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ETC 06087 etc 06088 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl emplc 06089 etc lyl emplo New Year, New Men, New Jobs romotions for two safety men engineer at Baton Rouge will be in Pand transfers for several others the New York division. have been announced by Oscar Bill Sievert. who has been manag Lewis, Manager of the Safety Divi ing the Fuel Tune-Up School on the sion. In addition a number of field West Coast, has been made a safety representatives have been trans engineer. He goes to San Francisco ferred to safety work. to replace Ham Greenup, now of the Hank Ball assumes new responsi U. S. Army. Charlie Welch went to bilities as chief safety engineer in the coast from Hutchinson. Kansas the Tulsa office. He is an old-timer to take charge of the Fuel Tune-Up in safety work, having been one of School. the first men assigned to the division Alfred Basye started to work for when it was organized in 1936. Hank Ethyl down in the Jayhawk state to started with us in 1931 as a field take over for Charlie. Alfred was an representative in Albany, covering interviewer at the Kansas State the eastern half of New York. Herb Employment Service in Hutchinson Moseley, who has been handling before coming with us. Before that sales work is replacing Hank. he was a supervisor for the Depart Rollin Barnes, who has been ment of Justice in Washington, and safety engineer in the Tulsa divi for the Kansas Legislative Council. sion goes to the Atlanta division Alfred was born in Coats, Kansas, as chief safety engineer with head took his B.S. in mechanical science quarters at Baton Rouge. He started in 1932 at the Kansas State Teach with us in the fall of 1936 as a field ers College in Pittsburg. man with headquarters in Wichita While Larry Reis hasn't changed Falls, Texas. In 1938 he was as his headquarters from Tulsa, his signed to Clinic No. 5 in the Tulsa duty now is to sell safety. division as an automotive man, and John Watt recently joined the transferred to the safety division in Tulsa division as a safety engineer July of 1940. Mac McCooley, safety and will headquarter at Wichita 3 ETC 06090 John Watt Falls. He has been with the LaneWells Company for the past two years as a district sales engineer. Before that he was with the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company, the State of Nebraska and the War Depart- Alfred Basye ment doing engineering and survey work. John studied engineering and geology at the University of Nebraska. He was a member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national (Please turn to page 11) Three Tens and Four Fives-- It Adds Up! teri; thei cial mai is a C Rot whi kei Ba lea tea be m Ji ac at hi li dl H rt h I e v i i i his month we hang out the Tflags for a safety man, a gaso line checker-upper, and the second mate of our Tulsa division. These veterans of ours are Ollie Jones, now in the New York office doing special safety work; Guy Keller, of i the Baton Rouge lab; and Len Huxtable, who helps Lou Shank keep things shipshape around Tulsa. Each has piled up ten years of serv ice, and gets a green pin for his lapel, with a certificate all ready to be framed and hung on the wall. Ollie Jones started with us in 1932 as a field man in western New York. In 1937 he went to the Coast and later had charge of all safety work there. Spent a year at the Ket- Ollie Jones 4 ETC 06091 r tering Laboratory in Cincinnati, then moved to New York for a spe cial safety assignment. Ollie is married and has one youngster who is also named Oliver. Guy Keller worked in the Baton Rouge test lab from 1932 until 1935, when he was transferred to Yon kers. After a year he returned to Baton Rouge, and is now running lead analyses and other gasoline tests. An L. S. U. graduate, Guy belongs to Alpha Chi Sigma. He is married and has three children Jimmie, Gwen and Ronnie. His most active hobby is hunting -- so Louisi ana offers plenty of sport to keep him busy on weekends. Len Huxtable, an M.E. from Pur due, came to us from Martin Motors. He put in close to five years as field representative for Arkansas, with headquarters at Little Rock. In 1936 Len moved to Oklahoma as safety engineer, doing so well at it that he was later put in chargp of all safety activities in the division. Just two years ago, at the time the Seattle division was created, he was made Guy Keller Len Huxtable assistant manager under Lou Shank. Len and his wife, Olive, have a boy and a girl, Robbie and Gail. Five-year pins this month are go ing to Boston, to Detroit and to Cin cinnati, for Yvonne Guertin of the Boston office, Mrs. Verna Rahe of the Medical Department at the Ket tering Lab, Jim Carlisle of Detroit Research, and Vincent Hnizda of Chemical Research at Detroit. Books to Business-- and Back Two STUDENTS alternating be tween the industrial and aca demic worlds are, for the moment, with the Engineering Research Lab oratories at Detroit. They are Bill Laswell, of Springfield, Ohio, and Andy Guran, of Akron, Ohio. Both are third year students in the five year course of mechanical engineering at the Uni versity of Cincinnati. Bill and Andy spend eight weeks in college work at Cincinnati, then hike up to Detroit for eight weeks of training at Faller U. ETc 06092 I Double Stress on Preventive Maintenance | ^"T'he growing scarcity of certain rector Hudson Kellogg pointed out. J X materials used in making knock Another major point of discussion ! testing equipment was one of the among the hundred chemists and j major topics of discussion at the K. T. technicians of customer com- | i fifth Knock Test Forum held at the panies. who came from the sur- . , Commodore Hotel in New York City, rounding states and points in Can- J ! December 12. ada to attend the Forum was the j Shortage of materials emphasizes calibration fuel problem. In addi- ; more than ever before the need for tion to the men who came specifically preventive maintenance, Forum Di for the Forum, there were several ETC 06093 Charlie Rankin (center) head of our California testers, with two Forum guests at the Lakewood Country Club. Charlie White (right), L. A. safety man, discusses flash bulbs with a fel low camera fan between sessions. guests from South America who lab the next day for the laboratory */( were in New York on business and meeting. Above are pictures taken at 'e. rt took in the knock testing sessions. Yonkers and also at the San Ber Most of those who came to the dis nardino test lab, where a similar cussion went to our Yonkers Test forum was held in November. Quiet, Supercharged Evening sn't it just too, too wonderful see, research lingo is a different I that your husband is with that dialect. thrilling research laboratory," they "And when you hear it at a party say to the wives of our research en it is a little difficult to get into the gineers at the Detroit laboratories. spirit of things. That's when it And the wives reply, ``Yes, indeed," really gets me down. Say we've and go blithely on thinking how too, asked a bunch in. Well, I've worked too wonderful it is. all day like a couple of Percherons But the other day one of the wives getting the house fixed up -- ciga gave a different answer. And that rettes and flowers around, and all was news. So here it is, right from those thousand and one tasks. When the pen of the wife who says -- people start arriving I'm just dead "Well -- yes -- if you like foreign ofi my feet, and naturally, kind of languages. I mean -- laboratory men hope that Joe will take over, and sort may think they're talking English - of buzzle around -- call out `Hello, but it certainly isn't like anything Gorgeous!' to the girls, etc. you've ever heard before. Of course, "But what is just about the first every now and then, there are a thing that happens? Joe has been couple of words you recognize, but a simply divine host for about in the main, you could put me down twenty minutes -- and then I look among the zulus and I'd catch the around and see him in a corner drift just as quick. The ridiculous with Bill, Hank, Dick, and a bunch thing is that I come from an engi of others from the lab. I don't even neering family, too -- so you'd think have to be near to know what they're I had something to go on. But you saying. Usually it's something like 7 i ETC 06094 this -- `Well, of course if you change the ratio, half of one per cent, and boost up your supercharge to 265 R.P.M., and use your single cycledouble phase engine, then you'll automatically reduce the amperes to 3.1416 and the vacuum bulb will then flash 1 1000 of a second before igni tion. On a graph, that means curve A will suddenly swing up and cross curve B, which clearly proves that the viscosity of Fuel 106 is not able to raise the compression ratio. On the other hand if . . .' "Slightly reeling, I go back to good ole George, who has been hold ing forth on the major football up sets in history for the last hour all pretty ghastly, too, except that it is, at least, English." Surprise! a great success, and -- most unusual -- proved a real surprise to the guest Surprise! of honor. Besides the hostesses, the follow ing Ethyl girls and wives were Elizabeth medlin. Lou Shank's there: Lillian Shank, Olive Huxsecretary' in Tulsa (now on table, Evelyn Barnes, Wahneta Reis, leave) presided unexpectedly at a Gladys Rodgers, Caroline Green. shower on October 4 for her then Kathleen Bartholomew, Virginia heir-to-be, Herschel Stanford Med Ramin, and Helen Blaine. lin, Jr., who arrived December 1. weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces. Glenis Dickerson, Elloise Randall and Janet Van Horn of the same office were Have You Heard--? joint hostesses, and they and 30 guests each contributed something Howard Rodekohr has gone down to the Pelican state from our Detroit pink-and-white and useful for the Lab to join Ed Kurt's boys in the baby. The party, which included lunch, bridge and conversation, was technical division. He started with us at the Chem Lab last August; carries with him to the south a Guest of honor does a fade-out behind a package for Junior. Camera caught Lillian Shank, left, primping--typical Master's degree in Chemical Engi neering from Iowa State College. pose according to husband, Lou, who runs the Tttlsa division. Heiaie Mueller, of the Detroit sales division has joined the Michigan State Troops. With him, in Company 107 of the First Battalion is Ted Mablev, Detroit Engineer. I Jim Bard, who joined our organiza tion recently as a test car driver in Detroit, died of a heart attack De cember 12. He had been ill only one day. Jim leaves a wife and one daughter. ETC 0609 w Bob-B-Q 900 BRICKS, count 'em 900 - and I put them all in place myself," says Chef Bob Jordan, bending over his favorite barbecue oven. It was in itiated by a group of Ethyl people living in Westchester, who gath ered in Bob's back yard one crisp evening, tried his juicy, sizzling steaks, then wrote on his apron. "When better steaks are cooked Bob Jordan will cook them." And he loves to do it. After he leaves his duties in New York as director of field personnel he likes nothing better than to go home, don his chef's cap and apron, mix up a tasty barbecue sauce and preside over his prize back yard fixture. The recipe for that super special sauce, which does things to the flavor of the meat, is given here for those of you who would like to try it. Vi cup vinegar 1 cup tomato catsup or Vz cup A 1 sauce 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce Few drops Tobasco Bob Jordan, backyard Escoffier Vi lb. butter Vs cup olive oil 1 tablespoon prepared mustard 1-j tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper Vi small lemon sliced thin 1 small clove garlic--chopped fine 1 medium size onion chopped Mix ail ingredients together, boil slowly for 15 minutes and strain. You can keep this sauce indefinitely in the ice box. Guess Again, Poc! ple of good, he-mannish names, then sat back and waited. he dick Hammonds (Supervi Tsor of Grounds, Buildings, and Came the big day! Only one baby arrived, a girl. She had to go by a Equipment, also Chief Tune-Upnumber while they searched for an Technician of the Ethyl Gasoline appropriate feminine name. As wd" Corporation of California), have went to press, word arrived that been blessed eventing again. This they had finally rescued the child time it was a 6 pound 11 ounce girl, from nameless oblivion, and duly born November 5--Hammond daugh registered her as Carol Sue. ter No. 2. Seems that the stage was not properly set for her arrival. Dick Bourn! Boom! and Lucille had accepted as fact their doctor's solemn prediction that the Hammonds would be blessed PHEBUS HOTARD of ethyl chloride has been granted a year's leave of absence, to join the 4th Coast with twin boys. So the Hammonds Artillery Training Battalion at Fort stocked up accordingly, chose a cou Eustis, Virginia. 1 rWe Hear From Los Angeles . . . . Phoenix, Arizona December 10, 1941 Dear Bulletin Board: Yours of the 5th asking for news has just caught up with me, way over here where the natives still wear feathers in their hair. I have been away from headquarters since the first of the month, and will not get back until the 12th, so it looks like your drill has struck a dry hole this time. We have a new employee -- Donald Pope. I am not sure whether he officially belongs to the Los Angeles Division or Seattle. He was hired as handy man with our fuel tune-up school, replacing Gordon Dyke, who quit to take a welding job in the shipyards at San Pedro. Don and the fuel tune-up school truck left immediately after signing on, for the Seattle Division, where he and Norman Brooks and the school have been loaned for a period. Incidentally, Mac Murdock was planning to go up and put the school "in production", and show them how we have been running it. I came near stepping up and saying, "Good Morning, Saint Peter!" last Friday. Was driving between Tucson and Phoenix with a brand new com pany car that opens up out in front like an alliga tor's mouth, and without warning it opened. One minute I could see miles of straight road ahead, with no traffic to worry about, and the next minute there was nothing in sight but a blank blue wall right up in front of my face. I managed to keep the car aimed right, so it did not slide off into ^ either of the four-foot ditches with which we protect our roads from storm water in the desert, and got it stopped. The hood was somewhat bent up, and would not latch down -- and, at that point, I would not have trusted it even if the latch did work. I had my choice of fence wire or the electric extension cord from my demonstrating outfit to tie it down. The next hardware store yielded a coil of rope, with which I proceeded to lace the thing down with a diamond hitch. This contraption pains 10 ETC 06097 2- - the service station operators no end, as they cannot get in to sell me lube oil and non-essential accessories, but it is going to ride that way until the Los Angeles zone office of the manufac turer has a chance to find out why these things are letting loose. In the meantime I nearly got my face slapped over it -- stopped one evening to see a very dig. nified and somewhat puritanical friend of my mother's here in Phoenix, who wanted to know what all the rope basketwork was for. Being something of a schoolboy at heart, I could not resist telling her that it was a brassiere to keep the front from moving up and down too much. She got over it pres ently and provided mince pie, so all is again calm on the western frontier. We have a war out on this coast. The main highway to the coast is almost a constant proces sion of military motorized equipment moving west. The American Airways port here in Phoenix is supply station for heaven knows how many bombers and interceptors flying west. A friend of mine who works for General Petroleum was at their plant next to the airport yesterday morning, and he told me of seeing 50 bombers land, refuel, and take off in 57 minutes. That is really pouring in the fuel. 30 Carl Abell To celebrate Christmas and honor two brides-to-be the girls from our Detroit laboratories had themselves a dinner party on December 19. They had a fine time eating turkey, admiring the Christmas tree and exchanging gifts. Madelaine DeRosier and Eleanora Hajduk, who are to be married early this month, drew extra special attention and presents. Barney Jones, or if you want to be more formal, Corp. B. Jones, Com pany A, 649th Engineers, dropped in at the Detroit Lab for a visit on his way home to Blair, Oklahoma, on a Christmas furlough. Since leav ing Faller U. on March 24 to join the Army, Barney has been helping make surveys along the east coast. Corporal Jones is now stationed at Washington, N. C. 11 r i' i i i I I ii i I l Peggy Xewell and Tinekbit in -- Jutk floor statisticians. More Business --More Figures i' P'i 1 eggy NEWELL and Anne Tischbein have joined Walt Resler's ing department. Born and reared in New York City, she graduated from i statistical sleuths. They take to fig Pratt Institute in 1938. ures like a duck to water, use add ing machines, calculating machines, i i i slide rules and mental gymnastics to compute their computations. Peggy was with the National Industrial Conference Board before coming with us. She is fortified with a Mas ter's degree in economics from Clark University at Worcester, Massachu setts, and a B.A. from St. Lawrence University. From Atlanta we hear that Steve Ellerbe has just been signed up as a fleet engineer. Before joining Alan Tully's division, he was a fleet engi neer for the Sinclair Refining Company in Birmingham, Alabama. Steve was born in the Pan ama Canal Zone, educated in Anne Tischbein spends her time the U.S.A. Won his Mechanical charting the significant figures after Engineering degree from they are computed. Before joining Clemson A. & M. College in us she was a chartist at Standard 1934. He and his wife live in Statistics, and before that did mod Birmingham, which will con eling and commercial art work. In tinue to be his base of opera cidentally, Anne has just finished tions for the time being. designing a booklet for the advertis ETC 06099 In Accents Wild he public address system at the TDetroit Engineering Lab plays tricks on the ear, which causes the wrong people to answer the right calls and vice versa. One of our engi neers turned poet to record in verse the amusing confusion which re sults, but doesn't want to be given away. So while guarding carefully the name of our budding Ogden Nash, we give you herewith his sparkling rhymes. The Dictograph! The Dictograph We hear you call afar. It matters not where e'er we be You find us where we are. But oft your call is far from clear It's garbled, shall we say, And a full half dozen men respond To a name that sounds like Gay. Now there's Rossman and there's Rothman Not to mention Durward's Dad "Was it Hooper or just Brewster?" Is another just as bad. "Mr. Beaver, Mr. Beaver" Says Miss Heller to the mike A call comes in from Weaver: Or from Seaver, if you like. An engineer named Anderson Will frequently respond When the call's for Mr. Henderson, Can't Abramson be found? Mrs. Lamar Moffett, who graduated from Deepwater's five-year rhtb into matrimony. She was Eleanor Dough erty before her recent marriage to Lamar, who is well remembered by many at Deepwater atid Baton Rouge. He is a DuPont man and was closely associated with the TEL operation prior to his transfer to Charleston, Indiana. Eleanor and Lamar live in Louisville, Kentucky. She is shown here with the set of dishes friends at the Deepwater plant presented to the departing bride. The speaker bellows forth a name To the phone runs Charlie Kass But learns to his immense surprise They wanted William Katz. So if you think you hear your name Pronounced from on the wall The chances are that switchboard dame Does not want you at all. Cheek and double check -- Caroline Weber greets the camera with a smile, then goes back to checking figures. A newcomer to the New York Stenogra phic, she was formerly a secretary at Sangamo Electric Company and has also done legal stenography. Caroline was born in New York City, attended Cornell University, and Katie Gibbs Secretarial School. f i F ! New Year. New Men !j New Jobs Jeepers (Continued from page 4) Keepers! honorary geological fraternity. A1 Ryan, who started in the Chi cago division last June as a repre sentative, has been transferred to safety work and will continue in the Chicago area. Serf O/ver, who used to be safety engineer for us in Can ada, is now in charge of an Armored Brigade Workshop in the Canadian Army Over seas. Bill Turnley dropped in Lee Larison, of the Chicago divi sion, has also switched to safety. He the other day with a "Season's Greetings" card from him has been a field representative with postmarked "Aldershot, headquarters in Aberdeen, North Hants" reporting that he was Dakota since November, and will the 0 C of No. 2 Arm'd. Bde. remain there for the time being. Be W shop, R. C. 0. C., 5th Cdn i fore Lee came with us in September (Arm'd) Division ... all of he was a salesman for the Metals Refining Company in Hammond. which means "Officer Com manding, 2nd Armored Bri Indiana. Prior to that he had worked gade Workshop, Royal Cana in the research department of the dian Ordnance Corps, 5th Ca International Smelting and Refining Company, in the statistics traffic de partment of the Montana Highway nadian Armored Division -- or Head Jeep Keeper, as we say in the States. Department, and for several mining and oil companies. "Saw three bogies." he writes, with a little drawing Paul Johnson, formerly field rep of the four-wheeled truck- resentative at Denver is now lo trailers that go by that name cated in Omaha covering Nebraska in England, "with Ethyl fluid and Iowa as safety engineer. And drums in them--about twelve Alex Hamilton remains in Kansas to a bogie and `more or less' City, but shifts his activities from bung side up--almost felt like sales to safety. home." Eyes Left... iSo guess work here -- Anne Daul, new secretary to Ralph Hutchinson, who handles our credit work, relies on Web ster. Anne's interest in words goes be yond mere spelling. She also knows something about how to weave them into a story --just sold her first one to Our Army. It appeared in the De cember issue and is titled, "Pineapples Is Pass'nate." Anne was born and reared in Brooklyn, studied journalism at Hunter College, then got a secre tarial job at the New York Life Insur ance Company--left it to come with us. ETC 06101 - 'S- - I'- a Hank Ball, Boston safety engineer who teas transferred to the Tulsa Division, early last month, teas given a rousing farewell party in one of Boston's famous schnapps-and-schnitzel establishments just before he left. After the dinner, his friends put on a few playlets portraying the daily life of an engineer in Boston compared with that of one in Tulsa. They sent Hank off in style with a handsome traveling bag. Defense Industries on Parade ONE OF THE memorable events of the 46th Congress of American that propels our ships and hauls railroad trains and heats our houses Industry held in New York Cityand plows our fields ... And now oil, early in December was the pageant the life blood of defense which keeps presented in the Grand Ballroom of our wheels rolling, greases the gears the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which and runs the motors that turn out reported in dramatic form the pro the arms of America." gress achieved by the basic indus The announcer then spoke of the tries. Over 3,000 of the nation's quantities of 100 octane aviation leading industrialists came to the gasoline being produced daily, told convention to air their problems, how oil technologists had conquered analyze them and work out a solu knock. Then Bill stepped onto the tion with top government officials platform and into the spotlightr and other men of authority. With glass tube in hand he gave the ' The Ethyl Corporation, along flame demonstration to show how with numerous other firms, co-op Ethyl eliminates knock -- an impor erated with the National Associa tant step forward in petroleum tech tion of Manufacturers in putting on nology. the pageant. Bill Ball, of our New York division, took part in the scene portraying the progress of the The Champs! petroleum industry. Through the darkened room came the voice of the announcer: "Oil, the A SHINY NEW trophy adorns the Kure's Beach office of EthylDow, thanks to the golfing skill of life blood of industrial progress, Glenn Cantwell and the fellows in 1 the office who carried off first honors in the interdepartmental tourna ment just finished. The boys unani mously decided to call the trophy, presented by the International Nickel Company, the Shigley Cup, fitting tribute to Shig's fine sports manship and interest in plant ac tivities. Bert Bergen, M. H. Crawford, Hillary Humble, and Jerry Sullivan are the other members of the office team. They got off to a fine start in their first matches with a "grand slam," scoring five wins out of a possible five, and carried through to a glorious victory. Dough for Old Delaware John Schaefer, in addition to guiding the activities of our Manufacturing Department, is also busy calling signals on the University of Delaware's Alumni Association drive. He is one of the idea men on the Executive Committee for the fund raising campaign, to be launched in mid-January. LAST MINUTE BOWLING BULLETINS! MEN'S LEAGUES High Game High Set High Average DEEPWATER Herbert 326 Jackson 224 Johnson 193 DETROIT E. Gillig 248 Rometti 241 Anderson 230 NEW YORK Gebhart 229 Keenan 206 Eilermann 204 BEACH Ashbum 235 Hill 233 King 222 BATON ROUGE Monahan 230 Rieger 219 Clancy 204 Jackson 611 Rometti Herbert 586 Prince Armstrong 570 E. Gillig 604 Gebhart 576 590 Keenan 555 587 Eilerman 547 Ashbum 572 Winchell 559 E. Thomas 556 Rieger Monahan Clancy 532 519 513 Herbert 186 Anderson 175 Gebhart 175 King 170 Rieger 159 Jackson 176 Johnson 165 Eilermann 170 Winchell 163 Clancy 158 Johnson 167 Dedo 165 Keenan 161 Ashbum 159 Monahan 151 Armstrong 167 Rometti 165 Deverill 155 Hill 159 Hinnershltx 151 Remsburg 160 Soroos 162 Southwick 150 Paterson 157 Armstrong 149 "TEAM TOTAL" 856 832 Ml 808 768 GIRL'S LEAGUES High Game High Sat High Average DETROIT Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray (3-game set! Jewel Ahonen Helmi Burkleo Myra Willis Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray Myra Willis Jean Gall 190 186 180 462 460 412 136 128 116 109 104 NEW YORK Dot Rogan Anne Daul Euniee Sauls 163 148 145 (3-game set! Dot Rogan Margn Smith Eunice Sauls 371 360 344 Dot Rogan Marge Smith Eunice Sauls Anne Daul Jean GiUigan 103 101 99 97 92 "TEAM TOTAL" 593 491 BATON ROUGE Winifred Dugas Evelyn Flanagan 125 123 Jesse Savario 119 (2-game set) Winifred Dugas Dot McCsrroil Shirley Joffrion 228 225 209 Dot McCarroll Evelyn Flanagan Winifred Dugas Jease Savario Shirley Joffrion 107 96 94 94 88 479 16 ETC 06103 Figures? Duck Soup! aul stegenga is the newest ad Pdition to the accounting staff at the Research Engineering Lab in Detroit. He is a native of Milwau kee, a graduate of the Holland, Michigan, High School, and of the University of Michigan. - He became one of many young diplomatic service hopefuls when he left college, but found the field overcrowded and civil service exam inations suspended. He returned to Holland to become office manager of a real estate firm. Then to Detroit doing accounting for the H. J. Heinz Company, handling the installment sales paper for the Fruehauf Trailer Company, and from thence to Ethyl. Paul lives in Detroit with his wife and 17-month old daughter. Marilyn Joyce. He enjoys photography, re corded music, bowling and baseball. Paul Stegenga w if. Former ethyl chloride super visor Lloyd Scott resigned De cember 1 to go to work for the Mallinckrodt Chemical Com pany in St. Louis. Lloyd came to the Baton Rouge plant in March of 1939. His co-workers presented him with a leather briei case as a farewell gift. Lawrence Moore, who recently started to work for Jim Boudreau in the Chi cago division, has done sales engineer ing work ever since graduating from the Virginia Military Institute with a civil engineering degree in 1923. He came to us from the Aridor Company in Chicago. Before that he was with the Asbestos Manufacturing Company in Huntington, Indiana, and the Thermoid Company in Trenton, Sew Jersey. k North Clarey of the publicity department became the father of a seven-pound, red-haired baby boy the other day -- born at the stroke of 12 noon on 12/12/41. Pop left that one for the numerologists to ponder, while he went out to get young Sandy a set of electric trains. 17 ETC 06104 Stuart and Scotty Step Up ormer ethyl men now wearing The big news of the month from Fkhaki and working for Uncle the Detroit boys in the service Sam are getting promoted right and comes from Scotty DuBose, who left. Word has just been received of writes that he is now a captain. "I the advancement of Stuart Warner, have charge of all motorcycle in formerly of the Atlanta division, struction in the school," he reports. and Scotty DuBose. who was in our "The course consists mainly of mo Training School at Detroit. torcycle maintenance, although we Lieutenant Warner has assumed new responsibilities as Assistant Di rector of Specialist Courses at the cover briefly the theory and func tion of the machines. We -- 27 as sistant instructors and I -- get a new 4th Corps Area Transport School. It is located at Fort McPherson, Georgia, where Stuart has been on active duty since being called out of class of approximately 100 men each Monday morning and complete the course with a graded test the follow ing Saturday morning." the reserves last August. Scotty is stationed at Fort Ben- 18 ETC 06105 1 ning, Georgia, where he started as a first lieutenant last March. He and . Virginia have an apartment in Co lumbus, a distance of about 10 miles, and he has to stir out at 6:00 A.M. Irwin Trowbridge, another mem ber of last year's Faller U. class, writes regarding his military duties: "At present I am acting in more or less an executive capacity to the chief of the medium tank sec tion in the administrative work. Besides manufacturing details, I still handle all tests on clutches and engine accessories.'' Irwin is at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The work there, he says, has greatly expanded since his arrival last June. At that time he and two other officers were assigned to the proof works on me dium tanks. Now there are seven officers in the section. Ralph Ormsby, explorer extraordinary from our Chicago division, trekked quietly into the wilds of South Dakota and ran into three prehistoric mon sters. He is pictured on the back of one of them. In his famous book "South Dakota Diary", a vivid account of the safari, he has only this succinct but significant remark to make about the photograph. "Tyranasaurus--shot with pea-shooter from end of bed." P.S. to Page 10 -- Ted Mabley, of the Detroit Engineering Lab, in his new Michigan State Troops uniform. Don Pope, who joined the Los Angeles Fuel Tune-Up School when Gordon Dyke left, came to us from the Frank Wiggins Trade School in L.A. He was born in Watertown, South Da kota, and reared in California. Graduated from the Alhambra High School in June, 1940. ETC 06106 FEBRUARY, 1942 ETC 06107 ETC 06108 i i j Fzey, Champlin, to head New Departments: I Two Committees Created I i s organization changes which go into efiect this month include the Chemical Research have been ap pointed members of the Ethyl Re establishment of a new department, search Committee which will plan the consolidation of two existing and coordinate projects, divide as departments and the creation of two signments and explore problems important committees. The new de vital to the progress of our com partment is the Technical Service pany. Department, with headquarters in Members of the committee are Detroit. The Public Relations De Dr. Graham Edgar, chairman; Earl partment and the Advertising De Bartholomew, Dr. Harold A. Beatty, partment have been combined. The Dr. George Calingaert, C. D. Haw new committees will be known as ley, S. D. Heron, Dr. O. E. Kurt, the Ethyl Research Committee and John Lachowicz, M. W. Manchester the Ethyl War Committee. and John Schaefer. TECHNICAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT The first meeting of the commit tee will be held this month in De- Ethyl's new Technical Service Department, with Julian Frey in charge, places all technical service activities of the company in one unit. Gasoline Testing, Refinery Technology, Automotive Service, Fleet Service and Tractor Service Divisions are included. In his new post Julian will be advised by rep resentatives of Engineering Re search and the Sales Department. Earl Bartholomew and Harry Kaley have been named for these posts. In organizing the new depart ment, Technical Service Manager Frey announces the following divi sion managers: John Clifford Pope, Gasoline Testing Division; Richard K. Scales, Passenger Car and Auto motiveAccessories Division; William H. Hubner, Refinery Technology Division; Errol J. Gay, Truck, Bus and Fleet Division; C. G. Krieger, Agricultural Division. Julian Frey RESEARCH COMMITTEE Representatives of Manufactur ing, Aeronautical, Engineering and 3 ..J ETC 06109 troit. Regular meetings, approxi mately once a month, will be held thereafter in the new laboratory at Eight Mile Road, with special meet ings called as needed. WAB COMMITTEE All facilities and personnel of Ethyl's research laboratories which might be needed in the war effort have been surveyed and tabulated by the newly appointed War Com mittee to provide maximum coop eration with government projects. Members of the War Committee are Julian Frey, chairman; Earl Bar tholomew, Dr. George Calingaert, Dr. Graham Edgar, S. D. Heron and Dr. O. E. Kurt. PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT A new set-up to group various re lated activities of the company in a unit places Ralph Champlin, Di rector of Public Relations, in charge of advertising, sales promotion, pub licity and public relations. The new department will be supervised by Vice President Coard Taylor. Changing conditions of our busi ness require that a substantial part of the advertising and promotion efforts that formerly were directed toward the stimulation of sales will be turned now into channels of name and trade mark preservation, education and other public relations objectives. DICE MURPHY TO AID COARD TAYLOR Because of Harry Kaley's illness, Dick Murphy has been assigned to Coard Taylor's office to aid in man aging the Sales department. Dick's duties as Western Regional Manager will be handled during this time by Jim Boudreau, who will be Acting Western Regional Manager. Be cause of the temporary nature of these changes, Jim will not move to New York. 1 i ETC 06110 Plenty of Lead for the Army, says HUBNER the 100-octane and 80-octane fuels which the American petroleum in dustry is supplying to our armed forces and our allies will furnish the superior mechanical performance in the air and on the ground which may prove to be the decisive factor in total victory. So said Bill Hubner at the annual meeting of the S. A. E. in Detroit, on January 12th. But, he added, die 25 million civilian customers of the industry are going to have to put up with some sacrifices. "In order to produce all the 100octane aviation fuel possible," said Bill, "petroleum refiners right now are straining their facilities to the limit, and new facilities are being rushed to completion. Maximum production is required not only of aviation base fuel but also of the es sential high octane blending agents -- alkylate, iso-octane, and isopen tane. In many cases, refiners are forced to strip motor fuels of some of their volatile high octane frac tions." To date. Bill continued, most avi ation fuel of 100 octane has been composed of roughly these propor tions: 40* straight run gasoline (72 to 74 octane), 10* isopentane (88 to 90 octane), and 50* alkylate or com mercial iso-octane (93 to 97 octane) -- plus 3 cc. of tetraethyl lead per gallon, the maximum allowable. The 3 cc. limit on lead content was re cently raised to 4 cc., however, so that now it is possible to use 40* in stead of 50* alkylate. This frees enough of the vital iso-octane or alkylate to permit the manufacture of 20* more hundred-octane avia tion fuel. The three principal ingredients of this aviation fuel have been pro duced commercially only in the country's largest refineries, declared Hubner -- with alkylate and iso octane being made in less than 20 refineries. However, with an esti mated demand this year of three times the peak production of 1941, more and more of the smaller refin ers will obviously be asked to pro duce some of the necessary aviation components. To do this they will have to forego the manufacture of high-octane blending agents former ly used to improve their motor fuels. "It appears likely," he told the as sembled engineers, "that most re finers with crude capacities of more than 10,000 barrels per day will be called upon to make alkylate instead of the polymer gasoline now used as a blending agent for their motor fuel. At the same time, they will be asked to strip their motor fuels of all other possible aviation ingredients. ... Because of this `octane stripping,' it is obvious that the base stocks of^ fuels for civilian use must suffer." Just how much difference this will make on the octane number of the finished motor fuels. Bill explained, will depend largely on the amount of lead available for civilian use. At the present time, he declared, aviation fuels constitute about 4* of the total gasoline produced, premi um grade motor fuels about 10*, regular grades about 76*, and third grades about 10*. Average lead con centrations in 1941 were 2.6 cc. per S ETC 06111 gallon for premium grade fuel of 80 octane, and 1.6 cc. per gallon for regular grade of 75 octane. On this basis, a 40% to 50% cut in lead con tent per gallon would bring premi um fuel down to 78 octane and regu lar-grade down to 72. Demand for tetraethyl lead has been climbing steadily, he reported. In 1940 the demand was for 128 mil lion pounds; in 1941 it rose to 160 million pounds. Production for 1942 has been projected at 198 million pounds -- which is still below our manufacturing capacity provided we can get the necessary materials. In conclusion. Bill told the as sembled S. A. E. men that in gaso lines as in other fields, civilians may have to do without the quality to which they have been accustomed -- "but, regardless of the demands, America and its allies can depend upon the petroleum industry to pro duce the quality and quantity of fuels necessary to win this war." EDGAR, GAY also Speak to SAE DR. GRAHAM EDGAR AND ERROL GAY addressed the S. A. E. meeting that heard Bill Hubner's talk on what the curtailment of lead would mean to the gasoline manufacturers. Dr. Edgar indicated that the oc tane rating for regular-grade gaso line would probably be 72 but not lower than 70. Errol spoke briefly on the topic of maintenance -- it is due to become more important than ever, he said, with metals being less available than before, and with a greater volume of passengers de pendent upon buses. Drawing board conference in New York--George Rick, old-time Ethyl draftsman, gives newcomer Charlie Blood a pointer. Charlie comes to us from the Realty Investments Company, Ltd., where he was in charge of industrial plant construc tion. He and George are kept busy turning out blueprints for new blending instal lations. Charlie won his B.S. in C.E. at Yale in 1909. He lives in Ridgefield, New Jersey, with his wife and 21 year old son, Fred. ! ETC 06112 THE 1942 WALTER GIBBS MEDAL of the American Chemical Society has just been given to Tom Midgley, adding still another award to the already imposing list of honors be stowed upon him for his achieve ments in chemical science. For "discoveries which are out standing both from the standpoint of pioneering in new fields and from the standpoint of commercial importance," a group of distin guished scientists voted Midge the winner of this medal, one of the highest distinctions in chemical science. Midge becomes the thirty-first recipient of the Gibbs Medal, which was founded in 1911 by the Chicago Section of the A.C.S. and named for Josiah Willard Gibbs, professor of mathematical physics at Yale University, called "Ameri ca's greatest man of science." In addition to his discovery of tetraethyl lead. Midge's develop ment of safe refrigerants, and con tributions to synthetic rubber re search and to methods of extracting bromine from sea water are des cribed in the citation as other prin cipal achievements. The performance of the modem military and transport plane, it is pointed out, is due in large part to^ the development of high octane gasoline, a development in which tetraethyl lead played an important role. Last year Midge received the Priesdey Medal of the American Chemical Society, and had previ ously been awarded the William H. Nichols Medal of the Society's New York Section, the Perkin Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry, and the Longstreth Medal. 7 ETC 06113 ETC 06114 il L 4 JMl Meet the New Hands at Baton Rouge bob rich, Technical Division . . . of Baker High School in Louisiana ! graduated from New Orleans high . . . has wife and one child. . . . served in the Navy for 6 years . . . came to us from Ford, Bacon & Davis, Galveston, Texas. imon snippers, Ethyl Chloride . . . bom in Florien, La. . . . attended Louisiana Normal . . . used to be john montcomery, Technical Di State Police Trooper ... is married vision . . . attended L. S. U. . . . and has two children. . formerly worked as radio service- ed gates. Ethyl Chloride . . . edu | man . . . learned about welding at cated at Gulf Coast Military Acad i National Defense School. emy, L. S. U., and Arkansas A. & M. henry field. Technical Division ... . . . managed a service station be attended Southwestern Louisiana fore coming to Ethyl... is married Institute . . . worked for U. S. Engi and has one child. neers for four years ... married and carroll forbes. Technical Division has one child. . . . bom and reared in Hammond, Charles naul. Ethyl Chloride . . . bom in Baywood, La. . . . worked for Stone & Webster Engineering Louisiana . . . used to be a lumber grader at Ponchatoula, La. ... is married and has one child. Corp. before coming to us ... is ray metternich. Technical Divi married, has one child. sion . . . graduate of Baton Rouge sie SCRIBNER, Ethyl Chloride pipe fitter . . . bom in Wewoka, Okla homa ... worked for Southern Craft Paper Company in Mobile, Ala... . is married and has 3 children. jules beysselance. Ethyl Chloride . . . graduate of Baton Rouge High . . . was with U. S. Marines for 4 years ... formerly worked for West ern Auto Service at Baton Rouge ... is married and has one child. michael griebel. Ethyl Chloride . . . attended L. S. U. and North western ... formerly accountant for Meeks Lumber Co. in Baton Rouge ... has a wife and one child. warren hendry, operator helper at Ethyl Chloride ... native of Louisi high ... formerly worked for Ameri can Bitumuls Company , . . served in Army at Camp Blanding for seven months. john whttson, Technical Division engineer . . . received B.S. from Purdue in 1940, M.S. from same University in 1941 . . . ardent ama teur photographer, clarinet player. harry holuncswobth, Technical Division . . . graduate of Tulane University, New Orleans.... Came to us from Mathieson Alkali Works in Lake Charles, La.. . . chief out side interests are tennis, bowling, and reading. Charles mathis, Ethyl Chloride ... B.S. from Louisiana Normal... for past three years has been teach ana ... graduated from Amite high school... before joining Ethyl was a Trooper with the State Police ... is married. ing school... is married. henry hebert, Ethyl Chloride . . . graduate of Catholic High School, Baton Rouge . . . joined us after george white. Ethyl Chloride . . . working for Service Laundry in bom in Chartow, Iowa... graduate B. R. . . . is married. ! i EtC 06U5 ROMANCE its glittering from New York to Tnlsa BINGS ON THEIR FINGERS and bells in the air, stenos Janet Van Horn, Levonne Clarke and Midge Ficke have a new gleam in the eye. Janet, secretary in the Tulsa office, became Mrs. Donald Brown on January 31, at 2:30 in the afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church with many of her Ethyl friends there to see the radiant titian-haired bride walk down the aisle. Don served his year with the Army at Fort Sill, where he was a First Lieutenant, and is now back in Tulsa working for the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company. He and Janet will live in Tulsa, provided he is not recalled, and she will continue at the office. Levonne Clarke, of New York Stenographic, who has been work ing on a special job in Secretary Gonzalez' office and is now helping the A.I.S. over a curve of superactivity, is wearing a ring that will do a good job of lighting her way through the blackouts, if any. Dick Geyer, the man behind the ring, is a consulting engineer in New York. Along the ski trails Midge Ficke and Frank Braisted decided to ski through life together, and Midge Eidled a beautiful diamond out of er Christmas stocking. She is up holding the tradition of the Manu facturing department, which turns out not only tetraethyl lead but 10 brides -- one after another. John Schaefer is reported to have a bow and arrow in his desk drawer that he uses on unsuspecting victims within a year after they come into his department. First was Winn Porter, who had been around the company for some time, started working for John and before long had changed her name to Sanders. Then came Betty Rose, who fol lowed suit and became Mrs. Van Inwegen. Next was Dot Watson, who stepped down the aisle with Frank Ferry. Last year's bride was Betty Cheldon, now Mrs. Moir. Midge, the future Mrs. Braisted, has set no wedding date. Husbandto-be is with Standard of New Jer sey, his title -- assistant cost analyst. This ring business works both ways. On the giving end was Paul Boehm, who helps Elmer Chellborg keep everybody supplied with what they need to get their job done. He went down to Rogersville, Tennes see, Christmas with a ring in his pocket for Maye Horton. Wedding will be in the spring. So tired of it all -- month-old Alan Leslie is the pride of the Maycock household. He is Russel and Eliza beth's first, and the new father carries on, almost as usual, in the Technical Division at Baton Rouge. ETC 06116 Art Stover STOVER moves to New York last time Art Stover went to Baton Rouge he packed Betty, June, Janet, and Eric into his big black Buick and four days and 1500 miles later -- on January 1 -- arrived in New York to take up permanent residence. Betty is Mrs. Art, June and Janet are the young Stovers, eight years and 16 months respec tively, and Eric is their black and tan Dachshund. They are now set tled in Larchmont, and Art has joined the throngs of commuters who daily hustle for the 8:28. Though he has spent most of his time for the past six months in the New York office, his family and his official headquarters remained in Baton Rouge. Art, though still in charge of operations at the plant, has a new office next to John Schaefer s in the Chrysler Building, from which he can do a much better job of helping him run the Manu facturing Department than he could from way down yonder in the Pelican state. Art doesn't remember when he was made Assistant General Man ager of the Department. "Gosh, I forget when it was that we got these grand and glorious titles," he said, scratching his head with one finger. "We all got together down in Baton Rouge and decided something should be done about titles. John and I, I remember, came out with two of the best." Art looks direcdy at you when talking, speaks slowly and distinct ly, has a casual manner that puts you at ease. He lights one cigarette after another, takes a few puffs then puts them out. Smokes two packs a day. An O and P filler-inner. Art doodles on everything in sight. He spins a good yarn, and has, in fact, quite a reputation as a raconteur. Art was 40 years old November 5, has spent the past 14 years work ing for Ethyl. Joined the company as a chemist at Deepwater and after a year became assistant plant manages, later was put in charge of operations there, and went to Baton Rouge in the spring of 1939 in a similar capacity. He spent the summer of 1938 in France super vising the beginning of operations at the Painboeuf TEL plant. Art liked the French but had a terrible time understanding them, despite that French course he took back at-' Lehigh. That, incidentally, is his alma mater, class of '26. He was bom in Chambersburg, Pennsyl vania, went to grade and high school in Wilmington, Delaware, and attended Mercersburg Acad emy. Though Art can't be bothered with striving for perfect form he shoots a fair game of golf -- has an 87 average. He likes to bowl and is "not to good at it," but has a lot of fun. 11 ETC 06117 500 New ones a week for Ben LIEUTENANT BEN . HAHRISON was whisked out of Manufacturing in New York and into a uniform at Fort Niagara practically overnight. He received a wire on New Year's day ordering him to report for duty at 6:00 a.m. on January 3. Ben, one of John Schaefer's as sistants, wound up his duties as best he could, said goodbye to Itoline and Reid, and headed for the fort, which is located near Youngstown, N. Y. Ben is a Second Lieutenant in the Reserve Infantry and is now training selectees. Gets a new crop of 500 every Monday morning. He has been with our company since August, 1936. Started as a field representative in the Chicago division, covering Montana and Wyoming, and later Indiana. Then his territory was switched to De troit, where he looked after Ethyl sales for two years before coming to New York and new duties in Manufacturing. Ben is a graduate of the Univer sity of Kentucky, where he took his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1931. He joined the University staff and did research on combustion engines for three years following his graduation, then joined the U. S. Forest Service. 12 ceorce burcal, Detroit Chemical Researcher looks over some of the day's work. George received his B.S. in chemical enginering from the University of Illinois in 1937, continued working on an M.S. de gree at University of Louisville. Before joining Ethyl he operated, engineered and researched for Seagram's. Enjoys sports, reading and traveling. Is a member of Sigma Tau & A. I. Ch. E. aubrey larsen, chemical operator at Detroit, shares his time between the Research Lab & Antioch Col lege, where he majors in chemistry. Preceding his Ethyl venture, Au brey worked in the laboratories of the Canton Refining Company and the Western Shade Cloth Company. Is a great sports enthusiast, likes to read and listen to Strauss waltzes. ETC 06118 Tommy Distler, when brand new. He's 4 months old now. Dayton Dope dayton sends us, this month, some news about the folks in Uncle Harry's Ohio office. On December 15th the men gathered for a divi sion meeting at the Van Cleve hotel in Dayton, with all hands on deck except Norm Siebenthaler -- who was kept out of town on a tank cleaning assignment. Roy Godbey didn't get into the picture, although he was there. Our correspondent explains he was trying to retrieve his napkin from under the table when the camera went off. Dayton wives have been busy these past weeks. Rita Bingham has charge of a local chapter of the Red Cross, the Loman School chap ter; recently counted and sorted 8,000 sales stamps which had been brought in. Dottie Distler and Jean Pruitt are knitting furiously. Other exponents of the plastic needles are Dorothy Dedo, Ruth Mack, Ruth Kenerson and Louise Fries. Dottie Distler, by the way, has another hobby besides her knitting -- young Tommy, who arrived on the fifteenth of October. Dottie II, aged nine, takes time out from afternoons with the Brownies (Jun ior Girl Scouts) to lend a hand with the safety pins. Busiest person of the division, as far as we can make out, continues to be Harry Mack himself. What is it this time? He's been appointed to the Dayton Council for Defense, a group which is now moving full speed ahead on organization of the city's plans for coping with raids and disasters. It may be only an unfounded rumor, but we hear that Harry's been developing slightly oversize cigars with anti-aircraft guns concealed in them. 13 ETC 06119 Wedding bells toll ex-bachelors George Kirby and Ray Aubin are introducing comely brides to their Baton Rouge friends. George's lady fair is the former Nannette Dutsch. They were mar ried on December 12 at the Presby terian Church. Chemist Kirby is in the Technical Division. Ray's charmer was Dorothy Fort ner before their marriage on November 23. He is an operator helper at Ethyl Chloride. PRIVATE DAN HIRSCHLER got a bride for Christmas -- the former Evelyn Foncannon of Ashland, Kansas. Dan, who is a radio technician for the First Signal Company at Fort Custer, went home on Christmas leave and brought her back to Battle Creek, where the couple live. They were married at his home in Newton, Kansas, on Christmas. Sixty pounds of sailfish and two happy fishermen pose for a picture. This seven foot two prize that Jack Polk, of Logo and Ethyl's Oscar Lewis reeled in at Aruba, N.W.l. is the eighth sailfish ever caught there. So say the rec ord keepers at the port. January bride --last month Eleanora Hajduk became Mrs. Robert Froyen; changed her Ethyl status, too -- is now a regular steno at the Engineering lab instead of casual. Eleanora boro in Detroit; worked for Fisher Body Division of General Motors before coming with us. 14 irene staley, new secretary to Ed Rothman and Barry Barringer in Detroit, speaks the language o both the advertising and the automobile business, having picked it up at various jobs with Graham-Paige, Ford and Cadillac Motor Car com panies, and the J. Stirling Getchell Agency. She attended Wayne Uni versity and graduated from the Business Institute in Detroit. Goes in for horseback riding and badmin ton. ETC 06120 More Decorations for More Veterans oscab lewis. Ethyl's original safety man, walked into his office on the morning of January 16 feeling fine, went home feeling "kind of old." He had joined the old-timers who sport those diamond studded 15-year pins on their lapels. But he showed no signs of lumbago, dyspepsia, or decadence -- in fact he seemed to be in the pink. That Florida sun shine he soaked up down at Fort Lauderdale recently left its ruddy mark. One of the most memorable events of Oscar's Ethyl career was his trip to England. About six months after he joined the company he was sent over there to install blending plants and help market leaded gasoline for the AngloAmerican Oil Company. That kept him pretty busy, but not too busy to interfere with love, courtship and marriage, and he returned to Amer ica with a bride, the former Nan Bevan, sister of Ray Bevan, who is now Managing Director of Associ ated Ethyl. Before going to England, Oscar was a field representative in New England, but upon his return was Oscar Lewis assigned work in the middle west. He became the first manager of the Baltimore division office when it was opened in 1929. Later he came to New York to assist Ed Walter, who was in charge of the field force. For about a year Oscar made a survey of methods used in the hand ling of Ethyl fluid in the field with the idea of improving certain prac- tices. Since then he has been our No. 1 safety man, and now has about 40 specialized safety engi neers working in the various divi sions. Oscar is now working on a com mittee of Engineers selected from six oil companies and Ethyl, and appointed by the Army and Navy as their Advisory Committee on Oil Storage. The Lewises -- Oscar and Nan. six-year-old Jill, and Barney, eleven -- live in Larchmont. Franklin Fricker Cleveland Walcutt 18 Two Detroitexs two Detroiters -- Franklin Fricker and Cleveland Walcutt -- both members of the Engineering Re search staff also join the 15-year club this month. Cleve is renowned for his work in connection with development of the knock test engine. The equip ment he worked on was used on the Series 30 engine, and adapted also on the CFR engine. Cleve is a graduate of New York University, and came to Ethyl from the New York Edison Company on February 1, 1927. He began his work on knock test engine development at Yonkers, and came to Detroit with the laboratory in December, 1927. Cleve has been co-author on two papers. "A Springless Bouncing Pin Indicator" bv Walcutt and Earl Bartholomew was read at the sum mer meeting of the SAE in May, 1937. "Fuel Distribution in Multi cylinder Engines and Its Effect On Knocking and Performance," by Walcutt and Harold Gibson, was given at the Detroit meeting of the SAE two years ago. Franklin Fricker was in on the early work on the knock test engine also, coming to the laboratories at Detroit in May, 1930, to handle the business end of manufacturing the engines. From this beginning, Frank has swung over to the hand ling of the Engineering labora tories' business affairs. ETC 06122 He came to Ethyl in February, 1927, as a field man in the sales department, covering the south At lantic states. In the fall of 1929 he and Pat Harding went to Atlantic City to take care of Ethyl's exhibit on the Steel Pier. During college days Charlie swung a mean backhand which wrought the downfall of many an opponent on the tennis courts. He upheld the honor of Johns Hopkins as a member of the varsity tennis and baseball teams. Now he goes in for less strenuous sports such as bowling, golf, and bridge. Charlie was bom in New York City, but his family moved to Balti more when he was verv young and he went through grade and high school there. He is now married and has a family of his own consisting of his wife, Gertrude, and two daughters -- Marilyn, 10, and Alice, 8. They live in Wilmington. Charlie Wasserman fbom chemist to division manager is, in brief, the story of Charlie Wasserman, who begins his six teenth year with Ethyl on February 15. He started with us at the Deep water lab shortly after graduation from Johns Hopkins, where he took his B.A. in 1926. "Just to pass the time" he taught a little math at City College in Baltimore the following fall. After he had been working in the Deepwater lab for about six years he was brought into the office as production supervisor to handle shipments of raw materials. When John Schaefer came to New York, Charlie became assistant to Art Stover, who took over, then suc ceeded him as Deepwater division manager two years later when Art went to Baton Rouge. Five and Ten two new yoekeks, a Detroiter, and a Kansas Citian chalk up a decade with Ethyl and put on green pins. They are Mildred Jones at the K. C. test lab, Howard Pearsall, a Chem Researcher in Detroit, Mike Maroldy, who runs the bookkeeping de partment, and Bill Tumley, who is on special assignment in the New York division. Crossing the five year lap are Ralph Champlin, Public Relations Director, Jack Dooher, who helps Jim Hyland look after Kure's Beach and Freeport operations, and Tom Keenan, who helps the purchasers keep purchases straight. Investments for the Future In 1941, Ethyl spent over 3J* million dollars on new plants and laboratories. 17 7 G i ETC 06123 Grandpa rat takes over carl abell, in the interest of telling all the news that's fit to print, now has to tell one on himself. It's a good yam and "the truth, so help me Hannah" says the man who signs himself the Cow Country Correspondent and reports -- San Diego, in the throes of an air craft production boom, is growing so fast that even the Chamber of Commerce cannot find room for the new arrivals. Mechanics with more cars to service than they can take care of in the daytime, are working far into the night. Into this mess blew one Carl Abell, veteran Ethyl coach of the far southwest, with his regular squad and equipment, for the last game of the season -- tuneup meeting to you Ethyleers. The home town club had dusted off the bleachers for 150 fans, but only the rooters who were too sleepy to work any longer showed up, so the open ing gun was fired with only 62 of the faithful in the stands. About the end of the first half, when Detty Nation was calling the signals and carrying the ball, and Layter Tyming and Ritchie Car-buretto were only putting up half hearted resistance, one of the brave fans on the front bench gave up the struggle and relaxed into the waiting arms of Morpheus. Carl was bothered, to say the least -- says you can't pay off the stadium debt by playing before empty benches or sleeping fans. So with a long, fast vocal forward pass right up under the goal posts he scored 18 a touchdown for Ethyl and brought the startled crowd up with a lusty cheer. The boy on the front bench came out of his coma, blinked unsteadily, pointed in the general direction of Carl's left ear, and shouted, "Holy cats, look at that big rat!" Carl was beginning to show fight, then stopped, looked to his left and saw, yes, a rat -- as big as a ground squirrel. It had come in through the gable end of the garage, and was calmly working its way along the rafters. The half was over, and it was time for the bleacher stunts and a five minute stretch. mail coming up -- Mary Thor gets it cubbyholed for distribution. She's the new mail clerk at the Engineer ing lab in Detroit. Mary was bom in Femdale, new home of the lab, and is the only employee who lives there. Before coming with Ethyl she attended Wayne University, taught sewing for the Singer people, and was payroll clerk for a Femdale firm. The Shift Key martin mc cooley: from Atlanta to New York, still selling safety. ETC 06124 TTYKl-----------u i a r . M i n n r t - t l_* . * BIG Business chahles risso-cill, representative for Associated Ethyl in South Amer ica has just finished supervising the installation of a blending plant for the world's largest refinery. Owned by the Lago Oil and Transport Company and located in Aruba, Netherlands West Indies, it pro cesses close to 300,000 barrels of oil a day according to recently pub lished figures. The new blending plant is the first drum-to-weigh type to be installed outside the United States. Charlie flew to Aruba from Buenos Aires, a four day trip, longest lap of which is the 1500 mile flight across Brazil from Rio de Janeiro to Belem -- a 12 hour jaunt with only one stop. But Charlie is a seasoned airways trav eler, having made two 10,000 mile plane trips around South America within the past six months. He met Oscar Lewis in Aruba, the safety head having sailed down from New York to see that everything went smoothly. By convenient coinci dence they arrived within an hour of each other. The new plant at Aruba falls un der the jurisdiction of British, Dutch and American authorities, and they are working side by side to achieve maximum production, Charlie reports. "There is no doubt about the enthusiastic effort being put forth to produce war materials," he declares. The Ethyl fluid for the plant ar rived on a supercharged boat -- supercharged with a cargo of dyna mite. Charlie and Oscar got the plant humming along in good order and set sail for America. Charlie came back to New York with Oscar to meet Ray Bevan, Managing Di rector of Associated Ethyl, who was due to arrive from London the latter part of January. i ETC 06125 r Joe Costello goes from E.G.C. to O.P.C. joe costello has gone to Washing ton to a new post in the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator, where he is serving as special assistant to Wright Gary, Director of Refining. Joe, who was head of our New York division, has been granted a leave of absence during which his right hand man, Roy Goltz, assisted by Bill Tumley will keep the wheels of business rolling in the home office. Joe went to the capital city De cember 29 to begin his new duties. His chief responsibility is the allo cation of lead, distribution of which is now being handled by the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator. Joe's office is in the new Interior Building. Joe started with Ethyl as a field representative in Pennsylvania. Later he had charge of the Ethyl exhibit on the Steel Pier at Atlantic City. On completion of that assign ment he came to New York and handled automotive contacts in the division until July of 1935 when he went to Baltimore as assistant man ager of that division. Two years later he went to Atlanta where he was top man for four years before coming to New York. Good news for Gwen when the Associated Press wires flashed the news that Lieutenant Edgar Barr had shot down the first Jap plane at Pearl Harbor, his sister Gwen, secretary in the New York office, was besieged with reporters, photographers, and interested Ethyl colleagues. First to arrive was Hambla Bauer, of the World Tele gram, who found Gwen calm, cool, and collected, tried to throw her off guard with a good joke. Lieutenant Barr's exploit had just been con firmed by the commandingofficer of the Army Air Corps at Pearl Harbor, where he has been stationed since November 7. Joe Costello 20 harry kaley, General Sales Man ager, is recovering nicely from an operation performed Saturday, Jan uary 24, at the Nassau County Hos pital. He is expected to return to his home for convalescence during the first week in February. k a i L - riirrT T H 7 rf i . t i i - u t a c j.m jr - ynT1 Shiny, new and empty, the lab gets its first truckload of furniture. Detroiters doing business at New Address the great trek of the Detroit Engineering Research staff and equipment from their old Milwau kee Avenue home to the new Lab oratories on West Eight Mile Road has started. The offices and part of the lab oratories moved during the Christ mas holidays. Only the road test garage and machine shop remain behind, awaiting the completion of the west wing at the new location. The dynamometer department be gan breaking concrete and digging out their equipment a few weeks in advance, and it is now being as sembled on Eight Mile Road. Major housecleaning of desks, files, bookcases, and equipment storage rooms brought forth over 1,000 items -- furniture and boxes -- to be transported. That was in addition to heavy machinery and equipment. Aeronautical Research and the Gasoline Testing laboratories were the first to move out and join the Chemical Researchers who pio neered on Eight Mile Road way back in 1940. When the partitions throughout the third floor and parts of the second floor were removed, Homer Dedo, Harold Gibson, Jack Taylor, Ray Faller, Pat Harding and Ed Rothman were doing busi ness in a communal "gold fish bowl." So were Here Frey, Bill Hubner and their cohorts. Grand housecleaning for En gineering Research started Christ mas week when the moving com pany dropped off boxes by the 21 I I i ETC 06127  All on the 40c Special Cabinet coming up -- if will soon be bulging with files and ready for reference. Moving day on Milwaukee Avenue -- here's the room that housed the origin al Engineering Research Lab in De troit. More recently it was the home of the dynamometer department. hundreds for stowing away equip ment, papers, files and supplies. By Christmas Eve, every chair, desk, box, coat rack, and ash stand was tagged to show its location in the new laboratories. Corrugated boxes were stacked in comers, on chairs and on desks. Day after Christmas the movers came, and under the supervision of appointed members of the staff, load ed boxes and furniture into trucks and carted them off to fill empty rooms, clean and shiny, and smell ing of fresh paint. Ethyl men check ed the movers in, called signals, kept traffic moving and helped un pack. Soon the equipment was dusted off and ready to use. The tumult and the clatter died, and business as usual was resumed. 22 walt resleb, head keeper of sta tistics at the home office, dropped in on the Bulletin Board the other day after lunch with three little slips of paper. He had just been to a Chinese restaurant for some shrimpers and rice, and for dessert the waiter had brought him three little rice-cakes with printed mot toes inside. Walt says he broke open the first one and read: Do not try to defend what was wrong in the past. A quaintly oriental viewpoint, he thought--but then, the Chinese are a race of philosophers. He bit into the second cake expectantly, and found: Shoulder strap keep attraction from becoming sensation. Well, said Walt to himself, even a race of philosophers will have its lighter side. Part of the Chinese charm. He wondered what bit of ageless wisdom the third cake would contain. It was a quotation from Confu cius: Love certainly funny. Man bite gaVs neck because she have pretty legs. The Stork Club candy and cigabs at the Detroit Chem Lab were on August Allen December 9, when Barbara Claire, daughter No. 2 arrived. Weight: 7 pounds, 3K ounces. The four Allens, we hear, are well and happy. New Year's present for the Bill Edwards was a baby daughter, whom they named Billie Ann. Pop is a chemist at Ethyl Chloride in Baton Rouge. ETC 061 Alfred Brown Bernardine Younkin Winifred Duddy FIVE MORE foi Charlie Wassennan Alfred brown, blender operator at the Deepwater Plant, is a native of Wilmington, Delaware. He came to Ethyl in December from the Pull man Company, has a yen for hunt ing and fishing. bernardine younkin of the Deep water group helps Dot Featherer keep dnim records straight. She at tended Salem, New Jersey, High School and Beacom Business Col lege in Wilmington, somewhere along the line acquiring an extra curricular passion for bridge. winifred duddy is another drum record straightener upper at Deep water. She is a native of Carney's Point, New Jersey, finished high school there, attended Goldey Busi ness College in Wilmington. Before joining Ethyl she was a dental as sistant. Her favorite off-hours pas time is dancing. evelyn darst, Dot Featherer's third Deepwater aide, came to Ethyl on December 17. She is from the "deep sooth," hailing from Knoxville, Ten nessee, where she attended school, graduating in 1940 from the Uni- rv Evelyn Darst John Miller versity of Tennessee. Ebie is the athlete of the three drum recorders. She has a healthy liking for tennis, riding and swimming. new blender operator in Deep water is John Miller of Penns Grove, New Jersey. Before coming to the plant, on November 17, he was em ployed by DuPont. John is an A-l wood carver on the side. 23 a i L I 1 ; ik 6 I< i i i ETC 06129 When the temperature hit 17 at Baton Rouge something new appeared to decorate the exterior of Ethyl Chloride So. 3. Splash from the drip coolers froze to form rows of icicles along the steel framework and dazzle the eyes of workers reporting for duty on the morning of January 8. But the sun shines bright in Louisiana ... in two days they were gone. Army Takes Two from Faller U. two members of the current class at Faller U., Detroit, were called for active duty during January. Norm Linstromberg, from the University of Missouri, is now a lieutenant in the field artillery stationed at Jeffer son Barracks, Missouri. Jim Bessire, of Oklahoma A. & M., is a lieutenant in the Engineers Corps, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Both came up through the R.O.T.C. at college. 24 Bombshell Bailie if a mine, bomb, or torpedo lands in your neighborhood, just put in a call for Jack Bailie in Washington, and he will give you expert advice on what to do. Jack, the first selectee from our Engineering Laboratories in De troit, is now at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory doing experimental work on explosives and methods of protecting ships. Jack was with the Army at Fort Custer, Michigan, for about 8 months, then was assigned to the Enlisted Reserves and re turned to the Detroit lab. He left again last month to go to Washing ton. Profile of the T.B.M. and the B.S.M. Though the Bulletin Board, firmly believes that there's nothing deader than a Christmas picture in February, we think you'll agree that there's nothing dead about this picture, which just came in from Detroit. Santa Claus (unidentified) obviously has "panicked 'em." Not a bad way to initiate the new cafeteria on West Eight Mile Road. Silver Spoon pins Long list of gifts from the local merchants included everything for Junior's comfort, plus some nice presents for the parents--a bottle of champagne, a radio, free passes to the theatre, to mention a few. well timed arrival of Wilbur 0. Davis, Jr., first baby bom in Wilmington, Delaware, this year brought a nice haul to the Davis household, senior member of which is a crane operator at the Kure's B6ach plant of Ethyl-Dow. He and Mrs. Wilbur have been collecting prizes ever since 1:30 P.M., January 1, when the town's No. 1 baby of 1942 was bom. Solute Lieutenant Mercer on ms way up in the U. S. Naval Service, Fritz Mercer has climbed another rung, having been pro moted to the rank of Lieutenant on January 8. Fritz, who used to be in our Baltimore division, was called to active duty last May at the Sub marine Base in New London, Con necticut. 29 s m U t s L k L i ETC 0G131 from San Berdn farewell words of Paul Straub, returning to the Navy Yard at Mare Island after a three-day leave at Christmas when he visited friends at the Enginering Lab, were, "I'll be in there full speed ahead because we've got a lot of getting even to do." Paul is in the Planning-NewConstruction department, and his work involves trial runs on new ships, both surface and submer sible. At first he made a number of test dives in new submarines, but more recently has been working as a repair officer on a new submarine tender. Dick Rice is back at the Engi neering Lab, having spent tne Christmas and New Year holidays in bed recovering from an appen dectomy. Dick says he enjoyed a nice rest at the hospital and misses having a flock of pretty nurses to wait on him. Aside from that he's making out all right. Mike Remondino, San Berdu correspondent, sends this pertinent note telling why Rollin Gish and his hat are inseparable. "He's afraid he'll catch something -- pneumonia is in the air he says and cold germs, too. Of course the fact that he is now wearing a Mohawk Indian type of haircut has nothing to do with it. His face has gradu ally been growing longer ana now extends pretty far up on his head. (See picture, October Bulletin Board, page 19.) 26 Doris and Elmer Mahlke are glad Leon Henderson didn't issue his no-more-rubber edict before Christ mas -- they might not have made that cross country trip to Michigan. They had a fine time visiting their families at Ann Arbor, and on the return trip took in the sights at Meramec Cave, the Petrified Forest, and the Grand Canyon. Elmer also stopped off in Tulsa to visit fellow testers at the lab there. Lorena Mazed -- new secretary to John Lachowicz, patent attorney at Detroit. Lorena is a native of Ypsuanti, Michi gan. Gained eight years of legal ex perience in a Detroit law office. Hobby is taking motion pictures. "a good idea, these service pins," says Casey Jones, putting a five-year badge on Yvonne Guertin. Brunette and vivacious, this native Bostonian reports the activities of Mat Taylor's boys to the Bulletin Board ... is also the boss's secretary. After office hours she reads best sellers, and ice skates or swims as the season goes. ETC 06132 LAST MINUTE BOWLING BULLETINS! Deepwater High Game Herbert Jackson Johnson 226 224 209 High Set Herbert 627 Jackson 611 Armstrong 570 High Average Herbert Jackson Johnson Armstrong Remsburg 183 177 167 166 160 "TEAM TOTAL"* 853 Detroit E. Giffig 248 Rometti 241 Anderson 233 Rometti Prince E. Gillig 604 590 587 Anderson Johnson Rometti Soroos Dedo 177 165 163 163 163 831 Baton Rouge Monahan Rieger Clancy 230 219 204 Rieger Monahan Clancy 532 519 513 Clancy Rieger Armstrong 156 154 152 Hinnershitz 150 Fulmer 148 760 GIRLS LEAGUES Detroit Baton Rouge High Game Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray 190 186 180 Sally Van Anda Jesse Savario Winnie Dugas High Set Jewel Ahonen Helmi Burkleo Myra Willis 462 450 412 Sally Van Anda Dot McCarroll Winnie Dugas High Average Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray Myra Willis Jean Call 137 128 117 109 106 Sally Van Anda Dot McCarroll Jesse Savario Winnie Dugas Mary Walsh `TEAM TOTAL" 597 165 116 115 261 ** 207* * 201* * 113 98 95 94 88 486 * New York and Kure's Beach leagues are temporarily inactive Set of two Stripes and Long honrs from jim mason comes a report on the life of an ensign at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Jacksonville, Florida. Writing to his former col leagues in the dynamometer de partment in Detroit, Ensign Mason says: "Since coming down here I have been instructing cadets in the the ory and operation of aircraft en gines, part of the ground school course they all take before and during the flying instructions... Amteaching 3 or 4 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week; remainder of the time is spent taking care of the other work in connection with the classes and studying. I still have plenty to learn about planes, and the Navy, so can always find something to do. Normally work 8 hours a day be tween 6:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Then I have watches to stand from time to time, but that is all part of the work as after all we are officers as well as teachers." T U*A4v s 5 & sfPrta dS s m r S u * ETC 06133 ETC 06134 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD -- by andfor Ethyl employees ETC 06135 THE VETERANS' CLUB reports ALL THE FIFTEEN*-YEAR men this month are in the sales department --safety man Bill Newman, eastern regional manager Jack Martin, and general sales manager Harrv Kaley. Head of the safety group in the Dayton division, Bill Newman first joined the corporation on March 14, 1927, as a field representative covering Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Later he was appointed field representative for Tennessee and finally, as the increased tempo of our business necessitated smaller territories for each field man. Bill filled the same post in the state of West Virginia alone. While in that area he served for three vears as president of the West Virginia Oil Marketers Association. Bill became a clinic manager in 1938, serving in that capacity until July 5, 1940, when he was called to take charge of safety matters in the Dayton division. Besides his other talents. Bill has to his credit several practical appliances, most recent of which was his completion of the construction of the welder's airline mask which was subsequent ly accepted by the petroleum industry. Even Bill's hobbies smack of service to the public, for beyond his sometime sport of coon hunting, he is an expert short wave radio operator. When the waters of the Ohio broke over their banks in the great flood of 1937, it was Bill who sat with his transmitter atop a cliff overlooking the river and gave to Ohio state officials and the Red Cross rescue direction responsible for saving both human life and property. BUI Xetcman John G. Martin, known to Ethyl folks everywhere as Jack, is the most photographed man in the company. As director of Ethyl's Motor Clinics he posed for promo-^ tional photographs with dynamo meter dials and demonstrating en gines, pistons and outraged motor parts, microphones and knock bombs. He has been "shot" in white coat, in overalls, in mufti--working the lighthouse control tower for the Clinic show, holding a pyrex glass tube in his hand with a knocking flame inside it, or pointing to "a fifteen percent increase in power produced -- measured right at the rear wheels!" with a lucite wand. 1 etc 06136 Jack Martin Jack, who attended Furman Uni versity and the University of Rich mond, started with us in March, 1927, after leaving the engineering department of the State of Virginia, his home state. For a year and a half he covered the territory of Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, reporting directly to the home office in New York. After a period in which he supervised sales work in 4 states, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, Jack went to New York in 1932 to spend a year in specialized sales work. The next four years found him in sales promotional work in the Los Angeles division where he was one of the key figures in develop ing the Motor Clinics. When the 2 clinic program was put on a nation al basis in 1937 he returned to New York to supervise these Ethyl "side shows of science." Early last year Jack was appointed eastern region al manager. Jack is married and has one child, a bov. Harry W. Kaley has been our general sales manager since 1938. He joined us 15 years ago as a field representative, covering Penn sylvania and Delaware, but he was also engaged in special sales promotion work which took him all the way from New England to California. In 1929 Harry was called into the New York office, where he worked on various phases of our sales activities. In 1935 he was named advertising manager; a vear later, he was made assistant sales manager. On New Year's Day in 1938, Harry was advanced to the post of general sales manager. Harry was bom in upstate Penn sylvania at Johnsonburg on August 18, 1903, went through his early years of school at Pittsburgh and Williamsport, and then attended Penn State. In 1925 he graduated with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineer ing. Before joining the Ethyl Cor poration, Harry worked as an engi neer for the state of Pennsylvania. He lives in Garden City, Long Island, with Mrs. Kaley and their three rollicking sons. , --Or should we say "men and women?" Iola Sheppard, financial secretary of the Kettering Lab in Cincinnatti, tops the list of those who cut their tenth notches in the desk this month. Before being named to her new post last year, Iola was secretary to Dr. R. A. Kehoe for 9 years. Next in line is Russ Burroughs, U. of Kentucky man and Yale post graduate, who works with Tom Risk in the refinery technology di- ETC 06137 vision on the effective utilization of lead through selective blending. Russ started with us as a field man in Chicago, then supervised coop erative tests conducted by Ethvl on a fleet of vehicles at Phoenix, Ari zona, and later was put in charge of the road test garage at the En gineering Research lab in Detroit. Errol Gay, who recently was named manager of the truck, bus and fleet division of Julian Frey's new technical service department, also ticks off his tenth lap with us this month. Errol, who seems to be forever on the jump, is one of those Ethyl men who carry their offices in their brief cases. Widely known and highly regarded in the truck and bus field, he has been conspic uous among the men who have made Ethyl a synonym for Service in the automotive world. Harry Kaley Hamilton Russell, colored janitor at the Baton Rouge test lab, will be proudly sporting his ten-year pin at home as well as around the laboratory where he keeps the glass ware and testing apparatus spic and span. Ham, a native of Louisi ana, makes Baton Rouge his home town. Ferd Gillig of aeronautical re search is another ten-year man. Last but by no means least in the ten year group is Casey Jones -- tropical fish breeder, amateur movie man, and collector of racing car pictures. Casey (whose real name is Byron R.) spent his first five years with us as a field repre sentative covering his native state of Indiana. Early in 1937 he was transferred to Chicago; that fall he took the first traveling Motor Clinic out on the road. Later, some time after the clinic program had been completed, he moved to Boston as assistant division manager. Casey and his wife Helen have three youngsters, Austin, Suzanne and Sylvia. He doesn't know how many fish he has--started with 15, but you know how fish are. No longer with ns... -- roy musick, dapper and popular field man in the New York Division, has resigned to accept a position with Continental Electric Company of Newark, N. J. MARCELINE MARQUIS, who used tO write a good part of the material for the Bulletin Board, has left to join Bob Hawk's Camel cigarette quiz program, "How Am I Doing?" She'll be digging up new questions and writing publicity for the show. 3 ETC 06138 AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST For three years other employees sped past biking Elmer Mahlke as he pedalled to work at the San Berdu lab. Sow it's "Howsabout a ride on the handlebars, Elmer?" Elmer Bikes it and likes it... Charlie misses his tires as uncle sam's mounting war effort threatens to garage civilian automo biles to conserve rubber and raw materials for the armed forces, one Ethyl employee worries not at all. Every day for three years Elmer Mahlke has pedalled to and from his job at our San Berdu lab--pumping up the exacting three per cent grade toward Cajon Pass each morning and coasting home at night in the cool of the purple mountains. Once people laughed to see Elmer ride by, his trousers clipped close to his ankles by bike clamps, looking for all the world like a Dutch boy in pantaloons. Nowadays Elmer is the envy of the San Berdu gang. Bikes are hard to get, and some of those who scorned Elmer's method of travel are too paunchy from lack of exercise to pedal one, anyway. Meanwhile ubiquitous Charlie White, our wandering safety man of the Los Angeles division, wishes he had only Elmer's two miles a day to travel--or else had a magic carpet. Until recently not inside a train for over a million glorious driving miles, a Pullman and the rubber shortage are to Charlie nightmares not soon to be forgotten. "I've learned to undress in an up per," he sighs, "but as for sleeping in that horizontal telephone booth, it just ain't in me." the frickers of Detroit had a double celebration in February -- observing the arrival of Michael D. Fricker and father Franklin's com pletion of 15 years with Ethyl. Michael arrived on February 7th, joining John, Susan, Dan and Judy. to joe laethem in the road test garage at Detroit Feb. 14 will mean hereafter the giving of two giftsone as a Valentine and the other as a wedding anniversary present. Joe was married to Arline Russell of Detroit at a church wedding on the morning of Valentine's Day. The reception was held that eve ning at Eastwood Gardens. CORRECTION In last month's issue of the Bul letin Board we stated that Mary Thor was the only employee at the Detroit Engineering lab who lived in Femdale. We meant to say that she has the distinction of being the first new employee to be taken on from that district since the laboratories were moved there. Hands across the Comptometer they rode on the same subway often, but two Long Islanders who recently joined Al Francis' account ing staff met officially for the first time in the Ethyl offices on the 34th floor. William C. Sterrett came to us from Main and Co., Wall Street public accountants, where he was employed for three years. Bom in New York City, Bill went to Bushwick High School in Brook lyn before graduating from N.Y.U. with a B.S. in '38. Today he lives with his wife and two small chil dren in Woodhaven, Queens. "I used to garden for a hobby" Bill explains, "but when the shovel broke I gave it up. Priorities." Samuel Bonham, who lives in Douglaston, also joined the ranks just in time to land in the thick of year-end accounting. When we asked what he did with his spare time he grinned. "I keep right on working," he said, "although the fellows tell me the rush ought to be over soon." Seriously, Sam does have a hobby, a scholarly one. He studies corporation taxes, and has become something of an expert in this field through work at home. But he knows nothing about private income taxes, he says--at least at this time of year. Sam comes to us from Westinghouse Electric International Com pany; formerly he was Comptroller for a large baking firm. He won his A.B. in Accounting and Busi ness Administration at Miami Uni versity in Oxford, Ohio--also won his "M" in baseball. Soccer and basketball were other diversions; Sam and his roommate played right and left halfback positions on the soccer team. Both missed their let ters by getting injured before the end of the season, and both of them "got it" in the same game. Sam got a ball and a boot in the face that blinded one eye for three months; when his buddy covered up for him, he was spilled and broke his back. So now you see why Sam enjoys an armchair hobby. On a rainy night give him a roaring fire, the old slippers, and a good book--on corporation taxes. Bill and Sam wish each other luck ETC 06140 Gloomy Saturday valentine's day dawned bright over the East River in New York but the sunlight that streamed in the windows of the Ethyl offices in the Chrysler Building brought only the deepest gloom to all male em ployees of marriageable age. Their hearts knocked badly and nothing taken internally or externally could have helped them. News had spread of the receipt that morning by the editors of the Bulletin Board of a poem by blonde, petite Miss Mitchell, of the publicity department. Some thought the poem slurred the manhood of our entire New York staff. Others said maybe it was just her immediate neighbors, but-- well read it! Wanderlust in Reverse by Elisa Mitchell I never can fall For a boy at a ball Or a dance in my own native haunts, But invariably flutter And melt like warm butter For outsiders who come here on jaunts. The man within touch I don't care for so much: He is boring and lives too nearby. But an outsider's magic Effect on me's tragic And fans the warm look in my eye. My friends may say "Phooey" To Detroit or St. Louis, They're content with New York and its com. 6 But their lads, pale and thin Without muscles or chin. Might almost have never been bom. So I'll search 'til I'm gray For my man far away Or wait here with deceptive placidity. In which case he will find In that late state of mind That I'll grab him with startling rapidity. So come to me soon Man from Mars or the Moon -- The mileage enhances your worth. And 111 say with a smile As we walk down the aisle "Look, he comes from the end of the earth " a world war veteran, sportsman and former professional hockey star looks after the maintenance of the new labs in Detroit. Bom in Hamilton, Ontario, H. M. "Mac" McMenemv played baseball in his younger days, and for a time chased a puck in the Ontario Hoc key Association. After World War I, in which he served, he came to Detroit. Superintendent of mechan ical maintenance at the Ford Motor Co., Mac worked in a similar ca pacity for a number of contractors, and was mechanical inspector for Albert Kahn, architect who de signed our new lab. Mac likes to fish and to hunt pheasants. How about dropping a line to Charley Knight out at San Berdu, Mac? i etc 06141 This Sifter Male Pheasant might be either peacock or rooster, and originally was both--as Charley Knight Ethyl's leading bird fancier, explains in this issue. No Sing Sing pigeon, this is a Chwkar partridge, one of the more than 60 pheasant varieties on Charley Knight's "Lazy K Game Bird Ranch.'' Wanta buy a Pheasant? See Charley Knight! on the fringe of the Mojave Desert, in the shadow of lofty mountains lives silver-haired, keen eyed Charley K. Knight, newlyemployed janitor at the San Ber nardino testing laboratory, whose hobby is pheasant breeding. But Charley's "Lazy K Game Bird Ranch" is not his hobby alone. Now it belongs to a number of other Ethyl employees at the San Berdu lab who have trekked out across the sands to see the ranch where, with his son, Charley raises more than 60 varieties of pheasants as well as keeping in trim orange, grapefruit and lemon groves --all in his spare time. Pheasants, Charley will tell you, originated in the Far East, various breeds coming from China, Mon golia, Nepal, Siam, the Malay States, Netherlands East Indies and - the Philippines. "One breed," Charley adds, "comes from Japan, but it isn't so popular now." Contrary to the idea prevalent among hunters everywhere, the pheasant family is large indeed, in cluding such birds as the peafowl, turkey, and common barnyard chicken. These and more than 131 other varieties all stem from a com- mon prototype, the Indian Red Jungle Fowl. Closely resembling the ordinary brown Leghorn bantam, this drab little fellow once was native only to central India, but as it migrated to different climates where altitudes and foliage varied vastly it gradu ally developed protective coloration and characteristics which made the peafowl and white Leghorn, de scendants of the same ancestor, gready unlike in appearance, -- that is, unlike except to Charley. 7 ETC 06142 "It's easier for me to see the simi larity between a pheasant and a barnyard chicken, and to under stand their descent from a common ancestor," he chuckles, "than to grasp the relationship between a dinosaur skeleton and tankful of Ethyl gasoline, but maybe I'm dumb!" When the average Nimrod says "pheasant" he means the common ringneck, Charley explains. "That's because the ringneck is the most popular. Each state lib erates the same number annually. California set out 45,000 birds be fore the last open season." Many of his friends have caught the fever of Charley's hobby and as a result have found pheasant breeding profitable as well as en tertaining. Charley himself sells birds to customers in every state in the union. "Some day," he says, "I want to be able to say that I have interested at least one person in the hobby in each of the 48 states." There are only a few hundred other points Charley would like to make clear about pheasants. But there's a catch to learning them. You've got to visit his "Lazy K Came Farm" six miles from our San Bernardino. But if you simply cant, then drop him a line at the farm, Box 275, San Bernardino, Cal.. Hell write back. He likes Ethyl folks. smile-and-file girl Joanna Bell helps Dot Hadsell keep records straight for the New York office. Bom in London, she has spent most of her life in this country, having gone to grade and high school in South Orange, New Jersey, to the Merritt School in Oakland, Cali fornia, and the New York School of Filing. She used to live with her family in Flemington, New Jersey, but is now a Manhattanite. the cirl with the Orchid Updo is Margaret Sakayan, new Aide to Walt Resler in the statistical de partment. Incidentally, Peg is one of the most talented actresses of the West Side Players dramatic club. She joined us six weeks ago after a period as secretary for vari ous firms in New York City. From Long Island, where she was bom, Peg came to Manhattan some years ago, where she lives with ber family on Washington Heights. the marriage of Miss Beth Heard to Hubert Wax, chief clerk of the payroll section at Baton Rouge, took place in Winnfield, La., on Feb. 7. A number of Hubert's fel low employees from the Baton Rouge plant went to Winnfield for the wedding and reception, which were held at the home of the bride's parents. 8 ETC 06143 Andy called to N. Y. elwood axderson, one of John Schaefer's technical assistants, has moved from Deepwater to New York to take over the work of Ben Harrison, who is now in the Army. Andy has been with us since 1928, when he was hired as a chemist in the gasoline testing department. He went to the old New Orleans test lab in 1932; later he was shifted to the Baton Rouge test lab as mana ger, and in 1936 he was brought to die Yonkers lab as control manager. He was later named manager of the Yonkers laboratory. On the first day of 1938 Andy transferred to the manufacturing department and was put on techni cal development work. He went to Deepwater, along with Chuck Col vin and Jud Biehle, to study manu facturing processes. Andy had been there only a month when Herb Gerland became ill at Baton Rouge and he moved down to the Louisiana plant to pinch hit for him; when Herb died Andy stayed on at Baton Rouge studying ELA and TEL con struction and operation. After a year or so--this was early in 1939-- he returned to Deepwater as tech nical assistant to John Schaefer. Now in New York, he will keep tabs on cost and production figures, re ports and records. Andy and his wife Lydia--a Balti more belle he married in 1940--now live in Tuckahoe, N. Y. Madden moves to DEEPWATER thirty other members of the Tech nical Division at Baton Rouge gave a farewell luncheon at Mike and Tonv's steak house for Harold J. Madden, leader of the TEL obser vation group the day before he left Feb. 20 to assume similar duties at Deepwater. Hal will replace Andy Anderson, who has been transferred to New York. Originally from Clarksburg, W. Va., Hal joined the Technical Division in April, 1940, fresh from the University of West Virginia, He married "the girl back home" soon afterward, with whom he is cur rently scouring the residential areas of Delaware and northeastern New Jersey for a new home. Order in the Bath al tandrup recently brought the old Ethyl inventive spirit into play on his job when he needed a special tool for holding engine parts during a cleaning operation. Al's test work with a fleet of city buses in St. Louis, involves the cleaning of worn piston rings and bearings before these parts are weighed. Since all parts must be identified for the records, thev have to be segregated during the bath. Al devised a metal plate several inches wide by about eight inches long to hold the parts. Each plate has a number, corresponding to the cylinder in an engine, holes for the various rings in proper order from the top of the piston down, and slots for the rod half and for the cap half of the connecting rod bearing. Parts from a disassembled engine are placed on the plates, swished through the cleaning bath, and the plates are hung by Al's desk to dry before the permanent identification tags are attached. 9 ETC 06144 FHOM A TELEPHONE OPERATOR at the Detroit Engineering Laboratory, who wishes to remain anonymous, comes this month a poetic rejoinder to the lyric written for our Janu ary issue by an engineer, who com mented in verse on the amusing confusion resulting when half a dozen men with like-sounding names answered the indistinct sum mons of an operator. Her lament constitutes a firm re buttal of his complaint . . . and our only suggestion is that the two get together in the new cafeteria and settle the matter over pie a la mode. DEAR BRUTES I love vou all but oh mv gosh you can be so annoving I smile and smile and smile again but sometimes it gets cloying. What fun 'twould be to rant and rave and do a little cussing When I can't put those dam calls through without a lot of fussing. "But the voice with the smile is the voice that's worthwhile" I keep mentally repeating. Still, sometimes in my inner soul I feel that I am cheating. For I'm not as pleasant as I sound: I'm really quite enraged. Why don't they speak up, dam it all? They know they're being paged. And mixups that so oft result from names that sound alike -- Especially when they are heard across the well-known mike -- 10 Could be abolished, seems to me, if for that Euphony dame All members of your clan would go bv number, not bv name. But like as not you're so engrossed in projects patriotic You do not hear my dulcet voice in accents most melodic. So I sadly square mv chin again and try you just once more. But honest, fellow poet, can't you see it's quite a bore? grace F. buckley, a smart-looking young lady from Manhattan who likes to describe herself as just a country' girl from Sharon, Connecti cut, is the latest typewriter tapper in the New York stenographic pool. Buckv, as they call her, has come to the big city on her own hook to get a start in fiction writing. Moving into Greenwich Village was not de signed to help the writing, she ex plains -- just the pocketbook. She knew some girls with a spare room. Back in Sharon, Buckv grew up with a gun and fishing rod. Loves to hunt pheasant and woodchucks in particular; she's a dead eve with her pet .22 rifle. In the winter it's skiing. Sharon was also the locale of her high school days. After Sharon High she studied in Hart ford, then at the Torrington Secre tarial School. She polished off her business training with a course in Court Reporting at the Pace Insti tute in New York--and now is*ready to take on all kinds of high speed dictation. She can do 200 words a minute. ETC 06145 i to oub new laboratories in Detroit came recently on an inspection trip a group of distinguished guests from the annual meeting of the So ciety of Automotive Engineers, held this year in Detroit. That's Earl Bartholomew, our director of engineering research, leaning against the wall chatting with L. S. Pfost, chief engineer for the Massey Harris Co. Others in the group are left to right: E. A. Peterson, assistant chief engineer of Massey Harris; A. W. Lavers, chief engineer, Minneapolis Moline Power Implement Co.; Wal ter Strehlow. chief engineer, Allis Chalmers Mfg. Co.; W. E. Swen son, experimental engineer, Minne apolis Moline; Ethyl's Durward Rossman; Prof. C. W. Smith, Uni versity of Nebraska; and our own George Krieger, manager of Ethyl's Agricultural Division. a fireman and engineer of long ex perience, Laurel Wilkinson is seen here at a boiler of the Detroit Lab, where he was recently employed. Laurel is a native of Milwaukee and comes to us from the General Cold Storage Co. Previously he was an engineer at the Wardell Hotel and for the City of Detroit. Two sons, Don who is seven and Fred, six, keep him busy playing witlj. them when he leaves his boilers. 11 First cafeteria customer is Frances Heller, telephone operator, whose mouth waters as she looks over the desserts before making a choice. Early diners on opening day at the new cafeteria. The indirect lighting and the shape of the room make it ideal for use as an auditorium. Mrs. Frances Rugg presides at the cash register as well as supervising the cafeteria in general. "Now where did I put that quarter?" Ann Hefler, of the accounting department, seeks the missing coin to pay for the lunch she has just selected. ^ with the opening of the new cafe teria at the Detroit laboratories ends the daily noon scramble which inconvenienced employees at the old lab for years. The era of races in the rain to eating spots other than the Sloppy Joe joints, with its at tendant dangers of taxi and truck dodging, closed recently as employ ees gathered at noon in the modem cafeteria on the first floor of the main 12 building to find Mrs. Frances P. Rugg in charge. Her late husband, Harry Rugg, was Detroit represent ative of the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association. Modem kitchens and space for food storage are in the basement, from which a dumb-waiter hoists food to the serving tables. Another feature of the cafeteria is that it is designed for use as an auditorium. ETC 06147 f i KNOCK-TEST ing; 44 guests from oil companies, McGill University and the Canadian foiums in Canada governmental testing laboratories attended. Guests came from On tario, Quebec, even Halifax in Nova Scotia--a distance of some 900 miles. the gasoline testing boys have held More than half the visiting techni two more highly successful knock cians traveled a good distance to testing forums, this time in Canada. attend. All felt it worth their while, And judging from the reports, they they said afterwards, agreeing that have done as good a job as they did they had picked up a wealth of at Tulsa, Kansas City, Baton Rouge, solid, substantial information they San Berdu, and New York in earning could use directly in their work. the good will of oil companies There was a morning and after through this service, and in adding noon session, with lunch in between to the prestige of Ethyl technicians at the hotel. At the close of the after in petroleum circles. noon meeting, Hudson Kellogg and C. J. McFarlane of Imperial Oil, John Clifford Pope answered ques Ltd., is the source of our information tions from the floor for an hour and bn the first meeting, held in Calgary. a half. During the dinner which fol We quote from a letter he later sent lowed, Bill Tumley acted as master to Julian Frey: of ceremonies, introducing the vari "On Friday, January 30th, Mr. ous speakers from a wide back Hudson Kellogg of the Ethyl Gaso ground of Canadian friendships. line Corporation held a Knock-Test Several superintendents from near ing Forum in Calgary, at which the by refineries dropped in for the writer was among those present. The dinner, with Gordon Conner, for meeting was handled to perfection, many years an Ethyl man, there to and all present expressed them represent the Canadian Oil Co. A selves as being very pleased with rousing rendition of "God Save the the excellent information given. King" closed the meeting. "There were men present from all four western Canadian Provinces and the State of Montana. Mr. Kel logg gave his complete talk first, and Notes from Chicago then answered questions for a long period of time. The luncheon at Charlie boehme, who used to beg noon gave the visitors an opportun one of the Ethyl men on the GM ity to get acquainted, and then in Parade of Progress before they shut the evening die little get-together up shop, has gone to work in Jim and dinner climaxed a very com Boudreau's Chicago division. He plete day." brought with him another ex- On Friday, February 13, the head Parader, Harry Manning. Soon as men of the testing department de we get a photo of Harry well let fied superstitions, jinxes, and cold you see what he looks like and tell weather and made another trip to you more about him. Canada for a second knock-test en Miles Kinley, who used to be gineering forum, this time at the Chicago fleet engineer, is with the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal. .Army now. Address: Fort Belvoir, Four Ethyl men went to the meet Virginia. 13 ETC 06148 BATON ROUGE office, plant staffs grow two cirls, Mariska C. Faser and Gladys A. Hudson joined us as stenographers at the Ethyl Chloride division recently, and Leonard C. Barrick, clerk, and Ethel Walton, typist clerk, were enrolled at the TEL division. Mariska, bom and bred in Baton Rouge, suh, attended Louisiana State Normal College for one year before attending Mrs. Pope's Busi ness School in that city. Six of her 10 years of business experience were spent in the office of the Secretary of State. Her nickname, "Biz," seems appropriate, for she appears to make even her hobbies pay-off. Besides playing badminton she enjoys what most of us may willy-nilly spend a lot of time at in the future--bicycle riding. Gladys came to the Ethyl Chlor ide division on a temporary basis in January, achieving a permanent status Feb. 1. A graduate of Ouach ita High School in Monroe, and of Vincent's Business College, she took various extension courses at L.S.IL For the past four years she has been a stenographer and bookkeeper in the State Department of Education. "A Kentuckian bv birth but a fullfledged Pelican-Stater by adoption" is how Lenny Barrick describes him self. Before coming to the TEL di vision as a clerk he was with the U. S. Engineers, New Orleans dis trict. Previously he worked in vari ous capacities with the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Ethel Waltor joined the payroll 14 section of TEL Jan. 27, after a year as a secretary in the Agricultural Ex tension department of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture at L.S.U. Previously she had spent two years at All Saints' Junior College, Vicks burg, Miss., receiving her B.A. at L.S.U. in 1940. The tire shortage brings no terrors to her. since she enjoys dancing and if her feet ever gave out walking to the office, could mount most steeds and gallop to work. Ethyl Chloride Addition of 23 men to the Ethyl Chloride pay roll at Baton Rouge since the first of the year was an nounced recently, the group includ ing 16 from Louisiana, four from Mississippi, two Texans, and one from the Badger State of Wisconsin. Their records follow. Harold allen . . . bom in Milwaukee . . . attended Willows, California, High School . . . was a shoe salesman in Baton Rouge ... is married, has one child. delbert atkinson ... bom in Houston County, Texas . . . graduate of Trinity, Texas, High School . . . previously owned and operated a service station in Natchitoches. La. ... is married and has two children. Sidney babin . . . attended Port Allen, La., High School . . . pre-Ethvl em ployment as carpenter in Port Allen. william beall . . . two years at Texas A. & M. . . . before Ethyl was Produc tion Superintendent of Boone Bros., Houston, Texas . . . married, has two children. john bridges, jr___ graduate of Glenmora. La., High School; degree in Elec trical Engineering L. S. U. . . . worked for Roby Motor Company, LeCompte, La. ... is married and has three chil dren. john carter . . . bom and educated in Kentwood, La-----previously employed by Carr's Super Service Station in Baton Rouge ... is married. ETC 06149 I MABISKA C. BASER i GLADYS A.HUDSON LEONARD C. BARBKK ETHEL WALTON DELBERT ATKINSON SIDNEY BABIN WILLIAM BEALL JOHN CARTER LEE DELA UNE NODOIE FREDERICK HAROLO GOUDEAU ELLIS HOGAN LIONEL HOLMES CECIL KAISER BOY LEBOUEF ARCHIE MCGEHEE JOSEPH MYHAND ETC 06150 lee delaune . . . bom in Paincourtville. La. . . . graduated from Morgan City, La., High School . . . was in employ of U. S. Engineers in New Orleans ... is married, has one child. hodcie Frederick . . . graduated from Port Barre, La., High School . . . came to us from the U. S. Engineers in New Orleans ... is married and has one child. harold coudeau . . . graduate of Port Allen, La., High School . . . previously employed by Charles H. Hebert, Istrouma. La. ... is married and has one child. ellis hogan . . . bom in Brooklyn. Mississippi . . , B.A. from Mississippi State College . . . former field repre sentative for G. M. A. C. in Baton Rouge... is married. Lionel holmes . . . educated at Del gado Trade School in New Orleans; took six months course at Mergenthaler Linotype School . . . former printing instructor at Louisiana School for Deaf, Baton Rouge ... is married and has two children. CECIL kaiser . .. bom and educated in Natchez, Mississippi . . . worked for Olinde Hardware Company ... is mar ried, has one child. rov lebouef . . . attended Abbeville, La., High School, took one year weld ing course at L. S. U. . . . before com ing to Ethyl sold cars in Baton Rouge ... is married, has one child. Roger mcdoucald . . . graduate of Baton Rouge High School... past year trooper with Louisiana State Police ... is married, has one child. archie mcgehee .. . graduate of Pine Grove, La., High School... former em ployee of Standard Motor Car Com pany, Baton Rouge ... is married, has one child. Joseph myhand . . . graduated from L. S. U-- came to us from the A. A. A. in Port Allen, La. ... is married and has two children. alton noble . . . raised and educated in Deerford, La. . . . former cook at Greenwell Springs, La., Hospital . . . is married, has one child. ETC 06151 dennis o'banion . . . one and a half years at L. S. U. . . . before joining Ethyl worked as painter at Kellogg Construction in Baton Rouge. oris pollard . . . attended Gold Dust, La., High School. .. former sales man ager at Mclnnis Chevrolet, Inc., Baton Rouge ... is married, has one child. wade Randolph . . . graduate of Baton Rouge High School . . . formerly em ployed with Louisiana Department of Public Welfare ... is married and has one child. kernie Roberts . . . graduate of Den ham Springs, La., High School . . . worked for Standard Oil of Louisiana ... is married, has one child. david Whittington ... borti in Frank lin, Mississippi. . . attended Istrouma. La., High School . . . before joining Ethyl was rodman for Plantation Pipe at Baton Rouge. russell whittincton . . . schooled in Liberty, Mississippi... formerly Hum ble Pipe Line Company painter. Odessa, Texas ... is married, has two children. fred l. "dad" rossman, carpenter at Engineering Research Laboratories in Detroit, is recovering from an auto accident and the brace has been removed from his injured arm. Dad was driving in Oxford, Michi gan, when an auto rammed his car. He suffered fractures of the left arm in two places as well as of the left thumb. Smocks pretty roomy? note the smiles of confidence as Mildred Plate and Ruth Monroe undertake their duties at the Gaso line Testing Laboratory in Detroit, determined to fill the places, if not the smocks of the men they re placed. First two girl chemists employed at the laboratory, now that men are getting scarce, Ruth went to work Feb. 2 and Mildred followed her two weeks later. Ruth enters industry for the first time, having graduated last June from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in chemistry and a B.S. in pharmacy. She worked until re cently in the hospital dispensary of her alma mater, commuting from her home in Pueblo, Colorado. As an industrial freshman but a senior with the test tubes, she will make lead analyses for us. Mildred was a June graduate last year also, taking her chemistry major at Albion College, Michigan. A native Detroiter, she will run dis tillation gum tests on gasoline. Mildred. Plate a son, Winston Valmont, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joyce R. Daniel on January 5. Joyce is an operator in our Ethyl chloride plant at Baton Rouge. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Day, Jr., have announced die birth of a son, John Rayick, on Dec. 24. Jack is an instrument mechanic at the Ethyl chloride plant. ETC 06152 PARTY for Charlie Wasserman fifty-six fellow-manufacturers got together the other night and threw a gay shindig for Charlie Wasser man to celebrate his 15th anni versary with the company. John Schaefer and Art Stover went down from New York; the 54 others were all from Charlie's Deepwater office. The party was held at the Penns Grove Elks Club, with a turkey dinner and all the trimmings. This time the trimmings were red, white and blue -- tablecloths, streamers, signs, flowers and favors. John Schaefer pinned on the diamonddecorated pin; Army Armstrong, as oldest veteran of the manufactur ing department, gave Charlie the certificate of service. .Art Stover did the honors in presenting Charlie a golf bag given by the Deepwater employees. After dinner everybody uncorked his best spirits and made the most of the dancing which followed. NEW Deepwater MEN thebe abe five new faces around Charlie Wasserman's Deepwater plant these days. Michael Gaydos, Traffic Department, worked for the Illinois Central as a rate clerk in New York. A native of Bayonne, N. J., he keeps bachelor quarters in the YMCA near the plant 5 days a week and spends weekends at home with the wife and Sonny. Mike loves to bowl, is out for the team. Four men have recently joined the staff of blender operators -- William K. Smith, Joseph J. Morrison, E. Earle Cooper, and Joseph F. Work man. Bill Smith lives in Middletown, Delaware, is married and has a son. Joe Morrison was bom in Philadel phia, now lives in Bridgeton, X. J. with his wife. Earle Cooper was bom in Willards, Md., is now mar ried and lives in Wilmington, Del. Joe Workman is a native of Wil mington, is married, and has two daughters. Joe Morrison Bill Smith 18 ETC 06153 \VATCH -pLic day she eats grits now. Since her marriage two years ago she says she never gets up in time to put the grits on the stove. Also, she admires vellow grits just as much as the white ones -- so bring on the shortage, she says, and a snap of her fingers to the whole thing. "hot buttered grits--hot dog!" de clares Eliza Sims of Baton Rouge. Eliza, who used to work for Art Stover when he was at the plant and now is secretary to Clint Bond there, is a Southerner from way back when. Like most all Southerners F.W.B.VV. she loves her breakfast grits. There's a story about this picture. A photographer from one of the Baton Rouge newspapers was sent out to get a shot of "Good-looking gal with plate of white grits in res taurant" so the editor could dress up a story he wanted to do on the threatened shortage of white corn, which would force yellow com -- and yellow grits -- upon the folks in town. Folks in the South, we should explain, take their breakfast grits as seriously as their morning coffee. So the fotog dragged his traps around until he spotted our Eliza, who had just finished her morning fodder. Sure, she'd oblige, she said, and the waitress heaped up another order of buttered grits. The only catch in the story is that this hap pened on a Saturday morning about 10 o'clock, Saturday being the only a son, Robert Paul Kimpton, was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kimpton on Feb. 2. the baby weighing seven pounds and 14 ounces. Daddy Bob, widely-known as tune-up engineer for the New York division, is par donably proud these days, may need a gusset put in his vest. TOO MUCH CHARLIE BOZEMAN is the complaint of all Ethyl oppo nents in the Baton Rouge area*, where paced bv lanky Charlie, alltime hoop great of the L.S.U. quin tet for three years, our basketball team has defeated all comers, in cluding the hard-riding duPont outfit. Previous to coming to work--and play--for us recently, Charlie was last year chosen All-Southern A.A.U. player and in the national tourney at Denver ranked in scor ing second only to the famed Hank Luisetti. 19 kingsley jones pauses in his new work as assistant auditor to praise the skyline view from his window on the 34th floor of the Chrysler Building and to tell a Bulletin Board reporter about himself. Bom in Bridgehampton, L. I., King went to Erasmus Hall and Peddie School, graduating from N.Y.U. in 1936 with a B.S. in Indus trial Engineering. Before joining us he was treasurer of the Integrated Supply Corp. of Chatham. N. J. He and his wife live in Brooklyn, where King is an ardent camera fan. Fellow hobbyists will shed a tear to learn that King's prized Retina camera, complete with f-1.9 lens, tripod, flash gun and filters was stolen from his car last month. I i l i t i i i blanche scottow is assistant to the secretary of a secretary. Recently appointed to help Esther Staplev, scrivener for Julian Gonzalez, Sec retary of the Ethyl Corporation, Blanche came to us from the Cen tral Savings Bank where for eight years she had been secretary to one of the branch managers. Bom in New York City she attended grade and high schools at Oyster Bay, L. I., after which she prepared for the business world at the Packard Business College of New York City. She likes to ride, skate and swim. this is john smith who joined Al Francis' accounting club last week, coming to us from Price Waterhouse, New York public accounting firm, where he has been for the past five years. Bom in Paterson, N. J., Jack was graduated from Eastern Academy in 1929, completing his training at Pace Institute in New York City. He lives in Tenafly, N. J., with his wife and son, Edward, two and one half years old. He is a keen amateur movie cameraman, bowls during the winter, golfs and plays tennis in the summer. 20 ETC 06155 BACK FROM THE WARS IS Bill Wilkinson, back at his test tubes in the Baton Rouge technical division. Granted a special leave of absence by the corporation last March after nine months of service with us, Wil liam R. donned khaki and entrained for Camp Hulen, Texas, in the med ical detachment of the 204th regi ment, Coast Artillery. After being transferred to the Enlisted Reserve corps last November 8, Bill reported for work at Baton Rouge two days later. He will remain with us perma nently unless army officials decide otherwise. prairie girl Georgie Hopper likes broad spaces, broad-shouldered men and Indian head pennies. Join ing the staff of our Kansas City La boratory three months ago she soon smiled her way into the hearts of the lab technicians -- but their shoulders weren't broad enough. Georgie came from Tulsa, Okla., where she worked with the Postal Telegraph Co., and previously the Chalmers Electric Co. Bom in Thayer, Missouri, she attended high school there, later graduating from the Leta Grant Business School in Tulsa. Her hobby is collecting In dian head pennies--and when she can find one, a broad-shouldered man. because she loves her work and hates interruption, Edna Swiegen, new aide in Bob Brown's payroll department, posed for this picture under protest. Shyly she admitted, that: she was bom in Norfolk, Vir ginia, went to school there and in New York City, and plays the piano and flute. I, 21 ETC 06156 Who wouldn't smile? Seen in the Ex ecutive Mansion of Gov. Sam H. Jones cutting the cake at their reception are bride and groom Mr. and Mrs. James H. Huguet. Jim is chemical supervisor in our TEL division at Baton Rouge. This bobcat lost its ninth life not from a bullet fired by Ralph Winchell of the Kure's Beach machine shop but as a result of being struck by an automobile some two mites from the plant during the night. First such cat killed in the neighborhood in several years, it weighed 35 pounds. Lew Barnum and his wife, Mary, hold hands happily at the reception follow ing Jim Huguet's wedding. Held in the Governor's Mansion, it was one of the social events of the Baton Rouge sea son. Lew is manager of our TEL divi sion down there. Tom Risk of the Refinery Technology division adjusts a trial car during a special knock-testing program at the San Berdu plant. Shirt sleeves in February! Under that car hood on which the highltppublicized California sun beats is Russ Bur roughs, who with Tom Risk came to the San Berdu plant several weeks ago to carry out a program of knock-testing. 22 ETC 06157 WANT A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN? Then have a baby! In his weekly letter to the Kansas City office, automotive engineer Art Johnson wrote recently "Mv sched ule for the early part of the week was slightly interrupted bv the process of becoming a father. I recommend the ordeal to anvone interested in a nervous breakdown." Art's babv is his first child, a girl, and was born Feb. 3. His wife, formerly Sue Gillum, was in the K.C. division for about five vears. Ronnie Kuczak, son of Anthony Kuczak of Dayton, poses at the lusty age of 6% months in the "prone" position atop his bathinette. Wide-eyed and sturdy -- that's the way they make 'em nowadays. Stan Medlin with his mother Elizabeth, aged two months. (The baby is two months old, not the mother.) A thriving red-haired youngster, Stan weighed all of 11 pounds six ounces even at this early age. Remember Mom's photo on the cover of the January issue? n Patricia Ann Adams, 2. practises on her dolls in preparation to help mother take care of brother Jerry, born Jim. 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry T. Adams. Daddy is an operator at our Baton Rouge ethyl chloride plant. Elizabeth Ann Balzer, daughter of Houston safety man Jake Balzer, shows us the ones that didn't get away. Pop explains the slightly impatient expres sion -- she was saying, "Pul-lease get the picture, Daddy, and let's take the two fish you caught and get on home so you can clean them. These things are heavy!" 23 ETC 06158 t 1 It takes lots of cleaning and scrubbing to keep the new laboratories at Detroit in ship shape order, but that is the job of this quartet, which takes over at dusk when the staffs depart. Left to right, Stella Pilot, Jessie Gonda, Mary Kochanek and Bernice Tutak. Transfers charlie boehme--from GM Parade of Progress to Chicago Sales. u-esley price, engineering research --transferred from San Berdu to De troit. frank hayes--from GM Parade of Progress to N. Y. Sales. roland Ostrander--from the Train ing School to the Baltimore Division. Emerson BLAIR--also from the Train ing School, to the Dayton Division. Begorra! we have just learned the full name of Cliff Lenington's little sprout, who was bom on December 12. It's Jerry O'Connor Lenington. "From his present appearance," writes his pop, "he doesn't need a clay pipe or shamrock in his lapel to prove his ancestry." He's already received a fan letter too -- which sounds like the proverbial charm of the Irish to us. Ray M. Brown, Jr., Seattle's newest field representative, poses for a Bulletin Board snapshot in front of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite. dan hirschleh, one of Ray Fuller's boys of 1940, is with the Aviation Cadet Detachment at Chanute Field, Illinois, training for a lieu tenant's commission. Drafted in February 1941, Dan was in a signal company at Fort Custer, Michigan. Things come easily to Harry Perkins, new receiving clerk at the Detroit Lab oratory, who is shown here checking a shipment. After graduation from Highland Park High School, Harry worked for Kelvinator Service Co., Chicago, and at the General Motors Proving Ground, coming to us from GM's Detroit transmission plant. 24 ETC 06159 DETROIT BOWLING SCORES MEN S TEAMS GIRLS' TEAMS High Came E. Gillig Rometti Anderson High Set Rometti Anderson Prince High Anderson Average Soroos Johnson Teague Rometti "TEAM TOTAL" 248 241 233 604 590 590 170 165 105 103 162 831 Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray Jewel Ahonen Helmi Burkleo Myra Willis Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray Myra Willis Jean Gall "TEAM TOTAL" 190 186 180 462 450 412 136 129 114 111 106 596 BATON ROUGE SCORES MEN'S TEAMS GIRLS' TEAMS High Came Clancv Rieger Clothier High Set Rieger Clancy Hinnershitz High Rieger Average Henry Clancy Armstrong Hinnershitz "TEAM TOTAL" "Set of 2 games 202 201 197 549 532 508 168 158 150 155 152 789 Sally Van Anda Jesse Savario Evelyn Flanagan Sally Van Anda Winnie Dugas Jesse Savario Sally Van Anda Winnie Dugas Evelyn Flanagan Yvette Smith Dorothy McCarroll "TEAM TOTAL" 178 133 132 299" 254" 235" 134 105 102 101 95 535 DEEPWATER SCORES (men only) High Game High Set Herbert Jackson Johnson Herbert Johnson Armstrong 226 224 209 627 611 571 High Average Herbert Jackson Johnson Armstrong Remsberg "TEAM TOTAL" 183 175 170 165 154 847 j. I Ethyl BULLETIN BOARD i I I i L- i etc 06 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD-^,.r Ethyl employees ETC OG162 Division meetings hear of Organizational and Policy changes war has radically altered the sales problems of the anti-knock business. How can we best adjust ourselves to the new conditions, and how can we plan our work to serve the oil industry and the various branches of the automotive business in the most useful way? This question was the central theme of many topics discussed at the annual series of 2-dav meetings of all ten sales divisions, which Jack Martin and Jim Boudreau con ducted during the last two weeks of February and the opening part of March. Jack, as Eastern Regional Di rector, ran the meetings for the Dayton, Baltimore, Boston, New York and Atlanta Divisions. Ed Paige, of Errol Gay's newly cre ated Commercial Engine and Fleet Division, accompanied Jack to give a talk at each meeting on the new Technical Service Department -- what it does and how it ties in with other departments of the company. At the same time. Jim Boudreau as acting Western Regional Di rector was holding a series of meetings for the Chicago, Kansas City, Tulsa. Los Angeles and Se attle Divisions. Chuck Smith at tended the meetings with him, do ing the honors for the Technical Service Department. All the meetings were informal, with frank and direct questionand-answer discussions of any top ics the men wished to know about. One speciallv happy feature of the meetings in the east was the fact that both Jack Martin and Eddie Paige had their cameras along -- so we are able to print a number of the "shots" they took, including our cover photo of Lieutenant "Stonewall" Jackson Warner, for merly of the Atlanta Division, who came over to see his friends at the closing banquet and was snapped while talking with Alan Tullv and Stuart Forbes. The basic purposes of the ten George Rosser, at the Atlanta meeting, has just pulled a fast one. He is applauded by Rollin Barnes and Joe Williams, at his left, and by Ed Paige and Tom Tennent on his right. On the front cover is a photo of Alan Tully and Stuart Forbes chatting with "Stone wall" Jackson Warner, now a captain, who heard of the meeting and came over to see his old friends. He nearly had to spend the night A.W.O.L. in the hotel, as Atlanta was snowbound by a freak storm during the conference. X k ETC 06163 Matt Taylor (at right), manager of the Boston Division, consults his notes during a busy session, Xext to him, from right to left, are Dick Coveney, Art Acken and Bruce Crane. All photos of the eastern division meetings were snapped by Ed Paige and Jack Martin. meetings were to expound the thinking underlying the new ob jectives of the Sales Department, to discuss the changes in organiza tion which will help in attaining those objectives, and to make clear the new philosophy and new plans of operation which result from the changed conditions of war time. The actual talks at each of the con ferences were, in general terms, along the following lines: The number one problem of the Ethyl Corporation today is how to help Uncle Sam win the war. We want to put our resources, our highly trained manpower, our ex tensive research facilities, to best use in meeting this paramount pur pose. Already, of course, we have been of significant help. We have spent millions of dollars at Baton Rouge to expand our manufactur ing plant and revise our operating methods to relieve the nation-wide pinch in certain strategic chemicals 2 which we use as raw materials. We have placed our magnificent new Detroit research laboratory, in which the equipment has hardly been installed, at the disposal of the government for any research projects on which we can be of help. Such men as Oscar Lewis and Errol Gay are spending a sub stantial portion of their time work ing with government or military officials on problems in which their experience is particularly valuable. In several of the sales divisions Ethyl men are working with the Army, helping train mechanics in fuel and maintenance problems. All this is fine -- but what more can we do, especially the men in the field, to help the government and the civilian populace at large during these days when the war has thrown motor transportation so severely out of joint? It is time to analyze and formulate our objec tives -- and to work out actual ETC O6I64 operating plans for attaining these objectives. Our immediate responsibility is to render service to the oil industry and to the automotive industry, especially the men engaged in serv icing cars, to a degree we have not attempted before. Sincere helpful ness rather than salesmanship is the keynote of our new efforts. If a service manager should want to talk spark plugs rather than spark timing, or fan belt slippage rather than fuel octanes, he should be given any information that is avail able. Another point--in these times of quick change and constantly ap pearing new problems, each man in the field has an added oppor tunity to be of service bv keep ing his automotive acquaintances abreast of the latest developments in the fuel field, and likewise see ing that the oil men he calls on are informed of current mechanical or maintenance problems. Every chance to be of real serv ice should be regarded as a valu able opportunity to make a new friend for the Ethyl Corporation. We should bear in mind also that aside from our natural desire to deserve the good will of customer companies and of our associates in the automotive field, it falls natur ally to our company to help them through the present fuel and oc tane crisis which the war has brought on. One departmental reorganization was announced which won the im mediate approval of the men at the meetings. From now on, the as sistant manager of each division Roy Goltz, Bill Turnley and Frank Hayes enjoy themselves at the banquet which followed the New York session. ^ Seen at Dayton -- Lou Slack, Roy Codbey, Harry Mack, Jack Martin and George Robinson. Behind Roy the cam era caught the top of George Pearce's head. ETC 06165 George Robinson, "Sieb" Siebenthaler and Al Bingham enjoying the Dayton dinner. At Boston, Bob Richardson, Herb Moseley and Art Acken arc photographed across the table from Dick Coveney (left) and Bruce Crane (right). Relaxing after a session at Baltimore are Glenn Faurot, Bob Hogan, Dwight Andrews and Marshall McDorman. will run the office itself -- pass on invoices, expense accounts and so on -- so that the div ision manager will be free to cover the field with his men or make personal calls on his business contacts at anv time. This will enable him to give closer and more immediate personal guid ance to the work of each field man. More effective cooperation be tween the individual representa tives of each division is also sched uled for further development. "The policy of the three C's." Jack Mar tin and Jim Boudreau called it -- Correlate, Coordinate. Cooperate. Each general representative is to correlate his calls with those of the special representatives -- ^tractor, fleet, refinery technology, or safety engineers -- in such a way as to coordinate their work. This will give the customers better service, eliminate duplication of business calls, and increase the effectiveness The wind-up of the meeting in Claire Dee's division was a supper. Frank Cronin, Jack Martin, Lowell Mason and Jim Wilson all seemed to enjoy it. 4 etc 06166 I of each man by cooperative planf ning. Methodical anaivsis of each man's territory, intelligent planning ? so as to reap the greatest benefit [f from each hour of work, and a cer| tain care in cultivating one's own 1 efficiency were also recommended as guides to meeting better the new problems and objectives of the sales staff and of the companv as a whole. In answer to questions about the new department of Advertising and Public Relations, it was explained that Ralph Champlin will supervise advertising, publicity, public rela tions, company publications and sales promotion. Russ Weston will assist him on advertising and sales promotion. Bill Heggen will handle publicity and companv publications. Reggie Coghlan. who has just joined the department, will work on book lets, movies and other sales promo tion material. A new bulletin service which the regional directors announced to all the field personnel will be another Jim Boudreau, who conducted meet ings for the western divisions with Chuck Smith. concrete step in "Correlation. Co ordination and Cooperation." Peri odical bulletins issued either bv the Technical Service Department or from the office of one of the region al sales directors will keep the en tire field sales staff posted on any useful information turned up by any one man or group -- answers to tough problems, new techniques, sales or technical information and so on. To keep all the division offices in step with each others' activities during the fast-moving develop ments of today's emergency, it was decided to hold division meetings more often -- every four months or six months, instead of once a year as formerly. Every one applauded the suggestion. Major Habner it's major hubner now. Bill has given up management of the Re finery Technology Division of the Technical Service Department to accept a commission in the Air Corps, reporting March 19 at Boll ing Field, near Washington. D. C.. presumably for immediate overseas duty. Bill goes in as a civilian expert -= -- fuel technologist and refinery engineer -- but his military' career goes back to World War I. He en tered Pennsylvania State College in the fall of 1918, in time to spend several months in the Student Army Training Corp. The remainder of his college army work was in the R.O.T.C. at Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh, followed by a commission as a motor trans port officer which was terminated in 1940. S ETC 06167 1 "We had about a dozen and a Ethyl old-timer half people in the office at the i was once office boy time," he recollects. "Arch Maxwell 1 i was leaving the company to go with Standard Oil of Ohio, and the whole staff knocked off to give him a testimonial luncheon at the Whitehall Club. Mr. Webb- asked me to hold the fort while they were gone. "John,' he said, `this afternoon you be the Ethyl Corpo ration -- President, Vice-President and office force.' " His intimate knowledge of the company, gained from fifteen years with us, is a great help in John's present work. His particular spe cialty is Account Distribution -- seeing to it that all the field men's expense accounts and all C. I. S. expenses are charged off against the proper account and budget. John Robertoris lapel is all ready for that 15-year pin. This means more than 150 travel ing expense accounts go across his desk each week, together with ethyl's original office boy -- John some 50 Cash Impressed Fund M. Robertson, now of the Account listings, each with a fat parcel of ing Section of the Finance Depart supporting receipts. ment -- rounds out 15 busy years John is married and lives in Flat- with the company this month. In bush, Brooklyn. As you might guess 1927, John came to work for the he is an ardent rooter for the Dodg struggling young corporation from ers -- "and please don't call 'em a previous job with the Cunard Them Bums." he asks. When there Line, just two floors below our old isn't a ball game on, he likes to offices at 25 Broadway. "And that," bowl or go out for a day of deep- he says, "was my first step up in sea fishing. the business world." There are five ten-year veterans Hired by Art Mittnacht, John who will receive their pins and had to do a little of everything in service certificates this month -- the early days, even running the Irving Fay of the Kansas City gas switchboard. The hardest assign oline test lab. Charlie Rankin of the ment he ever had was getting a San Berdu test lab, John Howard gasoline pump out to Roosevelt of Detroit Engineering, and two Field so the two Italian aviators members of the Administration De who were trying to fly the "Old partment who work in New York -- Glory" to Rome could have their Mabel Gerster and Jim Hyland. tanks full of Ethyl. His most inter Carl F. Michael, of Engineering esting assignment was the job of in Detroit, is breaking in the but impersonating a corporation for an tonhole in his lapel for his five-year afternoon. pin. 6 ETC 06168 * (ETHYL) Information, please! what company uses for its trade mark the candle-bearing boy yawn ing in his nightie? The Flying Red Horse? The Camel on a back ground of desert and palms and three pyramids? These questions and 79 others were put to thousands of Americans on comers and curbs from Boston to Berkeley, from Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico to answer a big question for us: What are the gasoline buying habits of Americans and how much do they know about Ethyl and tetraethyl lead? Conducted bv Elmo Roper, out standing market analyst of the country, the study in its completed form includes a number of findings that should interest Ethyl employ ees. All of the 14,466 persons inter viewed by the staff of more than 100 Roper field men at strategic points across the 48 states either owned a car or bought gasoline for one owned jointly by the family. Of the group questioned, 58 per cent owned small cars--Chevrolets, Fords or Plymouths -- an important point since the tendency to use premium gasoline is less pro nounced for owners of small auto mobiles than for those possessing larger and more expensive cars. Of the persons contacted -- and the group is representative of the entire car-driving American popu lace -- 45 per cent owned machines five years old or older, the opera tors of which showed less tendency to buy high-octane gasoline than those owning new cars. In addition. Elmo Roper, leading market analyst of the country, who last Socember com pleted for iis a study of the gasoline buying habits of Americans and their knowledge of Ethyl fluid and tetraethyl lead. the potential Ethyl market proved more heavily weighted toward men, toward persons over 25, and toward those in the upper income levels. However, 24 per cent of those questioned reported using some form of premium gasoline, which, all things considered, is a good figure. Interesting, too, is the fact that the use of premium fuel was found to be highest on both coasts and lowest in the northwest central area of the country. 7 ETC 061G9 Most of those who used third grade gasoline ascribed their rea son to economy, while users of regular gasoline said they liked the economy and performance this fuel gave. Those who used premium fuel gave performance, more mile age, prevention of carbon and pre vention of knocking as their chief reasons. More instances were found of a consumer occasionally shifting to premium fuel than of persons habitually using it and sometimes dropping to regular, and the most common cause given by the latter group was that sometimes thev couldn't get their usual high grade. Of those who admitted that their motors sometimes knocked or pinged on hills or at high speeds. 75 per cent said they knew of something which could be done to prevent it. Asked what, they gave more than one remedy but 43 per cent suggested a change in gaso line, and the presence of knocking was reported most by the users of third grade gasoline and least bv those buying premium grades. Also, 40 per cent of the regular gasoline consumers stated that thev would have their motors adjusted if they switched to a high grade fuel. Only in certain sections of the South, in some small towns, and on a number of farms was complete ignorance expressed as to the mean ing of the term "octane." Seventy-two per cent of the re spondents had heard of Tetraethvl lead and almost two thirds of those who hadn't, knew at least of `leaded gasoline." As was to be expected, familiarity with the term was great er among men than women, the young rather than the old, and the prosperous rather than the poor . . . and in cities rather than in small towns or on farms. Recognition of only the Ethyl emblem from which the word "Ethvl" had been removed, was disappointing when compared with the percentage of persons who rec ognized the Camel, the bov with the candle, and,the flying red horse. But when shown a card on which the Ethvl emblem appeared on a gasoline pump the majority identi fied the sign with superior quality of motor fuel. Another set of pictures was shown of two gasoline pumps, each bearing the brand name of a gaso line widely known in the area in which the questioning took place. One pump bore simply the brand name (Shell, Gulf, etc.) and the Ethyl symbol; the other had the brand name and the trademark name of that company's premium fuel (Texaco Skychief, etc.). Asked from which of the two pumps the person could expect to get the highest quality gasoline, 62 per cent of all those contacted in the survey pointed to the pump with the Ethyl symbol. Only 14 per cent indicated the other pump, while 16 per cent declared it made no dif ference and eight per cent ex pressed ignorance. Thus the survey' clearly indicates that the Ethvl symbol is identified as a hallmark of quality by more persons than similarly identify the brand name of any company's premium gasoline. Another encouraging response was that more than half those in terviewed, asked what the term "Ethyl" meant to them, indicated that it implied a superior quality of gasoline. A minority said it had to do with a gasoline to which something had been added and only 18 per cent didn't know what the name meant. Moreover, 52 per cent of those 8 ETC 06170 who said the gasoline they used contained Ethyl asserted that the way they could tell was the sign on the pump from which it came . . . and almost no one among those who used third grade gasoline and had at one time or another tried premium fuel containing Ethvl at tributed his return to third grade gasoline to any unsatisfactory expe rience with the higher octane fuel. Most of this group declared that occasionally they buy Ethyl to burn out carbon, clean the motor, re move knocks, or because of its eas ier starting qualities. Only 11.5 per cent of those who had bought their car from a dealer handling both new and second hand machines reported his having recommended the use of a particu lar grade of gasoline. Of the 42 per cent of those who had their cars serviced by a particular inde pendent repair man, only nine per cent told of his having recommend ed a particular grade of gasoline. The significant fact about these latter figures is not what the vari ous "experts" recommended but that apparently so few recommend anything -- or at least recommend it in a way that registers with cus tomers. Thus although comparatively few persons recognized the Ethvl em blem when it was presented alone for identification, the answers of the group in general proved con clusively that a steadily growing portion of the public is becoming more familiar with the value of high octane fuel for use in pleasure cars and with the facts and im portance of Ethyl fluid. Now in his ninth year as a mar ket analyst, Elmo Roper put out his first survey (for Fortune Maga zine ) a month before George Gallup conducted his initial poll. Since then he has built up a staff of more than 100 reporters situated at key points across the country, all trained bv him personally. Be sides the report he completed for us, he has made surveys for Colum bia Broadcasting System, the Amer ican Meat Institute, the National Association of Manufacturers, and other firms and trade associations outstanding in their respective fields. New Safety Man jack d. fuller, our new safety man in the Kansas City division, came to us from Caminol Oil Co., in Los Angeles, where he was employed Jack Fuller immediately after graduation from the University of California in that city. Getting his chemistry degree at mid-years in 1940 he married soon afterward, becoming in the concern successively a chemist, treater and finally stillman of a cracking unit. He moved with his wife to Kansas City when he assumed his duties with us. Bom in Mason City, Iowa in 1916, Jack lived in the state 15 years before going to Lo Angeles. At U.C.L.A. Jack was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Ethyl Men in the Seivice Here is the latest list of Ethyl men note serving in the Army or the ISavy, with the time of their enlistment. Any military addresses given are the latest known, but may of course he inaccurate. October, 1940 John W. Miller -- Lieutenant, Armored Force School, Fort Knox, Kv. December, 1940 J. Robert Greenwood -- Lieutenant, Coast Artillery, Fort Hancock, N. J. January, 1941 Andy Pallay -- Private, Fort Custer, Mich. February, 1941 John D. Bailie -- Sergeant, (J. S. Army. Daniel A. Hirschler -- Private, 5th Signal Company, Fort Custer, Mich. Arthur H. Middleton --Lieutenant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. March, 1941 T. S. DuBose -- Promoted to Captain; Academic Department, Fort Benning, Ca. A. D. Miller -- Lieutenant. 69th Coast Artillery, Camp Hulen, Tex. Wilford E. Frazier -- Private, Camp Hulen, Tex. Bernard Jones -- Promoted to Corporal; Washington, D. C. April, 1941 Rufus M. Jackson -- Private, Fort Bragg, NT. C. George B. Noland -- Corporal, 47th Field Artillery, Fort Bragg, N. C. M. F. Weill -- Captain. Presidio, San Francisco, Calif. Everett M. Clough -- Private, Fort Sill, Okla. Redgnald Bushell -- Private, 45th Materiel Squadron, Manchester. N. H. William J. Ryan -- Lieutenant, Service Company. 11th Infantry, Fort Custer, Mich. May, 1941 - Wayland W. Sweeney, Jr. -- Lieutenant, 12th Engineer Battalion, Fort Jackson, S. C. Fritz Y. Mercer -- Promoted to Lieutenant; Submarine Base, New London. Conn. Howard B. Hudiburg -- Lieutenant, Fort Winfield Scott, Calif. A. E. Vallier -- Lieutenant, Detroit Ordnance Division, Lansing, Mich. Howard E. Hesselberg -- Lieutenant, Camp Roberts, Calif. Edward G. Duffard -- Petty Officer, Submarine Base, New London, Conn. June, 1941 John F. Wallis -- Lieutenant, 57th Coast Artillery, Camp Pendelton, Va. Kenneth G. Lee -- Ensign, U. S. Navy, Arlington, Va. Irvin Trowbridge -- Lieutenant, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Dayton C. Bolin -- Corporal, Coast Artillery, Fort Jay, N. Y. 10 ETC 06172 July, 1941 James M. Mason, Jr. -- Ensign, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville. Fla. Arthur S. Brown -- 2nd Lieutenant, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. William W. Downer -- Second Lieutenant, Augusta Arsenal. Augusta. Ga. August, 1941 Stuart J. Warner -- Promoted to Captain; Quartermaster Motor Transport School, Fort McPherson, Ga. George T. Mercier -- Ensign, Naval Ordnance, Hamilton, Ohio. H. J. Hoidridge -- Private, Camp Lee, Va. Benjamin W. Fridge -- Lieutenant, 191st Field Artillery, Camp Forrest. Tenn. September, 1941 Leo A. Miller -- Lieutenant, Camp Beauregard, La. Levan R. Fleck -- Lieutenant, Fort Crockett, Tex. Idan E. Flaa -- Lieutenant, Detroit Ordnance District, Detroit, Mich. Hamilton B. Greenup -- Lieutenant, Sacramento, Calif. October, 1941 Edward J. Kukla, Jr. -- Private, Fort Sill, Okla. November, 1941 Donald Forsdick -- Seaman, Coast Guard Depot, St. George, Staten Island, X. V. Phebus X. Hotard -- Private, Camp Livingston, La. January, 1942 N. J. Linstromberg -- Lieutenant, Field Artillery, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Miles Kinlev -- Lieutenant, Fort Belvoir, Va. Benjamin D. Harrison -- Second Lieutenant, Infantry, Fort Niagara, X. Y. James F. Bessire -- Lieutenant, Engineer Corps, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. J. T. Reed -- Seaman, U. S. Coast Guard. R. C. Kendrick -- 2nd Lieutenant, U. S. Army. February, 1942 Arthur Huffman -- Lieutenant, Artillery Division of Industrial Service of Detroit Ordnance District, Detroit, Mich. W. H. Phipps -- Lieutenant, U. S. Army, Cambridge, Mass. Robert D. Norwood -- Private, U. S. Army. March, 1942 ^ Kenneth P. Morse -- Seaman, U. S. Navy. John L. Ebell -- Private, U. S. Army. F. D. Atkinson -- Lieutenant, Army Air Corps. N. J. Nixon -- Private, U. S. Army. William H. Hubner -- Major, Army Air Corps. J. B. Link -- Officers' Reserve School, U. S. Army. W. L. Benson -- Officers' Reserve School, U. S. Army. B. G. Boggs -- Private, U. S. Army. W. W. Merritt -- Private, U. S. Army. B. A. Owen -- No information yet on service. R. H. Luke -- Lieutenant, Senior Grade, U. S. N. R., 8th Naval District, New Orleans, La. 11 Two for the Army two more men from Ray Faller s training school have been called to the service -- John Link and Walter Benson, who reported for active dutv March 26 at Camp Roberts. California, as lieutenants in the field artillery. Walt and John came to Ethvl last summer from Texas A. & M. College, where thev had been in the R.O.T.C. Both have been in St. Louis working on the bus tests, and at the San Bernardino Laboratory. 1 1 * Shuffle the deck... Road Test Mechanic new mechanic in the road test garage at Detroit is Cuniell "Bud" Stanger, native of Ottawa, who when 16 enlisted in the Canadian Army engineers division and served three and one half wars in World War I. Entering this country he settled in Birmingham, Mich., where he was connected with General Mo tors. From the engineering division of Pontiac Motors and the post of assistant service manager of retail stores he stepped into the GM truck factory branch service department. And from there he came to Ethyl in February. Bud's hobbies are swimming, fishing and bowling, which he pur sues with his two sons and two daughters. 12 a number of secretaries have been swapping desks around the New York office: (1) Ellie Schneider, secretary to Russ Schell, is resigning to get married. Judy Burglin is moving from Stenographic into Safety to take her place. (2) Edna Stalhuth is now secretary to Dick Murphy. (3) Ruth Clark has recently been hired as the new secretary to Ralph Hutchinson, who takes care of our "accounts receivable" -- and there by hangs a long story. Ruth re places Anne Daul, who is now secretary to Al Francis, whp hand les the general accounting of the Finance Department. Eunice Sauls, who used to work for Al Francis, is the new secretary of Treasurer John Mehring--whose ex-secretary, Genevieve Corcoran, has gone to work for Harry Kaley. Harry, our General Sales Manager, lost his faithful "right hand," Mildred Rugen (Spencer) when she resigned to spend her time as a contented housewife after several busy years with us. ETC 06174 Anderson Wins Detroit Bowling Championship Again the men's bowling league at Detroit has completed its season with the Shop team winning first place on the final night of competition and Andy Anderson having the season's high average for the third consecu tive year. Competition for the team cham pionship came right down the stretch. Mike Rometti's Shop team started off the final night just two points ahead of Joe Cipolla's Road Test team, so every ball counted. Wives of the Shop team jammed the cheering section. But it was the mighty right arm of genial, placid Pat Harding that furnished the final thrills. The games were about over and the Road Test team was rolling an extra frame to play off a tied second game with the Aero team. The Shop team had not finished its final game, so there still was an outside chance for the Road Testers. The atmos phere was heavy with good natured heckling and it was a nip and tuck score when Pat Harding came to the line to roll as number four man on the Aero team. Pat let go, and got his strike. Another strike followed. On the next ball the ten pin hobbled but fell. Pat struck out, adding 30 points to the Aero team score. The Road Testers' solemn demeanor was open acknowledgment that the Shop team was champion. Emil Gillig rolled the highest game of the season, 248 pins, 11 pins above the high of a year ago rolled by Ed Johnson. Mike Rometti rolled the second high game this year, 241, and Andy Anderson's 233 was third high. Hon orable mention goes to Charley Ehrhardt, student engineer, who was a substitute and rolled a 236 game. Individual high for three games this year was won by Mike Rometti with 604 pins. Andy Anderson was second with 596, and Harry Prince was third with 590. In the team competition, high single game was won by the Spe cialties with 887, the Dynamometer team was second with 881, and the Shop third with 877. For three games the team high went to the Shop with 2,479, second place to the Octanes with 2,473, and third place to the Specialties with 2,460. At completion of the first bowl ing season, in 1939-40, Andy Ander son, then a student engineer, lead the bowlers with an average of 176. Last year Andy again was high with a season's average of 172, and this vear it was Andy again with an average of 177. Andy's three-year average as Detroit champion is 175. Detroit Scores M E N 'S TEAMS High E. Gillig Came Rometti Anderson 248 241 233 High Set Rometti Anderson Prince 604 396 590 High Anderson 177 Average' Soroos 165 Johnson 164 Rometti 163 Wanderer 161 "TEAM TOTAL" 830 13 Detroit continued GIRLS' TEAMS High Game Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray 190 186 180 High Set Helmi Burklen Jewel Ahonen Myra Willis 497 462 413 High Helmi Burkleo Average Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray Myra Willis Jean Gall 137 128 116 113 106 "TEAM TOTAL" 600 Deepwater Scores (men only) High Game Herbert Jackson Johnson High Set Herbert Jackson Johnson High Herbert Average Jackson Johnson Armstrong Remsburg "TEAM TOTAL" 235 224 223 627 611 582 184 174 170 168 160 856 Baton Roage Scores MEN'S TEAMS High Came Armstrong Monahan Clothier 195 182 178 High Set Armstrong Clancy Clothier Henry 496 479 467 467 High Armstrong 156 Average Clothier 151 Monahan 150 George Rieger 149 Clancy 148 "TEAM TOTAL" 745 GIRLS' TEAMS High Came Winnie Dugas Sally Van Anda Dot McCarrolI 135 132 121 High Set Sally Van Anda Winnie Dugas Jesse Savario High Sally Van Anda Average Winnie Dugas Jesse Savario Dot McCarrolI Shirley Joffrion "TEAM TOTAL" 231* 221* 209* 116 111 105 101 96 529 "Set of 2 games 14 Ethyl Magic those ethyl folks who missed read ing the March issue of Reader's Digest might find one of the articles highly interesting -- `The Magic of High Octane Gas." Excellently written, it tells much of the story of the Ethyl Corporation -- the years of research, the problems of manufacture, the effect of tetraethyl lead on the development of modern automobiles and aeroplanes -- which has not been available in print before. Harland Manchester, a free-lance writer, is the author. `The Magic of High Octane Gas" originally appeared in the February issue of Harper's Magazine. A Late Report belatedly we report the marriage of Dave J. Bums to the former Miss Jane Blanchard from Donaldsonville. La., on December 31. Dave takes care of a large part of the tank car maintenance and repair work at Baton Rouge. ETC 06176 r Hand me down my walking cane who'll take care of Carl's car keywhile Carl's busy taking care? That's what the Los Angeles Di vision ponders this week in an ef fort to solve Carl Abell's problem -- and it's a tough one, too. Carl is the kind of person who foresees every emergency. He didn't think up the Boy Scout motto "Be Prepared" but he ex emplifies it better than anyone we know. But the best laid plans of Mice and Men -- And here's how: Besides wearing both a belt and suspenders to guard against the possibility of one or the other's breaking and . . . well, besides that, Carl has for years hidden an extra key to his car in the air cleaner under his hood -- just in case he locked himself out some night. Every year that he bought a new car he tucked the extra key under the hood. But he won't anv more. Not after what happened last month. Carl parked his car behind the division office building and re turned late at night after a long work session to find that he had left his key in the dashboard and locked all the doors. Now, he said to himself, his years of foresight would indeed prove justified. He stepped to the front of his car, reached for the hood, and pulled. He pulled again . . . then light dawned. His car was a 1942 model -- with the hood locking from inside the driver's compartment. Jack Lusk Technical Business .as the technical Service Depart ment clears the decks for fast ac tion in the new Ethyl Laboratories in Detroit, Jack Lusk takes over the business end. Jack attended Denison U. at Granville, Ohio, later becoming a metallurgist in Cleveland. Coming to Detroit he spent a year as auto mobile editor of the Memphis Press -- then entered sales promo tion and advertising in the auto motive industry. ^ He has worked on campaigns that sold millions of cars. One of his more unusual assignments was with the organization that handled advertising in the U. S. foreign language press . . . and Jack had an interpreter to "read" his copy. For the past three years he has handled industrial exhibits and point-of-sale advertising, including exhibits on the GM Parade of Progress, the auto shows, and the S.A.E. convention displays. 15 ETC 06177 Postgraduate Work fleet, automotive and tractor en gineers from all divisions will gather in Detroit in mid-April for an inten sive two weeks' course on present day fuel and engine problems. These key men in our technical serv ice program are getting ready for maximum service during the war months ahead. Approximately 50 men are expected to be present. Julian Frey will open the meet ing at 10 A. M. Monday, April 13, with a discussion of the purpose and scope of the course, together with a general outline of the schedule. The first week will be devoted to general Snapped ax they came out to see the last of the xnoic melting away, Skippy Johnson and sister Virginia pause for a pose in their best bibs and tuckers. Behind the camera teas father Paul Johnson, safety engineer in the Kansas City Division. subjects including fundamentals of various designs and materials in internal combustion engines, fuel pumps, spark plugs, ignition sys Knees pay off tems, valves, carburetors, etc. Dur ing the second week the groups will split and tractor and automo tive men will be drilled separately in subjects touching their special fields. A portion of each day will be set aside for a question and answer period. Quizzes will be given dur ing and at the end of the meeting. The school will close with a din ner on Saturday evening, April 25. his knees paid off--Not in a Revue but on Ivon' Soap's "Truth or Con Stepped Up sequences" radio program on which Frank Stablein and his wife recent arch valuer recently stepped up ly appeared. Her ability to pick his ! a notch in the ranks of soldierdom. knees from those of a number of Arch, formerly of our Agricultural men won the couple $10 as well Division in Detroit, was promoted as ten cakes of Ivory Soap. Here from second to first lieutenant, and we see them at Jack Dempsey's is currently in charge of the De Cafe aftenvards, dipping into their troit area Ordnance Department. winnings. IB ETC 06178 r Forty-five new Men at our Louisiana Plant thirty-three new operator helpers. 9 mechanical helpers, a machinist, a storehouse clerk helper, and a laboratory helper have joined the Baton Rouge staff. Here are high lights from their careers to date: Operator Helpers elwin adams . . . bom in Plaquemine, La. . . . attended Baton Rouge High School... formerly employed as porter in Capitol Building Annex in B. R. . . . is married and has one child. Harold bourgeois ... bom in Lutcher, La. . . . L. S. U., Soule Business Col lege in New Orleans, American School of Welding in same citv . . . prior to Ethyl was chief clerk of Selective Serv ice Board in Donaldsonville, La. ... is married and has two children. william brown . . . bom in Memphis. Tenn. . . . attended Holy Cross High School, New Orleans . . . previously employed bv Brown's Restaurant in Baton Rouge. James carroll . . . bom in Warrior. Ala. . . . graduate of Homewood, Ala.. High School . . . formerly a mechanic at Mclnnis Chevrolet Company, Baton Rouge. alfred f. couvillion ... bom in Ham burg, La. . . . attended Moreauville. La., High School . . . worked as as sistant engineer at State Capitol, Baton Rouge ... is married, has two children. Joseph darby . . . bom in Oak Ridge, La.... attended Mer Rouge, La., High School and Spring Hill College in Ala bama . . . previously was routeman for Kean's Laundrv, Baton Rouge ... is married, has 3 children. mike dichahry . . . born and educated in Baton Rouge . . . previously was salesman at Dalton's in B. R. . . . is married, has one child. j 1 . J I j j oseph Darby Mike Dichamj George Doherty Julius Dyer Ellis Edwards 17 Clarence Gauthier Ewell Harris Robert LaGroue Bruce Magee Claude Matheme Charles McKnight Miles Sewell T.H. Peacock Moore Plauche Roger Poche John Schniet georce doherty . . . bom in Paris, Texas . . . graduate of Metairie High School, New Orleans . . . formerly golf pro at Baton Rouge Country Club . . . is married, with one child. jui,ius dyer . . . bom in Hopeville, La. . . . attended Seventh Ward High School, Baton Rouge . . . last worked for Dutton Motors, Inc., Baton Rouge . . . married, has one child. Ellis edwards . . . bom in Moultrie, Ca. . . . graduate of Cairo, Ga., High School, 3 years at L. S. U. . . . previ ously worked for Louisiana Office Sup ply Company, Alexandria, La. ... is married, with one child. clarence Gauthier . . . bom in An chor, La. . . . attended Port Allen, La., High School . . . formerly laboratory helper at Alma Planting Company, Lakeland, La. ... is married, has one child. ewell Harris . . . bom in Denham Springs, La. . . . graduate of Arcadia Baptist Academy, attended L. S. U. . . . formerly a partner in Harris Bros. Floor Finishers in Baton Rouge . . . is married. robert lagroue . . . bom and edu cated in Pine Grove, La. . . . last em ployed by Schuylkill Metal Products Co. in Baton Rouge . . . married, and has one child. cordon lockhart . . . bom and edu- 18 ETC 06180 cated in Walker, La. . . . formerly La. . . . graduate of Plaquemine High grocery store owner ... is married and School . . . formerly electrician helper has 3 children. with McWilliams Dredging Co. in balph lord . . . bom in Portsmouth. Plaquemine ... is married and has one Mew Hampshire ... graduate of Frank child. lin, Mew Hampshire High School . . . Joseph sicard . . . born in Oscar. La. formerly employed by Baton Rouge attended Poydras High School in New Amusement Company ... is married, Roads, La. . . . worked formerly in has 1 child. Transportation Department of Louisi . bruce magee . . . bom in Enon, La. ana Public Service Company in New . . . attended Bogalusa, La.. High Orleans. School . . . before coming to Ethyl was ellis stewart . . . bom and edu g mechanic at Johnny Rogers' Service cated in Picayune. Mississippi; welding Station, Baton Rouge ... is married, school in Pascagoula, Miss.... previous with one child. to Ethyl worked for Aluminum Cook claude matherne . . . bom in Remv, ing Utensil Company ... is married, La. . . . attended Lutcher, La., High has one child. School, took I. C. S. drafting course decator tarver . . . bom and edu ... is married. cated in Brookhaven, Mississippi . . . Charles mcknicht ... bom in Clinton, previously employed by C. H. Hebert La. . . . attended Denham Springs, La., in Istrouma, La. High School . . . former salesman for henry Thompson, jr. . . . bom in t Louisiana Creamery in Baton Rouge Harreston, Mississippi . . . attended ... is married, has one child. Hollywood High School in Baton Wallace mixon . . . bom in Osvka. Rouge . . . formerly worked for James Miss. . . . attended Southwest. Missis T. Castle, Pittsburgh, Pa. ... is mar sippi Jr. College, and L. S. U. . . . is ried, with one child. ; married and has 2 children. Robert thrasher . . . bom in Chou- ; leo montecudo ... bom and attended drant. La. . . . attended Choudrant 1 school in Zachary, La. . . . formerly a High School . . . formerly employed at mechanic at Mclnnis Chevrolet Com Brown Paper Mill in Monroe, La. . . . pany ... is married and has one child. is married, has one child. miles nesvell .. . bom in Old Farwell, Hubert tillman . . . bom in Willows, La. . . . graduate of Dequincv, La.. Mississippi . . . attended Baton Rouge High School, received B.S. from High School . . . worked for Louisiana L. S. U. . . . service station owner be Highway Department ... is married fore Ethyl... is married, has one child. and has two children. t. h. peacock . . . bom in Forest, La. RICHARD VAN BANKSTON . . . ljom in ... graduate of Forest High School. . . Pride, La. . . . attended Pride High previously salesman in Drusillv Dairv, School . . . previously worked for Baton Rouge ... is married and has Dutton Motors in Baton Rouge ... is two children. married, with 1 child. moore plauche . . . bom in Plauche- cerald wilson . . . bom in New Or ville. La. . . . attended Plaucheville leans . . . attended Baton Rouge High High School and L. S. U. . . . formerly School . . . formerly worked for I. manager of Plauche's Service Station Weiss. Baton Rouge ... is married and in Baton Rouge ... is married and has has 2 children. one child. Mechanical Helpers rocer poche . . . bom in Head of Isidore belancer . . . bom in Houma, Island, La. . . . graduate of Maurepas, La. . . . graduate of Kentwood, La., La., High School . . . formerly em High School . . . previously worked at ployee of Grover Tank Manufacturing Thom McAn Shoe Store, Baton Rouge Co. at Baton Rouge ... is married and . . . is married. has three children. hervey boddex . . . bom in British John schafer . . . bom in Plaquemine, West Indies . . . attended Cayman 19 John Calmer George Doran Harry Langlois Carl Lipscomb Marcin Owen Island High School . . . lias been work ing as independent contract painter ... is married, has 3 children. John calmes . . . bom in Independ ence, La. . . . attended Independence High School . . . owner of Calmes Re frigeration Co. ... is married, has one child. ceorce doran . . . bom in Donaldsonville. La. . . . attended Donaldsonville High School . . . did layout work for D. B. Doran Copper & Iron Works in Donaldsonville ... is married, has four children. harry langlois . . . bom in New Roads, La. . . . attended Poydras High 20 School . . . came to us from United Motor Service, Baton Rouge ... is married. ^ carl lipscomb . . . bom in Hammond. La. . . . attended Pride, La., High School . . . formerly carpenter during construction of air bases at Biloxi, Miss., and Baton Rouge ... is married, has one child. marvin owens ... bom in Holden, La. attended Frost, La., High School and Baton Rouge Business College . . . for merly service station manager in Baton Rouge. dewey reed . . . bom and attended school in Baton Rouge . . . previously ETC 06182 Deu'ey Reed Sidney Williams Ceorge Allen Wilbur Crews Julius A. Sholars was service man for Refrigeration Equipment Company in Baton Rouge ... is married and has 4 children. Sidney Williams . . . bom in New Orleans . . . attended Baton Rouge High School, and Louisiana College . . . formerly with Grover Tan Manu facturing Company, Baton Rouge . . . is married and has 2 children. Also -- ceorce allen, Machinist . . . bom in Little Rock, Arkansas . . . attended Little Rock High School . . . formerly worked for Martin Machinery Com- pany at Pine Bluff, Ark. ... is married, has one child. wilbur crews, Storehouse Clerk Help er .. . bom in Clinton, Mississippi . . . attended Hammond, La., High School; business college in Bowling Green, Kentucky . . . formerly bookkeeper and paymaster at Silas Sfason Company, Shreveport, La. julius a. sholars. Laboratory Helper . . . bom in Dodson, La. . . . attended Winnfield, La., High School and L. S. U. . . . former partner in service station. Baton Rouge ... is married, has one child. , Chemists Contribute to Uncle Sam's the opportunity to match the men in their contributions, drove off with George Burcal, Bob Gourlav, BLOOD BANK Bill Katz, Harold Soroos, Howard Pearsall, and Herb Sumner of the eight red-blooded members of the Technical Service Department. They Detroit Chemical Research Lab were back on the job two hours staff took a couple of hours out the later, each minus one pint of blood other afternoon to make an extra but fortified with orange juice, tea, contribution to the war effort in coffee, sandwiches and cookies the form of donations to the Red which were supplied by the Red Cross blood bank. Anne Caplan Cross people. The company helped and Dorothy Rakestraw, proud of out with transportation. He scores they couldn't stop him, but the Harding Field hoop quintet held Ethyl's Charlie Bozeman to 11 points in a recent thriller at Baton Rouge in which Charlie led his team to a two-point victory after what was described as one of the hardest-fought games in that part of the country all season. Charlie is last year's All-Ameri can who paced Louisiana State University's great basketball five, considered by many to be the equal of the miraculous Luisetti, former Stanford star. 21 ETC 06183 News from Tulsa and K. C. Test Labs into the crowing ranks of girl chemists marching into laboratories across America so that men may march to the war stepped Cerise Wall, who joined the staff of Test ers at our Tulsa Laboratory as a Junior Chemical Operator. Getting her B.S. at the Oklahoma College for Women, she came to us after a period spent in the restaurant business. ON THE TULSA HOME FRONT All the men at the Tulsa Lab have completed a Red Cross First Aid course, Carl Bartholomew re ports, despite widespread illness that dogged them and delayed the early completion they had planned. Harold McCauley caught pneu monia. Flu felled Johnnie Discus. Tom Smith underwent a tonsillec tomy followed by a serious eye in fection. They're all back now, how ever, proud of their diplomas, ex cept Bill Randall, whom a bad cold 22 laid up for a couple of days. He'll finish up the course in short order. ON THE K. C. HOME FRONT Meanwhile from Harold Mclntire, manager of our North Kansas City Lab, conies more news that should worry the Axis. All members of his Lab staff have registered for Civilian De fense Work; all but one are en rolled in the 21-hour first aid course; and Harold himself has been asked bv the civilian defense board to represent the Corporation in North Kansas City by enrolling in a Division of Intelligence class, which will issue shortly instruc tions on espionage and sabotage. THREE BACS FULL . . . Everyone out there saves waste paper and cartons now. in burlap bags supplied by the city. A truck picks up the bags and leaves more empty ones. Tin cans also move into the war effort channels, and in their homes the staff duplicates the conserva tion work done at the Lab. Five of them have been appoint ed air raid wardens. Three of these Harold has stationed in the laboratory building itself rather than in a patrol area. The other two are assigned to a sector near their homes -- and all five are mem bers of air raid warden classes where they receive training in chemical warfare, first aid, and fire defense. A prayer from the Seattle division Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my tires to keep When I awake at break of dawn I hope 111 not find my tires gone! by j. s. cole (Safety Engineer) Casper, Wyoming NI W I ci I ii Ii ETC 06184 Ethyl people bay BONDS new names are being added each week to the list of employees parti cipating in the Defense Savings Plan in which the company is cooper ating with the government, accord ing to P. L. Griffiths, who runs the financial end of Ethyl's affairs. Mr. Griffiths said participations range all the way from 50 cents a week, the minimum deduction, on up to substantial sums and that the re sponse has been quite satisfactory. Under the plan employees desig nate the denomination of the bonds they wish to purchase -- $25, $50, $100, $500 or $1,000 -- and authorize periodic deductions from wages or salaries. When the required amount has been accumulated the company will arrange to purchase a bond and have it registered in the name or names designated by the employee. Mr. Griffiths pointed out that the plan has a two-fold appeal -- first, as a first class investment for the future and, second, an opportunity to take a direct part in providing the government with the funds needed in our all-out war effort. Fax East one of the boys who used to work in the Manufacturing Department, John Wallis, is right in the thick of things out in the Far East. Fol lowing is reproduced a letter he wrote to John Schaefer. 1st Lt. John F. Wallis Batten' C 57th C.A. Feb. 7. 1942 Dear John: Just a line to let vou and the rest of the Ethyl gang in New York know mv whereabouts and my trials and tribu lations. I am now in this land of beau tiful scenery and sunshine. Really even though we are engaged in war and are working like blazes we are lucky to be here. I am with a heavy gun batterv (tractor drawn) located on a portion of the beach. So far we have seen no action, but we just want the sight of a ship to start us off. I have a good bat tery of dam good fighters and no mat ter what comes we are prepared. I want to thank you and the com pany for the News and the Bulletin Board. I really enjoy receiving them. I have also received some letters with Deepwater news. Remember me to all the gang that I have met. Take good care of yourself. Best Wishes for a Prosperous Year Jack New Arrival out in the Los Angeles Division, Herb and Martha Peters are re joicing over the arrival of their first baby, a six-pound, two ounce son. John Evans, bom March 7 at 6:50 a.m. We were surprised that Herb seemed to have gotten up that early in. the morning, but he insists that he did not get up -- he had not been to bed. The blessed event took place at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hos pital. ____________ Slogan ceorce kriecer, manager of the Agricultural Division, has a good slogan for tire conservation. It goes like this: "The faster you drive -- the sooner you walk." Three officers the Atlanta Division is pretty proud of -- Captain S. J. Warner (4th Corps Area Motor School at Con ley, Ga.), 2nd Lieutenant A. S. Brown (Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, Md.), and Lieutenant W. W. Sweeney (Commanding Officer of Company A, 12th Engineers, Key West, Fla.). W. H. Phipps and R. H. Luke have also left -- we hope to have pictures by next issue -- and three or four more men may go within the next few weeks. There's something about these Atlanta men the Army and Navy seem to like! Counter-Attack after listening patiently even' morning and afternoon as they rode to and from work, four of the Tech nical Division boys at Baton Rouge finallv rose in self-defense against those nerve-racking radio jingles. They wrote one of their own. Now. whenever a tenor starts plugging Fancy Cola, George Rieger, L. J. Govemale, L. R. Krieg, and H. M". Busev gag the car radio and in their very best barrelhouse stvle rend the atmosphere with the following version of "Yankee Doodle" -- a radio jingle to end all radio jingles: Uncle Sammy flew to war, A winging on his octane, And if you put it in your car. You'll take off like an airplane. Ethyl gas stops that knock; Ethyl gas is dandy; Ethyl gas gives piston pep To you and Uncle Sammy. Do us a favor? we've run short of Bulletin Boards for last January and February. If you folks have read vour own cop ies and wouldn't mind parting with them, would you please send them to us? We need 85 copies of the Janu ary, 1942 issue and two dozen cop ies of the February, 1942 issue. You don't have to mad them yourself -- just take them to the regular Bulletin Board correspond ents at your plant or office and they'll forward them to us through the regular inter-office mail. This will be a real favor, and we're much obliged. with the arrival March 2 of Mary Ann, the Wriglevs of Detroit are three. Proud Father Cliff handles the fuel blends at the Engineering Research Laboratories. ETC 06186 Oil is Ammunition--use it wisely! once again the country faces a gasoline shortage in those areas dependent upon tankers for their supplies. Many oil carriers have been transferred to other shipping routes; many have been loaned to the service of our allies; several have been torpedoed. The oil industry has taken every measure to keep the short age from becoming a crisis. New ships have been launched, nesv methods have been found for pressing barges and pipe lines and railroad cars into service. But the lack of transporta tion still is a serious matter. Army and Navy needs must be supplied first, of course. We civilians will have to get along with less of nearly everything and be good sports about it. Using less gasoline and oil is one of the many ways in which we and our friends at home can do our bit as civilians to help the men in uniform who are fighting the war. As men and women who represent the oil business, let us be good examples. This does not mean that we will have to give up driving, for the present at least. But it is eminently necessary for us to drive economically. We have all heard enough about keeping tires inflated, avoiding quick starts and stops and so on, to know the little devices that save fuel. But the only way to make a really important cut in gasoline and oil consumption is to cut driving mileage. Whenever a train or bus or neighbor's car will take us where we want to go, let us leave our cars in the garage. And we have a larger obligation as well. As members of the oil and automotive industries, it is up to us to let our friends know how they too can help the war effort by using less and less gasoline. The oil industry has its own war slogan -- "Oil is ammunition. Use it wisely!" Let's make this our personal slogan. E?C 06187 MAY, 1942 ETC 06188 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD -- by and for Ethyl employees i and It's Back to Work eably sixty ethyl field represen "Production line engines today N tatives and assistant division are being put to severe service. In managers are back on their jobs the military field these engines are after an intensive two-weeks post at work mechanizing our forces. The graduate course on current prob- commercial operator knows that re " lems in fuels and engines at the De placement units will not be readily troit Research Laboratories. The available for the duration, and school opened on Monday morning, the last mile of service must be April 13, and continued day and squeezed out of each part and piece night for nearly two weeks. of current equipment. Through an Dick Murphy of the New York intimate knowledge of parts and : office sounded the keynote for the their functions, the Ethyl field rep . school on the first day. "There is | one job for all of us," he said, "and resentative may be able to lengthen life and save the purchase of a re- i that's to get out and help win the j war." The purpose and scope of the meeting were well stated by Julian Frey. "The Technical Service De Rov Goltz, New York div ision; Ed Paige. Fleet division; Guv Donohue, New York division; and R. K. Seales, head of passen ger car division. partment," he said, "has as one of its key functions keeping our field rep resentatives informed on advance ments in engineering and refining, and one of the means of accomplish ing this is through conferences in our laboratories. "The field representative is at work at the point where engines and fuels meet, in the fields of trans portation and power. At this time we deemed it necessary to recon sider fundamentals of engine oper ation and fuel utilization, as well as to consider the newer problems and developments. 1 Fred Ahrens, Chicago division, gets in some shop work under the tutelage of H. T. Mueller, of the Technical Service Department. Oil filters are under discussion hv L. A. Dollalum. Chicago division: Ray Wvrick, assistant division manager, Chicago; and Art Wilt, Tractor division. Sam Rady, Chicago division, explains some pointers of a fuel pump test stand to Fitz Bridges, Seattle division. placement unit that would consume vital metals." The faculty of the school con sisted mainlv of engineers from the Engineering Research Laboratories and the technical and executive per sonnel of the Technical Service De partment. Parts and equipment manufacturers cooperated hv send ing specialists to discuss and dem onstrate special features of their products. The curriculum was divided up into lectures, discussions and ac tual shop practice. Subjects covered included spark plugs, ignition sys tems, fuel pumps and fuel systems, carburetion and carburetors and valves, testing instruments and maintenance techniques. Petroleum products were dis cussed bv members of the refinerv division of the Technical Service Department. The talks covered crude oil, basic and advanced re fining methods, the chemistry of fuels, and selective blending of gas olines. There were also discussions of elementarv and advanced prob lems of lubrication and the applica tion of crankcase ventilating sys tems. In addition there was a report Some curves receive special attention of Mel Olson, Chicago div ision; Ralph Ormsby, Chicago division (in white shirt); J. A. Clark. Chicago division; and Fred Naylor, assistant div ision manager, Seattle. ETC 06191 Another group gets in some shop practice. Left to right, Casey Jones, assistant divi sion manager, Boston; George Rosser, as sistant division manager, Atlanta; Herschel Dedo, Dayton division; and Art Johnson, Kansas City division. A conference on fuels with Tom Risk, Refinery Technology division, left; Jack Pruitt, assistant div ision manager, Dayton; Mac Murdock, assistant manager Los An geles division; and Sam Rady, Chicago division. >on Flynn, assistant division manager, Kansas City, does his homework. E. F. Wenzel, of Stromberg Carburetor Co., leans ov er table to explain some serv ice points to John W. Pauli, Chicago division; and Spike Speaker, New York div ision. Dick Coveney, Boston div ision, talks about refining processes with Jane Jordan, of the Refinery Technology Division. ETC 06192 J. D. Fuller, Kansas City division, and Heinie Muel ler, Detroit Technical Service Department. Front row, left to right: X. W. Brooks, Los Angeles division; Bruce Crane, Boston division; "Dolly" Dollahan, Chicago division; and "Punch" Pfundstein, Kansas City division. Back row: Lynn M. Phillips, Tulsa division; Howard A. Lappe, Kansas Citv division; and S. E. Ellerbee, Atlanta div ision. F. D. Williams. New York division, and Jack Taylor, Engineering Research. Julian Frey Part of the Engineering Research Labora tories "faculty": Charley Kass. Dick Sneed, and Ben Brewster. Errol Gay F. J. Stablein, Xew York Division: Bond Hedden, Chicago division; W. H. Polachek, Chicago division; and John E. Hen drick, Tulsa div ision. ETC 06193 Bert Lasers, chief engineer. MinneapolisMoline, talks over a problem svith Art Wilt of the Agricultural division. on the progress of Ethyl's Gasoline Testing Laboratories, followed by a tour of the Detroit testing lab. On the final day the field repre sentatives heard a report on the promotional material available for 1942 and a report on the activities of Ethyl's War Committee. The meeting closed officially with a dinner at the Detroit Athletic Club, Friday night, April 24. One of the high spots of the evening was an informal show staged bv some of the men. After almost two solid weeks of listening night and day to a variety of speakers, the ``students'' took the floor and made the most of it. Charley Welch of the Kansas Cits' division acted as master of ceremon ies and kept the show running smoothly throughout. The skits included "The Inside Story of What Goes on in a Division Manager's Office on Monday Morn ing" and a good-natured lampooning of some of the school faculty. The climax of the show was an act put on by John Hendrick of the Tulsa division and S. E. Ellerbee of the Atlanta division, in which they compared notes on what various speakers had had to say during the two-weeks course. It brought down the house. The consensus among the men as they left for their homes was that the meeting had been a great suc cess and that even' one had profited from it. R. W. Kimpton, New York division: Frank Elliott, Los Angeles div ision; W. H. Polachek, Chicago div ision; and Louis Richter, Atlanta div ision. Three tractor men enjoy a chuckle. Bond Hedden. Chicago div ision; Professor R. I. Shawl, Agricultural Engineering Depart ment, Univ ersitv of Illinois; and Dan Cuvf Tulsa div ision. Two old friends -- Professor Shawl and George Krieger. ETC 06194 Tlie trophy, and part of the triumphant team, at their victory dinner. Baton Rouge Team Wins Basketball Trophy THE ETHYL BASKETBALL team WOI1 the championship in the Baton Rouge Industrial League from 12 other lo cal teams. The league was organized into two divisions, and the season was split into halves, with a cham pion for each division and for each half. Ethyl won in the National Divi sion in the first half, with six victor ies and no defeats. In the second half, the Ethyl boys came up to the very last minute of the last game against du Pont's Yiengst Shift team without a defeat, but one of the du Pont boys sank a shot just as the gun sounded to end the game. This tied the score, and in the overtime 6 Yiengst took the game, '37-14. This threw the second half into a three-wav tie, as Ethyl, the local Air Base and the Yiengst Shift had each won four games and lost oner In the play-off, the Air Base boys defeated Ethyl in the first game, 31-22, and then beat Yiengst also, winning the second half title. After that. Ethyl, as winner of the first half, played the Air Base quin tet for the championship of the Na tional Division. Ethyl won, 40-22. Then they faced the Louisiana Creamery team, champions of the American Division, for the league title. The first game was tied, with seconds to go, when Franch Bunch ETC 06195 sank a free throw to win for Ethyl in the final four seconds. Ethyl then won the second game of the cham pionship play-off, with a breathless 33-31 score. The team was awarded a large gold trophy, and individual players were given small gold basketballs. In celebration of the victory, a num ber of the boys at the plant gave a banquet for the team at Mike & Tony's Restaurant on April 15th. An interesting sidelight on the performance of the team is that Charlie Bozeman, ex-star at L.S.U., and Rip Collins from Tulane, starred during the regular season. Both these men left the company before the final games, however, and so were not on hand for the play-offs. The fact that the Ethyl team won without their two ex-college main stays is an indication of the inspir ing work done by Coach Bill Ed wards, and the fighting spirit of the team. Fast action! Dark suits are Ethyl hoys; number 6 is Frank Bunch, number 40 is Bob Oesterling. They Keep the Mails Moving two new office boys in the New York mail room are Jim Russell, at the scales, and Ed Britt, who is feeding the last envelope of a large pile through the stamping machine. Jim is a graduate of Newtown High School and lives on Long Is land. He's had plenty of experience in meeting the public through pre vious jobs as a counter man at A&P stores and as an elevator boy at New York's famous St. Moritz hotel. Ed Britt has likewise seen a good deal of the public -- for the year and a half before coming with Ethyl he was a lieutenant in charge of ushers at the Radio City Music Hall, supervising the main floor. Ed used to direct four elevators and a staff of 30 to 40 ushers. Before he became a lieutenant he was in = charge of four backstage elevators and the stage doors. Elevators are needed behind the scenes, he ex plains, partly to carry actors and scenerv up behind the great arch, but mainly to carry the performers to their dressing rooms which are located four and five floors above the stage level. Whenever things get dull in the mail room now, some one is sure to pipe up with, "Hey, Ed -- tell us some more about the Rockettes?" 7 ETC 06196 Brass Pounder william cilpin, electronics techni cian in the instrument department at the Engineering Research Lab oratories at Detroit, has followed this work all his life. After attending Harbord Collegi ate Institute in Toronto. Bill was a telegrapher on the Canadian Pacific Railroad during World War I. Then he took a year's course at the Mar coni Training School in Toronto, and was a radio operator on boats on the Great Lakes and St. Law rence River. Detroit was Bill's favorite port, so he settled there, working at the Ford Motor Company in electrical work for three years, then doing radio work before joining the Ethyl clan. Bill's major hobby is amateur ra dio, and he held a license until all were revoked at the outbreak of the war. The Gilpins live on the lake at Mt. Clemens, Michigan. They have two sons -- Ralph, still in grade school, and Richard, who is attend ing the Chrysler Engineering Insti tute and Wayne University in De troit. 8 ATTENTION First Aiders! (For I'm taking a course too.) Lady, if you see me lving On the ground and (mavbe) dving Let mv gore run bright and tree. Don't attempt to bandage me. While there's life, there's hope; so pet Don't "apply a tourniquet." Do not give for my salvation "Artificial respiration." Do not stretch my bones and joints, Do not press my "pressure points." If queer symptoms you should see Don't experiment on me. If I'm suffering from "shock" Take a walk around the block. If you must be busy, pray Help to "keep the crowds away." So, whatever my condition "Phone at once for a physician." Let me lie. I'll take a chance Waiting for the ambulance. From "First Aid" I would seek release Lady, let me die in peace. (Anonymous -- Found attached to a mirror on one of the washrooms in the Sew York office). Thanks, Fellas! is the last issue we asked if you could spare us certain old copies of the Bulletin Board. Due mainly to the consideration of the men at the Freeport Ethvl-Dow plant, we have received nearly enough. We still need several copies of the January issue from this year. Would you help us out by bringing your old ones, individually, in to the office where you report and letting them forward the copies to the Bulletin Board in New Yprk? Thanks! ETC 06197 r mu mm ,||ii Four Service Awards in May a chemist and an advertising man are the old-timers who pass the 15year mark this month -- Clinton T. Leacock and Russell B. Weston. Clint Leacock is a good-natured, persevering gent who always im pressed his associates with his ex tremely wide background of chemi cal knowledge ana his reluctance to talk about himself. He came to us from the Otis Elevator Company in 1927 to work in the old Yonkers re search and testing laboratory. His primary work there was making lead analyses. They handled eight or nine samples a day then -- which was about the top limit for the facil ities and equipment available. As a veteran, he has trained many of the old hands who today are doing lead analyses in our various test labs. In 1936, a few years after the Chemical Research Laboratory had been moved to Detroit, Clint was transferred there from Yonkers, as a member of the Analytical Depart ment. As an analytical specialist, he devotes most of his time to analysis of special compounds under study in the laboratory. After hours Clint likes to tend his garden -- this year with increased purpose -- or go bowling. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Engineering Society of Detroit, and Kiwanis. Russ Weston gets the other 15year pin this month. Russ is our energetic assistant advertising man ager who seems always to be doing three jobs at once. He started with us as a field man after working with Clint Leacock Russ Weston 9 ETC 06198 p the bridge design department of the Westchester Counts' Park Commis sion -- Russ won his B.S. from Union College in Civil Engineering. He first worked in the New York Divi sion, in New York state. Later he was transferred to Connecticut, but had to make several trips as far afield as New England. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. During 1930, his third year with us, Russ was called to the home of fice in New York to handle certain work in the Jobber Department. He stayed with this division of our ac tivities until 1935, when on July 1 he was named the head of it. During that same year he added to his duties by becoming an associate edi tor of the Ethyl News. Early in 1938, while still head of the Jobber Department, he was named assistant advertising man ager. As the dwindling of our jobber activities freed more of his time he took charge of technical advertising and sales promotion matters. A couple of years ago the Jobber De partment was discontinued. Russ is busy as usual at the mo ment with a couple of things besides advertising -- one of his projects being in collaboration with the Gas oline Testing Division. Thev are try ing to expedite the collecting of samples for standardizing and main taining gasoline quality. Russ lives in Irvington, a peaceful town on the east bank of the Hudson river which takes its name from Washington Irving, author of Rip van Winkle and the Sleepv Hollow tales. There are two girls at his house, Deborah and Nancy -- three years and one year old. Asked if he had any spare-time hobbies, Russ replied that with two children in the house he didn't have any spare time -- and that minding them was a hob by in itself. 10 Evelyn Johnson gets her ten-year award this month. Evelyn has been holding down the reception desk on the 35th floor of the Chrysler Build ing for over five years and sitting-in as substitute receptionist for vears before that -- so she knows more of Ethyl's visitors than any of us. Millard H. Jackson, at the Deep water manufacturing plant, comes up for his five-year pin. Gas Drill for the Bio'Miners clenn cantwell is a fast worker. Almost as soon as he was made di rector of the gas training division of the New Hanover Defense Council, he had the Ethvl-Dow employees at Kure's Beach out to Camp Davis for a gas drill. Glenn is plant manager. The trainees were put through the paces at the camp's gas chamber, where they were exposed to phos gene, chlorine, mustard, lewisite, and other deadly gases used in war fare. They were instructed in the use of the service gas mask before they entered the chamber, so there weren't any casualties. The gas defense course is divided into two parts, A and B. The A course calls for two hours' instruc tion in the care of civilian gas masks, but because there isn't a sup ply of these as yet, this course is still "in the ice box." The B course of three hours' instruction covers types of war gases, gas protection meth ods, and first aid for chemical casu alties. The A course is required for most groups and the B is required for wardens, police, rescue squads, and drivers corps. I ETC 06199 Testimonial Diners FIELD REPRESENTATIVES who claim to be connoisseurs of good food, a claim based on an unlimited num ber of meals eaten in all kinds of es tablishments from greasy spoons to de luxe hotels, gorged themselves for two weeks at the Detroit Lab oratories cafeteria and pronounced the "vittles" excellent. The boys real ly loaded their trays, and triple or quadruple desserts were the rule. The pronouncement of "excel lence" was heard many times during the conference, and on the final day Mrs. Frances P. Rugg, manager of the cafeteria, was presented with a framed tribute signed bv all the men who attended the fleet and tractor school, and a purse containing a substantial amount of the coin of the realm for herself and her staff. Mrs. Rugg and members of the cafeteria staff replied with a letter of appreciation. The letter to Mrs. Rugg follows: "We the undersigned want to ex press our appreciation for the very excellent food you have given us during our two weeks' stav here at the Research Laboratory. We the undersigned speak with feeling and with authority on the food situation. "We have eaten in every county in the United States that boasts an `eating' place. The sum total of our meals runs into the hundreds of thousands. "We are experts on hot dishes, cold dishes, clean dishes, plate luncheons, table d'hote, a la carte and pure North American. "We have eaten in light places and in dark places, high places and low places, plain places and fancy places. "We have eaten alone and we have entertained regiments -- so when we repeat that we consider your food excellent, we speak with authority. We speak as experts, but mostly we speak with feeling. "From the bottom of our hearts we thank you." Casev Jones presents a testimonv to Mrs. Hugg at Detroit. 11 etc 06200 Communique... RALPH CHAMPUN ETHYL CORPORATION CHRYSLER BUILDING NEW YORK ENJOYING WAIKIKI BEACH NO AODRESS BILL HUBNER Tulsa Baby at the tulsa test lab. Herb Green recently came in with a broad grin and a box of cigars. At the same time, Mrs. Green was receiving con gratulations on the birth of their first child, Francelia Catherine, ring side weight T3* pounds, born on March 26th. Boom Boom jack bailie, one of the first halfdozen Ethyl men to go into service, is no longer with the Armv. He's now a civilian expert with the Naval Ordnance Department at Washing ton, doing experimental work on ex plosives and methods of protecting ships. E. f. Horsmatt, new electrician in the Dynamometer Section of the new Ferndale lab, used to be in business for himself. At different times he has been part owner of a hotel, a manufacturing company, and an electrical company. He joined Ethyl early this year. His hobbies are pho tography, swimming, baseball, and. his two-year old son, Edward. Dorothy Ai. Paget is the new secre tary in the Special Projects section of the Engineering Research lab at Detroit. Dot is a native of New York City. She was graduated from St. Theresa High School, in Dearborn, Michigan, and attended the Business Institute in Detroit. After working for the J. L. Hudson store, she joined the Detroit staff of Liberty Maga zine. Dot likes to ride horseback, play tennis, and swim. ETC 06201 r Bulletin from the Coast Dear Bulletin Board: We have all been preparing to do something about our end of this two-ocean war that some of our people 150 miles inland believe will never reach them. Our boys have turned out in good shape. San Wagner has joined up with the Sheriff's special auxiliary air raid staff, and has progressed through the training past the part where he learns how to keep his shoes shined and his pants pressed, and pretty soon he will probably be told how to tell a Jap from a Chinaman, and what to tell the Jap while he is shooting him, or shooing him away from the waterworks, or whatever it is that deputy sheriffs are supposed to do to Japs. Hume Chenault is working along the same lines, but being a safety man he is saying little, or even less. Ted Littlefield is in charge of Civilian Defense in the sector of Burlingame in which he resides, and is using the famous Little field persuasiveness to stir up cooperation of the neighbors in their own behalf. Mac Murdock and I are both assistant air raid wardens in our own neighborhoods. We have gone through part of the training, having learned about various kinds of bombs and poison gas, and where we are supposed to hide from each. I have already had the privilege of waking up the man who is sup posed to awaken me, and telling him that there was a blackout alarm. Charlie White got cheated in his home defense deal. He lives in Pasadena, where the Army had as signed the organization of civilian defense to the Kiwanis Club, and they went ahead and organized. The local politicians could not see how a group of successful business men 13 ETC 06202  could organize defense, so they set up their own show in competition -- and won. One day Charlie was "the works" on his block, and the next day his deserving Democrat neigh bor across the street was telling him what to do. We had a little muss up Santa Barbara way a few days ago which stimulated business among the volunteers quite a lot. A sub marine, presumably Japanese, came up off the Elwood Oil Field, and cut loose with 25 shells. Their aim was miraculously bad even for Japs, and they departed in the course of time leaving only resounding echoes and perforated pastures. The only shell which moved anything but dirt knocked the end off a pump beam on one of Mr. Barnsdall's sea going oil wells. One of the neighbors who lived up the hill was enjoying the sunset from his front porch when the shooting started. He phoned the sheriff at Santa Barbara, who apparently thought he was being ribbed, but anyway, just in case, he sent a deputy out to the point, 11 miles up the coast, to see what was going on. By the time he arrived, the sub had submerged, and the dairy stock had resumed its calm contemplation of the twi light. It took a little time to find the shell craters in the gathering gloom, and more time to notify headquarters, so by the time a blackout was called an hour and twenty minutes had elapsed. It is comfort ing to note that the- blackout was complete and successful, and that there has been no recurrence of the bombardment; neither has there been any sinking of our ships in these home waters. Obviously, if the offending sub was a Jap he was gotten by either our army or our navy, who are not marking the graves of these visitors, nor erecting any public epitaphs. The incident was, however, a great stimulus to the home defense business. The Division is now engaged in another little matter of home defense in behalf of 14 ETC 06203 r the company. Dick Hammond, our tune-up-man extraordinary, was up at night school learn ing to be an Ethyl orator the other night, and when he got back to his car he found that the trunk lid had been opened, using a crowbar for a key, and his spare tire had gone AWOL. The tire had never been on the ground, and Dick has not been so mad since the time the boys put a tarantula in his shoe down in Texas. Results -- all the tires on our company cars and personal cars have been branded, and Dick has been busy perfecting a selective switch for the trunk lids which will blow the horn any time they are opened up by unauthorized parties. I have been writing this at the office on Saturday afternoon, while the California springtime has been weaving its spell of magic into the circumambient air. And this in spite of the fact that my boy came in last night with four bass which he caught a little way out in the country. Did you ever see such a devotion to duty? Anyway, it proves the old saying that the road to good intentions is paved with Hell. Yours, etc. (signed) Carl Abell Ed KnkU Clippers a Note ed kukla, inducted into the Army last fall from the testing lab at De troit, has sent a letter to the gang via clipper announcing his promotion to the rank of sergeant. "I hope that I may be able to get a commission before too long a time," Ed's letter relates. "I think I could be of more use to my country in the Air Corps because I majored in Aeronautics in school. . . . Besides getting into something more along the engineering line, it will keep me from forgetting most of the training I once had." Ed's location was deleted by the censor, but he reports the place as a whole "quite pleasant, and a change from some of the other places I have" been." Ed started to work for Ethyl on April 1, 1941, and went into the Army on October 17. His first sta tion was Fort Custer. Michigan. ted mabley, for over two years in the purchasing department at De troit, left Ethyl April 3 to join the Ford Motor Company at River Rouge, Michigan, as a service engi neer on Pratt & Whitney aircraft en gines. 18 1 ETC 06204 Red Cross Coarse a red cross first aid class has been started at the research lab in De troit. Gordon Wilcox of Chemical Research is instructing the group. After 20 hours of lectures and dem onstration the class will be given an examination on June 4th, with first aid certificates for all who pass. Full Lieutenant information has reached Detroit that Howard Hesselberg has been promoted to first lieutenant. "Hess" was graduated from the training school last April to the dynamome ter section at Engineering Research, and was called to active duty in May as second lieutenant in the 85th Field Artillery at Camp Rob erts, California. Chnck Leaves Us c. e. "chuck" smith, Errol Gay's right hand man in the Fleet divi sion, has left the company to take an important part in the war effort. Chuck has been named chief civil ian adviser on automotive main tenance to the 3rd Army at San Antonio, Texas. Before he left for the southwest. Ethyl men attending the Technical School at Detroit chipped in and bought him a watch. Jim Boudreau made the presenta tion. All set to deliver a soliloquy in baby talk, sturdy little Ann LaFay Buquoi stands up and tells 'em--with gestures. She's 9 months old, the daughter of Melva and Claude Buquoi (Ethyl Chloride, Baton Rouge). Photogenic already, at the age of eight months, Sheila Ryan is the daughter of Edithe and Al Ryan. Al is one of our Safety Engineers in the Chicago Division. ETC 06205 New Men at Baton Rouge 1 Tel Division johx l. ward was employed Febru ary 24 as clerk in the Baton Rouge Payroll and Personnel Section. He came to us by way of Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company in Detroit and General Motors Ac ceptance Corporation of New Or leans. He attended L.S.U. and Mis sissippi Southern College. While at L.S.U. he was on the football and boxing squads and joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. John's fa vorite pastime is playing with young daughter Carol, age 4. Other inter ests include reading and sports, par ticularly baseball and football. Alvin D. Hubbs, who was em ployed March 31 in the Payroll and Personnel Section at Baton Rouge, graduated from the Holden, Louisi ana, High School in 1930 and later completed a commercial course at the Baton Rouge Business College at night. After two years with Louis iana Creamery as bookkeeper and about a year's employment in the Secretary of State's office, he was requested to accept the position as Director of Livingston Parish De partment of Public Welfare in Doyle, Louisiana, at which position he worked until he resigned to ac cept his present employment. Alvin says, "Being a country boy, I like to fish and hunt." Technical Division George S. Roberts was employed March 19 as an engineer. He re ceived his B.S. degree in Mechani cal Engineering from the University of Missouri. George is married and his hobbies are hunting, fishing, and swimming. He was transferred to From Top to Bottom John L. Ward Alvin D. Hubbs George S. Roberts Norvel Douglas, Jr. Weightman Harmon ETC 06206 From Top to Bottom -- Belmont P. Himel; Russell Hutchinson; Loyd Kendrick; Robert L. Mikell; Charles Harrell; Benjamin Kams, Jr.; Wilbur Paulk. Baton Rouge fom Ray Faller's train ing school. Operator Helpers norvel douclas, jr. . . . bom and edu cated in Brookhaven, Mississippi . . . former draftsman for U. S. Engineers at Vicksburg ... is married and has 3 children. weightman Harmon* . . . bom in Alex andria . . . educated at Sopchoppv. Florida. High School . . . before Ethvl was yard foreman for Plank Road Lum ber Company, Baton Rouge ... is married, has 2 children. belmont p. himel ... bom in Donaldsonville, Louisiana . . . attended Baton Rouge High School. . . formerly work ed as insurance agent in Baton Rouge ... is married, has one child. RUSSELL HUTCHINSON . . . bom ill Dllson, Louisiana . . . graduate of Scott, La., High School.. , previously worked as rice grader in Jennings, La. . . . is married, has one child. loyd kendrick . . . bom and educated in Homer, Louisiana ... former derrick man for Penrod Drilling Company in Dallas, Texas ... is married, has 2 children. Robert l. mikell . . . bom in Prentiss, Mississippi . . . graduate of Webb, Miss., High School . . . for past four years has been mechanic at Dutton Motors, Baton Rouge ... is married, has 2 children. Laboratory Helpers Charles harrell . . . bom in Zachary, Louisiana ... educated at BatonTRouge High School and L.S.U. . . . pre-Ethvl employment was manager of Standard Tire Company, Baton Rouge ... is married. benjamin karns, jr. ... bom and edu cated in Baton Rouge, attending High School and L.S.U.... former substitute mail carrier in Baton Rouge ... is mar ried, has one child. wilbur paulk . . . bom in Berrien County, Georgia . . . attended Tifton, Ga., High School... former parts man ager for Humphrey Motors in Tampa, Florida ... is married, has one child. ETC 06207 r edward pearce . .. born in Evergreen. Louisiana . . . attended Denham Springs, La., High School, L.S.U.. and S.L.I. in Lafayette, La. ... was former ly high school principal in Livingston Parish, La.... is married, has one child. Robert underwood . .. bom and edu cated in Franklin, Louisiana ... for 14 years was Laboratory Storekeeper at L.S.U. Chemistry Dept. ... is married, has 4 children. Storehouse Clerk Helper burgess sincletary . . . bom in New Orleans . . . attended Baton Rouge High School and L.S.U. . . . formerly manager of the Drusilia Lane Dairv. Baton Rouge. Mechanical Helpers Arthur l. james, jr. ... bom and edu cated in East Prairie, Missouri . . . has been doing free lance body repair workin Mississippi and Louisiana ... is married, has one child. john conzales . . . bom in Monroe, Louisiana . . . graduate of Athens. La.. High School . . . formerly did automo bile repair work ... is married, has one child. i From Top to Bottom Edward Pearce Robert Underwood Burgess Singletary Arthur L. Janies, Jr. John Conzales Did YOU Move too? may first was moving day for lots of us. If you changed your home address, you should notify the Bul letin Board -- magazines can not be forwarded from your old address without additional postage. Notify the payroll section of the Accounting Department, too -- or indicate that you'd like to have us do it and we'll take care of it for you. We're glad to do it. Field men in the Sales Depart ment should also notify the Ethyl News -- or indicate their position, and we'll take care of that too. Ethyl men in the armed forces should also keep both the Bulletin Board and the Annuities Depart ment posted on their latest military addresses. ETC 06208 emon peters has been at it again. D This time he claims the record for having promoted a taxi ride of over a hundred miles, and then not paying the driver. If that isn't some thing! It happened this way. Pete had to attend a tank cleaning at Bakers field, so in the interest of the con servation of rubber he flew up there, leaving his car parked in the garage at the Burbank airport. When he debarked at Bakersfield he made a reservation for the return trip on the late afternoon plane, in tending to have dinner with his family in Los Angeles for a change. When he got back from the job to board the homecoming plane his reservation had been cancelled in favor of a group of the "Eagle Squadron" pilots who were hurrying back to Los Angeles to fly more fin ished planes across to Britain. But he had a new reservation on the plane which would leave after din- ner. Would he please make himself comfortable, and the airport taxi would take him to town and back so he could have a nice dinner at the airway's expense, and there would be no charge for the trans portation. And please do not be late for the plane. So Pete was on time, and imagine his chagrin again to find that this time the waiting room was full of army aviators without ships, and we are terribly sorry but they must 20 be transported, and there are no other planes out tonight, and would you prefer to be our guest at the hotel overnight and fly down in the morning, or can we send you back to Los Angeles tonight in our airport taxicab? So Pete took the taxicab to Burbank airport, which is 101 land miles from the Bakersfield airport, rubber problem or no rubber prob lem. Ex-Ship's "Chips" william c. spence, a Scotsman who was bom in South Africa, presides over the carpenter shop at the En gineering Research Laboratories in Detroit. Bill is something of an interna tionalist--he learned the carpenter's trade in Scotland, and moved on to Canada in 1906. As a bov he made several trips back to South Africa with his father. During the other war building was booming in De troit, so he moved again in 1915. He was in business for himself in De troit during those dizzy days of the post-war boom. For the past eight years he was in the art department of Chevrolet, building advertising and automobile show displays. Bill's family includes a son, still in school. For a hobby he lists "car pentering" around the house. But years back Bill's hobby was homing pigeons. Bill Spence etc 06209 "War Drums" to Help Win a Mechanized War the rumble of these steel "war drums" is sweet music to the ears of our fighting men. They contain a material that helps give extra pow er, extra speed and longer range to American and Allied warplanes, speedboats, tanks and other motor ized equipment. This material is Ethyl fluid. Because America's petroleum in dustry learned, in peacetime, to make the world's finest gasoline -- because it alone has the resources, the equipment and the technical knowledge to make such gasoline in vast quantities -- the engineers who design our aviation and auto motive engines can get more power for each pound of engine weight. They can squeeze more power out of even' gallon of gasoline. And in a war of machines, extra engine power gives us a fighting edge on the Axis -- plane for plane, truck for truck, tank for tank. Thousands of drums of Ethyl fluid are being used today to make high octane gasoline for our Army. Navy, and Allies. Thev are being delivered, as needed, on schedule. A year before Pearl Harbor we com pleted sufficient additional plant capacity to supply all projected war needs and still supply antiknock fluids essential for the airplanes, trucks, buses, and automobiles of our national transportation system and for farm tractors. 21 ETC 06210 Ed Herbert Bowling Champ again bowlings over! Final scores have come in from Detroit, Deepwater and Baton Rouge, the local champs have been honored by their envious associates, and the clatter of pins will not be echoing through the Bul letin Board any more until cool weather is with us again. Once again Ed Herbert of Deep water emerges as company cham pion, with a season average of 184. Second and third honors go to Andy Anderson of Detroit (177) and Pete Jackson of Deepwater (176). The Deepwater group also ran away with "team" honors in the Ethyl league, scoring 857 as average for the season. Champion girl bowler is Helmi Burkleo of Detroit, who rolled 137. Also from Detroit is Jewel Ahonen, who rolled 128 for the second high est average; Sally Van Anda of Baton Rouge is the third ranking "alley artist" with 123. The Detroit girls also nosed out the Baton Rouge girls. Highest single game of the year was 248, rolled at Detroit bv Emil Gillig. Mike Rometti's 241 came next, with Ed Herbert of Deepwater rolling one round of 235 for third honors. Highest set of 3 games was rolled by Ed Herbert -- 627. Next highest was Pete Jackson's 611, with Mike Rometti shooting a 604 to take third place. Because of the great difference betwen the number of people bowling at different locations, the Bulletin Board has taken the yearly averages of the five leading bowlers at each place and used the total of 22 those average scores as the competitive "team" score. These are the scores shown in the accompanying tabulation. "Axmy Men" Win Baton Rouge Bowling eight men's teams of plant employ ees made up the du Pont-Ethvl Bowling League, which completed its 1941-42 season on March 9th. Army Armstrong of the Shipping Department was captain of the Browns, and his team won both halves. High season averages for the top five Ethyl bowlers were: George Rieger, 160; Armstrong, 152; Bill Henry, 151; W. C. Clancy, 151 and George Johnston, 151. The season was climaxed by a banquet at Beachum's Inn on April 6th and the prize money was distrib uted, along with speeches. Arm strong was elected president of the league for next year. Army's first official act was to an nounce that a select Ethvl five wished to challenge a similar du Pont contingent to a three-game match -- winner to be decided by total pinnage -- for a prize of one case of beer. However, when the fatal night rolled around, the du Pont boys (probably because their team average was the higher) sug gested that instead of one case of beer, the losers of each game buy beer for the winners and that the losing team pay for all the games. But were they surprised! The Ethyl team not only won two ETC 06211 Detroit Scores MEN'S TEAMS High E. Cillig Game Rometti Anderson 248 241 233 High Set Rometti Anderson Prince 604 596 590 High Anderson ITT Average Soroos 165 Johnson 164 Rometti 163 Wanderer 161 "TEAM TOTAL" 830 GIRLS' TEAMS High Game Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murray High Set Helmi Burkleo Jewel Ahonen Myra Willis High Helmi Burkleo Av erage Jewel Ahonen Aileen Murrav Mvra Willis Jean Gall "TEAM TOTAL" 190 186 180 49T 462 430 137 128 116 114 108 60-3 Deepwater Scores (men only) High Game Herbert Jackson Johnson Armstrong High Set Herbert Jackson Johnson High Herbert Average Jackson Johnson Armstrong Remsburg "TEAM TOTAL " 235 224 223 223 62T 611 582 184 176 169 168 160 857 of the three games, but came out on top in total pinnage. The du Pont boys almost overtook them bv a spurt in the last game, but Ethvl kept ahead and won 2349 to 2288 pins. A number of the du Pont and Ethyl bowlers participated in the Baton Rouge City Tournament which took place shortly after the close of the season. Army and George Rieger shared the prize money offered for doubles, and Harry Hinnershitz and Ceorge picked up a little cash in the singles. "Rainbow League" at Baton Ronge girls' bowling at Baton Rouge has just wound up an exciting season, with three Ethyl girls on the win ning "Yellow" team. The 1941-42 Ethvl-du Pont wom en's league was made up of four teams which took their names from the four colors of anti-knock com pound shipped from Baton Rouge -- Yellow, Orange, Red, and Blue. The season lasted 20 weeks, with a two-week lay-off for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. The "Yellow" team was composed of Shirley Joffrion, stenographer in the Technical Division; Sally Van Anda, Purchasing Section; Captain Jesse Savario, TEL Division sten ographer; Rosemary Lilly, du Pont stenographer; and Vicky Carter, who works at the State Capitol. Jesse's team led the league and car ried off all the prizes offered. Two of its members won the individual prizes given. Sally Van Anda's 123 was the highest average, and Vicky Carter showed most bowling im provement. The girls celebrated the close of the season with an outing on April 11th, at Island Queen, on False 23 ETC 06212 River, about 30 miles from Baton Rouge. During the afternoon, fish ing and boating were the main at tractions. In the evening, a fish sup per was served and the awards were made. Each girl on the winning team received a silver identification bracelet, with "Ladies' Bowling -- 1942" engraved on it. The two in dividual winners were each pre sented with a silver trophv portray ing a woman bowler. A "floor show" by members of the various teams was a featured part of the program. Afterwards, the girls indulged in some plain and fancy jitterbugging, with "short beers" now and then to keep every one cool. Motoi City Bowlers Leave the Alleys Detroit's annual bowling banquet was held at a country club in Farm ington, Mich., on April 18. After a steak dinner, the bowling cup was presented to Mike Rometti, captain of the winning Shop team, and everyone danced or played bridge until hours later. All members of the Detroit staff were invited. Phyllis Barton, Technical Division stenog rapher, paddles her own canoe while other girls enjoy themselves on dry land. Sally Van Anda with her trophy for high season average in the Baton Rouge girls' league. A number of bowlers entered the Detroit City Tournament, and rolled over the April 18 week-end. At press time the tournament was not completed, but Andy Anderson, three-time champion of the Ethyl League, rolled a 267 game in the city tournament. Andy rolled his all-time worst, 117. and all-time highest, 267, scores in consecutive games. Deepwalei Statistics april 6 was the last night of bowl ing for the Deepwater enthusiasts. Looking over their records, they came across the following facts and figures: The highest "team" score they ever made was 950. Their highest set of three games was 2715. Charlie Wasserman. plantnnanager, and Bill Thompson were the two substitutes for the team. Ed Herbert, known as Herb around the plant, has bowled twentyseven 200 games this season. Pete Jackson has rolled 18. "Yonson" Johnson and Army Armstrong have rolled 14, Charlie Remsburg has rolled three. Pete and Herb went out to the ABC tournament on April 24 at Columbus, Ohio, and had a lot of fun even though they didn't bring the prizes home. ETC 06213 Front door of the new laboratory, with George Rieger stepping nut. The "penthouse" above the door houses air conditioning equipment for the entire building. Baton Rouge Chemists in New Home the chemical section of the Baton Rouge Technical Division has just moved into its new quarters. The new laboratory, a single story build ing with a "penthouse" to shelter the air-conditioning equipment, is of concrete construction faced with red tile and brick to harmonize with other plant buildings. It is 120 feet long and 50 feet wide, with a central corridor from end to end. Offices, laboratory rooms, lunch room, locker and service rooms open from this corridor. All laboratory rooms except one are located on the north side of the building to take advan tage of the steadier light. In the penthouse 30,000 cubic feet of air a minute is filtered, condi tioned, and delivered through ducts to all rooms. In rooms where vola tile materials are handled, the air is completely changed every four min utes. Separate exhaust systems in sure against leakage of dangerous fumes from the laboratory rooms. Every room is provided with one or more emergency windows through which the employees mav escape in case of fire bv simplv Some of the men who will work in the new lab. ETC 06214 p pressing on the escape bar and step ping outside. Inflammable materials are stored in a completely fireproof separate building where they may be blanketed with steam in case of fire. The entire staff of chemists has been thoroughly trained in first aid. Emergency showers, stretchers and blankets, as well as several types of fire extinguishers, are spotted about the building. The Chemical section is headed by R. S. Asbury, and is one of sev eral sections composing the Techni cal Division, of which Dr. Ed Kurt is manager. Bob Asbury, supervisor of the Chemical Section, in his new office. C. C. Haney looks over his equipment after it has been installed on the new benches. The Listening Post... eleanore sxiOLEN, Ethyl's chief tel ephone girl, who has done such a swell job as the company's good-will greeter, is wearing an impressivelooking sparkler on her ring finger. Wedding plans are a little vague, as the Army seems also to be inter ested in unattached young men, but Eleanore takes it philosophically. "Uncle Sam is the only rival I don't object to," she explains. bester owex. Atlanta field man, has resigned to do civilian work with the Chemical Warfare Department. charue blood, the draughtsman who used to work under George Rick in Safety, has left to work for a government contractor. anne tischbeix has left the Statis tical Department. She plans to be married this June. art acken, Boston fleet man, has been transferred to the Baltimore Division in the same capacity. lou shank's secretary, Eloise Ran dal], has resigned. Her successor is Mrs. Bette Houck. vircil kenerson, Dayton field man, has resigned. there are several changes in the Atlanta Division to report. Stuart Forbes, field man in Atlanta, has taken over safety work in Florida. Fred Rahn, field man, has moved from Jacksonville to Atlanta. Joe Williams is in the Army. L. G. Rich ter is new field man at Birmingham. W. H. Phipps is in the Army and R. H. Luke is in the Navy, as we re ported last month. ETC 06215 Mr. Webb watches N. Y. Fund plaques being distributed. Ralph Champlin, at the left, holds the Ethyl employees' award; next to him R. V. Titus is giving Marie Hawes the Hartol employees' citation, while Holman Scott proudly holds the Socony-Vaeuum award. Looking on are T. H. Taylor of Esso, general chairman for employees, and Mr. Webb. W. D. Steams, who received a special award for the Kellogg Company employees, was also in the group but is not shown. Mr. Webb Greater N. Y. Fund Chairman for 1942 once each year the Greater New York Fund solicits contributions for the 400 charitable and relief agencies it represents. Every one who lives or works in New York is asked to give at this time, and no further soliciting is done for the year. After serving as co-chairman of the Petroleum Section last year, Mr. Webb is managing this section of the Fund's activities this season, and has opened the drive for employee contributions on the part of oil com pany personnel. Mr. Fritz Bedford, last year's chairman, recently' gave a luncheon at which three outstanding em ployee groups were presented with plaques, signed bv Mr. Bedford and bv Jim Farley, who headed the en tire Greater New York Fund drive last year. Ethyl's New York employees re ceived one of these plaques. The other two were awarded to Hartol Products and Socony-Vacuum. A special bronze plaque was inscribed from employees of the Kellogg Company, an Esso subsidiary. Snowed Under frank patton, Baton Rouge ma chinist, arrived in Detroit March 31 for several weeks of special work. The missus had warned him to pre pare for winter weather, but Frank realized the soundness of the advice only when the train pulled into Chi cago in a snow storm. A few weeks later he awoke to find Detroit under a deep blanket of wet snow, the likes of which he had not seen in many years, and a scene quite in contrast to the spring he had left be hind in Baton Rouge. Tulsa's tractor engineer, Dan Gnu, made a valiant effort to outrun the stork, but the wing-flapping messen ger beat Dan by 30 minutes. Dan was in Wichita Falls and Mrs. Dan was in Florence Nightingale Hos pital in Dallas, on February 23rd when the race started. At any rate, here's a view of Master Thomas (Tommie) Pendleton Guy 24 hours later. He doesn't seem much con cerned about his dad's hectic jour ney. Tommie is the third addition to the Guy household. georce Roberts, a graduate of Ray Faller's training class, is now with the Manufacturing Department at Baton Rouge. 28 Write to ns, Karl... for the past two years the .Labora tory buildings at Detroit have gone up under the deft direction of Karl H. Kuhn, but from now on they'll have to grow without him. Karl transferred his abilities on April 30 to the Army Air Corps. He is now Lt. Karl Kuhn, erecting experimen tal research buildings at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Karl came to Ethyl in January, 1940, after 12 years with the Argonaut Realty Di vision of General Motors Corpora tion as head of the draughting room. etc 062H Six Delicious Notes hidden talent has a habit of rising to the surface to answer the needs of an emergency. Such was the case at the field staff meeting at Detroit recently. The boys were organizing some acts for the dinner on the last night of the meeting, and the "help wanted" sign was out for singers. Impromptu try-outs were going on all over the place and somebody grabbed Glenn Faurot, of the Balti more Division, to help carrv a tune in a quartet. Suddenly from the noise music emerged, traceable to Glenn. It turns out that Glenn at one time had been a soloist with Phil Harris' orchestra, currently ap pearing on the Jack Bennv radio program. Tanks, a Million Oh. the man out cleaning tanks Doesn't get a word of thanks. Though dawn to dark mav be his dailv stint. On the matter of his time "Dear Oscar" never gets a line. It concerns him but does not appear in print. His wife, his fireside, favorite chair All sigh for the man who isn't there. While he's alone in a room sans bath Because the job's off the beaten path. No, the man out cleaning tanks Never gets a word of thanks. Though set for six the job starts at eleven. While in mud up to his hips No reproach must pass his lips -- His thoughts must dwell on cleaning tanks in . . . heaven. Fred Rahn Atlanta Division Called to Washington Ralph CHAMPLiN had hardly gotten warmed up on his new job of direct ing Advertising and Public Rela tions, when the WPB called him to the capital and asked him to join the Information Division as Cam paign Manager of the Division's ac tivities in the rubber conservation program. Ralph has taken a sixmonths' leave of absence from Ethyl to accept this post. He plans to com mute from Washington to New York on week-ends. s rt ETC 06218 r Risk and Burroughs Move tom risk and Russ Burroughs of the Refiners' Technology Division have left San Berdu for Detroit, where thev will do special test work in con nection with Uncle Sam and fuel that will move tanks and planes far ther and faster. Meanwhile Frank Goodwin's train passed Tom and Russ's as he sped to San Berdu from Detroit to visit the laboratory. Frank was ill recent ly, and the trip is in the nature of a get-well-quickly tour. On the same train from the East arrived engineers-in-training Bill Cory and Jack Rupe. They will do a trick at the Lab before moving on in their course. Couvillion Cuties these youngsters are the twin daughters of Alfred F. and Thelma C. Couvillion. Al was employed re cently as operator helper at the Ethyl Chloride operation at Baton Rouge. The young ladies were born on May 2nd, 1940. On the left is Judith Ann, weighing 27 pounds and looking as if she were about to deliver a speech. She is 15 minutes older than her sister, Janith Ann, who weighs 27 pounds, 4 ounces. Good Morning, Mike! mike mcgrath, watchman at the Research Laboratories, increases the "natives of Ohio" population among the Ethyl clan in Detroit. Mike is a native of Gabon. Ohio. He left home while still a lad, and traveled extensively in eastern states making wheels for wagons and bug gies. He came to Detroit and during World War I was with the Kelsev Wheel Co., making artillery wheels. Mike had his own hauling business in Detroit until he joined Chevrolet in 1928, where he worked until com ing to Ethyl early this year. Willard Mitchell was employed Feb ruary 17, I9i2, in the Purchasing Section of the TEL Division at Baton Rouge. He is to replace R. S. Charlton, who will soon enter service as a member of the Naval Reserve. Willard was born in Elizabeth, Loui siana, is married and has one daugh ter. He is a graduate of the Elizabeth High School and of Louisiana Tech, at Ruston, La. Willard is reported to shoot a good game of golf. ETC 06219 Deepwater Ballplayer the blender operating force at Deep water has acquired a former ball player and golfer, James P. Prettvman, who was employed on March 30th. Jim hails from Lewes, Dela ware, and was graduated from the University of Delaware in 1935 with a B.S. in physical education. While in school, Jim held down first base on the college nine and also excelled in golf. Besides his athletic accom plishments, Jim likes to play the banjo. He came to Ethyl from a sporting goods store in Wilmington. Adele Wolin. new typist in the sten ographic group <it New York, is more than a competent shorthand artist -- she's a psychologist to boot, so when you give her dictation don't exhibit any eccentricities or she'll have the men with the white coats and the butterfly nets on your trail. Adele won her B. S. degree in Psy chology at St. Lawrence College, and as co-ed editor of the yearbook she was elected to the national honorary journalistic society, Pi Delta Epsi lon. After college she went to Pack ard Secretarial School, worked for a lawyer a while, then joined Ethyl. Jenny Louise Wright is the latest addition to Jay Goux's expanding staff of fluid order-takers. A native of Little Neck, Long island, she went to Beaver College in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, to earn a B. S. degree in Business Administration. Her chief interest there outside of ad ministering business was field hock ey; today for sports and relaxation she goes bowling. After graduating from Beaver, Jenny worked for an insurance company for two years, then in a law office, and then in the New York purchasing office of T. Eaton Company, Ltd., the SearsRoebuck of Canada. ETC 06220  One Wartime Duty of every ir ETHYL EMPLOYEE our product is a valuable aid to the production of fuels used by our Army, Navy and Allies. The ears of foreign espionage are alert to learn all they can about evervone and every product that can contribute to the American war effort. If we make any errors in talking about our product, our plants, our per sonnel and our activities, let us make them on the side of saying too little rather than on the side of say ing too much. Do not discuss with anyone de tails of any shipments or quantities of our product of which vou may have knowledge. Do not discuss with anyone any details of plant locations, capacities, manufacturing processes, distribu tion channels -- or any details of the operations of any of our customers with which you may be familiar. Do not give any information over the telephone in response to inquir ies from people you do not know, regardless of who they say they are. For instance, one of our employees recently received a call from a man who identified himself (by tele phone) as an officer in the Military 32 Intelligence Service. When our em ployee refused to discuss subjects requested over the telephone, he was complimented for his caution. We have given full information on manufacturing processes and capa cities to the Office of Petroleum Co ordinator in Washington. Any other Governmental agencies requesting such information should be referred to Dr. Edgar or Mr. Schaefer, who will be glad to reveal any appropri ate information in person upon proper identification. Do not discuss business in eleva tors and restaurants. This is a good rule even in peace-time. Remember what you say and do outside of office hours may be just asamportaut as what you say and do while at work. Caution should be exercised at all times. Do not write anything which the Government would consider confi dential without appropriate author ity to do so from the head of your department. America is at war. The primary object of our company is to aid in the success of that war. All other activities are subordinate. Earle W. Webb ETC 06221 ETC 06222 ETC 06223 i I ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD -- by and for Ethyl employees I ETC 06224 iftllN M b ** Paul Thompson Bill Ross four men and three girls, all of them handy with test tubes and other laboratory gadgets, have re cently joined the staff of the Chemi cal Research Laboratory at Detroit. Paul Thompson, with an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois, is a research chemist. He is married and has a little girl of three and a half. Tennis, swimming, pho tography, and -- in season -- skiing are the hobbies he lists. Bill Ross is a chemical operator in the Pilot Plant. Despite the re sponsibilities of marriage and a son and daughter he has time to study chemistry at Wayne University' in the evenings. He likes hunting, fish ing, photography and golfing. Bernard (Bo) Lederman, who comes from Wallisburg, Ontario, is another chemical operator in the Pilot Plant. He is married and has~ a very lively son. Chester Carter, better known as "Nick," left the experimental depart ment at Kelvinator to work in our Pilot Plant. His hobbies are fishing and tennis -- and he says he could use a good tennis partner. Bert Morgan came to the Chemi cal Research Pilot Plant after follow ing his hobby in the radio service field for three years. He is married. On the distaff side -- Mrs. Wilma Reusch, who joined the chemical re- 1 ETC searchers in March, is a real career woman. Graduated with a B.S. de cree from Capital University in Co lumbus, Ohio, she taught at Parkers burg. West Virginia, and Carbondale. Illinois, before settling down to housekeeping and raising four children. The war has brought Wil ma back to chemical research---"for the duration." She likes sports of all kinds and is Den Mother for Nick Carter ETC 06226 the local Boy Scout Cubs. The whole staff was worried when two of her children had 3-dav measles. That was several weeks ago and the lab is still free of rashes -- but they still knock on wood. Marian Sawatzkie, an analvtical research chemist, joined the ranks in February. In 1941 she got her B.S. in chemistry from Mangrove College. Her first job was as beer chemist for Seagram's Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. She likes dancing the polka (Beer Barrel Pol ka, perhaps?) and bowling for fun. Genevieve Buss, known as "Gen," is the latest addition to the gal chemists. After getting her B.A. from Marygrove College, she work ed a year and a half as Medical Technologist at Mt. Carmel Mercy and Woman's Hospitals in Detroit. An expert at aquaplaning and water skiing, her other loves include swim ming, tennis, boats and old shorts and skirts. She's a blonde, and pre fers brunettes. Cenevieve Buss ETC 06227 f t Paul Weeks, Bamev Weyhrauch, Harry Grierson and John Robertson, all members of Ethyl's Finance Department and all of them lovers of fishing, set out on the cabin cruiser Phileas one Sunday at dawn all set for a day's piscatorial hunting in Peconic Bay, Long Island. o Ronnie Robertson, John's wife, who is not only an attractive addition to any fishing party but a handy one as well. She handled her own bait and tackle, and never once asked for help when it came time to unhook a catch. P S. -- she knows how to handle fish under a broiler, too! Bv lunch time they had caught their Oquota of weakfish -- 300, as you see here, and spent the afternoon messing around after porgies with indifferent hick. The weakfish were kept on ice and taken home at the end of the dav, with most of them given to lucky friends. Paul Weeks, of Cost Accounting, who won the "pool" and title of Number One Killer of the Deep with his six-pound catch. The fish averaged about two and a half pounds each, with all hands catching more or less the same number. ETC 06228 Lida Sparks -- now Mrs. En"le 2 Boys Meet 2 Girls that little cent with the arrows has been around again -- ahead of the usually popular hunting month of June. In Wilmington, he has pinked two more of Ethvl's staff. On May 8th. Shirley Smith, drum record clerk whose happy smile you see on this month's Bulletin Board cover, became Mrs. Thom as Custer. The wedding took place in the Little Church Around the Comer in New York City, and the couple honeymooned in that bus tling town. The Custers make their home in Wilmington, where Tom is a chemist with the Bond Manufac turing Company. When they've worn the new rug down a bit and cracked a cup or two to make things look "settled," the Ethyl bunch ex pects to be out to take up the dinner offer Shirley made when she accept ed that glassware you see glistening in the picture. The other Miss who became Mrs. was Lida Sparks, who married Charles Engle, formerly of duPont and therefore no stranger to many at Ethvl's Wilmington plant. Charley is now working at a shipyard in Philadelphia. The Engles were mar ried in Newark on May 22nd, and like the Custers, spent their honev-=moon in New York Citv. Lida has resigned from the Ethvl staff, and henceforth will devote her talents to good housekeeping. She had been with Ethyl for more than eight years. The matching Lenox vases and the two mirrors pictured with Lida represent a little remembrance giv en by the group at the plant. They already have found their special nlace in the Engles' new home in Drexel Hill. 5 ETC 06229 GAS GUYS GAB the managers of our gasoline testing laboratories held a meeting re cently in Detroit to review the func tion of the laboratories on a war time operating basis and to discuss technical advancements in fuels, engines, and knock-testing methods. The broad administrative aspects of the laboratories were discussed by the chief, Julian J. Frey, head of the Technical Service Department and chairman of the corporation's War Committee. Julian discussed corporation policy on samples for testing purposes, and reviewed progress made by the company in its technical contributions to the overall war effort. John Clifford Pope, head of the Gasoline Testing Division, presided. Laboratory managers and officials present were: Merritt Collins, Hud son Kellogg and F. J. Schroeter. all of Yonkers; Charles Rankin, San Bernardino; Tucker E. Dawson. Baton Rouge; Coleman E. David son, Detroit; Carl Bartholomew, Tulsa; and Harold Mclntire, Kansas City. The technical sessions of the meeting included inspections of the new Testing and Research Labora- Testmen Rankin, Schroeter, Dawson, Collins, Davidson, Kellogg, Bartholomew, Pope and Mclntire pose in a group at their Detroit meeting. 6 ETC 06230 tories, discussions of fuel test meth ods, and addresses on new phases of refining processes and engine de velopments. A highlight of the tech nical session on knock testing was a paper by C. M. Gambrill, of the Chemical Research Laboratories staff, on the "Analysis of Lead in Gasoline." The managers inspected and discussed the new oxidation stability test apparatus, discussed the proposed new gum test appara tus and developments of knock test engine parts. Jane Jordan, Tom Risk. Ray Faller, Dick Scales. Errol Gay, and Eddie Paige reviewed current de velopments of fuels and engines. Literally burned up! Julian Frey tried to demonstrate a mathematical point with Basin Street Q. E. D. Cubes. They failed him, so he gave 'em the heat. Salt Water Sailor doug blackburn has deserted the muddy Mississippi for the sparkling Atlantic as the scene of his activi ties. Doug, who is an ensign, was on the St. Louis tests until Uncle Sam summoned him to Norfolk, Va., on May 25 as a deck volunteer special ist. After graduating from Cornell in 1939, Doug entered Ethyl as a student in Ray Faller's first class. Oops ... Sorry! we pulled a boner last month. In "The Listening Post" we said that Elloise Randall, "Lou Shank's sec retary," had resigned. Elloise did resign, to go with Douglas Aircraft, but she was receptionist and Eliza beth Medlin is still Lou's secretary. Tulsa lost another girl to Douglas last month, too -- Mrs. Nina How ard! -7 j i ETC 06231 Deepwater folks hold a welcome party for fluid drum number 10,000 -- which they christened "A-l." See the opposite page for a picture of it. Deep in the Heart of ... that genial bunch at the Deep water plant will arrange a get-to gether for a night of fun and frolic at the drop of a hat. They will cele brate anything that promises an evening's entertainment. So when they told us they were paying their respects to an ordinarv work-a-dav Ethyl fluid drum, we weren't sur prised a bit. They have worked with so many thousands of drums that they simply couldn't resist the chance to celebrate the welcoming of a new one. 8 But this is a special new one. It happens that in view of the large number of drums fabricated for Ethyl, our drum manufacturer some time ago found it necessary to make a change in the numbering svstem previously used in identifying the containers. The gang at Deepwater grabbed happily at the chance to initiate the new arrival, and here we present you a couple of views of the festivi ties. The dinner date was April 27th, and the locale, the Elks' Home. ETC 06232 Two Deepwater Charleys -- Johnson and Remsburg, both blender supervisors -- roll out the new barrel. After the group picture was snap ped, there was a ceremonious un veiling of the first drum of the new series, with Dot Featherer swinging the customary bottle in true ship launching fashion. Unfortunately, we haven't a picture of the splash. Hose Woes harry prince, receiving clerk in the maintenance department at the De troit Laboratories, is allergic to fire hoses. The reason? Because Harry recently got slapped down by a fire hose. It happened like this. While taking a course in fire fight ing in his home town of Ferndale, Harry was receiving instruction in the art of handling a high pressure hose. "Keep the hose taut at all times!" was the instructor's emphat ic warning. But Harry and his part ner, who were manipulating the nozzle, permitted some slack to creep into the line. And the next thing he knew----- Storldana according to a report received from Lou Shank, a long legged bird brought a present to the Houston. Texas, home of Safety Engineer J. O. Balzer and his wife Polly at ex actly 9:56 P.M. (Central War Time) on April 18. James Howard Balzer, more familiarly known as Jimmy, weighed seven pounds eight ounces, and Papa Jake forthwith offered to bet he can lick your son and mine, provided our boys can make the weight. mrs. rollin e. gish has marked the date well -- Monday, April 13th, at 6:00 P.M. Barbara Jeanne weighed 8/i pounds on arrival. Xow that the whole family is again settled at home, father Rollin, of the San Berdu laboratories, is handling both the "swing" and the "graveyard" shifts. Bill Cory, of the Detroit training school, left late in April to become a civilian engineer at the Xaval Ord nance Laboratories in Washington. Bill was graduated from Iowa State College in 1941. As a member of the current Training Course class he has been at San Bernardino, and on the fleet tests at St. Louis. Navy's Gain walt Carlson has heard the Navv's call and reported at Annapolis June 1 for active dutv as an ensign in the Engineers' Volunteer Specialist Service. A graduate of the Univer sity of Illinois in 1940, Walt received a Faller sheepskin in '41. As a pho tographer at the Engineering Re search Laboratories, he has record ed the progress of research projects and made many fine photos of De troit folks for the Bulletin Board. 9 ETC The Listening Post... Torbin Yates and wife Florence have a new daughter, Donna Ruth, born April 2. Weight was 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Donna joins Paul, now two years old. Harold and Leona Soroos also an nounce the arrival of a 6-pound. 10ounce daughter, Kathleen, on April 7. "Kay" has an older brother, Peter. Janet Barkmeyer, who handled safe ty work at Dayton, has resigned. Frances Cooper has left the Chicago office to join her husband, now sta tioned at Fort Benning, Ga. Juanita Watters joined the Chicago Division in April. Howard Hudiburg, who left the Chi cago Division last May for active Army duty, is now at the Coast Ar tillery School, Fortress Monroe, Vir ginia. On his way East from Fort Scott, California, Howard stopped in at the old office, where his friends listed him "fit as a fiddle." Dick Sneed, of Detroit, has been named a vice chairman of the De troit Section of SAE. John Dale Thompson, from Baton Rouge, has transferred to the De troit test lab. Herb Green, from Tulsa, also has transferred to the Detroit test lab. Elisa ("Baby") Mitchell, winsome poetess of the Publicity Department, has felt the urge of spring to the ex tent that she called the whole thing off last month and went to visit her folks for a week in Connecticut. After a week of crickets, the plain tive chirp of birds, and the faint, faraway noise of the sea along the Connecticut shore, she got home sick for the racket and confusion of New York, and returned to town. At last report she was operating a six-trunk switchboard someplace in Rockefeller Center, surrounded by din and at peace with the world again. Paul R. B. Dixon, of Deepwater, re signed on May 15. Harold Teague has left Detroit En gineering. Joseph Morrison resigned at Deep water on May 9. Ben Harrison, formerly an assistant to John Schaefer, was in the office the other day in his uniform, look ing fit as a couple of fiddles and -- in the words of Gilbert and Sullivan -- "veddy veddy militeddv." He had just taken a group of new men to Florida and was returning to his post upstate in New York. Nina Howard, of the Tulsa Division, has resigned. Robert Milligan, of Ethyl Chloride at Baton Rouge, has left the com pany. Pat Sevier (Mrs. Appert), of the New York office, resigned on June 1 -- five davs after her 9th anniversary with the company. J. A. Fischer, formerly of the Kansas City test lab, has now transferred to the Kansas City' Division aS safety engineer. Arnold Webb, Annuities-InsuranceSavings boss, reports that his wife Libby has just had a little girl. This is their third youngster. Bob Ackerman and Roland Ostran der, both graduates of Ray Faller's "finishing school" for engineers in Detroit, have been transferred from the Baltimore Division to Engineer ing Research. 10 ETC 06234 Grunt and Groan? one of the Bulletin Board's corre spondents sent in a recent issue of the Dayton Daily News, in which appeared an interesting series of pictures featuring Harry Mack. At first glance it appeared that the ver satile Dayton Division boss had be come a professional pachyderm, but an excited perusal of the captions indicated that, like the grunt and groan sport, the whole business was "in the bag." Harry was merely acting as a guinea pig for Patrolman A. L. Schmeig of Ohio's Highway Patrol, who was demonstrating before a meeting of the American Business Men's Club the most effective meth ods of making a bum out of a bandit. Harry agreed to let himself get tossed around after a sales talk by Colonel Lynn Black, chief of the Highway Patrol, who is -- or was? -- a friend of his. ETC 06235 Service Pins to Six A TEMPORARY SUMMER JOB brought Chuck Hawley to Ethvl in 1927. This month he dusts off his lapel and proudly installs a fifteen-year service pin. Chuck Hawley 12 Chuck was just out of Harvard Engineering School, where he had done two years of post-graduate work after getting his B.S. from Ore gon State College. At Harvard he had been a part-time instructor, succeeding a young engineer from Oklahoma named Earl Bartholo mew. During the summer of 1927 he took a job in the old Yonkers lab oratory running a dynamometer in the basement -- and stayed on with us at the end of summer. In Decem ber of that year the research labor atory was moved to Detroit; Chuck moved also, and was named assistant director of Engineering Research. Today Chuck is Earl Bartholo mew's right hand. He has handled research work as well as administra tive problems. A member of SAE, he has contributed much to the litera ture on fuels and engines. He made several advance trips to Detroit and also to San Bernardino, doing pre paratory work for setting up the engineeringlaboratories in both places. And in these days lie's mighty busy helping Earl settle the million and one details of the new laboratory at Femdale, which was described at length in the May issue of the Ethyl News. Roy Goltz, genial Acting Manag er of the New York Division, and Madeline Rose, of the Purchasing Department, win their ten-year pins this month. Five-year awards go to "Spike" Speaker, ace tune-up man for the New York Division; Viola Wells, secretary to Jim Hyland; and Lynn A. Wilmot, of the Manufacturing Department, who is stationed at Deepwater. ! ETC 06236 VU.VN CANDID*JE for Councilman CITY OF CLlX Br"^ ,, v- i- ^ *% Mniapl E>o T Vote for McKersie! "i have told you from house to house that I have made no political commitments or promises." That's what Allen E. McKersie told the voters of Colton, California, and they elected him a City Councilman -- and that's good news. We are in formed A1 just missed being elected Mayor -- which is too bad. For Al has great things in store for the City of Colton, if his expressed aims and intentions can be realized. Al is an Ethyl test driver at San Berdu, and a 37-year old grand father. He foresees a vast devel opment of resources in our west ern states which "will make the Pacific basin the richest in the world." When the war is over, he believes Eastern folk will flock to Southern California, and he says "we must plan for schooling, for recreational facilities, for aid to our cement plants, railroads and man ufacturing establishments, not only to keep them here, but to bring others to add to local prosperity" Al reminds us that the East alreadv has shifted many of its great plants to the West, and with a post-war Europe in "terrible shape for busi ness purposes, the world will re ceive its rejuvenation through our area." Above is a reproduction of the calling card Al used in his door-todoor vote gathering. Ensign Joe joe cipolla, a member of the Hoad Test Section staff at Detroit, was called for active duty as an ensign in the Naval Reserves on Mav IS. Ensign Cipolla will be at Notre Dame University for a six-week in duction period before being as signed to Naval Ordnance. Joe is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology; he took "post-gradu ate" work with the class of 1941 at Faller U. 13 SUPER PLANNER Belaying Pins for Andy the ethyl Bowling League in De troit lost its high average kegler when the Na\y ordered Andy An derson, research engineer at the En gineering Laboratories, to report for active dutv at Annapolis June 1. Andy, an ensign, is an engineering volunteer specialist. After graduat ing from the University of Illinois in 1939 and from Doc Faller's pi oneer class a year later, he was as signed to the Laboratories' fuel de velopment and rating section. Shelley Baggett, who went to New York Military Academy and Colum bia University, is the newest mem ber of Oscar Lewis' Safety Division. Before coming with Ethyl, he "bum med around architects' offices" and spent four years with the Chicago Division of the Shell Oil Company working on the construction of serv ice stations and marine terminals. Now he drafts plans and specifica tions for Ethyl blending plants. Though bom in Newport News, Shelley has spent most of his life in" Westchester County. He is very much interested in sailing -- used to own his own Star -- and is currently thinking of buying an Atlantic to race on the Sound. Among his hob bies Shelley lists golf, tennis and badminton, while chess and record collecting occupy his quieter mo ments. His favorite indoor sport seems to be making ship models about two feet long. And he's not married either! 14 John Rowe, in the Finance Depart ment at New York, left the Snowden and McSweeney Company after five years because he didn't like working in Texas -- it was either much too hot or equally cold. Nicest thing about New York, he says, is the steam heat. John is married and has two boys, one aged seven and the other two and one-half. His favorite extra-curricular activities are base ball, fishing and travel. Junior Engineers Look Us Over THE FIRST LARGE CROUP to inspect the new Research Laboratories in Detroit was the junior student group. Detroit Section, of the Society of Automotive Engineers. About 125 students and teachers from engi neering colleges in southeastern Michigan visited the new lab on May 11. The group was welcomed in the auditorium by Dick Sneed, research engineer and chairman of the S.A.E. junior student activity. The opera tion of the Ward Leonard principle as used on our engine and chassis dynamometers was explained bv Durward E. Rossman, head of the Dynamometer Section. The group inspected the research and test labs, then gathered for a showing of "The Long Road" in its recently revised version. Bouquet to Hogan "i wish to extend to you, on behalf of the Society and vour Section, our hearty thanks . . ." etc. That's what Bob Hogan of the Baltimore Divi sion recently read in a letter from the general manager of the Society of Automotive Engineers. For the past year Bob has been chairman of the Baltimore Section of the SAE, and for the present year he will con tinue to serve the organization as a member of the Board of Governors. Shop Practice the first aid instruction she re ceived at the Research Laboratories in Detroit wasn't enough for Emalee Pipal, secretary to Earl Bartholo mew. She wanted practical experi ence and she got it while on her way home from her second lesson. Emalee was about to catch a bus when she noticed a crowd had gath ered on a nearby comer. A girl had fainted. Emalee immediately took charge, chased the crowd out of the way, and administered first aid treatment. P.S. The patient recovered! I [___ jm Harriet Harris, a graduate of North- ^ field and the Junior College of Con necticut, is the girl who sits on a^ high stool and makes charts for Walt Resler. She grew up in Connec ticut and is at present living alone in New York and liking it. Before joining Ethyl's Statistical Depart ment Harriet worked at Ruthrauff & Ryan and Write Incorporated, where she was secretary to the trea surer and did everything from, sten ography to contacting customers. Her hobby and chief after-hours in terest is flying. She has a student pilot's license, but when she can't get a plane, she keeps busy with the theatre, dancing and parties. 15 i ETC 06239 Justine Bikely, graduate of Packard Secretarial School and a six-year stretch with Bell Telephone, has gone to work in Oscar Lewis' busy Safety Division. She grew up in Mount Vernon, a suburb of New York, with a fondness for bowling, table tennis and sailing. Her folks belong to a local yacht club -- and even though she hasn't a boat "there's always someone around looking for a crew." During her half-dozen years with the telephone company Justine was engaged in personnel wor k. Notes on Captain Jack on the cover of our April issue we published a photo of "Captain War ner," formerlv of our Atlanta Divi sion, in a huddle with Alan Tullv and Stu Forbes. In case you noted the single silver bar on his shoulder -- indicating the rank of lieutenant -- we explain that both the picture and the caption under it were cor rect even though they didn't agree. At the time the photo was snapped. Warner was a lieutenant. Bv the time the Bulletin Board went to press he had been promoted to Cap tain. Incidentally, he's now the father of a new recruit to the Warner troop -- Thomas Jackson Warner. Pop has promised a photo of voung T. J. ("the youngest tune-up engineer in the company") doing a tune-up job on a jeep. Navy Experimenter herb sumner of the Technical Serv ice Department staff at Detroit has been appointed Ensign at the Navv's Engineering Experimental Station, and reported on May 4 at Annapolis. Herb is a graduate of Stanford Uni versity. He did post-graduate work at California Tech. His knowledge of engines and fuels was -^further augmented by studying with Ray Faller's 1941 training class. Loretta Hogan, in Bob Brown's Pay roll Section, is a graduate of St. Barnabas Academy and the Grace Institute Business School. Loretta was a bookkeeper at the Union Cir culation Company for over four years before joining Ethyl's New York staff. A native New Yorker, she is interested mostly in horseback riding and swimming. IS I ETC 06240 New Baton Rouge Employees buford t. avilson. laboratory helper, came to Ethvl from the Mississippi Highway Department. Bom in Brookhaven, Sliss.. he attended Brookhaven High and Mississippi College. He is married and has three children. James e. vernon JR., electrician, was bom in Kentwood. La., and graduated from Bogalusa. La.. High School. He came to us from the Graver Tank Com pany of Baton Rouge. He is married. myrtle d. may. stenographer, is a native of Baton Rouge and a graduate of L.S.U. She previously worked in the Auditor's office at L.S.U. and with the Gulf States Utilities Company. betty cooper, stenographer, attend ed University High School and is an L.S.U. graduate, where she worked in the office of the Dean of Women. She came to us from the office of a law firm. Charles h. choss, assistant to W. K. Wikingstad, was bom in Tarrvtown, N. Y. A Notre Dame graduate, he is a former pro football player and a mem ber of the New York State Guard. He is married. Buford T. Wilson i 17 ETC 06241 Baton Rouge Girls Learn First Aid for the past four months the girls at the Baton Rouge plant have been hurrying through their lunch inorder to spend the second half of the hour at first aid classes. After learning through lectures and demonstra tions the fundamentals of emergen cy treatment and how to apply dressings for various injuries, the girls were divided into four teams, each composed of five members and a patient, and each assigned a coach to give advanced instruction, On completion of twenty hours of training the first aiders were given an examination, which they passed with flying colors. Following are the Ethvl girls who qualified for Ameri can Red Cross and Bureau of Mines certificates: Evelyn Flanagan, Phyllis Barton. Shirley Joffrion, Mary Walsh, Wini fred Dugas, Sally Van Anda, Dot McCarroll, Regina Morton, Yvette Smith, Eleanor Orchard, and Ethel Walton. the harry perkixs did their part in National Baby Week (April 26 to May 2) -- their first child, Suzanne Marguerite, arrived April 27, weigh ing 6 pounds and 14 ounces. The proud father is receiving and ship ping clerk at the Laboratories in Detroit. New Job and New Hobby , Miles Kinley, auto inspector for the Army. MILES kinley, who is with the Armed Forces, and his wife Beverly, have a new son, Douglas Leighton Kinley, bom March 11, 1942. Little Doug's picture was taken one month IB Douglas L. Kinley, at the age of 30 days. later. Miles has been permanently detailed to the Office of the Inspec tor General as a member of the Automotive Section of the Inspec tion Division in Washington, D. C. ETC 06242 Maniage and Mines jack rupe, of Detroit's training school, has taken his high school sweetheart for a bride. Mrs. Rupe is the former Harriet Phillips of Kansas City, Kansas, and Chicago. The ceremony was performed at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, in Glen dale, California, on April 24th, and the bride's family drove out from Chicago for the occasion. Harriet and Jack spent some time in San Bernardino, moved on to Chicago and Detroit, then finally to Wash ington where Jack has accepted a position with the Navy Department in the Ordnance Laboratory. He un derstands the work will be in con nection with ship protection against magnetic mines, and he expects to be working with Bill Cory, Jack Bailie and Ralph Wahrenbrock, all formerly of the Detroit training school. Joan Boyer, Detroit Chem. Lab, leaves the field of career women at the end of May, to devote all of her time to keeping house for Fred, her husband. Her cheerful, careerful presence will be missed by all the members of the Research Depart ment. John Howard, from the Dynamom eter Section of the Detroit lab, has been called for active duty as a lieu tenant in Ordnance, reporting May 6 at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. John became a reserve officer in R.O.T.C. at Harvard ten years ago. He has been president this year of the Society of Ethyl Engineers. Clean-up Man Jack Rupe Jack's bride, Harriet Silas Eaton patrols the Dynamometer Section wing of the Engineering Research Laboratories at Detroit keeping everything shipshape during the day. Silas came to Ethyl from the Pontiac Motor Company at Pontiac, where he had worked for five years. His hobbies are fishing and hunting. 19 TO WIN THIS WAR ... MORE PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO ENJOY RIDING IN FEWER CARS. I End of Message mike remondino, for many months our Bulletin Board correspondent at San Berdu, sends us word that he has been transferred to the Detroit lab to handle war work. Like all good "wire men" he ended the mes sage with "30" -- the telegrapher's signal for "end of message" -- but included the following bits of in formation in his final dispatch: John S. Wintringham has also gone to Detroit. He and Kay left May 16. Mike went on May 30, with Margaret, his wife, following in a week. On April 30, Pete Organ left Ethyl to go back to a former em ployer in San Bernardino. 20 Very Technical Guy dan guy has been transferred from the Tulsa division to the home office of the Agricultural Division at De troit, as the Technical Service De partment accelerates its war pro gram activities. Dan will be engaged in the gen eral work of the division, particular ly in assisting customer oil com panies with their farm market cam paigns. The transfer will bolster the division's manpower, as George Krieger, head of the division, is spending most of his time now in liaison activities between the com pany and military services, and .Archie Vallier is on active duty with the Army. ETC 06244 ETC JULY, 1942 ETC 06246 ETHYL BULLETIN BOABD -- by and for Ethyl employees . Pses aUe>hi'r M^ry />Q9c /s *l Picture Sped*1 payes Wy ^ The Last of the Fleet School Photos HAROLD UEP-G Talks on Warlirne Fuels pa<je 7 S*s, ^Z"c Are YOU a Milita ry Secret? pa^e 22 Spy 7c *^x j,''Mr. * ALL QUIET ON OUR WESTERN FRONT The Country Correspondent Reports-p0 ETC 0624T Ken Lee, Naval Ensign, Dies in Blimp Crash Ken Lee as photographed at the Baton Rouge plant ! ensign kenneth c. lee, formerly > one of our engineers at Baton Rouge, is the first Ethyl man to give his life in this war. Ken died when ' two Navy blimps collided off the I New Jersey coast at 10:30 on the I night of Monday, June 8, during an "experimental mission." The two helium-filled craft were the G-l and the smaller L-2; both were based at Lakehurst, about 16 miles from the scene of the crash. Several Navy men and civilian scientists were aboard. Only one man survived the accident. Ken was an earnest, considerate, cheerful young man, who had made many friends during his stay at Bat on Rouge. He was bom on June 3, 1914, in New York City. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lee of Santiago, Chile. Ken attended a grade school near Santiago run by German monks and later went to De La Salle Institute in New York from 1927 to 1931. He won the de grees of A.B. and B.S. at Columbia in 1935 and 1936, then studied chem ical engineering during 1936 and 1937. At Columbia he made the track team and the cross-country team and served as football ticket manager for the 1938-39 season. He belonged to the student chapter of A. I. Ch. E. and to the American Chemical Society. Before joining the Ethyl Corpora tion, Ken had been a chemical con trol laboratory analyst with ColgatePalmolive-Peet. He joined the staff at our Detroit lab in January of 1939 and was transferred to die TEL group at Baton Rouge three months later. When the Technical Division was formed at Baton Rouge he be came a chemical engineer in the TEL observation group. Ken was well liked by his associ ates at the plant; he also had many friends in the city of Baton Rouge. He was one of the better known members of the "Damyankee" Club, a group of bachelors from north of Mason-Dixon who are working in Baton Rouge industries. It is with a heavy heart that the Ethyl Corpora tion places a gold star next to his name on the Honor Roll. Ken Lee in uniform be fore he left Baton Rouge ETC 06248 Orange Blossoms Amid The Orange Groves ner. The dinner was served in the game room overlooking the orange groves of Covina Valley. All of the Los Angeles Division staff who were available at the time, together with the wives and a few immediate friends, were there. After dinner they gave Vinita a surprise shower, which included an onyx clock pre sented by the Los Angeles office staff, and individual gifts from the various employees. Reunion in Rantonl Vmita and Duncan Howard wedding bells chimed again in the Los Angeles Division, when on Sun day, June 14, Vinita Elizabeth Strutt, secretary to Division Manager San Wagner, said "I do" to Duncan G. Howard at Grace Community Church, Boulder City, Nevada. The beaming couple motored from there to Santa Barbara for a week's honey moon. Vinita has held her present posi tion for the past six years. Her hus band, a native of Indiana, attended Purdue University and has been in the construction business all of his working life. At the present time he is engaged in the completion of a defense housing contract at Boulder City. The social events connected with the wedding began Friday evening, June 5, with a buffet dinner at the country home of San and Mrs. Wag- 2 Emerson blair, who gave up train ing at Faller Institute of Technology (also known as Faller U.) in De troit to train with Uncle Sam, is sta tioned at Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111., preparatory to receiving a com mission as an engineering officer in the Army Air Corps. "I have run into Dan Hirschler, an old alumnus of F.I.T.," Emerson writes. "He graduated out here June 6 and is now a second looey, with gold bars on his shoulders and everything." Emerson went into the Army from the bus tests in Cincinnati. A gradu ate of the University of Michigan, he entered Ethyl's own institution of higher learning with the mid-year class. Jim Krick, New York Division safety man, located at Olean, New York, be came a proud poppa on June 19th. Daughter Martha Ann arrived at 2:45 a.m. and weighed in at eight pounds. Mabel Thompson, who has been a re ceptionist in the New York office for three years, left us recendy to do her bit helping in the war effort. She's a registered nurse with lots of industrial experience, and she left Ethyl to take charge of the hospital run by Otis Ele vator in Yonkers for its defense workers. ETC 06249 Detroit Employee Roster Swells sixteen new names have been add ed to the list of employees at the Detroit lab. The first picture to catch our eye -- and boy, is she an eyecatcher! --is that of Dolores Moreno, a new mail clerk. Dolores graduated from Royal Oak High School and worked for Montgomery Ward in Royal Oak before coining to Ethyl. The man who takes the lab pic tures is John C. Chaffee, a native of Buffalo, N. Y., who started out to be a doctor but changed his career to photograph homes for real estate concerns. When priorities licked home building, John joined Ethyl. His family includes Mrs. Chaffee, John Jr., aged two, and Linda, eight months. William J. Clements, boiler op erator in the winter and landscape gardener in the summer, has had many years' experience in landscape work, specializing in building rock gardens and pools and in designing and planting lawns. His oldest son, Dale, 21, attends the Ford appren tice school, while Bob, 18, still goes to high school. Bill is a native of Duluth, Minn. From deep in the heart of Texas comes J. M. Allen, a watchman. Bom in Sherman in the Lone Star State, Jim worked on the railroad for 24 years. Volunteering in World War I, he was a bomber, machine gunner and marksman, and was wounded 14 times, "from head to foot." He came to Ethyl last year as a plant protection man while the Laboratories were being built and recently became a regular employee. ETC 06250 William 1. Clements J. M. Allen "Gus" Trapp G. C. Trapp, electrical engineer in Engineering Research, has work ed on volts and watts from Detroit to Peru via the Panama Canal. He worked on the Canal for the govern ment in 1913 and 1914 and then spent three years in Peru with the Cerro De Pasco Mining Corp. Gus and his wife have one daughter, Shirley, who graduated this spring from Redford, Mich., High School. Cus says he likes to make things around the house. Among the "things" he has made are an oil burner and a three-ton ice machine for space cooling. The clean-up staff includes four new members who come in when the business dav is over and get things in shape for the morrow. These are George Emery, janitor, and Mary Wrobel, Alexandra Slomba and Elizabeth McGill, janitresses. M. Layton Willans is a newcomer in the accounting department. Bom in Warwick, Ontario, and educated in Canada, he has worked in Detroit for the Union Trust Company, Gen eral Motors styling department, and the Aro Sales and Service Company. Layton and Mrs. Willans have two George Emery 4 children, Elaine, three, and Davey, a year old. That pretty new secretary in En gineering Research is Marjorie Swearingen, who was bom in Scot land -- Illinois, not Great Britain -- graduated from Dana. Ind., High School, and attended Eastern Illi nois Teachers College. She worked for the Wabeek State Bank in Ferndale, Mich., before becoming an Ethylette. The cafeteria presents four em ployees. They are Donald Cox, busboy; Ann Flora, of the beverages and ice cream counter; Irene Harpeng, counter girl; and Sylvia Hoiska, assistant cook. Last but not least is Helen Lankau, native Detroiter who is a payroll clerk in the accounting department. Helen graduated from Hazel Park High School and studied at Detroit Business Institute. She was in the Femdale City Treasurer's Office for three years and with the Strand Building Company in Birmingham for two years before joining Ethyl. Helen Lankau Left to right, Maty Wrobel, Alexandra Slomba, Elisabeth McGill Marjorie Swearingen M. Layton Willans Left to right, Donald Cox, Ann Floral Irene Harpeng, Sylvia Hoiska ETC 06252 SS*. however, before Gretchen Sue, weighing seven pounds fourteen ounces, made her world debut; whereupon Papa Jess was able to relax once again. Latest reports have it that mother and daughter are all doing well, while that extra inch in father's height has gone into his chest expansion. You don't mind hospital bills so much when they pay you a sevenpound-fourteen-ounce dividend. TsvtnSy pounds and a half, and not yet six months old! That's the boast of Edna Ruth Shirley, Baton Rouge belleto-be, whose pop is a welder, first class, in Ethyl Chloride. Surprise! Surprise! Hospital Dividend not long ago Jess Carmichael, Kansas City Testing Laboratory en gineer, underwent considerable ten sion, both physical and mental. The physical tension was caused by a stretching treatment for a slight spinal injury sustained when Jess threw his back into an all-out effort to open a balky window. The stretch temporarily added an inch to Jess' height. The mental tension began the day after Jess' return home, when Ann, his wife, had to enter the same hospital. Ann wasn't there long. This is little Helen Hendrick, two-yearold daughter of field representative and wife, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Hendrick of Dallas. It would appear that Helen has been eminently successful in her East er egg hunt -- to the evident astonish ment of the rabbit. Ml. I MIS. LESSON IX \R ECONOMICS Pcjcm abb tfoiMo- itc* ImCaux* uta All babkin^ Mort Awsiy-nuxUm AMS Tmiusb To Buy. Mrcdou*? ------ --. "Tbk evei/TiAse ojc Sreno A DOLLAR. Oil AJ9nihu^ Idejus Sure To make oor. ilexr Dollar UoeTh LESS By Arthur WaWl and Ellitaei llaorrr NoT is* uie SMSND ENO0* --. or Thoec dollars ,-- I____ o1*sb!i--1 i 8 ETC 06253 Harold Berg shows what Pearl Harbor has done to gasoline. THE GENERAL MOTORS CLUB of Kansas City recently listened to an interest ing talk by Harold Berg, manager of the Kansas City Division, on the important topic of "Civilian War time Fuels." Harold told of some of the problems afiecting the petrole um industry today which play a vital role in the present and future of the automotive industry . Using a series of specially pre pared charts to illustrate the prog ress in refining methods, he de scribed the constituents of motor gasoline sold prior to Pearl Harbor and the changes that have been made since that date. The impor tance of 100 octane aviation gasoline in fighting planes and the proper servicing of automobile engines to operate satisfactorily on present day fuels were points he stressed. Arrangements have been made for Harold to present this talk be fore more General Motors Clubs and other luncheon groups. 7 ETC 06254 Carl's Corner Supervisor of Country Correspondence, The BULLETIN BOARD, New York, N. Y. Dear Sirs: Once again it seems proper to report on the state of the nation in the "twilight zone" along the Pacific Coast. We have scored our first territorial victory over the Japs, our Western Defense Command having taken an island away from them. Terminal Island, in Los Angeles harbor, is once again American territory, the fishing colony having been moved out, bag, baggage, and short-wave sets, as step number one in the recent -decontamination. As you have no doubt read in the papers, we have removed the Japanese problem by putting the whole resident group, both alien and native born, into cold storage for the duration. There is now a well defined movement on foot to supply them with type writers, paper, and envelopes, with guarantee of free delivery in Tokio of all letters telling the folks back home about the food and quarters provided by Uncle Sam. They haven't much to do in their new homes, and we might as well get what help we can from them in winning the war. Incidentally, we must win this war fast to keep from being over-run from the inside. You know how fast these Orientals multiply. Or haven't you heard yet about Little Audrey of Los Angeles, who refused to take her little brother to the hospital to see her mother's new baby, because statistics prove that every third child born in California is Japanese? And that was in the good old days, when the elder aliens toiled iir'the fields and on the boats "from sun to sun", and were really tired at night. . . . Now that we no longer need a horde of pickets to keep the aliens from going across to the wrong side of all the roads, we are getting guards at a lot of other places where they are needed. Well manned bayonets and things protect all of the defense plants, with lots of reinforcements within easy calling distance, and you had.better be prepared to prove that your inten tions are honorable if you walk up to a gate. About two weeks ago we even got military guards at the various public and private schools where the air corps mechanics are being trained. I did not know about it the day they were posted, but found that they 8 ETC 06255 were there when I attempted to make a late afternoon call at the hangar where one of the classes is held. The man I wanted to see was the only source of passes -- he was on the inside and I was on the outside, and the switchboard was closed for the night. There were three armed guards between me and where I wanted to go. I didn't pass the guard -- just took him in with me. The head man was surprised, but no orders had been violated. Another evening I was putting on a show at a big school with a high fence. The guard said "You gotta have a pass", but they had just gotten the guards that day and the passes had not yet arrived. The head en gine instructor persuaded him to let me drive in, under condition that I take the car out after unloading. When I got back to the gate the guard had changed, and the new one was square-rigged, Irish, and belligerent, and he said, "You gotta have a pass." I had never before seen a service automatic completely surrounded by Irishman, and it was really an impressive sight. What the Marines lost when they let that boy get drafted! The able assistance of the head janitor finally got me out, and per previous instructions I parked the car and came back in -- as far as the gate. The Irishman did not recognize me on foot in the semi darkness, and so the matter of a pass was again mentioned, again most convincingly. It was so funny that I laughed right out loud. So did he, and became a reasonable Irishman. Two hours later there was a different man at the gate, who also had been taught to say "You gotta have a pass." The following day I had other classes at the same place. The supply of guards was apparently unlimited, and they had all been requested to ask for passes. We had them that day. You presented a pass when entering, and surrendered it on leaving. And for the next round trip you talked them into reviving the one that had previously been retired -- up to the last trip, when the system broke down because the pass did not say anything about letting me bring an automobile in and certain mechanical equipment out. I mention this not in a spirit of complaint, but just to let the rest of the country know that we are keeping everything safe out here on the frontier. But if anyone ever asks me what I learned in May, 1942, I will answer without any hesitation at all -- "You gotta have a pass." Doc Schradin came out this month to examine all of our blending help. I wouldn't mention this to a soul, but he got sick and we had to get a doctor for him. Well, so long. It's time for school. Yours, 9 ETC 06256 Hove You a Broken Leg? Redbru, a ten-month Cocker pup, is "one of the familv" to Jack Pruitt and his wife. Here he snuggles up in Jack's pet chair -- but doesn't expect he'll have to move. Jack is assistant manager of our Dayton Divi sion. NEW FACES AT DETROIT if so, see one of the 20 employees at the Detroit Laboratories who recently completed the 20-hour American Red Cross first aid course, given at the "Lab" building. Gordon Wilcox, left, who conducted the course, was assisted by Dr. Lewis Hess, at right. They are shown passing out Red Cross certifi cates to Frances Heller, telephone girl, and M. Layton Willans of the account ing department. What-Is-Harry-Mack Doing-Now? Department jack Pruitt sends us word that his boss, the Dayton topkick, has just been reelected President of the Past Presidents Club for the sixth time. "We understand," explains Jack, "that his cigar blotted out the other candidate -- and Harry was reelect ed unanimously." 10 a homeless member of the canine tribe has become a self-appointed member of Ethyl's Detroit family. Where he came from nobody-knows, but he loves to gambol on the lab oratory green and to wrinkle his nose in a friendly greeting to the Ethyl boys and girls. The dog hung around iast summer during con struction and, in keeping with the traditions of the beagle part of his ancestry, chased rabbits in the woods behind the plant. It is be lieved he may have belonged to a neighboring family which moved away while he was temporarily in pursuit of an elusive bunny. ETC 06257 Detroit Lab %% Bombed" employees ln the Detroit Research Laboratories recently were given a little inside information on how to keep incendiary bombs under con trol when, as part of a demonstra tion by the Chemical Laboratories, a bomb was set off, brought under control with sand, and then re moved in a pail. The event took place on a platform in a roped-off area on the parking lot. Other anti-aircraft defense prep arations have included the showing of several sound motion pictures on bombs of various types and what to do if they start dropping. War Assignment "Ba-loomr goes the fire bomb at Detroit. Lots of smoke, excitement, no danger. one of the new faces seen around the Detroit Laboratories these days be longs to Raymond G. Hammond, Ethylman since 1938, who has been loaned to Engineering Research for some spe cial war work. Ray was a magneto ex pert, trouble shooting on industrial equipment in the oil fields of the South west, before he joined the Ethyl clinic in the Kansas City Division four years ago. With the closing of the clinics, he became a member of the crew which conducts tune-up schools for garage mechanics and gives tractor demon strations. It's all over now -- drop it in a bucket, bury it in sand, and your incendiary bomb is just a memory. II ETC 06258  TP*-- ETC 06260 Yum/ Detroit girls tear into some home-cooked steak. Detroit Girls Go Rural jean hendehson and Anna Caplan entertained 31 girls from the Re search Laboratories in Detroit at a steak roast a few weeks ago at the 110-year-old Henderson farm in Bloomfield Hills. Table decorations for the event were done in a patri otic motif of red, white and blue, worked out by the hostesses. Dor othy Rakestraw had charge of the fire and chief assistant steak cook was Joan Boyer. After a satisfying meal, the girls spent an informal evening down on the farm. They rambled around the old house, admiring its antique fur niture and china pieces, its hand blown glass windows and hand pegged doors. Some of the more en ergetic members of the group played softball or hiked in the neigh boring hills. He's in the Axmy Now bob mead, fleet and tractor engineer of the Seattle Division, has added his name to the list of Ethylmen in the armed forces. When writing him, address the letter to First Lieu tenant R. R. Mead, Headquarters Ninth Army Corps, Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah. 14 Cradle News a big, bouncing boy bowed into this world on June 5 and brought con siderable joy to Fred and Virginia Ramin. George Thornton Ramin weighed nine pounds three ounces, which gives him a good start in life. Papa Fred is a chemist in the Tulsa Testing Laboratory. r"""" -- 1 Three Safety Men Leave oscah lewis' Safety Department is really going all-out for defense. Russ Schell with years of experience in the safety problems of leaded fuels, has been made a Captain in the Amphibian Command of the Army Engineering Corps, and is now at Camp Edwards, Mass. Charley Towery has just been commissioned a Lieutenant (JG) in the Navy, and is awaiting orders. Gerry Forsdick reported June 23rd at the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. Gerry is a Chief Gunner's Mate, and expects to be transferred to a naval aviation base where he will be an instructor in Naval Aviation Gunnery. Before his enlistment he had been active in Civilian Defense work as a member of the Auxiliary Police at home and an air raid warden at the office. While the Safety Department was still intact, Oscar held a party at his home in Larchmont to wish Russ, Charley and Gerry "good hunting." A steak dinner with all the trim mings was served -- next to the vic tory garden, appropriately enough. Some guests spent the evening set tling the affairs of the nations, while others engaged in ping pong, whiffle, or African golf. Good Luck, Jean Jean Harmon, secretary to Eddie Downs, has left us after many years to work for a nearby firm of lawyers. On her last day at the New York of fice the girls she had known sur prised her with a send-off that sur passed any other "surprise" parties to date. Twenty-eight of her friends rushed her across the street to the Commodore Hotel and ordered cocktails. They pinned two corsages on her. Three troubadours in the cocktail lounge came over and sang "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (right shade, too!). Elisa Mitchell and Mrs. Thompson contributed poems, tailor-made for the occasion. And as a tangible, lasting remem brance the girls chipped in on a pretty traveling clock and leather cigarette case. They sure hated to see her go! 15 ETC 06262 Sieb's a Grandpop Four Get Five Year Awards on july 1 four five-vear Service Awards were given to Ethyl em ployees. Those who have rounded out their first half-decade with the Company include Jessie L. Bott of the Chicago Division, who is the Bulletin Board's correspondent for that area; Dr. Otto Enoch of the En gineering Laboratories in Detroit; W. Stanley Eskridge of the Manufac turing Department in Deepwater; and Edward E. Muller of the New York Division's sales force. ofNORMAN SIEBENTHALEH, One the very first men in the company, is shown here taking care of his two-week-old granddaughter, Mary Altick. The baby's father is in the Army and so is Sieb's own boy Bill, who is a technical sergeant now. He volunteered last year and has just been appointed to officers' training school in Miami Beach. Beatrice T/trrie. the newest addition to the blonde side of the Finance Department, came to Ethyl after seven years ivith General Foods. She's the "tindomestic type" and likes going places and seeing people. Her favorite recre-ations include reading, swimming and roller skating. O <2> The young lady is Juanita Watters, who recently was employed by the Chicago Division. Juanita is a native of Cle burne, Texas, but she soon migrated to Shreveport, La., where she gradu ated from Byrd High School and at tended Draughn's Business College. After working in Shreveport for sev eral years she went to Chicago and got a job with the Straus Securities Com pany. As might be expected of a Texas gal, one of her favorite sports is horse back riding. The other is swimming. ETC 06263 down in the deep South, suh, the Ethyl folk of the Baton Rouge Test ing Laboratory and their families got together the other day at the home of Tucker Dawson to stage a real southern barbecue as a farewell partv for the J. Dale Thompsons. They will make their home in De troit for the duration. Savory smells rose from the barbecue pit on the lawn as Tucker, in a checkered tow el, took over the cooking. The kid dies were there, too, including Levin ) Dawson, five-months-old son of the host. Dale Thompson, who has been a test engineer at Baton Rouge since 1930, was recently transferred to the Detroit Laboratories for special work on aviation gasoline. Tucker Dawson, the barbecue man Little Terry and Sancy Thompson 17 ETC 06264 So Long. Guys! that's what the Ethyl folk in Dallas thought, so they gave a farewell party for Dan and Louise Guv on the eve of their departure for Detroit, where Dan has been transferred from the Tulsa Div ision. He will be doing tractor work with oil com panies for the Technical Service Depart ment. In the foreground of the party picture is little Elizabeth Rollins, daughter of John and Dodv Rollins. Left to right, the ladies in attendance are Ann DeVore, Dody Rollins, Louise Guv and Joan Hend rick; the men, John Rollins, Dan Guy and Ed Hendrick. Frank DeVore is missing from the photo because he was the man behind the camera. Three New Employees at Baton Ronge Leonard seclin, employed at the Deepwater plant since April 1940, has been transferred to the Baton Rouge Technical Division. A chemical engi neer, he has worked for the Malletane Corporation of New Jersey and the Pyridium Corporation in New York. SARAH ELIZABETH MOFFETT, clerk in the Payroll Office, has a B.S. degree from Louisiana State University and has taught in the public high schools of Louisiana for four years. gerard a. prejean, helper in the TEL control laboratory, is a native of Louisiana and a graduate of Baton Rouge High School. He also attended L.S.U. He is married and has one child. Leonard. Seglin Sarah E. Moffett Gerard A. Prejean ETC 06265 Marte Burch, who was born and brought up in New York, is the girl behind the new voice you've been hearing at the switchboard in the New York office. Marie came from R. E. Swart & Company where she was head telephone operator for seven years. She likes to spend her vacations in the mountains of Penn sylvania where she can indulge in her favorite sport of square danc ing. o Scrap for the Big Scrap ethyl folk at Detroit climbed enthu siastically aboard the scrap rubber band wagon with a special campaign of their own. Out behind the Chem Lab was a box bearing the following admonitions -- Slapajap--Bopawop-- Buryajerry-- With salvage rubber. The Chem Lab started the campaign with an initial collection of 100 pounds, a figure which was boosted consider ably as soon as employees began pok ing around their homes for old rubber articles. Salvaged rubber was sold to gasoline stations at the usual rate and the proceeds given to the U.S.O. The photo shows Marian Sawatzkie and Bill Smerling of the Chem Lab demonstrating the proper way to "Slap ajap." I O EUen Svendsen, the latest addi tion to the A.I.S. Plan, is a graduate of New York's high and business schools. Ellen spent 12 years with the St. Regis Paper Company in their accounting and statistical de partments. She loves good music, es pecially concerts by the Philharmon ic Orchestra. 19 ETC 06266 No Longer With Us... jack l. zimelow, Technical Service, Detroit; Aubrey A. Larsen, Detroit Chemical Research; Miss Jonnie Myers, Baton Rouge Manufactur ing; Rita Dennen, New York A.I.S.; Don Pope, Los Angeles Division; "Bo" Lederman, Detroit Chemical Research; Gladys Hudson, Baton Rouge Manufacturing; Betty Cheldon. New York Manufacturing; Vir ginia Mackie, New York Statistical; Joan Boyer, Detroit Chemical Re search; Mary Fillip, Detroit Engi neering; Paul Stegenga, Detroit En gineering; James Patton, Baton Rouge Manufacturing; Julius Sholars. Baton Rouge Manufacturing; Reginald Coghlan, New York Sales; Howard Rice, Detroit Chemical Re search; Rachel Swiegen, New York Payroll. Herschel Dedo's boy Charles, aged 13, recently won a Certificate of Award by the Ohio State Board of Education for excellence in his studies. Charles rank ed eighth among all the school children of Montgomery County, which includes the city of Dayton. He is a First Class Scout and makes a hobby of raising chickens and rabbits. Meet the new receptionist. Introducing Mrs. Bette Houck, who started to work for the Tulsa Division on April 13, 19i2. She comes to us after five years with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. She was graduated from the Bristow High School and later attend ed the Tulsa Business College. Her outside interests center around a bus iness sorority and a rifle club. The Listening Post... Phil Perry of the Safetv Department has transferred from Boston to New York, to fill the gaps left by those who have joined the armed forces. Margaret Spaulding, Roy Goltz's secretary in the New York Division, resigned recendy to devote her en tire time to keeping house for her husband. He is resident surgeon at the Mary Imogene Bassett Memo rial Hospital in Cooperstown, New York. 20 ETC 0626T plant protection plans have been in the making for Detroit now that the laboratories are engaged in war work, so recently everyone had to prove he was bom, sign an identifi cation card, and get mugged. The mugging process was ar ranged for the auditorium, and one by one all employees lined up for a turn before the camera. Then came the badges, so everyone now goes around wearing his picture. The scene was duly recorded for the Bulletin Board by famed Pat Harding. Herewith is presented the work of Pat, and a sample of the photographer's art in the picture that appears on Pat's badge. Soilor Ashore ross e. rife, purchasing clerk at the. Engineering Research Laboratories in Detroit, came to Ethyl after 12 years in the sales department offices of the Dodge Motor Car Company. A native of Ontario, Ross found himself in Detroit one autumn at the end of a summer's work on a Great Lakes boat, so what could be more natural than for him to enter the automobile business? His hob bies are his three-year-old daughter Beverlee, riding, and the family's 65-pound English bulldog. 21 ETC 06268 In the Air Corps Here are last-minute reports on three Ethyl men now in military service: From Baltimore we hear that Lieutenant Fritz Mercer, now in the Navy, has been promoted to Lieu tenant, Senior Grade. This puts two broad stripes of gold on his arm. When he first left us he was an Ensign; his two appointments have come within a year. From Baltimore we also learn that J. S. Maynard is in the Na\y. No longer a safety man, he reported for special training at Harvard Uni versity on July 1, with the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade. From Baton Rouge we learn of Tom Bridges, who is now in the Army. He wants his Bulletin Board sent to him at this address -- Pvt. Thomas E. Bridges, Company A, Reception Center, Camp Beaure gard, Louisiana. P. S. He'd like a couple of letters, too! since may 15 it's been Lieutenant Laur ence H. Blatchford. On that date Larrv received orders from the Army Air Corps to quit his work with the Boston Division and to report for duty at the Officers Train ing School at Miami Beach. From there Lieutenant Larrv will proceed to Lajunta, Colo., for further training with the British Operational Training Unit. P.S. to Page 14 Military Secrets? Some of you Ethyl men in the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard, or the Marine Corps haven't gotten as much correspondence as you might have from your old friends simply because they don't know where to write you. Whenever your whereabouts do not constitute a military secret, drop a line to the office or plant or lab where you used to work, so the people there can at least hand on your address or forward mail to you if it comes to them. Or send a note to the Bul letin Board -- and we'll publish your address. 22 Len Huxtable, assistant manager of the Tulsa Division, who got nicked out of the lab sessions at the Detroit Fleet School by a tough case of flu. After about four days in bed he perked up and was a-rarin' to go, but the doc kept him under covers for a week just to be safe. How did he enjoy lying in bed for a week? Note the expres sion on his face. ETC 06269 Heft's Ruth Clark, Ralph Hutchinson's secretary, whom we told you about a while back. She came to the New York office from Equitable Life Insurance Company. Her spare time activities in clude swimming, dancing and tennis, but above all Ruth is a candid camera addict. This time we turned the tables and got her picture. Ruth Judd, a graduate of the Fort Lee High School and Eastman Business School in New York, has joined the ranks of commuters from Jersey to the N. Y. Finance Department. Ruth went to Traphagen School of Fashion at night and now makes her own clothes -- and they're good! She also likes summer resorts where she can swim and play tennis. Helen Espenshade, new statistical typist in the Finance Department, is a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Helen came to Ethyl's New York office from L. C. Smith, the typewriter people. She likes reading, tennis and knitting, but give her a chance and she'll drop every thing to drive through the mountains of Virginia--or in fact, any mountains. Ruth Keeler, who is replacing Edna Swiegen in Bob Brown's Payroll Sec tion, attended St. Lawrence and George Washington Universities. Before com ing to Ethyl, she worked for the head of the medical department of a social agency. Ruth, an ardent knitter for the British, is a bowling, badminton and horseback riding enthusiast. 23 ETC 06270 Eyes foi the Navy have you any Zeiss or Bausch and Lomb binoculars, sizes 6 x 30 and 7 x 50? If so, your Navy would like to borrow them for the duration of the present unpleasantness. Those who have binoculars of the above makes and sizes should mail them, securely packed and tagged with the name and permanent address of the owner, to the Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C., or bring them to the Third Naval District Head quarters, Room 909, 90 Church Street, New York, N. Y. As the Navy is not authorized to receive gifts or free loans, you will receive the sum of $1 as rental for your binoculars. When the war has been won, they will be returned to you with sincere thanks -- thanks from the Navy, and thanks from the American officer who uses them for spotting subs or planes in time to defend his ship and "get the goods across." Mary Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Wrigley, photographed at three months. Cliff is in charge of fuel blend ing house at Engineering Research Laboratories, Detroit. Rock-A-Bye, Baby that bird has been flying around the Detroit Chemical Research Lab oratory -- and we mean flying! On May 23 the Bert Morgans welcomed their first son, Gregory William, who tilted the beam at eight and a half pounds, cradleside. June 6 was a double date, with the Herbert Neals welcoming their first daughter, Susan Melissa, weigh ing five pounds ten ounces, and the Ed Johnsons rejoicing over their second son, Roger Lee, who checked in at seven pounds fifteen ounces. 24 ETC 06271 SPARRING PARTNER FOR A TANK ENGINE The powerful dynamometer to which this tank engine is hitched can give it a "workout" simulating the demands of actual combat serv ice. Sixteen such machines, ranging in capacity from seventy-five to seven hundred horsepower, are at work in the new Ethyl research lab oratories to help Uncle Sam give our armed forces better, more pow erful fighting fuels and engines. Engineering and chemical research are part of the job of making anti knock fluid. Antiknock fluid is used to improve gasoline, but better gas oline becomes of greatest value only as engines are designed to utilize it. Therefore the Ethyl Corporation from its very beginning has worked hand-in-hand with the automotive, aviation and petroleum industries. When the Japs called on Pearl Har bor we were just completing a new 26-acre engineering research plant in Detroit. Its facilities were imme diately offered to the Government. Today all Ethyl manufacturing =equipment, laboratories and techni cal service divisions are geared to meet America's wartime needs. Our plant capacity is sufficient to fill all the antiknock fluid require ments of our Army, Navy and Allies. And it is our privilege, through re search, to help automotive, aviation and petroleum engineers give more power to the motorized equipment which will carry our fighting men to victory. THE ETHYL CORPORATION ETC 06272 AUGUST, 1942 ETC 06273 j ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employ, ETC 06274 1 IT IS the privilege of the Bulletin Board to announce a new game, or contest if you like, for Ethyl em ployees. It's new, it's different and you don't have to send in any box tops. What's more, the prizes are printed by the U. S. Treasury. This is what we've all been waiting for -- a chance to get more war bonds with out working for them. Have we vour attention? Shortly there will appear a new series of Ethyl ads designed to ac quaint all car owners with the true meaning of the name "Ethyl" -- to correct wrong ideas and confirm right ideas. It is referred to as the Ethyl "Name Campaign." All ads will carry a coupon offering a 28-page booklet containing over 700 first or "given" names, their origin and their meaning. For example, the mascu line name, Anthony, is from the Lat in and means "flourishing; graceful." The feminine name Ann means "graceful" too. but Ethyl is a trade mark name and means -- well if you don't know, you'd better read the ads too. The campaign will begin in Sep-=tember and will appear in leading magazines such as The SaturdayEvening Post, Life. Colliers, Liberty, Look. American, National Geo graphic. Red Book, Cosmopolitan and national farm magazines such as Country Gentleman, Farm Journal, Successful Farming, Capper's Farm er, Progressive Farmer and Southern Agriculturist. Total guaranteed ABC 3 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST etc 06275 ETC 06276 circulation of issues of these maga zines which will have a "name" ad in them and which appear before October 1; is 32.23c.206. Most of them have some "excess" circulation, often as much as iob per issue. What are the contest rules? All you have to do is to submit your guess on how many requests for booklets the corporation will receive before October 15. Here's something that may help a little -- at least it will give you some basis for figuring. A test ad was run in the United States News (circulation 173,798) a few weeks ago and we received requests for 1,331 booklets. That's just a little less than one half of one percent of i the readers. In advertising circles < that's considered pretty good in view | of the fact that the circulation of the | United States News is not typical of (the "coupon-clipping" type of read er. So some of the advertising people think the ads ought to "pull" better in the popular magazines. Just to keep this contest open and above board no member of the Ad vertising and Public Relations De partment will be allowed to partici pate. Not that their guess is any better than yours. In fact Ralph Champlin has a small wager with Russ Weston that someone outside the department will make a closer guess than anyone on the "inside." They have their own "pool," but no War Bonds are involved. So there you are -- you have all the information anyone else has. How many readers out of the 32,230,206 who will receive copies of the maga zines do you think will clip a coupon and send it in? The employee who makes the most accurate guess will receive a $100 War Bond; second best guesser will receiv e a S23 bond and third best will receive a S3 war savings stamp. Only employees may enter a guess -- no wives, husbands or juniors -- and only one guess per employee. Letters or postal cards must be received by the Bulletin Board, postmarked before midnight Octo ber 10. IDA SANDRA MILSTIN, in the Detroit gaso line test office, had a birthday early last month. Members of the lab staff helped her celebrate with gifts which included candy from the chemists and an orchid from the girls. j I i THIS AD will appear in magazines reaching 52.a50.ao6 people. How many of them will send in the coupon? S100 in bonds for the right answer. 1 ETC 06277 THAT ETHYL OOMPH . . . NO LESS A FIGURE than Ann (Oomph) Sheridan is responsible currently for giving Ethyl something of a publicity boost. This month she's appearing around the local flickshops in one of these poor-folks pictures titled "Juke Girl" -- which features a cute youngster in pigtails and overalls named Skeeter. The boost comes in the opening few minutes when Skeeter shuffles into a filling station swinging a gaso line can on her arm. "Do you think you could wet the bottom of the can," she asks, "up to here?" Handing up the can, she goes on: "Mr. Keeno, you sure have got a nice station here ... I wish I could have some of that strawberry gasoline, that what's got that girl's name on it." "You mean Ethyl," suggests Mr. Keeno. "Ethyl?" asks Skeeter. "That's a silly name for gasoline. I wonder why they didn't put a man's name on it -- it sure pushes a car!" -- Incidentally, while the Bulletin Board reporter was sitting there in the dark waiting with pencil and notebook for the thing to come around again, to copy the words more exactly, a newsreel came on showing a filling station proprietor cultivating a patch of com alongside his empty' grease pits. Commenting on the Victory garden, the newsreel voice remarked brightly: " . . . and his golden bantam may even have an Ethyl flavor!" Plantation Wedding It's Major Weill Now THE WEDDING BELLS rang out on June 24 for Ensign Cooper N. MiHs and Bessie Samuel, who were mar ried at the bride's home, Fairhaven Plantation, in Irene, Louisiana. Cooper was formerly a mechanical engineer in the coordination section of the Technical Division at Baton Rouge before he joined the Naval Reserve. Eric Breidenbach, best man at the wedding, is a chemical engi neer in the Technical Division. FORMER CAPTAIN M. F. WEILL (Los Angeles Division Fuel Tune-up School man while still in private life) is receiving congratulations from his friends upon his recent raise in rank. "Bo" is on the staff of Lieut. General De Witt, commander of the Fourth Army, as automotive officer with jurisdiction over all of the army's motorized equipment on the Pacific Coast. And brother, that's a lot of motorized equipment! 6 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST Detroit Engineers Eat and Elect THE AFFAIRS of the Society of Ethvl Engineers at the Detroit Lab oratories for the coming year will be in the hands of Cliff Wriglev of the Engineering Research staff and Heinie Mueller of the Technical Service Department. Cliff and Heimie were elected President and Sec retary, respectively, at the Society's annual dinner on July 28. Lieutenant John Howard, the retiring president, acted as toastmaster. Earlier in the evening members of the Society applauded while Earl Bartholomew, director of the Engi neering Research Laboratories, made formal presentation of a fifteen-vear pin to his first assistant. Chuck Haw ley. Chuck came to Ethyl in 1927 on a temporary summer job that stretched into fifteen years of con tinuous sen-ice. The occasion was given a martial flavor by the presence of three former members of the Detroit staff in uni form--Lieutenants Johnny Howard, Idan Flaa and Art Huffman. The Society's dinner this year co incided with the bi-monthly meeting of the Technical Service, Sales and Advertising Departments and mem bers of these groups were invited to attend. Coard Taylor, vice president in charge of sales, and Ralph Champlin, director of Advertising and plin, director of Advertising and Public Relations, spoke briefly. Oth ers stood and took bows. Heinie Mueller ETC 06279  * Note from * * Miles Kinley * * July 28, 1942 Dear Bulletin Board No, it's no "military secret" -- you ask for news of the gang in sen-ice, so here is my contribution, and on your own head be it! Am headquartered at the above ad dress, just as I used to be head quartered at an Ethyl address in Chi cago -- but even as then, am rarely to be found at headquarters, as said address is merely an anchor point from which to cast out in all direc tions on inspection trips. I once thought that an Ethyl man did a lot of traveling, but am now learning the true meaning of the word, for our "territory" on this job comprises anv and all places where the Army may be operating! Have already covered the Eastern half of the country, andbv the time this reaches you, will be on the \Yest coast beginning the job' of covering the installations out there. Haven't been out of the coun try- as vet, but will probably be be yond the boundaries in due time. Am a member of the Maintenance Division of the Inspector General's Department -- my particular job. along with eleven other officers, be ing inspection and attempt at cor rection of all phases of automotive maintenance. This means inspecting driver and mechanic training pro grams, operation of vehicles of all types, functioning of all automotive repair shops, supply of parts, tools, lubricants and fuels, etc., searching constantly for means of improving efficiency and making recommenda tions for such action. The work has proved very inter esting to date and is definitely in line with my past experience -- to a great extent it is an Ethyl fleet engineer's job on a much larger scale. I feel very fortunate that I have been able to continue my own line of work in the Army rather than having to shift to something foreign to my expe rience. Best wishes to all -- and particu larly to those with whom I worked in Chicago Division and Detroit Laboratories. May we all soon be back in the Ethyl fold. M. A. Kinley Captain, igd PLAYING BAIL with the neighbor's spaniel is one of the favorite pastimes of Tommi-. small son of Bill Heck of the Seattle Divi sion. The pup looks as if he enjoyed plaving with Tommy, too. That suspicious shadow around Tommy's mouth gave him avvav just before Fred Naylor, assistant Seattle Divi sion manager, snapped the picture. Tommi had recently made a successful raid on the family jam closet. ETC ARE YOU GETTING IN THE SCRAP? canvassed. It means the education and the day-to-day cooperation of even- man. woman and child in the country. It means that we cannot af ford to relax after a single drive. The Salvage Program is not a one-week or a one-month campaign any more than this is a one-week war. Salvage is an all-out continuing effort and must be organized as such. This is the people's job. It is a tan gible task that anyone can perform to help win this war without interfering with other war work or with personal responsibilities. THE IMMENSITY of the task we still face requires a stepping up of the tempo of the Salvage Program. If we are to keep our steel mills going full blast this winter, we must increase the flow of scrap iron and steel by at least 6.ccc.ooo tons -- 25% more than normal. Another vital scrap material is scrap rubber. With the cncniv con trolling over qoo of the world's crude rubber supply, and with svnthetic rubber in volume at least a year away, scrap rubber has become an essential war material. We need all we can get. Even1 evidence indicates that the only way the requirements of war production can be met is to obtain every bit of scrap from even' home, every commercial establishment, ev en- industrial enterprise in the coun try. This means that even- possible source of scrap must be periodicals SAVE RUBBER BANDS! RUBBER BANOS provide the high est quality of reclaimed rubber -- they are reclaimable practically pound for pound for the rubber which goes^ into manv important military items. This table shows the weight of rubber bands that would provide the rubber in some military items: 34 lb. . . Recoil mechanism. 90-mm. gun 1 lb. . . ;o canvas field bags 4V2 lbs. . . 1 height finder 1 Vi lbs. . . 1 radio set, Signal Corps 9 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST MARIE HENCH, who hails from Richmond Hill, Long Island, has just joined the steno graphic group in hiew York. An alumna oi Pace Institute, she did secretarial work at a large insurance firm tor four years before joining us. Marie loves going to concerts and gets a great kick from studying the piano; her favorite composers are Bee thoven, Mozart, Chopin and Tschaikowsks. An interesting note is the fact that she also likes popular music, and can beat out the boogie-woogie as well as the Beethoven. BOB FINN, an energetic bundle of youthful ambition, is the smiling gentleman on the left who, as a newcomer, is being shown the proper mailman's grip by Merritt Morse. Both of them work in the New York mail room. He lives in Ardslev on the Hudson with the other nine members of his familv and his "collections." Bob is a collector of guns, newspapers which tell of famous events, and stamps. At the moment he is making a special effort to collect censored "covers" or envelopes. Even though he is out of school he still plays a good deal of football, soccer, hockey (in season), tennis and baseball. THE CHARMING new face in Walt. Resler's statistical group is that of Alice Hlavac, a wee slip from East Islip who likes to bowl. bicycle, swim in the surf and otherwise pass the time of day with seven girl friends of hers who have banded into an informal group known as the "Kingpins." She also gets in all the sailing, tennis, badminton, and archers- she can -- but that'&onlv half her story. The other half of it is that she picked up typing and other subjects as a post-graduate student in high school while serving as secretary to both the principal and the athletic coach, later spent two rears in an architectural firm, then filled in a few months on Womans Press, journal of the YWCA, before coming to Ethyl. Not con tent with her accomplishments, she now goes to night school to study Stenotypmg, a form of mechanized shorthand. BULLETIN BOARD -- AUG ETC 06282 Nursery Rhyme Erin Go Ferndale! LIEUTENANT \V H. "Don" Phipps, former safety representative in Flor ida for the Atlanta Division, and Mrs. Phipps were exceedingly joyful when Don. Jr., bowed into this world on June 16 at Jacksonville. He is their second child, the other being a daughter. Father Don, who is in the Army, is now taking a special course of military' instruction at Yale Uni versity. Tanks, Charlie! THE IRISH have captured the lobby at the Research Laboratories in De troit, now that Evelyn Ryan, the new telephone operator, has joined Lou ise Hennessey, the receptionist. Evelyn was born in Mt. Carmel. Ontario, and attended school in Mt. Carmel and Detroit. Her telephone experience in Detroit includes jobs such as switchboard supervisor at the Book-Cadillac hotel and with the L. A. Young Spring & Wire Co. She likes to ride horseback during off hours. CHARLIE EHRHARDT, research en gineer at Detroit now is a member of the Armored Force and is stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Charlie was graduated from Rice Institute in 1941, and had just completed the Training Course Program. Eveivn Ryan A Ring for Her Finger HELEN LANKAU, at Detroit, was in troduced as a new Ethvlette in the July Bulletin Board, and while the issue was coming off the press she quietly proclaimed her engagement by wearing the customary ring on the customary finger. No date has been set, says Helen, for John Blateckv to put the second ring on her finger. LLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST i i ETC 06283 faced. Every college boy has a lot of them. It's never lacking for words, but it is often hard to understand." The sailor scratched his head. The audience giggled. Bob Hawk went on. "When vou get tired of it. you shut it up but you still wonder how it is all going to end. It is not the original cost, it is the upkeep. But when vou walk away and leave it alone, it may follow you...." The sailor scratched his head again. "Could it be an animal?" he asked. The audience -- and our Pat -- col lapsed in laughter. PAT WATSON, secretary to Jack Martin, had the time of her life the other night when she appeared on Bob Hawk's famous "How'm I Doin'?" radio program. At one point in the show a guest from the audi ence (and at this particular point in this particular show it was a sailor lad. as you can see) stands at a micro phone while swiveltongued Bob Hawk stands behind him at a large box. Something is pulled out from under the box and described, while the person at the mike tries to guess its identity. "This is something you like to hold in your lap," said the Hawk, pulling our Pat from her hiding place in the box. " -- in front of a fireplace, to while away the time on a cold winter's evening. It was recommend ed to you by a friend who said it was in his preferred list. It comes in vari ous types -- small, large and bold- PAT WATSON, who went on the air without saving a word and brought the house down BUUETIN BOARD -- AUGUST ETC 06284 BRANDING ROUND-UP AT THE LAZY E-Q RANCH ate* Turning fhe critter loose- RUSTLING OF TIRES along the hills and plains of Honest Jim Boudreau's ranch- (sometimes known as the Western Division) is now being frustrated by means of branding? In the accom panying series of pictures, cowpunchers Larry Larison (now with the Boston- Bulldozers) and Ralph Ormsby (the Yodelin' Kid from- Chi) showhow a maverick is singled out of the herd, roped and branded. ETC 06285 From Lakes to Lab HAROLD D. FAUCHER, new man at the power plant at the Detroit Lab oratories, got his training by sailing on the Great Lakes. After graduation from the Marine City. Michigan. High School. Harold was on lake boats for six years, working up to the post of engineer. He moved to De troit two years ago and came to Ethyl from the machine shop of Budd Wheel Company. Mr. and Mrs. Faucher and their five-year-old boy, Gene, live in Ferndale. College Romance Brings Wedding Bells JIM ANDERS, of the Engineering Research Laboratories staff in De troit, and Helen Christine Yandell were married June 8 in Hutchinson, Kansas. Both bride and groom are graduates of Oklahoma A. & M. Col lege in the class of 194*. The ro mance started with their meeting at a church get-together in the^fall of their freshman year. Helen, who hailed originally from Ponca City, Okla., has been teaching school in that state. Jim, a Konawa, Okla., boy, entered Faller Techno logical Institute last summer and was recently graduated to the road test section. After a brief honeymoon in Oklahoma and Kansas the couple returned to Detroit. BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGL ETC 06286 Life is real, life is earnest. And the grave is not its goal. But if I get another transfer -- Well -- ah -- bless my soul! Chicago in September Was quite all right with me. And the Dakotas in November Were something fine to see. In March to Minneapolis (My wife began to sigh} "It's all for dear old Ethyl" -- Says I -- yes. says I. Well, we settled down again -- Situation well in hand -- Plans for summer pleasures And everything just grand. July came, verv peaceful. Almost too good to be true -- Then they ship me off to Boston And my wife is verv- blue. "You'll stay up here forever" -- At least says Casey Jones, But another transfer's on the wav . I feel it in my bones. --Larrv Lari son LETIN BOARD -- AUGUST GORDON RUSSELL OESTERLING is the son of Bob Oesterling. a chemist in the TEL control laboratory at Baton Rouge. Only ten months old. he weighs a: pounds. Some football coach should have a promising tackle in about 18 years. CAROLYN ROCHE, daughter of V V Poche, an operator at the Ethyl Chloride plant at Baton Rouge, points with pride to the go-pound catfish her daddy caught recently. ETC 06287 John B. Link March, 194: Norman J. Linstromberg January. 194: Irwin Trowbridge June, 1941 GASOLINE TESTING Baton Rouge Walter J. Rantanen July, 194c Detroit Edward J. Kukla October, 1941 Albert W Ramsey July, 194; Tulsa \Y Webster Downer July, 1941 ADMINISTRATION New York Donald Forsdick November. 1941 FINANCE New York Kenneth G. Morse March, 1942 MANUFACTURING Deepwater Everett Clough April, 1941 Jack Ebell March. 1942 John P. Giffing June, 1941 J. Robert Greenwood December. 1940 Noble Joe Nixon March, 1942 John F. Wallis June, 1941 New York Benjamin D. Harrison January, 1942 Baton Rouge Technical Francis D. Atkinson March, 1942 Benjamin W Fridge August, 1941 Kenneth G. Lee June, 1941 (died in sen ice) Cooper N. Mills May. 1942 John R. Montgomery July, 1942 Baton Rouge TEL Dayton C. Bolin June, 1941 James F. Bridges July, 1942 Thomas E. Bridges May, 1942 Randolph S. Charlton May, 1942 ' I, i 17 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST ETC 06288 Wilford E. Frazier March. 1941 Herbert J. Holdridge August. 1941 David H. McNeil May. 194: Arthur H. Middleton February. 1941 Leo A. Miller September. 1941 Hubert NT. Wax June, 1942 Baton Rouge Ethyl Chloride Burl Gardner Boggs March. 1942 Percy L. Breeden June. 1942 George W Chavers July, 1942 Reynolds M. Collins March, 1942 George B. Doherty July. 1942 Edward G. Duffard. Jr. May, 1941 Jason D. Fendlason May, 1942 Edgar W Gates July, 1942 Lou D. Hill June. 1942 Phebus NT. Hotard November, 1941 Rufus M. Jackson April, 1941 iS BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST Robert C. Kendrick January. 1942 James B. Marshall July, 1942 Richard T. McCraine July, 1942 George T. Mercier. Jr. August. 1941 Woodrow W Merritt March. 1942 Franks. Neal July, 1942 George B. Noland April, 1941 Robert D. Norwood February. 1942 Joseph T. Reed January. 1942 Charles E. Smith June, 1942 Woodrow F. Zachariah June. 1942 SALES Atlanta Arthur S. Brown August. 1941 Stuart Forbes July, 1942 Raymond H. Luke March. 1942 Wales H. Phipps February. 1942 Wavland W Sweeney May, 1941 Stuart J. Warner, Jr. August, 1941 Joseph E. Williams April, 1942 Baltimore John S. Maynard July, 1942 Fritz V. Mercer May, 1941 Boston Laurence H. Blatchford May, 1942 Robert W Richardson July, 1942 Chicago Idan E. Flaa September, 1941 Howard B. Hudiburg May, 1941 Miles A. Kinlev February. 1942 John W Miller December, 1940 Dayton Emerson Blair April, 1942 Los Angeles Hamilton G. Greenup September, 1941 Monroe F. Weill April, 1941 New York Redgnald D. Bushell April, 1941 D. Frank Hayes May, 1942 F. Don Williams May, 1942 Seattle Ray M. Brown, Jr. July, 1942 Robert R. Mead June, 1942 Tulsa Levan R. Fleck September, 1941 Arthur D. Miller March, 1941 John M. Rollins July, 1942 New York General Gerald Forsdick .June. 1942 Lester B. Roberts July, 1942 Russell Schell June, 1942 New York Special William J. Ryan April, 1941 1 ' ' j i i ! 1 J J j j j J | ^ 9 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST WILL IT HELP WIN THE WAR? hand. One thought should be upper most in everyone's mind. Oscar de cided -- "Will It Help Win the War?" He felt so strongly about it that he had the slogan printed and hung on the wall of his office. Ralph Champlin saw it there, liked the idea and had a number made up for distribution throughout the company. The other day Lex Chiquoine of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, our advertising agency, called up and asked permis sion to use the slogan in an adver tisement for the New York Tele phone Company. You can see how ideas get around! NEW YORK newspapers recently carried a quarter page advertisement which began "Ask Yourself This Question: Will It Help Win the War?" The advertisement, inserted by the New York Telephone Com pany. was an appeal to the public to cut out unnecessary long distance telephone calls. Incidentally, this is a new negative tvpe of advertising which has grown out of the war. It's selling in reverse. But the interesting thing about the ad to Ethyl people is the fact that the headline can be traced directly to an Ethyl man -- Oscar Lewis. Several months ago when Oscar was spending a large part of his time on a government-sponsored committee formed to study fuel storage prob lems. he was struck by the number of time-consuming trivialities that interfered with the main business at EVERYBODY in Sally's family just has to have bacon for breakfast, and what to do with the bacon fat which collected dav after day use<f to be quite a problem. Now she simply strains it into the grease salvage can and in no time at all she has a pound of that clean fat wanted by Uncle Sam for war uses. She sells to her butcher. She's careful, though, not to take it to him on week-ends -- did that once and found him so busy she had to wait over a half hour to get it weighed! BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST SPLINTERS FROM THE WAR PRODUCTION BOARD WHEN you throw away three cans vou are throwing away enough tin for one hand grenade. A WOMAN'S mouton coat contains enough material to line a war flier's sheepskin-lined jacket. THE LEATHER in an average-size woman's pocketbook would make a pair of army av iator's gloves. THE STEEL saved bv limiting the use of blackplate in bottle caps is suffi cient to make more than 1900 me dium tanks. FOUR HUNDRED jalopies found rusting in a Wisconsin "graveyard" yielding enough scrap to make 240 "-mm. howitzers and 480 one-ton aerial bombs. THE STEEL, copper wire and brass used to make an average piano would be enough to produce a dozen bay onets. a signal corps radio set and 66 .30 caliber cartridges. FOUR SINGLE-BED size sheets use as much linen as goes into the wings, fuselage, and ailerons of one type of training plane. MORE GOODS - war and civilian -- are moving over rails than ever before in U. S. history. Around 50c freight trains move through the Pittsburgh. Pa., area even- 24 hours, an average of more than 20 an hour, earning a total of between ten and thirteen thousand loaded cars. THE LEATHER in a pair of men's oxfords would make an officer's pistol holster. 21 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST DEEPWATER visitors--Irene and Alma Brasure. as part of their vacation fun iast July, visited the New York office to meet the giris with whom they clear so manv things over the phone. After mam months of close cooperation over "Jong distance." Alma and her sister finally had a chance to get acquainted with the voices at the other end of the wire in Jav Gou.v's office. Irene, who has charge of files and tank car records, stands nearest the camera in light dress and hat. Alma, secretary to Deepwater plant manager Charlie Wasserman. stands next to Edythe Kimball. At the typewriter, explaining a shipping document, is Marguerite McDonald. Marguerite and Edythe work on ex port shipments under fay Goux. ELMA SMITH, a tall eye-catching blonde, has joined the Davton Division to handle safety matters in the division office. Elma is a graduate of Steele High School of Dayton and was with the Prudential Insurance Companv for two years before signing up with Ethyl. Elma is an expert swimmer. Her twin hobbies are collecting phonograph records and attending movies on a regular schedule. While a student at Steele High, she proved her versatility by winning a tennis trophy and being the fastest typist and shorthand writer in her class. GEORGE POLK sees to if that all the Chemical Laboratory glass ware is kept clean and ready for use. and is dispatcher of corre spondence and material within the Chemical Research Depart ment. Before coming to Ethyl, George was chauffeur for a Pon tiac, Michigan, family. Going to the movies and playing softball are his two favorite ways of pass ing time after work. BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGI ETC 06293 MRS. HELM! MclEAN, a graduate nurse who trained at the Calu met, Michigan, Pub/ic Hospital. has taken charge of the new first aid station w hich has been added to other safety precautions at De troit Research Laboratories. -Mrs. McLean was employed in Roya/ Oak, Mich., hospitals for nine vears before coming to Ethyl. Her hobbies are "lots of fishing," and she has done some extensive trav eling during vacations. Her head quarters are a room on the first floor between the Chemical Lab oratory and the Dynamometer Section wings. DR. MORLEY MORGANA, a native of De troit. has recently returned to the motor city to join the ranks of the organic research department in the Chemical Research Lab. Upon the completion of his undergraduate work. Morley continued his studies at Har vard. where he received his Ph.D. in /une of this year. He is married and has a three year old son. Gardening, photography and playing the piano fill in his spare time. ALL good things come in small packages, and so it is with the latest addition to the distaff side of the Chem. Lab in Detroit. Sue Aydelott. q ft. 10 in. of southern charm, was born in Water Valles . Kv.. and before coming to Detroit 9 years ago spent most of her life in Memphis, Tenn. A 194: gradu ate of Mangrove College svith a B.S. degree. Sue was elected to Iota Gamma Alpha, college honor society, and recently had two articles published bv School Science and Mathematics. "Research in Pure Science -- A Factor in National Defense," and "Chemurgy. A Factor in National Defense." Sewing and reading are her greatest indulgences when she is not playing tennis. JLIETIN BOARD -- AUGUST ETC 06294 FOUR CLINIC MEN WIN PINS SIX TEN-YEAR PINS were given out last month -- four of them to men who had become veterans of the footlights with the old Ethyl clinics. Carl Bern- used to run Clinic No. 10. Since the closing of the Clinic program he has been earning on as field representative in his old stamp ing ground around the Kansas Cits' Division. He is active in the SAE and the Oil Man's Club. Dick Coveney covered most of the New England states as field man in the early davs of his career. He then trained at the Detroit lab for three months, after which he was made a fleet man and automotive represen tative. In 1938 he was given a Clinic; now he is earn ing on with the fleet work which the war has made so much more important. Ed Cline, the "mad genius of the Ethyl Corp. of California" managed the Los Angeles Clinic for two years. Having turned his hand to every-thing from sales promotion to super chargers, he has built an outstanding water-break chassis dynamometer. Guy Donohue, who first came with us as field man in the New York Division and later moved in the same capacity' to the old Dens er Division, is another ex-barnstormer. After serv ing as automotive engineer in the Chicago Division he was transferred to New York and held the post of automotive engineer on both Clinics Nos. 4 and 7. Guy is now up to his ears in work as automotive engineer in the New York Division. Julian Gonzalez, Secretary of the company, first handled special field work in the Metropolitan district of the New York Division when he joined us in July 193:. He was then transferred to the Rocky Mountain Division, serving as field man in Montana. In the following year lie joined the Administration Depart ment as assistant to Art Mittnacht. and later became Secretary, a post which has kept him busy ever since. Frank Stablcin. the genial tractor man of the New York Division, has been w orking hard on the farm mar ket ever since 1938. He originally served his first six years with us as field representative. Five year pins were given to Iva F. Feil. on the Engineering staff at San Bernardino; Ralph H. Ormsby. Min neapolis field man in the Chicago Division; and Jesse Savario, who as secretary to Lew Barnum keeps the Bulletin Board well posted as to what is going on in Baton Rouge. 24 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST Baton Rouge Folks Hold a Picnic A LARGE CROWD of Ethyl and du Pont employees at Baton Rouge and their families "oiled their feathers" on the Fourth of July and frolicked like ducks throughout a drizzling rain which dampened but did not wash out the annual plant picnic. For the second successive year the Community Center at Port Allen, a small town across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, proved an ideal site with its baseball park and grandstand, swimming pool, flying horses (or merry-go-round, if you prefer), and large main hall for danc ing, picnic lunches, band concert, and bridge. Bob Oesterling took first place in the 50-yard and also in the 100-yard swim; Manson Pitcher took a first in diving. Hany Hinnershitz. pairing with Regina Morton, scampered home first in the three-legged race. And the modest Ethyl stenos are still talking about the way they challeng ed and edged out the equally green du Pont steno softball team, four to one. Much of the success of the outing was due to the hours of work by the members of the picnic committee. Everyone, in spite of sniffles and sore muscles, is looking forward to next year's outing. COOLING OFF in the pool -- Maiv, Dannv, and Barnev Barnurn DESPITE the rain, people stood in line all day to ride the "living horses" ETC 06296 JIM GILBERT, Jim Russell. Dan Renshaw. John Hig gins, and Phil King (ivith the pipe) -- five office boys from the New York mail room who set out after work one Friday late in /uly for a weekend trip to Bear Mountain, up the Hudson River. What a weekend! They got rained out before they could cook supper and had to "camp" the first night in an old picnic shack, but made up for it by frying their steak for breakfast when the sun came up. SATURDAY night they thumb ed a ride into town "to dance and hang around." Three of them got lifts home but two had to walk the 15 miles back. ETC 06297 LIEUTENANT J. S. "Jack" Maynard joined Ethyl's ever-growing service contingent when he was called to active duty' in the Nary July 1. Jack's job, which consisted chiefly of the handling of safety' in Mary land, Del aware. and Virginia, has been turned over to Marshall McDorman, who formerly was field engineer for South Carolina. 3 * $ =S FRANCES B. WILSON has been em* ployed as a secretary. She previously had worked with the Baltimore Di vision at one time on a temporary basis. This time she comes to Ethyl from the law firm of Semmes. Bowen & Semmes. # * =s * J. W. WILSON, JR., formerly safetyengineer for the Carolinas. has been transferred to the Atlanta Division. Taking over in his area is Dwight Andrews, former field man in Vir ginia, who has moved to Charlotte, N. C. $ s =* * THE ART ACKENS have announced the arrival of a lovely daughter, the young lady making her debut in June. Quits Campus for Ethyl CLARENCE `CAP" HALL has for saken a college instructor's chair to join the staff at the Engineering Re search Laboratories in Detroit. Cap was born in Spokane. Ohio, and obtained his B.M.E. degree at Ohio State University. One summer he worked at G. M. Research. After college, Cap was with Frigidaire for a year and then went to Rice Insti tute, Houston, Texas, to teach me- chanical engineering. By attending summer school, he earned his M.S. degree at the University of Michigan. Cap is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. honorary scientific fraternities. His hobbies are music and golf. Cap Hall ETIN BOARD -- AUGUST ETC 06298 I i WHEN SALLY used to cook pork or lamb chops, she'd clean the broiler by holding it under hot running water and let the chop grease go down the drain. But no more! It only takes two pounds of fats like that to provide the power for firing 5 anti tank shells. Nowadays Sally strains that chop fat into her grease salvage SALLY is being very careful about the kind of containers she uses for saving can. (Incidentally, her sink drain doesn't get stopped up any more!) those kitchen fats so important to our war effort. No glass or paper con tainers for her. Metal cans are the CLIFF POPE, manager of Gasoline thing and she chooses the kind with Testing, is at home recuperating wide mouths, like her vegetable from a major operation. Cliff was shortening, or coffee cans. That operated on June 26 at the Yonkers makes it easier for her to pour the General Hospital and was allowed fats in and for the rendering plant to to go home on July 18. He has get the fats out. And of course she been recovering steadily and expects scrubs the cans thoroughly before to return to his office sometime this putting any grease in them! month. ANNE watt SMITH, secretary in Chemical Research, came to us on the first of July from Los Angeles, where she worked lor the Victor Adding Machine Co. Watt grew up in Kentucky and Tennessee, and had almost decided on a teaching career, but after 4 years at the Murray State Teacher's College in Kentucky, she changed her course and went in for the career of a business girl. Bowling, table tennis, badminton and bridge are some of her diversions, and in spite of her five years absence from Kentucky, that southern accent is still pro nounced. And why not? It's stiff charming.1 ETC 06299 KRIEGER IN TWO POSTS AL RAMSEY, of the Detroit gasoline test lab. was inducted into the Arms' on Julv A1 graduated from the Universitv of Oklahoma in 1931 with a B.S.M.E. degree. Before joining Ethyl in Nov. 1940 as an engine op erator he had been with the Aero nautical Department at the Univer sity of Oklahoma. GEORGE KRIEGER, manager of the agricultural division of the Technical Sendee Department, has been ap pointed chairman of two important technical committees. They are the Farm Machinery Conservation Committee of the So ciety of Automotive Engineers, and the Fuels and Lubricants Committee of the American Society of Agricul tural Engineers. Technical data from sendee and engineering departments of machin ery manufacturers and oil companies will be assembled by the SAE com mittee and consolidated for distribu tion to farmers through oil company salesmen and implement dealers. The committee will work with the War Production Board. The committee for the agricultural engineers society will assemble infor mation on fuels and lubricants for tractors and probably will report at the Society's semi-annual meeting next winter. George has been promi nent in the Society's activities, hav ing been a former chairman of this committee, and head of various other committees. WILLIAM B. ROSS was employed ]une : 3 as a laboratory helper at Baton Rouge. Born in Niagara Falls. N. Y,, Bill is a student at Governor Dummer Academy in South Byfield. Mass. This is his first job; he will leave it to return to school in the fall. GEORGE MERCIER, formerly at the Ethyl Chloride lab in Baton Rouge, has been promoted to lieutenant, junior grade, in the Sava1 Reserve. George has been stationed at Hamilton. Ohio, most of the time since he left Ethyl last August. =- ! j I \ ! LLETIN BOARD -- AUGUST ETC 06300 I LITTLEFIELD SAVES THE DAY WHEN SAN FRANCISCO'S bathing beauties turned in their bathing suits and rode at the head of the oil indus try's Scrap Rubber Parade, Ted Lit tlefield was there. In fact, he played a very important part. Tidewater (Associated Division) had sent along a very fine and very complete public address truck -- complete in evenrespect except that the announcer failed to show up. John Southworth of Shell, majordomo of the parade, was about ready to start shooting someone when he chanced upon Ted. who was sizing up the beach prospects for the sum mer. John told his troubles all in one breath. Of course Ted could not let a customer suffer, so he submerged his day-dreaming for the greater good of the Industry and took over the microphone. Doing the usual Little field job of ballvhooing all the way up Market Street and through the Civic Center, he let the populace know that a Rubber Drive was on. ETC 06301 HE'S BREWING TROUBLE FOR THE AXIS HE'S not concocting a more powerful explosive, a more deadly war gas or a more vicious ineendiarv bomb, lie's brewing a sen- special kind of trouble for our enemies. He is experimenting with pure hydrocarbons -- the possible basis for tomorrow's better fuels. These, in turn, may help America build more powerful engines -- not only for air planes, but for tanks, trucks and other motor ized equipment. Ethyl engineers and chemists, like the man in the picture, are constantly working with the petroleum industry to improve fuels and to make best use of our product -- Ethyl anti knock fluid. But wc do not stop there. Since fuels and engines arc so closclv related in their development and use. wc also work closely with the engine builders of the automotive, aviation and tractor industries. 3" Today the entire facilities of the Ethyl Cor poration -- its plants, laboratories, technical staffs and service divisions -- arc at the serv ice of our government. The Ethyl research labora tories arc now engaged almost entirely in war work. Our manufacturing facilities have met every demand for antiknock fluid to improve military gasolines. And every individual mem ber of our organization is hard at work "brew ing trouble for the .Axis." ETHYL CORPORATION AJanu/acturers of Ethyl Fluid, used bv oiJ companies fo improve the antiknock quality of aviation and motor gasolines ir ETC 06302 SEPTEMBER, 1942 ETC 06303 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD -- by and for Ethyl employees ETC 06304  miitmanmm I DETROIT has a new idea, and a good time to reply to our letter regarding one. Mlieri an ex-Detroiter writes a plan for circulation of their letters home to one of his Ethyl buddies, among the men in service. The re the receiver circulates the letter sponse has been 100 per cent, so we around the other men in the office dug around the Laboratory and found unless it's confidential. half a dozen letters already in from Then all the letters are mimeo various fellows. The old editorial graphed on a group circular letter, gimlet eve was put to work digging and the circular letter is sent back out the "news." Here are the results, i to all the Detroit men in service. our first inter-service letter. Future Here is an idea -- keeping the men issues are up to you fellows, and as in service posted on what the men soon as we have enough dope to in service are doing. Might be a good make up another letter out it goes. idea for other branches -- or. better The "hot spot" news today is that yet, we might all give our "service Lt. Jeff Bessire was around the Labs men's letters" to the Bulletin Board Aug. 2; and 26. Jeff is on leave, and correspondent at each plant, lab, or this morning flew down to visit his office, and let them forward them to folks'in Oklahoma. Jeff is a battalion the Bulletin Board so the whole com motor officer, with the Armored pany has a chance to read them. Force at Camp Polk. La. Here is the first Detroit letter: ft ft ft Letter No. 1 Detroit August 28, 1942 August 23,1942 It (the plan for circulating service men's letters) sounds fine to me, and Several of the fellows have had has my enthusiastic support. I am 3 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ! ETC 06305 V 'asm ! in the field artillery, assigned to a 155 mm. howitzer batten-. My job is that of motor officer. We have trucks all the way from the quarter ton jeep to the four ton prime movers, so you see we cover quite a few sizes of trucks.... We have made quite a bit of progress and our battery is begin ning to look like an Army outfit. It has been hard work but we've had moments of fun also. . . . Please tell all our friends hello. and Lt. John B. Link. F. A. 403rd Battalion, Battery A Camp Shelby, Miss. #S* August 15,194c For a while I acted as battalion motor officer and was responsible for care and maintenance of all vehicles in the battalion. This was a very in teresting assignment as it kept me nearer to motors and afforded an opportunity to learn a little more from a mechanic's viewpoint. While in this position I had the good fortune to meet one of the Ethyl men from Seattle. He is conducting a school at Fort Lewis for driv ers who have qual ifications to become instructors. Since acting as motor officer. I have been reassigned to a gun company. I suppose tests are progressing in the new Laboratory nicely by now. I'd like to be able to operate a dynamom eter test for a little while but will have to save that until after the war. Let's hope it doesn't take too long. Lt. N. J. Linstromberg 640 T. D. Bn. APO 1:88 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. August ic. 194a Tilings are going along quite well down here. Wc are spending consid erable time with newly activated di visions trving to get them started on motor maintenance in the right way. This necessitates being on the road most of the time. It has been hotter than hell down here for the past few weeks.... The family stands the heat quite well. C. E. Smith Automotive Advisor Headquarters 3rd Army Smith-Young Tower San Antonio. Texas August 11.1942 This is just a note to let you know that after six weeks of Army life I'm getting along fine. The men I'm get ting my basic training with arc really nice fellows, heading for different jobs in the Armored Force School. My basic training should be com pleted in two more weeks after this one, at which time I am to report to the Wheeled Vehicle Department. I am to take a "refresher course" there before assuming any definite duties. I hope the other men from the Lab oratory who entered the various branches of the service are as content with their outlook as I am. Private Chas. D. Ehrhardt. Jr. Headquarters Companv Demonstration Regiment Armored Force School Ft. Knox. Kv. Ss July 30. 1942 Still at the motor maintenance I 4 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 06306 r work, and am learning more every day. Just now I am teaching school and it's surprising how I manage to slip a commercial in now and then. . . . My regards to all. despite the several thousand miles distance. Lt. Wm. J. Ryan Co. M. 11th Infantrv APO 5 c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. f ***. * | August23. 1942 | I think it's a great idea (to circu- ' late service men's letters). Writing is a hell of a task however, but will try to uphold my end. I'm in the Overseas Supply Group of the Sup ply Branch of the Air Service Com mand. I have been put in charge of the night crew, about 100 people, and we work from 4 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. Under the circumstances you can see my life has been changed, but for the better I believe. Running into hundreds of fellows I know -- manv with oil connections, and Ethyl is well and favorably known. "High Octane'' applies to anything excep tionally good -- or beautiful. If the fellows think making a test at the Lab has to be accurate or exacting, the}' should see the set-up for follow ing overseas shipments. Captain E. E. Rothman Air Service Command Overseas Unit S.O. Wright Field Dayton, Ohio RUTH RUCH, new receptionist on the 56th floor of the Chrxsler Building in New York, leans wav out to see who has just stepped off the elevator. Our new greeter, a graduate of Dwight School and Ballard Secretarial, comes to Ethyl from three busy years with A. At. Kidder, a brokerage firm where she did stenographic and reception work as well as being in charge 0/ the firm s proxy department. Ruth spends most of her time after hours writing her husband, a corporal in a cavalry division at Fort Riley. A lover of horses as her husband is. she shares his enthusiasm tor riding and going to horse shows and hunts. For relaxation she likes to walk through the fields and woods near her home in Dumont, New /ersey. with her two boxers. Ruth expects to begin training as a nurse's aid soon so she ll be prepared to do her bit if ambombs come over her part of the country 1 i ETC 06307 'Kathlvn Gee Crouch t'>rtei,bern Goree A. s,m,, New Employees at Baton Rouge TEL Division Kathlyn Gee Crouch, typist clerk in the purchasing section, came trom Levingston Supply Company. Kath lyn attended high school in Parma, Missouri, Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, and Baton Rouge Business College. Cloy Edward Fortenberry, mechani cal helper, was born in Osyka, Miss., and attended high school in Progress, Miss. Before coming to Ethyl. Cloy worked as a steamfitter's helper with a sub-contractor at the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana. Ethyl Chloride Division Man' Agnes Bums, junior clerk in the ethyl chloride plant, attended St. Joseph's High School in Natchez. Miss.. Mississippi State College for Women, Soule Business College, and Felt & Tarrant Comptometer School. Her hobbies are dancing, swimming and hiking. Technical Division Goree A. Simes. laboratory helper, was bom in Bedias, Texas. He at tended San Jacinto High School and Louisiana State University, where he starred on the gridiron. Goree came to Ethyl from Thomas A. Bates & Sons at Waco, Texas. ETC 630g 1--.... j| Finance Department | Aubrey R. Chaney, paymaster, is a graduate of Tyler Commercial Coli lege and came to Ethyl from the i Fidelity Bank & Trust Company of Baton Rouge. Aubrey is married and the father of two young daughters. ; His favorite pastime during his free 7 time is badminton. *** Aubrey R. chaaey W: Christmas Mail to Soldiers and Sailors DO YOUR Xmas mailing real early to soldiers, sailors, and marines. Offi cers of the Army and Navy Postal Services urge that packages, letters and cards for men abroad or at sea be mailed between October 1 and November 1. Mailings made after November 1 will, in all likelihood, fail to reach their destinations until after Christmas. All available cargo space is needed for transporting vital militarv sup plies. Christmas packages should be kept under a minimum size and weight. Regulations provide that no package over 18 inches long or 42 inches in length and girth combined may be mailed. No package should weigh over 11 pounds. Not more than one package per week may be mailed to one person. Food should not be sent nor should clothing unless specifically requested. Electrical equipment is generally useless. Send toilet kits, wallets, shaving items, fountain pens, pencils and like items. Army -- Mail addressed to Army personnel serving outside the continental limits should clearly show: 1. The grade, first name, middle initial, and the last name of the person addressed, followed by his Army serial number, if known. 7 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 06309 2. The letter or number of the company or other similar or ganization of which the ad dressee is a member. 3. The designation of the regi ment or separate battalion, if anv, to which the company be longs. 4. The Army Post Office number in care of the appropriate Post master. For example: Private John J. Doe (Army Serial Number) Company B 212th Infantry' APO 801 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Coast Guard and Navy -- Mailings to Coast Guard person nel are the same as for Navy. Mail addressed to Navy personnel in the fleet or fleet organization should include: 1. The full name and rating of the recipient. 2. The name of the ship. 3. Address care of Postmaster. San Francisco or New York. For example: Michael M. Doyle, MMiC (Machinists Mate, First Class) U.S.S. Benham c/o Postmaster San Francisco Navy persons at continental shore stations may be addressed as before the war. Navy persons at advanced bases have been given instructions for designating the base. Include in the address the full name, rating, base designation and send in care of Post mater. San Francisco or New York. Marines -- Mail addressed to Marines should have: 1. Grade, full name and USMC. 2. United States Marine Corps Unit Number. 3. Care of Postmaster, San Fran cisco or New York. For example: Private George C. Quinn. USMC United States Marine Corps Unit No. 768 c/o Postmaster San Francisco EVERETT N. GARNSEY -- Yonkers Lab to Detroit Chemical Research. CLINTON f. HARDY -- Technical Service to Engineering Research, at Detroit. GEORGIE HOPPER -- from Kansas City to Detroit, in Technical Service. 8 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 06310 r Carl's Corner You'll have to excuse it. please. This time last month I was going to render a full report, but too many of the things I had in mind were military secrets. Now that it no long er has any military value to the en emy, however, certain phases of that hectic period can be discussed, but I must maintain my usual discreet ness. I had been giving a series of lec tures on "Detonation. Spark Knock. Carbon Knock. Fuel Knock, or God dam Knock" for the Army air force service classes at a number of the leading aircraft factories somewhere in southwestern United States, and had the singular good fortune to draw a personally conducted tour through the manufacturing depart ment as the guest of one of the head men. Like all the rest of the factories, this particular one has hired a lot of women for production jobs. Thev claim to have secured the cream of the crop because they pay well, their labor policv is fair, and they have designed an especially attractive work uniform. They really did all right. (Oh yes. before I forget -- I have completed arrangements to repeat my lecture once a month so as not to miss any of the classes going through the Army service school.) You know. Boss, looking around that factory one is struck with certain observations. For instance, they call them "slacks." but it is not accurate terminology -- there isn't any slack in them. That is swell for all con cerned, and no doubt accomplishes its real purpose, which is firmly grounded in the principles of safety. You wouldn't want any baggy cloth catching in the whirling machinery. But just the same, something should be done to help out the "heavies." There was one Big Bertha in partic ular. and we had to detour to let her come through the aisle with a wing beam on her shoulder. She looked OK coming -- just big and strong and competent -- but when we saw her going it just looked like she had tucked half a watermelon down in each hip pocket. "What a heck of a place to earn' vour lunch." said the VP Owing to the military nature of the factory output, it looked like all I could do there would be an investi gation and report on the problems' arising from women in industry. But that got sidetracked too. valuable as the sociological contribution might be. Mama did it very neatly as fol lows: "You have been working so hard 'ately. Can't we get our stuff together and take a fishing trip up in the mountains?" Being a family man, you know of course that such an appeal is practically irresistible. BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 06311 We shouldn't have taken the trip that we did, what with the family bus getting along in vears and the tire situation being what it is. But the oldest boy is going into the Armyin a few days, and neither we nor the car would probably ever be together for a trip of the whole family again, so we just decided "what the hell" in good old American fashion, loaded up the trailer, and hit the road for Kings Canyon National Park. All was lovely until we got into the park and over the edge of the canyon, and then "pop" went a tire, and on went the spare. Honest, Boss, the guys that design the cars and the ones who make the jacks should take a trip together some day. Maybe they could come out with mutual understand ing and a means of raising a car when a tire is down -- or maybe the verdict would be "justifiable homicide." The second tire blew when we were only two miles from our destination, and that's where the going really got tight. We were on our feet for the rest of the vacation while we had more tires shipped up. The kid's sausage grinder is laid up now, and we have probably joined the swell ing ranks of "one car families" for the duration. Fishing was swell, but catching was a little scarce. We did manage to verify the popular belief that little bait can take little fish, and that there are not many fish in rivers close to roads. Something had to be done to protect the Abell reputation. We wanted some "killers." which can no longer be bought in the stores because they are made of strategic materials. Barter was the only way. I got out the flv-tying kit. and pro duced a brand new, very much over size, and potentially potent fly. The neighbor's kids said it looked like an explosion in a paint factory, and it was officially named "Mexicali Rose." We did not determine whether it would catch fish. That was not its purpose. It would catch fishermen, ETC 06312 as is the case with most fancy tackle. Very shortly we exchanged flies for "killers," and took a walk seven miles up river beyond the road. For twentyfour hours my boy walked around with his chest out and his head in the clouds -- he had caught the biggest fish brought into camp for the sea son. Next morning another bozo, fishing right in camp with a worm, got one two inches longer. Producing those flies was some thing of an epic in itself. We had only one table, which had to serve simultaneously as kitchen, dining room, workshop, and museum. And along in the late afternoon there is a delightful breeze through the trees. My materials and Mama's got a little mixed up, and we ended up with peacock tail soup, said to be quite rare, napthalene flakes in the beans, and number 10 hooks in the salad. God only knows what kept the pet centipede out of the canned peaches. He was headed that way when we found the cage open. Getting back to work has been a little puzzling. Some of the refineries are closed, some on reduced opera tions, and most of them are wonder ing what to do with their gasoline, and sales promotion is in reverse. Most of our men are spending a lot of time with the Army. Maybe it will be useful some day. If I could only learn to shoot craps. I'll bet I would make a good sergeant. Until next month, then -- "at ease" Private Abell P.S. -- Some of the boys were en gaged in a little "Chamber of Com merce analysis" the other day at lunch, by adding up the total years of senice to the company of the em ployees of this division. Believe it or not, the fifteen on our Division staff, including the girls, represent a total of 153 years of employment by the company -- average of over 10 years per person. No Longor With U -- Allen McKersie. San Berdu John McC. Abbott. San Berdu Thomas Hilor. San Berdu William R. Gillespie. San Berdu Iva Feil. San Berdu Don Hendrickson. San Berdu Ed Cline. Los Angeles Helen Leonard. Los Angeles Mary Stewart. New York Harriet L. Harris. New York John C. Chaffee. Detroit Janet Southwell. Detroit Alfred Brown, Deepwater IT TAKES 30,000 man-hours of work to build a medium bomber, as against only 200 for an auto. 11 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 06313 TWO MAILMEN who have bid the Sew York office goodbye are Jim Russell, shown here at the scales, and Ed Britt, in back at the mailing machine. Jim has enlisted in the .Vavy. Ed has gone into the Marines, where he hopes to make use ot his two years' train ing with the Junior Saval Reserve and his knowledge of guns. HARRY F. MANNING, who transferred from the Chicago Division to become a fleet and tractor engineer with the Seattle Division, has taken up residence in Portland. Oregon, his headquarters town. He replaces Robert R. Mead, now a lieu tenant in the Army. Harry and .Mrs. .Maiming report they are looking forward to a pleasant life in the Pacific Sorthwcst. Atll KOSKELA, Seattle Division secre tary, who went to Seaside. Oregon. popular ocean resort, for her vacation, spent a very restful holiday through necessity. Said a beautifully tanned AiJi on her return to the office: "Due to blackout regulations we had nothing else to do but go to bed at dusk. No movie is worth stumbling home from." t I i ETC 06314 Super-Service Man Joins the Veterans JULIAN FREY, well-known head of our Technical Service Department, wins a fifteen-year pin this month, Julian, or "Here," joined us as a member of the old Engineering De partment at Yonkers in the fall of 192-. after graduating from Lehigh University. After he had been with us a while, the Engineering Department was moved to Detroit, and Julian under took automotive contact work. He then spent some time in both the Chicago and Tulsa divisions, return ing in 1930 to Detroit to head the old Technical Sales Department. Julian took another step forward in last February, when he was put in charge of the new Technical Service Department, formed at that time to combine all the technical service activities of the company in one group. Under his direction now are Gasoline Testing, Refiner}- Technol og}', Automotive Service. Fleet Sen ice and Tractor Sen-ice. Besides Here Frey we have some "junior veterans" too. Stepping up for their five-year pins this month arc Bill Ball of the New York Division. Clint Hardy of Detroit Engineering, and George Thomson of Chemical Research. BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMB So Ross Rife, purchasing clerk at the Engineering Laboratories, passed on -- with the permission of Don Cox, member of the Lab cafeteria stafi. OH -- CD! Back to the Home Front :l CIVILIAN DEFENSE produces some "KIT" KERNS, who is Mrs. Robert funny incidents, such as this story of Elder in private life, will confine her two Ethvl men on a dark night. activities to keeping house for her Detroit was having practice black husband in their home in East Or I out one evening in August. Out in ange, N. J., after September 15. Kit, suburban Femdale members of the who is secretary to Joe Costello, man Femdale Home Guards were on ager of the New York Division, has patrol "protecting" manufacturing been with the company over three plants. years, having joined the stenographic I Shortly after the lights went out a group in New York in June of 1939. police squad car drove to a certain From there she graduated to the manufacturing plant, and parked New York Division as Roy Goltz's there with headlights on. The local secretary in January 1940. She be air raid warden spotted it and chased came Joe Costello's secretary in Sep off to warn the lighted car when he tember 1941. was stopped short by a very military challenge. "Halt -- who goes there?" called a Home Guard sentry. "Air raid warden." said the warden SOLDIERS of an infantry company at Fort Devens. Mass., boast that briskly. every member of the company is "Advance, and be identified," said buying War Savings Bonds -- and the guard, snapping his gun. they are 101 per cent correct. Not The air raid warden advanced, to satisfied with ico per cent participa be halted by the business end of a tion in the Bond buying campaign, rifle with a shining bayonet, and he the doughboys chipped in and was ordered to produce identifica bought a S2; Bond for their mascot, tion. a tiny black dog named "Blackout." "My arm band -- here," he said. When "Blackout's" Bond comes "OK, Ross," said the guard. "Pass due, the money will go to the on." A.S.EC.A. 14 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 06316 ' ON AUGUST THIRD the Los An| geles Division staged an all-day meet ing in the auditorium of the Los An geles office for the automotive super visorv staff of the 3 3th Division, Uniti ed States Army. There were 123 men {present, including the automotive officers (G-4), civilian advisers, and t automotive technical sergeants. They ' were brought in for the meeting from as far out as Santa Barbara, which is 100 miles away. 1 Assistant Division Manager Mac Murdock and fleet engineer Frank Elliott put on the program, assisted at the controls, switches and machin ery by Dick Hammond. The day's events included talks, demonstra tions on the chassis dynamometer, films, and round table discussion, covering many pertinent points on fuel, combustion, detonation, and the associated problems of valves, rings, spark plugs, bearings, etc. This meeting was arranged by Major Winquist, chief automotive officer of the 33th Division, as the aftermath of a series of tests on equip ment under his jurisdiction, con ducted with the aid of the Chne chassis dynamometer. Private Information FRANK HAYES of the New York Division is collecting new' laurels these days. As a private in the Army he's using his knowledge of engines and engineering in the AAFTT De tachment, Buick Motor Division, at Flint, Michigan, in studying airplane engines. During one of the sessions on gasoline, the instructor turned the class over to Frank, who stepped in and pitched just as he used to in the good old Clinic days as junior en gineer in New York's Clinic No. 4. Frank's father tells us he stood sec ond in his class when he completed the exams following the course in aeronautical engineering. Frank Haies WE LIKE a slogan which originated with the men of Alcoa r "The possi ble we do immediately; the impossi ble takes a little longer." ETC 06317 THAT attractive young lady who recently started work in Bill Heggen s publicity of fice is Lila Peterson of St. Albans -- Long Island, not Vermont, she emphatically in formed the Bulletin Board interviewer. She is a graduate of Andrew Jackson High School in her home town and of Washing ton School for Secretaries in New York, and she came to Ethyl from the stenographic department of the Spool Cotton Company. Lila is a roller skater of parts. loves to dance, and plays a fast game of badminton. 1 HEX "PRIVATE USO" IS the way Doris Giles describes her favorite pastime -- writing to so/diers in Uncle Sam's Army, mans' of whom she has never met nor ever expects to meet. Doris commutes dailv from her home in the Bronx to her new fob in Xew York Accounting, co which she came from Dodd. .Mead & Company, publishers. About forts- Juck; fellows in uniform are cheered by her letters each week. She is a graduate of Hunter College High School in Sew York, where she was active in dramatics and in the glee club. She still is devoted to music of the classical variety and at tends numerous concerts in Carnegie Hall. 1 Statistical Department to do chart work. Specializ ing in mathematics, Maria received her degree from Columbia University in 1941. She is a Brooklynite and a graduate of Girls High School in that borough and of Brooklyn College. ETC 06318 JUNE E. SWINGLE is a newcomer to the Statistical Department. A resident of Rockville Center. Long Island. June is a graduate of Bushwick High School in Brooklvn and of Adelphi College, where she majored m economics. Before join ing Ethvl, she did underwriting statisti cal work for the Atlantic Mutual Insur ance Company. June likes to skate, to swim, to dance, and to knit, but these hobbies are relegated to the background at present by the heai-v schedule of war work she has taken on. She is a member of the American Women's Volunteer Service and of the Girls' Service Organi zation of the USO, which keeps her busy in her spare time. JEWEL AHONEN, one of the hard-working beauties of Detroit, waggles a business-like brassie here to show her pal. Anita Dimmer (another one of the HWBODj how she made a par on that tough fourth hole at Muskoka Lakes. Canada, where they spent their vacation. JUNILE VANDRUFF is the lovely new receptionist at our Tulsa Division office, replacing Bette Houck, who has left for Miami, Fla., w here her Coast Guardsman husband is stationed. Junile is a graduate of Hominy (Oklahoma, not cereal; High School and of Tulsa Business College. ETC 06319 For Richer, For Poorer Communique from the Annapolis Front August 29,1942 Mr. Elmer L. Barringer Bulletin Board Correspondent Ethyl Corporation 1600 West Eight Mile Road Detroit. Michigan Dear Barry : On July 11 Miss Opal Rhoads of Goodland, Kansas, and myself were united in marriage at the Academy chapel here in Annapolis. Said mar riage has resulted in a huge improve ment in my home life and personal happiness, and I really don't know how I got along without the "Little Woman'' this long. An amusing situ ation just now is that mv wife, verv recently a Kansas schoolteacher, has already qualified to operate a sail boat and now is teaching me. an of ficer in the Naval Reserve, my pri mary seamanship. Very truly yours, R. J. Wahrenbrock 117 Charles Street Annapolis, Maryland ``I DO!" At Bulletin Board deadline time this is scheduled to be the an swer of Faye Burdick of the Tech nical Service Department in Detroit when, on September 5. she is asked if she will take William C. Kelly to be her lawful wedded husband. Final arrangements depend on Army or ders, airline priorities and other fac tors, but plans are underway for a church wedding and reception. Faye's Bill has been in the service school at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds for the past six months. From there he will fly to Detroit on the afternoon of September 5 for an evening wedding, and the very next day he will return by air to Aberdeen with his bride for their honeymoon. Faye came to Ethyl in May 1941 from Wavne University, Detroit. It was during undergraduate days here that she met ``her Bill." ^ , j $** A JOYOUS Labor Day week-end was assured to Frank Lombardji- of the Statistical Department in New York when on Saturday, September 5, his wife presented him with a bouncing baby girl. Telephoning the news from his home in Yonkers, statistician Frank had all the facts and figures down pat, including the little newcomer's weight, which was nine pounds six ounces, and her length, which was 21 inches. i i 1 j 18 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER ETC 06320 Black Marks EMPLOYEES who needlessly miss work at the Permold Co. will be paid for the time lost--in German money. A note will explain: "This money i comes from a country that is glad to i pay you not to make supplies for our soldiers. When you don't work, you work for the enemv." DON PHIPPS -- who used to handle supply work in the Atlanta Division -- is the jolly Lieutenant on the front cover. He has reason to feel happy, har ing just been made Depot Signal Of ficer and Cryptographic Officer. Don, whose proper initials are W H., used to be the Ethyl spokes man in Florida. He has a little girl and a very little son. bom late last June, who live with Mom in New Cumberland. Don's latest military address is: New Cumberland Signal Depot New Cumberland. Pa. Hi, Jeff LT. JEFF BESSIRE, on leave in late August, visited around the Engineer ing Laboratories in Detroit for sev eral days before going on to his folks' home in Oklahoma. Jeff is with the Armored Force at Camp Polk, La. He is a battalion motor officer, riding herd on main tenance and repairs of motor boats, cranes, bulldozers, and 300 trucks ranging from jeeps up to 10-ton units. JAMES CALVIN HENDERSON has joined the maintenance section of the Tulsa Testing Lab oratory. He should be a good man to have around in case of emergency, as before coming to Ethyl he w orked for the Hillcrest Memorial Hospital and the American Red Cross. etc 06321 MILITARY ADDRESSES Here are the latest known addresses of some Ethyl men in service, as re ceived by the Bulletin Board since July first. (AH these men get the Bul letin Board, but they would appreci ate a personal note from some one they used to work with.) F. D. Atkinson. Lt. C. O. Ordnance Detachment A. B. Detachment Wright Field Dayton. Ohio John L. Bagents, Motor Machinist U.S.C.G.R. Coast Guard Station New Orleans Staging Area New Orleans. Louisiana Lt. \V R. Benson FA, U. S. Army 602nd FA Bn Camp Carson, Colorado a/c Dayton C. Bolin. Jr. 316 Adams St. Montgomery, Alabama Pvt. P. L. Breeden 318th O. M. Co. Depot (MT) Camp Bowie, Texas James F. Bridges Coast Guard Training School Machinist Mates School Curtis Bay. Maryland Pvt. Thomas E. Bridges Squadron 303. Flight VO.C. Keesler Field. Mississippi George W Chas ers Box 3384 North East Jr. College Monroe. Louisiana Ensign Joe Cipolla 26 State Normal Place Jersey City. N. J. Reynolds M. Collins. Csp. 217 Oak Gros e Drive Norfolk. Virginia Prisate Chas. D. Ehrhardt. Jr. Headquarters Company Demonstration Regiment Armored Force School Ft. Knox, Ky. Jason D. Fendlason, Jr. Coxsss-ain U. S. C. G. R. c/o Gulfport Yacht Club, "Alice B.' Gulfport. Mississippi Gerald Forsdick, C.Sp. (G) As-iation, Gunnery School Hollysvood Inn, Florida BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER Candidate Phebus N. Hotard Batten' E, AAS, OCD Platoon Xo. 2 ;* Camp Davis. N. C. 4 M/Sgt. E. J. Kukla. 36130536 I Regimental Headquarters. 104th F. A. A.EO. No. 960. U. S. Army c/o Postmaster San Francisco. California 2nd Lt. John B. Link, F.A. 403rd Battalion. Battery A Camp Shelbv. Miss. \ Lt. N. J. Linstromberg 640 TD. Bn. APO 1288 c/o Postmaster San Francisco. Calif. Pvt. James B. Marshall Co. A. 9c- Air Base Sec. B11. Camp Rucker. Alabama David-H. McNeil, Seaman. 3rd class U. S. Naval Training Station Great Lakes. Illinois Lt. fjgi Geo. T. Merrier. Jr. Wesson. Mississippi Pvt. Woodrow W Merritt Hdqs. & Sen-. Co. 86th Engrs. (H.E) Camp Gordon. Georgia Ensign Cooper N. Mills 399 Bedford Road Pleasantville. N. Y. Sgt. R. D. Norwood Det. Medical Dept. Station Hospital Camp Bowie, Texas Captain E. E. Rothman .Air Sen-ice Command Overseas Unit S.O. Wright Field Dayton, Ohio Lt. Wm. J. Ryan Co. M. 11th Infantry APO 5 c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Capt. Russell Schell Amphibian Command Corp Engineers Camp Edwards. Mass. C. E. Smith Automotive Advisor Headquarters 3rd Arniv Smith-Young Tower San Antonio. Texas Lt. Hubert N. Wax 5000 N. 13th St. Arlington. Va. 21 BULLETIN BOARO -- SEPTEMBER So You Don't Want $100? Baton Rouge Wins Bond Flag How about sending in your guesses for the contest announced in last month's Bulletin Board? So far less than half of the employees of the company have sent in guesses and time is getting short. Entries cannot be received after October 10. If you've forgotten about it. get out your August Bulletin Board and read the story' on pages 3. 4 and ;. First prize, a S100 war bond; second prize, a S25 war bond; third prize, S3 in war savings stamps. Here is a brief review of the facts you need to know. The company is running a series of "name" ads in a number of popular magazines with a combined circulation (before Octo ber 15th) of 52,230.206. Each ad will carry a coupon offering an illustrated booklet containing over 900 first or "given" names, their origin and their meaning. How many people do you think will clip the coupon and send it in before October 15th? A test ad was run in the United States News (circulation 175,798) and we received requests for 1,351 booklets. That will give you something to go on, al though some of the big popular mag azines are expected to "pull" harder than the test ad. Come on now -- send in your guess. What have you got to lose? You've got a war bond to win if your guess is closest. Proudly waving over the Baton Rouge plant today is the "Minute Man" flag of the Treasury Depart ment. It signifies that over 90 per cent of the Ethyl and DuPont em ployees there have enlisted in the payroll deduction plan for purchase of War Bonds. Under this plan each employee has the opportunity to allot a certain per centage of his pay check toward the purchase of War Savings Bonds. This money is withheld from each pay check and put toward the purchase of bonds in the employee's name. When 90 percent of the employees of any plant or company have signed up, they are awarded the Treasury's "Minute Man" flag. The Electrochemicals department is 100 percent signed up. with Main tenance a close second at 99.5 per cent and TEL Operating close be hind at 98.9 percent. The plant as a whole averages 93.8 percent. Latest information gives the standings of the various departments as'follows: Department Electrochemicals Maintenance TEL Operating Construction Ethyl Corporation Misc. Sendee Average Percent Pledged IOO 99-5 98.9 93.6 93.2 88.8 93.8 Percent of Pay 7-99 8.34 7.88 8.91 7-34 7.36 8.13 BULLETIN BOARD -- SEPTEMBER THIS BALLOON HELPS AMERICAN PLANES FLY HIGHER ETROLEUM ENGINEERS will recog fluid as a means of increasing antiknock Pnize this "balloon" as a "Horton- quality, Ethyl engineers have worked sphere," often used for storing natural for many years with technologists of the gasoline. But there's not a drop of gaso petroleum industry on all phases of fuel line in this particular sphere. It's filled improvement. And because fuels and with ethyl chloride--one of the many engines are so closely related in their chemicals we must first produce in order development, we also cooperate with to manufacture Ethyl fluid. technologists of the aviation and auto By adding Ethyl fluid to blends of motive industries. Today all our facil superior base stocks and such high- ities are at the service of the govern octane components as iso-octane, oil ment and our armed forces, helping in refiners are able to produce vast quanti ties of 100-octane gasoline. This in turn helps engine designers build engines that every way possible to give American motorized equipment the extra edge of power so vital in a mechanized war. give more power per pound of weight and per gallon of fuel. And every in crease in power means an increase in the ETHYL CORPORATION speed, range and climbing ability of American planes. Because of the importance of Ethyl Chrysler Building, New York City '** >i,-v Manufacturer of Ethyl fluid, used by oil companies to im prove (he antiknock quality of aviation and motor gasoline. ETC 06325 ETC 06326 The WATS' gain will be the Safety Department's loss when Gertrude Loeffler Brown, secretary to Oscar Lewis, reports for training October 15. The WAFS, as you probably know, are that newly formed organi zation of women airplane pilots who will ferry military planes from fac tory to air base, thus freeing men for combat duty. In charge of their train ing program is the famous aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran. Gertrude owns her own plane and has been a member of the Civil Air Patrol for some time, as can be seen from her uniform in the picture. She holds a private pilot's license and during her seven years of flying has logged a total of 312 hours. Gertrude has been with us since 1935, and has been Oscar Lewis' sec retary the entire time. Gertrude in her old CAP uaiiorm. Bill Flanigan, a mechanic at the Engineering Research Lab in De troit, and his wife joyfully welcomed son John, weight nine pounds cradleside, who arrived at their home Aug ust 17. Bill, who is a volunteer fire man in his home town of Rochester, Mich., claims that John and his three older brothers will help perpetuate the family line of smoke eaters. 3 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06327 1 From the Chief-- Service Awards Woodrow Dixon, TEL man at Baton Rouge, received a letter the other day which ought to make his folks feel pretty proud. It reads -- WAR DEPARTMENT COMMANDING GENERAL ARMY AIR FORCE WASHINGTON Mr. Woodrow Dixon, Denham Springe, La. July 25.1942 Dear Mr. Dixon: If this letter it a little late, it ie because I have just learned of the splendid way you came to the aid of Lt. Harry V. Huff man on April 22. I understand he lost a foot when he was forced to parachute from his plane. The surgeons at the base hospital report that it was your skill in administering first aid and the speed with which you got him to the hospital that were responsible for saving his life. We of the Army Air Force are not al ways lucky enough to have someone as capable and quick-thinking as you to help fliers in distress, and I want you to know that I deeply appreciate what you did for Lt. Huffman. Sincerely, (signed) H. H. Arnold, Lieutenant General, U. S. Army Commanding General, Army Air Force A fiifeen-yeor service pin was awarded this month to Robert Mescher, in the dynamometer section of the Engineering Research Labora tories at Detroit, who celebrates the occasion by continuing his work on setting up engines for military re search projects. Bob joined Ethyl in 1927, a few months before the lab was moved from Yonkers. He drove a test car west and helped break concrete and install equipment at the new building in Detroit. Bob previously was in the shop of the Green Engineering Co at Dayton, building racing engines and cars. He was in the machine shop at Detroit working on Series 30 and demonstrator engines, and since 1935 he has been in the dynamometer sec tion setting up test engines. Bob has been a member of the bowling league at Detroit for four seasons. In younger years he won fame as a pitcher around Dayton, but now has settled on the more sedate outdoor pastimes of fishing and hunt ing. Two fen-year-pin winners are on our list this month. They are Anna M. Caplan of the secretarial .itaff of Chemical Research in Detroit and W. K. "Bill" McCulloch, tune-up en gineer in the Kansas City Division. Anna went to work in Dr. Calingaert's Chemical Research Depart ment ten years ago and she has been working under Cal ever since. Bill came to the company in October 1932 as a special field representative under Harold Berg, who then was doing special work for the New York office. 4 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER etc 06328 Early in 1933 he was assigned to the Chicago Division and in November 1934 became a field representative in Kansas City. His most recent assign ment found him in charge of Mobile Clinic 21. Five-year awards go to seven people, including Roy Godbey, tuneup engineer in the Dayton Division; Richard S. "Dick" Hammond, tuneup engineer at Los Angeles; James H. Huguet, supervisor of production at the Baton Rouge TEL plant; Robert W. "Bob" Kimpton, New York Division tune-up engineer; Edna Stalhuth, secretary to Dick Murphy; George A. Vaughn, aero Bob Ueschez. dynamometer expert, who has fust finished IS years with ux. nautical research at Detroit; and Gil bert Way, engineer at San Berdu. Piscatorial Pets Permanently Paralyzed The spirit of pure research fanned to white heat recently at the Engi neering Laboratories in Detroit. The great unknown question was: Would fish pass through the experience of freezing and live to wiggle a fin an other day? Charley Kass' goldfish that adorn j his office in the road test section bej came prime material for the project. I They -- Ruby, Clarissa, Clementine, and Clarence -- were transported by j persons unknown to the cold room. I Some research work being in prog ress, the fish bowl was nestled in a comer while the temperature on a warm September day dropped under 30 below zero. When the fish were in a solid cake of ice the bowl was returned with great ceremony to Charley's desk. The argument on whether the fish would or would not survive waxed on while the water thawed. Finally the fish floated up -- on their sides. Nurse Helmi McLean quit ministering to minor complaints such as sore throats, poison ivy, and hay fever, to render first aid. But the fish were gone, the boys who bet they would survive paid off, and Charley is out four goldfish. 5 i BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06329 Mac Proves His Fish Story The average fisherman's usual procedure is to amplify a tale of his prowess by extending his arms to each side as far as possible, but Mac McMenemy, in charge of mainte nance at the Detroit Lab, has the doc uments and photos to prove his boasts. During his vacation Mac was fish ing near Traverse City, Mich., when all of a sudden he was almost pulled into the water. After a brutal strug gle the wall-eyed pike, for such it was, quit just in'time to keep Mac from tossing in the sponge. The scales later showed that it -- the fish, not the sponge -- weighed'live and three quarters pounds. Mac has been awarded, for his skill, a wooden shield of the Che-Ge-Gon Club, on the back of which is a notar ized record of his catch. He is proud of both the fish and the award, but he takes even more satisfaction from the fact he has exploded Pat Harding's stubborn claim that there are no more fish in the lakes. 6 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 06330 Why Save Scrap? Any one of us who doesn't save or salvage all the metal, cloth, leather, rubber, or waste materials he can is making the job tougher for our sol diers at the fronts of the world. So necessary is the salvage of all possi ble waste to the Army, that even in combat special preparations are made to take advantage of every piece of waste material that may be found. Here's what the Army does in its own ranks to pick up every last scrap of usable material. There is a special Salvage Company with the troops in every combat zone, comprising seven enlisted men from the Army Ord nance Department, the Army Chem ical Warfare Service, and the Army Signal Corps. These specialists can estimate instantly when salvaged material is at hand, just what it's worth, what to do with it, and where it's needed. Nothing can be half as important as the right stuff on hand at the time of battle. When troops take over an evacu ated town, camp or training area formerly held by the enemy, a quick search is made for all salvage mate rial. On the battle field, the Army Salvage group gathers up first those articles which are in immediate de mand. Rifles, machine guns, ammu nition and other things which are immediately required or which might deteriorate are collected first. During the last war in one instance, 87% of the arms material gathered up was ready for immediate use again. In the American battle area be tween the Marne and the Vesle Riv- Salvage Sammy, Baton Rouge's scrap robot, leiis the men how important scrap-saving is. ers during the last war 7,000,000 rounds of ammunition were gather ed, and after the Meuse Argonne of fensive, 1,521 freight cars full of re coverable material were collected by American soldiers. The articles con sisted of everything from American stoves to heavy calibre German guns. The soldiers at the front have a major duty of collecting every pos sible scrap of waste material, because they know their lives may be saved by the reissue of these things. The mills and factories in the United States are nearer the combat zones than they ever were before. To sal vage every piece of metal, leather, cloth, every drop of oil, is merely do ing what the soldiers "have" to do, deep in the zones of war. 7 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06331 With a color guard of plant police watching. Mildred Watson and Jesse Savario raise the "Minute Man" and service flags. Harold R. Allen, Ethyl Chloride painter, gets out special posters for the Publicity Sub committee. B. R. Boosts Bond Drive An enthusiastic crowd of Ethyl and duPont employees gathered August 21 on the lawn of Ethyl's Baton Rouge plant in a joint celebra tion to mark the U. S. Government's award to the plant of the Ninety Per cent Participation "Minute Man" Flag. More than 94% of them have signed up to put over 8% of their payroll checks into bonds. Driving hard to push sales to still loftier heights is the plant's War Ef fort Committee. Organized last April, this committee has stepped up War Bond purchases from a trifling av erage pay deduction of 2% in May to more than 8% by August. In addi tion, it has gone to work on transpor tation problems of employees, on the collection of scrap metal and rubber, on the elimination of waste, and on the improvement of operations. In a drive for the local USO the commit tee collected over 1200 pounds of scrap rubber. Ethylmen who are doing their bit to keep the War Effort Committee ETC 06332 rolling full steam ahead are Lew Barnum, vice-chairman and also a mem ber of the Publicity Sub-Committee, and Kelly Harris, who is on the Bonds Sub-Committee. They Were Canned Harry Kuhe, Seattle Division boss, presented his division with cans -- of all things -- when he returned from his vacation at the end of Aug ust. These unusual gifts contained some choice salmon caught by the Kuhes at Sekiu, far out on northern Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Before canning the finny beauties, Harry had pictures taken just in case anyone was skeptical of his angling ability. The five biggest fish weighed a total of more than one hundred pounds, and the largest, which is shown imposing a terrific strain on Harry's right biceps, tipped the scales at 35 pounds. Here is an example of all-out sup port of the war. Louis J. Werling of Baldwin Township, Pennsylvania, closed up his coal business, sold his seven trucks and other equipment, enlisted in the Navy and bought $7000 in War Bonds with the pro ceeds from the sale of his business. lean Gall Jean Gall, the glamour girl who takes pictures at the Engineering Re search Laboratories in Detroit in stead of posing for them, will be mar ried September 5 to Donald B. Nash, an employee of the J. L. Hudson de partment store. Jean left her home in Rogersville, Tenn., to attend art school in New York, but three years ago she left the Big Town flat to go to Detroit and join Ethyl's laboratory data file de partment. Wedding bells will not sever her connection with the com pany, however, for she will continue her work in the photographic depart ment. In addition, she will keep on with her hobbies of interior decorat ing and dress designing. As a sendoff for Jean and Faye Burdick, Ethyl's other September 5 bride, Emalee Pipal, secretary to Earl Bartholomew, worked up a surprise spinster dinner for September 3, to be attended by all the girls in the Laboratory. BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 06333 Top left: one ot the three or tour IS Cadillacs which started the knock search. Norm Siebenthaler is at i wheel. Above: Norm Siebenthaler standing the running board ot one ot the JS "knocking Cadillacs." Left: Dayton's Safety expert in the ti twin-ignition Essex. Early Knocks Knock, we are told, first appeared "in the 1912 Cadillac." But which 1912 Cadillac? There's a good chance it was the one you see pictured here, with Norman Siebenthaler inside, be hind the wheel. Here's the story on it: This Cadillac was one of three or four given by the makers to Delco for experimentation on battery igni tion and self starters. It was during these tests that "knock" first ap peared -- and started the chain of events which led to the tetraethyl lead research and the formation of the Ethyl Corporation. The car shown here with Sieb at the wheel is one which C. F. Ketter ing, then with Delco, gave to the Delco representative in Detroit for further work. Sieb, being in Detroit at the time, borrowed the car for his honeymoon. Six weeks later he took over the Delco man's job and carried on with the same car. These photos were taken several months later. They were dug up for the Bulletin Board by Jack Pruitt. 10 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06334 The native New Yorker is a comparatively rara avis, it you get what we mean. But Anna Braun, who commutes to work from her home in the Bronx, was horn in that metropoiis and attended Walton High Schooi and Drake's Business Schooi there. Before coming to Ethyl she worked tor the American Cyanamid Com* pany--in New York. In her spare time she en joys gardening, tennis and other sports, and she is aiso fond of curling up in a comfortable chair with a good book. Eleanor Dunlop, newest member of the secre tarial staff of New York Financial, resides in Queens Village, but she is a native of Phila delphia. Eleanor attended Miss Shaw's School and the Lee Schooi before leaving the City of Brotherly Love for New York, where she studied at Gaines Business School. She came to Ethyl from General Motors. When she isn't working, she likes to dig in the garden and to ride spir ited horses. All-around musician is Pierre Celto, Mail Room boy, who came to Ethyl from McFadden Publi cations. Pierre can play the violin, piano and drums, besides being somewhat of a singer. He is a member of the choir of the Vernon Heights Congregational Church in Mount Vernon, his home town. Pierre attended the A. B. Davis High School and Sherman's Business School, both in Mount Vernon. 11 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER i I ETc 06335 MORE MILITARY MAIL Letter No. 2 Detroit Sept. 21, 1942 August 26, 1942 I'm still here in Jacksonville trying to teach cadets practically everything ex cept how to fly. Having been connected with every division, except one, in ground school, I feel like a jack-of-all-trades who knows a little of everything but can't do anything. But the work is interesting and one of these days I may even find out what makes a plane fly. I do miss the lab and the opportunity to get all greasy each day but this business of being a school teacher part of the time isn't too bad. So much for Jacksonville. What's doing in the rest of the world, back in civilization away from the Florida swamps? Lt. James M. Mason, Jr. USNR Ground School Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida September 3, 1942 Merrill Anderson and I had planned to write you a joint letter, but he is as bad at sitting down to write letters as I am. ... As you know we have an Ethyl colony here at Annapolis, Walt (Carl son) and I are living in the same rickety rooming house with Ralph Wahrenbrock and his wife only two blocks away and Merrill and Connie (Anderson) just across the bridge in Eastport. Merrill, Walt and I are in the I.C.E. lab and Ralph is in the Mechanical lab. It is a coincidence the way the four of us landed here, especially since Merrill and I have adjoining desks. The three of us in the I.C.E. lab have sunk to working with Diesels -- just shows what a man will do for his country in time of war. Jack Rupe and his wife have been down several times from Washington, the first time to be best man at Ralph's wedding. Bailie and Cory we haven't seen for some time. . . . Say hello to Ethyl for me. . . . Ensign Herbert C. Sumner, USNR 4 Revell Street Annapolis, Md. * August 29, 1942 I was working with Ackerman on the Hagerstown fleet test when I received my Ensign's commission in the Naval Re serve, and was assigned to active duty here in the Naval Experimental Station at Annapolis. This station does a great variety of inspection and development work in the fields of mechanical engineer ing, metallurgy, welding, chemistry, fuels, and internal combustion engines. I was assigned to the mechanical labora tory, and at present am chief pencil push er in the thermometer inspection labora tory. In my spare time I have managed to push my way into some gasoline en gine work. On July 11 Miss Opal Rhoads, of Goodland, Kansas, and myself were united in marriage at the Academy chap el here in Annapolis. Said marriage has resulted in a huge improvement in my home life and personal happiness, and I really don't know how I got along with out the "Little Woman'' this long. An amusing situation just now is that my wife, very recently a Kansas school teacher, has already qualified to operate a sail boat and now is teaching me, an officer in the Naval Reserve, my primary seamanship. Give my regards to all the I I I I ( ! i i i 12 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 06336 fellows and I hope that I'll soon be hear ing from some of them. Ensign Ralph Wahrenbrock U. S. Naval Eng. Experiment Station Annapolis, Md. For tlie past few weeks I have been riding about a section of the island in a Jeep, trying to locate roads and land marks shown on some of our maps. . . . Money is a little difficult to spend wisely here where I am now.... Prices of things here on the island are fairly steep, for such things as milk costs about 30 cents per quart and the other dairy products are proportionately high priced. As for the flowers on the island, orchids grow wild in some parts of the island but they are not as beautiful as some of those I have seen back home. There are plenty of dog ear cactus plants around and a couple of weeks ago while cutting my way through a cactus forest I ran across some cactus pears. Those that I found were a bit red and tasted something like a cross between a watermelon and a cu cumber. I didn't care for them at all. (Letter from Territory of Hawaii, May 27.) I am sorry that I haven't written you more often, but since everything about here is strictly routine, there hasn't been much of anything to write about. . . . For the past several months I have been receiving Bulletins from the New York office. I wish to extend my thanks for the receipt of the Bulletins for I get much pleasure following some of the activities of the company. M/Sgt. E. J. Kukla, 36130536 Regimental Headquarters, 104th F. A. A.P.O. #960, U. S. Army c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California ** August 31,1942 / think it is a wonderful idea (to cir culate letters). I have often wondered where some of them are stationed and what they are doing. It will certainly be great to get this information from all of them. Right now'I am waiting in a stag ing area near San Francisco, preparing for overseas duty. Of course, no one here knows when the move will take place or where we will go. Our activity during past weeks has been restricted because our equipment had preceded us to the port. We have been concentrating on the physical condition of the men and long hikes or road marches are commonplace. It is great to hear from you and I hope to be hearing about some of the others of our company who are in the service. Lt. N. J. Linstromberg (0-399008) 640 T. D. Bn. APO 1288 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. I received the first issue of the Family Letter. I think the idea is really great, because it is just about the only way we can keep up with each other. In my last report (Letter No. 1) I was getting my basic training. For the last two weeks I've been in the Wheeled Vehicle De partment of the Armored Force School, 13 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 06337 teaching engine tune-up. We are aided by two old Ethyl dynamometers, one from a World's Fair Exhibition. They first promised me a four weeks' "refresh er course," but it only lasted two hours instead. My hours are from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Think about that when you think you get up early. I would like a personal letter and I promise an answer from any of the fellows I used to work with. Private Chas. D. Ehrhardt, Jr. U. S. Army-Company C (A.S.N. 15048861) Training Group A.F.S. Ft. Knox, Ky. your letter explaining the plan you have for circulating information about the boys now on active duty caught up with me yesterday, and it sure sounds like a fine idea. I know that a great many of the gang are now on active duty, but that's about as far as my information goeB. During the last six months my regi ment has really been on the go, and I believe that a great deal of my mail has been lost in the shuffle. The last copy of the Bulletin Board that I received came in May, I believe, and your letter was the first news I've had from Detroit since then. The censorship up here is really pretty strict, and about all that I can tell you is that I'm still with my outfit, and that we're stationed in Alaska. When the war broke out, we were stationed at Camp Roberts, but we left there in a few days and moved up to the San Jose area where we spent about a month on an alert status. Then we moved by motor down to Or ange, California, which is just south-west of San Berdu. We did a great deal of training in that area and spent quite a bit of time firing down in the Borego Desert. Early in May we moved by train to Fort Lewis, Washington, where we went into a staging area in preparation for our move up here. We were there about a month before we sailed, and from then on there's not much that I can write about. On our way down to Orange, we took the inland route and picked up U. S. 66 at Cajon Pass; so our column rolled right past the lab. I was ahead with the advance party; so I had a chance to stop off and visit for a while with the gang there. I was back to the lab once while we were down there to get a lift in the calibration of the speedometers on a couple of command cars. We were doing a lot of time schedule road marching at the time, and the variations in the speed ometers of the control cars were giving us a great deal of trouble. I will sure be interested in hearing what all the rest of the boys are doing and where they are, because I've been pretty much out of touch with the news lately. Lt. H. E. Hesselberg Hdq. 1st Bn., 30th F. A. A.P.O. #942 c/o Postmaster Seattle, Washington * Rollie Ostrander of the Detroit Engineering Lab has enlisted as an apprentice seaman in the Naval Re serve. Rollie graduated from Michi gan State College in 1940 and then enrolled in Faller Tech. After work ing on the Hagerstown, Md., bus tests, he came to the Lab last July. Jim Anders continues to make news around the Engineering Lab oratories at Detroit, and this time it's his induction into the Army on Sep tember 23. Jim's recent marriage was announced in the August issue of the Bulletin Board. 14 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06338 A1 Bosye and Car! Berry. Kansas City Divi sion Held men. had their picture taken with Henry Latter, president ot the Wichita. Kansas. Kiwanis Club, after they had given Kiwanians a demonstration ot the actuai method of dis tilling gasoline. Carl, pinch hitting tor Division Manager Harold Berg as speaker at the weekly Kiwanis luncheon meeting, told his audience that Kansas was destined to play a large part in the production of aviation gasoline. Lewis K. Homer is the newcomer in the blender operating force at Deepwater. Before joining Ethyl, Lew had a Ford agency in Penns Grove, N. /., and is well known to many em ployees at the Deepwater plant. Lew says his chief form of recreation is taking his wife to neighborhood dances. 15 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER etc 06339 What's Doing in San Berdu RoIIin Gish, the Bulletin Board's new correspondent at the San Ber nardino lab, writes us of many things this month -- romance, migration, farewells and fishing. Lieutenant Paul Straub, formerly research engineer at San Berdu, took a short leave from the Mare Island Navy Yard to marry Roberta Thomp son of San Bernardino. They were married on August 15, at the famous Mission Inn of Riverside, California. Paul and Roberta are now living at Vallejo, near the Mare Island base. Shortly before his marriage Paul was advanced from Lieutenant, junior grade, to Lieutenant, senior grade. Richard Beaubier, test driver, was transferred to Detroit Engineering to.. become an engine operator in the dy namometer department. Dick, wife Alice, and six-weeks-old daughter Alice Katherine drove to Detroit dur ing the latter part of August. After many farewell parties and strenuous last-minute preparations, the party was in no shape to make the trip across the Great American desert. Word got back later that little Alice had to hang around two days in Al- buquerque, while her parents rested up for the rest of the journey. Don Hendrickson, maintenance man, Iva Feil, stenographer, and Bill Gillespie, Jack Abbott, Tom Hilor, and Allen McKersie, test drivers, have left the company. Art Sortman, maintenance engi neer, now rivals Dean Painter, C F R engine operator, for the title of No. 1 Salt Water Fisherman of the San Bernardino Contingent. Dean, a vet eran at ocean fishing, got some nice catches of Barracuda and Bonita off Newport, California, during his vaca tion. Art, a comparative newcomer to the sport, braved high waves and Jap submarines to go thirty miles out in to the Pacific for Albacore. He brought in several of these famous fighters in quick succession, includ ing an eighteen pounder that took twenty-five minutes to land. The next one, however, brought the real thrill. As he and the boat's skipper were lifting the fish out of the water with a gaff, Art glanced up and saw what had been in the back of his mind all day -- a long silvery object, plung ing through the water and heading squarely into the helpless boat. But instead of being blown to bits by one of Hirohito's tin fish, Art got off with only a bad scare from a real fish -- an eight-foot shark that took the Alba core in mid air. Restrictions on use of taxicabs in New York City will save 107 million taxi miles annually, as well as 428 tire miles, 15,000 new tires, the same number of recaps and 10 million gal lons of gasoline. I I I I I l 16 . BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 06340 Finals of the tournament, out behind the Gas Testing building. Horseshoe Champ Crowned Barnyard gait at Detroit has a mentor and official champion now -- Gordon Wilcox, of the Chem Lab. Fifty-five contestants entered the tournament on the horseshoe courts of the new athletic field back of the Gasoline Testing Lab building. Besides the official championship, Gordon won the right of first selec tion of some prizes, and accepted a jar of luscious peach conserves do nated by girls of the accounting dej partment. Ed Johnson, the runnerup, took the bottle of beer, while A1 ! Sechrist and Bob Mescher, semi finalists, were awarded cakes. The hot stove league this winter will buzz long with tales of how quiet, unassuming Gordon fought through every round. There were nine byes in the drawing to set up the 32 games for the first round, and the first name i drawn was Wilcox. Look-backing, it is easy enough to see that Gordon served notice in his first game with plenty of ringers and "close ones." In the fourth round Gordon dis posed of fellow chemist, Charley Gambrill. Bob Mescher, of the En gineering Lab, put Chic Sortman, Aeronautical Lab, out of the run ning. A1 Sechrist, Aeronautical Lab, got by John Capinjola, of the Chem Lab, 21 to 20. Ed Johnson of the Chem Lab, sank Jack Lusk, last hope of the office end of the laboratories. Gordon had his closest struggle in the semi-finals. For a while he trailed, but caught up with Bob Mescher, to win 21 to 18. In the other half of the semi-finals Ed Johnson won from A1 Sechrist, 21 to 12, and that left the finals a Chem Lab affair. After lunch on Sept. 30 the crowds lined the courts and watched the fi nals. When Wilcox tallied the 21st point Ed Johnson was at the 14 point mark. The unofficial officers of the Barn yard Golf Tournament Association are Mac McMenemy, president, and Layton Willans, secretary, schedule maker, chief score recorder, and cus todian of conserves. Ed Johnson, Detroit horseshoes runner-up. hold ing the quart of beer he won, congratulates Gordon Wilcox, the champ, who displays his prise---a jar of preserves put up by the girls at the lab. 17 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06341 Hotel El Tejon, Bakersfield, Cal., Sept. 10 This dispatch is being filed in the smallest hotel room in the United States, where our boys all stay when we go to Bakersfield. This room is really a "darb." You have to shut the closet door to get from the bed to the bawth. The only clear space where you can open the Gladstone is on the bed. The bureau drawers must be kept closed until the chair is pushed into the closet. You "can" stand in the bathroom, by pushing one elbow in the shower stall and the other out the porthole. But just try to shave, and your funnybone fetches up with a whang against the shower faucet, and by the time you've got the plumbing under control there's an inch or so of water on the floor. Division Manager Wagner has been here too, so he understands why the expense account always shows we had to entertain our customers' executives in the bar. Careful perusal of the Field Repre sentative's Manual with which we have recently been provided impress es me with two things -- first, that the Technical Service Division has done a swell job, and second, that the field representative's job has changed a lot in the last eleven years. We used to have to dig around our territory and find out what work needed to be done, then develop the way to do it, then drive around all week and get it done, then spend the weekend driv ing home and writing the reports. Now all we have to do is drive around and make a few calls--and there is a rubber shortage. It's a cinch, isn't it? I had not realized how we had soft ened our field staff until I caught my self wishing that we have a Vice President in Charge of Other Peo ple's Business, who would teach all Chairmen of the Day how to properly introduce the Speakers of the Day. It reminds me, for some vague rea son, of the darky who was up before the draft board, and they assured him that he was just as good as in. What would he like to be? "Well, Mr. Boss," he said, "Ah doan wan' to be no lootenant, 'cause a lootenant has to 'do' evvythin', and ah doan wan' to do nuffin'. Ah caint be no captain, 'cause a captain has to `know' evvythin', an' Ah doan know nuffin'. So Ah gues Ah'll have to be a major -- a major doan haff to do nuffin', and he doan haff to know nuffin'." Yours etc., ^ Carl Abell A cablegram, dated September 11, came from Ray Bevan of Associated Ethyl to Jay Goux, our Assistant Secretary. Among other things, it said: "Saw S. J. Warner, Jr., today, who is looking very well." i i 18 BULLETIN BOARD-- OCTOBER ETC 06342 For five days a week Merrill N. Doughty pores over the accounting books at the Engineering Research Laboratories in Detroit, but Friday night he sheds mundane work, dons the typical blue and white denim of the railroader and becomes main tenance superintendent on his model railroad. Merrill and a friend merged their railroad properties and they have about 100 feet of HO gauge track, main line and yards. Merrill's con tribution also includes the Pacific type locomotive he assembled, four passenger cars and 30 freight. "My friend is the brass hat on the rail road and I'm the maintenance man," Merrill commented. Merrill is a native of Pittsburg, Kansas. He was graduated from the Wharton School, University of Penn sylvania, and then became branch office manager for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., stationed at Philadelphia, San Antonio, Clarks burg, W. Va., and York, Pa. He came to Detroit three years ago, and was in the insurance department of Fruehauf Trailer Co. before joining Ethyl. Mr. and Mrs. Doughty met while both were in school in Phila delphia. They have two children, John, six years old, and Nancy, eight months old. Phyllis lone*, in the accounting oMice at the Engineering Research Laboratories in Detroit, is a native ot Windsor, Ontario. She came to De troit about three years ago, and joined the Ethyl stall recently from the L. A. Young Spring & Wire Co. Phyllis' hobbies are bowling, tennis, and badminton. Wilson B. Souter. in the purchasing depart ment of the Engineering Research Laboratories at Detroit, is a native Detroiter and obtained all his business training there. After graduation from suburban Rediatd High School, he at tended the Business Institute. Wilson worked for several years in the office of the Ford Foundation, and came to Ethyl recently from Murray Aircraft. His hobbies are bowling and golf. etc 06343 I- So You Wanna Fight? by George Rieger Baton Rouge Technical So you wanna fight? So you've put your 10% into War Bonds, and dou bled up in your car? But that isn't enough, eh ? You want to get into the scrap. You've dropped your ideas in a suggestion box; you've donated your rubber floor mat. But just when are you gonna get a good crack at Hirobenito Hitler? That's what you'd like to know. You say: "Sure, I'm helping the war effort. But, gosh, it's so indirect. I'll never feel like those guys in the newsreels when they see their thousandth tank roll off the line, or see their ten-thou sandth propeller snuggle itself against the nose of a P-40." Well. Bud. the trouble with you is that you're like the guy who thinks the last card he draws to a straight flush is more important than the first. You haven't stopped to think that the valve you turn each day is just an other twist in the rope around the Axis's fat belly. You are a part of the Big Three: (1) Vast oil resources: (2) Superior refining facilities; and (3) Adequate supply of antiknock compounds. Sure, that thousandth tank would roll without No. (3), and that tenthousandth propeller would drag its bundle of death. But, fellow, WITH No. (3), with YOUR product, that tank'll have the extra margin to knock the pants off the Panzers. That batch you make today, tomorrow is going to mean the difference between Jap Zeros and zero Japs. It's "Higher, faster, and farther" each time you do your job and do it < right. You're in this fight and in it I plenty. Sure, somebody else is mak I ing the planes, tanks, jeeps . . . but you're fixin' 'em up with a date with Ethyl. And, confidentially, with that Lady from Hades, Uncle Sam's got a gal that's gonna slap the Axis's face like a triple play... from Berlin to Rome to Tokio and OUT. So you wanna fight, eh ? What do you think you're doing? Makin' fudge? On the Front Cover-- A tractor school for Pure Oil tank wagon drivers, held at Ohio State University, is the reason for this assemblage of Ethylmen. Wally Distler of Dayton, with his sleeves rolled up, lectured on preventive maintenance and tune-up for trac tors and then gave a practical dem onstration on a dynamometer. Roy Godbey, also of Dayton, is at the left and in the center is Bond Hedden, a visitor from the Chicago Divi sion. The picture was taken outside the dynamometer room at Ohio State. 20 BULLETIN BOARD-- OCTOBER ETC 06344 It All Began at a Costume Party : The bowling season at the Detroit Labs got under way September 10, with the Men's League of ten fiveman teams and the Girls' League of two teams spinning the big balls | down the alleys. The Men's League, which is sanc tioned by the American Bowling Congress, will roll a 27-week sched ule to decide team and individual championships. Each team will bowl every other team three times. The circuit opened this year with out any special ceremonies, but the boys quickly got down to business. Ed Johnson of the Chem Lab, one of the ace keglers, slipped right into his accustomed groove and mangled the maples for a 242 single. Team Num ber 9, captained by Charlie Kass, top pled the tenpins for an 8S3 game, which shows that the summer's lay off didn't do too much harm. Jim Carlisle, captain of Team Number 1, discovered that he seemed to have a monopoly on portside pin punishers, with two of his five men tossing a southpaw ball. Over in the feminine loop, Helmi Burkleo, of the Technical Service De partment, last year's Girls' League champ, got off to a running start with a 155 single, and Aileen Murray of Gasoline Testing walloped the woods for a 134 game. Vou've read about these things in the newspapers, but here it is right in the Ethyl family -- a Sadie Haw kins Day romance and a wedding. It was just three years ago Septem ber 5 that Toni McDanell, of War saw, Ky., and Bill Laswell, of Springfield, Ohio, were students at the Uni versity of Cincinnati. On that day Toni's sorority was having a Sadie Hawkins party, a take-off on the Lil' Abner comic strip in which the gals chase the boys and if they catch them it is tough on the boys. Toni was dressed as Sadie, and Bill as Lil' Abner. A mutual friend introduced them. Three years elapsed. Wife Toni was graduated last June, and hus band Bill, a co-operative student, con tinues studying for his degree and working alternate eight week periods at the Engineering Research Labora tories in Detroit. The wedding and reception, September 5, were at the bride's home. Toni and Bill will be in Detroit until Bill returns to Cin cinnati for another term in college. 21 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06345 For soaie strange reason the Mississippi Gult Coast has become a very popuiar vacation spot /or the stenographic girls at Baton Rouge. Vna HcrydeJ, Mary Walsh and Eleanor Orchard seem to be having fun at Biloxi, where they went on the advice of Winnie Dugas, the pio neer vacationer at this spot. Other Ethyl girls followed them. Note: Keesler Field is strategi cally located with reference to Biioxi. Charming member of the Baton Rouge young est set is Vickie Lynne Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Wi/Jiams. Her pappy is a millwright at the Ethyl Chloride plant. >arid B. Detweiler is the latest addition to the laboratory force at Deepwater. Dave, who is a Pennsylvania Dutchman hailing from the out skirts of Reading, came to Ethyl direct from the campus of Franklin and Marshall College, where he received a B.S. degree in chemistry. During summer's heat swimming is Dave's fa vorite form of recreation, but during the long winter nights he is a confirmed putterer with things mechanical. ^ ETC 06346 Marine in the Making Cary Harris, office manager at New York, recently received the fol lowing letter from Eddie Britt, for mer office boy who left the Company to join the Marine Corps. It gives a good idea of the training and the mental attitude which helps to make Uncle Sam's leathernecks the world's fightingest fighters. Dear Sir, I said I would write you a letter and tell you how it is, so here goes. It is solid hell for three weeks. We drilled for as much as seven hours a day in tempera tures as high as 110 degrees. We get up at 4 a.m. and are busy every minute until 10 p.m. The discipline is very severe, as it should be. Every Monday we get in jections that tie up our arms for the rest of the day. But don't get me wrong. I like it. This Sunday at 4 we go out to the rifle range at New River, N. C., for our com bat training, so they are treating us very good, with only an hour a day of drill and lectures in ordnance, hygiene and trench warfare taking up the rest of our time. You have to get accustomed to do ing many things you never did before, such as making bunks, swabbing decks, washing clothes, and cleaning rifles, but it is all part of the game. The men and boys that join the Corps today have only one thought in mind. There is a job to do, and the quicker it is done the better it will be for all, and this is the outfit that will do it. Out of the 62 in my platoon half of us do not think we will return, for a Marine thinks it is a good fight when the odds are ten to one against him. Well, sir, I have to clean my rifle -- here they teach you to love your rifle above all else -- so I will have to close. Yours truly, Edward Britt Change of Base Dolly Dollahan has moved from Milwaukee to Detroit to take the place of Jack Clark, who has been called by the Army. Dolly soon rent ed a house and at Bulletin Board deadline time was slated to transport his family to the new domicile Octo ber 2. Dolly graduated from the Univer sity of Illinois in 1930 and attended the Standard Oil'Company of New Jersey training school before coming to Ethyl in 1931. Since then he has been with the Chicago Division, first in charge of a clinic and later as a field representative. He has been sta tioned in Milwaukee since 1937. P.S. on a Note from Jack Pruitt P.S. You can call me 1st Lt. Pruitt after Oct. 1.1 report to Miami Beach Air Force School on that date, and after Nov. 15th will be at Sacramento Air Depot, California. J. P. w The temperature may be 30 be low and walrus hunting may be a trying ordeal but Alaska's Eskimos not only are raising Red Cross funds, sending their men into the armed services, and standing watch as air raid spotters, but they are 10 percent ers, too. Howard Cameron, teacher, recently evacuated from the Aleu tian Islands, reports that the Eski mos are setting aside part of their income for War Bonds. 23 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 06347 MILITARY ADDRESSES Private James M. Anders, Jr. Box 786 Konawa, Oklahoma Cpl. Burl G. Boggs Cp. B. 326 Glider Inf. 82 Airborne Division Camp Claiborne, La. Ensign Walton Carlson U. S. Naval Engineering Exp. Station Annapolis, Md. Henry Clemons U.S.C.G.R. Co. 21 8th Naval Dist. New Orleans, La. Lt. Ray Faller Naval Training School Dartmouth College Hanover, N. H. Lt. Idan Flaa 360 Bradley Avenue Flint, Michigan Donald Forsdick U. S. Coast Guard Station Pier 18 Stapleton, S. I., N. Y. CGR 521 24 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER D. F. Hayes 265 - 18th Ave. Paterson, N. J. (for forwarding) Lt. H. E. Hesselberg Hq. 1st Bn., 30th F. A. A.P.O. #942 c/o Postmaster Seattle, Washington Lt. R. C. Kendrick Co. 18, B. 39 First Student Training Reg. Fort Benning, Ga. Corporal James B. Marshall 907 Air Base Security Battalion Co. "A" Camp Rucker, Alabama Lt. (jg) J. Mason, Jr. USNR Ground School Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida Pvt. Richard T. McCraine O'Reilly General Hospital Medical Dept. U. S. Army Springfield, Mo. Lt. Thomas M. Mixon c/o H. B. Overstreet Moss Point, Mississippi Pvt. John R. Montgomery 726 Military Police Battalion Company D Camp Beauregard, La. Richard H. Murphy, Sea. lc U. S. N. C. T. C. Bn. 27, Co. A, Pit. 5 Camp Allen Norfolk, Va. utkitsaeiMi iH&n*.- Pvt. Frank S. Neal Training Detachment #3, Co. G 533rd Engineer Shore Regt. Camp Edwards, Mass. S. T. Pruitt 233 Leonard Avenue Nashville, Tenn. (for forwarding) Captain S. J. Warner, Jr. Army Post Office No. 871 c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. The Shift Key Everett W. Allen -- Engineering to Technical Service, at Detroit. Grace P. Buckley -- New York Stenographic to New York Division. Richard C. Beauhler -- Engi neering, from San Berdu to Detroit. John M. Higgins -- Mail Room to Financial, at New York. Hilda Tregenning -- pastry cook to assistant cook at Detroit Lab. (Reported by S. E. Ellerbe, Atlanta Division) An engineer -- a man who knows a lot about very little, and who goes on learning more and more about less and less until finally he knows prac tically everything about practically nothing___ A salesman -- a man who knows a little about a great deal, and who learns less and less about more and more until he knows practically noth ing about everything. ... A purchasing agent -- a man who knows all about everything to start with, but who spends so much time between engineers and salesmen that he ends up knowing practically nothing about anything. * It requires as much power to carry 20 tons of 4-engine bomber through the sky as is needed by a crack pas senger locomotive to haul 1,000 tonsof cars and tender over the rails. *** No Longer with Us Evelyn Green, Detroit Georgie Hopper, Detroit Marion Kolodynski, Detroit June M. Wirth, Deepwater Agnes M. Sweeney, New York Hilda L. Warnecke, Baltimore 25 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER I: 1 ETC 06349 New Employees at Baton Rouge Elyria B. Hernandez, junior cleric in the Ethyl Chloride plant, was born in New Orleans and attended Baton Rouge High School and Louisi ana State University. She came to Ethyl irom a ladies' clothing shop in Baton Rouge. i Thaddeus H. Ealencld. blender operator helper, is a native of Trenton, N. /. He attended high school in Morrisvilie, Pa., and Louisiana State University. Before joining Ethyl he was a staff photographer with the Army and Navy Publishing Company in Baton Rouge. Two More in Khaki Two men from the garage at En gineering Research in Detroit march ed off to war together, reporting Sept. 16 at Fort Custer, Mich. They are Joe Laethem, who was drafted, and Merlyn Beane, who decided to enlist. Joe came to Ethyl in early 1941 and was married last Valentine's Day. Merlyn was driving cars off the as sembly line at Cadillac before he joined Ethyl. Joe and Merlyn were test drivers in the days before the Lab quit com- pany research for war work. In re cent months Joe has been working in the fuel house and Merlyn has been in the receiving and shipping department. Leatherneck Ralph Carpenter has left the De troit Lab for the Marine Corps, re porting for duty September 22. Ralph, who drove the pick-up truck for the purchasing department, came to Ethyl from the Ford Motor Com pany. 26 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 06350 SALT FOR A JAP WARBIRD'S TAIL he white substance you see com tities by U. S. refiners for the planes of Ting out of this machine is common the United Nations. The makers of Ethyl table salt. But it is going to be used for fluid are glad to report that they can an unusual purpose. It will help power supply sufficient quantities of fluid for American warplane engines--will likely all military needs. as not help an American flyer get on the What's more, ourresearch and technical tail of a Jap and stay there until he staffs are today cooperating closely with downs him. Here's how: the technologists of the aviation, auto Salt, as you know, is chemically "sodi motive and petroleum industries in the um chloride." By electrolysis we sepa further improvement of fuels and en rate it into its two elements, sodium and gines--are doing everything in their chlorine. Both of these, along with many power to help our fighting men put salt other chemicals, are used in the manu on the tails of Axis warbirds. facture of Ethyl fluid. Ethyl fluid is one of the prime compo nents of 100-octane aviation gasoline-- the superior fuel which was developed by the American petroleum industry and is now being produced in vast quan ETHYL CORPORATION Chrysler Building, New York City Manufacturer of Ethyl fluid, used by oil companies to im prove the antiknock quality of aviation and motor gasoline. i etc 06351 NOVEMBER, 1942 ETC 06352 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD--byaadfrEtb?1 empioyel ETC 06353 W. B. Barnes -- wins S100 bond Barnes Wins 100 Berries in Bonds Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, the winnah and champion guesser! Mr. W. R. Bames, safety represen tative, Atlanta division, wins first place and a $100 war bond for the closest guess in the no doubt famous Bulletin Board guessing contest. Rollin, come forward and pick up the chips. The total number of requests for copies of the booklet, "What's in a Name" received up to midnight, Oc tober 15, was 215,298. Rollin's guess was 213,723. Second prize, a $25 war bond, goes to W. E. Williford of Ethyl-Dow, Freeport, on a guess of 228,768. Wally Distler, tractor representative, Dayton division, cops third prize, $5 in war savings stamps, with a guess of 230,206. Madge Lofthouse of the Yonkers Control Lab ran out of the money, but her guess of 200,000 put her in fourth place. Dick Scales, assistant director of the Technical Service De partment in Detroit, took fifth place with a guess of 191,650. Generally speaking, participation was rather good. After a slow start the guesses started rolling in and during the last three weeks of the contest every mail brought in addi tional entries. Baton Rouge won top honors for the largest number of participants, although the Sales De partment wasn't far behind. The highest guess was 3,489,362. Although it turned out to be wildly optimistic, we like such confidence in the power of advertising. Alto gether ten participants entered guesses of a million or more and, oddly enough, all came from tech nical people. If you know technical 3 BULLETIN BOARD -- NO VEMBER ETC 06354 Sacks oi Ethyl mail contain requests for copies of "What's in a Nome?" booties people this lack of conservatism will surprise you -- it practically floored us. The most pessimistic guess we re ceived was 3,333. We choose to think this was not a serious guess. 3,333 indeed! It strikes us that this par ticipant got his hunch in a crap game. Anybody who throws four 3s in a row has a right to be sour on the world. Incidentally, Ralph Champlin won his bet with Russ Weston that some one not connected with the Adver tising and Public Relations Depart ment or the advertising agency would submit the closest guess. Best effort of the experts, who had a pri vate pool of their own, was a guess of 200,000 turned in by Lex Chiquoine of the agency, but the aver age of the twelve participants in the advertising man's pool was pretty close -- 185,000 to be exact. The "What's in a Name" cam paign, by the way, has attracted considerable attention. Not only has the public response been good, but it has aroused the interest of adver tising trade papers, advertising agen cies and other advertisers. Not the least interested have been prospective parents -- particularly prospective fathers. Hardly a day passes that some harassed-looking man doesn't turn up at the Chrysler Building to demand a booklet. But quick! It's always the same story -- baby's arrival imminent; unable to decide on a name; book might help, etc. Evelyn Johnson, 35th floor re ceptionist! thinks practically all the next generation will owe their names to the Ethyl Corporation. And it's cumulative. A man turned 4 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06355 up one afternoon in his work clothes, his face and hands showing evi dences of the day's toil. In broken English and with many gestures he explained his predicament -- baby come soon, etc. Book? He got it and departed happily. Half an hour later he was back -- with four friends, also in work clothes, also prospec tive fathers. In concert and with ges tures they explained their mission. When the elevator doors closed be hind that happy chattering quintet, Miss Johnson collapsed -- with laughter. Some one has suggested the rather alarming possibility of thousands of girls growing up with the name Ethyl, so named because their par ents were under the impression that it was a snooty version of Ethel. You know, like Gwladys and Edythe. It was pointed out that while this would mean that the campaign had been a failure, it would be one way to keep our name before the public. MILITARY MAIL BAG October 11, 1942 To begin with, why in the hell didn't someone look up the word "Indoctrina tion" before I came up here and tell me its meaning? As you know I left Chicago in the full regalia of a Lieutenant (jg), and brought along a wife and golf clubs. Since arrival I have seen the wife twice, once for a nice friendly chat through an eight-foot fence (upon which hung a sign "Anyone attempting to climb fence will be bred on without notice") and once for a six-hour visit. Our school is organized as aboard ship, supervised by a captain and in charge of an Executive Officer. We have fourteen hundred men who came here (like me) thinking they ranked from Ensign to Lt. Commander. Our first step was to re move all signs of a commission except that on our hats. The "Boots" (recruits in their quarantine period) call us the "Golden Boots." We are divided into two battalions of 700, companies of 140, and platoons of 70. Each platoon comprises a class for the theory instruction. The theory is to consist of 200 hours of such courses as: Seamanship; Naval Leadership; Customs, Traditions Usage; Ordnance; Navy Regulations; Corre- 5 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06356 spondence; Naval Law; Naval Adminis tration; Naval History; Ships, Aircraft, etc. Reveille is at 5:30 AM and following breakfast classes continue until 2 PM. With a fifteen-minute pause we have in fantry drill until 4 PM. There is then a period of rest lasting fifteen minutes be fore we have what is affectionately called "Happy Hour" (it lasts till 6:00 PM). So far "Happy Hour" has consisted of foot racing, boxing, "judo" (which is dirty jiu jitsu), swimming fifty yards holding a Springfield rifle above water, and various forms of calisthenics that I'd never heard of before. And in the future we are to get a crack at swimming in oil, plus a crack at an obstacle course that is just that. In the evening we have on schedule two hours for study but every evening that is Snafu'd (explained later) with compulsory movies, policing duties, trips to rifle range, anti aircraft fire, etc. By compulsory movies I don't mean Lana Turner but "First Aid," "Recognition of Planes, Ships," "Streaming and Recovery of Paravanes," "Mine Warfare," "Tow ing Seaplanes" and "Sex" (as if we didn't know). SNAFU! ! in a loud voice means; Sit uation normal, all -- up. On top of all this, every time you begin to feel pretty good the medicos call you in for another "shot." So far we've had 1 cowpox, 2 tetanus, 3 typhoid, 1 yellow fever. Our doctor here is the world's champion. It takes 5 hospital mates to keep him supplied with needles. I put a watch on him last time and he was "stick ing" twenty-three arms per minute. One big old boy from Georgia walked by kind of slowly and the doc stuck him twice. Did he yell! Best regards to all -- Charlie Towery September 20 I have notv reached my new station and am located on one of the Hawaiian Islands. Of course, I'm not allowed to disclose my exact location, however this much I can say, it is an island paradise. I have never seen anything quite as beautiful as the scenery around here. Every tree and shrub seems covered with blossoms. The weather is delight ful and thus far, I've been able to take a swim in the Pacific almost every after noon. I certainly enjoy this and have the opinion that "Army life really isn't so bad at that." However, we should soon be engaged in more serious work and will then be unable to go swimming quite so often. Lt. N. J. Linstromberg (0-399008) 640 T.D. Bn. APO 1288 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California September 5 Another month is well under way and I am still enjoying a pleasant vaca tion on the island. Some changes have taken place here since I had last written you. Reorganization of the units has left a few of us here to care for the few odds and ends that must be taken into consideration before our headquarters is dissolved. I am now acting as first ser geant, operations sergeant, message cen ter chief, telephone operator, and gener al all-around man in our outfit. I have been having a little difficulty trying to get the corporals and line sergeants to take a day at K. P. duty since we have but a couple of privates to select for the job. For a time it appeared as though I 6 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06357 would have to take my turn at that duty to quell the arguments on the subject, but I think the situation is in hand now. I believe that the quickest way to be come unpopular in an outfit is to act as first sergeant and try to make the fel lows work when they would much rather be stretched out flat on their backs in their tents. The easy way to get them to do some work is to tempt them with passes, but there aren't enough passes to be given out to settle the entire situation. How are things back at the lab? I haven't heard from you for some time. It seems that the work must be keeping you very busy. Have any more of the fellows been called into the service? I think the government could use more good men. M/Sgt. E. J. Kukla 36130536 Headquarters Battery 104th Battalion APO 960, U. S. Army c o Postmaster San Francisco, California October 6 We are organizing a new quarter master truck company down here, but so far all we have been doing is drilling. As soon as our basic training is over we take over the duties of supplies and materials for the Base. The weather down here is fine and it cools off enough at night so that we sleep under blankets. Please tell every one hello and I expect to be back with them some day. Pvt. Merlyn Beane 1921st Q.M. Co. (Trk.) Dale Mabry Field Tallahassee, Florida October 5 Hello Charlie (Kass). How is the old gang getting along? Will you say hello to the gang for me, and give them my address and tell them to write to me. It is hot out here. Pvt. Joe Laethem Company C. 14th Training Battalion Ft. McClellan, Alabama JU the Hcrvai Torpedo Station where I am still located I am receiving a complete course in all of the Navy's torpedoes. Though a torpedo isn't an exact parallel to an automotive engine, my experience with Ethyl has stood me in good stead. Our officers' group is all engineers, some just out of college but the majority with several years of en gineering experience. Newport was quite a revelation to me, never having spent any considerable time in New England. The antiquity of the town -- with its old homes, narrow streets, and famous landmarks -- is something I shall not easily forget. The permanent dimout and the large number of sailors really give it a wartime at mosphere. Ensign Joseph A. Cipolla (O-V-S) USNR 26 State Normal Place Jersey City, N. J. October 2 I have a hell oi a time writing let ters. There just isn't any news. We are out most of the time and are having lots of fun, etc., but I can't tell you about any of that stuff, at least until the war is over. The salt water Navy is the ideal place to fight the war and take a few years' cruise. You can have anything you want, even though I can't sell any Ethyl -- 7 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06358 life I'm taking good care of our two Diesels. Great engines, these Diesels -- no valve trouble, no carburetor trouble, no plug trouble or knock. All kidding aside, this is a great life for the duration but I'll be glad to get back when it's over. September 12: I've been transferred twice since the last letter. First to an island base -- and then to Morehead City where I've got a shore job at the moment, damn it. Haven't been doing anything exciting except sit around the hotel room with the other fellows bending my elbow. There's nothing else to do here. I think all they ever eat is fish. I'm so tired of it -- I don't think I'll ever eat another one again. Douglas B. Blackburn, Ens. USNR Section Base Morehead City, N. C. Dear Jim (Terrell): September 19 Your letter was forwarded to me. I am in the Chemical Warfare Service. I was inducted at Camp Beauregard, La., and had live weeks basic training at Camp Sibert in Alabama. Now I am attending a technical school in Wash ington. I have nine weeks more here. I don't know where I will go then. The sojourn at Camp Sibert was un pleasant as we had to live in tents and had no hot water, etc. The soldiers called it Siberia or Devil's Island. Here in Washington the Government allows us $1.50 a day for our meals and $1.25 a day for our room. We live like civilians except that we wear uniforms and have to salute. We eat wherever we please. I am also buying war bonds. The post commanders wish to report 100% par ticipation, so they see to it that the men sign up. Washington is very overcrowded now. It is full of officers, mostly those of the Navy. I have seen quite a bit of the city. I visited Arlington, the museums, etc. The town is over-rated for its beauty, etc. New York City has far more to see than Washington, and there are more beautiful places in this country and abroad. Sincerely, Private Walter Rantanen U. S. Army 1755 Park Road, N. W. Washington, D. C. In Canada a married person with two children pays a tax of $32 on $1,200, of $668 on $3,000, of $34,337 on $50,000, and of $462,738 on $500,000. Reduction of steel in new Govern ment buildings after December 4 will save metal equal to the amount re quired for four 35,000-ton battleships. S.A.E. Officer Bruce Crane, Eastern New York representative of the Boston divi sion, was recently installed as secre tary-treasurer of the newly formed Mohawk-Hudson Section of the So ciety of Automotive Engineers, of Albany. 8 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06359 Looking over Baton Rouge -- Chuck Hawley, /ujian Gonzalez, Roy Clothier. Earl Bartholo mew. E. W. Webb, C. W. Wasserman, Art Stover Ethyl Executives Look over Baton Rouge The manufacturing plant at Baton Rouge was host to executives, department managers, and research directors from October 22 through 24. The program for those days con sisted of plant inspection trips, ad dresses on process and technical de velopments in the manufacture of the ingredients for Ethyl Fluids and other war chemicals, and meetings of various committees. The Coor dination Committee conducted a reg ular monthly meeting and Ethyl exexutives conferred on manufacturing problems with du Pont officials. The Research Committee also scheduled a meeting during the three day period. Additional participation of the Ethyl Corporation and its products in the war effort was reviewed by officials. A climax to the session was the announcement that on Oct. 29 the first unit would go "on stream" to produce ethylene dichloride, a prime chemical in the manufacture of Thiokol, which will be used for retreading civilian tires. The plant inspection trips covered all phases of manufacturing from the time pig lead, salt, refinery gases and other raw materials enter the Earl Bartholomew and Earle W. Webb have a question answered by Roy Clothier Ralph Champlin. Charlie Wasserman and B. E. Perkins do a Ji/fJe rubbernecking ETC 06360 Dr. 0. E. Kurt and Clint Bond A iour-handed "coice" in the lunch room as a picker-upper after an inspection trip: Ed Gresslin, Bill Henry, Coord Taylor, Percy Griffiths plant until the finished products are shipped. Executives and research di rectors doffed their coats and broke up into small groups for personally conducted tours. They craned their necks and shaded their eyes against the sharp southern sun to look at towering stills and furnaces in the ethyl chlor ide areas while guides explained the reactions taking place night and day in the maze of pipings. They climbed stairs, up to the sixth floors of some structures, and tramped long miles of corridors and aisles in going through the sodium, tetraethyl lead and blender buildings. Following the inspection tours, papers were presented by members of the technical staff on manufactur ing activities. The papers dealt with four general subjects -- Problems related to new processes, for conversion of ethyl chloride to ethylene dichloride in making mate rial for tire retreads: Dr. C. M. Neher discussed "Production of Ethylene Dichloride," and Dr. H. E. O'Connell spoke on "Engineering Design For No. 1 Plant." The manufacture of ethyl chloride: B. E. Perkins gave a paper on the hydrogen chloride process, and P. J. Bertin on the alcohol process. J. H. Fulmer discussed the operation of the hydrogen chloride salt - cake plant. Important problems of going pro cesses : Dr. G. F. Kirby spoke on "Reactor Studies of the EthyleneHydrochloric Process," Dr. Julian Dorsky on "Impurities in Ethyl Chlorides," and Dr. G. W. Beste on "Multiple Autoclave Studies of the Tetraethyl Lead Reaction." General and miscellaneous typical problems: R. S. Asbury discussed "Chemical Section Activities in the Technical Division." F. A. McCoy spoke on "Engineering Section Ac tivities." George Rieger's ^subject was "Tetraethyl Lead Observation Section Activities." Dr. O. E. Kurt and C. W. Bond presided at the formal programs. W. J. Henry closed the sessions with a discussion of the industrial history of Baton Rouge. J. H. Schaefer, of New York, spoke for the manage ment in thanking the Baton Rouge staff for arranging the various pro grams. 10 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06361 F. A. McCoy B. E. Perkins /. H. Fulmer Or. H. E. O'Connell Speakers at Baton Rouge Meeting i ETC 06362 UP AND DOWN THE BEAUTIFUL OHIO A 960-mile trip on the Ohio River aboard a luxurious river tugboat owned by the Ashland Oil and Re fining Company, Inc., of Ashland. Ky., solved the vacation problem for Jack Martin, Harold Berg, and their better halves. The cruise consisted of three laps -- Pittsburgh to Ash land, Ashland to Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh to Ashland again -- and was taken at the invitation of Everett F. Wells, vice-president of the Ash land Company. With its length of 130 feet and beam of 31 feet, the tug on which they traveled is a far cry from the tiny river bulldogs of New York Harbor. Its two seven-cylinder diesel engines give out a total of 1610 horse power. Captain of its crew of 14 men is Fred Way, author of three pub lished books, including "The Log of the Betsy Ann," "The Alleghany," and "Pilotin' Comes Natural." The tug was doing a routine job on its shuttles up and down the river, pushing six loaded barges on each lap -- pushing because a tug can move a larger load that way than it can by pulling. Each of these barges is 195 feet long, 35 wide and 10 deep, and has a capacity of 9,500 barrels of oil. The Ethyl folks occupied the tug's guest deck, which consists of three air-conditioned bedrooms and an airconditioned lounge with private bar and refrigerator. Their chief occupa tions during the 15-day voyage were playing bridge and lying on deck in the balmy sunshine. All in all it was a pleasant and restful trip. i ! j * j j ETC 06363 ETC 06364 What Is Ethyl Doing to Help Win the Wat? In these days every worthwhile American asks himself from time to time "What am I doing to help win the war?" and "Can I do more?". Every worthwhile corporation must ask itself the same questions. We know Ethyl Fluid is a war munition, essential to the quality of gasolines our aviators, soldiers and sailors use in combat. Making Ethyl Fluid is, therefore, a necessary part of the nation's war program. In ad dition to this product, our organiza tion, and the organizations of com panies associated with us, supply other products and services that contribute both directly and indi rectly to our fighting power and to the struggle to keep the national economy here at home on a firm basis. The following is a brief review of some of these war contributions. The Ethyl Corporation is the sole producer of Ethyl Fluid in the United States. There is production of Ethyl Fluid outside the United States but by far the greater part of the air forces and mechanized ar mies of the United Nations through out the world depend upon us for a steady supply of Ethyl Fluid for the full performance of their en gines. Every man and woman who contributes to the manufacture and distribution of Ethyl Fluid, or the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, ethyl chloride, sodium, chlorine, hydro chloric acid, ethylene dichloride, eth ylene dibromide, and other essential chemicals, therefore is making a di rect contribution to the war effort. The importance of this may be judged from the fact that approxi mately two-thirds of our entire pro duction will go directly into gasoline used by the armed forces of the United Nations. This proportion in cludes only Ethyl Fluid to be used in "fighting grade" aviation gaso line and in the gasoline which powers tanks, invasion barges, tor pedo boats, anti-tank equipment, ar mored cars, army trucks, etc. These two-thirds do not include the Ethyl Fluid that goes into gasoline used by civilians who are engaged in war work. Except a very small percentage, all Ethyl Fluid which we manufac ture during the coming twelve months will be used to improve gas oline that our nation depends upon for its fighting power or the main tenance of its national economy. War demands are such that we 14 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 06365 will need to produce as much as possible in every plant that is de voted to the manufacture of Ethyl Fluid and chemicals used in mak ing it. Every additional drop of Ethyl Fluid produced and success fully distributed will aid to the better performance of some engine -- and two out of three of those drops will be used in war engines. A tank car of Ethyl Fluid moving out of our plant is not as spectacular as a carload of anti-aircraft guns or a carload of ammunition, but at the front it may play just as vital a role. Standard tor Ethyl Raised At the request of the War Depart ment, the standard for antiknock quality of Ethyl gasoline has been raised from 78 to 80 octane number. Gasoline of this quality has been named by the Army as its "all-pur pose" grade and its distribution is regarded as a vital part of the Army program. They want Ethyl gaso line available at all times and at all points in the country, both for emergency use here and for im mediate shipment abroad when nec essary. Synthetic Rubber Two of our ethyl chloride plants have been found to be suitable for the manufacture of ethylene dichlor ide, a chemical needed in the manufacture of a polysulphide type syn thetic rubber. We will be able to make sufficient ethyl chloride for our tetraethyl lead production by operat ing the remaining ethyl chloride plants at full capacity. To manufac ture the 60,000 tons of this type of rubber which were called for in the recommendations of the Baruch Committee, 72,000 tons of ethylene dichloride will be needed. One of our plants has already been changed over to manufacture ethylene dichloride; it went "on stream" October 29th. It is expected that the other may be converted in the near future. With the two plants we will be able, if necessary, to supply over threefourths of the 72,000 tons of ethyl ene dichloride called for. In addition to this use of ethyl chloride plants for the manufacture of ethylene dichloride, one of the tetraethyl lead plants is expected to be converted so that it can produce polysulphide type of synthetic rubber from ethylene dichloride. To illustrate the significance of these operations, we quote a section of the Baruch Committee's report: j jj ' | 1 ETC 06366 "We must maintain the tires on at least a substantial proportion of the 27,000,000 civilian automobiles. Otherwise an economy geared to rubber-borne motor transport to an extent not approached elsewhere in the world will break down." Poly sulphide rubber is suitable for mak ing retreads for civilian tires and is expected to help fill this need. Research Laboratories For several years the work of Ethyl's aeronautical laboratories has been devoted almost entirely to co operative programs with the armed forces -- since Pearl Harbor it has been 100%. The nature of their work and the projects on which they are cooperating are strictly confidential. Our Engineering and Chemical Research Laboratories today are devoting most of their time and fa cilities to projects connected with the war effort. The most important of these projects are also confiden tial and cannot be described, but they include work which Ethyl en gineers are specially equipped to do, including the study and improve ment of fuels and engines for air planes, tanks, invasion boats, trucks and mobile power plants. Saiety Work Organization and maintenance of proper safety measures in our plants and in the distribution and handling of Ethyl Fluid requires extensive personnel, wide experience, and many facilities. Such work is essen tial to successful plant operation in a business like ours. In distribution and handling, safety work is of in creasing importance to the war ef fort in making certain that our prod uct is introduced safely and in prop er quantities into the tremendous amounts of commercial and aviation gasolines now used in the war. Con struction and supervision of mixing installations, particularly the many new 100-octane aviation Ethyl in stallations, is also of vital impor tance. Safety work further contrib utes to the reduction in accidents which would affect the manpower of the nation and retard production. Field. Service Organizations All programs undertaken by Ethyl's field organization and Tech nical Service Organizations this year are, in some measure, contrib uting directly to the war. The training and experience of the per sonnel in these organizations in the normal course of business during past years have, fortunately, fitted them for roles of considerable value in the present emergency. Experience with our commercial bus and truck fleet operation is prov ing to be of substantial value in train ing Army personnel attached to ar mored corps and mechanized forces. We are supplying experience and in struction in the proper maintenance procedures and in the operation of BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 06367 their vehicles. Numerous meetings are held in Army camps and training centers for this work. all who are employed in our organiza tion -- and in the organizations of du Pont and Ethyl-Dow which con tribute to the manufacture of Ethyl Fluid -- should get a great deal of satisfaction out of the facts stated here. In these critical days loyal Americans can have no greater satis faction than to feel useful in accom plishing what has become the num ber one job for all of us -- winning the war as soon as possible. The grave need for conservation of bus and truck equipment has been recognized by the Office of Defense Transportation. Their national pro gram is receiving valuable help from Ethyl's field and service organiza tions. The farm tractor program insti tuted by us some years ago, laid a firm groundwork for the present emergency. Farm tractors are now almost irreplaceable and farmers faced with labor shortages and de mands for larger crops need assis tance more than ever before. The pre ventive maintenance and tune-up program of Ethyl's field and service organizations in the farm tractor field are making a direct contribution to the Government's program for in creasing farm production and allow ing a decrease in the manufacture of new farm implements.. Conclusion It is not always possible for every Ethyl employee in day-to-day exper ience to see how he or she aids the war effort directly. However, it is believed that the Ethyl business is so closely tied into the war effort that No New Old Hands This month is exceptional in that no employee celebrates his or her tenth or fifteenth anniversary with us. Five-year awards, however, go to five persons -- Augustine O. Allen of Chemical Research, Detroit; Rob ert S. Asbury, Manufacturing, Baton Rouge; Paul B. Monahan, Adminis tration, New York; Paul R. Walton, Manufacturing, Wilmington; and Charles H. Welch, Sales, Kansas City. The arrival of Robert Baird on October 7 increased the Richard B. Sneed household at Detroit to four. Papa Dick handed out the cigars and candy at the Engineering Lab and then dashed home to break the news to older son Dickie. The jump from corporal to sergeant has been made by Robert D. Nor wood, former employee in the ethyl chloride division at Baton Rouge. Sergeant Norwood has been with the medical department at Camp Bowie, Texas, since last February. 17 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06368 Safety boss Oscar Lewis, on a recent inspection tour through the far west, met Bill Heck of the Seaftie Division at Port land. Oregon, and together they paused from their labors long enough to take a look at 11245-foot Mount Hood, highest spot in the state. Bill remarked that a few deep breaths of that bracing moun tain air was iiiee a good tune-up and a full tank of Ethyl gasoiine -- it ;usf made you want to get up and go piaces. Ray Hammond is with the Army now as a civilian instructor in the Third Army Mainte nance SchooJ at Camp Livingston, La. Ray teaches all about tuels, ignition and electrical | systems, carburetors, maniiolds. and valves to the soldier mechanics at three Army camps. \ His present address is General Delivery. Pineville. La. Prior to going to work tor the Army Ray spent three and a hall months at the De troit Engineering Lab, and before that he was a tune-up engineer on the Kansas City Division's mobile clinic. Horseshoe kibitzers -- Jewel Ahonen (Technical Service), Jane Jordan (Refinery Technology), and Durward Rossman (Engineer ing Research), watching the horseshoe tourna ment last month at Detroit. 18 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETc 06369 Easy on the eyes is Mary A. Grimes, a newcomer to the Tulsa Division. A native Tulsan. Mary graduated from Tulsa Central High School. She then de serted her home town temporary for Cincinnati, attending Littieford-Neison Business College and working tor Kroger Grocery and Baking Company in that city he/ore returning to Tulsa to join Ethyl. Susan Ruth Hill just stepped across the street when she came to work in New York Stenographic. Her previous ;ob was in the New York office of the War Production Board in the Chanin Buiiding. Susan was horn in Chicago but deserted the Windy City at an early age and now resides in Bronxviile. She is a grad uate of St. Lawrence University oi Canton. N. Y.. an institution which numbers among its aiumni pitcher Hal Schumacher of the New York Giants. She aiso attended Berkeley Secretarial School in New York. Winter holds no terrors for her because she is one of the myriad de votees of the ski. Allens Ryan, latest addition to the Order and Shipping Department in New York, lives in Manhattan but she is a native of South Dakota and came to the big city by way of suburban Phiiadeiphia. She is a graduate nurse and an X-ray technician, training at Chester County Hospital, Westchester, Pa., and study ing X-ray technique in the University ot Penn sylvania. She came to us from the British Min istry oi War Transport office in New York. She frankly admits that her favorite hobby is ioafing -- which isn't a half bad hobby when you stop to think about it. 19 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06370 Carl's Corner, La. Paul Straub, who graduated from Faller Tech not so long ago, has found how amazingly fast things can happen to a bright young engineer. He was buzzing along with his re search work at San Bernardino a lit tle over a year ago, with a reserve commission in the Navy all but for gotten, when Uncle Sam tapped him and said, "I need you." Paul was as signed to research work for the Navy at Mare Island, Cal., with a commis sion as Lieutenant, Junior Grade. That went on until June 15, when he was promoted to Senior Grade. His orders still said "Mare Island," and it looked sort of settled, so on August 15 he married Roberta Thompson of San Bernardino, at the Mission Inn, at Riverside, to the pealing of old mission bells which have rung for other couples since the days when California was part of Spain. Following their honeymoon, the young couple settled down at 22 Greenwich Street, Vallejo, Cal., where Paul could be near his work, and they could be happy with each other and their friends. One of the first letters that came to the new ad dress was from Washington, order-., ing Lieut. Straub to report for active duty on a submarine. So now it is "congratulations and best wishes" to Roberta and Paul -- and "Good luck and good hunting" to Lieutenant Straub of the United States Navy. The efficiency of some of those fellows in the New York office is most amazing. They simply do not miss at all. Norm Brooks left the company the other day, with the breath of the draft board hot on his neck, to get into something that would really help win the war. Our Division office had to secure the necessary "termination of employ ment" agreement. We used to have some in stock, but Charlie White used them all up while he was build ing clinics. (We heard that he made each temporary employee sign a copy in blank before being allowed to go to work.) In due course, which in this case was quite promptly, the "termination of employment" forms arrived. The number? One for each member of the division staff. No more -- no less. Just enough to go around. What do we do now ... and who mails the last copy? I'm having geography trouble in my territory now -- too much geog raphy and not enough rubber. In view of the distances involved out here, so many traveling men are staying away from the back country now that it might even be virgin ter ritory again after the war. 20 BULLETIN BOARD -- NOVEMBER ETC 06371 Baton Rouge Plant Wins Safety Award Competing in the 1941-42 Chem ical Section Contest of the National Safety Council. Ethyl workers at Baton Rouge went through the en tire year without a single time-losing accident. For this perfect record they were awarded a trophy at the 31st National Safety Congress and Ex position which was held in Chicago October 27-29. E. J. Lorio, Ethyl's safety supervisor and a member of the American Society of Safety En gineers, an organization affiliated with the National Safety Council, re ceived the award for the Baton Rouge people. There were 223 plants entered in the Chemical Section's Fourth An nual Contest, and of this number 63 besides Ethyl completed the year without a reportable injury. The con- . I. Lorio. B. R. safety expert test, however, was split up into sub divisions according to the nature of operations performed and the num ber of employees, and the Baton Rouge Ethyl folks topped their sub division by working the greatest number of hours without anyone getting hurt badly enough to call for time out from the job. Louisiana Keglers Spilling the Pins Again The howlers at Baton Rouge are beginning to go to town, and some impressive scores have already been turned in. High game leader among the men at Bulletin Board press time is J. H. Fulmer with 229. Trailing him in second and third spots respec tively are George Johnston with 220 and George Rieger with 203. George Johnston has hung up high triple of 596 but is closely pressed by Harry Hinnershitz' 555 and George Rieger's 550. The five leading keglers since the start of the season are head ed by George Rieger with an average of 179. Following him are George Johnston with 168, Harry Hinner shitz with 158, K. L. Armstrong, Jr., with 156, and Roy Clothier with 154. Sally Van Anda's 166 is top single in the feminine section of the league, while Winnie Dugas is second with 145 and Yvette Smith third withT43. Sally Van Anda's triple of 439 puts her a considerable distance in front of Dot McCarroll, who rolled 387 for three games, and Yvette Smith, who scored 372. Again we find Sally far out in front for the season so far, with an average of 138.5. Trailing her are Winnie Dugas with 117.9, Yvette Smith with 117.7, Dot McCarroll with 117.1, and Mary Walsh with 104.4. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER MILITARY ADDRESSES OF THE MONTH John L. Bagents, Motor Machinist USCGR Southern Yacht Club New Orleans, La. Av/C R. H. Colvin Cadet Squadron 109, Flight H San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center San Antonio, Texas Cpl. Herbert J. Holdridge 744 Ordnance Co. 44th Inf. Division Fort Lewis, Washington Pvt. L. E. Massey Co. B 2nd Bn. SCRTC Camp Kohler Sacramento, Calif. Pvt. Adam L. Brooks Co. B 428th Sig. Construction Bn. Avn. Camp Pinedale Fresno, Calif. Private Walter J. Rantanen U. S. Army 1755 Park Road, N. W. Washington, D. C. Lt. Robert W. Richardson 77 Waterside Lane Clinton, Conn. (for forwarding) Lt. (jg) John S. Maynard, USNR Industrial Department United States Navy Yard Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii Private Merlyn Beane 1921st Q.M. Company (Trk) Dale Mabry Field Tallahassee, Florida Stephen N. Hall USNTS (V-7) University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 22 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER Pvt. Wm. Roy Flory Reception Center Camp Beauregard, La. John P. Black Co. D Replacement Center Bowman Field, Kentucky Lt. W. Webster Downer Ordnance Department Augusta Arsenal Augusta, Georgia Staff Sergeant J. R. Montgomery 766 Military Police Battalion Camp Robinson Little Rock, Arkansas Pvt. Arnold Severson 592nd Tech. School Sqdn. Flight 545 Keesler Field, Miss. j. Richard H. Murphy, Seaman lc Co. C, Pin. 6 27th Naval Const. Bn. Camp Bradford, Norfolk, Va. Pvt. Thomas A. Mitchell 301 Tech. School Sqdn. Flight 565, Bks. #21 Keesler Field, Miss. Lt. H. N. Wax 4122 Military Road Washington, D. C. ETC 06373 > Jane Baldwin* payroll clerk in the En gineering Lab at Detroit, came to Ethyl tram the Standard Accident Insurance Company. Jane is a graduate of Michigan State Normal College at Ypsiianti. where she was a Theta Lambda Sigma sister. She fought in a kinder garten ior nine months, bur fhen went fo worJc in on office and liked it so well she decided to stick. At present her duties as an active l/SO member and an air raid warden take up most of her spare time, but she likes to get in a little horseback riding and tennis now and then. Janet Brown* former secretary fo Len Huxtable in Tulsa, and now on a leave of absence from the company, was given a baby shower recently by Elizabeth Medlin and Glenis Dick erson at the Dickerson home. Other Ethyl girls and Ethyl wives who attended were /unite Vandruff, Mary Grimes. Gladys Rodgers. Mrs. Shank. Mrs. Huxfable, Mrs. Reis. Mrs. Carl Bartholomew, and Mrs. Ramin. On October 3 Ray HodgJtinson of the Deepwater Laboratory departed the carefree single life by taking unto him self a wife, the former Shirley A. Cham berlain of Brooklyn. N. Y. The wedding ceremony was performed at the Bushwick Avenue Methodist Church in Brook lyn and a reception was held afterward at the home of the bride's aunt in St. Albans, Long Island. The couple spent a two weeks honeymoon at the Dela ware Water Gap and fhen returned to Penns Grove, N. J.. where they now re side at 85 Delaware Avenue. 06314 etc Detroiters Top 90% Mark in Bond Buying Purchases at War Bonds through the company's payroll deduction plan are booming. Last month we told you how the boys and girls at Baton Rouge had upped their buying until 94% of them were putting over 8% of their salary checks into bonds. This week we will turn the spotlight on the Research Labs in Detroit, where the folks are also going to town, thanks to the efforts of the War Bond Committee, composed of Chairman C. C. Wrigley, C. B. Kass, and R. A. Gourley. On last September 15th only 46% of all the employees in the Detroit Labs were participating in the pay roll deduction plan. The the War Bond Committee got busy and made a personal canvass of everyone in the Lab, with the result that only three weeks later, on October 5th, there was 91% participation and 192 out of 211 were buying bonds through pay roll deductions. Tied for first place at 100% were the gasoline testing lab, with all its 12 employees in the bond plan, and the Administration and Finance Department, with four out of four. In the Engineering Department, largest at the Lab, 102 out of 211 em ployees were ringing up regular pay roll bond purchases for a percentage of 91.9. But the War Bond Committee is not content with this record, good as it is. Before long the Committee is hopeful of boosting the mark of all departments to 100%, with every one participating to the extent of at least 10% of his salary. In this way the Lab will gain the privilege of fly ing the Treasury Flag. Wearing the Blue It's Lieutenant Gene Ziurys of the U. S. Navy now. Gene reported Oc tober 14 at the University of Arizona in Tucson for a two months indoc trination course. After receiving his B.S. degree from Yale in 1933 and his M.E. in 1935, Gene came to the Engineering Research Lab in De troit, where he has been conducting research projects on single cylinder engines. During World War I he was in Lithuania and Russia with his par ents, attending school in both coun tries. His family remained in Europe when Gene came here, and he has not heard from his father, mother or sister for almost two years. 24 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER 2m Helen Ruth Nolan is a native of the honeymoon capital. Niagara Falls, but tor the past ten years she has lived in Bronxville. She is an aviation enthu siast and is planning to learn to tly, ai/hough she says her mother threatens to oust her from her happy home if she does any such thing, Helen is a graduate of Bronxville High School, Trinity Col lege in Washington, D. C.. and Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York. Before going to work in New York Steno graphic she was in the advertising de partment of Transcontinental and West ern Air. Inc., where the ffying bug had plenty of chance to bite her. Helen Brandt# file clerk in New York Manufacturing, cut nine stories from her morning eievator ride when she came to work with us. Her previous job was with Pan American Airways on the 44th floor of the Chrysler Building. She Jives in flushing, tong island, and is a graduate of Flushing High School. She likes to ride horseback and play tennis. Joan Blanche Parke, who commutes to her job in the Accounting Department in New York from her home in Jackson Heights, Long Island, is a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker and "proud of if." She is a graduate of Washington Irving High School -- in New York. Joan came to us from General Motors. When not working, she devotes quite a bit of her spare time to faking care of her pup. ETC 06376 b New Employees at Baton Rouge Andrew /. Crowson Edward ]. Melon Technical Division Weldon L. Peyronnin, labora tory helper, was a salesman in Baton Rouge before going to work for Ethyl. He was educated at Baton Rouge High School and at business college. He has two children. Ethyl Chloride Division Andrew /. Crowson, mechanical helper, was a timber feller before he came to Ethyl. He is the father of five little Crowsons. He attended school in Bayou Chene, La. Edward J. Melon, mechanical helper, came off the farm, where he had been for the past ten years, to go to work for Ethyl. He attended school in East Baton Rouge Parish. Henry C. Slaton, mechanical helper, was formerly a carpenter and a dairy farm operator. He attended high school in Forrest City, Miss. Joseph H. Guitreau. mechanical helper, came to Ethyl from Capitol Motors in Baton Rouge. He went to school in Ponchatoula, La., before marrying and becoming the father of three children. Julian L. Bennett, mechanical helper, worked for Stone and Web ster in Baton Rouge before becoming an Ethylman. He attended Baker, La., High School. Frederick D. Neubig, operator helper, previously managed a grocery store in Plaquemine, La. He attended high school in the latter place and spent one year at Louisiana State University. ^ Weldon L. Peyronnin Henry C. Slaton Joseph H. Guitreau Julian L. Bennett ETC 06377 derick D. Neubig Ulysses A. Sleib Ulysses A. Steib, operator helper, came to us from a salesman's job with Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company. He attended St. James High School. Alan R. Watson, storehouse clerk helper, has been division manager for Sears Roebuck in Baton Rouge for the past four years. He has three small Watsons at home. He attended Newton, Kansas, High School and Fairmount College for two years. Joseph E. Babin, storehouse clerk helper, was formerly a salesman in Baton Rouge. He attended school in White Castle, La. His big family in cludes five kiddies. Lee E. Owens, storehouse clerk helper, was manager of a service sta tion in Baton Rouge before joining Ethyl. He went to high school in Springfield, La. Luther L. Feigler, mechanical helper, has two children. Before join ing us, he was an electrician with Swift and Company. He went to Kentwood, La., High School. Carlos L. Poston, mechanical helper, used to be Caterpillar tractor operator for a construction company in Shreveport. He is the father of three kiddies and he went to school in Spearsville, La. George R. Leiebre, operator helper, formerly ran his own filling station. He has two children. He graduated from St. Vincent's Acad emy and spent two years at Louisi ana State University. Berlin C. Harris, operator helper, left the floor-finishing business in which he and his brothers were part ners, to take an Ethyl job. He is the father of two children and he attend ed Baton Rouge High School. ^ Luther L. Feigler Carlos L. Poston George R. Leiebre Berlin C. Harris ETC 06379 Verna Lathrop joined the Chicago Divi sion's stenographic staff in October. She was formerly employed by the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. Verna's home is in Marshall town, Iowa, where she went through high schooi and business coliege. Her husband, Dis now with Unde Sana's Navy, as signed at present to a Y. P. boat. Ken Morse, of New York Administration, as he looks as a sailor. Joins the Benedicts Merritt Morse of the New York mail room married Alice Mazzotti of Brooklyn on October 10 in the Kings Highway Methodist Church of that borough. Following the ceremony, a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. Merritt and his wife then crossed the East River for a brief honeymoon amid the tall tow ers of Manhattan. 29 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER Merritt Morse with his bride ETC 06380 Bob Kimpton. Sales, New York, to Engineering, Detroit Arnold Largest Chemical Re search to Aeronautical, at Detroit Ruth Peabody, New York Steno graphic to New York Division Raymond G. Hammond, Engi neering, Detroit, to Sales, Kansas City Dick Coveney, Sales, Boston, to Engineering, Detroit Glenn Faurof, Sales, Baltimore, to Engineering, Detroit Casey Jones. Sales, Boston, to Engineering, Detroit F. M. Jobes, Sales, Tulsa, to En gineering, Detroit Barry Barringer, Detroit to Ba ton Rouge G. S. Robinson, Sales, Dayton, to Engineering, Detroit John W. Pauii, Sales, Chicago, to Engineering, Detroit Punch Piundstein, St. Louis Fleet Tests to Engineering, Detroit Orange Blossoms in East Orange Levonne Clarice, who worked in the A.I.S. Plan office in New York, changed her name on October 9th, when she became the bride of First Lieutenant Richard Geyer of the U. S. Army in Christ Church, East Orange, N. J. Levonne's wedding plans were made suddenly, thanks to Army or ders. Her husband-to-be, who was stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass., was notified that he would receive a ten-day furlough and then be trans ferred to Carabella Island, Fla. The couple, who had been engaged for some time, decided to get married at once so that Levonne could ac company Lieutenant Geyer to his 30 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER new post. Their wedding trip con sisted of a leisurely tour south in his car during the remaining days of his furlough, with stopovers at Wash ington, D. C., and Williamsburg, Va. Levonne's new address is Wakulla Lodge, Wakulla Fla., where, she re ports, several other Army wives are living. ETC 06381 Ethyl Movies Fly i While calling not long ago on officials of the B. F. Avery and Sons Company in Louisville, Ky,, to pre sent Ethyl's Wartime Tractor Pro gram, George Pearce and Wally Distler of the Dayton Division were informed that the Ethyl movies, "An Ounce of Prevention" and "John Ross Gets the Facts," would soon be shown to English audiences. Highly recommended by the Avery com Marine Marksman pany, they were taken across the Atlantic in a Flying Fortress by the John MeMaster, who left the New York mail room to join the Marines assistant director of English Civilian Warfare. a couple of months back, dropped in the other day to say hello. You could hear him coming some distance away, from the clanking of the medals he wore. Although Mac had been only 10 weeks in the Marine Corps and had never before handled a gun, he has already qualified as a sharpshooter with the Garand rifle Substituting silver for copper in electrical conductors in ten war plants under construction saved enough copper to make 95 million aircraft machine gun bullets, 600,000 anti-tank shells, and 1,500,000 anti aircraft shells. -- he was in the very first contingent of Marines, in fact, to fire the Garand Future Officer M-l's on a range. Joe Williams. now on military Mac also had a ladder of medals leave and stationed at Conley, Ga., swinging from the pocket of his new dropped into his old headquarters at "winter green" service uniform, de the Atlanta Division recently and in noting that he has qualified as Ex formed the folks there that he was pert with Bayonet, with Pistol, and leaving to attend Officers Training with Hand Grenade. He's now in the School at Aberdeen, Md. We wouldn't Aviation Quartermaster School at know for sure, but maybe Colonel New River, N. C. Atwell, recent commandant at the The stork visited the Baton Rouge Motor Transport Division at Conley, who has also been transferred to General Hospital last August 16 and Aberdeen, figured Joe was too valu left James Rodney Poche to bring able a man to lose and fixed it up for joy to the hearts of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon V. Poche. Vernon is an operator in the Ethyl Chloride plant. him to go along. Joe used to be with Clinic 11 and then was Mississippi field representative until his induc tion. 31 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER li ETC 06382 Editor! Editor! Three Ethyl publications, "Prac tical Pointers," "Wartime Tractors" and "Ethyl News" recently were awarded certificates of merit at the seventh annual show of the New York Employing Printers Associa tion, an organization which includes every prominent printing firm in the New York area. The awards were based on excellence of typography, layout and general effectiveness. Ap proximately 850 exhibits of all types of printing were entered in the show. "Practical Pointers" and "Ethyl News" were among about 30 out standing examples of printing sin gled out by the judges for spe cial comment. Discussing "Practical Pointers" the judges remarked on the excellence of the cover and the lay out, with particular mention of the clever use of photographs. The Ethyl News was singled out as "an out standing example of the modern house magazine." Comment of the judges was "Excellent, both inside and out." When Larry Larison of the Bos ton division made a trip recently to the Pratt & Whitney plant in Hart ford, Conn., who do you think he saw? No, not Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, but Lieutenant Laurence H. Blatchford, who was formerly a field representative out of Boston. Larry, who has been stationed at Duncan Field, San Antonio, is now taking the Army and Navy engineer ing course for commissioned officers at the Pratt & Whitney school. Ensign Stuart Forbes, who has been through a period of training, will be shifted to Toledo, Ohio, where he will be assigned to the Liquid Cooled Engine Division of the Avia tion Corporation as resident inspec- 32 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER tor of Naval aircraft. In other words, he will be the Navy's technical repre sentative on the job and will be boss of twenty-odd inspectors and an of fice force of about ten girls, including a few WAVES. Before leaving the Corporation for the Navy, Stuart was field representative in Florida. Rose Brady, secretary to Tom Ronan, is wearing a big diamond on her ring finger these days. The rea son? Rose recently announced her engagement to Robert Stimmel of Allentown, Pa., who is a high school teacher in that city. They met in the romantic Poconos during Rose's va cation a year ago last summer. At deadline time no definite plans had been made for the wedding. ETC 06383 Baton Rouge Visitors The Coast Guard, the Navy and the Army were represented by three former employees now in military service who recently dropped in for a visit at the Baton Rouge plant. Wearing the white uniform is Coast Guardsman John L. Bagents, who left the TEL blender operation to become a First Class Machinist's Mate, stationed at New Orleans. The Navy delegate is Rip Collins, another Ethyl Chloride man, who is a chief specialist at Norfolk, Va. The soldier is Private Richard T. McCraine, pre viously employed in the Ethyl Chlo ride Division, who is with a medical detachment at Springfield, Missouri. If it's speed you want, call on Ed Ryan, who recently joined the New York mail room stall. He used to be track captain at Tolentine High School in the Bronx, his home borough. He was also on the track team at Drake High School, also in the Bronx, where he completed his senior year in school. Ed came to us iron the Merchant Marine Academy at Fort Schuyler, where he spent two years. He is now taking an evening course in mathematics at New York University, on the completion o1 which in March he will return to the Merchant Marine Academy to graduate. Upon graduation he will receive a third engineer's ticket and a commission as Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve. 33 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER 06384 etc Ethyl Writer Leaves North Clarey, whose recent ar ticles in the Ethyl News have been receiving complimentary comment, pulled the hood over his typewriter the other day with a big smile, turned his pet mouse loose to forage, and ordered his last set of cartoons for the Bulletin Board. Now he's at the Coast Guard Academy in New Lon don, and if he lives through the train ing grind, he'll emerge in four months as an Ensign. Lieutenant John R. Howard, on military leave from the Engineering Research Lab in Detroit, represented the Detroit Ordnance District and was the principal speaker when three employees of the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company of Pontiac, Mich., were awarded the War Department's prized Certificate of Individual Production Merit. The entire plant personnel of Yellow Coach attended the ceremony, and John was grateful for the experience in public speaking he had gained as president of the Society of Ethyl En gineers. A reserve officer, John was called to active duty earlier this year. War Workers Bob Hogan. Baltimore division, left us on November 6 -- he's a Cap tain now, in the Ordnance Depart ment of the Army. Sam Rady, fleet engineer for the Chicago division, left us on October 22, also to go into the Army. Dick Hammond, of the Los An geles group, has resigned to become a civilian automotive technician for the Army Quartermaster Corps. Dick's brother Ray, one of our ex's from Kansas City, is also a civilian automotive technician. XT. L. Armstrong, chief clerk in the Shipping and Material Account ing Department at Baton Rouge, welcomed his first grandchild into the world on September 12, when Mrs. Richard Gregory, the former Mary Jane Armstrong, became the mother of a seven and a half pound daughter, Patricia Ann. ** Cigars and candy were the order of the day at the San Berdu testing lab Thursday, October 29th, when Elmer Mahlke returned from St. Bemadine's to announce the arrival of young David Erwin. The baby weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. and is reported to be the spittin' image of his daddy. Both mother and baby are doing fine. * No Longer With Us Juanita Watters, Chicago Mary S. Wrobel, Detroit Francis J. Pahalek, Detroit Ross D. Stevenson, Detroit William O. Schaefer, Detroit Philip Lenton, Detroit Elizabeth McGill, Detroit Frank Sahler, Detroit James Stroupe, Detroit Aileen Murray, Detroit Frederick W. Smerling, Detroit Alexandra Slomba, Detroit Frances Heller, Detroit Hariette Moore, New York Levonne D. Clarke, New York John R. Evans, New York 34 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 06385 WHAT'S COOKING to give extra power to America's planes? ight now it would not be a very - Today Ethyl engineers are working R good idea to tell the world exactly more closely than ever with the tech how the apparatus in this picture oper nologists of the petroleum, aviation and ates. The reason is that with it we are automotive industries in the develop "cooking up" things that will do the ment of better fuels and more powerful Axis no good. engines for our armed forces. In every The process pictured is one of the important steps in making the Ethyl fluid that is used by oil refiners in the production of all 100-octane gasoline. plant, laboratory, technical and service division, Ethyl employees are working hard at their job of helping to cook the Axis goose as equally as possible. By adding Ethyl fluid to blends of selected base stocks and such "synthet ics" as iso-octane, refiners are able to pro duce vast quantities of high-octane avia tion fuel. This in turn permits engine ETHYL CORPORATION Chrysler Building, New York City builders to design engines that give extra power and speed to America's planes. Manufacturer of Ethyl fluid, used by oil companies io im prove the antiknock quality of aviation and motor gasoline. t etc 06386  ETHYL MEN IN THE FIGHT TECHNICAL SERVICE Detroit William H. Hubner March, 1942 Herbert C. Sumner May, 1942 Archibald E. Vallier May, 1941 CHEMICAL RESEARCH Detroit Andy Pallav January, 1941 ENGINEERING RESEARCH Detroit Merrill J. Anderson May, 1942 John D. Bailie February, 1941 Douglas B. Blackburn May, 1942 Walter L. Carlson June, 1942 Joseph A. Cipolla May, 1942 Charles D. Ehrhardt, Jr. July, 1942 Howard E. Hesselberg May, 1941 John R. Howard May, 1942 Arthur E. Huffman February, 1942 Karl H. Kuhn April, 1942 James M. Mason. Jr. July. 1941 Ralph J. Wahrenbrock May, 1942 San Bernardino Paul F. Straub April. 1941 TRAINING SCHOOL Detroit Walter R. Benson March, 1942 James F. Bessirc January. 1942 Theodore S. DuBose March, 1941 Daniel A. Hirschler February, 1941 T Bernard Jones March, 1941 16 BULLETIN BOABD -- AUGUST ETC