told members it the dinner in the ‘Y\ which group vas to go with which guide. Company ifncials divided die club members into mailer groups so diat each group would ie able to hear dieir explanations in the rosy plant.
The plant is undergoing a 7% inillii rolar modernization program and the vere several places the touring parti , detour because of new constru ion, However, they did get a very goi “ea ot how seamless tube is made. Tj mse storage yard, where piles of hu J blUets “TO stored, was one of tl Jaces seen. Then the billets are movi ^powerful electric cranes to anot]l where ‘hoy are tested for blemish
which might show up and spoil the finished pipe. Instead of the old method of ‘pickling’ in a liquid, flames fed by oxygen heat the surface, of the billets sufficiently to reveal bad spots. The spots are then ground away and the approved billets are heated to white heat in furnaces of various types.
Conveyors carry them to mills, where they are stretched into long sections. These sections are pierced by fast-turning long rods, making tubes. These, in the various sizes, are cooled, the ends tickened by upsetting machines and then machined on ingenious machines which grind and thread the ends. Inspected, several times during tire operations, the pipe is then coated with a protective coating and loaded by cranes into the railroad cars for delivery mostly to' the oil fields.
Kiwanians. learned that there is more to drilling for oil than just boring a hole in -the ground, sticking in a few lengths of pipe and pumping up oil. One well
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r,i and Albert*	E J°I,ns> who arranged for the tour; Albert Buckley,
i’ ¡Ja,° B. Marm-n t ’ ®r*’, Dallas Irvine and Glenn W. Pciffer. Standing, 1. to , Bower, Franklin’tv rCS Willson, Curtis R. Mathias, Homer N. Clark, Walter
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Trying Out New Linotype Machine at the Sewickley Printing Shop
Photo by Howard “Bud” James
Have you noticed the ‘New Look’ in the headlines and advertisements in The Herald lately? This new Blue Sireak Mixer Linotype is responsible. • Trying out the new typesetting machine arc, left to right, James_ Corfield, shop foreman and linotype machinist; O. H. Robertson, vice president and treasurer of the Sewickley Printing Shop, Inc., publishers of The Herald, and Kenneth McCandless, hand compositor and linotype operator. The new machine cost nearly $10,000 and, to house it, the printing company last year built a $10,000 addition to its plant.
LARGER TYPE ON NEW MACHINE
The composing room of the Sewickley Printing Shop, Inc., commercial printers and publishers of Hie Sewickley Herald and several other publications, has been recently modernized with the installation of a new mixer linotype machine. The typesetter enables the composing room to set types of two sizes on the same line simultaneously. It supplies new type for every advertisement or printing job, assuring sharp, clear reproductions not always possible with handset type.
The mixer linotype also enables the printing shop to produce the printing jobs and the newspaper more quickly and with less lost time, at the same time producing an easier-to-read newspaper.
Larger type in the headlines is the flag which calls the reader’s attention tp stories in which he may find particular interest. New type in every advertisement means that the type will always be of uniform blackness and there will be no broken letters, battered by nearly 8,000 impressions a week on the press.
Another thing the new machine may accomplish is to get tins week’s news set in time to get in this week’s paper; something which has not always been possible in the past. The Herald is different from daily papers, and some weeklies, in that the dailies are all printed at One time, while the Herald has to be printed four pages at a time. As a result, the fomis which go to press on Monday and Tuesday are sometimes filled with less important news articles and the important, last-minute stories are often crowded out of the
last two forms by the necessity of printing all the large food store ads. Since food store managers do not know their week-end prices early in tire week, their advertisements must be included in the last forms to go to press.
Formerly, tire • composing room was faced with die problem of getting everydiing set in time, for die linotype machines are also extensively used in die printing of commercial work and other publications. The new linotype will . ease that situation, but die problem of last-minute news will remain until anodier type of press is purchased, enabling the shop to print die Herald all at one time.
Sometime in die fall, die" Herald staff and plant crew hope to be able to hold an open house, so diat the mysteries of printing and publishing may be viewed and explained to the public.
in Wyoming required over 19,000 feet of pipe! The ends of such pipe must be machined with two matching faces and thread between, so tiiat the muck from the outside cannot get in and the ground up strata inside cannot get out.
Most of the machinery in die plant is automatic, so the workmen mostly just pull levers, push buttons and watch the machinés do the work. One of the most interesting machines is a new half-million dollar automatic furnace, It has an automatic feeder, which drops fairly short, round billets on a turntable, The turn-
table turns slowly, carrying the steel tlirough various temperatures. When it finally arrives at the exit, it is just the right temperature to go dirough die mill. However, the furnace can heat billets at the rate of 175 an hour and die mill can handle only 127, so probably faster rolling equipment Will bç installed there.
Community Calendar
Thursday, .June 16
8:00 p, m, Board of Trade Meeting at the Dorian Club. Attorney Charles
Denby will discuss the proposed relocation of die Community Center, Wednesdny, June 22 St, James’ Bowling League Banquet at Sliannopin Country Club,
June 27 to July 2
All Evening. St. James’ R. C, Church Festival, featuring Gooding’s Shows. At St. James' field, foot of Broad Street, at Bank. Benefit of St. James’ building fund.
Wednesdny, June 29 liOO p.m. Board of Trade stag picnic at Urlings. Dinner at 6:30 p, m,