1956

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Area Changes:

Former American Legion home at the corner of Fourth Street and

St. Lawrence Avenue sold to company on February 21 for $67,500.00.

Increased car parking areas between Fourth Street and Parker

Avenue, St. Lawrence Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue.

Total plant area grew to 17.5 acres with 754,896 square feet of floor area.

Paved truck runways, track and dryer storage approaches.

Host to:

Beloit Iron Works in cooperation with Beloit Education Days hosted

a group of teachers and seniors from Beloit and South Beloit schools. The

host speakers were A. Laage, G. Dietrich, R. Blackburn, and W. Dundore.

On April 9 seventy junior mechanical engineering students from the

University of Wisconsin toured the plant. The host speaker was George

Dietrich.

Lake-State Tappi meeting held here on April 11. After the plant

tour D. R. Simonds lectured on modern press arrangements.

The first helicopter to land and take off from a roof top in Beloit  occured

during Beloit-International conference. The landing platform was erected

on the roof of the pipe roll shop.

The company entertained and hosted the key operating personnel of

International Paper Company with a tour of the plant coupled with a number

of seminar sessions held on the Beloit College campus. The chairmen were

 J. E. Goodwillie, L. Hornbostel, C. Spaulding, and H. C. Moore. The

seminar leaders were T. G. McKee, piping; L. E. Dennis, fourdriniers;-

D. A. Ely, presses; E. J. Justus, noise abatement; H, R. Patterson, dry end;

and E. S. Skinner, dryer sections.

Members of the Young Presidents organization were guests of the company.

The Madison chapter of the American Welding Society were guests

of the company.

Jerry Gannon of Personnel Department was elected president of the

Beloit Safety Council with M. W. Dundore as national representative.