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JANUARY, 1943 ETC 05693 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD --by and for Ethyl employee ETC 05694 NEW SALES PROGRAM TO AID TRUCK CONSERVATION Advertising. Sales and Technical Service Plan Te Be Announced Seen Will Be Real Contribution Te The War Effort At Heme over the country; but the "little fel lows," the owners of only one or two trucks, who own a majority of all the trucks in the country, have done little to insure that their equipment will last for the duration. The Office of Defense Transportation has limi ted facilities for reaching these truck owners, either to spur them on to greater effort or to give them the full information needed. Following the substantial suc Fortunately, the past experiences of our sales representatives and tech cess in the farm tractor field, the joint nical service personnel has equipped planning board of the Sales, Tech them with just the information and nical Service and Advertising De organization needed at this time. By partments is preparing another pro working through our customer oil gram which, it is hoped, will be as companies, every truck owner in the great an aid in the conservation of nation can be reached. Material is trucks and truck equipment as the now being prepared and an inte farm program has proven to be in the grated plan for carrying the story conservation of tractors and tractor of preventive maintenance to owners parts. Details of the proposed plan of one and two trucks will be an have been discussed with the Office nounced in January. of Defense Transportation, which Jack Martin, Eastern Regional has given its enthusiastic approval. Manager for the Sales Department, i, The United States Truck Conser- has been named as coordinator for j vation Corps, promoted by the Office the entire program just as Dick 1 of Defense Transportation following Murphy, Western Regional Man i President Roosevelt's letter to truck ager, is coordinating the farm tractor i owners of last May, has been only a program for all divisions. Jack says ' partial success. The message and the he believes the program will make a detailed information required for a substantial contribution to the main J sound preventive maintenance pro- tenance of American trucks and at ,' gram have been heeded by operators the same time perform a real service of fleets and trucks and buses all for our customer oil companies. 3 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 05695 One Man's Contribution Let's call him Jack White. That isn't his right name, but it will do because it is a typical American name and he is a typical American soldier. Jack was in the crew of a Flying Fortress which was bombing Japs in New Guinea, when out of nowhere came a Zero and poured a burst of fire into the big bomber. The Fort ress' rear gunner shot down the Zero, but too late. Smoke and flame began to pour from one of the bomber's engines. "Bail out, boys!" said the pilot. A stiff wind spread the billowing parachutes over a wide stretch of sky. Jack came down in a tree. He yelled several times to find out if any of his comrades had landed nearby, but his only answer was the weird cries of jungle birds. He was all alone in a trackless wil derness, so the only thing to do was to start walking. It was tough going. Vines and undergrowth tripped him. Branches clawed at him. Myriad mosquitoes and other jungle insects swarmed about his head. As if this weren't enough, darkness brought a heavy rain. Drenched and shivering, Jack kept going, stumbling along in the inky blackness while thorns and sharp sticks tore at his clothes and flesh. Before long he was slogging through mud that came halfway to his kness. Days later he was still pushing on through the jungle. His meagre sup ply of emergency rations had given out, so he ate wild fruits and berries. As this diet was insufficient to sus tain his strength, he found himself growing steadily weaker. Often he tripped and sprawled in the mud, yet he forced himself to rise again and go on. Days and nights went by -- days when he was scorched by a tropical sun and nights when equatorial showers soaked him. He often won dered why he walked and walked -- why he didn't stay down when he fell and abandon himself to the pleasant lethargy which stole over him. But a small insistent voice inside him kept urging him to go on a little farther -- just a little farther -- After 25 days natives found him. He was reeling along like a drunken man and muttering to himself that he must live in order to go back and fight those Japs again. He looked like a walking skeleton. The natives kept him in their vil lage until he was a little stronger. Then they carried him on a stretcher over rough and rugged jungle trails to the base hospital, where he is slow ly recovering his strength. But Jack isn't a very good patient. He is too restless and eager to board another Flying Fortress and return to Jap hunting. Though his body is still emaciated, there is nothing wrong with his spirit. So think of Jack White when you read the War Bond story on the next page, and if you have had a tougher time in this man's war than he had, just disregard this appeal. 4 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY Ii ETC 05696 OUR PART OF THE JOB Look, talks, we're not doing too well with our war bond buying. Fig ures for the corporation as a whole show that only 82.9% of our em ployees are buying bonds through the payroll deduction plan and that the percentage of total payroll going into bonds is 5.98%. These figures would look a lot worse were it not for the fact that one or two depart ments show a high average of par ticipation and payroll deductions. The Manufacturing Department is tops in participation. 90.5%, and second in percentage of payroll allo cated to bonds, 8.47%. Aeronautical Research leads the way in payroll allocation, 9.30%, while Chemical Research is second in the participa tion column, 88.1%. Here is a box score showing the standings of the various depart ments. The percentages are based on the latest figures available, but do not include bond pledges which were received after the December 15th payroll was made up. T OF 1WHT1C1- P \TION Manufacturing 90.5 Chemical Research 88.1 Aeronautical Research 84.6 Engineering Research 84.4 Technical Service 81.8 F inance 80.0 Sales 78.9 Adv. and Public Relations 76.9 Administration 64.3 Medical 55.6 OF TOl'AL I'A VIIOLL 8.47 6.46 9.30 6.23 4.33 4.53 4.40 3 18 3.84 7.14 Not very good, is it? Part of the trouble lies in the fact that certain groups within departments are very low on participation. One group shows only 28.57% participation, an other only 40.0% and still another only 45.5%. We can do better than that! The corporation as a whole should show 100% participation. Under the pay roll deduction plan you can make arrangements for as little as 50 cents a week to be taken out. Certainly everyone can afford to allocate that much. And it isn't as if you were throwing the money down the drain. It's an investment -- one of the best in the world. For every $3 you put 5 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 05697 in you get back $4. These bond pur chases represent savings you will be glad to have later on. Remember we're in a war up to our necks and we've all got to do our part to help win it. If you think you're having a tough time here at home just remember that several million guys have given up everything and are out slogging around in the mud and snow trying to win this war for you. They're being bombed, shot at and torpedoed. If they're willing to do that we ought to be willing to put some of our cash on the line. The Baton Rouge Rotary Club heard a talk by Bill Mundinger on Ethyl's services and organization. Bill spoke at the regular weekly meeting December 9. Lila Peterson, who works in the office of the Bulletin Board and Ethyl News, became the bride of Don Ramme in the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection at St. Albans, L. I., N. Y,, on December 13. The couple are living in St. Albans. ii i I % X 1, Engineering Veteran Wins 15-Year Award William O. Schulze, head of the engineering division at San Berdu, joins the ranks of the 15-year pin winners this month. Away back in 1927 Bill Schulze came from Okla homa to join our engineering depart ment in Detroit. After eight years in the Motor City he was transferred in 1935 to San Berdu. Two years later he celebrated the New Year of 1937 by taking charge of the engineering division out there, a post he has held ever since. A 10-year pin goes to Charles W. Sortman, Aeronautical Research chemist at Detroit. Charlie joined the company in Detroit in 1932 as a lab oratory assistant in Chemical Re search on a temporary basis. This arrangement soon became perma nent, and by 1938 he Was a fullfledged chemist. His transfer to Aeronautical Research occurred in 1939. The only person to win a five-year pin this month is Dr. Lewis Hess, research chemist at Detroit. Tom Stephenson, news editor of The Anti-Knock, Baton Rouge plant publication, made his debut as a father recently. The baby, a boy, bowed into this world at 3 o'clock in the morning of December 4. 6 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY etc 05698 Ethyl Booklet Booms Baby Shop "Merrily We Roll Along" could easily be the title of a song written about the distribution of Ethyl's "What's in a Name?" booklet. The number of copies passed out to an eager public has almost tripled in six weeks, soaring to the surprising total of 611,839 copies as of Decem ber 9. What's more, the Ethyl booklet is really teaming up with Colonel Stork, himself. Out in Green Bay, Wis., Flatow's, a first class baby shoppe in that city, has obtained a number of the booklets from us and is passing them out to anyone who comes into the store and asks for a copy. The local radio station, WTAQ, is broad casting far and wide the fact that these booklets can be obtained at Flatow's, which should bring the customers swarming to that bonnet and bootie emporium. At the time of going to press an up-to-the-minute state-by-state breakdown of the booklet's distribu tion was not available, but enough figures were on hand to indicate that New York's demands were far out in front of those from other states and would remain so, barring an un precedented landslide from some other locality. In second place, also by a wide margin, was sun-bathed California where the skies are always blue (advt.). But requests for the booklet aren't confined to the United States alone. We had one request from Iceland, where someone probably wants to know the meaning of such fine old Scandinavian names as Yohn, Yames, Yacob, and Yoseph. We also have had requests from Canada. Ha waii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Ecuador and the British West Indies. Ethyl is becoming a very prominent gal in the western half of the globe at least. Alan Tully, Atlanta Division man ager, lost his appendix to a surgeon on December 1. When we went to press, Alan was making satisfactory progress on the way back toward his usual health and vigor. 7 BULLETIN BO ARD--J AN4J AR Y ETC 05699 June L. Renn Doris Spence Eleanor Pawling John J. Gibbs Deepwater Data The iirst girl chemist employed at Deepwater is June L. Renn. June graduated from Bucknell University in 1941 and had a year's practical ex perience in the chemical field before coming to Ethyl. She lives in Penns Grove, N. J., and spends her leisure hours studying the fine points of pho tography. Two recent additions to the clerical office force are Doris J. Spence and Eleanor R. Pawling. Both girls came to us direct from Beacom Business College in Wilmington, Del. Doris, who hails from Penns Grove, prefers dancing as her chief form of recrea tion, while Eleanor, whose home is in Salem, N. J., spends her idle hours in various sports. Those two new operators in the blender are John J. Gibbs and Frank G. Thomas, who hail from Wilming ton and Salem, respectively. Both boys are too busy these days, keep ing drums for defense and fluid for flyers on the move, to have any time for hobbies. Sr Frank G. Thomas n j !j H ETC 05700 || dashing sailor lad is Dick Arthur, latest addition to the New York Mail Room statt. Dick, who owns his own boat with which he has won several club championships at the Larchmom yacht CJuJb. cane to thyl from the U. S. Naval Reserve. He joined the Navy last May, spent the summer in training at Newport, R. 1.. and then received an honorable medical dis charge in August. Dick, who lives in New York, is a native of Westchester County, where he attended the Irving School in Tarrytown. L. A* ("Dolly") Dollahan, of the Chicago Division, bagged himseli a nice covey of ducks on a recent hunting trip. Here he is in front of a cabin he occupied at Houghton Lake, Mich. If you look closely at the picture, you'll see a cottontail rabbit included in the day's bag. It's not due to Dolly's marksmanship, however. The poor rabbit met up with the front bumper on his car! Karin Holxn of New York Financial became the bride on November 14 of Lieutenant E. L. Klemens of the U. S. Army Engineers. The ceremony was performed at the Good Shepherd Church in New York and was followed by a reception in the Hunter College Alumnae Rooms in the Hotel Woodward. As the groom was on furlough before reporting to his new post at Fort Banning. Go., the couple took a 700-mile auto trip through New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Karin then accompanied her husband to Fort Benning, where she tried out the Army food by having Thanksgiving dinner there. Not bad. she said. As Lieutenant Klemens' assignment is not permanent, Karin tor the present is living in New York and reporting tor work at the office as usual. 9 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 05701 MILITARY MAIL BAG October 27 I've really enjoyed the two or three letters since the exchange plan went into effect. It looks like part of the gang is seeing a lot of the world these days. I finished my sixteenth month here at Aberdeen on the 19th, and have no idea about how much longer I'll be here. Most of my work has been with medium tanks, both gasoline and diesel. From some of the letters it looks as though quite a few of the Ethyl gang are getting some ex perience with the "coal oil stoves." Fine thing! And the damn things run, too. Herb Sumner and I get together occa sionally (to be truthful, it's darn seldom) and chew the fat -- that is what there is left of it. He tells me he is now taking training in navigation and some of the other "stuff" that the Navy gives out with. I must also add that Jack Bailie and I had one terrific golf game in Wash ington the first part of last summer. Art Brown and I keep the old home fires burning here in "B" Barracks. The bar racks are called bachelor quarters, so that is going to let Art out shortly -- and he had the necessary makings of a good bachelor, too. Lt. Irvin Trowbridge The Proving Center Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. October 6 Time is sure going along at a fast clip here. I've passed the half year mark, so the remainder ought to be easy. In line with Army life, I'm now in school. One usually goes to school for so long, and then starts the other half of the cycle, teaching school. Lt. William J. Ryan Co. M., 11th Infantry 3rd Battalion APO 5, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. October 17 If was swell to hear abouCthe rest of the fellows in the service and how they are getting along. It (the October service letter) reminded me that I have not contributed lately. Since I last wrote, I have been tem porarily assigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma ; I am taking a three months Battery Offi cers course. This course consists of a brief study of motors, of field artillery weapons, and a six weeks course in gun nery, plus a little tactics and communi cations thrown in. It is quite a lot of fun, and I like it fine. We keep plenty busy, and have very little free time. It seems to me from what Joe Cipolla and Doug Blackburn write that the Navy 10 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY I t d ETC 05702 must be a place of leisure. I guess that the field artillery was the wrong place to get. Lt. John Link Box 71 Fort Sill, Oklahoma October 4 Well, I've finished basic training and am now in school -- a school boy again. I've finished the course in direct current and am half through with alter nating current now. I've been moved to a new location and new company. Also, I am a technical corporal now, why I don't know. T/S Albert W. Ramsey Co. A. 804th S.S.R. Camp Crowder, Missouri November 12 rirst. my apologies for not writing before. My intentions were right but I have been d-------busy learning this job of being a soldier, and haven't had time for much else. I was inducted in due course and after a final two weeks fishing fling I reported here. As yet I am unassigned although attached to the Medical Corps Adminis tration Pool of the 3rd Air Force. My work is quite interesting and not foreign completely to my previous training. Ever since I arrived here I have worked in Personnel Administration and teach a class on Medical Administration in the Officers' School. So I'm still public speaking though not relative to gasoline and engines. Military censorship prevents my tell ing you much about the Field here or the activities connected thereto. But my lot is good, my quarters overlook Tampa Bay, the weather so far hot, the food good, and I'm getting fit as a fiddle. Reg ulations state that I must exercise at least one and one half hours each day or else drill. So I'm forced to play tennis and golf every day. It's a rough go. I have been studying a lot and working pretty hard and hope to go to school by the first of the year. May not though. I like the work here a lot and if possible to get promotions would not mind stay ing put. I mean the only drawback is financial. This is one of the larger bomber bases in the South and Detachments of various Corps are maintained here. Also several schools and training centers located here. In connection with the Medical Detach ment and School there is a very large Gen. Hospital serving a large section around here. It's a beautiful spot for an embryo medic student. I'm not so sure about an ex-oilman. With no previous military experience everything was very new to me. But I have learned to make beds, sew on but tons, salute, carry a gun, and all those other little things that make a soldier a soldier. Withal, it's had a brighter side. There were moments when I wasn't sure but I haven't been hurt yet. You can take it from me, it's tough to get up off your fanny after many years of the soft life and drill two hours with a full pack; or take two hours of calisthenics. But you get used to it. Sometimes you even like it. I arise each day at 5:45 (never thought I'd do that) and by 8 I have exercised '/ hour, made a bed, shaved, shined, break fasted and am ready for class. Believe it or not. Must close this and get to work. Drop me a line with all the news and I'll at tempt to answer almost immediately. Private First Class John A. Clark Det. Med. Dept. ^ McDill Field Tampa, Fla. Helen Lankau. of Detroit, said "I do" to John A. Blatecky, a tool and die maker at the Micromatic Hone Co., Detroit, October 17. The bride designed her white wedding gown for the event. She has been with Ethyl at the Engineering Research Laboratories for about a year and is continuing her work as secretary in the accounting office. 11 BULLETIN BOARD--J1CNUAHY ETC 05703 less* ^ Marguerite Chadwick Deris A. Smith 1 New Employees Technical Division Jessie B. Davis. laboratory helper, went to school in Pine Grove. La., is married and has three children. He was formerly a millwright helper at Stone & Webster. TEL Division Marguerite Chadwick, junior stenographer, was with Ethyl less than a week when she changed her name to Mrs. Louis A. Pellerin. She attended Louisiana State University and Baton Rouge Business College, and came to Ethyl from the offices of a local attorney. Finance Department Sue M. Carbo, junior clerk, likes to swim and play softball. She went to school in White Castle, La., and was formerly employed by the Dut ton Motor Co.. Ford dealers. Ethyl Chloride Division Doris A. Smith, junior data clerk, went to Louisiana State University and Baton Rouge Business College. She comes to Ethyl from Baton Rouge Motors. She likes swimming, bowling and dancing. Walter P. Simmons, mechanical helper, was formerly employed as a radio technician. He attended the National Radio Institute and Okla homa A. & M. College, is married, and has one child. 12 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 05704 >s at Baton Rouge Rudolph Brown, mechanical help er, is a former sawmill employee. He is married and has four children. Rilliam C. Ferrington, mechan ical helper, was formerly in the trac tor repair business. He is married and the father of five children. Glenn H. Watts, mechanical help er, is married and has two children. He was formerly a mechanic at Hard ing Field. Samson Baum, operator helper, was formerly employed by a bakery in Port Allen, La. He is the father of three children. Bari /. Andre, mechanical helper, comes to Ethyl from the Louisiana Highway Commission. He is married and has two children. Raymond /. Gascon, operator helper, comes to Ethyl from the Gulf Refining Co. at Plaquemine, La. He is married and has five children. Roosevelt P. Dupuy, operator helper, was formerly a bakery sales man in Independence, La. He went to school in Marksville, La., is mar ried and has two children. Rudolph Brow. William C. Farrington Samson Baum etc 05T05 as Jack around, there's no need to worry about meat rationing. On a trip through Utah recently with Dr. Sanders, Jack came upon the sign, "All Sheep and Cattle Turn Here." What goes on here, anyhow? Can the livestock in that territory honestly read, or is someone pulling our leg? All Jack tells us is that the sign speaks for itself. But how about the cattle? Meat on the Table Jack Cole, Seattle Division's safety engineer at Casper, Wyo., had prom ised us a snapshot of his yearly deer or elk, but look at what he came up with instead! Anyway, his one day's take of geese and pheasant looks mighty good to us. That big one he's holding in his hand is enough to make your mouth water. With marksmen such Busy Week-end The lost weeJf-end in November was one of the most important in the life of Redge Bushell, formerly of the New York Division and now on military leave. On November 28 Redge became the husband of the former Caroline Brookins of Bernardsville, N. J., in a wedding cere mony performed at the Little Church of the Flowers, Glendale, Calif. Two days later Redge, who for the past nine months has been an Air Corps cadet studying meteorology at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, graduated with a sec ond lieutenant's commission. Redge's work in this course was so good that he was one of a group of six men, out of a class of nearly a hundred, who were picked to remain at California Tech as instructors for the next group of students. 14 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY I ETC 05706 What's Doing in San Berdu Rollin Gish reports from the Desert Training Center at Camp Young, Cal., where he, Gil Way and Dick Rice are engaged in some test work for the Army. Says he: "We are liv ing in tents, shaving with cold water, eating sand, and proving to our satis faction that there's no place like home." Lieutenant Paul Straub, who was a research engineer at San Berdu, paid a visit to the lab just before leaving for action in the Pacific. Paul was assigned to the post of chief en gineering officer on a new submarine. Before obtaining this assignment he had served as a repair officer at the Mare Island Navy Yard. The gang at San Berdu hopes his Jap hunting in the Pacific will be as good as his duck hunting on the Salton Sea in California. The picture of Paul in uniform was taken in front of the lab during his visit. Lieutenant Paul Straub Elmer Malhke, of the Gasoline Testing Department, San Berdu, be came the proud father of a son on October 29. The youngster's name is David. Although Elmer has been demoted to third best at home and must do KP duty every night, he has a smile that won't wear off. Dr, Ed Kurt of Baton Rouge was one of the Quiz Kids on a radio pro gram over station WJBO, that city, on November 30. The East Baton Rouge Parish Civil Defense Council sponsored the program, which was one of a weekly series on "Chemistry and War." Ed and two other chem ical engineers of Baton Rouge an swered the questions, but it was all in the bag for Ed, as Barry Barringer, our public relations man at Baton Rouge, wrote the script. Ethyl gave up two executives to the Army recently when Claire Dees, Baltimore Division manager, and Jim Boudreau, former Chicago Di vision manager who is acting West ern Regional Manager, donned the khaki. Both men were commissioned captains. We haven't much detailed information on their duties at press time, but we understand that Claire is with the Service of Supply in Washington, while Jim is in Chicago. 15 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 05707 Write the Boys in the Service! Following is a list of the 160 Ethyl men reported in service when we went to press, classified according to where they worked when they re ceived military leave from the com pany. As far as possible, we have in cluded the address and rank of each man, but transfers are so frequent these days and promotions come so suddenly that we cannot always be 100% accurate. So don't feel hurt if we give a wrong address and rank for any one of you. Instead, help us out by sending us the correction. And you boys and girls who are not in service would be doing a big thing for these boys if you would write them often. Some of them are in isolated posts where letters from outside are their only diversion. Give them a lift by writing them, even if it is only a few lines. Died in Service Ensign Kenneth G. Lee Detroit Private Robert A. Ackerman II No address Private James M. Anders, Jr. Box 786 Kanawa, Okla. Ensign M. J. Anderson 532 Burnside Eastport, Md. Lieutenant John D. Bailie Bradley Hills Country Club Bethesda, Md. Private Marlyn J. Beane 1921st QM Co. Dale Mabry Field Tallahassee, Fla. Lieutenant Walter R. Benson 602nd FA Battalion Camp Carson, Colo. Lieutenant James F. Bessire 33rd Armored Eng. Bn. 7th Armored Division Camp Polk, La. Ensign Douglas B. Blackburn^ Section Base Morehead City, N. C. George J. Burcal No address Ensign W. L. Carlson U. S. Naval Eng. Exp. Station Annapolis, Md. Private Ralph A. Carpenter Platoon 872 Marine Corps Base San Diego, Calif. Ensign Joseph A. Cipolla 26 State Normal Place Jersey City, N. J. 16 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 057 Lieutenant Theodore S. DuBose Infantry School Fort Benning, Ca. Private Charles D. Ehrhardt, Jr. Co. C, Training Group, A.F.S. Fort Knox, Ky. Lieutenant R. R. Faller Naval Training School Dartmouth College Hanover, N. H. Lieutenant Howard E. Hesselberg Hq. 1st Bn., 30th FA, APO 942 Seattle, Wash. Lieutenant Daniel A. Hirschler 12th Photographic Squadron Army Air Base Colorado Springs, Colo. Lieutenant John R. Howard Aberdeen Proving Grounds Aberdeen, Md. Major William H. Hubner APO 501 Hq. U.S.A.F.I.A. San Francisco, Calif. Lieutenant Arthur E. Huffman Palmer Lane Apts. State Fair & Woodward Detroit, Mich. Lieutenant Thomas B. Jones 2423 N. Underwood St. East Falls Church, Va. Lieutenant Karl H. Kuhn Wright Field Power Plant Lab. E.E.S. Dayton, Ohio Master Sergeant E. J. Kukla Headquarters Battery 27th Div. Artillery, APO 27 San Francisco, Calif. Private Joseph Laetham Co. C, 14th Tr. Bn. Fort McClellan, Ala. Lieutenant John B. Link Box 71 Fort Sill, Okla. Lieutenant Norman J. Linstromberg 640 TD Bn., APO 1288 San Francisco, Calif. Lieutenant James M. Mason, Jr. Ground School Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla. Aviation Cadet J. E. Minnock Air Force Detachment Valley Forge Military Academy Wayne, Pa. Private Andrew Pallay No address Technical Sergeant Albert W. Ramsey Co. A. 804th SSR Camp Crowder, Miss. Ensign H. C. Sumner 4 Revell Street Annapolis, Md. Lieutenant Irwin Trowbridge Aberdeen Proving Ground Aberdeen, Md. Lieutenant A. E. Vallier 210 East Mount Hope Lansing, Mich. Ensign Ralph J. Wahrenbrock U. S. Naval Eng. Exp. Station Annapolis, Md. Lieutenant Eugene J. Ziurys U. S. Navy University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz. New York Private Edward A. Britt USMC No address Lieut. R. D. Bushell 34 Hudson Place Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. Cadet Northrop Clarey, Jr. Coast Guard Academy New London, Conn. 17 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 05709 Coxswain Donald Forsdick U. S. Coast Guard Station Pier 18 Stapleton, S. I., N. Y. Chief Specialist Gerald Forsdick Aviation Free Gunnery School Hollywood, Fla. George Geiger No address Lieutenant Benjamin D. Harrison Parkview Apts. Market at 23rd Harrisburg, Pa. D. Frank Hayes 265 Eighteenth Avenue Paterson, N. J. John Higgins No address Philip King No address Private John McMaster No address Seaman Kenneth G. Morse Receiving Station 495 Summer Street Boston, Mass. Lester B. Roberts No address James Russell No address Lieutenant William J. Ryan Co. M, 3rd Bn., APO 5 New York, N. Y. Captain Russell Schell 593rd Engineer Boat Regiment Camp Carabelle, Fla. F. D. Williams No address Baton Rouge Lieutenant F. D. Atkinson C.O. Ordnance Detachment A.B. Detachment, Wright Field Dayton, Ohio 18 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY Motor Machinist J. L. Bagents USCGR, South Yacht Club New Orleans, La. Private John P. Black Co. D Replacement Center Bowman Field, Ky. 1 Private Burl G. Boggs Co. B, 326 Glider Inf. 83 Airborne Drive Camp Clairborne, La. Corporal D. C. Bolin, Jr. 316 Adams Street Montgomery, Ala. Private P. L. Breeden 318th Q.M. Depot (MT) Camp Bowie, Texas James F. Bridges Coast Guard Training School Machinist Mates School Curtis Bay, Md. Private Thomas E. Bridges Squadron 303, Flight VOC Air Technical School Keesler Field, Miss. ; I | Private Adams L. Brooks Co. B, 428th Sig. Construction Bn. Avn. Camp Pinedale, Calif. Randolph S. Charlton Medinah Club of Chicago 505 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, 111. George William Chavers General Delivery Ardmore, Okla. Henry Clemons USCGR Co. 21 8th Naval District New Orleans, La. Chief Specialist Reynolds M. Collins 217 Oak Grove Drive Norfolk, Va. Aviation Cadet Richard H. Colvin Cadet Squadron 109, Flight H San Antonio Avn. Cadet Center San Antonio, Texas ' | 51 ETC 05710 Douglas D. Davis Co. C, 5th Sig. Tr. Bn. Camp Kohler Sacramento, Calif. Edward G. Duffard, Jr. 3319 Cleveland Avenue New Orleans, La. Coxswain Jason D. Fenlason USCGR, Gulfport Yacht Club Gulfport, Miss. Private William Roy Flory Reception Center Camp Beauregard, La. Private Wilford E. Frazier Battery G, 204th CA (AA) San Diego, Calif. Lieutenant B. W. Fridge No address Edgar W. Gates 3802 Plank Road Baton Rouge, La. Lou D. Hill Armed Guard Pacific Treasure Island San Francisco, Calif. Corporal H. J. Holdridge 744 Ordnance Co. 44th Inf. Division Fort Lewis, Wash. Private Phebus N. Hotard Battery E, AAS, OCD Platoon 2 Camp Davis, N. C. Private Rufus M. Jackson Battery B 7th FA Observation Bn. Camp Shelby, Miss. James N. Johnson Co. A, 123rd Q.M. Bn. (Trk.) New Orleans Staging Area New Orleans, La. Luther Conley Juban Co. C, 363rd Engineering Regt. Camp Clairborne, La. Lieutenant R. C. Kendrick Co. 18, B 39 1st Student Training Regt. Fort Benning, Ga. Robert C. Lambert, Jr. No address William Gordon Lefeaux Co. D, 80th Inf. Training Bn. Camp Roberts, Calif. Russell H. Mahan U. S. Army Co. C, Reception Center Camp Beauregard, La. Corporal J. B. Marshall 907 Air Base Security Bn., Co. A Camp Rucker, Ala. Private L. E. Massey Co. B, 2nd Bn. SCRTC Camp Kohler Sacramento, Calif. Charles H. Mathis No address Private Richard T. McCraine O'Reilly Gen. Hospital Med. Det., U. S. Army Springfield, Mo. Seaman David Henry McNeil No address Lieutenant George T. Mercier^ USN Wesson, Miss. Private Woodrow W. Merritt Hdqs. & Serv. Co. 86th Engrs. (HP) Camp Gordon, Ga. Raymond H. Metternick No address Lieutenant Arthur H. Middleton Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, La. Lieutenant Leo A. Miller Reception Center Camp Beauregard, La. 19 BULLETIN BOARD -- JAN-ILARY ETC 05711 Ensign Cooper N. Mills S99 Bedford Road Pleasantville, N. Y. Private T. A. Mitchell 301 Tech. School Sqdn. Flight 565, Bks. 24 Keesler Field, Miss. Lieutenant T. M. Mixon care H. B. Overstreet Moss Point, Miss. Staff Sergeant John R. Montgomery 766th MP Bn., Camp Robinson Little Rock, Ark. Seaman First Class R. H. Murphy Co. C, Pin. 6, 27th Naval Constn. Bn. Camp Bradford Norfolk, Va. Private Frank S. Neal Training Detachment 3, Co. G 533rd Engineering Shore Regt. Camp Edwards, Mass. Corporal George B. Noland Battery A, 47th FA Fort Bragg, N. C. Sergeant Robert D. Norwood Detachment Medical Dept. Station Hospital Camp Bowie, Texas Private Walter J. Rantanen Co. C, 82nd Chem. Bn. Fort Bliss, Texas Seaman Joseph T. Reed 111 First Street Panama City, Fla. Homer E. Sanders No address Private Arnold Severson Flight 4-A 354th Technical School Sq. (SP) ORTC, AAFTTC Kearns, Utah Herbert Ross Warnock No address 20 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY 4122 Military Road Washington, D. C. David C. Whittington No address Allen White Co. B, 365th Eng. Reg. (GS) Camp Campbell, Ky. Henry K. Wright No address Cadet Woodrow F. Zachariah 318th Tech. School Sqd. Barracks 637 Sheppard Field. Texas Deepwater Sergeant Everett L. Clough OCS Overhead, FAS K 1 Fort Sill, Okla. Radio Tech. Second Class J. L. Ebell Fleet Service School Virginia Beach, Va. Corporal J. P. Gifting Hq. 33rd CA Brigade (AA) San Diego, Calif. Captain J. Robert Greenwood A Battery 311th CA Barrage Balloon Bn. Camp Tyson, Tenn. Stephen N. Hall US NR, 505 Tower Hall Chicago. 111. Private John A. Miller 7th SS, Flight 384 Chanute Field Rantoul, 111. Coxswain Noble Joe Nixon Naval Detachment c/o Postmaster, APO San Francisco, Calif. Lieutenant John F. Wallis Battery C, 57th CA, APO 952 San Francisco, Calif. i I I ETC 05712 Private Lynn A. Wilmot Medical Detachment Room 956, Haddon Hall Atlantic City, N. J. Atlanta Lieutenant Arthur S. Brown Main Post Aberdeen Proving Grounds Aberdeen, Md. Private Stuart Forbes 1530 Seward Avenue Detroit, Mich. Lieutenant Raymond H. Luke 8th Federal District Naval Bldg. . New Orleans, La. Lieutenant W. H. Phipps 9 Story Street Cambridge, Mass. George P. Rosser No address Captain Wayland W. Sweeney No address Captain S. J. Warner, J r. APO 871 c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Joseph E. Williams Officers Training School Aberdeen, Md. Baltimore Dwight F. Andrews No address Captain H. Claire Dees No address Captain Robert W. Hogan No address Lieutenant John S. Maynard Industrial Dept. U- S. Navy Yard P*arl Harbor, Hawaii Lieutenant Fritz Y. Mercer c/o Postmaster San Diego, Calif. Ensign Marshall McDorman No address Boston Lieutenant L. H. Blatchford Plaza Hotel San Antonio, Texas Robert W. Richardson No address Chicago Captain James E. Boudreau No address John A. Clark No address Lieutenant Idan E. Flaa 360 Bradley Avenue Flint, Mich. Lieutenant Howard B. Hudiburg 123 Cascade Drive Mill Valley, Calif. Lieutenant Miles A. Kinley 4906 Eleventh Street North Arlington, Va. Lieutenant John W. Miller 508 Rex Street Elmhurst, 111. Samuel P. Rady No address Charles Towery No address Dayton Emerson Blair No address Lieutenant S. T. Pruitt Sacramento Air Depot Sacramento, Calif. Kansas City D. W. Bell No address 21 BULLETIN BOARD-JXNUARY ETC 05713 Los Angeles Lieutenant Hamilton G. Greenup No address Captain Monroe F. Weill Co. C, 58th Q.M. (HM) Presidio San Francisco, Calif. Seattle Ray M. Brown, Jr. No address Lieutenant Robert R. Mead 422 Eleventh Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah Tulsa Franklin E. DeVore No address Lieutenant W. Webster Downer Ordnance Department Augusta Arsenal Augusta, Ga. Lieutenant Levan R. Fleck AAS Camp Davis, N. C. Lieutenant Arthur Dale Miller 69th CA (AA) Battery C San Diego, Calif. Ensign Fred W. Ramin USNR, Dartmouth College Hanover, N. H. Lieutenant J. M. Rollins 4136 Emerson Street Dallas, Texas San Bernardino Lieutenant Paul F. Straub Navy Yard Mare Island, Calif. Cincinnati Lieutenant Colonel Willard F. Machle Armored Force Physiological Lab. Fort Knox, Ky. Here He Comes. Girls! Alfheugh (he gals in the vicinity of Camp Edwards, Mass., may be mourning, the Southern belles who live near Camp Carabelle, Fla., are in a gala mood, for Captain Russ Schell of the 593rd Engineer Boat Regiment, Ethyl's most dashing Don Juan, was recently transferred from the northern to the southern base. The handsome Captain, looking fit and sassy in his uniform, dropped in at his former headquarters, the New York office, on his way to the Sunny Southland. His only complaint was that he had had to sleep in a tent all through the cold weather of a New England autumn. "That kind of thing is all right for young fellows who still like to camp out," said the Captain. "But a soft, wide bed is the answer for an old fellow like me." At this point someone remarked that the Captain's age hadn't de creased his irresistible lure for the fair sex, whereupon the Captain grinned wickedly. Russ didn't know how long he was going to be at Camp Carabelle, but he thought, to put it into the words of the fortune teller, he would soon be taking a long trip over water. What a break that will be for the gals in some distant corner of the globe! 22 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 057 No Longer With Us Lorena Mazal, Detroit Irene Staley, Detroit Donald L. Boren, San Bernardino Elma I. Smith, Dayton Walter Hooper, Detroit Emily Wright, New York Harry Perkins, Detroit Edward J. Ryan, Jr., New York Louis G. Richter, Atlanta or destructive. Also, if it is easier for you to send me a story direct instead of through your correspondent, let me have it, provided such a course does not conflict with the wishes of your department head. Let's work together to build a big ger and better Bulletin Board! Frank Adriance To Readers and Correspondents Miss your December Bulletin Board ? You weren't the only one. be cause there wasn't any December is sue. The loss of North Clarey to the Coast Guard and shifts in our staff of correspondents jammed up our schedule, so we decided to drop one issue in order to get out succeeding issues on time. To keep on schedule we are going to adhere to a rigid deadline, which will be the 15th of the month previ ous to the month of issue. Thus, ior the February issue, the deadline will be January 15, so help your corre spondent by giving to him or her a couple of days ahead of this deadline date any news items you may have. Incidentally, I have been placed in charge of getting out the Bulletin Board, and it is my wish to continue to turn out a publication which will please you readers. If you have any ideas or suggestions for the improve ment of our. magazine, be sure to let me know about them. I will welcome any criticism, whether constructive BOUND VOLUMES AVAILABLE Hew many of you want bound vol umes of Ethyl News for the year 1942 ? They will be available as in the past, and at the same price -- $2.25 per volume. However, we have only enough extra sets to make up 125 vol umes so we'll have to operate on a "first come, first served" basis. Last year we weren't foresighted enough to lay aside extra copies of the Bulletin Board for binding and as a result had to turn down a number of requests. We've done aJittle better this year and there are enough extra copies on hand to make up 70 vol umes. They will be bound in a dark blue buckram and priced at $1.75 per copy. Again it's a case of "first come, first served" -- only more so. Will you send in your orders as soon as possible so we can give the binders some idea of how many vol umes will be required? Orders for both Ethyl News and Bulletin Board should be sent to Bill Heggen, care the company, Chrysler Building, New York. 23 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 05715 nEugene Betzold, new member of the Detroit Engineering Laboratories, wili assist in hand/im? the business affairs of the Lab. Born in Catonsville, Maryland, he studied engineering and played football at Johns Hopkins. Gene's extra-curricuiar activities mciude being secretary of the Reimway Woods Home Own ers' Association and senior post warden tor the OCD. He has also been a three-time blood donor. Gene piays a iittie goif and hunts pheasant and quad tor relaxation. Donald L. Jennings, new accountant-in charge at the Engineering Laboratories at De troit, is a graduate of DePaw Univetsity and of Indiana University, where he studied business administration. Before coming to Ethyl Don was associated with the Equitable Life Assurance Society for ten years, working tor the company in Des Moines. Chicago. New York. Rochester and Detroit. He and Mrs. Jennings live in De troit where he pursues his hobbies, photography and wood-working, and she pursues their two iittie giris, aged two and five. Kaye Donahue, the new mail girl at the Laboratories m Detroit, is a veteran entertainer, having made her debut in the entertainment worid at the age of i1 2 years by sitting on a piano and singing "Springtime in the Rockies." The nine Donahue children all sing and dance, with Mrs. Donahue at the keyboard. Kaye says the farthest they ever transported their talents in person was to Chicago, but they have ap peared on the radio as "The Kennedy Kids." sponsored by a milk company. For the past ten years the family has put on its own minsfrei show. "The Donahue Review." but since five of the nine children are boys and three are in the Army, this is out for the duration at Jeast. Kaye also plays basketball and jce skates, and her ambition is to continue her art studies. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY 05n6 ETC Two member! of the Baton Rouge staff have just completed late vaca tions. Jesse Savario anticipated gaso line rationing and brushed up on riding at a dude ranch in Texas. Phyllis Barton went home to Napoleonville, Louisiana, and, as she de scribed it, "I just sat on the porch and rocked." Ed Minneek of the Engineering Research Laboratories at Detroit, who has been a pilot since 1936. up and sold his airplane, joined the Army Air Forces, and reported for basic training at Valley Forge Mili tary Academy, Wayne, Pa., on Nov. 23. After graduation from Texas A. & M. College in 1941, Ed became a Faller student in the class of '42. He worked on the bus tests in St. Louis for a while, coming from there to the Engineering Lab Oct. 1. Bob Ackerman was inducted in the Army Nov. 25, from his home district in New Jersey. Bob was graduated from Lehigh University, and entered the Ethyl organization through the Faller course. After com pletion of his training, Bob was in the field organization, in the New York and the Baltimore divisions, and was in charge of bus tests at Hagerstown, Md. It's Ensign Fred Ramin now. Fred, formerly oi the Tulsa Lab. reported for indoc trination at Dartmouth College on November 23. He was replaced by an old-timer. William C. Ludt. formerly of the Yonkers Gasoline Test ing Laboratory. Patricia Ann Beyer is the beautiful new addition crt Tulsa Lab. Pat. a native Tulsan, comes to us izom Douglas Aircraft, and takes over the duties oi Gladys Rodgers, who re signed her position as secretary to join her Coast Guardsman husband in Miami, Fla. Pat's hobby is music. 25 bulletin board--January ETC 057J7 Stork Busy at Deepwater There was much cigar smoking during the latter part of November around the office at Deepwater in celebration of the arrival of two more Ethyl newcomers. On November 17 Merritt Martin, his chest inflated at least a foot, reported for work bear ing the news that it was a 7%-pound boy, Robert Ulrich Martin, who had arrived at the Memorial Hospital in Wilmington. Not to be outdone by a. blender operator, Tom Davis of the traffic department sent word to the office November 23 that the arrival of his fourth daughter had added another half pound a week to the Davis fam ily sugar ration. Dorothy Taylor Davis, weighing just a quarter ounce under seven pounds, was born in the Salem Hospital. Following the trend of the times, our Baton Rouge plant has begun to hire women workers. Except for of fice workers, this is the first time members of the fair sex have been employed in the plant. Five have al ready reported for duty and six more will be taken on shortly. The new girls are working in the store rooms. The Shift Key Frank Jobes. Engineering, Detroit to Tulsa Division N. B. Hedden. Sales, Chicago to Engineering, Detroit B. G. Crane. Sales, Chicago to New York General William C. Ludt, Technical Serv ice, Yonkers to Technical Service, Tulsa George Krieger, our agricultural engineering division manager and the fellow who sparked the trend toward high compression farm trac tors, has received a summons from the War Production Board. His re cent appointment as deputy director of the Board's farm machinery and equipment division has been an nounced from Washington. Miss Ollie Porter was married to Lieutenant Arthur S. Brown, U. S. Army, on November 28 in the Main Chapel, Aberdeen Proving Ground. Before being called into the service, the bridegroom was connected with the clinic in the Atlanta Division. He was inducted into the Army at Aber deen and has been stationed there ever since. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 05718 ETC 05719  i* Ethyl-4i BULLETIN 4 BOARD <# -4 v-V. FEBRUARY, 1943 .:3 ETC 05720 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD- by and for Ethyl employ4 ETC 05721 WE AID THE ARMED FORCES j It's gasoline that makes the wheels | go round on vehicles of the fighting services, but gasoline won't do a jeep or a tank much good if that ma chine breaks down. That is why the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard are operating so many schools to train both officers and men on repair and maintenance. And that is where Ethyl representatives come in. Do you know that our field men and safety engineers are working hand in hand with the armed forces to keep the wheels and propellers turning? They are taking part in many of the educational programs set up by the different branches of the service -- conducting meetings, giving lectures and demonstrations, advising on motor transport com plaints. They are helping to inaugu rate programs to teach engine main tenance, trouble shooting, tune-up and allied subjects to service me chanics. They are conducting classes for company commanders, motor officers and civilian advisors. In addition, we are loaning to the armed forces necessary equipment, including dynomometers, demon stration engines, movies of combus tion and other subjects, carburetors with lucite windows so mechanics can see what goes on inside, slides on fuels and engines, etc. Frank Jobes of the Tulsa Division has compiled into a textbook for Army use a large amount of preventive maintenance material. Every one of our divisions is working with the armed forces. In Seattle the big job is at Camp Lewis, about which you read in the October issue of Ethyl News. In ad dition. this division is organizing similar driver training programs at Camp Adair and Camp White. The Los Angeles Division has loaned Frank Elliott and Charlie White to the Army at Camp Young, Calif., where for several weeks they have been at work on the testing of new tanks and new tank designs under desert conditions. Los Angeles has also been cooperating with the Pre- I HITT.T.FTtU W . ...3 osiDfiittfiw ETC 05722 1 sidio at San Francisco and with the Army Air Corps mechanics who are training at the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Oakland, Calif. The Tulsa and Kansas City Divi sions have a wealth of camps and bases in their territories. The Tulsa schedule includes aid to mechanics' schools at Sheppard Field. Spartan School of Aeronautics, Southwest ern Technical School of Aeronau tics, Normoyle Quartermaster De pot, Camp Wolters, Army Air Corps Technical Training Command, Brady School of Aviation, Kelly Field, Terrell Aviation School, Hicks Field, and the Army Air Corps Primary Pilot Training School, among others. Kansas City has been active at Fort Riley, Camp Crowder, Fort Crook, the Quarter master Corps Motor Mechanics School. Fort Leonard Wood, the Missouri Aviation School, the Na tional School of Aeronautics, and various other posts in the Seventh Corps Area. Coming east to Chicago we find that Bill Polachek has set up a prac- tical training program at Camp Mc Coy. Meetings are also being con ducted by us at Fort Sheridan, Fort Brady, Chanute Field, Great Lakes Naval Base, Navy Pier, Navy Teach ers Training School, Navy Glen View Base, Aeronautical Univer sity, and Camp Custer. j In Atlanta the boys are concentrating most of their efforts on the Fourth Service Command Motor School, but they are also giving time to Fort Benning and other posts in the Southland. Dayton's big outpost is Fort Knox, but other important units which welcome our assistance are the Fifth Corps Area, Fort Hayes, Wright Field, Signal Corps Depot, Camp Atterbury, Camp Campbell, and several Army me chanics' schools located throughout the territory. The Boston Division did an out standing job at Pine Camp. Its men also are working with Fort Devens. the Coast Guard Academy, the United States Military Academy, the Quartermaster's Depot at Schen ectady, the Army Base -at Bangor, Me., Stewart Field at Newburgh, N. Y., the pre-flight cadets at Hamil ton College and Colgate University, the reserve forces students at Rens selaer Polytechnic Institute, the Navy Schools at Wentworth Insti tute in Boston, the Groton Coast Guard Training Station, and the Army and Navy Officers' Engine School in Hartford. Out of the New York Division they are assisting the Motor Trans port School at Miller Field, the Coast Guard, the Brooklyn Navy 1 !, 1' i :i it i ETC 05723 Yard, the Army Air Forces Techni cal Training Command, the Navy Technical Combat Squadron, the Marine Corps Motor Transport School, the Port of Embarkation, Fort Dix, and Camp Kilmer. Balti more looks after the Aberdeen Prov ing Grounds, the Aberdeen Ord nance Replacement Center, the Edgewood Arsenal. Camp Holabird, the Third Service Command Trans port School, Fort Pendleton, Fort Monroe, Fort Eustis, Fort Bragg, Fort Jackson, and the Quantico and Cherry Point Marine bases. Quite an extensive schedule of aid to our armed forces, isn't it? Even if most of our divisions weren't short handed because of the boys going into the service, they would have plenty of work to keep them busy from now until the demise of Hitler. Midgley Named Chemical Society Head Tom Midgley, our vice president, has added another to the long list of honors which he has accumulated. This time he has been named presi dent of the American Chemical So ciety for 1944. Formerly chairman of the board of the Society, he took office as president-elect on January 1, when Dr. Per K. Frolich, director of the Chemical Division of Esso Laboratories, became president. One week later, on January 8, Mr. Midgley was a speaker at a meeting of scientists and industrialists at the Hotel Commodore in New York, at which Dr. Robert E. Wilson, presi dent of the Pan American Petrol eum & Transport Company, was awarded the Perkin Medal, an award for scientific achievement. At this meeting Mr. Midgley and Dr. Wil son were in reversed positions, for on January 8. 1937, when Mr. Midg ley was awarded the Perkin Medal, Dr. Wilson spoke on the accomp lishments of Mr. Midgley. Ever since this nation became ac tively engaged in a program of na tional defense Mr. Midgley has been a member of the National De fense Council, a group which has done a tremendous amount for the promotion of wartime research. Any invention submitted to the Council, no matter how screwy it may appear, is given careful attention. As a re sult not a few devices have been dis covered and developed wfuch will aid us to win the war. But don't write this off as Mr. Midgley's chief contribution to our win-the-war drive. If it were not for his discovery of tetraethyl lead our bombing planes would not fly any where near as far or as fast, nor would they be able to lift such heavy loads out of comparatively small fields. The development of syn thetic rubber, too, has received in valuable aid from the research of Tom Midgley. When you stop to think of it, this is quite a sizeable 5 BULLETIN BOARD -- FEBRUARY ETC 05724 contribution for one man. so there is no reason for surprise whenever he receives another well deserved award. * TO YOU BOYS IN UNIFORM! Do you expect to be sent overseas ? If so. do you wish to keep on receiv ing the Bulletin Board? If you do wish us to continue mailing the Bulletin Board to you, we must have a letter from you to that effect. Here is the new military regulation about employee publications: "Magazines and newspapers may be mailed to a soldier only by the publisher and only if the soldier is a subscriber. (A subscriber of an em ployee publication, which is dis tributed free, is one who has asked for it in writing.) However, the sol dier will be free to subscribe to any newspaper or magazine he wishes, and will not require special permis sion to do so." A word to the wise is sufficient! The Boys Want Mail Wouldn't you like to get as many letters as possible if you were far from home? Well, so do the boys in the armed services. So write them as often as you can. And don't say you can't write because you don't know the right address. The Bulle tin Board has listed addresses in al most every issue and right now we are inaugurating an entirely new service. Here it is: If you don't know a service man's address and can't find it anywhere, just send your letter to him to the New York office, care of the Bulletin Board. From the time we receive it 6 BULLETIN BOARD-FEBRUARY we will do our darndest to see that it is forwarded to the right address. Here in New York we have ways and means of digging out obscure ad dresses which are unavailable to most of you. so we will be more than glad to assist you to get in touch with your friends in the Army, Navy. Marines or Coast Guard. Ten new names have been added to the military honor roll since the last issue of the Bulletin Board went to press. Included among these are Arnold Webb and Dan Renshaw from New York. Joe Hobart and Bob Stevenson from Detroit, and Claude Ezell, Curtis Williams, Ellis Hogan, John Gryar, John Carter, and Robert Rich from Baton Rouge. Their addresses are given below. j !, * i < Private E. Arnold Webb Co. G, Barrack 6 1st Signal Training Regt. Fort Monmouth, N. J. J ETC 05725 Seaman Robert W. Stevenson Lyons Hall, Room 103 Naval Training Station Cornell University Ithaca, N. Y. Private Daniel E. Renshaw Co. H, 399 Infantry, APO 100 Fort Jackson, S. C. Aviation Cadet Joseph A. Hobart 43-9, T-499 Air Cadet Detachment Chanute Field Rantoul, 111. Claude B. Ezell, AMM 2/c V2-M, USS Essex Fleet Post Office New York, N. Y. Curtis Williams 814 Reddy Street Baton Rouge, La. Ellis L. Hogan 428 Atkinson Street Baton Rouge, La. John C. Gryar 509 Cambouzou Street Baton Rouge, La. John F. Carter 2321 Florida Street Baton Rouge, La. Robert W. Rich 604 St. Ferdinand Street Baton Rouge. La. A Message from MacArthur A telegram from General Douglas MacArthur. addressed "To The Men And Women Of E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Inc., And Of Ethyl Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana." was read at a recent foremen's safety meeting at the plant. The message, which was sent in recognition of the accomplish ments of the plant in the war effort, was as follows: "On this sacred day of our Lord we soldiers on the firing line give thanks to you soldiers on the pro duction line for the sinews of war that make victory possible. We are dedicating this Christmas Day, the day after, and every day thereafter until we establish Peace on Earth and Good Will To Men." Goes to Mexico for Ethyl Lynn Phillips, recently named our representative in Mexico and Central America, paid a visit to the New York office in December. Be fore his definite appointment, Lynn, who formerly was a field man in the Tulsa Division, spent four months in his new territory, where he made a thorough survey of existing con ditions. Lynn's headquarters are in Mexico City, where he is living at the Hotel Reforma. Joseph A. Hobart, engineer at the Detroit Lab, entered the armed forces as an aviation cadet Novem ber 27. You can write him at 43-9, T-499. Air Cadet Detachment, Cha nute Field, Rantoul, 111. 7 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05726 Zs Our Face Red! Just as the printer was reaching out an ink stained hand to take the last bit of February copy from us, we received a letter from Ray Wyrick, informing us that out of the eight men from the Chicago Divi sion who are in military service and whose names we listed in last month's Bulletin Board, we gave a correct address for Idan Flaa alone. That's a batting average of only .125, which isn't too hot in any league, so we hasten to give below the correct addresses for the seven we misfired on--adding the gentle suggestion that all correspondents follow Ray's example and send us up-to-date addresses for the men in their divisions. Captain J. E. Boudreau Sunset Ridge Road Northbrook, 111. Candidate John A. Clark Company I M.A.C., O.C.S., R.T.C. Camp Barkley, Texas Captain Howard B. Hudiburg 612th CA (AA) Camp Stewart, Ga. Captain M. A. Kinley, IGD U. S. Army HQ, 86 Division Camp Howze, Texas Lieutenant J. W. Miller Company A, 193 Tank Bn. APO 957 PM San Francisco, Calif. Private S. P. Rady 806 T.S.S. Bks. 1515 Sioux Falls Air Base Sioux Falls, S. D. Lieutenant (j.g.) Charles Towery 2222 Welch Houston, Texas Navy Bride Dorothy Rakestraw of the De troit Chem Lab marched to the altar last October 17 with Ensign Douglas Gould, the ceremony taking place in Lakeland, Ohio, Dorothy's home town. The couple flew back to Bos ton next day so the bridegroom would not miss any of his classes at Harvard, where he is training. Dorothy set up housekeeping in Cambridge for the duration of her husband's stay there, but on the completion of his training she ex pects to return to Chem Research. Workers in the Chem Lab and girls from other departments presented the couple with two silver plates. The Navy summoned George Burcal from the Detroit Chem Lab in November, but his address was unknown to the Bulletin Board when the last issue went to press. Temporarily, mail will reach him at AS, U-7. USNR, U.S.S. Prairie State, New York, N. Y., where he is studying hard for his ensign's com mission. Workers in the Chem Lab gave him a going-away present of one-year subscriptions to Fortune and Esquire. 8 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05727 LmiY McKeUop, busboy in the cafeteria 2 the Detroit Lab, was bom in Windsor. Onfo. but crossed over info (he United States A 1930. When not patroling the Ethyl eat erajonttm Kenny attends Lincoln High School in e^n*dale, from which he will graduate come hae. He is fond of hunting and all outdoor iports, and be hopes to enlist in the Air Corps as soon as he reaches his 18th birthday. rred Green, who works in (he iuei biending pian( a( Dettoit, is a follower of the great out doors, going tor hunting, fishing, golf, and simi lar fresh air sports. He is married and the papa of two girls, Bonnie Jean, aged 8, and Sharon Lee, aged 3. Fred attended high school in Pon tiac, Mich., and was in business for himself as a painting contractor before joining Ethyl. Paul Danielson was born in Lulen, Swe den, and came (o (hese shores in 1924. Previous Id joining (he raain(enance department a( (he Detroit Engineering Lab. he worked for Mattson k Thompson, painting and decorating contrac tors. In his spare time he likes to play (he ac- Edward Beaver, who works in the machine shop at the De(roi( Lab. graduated from high school in Elkton, Mich., his native town which he claims is the best pheasant hunting spot in the state, so hunting is naturally one of his favorite pastimes. Before going (o work with us he was in business for himself, makirfg refriger ation installations and servicing cooling systems. ETC 05728 Jinx on the Warpath Old Man Jinx got in some telling punches on Tulsa Division cars re cently. First. Ed Hendrick bor rowed Harry Cottrell's means of transportation for a business trip to Houston. While Ed was making a call, an auto, which had been parked in a parking lot across the street, rolled out, minus driver, and smacked into Harry's vehicle. The parking lot owner paid the repair bill, but no sooner had the damage been fixed and the car placed in a garage, where it was supposedly safe, than a truck backed into it. mangling it all over again. About a week after these incidents took place, Jake Balzer left his auto parked outside an office building in Houston and returned to find the whole front end caved in. But Jake was not as fortunate as Ed and Harry, for he never did discover whodunnit. Jack Fuller of Technical Service and Cap Hall of Engineering Re search, Detroit, have taken up new quarters in suburban Birmingham, where their street address is 2673 Bradway. It's in the Bag Now! Arnold Webb, who has been in charge of A.I.S. in New York, re membered Pearl Harbor by joining the Army on the first anniversary of that fateful day. He reported to Fort Dix, N. J., to begin basic train ing, but now he is at Fort Mon mouth, N. J., where he is working hard for a commission in the Signal Corps. "I don't see how this war is going to last much longer, now that I am in it," Arnold remarked to the Bulletin Board interviewer shortly before his departure. It's a Girl! Judy Kay, an eight pound bundle of feminine pulchritude, arrived in this world on November 14 to brighten the home of Janet Van Horn Brown and her husband, Don ald W. Brown. Janet, who is secre tary to Len Huxtable, assistant man ager of the Tulsa Division, is on leave of absence from the company but expects to return to her job early in 1943. =- George Rosser, assistant manager of the Atlanta Division, was in ducted into the Army in December as a captain in the Ordnance Depart ment. Last reports placed George at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Aber deen, Md., where he was taking a 30-day training.course in basic mili tary tactics, but you had better write him at his old address, 501 Peachtree Battle Avenue, Atlanta, from where the letter will be forwarded to his current address. 10 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05729 Ethel News Rides The Goat ten Shank, Tulsa Division man ager, sent us the following clipping from an Oklahoma newspaper: "Miss Ethel News, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George News, has been recently initiated into the Alpha Chi chapter of Chi Delta Phi, na tional honorary English sorority. Miss News is a graduate of Monte Cassino Junior College and is now attending Oklahoma College for Women at Chickasha." Ensign Stuart Forties/ formerly Florida field representative for the Atlanta Division, is stationed at present at the Aviation Corporation, Toledo. Ohio, where he is acting as an inspector of Naval aircraft. Stuart looks pretty spiffy in his uniform. * Bay Leonard, a native Detroiter, joined Ethyl to take charge of the fuel blending plant at the Lab. He is a graduate of Lawrence Insti tute of Technology, where he received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering, besides man*9ing the student band. Before coming to work for Ethyl he was an experimental and control chemist for the Howard Flint Company. In addi tion to music, his favorite recreational activities golf and winter sports. Captain Warner in Britain Jack Troy, sports editor of the Atlanta Co-nstitution, recently pub lished in his daily column a letter written from England by Major Ervin Leon Keener, a guard on Georgia Tech's 1928 Rose Bowl eleven. Major Keener wrote: "We have a lot of Tech men here . . . You remember Major LeCraw, former mayor, also Captain Jack Warner, who was at Tech along about '34, and many others." Captain Jack Warner, most read ers will recall, is our own "Stone wall" Jackson Warner, who is one of the eight men on military leave from the Atlanta Division and one of that division's four captains. i 11 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05730 LeRoy Volberding, who haa had wid experience as a sales and research engineer, hat joined (he engineering stall at Detroit. A native ol Bensenville, 111., LeRoy studied tor his engi neering degree at Crane Tech in Chicago and at Northwestern University. He lives in Clarks* ton, Mich., with his wife and their three chil dren, Adrian, Mary Lee and LeHoy Jr., whose respective ages are fifteen, ten and five years. LeHoy is active in Boy Scout activities in Clarks* ton and is an air raid warden. He also is inter* ested in photography, model building, wood working, sailing and fishing. James Stratton, Detroit Engineering Lab mechanic, lirsf saw the light oi day in London, England, and arrived in the United States in I92L He came to Ethyl from a truck maintenance job with the Detroit City Ice and Fuel Company. In addition to Jim and Mrs. Stratton, Peggy. James Jr., and Gertrude, aged 16, 15 and 12, respectively, reside in the Stratton home in Ferndale. Jim is a great man for hobbies, going in tor gardening, baseball, swimming, and build ing model airplanes. Alex McLeod, a mechanic in the Detroit En- 1 gjneenng Lab, was born in Saulte Ste. Marie, < Canada, coming to the United States in 1929. Belore joining Ethyl he worked on truck main tenance for the Detroit City ice and Fuel Com pany. During the warmer months Alex spends a lot of his spare time looking after his garden, which is a valuable hobby m these times. ETC 05731 Hiya, Chief! Chief Specialist Gerry Forsdick, on leave from the Safety Depart ment in New York, visited the Chrysler Building offices during a holiday furlough from Navy duty. Gerry is teaching aerial gunnery at Hollywood, Fla., where the warm southern sun has adorned his face with a handsome coat of tan. He said he is working hard but in a pinch could work harder, and the southern gals ain't bad! ** Stork Rides with Santa 1 Yulettde gift in the form of a 7-pound 5-ounce girl came into the August Allen household in Detroit on Christmas Day. Winifred* who, her Pop says, will hereafter be called Freddie, is the third daughter in the Allen family. Th0 cavalry seems to be the preference of Henry Bradford Jr., whose pappy is one of the chemists in the TEL Division control laboratory at Baton Rouge. Henry, who was six monihs old when fhis picture was snapped, is quite a lot of boy for that age. RllIH Baerreis, typist in Order & Shipping, New York, came to us from the Marine Hospital in NorfoiJc, Va.. where she was engaged in personnel work. She is a native of New York's metropolitan area, however, and lives in Floral Park. Long Island. She attended Adelphi Col lege, Garden City, L. 1., where she majored in business administration. She used to be a stamp collector, she said, but of late she hasn't had much time for hobbies. ETC 05732 Mary D/Hrian, who came to the New YorJc Payroll Department from General Motors, is a member of the large Sronxviiie contingent which commutes daily to the Chrysler Building. She is a graduate of Mount Vernon High School and of Our Lady of Victory Business College, also in Mount Vernon. Christopher C* Vogel, ffho\Jeft the edi torial staff of Barron's end the Wall Street Jour nal to go to work on Ethyl News, has an exten sive journalistic background. Chris used to write the page I column, "What's News," for , the Wall Street Journal, in addition to a prolific ; amount of other material. He has also worked , for Business Week and for the Literary Digest > before it folded, but he claims he was in no j way responsible for the Digest's rather con- j siderable error in it's Presidential straw vote of | 1936--in tact, he bet against the poll. A native { of the Bronx. Chris affended Columbia Dniver- I sity, where he prepared for his editorial career I by majoring in economics and finance. He is I fond of reading, playing cards and fishing. What's more, he used to play the violin for ( real dough, which ought to make him a pro fessional musician and sub/ect to Jimmy Pefrillo. ETC 05733 ?------------------------------ Ormsby Brings 'Em Back Alive! (Special to the Bulletin Board) A worthy rival of Frank Buck has come to light in the person of Ralph Ormsby, field representative in Minneapolis for the Chicago Di vision, who recently ventured into darkest South Dakota to bring back alive a full blooded Canadian wild goose. It happened thus: The honker was winged by Nim rod Ormsby, but slightly. Then fol lowed a stirring chase through half the cornfields of South Dakota al most to the Nebraska line, where our feathered friend was forced to yield to human ingenuity. Named "Honky" by his captor, he was brought back to Minneapolis, pen ned up and fattened for the Ormsby Yule table. Incidentally, during his two day hunt for the wary migra tory fowl, Dead-Eye Ormsby also brought back the legal limit in de ceased geese and ducks. Ralph Ormsby and Honky TUi Utile girl with the great big personality is Patricia Nelson. stenographic assistant in Charlie Kass' road testing division at the Detroit Lab. Though born in Pittsburgh, she doesn't remember much about the SmoJcy City, lor her tolks brought her to Detroit when she was only two years old. Patricia came to us from the Standard Accident Insurance Company, herjirst Jb after graduating from Lincoln High School in Ferndale last spring. She likes winter sports, swimming and dancing, and she collects phonograph records. ETC 05734 Topples Tenpins to Take Turkey High average High single High triple Men's League Doughty Johnson Soroos Johnson Rometti Girls' League .176 ; Helmi Burkleo 168 1 Jewel Ahonen 162 i1. Anne Chalifoux j 242 ! Myra Willis i 609 Helmi Burkleo 138 131 129 189 472 Cap Hall/ a lightweight in avoirdu pois but hefty with the big ball, flat tened the maples handily on the evening of December 17 to top all other keglers in the Ethyl League at Detroit and romp off with a Christmas turkey. The turk was the prize put up for the pin smasher who could roll the highest score above his average for the year. Cap came through with a 483 triple, which was just 93 pins over his sea son's three game average of 390. The battle for top spot in the league continues, with Team 6 in the lead by the slender margin of one point. Ed Johnson of the Chem Lab holds the record for high single with 242, a mark he set up the open ing night of the season. Mike Rometti of the machine shop holds the high triple mark of 609, which he scored during the contest for the Thanksgiving turkey. Over on the girls' side of the1 house, Helmi Burkleo of Technical Service continues to show the way with a 36-game average of 138. Close on her heels are Jewel Ahonen of Technical Service with 131, Anne Chalifoux of Engineering Research . with 129, and Myra Willis of Tech- nical Service with 129. Cupid Wins Again Junite Vandruff, receptionist in the Tulsa Division office, entered into the bonds of holy matrimony on December 3. Her husband is Warren Seeling, an instructor at the Spartan School of Aeronautics. If you want to call on the happy couple, they live at 3216 East Fourth Street, Tulsa. 16 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05735 -------- ^7rprcscOtati f's Da^ 1 War News from Baltimore Uniforms are blossoming like the rose in the Baltimore Division. Captain Claire Dees, division man ager, is stationed in the Require ments Section, Service of Supply, Washington, and is continuing for the time being to live at his home in Sevema Park, Md. Captain Bob Hogan, former field representative, is in the Tank Maintenance Section of the Ordnance Department in De troit where his address is 6055 Ken sington Road. Lieutenant (j.g.) Dwight Andrews, USNR, former safety engineer in the Carolinas, was scheduled to complete his in doctrination course at Dartmouth College over a month ago. Ensign Marshall McDorman, who handled safety work in the northern half of the division, has reported to Holly wood, Fla., to learn how they do things in the Navy. To help relieve the manpower shortage caused by the rush to the Army and Navy, Bill Trelease hasbeen transferred from the Dayton Division to Baltimore to help cover safety work there. Dickson Ellis Neunhen of the Detroit Chem Lab received his en sign's commission in the Navy in December and departed for training at a base in the West. Before leav ing, Ellis was presented with a traveling case and a Schaefer pencil by the folks in the Chem Lab. 5,0 ^oo '^'N0's Pu>*0'^ Si1 ,, Drsin* hV Risl ^ , f Choice oJD**?* F-rom*'-' ia, CKo*' .. Pure* ^ ggssssf"*T^" . ^3p\csv rH' To tempi the appetite ot Bob Jordan, Chicago Division manager, Isbells Restaurant in the Windy City issued this menu during the lunch hour recently. According to Hay Wyrick, who often lunches with Bob, this was an entirely superfluous gesture, as Bob's appetite needs no additional stimulus. ** "Whal's in a Name" Goes Hollywood "What's In A Name" received an entire column of space in news papers throughout the nation re cently when Sidney Skolsky, wide ly syndicated Hollywood columnist, commented on the meanings of the names of various movie stars as he found them in the Ethyl booklet. Skolsky's interest in "What's In A Name" was aroused when he re ceived a copy from a service station attendant. 17 i BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05736 Detroit Girls Have Yule Party The girls of the Detroit Labora tories held their annual Christmas party on December 21 in the Lab cafeteria, where they took care of a meal which included turkey, can died sweet potatoes, home made rolls and mince pie. There were 35 girls at the party, including several post grads, and each brought a small gift so that there would be presents for all. This year the dinner table was arranged in a hollow square with gifts piled high on a small table in the center. Ribbon streamers led from each gift to a place card, and after dinner everyone pulled the streamer attached to her card. On the outside of each gift were direc- tions for a stunt which must be performed before the recipient could open her package. Stunts ranged from singing a song to imi tating a tobacco auctiogeer. The different departments take turns in sponsoring this annual party, and this year it was the turn of the girls in Technical Service. Besides making arrangements for the dinner and providing decora tions and entertainment, the chief duty of the hostesses is to gold dig flowers and other favors out of the men of the Lab. This was easy. Earl Bartholomew, Cal Calingaert and Frank Fricker came across with carnation corsages, while the Tech nical Service men gave favors. 18 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05737 "We" Were There! And Not Too Little, Nor Too Late When the Yanksbanged their way into Morocco and Algiers, the stra tegic airfields of Oran were taken largely by parachute troops who had flown -- fifteen hundred miles non stop-- from England They could not have made this flight without Ethyl Fluid. When Montgomery's troops in Egypt broke up Rommel's defenses and put the Afrika Korps to rout, it was RAF and AAF planes that cut the fleeing columns to ribbons, smashed their tanks and vehicles, and bombed the supply ships bring ing aid and reinforcements to them. Those planes could not have left the ground without Ethyl Fluid. When swift Motor Torpedo Boats swarmed in to deliver their deadly "tin fish" in the naval fight for the base at Casablanca, it took 4,000-odd horsepower to give each boat the lightning speed it needed. Without Ethyl Fluid that horse power wouldn't have come to life. Each one of us who plays a part in the Ethyl organization had a share in these glowing achievements! Sometimes our particular contri bution to the war may seem pretty far removed from the fighting front. Maybe it would be more exciting to make airplane engines, or "block buster" bombs.... But we are making airplane en gines! Ethyl Fluid is as much a part of a Flying Fortress motor as the spark plugs are. The Army and the Navy are going to need two-thirds of all the Ethyl Fluid we can make. This means that every one of us -- typist, chemist, operator, safety engineer, tractor doctor or supervisor -- has a direct obligation to the young Americans in uniform, some of them from this plant or office, who are doipg their bit in the Army or the Navy. They expect us to do our bit here. We who make Ethyl are making an indispensable ingredient in every success American and British forces will have. Wherever gasoline gives the "push" that keeps our mechan ized might on the move, or lifts a fighter into the air, we who make Ethyl are partners in their effort. For the magic drops of "Fluid" we put into each tankful of gasoline helps give our gasoline, and our boys, an all-important fighting edge. 19 BULLETIN BOARD -- F-E-BJUJARY rc 05738 Bloodshed at Detroit When an emergency call came i nurse at the Lab, quite a few of this ; from the American Red Cross for group are now wearing silver but volunteers to give their blood at the tons, which means they have do Ferndale blood bank. Ethyl folks at nated three times. A two-time donor j the Detroit Labs hastened to re gets a bronze button, while those spond. The donors pictured here giving five times receive buttons of are, left to right, top row, Howard gold. Did we hear someone suggest Pearsall, Larry Stinson, James Carl that after a sixth donati'bn the donor isle, William Katz,Merrill Doughty, should be presented with an extra Ben Brewster, Jane Jordan. Mary ration of beefsteak? Thor, Keith Pfundstein, M. Layton Willans, Eugene Betzold, Morley Morgana, H. M. McMenemy, Wil son Sauter, Helmer Abramson, Emil Gillig, and Burndt Carley; bottom row, left to right, William Gilpin, Helmi McLean, Charles Kass, Wil liam Ross, Clinton Leacock, Robert Gourley, James Martin, and Edward Johnson. Lieutenant Karl Kuhn and Cap tain Ed Rothman, both of the Army Air Corps at Dayton, Ohio, and Lieutenant Ray Faller, USN, were among the recent visitors to the De troit Lab. It was the unanimous verdict of all who saw them that a few calisthenics will do wonders for According to Helmi McLean, the human figure. 20 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05^ MILITARY MAIL BAG December 11,1942 My Dear Chicago Division: That sounds clumsy as hell, doesn't it? I wanted it to be a lot friendlier but the old brain just doesn't click. Also, I'd like to be able to think up a more suitable way to thank all of you for the finger nail set that arrived yesterday. It's really so nice and so complete that I have only today figured out just what all the gad gets are for. Ann says my nails are look ing a lot better already as I spent an hour this morning experimenting with the various scissors trying to find which pair is for the left hand and which is for the right. After leaving Washington and before reporting in Houston I was given five days leave so here we are having a nice visit with my folks. Had big plans of going out in shirt sleeves and playing golf for a few days but. darn the luck, a big "Blue Norther" blows up (Juanita will explain that) and here we are hover ing over and around the fires and half my time is spent splitting kindling and carrying in wood. Upon reporting in Houston next Mon day I will be an inspector of petroleum products and that means everything from aviation fuel to residual fuels and greases. The inspector goes into the re fineries and witnesses the tests run on all cargoes before and after loading. He also attempts to get the refineries to rush through the products most desired and to see that they are handled as safely as possible. I can see right now that it is going to involve some long hours because a loading can't stop for an inspector to sleep. I surely wish that some of you would sit down and write me sometime. It seems like the Bulletin Board is about two months old when it gets here and I'm terribly curious to know what's hap pening. Ray, why don't you detail Torbin to do that? He's a good writer. I don't even know whether Sam and Boehme are still there. When the papers carried the announcement about not drafting men over 38 I could hear Ben and Bond sigh all the way to Crockett. Again I want to thank you for the gift. It really makes one feel good because it makes him realize he's one of the gang and we've got about the swellest bunch you'll find anywhere. Lieut, (j. g.) Charles Towery, USN Houston, Texas * December 22, 1942 I thank you for having a copy of the Ethyl Service Men's Letter Exchange sent to me. The circular keeps me in formed of the whereabouts and doings of the fellows that I have had the pleasure of knowing during my stay at Ethyl. I am glad to get the good news of the posi tions most of the men have been able to obtain in the Services. I am sure these men will be able to put to good use the experience they are acquiring here when they return to civilian life after the set tlement of these world differences. I believe that I had moved off one of the islands just about a week after Lt. Linstromberg arrived at that same island. I was not able to locate him while I was there but perhaps we will be able to contact each other at some later date. I received a letter from A1 Ramsey this morning that he sent from Camp 21 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY etc 05740 Crowder, Missouri. He writes that he is already being exposed to the "Army way" of doing things and that he is over looking the incidents and is making the best of them. With the experience and training that A1 has I am sure he will be an asset to our forces. How are the star bowlers at the lab doing this season? I hope they finish this season with as much, or more, success than they had last year. I hope that you are all in good health and will be able to drop me a line soon. M/Sgt. E. J. Kukla Headquarters Battery, 27th Div. Art. Hq. A. P. O. 27, U. S. Army c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California (formerly of Detroit) ** I am enjoying this western country very much. It is something I never saw before and hardly believe that this coun try could be described in plain words. One can only appreciate the beauty of the west by an actual visit. I also am enjoying the course of indoc trination. It is difficult, but interesting, and vital to every reserve naval officer. We are learning more than I ever thought of learning in such a short period of time. Lt. (j.g.) Eugene J. Ziurys, USNR (143-43) Naval Training School University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona (formerly of Detroit) * This U to lei you know of my latest change in address. So far, I have received two of the Service Men's Letters and sincerely hope more of them reach me where I am "somewhere in the Pacific." I think it's a great idea. I am sorry that censorship prevents me from saying much about my duties at the present time. However, I can say that I am a Squadron Engineering Officer and am in charge of the squadron ground crew. As such it is my job to see that our airplanes are kept in the best possible condition, and to supervise the use and care of our ground equipment such as trucks, trailers and various other tools. I find it a very interesting job. I want to extend my best wishes to my friends at the laboratory and to those also now serving in the Armed Forces. Lt. D. A. Hirschler A. P. O. 3330 c/o Postmaster } San Francisco, California (formerly of Detroit) Well, fo tell you a little of my activi ties in the Marines. The first two months were tough but now it is fun. In what is known as boot camp, you don't have a minute to yourself for the whole period. They keep you marching, rifle drill, washing clothes and moving your equip ment from one place to Another -- some fun. Since I have been transferred to north island, I am on guard duty most of the time but we still march a little to keep in trim. This is a beautiful place, this naval air station. On the recreation center there is a beautiful outdoor pool, hand, basket and volley ball field and all sorts of sports to entertain yourself. The weather is swell out here for swimming every day and the bay is a pretty blue. I can see downtown San Diego from the island and it's a pretty city. The people are friendly but it is overcrowded with serv ice men. I was told the population has 22 BULLETIN BOARD -- FEBRUARY ETC 05741 doubled since last year so you can see for yourself. The section I am in will see action soon and I will like that. You get tired standing still too long. The Navy has a lot of good cooks and bakers for I like the food they serve us. Lots of pie and cake and that's one thing I go for. The U.S.O.'s are swell. They are always sponsoring a dance and re freshments, besides shows. We can get along on little money. Pvt. A. R. Carpenter A. R. S. 3, M. A. W. S. Pacific Ser. Gr. F. M. F. N. A. S. San Diego, California (formerly of Detroit) Dear Biili It's one hell of a time since I dropped you a line--but every once in a while the old octane (or lack of it) joggles my mind. How is Ethyl? and does Oscar approve of the U. S. Army whoozit for filtering the T.E.L. out of "petrol?" I suppose it's basically an activated charcoal or clay filter. Gordon McIntyre (Maj.) came around the shop several weeks ago on a trip to settle some discussions on tank lubrica tion--he has the same trouble I'm having, doesn't look as young as he used to. Ralph Hudson is on the Pacific Coast I believe--probably the "age limit" will catch up with me yet, but I'm still able to bend the corners of English lanes on a one lung Horton M/C. And throttle snapping on English lanes in wet weather is something! I turned a bend yesterday and coming down a slight hill toward me was a bus just passing a tank--such odds are had on roads about 12 ft. wide and with banks on each side. They have maca dam on roads here even if they're only shout 10 ft. wide--and very often the fields on each side are slightly higher than the road. I notice in the advts. "The Ethyl Cor poration" and that any gasoline with Ethyl fluid is Ethyl gasoline--or words to that effect--quite a change goes on) My mother sent me a clipping re Mary's wedding--so now there's a Marine in the family!--my compliments to Mrs. Leroy Fallon, Jr. Incidentally this pen landed on the concrete floor nib down, and is not what it used to be--but it's better than one a Major Turnley (from Manitoba) left with a bottle of ink on the mess stove-- a dumb steward lit the fire and burnt the pen and boiled the ink. Freemon Redson (Capt.) is with the G.G.H.G.'s, Capt. Wells R.C.A.S.C., Lt. Jack Hanney, I. C. O. R. U.--Les Burns (Maj.) I haven't seen yet. I met Corn field, Toronto office, one day. I might here begin to lay it on heavy by saying I had afternoon tea with the Duke of Argyll a couple of weeks ago-- he even held my coat when I left (prob ably to check if my pockets were filled with souvenirs). He showed three of us around his castle which is lousy with heirlooms and oil paintings. The Campbells of Argyll were quite a family--a couple picked the wrong side in the "good old days" and were beheaded. Purely from a scientific angle I've found the Daphnes, Phyllises and Joans in England not quite as fair complexioned on the average as I had been led to believe, but there are some definite cases where they more than meet specifi cations. But there is a Betty in Cornwall (where at St. Austell the name Olver was enough for a drink several times) who makes up for any of my other dis appointments. "Pub crawling" is a very interesting and friendly pastime in this country. Leave usually consists of jumps from one to another. But you've got to get used to English wartime beer. Hoping both Mrs. Turnley and your self are well, and remember me to the Ethyl gang--if there are any left of the old crew. Captain A. S. Olver S3 LAD Att'd Cdn. Armed Rgt. Cdn. Army Overseas (formerly of Toronto) 23 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRJLARV ETC 05742 December 20, 1942 Hell* everybody: One reason I haven't written before is that the life of a Coast Guard Cadet, from the moment he arrives at "boot" camp, is on such a strange basis, in such different terms, with such different values applied to everything, that I am at loose ends for means to give you a description. We live in buildings known as "bar racks" ; we wash in the "head"; upstairs is "topside" or "second deck"; we go "ashore" when we leave the reservation; we are forever mustering for some for mation or other and being marched off to a class, for "chow," or to a work de tail--^"Hut, two, three, four, hut, two, three, four, hut!" But these are only the superficial dif ferences. The real changes are subtle and psychological. The purpose of this train ing program is to take hundreds of bright-eyed, eager, dumb civilians like myself and inoculate us with enough nau tical science, discipline, and sea-going sense to make us useful, dependable pawns in the game of sea warfare now going on. They have only four months in which to weed out the clucks, the Army-dodgers, the wobbly-willed, and those who simply lack the ability to keep going when the going is impossible, or keep their heads and "put out" the work in the face of pressure or exhaustion or anything else. The Coast Guard has a hard-boiled, deliver-the-goods tradition which ranks with that of the Marines. No one knows about the Coast Guard -- they think we just patrol pierheads and keep the lighthouses lit. But each of us may have the chance someday to take his own little boat out into the wide, restless water and scare up a sub or two to pick a fight with. In order to make sure you are capable of doing just that, they give you the works up here before you can get a com mission as "officer of the line." Hence the "psychological" part of the training program I referred to. Every morning several hours before sunrise they blow Reveille. In exactly 10 minutes we have to be lined up in formation, lockers and compartments tidied up (the term here is "squared away"). We are marched to "chow." At the door of the mess hall we may have to wait IS minutes before they are ready for us, but you don't ask why the all-fired rush to get there in 10 min utes. If you don't like it, fella, you can go home. Every other night, or sometimes every single night, we stand a 2-hour guard duty -- with rifle and fixed bayonet, in sufficient clothing, and no complaints. Last night I had an easy watch--prowling the basements of all buildings and un finished buildings looking for fires or anything amiss. Tonight I go on duty at 4 A.M., and for 2 hours I will scramble up and down an obstacle course which runs along one of the boundary fences here. The snow is very lovely, until you slide into a pile of it. The thermometer touches 4 or 5 every night here, with a wind whooping up and down the gosh darn river valley here. We have neither golashes, boots, nor mufflers -- and if I don't like it, I can go home. Every morning we make up our bunks --according to regulations, with every thing taut and tucked in just so. If any one else should drop a magazine or flick a cigarette ash on it, we get a day's liberty taken away. If we "explain" what happened, it is 2 days. If we preface our explanation with the phrase, "But, sir --'' it is 3 days. If we don't like it, we can always go home. Then there is the matter of studies, against which anything else is purely in cidental. I will not bore you with a list 24 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05743 I of courses and so on. You will get the idea if I say that the curriculum is de signed to include 2 more courses than a man can reasonably handle, and the few precious "study hours" on our schedule usually turn out to be a work detail of some sort-usually scrubbing down the blinkety-blank decks (floors) for the seventeenth time in a week and waxing them. Of course, if we don't like it -- The funny thing is that I do. My cheeks are as bright and pink as they ever were after a big night, and I have gained back all the weight I worked so hard to lose, in order to get here. Clean living and lots of wholesome food and fresh air are taking their awful toll. I have the glazed, healthy, stupid look of the physi cal culture addict. My brain has become like the bag of a vacuum-cleaner which scientically sifts out the bits of hard knowledge from all the wind that carries it there. This will continue for three more months-then I'll get a blue suit and I'll be an Ensign. Cadet Northrop Clarey Coast Guard Academy New London, Conn, (formerly of New York) * MACKAY RADIO 99HB MS AA AMIBFO EFM NEWYORK OFFICE ETHYL GASOLINE CORP CHRYSLER BLDG NYC A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL WELL W H HUBNER War Bond Purchases Up Aeronautical Research shot into the lead during January in the War Bond Sweepstakes with a perfect score for participation, 100%, and an exceptionally good showing in the percentage-of-payroll column. 11.20. Advertising and Public Rela tions gained the most ground dur ing the month, jumping from eighth to second place in the standings -- participation 100%; percentage of payroll, S.16. The next best gain was niade by Technical Service -- from 81.8% participation to 94.7%. As a matter of fact, nearly all de partments showed substantial gains in both columns over last month and the company as a whole is nearing the 90% mark in participation. If we can make as big a gain next month we will almost certainly go over that figure. Let's make that our next goal -- more than 90% participation in March. Here are the standings, based on the January payroll: %% of Par- of Total ticipation Payroll Aeronautical Research .. 100 Adv.and Public Relations 100 Technical Service........... 94.7 Manufacturing................. 94.1 Chemical Research......... 93.0 Finance ................................. 84.3 Sales ..................................... 84.1 Engineering Research. .. 80.0 Administration.................. 61.8 Medical .............................. 55.6 11.20 5.16 5.26 8.75 8.63 4.81 4.64 7.63 3.91 7.14 25 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY etc 05744 Betty Trumble GIRLS REPLACE orriCE boys Two pretty young ladies, both named Betty, are the first of their sex to fill vacancies left in the New York Mail Room by office boys who have gone off to the wars. In alpha betical order they are Betty Trum ble and Betty Zottoli, more easily) referred to as Betty T. and Betty Z,, Betty T. resides in Elmhurst,! L. I., to which village she came noti long ago from her home town of, Watertown in upstate New York.; A graduate of Watertown High; School, Betty T. played on the girls' basketball team at that school and! is a good swimmer and tennis player. Before coming to the Big Town shei worked for the Agricultural Insur ance Company in Watertown. Betty Z. commutes to work from i the Bronx, where she has lived all, her life. She is a graduate of: Evander Childs High School, and . before joining Ethyl she worked for : Bonwit Teller, one of Gotham's; most fashionable department stores. 1 When she is free from the cares of the office, she likes to ride horse- , back and to dance. ETC 05745 T. HATS OFF TO DEEPWATER! There may be a harder working gang than our boys and girls at Deepwater, but as yet we haven't been able to locate it. Going at top speed during the month of Decem ber to fill the unprecedented volume of orders which swept in, the Deep water plant turned out enough drums of Ethyl Fluid to smash to smithereens all previous production records. We can't tell you the exact number of drums which went out because it is a military secret, but we can tell you that the month's mark was considerably more than a third of the average annual output of peacetime years. To set up this record every de partment pitched in and helped. During one week of the month the entire blender staff worked from 90 to 100 hours. This meant a 16-hour day during five days of the week, with a "short" eight hour day on the other two days. It meant that the men had to leave home before 7 A.M. and did not get back again to crawl into bed until after 2 A.M., which is _ quite a long day when you stop to figure it out. Because of these hours transpor tation was a problem. In many cases men who lived some distance from the plant stayed with others who lived nearby, instead of returning home to sleep. As New Jersey sets ten hours as the maximum time a woman can work in any one day, a staggered schedule had to be adopted so that some of the office staff would be on duty at all times during the long work day. There were heartbreaking in stances of changes in bookings whereby the order on which work was being done would be deferred and another order advanced, which meant that all the toil put in on the first order wouldn't count on the month's production record. Despite these setbacks and the long over time hours, the entire personnel kept their chins up and gave every thing they had to the job. In his tele gram of congratulation to Charlie Wasserman, John Schaefer said : "Mr. Webb joins me in congratu lating the men and women at Deep water on the superlatively excellent performance. Facts of your record speak for themselves in answering the question, `Will it help win the war?'" ETC 05146 Ethyl Team Tops Wilmington Pin Loop The Ethyl Gas bowlers from Deep water walked away with top honors in the first half of the Central Wil mington Bowling League schedule. The Ethylmen led the five other teams in the circuit to the wire with a record of 42 games won and 18 lost for a percentage of .700. The Deep water club also hung up the high team single game of 969. Ed Herbert of Ethyl carried off individual high average honors for the half with a mark of 179.9 for the 44 games he rolled. Close on his heels was Pete Jackson, also of Ethyl, who captured second posi tion in the league with 177. Following are the records of Deepwater's top keglers during the opening half of the season: High Single Ed Herbert Bud Johnson Pete Jackson 249 . 244 224 High Triple Bud Johnson Ed Herbert Pete Jackson 631 63, 631 Ed Herbert High Average Pete Jackson Bud Johnson 18C 17/ 168 Team Total (Total of 5 high averages)--168 ** The whereabouts of Lester Roberts have come to light through a letter from Iola Sheppard, our correspondent at the Kettering Lab oratory in Cincinnati. "Since we wouldn't want our handsome cap tain to become the Unknown Sol dier," she wrote, "here is his present address: Captain Lester B. Roberts, Armored Force Medical Research Laboratory, Fort Knox, Ky." Back to Work Chuck Colvin received a gala wel come from his friends in the New York office on his return to his desk in the Manufacturing Department January 4, after an illness which had confined him to his home since last May. Chuck looks in the pink of condition, despite his long siege, and unless our eyes are deceiving us, that chubby appearance means he has put on quite a bit of weight. Welcome back. Chuck, and may you continue in good health. 28 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY No Longer With Us Elmer L. Barringer, New York Anne W. Smith, Detroit Verna Lathrop, Chicago Jean Nash, Detroit Robert Finn. New York Gladys G. Rodgers, Tulsa Shirley S. Custer, Deepwater James Burns, Deepwater Marguerite C. Pellerin, Baton Rouge Clifford Wrigley, Detroit William J. Clements, Detroit etc 05747 r Heyward L. Kinard, assistant head of the Payroll Department in New York, is a native South Caro/inian and grew up in Branchviiie in that state. He attended Branchviiie High School and graduated from Furman University. Green ville. S. C.. with a Bachelor ot Science degree, for fen years before coming to Ethyl he was with GMAC in Jacksonville, Fla., where in his spare time he had lots ot opportunity to indulge is his tavorite sports, hunting and fishing. He commutes to work daily trom Hastings-onHudson in beautiful Westchester, lieutenant (j.g.) Charlie Towery. for merly a safety engineer with the Chicago Divi sion. is located at present in Houston, Texas, where he is doing work with oil refineries for the Navy. A letter from Charlie, describing his new fob, is printed in this month's Military Mail Bag. Could be a tintype from grandpappy's photo album, only it isn't. The happy couple in prepay Nineties attire are Gel Howefi. New York Division field man. and the young lady he escorted to a fancy dress party in Warren. Pa. Mary Elizabeth Eddy of the New York Payroll Department came to fhyi from the treasury department of Thomas J. Lipton. Inc. She attended high school in her home town of Orange. N. J. Music, reading, and skating are her favorite off-the-job activities. ETC 05748 TWENTY YEARS OF ETHYL Twenty years ago the first Ethyl Gasoline was sold to the public. It was sold in a service station owned by the Refiners Oil Company and located on Main Street. Dayton, Ohio. There was no Ethyl Corpora tion in those days. Ethyl gasoline was a product of the General Motors Research Corporation and the or- Thomas Midgley. Ji. ganization which had charge of selling it was the General Motors Chemical Corporation. Five men who were with this or; ganization back in those early days are still with the Ethyl Corporation; They are Tom Midgley. Norm Siei benthaler. Pat Harding, Bob Jordan] and Harry Mack. Tom Midgley, who discovered! tetraethyl lead after testing overj 30,000 chemical substances, has won) for himself numerous scientic hon-i ors and is now Vice President of thei Corporation. Norm Siebenthaler.: one of our first field engineers, whot in the early days installed and serv-j iced Ethyl meters on gasoline! pumps -- they used to mix Ethyl Fluid and gasoline right at the pumps twenty years ago--is now a safety engineer and is located in the Dayton Division with his old friend, Harry Mack. 1 Pat Harding, who was one of our first field men and who is an expert at fixing almost anything mechani- C. P. Harding ETC 05749 Robert l. Jordan Harry P. Mack cal, is located at present in the De troit Engineering Lab. Bob Jordan, another pioneer field man who teamed up with Pat Harding on many an important job of education on the antiknock properties of early Ethyl Gasoline, is manager of the Chicago Division. Harry Mack, who was the first general business man ager for the young company and who did a lot of the preliminary work necessary for the opening of our New York office, is manager of the Dayton Division. ** HE'S NO LADY! Just between ns girls, a Bulletin Board correspondent recently sent in a letter addressed to Miss Francis V. V. Adriance. Although he is very fond of the ladies, Frank Adriance. who at one stage of his career was a professional rassler, would prefer to remain a mere man. So give us a break, will you, girls? Donald Pulleyblank of the De troit Lab breathed a sigh of relief and passed around the cigars last December 12, when little Ronald be came a member of the Pulleyblank household. Martha Pulleyblank, aged 2, was very happy over the arrival of a brother. *** Two Given Send-Off at Detroit Jean Nash and Cliff Wrigley were guests of honor at a farewell party given for them by a group of Detroit Ethyl folks. Harry Prince was mas ter of ceremonies, Pat Harding and Tom Roberts took turns at the piano, and that Old Man River basso Joe Mescher directed song festivities. Jean, the petite and talented photo graphic artist at the Lab, left to join her soldier husband in Florida, while Cliff, who has been in charge of fuel blending at Detroit, departed for the General Motors Products Study as a research engineer. 31 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05750 Eight Chalk Up Anniversaries Entering the select company of 15-year veterans this month are Art Stover, Assistant General Manager of the Manufacturing Department, and Charlie Gambrill, who has charge of the analytical department of the Chem Lab in Detroit. The day after Christmas in 1927 Art joined the company as a chemist in Deepwater. After a year he be came assistant plant manager and later was put in charge of opera tions. In the spring of 1939 he went to Baton Rouge to take charge there and early in 1942 he moved to the New York office. During the sum mer of 1938, when the war of nerves was getting into full swing in Eu rope, Art was in France, supervising the start of operations at the Painboeuf TEL plant. Art was born in Chambersburg, Arthur P. Stover Charles M. Gambrill Penna., and was educated at Mercersburg Academy and Lehigh Uni versity in the Keystone State. He shoots golf in the eighties and is no pushover as a bowler. He lives in Larchmont with Mrs. Stover and their two young daughters, June and Janet. Charlie Gambrill became a memi ber of the Ethyl family just two weeks after Art. when he went ta work in the Chem Lab, then located in Yonkers. A graduate of the Uni versity of Maryland, he came to us from the Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc., of Niagara Falls, where he had been assistant to the works .chemist, When the Chem Lab was moved to Detroit in 1932 Charlie went along, During February and March of 1936 1 ETC 05T51 he studied analytical methods of microscopy at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Charlie's department, with four lady lab workers in it, at present leads all others at Detroit in this respect. Most of Charlie's spare time dur ing the past few years has been de voted to organizing the Analytical Chemists Group in Detroit, an or ganization of which he is president for 1943. He is married and has a son, John Charles, with whom he is developing an extensive model rail road. Charlie also goes in for col lecting stamps. Ten-year pin winners are Carrie MacMillan, Lillian Johnson, and Doug Jeppe. Carrie first became as sociated with Ethyl in 1929 on a temporary basis as assistant to her sister, who was Earl Bartholomew's secretary. The association became permanent in 1933 when she went to work in the Accounting Depart ment in Detroit as a stenographer and file clerk. Since 1937 she has been in charge of the decimal filing system at the Lab. Lillian Johnson joined the com pany as Dr. Edgar's secretary, a job she has held ever since. Doug Jeppe, field man in the Tulsa Division, started in the Baltimore Division. He was sent to Australia in 1936 and went to Tulsa in 1939. The three five-year veterans this month are Martha Warren and Jud Biehle of the Manufacturing De partment in New York and Dot Locke, receptionist for the New York Accounting Department. L Posters Tell Our War Story To show the close tie-up between Ethyl Fluid and the war, the com pany is getting out a series of posters which are tacked up in prominent places in all divisions, plants, and laboratories. These post ers, which have no time to grow stale because new ones are issued at the rate of two a month, have been enthusiastically received in all branches of the company. If you haven't seen one of our war posters yet, take a look at the back inside cover of the Bulletin Board. In this issue and in several succeed ing issues we are going to run copies of them there. We may also run copies inside the book from time to time. They tell at a glance far better than words just how important Ethyl is in this war. Deepwater Workers Win War Stamps A total of $285 in War Savings stamps was given to 57 employees at Deepwater in recognition of the plant's winning the General Man ager's safety award. Each eligible employee received $5 worth of stamps. Awards were made at the annual Christmas party to those who attended. Others received their stamps when they reported for work or, if they were absent from the plant but eligible, by registered mail. The next safety award toward which Deepwater workers are aim ing is the President's prize. 33 BULLETIN BOARD-FEBRUARY ETC 05752 New Employees at Baton Rouge The ladies are rapidly coming into the picture at Ethyl's Baton Rouge plant. In the last group of workers hired there were 19 women as against only 11 men. Sixteen of the girls are mechanical helpers in the Ethyl Chloride Division, two are laboratory helpers in that division, and one is a laboratory helper in the Technical Division. The list of new employees follows: * WOMEN Finance Department Kathleen Todd Ethyl Chloride Division Mechanical Helpers (Special) Edna W. Ott Mary C. Babin Alma M. Ott Willie H. Mixon Martha W. Kinchen Dixie K. Owens Thonsa C. Rice Georgia K. Haley Loretta P. Brashear Georgia F. Glover Leota N. Whittet Juanita Rowell Pauline Clark Betty Jane Wax Roberta R. Roy Mary A. Gore Laboratory Helpers (Special) Adah P. Sturgis Ouida L. Smith Technical Division Laboratory Helper (Special) Evelyn B. Baker ** MEN Ethyl Chloride Division Data Croup Bernard Manuel Mechanical Helpers, Third Class Elson J. Sanchez Rudolph Brown Virgil G. Joiner Roy O. Bankston Woodrow W. McDonald Hiram W. Kennedy Harold J. Patin Robert R. Mullins John L. Breau Technical Division Laboratory Helpers, Second Class Jessie B. Davis Daniel C. Martin *** The Shift Key Dayton, to Sales, Baltimore. Herschel F. Dedo, Sales, Daytoi to Engineering, Detroit. 34 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 05753 ETC 05755 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD ETC 05756 ETHYL SHOW AT LOUISIANA STATE An exhibit featuring the use of raw materials available in Louisiana for the production of Ethyl Fluid was on display during the last two weeks of January in a show window at Himes Hall, College of Com merce building at Louisiana State University. Bill Mundinger of the Atlanta Division is the man who wins the credit for organizing this company-sponsored display. In the exhibit, streamers from jars of crude oil, natural gas, sulfur, salt, rholasses, and lime rock led to vari ous intermediate products and even tually to a flow chart on the back wall, where steps in the manufac ture of Ethyl Fluid were revealed. Also in a prominent position on the back wall was an enlargement of one of our plant posters which showed the many raw materials that go into Ethyl Fluid. Other plant posters were used here, too, to il lustrate the need for Ethyl in air planes. tanks and other important BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH etc 05751  ANTIKNOCK ANNIVERSARY Fred Chase, right, then a General Motors Re search storekeeper, was responsible tor the accidental discovery oi iodine as the first anti knock substance. Tom Midgley. left, asked Fred tor an oil soluble dye to color gasoline. Having none handy. Fred asked it iodine would do. When the iodine was dissolved in the gasoline, knocking in the test engine stopped suddenly. The first Ethyl Gaso/ine was sold in a service sfafion in Dayton. Ohio, on February 2, 1923. Just twenty years later a group of antiknock pioneers and Ethyimen gathered at the Worthington. Ohio, home of Thomas Midgley, Jr., discoverer ot tetraethyl lead, to commemorate the event. The live men most closely connected with the discovery are, left to right, seated. Mr. Midgley. Charles Kettering and T. A. Boyd; standing, Carroll Hochwalt and Charles Thomas. Mr. Kettering, then president ot General Motors Research Corporation, told Midgley and Boyd, co-discoverer of tetraethyl lead, to search until they found a practical antiknock compound. Ted Hochwalt and Charlie Thomas were the laboratory assistants. ETC 05758 The President and the tour Vice-Presidents are the top officers of the Ethyl Corpora tion of 1943. Standing, left to right, are Graham Edgar, Earle W. Webb and J. Coard Tay tor; seated. Thomas Midgley, Jr. and Percy Griffiths. rive men who have been with the Ethyl Corporation since the first Ethyl Gasoline was sold were awarded (heir 20-year service pins at the Worthington meeting. They are, left to right, seated, Thomas MidgJey, Jr., and Bob Jordan. Chicago Division manager, standing. Harry Mack. Dayton Division manager. N. D. "Sieb" Siebenthaler, Dayton Division safety engineer, and C. P. "Pat" Harding of the Detroit Engineering Lab. ETC 05T59 WANT TO BE A SOLDIER? The New York Stale Guard needs men. If you are between the ages of 18 and 55 and eager to do your bit toward winning the war, select the regiment you like best and sign up. You don't have to be as physically fit as a commando, as the physical examinations are a lot easier than those for the Army. All the State Guard members are civilians like you. They are taught almost everything the regular Army learns. As a result, when a State Guardsman is inducted into the Army, he stands an excellent chance of getting a commission. Leading enthusiasts for the State Guard in the New York office are Elmer Chellborg, purchasing agent, and Andy Anderson of the Manufactur ing Department, both of whom are members of the famous Seventh Regiment. Arnold Webb of A.I.S. was also in this unit before he de cided to sign up with the Army. In order to give Bulletin Board readers an idea of what the State Guard does on a drill night, Elmer Chellborg invited your correspond ent to accompany him to the Seventh Regiment Armory. First off, we would like to say that the interior of this armory practically knocked our eye out. Its many rooms are fur nished like those of the city's finest clubs. Oil paintings of famous mem bers look down from the panelled walls. A few martinis in the luxurious lounge helped make still more tasty the delicious dinner which was served in the big dining hall. After dinner came drill on the huge floor of the armory, while your corre spondent looked on from the bal cony. Although most of the units going through military maneuvers were composed of comparative rook ies, they drilled with snap and pre cision which indicated the high quality of their instruction. After about an hour of drill Elmer Chellborg'sunit marched upstairs to the big gymnasium on the top floor, where the boys were given toughen ing up calisthenics on the wrestling mat. Then they were treated to a session of real commando tactics in rendering an enemy totally harm less. The instructor in this branch of training is Harry Scott, football and wrestling star at Columbia Uni versity several years ago, who is now in charge of the gym at the armory. The evening ended with brief meet ings of the companies present in their individual company rooms, and the Guardsmen were free to go home at about 10:15. What we saw of the State Guard's activities gave us the impression that membership in this organiza tion is a swell way to get valuable training practically free of charge and at the same time do a real job in the war effort. The Guard has many vacancies because it is continually losing men to the Army. We would suggest that anyone in the New York office who is interested get in touch with either Elmer Chellborg or Andy Anderson. 7 BULLETIN BOARD-- M-A-RCH ETC 05760 An inlermission shouid never be long enough to start a crap game. Carl's Corner Santa Maria, Calif. Dear "Boss": I should have written to you a long time ago and acknowledged your letter of December 14, and also done something about your request that you receive "Carl's Corner" regularly. But I didn't. I assure you that there was nothing personal about the neglect. During this same period I have also assured my wife that there was nothing personal about my neglect also, and sad to relate there is evidence that it has not carried conviction. But doggone it, F.V.V.A., it looks as if I would not have so much to do if I were actually in the Army instead of just doing volunteer work for the Army in locations scattered from Hell to breakfast. I hope you understand my failure to provide has not been on account Coard Taylor finds that the hoys are all present or accounted lor. 8 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 05761 of lack of material that could have been written up. Do you know how early the Army asks its volunteer assistant teachers to go to work? Typical examples are 4:22 a.m., 6:10 a.m.. 8:00 a.m. (35 miles from where I am staying), etc. My day's work today began at 8 a.m. and will not be over until after ten tonight. And I take off for Camp Cooke at 7 a.m. tomorrow. There is another factor that I want you to consider before I go into much production -- I am away from the office so much that I do not hear very much of the activities of the rest of the staff which would make suitable material for the col umn as I have written it in the past. If you will review the previous con tributions. you will note that my column has been largely the per sonal history of Carl Abell -- so much so that you might suspect that this is a one man division and I am the man. We have nine men and two women, all of them very capable-- glowing personalities and all that sort of thing. I hesitate, because of I This Is Charlie. He wasn't sore at anyone --he JooJrs that way all the time. the manifest unfairness to the rest of the staff. Maybe you should take a few minutes out of your busy day and consider the situation. You realize that hogging the glory will not endear me to the rest of the di vision staff, no matter how amusing it might be to the rest of your sub- ETC 05762 scribers to read these chapters from the life of our own little Alexander Botts. So how about an expression of well considered editorial policy based on adequate consideration of the factors influencing employee morale ? After all, that's the purpose of the Bullboard, isn't it? Yours, CARL ABELL P.S. Charlie White turned his back the other day, and I reached into his private file of evidence that he had attended the Fleet Meeting in Detroit last spring. I wasn't at the meeting, but this is the way it looks to a rank outsider (see picture cap tions). Fred Naylor contemplates the intricacies of the Technical Service Book binder and thinks he linally has the answer. Murdock and Colls get together-looks like the Indians are plotting against the Whites. (Editorial comment: We think "Carl's Corner" has a buoyant humor which I has brought forth many a chuckle from readers of the Bulletin Board. For our part, we would hate to see it discontinued, despite the difficulties Carl mentions in the above edition. And we don't think the Los Angeles Division will object, because they probably get as big a kick out of it as we do.) 10 ! BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 05763 LAB VETERANS WIN 15-YEAR PINS Two veterans of the Detroit En gineering Lab, August Roemer and William B. Ransier, were awarded their 15-year pins this month. Gus Roemer came to us from the Green Engineering Company of Dayton, Ohio, and went to work in the engi neering machine shop, where he has been ever since. His principal hobby is wood working, and he has achieved quite a reputation for the Dutch windmills he builds. Gus used to be active in all kinds of sports, such as baseball, football, skating, etc., but now he gets most of his out door exercise by playing golf with Mrs. Roemer. Augusf Roemer <t r-- -.vit, Bill Ransier came to Ethyl from the Detroit branch of the Delco Light and Frigidaire Company. He first worked for three years with Joe Mescher in the machine shop, then for more than a year with Cal Calingaert. The rest of the time he has been in the dynamometer section at the Lab. Bill is a noted outdoor man. going on fly fishing excursions into northern Canada and on hunting trips in search of deer, ducks, pheas ant, bear and moose. And when Bill says he hunts bear and moose, he's not kidding, for he has brought home his share of these giants of the forest. The only 10-year service award this month goes to Sam Heron, who heads Aeronautical Research at De troit. The lone five-year pin winner is Arnold F. Larges, who works for Sam Heron in Aeronautical Re search. WiJiiam B. Ransier ETC 0 57 64 Florence A. Clerk New Faces at Deepwater The first lady blender operator to be employed at Deepwater is Jeanne E. Jaggard, who has lived in that community all her life. Her work consists mainly in checking drum numbers, and according to latest re ports she is doing a swell job. When she is off duty Jeanne can often be found at a roller skating rink. Two other girls besides Jeanne have been added to the blender oper ating force. They are Mrs. Florence A. Clark and Mrs. Etta J. Dryden. Florence came to Ethyl from the Delaware Ordnance Depot, so she is familiar with industrial work. She lives in Salem, N. J., and her princi pal hobby is keeping those drums for defense rolling. Etta Dryden is a native of Alabam', but she resides now in Salem. With her husband in the armed 12 BULLETIN BOARD-MARCH ETC 05765 forces, she decided the best way for her to do her part toward winning the war was to go to work for Ethyl. After putting in eight hours on the job, she likes to pick out a comfort able chair and spend her evening hours knitting. Robert J. Buechler is the only masculine addition to the blender force. A wood carver in his spare time. Bob is a native of the City of Brotherly Love -- Philadelphia to you -- and now makes his home in Salem. Three recent additions to the of fice force are Florence V. Winters, Betty Jane Mason, and Lorraine H. Hahn. Florence and Betty Jane are handling some of the drum card file duties, while Loraine is helping keep cost sheets up to date. All three are native Jerseyites. In their respective leisure hours, Florence likes to sew, Betty Jane to bowl, while Lorraine prefers the movies. And just before deadline time we received word that Edna A. Gledhill had joined the office staff right after her graduation from Beacom College in Wilmington. She is as sisting with the drum card files. Florence V. Winteis Lorraine H. Hahn ETC 05766 Russian restaurant, where a pro gram of Russian dances and songs enlivened the proceedings until the wee sma' hours. Count Ivan Podgoursky, a real Russian count who attended the wedding, acted as mas ter of ceremonies for the occasion. Russ demonstrated his eagle eye by picking his bride out of the 2,000 girls at the school in Tallahassee. Fla., where she was taking a pre- medical course. There were just enough complications about her trip north to keep Russ on the jump right up to the time of the wedding. Starting out to fly to New York, J Betty's plane was grounded at Tampa because of bad weather, so Russ Schell she sent a telegram to her future husband at Camp Edwards, Mass. A Wedding Bell lor Russ, however, was already on his way to New York and never re Captain Schell ceived the wire. Capfaln Russ Schell, assistant director of the Safety Department, now on military leave, deserted the gay and carefree ranks of the bache lors on February 1, when he married Miss Betty Brown of Miami, Fla.The ceremony was performed at 6 p.m. in the Riverside Baptist Church, with Marian and Jack Mar tin acting as matron-of-honor and best man, respectively. About 25 were present at the church, most of them Ethyl folk. Afterward, the bride and groom gave a cocktail party at the Wal dorf-Astoria, and then the wedding party and guests adjourned to a When Betty failed to arrive in New York and it was learned her plane had been grounded, Russ was all in a dither about what to do next. After giving the matter some con sideration, he decided to send a bunch of telegrams to her in care of the conductors of several north bound trains. This system brought satisfactory results, and his worries ended when he was reunited with Betty as soon as her train reached the Big City. After the festivities were over, the couple left for the South, where Russ will be stationed for the time being at Camp Gordon Johnson, Fla. 14 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 05767 Erwina Carr, page girl in New York Finan cial. resides in Brooklyn and is a Dodger fan, but she is a native of flochester. N. V. She has lived in Brooklyn for eight years, graduated from Girls' High School there, and attended Brooklyn CoiJege for a short time before joining Ethyl. Winnie is lond ot bowling and basket ball--she emphasized the tact that her team plays boys' rules in the latter sport--but her chief interest is journalism. She was editor of her high school paper and tooic a course in journalism at the same time. She hopes to con* rinue her studies in the fourth estate at night school. Verne W. Blinkerhoif of the dynometet section ot the Detroit Engineering Lab is a native ot Rock Island. 111., where he attended high school. He graduated trom the University ot Illinois in 1916 with a B.S. degree in engineer ing. During World War l he served 13 months with the U. S. Army Air Service, moving to Detroit after his discharge. He came to _us from the engineering department of the Chrysler Corporation. He is married and has three grown children. John Aalston, 20. Mary Cornelia. 23. and Nina Jane. 22. His family, gardening, and general home maintenance keep him busy in his spare time. Bob KalkUis, receiving clerk at the Detroit Lab, is a graduate of Detroit's Central High School and came to us from the Bohn-Aluminum Corporation. Right now he is attending night school, where he is learning ail about aircraft engines and commercial art. When he has any time to spare, he goes in tor illustrating, swim ming and baseball. BEWARE THE An old Roman soothsayer gave this warning to one J. Caesar about two thousand years ago, but it is equally applicable to the American taxpayer today. From the looks of things at present, even if we do eventually get a pay-as-you-go plan for income tax I I 1 Only 6 Things to Do With Simplified F< ---------- - o Your name, address, and occupation. Your dependents. FORM 1040 A OPTIONAL CALENDAR YEAR UNITED STATES INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RETURN 1942 THU RETURN &AX IE FILED INSTEAD Of FOAM IMP IT CITIZENS <0t RESIDENT ALIENS) REPORTING ON THE CASH IASU If CROSS INCOME B NOT MOKE THAN nm AND UONLT FROM SAUET. WAGE! DIVIDENDS. INTEREST. AND ANNUITIES a moms am mmwtki m \J.QH N..M d-.fiAA Y DOC.. --t <,0a canaan* M Mart a* *k i a* i _/BO..QAK..STRZE.T_ _-D__._Q_iN.avju..--vq ca__;.DiWO>t. mt d*m a m* _____^mTm JMtMzMl i7at.jCgi-- Cm*--CWk--M A DEPENDENTS ON JULY 1. IMS La pateam (adar tAoa haihawd oe Wei AawM dm& <Amf aoaof f*m ym i they m ada >1 r*/ dipal they are n--tally a yfcyacaily owapaW* d iiH apat urn m oaaaan iqfun.^I)oA Vl* ...................... .......:A7IS0ar1).r k CROSS INCOME LESS ALLOWANCE FOR DEPENDENTS I. a In pi 2. I>niaAMM.i J. Total.................. ....... .................. 4. Laa: US fae each depadtat . mm* *sn i a .iia--i 5. INCOME SLIBJECT TO TAX____ /tN . fV4"ij 122 0 Qi 00 12*2 i| 22 QO 00 ptr I.'** Aalaee. mo4ct the ptmfcaa d paiwy. <1 dpe oad b*W. a im, tamn. tarf empku retao Ravona* Cade >wP r^iAtiaa awaj mda tachanty U * _____________ i by ae uo. and to U . ?0 3C a a gaari fMtk i ifaa tMifeit ym tutad. paanaa to the lMaraai a haa tmtnm otha (Jim ai4 Inn*. List your income. Use the Simplified form 104C your Employer or your Local ETC 05769 )ES OF MARCH! payments, Mr. Whiskers will expect you to get the first installment of your tax for 1942 income on the line by March IS. So give careful attention to the in formation given below. It comes direct from the In ternal Revenue Department. m 1040-A...No Complicated Calculations o Subtract your credit for dependents. Indicate your family status. o Read your tax directly from the table. A--You can get it NOW from NTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE ETC 05770 1 * MILITARY MAIL BAG Detroit January 13, 1943 Hello, Everybody. Hi ya all! Hope you're all feeling line and dandy and had a swell Christmas. Mine was just perfeet. I was allowed a pass for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the Sunday fol lowing. We all had to go to school Sat urday though. With all the soldier boys on leave, everything in Champaign and Urbana was just jammed. On Christmas Day in the U.S.O. where I happened to be at the time, "Santa" came around with a gift for each and every man in uniform. I am writing this on one of mine. The few hours that I have already spent in the U.S.O. have assured me of one thing -- the U.S.O. is a worthwhile organization and is doing more than its share not only to provide entertainment but also to keep the boys in a place more pleasant and homelike than some places into which they would eventually wan der. This one is a converted school house which looks like anything but a school house from the inside. Downstairs con sists of a guest room, a very large lounge, a library, a soda bar and tables and a check room. Upstairs has a very large dance hall and a game room for ping pong and pool mainly. I never realized that such an outfit could mean so much to the boys. It isn't necessary to ask them if they're satisfied -- you can see it. What between radios, electric phonographs, electric trains, books, games and all. practically all desires are fulfilled. A girl hasn't much of a chance to dance though. She'll probably get cut ten or fifteen times per dance, and if you have a girl, it's just cut, cut and cut again. Thanks a lot for your letter. Don't think you realize how much I enjoyed it. I've still got plenty of that candy left. It's good all right. It's just that there's so much of it! Have you heard from Ed yet? And what about Al? It is definitely decided that we are to go to Yale on the 8th of January. At last I'll go to Yale even though it took the Army to get me there. I'll notify you of my address upon landing. I've received my letter from New York. Boy, what a Christmas present. We lack nothing here in ^he line of food--butter, meat, fruit, everything. No shots in the arm yet and no first aid needed. Loads of luck. A/C Jos. A. Hobart 43-9, T-499 Air Cadet Detachment Chanute Field. 111. (formerly of Detroit) Here is a letter that I should have writ ten a long time ago but the Army keeps a fellow pretty busy these days so please pardon the delay. I am no longer at my old station in Florida and since that time 18 BULLETIN BOARD -MARCH ) ; j j ! i etc 05711 have seen quite a bit of our grand coun try. We are now in a staging area prepar atory to being shipped overseas so maybe we will see some action yet. Who knows? I am in a truck company that services the Air Corps and I suppose we will be plenty busy over across. Tell Joe Laethem that I am awfully sorry that I haven't had a chance yet to write to him but we will get together one of these days and compare notes. I have been promoted to Private First Class and am working in the Company Orderly Room with our officers. It is a grand job and I like the work fine. Keep the home fires burning at good old Ethyl until I can get back. PFC Merlyn J. Beane (ASN 36527521) 1921st Q.M. Co. (T) AVN A.P.O. 3380 c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) lieutenant (j.g.) Eugene J. Ziutys, USNR Finally 1 go! through with my indoc trination course and was sent directly to Annapolis. I wanted very much to spend some time at Detroit but it was beyond my control. Hope to get a short leave in the near future for coming up to Detroit. I like my assignment and the station very much. My job is interesting, pleas ant and educational. What more can a fellow ask! Life here at Annapolis is pleasant, especially for those connected with the Academy. We have all kinds of activities including educational programs. I hope that you people are not freezing in Detroit. We nearly did here! Eugene J. Ziurys, Lt. (j.g.) USNR 250 Prince George Street Annapolis, Maryland (formerly of Detroit) ** 1 cannot think of any good reason for not writing more often except that I haven't been around lately to gather any new dope! Perhaps in the near future I may do a little more wandering so I will probably have more to write about. Time has certainly passed rapidly dur ing my stay on these islands. Christmas has already come and gone and I am still miles away from home but I am becom ing more hopeful day by day of that time when I will be among you again. I have had an opportunity in the past week to see at least some the views around here. After a very delicious Christmas meal, we went on a sightsee ing tour along the shore and stopped a while for the fellows to go in for a dip. Later on we continued our tour and made our way back through some very beauti ful mountain country. Perhaps one of the best things about these islands is that you don't have to go very far to enjoy the type of topography that pleases you most for there is quite a variety in selec tion. I would like to tell you more of what may be seen there, but perhaps you can get a much better picture of things by thumbing through some of the late issues of the popular magazines. I wish you all a very Happy New Year 19 BULLETIN BOARD--march ETC 05772 and I hope I may be among you by the next Christmas holidays. Master Sergeant Edward Kukla Hq. Bty., 27th Div. Art. A.P.O. No. 27, U. S. Army c/o Postmaster San Francisco. California (formerly of Detroit) *# They have finally let us stop marching for a few minutes so will get off a short card. This is the busiest place imaginable --but this is darn good training and I like it a lot. You were right about Ithaca being a cold place. I don't have any trouble eat ing--just shove the chow in and let my teeth chatter! Would like to hear from you fellows occasionally. Hope everything is o.k. with all of you. R. W. Stevenson, A.S.-V-11, USNA Lyon Hall. Room 103 Naval Training School Cornell University Ithaca, New York (formerly of Detroit) ** - CABLEGRAM - MERRY XMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL WELL. Major William H. Hubner. 0-168831 Hq. A.S.C. Sth Air Force A.P.O. 923 San Francisco, California (formerly of Detroit) ** January 10, 1943 I want to thanlc sincerely you and all the other "Ethyl People" for the swell set of manicure equipment and kit you sent me. I can't imagine how you man aged to get all that strategic material in these times but it's an elegant outfit and already has been put to use. As you have probably gathered from the address, I am now attending Officers Candidate School deep in the heart of Texas. Arrived here last week and you can quote me it's plenty rugged. If I have the fortitude, stamina, brains, bear ing, voice, temperament and luck neces sary I may be a shavetail in three months. If I don't make the grade I'll be a ser geant. The routine is plenty stiff and very little time to write but I'll try and drop you a line occasionally to let you know how I'm progressing. Would appreciate the news from you when you have time. Give my regards to Bob Jordan and the others. Candidate John A. Clark Company I M.A.C., O.C.S., M.R.T.C. Camp Barkeley, Texas (formerly of Chicago) ** January 21, 1943 Having sent my new address to several other offices of the company, I thought it would filter through to you. but the January issue shows me that I'm wrong --hence this note. War Department decided that at my age I should be serving with troops rather than working in (or rather, out of) a Washington office, so now, instead of the traveling automotive inspection job on which I was working there, I am serving as assistant inspector general of a newly formed division. Don't know what the future holds in store, but at present am being kept very busy making preparations for receipt of the bulk of our troops, which have not as yet ar rived. When they do, we start from scratch with the usual training program. Surely appreciate the frequent mail ings of the Bulletin Board and the News --hope to continue receiving them. Only one piece of literature not received to date and that is the much discussed "What's in a Name?" booklet. Wrote for a copy months ago but never received one. How's about letting me in on it? Captain Miles A. Kinley, IGD Ass't Inspector General 86th Infantry Division Camp Howze, Texas (formerly of Chicago) 20 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH HELLZAPOPPIN? NOT QUITE Olsen and Johnstone are work ing in the New York Mailroom, and we think you will agree they are a lot easier on the eyes than Olsen and Johnson, famed comedians of Hellzapoppin. Carol Olsen and Irene Johnstone are both natives of Brooklyn and have lived there all their lives, but--strange as it may seem--neither of the young ladies cares a hang whether the Dodgers win or lose. Carol. Irene and Winnie Carr, page girl in New York Finan cial, all play on the same basketball team in their spare time. Carol is a graduate of Girls' Commercial High School in Brooklyn, while Irene graduated from plain Girls' High. Before coming to Ethyl Carol worked for Bell Telephone Labora tories and Irene was a salesgirl in the Kress five-and-dime store on New York's Fifth Avenue. In addi tion to basketball, Carol goes in for music, specializing in singing. Irene used to like to go out on dates with the boys, but now she says the field has been narrowed down to one boy. 21 BULLETIN BOARD---- W-ARCH ETC 05774 Baton Rouge Goes Over the Top on War Bond Purchases Baton Rouge was the star per former in the War Bond Sweepstakes during the month of Febru ary. When the dust had settled the score board showed 100% partici pation and 10.72% of payroll allotted to bonds. Considering the number of employees involved, this is a mag nificent achievement. Nice work, B.R.! Another nice gain was chalked up in February by Administration. Percentage of participation figures jumped from 61.8 to 71.9, a gain of more than ten points. The Sales Department also made a nice gain-- from 84.1% participation to 89.3%. Balanced against these gains were slight losses in two or three depart ments, but the company averages as a whole showed improvement. We're now hovering right on the 90% mark for participation. An other half dozen participants would put us over! Here are the standings, based on the February payroll: Aeronautical Research Manufacturing Chemical Research Technical Research Adv. and Public Relations Sales Finance Engineering Research Administration Medical 100 95,4 95.3 93.2 91.7 89.3 82.9 79.1 71.9 55.6 11.20 9.28 8.66 5.29 4.71 4.96 5.26 7.71 4.01 7.14 ATTENTIONI Because of the confusion caused by the constant stream of requests for changes in payroll deductions for the purchase of War Bonds, the Payroll Section has had to make a new ruling. Beginning with April, changes must be received before the fifth of the month if they are to become effective in the same month. For example: if your request is re ceived on or before April S, the change will be included in check you get on April IS. If received later than the fifth, the change won't be made until the May 15th check. 22 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH Julie Sweeney, who works in New York Advertising, came .originally from Norwalk, Conn., where she graduated from Norwalk High School, but now she lives in Man hattan. Before joining Ethyl she had several years of experience in advertising and publishing, a lot of it with McGraw-Hill's "Business Week." The theatre is her favorite form of recreation. As a member of the American Women's Voluntary Services, she has sold her share of War Bonds and Stamps. j j i 1 1 'i -J ETC 057 Bridge with Culbertson, Von Zedwick, and Charles Corn is nothing new hr Belle Meg dalL stenographer in the Financja/ Department at Detroit. She has played with them ail. What's more, she was Michigan State Champjon tor 1940-41. But bridge isn't her only spare time activity, tor she is active in fled Cross work and is financial secretary of the Bonacamica Club, a charitable organization, Belle was born in Boston, but she moved to Detroit when she was just a smaii giri. She attended Northern High School and Detroit Business University, and before coming to Ethyl she was with the Green Management Company. And unless our eyes deceive us. she could double for Bette Davis of the movies. Her name was Doris Durant when she went to work as a stenographer in the Financial De partment at Detroit, but on January 27 she changed it to Mrs. Roland Maier. Doris gradu ated from Royal Oak High School and came to Ethyl from the Detroit Edison Company. Her favorite forms of relaxation are music and the theatre. Violet Hoffman, stenographer m the dy- nomometer section at Detroit, would be a WAAC. nnly the meanies won't lower the age limit to 19 years. Violet graduated last June from Cooley High School in the Motor City, where she took a commercial course and was active <n intramural sports. She likes to keep scrap books containing odd items and she is also fond of horseback riding, swimming, dancing and bowling. She came to us from the Equitable Hie Insurance Company. ETC 05776 Baton Rouge Military Transfers To bring the Baton Rouge military mailing list up to date, we give you the following changes of addresses as of February 1. New names on the list are those of Joseph E. Christy, Morris W. Stonecipher. and Frank W. Hill. Don't forget to write the boys often! Corporal John P. Black 411 Base Headquarters \rmy Air Base Alliance, Neb. Joseph E. Christy, S.F.lc. Pit. 47, Sec. A, 4-B Area U.S.N.C.T.C. Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Va. Av/C Phebus N. Hotard Group 10, Sqd. 1, Flight A Pre-flight (Pilot) S.A.A.C.C. San Antonio, Texas Pfc. Rufus M. Jackson Camp Signal Office Camp Shelby, Miss. Robert W. Rich, S.F.lc Batt. 66, Co. B, Plat. 4 N.C.T.C. Davisville, R. I. A/C Henry K. Wright S.A.C.C. Pre-flight Group XVI Sqd. 11, Flight D San Antonio, Texas Private Woodrow F. Zachariah Sqn. F, Class 43-6 Lyndalle Field, Fla. Private Curtis Williams Co. C, 484th Port Bn. T.C.U.T.C. Indiantown Gap, Penna. Edgar W. Gates Glider Replacement Center Class 43-A, Bar. T-38 Kirtland Field Albuquerque, N. M. Private Ellis L. Hogan 408 Technical Squad. School (SP) Sheppard Field. Texas Private Douglas D. Davis Co. C, Reception Center Camp Beauregard, La. Private Morris W. Stonecipher Chemical Warfare Service Co. G, 2nd CWS Tng. Regt. Camp Sibert, Ala. Private John F. Carter. Jr. Recruit Detachment 183 F.A., Battery B Fort Lewis, Wash. Private John C. Gryar Battery A, 319th CA Bar. Bln. Bn. Camp Tyson, Tenn. Seaman Frank W. Hill Co. 106, 19th Batt. 14th Regt. Great Lakes, 111. Lieutenant Thomas M. Mion, A C 410 T.S.S. Amarillo Army Air Field Amarillo, Texas 24 BULLETIN BOARD -- MARCH 1 i i I ETC 05777 Atlanta Boys on the Move The latest report from Atlanta informs us that four of that divi sion's military addresses have been changed recently, so we are listing below the corrected addresses to gether with any changes in rank. Quite a number of those left in the division received "V" Christmas cards from Captain Jack Warner, who is overseas. Ensign Stuart Forbes Resident Inspector of Naval Aircraft The Aviation Corporation Toledo, Ohio Captain W. H. Phipps New Cumberland Signal Depot New Cumberland, Penna. Captain George P. Rosser Maintenance Engineering Unit Holabird Ordnance Base Baltimore, Md. Captain Wayand W. Sweeney Headquarters E.U.T.C. Camp Claiborne, La. ** Adds Another Bar It's Captain Don Phipps now, suh! The Atlanta Division's former Florida field representative was promoted on Thanksgiving Day but nobody told us until just recently. Captain Don is stationed at New Cumberland Signal Depot, New Cumberland, Penna., where he has been located since completing his special training course. Unde Promotes Two Their Uncle Samuel has hiked upward the rank of two of the boys on military leave from the Los An geles Division. Ham Greenup has been promoted to captain and his new address is Army Air Corps, 2773 17th Street, Sacramento, Calif. Monroe Weill now wears the gold oak leaves of a major and mail will reach him at G-4 (Automotive Divi sion), W.D.C. & Fourth Army, Pres idio of San Francisco, Calif. *** Army Engineer Jess Carmichael of the Kansas City Testing Lab has been commis sioned a first lieutenant in the Army. First assigned to the Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, N. J., Jess was soon transferred to the Army Engi neers when his engineering back ground became known. Latest re ports had him located temporarily at Fort Dix, N. J. *** No Longer with Us Mary V. Thor, Detroit, Green V. Snowden, Detroit Anna L. Braun, New York June E. Swingle, New York Richard Arthur, New York Alexander Hamilton, Kansas City Magnus Jacobsen, Detroit Raymond G. Hammond, Kansas City Ruth Keeler, New York Helmi McLean, Detroit Hilda Tregonning, Detroit Robert W. Mason, Detroit BULLETIN BOARD 25 MARCH T| i \ I ETC 05778 Marie Genca, photographer at Detroit, grad uated from St. Stanislaus High School and then attended the Savigny Art School for two years to study portrait work. She took charge of the Lab's photographic department after spending ten years with the Genca Studios, which are operated by her father. When away from Constance Newby, nurse in charge at the Detroit Lab, was born in Yorkshire. England, and came to these shores in 1914. She attended Leeds School for Girls and business college tor two years in England, but on arriving in the United States she began training at the Woman's Hospital in Detroit. She was engaged in private nursing before joining Ethyl. Her favorite diversions are literature, gardening and music. A ball player is Clem More/, receiving clerk at the Detroit Lab. He is a native of Chester. New Hampshire, and graduated from Amesbury High School in Massachusetts, where he starred on the diamond. In addition to baseball, Clem likes roller skating and fishing. He operated his own gasoline station before joining Ethyl. ETC 05779 T Maribelle Tuckert comptometer operator in Detroit's Financial Department, was born in Danville in old Kaintuck. but she came north to Detroit when she was seven years oid. She at tended Northern High School and came to Ethyf from the Standard Vacuum Oil Company in New York. She is fond of ice skating and of going to the theatre, and she is active in Red Cross work. AlUie Chalifoux, technical tile clerk at Detroit, is also one of the Lab's leading feminine bowlers. Alter completing a commercial course at St. Agnes High School, she attended Detroit Business College lor two years. In addition to knocking down the tenpins. Anne likes to go roller skating, swimming or dancing. Belore coming to the Lab she was an operator lor the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. Shirley W. Shepherd, stenographer in the Financial Department at Detroit, was born in the bailiwick of the famous Brooklyn Dodgers. She attended Northfield Seminary in Massa chusetts and then took a year of nurse's training in Brooklyn. Belore joining us. she worked for the Merchants flefrigeration Company, and while on this job she married her husband, who is a Detroiter and an engineer for the Chrysler Corporation. Shirley goes in for winter sports. tennis. sailing and swimming. ~~ ETC 05780 1 Muriel Anderson, Stenographer-cleric in New York Payroll, was a Wall Street girl before joining Ethyl, coming to us from the living Trust Company at 1 Wall. She is a native of Brooklyn and has lived in /ha/ borough all her lile. She is a graduate ol Erasmus Hall High School and of Packer Collegiate Institute, both foeafed in the home of the Dodgers. In her spare time her favorite pastimes are painting in oils and waiting tor the return of her husband, who is an ensign in the Coast Guard. ir Muriel Homer, page girl in New York Financial, hails from Great Neck. Long Island. She is a graduate of Great Neck High, where she was a member of the girls' field hockey team. Before /oining Ethyl she was a clerk in Macy's department store. She is fond of skating and goes in quife seriously' for vocal music by taking singing lessons and gaining practical experi ence in a church choir. No Bulletin Boards Overseas The military authorities have re versed themselves since our notice on page 6 of last month's issue of the Bulletin Board, with the result that no publication weighing more than two ounces may be mailed out of the country. So no more copies of the Bulletin Board can be sent you if you are shipped out of the U.S.A. We're as sorry as you are about it. but as the French used to say in World. War I. c'est la guerre! * ARMY-NAVY TIE The Army and Navy scored one apiece at the Detroit Engineering Lab recently, when Hugh Macy be came a private in the land branch of the service and Rollie Ostrander signed up as a midshipman in the Naval Reserve. If you want to write Hugh, address your letter to him at Service Company, 130th Infantry, APO 33, Fort Lewis, Wash. Rollie is located on the eastern side of the continent and may be reached by mail at Room 4242, Bancroft Hall, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. Maryland. ** Joe Laeihem, formerly connected with Charlie Kass' road testing divi sion at the Detroit Lab, dropped into his old stamping ground recently. Joe is a member of Company A. 360th Engineering Regiment, G.S., Camp Claiborne, La. His Sunny South tan made the folks in frost bitten Detroit writhe with envy. ETC Joseph Schwanzer, senior clerk in New York Administration, just went upstairs a lew flights when he came to work lor Ethyl. He pre viously was with the Crucible Steel Company ot America on the 11th floor of the Chrysler Building. He is a graduate ol Bushwick High in Brooklyn and ol Pace Institute in New York. His home town is Flushing, where he resides with his wife and 12-year-old daughter Carol. Go//, swimming and baseball are his iavorite pastimes. Edwin Enoch, newcomer to the Advertising Department in New York, is a Philadelphian by birth but a New Englander by adoption. After acquiring an education at Phiiadephia's Centrai High School and the University of Pennsylvania. he eniisted in the Army during World War 1. Shortly before the Armistice, he was transferred to Springfield. Mass, where he met the future Mrs. Enoch. Eventua/Jy he settled in Springfield. where he worked for several years with the Gilbert 8c Barker Manufacturing Company be fore jotning Ethyl. He has been active in New Eng/and American Legion activities and jn ad verfising circies. His Iavorite sport is baseball, although he claims he is getting too old to play a very fast game. A/though his residence is still Springfield, he plans to move Mr* Enoch ana* their ll-yearold daughter. 8ev. to New Rochelle. N. Y.. in the near future. Their two sons are in Uncle Sam's Army. James B Lonergan, cos/ accountant in New York Financial, left Chevrolet in Tarrytown on the Hudson /o come to work in the Chrysler Bui/ding. He is a member ot Ethyl's Yonkers contingent and a graduate ot Gorton High School in that city and of Manhattan Col lege, where he majored in business adminis tration. At Manhattan he won his varsity letter in track, specializing in that mankilling event, the quarter mile, but nowadays he prefers a jnilder form ol athletics, such as swimming or ice sicaiing. And here's an item oi interest, gir/s--he's a bachelor! ETC 05782 Winter Holidays Two of the boys from Dayton en joyed cold weather vacations. Sieb Siebenthaler, veteran safety engi neer who has been with the company ever since the first Ethyl Gasoline was sold, came to New York to visit his daughter and her family. But the trip turned out to be a busman's holiday for Sieb. for he spent so much time in the New York Safety Department office that he didn't get around to seeing anyone else. George Pearce. Dayton's Ken tucky representative, chose to flee from the icy blasts of the North. He hustled his family to Florida to spend his vacation under sunny skies. ** The Shift Key Gives Out Gas Ration Cards Lieutenant Jack Pruitt of the Army Air Corps, formerly assistant manager of the Dayton Division, is stationed at McClellan Field, Calif., where he has been placed in charge of issuing gasoline ration cards to civilian and military personnel. An ironical fate. Jack calls his new job. When he first arrived there, who should he bump into but Captain Ham Greenup of the Los Angeles Division, formerly of Dayton, and the two of them saw a great deal of each other until Ham was trans ferred to Mather Field. Jack also gets together with some of the boys from the Los Angeles Division every now and then, he reports. Lorraine M. Hahn, Manufactur ing, Deepwater, to Finance. Deep water. Robert Kirapton, Engineering. Detroit, to Sales, New York. N. Bond Hedden, Engineering, Detroit, to Sales, Chicago. Paul Walton, Manufacturing. Deepwater to Baton Rouge. 30 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 05783 GIVE US ETHYL ETC 05784 APRIL, 1943 ETC 05785 |ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees ETc 05786 SCHAEFER A VICE-PRESIDENT John H. Schaefer, for many years he was president of the student General Manager of the Manufac council in his senior year and a turing Department, was promoted member of the football team. to the position of Vice-President in After obtaining his Bachelor of charge of man Science de ufacturing at gree at Dela a recent meet- ware, John ing of our went to Mas- Board of Di sachusetts rectors. Tech to be John came come a Master to Ethyl from of-Science. He a job at Massa received this chusetts Insti degree and tute of Tech- ^ then remained n o1o g y in 3 1926, when the I at M.I.T. for a short time as blending plant I a chemical en at Deepwater I gineer in the was put into I Research Lab operation. He 4 was placed in J oratory of Ap plied Chemis- charge of the ts-y before plant labora tory at Deep Johfi H. Schaefer goingtoDeepwater. While water and the following year was he was working at M.I.T. he was appointed manager of manufactur closely associated with George Cal- ing and transportation activities of ingaert, who now heads our Chem the company. Lab in Detroit. Born in Buffalo, N. Y., on Febru John commutes to the New York ary 19, 1902, John moved to Wil office (and frequently to Wilming mington, Del., while he was still a ton, Detroit, Baton Rouge and youngster. He attended public and points east) from Larchmont, where high school there, and then entered he lives with Mrs. Schaefer and the University of Delaware, where their daughter, Jane. 3 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL ETC 05787 Ethyl's championship aggregation; standing. leit to right, Wallace Mixon, M. H. Batte. Charles McKnight, Frank Bunch. Leo Derail; kneeling, lett to right James French, Sam Roberts. Ed Lorio. Lilburn Smith, H. A. Demauy, coach and manager. BATON ROUGE FIVE TOPS HOOP LOOP Fighting its way through a tough season and plenty of rugged com petition, the Ethyl basketball team at Baton Rouge won the City Indus trial League championship. The Ethyl hoopsters downed the Essos by a 33-24 score in the final playoff game. The league season was divided into two halves, with each half di vided into two rounds. Both the first and second rounds ended in threeway ties between du Pont, the Essos, and Ethyl, but in each half the Ethyl quintet defeated the other two teams in playoff tilts to emerge the final victor. The third round, or first round of the second half, finished with Ethyl, du Pont, and Chemical Products all tied up in a knot. Once again Ethyl set back the du Ponts, while Chemi cal Products forfeited to us. The Essos emerged undisputed victor in the fourth round, but they weren't quite good enough to hold off our i 4 BULLETIN BOARD -- APRIL ETC 05788 boys in the final championship playoff. The Ethyl squad included Wal lace Mixon, M. H. Batte, Charles McKnight, Frank Bunch, Leo Devall, James French, Sam Roberts, Ed Lorio, and Lilburn Smith. H. A. Demouy, who is operating supervisor of the Ethyl Chloride plants, coached and managed the team. The league competition was or ganized by the Industrial Division of the U.S.O. The accompanying pictures of the basketball team were taken and de veloped by T. H. Kalencki, an opera tor in the TEL blender. Jim French, number 42. breaks up an Esso p/ay with some close guarding under the basket / Frank Bunch ot Ethyl, number 44. and an Esso eager go alott alter the reteree's loss. ETC 05789 * Campaign Wins 'Ad' Award Our "What's In A Name?" ad campaign has won top honors by being classed among the three best campaigns appearing in national magazines during 1942. The classi fying authority was no less than the jury of Annual Advertising Awards, consisting of 19 well known adver tising and business men. The Awards, among advertising's high est honors, were started in 1942 by the late Edward Bok through the Harvard School of Business Ad ministration. That the jury's verdict received the enthusiastic endorse ment of the general public was indi cated by our receipt of the millionth request for a "What's In A Name?" booklet. Ethyl shared the spotlight in the competition with Carnation Milk Company and American Airlines. the milk company winning the first place medal while Ethyl and American Airlines received honorable mention. Our campaign was one of 241 national magazine campaigns entered in the contest. And the competition was tough -- so tough, according to the chairman of the Awards, that he doubted if some winners of previous years would have been among the 12 finalists from which the winners were chosen. j < j 'j i j f j I I f In The Spotlight Dot Locke, receptionist for New York Financial, was prominently mentioned in a story in the New York Sun, which appeared under the by-line of Gault MacGowan, ace reporter. The story told of the ar rival in Africa of Dot's husband. Lieutenant Theodore Bessunger, who was an artillery officer in the British Army in the first World War and a school master in New York in civilian life prior to World War II. Lieutenant Bessunger is now in Military Intelligence Cen sorship with the U. S. Army. His Valentine A Bride Captain Leo A. Miller, chemist in the TEL control laboratory at Baton Rouge before Uncle Sam called him to active duty, was mar ried on St. Valentine's Day to Miss Sybil Funchess of Monroe, La. The ceremony was performed in the Post Chapel at Camp Beauregard, La., where Leo is stationed, and a recep tion was held afterward at the home of Mrs. J. A. Spielman near Alexan dria. The couple spent their honey moon on the Gulf Coast and are now at home at Camp Beauregard. j ij BULLETIN BOARD- APRIL ETC 05790 Bill Sterrett and George Roberts Congratulations Chum! The Mutual Admiration Society seen going into action in the accom panying photo is composed of Bili Sterrett and George Roberts, both of New York Financial. The lads are congratulating each other oh a tough job well done. Bill, a budget expert who joined the company about a year ago, barely had time to hang up his hat in the New York office before he was sent to Detroit on a special assignment which was supposed to last only three weeks. But after assisting in the prepara tion of 1942 budgets. Bill was as signed to the distribution of equip ment construction orders for the new Detroit Lab, so the first thing he knew ten months had sped by. "Take Me Back To New York" was fast becoming the theme song of Mrs. Sterrett and little Warren and Cynthia, aged four and two re spectively, when George Roberts, who handles fixed assets for the Financial Department, appeared on the scene the end of January. George had come to Detroit to find out what had happened to Bill. By applying the heavy pressure and by burning a flock of extra rations of midnight oil, the boys brought the ECO ledger up to date in thirty days. Take a look at the picture and then judge for yourself if they are happy about the whole thing. 7 BULLETIN BOARD APRIL ETC 05791 Graduation night /or this Coast Guard Auxiliary class took place in our sales promotion auditorium in Los Angeles, formerly occupied by the Los Angeles clinic. The Coast Guard Auxiliary, in case you have lotgotten, is made up ot small boat owners who have volunteered for patrol duty one night a week or so. This group is the first internal combustion class to be instructed by the Coast Guard and is the forerunner of numerous other schools now operating up and down the Pacific Coast, using the material developed in Los Angeles. The peerless instructor on fuels tor this class was our own Carl Abell, who also helped develop the outline for parts of the course. I Becomes Assistant Manager Robert S. Asbury has been pro moted to assistant manager of the Baton Rouge Technical Division by Dr. O. E. Kurt, division manager. In his new job Bob has charge of purchasing, deferments, employ ment of personnel and other admin istrative work in the division. Bob joined the company in October. 1937, as a chemist in Chemical Re search at Detroit. In May, 1940, he was transferred to the Manufactur ing Department at Baton Rouge to supervise technical activities in the chemical section of the Technical Division. He graduated from Brown University in 1928 with a B.S. de gree and two years later was made a Robert S. Asbury Master of Science by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 8 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 05792 James O. Quist of Chem Research at Detroit hails from Holland, Mich., the town that is fa mous tor its annual Tulip Festival. He received his A.B. degree from Hope College and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. Before joining Ethyl he spent two years in the plastics department of the U. S. HLibber Company. Jim is married and the father of two small daughters, aged six months and four years. He is a member of the American Chemical Society. Sigma Xi. and Phi Lambda Upsilon. Martha W. Fisher, who recently joined the fhyl family at Deepwater, is helping to keep the drum card records straight, which today is a pretty big job when you stop to consider the number of drums that are being shipped. Martha graduated in 1941 from Penns Grove High School, where she took a commercial course. And. boys, in her spare time she just loves to dance! Ivar T. Krohn of Chem Research in Detroit is a native of Minneapolis. He graduated with a B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1937 and obtained a PhJ>. in physical chemis try from the University of Illinois in 1941. then remained one more year at Illinois as a special research assistant. He is a member of the Ameri can Chemical Society. Away from the laboratory Ivar goes in for tennis, golf, and flying, and he was formerly a member of the Civilian Air Patrol. ETC 05793 WAR BOND PURCHASES HIT NEW HIGH We're over the first hurdle! March figures show that on a company wide basis participation in the pay roll deduction plan for the purchase of War Bonds went over the 90% mark last month. Substantial gains by two departments. Sales and Ad ministration, furnished the impetus needed. There was a little backslid ing in March in some departments, but the gains more than offset the losses. While the 90% mark represents a definite achievement, let's not rest on our oars. Some departments are still far from 90% participation. Not everybody can give 10% of his or her salary, but we can all invest something in victory. They call this a peoples' war which means that the burdens fall on the fighting man and the civilian alike. Our burden is much the lighter. Let's all try lo bear our share. Here are the standings, based on the March payroll: Aeronautical Research Adv. and Public Relations Manufacturing Chemical Research Technical Service Sales Finance Engineering Research Administration Medical % of Parpation 100 100 96.4 95.2 92.0 92.0 80.7 77.4 75.0 55.6 % of salary alloted 11.09 5.15 8.98 9.00 5.23 4.83 4.91 7.85 3.96 7.14 KC Eihylmen SAE Officers The Kansas City Division is well represented in that section of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Harold Berg, division manager, was chairman in 1942 and this year is on the governing board. Don Flynn, assistant division manager, is vice chairman for 1943, and Carl Berry, field representative, is secretary. ** Reports drifting back to San Ber nardino have it that Melzer "Pop" Prior and Jack Abbott, two former Ethyl test drivers who afe now in the Army, were stationed at Camp White, Oregon, at the same time, but neither one knew the other was there- * * * Private George Geiger, formerly of the New York Mailroom, is located in the Old Dominion -- Virginia to you -- where his address is D.E.M.L. Co. Hq. Sta. Comp. Bn., Camp Patrick Henry, Newport News. Drop him a line when you get a chance. 10 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 057 Privafe John P. Black 1st Lieutenant Hubert N. Wax Private Woodrow W. Merritt Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward G. Duftard Baton Rouge Visitors Seven of the boys in uniform were among the recent visitors to the Baton Rouge plant. They in cluded Private Woodrow W. Mer ritt of Camp Gordon, Ga., Sergeant George B. Noland of Fort Bragg. N. C., Petty Officer 2nd Class Ed ward G. Duffard of the Navy unit at New Orleans, Seaman David H. McNeil of Manitowoc, Wis.. Lieu tenant Hubert N. Wax of the Army Engineers at Dallas. Tex., Flying Sergeant George W. Chavers of San Antonio, Tex., and Private John P. Black of Bowman Field. Ky. Woody Merritt, George Noland. Ed Duffard, George Chavers, and John Black all used to work in Ethyl Chloride. Dave McNeil was a TEL blender operator and Hubert Wax was head of the personnel sec tion of the TEL Division. flying Sergeant Georgs W. Charera Seaman David H. McNeil Sergeant George B. Noland ETC 05795 have an artist in our midst, as can be readily seen by this drawing. Sheiiey Baggett, draftsman lor the Safety Department in New York, felt a surge ot inspiration one weeJr-end. As a result, tie came into die office Monday morning with a new decoration for the wall ot his office. It is Shelley's own conception of what the ideal blending plant should* look like. ETC 05796 MILITARY MAIL BAG Just a quick note in the midst of the confusion of starting on a new job to give you my new address and to request that you keep the Bulletin Board com ing to me, regardless of my station. Don't know if, or when, I might hit foreign shores, but if I should, I certainly want the mag to follow me. You may, there fore, file this away as my official request for the Bulletin Board, in line with the item on page 6 of the February issue. And now, as a follow up on your ad dress item on page 8 of the same issue, I have moved again, so having changed the records on me once, you may now do it again! Am one of a group brought together from all over the country to form a new corps. Have been here only a few days, but hope to "get in the groove" soon. Attrac tive post, relatively speaking -- horribly crowded town, but was lucky enough to find quarters for my family--life may be rather pleasant for a little while, I hope. Will appreciate your arranging to have the Hews, as well as the B. B., sent to me at the new address. Captain Miles A. Kinley, IGD Ass't. Inspector General ISth Corps Camp Beauregard, La. (formerly of Chicago) Time seems to go very fast for me now, too fast when I think of March IS coming up. Have been quite busy at work, getting settled in our new-place, etc. Moved in on Sunday, February 7. Ex pected to get a lot done on Sunday, the 14th, but was advised on Saturday I was to be Officer-of-the-Day at Union Guar dian Building, from 9 A.M. Sunday to 9 A.M. Monday. So that was that--and of course had to stay for work as usual on Monday. Have been more settled since I was assigned to Technical Section of Main tenance Branch on January 11. Was in the Tank Unit that afternoon but was transferred to Wheeled Vehicle Unit the next morning as Assistant Chief. The Chief of that unit, also a captain, took advantage of his new help and shortly went away on a ten day trip. Soon after he returned, he became Acting Assistant Chief of the Section, so I have had about all to myself and am now "Acting Chief," or trying to do so. It's really very inter esting and I hope they leave me where I am. It's the largest unit in the Technical Section (25 persons) and we handle all the wheeled vehicles, except tractors, in cluding scout cars, armored cars, and half trucks. What with military and civilian personnel, military correspon dence and Army regulations and check ing everything that comes in and initial ing or signing everything going out -- 18 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ll ETC 05797 Captain Bob Hogan well, there's always something to do. Have seen Julian Frey once since the S.A.E. national meeting here. Talked with him on the phone yesterday about some fuel information and may go out to the Laboratory soon on that. We don't get into the fuel question very much, as that is more related to the Development and Engineering Branches. Should anyone in the company drop in here of a sudden, you can reach me at Cherry 4900, Extension 2103, Room 2320, Union Guard Building. Captain Robert W. Hogan 6053 Kensington Road Detroit, Mich. Tel. Tuxedo 1-3958 (formerly of Baltimore) * W were paid a sort of surprise visit by none other than Lieutenant R. R. Faller himself. He has been stationed in Washington going to some kind of school, I think, and dropped down with Jack Bailie to visit the Andersons. Gene Ziurys had just arrived in town, so we had quite a reunion. The highlight of the evening was one of Connie's specialties -cooking. Herb Sumner has been detached from the Experiment Station, and is now in Miami. Florida, going to submarine chaser school. He seems to be enjoying the work very much. I have been temporarily detached from the station and sent to the indoctrination course at the Academy. We take navi gation, seamanship, ordnance, history, physical training, etc. This all happens within two months, so we are kept pretty busy night and day. So far it's been very interesting, and a hell of a lot of fun. Who's taking the pictures for the Bulletin Board? As far as I can deter mine they are O.K. Wish you would thank the Ethyl Deb utantes for sending me such nice Christ mas cards. Ensign Walton L. Carlson 4 Revell Annapolis, Maryland (formerly of Detroit) * Am no longer stationed at Fort Douglas, though am still with the Service Command under Colonel Seger. A new Ordnance Service Command Shop is being organized at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., to which I have been transferred. It is a Heavy Maintenance organization upon which will be based for higher echelon maintenance all Army vehicles in this territory. The C.O., a Captain Falls, has put me in charge of all Inspec tion and Reclamation. Since my depart ment will therefore decide the fate of every vehicle, assembly, part, etc., and will write all job orders for every vehicle entering the shop, there is considerable responsibility involved. = So I am back in Portland! Lieutenant Robert R. Mead Ordnance Service Command Shops Ordnance Department Vancouver Barracks, Wash, (formerly of Seattle) Just a note to let you know that I am well under way with the course which keeps me busy from 6:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. Although discipline is strict and the life is rather rigorous, I am thor oughly enjoying the experience. If I am not a better man when I return, it will be my own fault. 19 BULLETIN BOARD APRIL ETC 05798 X I have seen Ralph Wahrenbrock and Walt Carlson briefly, but have not con tacted any of the other men. Our first month here consisted of in fantry drill, seamanship and physical cul ture, with a little ordnance work thrown in. The next three months will be almost entirely engineering classes. I consider myself very fortunate to be located here at the Academy, for I am sure I would miss a lot of Navy tradition by being elsewhere. Furthermore, the equipment here is undoubtedly the very best available and quite plentiful. In con clusion, I have never eaten any better anywhere -- there are no shortages here. There are many people at the lab that I would like to write to, but this is obvi ously out of the question, so please say hello to everyone. Hoping that this finds all members of the Ethyl Corporation healthy and happy, I remain Midshipman Roland J. Ostrander 4242 Bancroft Hall Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland (formerly of Detroit) I am busy training army mechanics here. Have been in an Army uniform since September 18. We wear a compro mise between an officer's and an enlisted man's, in order to show we are civilians hired by the U.S. We are still in our shirt sleeves here and never think of such a thing as anti freeze. However, it did snow here four years ago. R. G. Hammond P. O. Box 462 Pineville, Louisianna (formerly of Detroit) ** Ax you know, Jack Pruitt is at Mc Clellan Field near Sacramento, and up to January 1 I was stationed there; in fact, I was there from the time of my entry on active duty September 30, 1941, to January 1, but on that date I was trans ferred to Mather Field which is also near Sacramento. The transfer involved no movement of my family since we have been living in Sacramento since I re ported to McClellan in 1941. I can divulge a little about my work without giving away any military secrets. Mather Field, as you may know, is an Advanced Flying Training Field, and my specific duties are those of a Squadron Engineering Officer with the responsi bility of maintaining 46 airplanes, as well as supervising 160 enlisted personnel who do the actual work. Ted Littlefield is in Sacramento every two or three weeks working with the Army at Mather and McClellan Fields on instruction of personnel relative to fuels. I saw Ted quite often when I was at McClellan for we usually had lunch at the Officer's Mess; think Ted rather en joyed coming for he was able to get his fill of coffee and that is something he couldn't get in the hotels. Ted is the only one of the Los Angeles Division I have seen since I left the Division, with the exception of Hume Chenault whom I saw once when he was in Sacramento for a tank cleaning; they must be staying close to L.A. these days. Sorry that I have not kept you advised as to my changes of address, but will try to do better if you put my name back on the mailing list for the Bulletin Board. Another bit of news is that the War Department changed my rank from 1st Lieutenant to Captain on October 13, 1942. Captain Hamilton B. Greenup 2773 17th Street Sacramento, Calif. (formerly of Los Angeles) 20 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL ETC 05T99 Haven't time for much conversation but wanted to send back your January 26 bulletin so thought I'd drop a line. Life goes on here in a plenty rugged way, but I'm getting tougher every day, too, so-- We have lost about 40 out of my class so far but I'm still pitching. The West Texas weather makes it a lot tougher but it's "take it and like it" or else. I have finished my basic phase here and am now entering the technical part of the course. But the next eight weeks can't be much tougher than the first four were, so I'm still shooting at those bars. Give my regards to the force and drop me a note when you have time. Candidate John Clark Co. I, Class 12 M.A.C.. O.C.S., M.R.T.C. Camp Barkeley, Texas (formerly of Chicago) The pace here is terrific! Though tough, it is certainly an excellent school and I have learned a great deal. We have actually just finished fundamentals and will soon be entering the real meat of the course. After some of the problems poured on us. I feel that I was not cut out to be a tactician!! Received the Bulletin Board today. It's always very, very welcome and makes me feel that I haven't lost touch completely. Have no idea what the immediate fu ture will bring. Most officers expect re assignment from here. However, will probably return to Camp Stewart for a while at least. The first week of the month brought me a promotion, so I'll now have to quit cussing "brass hats". At present it does not appear that I will have an opportunity to return through Chicago. Please give my regards to all. Major Howard B. Hudiburg, CAC 321 Pope Avenue, Apt. 7 Fort Leavenworth, Kans. (formerly of Chicago) I've had the pleasure of having my mother, grandmother and uncle out here for ten days. Certainly have been having the time of my life going places and see ing things. I read my letter in the Servicemen's Letter Exchange which was sent you from North Island. Well, I am now at Santa Barbara, California. This is a huge marine air station. I am a plane mechanic, and my work is general repair to keep the one ship I am assigned to in good shape. On my way here from San Diego I passed by San Bernardino and I certain ly wanted to stop and see the Ethyl Cor poration west branch. San Bernardino is a swell town and the people are friendly. It apparently has a lot of retired millionnaires. So long for now. Say hello to everyone for me. Private A. R. Carpenter Marine Corps Air Base Santa Barbara, California (formerly of Detroit) Deal Gastgi I am stationed at Elgin Field, Florida, the Army Air Forces Proving Ground. I am in the Post Engi neer's Office as a mechanical engineer. So far my job has included everything from buying and installing well pumps to supervision of maintenance of the Post Engineer's motor pool.^lso, am in charge of maintenance of refrigerators (for mess hall, etc.), motor vehicles (Post Engineer), and gasoline pumps-- oh, yes, I am in charge of the aqua sys tem for pumping fuel to the planes -- this is very interesting as it covers the supervision of maintenance of fuel lift pumps, water pumps, and any other re pair which might come under mechanical engineering. I certainly am getting a world of varied experience, but, at least the motor vehicle maintenance is right down my line. Just finished designing a refrigerator unit for the refrigeration of a trailer transport for the Post Commis sary. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL ETC 05800 I sure would like to see all of you again--if you ever get down the west coast of Florida, do drop off and look me up. This post is about SO miles east of Pensacola. My papers for O.C.S. have been signed, so now all I have to wait on is the exam ining board and the physical. The work I am doing isn't just exactly what I wanted, but it's better than I ex pected. I work directly under the Post Engineer and take orders from no one but him, which is very nice. Incidentally, Florida, or at least this part of Florida, isn't a very good place to spend the winter as it really gets cold here --we had ice the other morning. Well, I guess I had better stop -- here comes the corporal of the guard to turn out the light. I will write more later. Private James M. Anders 51st Air Base Squadron Elgin Field, Florida (formerly of Detroit) * II was a pleasure to read your V-mail letter that I received today. Hardly a day passes that I don't think of the day you told me how you and your buddies in the last war would wonder if there would ever be an end to the war. My buddies and I are saying the same thing now, although we are having a much easier time of it here than most soldiers on foreign soil. The clothes are warm, the food is much better than I expected. For example right now we have a case of apples and grapefruit in the hut to eat anytime a man gets the notion. We are all in the best of health, most of us haven't even had so much as a slight head cold. Since my last letter my work has changed to instrument work. This con sists of the inspection, adjustment and repair. Hardly a day goes by but some new problem presents itself in this work. It is very interesting work and the time goes fast. A little tiring for the eyes, but they are still 20-20. I would like very much to have Bill Cole's address. I was quite surprised when I read of him joining the Coast Guards. Who knows if I keep my eyes open I may even run into him here. One of my buddies here in the Ordnance sec tion ran into his brother here whom he hadn't seen for years. His brother is in the Navy and they actually passed one another on the streets of (censored), but they both looked back and recognized one another. It was quite a reunion. Enclosed you will find a picture that was taken of me up here. T/5th Andy Pallay Hq. Co. 5th Inf. Div. APO 5, c/o Postmaster New York. N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) 22 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 05801 Alberta Randall, tile cieit m New York Administration, is a twin, and she and her twin sister once won tour wrist watches as prizes on the Battle of the Sexes radio quiz program ot Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson. Alberta Uvea in Great Neck, Long Island, and is a graduate of Great Neck High. She aiso attended the New York School ot Filing. Before coming to Ethyl she was with J. R. Woods & Sons, Inc., jewelers. Her hobby is short story writing, and at present she is devoting her evenings to a course in that subject These two junior airpiane spotters sitting on the steps of the State Capitol at Baton Rouge are, left to tight. Billy Ann Edwards and Sue Ann Harre/L Their pappys are W. T. Edwards end Charles O. Harrell ot the Ethyl Chloride laboratory. Tommy Guy, son of Dan Guy of Technieai Service, Detroit, looks very much at home eJBong the snowbanks of the frozen North, aithough his mommie and pappy moved to Defroit only a short time ago from sunny Texas. vhere snow is something you see in the movies. We wrouid say offhand that iittie Tommy is ?uite a Guy. IRELAND WINS AWARD Ellon H. Ireland, mechanic in Charlie Kass' Road Testing Divi sion at Detroit, is the only Ethylman to join during March that select group of boys and girls who have been with the company 15 years or more. He went to work for the com pany March 9, 1928, as a motor me chanic. Before that he was with Harwith Motor Sales, distributors of Hudson and Essex cars. Elton served in the Navy for 28 months during World War I and is a member of Fairview Post, Veter ans of Foreign Wars. Shortly after his discharge in 1919, he forsook his bachelor status. He has a 13-year-old son and resides in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. In his spare time, when he is not tearing down and rebuilding motors, Elton likes to take an airplane up in the clouds or to cut through the white caps in a fast motorboat. Dur ing the duck season he can usually be found in a blind, waiting for a shot at a flock of mallards. There were no ten-year pin win ners during March, but an even sex tet passed the five-year mark. In cluded in this group are Gelston Howell, New York Division field man; Robert C. Bloodwell, Deep water Administration; Francis G. Huyler, tune-up engineer, Boston Division; Frank M. Jobes, Tulsa Di vision fleet engineer; Herbert C. Moseley, Jr,, Boston Division safety engineer, and John W. Pauli, De troit Engineering. Elton H. Ireland J 05803 etc Thanks from a Farm Instructor Whal are we doing to help the farmer produce enough food for vic tory? The following testimonial, written by N. J. Wardle, a vocational agricultural instructor of the State of Idaho, should give some idea. The letter was sent to the Sinclair Refining Company at Salt Lake City, Utah, after Mr. Wardle had attended a Sinclair "Farming for Victory" meeting, in which our Seattle Division's fleet and tractor engineer, Harry F. Manning, played a big role. "Something new has come into the relationship of producer and consumer. I attended the educa tional meeting put on by your rep resentative and the representative of the Ethyl Corporation which was held in Preston, Idaho, last night. I know of nothing which has built more good will here. The meeting was just a good old get together, yet it was filled with helpful sugges tions to every owner of power equipment. "Congratulations to Ethyl Corpo ration and Sinclair for forgetting the almighty dollar long enough to make friends of the consumers." Deepwater Girl Joins WAAC Seven Ethyl folks have gone into one or another of Uncle Sam's uni forms since our last issue, among them Winifred Duddy, formerly of Deepwater, who has signed up with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, better known as the WAAC. The other six, who are mere men. in clude Henry Field, Robert Pitcher, and Lloyd Boyles, all of Baton Rouge; Edwin Desmond of Aero nautical Research at Detroit, James Boag of Chemical Research at De troit, and Larry Reis of the Tulsa Division. When you write them, ad dress the letters as follows: James Boag No. 1, M Depot, RCAF Toronto, Ontario Fireman 2nd Class Lloyd Boyles District Training Station U. S. Coast Guard La Porte, Texas Seaman Edwin Desmond V-7, Sect. 4, U.S.S. Prairie Stale 135th Street and North River New York, N. Y. Auxiliary Winifred Duddy 19th Co., 21st Regiment 3rd WAAC Training Center Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. A/C Henry H. Field. Jr. " Squadron 17, Flight A S.A.A.A.B. Santa Ana, Calif. Private Robert M. Pitcher Battery A, 6th AART Bn. Fort Eustis, Va. Lieutenant (j.g.) L. D. Reis Naval Training School University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz. 25 BULLETIN BOARD- APRIL ETC 05804 Bonnie McDonald# petite newcomer to the secretarial staif at the Detroit Chem Lab, tirst saw the light of day in Pollard, Arkansas. She graduated with honors last June itom Northern High School in Detroit. Bonnie col lects popular records and enjoys dancing, swimming and horseback riding. She is a U S.O. hostess and has a warm spot in her heart tor the Navy, in which branch ot the service she has a brother who is a first class petty officer. Alice Clark# secretary to John Lachowicz. parent attorney at the Detroit Lab, worked tor a firm ot patent attorneys before joining Ethyl. She is a graduate ot Eastern High School in Detroit and as an air raid warden does her bit tor civilian detense. When she has time to spare, /iterature is her favorite diversion. Geraldine Harms# New York Stenographic. commutes to the Chrysler Building from Flush ing, Long /stand. She is a graduate ot Thevenet Hall Academy at tfighiand Mills. N. Y.. where she received her business training. Before com ing to <hy/ she was with A. W. MiJier, insur ance broker. Reading historical and travel books are her favorite diversions. ETC 05805 Alice Unger, payroll clerk at the Detroit lab. was born in Pontiac, Mich., but since at* {a/njng the ripe old age of one year she has lived in Detroit and Ferndale. She is a graduate of Lincoln High School, where she took a com mercial course, and she came to Ethyl from the Vickers Corporation. Music, collecting phono* graph records, and playing gin rummy with her husband are her favorite diversions, and she has also been active in civilian defense work. The Ungers have an 11 -year-old daughter. Marilyn. Alfred J. Kolka, native of Wisconsin, came fo Chem Research, Detroit, from the National Aniline Division of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, where he had worked since receiving his Ph.D. degree from Notre Dame in 1939. Since moving to Detroit, A1 and his wife have been busy getting settied and doing a job of interior decorating on their new home, but when he can find the time, he likes bowling, skiing, golf, riding, and gardening. He is a mem ber of the American Chemical Society. Wins Award in Radio Quiz Phil Perry of the Safety Department in New York was a recent win ner on Bob Hawk's "Thanks to the Yanks" radio program, sponsored by the makers of Camel cigarettes. Phil was asked the question: "How would you determine you were near wet paint by the use of your olefactory senses?" The answer is simply: "By smell ing the paint." For giving a correct answer Phil won 2,000 Camels which, according to the rules of the contest, must be sent to a man in the armed forces. Phil selected his brother Bill, who used to be with our Boston Clinic, as the lucky recipient. Bill is at present in the Army and is stationed at Camp Langdon, Portsmouth, N. H,, where he is editor of "The Harbor News," the camp newspaper. Phil conversed with Bob Hawk over the air for a few minutes, stat ing that he was a safety engineer by profession. When Bob asked about the duties of a safety engineer, Phil replied: "He attempts to Jteep peo ple from killing themselves through carelessness." 1 The sympathy of his fellow workers in the Baton Rouge plant and of the Bulletin Board goes out to Rudolph Brown, a mechanical helper at the Ethyl Chloride opera tion, whose three-year-old daughter, Nedra, was killed the evening of March 12 by a hit-and-run driver. ETC 05806 Visitors aft Deepwater Radio Technician Second Class John L. Ebell, Captain J. Robert Greenwood, and their wives were among the recent visitors at Deep water. Before enlisting in Uncle Sam's Navy, Jack Ebell was a blender shipping clerk. Jack has al ways been interested in the intrica cies of radio and he says he is get ting a big kick out of his present assignment at Virginia Beach, Va. Bob Greenwood, formerly a chem ist in the Deepwater control lab, entered the Army as a second lieu tenant away back in December, 1940, and was assigned to duty at Fort Hancock, N. J., as a troop teaching officer. After several months there he was shifted to his present base at Camp Tyson, Tenn.. where he is in charge of a balloon barrage battery. Every time Bob appears at Deep water he has a different bar or set of bars on his shoulders, so the folks won't be surprised if before long he shows up with the gilt oak leaves of a major. Change Signals Again, Boys! You fellows in the armed services who are going overseas or who are already there may receive the Bulle tin Board regularly after all. but don't count on it too much. For the third time in as many months the military regulations governing pub lications have been changed. Here is an excerpt from the latest memo randa sent us by the War Depart ment. "In response to complaints that the two-ounce weight limit recently imposed on employee publications mailed to soldiers overseas would oblige many companies to stop send ing their house organs to workers now in the service, the Post Office Department has raised the maxi mum weight allowance for such publications to eight ounces. Under the revised ruling, house organs must still be sent as first class mail, but the weight may run as high as eight ounces." So hope for the best, boys ! Stork Runs Wild Two little guys named Michael first saw the light of day in Baton Rouge recently. Their fathers are George Kirby of the Technical Di vision and Jerry Monahan of TEL. In addition, Howard Rodekohr and ~ George Rieger, both of the Techni cal Division, celebrated the birth of daughters not long ago. Judy Rieger and Susan Rodekohr made their world debut on the same day. The Ad Which Came fto Dinner Miss Berta Parish, a young lady in the New York office of BBD&O, seems to be the discoverer of a new way to use the "What's in a Name?" ads which are appearing currently in all the leading magazines. She cuts out the individual illustrations, pastes them on squares of cardboard, and then uses them as place cards for dinner parties. 13 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 05807 Fern Newberry/ secretary to Charlie Kass at the Detroit Lab, was born in St. Paul. Minn., and graduated from high school there before embarking for Detroit. She came to fhy/ after live years with Harry J. Durbin, building con tractor. She fives in Detroit with her i 8-year-old daughter and is fond of working in her garden during her spare moments. Has He a Poet's License? Like the flowers that bloom in the spring tra-la, a poet has blossomed forth in the Kansas City Division. He is John Fischer, safety engineer, and his latest effort is as follows: And when I die please bury me 'Neath a ton of sugar under a rubber tree. Lay me to rest in a new auto machine And water my grave with Ethyl Gasoline. Club Sponsors Benefit Ball The Tune-Up Safety Club, thyl's safety organization at Baton Rouge, sponsored the only Presi dent's Birthday Ball in Louisiana's capital city. The club paid all ex penses, so the entire proceeds from the sale of tickets were turned over to the city's Infantile Paralysis Fund Committee. A large number of Ethyl employees attended, as well as soldiers and sailors from nearby bases and numerous Baton Rouge citizens. *** Faulty Lubrication Three is not a crowd, says Glen Grant, Seattle Division held man. who joined the ranks of the pops January 22. Carol Ann weighed in at eight pounds two ounces and is a howling success as well as a success at howling. However, when Glen complained to the doctor that Carol Ann was breaking out with the hives, it was discovered he wasn't practicing what he preaches. The text of Glen's lectures to,the sol diers at Fort Lewis plainly recom mends "thorough cleansing followed by lubrication," yet the medico found that Glen's little girl was be ing rubbed with oil before, instead of after, her bath. Ted Mabley, formerly purchas ing agent at the Detroit Lab, is now with the Ford Motor Company, doing construction work. He is lo cated in sunny California, where his address is 1327J4 Olive Drive, Hollywood. 16 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 05808 Virginia McGill of New York Stenographic hails from Valley Stream. Long Island. and is a graduate of Woodmere High School, where she majored in commercial subjects. Be/ore cooing to Ethyl she was a secretary in the export de partment of the American Radiator and Stand ard Sanitary Corporation in New York. In her spare time she likes to Jrnit and hope for letters from her husband, who is a warrant officer with the Army somewhere in the Pacific area. Joan Aubeck, receptionist on the 36th t of the Chrysler Building, makes the daily to New York from forest Hills. Long IsU She is a graduate of Richmond Hill High Scl and of the New York School ot Applied Dei tor Women, where she studied fashion des ing and illustrating. She did sketching modeling for the designing firm ot Cha. Armour, in New York, before joing Ethyi. fore the country went on a war basis travel was her favorite form of diversion, but r. she contents herseif with horseback riding writing letters to boys in the armed servi< This is one of those times we sort of wish were in the armed services. Dorothea L. Dunning, stenographer in the Safety Department at New York, was secre tary of C.R.F. Wickenden and Associates. Inc.. an estate p/anning corporation, before Joining Ethyl. She commutes to work from Richmond Hill, Long Island, is a graduate of Richmond Hill High Schooi and of DeJcan Secrefariai Institute in Jamaica. In the dear, dead days when one used to drive into a service station and say 'Till her up/", riding around the country in a car was her favorite pastime, but now she has to be satisfied with such humdrum activities as swimming and knitting. And in case you're interested, her favorite color is blue. ETC 05809 Luke J. Governale, of the Technical Division at Baton Bouge, and his bride, the former Jacqueline Hart ley. look very happy as they pose for the camera at their wedding reception at the home of the bride. They were married January 31 at St. Augustine, Fla., in the rectory of the Cathedral Catholic Church. After a honeymoon on the Gulf Coast they re turned home to 718 Park Boulevard. Baton Bouge. Julius Dammann, who recently went to work in the New York Mailroom. is no stranger to the Ethyl Corporation. For the past 12 years he has been an employee ot the Chrysler Building, looking alter the 34th, 35th and 36th tloors, and he remembers weil the days when we occupied only the 35 fh floor, so he was among friends when he laid aside his overalls and donned the cafe-au-lait colored jacket oi the Mailroom. Jules, as he is more familiarly known, is married, lives in Jersey City and goes in for deep sea fishing. He and his wife used to go our every weekend on a fishing boat, until Coast Guard regulations suspended this sport for the duration. Joyce N. Erickson, stenographer-clerk in Detroit Financial, graduated in 1942 from Bed ford High School and fhen took a commercial course at Detroit Business College. She came to Ethyl from the Central Procurement District of the Army Air Forces. Joyce likes tennis and bowling and recently has taken up knitting, primarily for her soldier boy friend, who is in the Army Air Corps. And from the looks of things this soldier is more than just another boy friend, for Joyce wears a sparkling diamond on a certain finger of her left hand. ' ETC 05810 New Employees At Baton Rouge Many new faces, both male and female, are seen at the Baton Rouge plant these days. The two lady new comers in the Finance Department are Hilda L. Nurdin, clerk, and Mary B. Bronson, stenographer. In the Ethyl Chloride Division are Geraldine Ferguson and Hallie E. Boles, special mechanical helpers, and Margaret Simmons, Marie T. Woodard, and Dorothy Ann Good man, special laboratory helpers. Alletha F. Mcllwain and Janice Shepard have joined the TEL Divi sion as stenographer and clerk, re spectively, while Nonie B. Parsons and Rose W. Morgan are the new data clerks in the Technical Divi sion. Special laboratory helpers who recently went to work in the Tech nical Division are Margaret C. Ter rell, Ida S. Bliss, Cleo B. Strange, Anna H. Wilson, Tirzah J. Cook, Josephine G. Heath, Geraldine G. Kukachka and Jewel P. Leftwich. The new male workers in the TEL Division are Henry Johnson, Jr., John L. Holloway, Earl W. Brignac, and Harry P. Lemoine, all labora tory helpers. In the Ethyl Chloride Division, Brace E. Duplessie, Earl J. Blanchard, Norman E. Durbin. Selmer A. Thomason, Allen M. Zachary, Joseph E. Trabeau, Henry M. Welda. Dean C. Purvis, and Guy B. Calhoun are mechanical helpers, while Thomas I. Arnold, Gus D. Smith, Edwin N. Edwards, Ivan H. Fleniken, Joseph E. Andre, Marcell I. Strickland, and John R. McLamore are operator helpers. Clarence M. Solberg is an operator supervisor in the Ethyl Chloride Division and Harry L. Bridgeman is a laboratory helper in the Technical Division. In addition, Paul R. Walton, for merly a chemist at our Deepwater plant, has been transferred to the Technical Division's chemical de partment. Rices Now a Foursome A baby girl, Janith Elizabeth, joined the Richard M. Rice family at San Bernardino on January 30. This makes the Rices a quartet, as they have a son, Dickie, aged three years. Janith Elizabeth's and Dick ie's old gentleman is a research engi neer at the San Bernardino Lab. Line Forms on ihe Right, Lads lake Balzer, Tulsa Division safety engineer, sent in the follow ing "Help Wanted" ad, which he clipped from a Houston, Texas, newspaper. "Truck Driver, white, with wench experience; salary. Olshan Demol ishing Company, 2600 Canal." 27 BULLETIN BOARD -- APRIL ETC 05811 Harold Undholm was born in Kinney, Minn., and came to Detroit after graduating from high school at Buhl, Minn. He came to wotk as a dynamometer operator in the Detroit Lab from the United States Naval Ordnance in Detroit, where he was a machinist. His wife and two children. Haro/d Jr. and Josephine. aged four and five, respectively, complete the Lindholm household in Ferndale. For relaxation Harold is a hunter and fisherman. 1 Audrey M* Lyon, Stenographic assistant m the Gasoline Testing Lab at Detroit, was born in Pontiac, Mich., graduated from Pontiac High, and then took a commercial course at Pontiac Business Institute. To make the cycle complete, she came to Ethyl from the Pontiac Motor Com pany, where she was secretary to the chief engineer. Audrey's favorite pastimes are gar dening, dancing, and attending the theatre with her husband. She is a recent bride and her husband is an engineer, but, strange as it may seem, he does not wotk for Pontiac. Viola Siroitlbaelc came to the Detroit Lab soon after her graduation last January from Lin coln High School in Ferndale, where she took a commercial course. She assists Carrie McMil lan with the files and frequently lends a hand in the photographic department. For recrea tional purposes, Viola iiJres dancing, swimming and outdoor sports. ... ....... ETC 05812 Fish Don't Perspire Double Cradle Twin boys arrived the morning of January 19 in the Royal Hospital, Bronx, N. Y,, to brighten the home of Chris Vogel of the Ethyl News staff. Christopher Charles, Jr., and Jon Alan arrived slightly ahead of schedule and weighed in at three and a half and three pounds respec tively, but both they and their mother came through the ordeal in good shape. Papa Chris looked slightly worn but very happy. It was his first experience in fatherhood. * No Longer with Us Are goldfish self sufficient? This serious problem of ichthyological research seems to have been solved at the Chem Lab in Detroit, ac cording to Anne Caplan, our corre spondent out there. Away back in mid-November two of the finny beau ties, confined in a sealed flask which contained only water, sand and sea weed, were left on Charlie Gambrill's desk, together with a note which said: "Please feed the fish, as I will be away over the week end." Of course Charlie couldn"t feed the fish because they were in the sealed flask, but he moved them, flask and all. to the general office of the Chem Lab. There the fish are still swimming happily about, wax ing fatter and sassier with each passing day. Marjorie Swearingen, Detroit Lena P. Young, Detroit ** Bernadine F. Poeppelman. Dayton Susan R. Hill. New York A Wire for Sieb and Jayne Walley, Detroit Harry Berndt B. Carley, Detroit The following telegram was re Isabella M. Kennedy, Detroit ceived recently by Harry Mack and Frances Wilson, Baltimore Sieb Siebenthaler of the Diyton Di " Ruth R. King, New York vision. It was sent by Ham Greenup n. Patricia Ann Beyer, Tulsa and Jack Pruitt,'both of whom are JC Jane Baldwin, Detroit in the Army in California, after * Walter Eilermann, New York Ham and Jack had seen the story el Charles D. Boehme, Chicago on Ethyl's 20th anniversary, which A. R. Dunn, New York appeared in the February issue of Helen Ruth Nolan, New York the Bulletin Board. iy Helmi Burkleo, Detroit "JUST SAW BULLETIN. ** LOVE TO YOU GRAYHEADED The arrival of Linda Joe on Janu OLD DASTARDS. SPELLING ary 2 made the family of A1 Basye, ALTERED BY WESTERN Kansas City Division safety engi UNION. GREENUP AND neer, a trio. PRUITT," 29 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 05813 Seattle Soldiers Shifted Two of the boys on military leave from the Seattle Division have changed their addresses since our last listing. Lieutenant Bob Mead can now be reached at Ordnance De partment, Ordnance Service Com mand Shops, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Aviation Cadet Ray Brown picks up his mail at Squadron 3, Flight "A", S.A.A.B.. Santa Ana, Calif. *** Aviation Cadet Joseph A. Hobart has recently been transferred from Chanute Field, 111., to New Haven, Conn., where his address is AAF TTC CATC No. 1, 1731 Entrance B, Silliman Hall. Emerson B. Blair, formerly of Dayton, is now a second lieutenant in the Air Corps and is stationed at Hamilton Field, California, where he was assigned as squadron engi neer following his graduation from Chanute Field, 111., last September. You can drop him a line there at A.T.C. South Pacific Wing. Stephen N. Hall, formerly of Deepwater, is now an ensign in the Navy and his address has been changed to 5030 Golden Gate Ave nue, Oakland, Calif. H yon want to drop a line or two to Major Don Williams, formerly of the New York Division, his most upto-date address, as obtained from Mrs. Williams, is First Engineer Amphibian Brigade, APO 700, care of Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Howard Hudiburg, formerly of the Chicago Division, reports that he was recently promoted to the rank of major. A letter from Howard is included in this month's Military Mail Bag. ** Walter J. Rantanen, formerly of the Baton Rouge testing laboratory, has written in to suggest that, be cause of frequent changes in his military address, mail for him be sent to his parents' home at 36 Roanoke Parkway, Buffalo, N. Y. He also informed us he is no longer a private, but a technician fifth grade. * ** Arthur Dale Miller, formerly of the Tulsa Division, now wears the gold oak leaves of a major in Uncle Sam's Army. A letter will reach him if addressed to APO 3623, San Fran cisco, Calif. Lieutenant Ray Luke, formerly of the AtlantaDivision, has said farewell to New Orleans. Mail will now reach him at U. S. Navy Section Base, Panama City, Florida. The Shift Key York, to Sales, Atlanta. 30 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 05814 IT TAKES YOU TO MAKE ETHY1 W etc 05815 etc 05816 ETC 05817 Jack Martin explains how Preventive Maintenance is vital to (he war eiiort. KEEPING 'EM ROLLING A large crowd of New York office people recently heard Jack Martin, eastern regional manager, give a sample of the presentation which he and Dick Murphy, western regional manager, are giving before groups of officials of customer companies in various key cities throughout the country. The presentation concerns itself with the Ethyl Program for Preven tive Maintenance Control, which is proposed as a cooperative venture with our customer oil companies, and has the approval of the Office of Defense Transportation. The plan is designed to appeal to the small business man -- the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker -- and to the farmer, who own just one or two small trucks, rather than to the large fleet owner. It simplifies preventive maintenance for these little fellows, who are not equipped to handle the minutely detailed rec ords used by the big fleets. All instructions are simply word ed. and the set of records for the owner is simple, complete, compact and easy to keep. By following the program the small business man can prevent trouble before it happens and can maintain his truck for the duration of the war at the lowest cost per mile. The plan was designed with an eye to the shortage of skilled main tenance mechanics and to enable less experienced operators to do the work. The clear, concise instruc tions, contained in a 28-page booklet entitled "Preventive Maintenance Control," tell in simple language exactly what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, and by following these specific directions carefully, station operators can insure a complete maintenance job on a truck or car. 3 BULLETIN BOAK^-MAY etc 05818 V f ;/ j THE PREVENTIVE i MAINTENANCE CONTROL KIT It provides the truck owner (and the service sta tion operator) with a simple means oi keeping tab on the work done at every service interval -- and also (he work that will be need ed at scheduled intervals in the /ufure. Hew te wm rovr ETC 05819 r "Preventive Maintenance Con trol" is similar to a comprehensive preventive maintenance prescrip tion book previously prepared by Ethyl engineers for the U. S. Army. Since careful driving plays a large part in vehicle maintenance, a 72-page book called "Professional Driving" is a part of the Preventive Maintenance Control plan. This contains numerous driving tips from the top notch drivers who drive the trucks and buses of the outstanding fleets of the nation. To help along the service stations and garages which are cooperating in the Preventive Maintenance Con trol program, we are placing adver tisements in numerous trade jour nals which reach small business men and truck owners. This program, it is hoped, is not something that will go out of style when the war ends. Its designers hope that truck owners will see its value in increasing the life of their equipment and so will form the habit of having maintenance service performed at regular intervals. The presentation in the Chrysler Building, at which Jack showed the numerous diagrams and charts he is displaying to our customer repre sentatives, was a trial horse re hearsal and was followed by a dis cussion session to iron out any kinks which were evident. Also, it en abled other departments to hear the full story on one of the joint activi ties of the sales, technical service, and public relations groups. Dick Murphy opens his swing through the West with a meeting at the Blackslone Hotel, Chicago. ETC 05820 How's Your Victory Garden? V With the coming of spring many grow succotash by planting the two of the boys are bending their backs of 'em together," Jay was careful to and toughening up their muscles by inform us. In addition, he is raising planting Victory gardens to help strawberries, red raspberries, string grow the food which will help lar beans, corn, tomatoes, radishes, cu rup the Axis. After giving the situ cumbers, squash, carrots and peas. ation the sharp double-o, we have Although living up there in the reached the conclusion that Jay country gives Jay plenty of space in Goux, assistant secretary, who has which to spread out, his distance charge of Order and Shipping, has from the office is also a disadvan the largest Victory garden of any tage, because he spends four hours a one in the New York office. day commuting and can find time Jay's garden is approximately 50 to work in his garden only on week by 175 feet in size, which is quite a ends. He takes the train from Bea lot of garden if you have to turn the con daily, but to get to the station earth with a spade. Jay doesn't have he must drive eight miles over coun to. He gets a neighboring farmer to plow his land and then break it down try roads. In contrast to Jay's big Victory by pulling a harrow over it several garden are the pint size plots in the times. After those operations are vacant property next to the apart performed Jay is on his own, taking ment house where your correspond care of all planting and cultivating. ent has his domicile. When permis Getting a plow and a harrow on his sion was granted by the owner of the place is easy, because he lives in aforementioned property for the Brinckerhoff, away up in Dutchess apartment house cliff dwellers to County, where he owns over 30 use it for Victory gardens, there acres of land. was a stampede which resembled a As his main crops. Jay is growing miniature gold rush, each eager to corn and lima beans. "And you can't stake out his 20 by 40 foot claim. 6 BULLETIN BOARD--MAT _______ ETC 05821 Jay GOUX goes in tor Victory gardening in a big way. Your correspondent marked out his little piece of property and then went inside to wolf his Sunday vic tuals. When he returned to farm his soil, he found a claim jumping neighbor had usurped part of it. "Swords or pistols, suh?" was al most in order before the difficulty was straightened out with a reason able degree of satisfaction to both parties. Your correspondent at last got down to the serious business of dig ging his plot, but not for long. He was soon to discover that neighbor hood gardens are infested with those windy individuals who. in baseball parlance, are known as "barbers." A barber's main purposes in life are to talk, talk, talk and talk, and unless you wish to be branded a grouch or a sourpuss, you must give him your undivided attention. Your correspondent estimates con servatively that at least half of the working time in a suburban Victory garden must be spent in listening to the dissertations of various barbers. All in all, we think Jay Goux maybe has the right idea. BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 05822 MembfifS oi the Detroit Finance Department are attending a bi-weekly class in general and cost accounting, which is conducted by Kingsley Jones. Kingsley, who is standing next to the b/aclcboard. is an assistant company auditor on ioan to the Detroit Lab tor coordinating the activities cl the Finance Department. Helen McGoldrick, comptometer operator in New York Financial, hails from Brooklyn and is a graduate oi BushwicJc High School in that borough. She came to us trom the General Ex change Insurance Corporation, a subsidiary oi General Motors. Helen is married and her hus band is in England with the Army Aviation Engineers. She is fond of sports, but best of all she hires to receive letters trom overseas. f * i J Janice Stevenson, who looks alter the safety records in the Dayton Division, came to Ethyl from the Dayton Power St Light Company. A native oi Dayton, she was educated in the schools ol that city and is a graduate of Dickin son Secretarial School. Janice devotes much of her spare time to her work as a Bed Cross nurse's aid. She is also tond of outdoor sports and dancing, and she attends the USO soldiers' dances which are held weekly in Dayton. In cidentally, Janice is smiling so sweetly at Charlie Boehme. formerly oi the Chicago Di vision. who snapped this picture. Dayton folks say that smile is her usual expression. John F. Palmer, accountant in New York Financial, lives in Hempstead. Long Island, with his wife and three kiddies. He attended the New York Preparatory School in Brooklyn and is a graduate of New York University's School of Commerce. Accounts and Finance. For many years before coming to Ethyl he was with Kidder, Peabody St Company, investment bank ers. He is an amateur photographer and his favorite subjects are his daughter-nine years old, and bis two sons, aoed five and three years. i ] m: ETC 05823 The Spirit of Charily DurwoodRossman, left, is happy not only because he captained the winning Ethyl Bowling League team during the 1942-43 season, but also because of a little token he is receiving from Punch Pfundstein, acting in behalf of the Road Test ing Division. The gift card attached to the watering can carries the fol lowing inscription: "We have noticed from time to time dynamometer mechanics trudging wearily from `C* Wing to the garage. These footsore individ uals are in search of water cans, drain pans, creepers, etc., and it no end depresses us to observe their pitiful quests. It is. therefore, with an altruistic view and a heartfelt, charitable spirit that we present to the Dynamometer Section this watering can so as to somewhat lighten the daily burdens of those staunch souls who perforce earn their daily bread under most dis couraging circumstances." Tommy Keenan, formerly of New York Purchasing, has joined the ever growing throng of Ethylmen in the Army. He is located at Camp Davis, N. C., where his ad dress is Battalion A, 559th Coast Artillery (AA). Mrs. Alan Tolly, wife of our At lanta Division manager, is conval escing after a serious attack of pneu monia. The Tullys have had their share of sickness this past winter, with Alan losing his appendix early in December. 9 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 05824 E7izabeth Med/in and son, Stan. After 13 years with the Tulsa Di vision, Elizabeth Colburn Medlin gave up her career as a business woman to devote her entire time to making a home for her husband and young son, Stan. Elizabeth came to work for us in January, 1930, and was secretary to Jack Martin for more than two years. When Tom Ronan came to Tulsa in 1932, she became his secretary and continued in that capacity for seven years. From 1939 until her resignation from the company she was Lou Shank's secretary. Lou and Len Huxtable, assistant manager of the Tulsa Division, gave her a farewell dinner at the Tulsa Club on February 26, at which she wore an orchid corsage presented to her by the Shanks. As a parting gift the personnel of the Tulsa Division and Dick Murphy, western regional manager, gave her a gold Longines wrist watch. Matched sterling com pote dishes were presented by Lou Shank, acting in behalf of Jack Mar tin and Tom Ronan. During the dinner the honor guest received telegrams from Dick Mur phy and Harry Kuhe, Seattle Divi sion manager. Harry also wired American Beauty roses. Ed Hen drick. Tulsa Division field engineer, did a fine job as master of ceremon ies, and Harry Cottrell, senior mem ber of the division, gave a moving farewell address. Soon after her departure, the fol lowing interesting letter^was writ ten by Elizabeth to the Bulletin Board: "At the request of Mr. Huxtable, I am enclosing herewith a snapshot of my son, Stan, and myself, which is to accompany the story sent you on the farewell dinner party which Mr. Shank and Mr. Huxtable gave for me. "In the event they might have been a little modest in their write up, I'd like everyone to know that it was the loveliest dinner party ever and the beautiful Longines 10 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY J ETC wrist watch given to me by present and some past members of the Tulsa Division is certainly a cherished gift. I hope you can also mention the lovely silver compotes sent to me by my two former employers, Messrs. Jack Martin and Tom Ronan, as well as the two dozen red roses sent to me by Harry Kuhe, who was also formerly in this divi sion. "Leaving the Ethyl Corporation was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life--13 years is a long time to be with one company. I saw the Tulsa Division grow from a force of a division manager--Jack Martin--and two field men to its present capacity of a division man ager, assistant division manager, and 11 men on active duty plus some four or five in the armed forces; also saw the growth from two small rooms to four in our new laboratory building and then to the very spa cious eight-room office they now have, and from only one girl to five at one time--now only four due to the war situation. "But, my goodness. I'm only sup posed to be sending a picture, not sitting here remembering highlights of my 13 years--crammed full years, too, with the grandest organization in the world. Herbert Case of A.I.S., New York, travels to the Chrysler Building daily from Westlield. N. J,, where he fives with his wife and twoyear-old daughter. He attended high school in Flemington. N. J.. went to Colgate University for one year, and then finished off his college career at Lafayette, where he was graduated in 1927 with an A.B. degree. Before coming to Ethyl, Herb worked for some time in the whis key business with Schenley Distillers. His favorite diversions are tennis and Victory gar dening, and he is also interested in antiques. Mary Marshall of New York Stenographic, is a native, believe it or not. of Marshalltown, Iowa, but at an early age her family moved to New York. She lives in Flushing and attended Bayside High School on Long Island, Milwaukee Downer College in Milwaukee. Wis,, and Wash ington School for Secretaries in New York City. Before coming to us Mary was a receptionist and stenographer for Bates-Thompson, Inc., re tailers of men's hats. Bed Cross work takes up a large part of her tree time. II "Mr. Murphy, our regional man ager, also took time to send me a wire, bidding me farewell and say ing that after meeting my son, Stan, he couldn't doubt the wisdom of my decision to quit work and take care of him. "Thank you!" ETC 05826 ETC 05827 ETC 05828 Risk Runs Risks, Pages Paige The accompanying sketch shows a ticklish situation which developed after Tom Risk of the refinery tech nology division of Technical Serv ice bought a deep freeze unit. After Tom had rented a trailer and made his own delivery with the assistance of Bill Wanderer of Detroit Road Testing, it was discovered that all doors leading to the basement of his home were too narrow to permit passage of the half-ton cold storage chest. With the help of a few carpenter tools, a wider door was constructed, but then a new complication devel oped. Half way down the stairway leading to the basement a right angle turn was encountered, which proved a tough problem for even a couple of bright engineers. After sweating and swearing for several hours, it was decided additional manpower was needed. The sketch shows the situation at one a.m., when Tom Risk was fran tically paging Ed Paige by tele phone. The paged Paige didn't enjoy being paged at that hour of the morning, since he had long since gone to bed, but he sleepily con sented to come to the rescue. Reports have it that the boys finally maneuvered the deep freeze unit to its permanent resting place along about sun-up. Rapid Movement From the meager information on dates and places Jess Carmichael, formerly of the Kansas City Testing Lab, is permitted by the Army to give out, the Engineers' unit to which he is attached had urgent business overseas about two weeks after he joined it at Fort Dix, N. J. According to late reports, no lug gage, pay or mail had caught up with his rapid movements, yet Jess reports that the going hasn't been too tough and he has eveh had time for some golf and fishing. Jess is a first lieutenant and if you want to drop him a line, his address is 702nd Engineers Petroleum Distribution Unit, APO 4015, c/o Postmaster, New York. N. Y. * Fourth Little Dedo Douglas Donald Dedo, weight six pounds, joined the Homer Dedo household on March 18. to bring the total of little Dedos to four. The others are Herb, Dick and Dottie. > jj : ; ^ n | l! ; i ; j ( j 9 i ! 14 BULLETIN BOARD--HAY ETC 05829 Kind Words from Mr. Ickes ... PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR WASHINGTON MAR - 8 1943 Ly dear Ur* Boydi It was, in a sense, just a part of the morning report when Deputy Admini strator Caries told am the other day that March 10 wee to be the doadline for shipment by the oil companies of the remainder of the serap rubber which they collected during last Sumer's campaign* But, to me, it was much more than merely that* To me, it was a ranirider of an outstandingly Important job that erne done outstandingly well* It was last June 12 that President Roosevelt called upon the oil industry to undertake a snort-term, intensive campaign for the collection of reclaimable rubber* The President said, in carts "If the collection campaign yields a large amount of rubber, it may be pos sible to protect the country's military supply of rubber, as well as help meet essential civilian needs*" The Petroleum Industry War Ccuncil spearheaded the campaign, enlisting the million men and women of the oil business, and putting into the effort the in dustry's 400,000 filling stations, its automotive equipment and Its money* The results are now history: approximately 154,000 tons of scrap rubber added to the Nation's stockpile, tty thought at this time, however, is that I earnestly hope that, because it is history, the campaign will not be forgotten* I hope that the American public cay realize, and appreciate, the fact that the recaps which they are getting were made possible because cf that scrap rubber drive of last Sorter. ^hat the President voiced as a possibility, you of the oil i-ndustry have transformed into reality* As the head of the Government aveney through which the petroleum industry channeled its efforts, I want to renew my previously expressed appreciation of the job that was accomplished* Sincerely yours. Kr* Williii R. `toyd, Jr., Chairman, Petroleum Industry War Council, Petroleum Administrator for War* Soldiers Learn Maintenance In the February issue of the Bulletin Board you read about what our various divisions are doing to help along the war effort. Thinking you would like to know more about this, we decided to pick out a specific instance of our cooperation with the armed forces and investigate it. Since the shortest distance be tween two points is a straight line, we went upstairs to the New York Division and laid our problem be fore Roy Goltz, acting manager of that division. Said Roy: "Why don't you take a trip out to Miller Field on Staten Island with Bill Ball, one of our field engineers? Bill conducts a meeting and demon stration out there every week for Army motor mechanics.'' So we went with Bill to the Miller Field Ordnance Automotive School, which is under the command of Col. N. W. Thomas and which is turning out Army mechanics by the hun dreds. The group Bill addressed was composed of about sixty men, and every Tuesday afternoon he tells a class of similar size all about fuel and maintenance troubles. The meeting was split into three 45-min ute periods with ten minute rest periods in between, and we particu larly noted that the men paid good attention and took notes during this entire time. The importance of good gasoline to the armed forces was stressed. Bill explained in detail the causes and cures for problems such as gum, vapor lock, water, aggravated deton- ation, and many other practical problems which arise in field opera tions. The Ethyl film, "What Is Good Gasoline?", was shown and the sol diers were told how to cope with problems resulting from gasoline which might differ considerably from U. S. Army specifications. They saw our movies of combustion, which show the slow, regular burn ing of normal combustion as com pared with the explosive flash of knocking combustion. Probably the most impressive event of the afternoon for the em bryo soldier mechanics was the dem- 16 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 0583 onstration of knock on one of our small demonstration engines. Gaso lines of different octane numbers were used in this engine, while the loss of power and increase in engine temperature from engine knock were flashed on a screen. Loss of power and speed were also shown as the result of retarding the ignition or using rich mixtures, even though these steps might be necessary in a combat emergency where a loss of fuel supply required the temporary use of a very low octane fuel. Bill told his audience about numerous troubles in the carburetor and igni tion systems and what to do to them in the event of an emergency. After attending this meeting, which is similar to many meetings Ethylmen are conducting through out the country for men in the armed services, we came away con vinced that service mechanics who follow these instructions will be better equipped to keep Uncle Sam's motor vehicles rolling. Ethyl is making a man-sized donation to the war effort by providing specialized information on fuel and mainte nance problems. ** Author of History A book on the history of Alsace, France, particularly that period im mediately before and after its seiz ure by Germany in 1870, has been written by Jacques Daibel, father of Viola Wells of our New York EthylDow office. Because of intolerable conditions there after the Germans took over in 1870, Viola's parents came to the United States from Alsace, where her family had lived since the time of the ancient Celts. Viola sent a copy of the book to Tom Midgley, who thought it con tained valuable historical data and turned it over to Ohio State Uni versity for its historical archives. * * * A Young Man's Fancy Florence Lieberraulli, our At lanta correspondent, sends in the following: Just how spring affects Eastern ers I cannot be too sure, but down South it seems to have quite an effect on some people. Take Joe Williams, for example. Joe, you will remember was connected with Clinic II and then with the Atlanta Division as Mississippi representa tive. Joe has just come through Of ficers Candidate School and is now a lieutenant. He is stationed at a little place called Warner Robins Field, Warner Robins, Ga. (We can not find Warner Robins on the map.) Now spring has turned Joe's mind to thoughts of love and we heard from him just lately tWht he is going to be married -- to "one of those Mississippi gals," to use his own language. Knowing Joe's taste, we naturally assume his sweetheart is beautiful and charming -- in fact a real Southern belle. Spring has af fected Joe to such an extent that he neglected to give us the name of the future Mrs. Joe or any particulars -- just the statement that he was to be married -- no date, mind you, no nothing but a statement of accom plishment of objective. We have asked for details, also pictures. 17 BULLETIN BOARD-MAY ETC 05832 Classification Categories GROUPS 1 1 Subject to active military service This chart is for ready-refer ence on Selective Service clas sifications. Most Ethyl employees without dependents are entitled to 2A or 2B classifications. Request for 2A or 2B classifi cation must be initiated by the employer. Detailed statement of work of registrant is sometimes needed to strengthen request. How ever, no present Selective Service ruling makes such requirement. The description of the other classes are sufficiently specific for general reference. 2 No'dependents Key man Deferred 3 Dependents Deferred .7 4 Not subject to military service I ETC 05833 gisirants under Selective Service 1a Available for military service CLASSIFICATIONS Iao Conscientious objector available for noncombatant military service lc Member of land or naval reserve forces, who was once inducted but released subject to recall to engage in agricultural or other essential work 2a Necessary in civilian essential capacity 2b Necessary to the war production program 2g Deferred by reason of agricultural occupation or endeavor 3a Man with child or children deferred by reason of maintaining bona-fide family relationship 3c Man with dependents who is regularly engaged in agricul tural occupation or endeavor 3d Man deferred because induction would cause extreme hardship and privation to a wife, child or parent with whom he maintains a bona-fide family relationship 4a t Man forty-five years old, or over, who is j deferred by reason of age 4b Official deferred by law 4c Neutral aliens request ing relief from liability for training and service and aliens not accept able to the armed forces 4d Minister of religion or divinity student 4e Conscientious objector available for work of national importance 4r Physically, mentally or morally unfit Men thirty-eight to forty-five now deferred because their age group is not being accepted for military service. (This group is being reclassified in case of eventual call.) IT ETC 05834 Winsome Workers These Baton Rouge girls weren't trained for men's work, but they are doing a good job at the Ethyl Plant. Willie Mixon, 22 years old. gives out equipment over the counter. She likes her job but she thinks she wiil return to housework after the war. Roberta Roy is 22 years old and had always done office and stenographic work. She enjoys her job in the carpenter shop so much she would like to remain in that occupation permanently. Edna Ott, aged 20. stud ied to do secretarial work. She has a job in the Ethyl store, but she says she will stay for the duration only- ETC 05835 T Rossman's Keglers Win Crown Team 2, captained by Durwood Rossman, emerged triumphant in the Detroit Ethyl Bowling League race, which ended April 1. It was a tough battle, with teams 2, 6, 1 and 8 separated by only a few points un til six weeks before the end of the season. In the stretch, however. Cap tain Rossman's lads put on the pres sure to grab the leadership and win going away. Highlights of the season were Ed Johnson's 242 single game, which he scored on the opening night, and Mike Rometti's triple of 609, which was hung up around Thanksgiving time. In the girls' league Jewel Ahonen set a fast pace to take the champion ship, though she was closely pressed throughout the season by Myra Willis and Anne Chalifoux. High single honors went to Myra Willis with a 189 game, while Anne Chali foux scored the high triple of 474. All the bowlers are looking for ward to the annual bowling banquet, which will be held May 22 at the Bonnie Brook Country Club. Men's League Girls' League High average Doughty Johnson Prince 174 165 ... 160 High average Jewel Ahonen Myra Willis Anne Chalifoux High single Johnson 242 High single Myra Willis High triple Rometti 609 High triple Anne Chalifoux Team high single (men). Team 9, 909; team high triple (men). Team 9, 2545. 133 128 127 189 474 Ben Brewster sees the birdie Cap Hall lets one go ETC 05836 ETC 05838 1 Four Off io War from Baton Rouge Four new names have been added this month to the military honor roll at Baton Rouge, among them Winnie Dugas, who thereby gains the distinction of being the first lady at our Louisiana plant to join the WAAC. The boys who have gone on Uncle Sam's payroll are Henry Miller, Clement Eiswirth and Aristide Treloar. Their ad dresses, and the addresses of several Baton Rougers who have changed their bases recently, are listed be low: Auxiliary Winifred Dugas 4th Company, 23rd Regiment 3rd WAAC Training Center Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Private Henry Miller 611 Training Group Flight 374, Tent Area St. Petersburg, Fla. Private Clement C. Eiswirth 630 T.S.S. FI. 376 St. Petersburg, Fla. Aristide D. Treloar, Jr., CMM U. S. Maritime Service Officers Training School 202 Young American Hall Alameda, Calif. Av/C Phebus N. Hotard 307th HHFFTD Hicks Field Fort Worth, Texas Joseph E. Christy, S.F. 1/c 75th Battalion Co. C, Pit. 2 Camp Parks, Calif. T 5 Leonard E. Massey Co. G. 801 Signal Training Regt. Camp Murphy, Fla. S/Sgt. James N. Johnson 384 Q.M. Tnk. Co. Indiantown Gap, Penna. Corporal Frank S. Neal Co. B, 563 EBM Bn. 3 E.A.B. Camp Bell, Fla. S Sgt. Woodrow F. Zachariah 479 Bombing Squadron Avon Park, Fla. Lieutenant Hubert N. Wax 4227 Herschel Avenue Apartment 11 Dallas, Texas * Newcomers at Baton Rouge We have an even dozen new em ployees at Baton Rouge to present to you this month. In the Ethyl Chloride Division Carl V.-Hunt and Marion E. Kaiser are operator help ers. and the new mechanical helpers are Lynwood R. Sharon, Hebert H. Rasberry, Marvin M. Meadows, John T. Allen and Minton R. Carson. Annie L. Houston is a steno grapher in the personnel depart ment of TEL, and Mary F. Hoggatt and Grace Moffett are stenos in TEL's purchasing department. John H. Tate is an intermediate clerk in TEL purchasing and Ar thur J. Haas, Jr., is a chemist in the Technical Division. i 24 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 05839 We Hear from Freeport We have at last lined up a cor respondent at Ethyl-Dow in Free port. His name is Bill Murk and he fires the opening gun with the fol lowing: This is the first time we Texans have been in the Bulletin Board, therefore, by way of introduction, we are your neighbors and fellow workers in the Southwest, part of the Texas Division of Ethyl-Dow. We already feel a kinship to all other parts of the Ethyl Corpora tion, because our work is related and the direction of our combined efforts is toward the same end. From observing past issues of the Bulletin Board, we would say our interests are much the same as those of you in Deepwater, Baton Rouge. Atlanta or Seattle. We like fishing, horseback riding, barbecues and dancing--Texas style. We buy War Bonds (a Treasury Department 10rV Hag hangs in the office building lobby) and we have given generous ly of our employees to the armed services. At present there are 32 former employees in the armed services -- 22 in the Army, four in the Navy, one in the Marine Corps, three in the Air Corps, and two in the Coast Guard. A large service board in the lobby of the office building lists them in the order of departure and is a constant reminder to those of us on the production front of the greater sacrifice some of us are mak ing elsewhere. By the name of one, an Air Force lieutenant, we have placed a gold star. Three of the nicer things about Ethyl-Dow are the first young ladies to break a precedent by becoming employees here. Bess "Liz" Truman handles insurance records, while Nina Dean "Butch" Gotcher and Leslie Lou "Linda" Blair are steno graphers extraordinary. Sophistica tion, modernity, glamour -- we have it! We hope in later isues to intro duce some of us in pictures, but right now this will have to do as our debut into the Bulletin Board fami ly. When some of those record fish are caught, whenever we can per suade the fairer sex to pose, or whenever we can snap some shots of life in Texas, we will send along these items to you. * Five with Vs Five Yeazs Grizzled veterans who have been with the company fifteen or even ten years are conspicuous by their absence this month. We can give you, however, the names of five peo ple who won their five-year awards. They are Beatrice E. Cook and Arthur P. Deverill of New York Financial; Isabelle Gerland, Manu facturing, Baton Rouge; Ben F. Penrose, Seattle Division safety en gineer, and Patricia Watson, secre tary to Jack Martin in New York. 25 BULLETIN 80AKD--MAY ETC 05840 If Injured, ] This Ethyl First Aid team at Baton flouge placed second in the First Aid contest sponsored by the Standard Oil Company ot Louisiana. Standing, leit to nght, are: W. J. Henry, sponsor: Wallace Mixon. J. W. Darby, and B. P. Himel. In the tront row. ielt to nght. are: H. R. Allen, captain: Dennis J. O'Banion. alternate: and Frank Hill. J. F. Carter was unable to appear in the picture because he had left to join the armed forces. { Little Miss Seven-by-Seven If seven is a lucky number, then fortune should beam on Catherine Marie Muller, who bowed into this world the night of January 25. The little girl tipped the scales at ex actly seven pounds seven ounces. Ed Muller, Atlanta Division safety engineer, is a mighty proud man. No Longer with Us Stella Pilat, Detroit Elizabeth C. Medlin, Tulsa Anna Hiop, Detroit Frederick M. Rahn, Atlanta Joseph J. Martin, Detroit Pierre Celto, New York Madelaine Tamm, Detroit Kaye R. Hargie, Detroit Samuel T. Stafford, Jr., Yonkers Lawrence K. Moore, Chicago John D. Rowe, New York Call on Them The Mechanical Department at Baton Rouge has its own First Aid team. Standing. Jett to right, are: M. C. Hudgins, sponsor; . J. Lorio and C. L. McKnight. in front row. left to right, are: George H. Doran. R. D. Thrasher, J. T. Adams and R. L. LeBoeui. =f Lab Tops in Red Cross Drive Femdale's Chamber of Commerce recently announced that our Detroit Lab employees led those of all in dustrial plants in that area in aver age per capita contributions to the Red Cross drive. The average em ployee donation at the Lab was over $5. Since there are approximately 85 plants located in the Perndale community, Detroit Ethyl folks are mighty proud of their record. Tells it to the Marines Glen D. Grant of the Seattle Di vision, who for the past year has been conducting the Preventive Maintenance and Driver Training School for first and second echelon men at Fort Lewis, Wash., is now a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve and has started a month's training at San Diego, Calif. Glen is the third member of the Seattle Division to don a uni form. 27 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 05842 Lett fo right: Chet Becker, Art Wilt and Dave Thompson Tips on Tractors Two Ethylmen took to the air waves recently to give out preven tive maintenance tips on tractors to farmers. Art Wilt of the agricul tural department of Technical Serv ice at Detroit broadcast March 18 over Station WLS, Chicago. With him on the program were Chet Becker, general manager of the Illinois Farm Supply Company, and Dave Thompson, associate editor of Prairie Farmer, who acted as inter locutor. This was Art's second broadcast over WLS within a month. In New York, Frank Stablein, New York Division tractor engi neer, hauled himself out of the feathers long before sun-up on April 6 to take part in the "Modern Farmer" program over WEAF. The time of this broadcast was from 6:30 to 7:00 A.M., which isn't exactly a "witching hour" for us city slickers. Bob Richardson, formerly of the Boston Division, is a lieutenant in the Navy and is located in Detroit. His address there is Office of Super visor of Ship Building, 9666 East Jefferson Avenue. There's That Bird Again Three alumnae of Ethyl, all exsecretaries, recently added two girls and a boy to the nation's popula tion. A daughter, Edith, weight just one ounce short of seven pounds, was born April 11 in the French Hospital in New York to Esther Stapley Lyman, formerly secretary to Julian Gonzales. As good luck would have it, Esther's husband was home on leave that day from Officers Training School at Aberdeen, Md. A son, Willard Joseph, weighing six pounds seven ounces, was born April 5 to Margaret Spalding Free man, formerly secretary to Roy Goltz of the New York Division, and her husband. Dr. Gilbert Free man, in the M.I. Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N. Y. To Wynn Porter Sanders, who was secretary to John Schaefer when he first moved to New York, a daughter. Maria Christie, was born March 18 in Gotham Hospital. New York. She weighed six pounds nine ounces. Gay Back from Africa Errol Cay, director of the fleet division of the Technical Service Department, recently returned from the Tunisian front in North Africa. Efforts to pump information out of Errol were unsuccessful, but he ad mits he had quite an adventurous trip. At any rate, it's our guess he was Gay when he got back in the good old U. S. 28 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 05843 VICTORY MAIL * My indoctrination course has been completed, and I am now back at the station. I expected to get out and get a little salt on my nice new uniform, but the Bureau of Ships aren't releasing their men at present. Oh, well, I am en joying the work, so why fret. Got a letter from Herb Sumner about two weeks ago. He is the Executive aboard a 110 ft. P.C.; also the Gunnery Officer, Medical Officer, Engineering Officer, and First Lieutenant. As he put it, "just a couple of jobs to keep me out of mischief." I am planning a big trip to Washington this week-end. Will report later on what happened. Ensign Walton L. Carlson U. S. Naval Eng. Exp. Sta. Annapolis, Maryland (formerly of Detroit) and revolutionary type of propeller. Leave it to G.M. to beat the.other boys to the gun. All in all I have a fairly good background now of both propellers and engines, and since the two function more or less as a unit, they make an excellent combination. We were fortunate in that we had a week's layover at Patterson Field, near Dayton, and also had an opportunity to visit some of the engine and propeller testing labs at Wright Field. Two weeks at Will Rogers and I was shipped out in a cadre (nucleus for a new squadron) and landed in this hell hole. Victoria, with t population of 700, lies about midway between Kansas City and Denver. The base is new (the sol diers have been here but a month) and * I believe I have settled down for a while, though one cannot predict too far in the future in the Army. It's worse than tank cleaning for quick, unexpected moves. I've covered quite a lot of ground since I saw you last fall. We had four more weeks of prop school at the Hamilton plant at Westerly, R. I., and then headed for the Aeroproducts Division of G.M. for two more weeks of an entirely new 29 BULLETIN BOARVa-MAV ETC 05844 1 as a result we lack all recreational facili ties. AH in all it's a swell spot to relax, reminisce and think of one's sins. While at Aeroproducts we stayed in an ultra ultra tourist hotel with bar at tached-frequent trips to that bar were vital to compensate for that cold, damp Ohio air. Now that I am in Kansas, which is dry, I haven't regretted my past in discretions one bit. The picture isn't as bad as it's painted -- the town of Hays (7,000) is sixteen miles away, liquor can be had at four dollars a pint and there is a faint possi bility of a blonde doctor's daughter with a "C" card. At your convenience will you be kind enough to send me the January, Febru ary and March Bulletin Boards, a copy of Practical Pointers, and the '42 or '43 Truck Specs. Now that my school days are over for a while, I've started papers through for Officers Candidate School again. I feel that I've spent enough time as an enlisted man to make a fairly decent officer. I plan to apply for technical ground offi cer, which means following along techni cal lines, utilizing the experience I have gained and staying in the Air Corps. It means nine weeks of pre-technical train ing in Florida and nineteen weeks at Yale. I believe I could get a direct com mission, but why pass up six months of schooling and a chance for a bit of back ground? How about a newsy letter on the do ings around New York when either you or Roy get the opportunity? Meanwhile my best to all the crowd. Sergeant D. Frank Hayes 400th Sub-Depot Walker Air Base Victoria, Kans. (formerly of New York) Somewhere in Africa The Inspiration for this letter was quite a sight the other morning --at a clipper base to see black grinning native boys rolling drums of "100 octane Ethyl" gasoline down for fueling the ships. Glad to see Ethyl doing its part. The trip has been extremely interest ing and hats off to the first gang over who are making our trip relatively easy. Good transient camps with running water, beds, toilet, good food, landing fields, recreation facilities, laundries, cars, trucks and buses, electric lights, etc. Be lieve me, the Air Corps has done an out standing job -- not that we roll in lux uries, but it has been a gigantic under taking. The use of native labor in itself is quite an accomplishment -- but they are used extensively -- current prices being 20c to 40c per day -- at one place some hundreds of men and women in a field -- the native labor market all register and as they are needed called up and given a job. No American money accepted in this part of the country by either merchants or banks -- the first of our bo?s over here did too good a job on selling the natives hunting licenses, cigarette coupons, driv er's licenses, as being American money. One place here the largest denomination currency was a two-cent piece -- natives only want "hard money", and they bury it. Town filled with beggars, blind men and etc., should see the kids do our "boogie woogie" dances when they hear American music. Our pilots, fliers, etc., have great times bargaining for native jewelry, knives, slippers, curios of all kinds -- lots of it looks like the stuff Americans brought over here fifty years ago. The boys refer to meat as "Camelbergers". 1 i , 1 ! 30 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY I jM 05845 etc Every American thinks his home town is heaven compared to any place here -- surprising the large number who are planning on buying farms when the war is over and settling down to raise "white faced cattle" -- tell George Krieger's boys they have a fertile tractor market with all this gang. Best regards to all. Captain Edward E. Rothman A.P.O. 10189 c, o Postmaster New York, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) Hello Everybody-Just a short line to give you my new address. I arrived here at Drew Field two weeks ago last Saturday night, and was temporarily in the A staff of the SOlst S.A.W.R. After seven days there, I was transferred to my present battalion. So far, the sunny south is not all sun shine, though when the sun does shine, it does a good job of it, as I am acquiring quite a tan already. Up to the present time my training here has been all a repetition of my basic training at Camp Crowder, with a few advanced exercises added. We are on a seven-day week here at Drew Field, though in the 563 battalion they will allow each soldier a one-day pass each week, which is very nice -- they don't do that in very many of the battalions here. Lights go out at 9:30 P. M. and it's 9:10 P. M. now, so will close here. Will write later. Good luck to all. T/5 Albert W. Ramsey U. S. Army Headquarters and Plotting Co. 563rd S.A.W. Battalion Drew Field, Florida (formerly of Detroit) \ 0 v Dear Gangs Territory of Hawaii The fact that I have not sent you a letter in many weeks has made me so uneasy that I now find it almost abso lutely necessary to get this letter off in a hurry if I expect to have any peace of mind. To tell the truth, I began this letter by dating it the 4th of the month, but I have now found it possible to correct the date by inserting a unit digit before the 4. Very little of anything that I may write to you has occurred since my last letter of several long weeks ago. A couple of days ago, I had the opportunity to witness some very excellent artillery firing during a service practice exercise. It may seem a little strange to you that I should consider this as something out of the ordinary for me, but since I am, or have been, remaining around the office so much in the past several ^months, I have not been able to view much of what goes on outside of the headquarters. About a week ago I went on a tour of one of the many points of military in terest. Naturally, I cannot give you any details of the visit, but I believe you can get a much better picture of what I have seen by reviewing some of the illustra tions that have appeared in the Ethyl News of a couple of months ago. I have spent a few enjoyable evenings recently discussing a few of the prob lems and changes pertaining to engines and related units with the boys in the Motor Pool. These discussions reminded me very much of the sessions I used to have back home with a neighbor of mine 31 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY ETC 05846 who operated a repair garage. My in terests were aroused to such an extent that I believe I will spend my next pass day in the Motor Pool. It appears as though I will have to depend upon the Ethyl Service Men's Letter Exchange for all the news from the company, for I received word from the New York Office that recent postal regulations made it impossible for me to get the Ethyl Bulletin and News in the future. This suspense in delivery is regrettable, but I suppose it must be for a time at least. I hope you are all well and have sur vived the long winter months of ration ing. I heard that the recent sudden ra tioning of shoes caught many people bare-footed, or was it flat-footed. Regards to all. Master/Sergeant Edward J. Kukla Headquarters Battery 27th Division Artillery A.P.O. --27, c o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. (formerly of Detroit) * Somewhere in England Well, hew are things going back at good old Ethyl? I hope most of our old gang are still around. Tell everyone I said hello, and to hurry up and win this war from that end. and we will do our best over here. It has been some time now since I received any Ethyl publica tions, but I suppose they are in the mail. At least I sure hope so, because I like to read about what all the gang is doing. Since arriving over here I have had one leave, and I spent it down in London, believe me, that sure is some town -- but I suppose you have been there and know all about it. I had a very nice Christmas card from Bob Loser, and I wish you would thank him for me, and I will write a few lines to him in the near future. The people over here are just grand to us, and all the girls go out of their way to make us feel contented in being over here. They sure are a friendly lot of people. I have been feeling just fine. and I think putting on a little weight. Please write as often as you can. as mail call is one call always looked forward to. Pfc. Merlyn Beane 1921st Q. M. Co. (T)AVN 12th Rep. Control Depot --3 A.P.O. -635, C/O Postmaster New York, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) it it it Hello Everybody -- Thanks a lot for the Christmas cards. They arrived somewhere around the first of February, and this will probably reach you all in time for a Happy Easter. From the various pictures I have seen of the new office, you sure have a place somewhat different from 723 East Mil waukee. Sure could stand a bit of Detroit now. Well, maybe this time next year. Regards to all. , Lt. William J. Ryan Headquarters, 3rd Battalion 11th Infantry A.P.O. =5 c/o Postmaster, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) 32 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY etc 05847 I received your most welcome letter today and needless to say I was pleased to get it. We are back now for a little rest after almost five months on the front. I slept in a bed the other night for the first time since we landed. Boy, was that good. I slept for 15 hours straight. However, I have no kick coming as the food is goad and plenty of it, also plenty of clothes. Ethyl is doing a swell job, as the fuels are very good that we get here. All the equipment runs until it is blown out of existence by shell fire or bombs. So far I have been able to hang on and feel good. Praise the Lord and pass the ammuni tion and we will throw it. Best regards to everyone and write again. Major Frederick D. Williams 1st Amphibian Brigade A.P.O. 700, New York. N. Y. (formerly of New York) * it Received yeut letter today. I have meant to write you but I just neglected it. I am on Oahu Island and don't get to the others. I was promoted about four months ago and was made the maintenance officer for our battalion. I really like the work and the climate here is swell. One of my brothers in the Air Corps was over here with me last year but he was killed just before Christmas. Hope you people at home are all right. I'll look you up if I get back. Captain J. W. Miller Hq. 193 Tank Bn. APO 957, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif, (formerly of Chicago) Just settled in another new assignment, when a Bulletin Board arrived, carrying a letter from me in which I announced my arrival at my last station! So -- we'll start all over again . .. you can cancel the address printed in the March issue. We were just beginning to receive the "fillers." or inductees, at the division to which I was assigned when the word came out that a new corps was being formed, and then, before I realized what was happening, I found myself with or ders in hand, punching the "shift key" once again, and landing here in Louisiana. Am living in Alexandria, a medium sized town, but really a metropolis by contrast with the one near my last sta tion. With three large camps, plus a small one and several air fields in the vicinity, the town is overrun, but I was fortunate enough to find a very attractive house, and am settled now for another stay of an indeterminate length. Have several divisions, plus a variety of miscellaneous troops, under corps control -- will be visiting a number of camps in Louisiana and Mississippi -- feels almost like getting in the harness for Ethyl again! Only trouble is that in our travels to date, I have learned that a jeep or a C & R car is nowhere near as comfortable as a Buick -- I surely do miss that car I left behind in Chicago! Regards to all the Ethyl gang -- and if any of them land in the vicinity, would like to hear from them. = Captain Miles A. Kinley, IGD Ass't. Inspector General 15th Corps Camp Beauregard, La. (formerly of Chicago) V -k Your pleasant Christmas cards left me very pleasantly nonplussed. It was mighty nice. Thanks. It has only been ten months since I left the "labs", but so much has happened since then, that it seems like ages. One thing is certain I think the Navy has cured me of my yearn to travel. Even tho the past months have been trying 33 BULLETIN BOAiriT--MAY ETC 05848 at times. I think I shall always remember them as pleasant days. 1 don't think I'll ever forget my first torpedo (I'm Tor pedo Officer) or the first time I took the ship out to sea (even tho the Captain was right on the bridge with me). There being a world between us I am enjoying plenty of sunshine, swimming, and cocoanuts. I am wearing my hair short as a habit formed from the day of my purging. I am no longer a slimy pollywog. Ensign J. A. Cipolla, USNR USS Eaton c/o Fleet P. O. San Francisco, California (formerly of Detroit) Change of Base We have been notified of the fol lowing changes of address: Captain George P. Rosser Book Cadillac Hotel Detroit, Mich. Lieutenant Idan E. Flaa 24054 Boston Street Dearborn, Mich. Captain Benjamin D. Harrison 109 Central Avenue Dayton, Ohio Boosted in Rank Five of the boys from Baton Rouge have advanced in rank in the armed services, according to recent dispatches. Percy L. Breeden, for merly of Ethyl Chloride, graduated from Officers Training School with a second lieutenant's commission. Randolph L. Charlton, formerly of TEL purchasing, is a lieutenant in the Navy. Leo A. Miller, who used to work in the TEL control lab, is a captain of Infantry. B. W. Fridge, ex-Technical Division, is a captain in the Air Corps. Hubert N. Wax, formerly of TEL personnel, is a first lieutenant in the- Engineers Corps. Malaria Convalescent Word was received at Detroit re cently from Major Bill Hubner, who at last reports was located in New Guinea. At the time of writing. Bill was recuperating from an attack of jungle malaria. When you write him, address the letter to 0-168831, Hq.. A.S.C., 5th Air Force. APO 925, c/o Postmaster, San FraiTcisco, Cal. *** SHIFT Arthur W. Roberts, Sales, Chic ago, to Sales, Tulsa. Arthur F. Johnson, Sales. Kansas City, to Engineering, Detroit. Herschel Dedo, Engineering, De troit, to Sales, Dayton. 34 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY ETC 05849 TWO THINGS HE'S EXPECTING FROM YOU... ,,-// ETC 05850 ETC 05851 ETC 05852 Art Acken conducts a meeting in Baltimore. Ethylmen Professors at Gulf Fleet School To give the fleet owner valuable the territory of his division, while instruction in how to keep his trucks Art Acken, Baltimore Division fleet , and buses in good condition for the engineer, is instructing at meetings duration, the Gulf Oil Corporation in his territory. One of the impor is conducting a Fleet Maintenance tant textbooks of the course is our School in several eastern states, in "Practical Pointers." which Ethylmen from the New Each term of the Fleet Mainte York and Baltimore divisions are nance School consists of four meet playing an important role. ings. Subjects taken up are "Com Guy Donahue, our New York Di pression and Engine Recondition vision fleet engineer, is lecturing at ing," "The Fuel System and Car- all school sessions which are held in buretion," "Gasoline and Combus- 3 BULLETIN BOAED-JUNE ETC 05853 Guy Donahue discusses a problem with William Boyd district manager of the ODT; E. J. Prail, White truck dealer, and Fred Evans, White *+rvice manager, alter the meeting in Scranton. etc 05854 tion," and "General Tune-up and Ignition." In connection with "Gas oline and Combustion," our film "What Is Good Gasoline" is shown." Sessions have been conducted by the Philadelphia Sales Division of Gulf in Wilkes-Barre, Philadelphia, Scranton, Allentown, Harrisburg and Williamsport, Penna.. Trenton, N. J,, Richmond, Va,, Wilmington, Dela., Washington and Baltimore. Additional meetings are scheduled for Lancaster, York and Reading, Penna. Gulf's New York Division has held sessions in Brooklyn and Buffalo, and is planning meetings for Rochester. Syracuse, Utica, Albany, and the Bronx. Other meet ings may be held in Newark, Jersey City and Paterson, N. J,, and in Binghamton and Jamestown. N. Y. Gulf's Pittsburgh Division has con ducted sessions in that city and has tentatively slated others for Erie and Johnstown, Penna. For the convenience of those who attend, all sessions adhere rigidly to schedule, beginning each evening at eight and ending at ten sharp. At the close of each lecture there is a 15-minute "Question Box" period. when Guy or Art answer queries. All questions are written out on cards furnished for that purpose and are anonymous, thus eliminat ing any embarrassment a man might feel about asking a question. Regarding the school, William Boyd, Office of Defense Transpor tation manager at Scranton, said it couldn't be better if specially set up by the government. Mr. Boyd at tended the sessions with his staff. Those taking the course were asked to comment on it on cards furnished them for that purpose. Without exception the comments were high in their praise of the school program. As we go to press, we have learned that Gulf is so pleased with the results of the Fleet Maintenance School that plans are going ahead for meetings throughout the com pany's entire marketing area. So by the time this issue of the Bulletin Board reaches you. Ethylmen from several other divisions will prob ably be conducting sessions similar to those at which Guy Donahue and Art Acken are lecturing. Income Tax Cut George Zelyez of New York Cost Accounting became a proud father for the third time when Anita was born April 27 in Tarrytown Hos pital. Papa George was a bit hazy about his new daughter's birth weight, but he thought it was around seven pounds. The other Zelyez youngsters are Georgians, aged 12, and Ronald, eight years old. Secretaries Depart Two secretaries have resigned at Baton Rouge. Eliza B. Sims, secretary to C. W. Bond, has left to return to her former home at Natchez, Miss., while Jesse Savario, secretary to Lew Barnum, has been lured away by the peal of wedding bells with Lieutenant Harold Etchen. USN. as the bridegroom. 5 BULLETIN BOAR D~--J U N E ETC 05855 Oil Indusir THIS IS THE REASON TOV GA 6 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE etc 05856 Goes to Town GET YOUR TIRES RETREADED For 26 hectic days and nights early last summer America's petro leum industry set aside all other business and went to work a million strong to collect scrap rubber at a penny a pound. As a result enough scrap for reclaimed rubber was col lected so that everyone is now per mitted to have recapped tires. What's more, $2,433,185.20 in pro ceeds from the drive has already been distributed to the four great national service organizations. President Roosevelt ordered the nationwide scrap drive on June 12, 1942, and Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes immediately dele gated the job to the Petroleum In dustry War Council. The drive be gan at midnight June 14, and the petroleum industry's more than a million employees, its 400,000 serv ice stations, its 30.000 bulk plants, its cash and every other facility were enlisted en masse. The industry offered a penny a pound for all scrap rubber, which brought about the whole hearted cooperation of the kiddies, who were eager to make a little spending money and at the same time help their country. They swarmed into service stations every day with neighborhood collections. All expenses of the drive, esti mated at several millions of dollars, were paid by the oil companies. And when the curtain was rung down on July 10, an estimated 454,000 tons of scrap rubber had been collected, which was four and a half times as much as the highest expert estimate and enough to keep the nation's re claiming mills operating at full blast for a year and a half. The government's Rubber Re serve Company, which has bought and stockpiled the rubber, paid $25 a ton for all it received from the oil industry. The difference between these payments and the penny-apound payments made by the oil companies was pledged to charity. The Petroleum Industry War Coun cil established a trust fund to which individual companies have reported and submitted their proceeds from the drive. Final reports have been received so far from more than 1.500 com panies and a total of $2,433,185.20 has been deposited in the Presi dent's Rubber Drive Trust Fund. This has been divided into four equal shares of $608,296.30 and do nated to the American Red Cross, Army Emergency Relief, Navy Re lief Society, and the United Service Organizations. "You and your associates have done a grand job and I want you to know that your government ap preciates the splendid results achieved," President Roosevelt wrote to William R. Boyd, chair man of the Petroleum Industry War Council. "My heartfelt thanks to you and to all who work with you." 7 BULLETIN BOAR9---JUNE ETC 05857 Aviatrix Ends Training Gertrude Loeffler Brown, who left the company in October to join the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadrons -- the WAFS -- returned to pay a visit to the New York of fice recently. Gertrude, former sec retary to Safety Department boss Oscar Lewis, trained for her new flying assignment at Houston, Tex., Municipal Airport and graduated with a class of 23 lady flyers on April 24. On May 9 she reported to Romu lus Field in Detroit, where she is stationed. Her assignment is to ferry single engine and twin engine planes to various points in the U. S. The WAFS, which are headed by Nancy Harkness Love as Squadron Commander, were organized last September to free male ferry pilots for combat duty. In charge of their training program is Jacqueline Coch ran, famous woman flyer. Candidates for the WAFS must be American citizens between the ages of 21 and 35, hold a commercial pilot's cer tificate with over 500 solo hours and at least a 200 horsepower rating, and must pass a regular U. S. Army flight physical exam. Gertrude gained the experience necessary for this service through seven years of flying experience as a private pilot. She owns'a plane and for some time prior to joining the WAFS was a member of the Civil Air Patrol. 1 \ ETC 05858 This V-mail Easter Greetings Card was re ceived by Florence Liebermuth. our Atlanta correspondent, trom Captain Stonewall Jackson Warner, formerly of (he Atlanta Division, who is now in England. Report has it that other Easter Greetings were received in Atlanta from Capiain Warner, which wou/d never have pass ed the censor if the cen sor had been anyone other than the afore mentioned Capf. Warner. r> Seaman frank W. Hill was a recent visi tor at the Baton Rouge plant. Formerly a me chanical helper in Ethyl Chloride. Frank is sta tioned at present at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Other former Baton Rougers who visited the plant recenily include Lieute nant Randolph W. Charlton of IheNavy, Sergeant John R. Montgomery ol the Army, SF 1 /c Robert W. Rich ol the Navy, and Sergeant Woodrow W. Zachariah ol the Army Air Forces. ETC 05859 rr See Here, Candidate Clark To: From: Subject: Special @o<H*HU*Uque The Bulletin Board, Number 87535 John A. Clark . . . suppressed, depressed, oppressed LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD ... as related to R. H. "Horatio Alger" Ormsby Once upon a time I was an Ethyl wise physically torn apart, they de employee. On a certain day, my draft cided I was fit material for the board notified me that the Great Uncle's fighting forces. White Father did now need my as I was subsequently shipped to sistance to help him out of an un- MacDill Field, Florida, and there strategic position that he had gotten with went into my elementary train himself into. With the aid and po ing. On January 5 I was fortunate litical pull that I exercised, I was enough to be selected as a candidate able to get the commission of BUCK for the Medical Administrative i PRIVATE. Corps officers' training school. Now, i Consequently, I reported to Fort I have always figured that the so- Snelling, and after being probed at, called 90-day wonders didn't do poked at, pushed around, and other- much in order to get that bar on 10 BULLETIN 80ARD-JUNE ETC 05860 their shoulders, but I was certainly wrong when I landed in Camp Barkeley, somewhere in Texas. And I'm still not glad about it--the camp, I mean. Or, maybe not the camp, but the locality. No matter what they say about deep in the heart of Texas, you still have to dig latrines. It was some misguided guy's idea that 5:30 was late in the morning, so they appoint another misguided guy to play the trumpet and deal out a few notes (not bank notes). So with that I arise and fumble around for my shoes, socks and other ap parel, and get out to the assembly line. After inspection. I have a quiet rest period of perhaps five minutes. Then the cornet player blasts out with another cute little ditty, and I rush for mess hall. In the Army I am always rushing. If I eat in a hurry, I have another five minute rest period, which I can utilize greatly by polishing buttons, shoes, or any other brass that happens to be around. By now I am fully awake and ready to start the life of a prospec tive officer. There is, of course, the little matter of traveling with a 90pound pack on your back for five miles at double time, and returning to camp with a huge sigh of relief, only to have the relief broken by the C.O. barking, "Take the obstacle course!" This is a mere nothing, consisting of scaling a 12-foot wall, crawling through fifty feet of sewer pipe, jumping twelve feet across a stream, and running several hundred yards through mud and all sorts of terrain. At this time the C.O. orders up the ambulances to carry off the unfortunate. After this before lunch workout, we are ready for the class room, in which I am instructed in military strategy, etc. (censored by the War Department). After about ninety days of such pleasant pastimes, one is called to the graduation exercises, in which one is presented with papers of this and that nature and finally informed that one is now a lieutenant in the United States Army, so it is plain to see that it's quite easy to become a lieutenant if one has the brains and the brawn. I am now back at Camp Barkeley, taking a short course in specialized automotive work, and if I come through this okay. I will have a com mission as first lieutenant and will probably be put in charge of some motor pool. My address, in case you want to know, is Lieutenant John A. Clark, M.R.P., M.R.T.C., Camp Bar keley, Texas. ** Soldier's Bride Grace Scorzari of the Statistical Department in New York was mar ried May 18 to Private First Class Henry W. Kleindienst of the Army Air Corps, who is stationed at Wright Field, Dayton. Ohio. The ceremony, which took place just in time so we could sneak this story in after the deadline for the June is sue, was a civil one performed at New York's City Hall. The bride groom left next day to return to duty, but on his next furlough the couple are planning for a religious ceremony and a belated honeymoon. Grace and her husband both come from Brooklyn. 11 BULLETIN BOARD--7UNE ETC 05861 VETERAN OF DIEPPE When the British and Canadians raided Dieppe. 85 Americans went along. Of the latter only 15 returned without wounds, and one of these 15 was Major Don Williams, formerly of the New York Division. Follow ing Dieppe, Don was sent to Mada gascar. where he took part in the occupation of that island. From there he progressed to Oran and Al giers, and according to a letter re ceived recently by Mrs. Williams, he hopes to return to the United States by way of Shanghai and Tokio. Don entered the Army in May, 1942, and was assigned to the Tank Corps. He was later transferred to the Amphibian Corps and stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass. From Camp Edwards he flew to England, where he was shifted to the Rangers, the American version of the British Commandos, and that was how he got in on the Dieppe attack. His latest move has been back to an Amphibian brigade. Due to lack of comfortable writ ing facilities. Don scribbled a recent letter to his wife while squatting on his heels somewhere in North Africa. In it he told her that his rugged experiences had brought him down to a tough 167 pounds, as compared with his peacetime avoir dupois of around 200. He said that he has two principal cravings right now--a physical craving for caviar and a mental craving for comic strips. He also wants mail from his Ethyl pals, and he suggested that Major Don Williams people who write him enclose comic strips with their missives. He didn't have any ideas about sending caviar to him. however. So clip the funnies from you fav orite daily and send them along to Don, together with your letter. His address is 1st Amphibian Brigade, A.P.O. 700, New York, N. Y. And if you can figure out any way to get a nice mess of caviar to him in an edible condition, by all means send that along, too. 12 BULLETIN BOARD-jUNE ETC 05862 Wilson Y. Hancock, dynamometer opera tor at the Detroit Lab, came to tthyl after five years of research work on fuel performance with the Esso Laboratory. A native of Metuchen, N. J.. he graduated trom Pratt Institute in Brook lyn with a degree in mechanical engineering. Wilson, who lives in Birmingham, Mich., has two children--Wilson MacKenzie, aged three, and Bruce Young, nine months. Wilson is an outdoor sports enthusiast and he does caricature charcoal drawings, but he says his chief hobby is his family and home. ETC 05863 BATTER UP! The Detroit Lab will sponsor a softball team in the Ferndale Church and Service Club League. The Ethyl Flashes will play on Tuesday of each week, with the five other teams in the league furnishing the opposition. Every third game will be played under the lights, while the other two will be played during twilight hours. The Ethyl athletes are a snappy looking bunch of ball players in their bright new uniforms. Those who have responded to the call is sued by managers Gene Betzold and Emil Gillig are Bob Kalkitis, Fritz Schroeter, Bob Mescher, Clyde Stump, Harold Faucher, Harry Prince, Mike Remondino. Mike Rometti, Wes Price, Martin Alspaugh, Ed Girard, George Vaughn, Laurel Wilkinson, Halbert Bean, George Voyle, John Capinjola and Clyde Wade. This array of talent and the pre season form give rise to the belief that Ethyl may be accused of run ning in a bunch of ringers. ** We Get George Washington George Washington has gone to work for Ethyl. Yes. he has too! He's a laborer in the TEL Division at Baton Rouge. In addition to George, twelve others have joined our ranks in Louisiana, including seven men and five ladies. The girls are Ruth M. Eiswirth, typist clerk in Purchasing; Annie Bell DuBose. stenographer in Shipping; Grethel A. White, data clerk in the Techni cal Division; Irene M. Lea and Vir ginia P. Kroll, both special operator helpers in Ethyl Chloride. The lads are John L. Schober, clerk in the TEL Division; Edward F. Boyd, cost accountant in the Finance Department; James P. Barbre, Elmer Ducote, Roch H. Pedarre, Harold W. Scruggs, and James C. Williams, all mechanical helpers in Ethyl Chloride. * War Bond Purchases Although employees at the De troit Lab recently increased payroll subscriptions sufficiently to become eligible for the Treasury "E" flag, they purchased an additional $13,000 worth of bonds during the Sec ond Victory War Bond Drive. 14 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE ETC 05864 'v New York Girl to WAAC Catherine C. Rowney, a chartist in Walt. Resler's Statistical Depart ment, is the first lady from the New York office to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. She re ported for duty May 3 and was sent to Fort Devens, Mass., where her address is Company 3, Regiment 32, 4th WAAC Training Center. Be fore her departure the girls in the Statistical Department gave her a luncheon and cocktail party. Fare well gifts included a suitcase and barracks bag from the girls and a shoe shining outfit and gabardine case from Walt. Resler and Bob Cleveland. Catherine, whose home is in the Bronx, is a graduate of Hunter Col lege, where she majored in geology and thus developed an interest in maps and cartography. She hopes the WAAC will eventually assign her to an aerial mapping job. * Service Milestones. For the second month in a row no fifteen year anniversaries werfc chalked up, but Helen T. McGowan, who works in the mechanical book keeping department of New York Financial, received her ten year award. Three people completed their fifth year with the company. They are Arthur W. Roberts of the Tulsa Division, Daniel C. Walsh of Manufacturing, Baton Rouge, and Torbin F. Yates of the Chicago Di vision. Hubner Having Fun Bill Hubner, formerly of Detroit, who at last reports was in New Guinea, sent in two snapshots which would seem to indicate that life in the Southwest Pacific isn't too bad. We'll let Bill write his own caption. "The pictures were taken after one month in the hospital and ten days on the beach. I weighed 170 stripped, now I weigh 180. I hope to keep it between 175 and 180. I joined the Army at 175. The girls are two of our secretaries who were on leave the same time I was on sick leave. The white shadow is one of my colonel friends with whom I bum around quite a bit." When writing to Bill, address your letter to Major William H. Hubner, 0-168831 H.Q.-*A.S.C. 5th Air Force, APO 925. c o Postmas ter, San Francisco. Calif. ETC 05865 Clyde F. Wade of the shipping deparfment at the Detroit Lab was born in Waukegan. III., where he went to high school. Be/ore moving to Detroit and joining Ethyl, he put in live years with the American Steel and Wire Company in his native town. Clyde goes in tor sports, par ticularly swimming, ice skating and fishing. * Ruth Wheelon of New York Payroll com mutes to work from Westwood. N. J.. but she is a native of Salt Lake City, Utah. She came East a year ago to visit her sister and decided to stay, but she says she still misses the lofty peaks o1 the Wasatch Mountains. Ruth was edu cated at Twin Falls. Idaho, High School and the University of Utah, and she came to Ethyl from Haskins & Sells, New York accounting firm. She is active in Red Cross work and she likes to play golf when she can get bails. She is also fond of gardening, reading and cooking. Helen Marie Robinson, glamorous re ceptionist at the Tulsa Division office, first saw the light of day in Tulsa 22 years ago. She graduated in 1937 from Tulsa Central High School and then attended the University of Oklahoma at Norman for three years, taking a course in social work. Before joining Ethyl she was with the Stanoiind Crude Oil Purchasing Company. Helen Marie's favorite pastimes, ac cording to her, are golf and writing, but the belief persists around the Tulsa Division that she also must harbor a secret love for the culi nary art. as she attends a glorified cooking school faithfully. She also devotes much of her spare time to working with the Tulsa Little Theatre and to entertaining the boys in uniform at the USO. ETC 058 How to Start the Day Right A roving member of the Atlanta Division was amazed at the operat ing efficiency in the home of Dr. Ed Kurt, the company 's technical pillar at Baton Rouge. Being of a curious nature, he investigated and found aforesaid efficiency to be tied up closely with a system developed by Ed and pasted up on the wall of his kitchen. A copy of this schedule was acquired with no little diffi culty, and since we believe such a system might be of value to the mar ried men of the company as a method of helping out the overworked Little Woman, we are presenting it to you. DOROTHY: You don't have to get up any earlier if you will just stick to these schedules. ' I. Mornings When Tons Goes to School Time Dorothy Ed Tom 6:15 Rise and dress 6:45 Prepare breakfast Rise and shave 6:55 Make Tom's lunch Bath Rise and dress 7:05 Make Ed's lunch Dress 7:10 Supervise Tom Breakfast 7:20 Make Ed's breakfast Breakfast 7:30 Tom's clothes Bathroom 7:35 Care for Tom Get ready to leave 7:40 Send Tom off. Feed M and C* Leave for work Leave for school 8:00 Eat breakfast while Evelyn minds children, dresses them, and cares foi them in bathroom. Put away dishes. 8:30 All set for the day. - n. Mornings When Tom Does Not Go lo School 6:30 Rise and dress 6:45 Rise, shave, bath, dress 7:00 Prepare breakfast 7:20 Make Ed's lunch Breakfast 7:30 Feed Tom and Martha and Carolyn 7:40 Leave for work 8:00 Eat breakfast while Evelyn minds children, dresses them, and cares for them in bathroom. Put away dishes. 8:30 All set for the day. *Maid and Children 19 BULLETIN SOAM-JUNE ETC 058G7 Important Job Lieutenant Idan Flaa, former Chicago field representative who is now chief ordnance inspector at Cadillac, Mich., recently had his picture in the Cadillac War Crafts man. Said the Craftsman about the importance of Idan's job: "The Army Air Corps and Ord nance Inspectors at Cadillac know full well the loss of life and suffer ing our boys will take if the equip ment we send them is not depend able in the crucial hour of battle -- that's why they are here--to advise us and guide us in the technical checks that are so necessary to as sure the kind of quality our boys can depend on. Let every man of us take their advice -- be guided by their suggestions and cooperate with them every way we can." ** New Army Job Lieutenant John M. Rollins, form erly of the Tulsa Division but now with the Corps of Engineers, U.S. A., is still located in Dallas. Tex., but is no longer with the Southwestern Division Engineer Office. At pres ent he is at Love Field, Station of the Fifth Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, where he is assistant post engineer. ** Bob Richardson, formerly of the Boston Division, is a lieutenant in the Navy and is located in Detroit. His address there is Office of Super visor of Ship Building, 9666 East Jefferson Avenue. Lead--Not Tetraethyl -Kills 'Gator Each large tank cleaning presents its own kind of problems. Recently the Atlanta Division received notification of the cleaning of a large terminal tank at Savannah, Ga. The field personnel being otherwise committed, Alan Tully, division manager, took charge. After observ ing the cleaning, he made the cus tomary report, adding: "A six foot alligator visited the job and was duly shot and killed. The negro help fought over the tail, which is considered a delicacy. This was the only real hazard." No Longer with Us Edward Beaver, Detroit Verne W. Brinckerhoff, Detroit Paul Danielson, Detroit Doris P. Giles. New York * Ruth Ann Payne, Chicago Ruth C. Barreis, New York Helmer A. Abramson, Detroit Edward A. Nealer, Detroit James Gilbert, New York Lila P. Ramme, New York Muriel M. Anderson, New York Jack Maynard, former safety en gineer with the Baltimore Division, has moved up from the rank of lieu tenant (j.g.) in the Navy to that of lieutenant. I j, j j , 16 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE ETC 05868 Nina Crishawt of New York Stenographic was born in Liverpool England, but came to New York when she was two and a hall years old and has lived there ever since. She is a graduate of Julia Aichmond High School and attended Franklin Business School. Be/ore join ing Ethyl she was with the Electric Meter Corporation. Nina's husband is a start sergeant in the Army, located at ptesent in Caii/omia, and her favorite spare time activity is writing letters to him. She also is tond of dancing. RUa C. Reymonl ot Public Relations. New York, commutes to the Chrysler Building from Woodside, N. J. She is a graduate oi Linden. N. J., High School and attended Drake Business College in Elisabeth. N. J. Before coming to Cthyl she was with Socony-Vacuum in Brooklyn. One oi Alta's favorite pastimes is hiking in the country with her husband. "My hobby is my hubby/' she informed us. She is~slso fond of bowling and music and is an accomolisted ETC 05869 William Fitzgerald, ac- countant in New York Finan cial. lives in Highland Park. Long Island, with his wife and three children. He is a gradu ate of Long Beach. L. 1.. High School and attended Columbia University tor one year and Si. Johns College. Brooklyn, for three years. Before coming to Ethyl he worked for the Dis count Corporation of New York, private bankers. Bill's favorite pastime is fishing in the ocean off the shores of Long Island. He is also toying with the idea of raising chickens. Catherine Z. Hum phries of New York Pay roll has lived in New Jersey most of her life, but she went to school away up in Vermont's beautiful Green Mountains at Villa Barlow Academy in St. Albans. She lives in Fairview, N. J., and before coming to Ethyl worked for the Employers Mutual Insurance Company in New York. For recreation Catherine prefershorseback riding and swimming, but she also spends a great deal of time writing letters to her husband, who is in the Army Air Corps at Men- Audrey Gerbig, steno- grapher-clerk in New York Fi nancial. lives in Ridgewood. N. J.. and has been a loyal Jerseyite all her lite. She is a graduate of Lodi. N. J.. High School and worked for the Pat erson. N. J.. branch of General Motors Acceptance Corpora tion before joining Ethyl. Au drey likes bowling and other sports. "Anything to keep in action." says she. ETC 05870 Rita Adams, who is assisting King/ey Jones on war contracts at Detroit, attended St. Gregory High School and Marygrove College and then took a business course. After three and a half years with the L. A. Young Spring and Wire Corporation, where she was employed in the cost accounting department, she joined Ethyl She divides her spare time between writing letters to her boy friend, who is an ensign in the Navy, and playing bridge and pinochle. Edwin ft. Acker, Jr., accountant in New York Fi nancial. catches the subway daily at Forest Hills. Long Island, where he lives with his wife. He attended New ton. Long Island. High School and New York University, and he came to Ethyl from the Associated Hospital Serv ice. Ed likes fishing and bowl ing and he used to play some baseball, but he claims he is getting too old for the dia mond sport. The good folk n St. Louis have been hearing so much about the A. F. Johnson Victory Garden out in Brentwood. Mo., that it was decided an investiga tion and picture were in order. Upon arriving on the scene, the Bulletin Board invesligaior found not A. F. Johnson, the alleged Victory gardener, at work, but 14-month-old Ginny Sue shoe ing in her garden, which can be seen directly behind the word. SOAP. A. F., who was formerly with the Kansas City Division and is now in St. Louis doing dynamometer and road test work for Detroit Engineering, was inWnftr mfinartmri iTM ETC 05871 ** VICTORY MAIL ** Deai Ethyl Service Meat I have thought so much about you and have been remembered from time to time by so many of you, that for a long time I have wanted to write to you; therefore, I am grateful for an oppor tunity to send a note. The work of our laboratories, for the most part, is in connection with war re search. Although designed for peace time research, the laboratories have been converted to accommodate many of the engines and vehicles used by the armed forces, in programs designed to improve efficiency and durability and to adapt engines to available fuels. It is our hope that the work being done is helping to create our growing advantage over the Axis in military equipment and reducing by many thousands the mandays required in its servicing. The field and technical organization of our com pany has proved itself as valuable in war as in the previous era of peace. It should be even more important during the period of peace to follow when the results of technical developments under the pressure of war will be applied to our civilian transportation. The pattern of evolution of engines and fuels has been apparent for a long time. The effect of the war will be to crowd a decade of progress into a frac tion of that time. Wherever technical men of the oil and automotive industries are gathered, one senses the eagerness to break with the past. Millions of men --and women--whose knowledge of auto motive equipment was limited to driving automobiles are learning the engineering principles and building and servicing vehicles. This can have but one result-- an enlightened and critical motoring public. The challenge of technical men in the oil and automotive industries will be tremendous. We are always happy to hear from you and to learn of your work and experi ences. By putting all we have into the effort at home and abroad, let's hope that we can finish the job soon! With kindest regards and best wishes from all of us. Sincerely yours, Earl Bartholomew (Detroit) 22 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE | ETC 05872 This Tale University isn't what it used to be. It is true I didn't know just what it was, but I do know what it is, and it's not hard to interpret from the sad looks of the remaining Sons of Eli. The change can also be verified by the West ern Union delivery boy who walked into a group of cadets last week and collected twenty-five salutes before he could find his way out. In a word, Yale University overnight became strictly "on the ball," a refuge for that specie, terrible "Second Lieu tenant," and a rather military establish ment. Witness the cadet waving wildly out of a third story window, wool shirt on one arm, cotton on the other, yelling "which one? which one?" The topics of discussion here include: (1) airplanes, (2) airplanes. (3) airplanes. This does not include profanity which, of course, excludes the tactical officers as a topic of discussion. I am enrolled in the school of mainte nance engineering, known locally as the "tearer downers." My crew has just torn down a P-38 which, if left alone, is a perfectly good airplane. Unfortunately, our P-38 is never left alone. In fact, there is a part of it in my left hand top desk drawer, and my first Sergeant has a perfectly marvelous collection of spare parts from it. If there is a part that just doesn't seem to fit anywhere, it will usu ally work very well in the coverall pocket. When (if) we get the P-38 back together, we start on the P-47--1 can hardly wait. (My collection is growing.) The Gods of War have smiled on me; in fact, they laughed in my face, for I have been made a Squadron Commander. My squadron is "I" Squadron, Group 2, which some nitwit nicknamed "Ole Black Eye Squadron." In spite of the inglorious monicker, my boys are the snappiest crew in the whole damn school, and I can lick the guy who says they aren't. The strangest part of the whole thing is that everybody professes extreme loathing for the lowly Shave-tail, but everybody longs for graduation day when he becomes "of all things" a Shave-tail. A/C Ed Minnock Entry L, Silliman College AAFTTC, Group 2 New Haven, Conn, (formerly of Detroit) ft I was glad for the few words of post script in your letter of March 24. Very few days go by that I don't think of my friends at Ethyl. I have had many varied experiences here in the Army, and coul^spend many hours telling you about the rough, tough ways of the Army. I had my basic train ing at Fort Lewis, Washington--a period of six weeks and was then permanently assigned to the Service Company, 130th Battalion, 33rd Division. A period of two weeks in drivers' school followed, the latter being spent on Mt. Rainier. We had two four-day field problems or maneuvers during the next two following weeks during which we worked under the pretense of actual combat conditions. Thousands of men, equipment and ap proximately 500 vehicles were involved. We left Fort Lewis in the early morning and returned late at night on the fourth day and to me it was most interesting to 23 BULLETIN BOABD-JUNS ETC 058T3 observe the movements of operation. Nights were spent huddled around camp fires. The officers would plan their activi ties for the next day--maps spread out on the ground and read by fire light. After our maneuvers were over, I was assigned Vehicle Dispatcher for the 130th Regiment and fill that capacity at the present time. I am ambitious for the opportunity to attend the Army Engi neers Ordnance School and be commis sioned. Such an application could not be approved until I had served three months in the Army. I have made investigation into various fields and expect an inter view with my Company Commander next week. I certainly enjoyed my March issue of the Bulletin Board and anxiously await the April issue. We moved from Fort Lewis to take up desert operations last week, and are now camped in the Mojave Desert. I hope that this writing finds everyone well and busy, and would appreciate greatly a thought my way. Private Hugh D. Macy Service Co., 130th Inf. A.P.O. 33, c/o Postmaster Los Angeles. Calif, (formerly of Detroit) Well, hoi weather has set in down here. We are working day and night with the troops except Sunday, and then we all go out back of camp and fish. This state certainly has the best fishing ever. R. C. Hammond 3rd Hqs. & Hqs. Detachment 3rd Army, Special Troops Camp Livingston, La. (formerly of Kansas City) Your letter of January 27 certainly did me a world of good. Mail certainly is well received aboard ship though I bet most of it goes unanswered for a while. Your story of Harry Prince was a killer. Good old Harry! Say, incidentally, how does Doug B. get leave--I thought he was a deep sea sailor. Right now I am in an area that is hot in more ways than one, but we don't seem any worse for it. Sunshine in abundance and an occasional swim make everyone happy. When I saw some of King Nep tune's handiwork, I said "no wonder we can't have cameras." I guess you know my primary job aboard ship is Torpedo Officer. Also, I am Ordnance Division Officer and Chief Censor. Watches are on the regular de stroyer system--one in three--alternating between bridge and director. Best regards to all from "hot, straight 24 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE ETC 05874 and normal," as I am now called aboard ship. Ensign J. A. Cipolla. USNR USS Eaton c/o F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif, (formerly of Detroit) Howdy! Surprised? Well, I was too--thought you had forgotten that I was one of your buddies. Your letter was a surprise and much appreciated by both Mabel and myself. No, I haven't flunked any courses. The original 16 week course turned out to be 20, and approximately two weeks were, lost in my getting started last November and in moving here in January. But don't get the idea that our original class is still intact--it isn't. The course in air craft instruments, which started about 5 weeks ago, was our first disaster--we lost I07r of our men. Since then, the course in engine installation, the opera tion of planes on the ground, and the hospital has claimed others. In all, ap proximately eight or ten men out of an original twenty-two are gone. The last hurdle is coming up now, and if I make it, my name shall be signed a little dif ferently from then on. In my last course we had the chance to go through a few of the planes here. A few were the B-17, B-24 and B-26. They are the important ones and are very interesting. I never saw so many gadgets anywhere before, except for the time I visited the Socony-Vacuum Oil Com pany Houdry Process. We have had a very thorough course in instruments, hy draulics, electrical systems, engines, structure of a ship and propellers, so there is very little about the dials, lev ers, switches, etc., in the cockpit that have not been stressed. Believe it or not, we have a large part of Glenn Miller's band to play for us at noon meal formations. Other members of the band hail from the bands of Bob Crosby, Rudy Vallee, and many others. Boy! Are they good! The Bulletin Board is received here and is greatly appreciated. Glad to hear that the Army can recognize Al's value. The more one gets to know the Army, the more it amazes you. I shall find out tonight (I hope) where it is that I am to be sent. We are to be lined up in order of grades. The highest grade shall receive first choice of avail able posts. The official orders will be is sued to us Monday after our graduation. We buy our tickets and leave the same day. Practically no furloughs at all are allowed. I will send you my new address upon arrival. A few of the boys have already chosen posts with the new B-29 squadrons to be formed. These new ships shall have an Engineering Officer aboard when they go into battle. A very rigid physical exami nation must first be passed. Loads of luck to all of you. A/C Jos. C. Hobart AAFTTC-CATC No. 1 1731 Entralfce B Silliman Hall New Haven, Conn, (formerly of Detroit) I am down here at Drew Field doing whatever they want me to do. Right now 25 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE EtC 05815 I am doing basic training (again), but I am getting one or two things I did not get before--namely, the 45 Thompson sub-machine gun and the 50 caliber ma chine gun. The 50 caliber gun is a young cannon. Hope I never get in front of one when the gunner is looking for targets. Our C.O. allows us a day pass once a week which is not bad. It gives us a chance to get away from camp occasion ally which is better than when going to school at Crowder where little time off was permitted. Last Saturday our battalion moved its location to a new one near the center of Drew Field. We used to ride into the base from our location in trucks that ran every now and then and our PX was a makeshift affair and all the shops were on the base. Now we are near a good post theatre and a good PX though neither compare with those at Camp Crowder. Today our battalion is going through another stage of processing, but my papers haven't come through yet. so I will be held up for a while, I suppose. However, it won't be long before some of our battalion takes off for parts un known. The Florida weather has been very agreeable so far. Drew Field being an air base, there is a constant roar of airplanes night and day. T/S Albert W. Ramsey U. S. Army 563rd SAW Battalion Drew Field, Fla. (formerly of Detroit) First, I want you to know how much I appreciated, the Easter card. Nothing makes a soldier's heart beat faster than news from the gang "back home" and I was certainly pleased with the greetings from so many of my old friends. Believe me. I've thought of you all many times but the rigid schedule of an O.C.S. student doesn't afford time for letter writing so I had to put this off for a more leisurely moment--enjoying the fruit so to speak. Much has been said about O.C.S. already, and anything I could put in a letter would be an under statement, so I'm content to let it go at that. You can quote me, "it's a rugged three months but a very good educa tion." At least I learned enough to know that it's going to take a lot more work and study before I know this art of war. So I'm in school again. This time I'm work ing in my own back yard. I'm attending the Motor Transport Officers School and you can find me any day in a pair of coveralls trying to find out what makes Army vehicles tick. It's a good school, and I'm learning plenty. Hope to be finished here in two more weeks, and then will be assigned to ac tive duty somewhere, and will have the opportunity to put to practical use some of the material I've been absorbing for eight months. Thanks again for remembering me, and give my regards to all. I promise not to wait so long to write next tffrie. Lt. John A. Clark M.R.P.--M.R.T.C. Camp Barkeley, Texas (formerly of Chicago) 1 To the Ethyl Gangs Taking heed to the words of your lat est communication, I hasten to get back into the "good graces" again. This is jusi a little note to inform you that I have just been graduated from the Engineer Field Officers School at Fort Belvoir, Va., and have returned to. my regular station. While there I had dinner with the Joe Costellos in Wash ington and missed seeing Errol Gay and 26 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE i i ETC 05876 George Rosser by about a week. The work that I am engaged in at pres ent is supervision of basic training of Engineer troops. We do everything from fight to expert use of the pick and shovel. On March 30 I was promoted to major. Corps of Engineers, and am now feeling very grateful. For your information I was formerly a safety engineer in the Ethyl Atlanta Di vision and came into military service on May S, 1941. Best regards to everyone. Maj. W. Whitney Sweeney, C.E. Headquarters Engineer Unit Training Center Camp Claiborne. La. (formerly of Atlanta) ing artillery fire for our division. I have taken the Air Corps physical examination and passed it. My papers have been in Washington for about a week now. I am going to be transferred soon to the Air Corps as a bomber pilot. Keep your fingers crossed. Have heard from Ed Minnock a couple of times. He seems to be enjoying his studies at New Haven. Hope everything is fine at the lab. Give my best regards to all our friends. P.S. Thanks for the Ethyl Bulletin Board. Lt. John P. Link A.P.O. 85; c. o Postmaster 403 F.A. Bn., Battery B Shreveport. La. (formerly of Detroit) My contribution to the Military Mail Bag has been very small--about like my contribution to the Nazi War Relief. Since I last wrote you, which must have-been when I was at Ft. Sill, I have been transferred a couple of times. When I completed my three months Bat tery Officers Course at Sill, I went to Camp Shelby, Miss., and was assigned to a medium artillery organization. While I was there, the wheels of time brought me a promotion to first lieutenant. I stayed at Shelby until about a month ago, when my commander sent me on temporary duty to Third Army. I at tended a one-week school at Camp Polk, near Leesville, La. This school pertained to umpiring with special emphasis on field artillery fire marking. My division is now on the Louisiana maneuvers, which now are about three weeks old. We should be here until around June 6. My crew and I are mark read about Merlyn Beane over in Eng land. I thought I would be over there long ago, but doggone it, he beat me to it. He has also got me beat on getting a stripe, but one of these days I'll get mine. I am now moving all over California, but not getting out. We have had a long summer. Detroit never has winters like this. However. I was happy to spend a winter in the sun, which is one thing I always wanted to do. I am hoping to get a leave to San Fran cisco one of these week-ends. This is the best base for liberty we have hit yet, which is all right with me. 27 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 05877 1 I am a plane mechanic, and when we are not tearing down motors, I am work ing on my car. One of the generous "Mr. Smiths" gave me a Model A 1930. It needs a little work on it, but that is fun and just like old times. Being on the desert one can make good use of a car. I expect to stay here for a while. The desert weather is mostly sunny, but plenty windy at times. Say "Hello" to everyone. Pvt. Arthur R. Carpenter Marine Corps Air Station MBDG 44 Service Sqd. Mojave, Calif. (formerly of Detroit) i I've purposely been negligent in thank ing you for the hours you entertained me in Baltimore, because I wanted to give you a fairly accurate story of my set-up here at Aberdeen. It's not bad! Food and living conditions are really surprising in their contrast to what I had in the old CA(AA). Hardly up to civilian par, but livable. The work story is good--really good--and runs like this: I'm practically like a defense worker --eight hours a day, six days a week. The only "army" I see is the food, the bar racks. and the clothes--there's no K.P., no drill, no nothin', other than those three items. Right now I'm finishing up a two weeks drivers' school during which time I learn to operate everything the Army has to offer from a motorcycle to the mammoth heavy tanks. Frankly, I've been having the time of my life batting these track laying vehicles about the countryside-good stuff! The completion of the course will see me assigned to the Field Dynamometer Section--an outfit now headed by a first lieutenant and manned by some IS civil ians. I'll be the first soldier in the sec tion. The work will involve road testing of all types of vehicles, both Allied and Axis. They have four Mack dynamome ter units that are beautiful--run about $40,000 each and use the "hydraulic drag" principle of applying load to the unit undergoing test. We'll work unit horsepowers, economics, efficiencies, drawbar pulls, track slippages, gear ratio work, etc., etc. It'll involve considerable of the old reports, records, and statistics and should be very similar to my old Ethyl Corporation work. I believe I'm qualified to step right in and do some valuable work--if they'll let me. However, I'll probably be the one to sump out the garage--privates seem to rate that sort of work somehow. I get the maximum time off that the Army can give as far as passes and furloughs gohome this past week-end, which was a nice Easter present--so maybe I shouldn't kick, no matter what my work may be. I'll be better able to let you know about the Ackerman war effort in a few weeks, though. I met Art Brown (first lieutenant) in record time--we were in the same group, automotive, and I see him most every day. Seems like a good boy, but the difference in rank makes finding out a bit difficult. Again my gratitude for those few hours of "white man" living you af forded me in Baltimore--they were really appreciated. I'll drop you a line from time to time if I may. Private Robert Ackerman Co. D, Bks. T-13S Proving Ground Detachment Aberdeen Proving Ground. Md. (formerly of Detroit) f A very belated note of thanks for in forming me that I was no longer to re ceive the Bulletin Board. When Sherman said war is hell he didn't know the half of it. I am going to regret missing the issues of the Bulletin Board since that seemed to me to be the one link between me and the company. However, war needs must be met. I want all of you to know 28 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE I etc 058^ that I appreciate everything that you have done for me and hope someday to return. I hear from some of the Deepwater gang from time to time. Alma Brasure has been doing a good job of keeping me informed, so I shall have to rely on her even more now. Of course my star re porter from Deepwater was L. O. Schae fer, but he has forgotten me lately. I shall have to jog his memory. Everything goes along well at this outpost and our life is very easy com pared to other places. Since arriving here I have been promoted to the grade of captain and am in command of a gun battery. There is a lot of work but also a feeling of satisfaction in doing a good job. We have never been in any engage ment but are just itching for a chance. Give my best wishes to all and I want to thank each and every one of you for the Bulletin Board. May the regulations be changed so I can receive it again. In the meantime drop me a line when and if you or any of the others get the time. Captain John F. Wallis Battery C, 57th C.A. APO 952, c/o Postmaster San Francisco. Calif, (formerly of Deepwater) Among the many Navy regulations, a new one puts us in the Army class of having a long, complicated address and number. Hard to understand when civil ians using the Navy Yard post office con tinue with (censored). Very little I can report except we moved from the Navy Housing project to (censored). Have a nice apartment only a block and a half from the beach. Swim most every afternoon following work and now have one of those life guard sun tans. If this keeps up, I will be in a class with the natives, although I can always prove otherwise in the area around the swim trunks. Say, I under stand you are having trouble with point rationing while I've had to put myself on a diet. Three big meals a day are too much for the waistline. How about a three-inch steak, a roast of beef or some sugar and coffee? Can't buy granulated sugar in less than five pound bags so we use powdered in one pound cartons. The ban on liquor in Army reserva tions really hit the boys out here for there is none available in the islands. They howled so loud the Navy cut us to one quart per week. But we manage with a good reserve stock on hand. Right now my social activities are almost nil. with one girl friend in the hospital with the fiu and the other has me in the doghouse. Still I'm doing pretty well with the Army and Navy continuing to pour men out here and latest census indicates 276 men to every girl. Received a Christmas card from Harry Kettell of Standard re finery originally mailed on Dec. 15. Would like to hear from you and how you. Art and Lowell are making out, also news of the Baltimore Division. You might pass my new number on to the other men and let me have their ad dresses, particularly those of Claire and Bob Hogan. Regards to Mibs and hello to the gang. Lieut. John S. Maynard. USNR Industrial Dept., Navy Yard Navy Number 128 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. (formerly of Baltimore) 29 BULLETIN B Q A R_XLr* JUNE ETC 05879 Deepwater Pi Deepwater pinmen, competing in the Central Wilmington League, won the championship of that cir cuit by defeating Rodney Street, three games to two, in a roll off match. The Ethyl bowlers came from behind to win, after trailing Rodney Street, two games to one. earlier in the match. Eight teams rolled in the league during the season. The Deepwater maple mashers won the first half and finished second to Rodney Street in the second half, making the roll off necessary. The team's average in ETC 05880 liters Top Circuit this five game final match was 864, or 173 pins per man per game. In addition to winning the league title, individual honors were taken by members of the team. Ed Herbert wound up with second high indi vidual average and Pete Jackson fin ished third. Ed Herbert just missed having top high single in a closely contested race. Herbert and Bud Johnson finished first and third, respectively, in the high triple com petition. Ethyl's six-man team and team statistics are as follows: Ed Herbert Pete Jackson Bud Johnson Charlie Remsburg Army Armstrong Charlie Wasserman Team scores Average 179 178 166 162 158 150 168 High Single 268 236 244 214 198 213 968 High Triple 667 632 633 578 519 518 2843 No. of 200 Gaines 16 17 5 3 0 3 44 Deepwater Newcomers Jennie M. Norton and Anne E. Davis are the two new lady opera tors who are taking care of miscel laneous shipments and the record? ing of drum numbers at the Deep water plant. As both of them had had previous plant and industrial experience, it didn't take them long to catch on to their duties with Ethyl. Both are Jerseyites, Jennie Norton hailing from Swedesboro and Anne Davis from Penns Grove. When away from the plant Jennie goes in for raising flowers and also likes to accompany her husband on hunting and fishing trips, while Anne prefers dancing and bowling in her leisure hours. Moves East John S. Lachowilz, patent at torney, will leave the Detroit Lab June 1 to head the newly organized patent department of Standard Brands, Inc. His headquarters will be at the Standard Brands offices, 57th Street and Madison Avenue, New York. N. Y. Gold Star at Freeport The first gold star in the EthylDow service flag at Freeport is for Arthur Mizell Watson, aged 24, a lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, who was killed in the crash of his plane at Greer Field, Florida, last Christmas Eve. 31 BULLETIN BOARD^JUNE etc 05881 OFF TO THE WARS Six names have been added to the military honor roll since you re ceived the last issue of the Bulletin Board. Ed Ellerbe of the Atlanta Division is an ensign in the Navy. Torbin Yates, Chicago Division field engineer, is a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. Joseph Pratt Carswell, chemist in TEL at Baton Rouge, is a private in the Army. Bill Laswell. student engineer at Detroit, and Bill Thompson of Manufacturing, Deepwater, are both Army privates, while Homer Sanders, an Ethyl Chloride operator at Baton Rouge, is an aviation cadet. The addresses of these men, plus any changes of address which have come to our attention during the past month, are listed below: Ensign S. E. Ellerbe Naval Aircraft Factory Plant Divisions Navy Yard Philadelphia, Penna. A/C Homer E. Sanders Group 9, Sq. D. Class 43-14 (NAV.) U. S. Army Pre-Flight School (Bomb-Nav.) Ellington Field, Tex. Lieutenant (j.g.) Torbin Yates Engineers Volunteer Specialist Div. University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz. Private S. William Laswell Baldwin Hall Mailbox University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Private Joseph Pratt Carswell Co. E, 2nd TWS Tng. Rgt. RTC Camp Sibert, Ala. Private William H. Thompson Btry. D, 115th CA Bn. (AA) A.A.T.C. Camp Davis, N. C. Sergeant Dayton C. Bolin, Jr. 1306 North Kentucky Street Roswell, N. M. Captain William W. Downer 402 Dalzell Street Shreveport, La. Donald Forsdick, B.M. 2/c C.G. 38633 U. S. Coast Guard Station Pier 9, East River New York, N. Y. Lieutenant Joseph A. Hobart A.C.A.T.C. Hotel Robidoux St. Joseph, Mo. Major Howard B. Hudiburg Hq. 31st AAA Group Camp Stewart, Ga. Henry Clemons, O.S. LCI (L) 320 Fleet Post Office New York, N. Y. Joseph E. Christy, S.F. 1/c 75th Naval Construction Batt. Co. C, Plat. 2 Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Auxiliary Winifred Dugas 112th WAAC Post H.Q. Co. Fort Hamilton Brooklyn, N. Y. 32 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE < ] j I ; ETC 05882 Lieut, (j.g.) George T. Mercier, Jr. Lion One, Echelon Ord. Division Fleet Post Office San Francisco ,Calif. Lieutenant (j.g.) John S. Maynard Ind. Dept., Navy Yard Navy Number 128 Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Lieutenant (j.g.) L. D. Reis District Security Office 3rd Naval District Woolworth Building 233 Broadway New York, N. Y. Gay Talks at Long Last With Hell kicked out of the Axis and the Battle of Africa a complete victory, Errol Gay, director of the fleet division. Technical Service, at last agreed to tell the high lights of his recent trip by air to the Tuni sian front. At a recent meeting of the Society of Ethyl Engineers, Errol held an audience of 150 people spellbound for two hours. He was sent to the African war theatre by the War Department to inspect military installations and the mech anized equipment of our armed forces. ** lany Blalchford, formerly of the Boston Division, has been pro moted to the rank of captain in the Army Air Corps. He is located at 16th Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio. Tex. Things Are Quiet, Sho' Null! Reporting on spring extra-cur ricular activities, or lack of them, in Atlanta, Florence Liebermuth, our correspondent in those parts, writes: "Just so there will be at least one patriotic citizen in the Atlanta Di vision, I have planted one dozen tomato plants and one package of parsley seed. This constitutes my entire garden, since four oak trees, two wild cherry trees, several sweetshrub bushes and some honeysuckle take up the remaining space. I might say Nettie Rose O'Neal'has a par ticipating interest in a garden be longing to her brother-in-law, since she is anticipating sharing in the crop of onions and cabbages that to date she has never seen. Other than this, no gardens. "We are much to busy for golf. Anyway, there is gasoline rationing in these parts and the golf links are far away." ** Army Visitor Private Dan Renshaw, formerly of the New York Mailroom, dropped into his former haunts recently looking healthy and tanned after long hours in the South Carolina sunshine. Dan is with the 100th Di vision and is stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C. Looking around him at the young ladies who now are mem bers of the Mailroom stall, Dan al lowed as how the new scenery was not bad. 33 BULLETIN B O'A RTJ-J U N E ETC 05883 Jack Lee, described by Papa Hudson Kellogg of the Yonkers Lab as weighing eight pounds and having one tooth, made his initiai appear ance May 4. Other Kel logg children are bionde Anne, aged 7; brunette Jean, aged 5, and red head Alan, aged 3. At this stage Jack Lee is a baldy, we presume. \\ LATEST I Letter in Circulation A recent Issue of a bulletin issued by the public relations department of the General Motors Parade of Progress contained an excerpt from a letter by Harry Manning of our Seattle Division. Harry wrote: "My big job was at Fort Lewis, Washington. I had to make up an entire new training program com plete with drawings and then I had to type in all the training material and make all the drawings on mim eograph stencil sheets so that the office staff at IX Corps School could print up the work and clamp them into a training course sequence. "The Ethyl Corporation has been doing a splendid job cooperating with ODT and USDA. I presented special programs on farm tractor maintenance to about 50 Vocational Agricultural Schools in Oregon and Washington and have also pre sented programs to aviation groups in both the above mentioned states. Along with this I have been busy with fleets of busses and trucks rendering assistance to keep 'em rolling for the day when victory will be ours and we can all get back to living again in the good old Amer ican way." 34 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE EtC 05884 43 Freeport Facts ^ Often quoted, but never more right, is the Yankee general who made the statement--"War is Hell." We had hoped this issue to submit some pictures but our camera sud denly developed a mild case of "un fix" and had to be sent off for repairs --and parts which probably are no longer available. So, our excuse of fered, let's proceed with the news at hand. J. H. Thomas of the purchasing department received a letter last week from Hiram K. Waters, former Ethyl-Dower who is now with the U. S. Army in India. H. K. wrote of Army life and informed us that he had married since leaving for the Army. His letter was a gem and we wish it could be reproduced here. Suffice to say, however, that we got a big kick out of it and hope to hear many more times. Currently missing from our ranks is Linda Blair of the office. Linda had the misfortune to pick a rather spir ited horse the other evening with the result that she is suffering from bruises and a severe shaking up. It seems the horse broke into a gallop and Linda, unable to stop him, called out loudly for help. Her would-be rescuer made a gallant try, but with out success. Both his horse and Linda's stumbled to a halt, with the result Linda is now confined to her bed while the horse (none the worse for the incident) contentedly grazes and impatiently waits for the next daring rider to lead him forth to the bridle path. The first domino tournament of 1943 is now under way. The teams have been paired and are now fever ishly making rash statements, lay ing bets, etc. At week's end the over boastful will have been found out and the victorious will be on their way to winning new laurels. Andrew Jackson Burnett is the latest Ethyl-Dower to depart for service with Uncle Sam's Navy. A. J. left us on May 6. Here is wishing him an early return--with lots of mementos to pass around through the courtesy of Hitlerhito=& Co. The newest birth on record, let us state, is an eight pound boy for the Robert S. Walkers. Robert S. is in the Plant Protection Department and, incidentally, a mighty proud pop. Correcting a statement errone ously made in the last issue of the Bulletin Board, we should like to say here that we have a 90% partici pation flag for War Bond purchases, with over 10% deductions being made, but we have not as yet re ceived the 10% flag as mentioned. 35 BULLETIN BOARD-TUNE ETC 05885 Oklahoma Fauna Invade New York Dick Murphy, western regional manager, recently received a pack age done up in pink wrapping paper and marked "Confidential." After debating for a while as to whether or not he should call the bomb squad, he decided to unwrap it. Removal of the pink paper re vealed only a cigar box with holes punched in its sides. But imagine Dick's surprise when he opened this cigar box and a long and lanky lizard jumped out and scooted be hind his bookcase, from where it later was rescued by Ed Downs of the Sales Department. Occupying the other half of the box was a horned toad, who re mained where he was after the cover was lifted, his dour expression indi cating that he took a sad and gloomy view of life, despite the sunshine in which he suddenly found himself. After Ed Down's heroic recapture of the lizard, he (the lizard, not Ed) was put back in his prison and the lid closed tight. Dick then took the critturs home to his kiddies. Dick had a suspicion who sent him the livestock, as just a short time be fore he had sent a similar gift to M. E. "Bones" Foster of Phillips Petroleum at Bartlesville, Okla., identifying the gift's sender only as "U-Guess." His suspicion was fur ther confirmed by the following let ter which came to him about the same time as the animals: Dear "U-Guess": Your little turtle arrived safely the other day and has already established a definite position in our household. The boys named him Murgatroyd. My grati tude at your thoughtfulness and consid eration knows no bounds and knowing your penchant for small things. I am endeavoring to repay your generosity somewhat in kind. I think, with proper care and patience, the things I am send ing you may be taught to sit up and bark, and other common domestic ac complishments. Trusting that you enjoy them as much as I enjoy the turtle, I am "Now-U-Guess" P.S. Care should be exercised in open ing the package. * Stork Visits Montana Ben F. Penrose, Seattle Division safety engineer who makes his head quarters in Great Falls. Mont., burst a few of the buttons on his vest last March 18, when a second heir joined the Penrose family. James F.. who hit the eight pound mark almost ex actly on the nose, was promptly nicknamed Jay by his fond pappy. We Go Hollywood We play a small role in the moving picture "Chetniks," Hollywood's idea of life among General Mihailovitch's Yugoslav guerillas. In a scene just after the General--don't ask us to spell his name again--has captured several Italian officers, he calls German headquarters and of fers to exchange the Italians for tins of gasoline, the number of tins for each officer depending on his rank. For an Italian major he asks ten cans of low test gasoline, whereupon the crestfallen prisoner remarks ruefully: "Not even Ethyl!" 36 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE ETC 05886 After one of his numerous lectures at the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics in Newark, Bill Ball ot fhe New York Division captured this work ot art and bore it in triumph to the Bulletin Board office. We are ottering it to you as a study in contrast, as of course there are no such wo/ves among our Ethyl boys. A Toothy Bit Martha Warren of Manufactur ing, New York, recently joined the ever growing throng of Ethyl folks who have appeared on Bob Hawk's "Thanks To The Yanks" radio pro gram, which is sponsored by the makers of Camel cigarettes (free advt.). Competing for 2000 Camels (free advt.) to be sent to a member of the armed forces, Martha unfor tunately gave a wrong answer to the question, a difficult one, which was asked her. The question was: "Who loses their teeth first, men or women?" Not being an expert on dental matters, Martha promptly replied that male molars and incisors go into the discard before those of the fairer gender. And that, boys, should cause you all to break into a toothy grin, because the girls are way ahead of you in the rush for store teeth. By the way, has any body seen my upper plate? ** Fourth Daughter A lale flash has just come in, stat ing that Meredith "Ted" Littlefield, Los Angeles Division field engineer, has just become the father of a fourth daughter. The little girl was born on May 10, but we haven't learned her name or birth weight. 37 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE ETC 05887 Carl's Corner This is a matter of self defense. Acting on the general theory that if I had sent you some regular material you would not have published what you used in the March issue, I have decided to "lay another egg." And you know you have asked for it sev eral times. The war boom has changed many things in this, our recently rugged frontier country. Our truck and bus drivers all used to be regular heguys, full of vim, vigor and mascu line language. Now a great many of these fellows have swelled the ranks of the Marines and the other more vigorous types of fighting forces, and given over the middle of the road to -- women. Probably our dis trict is not unique in that respect, but it is the only district that I see. and it has led to some interesting observations. One of San Diego's lady bus driv ers rose from her seat the other day, with her skirt caught in the emer gency brake lever. While she was rising, the skirt was staying. Her face and its environs for quite a dis tance were very red. This silk short age is really getting to be quite a problem. Herb Peters, our famous long dis tance safety man, left us the other day for his new assignment in Hous ton, Texas. Before he left he called our attention to something which he has been studying with quiet amuse ment for some little time. He had noticed that the cars which overtake us on the highway -- and quite a number of them do--generally have their license plates framed with signs which read, "I AM AN AMERICAN." I have followed Pete's investigation on my own ac count, and I find after considerable research that the signs come in three sizes, entitling the bearers to go, respectively, fifty, sixty, and sev enty miles per hour. There seems to be some connection, not yet clearly determined, between the seventymile size and Cadillacs with `C' rations registered through the Hol lywood branch of the Auto Club. Amazing people, these Egyptians. PLANT PROTECTION BOSS Harold "Mae" McMenemy, head of maintenance of the Detroit Lab, has recently been appointed to the post of Commanding Officer for Plant Protection, U. S. Citizens De fense Corps for the City of Ferndale. This means that Mac will co ordinate and supervise the plant protection corps for all the 85 in dustrial plants in Ferndale. Dayton Stopovers The Dayton Division is a popular stopping off place for Ethylmen in military service, as many of them pass through Wright or Patterson Field at some stage of their careers. Among Harry Mack's most recent visitors were Captain Claire Dees, former Baltimore Division manager, who was on his way to California; Lieutenant Ben Harrison, formerly of New York Manufacturing, and Lieutenant Don Bell, erstwhile Kansas City tractor engineer. i 38 BULLETIN BOARD-JUNE ETC 05888 ETC 05890 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD -- by and for Ethyl employeesI ETC 05891  * * * JULY, 1943 * * * The July issue of the Bulletin Board displays the Flag of the United States of America on its cover, and it might be well at this time for us to pause a moment and consider what the month of July has meant to us and to this flag. On July 4, 1776. a little group of determined men adopted a document which was to become a famous milestone in man's fight for freedom and which concluded with the stirring words: "We, therefore, the Representa tives of the United States of Amer ica. in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions do. in the Name, and by authority of the Good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare. That these United Col onies are, and of Right ought to be. Free and Independent States . . And for the support of this Declara tion, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.'' In early July, just 87 years later, a great battle took place which was to determine "whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." Few people had heard of the sleepy little Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg previous to July. 1863, but there, in peach orchard and meadow, the tides of blue and gray rolled back and forth for three grim and bloody days, while the fate of the union hung in the balance. Fifty-five more years brought us to another July day--July 19. 1918. On that date the Kaiser's hordes began their retreat from the Marne River. That was the beginning of the retreat which led to the decisive battles of St. Mihiel and the MeuseArgonne and which ended with the Hun begging for peace. And so we come to another July-- a July which may well be a decisive month in man's eternal struggle to be free. Our soldiers, sailors and marines are fighting throughout the world, giving everything they have to convert a hope for world freedom into a reality. Let us on the home front make a new resolve to back them to the limit in every way we can--"that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-- and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth." 3 BULLETIN BOARD-;ULY ETC 05892 TRIO OF VETERANS i Paul r. Johnson of the Kansas City Division, Elwood R. Anderson of New York, and Merritt E. Collins of Yonkers are the three winners of 15-year service pins this month. Paul Johnson came to Ethyl from the Thomas and Hochwalt Labora tories in Dayton and began work as a field representative in the Chi cago Division. When the Kansas City Division was started he moved there and has been there ever since, working on both sales and safety engineering assignments. At pres ent he is a safety engineer, working out of Omaha, Neb., where he lives with Mrs. Johnson and their two children. Reminiscing of the Ethyl Corpo ration of 15 years and more ago, Paul writes: "It seems like yesterday that Ethyl had its first national conven tion at the Thomas and Hochwalt Laboratories. I wonder if some of the present division managers re member when they learned how to run distillations, sulphurs, gums, etc., and then went into the library to tell Midge what they had learned. How `Bull' Durham had to move up to the front of the meeting room so the stenographer could take down his talk, because she couldn't hear him. How Pat Harding stuck his head through the hole in the door we had cut for Charlie Thomas' dog and did a little barking himself. "Yes, I think about the dinner at the Dayton Engineers Club where Boss Ket told all of us that some day Ethyl would be internationally known, and about the later events at the Miami Hotel. Art Mittnacht and Eddie Walters bring back pleasant memories--they were such grand fellows. "By the way, all this happened be fore I came officially with Ethyl. I'll never forget how scared I was when I met Bob Jordan June 1,1928, at the Standard Oil office in Chi cago. About all there was for me to do at that time was to take samples and check pump markings over eleven states. There weren't any re ports at that time. Then came jobber investigations, the car rotation pro gram, demonstration schedules, var ious surveys, new installations to build, automobile agency contacts, service station surveys, fleet con tacts, and all kinds of reports. "Time goes very fast when you are doing something you like to do and when you like the company and people you are doing it for. It really doesn't seem like 15 years. And I'll bet if Midge knew what the damn Japs were planning, he would have stayed with the synthetic rubber re search program." Merritt Collins stepped out of the University of Nebraska, where he received bachelor of science degrees in both electrical and mechanical engineering, to take charge of the old gasoline testing lab at Omaha. Merritt and one assistant comprised the personnel of the lab, and they did everything from testing gaso line to sweeping out the building. 4 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY J ETC 058ft3 Ffor/wiW A 4 nfimr*nn ETC 05894 [. rnw m r- The Omaha lab was closed down when the new Kansas City lab was finished in May 1930, and Merritt went to the Missouri city to take charge. He remained in Kansas City until August 1938, when he moved west to San Bernardino, to head that gasoline testing lab. He came to Yonkers as assistant manager of Ethyl's Gasoline Testing Division in May 1941. Between his electrical engineer ing and mechanical engineering de grees, Merritt worked for a while with Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Penna.. but except for this brief period his entire business career has been spent with Ethyl. He lives in Crestwood, N. Y.. with Mrs. Collins and their son and daughter. In his spare time he gets his exercise in his Victory garden and on the bad minton court. Andy Anderson's start with the company was almost a duplicate of that of Merritt Collins. He went di rect from M.I.T. to New Orleans, to take charge of our old lab there. The lab personnel consisted of Andy, an assistant, and a porter-- no stenographers, no receptionist, no nothin'! With the completion of the Baton Rouge lab in 1931. Andy moved over as head man. Working with him were Coleman Davidson and Dale Thompson, now of Detroit, and Tucker Dawson, who is still in Baton Rouge. Came April 1936 and Andy was shifted north to Yonkers to supervise all gasoline testing, but in January 1938 he was back in Baton Rouge, this time for the Man ufacturing Department, doing some work in connection with the new Ethyl Chloride plant. A year later he went to Deepwater to do techni cal and operations work in the TEL and Ethyl Chloride plants, and in January 1942 he came to the New York office to be a special assistant to John Schaefer, in which job he is working at present. Andy and Mrs. Anderson live in Tuckahoe, N. Y. His Victory garden and his boat are his favorite diver sions. He also is an active member of the Seventh Regiment, New York State Guard. Four passed the 10-year milestone this month and received their awards. They are Edna Muldoon. J. David Chalfant and Charles A. Wilmot, all of Manufacturing, Deep water. and Giraud E. "Jerry" Town send of New York Financial. The only five-year pin winner is Bernhard "Barney" Weyhrauch of New York Financial. Stork Club Notes A daughter/ Gwendolyn Maria, was born June 4 in Fitch Sanitarium, the Bronx, to Anna Braun, who used to work in New York Stenographic. The little lady is named after both her grandmothers. A daughter, Katherine Kerns El der. was born June 12 to Kit Kerns Elder, who used to be secretary to Roy Goltz of the New York Divi sion. The little lady tilted the beam at six pounds thirteen ounces. ; 6 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05895 Cynthia Decherl, receptionist on the 35th floor of the Chrysler Building, is a native New Yorker who still resides in Manhattan. Before coming to Ethyl she was secretary to Dr. S. D. Sell, an allergy specialist. She received her early schooling in France and then attended the Spence School in New York. Cynthia has nu merous hobbies, but her favorites are skiing. riding, flying, and building miniature railroads with her father. She used to hold a private pilot's license. Carole Cooke came to the New York Mail- room direct from high school m Jamaica. Long Island, where she lives. Her favorite diversions are bowling, reading, and swimming. As a result of long hours on the Long Island beaches, she has a suntan which is the envy of most of us pallid office workers. Another outstanding Victory gardener has been discovered in Atlanta. He is none other than Alan Tully. division manager, who is shown here, inspecting his abundant lettuce crop with his daughter Belinda. Errol Gay GAY ODESSEY At long last we have managed to dig up some interesting details about the recent trip to Africa of Errol Gay. director of the fleet divi sion of Technical Service. Errol was sent to North Africa last February by the War Department to inspect military installations and mechan ized equipment of our armed forces. Errol's round trip by air covered about 24,000 miles. He left Miami in an ATC transport that followed a route via South America and then across the Atlantic to Africa. There he transferred to another plane which set him down in Algiers just 49 flying hours after leaving Miami. In this famous cld city he joined forces with the British Ordnance office who was to accompany him on his tour of inspection. With field rations for three weeks, including water, which had to be carried along, bed rolls and extra heavy clothing, the party started in an open tour ing car on a trip of several hundred miles which turned out to be any thing but a joy ride. 8 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05897 Due to Army regulations and a jittery chauffeur, it became neces sary for Errol to take over the driv ing. The threat of enemy planes was constant, which meant eyes on the sky as well as on the road and a quick dive into a protecting ditch if the car was spotted by a Hun dive bomber. The weather in northern Africa during February is cold and damp, and with nothing but a wet bedroll spread under the olive trees for pro tection. it is easy for a man to be come chilled through and through, even though he is wearing two suits of heavy underwear and three pairs of woolen socks. At one place, how ever, the party got a break when they were permitted to spread their bedrolls on the concrete floor of a maternity hospital. On the Tunisian front Errol and party were constantly on the move, inspecting British and American maintenance shops. Taking time out for a sight-seeing trip just 15 miles from the German lines at Dougga, they visited an old Carthaginian ruin which in the days of Hannibal had been used as an outdoor amphi theater and sports arena. Despite the wear and tear of time, this old Punic ball yard was found to be well preserved. The Arabs of North Africa, par ticularly the children, looked under nourished to Errol, food, milk and clothing being scarce since the Huns had confiscated nearly everything for shipment to Europe. Errol be lieves it is the responsibility of the United States to feed these people. He was impressed with the friendli ness of the natives for the United States and said they did a fine job of cooperating with the American and British armies. Errol was in Africa for forty days and covered hundreds of miles by motor car. He foresees a great fu ture for that country in the post-war development of its natural resources. * Tribute from a Marine Viola Wells of the New York Ethyl-Dow office recently received a letter from her nephew. Private Robert Baldwin of the Marine Corps, who is on duty somewhere in the Pacific. At the conclusion of his letter Private Baldwin said: "Us guys will really have to take our hats off to you guys. I don't know what the hell we'd do without Ethyl Fluid in our gasoline." Two Advance in Rank Two of the boys who formerly worked at Deepwater have advanced in rank in the Army. John L. Ebell is now a radio technician first class and John A. Miller is a corporal. In case you have forgotten, John Ebell is located at the Fleet Service School. Virginia Beach, Va., and John Miller is at the 41st Army Air Base Squadron, Geiger Field, Spo kane, Wash. 9 BULLETIN BO.ARD-JULY ETC 05898 Praise the Lord and Pass the Aspirin! By Frank Dezendorf (Tax Expert) Beginning this month, we income tax payers will start the series of steps which will eventually get us out of debt to the Federal Government. The Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 will give us a severe headache, but we will gradually recover as time goes on. The new law doesn't change the tax rates which prevailed before it was passed. It provides that the tax on in come shall be paid in the year in which the income is earned. For tax purposes, the Government rec ognizes two kinds of income. One is wages and salaries and the other is less regular kinds of income. To collect the tax on salaries and wages, the new law provides that employers shall withold part of the pay of each worker. For less regular income, the taxpayer is required to estimate in advance what his income will be for the year, and to pay it up quarterly as it comes in. The law provides for two rates for withholding. One is 207r after exemp tions for family status; the other is 3% for the Victory tax, over and above smaller deductions. Either one or the other is to be applied by employers, but not both. They must withhold at the rate which will yield the highest tax. Your first step under the law is to file with the company a certificate of family status withholding exemption. This amounts to $12 a week if you are single. $24 if married, and $6 a week for each dependent (see table). The exemptions under the 37c Victory tax are the same as for a single person, as shown in the table. You get no extra 10 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05899 p credit if you are married or have de withheld probably will cover all the tax pendents. he owes. The lowest salaried persons will be For higher salaried persons, however, subject to the 3% Victory tax instead it's quite likely that some extra pay of the 20% withholding tax. If you are ment will have to be made. A man earn single with no dependents, the 20% rate ing $5,000 a year, with two children, will prevail at all times. If you are mar probably will find himself in the second ried with dependents, however, there will surtax bracket which is 16%. That means be cases where the 3% rate will produce his income tax is 22%--6% normal and a higher amount to be withheld than the 16% surtax--and he must also pay the 20% rate with its greater exemptions. A 5% Victory tax. As earnings go higher, married person with one dependent the 20% withholding will fall short by s would pay the 3% withholding rate if he even greater amounts of meeting the full earned approximately $33 a week or less, tax liability. but would pay the 20% rate if he earned To permit taxpayers to get on a cur more than that sum. rent basis without paying two years' In general, this 20% withholding tax taxes in one, 75% of the 1942 tax was applies to all salaried employees. There forgiven if that tax was more than $66.67. are some exemptions--such as ministers (If last year's tax was $50 or less, all of the gospel, domestic help, agricultural of it was forgiven: if it was between $50 workers and others--but there won't be and $66.67, $50 of it was forgiven.) The many of these. remaining tax must be added to the pay Employers have the option of comput ments which will be made on March 15, ing the amount of wages and salaries to 1944, and March 15. 1945. be withheld on an exact basis, or of using Thus, if you owed $400 on your 1942 a schedule of deductions provided in the income, you have already paid $200 of new law. the total in your March 15 and June 15 Under the schedule, the deductions are instalments. Since 75% of the tax is for based on a figure mid-way between the given, this means you only owe $100. high and low salary figure in each class. Therefore, the $200 already paid is ap For example, where your salary is at plied against the tax on 1943 income. least $30, but is less than $40, the 20% One-half of the $100 still owed will be deduction is based on the middle figure added to the March 15 payment next of $35. year and a similar amount a year later. This means that if you are earning To prevent a "windfall" to certain tax $30 a week and the company uses the payers, the law provides that the 75% deduction schedule, too much probably forgiveness is to apply to the 1943 tax, is being deducted each week. On the instead of the 1942 tax, if the 1943 tax other hand, on a salary of $39.50 a week,, is lower. In such cases, the taxpayer the deduction probable isn't big enough. must add the difference between the 1942 But if you pay too much now, however, tax and the 1943 tax to the 1943 tax. you get credit for it next year against Thus, if your tax for 1942 was $5,000 ' taxes then due, or you can ask for a and for 1943 it was only $1,000, the dif refund. If you haven't paid enough, you ference between the two--$4,000--must be will have to make an additional payment added to this year's tax of $1,000, making to clear up your tax debt when you file a total of S5.000. In addition, since 75% a return for your 1943 income tax on of the 1943 tax is now forgiven, you must March 15 next. also pay the remaining 25% or $250 of Those are the general provisions of your 1943 tax, making a total tax of the withholding by employers. They ap $5,250 to be paid for this year. ply to the office boy as well as the presi Another provision of the law requires dent of the company. The main difference that taxpayers (1) earning more than is that for the office boy, the amount $2,700 a year, if single, (2) more than 11 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05900 In the computation of the amount of tax to be withheld from wage pay ments an exemption is allowable against the wages paid for each payroll period determined in accordance with the schedules below. Family Status Withholding Exemption Schedule Pavrol) period Weekly Biweekly .............. Semimonthly................ Monthly Quarterly..................... Semiannual Annual . ... Daily or miscellaneous (per day of such period) Single person $12 24 26 52 156 312 624 1 Married j: person claiming whole of personal exemption for with* holding or head of family $24 48 52 104 312 624 1,248 Married person claiming half of personal exemption for withholding Married person claiming none of personal exemption for withholding $12 24 26 52 156 312 624 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Each dependent. other than the first dependent in the case of the head of a fanruiy $6 12 13 26 78 156 312 1.70 3.40 1.70 0 .85 $3,500 a year if married, or (3) having an income of more than $100 from sources other than salaries or wages, must file a declaration of their income and tax on September 15. Taxes on any income not covered by the withholding provision must then be paid in quarterly instalments as that income is earned. For these taxpayers, it will be neces sary for them to file quarterly statements of their income if that income changes substantially--because their tax pay ments must total at least 807c of the tax finally adjudged due, or a penalty must be paid on the deficiency. Question: How do I decide on which year's income (1942 or 1943) I pay a full tax? Is it the larger total in come or the larger total tax? Answer: The larger total tax is what counts--and must be paid in full. Question: How do I figure income tax liability for 1943? Answer: The same way as you figured your income tax for 1942. In other words, the same tax rates apply; the new law simply changes the method of payment. Therefore, when you fill out your 1943 income tax return next March 15, you compute your total tax just as you did in 1942. Then, you deduct the payments you will have made through the withholding tax and in the quar terly instalments you paid on March 15 and June 15. The balance, if any, must be paid at that time. Any refund accruing to the taxpayer will be re mitted by the Treasury. Question: How does the 757c tax forgive ness apply? Answer: The 75% forgiveness applies to whichever tax is lower--1942 or 1943. The remaining 25% is to be paid in two equal instalments on March 15, 1944, and March 15, 1945. Question: What do I do on Sept. 15? Answer: Nothing--unless your annual salary exceeds $2700 if single, $3500 if married, or if you have more than $100 annual income from sources other than salaries and wages. In these cases, you must file on September 15 a declar ation of your 1943 income and pay a tax half then and half on December 15 on any 1943 income not covered by the withholding tax. 12 bulletin board-jcly i ETC 05901 Question: What credit do I get for in surance premiums on my income tax under the new law? Answer: None, except as a credit against the Victory tax. However, other spe cial deductions allowed under the 1942 tax law--for example, unusual medical expenses--may be deducted. Question: Must I still pay the 5% Vic tory tax next March 15? Answer: Yes. On March 15 next, the taxpayer will figure what he owes on his 1943 income tax. To this he will add his Victory tax liability for 1943. From that total he will deduct the credits allowed under the Victory tax, which will show him his total tax for 1943. Against this, he will deduct the amount he paid in 1943 through (1) the Victory tax the first half of the year, (2) the new withholding tax dur ing the second half, (3) the two instal ments he paid on March 15 and June 15. If these payments exceed his tax liability, he will get a refund. If they are less, he must pay the difference. Question: What do I do on March 16 next? Answer: Enter a sanitarium for a few days of rest and recuperation. * * * Carl's Corner The Army posts continue to in trigue, particularly the new me chanical equipment. Latest is the "Seep" which is a sort of sheet iron bathtub with a built-in Peep. I was explaining it to my better seveneights the other night, telling her how this whole series of names was descended from the Jeep, and she claimed that if we were to trace the ancestry all the way back we would find that it originated with our family Heap. Well, anyway, no matter how that argument comes out, it was nice to be at Camp Cooke when their first Seeps came in, simultaneously with an oversize rain. The marsh buggies stood out all night, and in the morn ing there were several inches of water in the bodies. Along came the tech sergeant, who had been out somewhere else all night, and he did not care whether he or these new mechanical marvels had the biggest overhang, or vice versa--he just got aboard one of them and started. The moisture got annoying, so he de cided to pump ship with the quick acting bilge pump provided for that purpose. It seems that the pump was geared to the engine, and speed provided pressure--and fun. All went well for some time while he cruised the camp, spoiling the morning for those of fewer stripes and less au thority, but finally he failed to de tect the blue MP amrband on an approaching private. He really did a job on that fellow--just like a fire hose. By the way, have you heard that there is a reason why they still peel potatoes by hand in the Army --and that sergeants can generally do it better than privates? Commenting on the recent photo graphing of employees, Mac Mur dock says we should all be glad that we were hired first and photo graphed afterward. Please, Frank, never publish any of those "fronts and sides" in the Bulletin Board, because if you do and the head men up in New York take a look, our names will be prominent in the next month's "No Longer With Us." 13 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05902 Freddie Hughes, custodian 0/ the Stock floom at the Detroit Lab, proudly exhibits Fred erick James, Jr., who was born May 1$ and weighed into this worid at six pounds eieven ounces. Freddie is atso the father of a daughter, Patricia Ann, aged three. *++ No Longer a Bachelor Jim Lonergan, handsome young cost accountant in New York, took himself out of circulation on May 8 by marrying Miss Ruby Russell at St. Denis' Church in Yonkers. The bride attended Hunter College and is employed by the Vanadium Corporation in the Graybar Build' ing, just across the street from our New York office, where she can keep tabs on her husband. Jim and his bride are making their home in Yonkers. Calls Himself fo Order I Ed Cottrell, at present the only field representative left in the Tulsa Division, recently went into a tight huddle with himself and came up with the following letter to his boss. Lou Shank: Houston, Texas May 1, 1943 Mr. L. W. Shank Dear Lou: Re: Circular Letter No. S9 A meeting of the entire organi zation representing the field force of the Tulsa Division was recently held and I called to my attention the contents of Mr. T. E. Ronan's bulletin relating to the wave of car thefts and I warned myself to be more careful when parking my car. All hands agreed to be more care ful regarding the above in the future as I realize when my car stops. I stop. Very truly yours, s H. E. Cottrell H. E. Cottrell Director of Field Representatives Tulsa Division Southern Wedding Lieutenant Joe Williams, U.S.A., who used to be with the Atlanta Di vision, has been in the ranks of the benedicts since April 24, when he married Yula Carolyn Beatty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Beatty, at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Accord ing to the wedding announcement. Joe and his bride are residing in Perry, Ga. ^ }, fj Jj 1 j j i I ; j j | 14 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY J ETC 05903 War Poster Stamps The War Poster Stamps sent to you with this copy of the Bulletin Board, as a gift from the company, reproduce fifty of the leading post ers in the recent National War Poster Contest conducted by Art ists for Victory, Inc. All told, there were 2,243 in the contest. All money cleared from these stamps will go into additional morale building moves by the 10,000 artists in the organization. If you wish more sheets of these stamps for yourself or for your friends, you may obtain them at one fourth of the regular price, or four sheets--200 stamps--for a dollar, by mentioning the Ethyl Corporation when you write to Artists for Vic tory, 101 Park Avenue, New York. * No Longer with Us Betty Trumble. New York Augustus O. Allen, Detroit Audrey M. Lyon, Detroit Frances C. Burchett, New York Alberta Randall, New York Edward Horsman, Detroit Clyde F. Wade, Detroit Frank Lombardi, New York John S. Lachowicz, Detroit William D. Buskin, Detroit Jean Aubeck, New York Jane Jordan Makes Hit on Radio The afternoon of June 1 found the personnel of the Detroit Lab hovering around every available radio, for Jane Jordan, assistant to Julian Frey, was on the air, telling the radio audience of Station WWJ some of the things Ethyl is doing to help win the war. Jane appeared on the regular weekly program called "Fran Harris Reports," in which M iss Harris interviews women in Detroit who hold important jobs in war production plants. As a result of Jane's broadcast, they liked her radio voice so well at WWJ that they asked her to sign up as a fill-in announcer at the station. 15 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05904 Vince Hnizda and Captain toren G. Farrell inspect the sample of gasoline extracted from a roil of toweling. Laboratory Legerdemain Citg of lUiroit F1R DtMATMENT 1ub , IMS. Or. Oaor|* Cll8fa*rt, M*airb LdberBterl**, Stfeyl CorpcrctiOB, 1*00 Bait E'.tfit ill* M.. Strlt. BletHfun Baar Doeter Callaaatri : Elaaaa * mj tMui ;r tNnrtUN |lm Mr Ccptcla farroll la aatraetlac tod IdMtlTyiBt MruU LBfluMbla liquid froa elott tatou Proa taa aaasa of a lueaadlary f Ira ah let raeor.tly occurred Is a lagodry 1* Datrelt. iUUeugA ooalni four ability to froqueetly ecoaeUob the aeBlfily lateailtlo la cheated labor* tory, tr.a roaulta of IM toot eertelBly ooooodod ay ipectationa oa *a novo frequently boon 41**0 to under* etend tr.at auet ao eitraetlc* operation aea lapeealole and that Identification could pet to aede unlaei at leat teo ouncea of liquid e available. a heoo to Incorporate Heller equlpaoet 1b our loborotsrr otlet, aa you moa, :* bob In tna aaklDf. It la eltn your eaalatanee and iplendld advice In tBlo lnitanco aa eoll aa ob auMroua oeeaalona In tna peat tnt a* nope to uan* our lanoratory ono of tna boat Id tr. country for tna particular typo of eorb oa a re required to do. Dr. "Cal" Calingaert, director of the Chem Research Lab at Detroit, .V doubled for Sherlock Holmes re cently. Following a fire in one of Detroit's commercial laundries, Cap tain Loren G. Farrell of the Arson Squad, Detroit Police and Fire De partment. called on Cal, handed him a roll of gasoline scented toweling, which had been salvaged from the fire, and asked him to produce the gasoline in a bottle. Vince Hnizda of Chem Research undertook the task of recovering the sample of gasoline from the tow eling. The latter was placed, with- SVS/rfo 5doro t. Smith Oatoctlfo Inapoctor. 4 ETC 05905 out unrolling, in an autoclave, to which was attached a system of traps and a vacuum pump. Approxi mately 20 ccs. of gasoline were col lected. at reduced pressure, in about half an hour. With this valuable evidence in hand, the Arson Squad was able to start looking at once for the guys whodunnit. This method of recov ering gasoline is being adopted by the newly instituted laboratory of the Arson Squad. One Colonel, Five Majors That shower of metal that fell all around you was just a few of our Ethyl boys tossing aside their cap tain's bars and replacing them with the gold oak leaves of the major. And just by way of variety, one Ethylman swapped his silver oak leaves for a pair of eagles. The new wearer of the colonel's eagles is Dr. Willard Machle, formerly of Cin cinnati, who is now in charge of the Medical Research Laboratory of the Armored Force at Fort Knox, Kyr The five new majors are Stone wall Jackson Warner, formerly of Atlanta; Jim Boudreau, formerly of Chicago; Les Roberts, formerly of Cincinnati; Bob Greenwood, for merly of Deepwater, and Miles Kinley, formerly of Chicago. Jack War ner is now in England, Bob Green wood is at Camp Tyson, Tenn., Les Roberts is assisting Dr. Machle at Fort Knox, Miles Kinley is at Camp Beauregard, La., and Jim Boudreau is in Chicago. Smiling Si YOU is Louise M. Harden, stenographer<lerk in (he Gasoline Testing Lab at De troit. She is a graduate of Lincoln High in Ferndale. attended Kalamazoo College lor two years and then went to business college, from where she came direct to Ethyl. She Idtes swimming. horseback riding, badminton and bicycling. Patricia Corrigan, chemist in the Gasoline Testing Lab at Detroit, is a graduate of St. Theresa High School and of Marygrove College, where she obtained a B.S. degree in chemistry. She came to Ethyl direct from the campus. Patricia is a young lady who has^nany interests. She hires to read, Jrnit, swim, play tennis, and bowl, and she collects phonograph records. ETC 05906 QUESTION F< A war iv 3 What car, J by R. What did you do for Freedom today? A Marine on Guadalcanal, Through a hail of lead and jungle hell. Crept out to a wounded pal; And he dragged him back through the slime and muck. Then, with never a thought of rest. Back over that deadly route he went And smashed a machine-gun nest. It wasn't much fun--the bullets--the mud-- He may have been scared, but he hid it; He only knew of a job to do And he didn't quibble, he did it. What did you do for Freedom today? "All that you could." Think well-- One-millionth as much as that Leather neck did? --They buried the boy where he fell. What did you do for Freedom today? A Gob on a rubber raft Drained the last wet drop from his water flask Then threw it away and laughed. For eighteen days on an endless sea In a torment of pain he lay; Drenched and chilled to the bone at night, And burned to a crisp by day. He wanted to live, but he knew in his heart That the odds were a thousand to one: But he drifted and hoped, consoled by a prayer. And the thought of a job well done. What did you do for Freedom today? "All that you could," you declare. But when you say it, remember the Cob Who died on the raft out there. j , I Just stop every onJ When your lot seen And think of a Col And nine boys in a ia BULLETIN BOARD-JULY Reprinted from Tffl May I J ETC 05907 R AMERICANS * ter asis it. ju answer? lieholson > What did you do for Freedom today? Nine lads in a B-17 Ran into a flock of Messerschmitts It And died in their wrecked machine. , Oh, they didn't do bad with what they had, But they flew through hell to do it; They had smashed Berlin and a dozen > "one-ten's," | But their number was up and they knew i u'* They were full of holes, with no controls, And their ship was a comet of flame; |, But they stuck to their guns and the > useless stick C And battled on just the same. What did you do for Freedom today? ; "All that you could." O.K.: But if those nine boys in the B-17 J Were to ask you, what would you say? What did you do for Freedom today? I think they've a right to ask. You're in this fight just as much as they. And with just as important a task. Were you at your desk, or bench, or press. And at work at the starting-bell? Did every minute of this day count? And the job--did you do it well ? Did you buy a Bond or a Stamp today? Or collect any scrap for the pile? Did you save your grease or throw it away? Did you drive just an extra mile? Have you been down to the Red Cross Bank And given a pint of your blood? Did you send that V-mail letter today? Did you hoard any rationed food? Before you begin to complain and gripe That life is all work and no fun-- Would you trade your dinner for Ration K? Or your overtime pay for a gun? tn a while today hard and lean, and a Leatherneck, -17. WEEK Magazine IU3. . 19 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05908 Hazel M. Anderson, stenographer-cleric in New York Administration, commutes to the of lice from Richmond Hill, Long Island. She at tended John Adams High School in Ozone Park obtained her B.A. degree from Brooklyn College and did graduate worlc at Columbia University She came to us from the Air Reduction Com pany. In her spare time activities. Hazel is versatile. She does war work for the Red Cross, makes and designs clothes for herself, and plays the piano, with the accent on classical Hello, folks! We're Peter and Eileen Adri- ance and our pop edits the Bulletin Board, so we put the pressure on him to let us break into print. Peter was three years old May 2 and Eileen celebrated her first birthday February 4. And don't tell a soul, but we re going to have a little brother or sister in August. Clementine C. Parchen of New York Stenographic lives in the Bronx. On a casual basis for several months, she recently was changed to a permanent status. She was a house wife for several years before coming to Ethyl, but before that was with Western Electric. Clementine attended Morns High School in the Bronx and took a secretarial course at Normal Commercial School. She likes to play bridge, read, and go fishing with her husband, provided she doesn't have to put a worm on the hook or handle a fish. ETC 05909 Major Howard B. Hudlburg, formerly a safety engineer with the Chicago Division, is stationed at Camp Sfewarf, Ga. Said Howard in a recent letter: "Very busy now and starting into the real old South Georgia weather -- the tropics, ii you ask me! Am now assigned as Group Executive Officer, 31 sf AAA Group. Our group having seven battalions, we are some what lacking in the element known as spare time." Gwen Ban, secretary to Ralph ChampJin, was married June S to Lieutenant Edward J. Bergin in the rectory 0/ St. Patrick's Cathedral in Sew York. After the ceremony a reception was held in the roof garden of the Sf. Regis Hotel. Lieutenant Bergin, who is in the Quarter master Corps, is stationed at Camp Upton, Long Island. Before joining Uncle Sam's Army he was with the investment banking firm oi DeCoppet & Doremus, where Gwen used to work before she came to Ethyl. Carolyn B. Hitchock, who works in Detroit Financial, was born in Flint. Mich., but migrated to Detroit at the age of 10. She attended East Commerce High School, where she took a commercial course. Before coming to Ethyl she worked with the Fruehaui Trailer Company, where she met her husband, who recently en listed in the Air Corps. Carolyn's favorite di versions are stamp collecting, gardening, and her three-year-old son, Lee. ETC 05910 VICTORY MAIL Dear Mr. Webbi Five years ago this month I joined the Ethyl family--thanks to Joe Costello and George Rosser, who managed to con vince Bob Jordan that I was potential material in spite of my not knowing then why I wanted to work for Ethyl, much to Bob's disgust. I have never had the pleasure of meet ing you but I have been quite fortunate in meeting and knowing a number of your "boys," including Mr. Taylor, Mr. Kaley, Jack Martin, Joe Costello, Julian Frey, Errol Gay, Alan Tully, and my closest personal friend. George Rosser. Then since being over here in England " I have had the pleasure of being with another of your "boys," Ray Bevan. He has been of considerable assistance to me in my work in petroleum and in addi tion has been quite nice to me personally. Last week I had lunch in London with Ray and it was during this last visit that the thought occurred to me in a very forceful manner--what grand fellows Ethyl men are, no matter who they are or where they are. So although this note may not make sense to you, I just thought I would like to express to you personally that after five years as an Ethyl man, I now really know and realize what that name means and stands for and I am proud to bear that name. I would also like to add as one of the fellows in the service, thanks for what you and the company have done for us and here's hoping that it won't be long before we will be back with the gang. Major S. J. Warner, Jr. APO 871, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. (formerly of Atlanta) Dear Ethyl Service Men: I understand that it is now my turn to give you a bit of the news around the Lab, so here goes. The rainy season seems to show signs of being over--as Charlie Mummert puts it, "It's rained for forty days and forty nights and has just gotta quit." All the Victory Gardeners are now rushing home every night and getting in 22 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05911 a few licks with the hoe to try and get their crops in in time to beat an early frost. The main topic of conversation at lunch these days--besides the progress of the war-is the best way of planting corn, whether or not tomato plants should be staked, etc., etc. Quite a few of the boys in the service who are stationed around Detroit have dropped in to see us lately. Idan Flaa. Bob Hogan and George Rosser have all stopped in recently. Ray Faller, although stationed at the Hudson Naval Ordnance Plant here, hasn't had a chance to pay us a visit as yet, but has promised to do so in the near future. Johnny Howard seems both busy and happy in his berth up at Buick in Flint, and Arch Vallier goes on happily gaining weight at his post in Lansing. The Lab has a different sound these days. Instead of the put-put of the single cylinder engines and the hum of the pas senger car engines of the pre-war era, the full throated roar of the various tank en gines makes it impossible to carry on much conversation in the dynamometer wing. Instead of seeing feet sticking out from under a shiny passenger car, the familiar sight in the Road Test Section now is the same pair of feet sticking out from under a scout car or a jeep. Instead of conversation about the relative merits of this and that automobile, all you hear now is the merits of this tank destroyer or how long a pair of tracks is supposed to last on that tank. Yes, things have changed a lot here at the Lab but the spirit hasn't changed. The lamp is still in the window and will be until that day after Victory when we can all get together again. Until then-- the best of luck. Sincerely, Dick Scales (Detroit) I am not quite sure to whom to write this letter so will leave the heading blank. I guess there is still an Ethyl Ser viceman's Circular Letter. Mail has a heck of a time catching up with this lit tle tub the way we have been traveling around. There are sometimes periods of over a month when we can't either re ceive or send any mail. Since about February 1, I have been attached to the SC 497. SC standing for sub chaser. It isn't revealing any military secrets to say that she is a bit over one hundred feet long and carries a crew of twenty-four men and three officers. Since the last of April, I have had the ques tionable honor of being the skipper, which simply means that I get all the grief for the privilege of being called "Captain." My crew is a great bunch ranging in age from seventeen to forty and in years of naval service from one-half to sixteen. On a small ship like this, which is at sea for quite long periods of time, one gets to know the men well. I wish some one would write a book about the charac ters I have aboard. It would make really humorous reading. Living accommodations are not the most commodious in the world on one of these tubs. Water must be strictly rationed, which means no baths at sea. Quarters are cramped and sleeping im possible in rough weather. It is not un common to wake up in mid-air on the way from your bunk to the deck. Tell Cipolla that a lot of my men have had destroyer duty and say it is a sissy duty compared with this as far as rough rid ing goes. However, in spite of inconveniences the life is good, and I am thoroughly en joying the experience. I can think of a * 23 BULLETIN BOA RJ2_- JULY ETC 05912 hell of a lot worse places to spend the war. H. C. Sumner, Lt. (jg) USS SC 497 c/o Fleet Post Office New York, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) Andy Pallay I received your letter telling me Bill's address some time ago. In fact I already have a letter from him. Bill is at Ellis Island, N. Y., and expecting to get a transport. It wasn't quite clear whether he is to serve on the transport or just going for a little trip as I did some time ago. You could have floored me when I opened the Bulletin Board and saw yours truly all wrapped up in his parka. It made me feel pretty good. In fact I am going to send the clipping to my little wife to save in her scrap book. I have been wondering for some time what the new building looks like. It was only partially finished when I last saw it. Any pictures of the gang would be most welcome. Loads of luck! T/Sgt. Andrew Pallay Hq. Co., Sth Inf. Div. APO No. S, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) At long last I have settled down at the lab where I will probably remain for the duration. It is located at the Medical College of the University of Manitoba here in Winnipeg. Our fundamental purpose is to prop erly regulate the diet of the RCAF to assure that the flyers, in particular, re ceive the greatest possible benefit from the food which our rations offer. All this has reference to the vitamin and mineral content--the protein, carbohydrate and fat problems are left to the dieticians. The way we work is this--there is one lab in each of the four flying commands. As it happens our command covers all of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. We will visit each RCAF station in each province and send samples of the meals, taken right from the Mess Hall, back to the laboratory where they will be analyzed. From the data collected over a certain period, we will be able to know any de ficiencies. Our methods of analysis are largely colorometric. All of our equipment is the latest available. 24 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY I ETc 05913 The people in Winnipeg seem very friendly. They have a beautiful large service center for the use of all the serv ice men. There we hear big name bands and have all sorts of ways to spend our spare time. I have found also that Win nipeg is a great musical center. They have concerts of every description, from the heavy classics to swing. All in all I believe the time I spend in the RCAF will be well spent. I like it very much but back of it all I am looking forward to the time when war will no longer be and I can return to my job and friends at home. I should like very much to hear from any of you who might find time to write. AC-2 J. C. Boag R-201474 (RCAF) No. 3 Nutritional Lab Medical College Winnipeg, Manitoba (formerly of Detroit) I suppose by now you have just about given me up for lost but I am still around. Lots has happened since I last wrote you. To begin with, I am now a father! I have a new daughter. Patricia Sue. She weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. and was 22 inches long when she was born. She was born on May 5, 1943. Mother and child--and father-are doing nicely (at least the mother and child are). I got a seven day leave a couple of weeks ago and went home to see them. Helen and the baby were both fine and they are going to join me here in a few weeks. I have been receiving the Ethyl Bul letin Board regularly and enjoy it very much--even though some of the old fa miliar faces have changed somewhat, but then, with so many of the boys in the service that is to be expected. I hope that some day all of the old gang can be to gether again. Lady Luck has been traveling by my side while I have been in the Army, or so it seems. I am still with the Post Engi neers in the Engineering Branch, but I have had a very nice promotion. I am now a Warrant Officer (JC) assigned to A-4, attached to the Post Engineers. (A-4 is Service and Supply.) I can see that Ethyl is really carrying on, and it really makes me proud to have been a part of the Ethyl organization. I hope that some day I can again say that I am a part of it. Those Service Men's Letters are really the thing. Right now Florida isn't so nice. It rains almost every day and the people say that it will continue through June. I have been swimming several times though and am getting a very nice tan. There isn't much fishing here because the Coast Guard says we can't fish without a permit and there is absolutely no deep sea fish ing. The night life around here is almost totally out--because we are under dimout regulations at all times. We even have to paint over the lenses of our auto mobiles. I would like to hear from some of the boys that are still in the company. Right 25 BULLETIN BQAR.Q-JULY ETC 05914 now I have to make an inspection so I had better go. W O (JG) James M. Anders, Jr. c. o Post Engineer Elgin Field, Florida (formerly of Detroit) Once again I am writing you after a much too long delay between letters. As the days go by, with little or no change from the regular routine, I find it more and more difficult to write you of the local events that may be of interest to you. After being in one place for any length of time, most of the oddities of a particular location seem to become com monplace, but I will attempt to write you at least something of what may be found native to this part of the world. The law of gravity seems to be of ut most importance out here, for no matter where you move it always seems to be along an incline plane. If the mind could distinguish a gradual change in slope without reference to a body of water or man-made level object, everything would be all right, but it so happens that this is not possible to do in most in stances. It seems strange to be riding over an apparently level road with the vehicle running in second gear with throttle opened wide and engine laboring to make the grade. In a matter of a few minutes the atmospheric pressure on the ear drums gives an indication that some change in elevation has been made, even though there is no other means of rec ognizing the displacement. One day while watching for any signs of marine life in an intermittent stream, I was surprised to discover schools of tropical fish of the platy and guppy vari eties. I didn't expect to find any fish of any kind in the inland waters of the island. Another oddity, or so it seems to me, is the number of lady barbers to be found out here. Back in Detroit finding a lady barber operator is strictly a rarity, unless a lot of changes have been made since I left home. Being tended by a female oper ator is quite agreeable, but when she tries to care for the normal household duties such as preparing meals while cutting hair it sometimes causes much delay in the process of getting sheared. So much for my observations during my stay out here. I appreciate getting news from the home office, but so far I haven't been getting as much mail from those at the lab as I would like to receive. I hope something can be done about the situation. M, Sgt. E. J. Kukla. 36130536 Hqs. Battery, 27th Div. Art. APO No. 27, U. S. Army c.o Postmaster, San Francisco (formerly of Detroit) Hi, Folks! No, I won't ask what's "knocking" but let me know anyway. Things are sure moving fast with me as a short while ago I was at Rosecrans Field at St. Joseph, Mo. and am now located in Brooklyn waiting for an assignment some place else (I hope it's California). The time seems to be rapidly approaching when I shall take over the duties for which I am being trained. As you know my training at Yale was such as to pre- 26 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY | j ^ ETC 05915 pare me to carry a position as Engineer ing Officer. At St. Joseph the training was carried on in the specialized field of the Air Forces, namely, the Air Trans port Command. Here in New York I am in the home office of the domestic trans portation department which is one branch of the ATC. It shall be my duty, in addition to an Engineering Officer, to act as liaison officer between the Army and the domestic airlines. Have been seeing quite a bit of this town while trying to keep from getting lost. Having lots of fun. Loads of luck. Thanks for the chain letters. Lt. Joseph A. Hobart Hq. DTR, ATC 33 Pine Street New York, New York (formerly of Detroit) Rest, Upjohn's Jeculin, and sunshine have restored me to my old self again, but I don't expect to go back to New Guinea except on short visits. When I got out of the hospital, I was as yellow as an Easter egg from the Atrabine treatment they subjected me to. Usually quinine is used first, but not in my case. Now I'm as brown as a New Guinea native. I hope to keep my color by spending each Sun day for a few months at the same beach mentioned above. Before I left Australia for New Guinea I was Aviation Petroleum Officer for U. S. Army Air Forces S.W.P.A. Now I am Aviation Petroleum Engineering Officer, with nothing to do with petro leum distribution, but concentrating on problems pertaining to the application of petroleum products. In New Guinea I handled both jobs for that particular area. Major W. H. Hubner Hq. ASC Sth A.F. APO 92S, c/o Postmaster San Francisco. Calif, (formerly of Detroit) I }ust returned to active duty after 10 days convalescing at one of the finest beaches in Australia, two weeks in a hos pital in Australia, and two weeks in a hospital in New Guinea. Prior to that I had worked IS to 20 hours per day for six weeks doing a job and organizing a petroleum section there. I was in excel lent physical condition and thought I could take it, against the better judg ment of many of my friends who have been in that area for many months. Anyhoo, I got the job done just as I couldn't lift my foot into my Jeep. "Jungle" mal aria (a combination of dengue and mal aria) hit me like a ton of bricks. Dengue is known in these parts as the bone crushing fever. Even my toes and fingers ached, with some unseen object sitting on my forehead and the back of my neck. Malaria knocks hell out of one's blood. f Dear Ethylilesi I just received my Bulletin Board and can easily say that it has been a definite aid in keep this writer's morale above par. Believe it or not, the^BulIetin has followed me to every post I've been. At present I am in a Tank Destroyer Group located in the desert training area, where the temperature forgets itself occasion ally and jumps out of bounds. Distance is a subject everyone has to learn all over again due to the very clear atmo sphere and vast areas. However crude living conditions get, the medics wonder at the decrease in sick call and praise the desert for that. Motor maintenance is the problem, the real problem, and every CO realizes it after being here a few weeks. The oil filters must be changed every two hours if on a cross desert march. From north * 27 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05916 to south, starting at Needles, Calif., the sand goes from coarse to fine, fine dust located in the Laguna Desert where I have the misfortune to be stationed now. The tire pressure is another problem. Of course deflated tires maneuver better in sand, but as soon as your march unit runs into a rock bed with deflated tires, bingo, your tires are practically cut to pieces. I certainly enjoyed our April issue, sporting the Ethyl basketball champs with Smiling Boy Batte and good look ing Ed Lorio in the fine squad. Of course it was of much interest to note that "Wolf! Wolf!" Governale finally got the Florida flame to say yes. but the dispo sition of his other cuties is worrying me no end. For the past few days, I have been attending a four day Air-Ground confer ence at Desert Center Airbase. The Air Corps fellows are swell and this cooper ation will mean the end of the little man that stutters and sputters over there in Europe. Here's to a happy meeting later. Captain Arthur H. Middleton Hqs. Sth Tank Destroyer Group APO 439, c/o Postmaster Los Angeles. Calif. r(formerly of Baton Rouge) This is just a note to let you know that I have continued to receive the Ethyl News since I have been in the Army. I enjoy it very much and hope to continue to receive it. My copies are placed in our technical library here and are rather widely read. Many ex-oil men are on duty here and they seem to enjoy the publication. Major Wayland W. Sweeney, Jr. Headquarters Engineer Unit Training Center Camp Claiborne, La. (formerly of Atlanta) I am in Arkansas now, as of last Thurs day. Am taking an eight weeks course in Army Administration. I am crazy about this place--it is simply beautiful here. We are located in Arkansas Polytechnic College. It is quite warm, of course--my in-between-meal diet consists of cokes and salt tablets. Afc. Catherine Rowney WAAC Bn. 2 AAAS Company D, Class 6 Russellville, Ark. (formerly of New York) t Somewhere in Australia Dear BBi I appreciate very much receiving the news contained in the Bulletin Board. The last three issues have come through in good shape and without much loss of time. Am looking forward to the next issue--May. As indicated above I am in Australia, although I cannot say what part. (Expect to get into New Guinea before long.) Have been here several weeks. Am lo cated a few miles outside of rtown, but seldom see it--we only work seven days per week. There are many things I could write, but the base censor would blot it out, so that definitely limits the issue. I certainly will be happy to get this war over and return to the States. Keep the morale high at home and we will do our part down here. Thanks again and regards to all. Major Arthur Dale Miller Headquarters Sixth Army c/o Postmaster, APO 442 San Francisco, Calif, (formerly of Tulsa) 28 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05917 The roaming Harrisons have come to a new camping place and again pitched our tents, unloaded the pack horses and unpacked our saddle bags after some months of indecision and house hunting. We decided to store our furniture in Harrisburg after several events made it appear that we might not be too permanent here and after I found a furnished house with no more leaks in the roof than we had pots and pans. So at the moment we are living here, 25 miles from Dayton (east) and the same distance from the Field, in this thriving (?) town (?) of 3000 souls. If you have any friends in the undertaking business I can recommend the place to them as an excellent location for their business, as there are many potential cus tomers here who I cannot believe will hold out through 1943. No fooling, every one here but us is either over sixty or under sixteen, but I don't mind as each evening after work I don my overalls and straw jimmy, hitch up the team and start working the thirty tomato plants and twenty cabbage plants now doing their best to get growing and keep the Harri sons from starving this summer. Itoline of course gets a little lonesome while I am so busily engaged at govern ment and agrarian pursuits, so if every thing goes along well I expect to get a few cows, chickens and assorted farm animals to keep her employed and out of trouble. Reed took his third birthday in his stride and. after blowing out the candles in one puff, proceeded to eat the icing off first and stuff himself with ice cream. He enjoys the yard and a house where he can stomp around as loud as he wants to and not have phone calls and banging on the ceiling from the tenants in the apart ment below. Dayton and vicinity are certainly crowded these days and it is the first place I have been yet where you could not get a house to live in regardless of price. Everyone here says all the Ken tucky and Tennessee hillbillies have moved in here to work and I frequently must take exception to the remarks made about our people from the hill section. None the less I thought the heading on a Dayton newspaper item last Monday was pretty good. It read, "Three Soldiers and Seventeen Kentuckians Arrested in City Over Week-end." There can't be many in Dayton if they only arrested seven teen over a week-end. Since I came here on March 15. my colonel at Middletown has been made en gineering officer at the Miami. Florida. Depot now under construction and he has requested my transfer there, but he has gone overseas and will return in sev eral months, and the people here won't release me to go with him. Just why they won't release me I don't know as all I have done here is wear out the seats of two pairs of trousers and develop a few corns, but I hope the colonel can sell them a bill of goods on the deal when he returns. I expect to be at Middletown for sev eral weeks at least this summer and hope to see you in New York if I can get up for a day. However, if you folks make your annual tour to Kentucky this sum mer you will come right through Dayton (or Xenia which is closer) and we sure would like to have all four of you stop off. We will promise our best bedroom (the one with the roof still on it). Inci dentally. we do have three bedrooms and. as Edmonia leaves for the summer in a week or so, we will have ample room for all. I hope Chuck is completely on his feet again and will be able to assist me in thrashing my wheat when you pay us that visit this summer. Remember us to all the good people at Larchmont. Capt. B. D. Harrison, A.C. A.S.C. Headquarters Patterson Field Fairfield, Ohio (formerly of New York) 29 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 059J8 They finally discovered my outstand ing character and very questionable abil ity and gave me the works--result, cap tain to major. It is swell but I am like the young bride trying to look quite calm when they started calling her "Mrs." Guess I will some day get used to the title but up until now it's still a new idea. I have visited London on a number of occasions and have had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Ray Bevan, managing director of Ethyl's destiny in these parts. He, by the way, is one swell Englishman. My education is quite improved. I have visited and taken Piccadilly Circus apart and it's not so hot--or as hot as it was. Also dropped in at St. Paul's and climbed all the stairs to the very top. I assure you that was a mistake as it was a "morning-after" and I won't get over that for years. What steps!! Thousands of them, so it seemed. I also dropped in on Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and spent some lovely moments in Hyde Park with its lovely statues. Buckingham Pal ace, lots of the bombed area and many * nice spots of more educational value where a double whiskey at four bob is still a single shot with only half the ex pected results. Taxi service is a thing of the past in London, or at least there are 100 Americans after every one and as a result I am becoming a true son of London and run about on Bus No. 75 or No. 9 or the Underground. These people have done a grand job under hard circumstances. Boy! They can really take it, and in spite of it all they never miss "tea time." One typical story of their ideas is of the old lady in the London bombed area who, when asked about the devastation, merely re marked, "Yes. it was bad, but in all my life we never had such a wonderful view of St. Paul's." Now I call that real spirit and they have plenty of it. Give my regards to the gang that is left and tell those dopes that I still like to get letters. Major S. J. Warner APO 871. c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. (formerly of Atlanta) **** Postal Regulation A new regulation by the Post Office Department divides all large cities in the U. S. into districts, and the number of the district in which an addressee is located should be included in the address, in order to help speed up the delivery of mail. So when you write the Bulletin Board, or anyone else in the New York office, address your letter to New York 17, N. Y., instead of just New York, N. Y. 30 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 05919 When a call went out on May 28 /or vo/un/eers to donate blood to the American Red Cross fiiood Sank, this gang from the Detroit Lab responded. A number oi them are wearing silver buttons, which means they have a/ready made three trips to the biood ban*. Lett to right, back row. are Emi/ GiJIig, Donaid PuJJeybJank, AJien Xargaard 0/ the Hart-Carter Company. Keith P/undstein, William Kats, Dorothy Gould, Otto Enoch, and Constance Newby, nurse at the Lab. In the iron/ row. lelt to right, are Burt Morgan, Hal Faucher. William Gilpin, Claude Hottman, Charlie Kass, Dan Guy, Jim Carlisle. New Employees at Baton Rouge A total of 26 newcomers is listed on the roll at Baton Rouge, including ten mere men and sixteen members of the fair sex. In the Production Section Wilma L. Loudon has been employed as a stenographer, while 13 girls have started training to be come mechanical helpers, operator helpers, and laboratory helpers. These include Anita C. Claudel, Mariam F. Saunders, Geneva C. Greely, and Belva M. Duplessis, me chanical helpers; Marie K. Griffin. Millie K. Westbrook, Stella C. Chandler, Marguerite S. Windham, Myrtle G. Braud, Juanita K. Beard, Ellen S. Sibley, and Beulah S. Blair, operator helpers; and Margie M. Copeland, laboratory helper. All the men have beervemployed in the Production Section. These in clude Alex J. Boudreaux, Erwin M. Lacombe, Rowland H. Holley, Allen J. Dessell, Allen R. Chaney, Elmus J. Williams, Ernest C. Rushing, and Clay Chauvin, mechanical helpers; Carter H. Chambers, storehouse clerk helper, and James A. Looper, operator helper. In the Service Section Edna M. Burns has been employed as a coun selor and Marjorie McMillan as a typist-clerk. 31 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05920 Safety Banquet at Freeport The EUtyl-Dow Safety Banquet, big event of the Freeport spring season, was held June 5 at the Free port Community House. About 100 employees attended with their in vited guests, among whom was the guest speaker of the evening, Ed ward D. Marshall, safety engineer for the Hughes Tool Company of Houston. Nina Dean Gotcher re ceived at the door and handed out programs. A baked chicken supper, served by the ladies of the Methodist Church, preceded the entertainment program, which was staged by com pany talent. Bess Truman, Lloyd Bond, and Morris Wood were in charge of table decorations, which consisted of spring flowers held in containers made from safety equip ment such as goggles, helmets and gas masks. In front of each decora tion was a jingle to help carry out the safety theme. The jingles, some thirty in number, were written by Bess Truman, Lloyd Bond and Bill Murk, and were illustrated with appropriate caricatures drawn by Captain Giesecke of the Plant Pro tection Department. C. M. Galaznik was toastmaster for the occasion and Luther Evans, plant manager, introduced the guests. Leo Glesner, superintendent of maintenance, presented $5 each in War Stamps to W. E. McWaters and C. B. McLain as first place win ners in the recent domino tourna ment, while H. W. Allen and Porter Brown each received $2 in War Stamps for taking second place. The entertainment part of the program was opened by Hap Hazard and his band, composed of Porter Brown, banjo; R. S. McKeithan, Jr., ukulele; Allen Brown,guitar; Brice .Hess, Addle, and A. J. Hillin, guitar. The boys rendered some hot music. "Congo Conga," or "Drums Along the Brazos," was the dramatic offer ing and was listed in the program as a "Cecil B. deGiesecke produc tion." This melodrama in eight parts portrayed the humorous adventures of Frank (Porter Brown) and Bill (Forrest Beene) in the jungles of Congo land, where they were ably assisted by G. W. Diehl and Wal lace Corbin. Three numbers by the Glee Club, an organization of nine voices, fol lowed, and then Fred Niles, playing three classical selections on his vio lin, sent everyone home in a serene frame of mind. Three Don Uniforms Three new names have been added to the Ethyl military honor roll since the last edition of the Bulletin Board rolled off the press. They are Fitz Bridges, field engi neer in the Seattle Division; Harry Langlois, mechanical helper in the Ethyl Chloride plant at Baton Rouge, and James Prettyman of Manufacturing, Deepwater. Harry Langlois has joined the Seebees, or Naval Construction Battalions, while Jim Prettyman and Fitz Bridges are in the Army. 32 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY - -- jj ETC 05921 The latest military addresses and changes of address which have come to our attention are as follows: Harry J. B. Langlois, EM2/c U. S. Naval Construction Bns. B9, Platoon 2815, NCTC Camp Perry Williamsburg, Va. Private James Prettyman Company B 1229th Reception Center Fort Dix, N. J. Private Fitz J. Bridges Company B 1st Ordnance Train. Regt. Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. Lieutenant John A. Clark 83rd Armored Medical Bn. 13th Armored Division Camp Beale, Calif. Private Thomas J. Keenan 559th A.A.A. (Bn. A.W.) Battery A. Fort Fisher, N. C. A/C K. L. Armstrong, Jr. Group I, Section 20-L Yale University New Haven, Conn. Corporal Frank S. Neal Company C, 563 EBM Bn. 3rd EAD Fort Ord, Calif. Captain B. W. Fridge 501 Bomber Squadron 345 Bomb Group A.P.O. 3998 San Francisco, Calif. Ed Staftel and his bride Yonkers Gals Downhearted Ed Staffel of the Yonkers Lab was popular with all the girls, but only one was important to him and on May 1 he married that one. She is the former Ellen Wallace from Long Island, petite and a red head. Although reports have it that the Yonkers gals were broken hearted by the impending event, they man aged to get together on the evening of April 28 and whip up a little party for the happy bridegroom, which was declared by Ed to be the "best ever." After partaking of re freshments (all non-rationed arti cles), Ed was presented with a gift of water goblets. Ed, who has been with the Yonkers Lab for about two years, analyzes gasoline for gum, sulphur and volatility characteris tics. 33 BULLETIN BOARD-JULY ETC 05922 Keglers Kaper at Kountry Kluh The Detroit Lab Bowling League officially closed its 1942-43 season on Saturday evening, May 22, with an informal dinner dance at the Bonnie Brook Country Club. After a luscious steak dinner, Joe Weaver, league prexy. presented the championship loving cup to Durwood Rossman, who captained the winning team for the season. With all formalities and speech making out of the way, the 125 happy celebrants pranced out on the dance floor, where Mel Curry and his syncopating orchestra entertained until closing with everything from old _________________________ fashioned square dance music to the latest swing variety. 4'W Jot Weaver and a girl guest Larry Stinson and girl triend John Wintringham and Mrs. Rtmcndmo Durwood Rossman and Kingslty Jones ETC Q22 ETC 05924 Ethyl BULLETIN BOARD AUGUST, 1943 >* ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employttt ETC 05926 PLANTS WIN 'E' AWARDS The efforts of our boys and girls at Deepwater and Baton Rouge have been recognized by the War De partment, which has given to both plants the coveted Army-Navy "E" Production Award. The awards will be made at Deepwater on August 2 and at Baton Rouge on August 6. At the time of going to press pro grams for both events were in the formative stages, so you will have to wait until the Bulletin Board's Sep tember issue for details. Official letters announcing the awards were received by both plants: "This is to inform you that the Army and Navy, on the recommen dation of the War Production Board, are conferring upon you the Army-Navy Production Award for great accomplishment in the pro duction of war equipment. "This award symbolizes your country's appreciation of the achievement of every man and woman in the plant. It consists of a flag to be flown above your plant and a lapel pin which each of you may wear as a sign of distinguished service to your country. "I am confident that your out standing record will bring victory nearer by inspiring others to similar high achievement. "Sincerely yours, "Robert P. Patterson "Under Secretary of War." Both Ethyl and DuPont employ ees will receive the award at Baton Rouge. The Deepwater award will be made to the Ethyl group there. SEASONED VETERAN The DuPont poets are giving Ethyl a big boost these days. The following was written by Harry W. Wheeler of the DuPont TEL Production Department at Baton Rouge. Some service I have seen, with the Leath erneck Marine, And I held on with MacArthur at Bataan, 1 had a little hand in the Solomon Island landin', And took Doolittle's planes into Japan. I taught the Huns a lesson, with a visit to their Essen, Montgomery used my power at Alamein, When the Yanks began to spurt, and Patton took Bizerte, He used me in each tank and truck and plane. I'll soon help haul a gun, through the land of song and sun, Where Benito drools and shakes in quak ing Rome, Many places have I been, and I'll soon be in Berlin, And when fighting days are over I'll come home. I don't ask for any praises, decorations or pay raises. Appreciation of our fighting men has paid me, And when the last great fight is won, and we've silenced every gun, Give a little vote of thanks to those who made me. I AM ETHYL 3 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 05927 At the lab managers' meeting, left to right, front row, are Coleman Davidson, Cliff Pope. Harold McIntyre, and Bill Mundinger; rear row. left to right, Merriff Collins, Tucker Dawson, Charlie Rankin, Carl Bartholomew, and Julian Frey. The photographer was Hudson Kellogg. Lab Heads Meet on Gull Edgewaler Park, Miss., a popu lar spot for Ethyl sales meetings, re cently played host to the annual ses sion of the testing laboratory man agers. Although this Gulf Coast resort is a swell place to relax, the boys didn't get much time for any thing except business. They con vened on a Sunday, went right to work Sunday noon, and broke up Wednesday morning. Evenings, too, were devoted to work. Once or twice time was taken out for a cooling swim in the heat of the day, but most of the aquatic ex ercises took place before breakfast or around midnight, when the warm water of the Gulf sparkled with phosphorescence. Julian Frey, head of Technical Service, was present to give the group information on War Commit tee background and to throw light on administrative matters. Hand ling of the new Quartermaster Corps testing contract, official regu lations governing wages and hours, job classification and personnel problems were some of thj subjects discussed. Charlie Rankin exhibited a movie which showed the San Bernardino Testing Lab's work in setting up a desert storage project for the Army. Bill Mundinger, Atlanta Division field engineer in whose bailiwick the meeting was held, obtained the pro jector for this purpose. When the meeting broke up, all decided Edgewater Park was a pretty nice place and they would like to return there again. 4 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 05928 SHIFT Charles H. Gross, Finance, Baton Rouge, to Finance, New York. * Military Miracle A mere shadow of his former self. Technician Fifth Grade Arnold Webb, formerly of A.I.S., dropped into his old quarters in the New York office recently. At a conserva tive estimate we would say that Army training has taken at least twenty pounds off Arnold's erst while bulky frame, leaving him as slender and sylphlike as a school boy. When a Bulletin Board opera tive sought an interview with him. Arnold, who has been doing hushhush work of some sort for the Army, refused to talk--which is an other example of the miracles Army training can perform. Tou read in (he January Bulletin Board about the marriage ol Lieutenant Arthur S. Brown, formerly ot Atlanta, and Miss Oi/ie Porter, which took place at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., but until now we have been unabie tc obtain a picture ot the event. No Longer With Us Edith M. Olson, New York J. Wesley Duling, Deepwater Esther Stapley Lyman, New York Jeanne C. Colbourn, Deepwater Doris L. Maier, Detroit Pauline Stewart, New York Audrey Gerbig, New York Friends ot Fitz Bridges, former tieid engineer with the Seattle Division, received this an nouncement ot the birth on July 1 ot Harriet Lee Bridges. Fitz is now serving with the armed forces and is stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. 5 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 0592 John Murphy From the Finance Front These random shots in the office of New York Accounting were taken with a simple Brownie camera without lights or other fancy equip ment. We present them here to give you some idea of the stress and strain of life on the financial front. si \\ ETC 05930 ALTAR BOUND The following poem in regard to the nuptials of Ida Sandra Milstin of the Detroit Lab, who recently became the bride of Maxwell Lowe, has been forwarded to us by a Lab bard : June is the month for roses and things; It also is known to produce wedding rings. To keep up tradition, June must not falter. So our own Ida Milstin is stepping to the altar. He's certainly lucky, this nice groom-to-be And so is the bride, from what we hear and see. For Ida is lovely, she's dark and she's winsome And the groom is a gentleman "tall, 4 blond and handsome." They're going to keep house, which is the best kind of home. It banishes all desire to wander and roam. It mellows the love which the old moon has started And convinces the love-birds they must never be parted. We wish them both well, the bride and the groom And real treasured happiness like the flowers that bloom. And here's hoping she cooks and he learns to wash dishes For all of that mixes with our loads of good wishes. 7 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 05931 Margie M. Copeland, laboratory helper in Ethyl Chloride at Baton Rouge, recently re ceived word from the War Department that her husband. Lieutenant Derwood R. Copeland, the pilot of a Flying fortress, was missing in action after a bombing flight over Europe June 28. A few days later a letter came from a pilot who was with Lieutenant Copeland on his last miS' sion. The letter said Lieutenant Copeland's plane developed motor trouble and had to make a forced landing in France. It is presumed the Lieutenant is a prisoner of war. Marg B. CordraYf newcomer to the office force at the Tulsa Testing Lab, was born just 20 years ago in WauriJea. OJcla. She replaces Gladys Rodgers. who, after several years in the office, decided to don overalls and go to work in the Lab proper. Mary came to Ethyl from the engineering department of Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa, where her husband still works. She says fishing is her favorite form of relaxation. Captain W. H. "Don' Phipps, formerly of Atlanta, paid his old division office a visit recently while en route to Jacksonville, Fla., with his family for a 15-day furlough. The photo shows him at his desk at the New Cumberland Signal Depot, New Cumberland, Md., where he is stationed. ETC 05932 Helen Organ of the New York mailroom lives in Yonkers. She graduated in June from Hastings High School, HastmgsonHudson. N. Y.. and came direct to Ethyl. While in high school, Helen had a part time job in Burning's Ice Cream Parlor, Hastings-on-Hudson, where she often served ye Bulletin Board editor liberal portions of vanilla and chocolate mixed. Helen is fond of swimming and playing golf at St. Andrew's Golf Club, where her father is club steward. Edna Hanson/ who works in New York stenographic and is a relief operator on the tele phone switchboard, came to us from the office of Fred Allen, famous radio comic. Edna looked alter Fred's fan mail. She commutes to work from Oradell. N. J.. and is a true blue Jerseyite so don't say anything agin the Skeeter State in her presence. She attended Sacred Heart Acad emy and St. Paul's Commercial College, both in Jersey City. Horseback riding and fishing are her favorite forms of recreation. She also has a weakness for attending auctions and buying up what she calls "old funic." Grace Male came to the New York Mailroom after graduating in June from Gorton High School in Vonicers. where she lives. In her spare time Grace carries on a heavy correspondence with boys in the service. She is also a con firmed jitterbug and enjoys swimming and bowling. ETC 05933 ** VICTORY MAIL it it it Dear Sthfl Service Men: Conversation around the Lab has taken a new and insidious turn. Now that the Victory gardens are planted compari sons and predictions are being made and the one who is fortunate enough to speak last is always the winner with the tallest corn, the biggest cabbage, and the fewest bugs. It makes no difference -- pounds per square inch or beans per foot, oil acidity or soil acidity, lead tetraethyl or led arsenate, and a frequently heard part ing remark is "Drop in tonight and we'll split a quart--of tomato juice." The entire situation was summed up best by Jack Fuller who stated, 'T've planted the seeds; they're on their own from now on." The Lab has a softball team playing in the Ferndale League and at noon time it is not very safe to walk around the grounds what with the pitchers trying to keep their old and fading muscles in condition. So far only three windows have been broken. The Varsity played the Barflies (also a Lab team!) the other evening but the game was called at the end of the fifth inning with the score at 32 to 24, no one being quite sure which team was ahead. The group makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in technique. War work continues to occupy almost all of our effort and attention. At the present time we have more work than can be handled and the variety of programs has expanded. We have tested everything from cook-stoves to tank en gines; Army equipment has been in the cold room at --60F. and some of the same equipment has been tested in the hot room at MOT. Just now a large variety of vehicles are parked outside the garage awaiting vapor lock tests and we are be ginning to take on the appearance of an active Ordnance depot. Some of the work is of routine nature ^vhile other phases are more in the line of research and development, and the improvements which result from the tests make us feel that the effort is well worthwhile. How ever, when we hear and learn what our boys in uniform are doing it makes us wish that we could do a lot more. The last several days have seen inter est in war news at fever heat with the invasion of Sicily, renewed action in Russia and widespread action in the Pacific. Judging from the Victory Mail, we have a "representative" on almost every front. Back home a lot of thought, although very little work because of necessity, 10 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST etc 05 is being given to post-war developments. Possibilities from the technological viewpoint are extremely encouraging and we feel that our company will play an important and vital part. A tremen dous amount of work to be done is ac cumulating and we will need past and new experiences of our boys now in uniform to help us. Let's hope that time is nearer than we expect and until then the best of luck and the best wishes from all of us. Sincerely, Charlie Kass (Detroit) Ever since you were in Houston and invited me to come in for dinner I've wanted to write you how much I appre ciated it even though I couldn't come. I tried to call you the next day but was unable to make contact. Anyway, three Navy oilers put in their appearance and their skippers were of the old tough va riety who wanted to load and get out in hurry. They carry such a mixed cargo that it takes constant supervision to get them out without trouble. After about three months at Baytown I have just received orders to go to Aruba, N.W.I., for the same kind of work. There will be four of us there and we will cover Trinidad and Curacao as well. This should be an interesting expe rience as well as valuable from the stand point of service rendered. A couple of weeks ago I was at Art Roberts' home, and Lou Shank, Herb Peters, and Harry Cottrell came by. We had a very nice visit. Then last week I bumped into Russ Schell, who has man aged a car and an expense account from the Army. Had a nice letter of good wishes from the Safety Department and, let me hasten to add, a check from the Accounting Department for the addi tional award to the A.I.S. for 1942--all of the above showing that I'm still very much aware of the fact that Ethyl is just the right kind of organization to come back to. Heard that Harry Kaley's comeback operation was successful and I hope you'll give him a slap on the back and best wishes from me. Give my regards to Tom Ronan and tell Oscar I'll write him from Aruba. I appreciate their note tremendously. If any of you should come down to Aruba be sure to remember I'm there. Lieut, (j.g.) Charles D. Towery, Crockett, Texas (formerly of Chicago). Believe 11 or not, it seems wgrth while to begin counting the days. Only IS more days and 10 more exams to cram for and then I should have new orders. The company, certainly has treated me royally and the men down here are quite envious of the genuine manner and atti tude given our employees in service. The extra "kitty" for the savings certainly was welcome. I'm still holding the bag for my transportation and another $100 coming on uniforms. Then in two weeks I expect to be shipped again which means more transportation, but I'm told when I get a steady duty (I don't dare say "permanent") these items are cared for in more reasonable time. 11 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Charlie Kassr director of (he Hoad Test Division at the Detroit Lab, on June JS was (he surprised recipient of a free lunch in the ca/eteria. which was followed by the formal presentation of a birthday cake. Julian Frey made the presentation while a group of fair admirers stood at attention and sang "Happy Birthday To You." Standing by for a piece of cake, left to right, are Punch Plundstein, Bill Wanderer, Bud Stanger, and Julian Frey. Seated, left to right, are flay Leonard. Charlie Kass, and Cap Hall. It is not quite clear whether the number 82 has something to do with Charlie's age or an octane rating, but everyone said it was darned good cake. The top experience of the week, aside from losing two more pounds with the terrific heat and toughest exams yet, was a 600-mile flight in a B-24. We covered Grand Canyon, part of California, much of the desert and a good bit south. The flight was one on instruments. There was another Naval officer with me. He took so sick by the time we hit 8000 feet in the rough air that the engineer was ob liged to take him aft to the tail section, where he could lie down and be kept warm. During this time I was asked to stand watch for other craft, as we were flying blind with the pilots under the hood. I saw a plane in the distance and called out, "P-47 at 10 o'clock." The skipper looked up and said, "We don't have any P-47's," but looked out and saw the ship as described still nearly a mile away. It really was a P-47 from San Diego and from here on out I was "in." On the trial landings I called out air speed, head temperature, r.p.m. con stantly, while the co-pilot attended to communications and the engineer worked with a balking pump in the braking as sembly. We took off and landed a num ber of times, but I never got over the thrill of the nimbleness of this big ship. We made a bomb run in "train^ on targets and I handled 60 calibre guns on ground strafing wooden mock-ups. I worked out a position in navigation and lay out in the nose greenhouse while topping an 11,950-foot mountain. In cloud dodging we had some rough drops of 20 and 50 feet at a time. I'm sure you'd have gotten a bang out of this experi ence, and you'd probably have had a coke as I did before going up, which costs dearly. The gas expands and pounds in your chest to give you a beating you can never forget. I was in for a lot of sur prises after getting aboard, but I'm afraid such secrets must wait a long time, if not for the duration. 12 BULLETIN BOARD--AUGUST ETC 05936 I thought the Ethyl News article very clever and the cover picture all we could ask. The article didn't do me any harm down here. I often wonder how things are going back home. It sure was good of the Oil Men's Club to honor me with a duration membership. It seemed strange to see on the panel of the bomber, "This ship to be fueled with 100-octane gasoline and if not avail able use at least the next higher grade!!" If I get a chance to come home, I hope to get up to see you. Greet all the men and kiss the girls for me. Lieut, (j.g.) Torbin F. Yates Naval Training School University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz. (formerly of Chicago) * The May Bulletin Board came today, and look what I found staring me in the face. No, it wasn't the bald head, al though that nice shiny spot still intrigues me. Anyway, your bowling form looks just about perfect to me, although you know me as an expert on bowling. All I've done in the way of athletics since I arrived here is a few games of golf, one set of tennis, and quite a bit of dancing. I have the clubs, the racket, and the golf and tennis balls, but not the time. The days I get off, or should I say take off, I try to spend at the beach picking up sunshine, and I have plenty of tan to show for it. Major William H. Hubner 0-168831 H.Q.-A.S.CC. S Air Force A.P.O. No. 925 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. Thought I'd say hello and let you know what finally happened to me. I left home very suddenly as you re member and spent three months in the Ordnance Department as a trainee, later to be assigned to machine shop work. Not being completely disheartened about the engineering training I had applied for, I got in touch with the local Cadet Board in Miami Beach. To my amazement, the matter was cleaned up within two weeks. The following two months I spent wait ing at Miami Beach in the Ordnance De partment. Much to my surprise I found Chuck Huffman here. We arrived within a day of each other here and are in the same class. It's hotter than blazes down here and to my thinking it's an unpleasant place for soldiers. I'm faring better than many soldiers in Florida though, as I'm staying in a swell place, the Boca Raton Club. Swell dining halls, nice, light, breezy rooms, and a swimming pool. Say hello to the fellas. A/C E. Delahanty Cadet BTC No. 1 Sqd. L, Sec. 2511 Boca Raton (Club), Florida The Ethyl Gang's V-mail letter Easter greeting was certainly a most pleasant greeting to receive. It also made me blush to think that I hadn't written for such an extended period of time. Do thank all for the kind remembrance. I might answer some of their ques tions: Mrs. Rugg: Navy shipboard chow is 13 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST ETC 05937 tops considering our inbality to get fresh fruits, vegetables, or milk. Keith Pfundstein: I'll certainly try to hurry home. Bob Loser: No one to have fun with out here. Jewel Ahonen: I don't know nothing. Charlie Kass: CnH.n -- .. = 3.0 cc./gal. TEL. Jan* Jordan: Hi! Larry Stinson: I guess I do owe you a letter. The Eaton and I have had only six months of sea duty, yet I'm sure we both feel like a pair of old salts. I only hope I don't walk like vaudeville sailors do. Yes, I imagine the changes in per sonnel have been many at the labs. I hope I'll know a few of the Ethyl Gang next year when I get back. (That's whenthe war will be over.) I'll have to start all over at bowling. The closest thing to a bowling ball I've seen recently is a cocoanut. That "gas house" gang out in Vehicle Testing is probably as busy as ever, I imagine from what you say. Keep up the good work! I'm with you in spirit. Bill and Becky Seaver sent me a pleas ant little note some three months ago. He is in Hartford with Pratt and Whit ney and is also very busy in helping to lick the Axis. It looks like the Cipolla brothers are in the Services. Charlie is up at Ann Arbor as a cadet in the Army. Richard is at Columbia in the Navy's V-12 program. I certainly would like to receive the Bulletin Board. The last one I received was the February issue. My duties aboard ship remain prac tically unchanged since the time of my last letter. My official title is Torpedo Officer. My fire control is graded by the hits scored. Could you tell me what sub Paul Straub is on? I may run across him some where in my travels. I recently ran into three Detroiters, one of whom was a close friend of Merrill and Connie. Lt. (j.g.) J. A. Cipolla USS Eaton. FPO San Francisco, Calif. I am Still stationed at Annapolis and still am working at the USN Engineer ing Experiment Station. The work here is interesting and informative. It in cludes problems of a varied nature as well as contacts with various manufac turers. The weather around this part of the country is certainly warm and humid. Some people say that if one does not like the weather at Annapolis, all one has to do is to wait another five minutes. I found this to be true only during the winter and spring seasons but certainly not at this time of the year. Lt. (j.g.) Eugene J. Ziurys U.S.N.R. U.S.N. Eng. Exper. Station Annapolis, Md. i i. 14 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST J ETC 05938 r" I have just received another issue of the Service Men's Letter, and it re minded me that I should at least notify you of a change in address. Upon gradu ation from the V-7 class here, I was or dered to stay here as an instructor in the Marine Engineering Dept. My duties are to teach descriptive geometry and metallurgy to the plebe class of regular midshipmen.. I never expected to be an instructor any place and least of all at the Naval Academy, but here I am, prob ably for the next year. I find time to take advantage of the excellent recreation facilities here: sail ing, swimming, golf, fishing, etc. Ralph Warhenbrock and I went up to Baltimore and met Bob Ackerman sev eral weeks ago. We spent a very pleasant evening in the Lord Baltimore Bar, swapping stories and reminiscing. My new address is below. Ensign R. J. Ostrander 114 McKendree Annapolis, Md. Today I received a copy of the Ethyl Bulletin Board, which my mother sent on to me. I was indeed pleasantly surprised when I saw my name in print. And in be tween two majors, too! Of course I had to show it around to everyone here. We have passed the half way mark. Four weeks more and we will be moving out to take up positions in the field. Naturally, we haven't the slightest idea where we will be sent. The majority of the girls from the last two classes have been sent to air bases, but orders change so from day to day that it is impossible to get even the slightest idea regarding our next assignment. Quite a course they give us here. We call it proudly. "How to run the Army in eight weeks." And it is just that. We learn the duties of everyone in the serv ice from a four star general down to the lowliest private. We learn how to fill out each and every form the War Depart ment takes pleasure in publishing. We learn how to stretch a furlough (in the ory, anyway) and how to tear off a mili tary letter. Oh, yes. we learn typing, too. In the last speed test I did all of 17.3 w.p.m. I'm really quite proud of myself. There is little enough amusement in Russellville during the week, but on Sun day everything closes down. In spite of which, our week-ends are never dull. There is usually a bivouac on Sunday, and for the past two weeks different com panies from Camp Chaffee invited the girls to Fort Smith. Everyone has a wonderful time there, riding in and driv ing all sorts of tanks, jeeps, peeps, etc. There is. of course, a catch. We have to make the trip to Fort Smith in trucks, convoy style, a distance of 75 miles (ap proximately three hours). It seems our post commandant and the train master didn't get along very well, so he won't put on any extra coaches for us. And riding 76 miles over these Arkansas roads is no fun. On Mondays we stagger around with out backs bent in twof and it takes a week before we get the red clay out of our ears. You know, it's a small world. Before I met Sis Olmstead, I don't think I had ever heard of Huntington, L. I. Since I have been in the service, I have met at least two girls from the same town. One I knew at Devens, Emma Reylick. The other is one of my roommates, Betty Schiavone. Her family sends her a news paper every week--the Suffolk something or other, I think--I forget the name. Any. way, she reads it religiously from cover to cover and so keeps up with all the news on the home town front. Please give Mr. Cleveland my re- 15 bulletin board-august etc 05939 ! Boys, just in case you don't think the Bulletin Board doesn't hare a hard time finding you unless you keep your addresses up to date, take a look at this envelope, which eventually found its way back to the New York office. gards. Perhaps I shall be in to see you all in a couple of months -- that is, if I don't get sent out to the West Coast. You can say a prayer for me that I don't get assigned in Texas -- not in August! That would really be out of the frying pan into the fire I Afc Catharine Rowney WAAC Bn. 2, AAS Co. D' Class 6 Russellville, Ark. (formerly of New York) CoziununUcay S From somewhere in the Western Defense Command, Pacific Theatre Operator 13 c/oKelly, Brick Yard King Minnesota Sector Dear Schultz: Your last communication received in due time and interesting to note the rig ors of civilian life. Sounds as if we will soon have to devise a better system to bolster the morale of the home front. Not much to report from this sector that the censor won't clip. But I can ad vise that I certainly hooked up with a rough and tough outfit when I signed the book here. No hot and cold running blondes and dam few towels. Some days if I had a towel I'd throw it in. Even the Boy Scouts around these parts would make a Marine pin back his own ego in amazement. If I can stand the routine of this Super Athletic Club I ought to quality as the roughest, shootin, rootin, tootin M.A.C. as ever rode a 15-ton tank. What a merrygo-round! I've gone through the Infiltra tion Course, Obstacle Course, Gunnery Course, Combat Course and Judo Course. I'm so dam tired every night I don't even bother to dream any more. I've learned how to do more back breaking, muscle tearing exercises than I ever dreamed existed. I can do SO push ups, 2S burpees, run 300 yards in 45 sec onds, carry the Captain piggyback 75 16 BULLETIN BOARD--AUGUST ETC 05940 Lloyd G. Boyles, fireman 2nd class, U. S. Coast Guard, was a recent visitor at the Baton Rouge plant. Lloyd, who was formerly an oper ator in Ethyl Chloride, is stationed at LaPorte. Texas. yards in 20 seconds, run the combat course (crawling and creeping and charging) in 30 seconds. And all before breakfast. Why I can do this I do not know. But I can. I am a Medical Corps officer. I am a good soldier. I am a dam fool. But I like it here (small print at the bottom of page 4) it says in the script. I am now stationed in a fox hole approxi mately 1400 yards due east of the King's Inn Bar on B Street in Marysville. No phone but a southern exposure and lots of sunshine and air and vitamin P3. There is no garage but all I've got is a rusty Jeep so I'm happy. Received a letter from Uncle Ray Wyrick the other day but haven't been able to decipher it. Must of written it in haste or in a bar. I thought it was code so I gathered around G-2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and after six beers we despatched it by special courier to the Signal Code Com pany for assistance. Four days and 26 beers later they sent it back, referring me to Army Regulations 516-323 a-b, paragraph 61, as amended by War De partment Circular 16,444, paragraph 8, as further amended by WD Bulletin 801. By this time we had lost track of the original issue and we were about to court martial G-l. So I borrowed four blood hounds from the Provoked Marshall, put them all in my Jeep, dashed around to the General's tent, obtained a VOCO for five days, hastened to Corps GHQ, bor rowed the Chief Engineer's secretary, and proceeded in a retrograde movement with motorcycle escort to a small native village by name of San Francisco. There in the darkened corner of Sailor's Re venge, a ZOOT Suit Inn, beer steins in hand, the dark-eyed, shapely girl and her escort (that's me) finally had the answer. Will the murderer find the lovers' hide out? Will Charles admit he is the father, after all? Will Penelope repulse the Lieu tenant? Will the Lieutenant give a dam? Don't fail to tune in on the next exciting episode of this True Love Epic, broad cast every now and then between black outs. Will the Lieutenant ever get the letter decoded? I doubt it. I have written for a translation. The only words I could make out said "Dick Murphy--bar--celebration --bar--barbar--" . Seriously, my white booted friend, the situation is rugged but fruity. I am the Battalion Motor Officer of the 83rd Arm ored Medical Battalion, 13th Armored Division. I have 119 vehicles, wheeled and track laying, under my tender and loving care. Very interesting work and I'm learning plenty. Being in an armored field outfit is naturally pretty rough but if they would let me do more work and less athletics I'd like it swell. I am also Battalion Fire Marshall and Battalion Investigating Officer and Battalion Claims Officer, so I keep pretty busy. We are doing extensive field training now so as to be prepared for maneuvers late 17 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 05941 this summer. We are located about 100 miles north of San Francisco in the foot hills of the Sierras. Gotta go now and check up on a little game of dominoes up front. I can hear 'em clicking now. So long Schultz. Ap preciate a spot of Ormsby-styled news now and then, so don't forget to write. Give my regards to Alice and Tige. Yours for better plumbing in slit trenches, Schmaltz Lieutenant John A. Clark 83rd Armored Medical Bn. 13th Armored Division Camp Beale, Calif, (formerly of Chicago) Here 11 finally is--graduation. It took 14 pounds of beef to get here but I believe it was worth the grind. From here on out you can call me PT. Yes, I'm going to enjoy my schooling at Packard for a month on those big gasoline marine engines. Then on to R.I. and after school ing out there down to N. Y. City and after that on to Bayonne, N. J., and then to the Atlantic Fleet. They are still puzzled here that 1 could suggest a duty not heretofore scheduled as a duty and get it. You see, in PT's they don't have an engineering officer aboard but rather have one for a squadron or flotilla. Maybe all those things I've dreamed about will come true. I should be home for a couple of days not long after you get this note so I'll plan to see you then and talk about life in Tucson. Lieut, (j.g.) Torbin F. Yates Naval Training School University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz. (formerly of Chicago) m an torJiaHa taailrJ lo ailtaJ tin ^raJualion I'Plan S-43 fylava! draining Gic/ioo/ Q,(*naraUy of CAnaaaa ^Onnm, -/"l--. OK-4* 3-K 3-U O- 0l_ 9(-U fUi~ 18 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST Hub Writer Boosts Ethyl , From Neal O'Hara's column in the Boston Traveler, a column which is syndicated throughout the country, comes the following plug for Ethyl: "The knock-conquering quality of tetraethyl lead in gasoline for use in high compression motors is esti mated to have increased the power of the nation by the equivalent of 40 Boulder Dams each year and to save U. S. Motorists some $500,000,000." ETC 05942 One To The Army Edward J. Siaffel of the Yonkers Lab, who not long ago was a bride groom, is Ethyl's lone contribution to the armed forces this month. His address, and several changes of ad dress which have come to our atten tion recently, are listed below. Private Edward J. Staffel Co. G, 1st Rgt., R.T.C. Camp Sibert, Ala. A/C R. H. Colvin Aviation Cadet Detachment Class 43G Ellington Field, Texas Stephen N. Hall Y.M.S. 219, F.P.O. Seattle, Wash. T/5 Albert W. Ramsey Detachment 17. Signal A.W. Fort Lewis, Wash. Major Miles A. Kinley A.P.O. 512 New York, N. Y. Lieutenant Joseph A. Hobart ATC, Domestic Transportation Div. P.O. Box 3000, Mills Field South San Francisco, Calif. Lieutenant J. E. Minnock TD-AAFTTC, Flight 12-3-OF 6600 Ellis Avenue Seattle 8, Wash. Captain Russell Schell 203 North Drive San Antonio, Texas Gerald Forsdick, C.Sp. (G) NAS 28, Gunnery School c/o Fleet Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. Lieutenant Raymond H. Metternich C Btry., 838th Bn. A.A.A.A.W. Camp Hulen, Texas Harry J. B. Langlois, EM2c Area B9, Platoon 2815, N.C.T.C. Camp Peary Williamsburg, Va. Charles H. Mathis. Csp. Armed Guard Annex Unit A NOB Norfolk, Va. New Employees at Baton Rouge If you pay a visit to Baton Rouge this month, you will see 23--count 'em--new faces among the workers. The new librarian in the Develop ment Section is Olive B. Dupuy. Edgar A. Rachal and Jacob B. Seidel are accountants in the Finance De partment. Alletha M. Mcllwain is a stenographer in the Service Section. In the Production Section, James R. Dial is an intermediate clerk. Op erator helpers are Elbert H. McGee, Arthur M. Zimmerman, Clarence L. McLin, Jr., Julius L. Smith, Marcus C. Young, Paula Stogner, Robert L. Collings, and George L. Lieux. Me chanical helpers are Wilbert J. Templet, Allie J. Lavigne, Clarence J. Sanchez, Daniel B. Jones, John S. Montegudo, John H. Hill, and Enos Jackson. Laborers are Robert Bishop, Andrew Lawson, and Willie Washington. 19 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 05943 Hunt Heads Veteran List Lawrence A. Hunt of the Yonkers Lab is this month's 15-year veteran. After graduating from Swarthmore College in June, 1928, Larry Hunt went to work at the old Yonkers Lab and has worked as a knock test en gineer at Yonkers Central ever since, except for six months he spent at the Detroit Lab in 1930. He is at present on a temporary assignment to Aeronautical Research in Detroit. Larry's wife, Edna, also works in Yonkers Central. They live in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Larry's three hobbies, auto trips, outboard motor boating, and use of his movie camera, have been practi cally wiped out by the war. so he has returned to bicycle riding, an old pastime of his college days. As an undergraduate he was no softie as a cyclist, on one occasion pedaling all the way from Swarthmore, Pa., to his home in White Plains, N. Y,, and another time making a round trip by bike between White Plains and Boston. Eight passed the ten-year mile stone. They are Blanche Ash, the Bulletin Board's Kansas City cor respondent; Marie Carrigan of the Chicago Division; Frank Cronin, acting manager of the Baltimore Di vision; and Irene G. Brasure, Oak ley Eskridge, Edward A. Herbert, Edgar W. Holton, and Gilbert S. Waldron, all of Deepwater. Five year awards go to Fred Ahrens, Chicago Division field en gineer; and William R. Auter, George W. Curry, Ripley R. Hol combe, and John E. Sharkey, all of Baton Rouge. Ted Zadra, who worked with our Seattle Division several years ago, is now a lieutenant in the Navy and is stationed at the Astoria, Oregon, Naval Base. Classified Section From the Chicago Division comes the suggestion that we inaugurate a Barter and Exchange column in the Bulletin Board. Maybe it isn't a bad idea. We are willing to try most any thing once, so here goes. George Rose, Chicago Division field engineer, would like to sell a "large super deluxe reed bassinet" and a "pre-war Kroll Cab baby buggy." Any buyers among you prospective fathers and mothers? Going--going------ Anyone else with anything to sell or swap should let us know, and we will try to give him or her a little publicity. But your notice should be on the level. If any rascal tries to kid us along with a phoney, we'll be 20 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 05944 Freeport Facts Since the last writing four new men have joined our ranks and one oldtimer has returned. The new Ethyl-Dowers are W. S. Riggs, Jr., and J. O. McLane of Operations, and W. H. Allen and C. H. Cart wright of Plant Protection. The oldtimer is C. R. Larson, General Office, who returns to us from the Army Air Corps. Welcome home, Chet! The welcome mat is also out for J. O. Wehrly of Operations, who re turned after a stay in the hospital which threatened to keep him out all summer. Without going into details or di vulging secrets we will say that a certain calendar in the office has a ring around August 14. We under stand that date will mean a wedding ring for a certain stenographer. Congratulations are swamping Ed Meuth, welder, who last week be came the proud pappy of a strapping future torch wielder. The boys liked the cigars too, Ed! The report is true that J. E. Alex ander is the certain operator with his head in the clouds these days. Alec is out to give Johnny Zero and the Luftwaffe some headaches. An unwelcome visitor came to the plant not long ago and was received by an imposing welcoming commit tee consisting of Leo Glesner, super intendent of maintenance, W. L. Sledge, engineer, and J. P. Giesecke, captain of police. The dauntless trio charged the suspicious character with water hose, sharp wires and a grass cutter, at last driving him from his refuge beneath the railroad tracks in front of the office building. Then the grass cutter came slashing down on his head and another coach whip bit the dust. And that's the news from Texas. Wilbur Wilson Brady, dynomomefer op erator at the Detroit tab, is a native of pood old Clay County, Arkansas, and graduated from Corning High School, Corning, Arkansas, before coming to Detroit. He came to Ethyl from Con tinental Motors, where he was a test mechanic. Wilbur is married and has a live-year-old daugh ter, Delores. Hunting, iishing and baseball are what he prefers in his spare time. It's a Boy! On June 8 Theodore Scott Dubose, III, was welcomed into the house hold of Major and Mrs. Theodore Scott DuBose, Jr. The young fel low's pappy used to be one of Ray Faller's boys. 21 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST ETC 05945 1 & m I An intimate study of Umpire Mac McMenemy, Catcher Mike Rometti. and Batter George Vaughn. Hai Fancher pulls up at the plate after a circuit clout. Fritz Schroeter blocks Mike Rometti off home plate. Ethyl Flashes Frolic Bill Wanderer's scrubs bit off more than they could chew when they challenged the Ethyl Flashes of the Detroit Lab to a ball game, for the Flashes staged a track meet to trounce Bill's upstarts by a lop sided 34 to 10 count. The scrubs gave the varsity a great workout running bases and with more practice local experts believe they may be able to hold the score down to \ mere 20 runs. Pictures of the contest are published through courtesy of ace photographer Pat Harding. Roofers cheer the boys on. etc 05946 V#yPROPOPTffyCOPA/75 SEPTEMBER, 1943** i4sSuA-.-5-vi ^ frP%fW * VS%>%+-+* |!Mftfl0b*-%*' -t'f ^ A- a*. +* +r `it **r*V'*$~V*i #*i '>>'%*? ''>* ^'<y.)f*w^4V< 4frT'. " Wy^ *lf.r '.r>j ETC 05949 Baton fiouge flag goes up TWO 'E' FLAGS RAISED The first week in August was a big one for Ethyl, with our plants in Deepwater and Baton Rouge receiv ing the Army-Navy "E" Production Award "for great accomplishment in the production of war equip ment." Ceremonies at which "E" flags were raised were held at Deep water on Monday afternoon, August 2, and at Baton Rouge on Friday morning, August 6. Colonel William D. Hamlin, Ex ecutive Officer, Office of Chief Sig nal Officer, presented tbe flag at Deepwater. "Things like planes, tanks, supply tanks and mobile field radio units are coming off the assembly lines in staggering quantities," said Colonel Hamlin. "But such modern imple ments of war are useless without gasoline. They just won't move and The speakers' platform at Baton flouge ETc 595o Victory cannot be won unless we ad vance, and keep on advancing, until our enemies cry `enough!' "How quickly we force the foe to `Unconditional Surrender' depends, to a great extent, on how well you maintain the fine production record you have established in this plant... "We entered this war seriously handicapped by a lack of equip ment. In less than a year we were able to launch a stunning blow at the Axis in North Africa and you know what happened. The vaunted German Afrika Corps was sent reel ing back to defeat by the best equipped fighting men in the world. "Good gasoline, the kind that is treated with Ethyl Fluid which you make right here, was in the thick of every battle. That sort of gasoline sent our tanks rolling forward like juggernauts. It lifted our bombers into the skies to destroy enemy in stallations. That gasoline was the operating force for the powerful mobile field radio stations used by Above: Ciinf Bond ot the three-man manage ment committee accepts the "E" tlag tor the plant. Other members of the committee were Harry Fisher, extreme lett, and Bill Boss. BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05951 Deepwater dinner the Signal Corps in the maintaining of communications so necessary in every campaign. "Now in the Pacific our Army and Navy fighter planes, their tanks filled with Ethyl blended motor fuels, are playing fast and loose with the best that Tojo has to offer, knocking them out of the sky like clay ducks. We will bomb Tokyo again -- and AGAIN -- and it will be Ethyl treated gasoline that will take our bombers there and, we hope, bring them back safely to their bases again." Charlie Wasserman, plant man ager at Deepwater, in accepting the award for the plant, replied: "The tradition of this Deepwater plant has ever been that no delivery demand shall ever be refused. This record, maintained throughout peace times, has been extended so that no matter what demand, what ever time of day, whatever hours must be worked, if humanly possible we shall make delivery. Thus can we do our part to shorten the span until our Victory will be won." Lieutenant A. K. Stone. USNR, Office of Inspector of Navy Ma terials, Fourth Naval District, pre sented lapel "E" pins to L. W. "Army" Armstrong, C. H. "Bud" Johnson, and Alice Wygand, who served as a committee representing the employees. "As a representative of the In spector of Naval Material office, it has been my responsibility to see that the quantity and quality of Ethyl Fluid meets all requirements for shipment to our allies under the Lend-Lease Agreement," said Lieu tenant Stone. "Frankly, the job has Walter O Keete. M.C. 5 BULLETIN BO A R D - S E T EM-B E R ETC 05952 been an easy one. The quality of your product has been unquestion able, and your deliveries have been excellent." "Army" Armstrong, accepting the "E" pins in behalf of plant em ployees, replied: "It is a great privilege to accept this award in behalf of the men and women of the Ethyl Corporation. As a senior employee in service, I am proud to say that a spirit of co operation and mutual understand ing has always existed between management and the employees, and with that kind of team work, I have seen our company grow from an in fant to a large corporation whose products are indispensable in the promotion of the war effort. "We are proud to be backing our soldiers to the extent that our ef forts have been recognized by the Army and the Navy, and we shall always remember this occasion. In winning this award we will be spurred on to still greater accom plishments and I am sure that each individual will feel now more than ever that his or her extra effort will be the one way he can contribute his utmost in knocking out the Axis and winning the war." Brought from the Tilton General Hospital at Fort Dix, N. J., to assist in the program was Private August Schlitt, aged 21, of New York, who was wounded in the Tunisian cam paign. Private Schlitt numbers among his decorations the Atlantic Frontier, Africa Campaign, Good Conduct, Purple Heart, and Ameri can Defense Service medals and rib bons. Before the program took place there was a luncheon at the DuPont Country Club. That evening about 75 company officers and plant em ployees attended a dinner at the Hotel DuPont. Governor Sam Houston Jones of Louisiana opened the ceremony at Baton Rouge. He was introduced by Walter O'Keefe, well known radio figure who acted as master of cere monies both at Baton Rouge and at Deepwater. "The fruit of your labors in this plant is a part of every mile of ad vance made by our forces in Sicily, every flight of our bombing fleets over the cities of Germany, every tedious yard gained in the assault against Munda, and every ship that leaves these shores with men or ma terial destined for the coming great invasion," Governor Jones told the assembled employees. Colonel L. L. Koontz, command ing officer at Harding Field, La., presented the "E" flag to the man agement committee consisting of The band played on ETC 059 Clint Bond, Harry Fisher, and Bill Ross. "We have just begun to fight," said Colonel Koontz. "There are many long and bloody battles be fore us and Victory is not around the corner but far away. It can only be won by everyone of us giving our best, day in and day out, year in and year out. "We know the value and necessity of Ethyl Fluid in the successful prosecution of this war, but can we actually visualize the magnitude of the machine operations required? Do we realize the immensity of 50,000 airplanes in the air, 100.000 armored vehicles, 1,000,000 trucks all underway and in combat at once? "It is your job to help put them there and keep them there. Only by being able to continually throw these machines of war against the enemy in superior quantities can we hope to win. Remember that every machine you keep supplied with our super fuel actually saves the lives of literally hundreds of our sol diers." After Colonel Koontz gave the "E" flag to the committee, it was opened up for inspection by the audience. Then it was handed to the Harding Field Color Guard, who marched to the flag pole and raised it aloft. In his response to Colonel Koontz' words of presentation, Clint Bond said: "Our efforts lie in a field that lacks the direct appeal of actually seeing planes or tanks roll off a pro duction line, yet we now realize more than ever before that the effec tiveness of our planes and other motorized equipment is dependent to a very large extent on the ability here at home to supply the Army and Navy with fuels of a quality that cannot be approached by our Axis enemies. It is to this end that we make our contribution. We pledge to you representatives of the Army and Navy that to the best of our ability you will have enough Ethyl Fluid -- and on time." A committee representing the plant employees received ArmyNavy "E" pins from Captain F. C. Nyland, Civil Engineer Corps, U. S. Navy. This group of seven was com posed of Ross Williams, represent ing the Plant's War Effort Commit tee, and John A. Bowman, Gladys Greenleaf, Lucette Matens, Fred C. O'Rourke, Daniel W. Read, and Freydis T. Tugwell. "By their unflagging spirt of pa triotism ... by their acceptance of high responsibility ... by the skill, industry, and devotion they are showing on the production front of the greatest war in history . .. they are making an enduring contribu tion not only to the preservation of the United States of America but to the immortality of human free dom itself," said Captain Nyland. Ross Williams accepted the "E" insignia in behalf of all the plant's employees. "We all appreciate the great honor and privilege of receiving the award of these `E' pins from our Army and Navy," he said. "We take pride in the part that this plant has played in producing sinews of war that are so vital to all branches of 7 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05954 our armed forces, and in the fact that this plant was judged to be pro ducing these materials in such quan tities and in such an atmosphere of mutual determination and under standing as to merit this award. ``We realize now as never before that, as stated by the slogan adopted by our War Effort Committee, `This plant has a job to do,' and we are determined that every six months from now until the war is over a star shall be added to our `E' flag to testify that we are doing our part to see the job through." The program closed with the play ing of the national anthem by the Harding Field Band and singing by the entire audience led by Sergeant Gundard Hansen. Following this an official luncheon was held at the Heidelberg Hotel. The man-sized job of making ar rangements for the program was done by the plant's War Effort Com mittee, which is composed of Har old W. Wheeler, chairman; Sue D. Kearns, secretary; Lew Barnum, Ralph L, Bergeron, Lawrence G. Cliver, Kelly B. Harris. Harold B. Hunt, Claude H. Prestridge, Jr., and Ross Williams. Ed Enoch of New York Public Relations, spent a month in Baton Rouge assisting with arrangements for the cere monies and preparation of the nec essary material. HAVE THAT TIRE RECAPPED! Look, folks. Rubber Director Jeffers says we are not going to get any synthetic rubber tires for civilian use until the end of 1944, and when Mr. Jeffers says something it's generally so. This means that when your present tires are worn out you're out of luck, unless you have them recapped. But you can't have a tire recapped if it is worn down too far. So drive around to your favorite service station or garage and have your tires checked. And if the checker says a tire needs recapping, have it recapped right now! Otherwise you won't be able to get the benefit of the limited amount of gasoline you are allowed for essential driving. The petroleum industry, through the Petroleum Industry War Council, is conducting a nationwide "Save The Carcass" tire cam paign to educate service station operators on the necessity of keeping cars on the road by maintaining present tires in serviceable condition. So pay attention to what your garage man or service station operator tells you. He knows what he is talking about. Be patriotic and don't let your tire carcass wear down beyond the recapping stage! 8 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05955 Editi) Badeau Sevier Durward E. Rossman Anniversary Awards Our two 15-year award winners this month are Edith Badeau Sevier, secretary to Coard Taylor, and Durward Rossman of the Detroit Lab. Edith Badeau came to work for Ethyl in the summer of 1928, when the company was just a small or ganization with offices at 26 Broad way. She was interviewed for her prospective job by Coard Taylor and started off by doing secretarial work for Coard, Arch Maxwell, and the late Ed Walter. When Arch Maxwell left to be come associated with Standard Oil of Ohio, she became Coard's secre tary, which has been her job ever since. Before coming to Ethyl, Edith worked in Wall Street in the main office of the Irving Trust Company. She was born and grew up in Rock ville Center, Long Island, but now she lives in Brooklyn. Durward Rossman graduated in 1928 with a B.S. degree in Mechani cal Engineering from the Univer sity of Michigan. He worked with Westinghouse in Philadelphia for a brief period and then returned to BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05956 ~! Detroit, where he joined Ethyl. Durward now has charge of all equipment in the Lab's dynamo meter department, where he super vises installation, maintenance, set up, and operation. He also directs tests conducted in the cold room. He lives in Birmingham, Mich., with his wife and four daughters, Patricia, Katherine, Elizabeth, and Dorothy, aged 12, 10, 9, and 4, re spectively. For recreation he likes gardening, hunting and fishing. He also is one of the Lab's leading bowlers and captained the team which won the league championship this past season. Ten-year pin winners also number two this month. They are John S. Cole, Seattle Division safety engi neer, who works out of Casper, Wyoming, and Bruce Crane, Boston Division field engineer who makes his headquarters in Albany, N. Y. When it comes to five-year people, have we got five-year pin winners or have we got five-year pin win ners! The answer is, we've got 'em -- 26 of 'em to be exact. The list includes: Jerry T. Adams, Clancy J. Bilbo. Grant A. Brummett, Davis Bunch, Frank C. Bunch, Willie E. Craw ford, Louis L. Davis, Sr., Leslie Depew, Joseph W. Devall, John P. Golson, Edwin M. Gooch, Kelly B. Harris, Rivers B. Henagan, Jr., George I. Mehaffey, Cline Myers, Robert C. Nettles, Robert B. Phil lips, Jr., Frank D. Richardson, Homer E. Shirley, Allen L. Thomas, Henry L. Thompson, and Archie L. Tillotson, all of Manufacturing, Baton Rouge; Harry F. Edgar of Engineering, Detroit; Wilma E. Hansa of Finance, New York; Geraid Meyer of Purchasing, New York, and Emily Whitfield of the New York Stock Department. * Blender Song H. Kelley, a duPont employee in the blender at Deepwater, has con tributed to the Bulletin Board the following poem, which is a parody on Edgar Guest's "Plea for Arms": Hurry men who work the blender! Hurry men who roll the drums! For 'tis all of us you hinder. If defeat, not victory, comes! Let there be no hesitating And no loitering in the ranks. For the boys afar are waiting Ethyl for their planes and tanks. One more drop of Ethyl Fluid! One more pound to fill a car! We will win and we can do it, With a little extra power. Keep the paint on drums a-flying. Day and night for victory's sake. For the boys afar are crying For the very thing you make. They will do as they're commanded; When they're ordered they will go. They will battle empty handed, If they must, against the foe. Hurry! Hurry! courage needed Will be furnished by your sons. But they'll die if now unheeded Goes their plea for Ethyl drums. A conference is a group of men, who, individually can do nothing, but as a group can meet and decide that nothing can be done. 4 } ;j | j 1 10 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05957 Alexander McBean of New York Financial lives in Chatham. N. J.. but he was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He went to school in ArdTossan, the shire where the Scotch poet. Robert Burns, was born, and then returned to Glasgow to attend Skerrys College until World War 1 broke out. He served with the Third Royal Scots in that conllict. coming to the United States in 1923. Before joining Ethyl he was with Sherwin Williams Paint Company in Newark. He is married and has a 17 months old son, Alexander Marshall. His favorite pastime is the good old Scotch game of golf, but he also spends con siderable time in his garden. Major Arthur Dale ADller, tormerly of the Tulsa Division, is now on duty with an antiaircraft unit in New Guinea. Ac cording to Bulletin Board records, his latest address is: Headquarters Sixth Army, A.P.O. 42. San Fran cisco. Calif. Edith Mahoney of New York financial commutes to work from the Bronx. She is a graduate of George Washington High School in Manhattan and came to Ethyl from the New York Telephone Company. Her favorite pastime is horseback riding, and she spends frequent week-ends at Cimarron Ranch, that suburban outpost of the wild and wooiy West which ia located outside of Peekskill, N. Y. ETC 05958 for n*1 1 The Com Grows Tall Mel Olson/ Chicago Division trac tor engineer, recently sent in some pictures of and concerning his flour ishing Victory garden, accompanied by the following explanatory re marks : "In sending the enclosed let me state at once that the reason is not an over supply of film around the house or any fears that the Bulletin Board might be short of pictures. Just an overdose of Victory garden exuberance. "I let Kay in on the photography merely because she helped out a lit tle with the garden -- did all the weeding, hoeing, staking and cul tivating, and has canned, so far. 16 quarts of beans, not to mention some beets and rhubarb. But pay no at tention to that snapshot. When the first jar is opened. I plan to say, `These aren't like my mother used to can.' "Too bad we didn't get the top of the corn in. Our corn is. of course, wonder corn. "It's easy to see the children are going to support us in our old age, as indicated by the snap of the twins and David picking beans. Nothing slouchy about them, we think." David Olson, held alott by his pappy, tries to reach the top oi the corn. etc 05959 On July 19, when fhis picture was taken, JJ9 gasoline ration books were issued. Ida M. Lowe, secretary, checks aJJ applications, processes and issues the books. Behind the desk with her are Bob Gourlay. seated, and Bob Mescher. who is standing in front of the zone map used by share-the-ride clubs. Rationing at Detroit "1 need a C book!" "Who lives near me that wants to swap rides?" "I lost my A book." "If I had a bicycle, I could ride to work." "One of my tires blew out. What can I do?" "I need a pair of work shoes, but I've used my number 18 shoe stamp." These and many other rationing problems are solved daily by the Plant Transportation Committee at the Detroit Lab. When it became necessary to ration gasoline to save tires, the OPA asked Bob Mescher, Coleman Davidson, and Bob Gour lay to act as Ethyl's local rationing board. The Lab has done many things with gasoline, but this is the first time they've rationed it. A majority of Lab employees live from five to twenty miles from work. Two live 35 miles away. As public transportation is not ade quate, private cars must be used, so the Plant Transportation Commit tee issues to Lab workers A, B and C gasoline ration books; special gaso line rations for driving to Victory gardens, for power driven garden tools, and for motor boats; coupons to purchase kerosene, certificates for tire and tube purchases, extra stamps to buy work shoes, and bi cycle purchase certificates. This is a helpful and convenient service for Detroit Ethyl folks, since it enables them to get suffi cient rations right at their job with out going directly to the busy office of the OPA. 13 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05960 James Deer, supervisor of war contract ac* counting at the Detroit Lab, was born in Canada, but when /usf a youngster moved to Binning* ham, Mich., where he stiff resides. He began his business career after graduating from Birm- ingham High School and came to Ethyl alter six teen years of accounting work with General Motors. Goff, fishing, collecting antiques, root* ing for the University of Michigan football team, and playing with his two grandchildren are some of his favorite diversions. His only son, Dr. Edwin Deer, is an oral surgeon in Birming ham. V I 5 f * * 1 1 Theresa Leahy of the New York Mailroom comes to work daily from the Bronx. She at, tended Tati High School in the Bronx and then I went to worif in one 0/ Woolworth's five and j dime stores in uptown New York. A short while j 0/ this and she decided she wouJd rather worir /or Ethyl. She enjoys roller skating and going ! out on dates. Richard Taylor/ who recently joined the Financial Department at Detroit, will spend a good part of his time on inventories. He came to us from the Shell Oil Com pany, where he was cashier lor six years. Dick is a graduate of Detroit's Eastern High School and attended Wayne and Columbia Universities, where he majored in lan guages and history. In his spare time he is fond of bowling, golf, and collecting col ored movie travelogues. ETC 05961 Worldwide Circulation "What's In A Name?" A great deal, if the latest circulation figures on the Ethyl booklet of that name is any indication. Let's bend our orbs for the moment on the early July circulation statistics for this little book, which are remarkable. As of July 6 over a million and a half copies had gone out in answer to requests-- 1,552,656 to be exact. Of this number 230,420 were dis tributed in New York state, which topped all other states by a wide margin. Second place honors went to Pennsylvania, whose residents asked for 115,612 copies and third to California, which wanted 96,414 booklets. But the United States obviously isn't the only place where people are interested in the meanings of names, because requests have come in from all over the world. Canada tops the list of nations with 29,396 requests. Next in line is Mexico with 343 sub scribers, then Cuba with 214, and in fourth place England with 207. People in such far off spots as India, Egypt, Persia, New Guinea, Samoa, and the Fiji Islands have asked for booklets. Australians have requested 81. As our name becomes well known throughout the world, we can't help but wonder how many future babies in far distant places will be named Ethyl. 15  Freeport Facts The season for hurricanes along the Gulf Coast is now in full swing and the first of these big winds which yearly prowl our countryside has hit and gone its way. Luckily Freeport got no more than high winds, but the big town -- Houston -- up the road was hit to the tune of several million dollars. First hand information can be obtained from G. B. Grimes, Ethyl-Dow janitor, who fled the storm in Freeport to run smack into the big blow in Houston. Oh well, live and learn. Since last writing, Jesse Alex ander, operator, has taken the big step. No, he didn't walk the middle aisle; he joined his Uncle Samuel's Army Air Forces. Jesse is currently stationed at Sheppard Field. Texas. Speaking of the big step, J. D. Harness, E-D storekeeper, took just that in it's usual sense. On a recent week-end Jasper took unto himself a bride and ended his bachelor days with a broad and decisive grin. Back from the Naval Reserve comes A. J. Burnett, looking fit and just a little salty. A. J. didn't get to see the sea other than from the terra firma of sunny California, but he claims to know the ropes and got through the first couple of chapters of "What Every Sailor Should Know." Latest word from Robert F. Mar tin, former Ethyl-Dower now with the Army Air Forces in England, came this week to W. G. Martin, operator, his brother. Bob's letter included a clipping from a British newspaper and two pictures. The clipping told how Bob and his crew were rescued from the English Channel after their bomber, "Snow ball," had been shot down by Hun fighter planes. One picture showed the crew standing before the bomber and the other showed Bob receiving the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster. And that's the news from Texas. Carl's Corner The reason for the long abstinence from print can now be disclosed. I broke my writing arm and had to learn to type with the index finger of my left hand. In the meantime the broken arm has healed at least to the extent that I can use it to empty a glass of beer into the cor rect receptacle. The most interesting thing about breaking an arm is not, as might be expected, the engineering involved in reconditioning same. Instead, it is the multitude of suggestions as to how it might have happened. In my case so many helpful thoughts have been offered that I am no longer quite sure how it did happen. The original story, which still seems to be quite probable, is that I caught the end of my pants leg on a snag while working over the face of a cliff during a Ashing trip and gravity took me down in three easy 16 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER etc bumps. The mere fact that I brought home no fish does not necessarily prove this story to be untrue. It takes right living, a high degree of skill, and true Irishman's luck to catch fish in our local streams, even when the weather, the stars, the moon, the barometer, and the aus pices look favorable. Among the many possible explan ations advanced for public consid eration by real and alleged friends were several that seemed worth con sidering -- in fact, there was one that in other days and with other people might have held particular promise, although at my age it is a little odd that it was even men tioned. It had to do with getting out of a window in time. In view of the lack of imagination which characterizes the engineering mind when dealing with human problems (but why limit it to that?) I cannot help but wonder whether personal experience might not have formed at least part of the back ground for most of these hypotheses. All the bosses have been perfectly wonderful about letting me stick around and keep my mind occupied, even though my physical limita tions made me somewhat useless and almost in the way. But for the bene fit of the younger staff members let me say that if, after 13 years of un tiring effort you feel that you want a rest, there are better ways to get it than by breaking an arm. Almost any other way you can name would be better. Now I've got to go back to work. Yours, etc., CARL ABELL The Bulletin Board editor weighs the advantages of eating luncli in ilia office. Trend of the Times While the wage earner in over alls is salting away the mazuma these days, the poor office worker is taking a terrific beating on the chin, due to skyrocketing taxes and living costs. As a result of soaring restau rant prices, several girls in the New York office have been bringing their lunch from home daily during the past few weeks. The sight of them eating peace fully, far above the rushing throngs down in the street, caused your Bulletin Board editor to get out his pencil and do some figuring. As a result he has been carrying his mid day meal to work for the past two weeks and has every intention of making the practice permament. It's great stuff, lads! You eat in peace and quiet, and you don't have surly waiters glaring at you if you only order a sandwich. And, what's most important in these trying times, you save dough! 17 BULLETIN BOAKD-S E.P-T EMBER ETC 05964 Marguerite Miller, stenographer-clerk in Detroit Financial, was born in Grand Ledge, Mich., but alter completing grammar school moved to Detroit. There she attended Denby High School tor three years and then graduated from Lincoln High in Ferndale. Her first job was with the Household Finance Corporation, where she did general office work tor a year before joining Ethyl. Dancing, sharing, swim ming, and the theatre are some oi her spare time activities. Belle M. Clausing, secretary to Lou Shank. Tulsa Division manager, was born in Columbus Junction, away out west in Iowa. She attended Jewell, lows, High School and the American Institute of Business in Des Moines. Last Sep tember she became the bride of Herbert Claus ing, who is now an intern in the Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa. She arrived with her husband in the oil metropolis on July 11 and immediately applied tor a job with Ethyl. Her picture would seem to verify reports that she helps beautify the scenery in our Tulsa of/ice. Helen Bones!eel, newcomer to the Yonkets Lab, is shown adjusting a me chanicel numbering machine, which is a familiar article in ail gasoline testing labs. Helen came to Ethyl from Briarcliffe Junior College. There she was studying to be a secretary, but recently she took a course in motor mechanics. Aoller sharing and :bowling are her favorite pastimes. She also likes to cook, and the boys at Yonkers say they are hoping for a sample of her culinary skill in the near future. etc 5965 Away back in 1930, when fhe world was young and gay, fhis picture of an early Ethyl group was taken. The boys were students in the first Ethyl training course in the fundamentals of petroleum refining at the Esso plants in Bayonne and Bayway, N. J.. and they were quartered in the Hotel Winfield Scott in Elizabeth. N. J. In case you don't recognise the boyish faces. they belong, left to right, standing, to Matt Taylor, Boston Division manager: Buss Schell of the Safety Department, now on military leave; George Bosser, assistant manager of the Atlanta Division, now on military leave; Dick Murphy, western regional manager. Squatting, left to right, are Harry Cottrell, Tulsa Division field engineer; Harold Murch. formerly of our defunct Toronto office; and John Lashley. Murch and Lashley are no longer with fhe company. On to Washington Joins The Waves Captain George Rosser, former Louise Fries, formerly secretary ly assistant manager of the Atlanta to Harry Mack, Dayton Division Division, gave his old division office manager, and the Bulletin Board's a pleasant surprise recently when he correspondent in that sector, has V dropped in unexpectedly. George left the company and is now a mem has been transferred from Detroit ber of the Navy's Waves. She is tak to Washington and was granted a ing her boot training at Hunter Col seven day leave before beginning lege in New York. his new duties. In Washington he will be chief of fuels and lubricants for the Army Service Forces, Head A statistician is a man who draws quarters, Maintenance Division, and a mathematically precise line from will be located in the famed Penta an unwarranted assumption to a gon Building. foregone conclusion. 19 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER ETC 05966 ETC 05967 E" Awards 6. The crowd at Deep water. 7. Lieutenant Stone speaks. 8. Charlie Wasserman at the mike. 9. Lieutenant Stone. Army Armstrong, Bud Johnson. Alice Wy- I gand. Charlie Wasser man. and Colonel j Hamlin. }JO. The tlag is raised. Hear Bugle's Call 1 \ Six Elhylmen have joined the na tion's armed forces this month. They are Christopher Bruhl of the Yonkers Lab, Robert Oesterling, Baton Rouge chemist; Gerald Meyer of New York Purchasing; and Kingsley Jones, Ralph Hutchinson, and Carl Cyriax of New York Fi nancial. So far we have no addresses for any of these men, except Chris Bruhl and Bob Oesterling. Their addresses and all changes of address which have recently come to our attention are listed below: Major M. A. Kinley IG Section Natousa A.P.O. 534 New York, N. Y. Captain George Rosser 915 S. Alfred Street Alexandria, Va. Major S. J. Warner, Jr. Depot Q--331 (P.O.L.) A.P.O. 511 New York, N. Y. Ensign Christopher Bruhl, USNR NTS (I) 22032 Fort Schuyler New York 61, N. Y. Private Robert Oesterling 914th Training Group BTC 9, Squadron 143-C Miami Beach, Fla. Lt. (jg) Dwight F. Andrews, USNR Educational Services Officer NOB, Kodiak c/o Fleet Post Office Seattle, Wash. Captain William W. Downer 192nd Ord. Co. (D) A.P.O. 502 San Francisco, Calif. Captain Laurence H. Blatchford 16th Repair Squadron, Air Corps A.P.O. 635 New York, N. Y. Major F. D. Williams, C.E. Second Beach Battalion ^ U. S. Navy, N.P.O. New York, N. Y. Lt. Joseph E. Williams 1550th Ordnance S. & M. Co. Greenville Army Air Base Greenville, S. C. Lt. F. E. DeVore Kiser Courts Glendale, Ariz. 22 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER I i i I 1 ! j j j I I I ETC 05969 Down On The Farm A1 Basye, Kansas City Division safety engineer, spent a patriotic vacation in the Kansas wheat fields this summer. A1 drove the tractor which pulled one of the seven com bine outfits used to cut the 2500 acres of wheat on the farm where he worked. He also helped with the care and tune-up of the other trac tors on the place. The accompanying pictures show A1 as a farmhand. In each one he is the fellow wearing a hat. The tractor is a W9 International and the com bine is a Model 36 John Deere 20foot cut. 23 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05970 Virginia K. Schroder is the new labo ratory assistant to Durward Rossman in the Dynamometer Department at Detroit. She is a graduate oi St. Gregory High School in Detroit and attended the University oi Detroit, where she majored in languages. Her lirst job was with the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, where she worked lor a year before joining Ethyl. Tennis, swimming, and the theatre are her favorite recreational activities. George W. AdldllS, dynamometer operator at the Detroit Lab, is a native of Beech Creek. Kentucky. where he attended school. He came to Ethyl from the Federal Motor Truck Company, where he worked as an experi mental mechanic in the engineering department. George has four children, Francis, Wanda, Betty Joan, and Charles, whose respective ages are IS. 12, 9 and S. He goes in for hunting, fishing and bowling in his spare time. ETC 597l When Harry tied Mush to the lawn mower and expected him to puii it. our canine triend rebelled. "He can't get away with that stuff!" Mush confided to a Bulletin Board operative who was lurking in the shrubbery. Here is a close-up of Mush during his sitdown stribe. "1 might compromise for a nice, thiclr dog biscuit," Mush admitted. The Seattle Division has really done big things in the field of Victory gardening, every single mem ber having a small plot of some sort. Pictures of these soil tilling activi ties are as hard to extract as wisdom teeth, but those we were able to ob tain are printed here. Barry Kulie, with (Jie able (?) assistance of Mush, his Siberian husky, produced a bumper crop. According to those in the know, there was not always perfect harmony in the Jfuhe garden, because Mush preferred digging while Harry held out for planting. The picture would seem to indicate that Harry won. Although rred raises tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beets, carrots, peas, beans, straw berries, raspberries, and fruit trees he is par ticularly proud of this year's cabbage crop. And here is poor little Tommy Heck among the cab bages. trying to hide from Fred. But it's no go. for Fred found him and thrust a hoe into his chubby hands. Aili Koskela, the Bulletin Board's Seattle correspondent, wields a wicked hoe and can hold her own in discussions on crop rotation, whether or not to sucker tomatoes, etc. If her garden yields according to her dreams, she will have to rent a stall in the Farmers' Public Market. This Is a Victory garden technique developed by Fred Naylor, assistant division manager. While Bill Heck, safety engineer, was on a trip, Fred by means of bribes and glittering promises, lured away Bill's three-year-old son. Tommy, and then condemned him to a life of toil. While Tommy labored, Fred sat around and drank a Vitamin B2 concoction. etc 059T2 Scrubs Deadlock Flashes Stung by the remarks of local wiseacres as a result of their 34-10 shellacking at the hands of the Ethyl Flashes, Bill Wanderer's Scrubs staged a comeback the eve ning of August 3 on the Detroit Lab diamond and held the varsity to 14-14 tie. Fair-and-Square MacMenemy, the Honest Arbiter, halted the contest at the end of the sixth stanza because of darkness. The game was a walkaway for the lowly Scrubs until the Flashes staged a rally in the last half of the sixth to knot the count. Wanderer's Wayfarers started going to town in the initial frame with a scoring spree which was featured by a cir cuit smash inside the ball yard by little Jimmie Hughes. Bob Mescher started off the in ning by drawing a free ticket when a 3-2 pitch went wide. Bill Book reached first on a scratch hit to deep short, Mescher pulling up at second, and Cap Hall strolled on four straight balls, loading the sacks. Into this spot stepped little Jim: mie. With the count 3-and-l in his favor, he leaned on a cripple for four bases to clear the hassocks. Jimmie's payoff smash seemed to throw consternation into the hearts of the Flashes, and for the next three stanzas they played like a bunch of lads in the fourth grade. Typical of their befuddlement was their daffy base running in their half of the second. In this inning Alspaugh was on first and Manager Harry Prince on second, when Fritz Schroeder drib bled an easy roller to the infield and was tossed out at first. Harry started for second on the play, but was doubled off first when he discovered that Alspaugh was a barricade on the basepaths. The Flash first baseman was sitting there on the key stone sack, chuckling to himself over an amusing item he was read ing in the Bulletin Board. Although Bill Wanderer, who did the hurling for his team, weakened during the last two heats, he whiffed Heinie Mueller on just seven pitched balls on the Flash slugger's first two trips to the plate. By playing the varsity to a dead lock, the Scrubs worked their way into the big time, and the Ethyl Athletic Association voted to buy them crimson baseball caps. After the game spectators and players retired to the Lab, where all broke training under the general supervision of Tommie Roberts. The line-ups: SCRUBS FLASHES Stinson......... Wanderer .. . ----- P............ .........Doughty Mescher .. .. .... lb......... . . .. Alspaugh Book............. ....2b......... Hall ............... Hughes........ ....3b......... ............. Boyle Lewis............. Loser............. ....rf........... Beaudet........ ........ If........... ............. Wilkie Goodyear .. ......... Faucher 26 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETc 05973 Salute The Colonel! Swapping gold for silver usually isn't such a smart idea, unless you trade the gold oak leaves of a major for the silver oak leaves of a lieuten ant colonel. That is what Monroe F. "Bo" Weill, formerly of the Los Angeles Division, has just done. Bo was called from the reserve to active duty with the rank of captain in April, 1941, and served as Automo tive Officer with the Western De fense Command. He is still on Gen eral DeWitt's staff, with an ex panded assignment which now in cludes many other special subjects in addition to exercising general supervision over automotive main tenance. No Longer With Vs Anna Jean Henderson, Detroit Anna B. Firosz, Detroit Evelyn A. Darst, Deepwater Dwight W. BeDell, Detroit Jessie L. Bott, Chicago Ernest A. Robinson, Detroit William L. Ross, Detroit Mary Kochanek, Detroit Jessie Gonda, Detroit Margery H. Williams, Detroit Louise Fries, Dayton Nina Crisham, New York Erwina H. Carr, New York Ruth L. Peabody, New York Hugh B. Gebhart, New York Mary Cordray, Tulsa Regina D. Gilligan, New York Janet Brown, Tulsa Harold A. Mehler has been appointed assistant manager oi the Yonkers Testing Lab and wjjj handie many of the details oi its opera tion. He joined Ethyl in the Fall of 1929 and. in addition to working in Yonkers, has spent some time at the Tulsa and Detroit Labs. A/though HaroJd is a bacheior, he, iiJre Russ "Don Juan" ScheJJ, with whom he lived for many years, has an eye for the lovely ladies. His secondary hobbies are bridge and gardening. Violelte Hughes, Seatfie Division secretary, admires her German shepherd, Big Boy, during a restful vacation at her home in Kennydale. Wash. Big Boy who is trying to argue the family into ietting him join the Coast Guard, claims he would look simply swell in one of Uncle Sam's uniforms. 27 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER etc 05974 Joan Nugent of the New York Mailroom came to Ethyl from high school in Bayside. Long Island, where she has lived all her life. Outside of the office Joan is very active in war work. She is a member of (he American Women's Vo/uniary Service and, as part 0/ her dudes with this organization, sells War Bonds and Stamps at the Bayside Theatre. She is also senior USO hostess at the Bayside Canteen. Busy Bird Lawrence "Bud" Williams of Road Testing, Detroit, became the proud pop of a seven pound boy on July 27. Lawrence James is Bud's second child. His oldest is daughter Sandra, who is seven years old. Gets Oak Leaves It's Major Ed Rothman now. Word was received recently at the Detroit Lab, where Ed used to handle advertising, that he has been promoted from the rank of captain. A long letter from Ed, describing some of his adventures in Africa, appears among this month's Victory Mail. Wedding Bells Martin I. McCooley, New York Division safety engineer, deserted the ranks of the bachelors on Satur day morning, July 31, when he mar ried Evelyn Oaks Whaley in St. Alice Church, Upper Darby, Penna. The ceremony was followed by a wedding dinner at the Drake Hotel in Philadelphia, and then the couple departed on a honeymoon trip to New York and Cape May, N. J. They are living in Upper Darby. Add Definitions According to Carl Abell, the Bul letin Board's Los Angeles corres pondent : "An engineer is a guy who can build an article for two dollars that a bozo twice as dumb can make for a buck. "And stubbornness is where you cling to your opinion as tenaciously as I cling to mine." To Service Men's Wives ~ Wives of Efhylmen in the armed forces who would like to keep in touch with what is going on in the company can receive the Bulletin Board each month simply by writ ing in and asking to be put on the mailing list. So, if any of you read ers know of an Ethyl service man's wife who wants to get the Bulletin Board regularly, please pass this tip along to her. 28 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER etc 0597 5 Roberta M. Filtinger, laboratory assistant in the dynamometer department at the Detroit Lab, is a native of St. Louts but came to Detroit when still a child. She is a graduate of Cooley High School, where she majored in dramatics, and attended Purdue University until the chubby little man with the bow and arrow -- Dan Cupid to you -- stepped in and ended her coiiege career. Shortly after the outbreak of war her husband joined the Army, so she de cided to come to work tor Ethyl. Bobbie's fa vorite forms of diversion are landscape and por trait painting, swimming, and reading. Robert J. Hess, laboratory technician at the Yonkers Lab. examines a chart used in determin ing the oxidation stabiJity of gasoiine. Bob came to us from the laboratory of the flockwood Cho colate Company. He is attending evening college classes in order to complete his chemical edu cation. Outside of his work, his chief interest centers around a certain young lady. Edward C. Goiter, dynamometer operator at the Detroit Lab, was born in Montreal. Canada, but came to the Motor City when still a young ster. After graduating from Cass Technical High School, he went into the trucking business for himself and was on his own for eight years. He then went to work for the Chrysler Corpora tion, where he rematned until he joined Ethyl. Ed has two children, David, 4, and Sharon 18 months. Bowling and baseball are his favorite forms of recreation. ETC 05976 VICTORY MAIL Dear Gaagt I was extremely happy to receive your letter and all your good wishes. I would like to bring back all the good "gifts" you request from Africa but you must remember that I am limited to 77 lbs.-when traveling by air. Rather than attempt to answer all your notes I am going to give you a few high lights of a marvelous trip I have just had to Tunis. I went to Bengasi on a B-24, which is very good riding. The American camp at this location is right in the sand, and, brother, when I say sand I mean it. Girls, this sand is something for your complexion! I think that a sand blasting machine turned on full force for 24 hours would give you some idea of it. My lips were cracked so far open that I couldn't keep the sand out. Then you fill up with chlorinated water, and is it wonderful! I visited the River Styks and the Gar- den of Lete. You who know your biblical history will have a better appreciation of these spots. Incidentally, the boy who was driving us in the car complained that the sheep were brown, black and dirty grey, while all the pictures he ever saw in the Bible showed snowy white sheep. I nearly had the pleasure of going on a mission over enemy territory, but the commanding general said "No." At one of the camps we attended a movie in the evening and it was just like Birmingham except that we sat on petrol cans. Yes, I fell asleep, just &ke being at home. How many layers of skin does a human being have, because I have just had my 89th peeling? I cannot tell you how thrilling it was to fly over this battle front and see places like Alamein, Tobruk, Marble Arch and other history making locations of this war. At Tripoli' I had the opportunity of seeing General Montgomery. Also in Tripoli I visited one of the engine over haul shops that was set up in the Fiat Service Station. The Germans used the same place for engine overhauls, only when they retreated they took all the skilled Italian laborers with them. As a result it was interesting to see 10 and 12 30 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC year old Italian and Arab kids cleaning engine parts. The prisoners are very swell looking fellows --both Germans and Italians. They seemed to be glad that the war is over for them. At one place I asked one of the officers how they could keep track of all the prisoners. This particular unit had SO prisoners around the place with only one sleepy guard. He said that was easy -- they threatened that if anyone ran away, all the rest would go on British rations. Flew to Sfax with a couple of other fellows, took a jeep and went to Tunis. There is gTeat evidence of the battle in Tunisia but great speed is also being made in clearing wrecked planes, tanks, vehicles, bombs, etc. Incidentally, during the flight we could see wrecked planes on the beaches and in the ocean. Tunisia is a very beautiful country; it is green and has mile after mile of olive groves. It is one of the leading olive oil producing countries in the world. One of the grim things to see is the graves along the sides of the road. Tunis is a beautiful city --very modern. One of the fellows in the jeep knew a family who was forced to move out of their house when the Germans took the town. Their books were burned and prac tically all the furniture was destroyed but nevertheless the family was glad to be home. Our friend who knew this family was in the QM and he carried extra provisions in our trailer. He pre sented this family with a few of our American rations and the young daugh ter, about 20, asked boys and girls to have a few of the canned peaches, quite a delicacy. It was the first such delicacy that they have had in 2'h years. One of the girls had also just gotten a lipstick and the boys teased her by calling her Elizabeth Arden. They practically all spoke English and of course had to ask all about movie stars in the States. I have got to say a few words about our fliers who certainly are wonderful -- they are bomb happy, slap happy, and sand happy, but do not think that 20, 30, and 40 missions or more does not do something to the nervous system. At one place in Sousse we stayed for l'/i hours waiting for our transportation and you fellows should see the terrific amount of traffic at this country cross road. There was every conceivable type of vehicle made passing that corner. In cidentally, some of our fellows in the camps are getting hold of Fiats, Opels, and Rennaults and other makes of cars and are fixing them up. You would get quite a kick to see those boys going around in these baby carriages. Economically, I believe that Tunisia will be well on the road to recovery within a year. The area around Tripoli and Bengasi does not look as though it would ever be worth very much. These areas were populated by taking Italians out of greatly populated cities in Italy and giving them money and many acres of land. Naturally, the money went first and the farms never produced. The coun try is too harsh for even a good farmer. Now that there is a bright summer moon it is necessary to have blue covers over all the tents so that they are harder to see at night. In our camps we have gone in for dispersal in a big way -- a 100 yards between each tent or building. This is wonderful except that when you have to carry your heavy blanket roll and other baggage, the sand is blasting at you and the sun boiling. Wherever you drive you ire passing convoys going in all directions, and do you eat dust! All the mined ground that has not been cleared off is marked with white tape. Damaging of bridges over these dried up river beds has not impeded traffic very much. Captured motorcycles are another item over which our boys have gone crazy. I wish I could tell you some more things but we still have the censorship, so we will continue this driveling. One interesting experience at one of the camps was that a native came around selling eggs and in the absence of the boys he stole some clothing. This was reported to the head man of the nearby 31 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPT-EMBER ETC 05978 village. The punishment consists of the offender taking all his clothes off and all the women of the village are invited to come and watch him getting whipped. After lashes (not too hard) he shrieks as to the location of one of the stolen arti cles. A woman rushes off and gets it. After more lashes he divulges the loca tion of more articles and other women rush off and get them. This punishment goes on for two or three hours till all the stolen goods are recovered. One of the tough things about these trips is that you are always waiting for a plane. Operations tent can never fur nish transportation so that you sit there waiting and waiting with nothing to read, no Coca-Cola, chewing gum, cigarettes or any of the things that we were ac customed to at airports. You have got to give a lot of credit to the Signal Corps who are stringing miles and miles of lines of communication. Of course you never hear anything over the phones but nevertheless it is a terrific undertaking. Every plane, vehicle, tank, etc., has a name. About 75% have names of the driver's or pilot's girl -- the other 25% show a great degree of American humor. It was at Kairouan that I heard the first American news broadcast in four months. It came from Boston and the Tigers were not doing too well. At Bengasi I saw some American sol diers bargaining to buy some chickens -- evidently for a midnight snack. The ask ing price for the chickens was about $12.00 and the chickens were so small that you could put them back in the egg. In order to cure this inflation the British issued an order stating that no soldier could deal with local merchants for a period of two weeks. At the end of the two. weeks period the local merchants put a boycott on the Americans and British by refusing to sell them anything. I do not know who won. It is great fun while on these trips to bump into pals of yours. You have no idea how affectionate you feel toward some fellows in a strange country. Out side of Tripoli I bumped into a fellow with whom I had stayed in Accra, also two other fellows I have worked with quite closely at headquarters. The Brit ish tank officers are exceptionally good fellows. A number of things I do not like about flying are: 1--Nine hours in the air in a bucket seat. 2--No food at airports. 3--No schedules. 4--When a pilot peels off to see some plane on the desert or inspects a boat in the sea. There is a great feeling of superiority, however, when you land in an airport that you have been at before and the other passengers do not know their way around. At one place I walked across a field as large as La Guardia. carrying my bed roll, baggage, etc. While I was strug gling along in the heat four planes started turning their engines. I emerged from the dust absolutely covered from top to bot tom with red sand. By the time I got to the plane I thought I had traveled six times around La Guardia Field. Eddie Rickenbacker was here telling us about new engines in development using 120 octane gas. Or is it the heat and the sand that are getting me? In one place up in Tunisia we had a puncture. While we were changing the tire a cute Arab boy came aldng with a donkey and a baby donkey. I pulled out some money and tried to explain to the little boy that I wanted to buy his baby donkey. With a milking motion of his hands and sucking of his lips he made me understand that the donkey was nurs ing and not for sale. I thought I was awfully smart to understand his Arabic. At one camp I was too tired to arrange my cot and bed roll. The doctor offered to let me sleep in the hospital tent on a stretcher. The stretchers are about six inches too narrow to be comfortable. In the first tent I stayed in there were terribly big grasshoppers--about the size of P-40s. While they were jumping all 32 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC over me I was surprised to find they were locusts. Boy were they big! One of the best local explanations for the desert is that it was made at night by the gods and that in the morning they were so disappointed with their evening's work that they spent all day throwing rocks at it. I had better quit before you start throwing rocks at me. Best regards to all. Major Edward E. Rothman Hdq. Air Survey Command APO 696, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) \ There is plenty of excitement around here. A P-38 squadron is based on this field and they show us plenty of activity. Had a nasty crack-up the other day. A P-38 peeled off of formation during prac tice maneuvers and slipped into a spin after going into a high speed stall. The pilot brought it out just over the ground, scraped a highway and hit a car broad side. Boy, I never saw such a mess! The type of planes we work with are C-87's. 47's, 48's, 46's, 53's, and 54's. Of all. the C-54 is really the cargo ship. It cruises about 254 mph, has a large capa city, and a low landing speed. Lt. Joseph A. Hobart DTR-ATC Mills Field P.O. Box 3000 So. San Francisco. California (formerly of Detroit) II certainly seems like a long time since I've seen you. Hope you are all well and wish you'd say hello to all my friends at the lab. After leaving St. Joe, Missouri, I was sent to New York for about a week and then moved on out here to San Francisco. The field at which I am stationed is lo cated near the city of South San Fran cisco. It is a municipal airport but has now been put to use by the Army also. Our job here is to handle all sorts of ne gotiations between the commercial air lines and the Army. We see that the ships are serviced properly, carry the neces sary equipment, and are kept in the air as much as possible. I like my work and would like to stay here, but one can never tell just what the Army will do next. So far I am not slated for overseas duty. Mabel is down here with me. We live in a small city seven miles south of Mills Field and like the country and climate here very much. It is quite chilly during the morning and night and never uncom fortably hot during the day. The summer edition of the Ethyl Bul letin Board reminded me that its been months since I've reported on my doings. But as I sit in the same company dayroom I've occupied for almost a year, listening to some favorite records (sug gested listening: Paul Robeson's "Songs of Free Men"), with a "coke" machine 33 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 05980 nearby, and the comparative comfort of permanent barracks waiting for me, I don't feel that my doings need as much reporting as some of the other men's. Ever since I found that O.C.S. would probably take me away from the school for the Armored Force here at Knox, I've been a sergeant. Every time I read of all the Ethyl men who are officers I can see the arguments ahead of me when I get back to working with them, 'cause I'm bound to hold up the non-com's end. I teach officers and enlisted men com pany maintenance of their wheeled vehi cles, so I read with interest about the Chek-Charts Ethyl is plugging. We work from a very comprehensive Chek-Chart. and everyone here is convinced it really is the only way to maintain peak per formance. Now that General Henry has left the school, and except for occasional visits from the men of the Dayton Divi sion and the numerous Ethyl posters around. I'm about the only one left to protect Ethyl's good name, if it needs protecting. I've been accepted as an aviation cadet, engineering, for some time now and await assignment to the "next scheduled class", following the steps of many Ethyl boys. In the meantime, I'd like to hear from all friends of the good old days. Sgt. C. D. Ehrhardt, Jr. Company C, Training Group Armored Force School Fort Knox, Kentucky (formerly of Detroit) The rapidity with which time passes out here is certainly surprising, but quite agreeable to me since it makes the date of my return seem just so much sooner. Until that day arrives, though, I will have to make myself content with com munication with the outside world by let ter form instead of personal contact. I am certainly glad to receive copies of the Community Letter and learn of the good news regarding the success enjoyed by all the men of the laboratory now in the various services. It must be a little trying for some of these men to spend their tour of service at some home base while we more fortunate members are able to enjoy the wonders and beauties of our far-flung and ever increasing posses sions. Perhaps if it had not been for this current emergency, I would never have learned or even known of the rather quaint mannerisms of a people uncom mon to any that I have seen back home. The combination of the Oriental, Polynesian, and Caucasian races has produced some interesting creatures out here in the melting pot of the East and the West. The naive character and the form of pigeon English used by some of the na tives is quite refreshing although not very conventional to a midwesterner. The bowling season appears to have been very good for Steve Broege since he was a member of the winning team this year. If I remember correctly,.Steve used to bowl an average game of about 120 when I left town. The practice he has been doing since that time must have done wonders. I have been able to play at the game on a few occasions and my scores have varied all the way from low to very bad. Apparently practice would not do me any harm. There is but little more chatter that I have to offer you at this time so I close wishing you the best of luck and health. M/Sgt. Edward J. Kukla, Headquarters Battery, 27th Div. Art. APO 127, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. (formerly of Detroit) 34 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER | j ' ' ETC 05981 Guess you are beginning to think that I'm a hell-uv-a guy for showing apprecia tion and answering letters. Really, have been meaning for some time to get a note off to you to thank you for the Bulletins. etc. Surely do appreciate your sending them--enjoyed them a lot. Seems that I was getting way behind on where the fel lows are located. I've been staying busy up until the last couple or three weeks. In fact, had worked myself down to such an extent that they had me with one foot almost in the hospi tal. My weight had fallen off to about 180 lbs., and while working 12 to 14 hours a day I wasn't doing a bit of good at gain ing any of it back. As a result the Colonel ordered me out of the plant for a rest. Consequently, I have only one job at present--have a lot of old equipment that I'm remodeling, having to redesign and rebuild a lot of it to make a new line to fill an entirely different munition to that which it was originally intended. Have a couple of good draftsmen and several good mechanics to help me, though, so I'm not nearly as overworked now. Am now just working eight hours a day and even take off on Sunday once in a while. Expect to have this work finished in a couple of weeks so guess I'll get back into the harness again after that. The extra rest has done wonders for me though--the wife says she can almost get along with me now. Our family has recently been increased --even have seven bird-dog pups that surely are pretty. If I can manage to take any time off this fall I'm really planning on getting some hunting done. Have two old dogs and plan to train a couple of the pups myself, so will have lots of fun. Right now Madeline is having a time try ing to keep them all fed. Have a runt in the pups that we've named ETHYL. Am planning to keep it myself. Got another reclassification the other day and a new deferment--seems that the Colonel still feels that I'm more valuable here. However, sometimes I think I'd be better off as a buck private-then they would tell me when to go to bed, when to get up, when to eat, etc. As it is now, I don't know when I'll get to do any of it. How are you standing with our board these days? Well, thought that I'd get this written during a lull of the plant but got called away from it. So before I turn in will finish it. We get the "News Exchange" from Atlanta Division which is just about all of the company news we've had except for a few letters. As a result, we keep up pretty well with the Atlanta bunch up there. So we really were glad to get the dope that you sent me. Thanks again for sending it. B. A. Owen. Jr. 1417 Laurel St. Pine Bluff, Ark. (formerly of Atlanta) I've fust received letter No. 10 which reminded me that I hadn't written the letter I intended writing weeks ago. The only defense I can offer is that the life of a tank destroyer in these islands doesn't provide much material for interesting letters. Of course, we do have our mo ments but these "incidents" are always unmentionables to the censor. And so it goes, with letter writing becoming more of a problem than the Japs. 35 BULLETIN BOARD-S&PTSMBGR ETC 05982 fife A short time ago I had a few days leave and was able to visit one of the neighbor ing islands. It certainly was a pleasure to get away from it all even for just a few days. I was surprised to see so many gar denias and orchids. Yes, orchids growing wild! I was very glad to hear of the wartime activity in the laboratory. I was especi ally interested to hear of tank destroyer tests as I, too, am testing them. Of course, mine tend toward the practical rather than the technical qualities. I hope we can get together soon to compare notes. Lt. N. J. Linstromberg Co. C. 640 TD Bn. APO 961 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif, (formerly of Detroit) courses so maybe I'll wind up in a strange assignment. Most of the officers here have been in action in either the Atlantic or Pacific and have had quite a bit of ex perience. so they are very serious about all of the courses which makes it much better. We have twelve examinations this week so you can imagine how much time we have for pleasure. Please give my regards to Claire, when you write him. Also Art, Bill, Bob, and Lowell. I'll try to write to Jack Maynard soon. Lt. Marshall D. McDorman, USNR 1799 N. E. Fourth Avenue Miami, Fla. (formerly of Baltimore) Although the thermometer around here never registers over 90 degrees, the hu man thermometer indicates a somewhat different degree. If one could sit per fectly still and stay in the shade all day, it wouldn't be bad, but such is not the' case. The first two weeks here were spent in taking physical exercises, logging in and making sketches of various ships, piping, engines, etc. For the past two weeks and two days we have had steady classroom and shipboard work without a let-up and this will continue for at least another week and a half. After the first four weeks we are divided into specialist groups and then we have specialist courses for another two or three weeks. There doesn't seem to be any set way of selecting the men for various specialist Hello rellowst A note of thanks for keeping the Bulletin Board coming. It usually takes a long time to get here but invariably arrives. Can't contribute much to the mail bag since I haven't seen any of the old San B. gang for some time. As for myself, I spent my first year and a half in the Navy building and test ing submarines at the Navy Yard at Mare Island. Last August Roberta Thompson of San Bernardino and I were married. We no sooner got back from our honey moon than the Bureau crashed through with my orders to one of the fleet type boats under construction at Mare Island. Although submarine duty gets a little rugged at times, it is very interesting, especially from an engineering stand point. There is a wide variety of almost everything that goes around or up and down, all jammed into about one tenth the space theoretically possible to put it in. I was fortunate in having duty in a submarine building yard before going out, since I was able to follow the boat from the time her keel was laid. On the other hand, I can't use the engineer of ficer's old standby that the ship wasn't built right if we have a breakdown. 36 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05983 ~ I certainly miss that good old San B. * sun. After spending considerable periods I of time without seeing the sun at all ex- cept through a periscope. I'll never com iplain about the heat again. Can't give you any dope on our patrols > other than to say we are getting our share of Jap shipping. Haven't seen any horse races on the Jap coast. I believe they gave up trying to collect from us and moved inland. We are looking for ward to the day when we can check their ^ new tracks over. I have been keeping an eye out for Joe Cipolla but so far our paths haven't crossed. Thanks again for the Bulletin Board and best regards to the gang. Lieutenant Paul F. Straub, Jr. USS Tinosa, c/o F.P.O. San Francisco, Calf. (formerly of San Bernardino) f Wednesday we graduate. We have a parade in the morning when ge get our diplomas. Our orders came in today, but we won't get them till after graduation. As might be expected, we are all terri bly excited. Rumors have been flying fast and furious for over a week now. I hope most of them are untrue. We've heard from fairly reliable sources that the as signments are for over 39 different places. That means we will be split up quite a bit. There are only 104 in our company. This morning I signed a certificate of enlistment in the Army of the United States. Tomorrow, right after the parade, * we will be sworn in. So from now on you can call me Pfc instead of Afc. Pfc Catherine Rowney WAC Bn. 2. AAS Co. D, Class 6 Russellville, Ark. (formerly of New York) I I hope all of you are in as good health as I am. This Army life is at least agree able with my appetite and sleeping habits. For even though we get up at 5:30 A. M. I get at least seven hours sleep and I eat plenty. After spending eleven days at Camp Upton awaiting assignment, we spent two nights and a day and a half in a coach car, not knowing where our des tination was. Finally we arrived at a small town in Alabama -- Attalla. From there Army trucks took us to Camp Sibert, where we entered the Replacement Training Center of the Chemical War fare Service. It promises to be very interesting here. Our basic training period lasts 13 weeks. The C.W.S. operates decontamination centers, impregnation plants, chemical laboratories, depots, flame throwers and mortars which have explosive or gas filled shells. It is a combat outfit. De contamination outfits go into gassed areas and attempt to neutralize the lethal gas. Impregnation plants impregnate sol diers' uniforms to render them impervious to certain gases. We have very little free time to our selves. We are on the go from S:30 A. M. until 9 P. M. or, as the Army calls it, 21 hundred. At present we are in quaran tine and will be until next Monday. How ever, last night we had a beer party in the company area. It certainly was good to taste something else than water, even if it was three point two and bottled. This camp is very large--3500 acres. It is on a broad, level plain covered with Alabama clay. Surrounding us on all sides are some low mountains. The weather is very changeable here. One minute the sun is out, scorching everything, and the next minute it is pouring. The rain makes the place a mudhole. The clay in the mud makes it extremely sticky and unpleasant. The sun here is very white and hot. The temperature is almost always above ninety. The humidity is also very high. Everybody would like to drink a lot of water, but the powers that be only let us drink when they say we can. They call it water discipline. The heat is terrific -- 37 BULLETIN BOA RD-STUB E R ETC 05984 about 35 fellows have felt the effects of the sun so far and passed out. I wish I had that water cooler in the hall beside me now. Well, take care of yourselves and let me know what's going on. I'll write again as soon as I get some free time. Private Edward J. Staffel Co. G, 1st Regt., RTC Camp Sibert, Ala. (formerly of Yonkers) Languid Lyric The following short verse was sent to Lou Shank, Tulsa Division manager, by one of his safety engi neers. Lou relayed it along to us with the suggestion that it aptly ex presses the thought of most Ethyl field men. I would I were on yonder hill. A-baking in the sun. With all the work I've got to do, DONE. ** SHIFT Madge Loflhouse, Yonkers Cen tral to Sales, New York. Bundle of Joy 1 Although he expected a son, J. E. "Edgirl" Hendrick, Tulsa Division tractor engineer, was glad to settle for a baby girl, weight six pounds three ounces, who was born July 28 in the Florence Nightingale Hos pital in Dallas, Texas. Judith Wini fred, who will be called Judy, is Ed's second daughter. In re the event, he reported: "Mother is all right. Papa fair. He recommends having little babies to occupy one's vacation and keep one very busy." *** 1 % Two Striper George Geiger, formerly of the New York Mailroom, has been pro moted to corporal. His address is: Corporal George W. Geiger, Port Headquarters Battalion, Norfolk Army Base, Norfolk, Va. Erwin A. "Bud" Yaeger of Man ufacturing, New York, became the proud pappy of a son on July 30, when Carl Frederick Yaeger, II, bowed into this world in the United Hospital, Port Chester, N. Y. The young man, who tilted the beam at 7 pounds 814 ounces, is the second Yaeger offspring. The first, Bette Anne, who is now 22 months old, was happy to learn she had a baby brother. 38 BULLETIN BOARD-SEPTEMBER ETC 05985 A BOND HELPS BUY IT QQQmmmhb ETHYL HELPS FLY IT Both ofthem count/ L 0596 etc etc 05987 ETC 05988 HAPPY DAYS WILL COME AGAIN! Do you remember the good old days when -- You could drive into a service station, say "Fill 'er up," and then roll smoothly into the country for long week-end trips to mountain lake or seashore? You could step into a butcher shop and order a roast of beef, a thick sirloin steak, and two pounds of butter, and then the clerk would say to you, "Is there anything else?" The whistles blew sometimes in the evening, but you didn't have to rush to put out your lights? People tried to sell you refriger ators and vacuum cleaners and radios? The most important thing in the world at this time of year was the good old World Series? The college football season was in full swing and you made plans for trips to big games? The bright lights were on in all our coastal cities? The boys were home, leading a normal life even as you and I? And those days are coming back! They are coming soon, we all hope and pray, but we know they will come back a lot sooner if you and I and the other guy put all we can into War Bonds. The Third War Loan Drive may be all over when this copy of the Bulletin Board reaches you, but that is no reasoning for slowing up. Drive or no drive, our boys need the equipment which it takes money to buy. 3 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 05989 And remember, when you buy War Bonds you're not giving money away. You're putting your money in just about the safest investment there is anywhere. It's even safer than a savings bank, because if the U. S. Government should fail -- which it won't -- the savings banks would go under, too. Just a few months after you pur chase a War Bond, it begins to pay you interest. After this war is over, you are going to want a lot of things. You are going to want a new car or a new set of tires for the old car. You are going to want a new radio, new clothes, a new washing machine, perhaps a little place in the country for vacations and week-ends. It will be easy to get all these things if, on every pay day, you invest a good percentage of your earnings in War Bonds. And in case of emergency War Bonds are just about as good as cash in the hand. After you have held a War Bond for only sixty days, you can convert it into cash, if neces sary, on a week's notice. By buying War Bonds you not only help yourself, but you may also help to save the life of that fine looking young fellow you saw on the train this morning. Jack Martin, eastern regional manager, is in charge of the com pany's program for the Third War Loan Drive. He is also head of the Employees' Section of the Petrol eum Industry, which represents 110 oil companies. ETC 0 -' HerscheJ Dedo Dedos Depart Homer i Homer and Hersehel Dedo, of Detroit and Dayton respectively, have left Ethyl to do specialized work in their respective fields. Homer, who was in the Research Di vision of the Engineering Labora tories, has gone to the GrahamPaige Motor Corporation, where he will be connected with the experi mental, research and development department of that company's engi neering division. Hersehel, who was a tractor engineer in our Dayton Di vision, has been made international service manager of the Ford-Ferguson Tractor Company. Both the Dedo boys are native Kansans. Homer graduated from the University of Kansas with a me chanical engineering degree and then accepted a teaching fellowship at Yale, where he remained two years, teaching and working for his master's degree. He next went to the University of Oklahoma for a year as an associate professor of mechan ical engineering. After a brief period with the Im perial Oil Company of Canada, he joined Ethyl in January 1931. Dur ing his stay in our Engineering Labs he has done research work on fuels, lubricants and engines, and has con tributed largely to the development of systematic procedures for record ing and reporting technical data. Hersehel Dedo took a-^course in business and economics at the Uni versity of Kansas and then studied mechanical engineering at the Uni versity of Oklahoma. He joined the company in Septem ber, 1933, and except for brief pe riods when he was on special assign ments in Detroit, he has spent his entire time with the Dayton Divi sion. His work has been mainly in the tractor field, and he played an important role in the development of the high compression tractor. BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 05 9 91 9 Harold Berg ANNIVERSARY AWARDS Harold Berg, manager of the Kan sas City Division, chalked up IS years of service last month to re ceive his pin. Harold had completed an engineering course at the Uni versity of New Hampshire and was manager of the Mexican Petroleum Corporation plant at Portsmouth. N. H., when he decided to come to Ethyl. He was assigned to the Chi cago Division under Bob Jordan and after several months of work around the Windy City was given Minne sota and the Dakotas as his terri tory, with headquarters in Minne apolis. Later he returned to Chicago for 6 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER 1 six months as assistant to Bob Jor dan, and then in December, 1930, he was named division manager at Kan sas City. With the exception of a year in the New York office on spe cial assignment, Harold has headed the Kansas City Division since then. Harold is married and has a son. He likes to play bridge and golf, but these pastimes are being neglected at present in favor of an extensive and scientifically operated Victory garden. Seven passed the ten year mile stone, including Paul J. W. Boehm of Financial, New York; Benjamin G. Crane, Safety Department, New York; Eugene F. Garnier. Financial, New York; J. Ed Hendrick, Tulsa Division; Raymond P. Hill, Finan cial, New York; M. P. Murdock, as sistant manager of the Los Angeles Division,and John P. Weeks, Finan cial, New York. Five year pins were awarded to six, including Howard J. Costello, New York, Financial; Thomas J. Davis, Manufacturing, Deepwater; Ulas Hayes, Manufacturing, Baton Rouge; George G. Pearce of the Dayton Division; Lynn Mt Phillips, Tulsa Division, our representative in Mexico, and Dorothy W. Ferry, Manufacturing, New York. SHIFT Elmer T. Mahlke, Technical Ser vice, San Bernardino, to Technical Service, Tulsa. u ETC 05992 Elina Russell, formerly EJma Smith, has returned to the Dayton Division to he secretary to Division Manager Harry Mack and Bulletin Board correspondent. We told you some things about Elma when she came to work for us the first time, but that was long enough ago so that a slight refresher won't he amiss. She is a graduate of Steele High School in Dayton, where she proved her versatility by winning a tennis trophy and at the same time being the fastest typist and shorthand writer in her class. She is also a star bowler, with an average of better than ISO in the summer league. Her husband, Fred Russell, is in the Army and is stationed at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. The natural wave in this young man's hair would cause any Hollywood glamour girl to turn aquamarine with envy. He is ftoberf Paul Kimpton, 16-monihold son oi Bob Kimpton, New York Division fleet engineer. Two young hero worshippers look up at Lieutenant (j.g.) W. K. McCulloch. USNR. former Iowa field engineer for the Kansas City Division. Mac is now in the Naval Reserve Train ing School at the University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona. - ------ ETC 05993 i i Stover Employee Relations Head Arthur P. Stover, Assistant Gen eral Manager of the Manufacturing Department for several years, has been named the company's Director of Employee Relations. Right after the appointment was announced by Mr. Webb, Art began work on his new job. He will continue to make his headquarters in the New York office. Art's post, which he is the first to fill, is a new one created in response to a need which has become especial ly urgent during this period of war, when manpower and personnel prob lems have increased. Considerable experience in labor relations, gained from his varied experience in the 16 years he has been with Ethyl, makes him a natural for the job. Art joined the company in De cember, 1927, as a chemist in the Deepwater plant. A year later he became assistant plant manager and soon afterward was put in charge of plant operations there. He moved to Baton Rouge in 1939 as Assistant General Manager of the Manufacturing Department and re mained there until early in 1942, when he shifted his headquarters to New York. During the summer of 1938, when the war of nerves was in full blast, he was in France for the company, helping to get operations started in the Painboeuf tetraethyl lead plant. Art first saw the light of day on November 5, 1901, in Chamberburg, Penna. He stuck to the Keystone State for his education, attending Mercersburg Academy and Lehigh University. He now makes his home in Larchmont, N. Y., with Mrs. Stover and their two daughters, June, 10, and Janet, 3. 8 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 05994 Old Pal of Stork The reason why Frank "Father" Adriance, Bulletin Board editor, is swelling out his chest is obvious. Mary Anne, weighing an even six pounds, let out her first yelp the morning of August 25 in the Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Hospital. This is the third time the long legged bird has dropped in on the Adriance house hold in a little over three years, so he and Frank are getting real palsy walsy. When asked about future off spring, Father Adriance retorted confidently: "You ain't seen nuthin' yet!" Hen Seeks Teeth? In the Tulsa Tribune appeared the following item under an Oklahoma City date line: "Dougal Jeppe, 12. showed up at a dentist's office to have gold bands replaced on his teeth. A pet chicken, he explained, caught the glitter of the metal and dislocated it with a vigorous peck." The young man referred to is the son of Douglas P. Jeppe, Tulsa Di vision safety engineer. And if we were Doug, that chicken would quickly disappear into a nice big pot. Send-Off Some Detroit Ethylites gave a sur prise party at the Three Trees the evening of August 31 for Pat Nel son, typist in Charlie Kass' Road Testing Division, who was leaving the next day to enter Hollins Col lege in Virginia. All the gals re ported a swell time. *** Old Salt A recent visitor to the^Jew York office was Ralph Hutchinson, for merly of New York Financial, but now with the U. S. Navy, stationed in Newport, R. I. Although Ralph has been a nautical man for only a short while, he is already a petty officer, third class, and wears one red stripe on each arm. With Ethyl he had charge of the petty cash box. Keeping this in mind, we give you one guess what one of his jobs is in the Navy. Right you are, chum -- he is custodian of the cash box. 9 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 05995 Here they are! Standing, left to right, Mike Reraondino, Merrill Doughty, Gene Betzold, Clyde Stump, Heinie Mueller, Martin Alspaugh. George Boyle. Kneeling, lett to right. Laurel Wilkinson. Hal Faucher, Fritz Schroeter, Mike Rometti, Harry Prince, and Wally Prince, bat boy. Flashes In Fadeout Labor Day must have been too much for our Ethyl Flashes of the Detroit Lab, for the next day, Sep tember 7, they bowed in defeat in the season's finale to the league leading Royal Oak Kiwanis Club nine by an 8--6 count. The seesaw contest was called after six innings because of darkness. The Flashes entered the fray full of vim, vinegar and confidence be cause the previous week they had humbled the Kiwanians by scoring an 11--10 triumph. Martin Alspaugh. Flash initial sacker, awaits throw from third. Loyal rooters yell tor Flash victory. ETC 05996 In the eleven games they played in the Southern Oakland County Church and Service Club League our boys were unable to obtain bet ter than an even break, thus winding up the season with a standing of .500. One of their games ended in a tie score. Just wait till next year, as they say in Brooklyn! * Carl's Comer While walking around with my eyes open, I ran across a sign in the gatehouse of March Field, which seemed quite apropos in the present situation. It read: IF YOU MUST KILL TIME. WORK IT TO DEATH-WE ARE AT WAR! So I gave four lectures to pilots and mechanics that afternoon, and time wasn't dead but I was nearly so. And all I have to do tomorrow is to drive 200 miles and give two more demonstrations. The Army must think I ride around in a P-38, but actually my speed is "my delays plus those of the Army." In addition to my frequent con tacts with the Army, I also make the rounds of the oil companies' offices, where I saw the following bits of wisdom posted in conspicuous places: "One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts." "Oh Lord, give me strength to keep my nose in my own damn busi ness." It's hot, so I'll quit for now. Yours, CARL ABELL Engine Loaned lo Navy In the August issue of Flight, the monthly magazine published by the U. S. Naval Air Station at Grosse lie. Mich., the following story ap peared : "Ethyl Corporation has loaned the Ground School an engine whose peace time job was that of demon strating the effects of detonation due to the use of low octane fuels. "The Powerplant Section of Ground School has made some mod ification. and by the addition of cockpit type of powerplant controls has made it possible to effectively demonstrate to students the way the propeller control effects engine speed, and how the various effects of mixture control, throttle control, and propeller control make possible the suppression of detonation even on relatively low grade fuel. "The use of this equipment at last makes it possible to show the stu dents the things discussed in lec tures." 11 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 05997 Nine Service Stars Nine new service stars have been added to the Ethyl service flag this month. They represent W. K. "Mac" McCulloch and A1 Basye of the Kansas City Division, and Archie L. Tillotson, Robert D. Thrasher, Wil liam Dunnam, William Clancy, George W. Wisener, James D. French, and Isadore Belanger, all of Baton Rouge. We are presenting to you the ad dresses of as many of these boys as we have received at the time of going to press. In addition, we are giving you here a flock of changes of address which have fairly swamped us this month. And if all these addresses don't satisfy you, take a look at this month's Victory Mail and you will find still more. Archie L. Tillotson, S.F. 3c U. S. Naval Training Station Bainbridge, Md. Major B. W. Fridge 345 Bombardment Group (M) A.P.O. 929 San Francisco, Calif. Lt. Emerson B. Blair 66th Transport Sqdn.. A.T.C. A.P.O. 502, Unit 2 San Francisco, Calif. Ralph W. Hutchinson. A.S. 7th Batt., Company 764 N.T.S. Newport, R. I. Lt. Idan E. Flaa 932 Purdy Street Birmingham, Mich. Lieut, (j.g.) William K. McCulloch NTS, 11th Bn. 11-19 University of Arizona Tucson, Ariz. Pvt. Alfred T. Basye Co. D, Barracks 622 Reception Center 1773 Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Lt. Joseph A. Hobart DTR 'ATC Engineering Officer P.O. Box 3000 So. San Francisco, Calif. ^ Ensign Fred W. Ramin LCT (6) 502 Flotilla No. 1 c o Fleet Post Office New York, N. Y. Robert D. Thrasher, S.F. 3c Platoon 7605, Area C-8-106 Camp Perry, Va. William Clancy, S.F. lc Platoon 7537, Area C-7 Camp Perry, Va. Capt. F. D. Atkinson Bombing Branch Armament Laboratory Experimental Eng. Div. Material Command Wright Field Dayton, Ohio j i i t 12 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 05998 Sgt. L. C. Juban Co. "C" 363 Engr. Kegt. A.P.O. 795 New York, N. Y. S/Sgt. James N. Johnson 384 Q.M. (Tnk) Co. Indiantown Gap, Penna. Capt. Robert C. Kendrick 513 Parachute Inf. Co. C Fort Benning, Ga. Harry J. B. Langlois, EM 2/c 100th Batt., Co. D Platoon 1, N.A.B.D. Gulfport, Miss. Capt. A. H. Middleton, F. A. Box 586 Holtville, Calif. Capt. Leo A. Miller I.R.T.C., 6th Regt. 20th Batt., Company D Fort McClellan, Ala. Lt. (j.g.) Cooper N. Mills U.S.S. Extricate (ARS-16) c/o Fleet Post Office New York, N. Y. Charles H. Mathis, Csp. N.T.S.--N.O.B. Bootshed Norfolk, Va. Pfc. Henry Miller 803 Bomb Sqdn. 470 Bomb Group Mt. Home, Idaho Pvt. R. E. Oesterling 914th Training Group, B.T.C. 9 Sqdn. 143-C Miami Beach, Fla. Lt. Percy Breeden Co. C 137TDTB 4th Regt. RTC N. Camp Hood, Texas John L. Bagents MOMM1 cUSCGR Box 306 Kentwood, La. James F. Bridges, M.M. 2 'c c o Capt. of the Port (Secondary) Grand Isle, La. C.G. 63004 Sgt. Adam L. Brooks Co. B. 428th Sign. Cons. Bn. Avn. Langley Field, Va. Lloyd G. Boyles, Fireman 1 'c 1014 Phinney Alton, 111. Reynolds M. Collins, Csp. 7269 Marcy St., Apt. 8 Norfolk, Va. George W. Chavers Flight Instructor Army Primary School Decatur, Ala. ^ Lt. R. H. Colvin AAFPS Box 309 Dodge City, Kan. Pvt. J. P. Carswell Co. B. S.C.W. No. 3414 Univ. of Ala. University, Ala. Pvt. John F. Carter Btry. A, 183rd F.A. Bn. Camp Gruber, Okla. 13 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER 1 1 ETC 05999 Sgt. Wilford E. Frazier Btry. G, 204 Co. (A.A.) San Diego, Calif. Cpl. William R. Flory 2nd Gunnery Sch. Sqd. Bks. T-718 L.A.A.F. Laredo, Texas Pvt. Henry H. Field, Jr. 901st Training Group CE 110 Amarillo Flying Field, Texas A/C Edgar W. Gates Eagle Field Class 44-A, WB4 Das Palos, Calif. Cpl. Herbert J. Holdridge 744 Ordnance Co. (L.M.) 44th Inf. Div. Fort Lewis, Wash. Cpl. Phebus N. Hotard Army Tech. School A.A.F.T.T.C. Barracks 824 Sioux Falls, S. D. Pfc. Ellis L. Hogan Instructor Wing Radio School Sub Base No. 1 Salt Lake City, Utah Frank W. Hill, S. 2/c Co. 12-252 Navy Pier Chicago (4), 111. Cpl. Rufus M. Jackson Camp Signal Office Camp Shelby, Miss. 14 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER Joseph E. Christy, S.F. lc 75 Naval Const. Batt. Co. C, Plat. 2 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Cpl. D. D. Davis 40th Ord. Tng. Co. Box 227, A.P.G. Aberdeen, Md. Pfc. C. C. Eiswirth 15th R.C.D. 2nd Trng. Sqdn. Barracks T-417 Daniel Field Augusta, Ga. Jason D. Fendlason, Jr. BM 1/c U.S.C.G.R. 48014 c o Fleet Postmaster New Orleans, La. Pvt. William Wayne Dunnam 308th Trg. Gp,, 29th Trg. Sqdn. Barracks 281 Sheppard Field, Texas O. C. Robert M. Pitcher Btry. 19 AAAS Camp Davis, N. C. Joseph T. Reed, B.M. 2 c c o Capt. of the Port United States Coast Guard Panama City, Fla. R. W. Rich, S.F. 1/c A2 66th U.S.N.C.B. c o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Sgt. Morris W. Stonecipher 88th Cml. Bn. Co. D Camp Rucker, Ala. 1 a I i ETC 06000 Meredith "Ted" Littlefield, Los Angeles Division Held engineer, left, talks over tractor matters with the Honorable T. R. Ferris, representing the British Ministry oi Agriculture, and Presi dent Snyder of the Calitorma Tractor Be Implement CJub. Mr. Ferris was here fo study certain agricuffuraJ areas in the United States in search of ideas and machines to help the British to step up food production still turther by means of tractor power. A/C H. E. Sanders Class 43-14-7 San Marcos, Texas A. D. Treloar, 2nd Eng. S.S. Francis Lemis Waterman Steamship Co. c/o Postmaster Port of New York, N. Y. A/C Henry K. Wright Bks. 60, Av C Detachment Brooks Field, Texas S/Sgt. W. F. Zachariah 479 Bombardment Sqd. 336 Bombardment Group Avon Park Bombing Range Avon Park, Fla. A Ring for Her Finger Martha W. Fisher, drum card record clerk at Deepwater, decided she had waited long enough, so when her boy friend. Private Royce E. Gaudet, arrived home on furlough, things happened. Martha said "I do" on August 13 in that famous matri monial center. Elkton, Md., but soon after the ceremony the bridegroom had to hustle back to his post at Robinson, Ark. So on September IS Martha put aside her typewriter to join her husband. Before she left, her friends at the plant presented her with a gift of glassware. 15 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06001 Freeport Facts The past month has gone by pretty swiftly with little of real news interest happening in Free port. Don't know, but suppose the summer heat is too much for the boys. Wish it were possible to film those catches Tommy Lynch and Woodrow Diehl, both of Opera tions, have been bragging about lately, but it seems the fish have al ready hit the skillet before we hear about them. Amidst our wondering one morn ing why pipe fitting Allen Crain wasn't on the job, we learned he had just become a proud poppa. Our in formant couldn't tell us any more about it other than that cigars would be on the counter next day. Con grats, Allen. Always a source of amazement to the operators at the Dibromide lab is Fred Niles, chemist. Now it seems Fred has taken unto himself the job of being president of our local Lit tle Theatre, and he sometimes gets his chemical formulas mixed with the dialogue of a play which is on the production line. To hear him suddenly burst out in lines from the script is becoming a common ex perience, but it is still good for a chuckle. Last month we feared our acci dent graph would take a turn for the worse, as a bicycle was placed in the care of our maintenance foreman to use in getting about the plant. Warnings were published for the benefit of employees so they might beware of this added hazard, and the sight of Foreman W. D. Oldham on his first day in the saddle made us feel sure we had done the right thing by taking proper precautions. But now two more bikes have been added to the plant equipment, one for Fran Overman, operations fore man, and another for the chemists, so life that was once serene and un eventful is now full of racy adven ture, as the era of progress triumphs again. ,=. And that's the news from Texas. i This photo of Harry Mack and his cigar, clasping hands with Larry Ratterman, vice president ot the Ohio River Terminal Company and president o1 the Hall-Ratterman Oil Com pany. was taken when both boys were attend ing the Cincinnati Jobber Convention. Activities at the outing consisted ot baseball, horseshoe pitching, and -- you guess what else. Setter be careful, boys, or you'll spill that pot ot liquid gold. ETC 06002 Edith Bryant, laboratory assistant at Detroit, quit being just a housewife alter Pearl Harbor and went to work with the Precise Tool & Manufacturing Company in Farmington, Mich., where she operated a milling lathe and drill press machine. She left this job to join Ethyl. Born in Louisville. Ky., Edith moved to Detroit with her parents when lour years old. Alter graduating from Bedford High School, she took a commercial course at Detroit Business Uni versity. She has two sons, ftobert and Edward, who are aged 13 and 12, respectively. Bowling, photography, goIt. and fishing are her favorite forms of recreation. Lieutenant Ray Hr'Lulce, of the Nav* Section Base at Panama City. Fla., formerly < the Atlanta Division, was married June 21 i the Tyndall Field Chapel. Panama City, i Dorothy Pfiester of Birmingham. Ala. Ray e: cuses his delay in reporting the event to th pressure of his duties, which barely gave hit time in which to be married, let alone make comprehensive report to the Bulletin Board. Re garding this picture. Ray said: "Thank God t camera takes single shots and the knee tremori are not visible." But from where we sit he doesn't look very scared. Johanna C* Clitt, laboratory assistant in Detroit, is a native of Milwaukee. Wis., but she came to Detroit at the age of six. She is a gradu ate of Cass Technical High School and attended Michigan State College. Before joining Ethyl she was with the Tank Automotive Center. As spare time activities Johanna prefers horseback riding, bowling, and handling the light canvas on a sailboat. --- ETC 06003 Fighting The following two poems, "Somewhere Oregon, and "An Aussie's Answer" formerly of the Tulsa Div,, who is now Somewhere in New Guinea Somewhere in New Guinea, where the sun is like a curse. Where each long dull day is succeeded by another slightly worse, Where the slippery mud is thicker than the shifting desert sands, And a white man dreams and wishes for the greener fairer lands. Somewhere in New Guinea, where a woman's never seen. Where the weather is always rainy, and the grass is too green. Where the dingoe's nightly howling robs a man of blessed sleep. And there isn't any whiskey, and the beer is never cheap. Somewhere in New Guinea, where the mail is always late. Where a Christmas card in April is considered up to date. Where we never have a payday, so we never have a cent. But we never miss the money -- there's no chance to get it spent. Somewhere in New Guinea, where the nights are made for love. Where the moon is like a searchlight and the Southern Cross above Sparkles like a necklace in the balmy tropic night, It's a shameful waste of beauty when there's not a girl in sight. Somewhere in New Guinea, where the ants and lizards play. Where a hundred fresh mosquitoes replace each one you slay, So take me back to Oregon, that's the place for me to dwell. For this God-forsaken outpost is a substitute for Hell. Home sweet home! Ah yes, just those three little words Are the most welcome and most pleasant I've yet heard, When this war is over and the Japs slapped end over end, ^ ETC 0G004 fen's Verses ii New Guinea," written by a soldier from ":sent in by Major Arthur Dale Miller, .tf in the jungles of the southwest Pacific. An Aussie's Answer to "Somewhere In New Guinea" I lately read your sad. sad tale, a wail both loud and long. 'Twere better had you used your time for writing out a song. You hail from far-off Oregon where tall pine timbers are, But now you're in New Guinea beneath our Southern Star. You're very contradictory, now that you must admit. You wish for "Greener, fairer lands" as here you idly sit; But in the following stanza I read this little phrase, I quote; "The grass is too green." Say, pal, you're in a maze. "Where the weather is always rainy" -- "Where the sun is like a curse," It looks as though, my Yankee friend, you go from bad to worse. "A substitute for Hell" -- "Where nights are made for love," 'Twould give old Nick a mighty kick to hear that from above. But look now on the brighter side, it's really not so bad. The tucker.'s good -- well, mostly -- and fresh water to be had. In Egypt and Tunisia they got a tin each day. I know it's not like home, old chap, but please don't grouse, I pray. I quite agree with those three words about your "Home Sweet Home." It helps to know we have one, when we have ceased to roam. But what's the good cf going home until our job is through? We'd only have to start again, a harder task to do. So just be thankful, cobber. Don't rave against your fate. The Japs cannot be beaten from Frisco's Golden Gate. Someday when you are home again, you'll meet a pal. and sigh For the days you spent together 'neath Guinea's cloudy sky rti r Dale Miller 06005 etc the DuBerry Room ot the DuPont Hotel in Wilmington, Dels., the evening of August 2. following the Army-Navy "E" Award presentation ceremonies. This picture arrived too late to be included in last month's story ot the "E" Award program, so we are giving you a look at it now. Robert H. Cowllshaw Margaret L Tartey is a lovely new addi Marilyn E. Campbell/ of New York Financial hails tion to the accounting department at Deep page girl in New York Finan from E/izabefi), N J.t is mar water. A native of Salisbury, Md., she worked cial, is a singer ot ability- ried and has a foui-yearold for Western Union at various locations for three During the past summer she son. He graduated from Battin years and then spent a year with the duPont sang on week-ends with the High School in Elizabeth, at company in Wilmington. Del., before coming fo dance band which played af tended flutters Universify Ethyl. She devotes much ot her leisure time to the Larchmont Shore Club, for two years and then went reading the current best sellers and is among and last winter she made to New York University to those present at most of the local dances. frequent vocal appearances complete his coliege course. for British War Belief. A Before joining Ethyl he was with Loomis, Suitern Bronx resident. Marilyn attended the School of and Fernald, certified public accountants. For Industrial Art in New York, specializing in cos recreational purposes there is nothing like the tume design. She came to us from William Iselm grand old game oi golf, he says. & Company. Inc., investment bankers. 20 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06006 Stork Visits Kure Beach It's a boy for R. T. Horton and wife. The long legged bird dropped off Ralph Terrell, Jr., on June 2 and thereby unburdened himself of a 7^-pound weight. "Pop" Horton is assistant to Jed Clark, superintend ent of transportation at the Kure Beach Ethyl-Dow plant. Another junior bowed in at the home of Neill Musselwhite on Au gust 24. The little lad's old gentle man is stock clerk at Kure Beach. While all these boys were arriv ing, Woodrow Hewett announced the birth of a daughter, his third. Woodie is control operator at Kure Beach. it On the inside looking out is Tom Keenan, right, formerly of Purchasing, New York. The picture wouid seem fo indicate that Tom is enjoying Army life. Stranger, it shore was a red letter day in the old Vogel homestead up thar in the Bronx when Jon, small est of the twin sons of Chris Vogel of the Ethyl News staff, sprouted his first tooth. Let me tell you. Pappy and Mammy Vogel were plumb exhilarated, though it did make 'em begin to wonder what was wrong with Chris, Jr., the bigger twin. The youngsters first see the light of day last January. No Longer With Us Mitchell W. Manchester, Detroit Margaret G. Smith, Yonkers Carole M. Cooke, New York Elizabeth L. Rigg, Detroit Alexandra Slomba, Detroit James M. Allen, Detroit Violette Hughes, Seattle Patricia Nelson, Detroit Helen Rafferty, Yonkers Elmer R. Chellborg, New York Royal E. Davis, Detroit Theresa Leahy, New York 21 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06007 Frances F. Macrae of New York Financial has joined the group of Ethyl workers who reside in the beautiiul little village oi Hastingson-Hudson, N. Y., the scenic wonders oi which give her ample opportunity to follow her favor ite hobby, painting in water colors. She is a graduate ot Portchester. N. Y.. High School and attended Merrell Business College in Port Chester. She came fo Ethyl from the Loeser Laboratory. Katherine Alice Beaubier is the daugh ter oi Mr. and Mrs. DicJe Beaubier.of Royal Oak. Mich. Dick, who was one oi the original group transferred from Detroit to San Bernardino in J 935 to do road testing, returned to the Motor City in August and is now working on engine development at the Lab. From a farm away out in Elmer. N. J., came Mary Cooper to handle drum card records at Deepwater. Mary joined Ethyl just a short time after her graduation from high school at Woodstown, N. J. She likes music and reading and she goes in for sports of all hinds. Helen E- Furey of New York Financial is a graduate of Bay Aidge High School and Brown s Business College, both in Brooklyn, which is her native borough. She came to thyi from the Grocery Store Products Sales Company in Man hattan. Her favorite form of recreation is bicycle riding, which looks from here like a very help* iui pastime in this gasless era. ETC 06008 *** VICTORY MAIL * * * Dear Ethyl Service Men: I seem to be quite overdue on my con tributions to the Servicemen's letter ex change, especially in view of all the enjoyment I've had from receiving them and other company publications. They really bring a touch of the good old life into these surroundings, and ordinarily arrive in a month or so. I've been on this particular island for six months and feel thoroughly ready to see something new whenever the chance arises. It is pretty in a tropical sort of way though -- plenty of wonderful beaches, fresh and salt water swimming the year round, coconuts, jungles, and all that goes with them. But give me the pleasures of civilization any day. A short while back I did get a week's rest leave in New Zealand, which was really one of the high spots in my overseas career. They have a surprisingly wonderful country there. I imagine it would be interesting if I could describe some of the points of interest of this place and wish I could, but unfortunately it is still taboo. My work remains the same as it has always been, that of a Squadron Engi neering Officer, and we go on doing our best to keep the planes in the air where they will do the most good. Of course, different problems arise every day, but it's fun to solve them, improvising vari ous gadgets if necessary. I notice from the letter exchange that quite a few of the other fellows are in training for this same line of work, and I feel sure that they'll enjoy it and find it as interesting as I have. I've been hoping that one of these days I might have the luck to meet some of you other fellows who seem to be around here too, but so far haven't. At any rate, here's hoping, and best of luck to you all. Lt. D. A. Hirschler 17th Photo Squadron (L) A.P.O. 709, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif, (formerly of Detroit) 23 BULLETIN BOARD -- 0CTOBE R ETC 0600 Just a card to let you know of a change of address and let you know that I really enjoy receiving the News Letter. I was in the States a couple of months ago but didn't get east of the Pacific Coast. Had a good time though. But now I am back at the old grind on a very in teresting job, something that I know very little about, but that is the way most of our jobs are, always different than the last. It makes for a good general experi. ence. Regards to all Ethyl gals and guys and also Lt. R. R. Faller. Best wishes to everyone. Yours for Victory, Capt. Harold B. Ellis 47th Engineer Regiment A.P.O. 957 San Francisco. Calif, (formerly of Detroit) to other work but have managed to get along fairly well as an instructor. Would you please address future cor respondence to roe at the address below rather than at the air station, and also that of my wife. Inasmuch as Detroit is my legal residence I have used the Ethyl Corporation as my address where one was necessary. Would appreciate it very much if you would call this to the atten tion of the proper department and ask them to forward any such mail to this address. We also have a permanent ad dress through which we may always be contacted at 1005 W. Woodruff Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. Thanks a lot for keeping me on the mailing list, as I sure appreciate hearing the news of the boys at home and abroad. Lieut. James M. Mason, Jr., USNR 2139 St. Johns Avenue Jacksonville, Fla. (formerly of Detroit) Don't tell me--I know it is time for my annual contribution to the News Letter, far past the time in fact. Have been re ceiving these letters quite regularly and enjoy them very much. As for my own experiences, they have been very tame. Am still teaching stu dent pilots--at the present time in one of the fighter squadrons at Lee Field. Was in Columbus, Ohio, last fall for two months for special training at Ohio State University and have been teaching rec ognition for the past eight months at various places on the station. The train ing here is really the most important phase of this entire command, which in cludes most of Florida, and as a result have been stuck in this end of the game for two years now rather than in engi neering where I would much rather be. Still haven't given up hope for a transfer Hava another engineer now in our home. It's a boy, born on August 18, named William Pryor, and weighed 6 lbs. 854 ozs. ^ Pvt. Samuel W. Laswell Batt. C, 6th Bn. Fort Eustis, Va. (formerly of Detroit) ip 24 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER etc 0601 Ton probably won't remember me be* cause it has been a long time since I was out at Eight Mile Road. I was a member of Mr. Faller's last training course. At present I'm an engineering officer in a B-17 squadron. During the past year I've run into some of the Ethyl men from time to time. While I was in training at Chanute Field the Sales office was good enough to send me some literature on fuels that was of interest and helpful to the instructors in the engine laboratory. Please remember me to Mr. Kass and accept my wish that everything is going well with you and the rest of the folks at the lab. William F. Cory 592 B Sqd. Moses Lake, Wash, (formerly of Detroit) You've certainly been patient to wait this long for some word as to my doings. Well, since I phoned you last while in the city many things have happened. I've been hitting the ball here at Packard right through expecting to shove off for the east. My orders have now been com pletely changed and they are short cir cuiting my schooling and have decided to give me two more weeks here before I go to Frisco to shove off to a PT base beyond the continental limits of the U.S. Some of the details I, of course, don't know and won't till I get there--others I know but can't say. However, I am to be the engineering officer for more than one squadron at our advanced base under the Pacific command. Maybe they are still driving the Japs from the islands where we are to set up. I know I'll have a 24-hour-a-day job, what with all the engines in the boats, the auxiliaries in the boats (a four-cylin der engine worth more than a Cadillac 12-cylinder car), the diesel electric power plants, refrigeration units, heating plants, water purifiers, telephone, ord nance (you see, we'll have to be able to protect ourselves, too), and then at the base we'll have a Taylor dynamometer, carburetor flow test bench, ignition sys tem test units, all to be set up and made to work by the engineering officer. I'll just have to pray I'll remember all I'm getting condensed now and then that I'll have some smart chiefs to help. You see, Ray, the chiefs really do the job and the engineering officer just gets the blame. One thing I like is that all of our equipment is made so well. Our 7 amp. generators on the boat engines, three per boat, are beautiful jobs. Then the auxil iary makes current for the galley, radar, heaters, etc. It's going to be tough knowing you need a part for an engine that isn't there on that island but while you're here you could run over to Building X and get all you need. It seems there has suddenly arisen a great need for engine specialists and base operators, so I guess that's where I come in. Of course, I don't know any of the above facts to be true as stated. I've only pieced the story together from what other PT skippers have said was the case away out there. I'll be in the city for a couple of days with my family and hope to see you then. Three and a half months in the service is a short time to get orders like these. I can't make up my mind whether to be complimented or not. Either they thought I could do with less training or else they want to get rid of me as soon as possible. Of course, Panama, Ha waiian Islands and other more civilized bases are possibilities, but I have rea sons to believe otherwise. Last week I was given the job of taking a graduating class of sailors and building up an engine from parts. We made the engine into the latest model with 1350 h.p. rating. We put the engine on the 25 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06011 dynamometer and ran it through its pre liminary and then tore it down for in spection. She put out 1000 h.p. on her green run. Then we set her up again and this time we goosed the gun for all she had. She turned out 1508 h.p., the highest of any stock engine here. The results are now posted in the school to show our men we can put them together from scratch and make them work. The fine tolerances you must keep on these engines, as is true on all high horsepower jobs, is a never ending marvel to me. When you think that each engine is worth 16 grand and each boat worth more than a Flying Fort, you know the responsibility of our work. Everyone of the men are of the best. If there is one thing you have faith in. it's your men. Florence has been over here with me for this week. We've had little enough time together and want to make the most of these last few days. Seeing the civil ians from this side of the fence is a pain ful operation. You sometimes wonder what, after all. are we going to be fighting for. If we can hope to come back, what will it be to come back to? And this city doesn't help the outlook very much. Maybe out there with lots of hours to work it over in my mind I'll get it all squared away only to return and find I'm all wrong. All I ask is that we get this dirty job done so we can all get back (as many of us as possible) to live the sort of lives this ol' world has always made possible but which so few have ever achieved. If I'm going to rely on letters from home I guess I'll have to give up expect ing any from 310. Then again maybe you've all been on vacation and stuff? I'll advise you of my address as soon as I can and will keep looking to you for information of this side. Lieut, (j.g.) Torbin F. Yates Naval Training School Naval Armory 7600 East Jefferson Avenue Detroit, Mich. (formerly of Chicago) I am Willing this between working. It is about eight o'clock at night and we are still going. Some different than the old days. Got to London a week ago and had a couple of days there. It is a very inter esting city. Saw the changing of the guard at the palace and it is really some thing to see. I got quite a kick out of Westminster Abbey. It is very impres sive. Saw a show, "Sunny River." It was an American show with English actors and was not bad. I am in the Eighth Air Force which you have no doubt read about and you can understand why we are so busy. Somehow I have an idea the Germans don't like us any too well and I hope they will like us even less. Got a letter from Art Acken yesterday. He did not lose much time in raising a family. Give my best to Gert and the kids and tell those gals they are way behind on writing to me. Capt. Lawrence H. Blatchford 16th Depot Repair Sq. A.P.O. 635 New York, N. Y. (formerly of Boston) 26 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06012 From a prison camp somewhere m Germany came this message from J. L. Peck, former Ethyl'Dow operator at Kure Beach, N. C. Lonnie Peck, who used to be a lifeguard at Caroiina Beach, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the summer of 2942. Reported missing in action in May, 1943, his family was later notified by the American and Canadian govern ments that he was a prisoner. This post card from him, which was mailed June 22, was received September 8. The addressee. C. J. Craig, Jr., is operating shift foreman at the /Cure Beech BthyJ-Dow plant. ETC 06013 Hello, Everyone! I managed to find some free time to day so I thought I'd drop you a line to let you know how things are going on the Sibert front. We have just finished the eighth week of our scheduled 13-week program. Up till now we have had mostly infantry fundamentals. We've fired the Enfield rifle, the carbine, the .22 and .30 calibre machine gun, and the heavy, or .30 calibre, machine gun. The rifle was the only one that we fired for record. I was lucky and made sharpshooter on it. We're all looking forward to using the 4.2 inch mortar, which gave such a fine account of itself in the Sicilian cam paign. This mortar can be used to shoot either chemical shells or high explosive. So far it's only been used for high ex plosive, which is bad enough, but I hope the day never arrives when it's used for laying down a barrage of chemical agents. It can really put down a high concentration of lethal gases in a very short period of time. Spaced in between the infantry classes we receive lectures and practical work on chemical warfare. We've all had to take small doses of the various chemical agents that are known, so that we can identify them at some future date if it ever becomes our misfortune to be in a gassed area. Some of these gases are chloropicrin, adamsite, lewisite, mustard, phosgene, ethyl dichlorobenzene, ana chloracetophenone. Of all these I dislike phosgene the most. Our nickname for it is choke gas and that's just what it does to you. As soon as you get in its vapors, it seems as though a huge giant has clamped his huge hands and arms about you and has begun to apply pressure. Your eyes burn and water and your lungs cry for fresh air. It is a potent gas and it doesn't take long to kill. It is one of the few gases designed to kill men. The others are de signed to put men in the hospital and thereby create more work for the enemy. Chloropicrin is a unique gas in that it induces vomiting. It was fiendishly used in the last war, mixed with phosgene. The gas mask in use at that time was unable to absorb chloropicrin. The sol diers would smell the gas mixture and immediately don their masks. The chlo ropicrin, however, would come right through and cause the men to vomit. This made it necessary for them to remove their masks, thereby leaving themselves at the mercy of phosgene. The gas masks now in use are so designed as to filter out the chloropicrin, thank God. Mustard and lewisite produce burns which are extremely painful and very slow in healing. A pin point of mustard liquid will produce a burn and a blister the size of a silver dollar! Ethyl dichlo robenzene and chloracetophenone are tear gases used to harass the enemy in that they force them to done their masks and so cut down their efficiency. Adam site produces a sick to the stomach feel ing and causes one to feel depressed to the extent of committing suicide. Even though this is war, these gases are so horrible that I hope the belligerent na tions refrain from their use. Physical training, which we have every day, rapidly became our permanent gripe. One of our officers gives it to us in very strenuous doses. After we exer cise until we think we're going to drop, he gives the order to double time. We double time anywhere from 34 to 1>4 miles. His name is Simpson but we call him Sampson, or sometimes Little Boy Blue. This week we are going through the infiltration course. You've probably all seen pictures of one. We crawl over and under various types of obstacles such as trenches, barbed wire, walls, culverts, etc., while the ammunition from a .30 calibre machine gun passes overhead. I think the cone of fire is held only 36 inches above the ground. Land mines are also scattered about the course, and they go off continually. The whole idea is to simulate actual battle conditions. The first time we go through it in the daytime. In our 12th week we'll go through at night. It must be thrilling at night to see the tracers 28 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 060 just passing overhead. This training must agree with me because, even with the heat down here, I've managed to add about seven or eight pounds to my thin frame. The A.S.T.P. board at this post has passed me as being suitable for further training. The A.S.T.P. is the Army Spe cialized Training Program whereby sol diers are sent to colleges. After I finish my basic training. I'll be sent to an S.T. A.R. college where I'll be given some tests. If I pass these tests I may be sent back to college. Although I would like to get my degree. I would probably have to study what the Army wants studied. I hope nothing presents itself to prevent me from accepting this opportunity. I received the August copy of the Bul letin. While reading it, I felt like a civil ian once more. How are things back at the Lab? Down here I've met fellows from Shell. Texaco, and Standard. It felt good to talk about octane numbers for a change, instead of calibres and muzzle velocities. Did Ritchie's leg come back to normal yet? Let me hear from you soon. I think mess call is second to mail call. We sure do crowd our corporal when he hands out the letters from home. I hope you feel as well as I do and that everything is all right. Private Edward J. Staffel Co. H, 1st Rgt., R.T.C. Camp Sibert, Ala. r(formerly of Yonkers) Ant silling here in our field office and as we are out of work at the present thought I would drop you a few lines to let you know my whereabouts. My days in Africa are over. At least I hope so and am now on the island of Sicily, but as far as the terrain is concerned you would hardly know the difference. Africa was pretty much like I expected it would be, inhabited by the French and full of Arabs and Moslem women with their faces veiled. I was fortunate in getting to visit a couple of the large cities and spent ap proximately six weeks in the vicinity of Oran and was in the city almost every day. So far I have run across only one person that I knew from home--a boy I hadn't seen in about ten years and whose home is now in Clinton, N. C. You should really see our office here. Not bad at all for a field office, and our living quarters are anything but the Waldorf. The ground gets "softer" every night but you would be surprised how one can get used to living conditions when one has to. Think of you all at the office often and, believe me. long for the day I'll be back. Give my regards to all the fellows at the piant and write and give me all the dope when you can. Sergeant A. J. Bergen 30th Finance Disb. Sec. Hq. II Corps, A.P.O. 302 New York, N. Y. (formerly of Kure Beach) This is io notify you of my recent change of address and to thank you for all the copies of the Bulletin. Board I have been receiving so regularly. If at all possible will you send me the latest address of H. K. Wright. Frank Neal and Woodrow Merritt with the next issue? All of us move around so quickly and unexpectedly it is no easy matter to keep in touch with everybody. I would like very much to hear from any of the gang, especially those in Baton Rouge. I'll do my utmost to an swer any and all correspondence. Corporal Leonard E. Massey 705 Signal A.W. Co. A.P.O.4746 New York, N. Y. (formerly of Baton Rouge) 29 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 06015 jm Am no longer in Australia. Left right after my last letter to you. Had an in teresting trip by air to my present loca tion in the jungles, the latter part of the trip being made by jeep. You have never been on a rough road, if it really could be called such, until you travel around these parts. Sorry I cannot tell you where I am, but I stopped at (cen sored) on the way here. I read the article about Bill Hubner in the June issue of the Bulletin Board and will try to get in touch with him. His picture with two secretaries has me wondering. Where I am there are no white women and only a few native women. They wear grass skirts and one can see some varied characteristics. Per haps I can get some pictures later (if I get the camera June is trying to buy for me) and will send a few. One of the most popular songs is "I'm Dreaming of a White Mistress." I am really quite comfortable here in some respects. Am living in a native built hut, with its thatched roof made of cocoanut palm fronds -- really turns the rain, though. Our food has been quite good, considering the difficulties of get ting it up here. There are a few things one must get used to, such as lots of rain (we do have a few minutes of sun shine once in a while, which we enjoy), washing our own clothes (in cold water), damp clothing and shoes, mud. air raids, etc. Clothing and anything made of leather gets mildewed when left a short time. Of course we take atabrine six days per week and sleep under a mosquito bar every night to guard against malaria. It gets quite warm, but this is only the winter season. War is hell! You perhaps have read accounts in Life and have seen some pictures. I shall really appreciate the U.S. if and when I return. Enough about that. How are things in the Tulsa Division? Noted in the June issue of the Bulletin Board also that you have a glamorous new receptionist. Appears to be quite all right, even if she is from O. U. (Okla homa University--Ed.). I suppose all the fellows are keeping pretty busy, keep ing up with the demands of the war ma chines. We will need plenty more 10b octane gasoline before this is over. Please give my regards and best wishes to all the Ethyl folks. I trust Lillian and Butch are getting along fine. Butch must be quite a big boy now. I am enclosing a copy of "Somewhere in New Guinea," written by a soldier from Oregon, and an Aussie's answer to same. It would perhaps be of sufficient interest for the Ethyl Bulletin Board. Incidentally, I am looking forward to the next issue. Mail means more than ever in the tropical jungles. Must close now, but will try to write again in the near future. Your letters are always appreciated. Major Arthur Dale Miller Headquarters Sixth Army A.P.O. 42 San Francisco, Calif, (formerly of Tulsa) Sr I'm rather ashamed to admit that I'm such a poor correspondent (I once wrote you every Saturday!) but I always seem to have my hands full of something to do ... so I carry the good intentions around for weeks before I ever get down to writing. Life in the Army continues along the same old well defined groove. As many another Lt. before me, I manage to spend a lot of my time teaching future armoraiders how to replace the wigglin' pin in the wobblin' bar on the track chain link age reverse idler assembly. Or a reason ably accurate facsimile. As before, I am still the mastermind of the motor maintenance department of the fightin' 83rd. But I don't think the General has taken notice of that fact as yet. Right now I've got my hands full of new models of track laying monsters, however, and as usual, it's quite inter esting. I don't let them forget GM for long, either. 30 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06016 California is probably a great place (Lake Tahoe and San Francisco anyway) but I sure get that old feeling now and then for a look at Lake Michigan . . . and one of those quiet, character build ing evenings to be enjoyed along Rush Street. I don't remember if I told you Dorothy is out here with me now and we have a little white cottage with a green picket fence and a helluva big yard which I have to mow too often, and a two car garage with an old broken down Dodge and a family of black widow spiders in it. And all in all, life in the Army could be lots worse. Maybe you're kidding, but I don't think I'm interested in the ten dollar offer for the radio. Out here you can't even buy the box it came in for that. So you can do me a favor, if you will, and ship it collect to me. Give my regards to all the gang and write me the news when you have time. Lieutenant John A. Clark 83rd Armored Medical Bn. 13th Armored Division A.P.O. 263 Camp Beale, Calif, (formerly of Chicago) t Hello, Gangi Having wonderful time--wish you were here. This life is great stuff. We are all so full of pep that we all wake up at 5:30 in the morning and take a two mile run to work off our excess energy. En joying myself strolling around in the sunshine all day long, just like the Adiron. dacks. Excellent food, too--just like Club Degnan's free lunch. You should get a load of me scrubbing my white uniforms. No selling apples after this war--I'll take in washing. Ralph W. Hutchinson. A.S. 7th Batt., Company 76, N.T.S. Newport, R. I. (formerly of New York) Ted wrote me the other day saying that he had lunch with you and some of the other Ethyl gang and the mere men tion of your name reminded me that I haven't written you since coming up here last February. I have surprisingly little to write about but can let you know a few items of interest. Believe it or not, I am Educational Officer for this base and am kept darn busy. I won't bore you with talk of my duties in this capacity but as the name implies, it does have to do with educa tion of enlisted and officer personnel. Frankly, this is a little out of my line, but I'm learning gradually. I'm not quite sure what it has to do with winning the war, but I suppose someone has to do it. Incidentally, the minimum tour of duty in the Alaskan sector is 18 months for officers and so I have 13 more to go. How ever, we are eligible for a ten-day leave after one year. Life up here is pretty much the same day after day, but this base does have a lot of fine facilities. A nice theatre and gym combined, a nice bar for the officers, good fishing and hunting and a handful of civil service females. I am kept busy at night getting around to some fifty classes we have going on a voluntary basis. I thought for a while I was going to have to teach something, but so far I have escaped that. It is my job to talk other people into teaching. This is a new program in the Navy and is designed to help the men both in service and after they get out when the war is over. Our best month so far was in May when we had over 800 students enrolled. I also get my share of O.D. watches and so all in all I stay busy. So far I have not run into a single acquaintance from civilian life but I have met quite a few friends of people I know. I even met one fellow out in Cold Bay who used to work with Cham pion Spark Plug who knows Mat Reese. I'm sorry I can't describe the country to you as it would be censored, but it is not as bad as I had expected. These sum mer months have been grand (first sum- 31 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06017 mer I have not suffered from the heat) but I have yet to go through the worst months of December and January. We have been issued plenty of weather gear and so it should not be too bad. Hope you can drop me a line giving me all the dope on the Baltimore Divi sion and yourself. Lt. (j.g.) Dwight F. Andrews NOB Kodiak c/o Fleet Post Office Seattle. Wash. (formerly of Baltimore) f Hello Friendst How's everyone? Hope all of you are O.K. and that you are keeping things smooth at Ethyl-Dow. I'm doing fine. Like the Army. Would not think of wanting to leave until we are through with the big job. I boxed in Gadsden Tuesday night and won by a TKO in the second round over a former Golden Gloves winner from Baltimore, Md. We have a nice place for boxing at the M. P. Co. I work out most every day, though I'm having a little trouble with sinus and I'm afraid I might have to give up boxing yet. I'm going on a picnic tomorrow eve ning at a private place way back in the mountains. It's really pretty. I've been there before. And the food of Alabama is very good. The ladies down here know how to cook chicken. Guess I'll stop for this time. I expect to see you before very long. Bear down, fellows, and write. I'll be glad to hear from you. Corporal Ray C. Eason Military Police Det. Section I Camp Siebert, Ala. (formerly of Kure Beach) 1 Tour note of July 12 has just reached here and was thoroughly enjoyed and ap preciated. I, too, remembered June 15, 1942, as it was a banner day for me. Boy. how those steaks would look now (you're probably thinking the same thing) and what a good time we had. In any future communique please con vey my best wishes to Russell, Jerry, and Gertrude. I am now on that "Gem of the Carib bean" known as Aruba, where, as you know, there is a refinery of considerable proportions and, I might add. our Navy buys a sizeable portion of its output. Also visit Curacao frequently on matters of a like nature. Nearly every vessel that I go on that has come down from the States has deck cargo which bears evidence that you fel lows are on the ball and still pushing that stuff out. Believe me. we who see every blend made realize that you have a most vital part in this thing. Stay in there and pitch. Lieut, (j.g.) Charles Towery Navy 155. Fleet Post Office New York. N. Y. (formerly of Chicago) I want to thank you for seeding me the Ethyl Bulletin Board. I certainly do en joy reading it and keeping in touch with the Ethyl Corporation and its employees. I had the honor of being present at the presentation of the Army and Navy "E" at the Deepwater plant. This ceremony was one of the highlights of my fur lough and made me realize that though we are all not in uniform, we all have the same objective. Sergeant Winifred Duddy Co. 21, 21st Regt. 3rd WAC Training Center Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. (formerly of Deepwater) 32 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06018 i i Praise From a Veteran !I From somewhere in the Medi- had quite a few experiences, but will terranean war theatre came the fol have to wait until I get to Washing lowing letter to Glen Grant of our ton to tell you about them. Seattle Division, who conducted the "Grant, there is something I would first and second echelon training like you to tell your classes if you school at Fort Lewis, Wash. It was don't mind. I read this somewhere written by Technical Sergeant Paul and never paid much attention to it de Martini, serving with our Fifth until I found out from experience. ' Army, who was a student and later I consider it very important. `Over an instructor under Glen. here where the playing is for keeps "Hi Yah, Glen: and the condition of equipment is "Received your interesting letter often the difference between win dated February 27 and for the life ning and losing, or living and dying, of me can't figure out where the darn the drivers' daily preventive main letter has been all these months. I tenance services are the formula for suppose it's just one of those things. survival.' Take it from me. Grant, Sure was happy to get the news of truer words were never spoken. all the boys, and to know they are "Tell Harry Kuhe that he should i doing so well. feel proud of Ethyl Corporation for "As you can see from my return the swell work you and the school ; address, I am no longer with the old are doing. I know that the boys that I outfit. I left them in February. I you turn out are the ones that will am now in the Ordnance Section, keep the GI trucks rolling. Fifth Army, handling automotive. I have been promoted to a technical "Congratulations on the new baby. sergeant, and I can say that the time Give my love to Helen and Carol I spent at your school in Fort Lewis Anne. Say `hello' to Harry for me. has helped me. I hope you are all well at home and "It sure seems a long time since I may God bless you all. ^ hit the beach in Africa--nine months "As ever, seem more like nine years. I have "Sarg". For Richer, For Poorer Larry Stinson of the Road Test Division at Detroit and Muriel Lyon were married September 4 at the Metropolitan Methodist Church in the Motor City. Punch Pfunstein, also of the Road Test Division, was best man, while Mike Remondino and Cap Hall, both of Detroit Engi neering, were ushers. After a recep tion at Devon Gables, where a chicken dinner was served to 65 guests, the bridal couple left for Gatlemberg, Tenn., in the Great Smoky Mountains. 33 BULLETIN BOASD-OCTOJ.S ETC 06019 Jake BOSS of (he Maintenance Department at the Detroit Lab marched to the altar September 1 i with Mary Gihaon McFarland Gray. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride, with Jake's brother. Oscar, acting as best man and the bride's sister. Mrs. Janet Henderson, as maid of honor. After a week's motor trip through Canada, the couple returned to start housekeeping in Birmingham. Mich. Jake is shown here, surrounded by some of his friends at the Lab. after wedding gifts had been presented him. Classified Section X.. A. "Dolly" Dollahan of the Chicago Division has for sale an al most new desk type Westinghouse Sewing Machine, which was made in March, 1942, and is known as the DeLuxe Rotary model. It has a round bobbin and carries all attach ments. The serial number is ARE95406. The price when new is $174.50, but Dolly will practically give his machine away for a measly one hun dred bucks. Write him in care of the Chicago Division. * A Civilian Again Sam P. Rady, formerly of the Chi cago Division, has received his hon orable discharge from the Army and is now working with the Tulsa Diision. You can reach him at the Co lonial Inn, 1451 South Quaker Street, Tulsa, Okla. Keglers Get Going Strikes, spares, splits, gutter balls, and fouls were splattered all over the alleys September 9, as the Ethyl Bowling League at Detroit got away on its 1943-44 season. Many changes were apparent since last spring, noteably the new team names. They must have been chosen to scare opponents, for they include the De-Icers, the Zombies, the Power Jets and the Thermo-Quints (Hot Five). Individual scores ranged all the way from Everett Garnsey's 52 to a 244 by Claude Hoffman, both of whom were rolling as substitutes. Among the regulars Martin Alspaugh set a hot pace with a 231 in a 576 series. Many others got off to a flying start, giving promise of a big season if the boys can maintain the pace. 34 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06020 Tina etc 06021 ETC 06022 1 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD- by and (or Ethyl employtn ETC 06023 Day of Thanksgiving On November 25 we celebrate another Thanksgiving Day. The first Thanksgiving in Amer ica took place in 1621, when the Pil grim Fathers at Plymouth set aside a day to give thanks to Almighty God for their first harvest in the New World. On their first Thanksgiving the Pilgrim Fathers didn't have nearly as much as we have to be thankful for. Three thousand miles of wild ocean separated them from home and friends. To the west of them was a howling wilderness, inhabited by fierce savages. Cold and extreme hardship faced them on every side. Yet the Pilgrim Fathers felt grateful in their hearts that they could think and speak and act and worship God as free men. Thanksgiving Day was repeated often but irregularly during the years of colonization. During and after the Revolution Congress rec ommended days of Thanksgiving. One was observed in 1784, after the new nation, based on the creed that all men have equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness, had won its first war and its independence. Washington appointed a Day of Thanksgiving in 1789. after the Constitution had been adopted, guaranteeing the right of Ameri cans to live as free men and women. He appointed another one in 1795 to give thanks for the general benefits and welfare of the young United States. In 1815 President Madison pro claimed a Day of Thanksgiving for peace after we had won the critical War of 1812. In 1864, when Northern victories in the War Between The States as sured the continuance of an undi vided nation, Abraham Lincoln is sued a Presidential Proclamation, naming the last Thursday of No vember as Thanksgiving Day. Since then the day has been an annual festival. We have many, many things to be thankful for in this year of Our Lord 1943. Many more than did the rugged Pilgrim Fathers. Many more than did the men and women who struggled to make the United States what it is. First and foremost, we should be thankful for this great country of ours and for the fact that we are free. But we still have a fight on our hands to preserve that freedom, and we all must take part in that fight. Soldiers, sailors, and marines are giving all they have in that fight. The least we at home can do is to buy War Bonds till it hurts. 3 BULLETIN BOARD-NOVEIOER ETC 06024 "Food Fights for Freedom" is one of the important slogans of World War II. Because food is such a vital element toward winning the war, the farmers of the nation must pro duce bumper crops. A nationwide campaign to help the farmer get the most power out of his farm machin ery and to help the tractor dealer keep that machinery in the best possible repair is Ethyl's part in this program. With farmers severely handi capped by a manpower shortage, they must rely to a large extent on their farm machinery, especially their tractors, and so all farm ma chinery should be in tiptop condi tion to go to work as soon as the ear liest spring breezes begin to blow. This puts an added load on the tractor dealers, for they are the ones on whom falls the burden of keeping the farmers' equipment in good re pair. This burden is much heavier in these times, because less new trac- tors are being manufactured, which means there are many more old ones to be put into workable condition. And the tractor dealers, too, are suf fering from a manpower shortage because many of their mechanics are now working on jeeps and tanks in Uncle Sam's armed forces. Recognizing all these facts, Ethyl's tractor engineers made a survey last summer and submitted the results to leading tractor manu facturers. The manufacturers saw eye to eye with our plans on the need to help the overworked tractor deal ers schedule their work so as to avoid rush periods and on the desir ability of increasing tractor power by converting to high compression. The result is the new campaign in which we have embarked. The first step of the campaign is a circular which is being mailed out to from 10.000 to 15,000 tractor dealers. The circular urges the dealers to get farm machinery repair work 4 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06025 started early, to keep it coming steadily all fall and winter, and so to cut down the spring overload. It advises dealers to sell the idea of a Power Booster Overhaul to farmers whose tractors need over hauling. This Power Booster Over haul, which is carefully explained in the circular, includes the installa tion of high-altitude pistons and "cold" type sparkplugs, the purpose being to increase the compression ratio of the tractor engine and so to boost the power output. The circular also tells in detail of several services Ethyl is giving the dealer. We are placing Ethyl advertisements in nearly all leading farm magazines which go into mil lions of farm homes throughout the country. In these ads we tell our story to the farmer, urging him to get his repairs done early and in forming him about the Power Boos ter Overhaul. To pound home the message, "Or der Your Overhaul Early," we are sponsoring established farm news and farm market radio programs over leading farm radio stations in the United States. Announcers will urge farmers to see their tractor dealers now to arrange for service on their equipment during the slack season. Ethyl will furnish free of charge posters for the dealers' windows. These posters will ask the farmer to do these four things: "Tell us as far in advance as pos sible what implements need servic ing and when they will be available, so we can plan our work ahead. "Tell us also what new parts you / ETC 06026 think will be needed, so we can order them now. "Clean up your tractor and other machines before you bring them in. That will save valuable time in our shop. "Make minor repairs yourself if you can, so our mechanics will have more time to devote to major work." We are also offering mats for dealers to use over their own names in their local papers, reminder post cards which dealers can mail out to customers at a postage cost of only half a cent each, and to each dealer a service guide on Power Booster high compression overhauls. The campaign is designed to be an invaluable aid to tractor dealers to keep a steady flow of work coming in during the usually slack winter months and so to avoid a heavy spring rush. Thereby it is designed to help the national "Food Fights for Freedom" program by putting more tractors in shape for 1944 crops and by putting more horsepower in many of these tractors. It is also aimed at selling the farmer and the tractor dealer on the value of high compression tractors and good gaso line. ORDER YOUR 1 OVERHAUL EARLY! rfsk about our `POWER BOOSTER` overhaul ; MOO^) CHANCINC TO HIGH COMPRESSION AND C00D gasoline will STEP UP TRACTOR POWER Poster rf ... lirmiri .. who nood oorvico on ]] form mochlnory \&=~$ POWER ETC 06027 This is a close-up of (he floff of Honor recently placed in the lobby of the Detroit Lab. The display was built at the Lab and was especja/Jy desjgned to tie in with the genera/ decorative scheme of the lobby. It stands over six teet high and is finished in wainut. goid, and black. 7 BULLETIN BOARD--NO-VE-ftTBER ETC 06028 ETC 06029 . GOLF CHAMP____ i Staging a thrilling finish, Ed ; Goller, dynamometer operator at the Detroit Lab, pitched his way through the field of 32 entries in the Lab's annual Horseshoe Tourna ment to wind up in the top spot. In order to win. Ed. who works on the midnight shift, had to dispose of J. V. "Cap" Capinjola in an early morning match and then return for a semifinal fling with Ed Johnson at noon. After triumphing over Ed Johni son by a 21-17 score, he took on the winner of the other semifinal be tween A1 Kolka and George Boyle, i which went to George by a 21-12 count. The final match between George and Ed seesawed back and forth un til the three-quarter mark was | reached. Then Ed really got his eye j on the peg and slipped over a couple of quick ringers which put the game on ice for him to the tune of 21-15. For copping the tourney title Ed received five dollars in War Savings Stamps, while George had to be con tent with the second prize of three bucks. The stamps were purchased from a fund made up of the 25-cent entry fee which was charged each contestant. George Boyle, left, congratulates Ed Goller alter Ed defeated him tor the Lab's horseshoe ossmg crown. Lett to right are Casey Jones, Bob Mescher, Jack Lusk, and Gene Betzold. Casey is paying ott with a smile alter the de teat ot his tavonte. ETC 06030 Ludle Tilla* of New York Stenographic commutes daiiy aii the way from Ossining, N. Y.. which is a very pretty town even if it does house the campus of that famous educa tional institution, Sing Sing prison. Lucile gradu ated from Ossining High School and then came to Manhattan to attend Katherine Gibbs Secre tarial School. She came to Ethyl from the Pres byterian Board of Foreign Missions. Playing the piano is her favorite diversion. 1 Dorolhv Hashman of New York Financial left her native city. Indianapolis, Ind., just a short while ago to come to New York to be near her Coast Guardsman husband. Before coming to Ethyl she had worked nine years for the Rockwood Manufacturing Company, of Indian apolis, her tirst employer after she graduated from Arsenal High School in the Indiana city. Reading is her favorite pastime, and she also enjoys seeing the sights of New York, but she says she still prefers the banks of the Wabash to those of the Hudson. f Margaret C. Dolan ot New York Financial comes to worJe daiiy from Woodhaven. Queens. She is a graduate of the Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School in Brooklyn and ot the Washington School for Secretaries in New York. Before coming to Efhy/ she was with Ebasco Services, Inc., in New York. ai ** i 8# Urn IK Bob Bm ETC 0603 Charles B. Roberts/ research chemist at Detroit, formerly worked at the Pennsylvania Ordnance Works in Williamsport. Penna.. and at the Kankakee Ordnance Works in Joliet. 111., where he was an inspector and chemist. Chuck obtained his B.S. degree in 1940 from the Uni versity ot Alberta. He likes music and sports of all kinds, with the accent on bowling, baseball, golf, and ping pong. Alice McCullough, laboratory assistant in Zhem Research, Detroit, has lived in Waukon. i, most of her life. After graduating from the IDiversity of Iowa, she taught general science geometry for tour years in WauJcon High School and then taught mathematics in the unior high school in West Des Moines for a 'ear before coming to the Motor City. Alice's avorite pastimes are tennis, dancing, and the sovies. She also went in for photography before 'he war cut down on photographic supplies. Robert r. Leonard, chemical operator at Detroit, came to us from the Pine Bluff Arsenal ^ Arkansas, where he was a junior chemical engineer. Bob was born in Detroit and lived here for 22 years before going to Pine Bluff. ffe attended Northwestern High School and tewrence Institute of Technology, where he ^ceived a B.S. degree in chemical engineering. Sob's hobbies are telescoptics and microscopy, tot his favorite sports are far less complicated^e likes swimming, fencing, and baseball. f M( ETC 06032 A Baton Rouge Laborers are Branch Walton, Newcomers With the Army and Navy needing Mike T. Scott. Joseph Lawson, and Lenzy Hilliard. Laborer helpers are more and more high octane gasoline, Donna Y. Hayes and Harry D. there are a lot of newcomers in the Mitchell. Robert T. Womack is a Baton Rouge plant these days. storeclerk helper and Jennie W. Among them are 46 mechanical Knight is a clerk. helpers, nine operator helpers, four In the Development Section are laborers, two laborer helpers, a four new workers, including Merna clerk, and a storeclerk helper in the J. Conway and Francis K. Robinson, Production Section. laborer helpers; Norma D. Burton, i Mechanical helpers include Silas stenographer, and Rose E. Wor M. Babin, Lihue S.Hodgeson, Harry sham, data clerk. In the Service Sec A. Bozeman, Jr., Francis C. Stacey, tion, Winifred M. Dugas, who re Louis S. Cavin, Earl Tillman, Ferda cently returned from military serv A. Sibley. Auber F. Shows, Oda F. ice with the WAAC, and Mary L. Clement. John L. Breau, Robert C. Leetare stenographers, and Leonard Bryant, Oney H. Cutrer, Andrew R. C. Barrick is an intermediate clerk. Husser, George R. Drewett, Earl P. In the Finance Department, Elsie Broussard. Joseph A. Matherne. L. Thomas is a stenographer, Milton Luther Lett, Daniel Poche. Alvin B. D. Stiles is an auditor, and Ellwood Everett, Lloyd M. Winborn, John D.Gore is an accountant. P. Morgan, Milton Culbreath, Ivy H. Sullivan. Robert C. Bostwick, Bond Boom In Kernie O. Sibley, and Edmond J. Fontenot. New York Over the lop by approximately Also David C. Kimberly, Frank C. 142 percent was the record of the Pruet. Elmo L. McMorris, Fred J. New York Office in the Third War Borne, Oliver P. Longuepee. John Loan Drive. The quota, set by the S. Glaze, Mid Strother. Cline B. U. S. Treasury, was one $100 bond Blanchard, Sidney Woods, Adam J. per employee in addition to regular Rouyea, Walter Chislom, Guy M. payroll deductions. For the 151 em Denham, Hugh A. Welch, Elmo ployees in the New York Office, this Ensminger, Ralph S. Williams, would come to $15,100. Clarence P. Lorio, Denmon D. Total extra bond purchases in Westmoreland, Moran Bergeron. New York amounted to $21,500 or James H. DeLaughter, and Clifton an average of about $142 per em S. Langlois. ployee. Operator helpers include Willie According to Jack Martin, who I. Gillespie, Victor Buchmann, Nor during the drive was head of the man E. Slack, Lafayette K. Neyland, Employees' Section of the Petro Julian J. Gibbens, Leon Sims, Elson leum Industries, Ethyl ranked high B. Prescott, Willie A. Robert, and among the leaders of the 110 oil Carl M. Hudson. companies with offices in New York. 12 BULLETIN BOARD -- NOVEMBER ETC 06033 When the Sinclair Oii Company recently invited its Florida dealers to a series o1 meetings lor the purpose of discussing wartime p/obiems and airing dealers' complaints. Tom Tennent of our Atlanta Division was asked to participate. This is the group which attended the Miami meeting. Tom is the handsome young man with the mustache, who is seated in the front corner between the tables. Lewis Leads Pinners With a record of 13 games won against only two losses, the Throt tle Stops, team number 5 in the De troit Lab bowling league, were head ing that circuit at the end of the first week in October. The pace setters had a team average of 763 pins. Trailing close behind were the Power Jets, team number 1, with eleven wins and four defeats. Their team average was 712. In the lead for individual honors was John Lewis of the Dynamome ters, who had an average of 173 for the nine games he had rolled so far. Trailing him by only one pin was Merrill Doughty of the De-Icers, with 172. Doughty was holding high triple honors with a three game total of S93. and Bill Wanderer had rolled the highest single game, a pin smashing 232. The league leading Throttle Stops topped the high team scores for three games with a total of 2357 pins. Team high single honors went to the Saturates, whose 54 game had not yet been approached. Over on the girls' side of the al leys the steady bowling of Jewel Ahonen was showing the way to the others. Jewel had an average of 143 and also held high single honors with a 180-pin game. Right behind Jewel was Phyllis Jones with a 141 average and a high single game of 177. Phyllis held un disputed high triple honors with 473, against Jewel's three game score of 454. 13 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 06034 Anniversary Awards Charles O. While, Los Angeles safety engineer, is the only ten-year award winner this month. Likewise there is only one fiveyear veteran, Joseph H. Fulmer of Manufacturing, Baton Rouge. Dorothy Grainger of New York Steno graphic lives in Valley Stream. Long Island, and went to high school in nearby Lawrence. She came fo Ethyl from the Manhattan Lite In surance Company in New York. When away from the office, she goes in for sports, especially tennis and swimming. * Robert It- Thibodeau, research engineer at the Detroit Lab. was born in Toledo. Ohio, and graduated from St. John's High Schoo] in that city and trom the University ot Detroit with a degree in aeronautical engineering. During a seven year stay with Continent Motors he did outstanding work on the operation ot mica and ceramic sparkplugs in cold starting tot aircratt engines. He came to Ethyl trom the engineering division of the Chrysler Corporation. Bob lives in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., with his wife, Judith, and their two children, Bernadette, 7, and Joseph Henry. 2. When he can find the time. Bob likes gardening, golf, tennis, and ping pong. Military Moves Only one name has been added to the Ethyl Honor Roll this month. He is Frank J. Lewis of Baton Rouge, and we haven't any address for him as yet. Lieutenant Joe Williams, former ly of the Atlanta Division, has been sent overseas since the last issue of the Bulletin Board came off the press. His new address and some other changes of address which have come to our attention are listed be low. Lt. Joseph E. Williams (Ord.) 01553201 A.P.O. 12453 c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Major Howard B. Hudiburg Suffolk County Army Air Field Westhampton Beach, L. I.. N. Y. Private George W. Wisener Company K 1st Regiment RTC Private Thomas Keenan 32870018 Camp Davis, N. C. l l ETC 06035 I t i Myra Pauli of rechnicai Service, Detroit, was so impressed by the newspaper article shown in the upper righthand corner that she prepared the large manjla envelope you see here and circulated it among the girls at the Lab. The idea met with great favor. as is indicated by the flock of signatures on the envelope. A total of 32 declrs ol cards was purchased and is now on the way to malre some soldiers, sailors, or marines happy. 15 BULLETIN B O ARD --NOVEMBER etc 06036 Edwin J. Loiio 16 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEM BER Edwin J. Lorio, Ethyl safety su pervisor at Baton Rouger'was head of the industrial committee which worked on the Louisiana capital's Fire and Accident Prevention Week, October 3-8, and which drew the special praise of Fire Chief Robert A. Bogan for its efforts. Among its other activities, Ed's committee sponsored a safety con test offered to the public through two store window displays, one in downtown Baton Rouge and the other in suburban Dixie. The dis plays presented the most common l. ETC 06037 Iidustrial Safety Group causes of fires and accidents in the home, and the public was asked.to identify the hazards shown. The contestant giving the most complete answer was awarded a $25 War Bond. The industrial committee also sponsored and arranged several radio broadcasts, including a skit originally written by Chairman Lorio, arranged by Miss Nora Land mark of the Radio Department of the Louisiana State University Ex tension Division, and presented by the staff of station WJBO. Two radio quiz programs, participated in by supervisors from Baton Rouge industrial plants, were also pre sented over this station. The membership of Ed Lorio's committee consisted of H. A. Demouy of Ethyl and safety supervis ors from duPont, the Solvay Process Company, Standard Oil of Louisi ana, Aluminum Company of Amer ica, Gulf States Utilities Company, Copolymer Corporation, and the Illinois Central Railroad. Committee activities received fine support from Baton Rougers. 17 BULLETIN BOARD -- NOVEM BER ETC 06038 H Freeport Facts f* The laughing up our collective sleeve which we did two writings back concerning the several em ployees who ran from a hurricane that finally hit farther up the coast boomeranged this past month. This time, said the weather man, we were definitely to be the center of the storm, so the upwards of ten thou sands who make up our community lit out for higher ground to escape the storm that only "almost was." The traffic choked roads and over flowing hotels and trailer courts was for naught, we now know, but at the time of the warnings the storm bul letins were taken seriously enough to make Freeport and surrounding towns practically deserted, sombre, lifeless. Invasion of the fairer sex has be gun again. Katherine Barrett is the newest clocker-in employed in the E-D stockroom. We wish a certain low, slow, but refined whistle could be transcribed into print. That would be our pictorial study in words of Kitty Barrett. The cigars have been passed about twice this past month--in both in stances the proud poppas popped a multitude of buttons (five or six, anyway) off their shirt fronts. John Thomas, III, arrived October 1, weighing seven pounds, to increase the Lloyd Bond family to four, while very soon afterward, on Octo ber 7, the J. F. Walkers (pop works in Operations) announced the birth of Terry Lee, who weighed seven pounds twelve ounces. Congrats to both families. Vic Pessarra, one of our boys who joined Uncle Sam's Bluejackets, visited the plant October 11. Vic was home on furlough before leav ing for a West Coast Naval station. It's a draw between plenty of good food and early, early rising -- but Vic looks mighty fittin'. Two letters have arrived from overseas recently, both from former Ethyl-Dowers. The first arrived late in September from H. K. Waters of the U. S. Army in India. Hiram says things are looking on the brighter side and India is slowly but surely getting in some good old American delicacies, including the keg va riety. The other letter was from E. W. Wittneben, formerly of Opera tions, now with the Army Air Forces in the Middle East. Ed vows the country has appeared to be right nice the few times the sand settled long enough for him to see it. And that's the news from Texas. *** No Longer With Us Bette Clausing, Tulsa J Alice E. Clark, Detroit Roger C. Beaudet, Detroit Jacob B. Seidel, New York Janice Stevenson, Dayton Marjorie Braisted, New York Carol R. Olsen, New York Kathryn M. Grady, New York James D. Quist, Detroit Jenny L. Wright, New York Millicent Lankheet, Yonkers Janet W. Cancro, New York Gertrude C. Brown, New York Gloria M. Gardner, New York 18 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER | i 06039 ETC Lieutenant (j-0#) Torbln Talcs, formerly oi the Chicago Division, has been assigned to duty overseas. Torbin is shown above at extreme left, with a gtoup oi PT boat officers with whom he attended the Packard Marine Engine School tn Detroit. BeJow at left are Torbin's two chiidren, Donna and Paul, and at right is Torbin. himself, spic and span in his Navy "whites.'" ETC 06040 VICTORY MAIL long for now. God willing, I'll be seeing you all some day soon. Lieut. Emerson B. Blair, AC ATC A.P.O. 502, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. (formerly of Dayton) Just received the July issue of the Bulletin Board; which fact finally pro vides me with the necessary impetus to write my first letter to Ethyl--the lovely girl! Can't tell you very much about where I am except that I'm deep in the South west Pacific, on an island, and am living under rather primitive conditions. Everything could be a lot worse--I could be on Cipolla's or Sumner's boat!! And, for the as yet unenlightened, I am an Engineering Officer (Chanute Field, 42-4), at present assigned to the Pacific Wing, Air Transport Command. I can't put into words how much I en joy receiving the Bulletin Board. All I will say on that score is, please keep on sending it. To everybody I know and to every body else in Ethyl I hope to meet, so Received youx V-mail of the 5th -- thanx awfully--I did enjoy it a lot, once I got it deciphered!! You should see what photographic reduction does to your handwriting--but for that matter, I wonder what it does to mine!! Yes--fared well on the trip over--we made it in very good, though not record, time. Had a large group of unattached officers aboard, and also some hospital units with nurses and Red Cross girls by the score, so you can imagine there was plenty of life on the trip! Congratulations to Ethyl on the E awards--tell them for me to keep it up and maybe we can soon get the hell out of here and head for home and normalcy. Interesting to hear of Torbin's PT 20 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER etc 06041 work--maybe he'll run into Towery at Aruba if he goes into the Atlantic. Just back from an interesting 2000mile trip by Command car over a large part of N.W. Africa--an inspection tour to end all inspection tours--took a physi cal beating from that damn rough riding contraption called on automobile, but found the trip well worth while from a scenic point of view. Spent two nites in a suite of rooms which was once the harem in a Grand Vizier's palace (but is now a hotel) and slept serenely, un disturbed by dreams of the former inhab itants!! Write again soon--I'll do like wise. Major Miles A. Kinsley IG Section NATOUSA A.P.O. 534 New York. N. Y. (formerly of Chicago) It has been a long time since I've heard from you, and knowing that situations change as suddenly in the Ethyl Corp. as they do in the Navy, I can't help but wonder if you are still in Chicago. I came down here about two months ago. We stay in Aruba most of the time but also handle the inspection at Cura cao. Neither one could be referred to as a peckerwood refinery and they keep us very busy. It's a good thing, too, for there is not too much here to divert one's mind--swimming, tennis, and West In dian rum. Had three-day stops in Puerto Rico and Trinidad. They have much more in the way of entertainment than we have here on this rock. In bumming around like we do here one gets rides in every type of plane in the service. Also surface craft, from tankers to motor whaleboats. Saw Art and Ruth Roberts just before I left Houston. They are now of the ``Landed Gentry," having bought a home there, and, yes, pardner, pure Texans. Art looks fine in his ten gallon hat and high heel boots, but he couldn't find a beaded belt long enough to reach around. I'd appreciate it if you would send my address to the Bulletin Board. Please write again just like your last letter, all the news about everyone in our division. Say hello to all. Lieut, (j.g.) Charles Towery Navy 155, Fleet Post Office New York. N. Y. (formerly of Chicago) Fellows: Here's a "hello" from Smoky Hill Army Air Field of Salina. Kansas. Kan sas is a place where (1) the wind blows. (2) the dust blows. It's a very convenient place for my purposes, however, for if, by some hokus-pokus, a super-gremlin should cut out all four engines at once, there would be plenty of wide open space anywhere around here for an uneventful forced landing. I am very happy to be flying Uncle Sam's newest bomber, the B-29. She isn't famous yet, and that's as it should be. B-29 has many new and unconventional features, which are designed to give Tojo a pain where it hurts. She "gits there the fustest with the mostest" bombs. Al though she ordinarily operates on four engines, she outruns our present front line bombers while operating on three of them. In size, she makes the Flying Fortress look like a trainer. With me it's "love at first flight." She's my honey! Maybe you've heard all about the pol icy of hurry up and wait. Many of you have had to practice it only too much. But when I signed in at Smoky Hill, it was a case of hurry up and don't wait. After signing in at 1230, September 7, I was rushed promptly to Operations. At 1700 I had completed my first four hour mission. That was just an initiation, I guess, because it's slowed down to a sane tempo since then. However, we have our share of night flying to do, and I'd just 21 BULLETIN BOARD --N.OVEM BER I ETC 06042 as soon fly in the daytime, if you don't mind. I like the scenery, you know. To you kids in the South Pacific: I put in a summer at Boeing's plant in Seattle (learning all I could about B-29's various mechanisms) where it was so cold we slept under blankets even in July. Aren't you glad you don't have to put up with blankets and comforters? Late in August a few of us got the damfool notion to climb Mount Rainier. Well, to make a poor story short, some of our aviators didn't like "high" altitude, so we didn't quite make the top. Think it was probably more a case of laziness than anoxia. But it was mighty cold up there, and damned uncomfortable going in waist deep snow. Not a palm tree in sight. Here at Salina we have the original HARD water. I'll be glad to break off a chunk and send it to any of you guys who want to fumigate something. Pheew. what water! When you take a drink you have to chase it with a coke, and even then your stomach has to be just right. Well. men. keep an eye out for the B-29. You'll recognize her because you'll hear her and you won't see her. (She flies pretty high.) The Japs won't see her either, but maybe they'll know we're up there. Love 'n' kisses. Lt. J. E. Minnock. AC Hq. & Hq. Sq,, 331st TEFT Gp. Smoky Hill Army Air Field Salina. Kansas (formerly of Detroit) 1 Wins Nomination Hallie E. Boles, a storehouse clerk helper in the Service Section at Baton Rouge, looks like a sure thing for election to the board of directors of the new Baton Rouge Y.W.C.A. Hallie, who has been with Ethyl since last January, was nominated for the post by her fellow workers in the plant and has considerable backing among Baton Rouge citi zens, so her election appears to be in the bag. Baton Rouge has needed a Y.W. C.A. for several years, and this need has grown considerably in the past year, due to the large increase in the population of Louisiana's capital city and the greater number of girls employed in local industrial plants. Hallie will ably represent our Ethyl girls when she becomes a member of the board of directors. 22 BULLETIN BOARD -- NOVEM BER ETC 06043 James C. MeC. Wilkin, accountant in New York Financial, is a native of County Mayo. Ireland, but has resided in Brooklyn these past fifteen years. He went to schoo? af (he Royal Academical Institution in Belfast. Befofe joining Ethyl he was with Peat. Marwick. Mitchell & Company, a New York firm of certified public accountants. Bowling, badminton, tennis, swim ming. and other sports are his favorite diver sions. and when he was younger he used to do quite a bit of boxing. Anne V. Draddy of New York Financial is a member of the large Bronx contingent which commutes to the Chrysler Building daily. She attended Evander Childs High School and prior to coming to Ethyl worked for Francis Keil & Sons, hardware manufacturers. Dancing and bowling are two of her favorite forms of recrea tion. She also is fond of the theatre and says that one of her early ambitions was to become an actress. Ralph Slenersen o/ Nev York Financial commutes ti work from forest Hills. Lone Island. He is a graduate o George Washington Higf School and of Pace Institute. both in Manhattan. Before com ing to Ethyl he worked for the Mutual Chemical Company of America. Ralph has a 14-monrhold son. who is his chief diver sion outside the office. He also collects phonograph records and plays croquet and ping pong. ETC 06044 Arnold G Nelson, accountant m New York Financial. lives across the Hudson in Weehawken. N. J. He went to high school in Cliffside Park. N. J.. and at ended New York Univer sity. Before coming to Ethyl he was with the Guaranty Trust Company in New York's finan cial district. Sports are his chief enthusiasm outside of the office, and he plays basketball in a church league over in Weehawken. Dorothy Campion of the Vew York Mailroom was born n Rhmebeck, N. Y.. but now ;he resides farther down the Hudson in that beaurifuf vilage of Hastings-on-Hudson. >he graduated fast June from iastings High School and vorked m Waii Street with the National City Bank tor a while yetore joining Ethyl. For re.reationaJ purposes she'll take ennis and swimming. Loretta A. Liebler of New York Financial lives in Queens, tong Island, and went to school at Bushwick High in Brooklyn. She came to Ethyl from the Wall Street office of Leon Wil liams, tax consultant. For relaxation she prefers swimming and bridge, and she also enjoys a game of goif when the times are more auspi cious than they are at present. ETC 06045 Heoara, who works in fhe Mailroom at the Detroit Lab, is a native ot Brooklyn, N. Y.. buf had the good fortune to escape from that community at the age of two, when she moved wih her parents to Highland Park. Mich. She came to Ethyl shortly after her graduation from Royal Oak High Schooi. In her spare time Madelyn likes sewing, music, and footbaii games. She also devotes a good deal of time fo writing her boy friend, who is a first class gunner in a Navy gun crew aboard a merchant ship and who wears a gold star, indicating that his gun crew has sent at least bne Nazi sub- n.^. r1 - -I---- ETC 06046 ESCAPES PLANE CRASH Marvin E. Russell, newcomer to the San Bernardino Testing Lab, bought himself a house in San Ber nardino and moved his family into it, expecting, no doubt, to settle down to a peaceful, orderly exist ence. But the very next day he had a hairbreadth escape from the swish ing scythe of the well known Grim Reaper, which resulted in his name being splashed all over the pages of the local newspapers. The day after he took over his new home Marvin heard an airplane making a. terrific noise overhead, so he wandered out into his backyard to see what went on. He got there just in time to duck. The plane, a twin motored Army bomber, came hurtling through the air and missed him by less than three feet. It crashed directly in front of him in his neighbor's yard with its tail across Marvin's fence. Its three occupants were instantly killed. According to eyewitnesses, the bomber, piloted by Lieutenant Ran dall R. Wiegand of San Bernardino, had engine trouble over the city which forced it down near the ground. When it struck the tree tops near Marvin's house, it disinte grated in the air, showering houses in the vicinity with shattered parts. It then made its fatal plunge into Marvin's neighbor's yard. So great was the force of the impact that all the windows in the neighbor's house were smashed. Marvin, who undoubtedly will long remember the date on which he moved into his new home, came to Ethyl the latter part of August from the Humble Oil & Refining Company. A native of Texas, he is married and has three children. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 06047 Mar? W. Ashwell came to Chem Research, Detroit, direct from Vassar Coiiege. where she received her diploma last June. She claims to have lived a quiet lite in New Canaan. Conn.. for 21 years and to have no definite hobbies, although she indulges in a little bit of every thing. from crossword puzzles to /earning to ride a horse. Herbert F. Poehle, administrative assistant in Detroit Chem Research, received his B.S. de gree in chemical engineering in 1925 trom the University of Michigan. Before joining Ethyl he put in eight years with the U. S. Rubber Com pany and ten years with Parke, Davis & Com pany. In his spare time he is active m Michigan alumni affairs. He is also a sailing enthusiast. Donald T. Offord, chemical opera for at Detroit, came to Ethyl from the De troit Gas Company, where he worked tor a while aiter received an honoraiie dis charge from the U. S. Army Engineers. Don is married and expects the arrival o/ a little stranger shortly. Wrestling, football, com mercial art. and playing the trumpet are his favorite forms oi diversion, proving him to he a very versafiie young man. (Glad to wel come a tellow wrastler to our midst.--Ed.) ETC 06048 William Moon, chemicai operator at De- troit, came to Ethyl, not from over the mountain like the song says, but from the Fruehauf Trailer Company. Before that he worked eight years in the shipyards. Boats and small motors are Bill's hobbies. He is married and has a pair of sons. Private First Class Clem ent C. Eiswirth. a former opera tor in the Production Section at Baton flouge. paid a visit to tfie plant recently. Clem is in the Army Air forces and is stationed at Pope Field, fort Bragg. N. C. Gettmde K. M. Horstmann of New York Financial is a native of N'Orleans. suh. and has been up here in the Yankee country oniy a short while. Relatives in Passaic. N. J.. where she now resides, were the reason why she deserted the bayous of Louisiana. She attended John McDonough High Schoo/ and Soule Business Coiiege. both of New Orleans, and before joining Ethyl she worked lor J. J. Clarke Company. Inc., also in her native city. She likes reading, swimming, tennis, bowling. and operatic music. .. JJ ETC 06049 Claude Hoffman, chemical operator at Detroit, came to Ethyl after working nine years for the Goebel Brewing Company. A native oi Fremont. Ohio, Claude has lived in the Detroit area since 1931. fie is married, has a daughter, eight years old. and a son. six. Gardening and bowling take up quite a lot ot his spare time. Laura Jane Van Evera joined the Chem Research staff at Detroit as a chemical assistant upon her graduation from Vassar in June. Laura Jane hails from Crosby, Minn., where they mine iron ore tn large quantities, and her prin cipal spare time occupation these days is writ ing to her three brothers who are in the Navy. She also goes in tor music, swimming, golt and tennis. / L Juie Wilkinson came to the sec retarial staff of Chem Research, De troit. from the Tank Automotive Cen ter. She is a graduate ot the University of Chicago, where she majored in English. She has a six-foot husband. Jack -- wasn't there an old nursery rhyme about Jack and Jule. or are we slightly mixed up?--and a three-yearold son. Steve. Reading, knitting, and figuring ration points take up her spare time. ETc 060 50 2 4/ Vital Statistics The campaign against race sui cide has been in full swing at the Detroit Chem Lab this past summer. Bob and Evelyn Gourlay are watch ing with pride the steady growth of their first child. Carole Beth, whose avoirdupois has soared to 12 pounds from the six pounds ten ounces she weighed on her birth date. July 3. Hy and Bernice Shapiro became parents July 22. when Gary Merrill weighed into the world at seven pounds three ounces. Lewis and Mary Helen Hess wel comed David Lewis on August 14. This young man tilted the scale at six pounds 12 ounces. The Jim Martins became Mom and Pop for the first time on Octo ber 6, the birth date of David Craig, whose heft was six pounds seven ounces. All the babies are doing nicely and brought down on the Chem Lab an avalanche of cigars and candy. Two Silver Bars Here is the latest on a couple of former Dayton Division boys. S. T. "Jack" Pruitt, who used to be as sistant division manager, has been promoted from lieutenant to cap tain. Up until recently he was in the Personnel and Training Division of the Sacramento Air Service Com mand, but now he has been trans ferred to the Engineering Division at McClellan Field. Calif., where he has the official title of Assistant Chief of Administrative Section. Jack's immediate superior in his new job is Lieutenant Colonel By ron Foy, formerly vice president of the Chrysler Corporation and presi dent of DeSoto. Jack reports that the work is hard and the hours are long in the Army. The word we have from the other Daytonian, Capt. Hamilton "Ham" Greenup, is brief. He has been trans ferred to "destination unknown." Edna Blakley of New York Stenographic is a Brooklynite from away back. She graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn and from the Hetfley School, a secretarial school m Brooklyn. Before coming to EfhyJ she worked for the Brooklyn Trust Company. Girl Scou'mg takes up most of her spare time, and she is leader of an intermediate troop--in Brooklyn. f i ETC 06051 ana TORPEDO PLANES PACK A ETC 06052 Tf ETC 06053 CTHYL BULLETIN BOARD`ap^em i ETC 06054 esi- Ctjrifitmas! Greetings We are approaching our third war Christmas. Though our hopes at this time are far brighter than they were in 1941 and 1942, this Christmas, with vacant chairs at many tables, will not be too joyful. On the first Christmas, almost two thousand years ago, the angels sang of peace on earth and good will among men. It was the birthday of the promised Messiah, who came into the world, not as a great ruler would be expected to come, with horses and chariots and armies and sharp commands, but as a babe born in a lowly manger. He taught that arrogance and self glorification were wrong and that the basis for all right living was humility and the desire to serve others. Ruling in magnificent splendor in Rome at that time was one of the most ruthless dictators who ever lived -- Augustus Caesar, the direct antithesis of the Christ child. How he would have laughed on that first Christmas if anyone had dared to tell him that in far off Bethlehem that day was born One far greater than he. Today haughty Augustus Caesar is almost forgotten, but throughout the world Christian churches raise their spires toward the sky. Since the time of Augustus many other Caesars and little Caesars have crossed the stage of history. For a brief space they have beaten their chests and shrieked demands for obedience from all and laid their yoke on men, while they gloried in their own strength and branded as a doctrine for weaklings those teach ings which call for decency and fair dealings among men. Then each one of them has turned to dust, while that doctrine he ridiculed has grown stronger and stronger in the hearts of mankind. And now another sawdust Caesar, who dared call his puny'strength mightier than divine power, is on the brink of collapse. Everyone of us is praying that his collapse may come quickly. Bright rays of hope are on the horizon this Christmas-- hope that the right will soon triumph and that peace on earth will come again and that our boys will be back with us again by Christmas, 1944. With this thought in mind the Bulletin Board wishes you a-- fflerrp Cfcrtetmag 3 BULLETIN BOARD -- DECEMBER ETC 06055 Mr. W ebb ETHYL SOCIETY FORMED The newly organized Detroit Ethyl Society held its first meeting October 26, with an attendance of 190. The purposes of the Society are to disseminate knowledge of Ethyl activities, to present subjects of general interest, and to promote fel lowship. Earle W. Webb. Ethyl's Presi dent, was the principal speaker at the session and gave the Society some historical highlights from the background of the company. De scribing the company's struggle to gain national recognition and ac ceptance by the public of its prod uct, he said it was several years be- fore an operating profit was shown, but at no time during this early pe riod did the stockholders or the employees lose faith in ultimate success. Mr. Webb told of the expansion program now in progress in the com pany and the vital job we are doing in contributing to the progress of the war. No one can predict the future. he said, but he believes prospects for our company are as good as for any other company, and, given a sound national economy, the post war era should show a steady pros perous growth for the Ethyl Cor poration. * j ,, , 4 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06056 Art Stover, newly appointed Di rector of Employee Relations, was the other speaker of the evening. He explained that the establishment of the new department was partly the result of the rapid growth of the company and partly the result of changing conditions brought about by the war. He said that his job was so new that he hadn't had much time in which to formulate definite plans, but he looked forward to assisting in the solution of present and future problems. Art complimented the Detroit Ethyl Society on its fine organizational set-up and expressed the hope that its objectives would be fully realized. Visitors at the meeting included Ralph Champlin. Director of Adver tising and Public Relations: Bill Heggen. publicity manager: Cliff Pope, manager of the Gasoline Test Art Stovei ing Division: John Murphy, busi ness manager of the Gasoline Test ing Division, and Harry Mack, Day- ton Division manager. .Heinie Mueller, past president of the Detroit Engineering' Society, called the meeting to order and an nounced the following results of balloting for the membership of the Society's governing group, the steering committee: Charlie Kass, chairman of the steering committee: Jane Jordan, women's representative: Ann Hef- ler, Finance representative: Chick Sortman, Aero representative: John Capinjola and Bill Wilkinson, Chem Lab representatives; Chuck Shepherd, Gasoline Testing repre Harry Mack sentative: Charlie Kass, Durwood 5 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06057 Rossman, and Fritz Schroeter. Engi neering representatives; Heinie Mueller, Technical Service Depart ment representative. Program and sports committees were named. Jane Jordan is chair man of the program committee, as sisted by Chuck Shepherd and Heinie Mueller. Making up the sports committee are Durwood Rossman, chairman, Mac McMenemy, Ann Hefler, and Charlie Kass. Members of the steering commit tee are elected for two-year terms and are prohibited by the by-laws of the Society from being re-elected for consecutive terms. The by-laws also provide that half of the com mittee, alternately five and six mem bers, shall retire each year and shall be replaced by elections within the groups they represent. The large attendance at the meet ing resulted in its being held in the Lab garage, since the auditorium will accommodate only ISO. At the conclusion of the session refresh ments were served in the Lab cafe teria. Refreshments followed the meeting. Betty Zottoll of the New York File Room changed her name on September 25 to Betty Dvorsky, when she became the bride of Cor poral Rudy Dvorsky. who is with the Army Signal Corps at Camp Shelby. Miss. The cere mony was performed at the Church of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady in the Bronx, which is the home borough of bo'h bride and groom. As Corporal Dvorsky's leave was short, the couple remained in New York for their honeymoon. Georgena M. Hough, secretary-stenogra pher in Detroit Road resting, was born in Parry Sound. Ontario, moved to sunny t?> California at the age of four, and then came bach east to Detroit, where she attended Northwestern High School. She came to Ethyl from the Detroit Edison Company, a move which brought her good luck, for when she had been with us just one weeir her Army Air Corps husband re turned from (he Caribbean area for a 30-day furlough alter an absence of 23 months. Millin ery designing, letter writing, and cooking are her favorite pastimes. ETC 06058 Our Atlanta Division has recently been assisting the Atlanta Division ot the Gui/ Oi/ Corpora tion to present a series oi fleet maintenance meetings. A total ot twelve meetings was held -- three each in Atlanta. Miami and Jacksonville. Fla. -- with an average attendance oi forty fleet men at each session. Guy Donahue, New York Division fleet engineer who has had iofs of experience in he/pi/19 other divisions oi Gulf to conduct fleet maintenance school meetings, was ioaned to the Atlanta Division for the series and bandied the major part of the lectures which were given. The above picture, which was snapped after one oi the sessions in Jacksonville, shows, from left to right. Alan Tully. our Atlanta Division manager; "fled" Afunro, Guli district manager; W. T. Etzel. assistant manager of Gulf's Atlanta Division; Guy Donahue oi Ethyl: a Gulf sales representative; Tom Tennent. Ethyl's Atlanta Div. field engineer in Florida; and a Jacksonville Guli sales representative. Happy Birthday! When Dorothy Hadsell, who supervises the New York Mailroom, had a birthday recently, the Mailrom girls decided a few festivities were in order. So Joan Nugent, Helen Organ, Dorothy Campion, Irene Johnstone, and Grace Male took Dorothy to lunch at the Cen tury Room of the Hotel Commodore, where Vaughan Monroe and his or chestra are the feature attraction. A good time was had by all, the only discordant note being that Vaughan Monroe entertains nightly and not during the lunch hour. Jules Dammann, the lone male in the Mailroom, did not attend the party, but before the girls departed he presented the guest of honor with a yellow chrysanthemum corsage. Deepwater Girl Wed Bemadine J. Younldn of Deep water Accounting said "I do" to Ensign David M. Ayars. U.S.N.R., in Miami, Fla., October 23, and then the happy couple departed for the Florida Keys, where Ensign Ayars is stationed, for their honeymoon. Shortly before she left Deepwater, Bunny was presented with a place setting and some additional pieces of silver by her fellow employees, while on her last day at work the girls gave her another wedding gift and served ice cream and cake. 7 BULLETIN BOARD--HECEMBES ETC 06059 1 4 MORE THAN CHARITY This is the month in which we are asked to buy Christmas Seals, a gift we can buy without creating any danger of inflation. Christmas Seals are not charity. They are far more than charity. Christmas Seals appeal to the in stinct of self protection, as well as to the benevolent impulses of hu manity. Today Christmas Seals do not give relief to those suffering with tuberculosis, nor do they provide hospital care for those who are ill. The annual cost of tuberculosis hos pitalization today is approximately 76 million dollars, yet the greatest income ever achieved in one year from the sale of Christmas Seals was only nine million. Instead of treatment, the Christ mas Seals finance a program of pre vention. This is a form of insurance in which each of us can participate for our own protection and for the protection of those we love, while at the same time we will be -investing our money in an important means of maintaining public health. The National Tuberculosis Asso ciation is the public's guarantee of an adequate program of community protection. It is an organization that does not stick to just one pattern of activity, but changes its program to meet changing needs. The fundamental aim of Christ mas Seals is to finance a program that will develop new methods to meet new problems in the fight 8 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06060 against tuberculosis and will dem onstrate the value of these methods so that the taxpayer will gladly sup port them. Clinics, sanatoria, and public health nursing services were initiated mainly by private anti tuberculosis organizations. Today they have been largely assumed by government, and we could not do without them. Tuberculosis still exacts a heavy toll -- 60,000 died last year from the disease. It kills more persons be tween 15 and 45 than any other disease. There is still a great deal in the field of education and demon stration that needs to be done. So go overboard for as much as you possibly can afford for this worthy cause. You may be doing it for your own good, as well as for the good of those who are nearest and dearest to you. Takes Links Titles Charlie Remsburg of Deepwater walked away with all the laurels in the finals of the DuPont-Penns Grove Country Club handicap and club golf championships, which were held October 3. Charlie only had to go as far as the 32nd hole in both his matches, winning each one by a five up and four to go margin. At a dinner following the tourna ment the new titleholder was awarded a $25 War Bond for cop ping the club championship and War Savings Stamps forhis triumph in the handicap tourney. In addi tion, Charlie's name now appears on the club trophies for these events, which must be won three times for permanent possession. Adds a Half Stripe Fred W. Ramin, formerly of the Tulsa Lab, has been promoted from ensign to lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. Fred paid a visit to the Yon kers Lab this fall, during which he described some of the problems and difficulties encountered in handling a tank landing craft of the type of which he is in charge. Afterwards Fred wrote regarding his promo tion. "When I arrived back at the base I had a promotion waiting for me, dated August 25, so while I was in New York I was technically a lieu tenant (j.g.) and did not know it." ** Dispute Settled Numerous arguments have raged among the gals on the 35th floor of New York's Chrysler Build ing in regard to the correct pro nunciation of such words as khaki and as to whether or not there is still a mounted cavalry. To put the quietus on such unseemly disputes, Evelyn Johnson, receptionist on that floor, broke out with the follow ing bit of verse: In the good old days of cavalry With gleaming sabers drawn, They used to ride o'er hill and dale, Clad in khahki uniform. But things have changed since the good old days -- Now everything's quite wacky. They ride in jeeps o'er hill and dale And now they're clad in khaaki. 9 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06061 Ethyl Is presenting a new farm mo tion picture, the title of which is "At Your Command." Subtitled "A Report to American Farmers," the movie is just that. It is packed with interesting facts about farm serv ices, better methods of farming, ahd experiments now being conducted by governmental agencies and priv ate enterprise which will ease the farmer's burden. Farm groups of various sorts will form the audiences for "At Your Command," and oil companies, trac tor companies, the Extension Serv ice, agricultural schools and col leges, granges, and similar organi zations, which wish to sponsor showings of the film, can obtain copies from us. So informative is the picture that it will rate as top flight entertainment with every farm audience. Audio Productions, Inc., is the producer of "At Your Command," and to make the picture, camera crews of this company -have been shooting scenes in many parts of the country. We have had the coopera tion of farmers, tractor dealers and manufacturers, research men, oil companies, and the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. The result is that farm audiences now can see on the screen many of the new de velopments which are taking place in agriculture. Particularly stressed in the pic ture is the part played by improved farm machinery, especially the high 10 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06062 r compression tractor, and better fuels in the improvement of agricul tural methods and in the amount of work the farmer can do. This is il lustrated by the fact that as short a time ago as 1862 ten persons on farms were producing enough to feed themselves and just about three other people, while today ten farm people produce enough food for themselves and 35 additional per sons. The farmer is told how, if his tractor is not high compression, he can change it over easily and thus obtain much more power and econ omy of operation by the use of good i gasoline as fuel. He is also shown the difference between the limited i number of petroleum products of the past, when horse drawn tank wagons used to go slowly from farm to farm, and the great variety for every purpose offered at present, delivered by up-to-date tank trucks. Many of the services available to the modern farmer are described in detail, as well as numerous experi ments which are being conducted for his benefit. Something is even being done about his toughest prob lem, the weather, with the Army and Navy training thousands of techni cians in aerology, the science of i finding out about and forecasting the weather. The men of science may thus be able to foretell the weather months ahead of time for the men who grow our food. A showing of "At Your Com mand" takes only about twenty min utes, but during those twenty min utes farm audiences should soak up plenty of valuable information. At Your Command" illustrates how modern ... labor saving machines and scientific methods .. . help the farmer do a bigger and better job. ETC 06063 BARD OF ATLANTA Most all of US know that Major Stonewall Jackson Warner, for merly of the Atlanta Division, is now in England. But did any of you lads and lassies realize that Jack is some punkins as a poet? Well, gol ding it. he is. and if you don't be lieve us, take a look at the follow ing, which comes direct from the British Isles and his gifted pen: It's only been a year, boys, A year that passed like four, Since we sailed over the raging main To free the world once more. It's only been a year, A year but rarely one, Since we first felt a braw Sot's blast And got dunked in an English rain. Do you remember-- We'd never gone pubbing, we hadn't drunk tea, We'd never heard of General Lee. We thought a quid was something to chew And the tail on a Chinaman's head was a "queue." We'd never given a WAAF a buzz And we didn't know what a "round about" was. We hadn't yet eaten our first ton of spam And we'd never--oh never--seen Cheltenham. Now we are veterans, "browned off" and wise. We can cough up our lungs with the best of these guys. We've stumbled through blackouts and swam through fogs And mushed through mud on pro testing dogs. We've slept on palliasses and sat in a stall. Used showers from which gushed no water at all. Some by the "hill route" and some on furlough. We've visited London and Edin burgh. We've seen Stratford-on-Avon and Moreton-in-Mud, Fish paste in sandwiches^and hair on a spud. We've been out with the WAAFs and the ATs et al. The lean and the fat, the short and the tall. We've fought in the pubs, where the tumult resounds. For a drink, with our tongues hang ing out like hounds. And just as we reached for a "pint of the prime" Came the bartender's calloused "Time, gentlemen, time." 4 12 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06064 And when we've grown dizzy try ing to find An address and asked some strange gent who looked kind. The info he gave us was capped with this bit Of crowning frustration: "You cawn't miss it!" We've heard the real Anglo-Saxon spoken And it certainly differs from that of Hoboken, But never from Carlisle to Lizard Point, That noblest of English, "Have one on the joint." Yes, it's only been a year, a year, A year that passed like four, Since we came over the raging main To free the world once more. And sure we've been treated well, And sure we liked our stay, But. Mother, keep the oven hot. We're coming home one day! Scoop Overlooked The Bulletin Board missed what was probably the greatest news event to come out of the Midwest this past summer, according to A1 Tandrup, Ethyl road tester in St. Louis-on-the-Mizzou. The event oc curred when A1 and his wife, Helen, became the parents of Alan Wayne Tandrup on July 7. Alan, who is the first of a new generation of Tandrups, has already had an offer to be assistant road tester for Ethyl in the 1963 road tests in St. Louis. Upon hearing this his pop moaned, "Gad, am I still go ing to be here then?" No Longer with Us Giraud E. Townsend, New York Eugene King, Detroit Willene T. Hamilton, Detroit Jacqueline M. Joseph, Detroit Dorothea L. Dunning, New York Ella Maye Buff, Tulsa Shirley W. Shepherd, Detroit Edna M. Hanson, New York Paul J. W. Boehm, New York Virginia Toner, New York C. A. McHenry, San Bernardino Mildred E. Williams, Kansas City Julia B. Houston, Baton Rouge Oney H. Cutrer, Baton Rouge Godfrey E. Fagot, Baton Rouge Earl J. Blanchard. Baton Rouge Louis O. Rayborn, Baton Rouge Lihue S. Hodgeson, Baton Rouge James P. Barbre, Baton Rouge M. C. McMillian. Baton Rouge Mariska C. Faser, Baton Rouge John T. Holloway, Baton Rouge Anna J. Wilson, Baton Rouge Cleo B. Strange, Baton Rouge Clay Chauvin, Baton Rouge Lois W. Vincent, Baton Rouge 13 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06065 More Service Stars Three more of the boys went into service with the armed forces this past month. They are Lou Mock, field engineer with the New York Division; Merritt Morse of the Fi nance Department, New York, and Ed Asbury of Manufacturing, Ba ton Rouge. As yet we have no ad dresses for any of these lads, but when they come in we'll pass them along to you. Before we give you this month's changes of address, we want to tell you about a censorship restriction which was recently called to our attention. From now until the rule is rescinded we cannot publish the numbers of units serving overseas, the numbers of coast artillery or anti-aircraft units, or the names of ships, because this information in a publication might prove of value to the enemy. However, if you wish to write any of the boys in such units, you can obtain their complete ad dresses by the simple procedure of writing to the Bulletin Board. So here are the new addresses, which we have received this month. Those which are incomplete, due to the above regulation, are marked with an asterisk. Pvt. George W. Wisener Co. K, 1st Regt., RTC Camp Sibert, Ala. Corp. William R. Flory 18150872 HBC 39th Bomber Gp. Davis Field . Tucson, Ariz. Corp. E. Arnold Webb* ASN 12193378 A.P.O. 726 Seattle, Wash. Captain Russell Schell U. S. Eng.--Federal Bldg. 4305 N. Marlborough Drive Milwaukee, Wis. Lt. Ray M. Brown, Jr. 0-758529 Roswell Army Air Field Roswell, N. M. Pvt. Isadore P. Belanger Tr. "A" 3rd Regt. C.R.T.C. Bldg. 2573 Fort Riley, Kansas Ensign Christopher S. Bruhl Naval Eng. Experiment Station Annapolis, Md. Pvt. Edward J. Staffel 929 Q.M.P.P.L. Quartermaster Pet. School University of Tulsa Tulsa, Okla. Ralph W. Hutchinson, SK 3c c o Transport Office Operation LPI N.A.S. Norfolk, Va. Lt. Arthur S. Brown 935 Blair Ave. Detroit, Mich. Lt. (j-g) J- A. Cipolla* c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. 14 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER < i ETC 06066 Frank J. Lewis, A.S. U. S. Navy Company 1492 Great Lakes, 111. Lt. R. W. Richardson. USN Resident Officer in Charge Rice Brothers & Co. Rockport, Texas Pvt. Carl E. C. Cyriax* Camp Edwards, Mass. Mail Means Morale "Everybody in the outfit was feel ing kind of low. But then the mail came. And the next day was our second big battle. The mail made a lot of difference in the way that battle went. Everybody went into it feeling good -- they had heard from home." Those are the words of a battle toughened American soldier, rec orded by the Army's Special Ser vice Division during an investiga tion to discover the kind of mail soldiers like to get. There's such heap big medicine in a V-mail envelope from home that hard boiled Army officials are pre pared to use the whole might of the armed forces to assure its delivery. For the first time in the history of war a boy in a slit trench can get his page of ardent nothings from "the girl next door." And with practical ly peace time speed! Aboard every ship and plane leaving this country goes a shipment of mail. From rear installations in combat areas, planes shuttle the mail to the most ad vanced foxhole. In North Africa one Army post office on a much bombed airfield dug its quarters IS feet underground. Thousands of former civilian postal clerks, armed with pistols and tommy guns, do their jobs so well that a letter simply addressed to "Tex, Machine Gun Co., Camp Blank" ac tually reached the right soldier. Interviews of the Armed Service Forces asked thousands of men what they wanted most in letters from home, and here is the answer: Family chit-chat, news of friends and home town gossip come first. The boy wants to know how the family is doing financially and that everyone is as busy as beavers on the home front, helping to shorten the war. He wants to know what is happening to his friends in the serv ice-- you know more about them than he does. Write him about the girls he knows and who is marrying whom -- but watch out if his own girl is going around with other men. In that case, don't say anything. Write about the town's night life, and what's cooking at some of the spots he used to like. How are the local teams making out? Have you any plans for the future after the war? He wants to know. Tell him that side splitting story you heard recently. Reminisce about the good old days. Spare him your worries, as he has plenty of his own. Don't grumble about civilian hardship, for his are a lot worse. Be happy and newsy. Remember that your letter might 15 BULLETIN BOARD-- DECEMBER ETC 06067 be read anywhere, under the most grueling of battle conditions. Check it over -- is it fit to be read in a fox hole? Don't say you haven't anything to write about. By keeping memos and notes, clipping things from the papers, exchanging information from other letters, etc., you can build up quite a sizeable pile of news to write him, even if nothing out of the ordinary happens to you. Write often, as the more you write the bet ter you will write. If you're smart, you'll use V-mail for all overseas points. It's much faster and it will be delivered, come hell or high water. If a mail carry ing ship is lost, your ordinary letter goes down with it. But V-mail is a photo of your original letter -- so they just make another print from the negative and send the duplicate right out again. All right now, don't just read this, think it is the right dope, and vague ly decide you'll follow these in structions some time in the far dis tant future. Get out that pen and ink, or sit down at that typewriter -- and WRITE! Wins Her Stripes Catherine Rowney, formerly of New York Statistical, celebrated Armistice Day by winning her cor poral's stripes in the WAC. She is stationed at Madison Barracks, N. Y.. and in a recent letter, she said: "We had our first legitimate snow Wednesday (November 10). I went to Watertown that night to do some shopping. Golly, I felt Christmasy, standing in the snow, my arms full of packages. The Second Battalion just came back from a three day bivouac this A.M. The trucks had a good four inches of snow on them. "When we get up in the morning the temperature is anywhere from 30 to SO degrees, depending on how the fire survived during the night. We are undergoing a conditioning program, the general idea of which is -- it will either kill or cure you. If I can live through a summer in Arkansas and a winter in Madison Barracks, I can live through any thing." Catherine describes in detail her activities at Madison Barracks in a letter which appears in this month's Victory Mail. Hello, Lab! Lieutenant Idan Flaa and Captain Karl Kuhn were recent visitors at the Detroit Lab. Idan, who was formerly with the Chicago Division, is an Army Ordnance inspector at the Cadillac plant in Detroit, while Karl, who left the Lab to go into the service, is with the Army Air Forces at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. T 16 BULLETIN BOARD -- DECEMBER _J ETC 06068 r I Ii WAR DEPARTMENT *'tA9QfOVUA*iTTMt*SU*DVrtlTC(CCTOMMAMO T*0 tOAT SHAGS. N. c. 77 Septs* r 1943 Et^l-io* CnIel Ceapany Kurt ?mD Xilaington, Kortn Carolina Centlenen: I us pleased to advise you that pursuel to provision* of Par*gfann ? 05, Circular No. 15, Nor Deprtssnt, Washington IT March 1943, upon tr rnoix(!M*Uon of esptiin London K. y*~,try, year Plant Guare ffiesr, ccreurrse In th* Coansnding Cffieor of this headquarters,. Uajcr Control XLUis* Btydan, Cemanoing General, Fourth Stnlct Coaraond, Atlanta, Goergia, r.oa earo*d yea a plant guard guidon, as piovided in told regu lations, on account cf the outstanding nd excellent achieve ment* of your guard & R in tn* setter of training, sppsarenee, efficiency, no general cooperation. Tit guioon l * grttn fit Id, t rined with fold or yellow fringe, vith *ntUUry Military Police" tndtts ruM of tnt plant nd tnt letter *" centered In a laurel wreath, In pld or yellav letters. Congratulations upon tnt outstanding end excellent aehleveant of your plant giord lb ret. ti PRITCH~! Colonel, P. A. Comounding 4 i t (Story and Pictures on foil ow'ng throe Pages) ETC 06069 Co/one/ Pritchard speaks KURE BEI ' WINS i The Ethyl-Dow plant at Kure Beach was the first plant in North Carolina and one of the first in the country to receive the Army's Plant Guard Guidon for the excellent achievements of its Auxiliary Mili tary Police Plant Guard force and plant protective facilities. The award was made by Major General William Bryden, command ing general of the Fourth Service Command, and the guidon was pre sented October 21 by Colonel Wil- * ETC 06070 SCH PLANT f WARD liam S. Pritchard, commanding offi cer of District Number 2, Fourth Service Command, at a ceremony at tended by plant employees, their families and friends. Glenn Cantwell, plant manager, was master of ceremonies at the presentation and W. L. "Bud" Tis dale, superintendent of plant pro tection, accepted the guidon. At the conclusion of the ceremony the singing of "America" was led by E. N. Grubbs of Ethyl-Dow. A "Bud'1 Tisdale accepts the guidon ETC 06071 Lett: Glenn CanfweJJ was master of ceremonies I Befow: Army officers inspect the Plant Guard ETC 06072 Sedrick L. Barker, who drives the delivery truck tor the Shipping Department at Detroit. moved to the Motor City trom his birthplace. Fort Scott. Kansas, at any early age. He graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1929 and then worked tor a number ot years in the house wreck ing business, coming to Ethyl trom the Fulton Wrecking Company. Sedrick's favorite diversions are fishing, bowling, and gardening. He has a son. Raymond, who is eight years old. Helen Organ of the New York Mailroom is i member ot the Hastings Girls Fite. Drum and Bugle Corps ot Hastings-on-tfud son, N. Y.. which won three Urst prizes in the fourth an nual competition held in Yonkers. N. Y.. by the Ca tholic Slovak Sokol Fife and Drum Corps of Most Holy Trinity Parish. The Hastings girls gere the best senior Corps in the fife, drum and bugle classification, the best appearing senior corps, and the best girl corps. Helen, despite her name, does not play the organ, but she beats a snappy bass drum tor the Hastings girls. Corps, both male and female, from New York. New Jersey, and Connecticut took part in the con test. which was witnessed by about 1,000 persons. Marian George, stenographer in the Pur chasing Department at Detroit, was born in Mil waukee, Wis. After graduating from St. Mary's of the Woods College in Terre Haute, Jnd., she studied for a year at Milwaukee Teachers Col lege. She then moved to Detroit, where she taught for a while in the city's public schools. Her favorite spare time activities are bridge, knitting, reading and hiking. ETC 060T3 Bread On The Water Louie Wilson, Kansas City Divi sion field engineer who makes his headquarters in St. Louis, included in a letter to Harold Berg, manager of his division: "Thought you might be interested in the following, as it helps in a check of our meetings which are given from time to time. "When I drove to Springfield, 111., this past week for a meeting with the Studebaker people I pulled into a Goodyear Super Service station to purchase gasoline. The attendant greeted me by name and expressed his thanks for the information given him at a meeting held with the Car ter Carburetor Corporation school over two years ago." Which goes to show that if you cast your bread upon the waters, it will return to you again after many days. Lab Goes Over the Top Prior to the Third War Loan Drive, the following telegram was received at the Detroit Lab: "AT THE DIRECTION OF MR. HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR.. SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY, THE WAR FINANCE COMMIT TEE IS HEREBY PLACING A QUOTA FOR THE THIRD WAR LOAN ON ALL EMPLOYEES OF ETHYL CORPORATION OF $21,000.00 IN SERIES "E" WAR SAVINGS BONDS--ISSUE PRICE-OVER AND ABOVE THE NORMAL PURCHASE ON THE PAYROLL SAVINGS PLAN. "IN ORDER THAT PROPER CREDIT CAN BE GIVEN AGAINST QUOTA, PUR CHASES WILL HAVE TO BE MADE BETWEEN SEPTEM BER 1ST AND 30TH, AND ALL CASH AND BOND STUBS MUST BE IN THE HANDS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BEFORE OCTOBER 1ST. "THE MAGNIFICENT COOP ERATION THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN THE TREASURY BY LABOR AND MANAGEMENT UP TO NOW GIVES ASSUR ANCE TO THEIR GOVERN MENT THAT THE THIRD WAR LOAN WILL BE A SUCCESS. "FRANK N. ISBEY, CHAIR MAN, UNITED STATES TREASURY WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR MICHI GAN." As a result the Lab went over the top in the drive to the extent of 194.5 percent of the quota set by the War Finance Committee. Bonds purchased by Detroit Ethyl em ployees during the drive totaled $40,850 over and above purchases made through the regular payroll deduction plan. Nice work, Detroit! On To Washington Ollie Jones of the Safety Depart ment, who makes his headquarters in New York, has gone to Washing ton. He has been temporarily as signed to the Petroleum Adminis tration for War, Refinery Division, for work on a special project. I f I 22 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER < ETC 06074 Anniversary Awards Louis J. Volz of the Finance De partment, New York, is the only 15year pin winner this past month. Lou came to us from the American Bond & Mortgage Company. A na tive New Yorker, he was educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in accounting and busi ness law, and at New York Uni versity. Lou lives in Greenwich, Conn. He is an ardent golfer and frequently tours the links in the seventies. There are no ten-year veterans for the month, but five have passed the five year milestone. They are John S. Day and Floyd L. Smith of Manu facturing, Baton Rouge; Eunice C. Sauls, Finance Department, New York; Ethel Mischnick, Gasoline Testing,San Bernardino; and Helen S. Rousseau, Sales, Kansas City Div. Maples Mauled In the Detroit Lab bowling league the Dynamometers, as we write this, are leading the Power Jets by a hair -- Larry, be so good as to go get that hair so we can check on it. Both teams have won 18 games and lost 12, but the Dynamometers have a team average of 734 and have scored 26 points while the Power Jets' average is 730 and they have only 24 points, so that accounts for the hair. Merrill Doughty, with a 173 aver age, has taken over the individual top spot from Bill Lewis, whose average game is 168. Claude Hoff man, however, is the big-single and triple man, with a 243 score for his best game and 629 in his best series. That blonde bombshell. Jewel Ahonen, is still leading the lady pinners, but Phyllis Jones is giving her a tough battle. Phyllis, with an average of 138, is just one point be hind Jewel's 139. Jewel leads the high single scorers with a 180 game, while Phyllis' 473 triple is tops in that department. * * .=- Detroit Bride Mildred Plate, chemist in the Gas Testing Lab at Detroit, on Septem ber 18 was the bride of Mark Shel don Putnam in a ceremony which was performed in the Nardin Park Methodist Episcopal Church in De troit. After the wedding the couple left for a honeymoon trip to Indi ana. Mildred's husband is employed by the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich. 23 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06075 Ellext D. Simpson, attractive native oi Wil mington. Del., joined the Deepweter plant per sonnel in September and helps with the han dling oi drum card records. She is tond ol reading, sewing and dancing. 1 Louise Jensen 0/ the Finance Department. New York, is a native ot Manhattan and attended Washington Irving High School in that borough. She came to Ethyl from the Air Reduction Sales Company. Tennis, swimming, and the theatre are her tavorite pastimes. She is also fond of dogs and has a cocker spaniel 0/ her own. Corporal John McMaster, formerly ot the Finance Department. New York, recently received his parachute wings from the Marine Air Corps. John, who is stationed with the Paramarines at the San Diego. Calii.. Marine Air Base, took his basic training at Parris Island. S. C.. and at New River. N. C. He also spent some time with the Marine Air Corps at Fort Worth. Texas, be/ore joining the Paramarines. John's home town is Cranford. N. J. For this picture of him the Bulletin Board is indebted to Miss Gertrude Rogers of Bayonne. N. J.. his fiancee. 1 ETC 06076 Margaret Ann Anderson, one of the prettier residents ot Wilmington. Del., is e new laboratory technician at Deepwater. When her husband was recently inducted into the armed iorces. Margaret Ann decided she shouJd do her bit toward speeding the end ot the war. so she came to work lor Ethyl. In her recreational pro gram sports come first. * Martin Sloan helps ro Jceep Deepwater Ac counting records straight. He came originally from the City ol Brotherly Love -- Philadelphia ro you. chum -- bur ior several years has re sided in Penns Grove. N. J. Whenever he has a moment to spare, you will find Martin scamper ing about (he (ennis court. John F* Sullivan, accountant in the Finance Department. New York, lives in the Fordham section ot the Bronx wirh his wite and two chil dren. Clare. 11, and Anthony. 5. He attended Morris High School and Eastman-Gaines Busi I ness School, both in New York, and he came ro Ethyl from the New York ottice ot the Interna tional Paper Company, Fishing is by tar his favorite torm ot relaxation. k ETC 06077 A. Norman Stradley is a new biender operator at Deepwater. Norman has lived ail his liie in Penns Grove. N. J.. so he was among friends when he went to work with the Ethyl boys and gals. In his leisure time he is a wood carver oi some skill. Lynn Phillips and wile, at left, enjoy the sunshine in Mexico with Hershel and Elizabeth Mediin and the two Philips kiddies. Morton and Sylvia. Lynn is our Mexican representative and Elizabeth Mediin was formerly secretary to Lou Shank. Tulsa Division manager. The picture was snapped while the Medlins were vacationing in Mexico last September. The lovely lady with the dreamy eyes is Opal Irene Shafer, new secretary to Lou Shank, manager of the Tulsa Division. Opal is a native of Kentucky, was educated in Missouri, and (hen migrated to Oklahoma, where she worked in the Refining Department of the Phillips Petro leum Company for three and a half years before joining Ethyl. She devotes a lot of her spare time to study and hopes this wiii result in her becoming a certified public accountant within a year or so. ETC 06078 VICTORY MAIL *** Due to several changes of address in quick succession, I have just received your letter of August 20. In fact I re ceived the September issue of the Bulle tin Board on Friday, October IS, and the letter of August 20 today, October 17. Thanks very much for the addresses I asked for. I hope I am able to get in touch with the boys before they are shifted around much the same way as I have been. As you have already guessed by the heading, I am "somewhere in England." That is just exactly as definite as I can possibly be as to my location. I can't even be that definite as to what I'm doing. However, it is the most interesting work I could be doing in the Army insofar as dull moments are concerned. They just don't exist. Then too there are lots of places of interest to visit during off duty hours and on days off. I'm sorry that I can't mention even a few but to do so would only give the poor censor some extra work. Try as I may, I actually can't think of anything to write that censorship regula tions would permit. For the first time in my life I find there are many things I could say that would go toward making a letter of some little interest at least. However, I have no way of expressing myself except via letter and censorship is so strict that about all one can say is that "I'm fine. Hope you are the same, etc." True to tradition, the English as a whole seem to be somewhat reserved, but once started they are for the most part walking encyclopedias. They still insist on calling kerosene "paraffin" and gasoline "petrol" but they display the Ethyl trademark with pride regardless of what is the correct name of the product it soups up. I seem to have run down for the pres ent, so I'll close, wishing all of you the best of everything. Will appreciate a line from anyone who can find time to write. Sgt. Leonard E. Massey 38200219 A.P.O. 635 New York, N. Y. (formerly of Baton Rouge) 27 BULLETIN BOARD-- DCCLMBER ETC 06079 Time In the Army passes like time passes in no other place; it passes with out unwarranted ado or commotion, but when it has passed, one realizes with a shock that the thousand and one things he had meant to do in that interval were left undone. Perhaps this is because one is kept constantly busy, and when leisure time is available, there is a tendency to cast off personal obligations with the philosophy "Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow." This is not intended to be an excuse for my not writting to you sooner--merely an explana tion, and an inadequate one at that. Today, however. I received my copy of the Bulletin Board. One can stave off one's conscience just so long, then it backfires. "Rowney," I said to myself in a severe voice, "aren't you ashamed of yourself?" "Yes." I answered meekly, reaching for paper and pen. Ergo, this epistle. I am stationed at Madison Barracks. Geographically. Madison Barracks is lo cated on Lake Ontario, about nine miles from Watertown, the metropolis of northern New York (so says the radio). Practically no one has ever heard of Madison Barracks; when asked where we are stationed now, we merely say "near Pine Camp." Madison Barracks is a small, perma nent post--a very beautiful post. The grandeur of the surrounding scenery is unparalleled. Autumn here was magnifi cent; I shall never forget it. Right now the post is host to the 343 Medical Regiment, a unit which has just completed its basic training. When it will move out, and who will move in, is a constant source of some very interesting rumors. The incorporated village of Sackets Harbor lies a short mile from camp. The War of 1812 was fought here, or at least that is what the natives would have you believe. I think they are prejudiced. Watertown is the Saturday night ren dezvous. I still contend Jerkwatertown would be a more appropriate name. Strictly a soldier town, a boom town- Catherine flowney noisy, gaudy, crowded. I heartily detest the place. Fortunately there are such things as week-end passes. Therefore we do man age to get to civilization now and then, such as Utica and Syracuse. The latter is by far the more preferable of the two. Quite a town, Syracuse. But that is an other story. Last night we drove to Mexico, a town near Oswego. And wonder of wonders, we had a banana split with real bananas, and real ice cream, and real whipped cream! Which proves that life can be beautiful. Every day in every way we are pre paring for the winter which inexorably must come. From all observations, win ters in this north country are terrific. Someone was telling about a party she went to last St. Valentine's Day and mentioned too casually, that it was 50 degrees below zero. I asked another na tive about it. He waved his hand disdain fully. "That," he said, "was an exception. Actually it seldom gets colder than 30 or 40 below." (See what I mean?) Ever since July there has been a con stant inflow of WACS at Madison Bar 28 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06080 racks. As the WACS come, the men of the station complement go out. There is no office now which does not employ at least one WAC, and at the hospital they are doing a marvelous job. I work for the Quartermaster. For me it is an entirely new field, one which I have grown to like very much. Supply in the Army is fascinating. Ruth Lange, the girl I work with, and I feel very proud of ourselves these days. We have been given complete charge of inventory, from the physical count in the ware houses to the sending in of innumerable reports to the depot. And what is more, the inventory has been coming out better than ever. Another QM friend of mine has just been put in charge of the cloth ing warehouse. Quite a responsible job. One hears quite a lot about Army rou tine. It is routine, I suppose, but far from dull. If anything, I find it too event ful. One has hardly time to catch one's breath before something else happens. This is true not only at work but in extra curricular activities. Someone just brought me some bread and cheese. Delicious! I love cheese, and one gets so little of it these days, what with rationing and everything. Someday, when the war is over, I am going to sit down and eat cheese and bread until I can't look cheese in the face again. Oh, happy day! Please say hello to everyone in the office and wish them a happy Hallowe'en. Pfc. Catherine Rowney " 1214 SCSU-W Madison Barracks. N. Y. (formerly of New York) Only five months and I now know what is meant by getting "salty." The first ship I was ever assigned to turned out to be the old Spanish-American War gunboat Wheeling. This old ship still has her engines in running condition as they were back in 1878 when she was built. The officers' bunks are so small you have to sleep with your knees bent --guess the seamen of those days grew shorter. My stay in San Francisco was short lived as I only saw that sunshine state for a week when I flew back to New York for some more experience and training. After seeing how these boats are made and then taking one out in 13-foot waves for 16 hours I can personally assure you they are as sweet a warship as was ever commissioned in this man's Navy. At the Navy Yard I was introduced to warships of all classes in our Navy as well as a British battle wagon and a French counterpart. One manufacturer of our equipment is so sincere in placing his name on every thing that when I was finally detached I congratulated myself for having shoved off without having the manufacturer tattoo my chest with his trade name. It's strange how these different cities will affect a service man. Now for ex ample in San Francisco you want to fill your coin pocket with pennies because everything is odd priced, and since most men coming ashore have money in round numbers after being to sea, the stores soon run low on their pennies. Then in Cheyenne I dared to cash a bill for a novelty I mailed to my boy, Paul, and the change they gave me almost kept me from getting back aboard our DC-3 because of the extra weight in silver dollars. Then in Chicago asjwell as De. troit you find the transportation employ ees shake their heads negatively when you start to dig down for carefare. Now in that big city of New York you find the one prerequisite is a pocket full of nickels and a finesse for getting one out in a hurry and accurately placing it in the slot before the people behind you bend you right over the turnstile--and all with that deadpan look of superior indifference. If you want to get around that underground city, be sure never to question a native, but find somebody who has been there about three months and can still remember his problems. One day trying to get to the Navy Yard from 29 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER 06081 New Jersey I was down there in those tubes so long that when I finally came out in the daylight I knew how a ground hog must feel. This hard Yankee country is all I'd ever heard it was and those North At lantic squalls'have been right up to form. When I see a fine "farm stylo" house with offset gables I think of Jim Boudreau and all our safety truck activities, but when I first saw the Navy Yard and the controls in a warship I thought of you and how you would enjoy such complete engineering freedom. There's so much I'd like to tell you of what my future duties will entail, but all that must wait. Meantime, suffice it to say that my work promises to be a 24hour a day job but packed with interest ing duties and working with the greatest bunch of men you can imagine. Here at this sea duty base are officers and men who nonchalantly go around just as plain and straightforward as any others, even though those same men have been written up in our big name maga zines. For example I met Allen Harris, son of our own Cary Harris. Allen is a well seasoned seaman, and when you question him about his famous sea duty he simply waves you off with a disarm ing gesture so typical of the sort of pioneers we've had in our big little war ship called a PT. One of the high points of my coast to coast trip was the visit to our New York office. I had to come all that way to get to the Chrysler Building and then have the elevator operator close both doors on me as the starter was directing me into the car. It sure is a good thing they have two doors so that if the outside set doesn't catch you in the middle the inner doors will, and in my case did. But seri ously it was good to see the New York office and to learn how completely our company is in the fight and doing, as usual, a big job. Down in the engine room with the din of driving pistons and burning 100 octane fuel and then out at the helm, wheeling all that horsepower with the flip of a wrist, you realize the significance of our super high compression engines and their fuel. No longer can I say I haven't shot a gun since I've been in the service, be cause I've now been firing regularly all the ordnance commonly known, even to the latest type "fish" (torpedoes). By the time you have this writing I'll be on my flight back to San Francisco and taking care of my last continental duty before tasting the salt of the Pacific. Best wishes to everyone and say a good word to the bunch back at the Oil Men's Club. Lieut, (j.g.) Torbin F. Yates Motor Torpedo Boat Training Center Melville. R. I. (formerly of Chicago) I am sany not to have written sooner --I have thought of it many times but it seems nothing exciting seems to happen out on the Kansas front. Offhand it looks as if I am going to fight this war out here in the middle of the wheat and dust. How are things going at the office? I hope you are not still saving those Cana dian tank cleaning jobs for me. It looks as if I, too, have caught the fever and have gotten myself engaged. The big event takes place at Russell. Kansas, on December 2, and we are com- Jr bining honeymoon with furlough to visit my folks at Daytona Beach, Fla. I'm warning you -- there will be a trail of Black & White bottles from Missouri to Florida. Needless to say both Ruth and I are most happy over our coming mar riage, and I for one wonder why I didn't step off long ago. It looks as if it took a war and a town with a population of 5,000 to really get me moving. Otherwise things are about the same-- I devote little time to propeller these days, but spend most of my time as han gar chief, in charge of about 150 mechan ics to whom I play the dual role of chaplain and nursemaid. I passed the 30 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06082 -nwgsr board on a direct commission with flying colors and while my papers were in Washington being processed, an order came through, stopping all papers in process. Please give my best te the gang, and since announcements will no doubt be sent out this year in lieu of Christmas cards, let me take this opportunity to wish you, Roy, and the boys a Merry Christmas. Meanwhile, I would appre ciate getting the latest dope from Roy or yourself. T/Sgt. D. Frank Hayes 32304185 518th Serv. Sqdn. Walker Army Air Field Victoria, Kansas (formerly of New York) & Dear Gangi I was interested in the letter from Major Ed Rothman in the August 14 serv ice men's letter. He seems to have cov ered a lot of the same part of the world that we'have, except from the land side. We have been in Mediterranean waters (the censor says it's OK) since last May and have managed to get around quite a bit. The coast lines and cities of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy are indeed beautiful. One would have to search a long time to find another port city like Palermo, set in a valley with sheer moun tains rising on every side. Unfortunately the beauties of many of the cities don't stand up under close scrutiny due to a combination of the havoc and poverty caused by the war. Someday I would like to return to these waters under different circumstances on a ship at least as big as the Normandie and have time to really see the sights. Mail has finally caught up with us and arrives about a month late. It took three months for the first mail to arrive after we sailed for these parts. The Bulletin Board I enjoy very much. I have received several letters from the Andersons and understand that Merrill has at last grad uated from diesels to gasoline engines. I am still stuck with the former, but I will admit that they do a good job in this type of operation. When I read of the Victory gardens you people have my mouth waters, since fresh vegetables and fresh meat are on the "don't have" list here, although we had one big orgy a little over six weeks ago. A supply ship happened to reach a port that we were in, and somebody from the SC fleet got the word. We boarded her before she had a chance to drop an chor and, by working most of the night, came out with such luxuries as Long Island duckling, sirloin steak, and crates of all manner of fresh vegetables. We ate like kings for two weeks. I imagine that it will not be too many months before I get back to the States for a visit. If I do, I hope that I can find a way of dropping by the Lab to see you good people. Lt. (j.g.) Herbert C. Sumner c/'o Fleet Post Office New York, N. Y. (formerly of Detroit) Thank you very much for your letter of 5 October. I also want to thank you for seeing to it that the Bulfetin Board and Ethyl News reach me. They both are now correctly addressed and arrive in reasonably good time and condition. While I am not completely in the dark re Ethyl activities due to those two pub lications, an occasional letter seems to personalize the news. The news in the present instance seems both good and bad. Well, they say "contrast is the spice of life." Certainly hope it will be possible for me to find a train or plane reservation and a hotel room when I return to the States. It would seem that next summer may find me there with the chance of a few days or hours leave (I hope). If 31 BULLETIN BOARD--DECSMBER ETC 06083 *1 so will certainly look forward to stop ping in to see you all. I cannot begin to tell you how busy I find myself these days. It never ceases to amaze me just how much we can stand when we have to. We have to continuously these days. Leave of any sort is unheard of--liberty, for even a few hours, is very rare. Strange as it may seem to the unitiated, we all prefer it just that way. Noted that the October issue of the Bulletin Board carried a letter from Charlie Towery -- pardon. Lieutenant (j.g.) --in which he wished to be remem bered to me. Please convey my thanks for the thought and pass along my best to him. If he can find the time, I would like to hear from him. Wonder what hap pened to Russ Schell--he used to be able to write. Have heard from several of the Ethyl family who are seeing to it that we receive the "stufT'-for which I thank them. Received two Christmas parcels from the Ethyl Corporation which I shall en joy unwrapping on 25 December and for which I wish to thank everyone con cerned very much. As letters go, this may be rather a poor example, but for me it is to say the least unusual in that I could find the time to write more than a line or two. Would that I could write of my work and duties, as I am certain they would amuse and interest you. However, common sense and censorship forbid that, so will try to remember much of them until this lit tle affair out here in the Pacific has been taken care of. Well, wars aren't won by writing let ters, so for now please remember me to all who remember me. Gerald Forsdick, C.Sp. (G) Gunnery School, NAS Navy No. 14 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif, (formerly of New York) About Victory Mail Contributions to the Victory Mail have been falling off during recent months. We are sorry to see this, as Victory Mail is an inter esting feature because it lets Ethylmen everywhere know what Ethylmen and Ethylgirls in the armed services are doing. We know that the boys and girls in uniform have far too much to do to take time out to write letters to the Bulletin Board. But they often write letters to their friends, and these friends would be doing the rest of us a real service if they would forward to us for publica tion under Victory Mail letters from service people which are not too personal, or excerpts from let ters. Let's cooperate for more Victory Mail! The boss of the Grant household is Carol Ann. eight months old daughter of Lieutenant Glen Grant of the U. 5. Marines, lormerly a Held engineer with the Seattle Division. They say Carol Ann looks more like her daddy than he does himseif. 1 t < 32 BULLETIN BOARD-- DECEMBER ETC 06084 William P. Comes of the Finance Depart ment, New York, comes (no pun intended! to Ethyl irom the United States Army--he was with an anti-aircraft unit at Camp Stewart. Ga.. when he received his medical discharge. He is a graduate ot St. Anselm's College, Manches.er. V. H. Before entering the Army he was with the British Purchasing Commission. Skiing and fish ing are his favorite forms ot recreation. Esther Stapley Lyman was secretary to Julian Gonzalez for three years. Then she left `he company for the birth ot her daughter. Edith StapJey Lyman. But with h-r husband an Army technician, she found she missed the world of business, so now she is back with Ethyl, working in Order & Shipping. New York. Esther is a graduate of Vassar College. She commutes daily all the way trom S ratford. Conn., which is just outside Bridgeport. Her favorite pastime these days is knitting socks for her husband. and her long tram ride gives her lots of time for this. Evelyn D. Bain of the Finance Department, New York, commutes to the Chrysler Building from Jamaica. Long Island. She attended high school in Baldwin. Long Island, and took a course at the Elliott-Fisher school in New York. Before joining Ethyl she was with General Foods for 14 years. For recreation she likes to bowl, cook, and go out to the old ball game. ETC 06085 T The Tulsa Lab is conducting an Aviation Fuel Knock Testing School lor the Army, and this is the tirat class lo be graduated. The second class is now taking instruction. The men. some oi whom are tram the Quartermaster Corps and some irom the Engineers Corps, will stall laboratories outside the continental United States. The gentleman on the right in civilian clothes is Elmer Mahlke ol the Tulsa Lab. who is instructing the boys. The otlicer at the lett in the front row is Captain Fred P. Robinson, who is in charge oi both the course we are giving and another course in petroleum testing which is being conducted by the University ol Tulsa. N. Y. Girls Open Pin Season Nine girls from the New York Office started the bowling balls roll-., ing the evening of November 3. The girls expect to make this a regu lar Wednesday evening procedure throughout the winter and hope that the group will eventually grow large enough so that a league can be formed. Some of the first night group had never bowled before, while others bowl regularly on other evenings. Those who attended the initial session on the alleys were Justine Bikely, Virginia McGill, Adele Wolin, Helen Brandt, Dee Dunn ing, Edna Blakley, Rita Reymont, Mariette Jacobson, and Marguerite MacDonald. The scores? Well, to be brutally frank about it, the less said about those opening scores, the better. But with a little practice we feel con fident the girls will do better. 34 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 06086