The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 64, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1968 Page: 4 of 4
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PAGE 4—THE CAMPUS CHAT
Geography Class Visits Steel Mill
One of Great Shows in East Texas
Friday, August 9, 1968
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By SUSAN JORDAN
Chat Staff Writer
Each summer Dr. Waiter Hansen loads
his Geography 442 class onto a bus and
make* a pilgrimage to one of the great
show* in East Texas. He did it again
last week.
The theater was a shed, with standing
room only—no seats provided. Music was
provided by an orchestra of equipment—
with roars, clanks and hisses being the
main sounds. Admission was free, so
everyone gathered round to see the star
put on a show.
It was quite a show
It had everyone in the audience in a
sweat.
The star: an open hearth furnace being
tapped. The set: Lone Star Steel Com
party's mill at Lone Star, near Longview.
The sweating: well, who wouldn't be
sweating after 30 minuter, in a 130-de-
gree room.
THE CLASS, which has 30 members
this year, drops by Lone Star on its
swing through the Piney Woods of East
Texas. Other points of interest on this
year's trip included historic Jefferson
and oil-rich Kilgore.
This trip is one of four taken by the
class. Others are half-day trips to Pilot
Point to see conservation practices on a
farm, to Kenner to visit the Texas Re-
search Foundation and to Wise County
to see the "worst eroded county in the
United States," according to I)r. Hansen.
Dr. Hansen also wanted to include a
tour of the Salt Mines at Grand Saline
in this trip, but the mine has been
closed to tours.
DK. HANSEN, who has made the trip
with his class for the past 12 years, serv-
ed as tour guide. He noted specific points
of interest ouch as physical signs that
signify entrance into the East Texas
geographic region, as the soil color
changed from black to red, and pine trees
and oil derricks became more frequent.
The highlight of the trip was the tour
of the steel plant. Don Hitt, public re-
lations man for Lone Star Steel Co.,
guided Dr. Hansen's class through the
mill aa he has for 12 years.
In its modern laboratory, separate from
the furnace area, samples of the steel
being made are analyzed in seven min-
utes. In older mills, the laboratory is
often found in the same area as the
furnaces.
THE PRODUCTION of steel at Lone
Star begins at the mines a few miles
away. Lone Star has enough ore there to
last 100 years, Hitt said.
At present, Lone Star is experimenting
with methods to beautify mined-over
areas. Hitt said, "Pine trees will prob-
ably be planted."
The blast furnace heats the ore along
with coke and limestone to approximate-
ly 3,000 degrees to make iron. Hitt said
that all blast furnaces are named for
women. He refrained from giving the
exact reasoning on this since there were
women on the tour. Lone Star fondly
refers U> its blast furnace as "Flossie
Helle " This furnace produces as much as
a ton of iron every minute around the
clock.
THE PKi IRON from the blast fur-
nace is put into an open hearth furnace
with scrap, limestone and other ingredi-
ents and heated to 2.8S0 degrees Fahren-
heit to make steel.
To produce a "heat" as a butch of steel
is referred to, the mixture must slay in
the furnace from four and one-half to
five hours. When the laboratory says it
meets specifications, the furnace is tap-
ped into ladles and poured into ingot
molds. Tapping a furnace simply involves
removing the molten steel from the fur-
nace. It is a spectacular sight although
not a most enjoyable one. The tempera-
ture in the shed rose to 140 degrees
when the pale yellow liquid was poured
into the ladle and then into ingots.
AFTER THE STEEL in the ingot has
cooled a bit, the mold is stripped off. The
steel is then reheated and rolled into a
slab five or six inches thick. The slab is
cooled and checked for imperfections. If
an imperfection is found, it is removed
and the slab is rerolled.
The tour of Jefferson was brief, but
Dr. Hansen pointed out the major points
of interest In the late lilth century, Jef-
ferson was the commercial center of
Northeast Texas. River transportation de-
clined when the railroads by-passed Jef-
ferson was the commercial center of
commerce.
MANY OF THE old homes and busi-
ness buildings have been restored. Some
of the homes seen were the Manse, the
oldest home in Jefferson and the best
example of Greek Revival architecture;
the House of the Seasons, built by a
friend of Gen. Sam Houston; and the
Homestead, built in 1861. The Excelsior
House, an antebellum hotel, is still in
use and has housed many famous per-
sons,
Dr. Hansen goes on this trip only in
the summer. His reasoning i* twofold.
In the summer, most of the students ar
graduates and their financial condition
is a bit more stable. They caf\ usually
afford the $-1 for the bus ride. Also, in
the summer, students only miss one
class. In the long term they would miss
more. "It's much more convenient," he
said.
Besides that, Dr. Hansen's students, as
they leave the furnace shed, are perhaps
the only ones in Texas who welcome
August temperatures as a cool relief.
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Denton Selected as Site
For USDA Training Office
By the end of this year a new national
office of the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture will be in operation in Denton
and the city will be the headquarters for
the training group of the USDA meat
and poultry inspection program.
The training group will direct, coordi-
nate and develop the training program
for over 7,000 meat and poultry inspec-
tors who work in 4,000 plants through-
out the nation.
No training will be done here, but the
office will be the national training head-
quarters supervising training centers in
Fort Worth, St. Paul, Minn., Omaha,
Neb., and Los Angeles.
The announcement was made by Con-
gressman Graham Purcell of the 13th
District, which includes Denton County.
Purcell, a member of the House Agri-
culture Committee, said the new meat
and poultry inspection program he spon-
sored in Congress will require extensive
expansion of inspection facilities in the
next few years and he was pleased with
the USDA's selection of Denton.
He added that the selection of Den-
ton was part of a department effort to
decentralise operations. "I believe it is
most logical for such a facility to be lo-
cated here in the Southwest where so
much of the cattle production in the
country is located," he said.
Initially, the office will be staffed by
14 persons including eight veterinarians
and food inspectors. The clerical staff
will be recruited locally.
Dr. Moses Simmons, a career federal
veterinarian with more than lfi years in
the USDA, will head the staff. Dr. Sim-
mons will come U> Denton soon to begin
setting up the office.
No office site has been located in Den-
ton as yet and Dr. Simmons will work out
of the existing USDA offices in Denton
until office space is located.
The department will need about 2,200
square feet of space to begin the pro-
gram.
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Cameron, Randy. The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 64, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1968, newspaper, August 9, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth307430/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.