WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A... (EIGHTH OF 10 PARTS)

Raymond Woltvedt watched the giant kiln turn at the Lone Star Industries manufacturing facility at 2524 S. Sprigg St. in Cape Girardeau.

It's big, says Woltvedt, a first-grade student at Clippard Elementary School.

The kiln, which produces the clinker used in the manufacture of cement, is 235 feet long and 14 feet in diameter.

Woltvedt has also watched the two giant spinning chambers in the finishing room, and a lot of the other big machines and vehicles used in the making of cement.

"I also like all the computers used in making the cement," said Woltvedt, who thinks that being "cement maker" would be an interesting career.

More than a dozen computers are used in the Lone Star Control Room.

"They use the computers to keep up with everything at the plant," said Woltvedt.

Young Woltvedt is familiar with the operations at Lone Star Industries. His father is an employee at the plant.