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23E>Ei2 2E3aSES3 National Lead Company 111 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10006 Public Relations 212/732-9409 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 28, 1967 - Henry J. Whitson has been elected a vice president of National Lead Company. Mr. Whitson is manager of pigments and chemicals sales. Mr. Whitson was first employed by National Lead Company in 1932 as a member of the research laboratories staff then located at Brooklyn. Later that year he became sales representative for lead pigments and oxides at New York City. In I9I0 he was appointed assistant sales manager of dry pigments for the Atlantic Branch and named sales manager in 1942. He became assistant to the company's sales manager, paint, pigments and chemicals in 1948. He was named assistant sales manager of pigments and chemicals in February of 1963 and manager in October of the same year. In 1966 he was elected president of Landover Manufacturing Company, a wholly owned company subsidiary producing acrylic plastic sheets. He is a director of Lead Industries Association and a member of Drug, Chemical and Allied Trades Association, American Association of Battery Manufacturers, and New York Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association. Mr. Whitson received his B.S. degree from Princeton University. Release sent to: Merrell Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., For All Releases, Wall Street Journal, The Daily News, N.Y. Stock-Exchange, Chemical & Engineering News, Chemical Week, Pottstown Mercury, Aviation Week, Toledo Times, Batavia News, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press, Perth Amboy News, New Brunswick Home News, Trenton Times, Trentonian, Hightstown Gazette, and to Messrs. Martino, Rowley, Henrich, Owens, Bauer, Coale, Johnston, MacGuffie, Merrell, Merson, Welch and Whitson, Princeton University. N12697 0000-NLI-000024698 (over for further distribution) Release & photo sent to: AP UPI Reuters N.Y. Times N.Y. Post Journal of Commerce American Metal Market Metalworking News Christian Science Monitor Time Newsweek Fortune Barron * s Commercial & Financial Chronicle Forbe s American Banker Financial World. Dun's Review Finance Nation's Business American Paint Journal Barascope The Tahawus Clouasplitter Titanox News Waggin' Tongue Iron Age Steel Toronto Daily Star (Canada) Toronto Globe & Mail Toronto Telegram " Montreal Gazette " Lead Industries Assn. Drug, Chemical & Allied Trades Assn. Amer. Assn, of Battery Manufacturers N.Y. Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Assn. 0000-NLI-000024699