Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-06-03

Extensive hiring of operations
employees at the Anaconda Alum
mum Co. plant is termed two to
three weeks off.
The operations force now totals
Ito, and by early July is expected
to be ESQ. First aluminium pro-;
duction is scheduled tor mid-July
with all 240 pots in operation next
September. Full plant employment
will be $50 jobs.
USING APPLICATIONS
Comment at the plant is that
jobs will be filled for the most
part from applications on file,
though new applications are still
being taken and new interviews
held.
Jobs are to include pot opera
tors with no particular previous
training required, lift truck driv--
ers and laborers.
Meanwhile series OF oriental
ton courses are underway for 40
foremen and supervisors at the
plant. Objective is for each depart
ment to acquaint the others with
its problems and function. The in
tensive orientation courses seem to
be presenting new developments
to American techniques of getting
a new plant started.
Construction employees at the
plant now more than 80 per cent
completed are decreasing. This
weeks total is 1897 down from
last weeks 1,251. The operations
force increased from 103 to ITO.
Foley Constructors, the plants
general contractor, with Donovan
Construction Co., principal sub
contractor, have 1,035 working
compared to 1,083 last week.
Major development at the plant
this week was the Wednesday
and Thursday testing Of the
switchboard which will handle
equivalent power to that required
by a city of 100000 people. This
was a necessary preliminary to
aluminium production five to six
weeks off.
POWER OFF
AT 1l:08 pm. Wednesday the
brightly lit plant went dark. I'm
derWay was cutting in the plant
on the Hot Springs and Grand
Coulee leg of its power supply.
Last Feb. 16 the plant started re-
ceiving power direct from Hungry
Horse Dam. Serving the new alum
mum plant are parallel 230 volt
power lines, somewhat over mile
long, that connect with the mair
100000 volt Hungry Horse to Ho
Springs and Grand Coulee line.
Thursday saw the plant connect
ed both to Hungry Horse and K
Hot Springs. A Bonneville crew
: did the transmission line switch.
! over. s
0 This power line pattern indicate
plant operation. For about SIC
5 months year, Hungry Horse vii
!, be diScharging water and gener
u ating large quantities of power
supplying the plant. For the othe
Q six months after Hungry Hrs
u water is passed to downstream fes
9 ervoirs, Bonneville lines will brin
4 electricity from Grand Coulee an
other federal plants to make alum
9 mum in the F1athead.
# AAC foreman in charge lof til
: rectifier building and switchyar
i is Frank Connors.
+ The rectifier building an,
. sWitchyard installation is part Q
> the Fischbach and Moore (Ney
York and Seattle) joint ventur
: contract which will be complete
= in about six weeks. Other con
5 tractors in the venture are Case
q Electric Co., Seattle and Columbi
g Falls, and Brown-J ohnston, Spo
II. kane. A fs1 4
u Plant transformers were built b
II Westinghouse Electric.
v New employees this week in AAt
d plant operations are William Ris
ken, Butte, electrician; Don Far
II rar, Longview, Wash, chief sub
ID station operation; Kenneth Aver
II i'll, Columbia Falls, former Kaise
le employe at Mead, casting foreman
lg Robert Dahms, Kalispell, past
lie bumper; Jean Pierre Heudier, Mis-
rs soula, French interpreter; Williar
ct Potter, Coram, electrical foreman
y. Dean French, Kalispell, chauffeu
and Ted Langton, Columbia Falll
/ Waterman.