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ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD * by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Ec Published by (he Ethyl Carp., 405 Lexington Aye.. New Vorh, N. y.; Earle W. Webb. president; Percy L. Grittiths. vice-president and treasurer; Julias C. Gonzales, secretary. . PAGE 29 07539 Earle W. Webb Leaders of Industry Hear Our President One of the principal speakers at the War and Reconversion Con gress of American Industry held in New York early in December was our President, Earle Webb. Urg ing the leaders of industry attend ing the congress from all parts of the country to expand their think ing to global terms, Mr. Webb de scribed America's need for in creased foreign trade in the postwar world. In discussing "Industry's Global Thinking," he pointed out that we are in another period of change. "This time," he said, "the change is global. And -- we cannot hope to have prosperity in America for which we are striving unless we are successful in foreign trade with niany nations." "It matters little what you or^I would like the new world set-up to be," Mr. Webb pointed out. "It mat ters little," he added, "what a labor leader, a farmer, a banker or an in dustrialist wants for himself or for the group of which he is a part. Selfinterest must take a back seat in our global thinking. We must submerge our group interest in the common good." "Business men must broaden their horizons of thinking and action," he continued. "Their concern cannot end with the welfare of their em ployees and stockholders. Their ac tions instead have a cumulative ef fect upon the welfare of the world. And, conversely, what happens else where throughout the world has a very direct bearing upon the wel- ETC 07540 BULLETIN BOARD -- JANUARY fare of the single industry or com pany." Prosperity in America in the post war era, Mr. Webb declared, can come only with a healthy, vigorous foreign commerce. "Only with a prosperous America can there be ad vantages for all of us," he said. Mr. Webb's speech reflected the thinking of the Postwar Committee of the National Association of Man ufacturers, over which he presided during the past year as chairman. As head of this important committee, whose business it has been to formu late industry thinking about cartels, international currency, the world movement of raw materials, inve ments abroad, and other fact< which will affect America's forei commerce, he is one of the vangua of men who are working now i prosperity in the world of tom row. Mr. Webb has also been one of i representatives from the NAM the National Postwar Conferen consisting of 48 representatifrom 21 organizations. They h; met three times during the p year and will meet again in Ja: ary to work toward their comn objective -- national postwar pr perity. Baton Rouge and Deepwater Win Another "E" New Army-Navy "E" flags with s ars--symbols of the second award for "meritorious services on the production front"--are now flying at Baton Rouge and Deepwater. They received their first "E" flags in August 1943 at colorful ceremonies attended by high ranking officers of the Army and Navy. In accordance with the request of the War Department and the wishes of the employees no cere monies were held upon presentation of this second award. Under Secre tary of War Robert P. Patterson wrote to the men and women of both plants on December 2, 1944 inform ing them of their newly won honor. Praising their achievement, their effort and their patriotism he said: "I am pleased to inform you that you have won for the second t the Army-Navy Production Aw for meritorious services on the p duction front. "You have continued to maint the high standards which you for yourselves and which won distinction more than six mor ago. You may well be proud of y achievement. "The White Star, which the newal adds to your Army-N Production Award flag, is the s bol of appreciation from our Ar: Forces for your continued and termined effort and patriotism. In addition to the new flags "E" pins were received. They \ presented to all employees at t! plants who have started to v since the first award was made. BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07541 Chuck Gross Saves Buddy Courage and quick action on die part of Marine Private First Class Charles Gross saved a buddy i Irom serious injury and perhaps death, according to a recent story from a Marine Corps Combat Cor respondent in the South Pacific. Members of the New York Cost Ac counting Section where Chuck used to work before joining the Marines are more than a little proud of their former cohort. . f The story appeared in Chuck's ii hometown paper, The Tarrytown Daily News, and gave the following report of his bravery: "Gross hurtled his body through the air to break the head-long < plunge of Private First Class James P. Collier, of Olyphant, Pa., into a rock-bottomed creek, 50 feet below the ledge on which the patrol was advancing. "As the group traveled the pre \ carious ridge, Private First Class Gordon I. Lindsay, of Cedar Hill, t , Greenwich, Conn., patrol leader, i ,, slipped and tumbled into the creek. He suffered slight cuts as his marching pack absorbed the shock of the fall. r "Gross slid down a log and was the first to reach Lindsay, while the 1 others clung to vines and roots above. "Suddenly, Gross heard the rum > ble of falling rocks. Looking up, he saw Collier tumbling toward the sharp drop-off in a series of somer saults. t "Unhesitatingly, Gross dived un Marine PFC Ciuidc Gross der him and Collier landed on his rescuer's shoulders.Collier's only in jury was a slightly sprained ankle. He was able to return to camp on foot. Gross was unhurt. "Gross' wife, Mary, lives at the Tarrytown address. At Washington Irving High School in Tarrytown, he was an All-Westchester County football player in 1933. He later at tended Notre Dame and Fordham Universities, after which he playod professional football with the White Plains, N. Y., and the Passaic, N. J., teams in the American Association." * * * Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Eleanore Kauffman, comely clerk in the Production Department at Deepwater, has become engageo by mail to her Lieutenant, Warren Marston, a Liberator Bomber pilot with the 15th Air Force in Italy. She is wearing a beautiful diamond and waiting for the day when he gets home so the wedding ring can be added. She and Stony plan to be married on his first leave. ETC 07542 * BULLETIN BOARD -- JANUARY Jack Martin and Phil Perry Die in Army Plane Crash Philip M. Perry The Christmas season was sad dened for all the members of our or ganization by the death of John G. Martin, eastern regional manager, and Philip M. Perry, safety engi neer, who were killed Sunday, De cember 17 at the Memphis, Tennes see airport when an Army C-49 plane in which they were passengers crashed into a one-story brick build ing on taking off for a flight west. Captain James K. Harrison, fuel officer of the Air Transport Com mand stationed at Cincinnati, Ohio, was also killed. The pilot, Captain Buford H. Morris, and two enlisted men were injured. John G. Martin At the time of the accident, Jack and Phil were making an 18,000 mile tour of Army airfields to give to Army personnel, demonstrations and instruction in safe handling of fuels at the request of the Air Transport Command. They left New York on December 10 and went to Cincinnati, where the plane was assigned to them for their use throughout the course of their tour, scheduled to wind up in January. John Gates Martin, who lived at 309 Brower Avenue, Rockville Cen tre, New York, was born in Norfolk, Virginia on April 12, 1906. His father was Dr. Furman Martin, a 6 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07543 nded school at both Furman UniJ^wrsity and the University of Rich- mnd. Known to Ethyl folks everywhere Jack, he was the most photo graphed man in the company. As director of Ethyl's Motor Clinics he posed for promotional photo graphs with dynamometer dials and demonstrating engines, pistons and outraged motor parts, microphones and knock bombs. He has been "shot" in white coat, in overalls, in mufti working the lighthouse con trol tower for the Clinic show, hold ing a pyrex glass tube in his hand with a knocking flame inside it, or pointing to "a fifteen percent in crease in power produced -- meas ured right at the rear wheels!" with a lucite wand. Jack started with us in March, 1927, after leaving the engineering department of the State of Vir ginia, his home state. For a year and a half he covered the territory of Maryland, the District of Colum bia, Virginia, North Carolina and Sputh Carolina, reporting directly to the home office in New York. After a period in which he super vised sales work in four states -- Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma--Jack went to New York in 1932 to spend a year in special ized 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 developing the Motor Clinics. When the clinic program was put on a national basis in 1937 he returned to New York to supervise these Ethyl "sideshows of science." In Feb. 1941 he was appointed eastern regional manager to direct the activities of the field staff in the Boston, New York, Dayton, Baltimore, and Atlanta Divisions. Jack, able leader and talented public speaker that he was, had made a real contribution to the war effort dur ing the past four years acting as master of ceremonies at war bond shows and rallies in New York and other cities, and helping to plan and stage various programs. In January 1943 when the Sales, Technical Service and Advertising Departments cooperated in a pro gram to aid in the conservation of, trucks and truck equipment, Jack acted as coordinator of the entire program. He carried the story &f preventive maintenance control to officials of customer companies in key cities throughout the country. When Jack was in charge of the Third War Loan Drive for the com pany, the New York office went over the top by approximately 142 percent. He was also head of the Employees' Section of the Petro leum Industries for the Third War Loan. During the Fifth War Loan he was one of the principal speakers at a big rally held under the auspices of the Chrysler Building and, work ing with celebrities of stage, screen and radio helped sell bonds each day at noon in the block between Lex ington and Third Avenues, which was blocked off for the rally. Last August he helped to organ ize and acted as master of ceremon ies at the War Effort show pre sented in L.S.U. Stadium in Baton Rouge before a crowd of between 15,000 and 20,000. During the Fall he cooperated with the War Effort Committee in putting on shows at our Baton Rouge and Deepwater plants (see page 11). He was a mem ber of the American Petroleum In stitute, the Society of American Military Engineers, the U. S. Cham ber of Commerce, the National Panel of Arbitrators, and the Na tional Training Directors Associa tion. He was married in 1933 to Marion Howell of Brooklyn, N. Y., sister of Gel Howell, Ethyl field engineer in western Pennsylvania. Jack is sur vived by his mother, Mrs. Furman Martin of New Kenton, Virginia, two brothers, William F. Martin of Los Angeles, and Julien Martin of Alliance, Ohio, his wife, and a son, John Gates, Jr., five years old. Funeral services were held on Thursday, December 21 at the Con gregational Church in Rockville Centre. Pallbearers were John Schaefer, Harry Kaley, Lex Chiquoine, Harold Berg, Rud Baber, Jim Boudreau, Coard Taylor, Julian Frey, Dan Guy and Oscar Lewis. Interment was at Bridgehampton Cemetery the following day. ' Philip M. Perry was born in Bos ton, Massachusetts on March 11, 1907 and was graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1930. After serving with the Gen eral Electric Company for five years, first as test engineer in Pitts field, Massachusetts, and later as sales engineer on fractional motor he joined Ethyl as a field represe tative in Portland, Maine. In 194 he was assigned to the New Yooffice as a safety engineer and w; at the time of' his death, in char of tank cleanings at customer coi pany plants. Last Fall, when our company c operated with the Army Air Cor and the Engineers Corps to g; courses in "Tank Maintenance a Accident Prevention," Phil was charge of the program. He trave: throughout the country putting safety demonstrations and lectui Under his direction instruction * given by Ethyl safety engineers eight key cities to approximat 4,500 officers and civilian empl ees. Phil was married December 1931 to Miriam Lawrence of Bris Vermont, who survives him, v two children, Lloyd, seven, ; Miriam, three. Other survivors his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fr; Perry, Newton, Massachusetts, ; three brothers who are with United States Army. They Frank, Jr., now in England, \ liam at Camp Langdon, Portsmo New Hampshire and Robert, no' France. He lived in Dumont, 1 Jersey. A group of his friends from New York and Boston offices v to Bristol, Vermont to attend funeral services held Decembe at the Bristol Baptist Church, terment was at Bristol Ceme immediately following. Among pallbearers were Mat Taylor, ton Division Manager, and I 8 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 07545 Eosely, safety engineer of the Bos ton Division. fThe loss of Jack and Phil is feenly felt by their many friends at Ithyl. To their families we extend nr deep sympathy. Myra Pauli Leaves On the eve of her fifth anniversary with Ethyl, Myra Pauli resigned to go up to Boston and look after her husband, Harold, who has recently been transferred to the home of the bean and the cod. Myra, who was in n the Agricultural Division in De troit, came down to New York with Julian Frey last spring to become secretary to the newly appointed General Sales Manager. Dorothy Grainger, who has been helping Emmie Koster in Coard Taylor's office, will take her place. Corinne Hill, Julie Sweeney, Edna Blakely, Elinor Gunn, Emmie Koster and Hazel Anderson had a farewell party for Myra at Schrafft's the day before she left. Though Myra had been in New York only a short time, her brunette beauty and quiet charm will be missed by all who knew her. * . Herb Baron f; i. i f ts i \i Giving Unlimited Over the top and still going strong Ethyl employees at our Baton Rouge plant were the first indus trial group in the city to reach their quota in the 6th War Loan drive with $45,000 subscribed by Decem ber 6. As the drive continued Herb Baron, in charge, was confident that total subscriptions would be far in excess of their quota. Ethyl captains helping him with the solicitation were: W.U. Wright, A. P. McGehee, Gloria Lee, Ruth Eiswirth, C. M. Neher, Hallie Boles, F. D. Richardson, C. M. Hudson, K. B. Harris, J. J. Bridges, Tirzah Cook, J. B. Heard, H. E. Amos, F. J. Borne, Doris Smith, G. G. Wilson, and O. J. Longuepee. ETC 07546 9 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY *t Li. Gol. Warner Wins Bronze Star Lieutenant Colonel S. J. War ner, Jr., whose distinguished ser vice record in the Army, brought him widespread recognition in a recent issue of the National Petro leum News (October B.B.), has now been awarded the Bronze Star Med al for meritorious service. The At lanta Division is bursting with pride and feel that they can claim a little credit for his training, "having raised him practically from the be ginning of his business career." Jack was assigned the job of help ing to develop, construct and oper ate one of the "Biggest Gasoline Filling Stations in the World" for the D-day operation. His outstand ing achievement as Officer-inCharge of POL for a large base sec tion in England won for him the Bronze Star and the following citati on: "Lieutenant Colonel Stonewall J. Warner, Jr. (Army Serial No. 0272217) Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, for meritorious serv ice in connection with military oper ations, as Officer-in-Charge of POL Division, Office of the Quartermas ter, Headquarters, Southern Base Section, European Theater of Oper ations, from 22 November 1943 to 6 June 1944. Lieutenant Colonel War ner displayed exceptional ability in organizing the POL Division of the Base Section to meet the needs and demands of all troops then in the section and those to arrive. "Working in close coordination with British Military and civiliai authorities, he contributed immea surably to the easy accessibility t< field forces of their requirements ii POL products. He devoted lonj hours in the development of plan: and operating procedures for exer cises in the marshalling areas, start ing with Exercise Duck. Utilizing his excellent organizational abilit; to the utmost. Lieutenant Colone Warner placed into operation fou operational dumps and many petro points strategically situated to fur nish field force units with petro leum products. "By virtue of his untiring efforts outstanding leadership, and profes sional and technical skill, Lieuter ant Colonel Warner established well coordinated and smooth work ing agency known as the "Eigb Point System" which enabled a: vehicles to be completely service in a short space of time after arriva at servicing points. This contribu tion gained the respect and admira tion of his superiors, together witl the expressed complete satisfactioof the field force commander Entered military service frot Georgia." All's Well with Cantwell Glenn Cantwell, Manager of th Wilmington plant of Ethyl-Dow, : back in the harness again after sc eral weeks stay in a local hospita It looks as if he'll have to lay o oysters and clam fritters for a whil 10 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07547 We Work To Win Over 2000 people at our Baton ; Rouge plant attended the show put i on early in November to tell the | story of Ethyl--the how, the why, and the wherefore -- to those who are responsible in one way or an other for the production of this vital war product, and who may not have had the opportunity before to get an over-all picture of our business. Ed Enoch, of the Advertising and Public Relations Department and the late Jack Martin went down Buss Davis turns professor to explain how Ethyl fluid is made. from New York to stage the show, which was held in the new Essen tial Stores Building. They were as sisted by Wally Armstrong of Ethyl and Word Day, Russ Davis and Larry Oliver of DuPont. It was one of Jack's last assignments be fore he and Phil Perry were killed in a plane crash. An account of the accident appears in this issue. The Baton Rouge meetings were held at frequent intervals through out the day and night in order to give everyone a chance to see the demonstrations. Employees were invited to come in small groups and attendance was scheduled ahead of time in order to enable them to at tend. The meetings were arranged through the cooperation of the War Effort Committee as part of a pro gram to acquaint the people in the plant with our products and to show them that they, by helping to keep essential materials flowing to the ETC 07548 One of the interesting exhibits was a How char showing the ingredients used in the manuiac ture of Ethyl fluid. BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07549 .-3r John Schaefer Elected ^:Ot the November IS, 1944, meeting the Board of Directors of Ethyl- J^_Pow Chemical Company, John H. Schaefer, Vice President of Ethyl ----Corporation, was elected to the Board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Midgley, Jr. Ivan F. Harlow of Dow Chemical Company was elected Vice Presi dent and General Manager.. The present members of EthylDow's Board of Directors are Earle W. Webb, Graham Edgar and John H. Schaefer of Ethyl Corporation and Willard H. Dow, Ivan F. Har low and E. O. Barstow of Dow Chemical Company. The Ethyl-Dow Chemical Com pany owned jointly by Ethyl Cor poration and Dow Chemical Com pany, is by far the world's largest producer of bromine compounds and supplies the major portion of the ethylene dibromide used in Ethyl Fluid. Its plants, located near Wilmington, N. C., and at Freeport, Texas, extract bromine from sea water. Quack, Quack The Wilmette, Illinois paper ran the following story recently about our Chicago Division Manager, Bob Jordan, under the title "This Is No Quack Story and Ducks Make Swell Dinners": a "It was not a very difficult matter for Bobby, 13, and Jerry, 9, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Jordan, 1341 Greenwood Avenue, Wilmette, to catch a stray white duck which they discovered wandering around a vacant lot next door to their home last Saturday, for the duck was quite tame and evidently had been a special pet. "It is, however, a different matter for the boys to keep the duck be cause their parents are not espe cially anxious to have that type of pet and furthermore are hoping :o find the duck's owner. "Mostly white, the duck has greenish blue wings, the Jordans state, and at present the pet is con fined in a small pen near their gar- * age. Hoping that its owner will / claim the fowl, the Jordans will `r keep the duck a few days longer./' After that, however -- well, as Jordan says, `There's nothing likei a good duck dinner'." _ If that's the way he felt about it ' he shouldn't have described the . duck so well. The owner came to * claim the missing pet and rewarded Bobby and Jerry with a crisp dollar bill. ETC 07550 13 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY Merritt Morse Killed in France Private First Class Merritt Morse, a member of General Pat ton's Third Army, was seriously wounded in action on November 13, the day they captured the first of the forts defending Metz. He died two days later as a result of the wounds. On Monday, December 4, his wife received a wire from the War Department notifying her of his death. Merritt was a member of the ac counting section of the New York Finance Department when he en tered the Army in November 1943. He was sent to Camp Hood, Texas for training in the Tank Destroyer Division. In April he came home on a furlough, after which he contin ued his training at Fort George Meade, Maryland until May 27 when he was sent overseas with the Infantry. Merritt, 22 years old at the time of his death, was born in Huntington, West Virginia January 31, 1922. He was reared in Brooklyn, where he graduated from P.S. 222, following which he attended James Madison High. In February 1942 he came to work for Ethyl in our New York Mailroom, and in June 1943 was promoted to the Finance De partment. He was married on Octo ber 10, 1942 to Alice Nancy Mazzotti, a childhood sweetheart. Memorial services were held for Merritt on Sunday afternoon, De cember 17 at the Kings Highway Methodist Church in Brooklyn. In addition to the widow, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. John Benson and his step-father, Mr. John Benson, of Brooklyn, his bro ther Ken Morse, SC 1/C in the U. S. Navy, formerly of our New York Finance Department and his aunt, Emily Whitfield, who runs our Mimeograph Department in New York. To all the members of his family, his many friends at Ethyl extend sincere sympathy. * 300 Meet aft K. C. The Kansas City Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers sponsored a two-day meeting on Air Transport Engineering on Novem ber 16 and 17 and three of our Kan sas City Division men had a lot to do with the success of the confer ence. Harold R. Berg, Division Manager, was chairman of the Ar rangements Committee, Assistant Manager Don S. Flynn, headed the Reception Committee, and Carl Berry had his hands full serving as Chairman of the Kansas City Sec tion. One of the outstanding meet ings of the year, more than 300 at tended from 19 states. 14 BULLETIN BOARD -- JANUARY Erc 07551 Our Detroit Lab, impressive in its simplicity, is streamlined and modern No. 20 Visits Detroit Travel being what it is in these days of groaning trains and packed hotels, a trip from New York to Detroit assumes the proportions of a major project. But with Dot Hadsell, head of New York Mailroom, to wangle train reservations at this .end and Fritz Schroeter at the other end to extract promises of a roof over my head from the Wardell ^Sheraton, I set forth to pay a visit &So' our Detroit labs. It was well -Worth the wear and tear. Our labs Shere are really something to see. I .swelled with pride as the taxi driver turned off the main highway, and pulled up in front of a streamlined brick building set off by a box hedge, some spreading oaks and shapely spruce. Inside I was greeted by an attrac tive brunette behind a shiny desk in a large walnut panelled foyer with a spacious stairway to the left, and a small reception room on the right. She pinned a large button on my lapel, labeling me "Visiting Em ployee No. 20" and called Fritz, who came and escorted me through the center door at the back. We entered ft' Automatically controlled dynamometers thun der away, testing fuels and engines it only after unseen hands had buzzed a buzzer allowing us to pass. Once inside I felt as though I be longed to the inner circle. We turn ed right and walked and walked and walked down a neat hall with doors opening off on either side, then turned left and walked and walked atod walked down a hall pungent w*th the odor of chemicals. Through Syie open doors on either side I glimpsed laboratories with lots of 1 glass tubes and beakers and intri cate looking equipment. Finally we merged from this hall into the j^eat outdoors, crossed a court and entered a one story brick building, which turned out to be the Gasoline Testing Lab, where Fritz spends his L days helping Dave Davidson run the .jTest Lab. Shiny black, aluminum^ trimmed furniture in their offices J emphasizes the neat 20th century design of the building. Our tour through the laboratories began in the Dynamometer Section, which lies in the middle bar of the great sprawling "E" the main build ing forms. First stop on the left as we started down the long central hall was a large room bulging with equipment where Mike Remondino and Bob Thibodeau were at work on a project for Ranger Aircraft. All this equipment, they said, was being used in connection with research on a single cylinder of an air-cooled aircraft engine. The purpose of the research is to improve the perform ance of this engine, which is used mostly on Navy Scout Observation Ships, Two-Engine Bomber Train ers and Two-Engine Coast Guard Flying Boats. Pointing to a complicated looking device called a Cathode-Ray Oscil lograph, Mike explained that it was used to indicate detonation. "It is connected," he said "to a detonation pick-up and indicates acceleration in rate of pressure rise, or to put it simply the time rate of rate of change of pressure." Perfectly simple. Yes, indeed -- to Mike and Bob. So they happily pursue the secret of better performance. Their only complaint is that they seldom see their boss, Earl Bartholomew. "He used to drop in often until we got so much stuff in here," said Mike. "You know he likes things neat and orderly. When he looks in here, he just shakes his head and goes on." In a room across the hall we found Emil Gillig working on an intricate looking instrument, which he de signed and is still in the process of building. It has to do with his re- 16 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07553 I ^ search in electronics. "You start j. with a light beam and intercept it with a mask," Emil explained. "Sort ^ of like an electric eye -- you know, * the thing that magically opens doors and turns on fountains," said Fritz by way of explanation. : V. Here Emil objected, saying it wasn't that at all. Then he offered to write a paper about what he was doing and why, and we left him to , pursue his project in peace. When the explanation arrives we'll pass | it on to you. ^ The "hot room" which we found ourselves in next, sounded like a good place not to be when the tem perature has been hiked up to ISO ^ degrees Fahrenheit. Ditto for the room next door -- "the cold room" i where the temperature can hover at J 58 degrees below. Chassis dynamo meters in these rooms are used for vehicle knock-testing of fuels and measurement of economy and per formance. Blowers simulate wind conditions encountered on the road up to 90 m.p.h. Specially equipped labs are set up for the various projects, while standard engine tests are conducted in a large room at the back, where six dynamometers thunder away endlessly testing engines and fuels. In the hall we met Chuck Hawley, who is in charge of this engine research. The Chem Lab, located in the lower bar of the "E," is quiet but odoriferous. Anne Caplan took me on a personally conducted tour, starting with a tasty turkey dinner turned out by Mrs. Rugg and her culinary artists. Standing in the cafeteria line enroute to the turkey, I met George Calingaert, head of the Chem Lab, and his charming wife. It's a good thing Anne and I were well fortified with nourish ment before starting on our tour, as we really covered the lab. Having been secretary to Dr. Calingaert for many years she knows all the ins __ , and outs of the place, and all the people. Herb Poehle and George Thom son were commenting on the man power situation when we met them in the library. They have at last de cided they really don't mind having female chemists around--and it's a good thing they don't. They are now even Steven. Outside the library we ran into Mac McMenemy and I was glad to come face to face with the man whose name I had been hear ing over the public address system every five minutes the day before. He's in charge of maintenance and "whenever there's trouble they send for me," he ruefully explained. Everybody in the various labs was busy with bottles and beakers and beautiful liquids. Laura Jane Van Evera was exclaiming over a neo prene stopper that she had dropped in some tricoline which had shrunk it to about one-fifth its size. Vine Hnizda and Jim Hinkamp, pointing to an elaborate apparatus with lots of glass tubes explained that the pressure inside it was a hundred millionth of normal pressure--for all practical purposes a vacuum. It is maintained with the aid of two vacuum pumps. Harold Soroos came out of his office to see what was going on and put on a little show for Visiting Employee No. 20. Dis appearing across the hall, he re turned shortly looking like a human volcano, smoky, white fumes pour ing out of his mouth and nose. It developed that behind the scenes he had grabbed a piece of dry ice and tossed it lightly into his mouth to achieve this effect. Ensconced in a newly equipped, inside room, Judson Fisher was working with a spectrograph, with which he can quickly determine what elements are present in a com pound and to what extent. Another specialty shop is Clint Leacock's balance room, where he sits sur rounded by his delicately scaled weighing apparatus with a "No Smoking" sign over his desk. We couldn't get Morley Morgana very interested in explaining what goes on in his lab, as he had just become a father the week before and that subject was far more important at the moment. It was a girl, born November 16. He and Sally have / ETC 07555 named her Elizabeth Andree. In the N. P. Wing cold cathode lighting equipment--the very latest thing, they tell me--was being in stalled, and research operations were practically at a stand still. Gus Ligett was waiting patiently for or_ der to be restored so he could go back to work. Ed Johnson, who runs the pilot plant, where research on tetraethyl lead is conducted and new products j are developed, described pure tetrai ethyl lead as a liquid that looks like { cloudy water -- nice description. Now if I could only see some. Across the yard, housed in a sep arate building, the fuel blending station has unique equipment for blending and distributing fuels. Ray Leonard and Fred Green are on the job here in this maze of tanks, and drums and lines, keeping fuel going to the engine laboratories and our fleet of cars. Back in the main building we went through the garage -- the cleanest, neatest looking one I've ever seen, then stopped in to see Charlie Kass, who has charge of the S road tests. With Dick Sneed, a fellow Oklahoman, and John Pauli, I ?took my first test ride. They cheer. fully ushered me into the back seat of a big, black Buick, where, rattling around with the sample cans, tools and gadgets, I saw how road tests '; are made. - After that we took a quick look at the paint shop, the carpenter shop and the machine shop, and wound ;\up in Joe Mescher's office. I had iheard a great deal about "Pop," one of Ethyl's real old-timers and en joyed meeting him. The next day I had the pleasure of meeting another of our veterans, Pat Harding, who worked with Tom Midgley when he was developing the robot plane and Freon. John Murphy, business manager for the Technical Service Division, turned George Krieger's office over to No. 20 and when the feet gave out I lighted there amidst the tractor and bovine pictures to cogitate on what I had seen, and wonder who the various people were as they passed by the door. The tall, blond gentleman turned out to be the head of Detroit's Technical Service, Dick Scales, and the petite blonde turned out to be his secretary, J ewel Ahonen. Jane Jordan, I recognized from her Bulletin Board pictures. She collaborates with Tom Risk in running the Refinery Division and enlightened me about the work they do and the projects now under way. Our Detroit laboratories are to extensive and contain so much of interest that, of course, it was im possible to cover it in any sense o the word. One of the many things' that I missed was the Aeronautical Lab. Despite the fact that for several ! days I had been interrupting hi^ men at work with many and varieq questions, Earl Bartholomew, heac^ of the Engineering Research Lab, was kind enough to ask me back. That, I thought, was big of him, un der the circumstances. At the first opportunity I shall go and interrupt more men with more questions, so I can write more stories. ETC 07556 10 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY VICTORY MAIL ** Christmas greetings, philoso phy, a lesson in Chinese and descrip tions of far-away places combined to lend variety and interest to our mail from the service men this month. Excerpts from their letters follow. Sgt. Leonard Massey (Baton Rouge) says in a letter from Hol land that he has seen service in Scot land, England, Normandy, France and Belgium, rotating from one company to another until he is now back right where he started -- a member of the same outfit he left the States with. "I'm hoping I'll be with them when they go back, too," he concludes. Captain L. R. Fleck (Tulsa) writes: "I'm somewhere in France. Of course there is some official ob jection to saying just where. But in case you have other friends here, there is one thing we have in com mon on the `where' business and that is about six inches down. Down in the mud. The word is going around --`The sun is out but don't blink, you'll miss it.' " Lt. Merrill Anderson (Detroit), is still at the U. S. Naval Engineer ing Experiment Station at Annapo lis and "still being concerned with those engines requiring tetraethyl lead in their fuel. However, addi tional duties at home were created by Marilyn Joyce's entry into the world three months ago today. We're mighty happy with her, and I still consider myself the luckiest fellow in the service to be able to enjoy an uninterrupted family life." LI. (jg) Marshall McDorxnan (Baltimore), gunnery officer on a Destroyer Escort in the Atlantic, says the Ethyl News and Bulletin Board "are much read by the offi cers and crew. Even the pictures of the company employees are studied from all angles and I believe some 20 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07557 of the stenographers are actually pin-up girls by now." Although their last trip was rough, Marshall ays he can't complain as "our duties are varied and interesting, the food is good and we have warm * places to sleep." Lt. (|g) Christopher Bruhl (Yonkers Test Lab), with the U. S. Navy at Annapolis, reports that his daughter, Ellen, born August 28, weighing 5 lb. 2 oz. now weighs 9 lbs. and is a "cute slick chick." He says his work at the Experiment Station is interesting and practically 99% with aviation fuels. Mafor Benjamin Harrison (New York Manufacturing) back at Wright Field in Dayton after a two weeks trip to the West Coast writes that he and six of his officers are engaged in the development and in stallation of management proce dures in their twelve depots and that his experience in the New York of fice is proving very helpful. Lt. CoL H. B. Hudibnrg (Chi cago), sends a pungent paragraph from Belgium: "The thing that im presses you most here, that literally slaps you in the face with rude con sciousness, is how little all of you at Aa originai hom Major Jack Wallis, formerly of our Deepwater plant. ETC 07558 ETC 07559 home know about it all. That is not a criticism, do not misunderstand me. It is a true statement of fact, however. Many soldiers blame you for your ignorance. They say, `Why so and so at home doesn't even know there is a war going on!', in a mali cious tone. And actually, you do not, except as something to keep you interested, such as predicting its end, or fighting it on a hotel tablecloth. To you, it's just like lis tening to election returns or a ball game. Even if you have given a loved one from your own family to the unsatisfactory emptiness of war's death, you still do not know `what it's all about,' to use a good, American phrase!!! However, the thinking soldier does not blame you, look down on you, or envy you. He knows that all is as it should be. He knows that the reason he is here is to keep you in ignorance -- in proper, delightful ignorance; not to let you ever know about war. He is here to fight the war HERE so the war will not come to you THERE. So, never criticize the war or its progress. Instead, do all you can to help its progress. Believe what you are told as to what will help and DO IT! Remember, this is a representa tive government; remember also you have many representatives over here, doing their best. Do not criti cize or let up in your effort; you are not qualified to criticize and we here are not in a position to have you let up a minute in the effort!" LI. (sg) Lee H. Larison (Bos ton), reports that he shares the Bul letin Board with the boys out in the Pacific with him, for they find the pictures of the gals "quite worth looking at, their only complaint being that they'd like for them to be in bathing suits or pin up clothes." lsl LI. Jack E. Minnock (De troit), with the Army Air Corps somewhere in India, writes that he took part in the twin raids on the island of Formosa and saw only one Japanese fighter plane. "He seemed to be much more interested in get ting away from us than in attack ing," Jack observed. In China, Jack says, Jingbow is an air raid and Jingbow Juice is something to make you forget the air raid. "One'gulp has been known to make a white man six inches taller and 100 degrees hotter. The Chinese use it indiscriminately -- internally, externally and for ath lete's foot." \ Capt. Ray M. Brown, Jr. (Seattle), is still somewhere in Eng land with the 91st Bomber Group and still "flying my lead spot in all our formations when we're sched uled to go out... I can say without hesitation it is no pleasure to take off in fog where the runway under the wing tips is obscured and with a full gasoline and bomb load. In struments are a problem in flying in itself without sitting on a few tons of explosive." LL Commander R. W. Rich ardson (Boston), who was ordered to Seattle after completing a tour of duty in Texas is living there with ETC 07560 23 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY his family. He writes that he "had the great pleasure of contacting the Seattle Division Office." Bob wants to be remembered to all his friends in the New York Office. T/Sgt. Ed Staffel (Yonkers Test Lab), who took the knock-testing course held by Elmer Mahlke at our Tulsa Lab for the Army, is now in New Guinea attached to an Engi neers Pipeline outfit, and writes that the petroleum officer in charge also attended Elmer's classes. Ed says they are in a beautiful spot, not really jungle, but heavily wooded. "We're right on the foot of a tropi cal bay. The shore is rimmed with coconut trees. On the other side of the bay, a high mountain majestic ally looks down upon us with calm serenity . . . All in all it's rather pleasant here and I'd just as soon as finish out the war in this spot." Winding up his letter to Hudson Kellogg with a plea for letters, Ed says, "Give my regards to the rest of the gang and tell them that my wife has a pen they can borrow!" COMBUSTIBLE Romance over the test tubes wound up in vows at the altar for Ivar T. Krohn and Shirley J. New man on November 11. Shirley was Ivar's capable and comely assistant at our Detroit Cbem Lab. After working on chemical combinations at the lab they decided to effect a different kind of combination at the church. The formula reads: ITK + SJN -Mr. and Mrs. ITK They said "I do" in a candlelight ceremony at the First Methodist Church in Royal Oak. Many of their friends from the lab were pres ent for the wedding and reception that followed. Johnnie Capinjola and A1 Kolka were ushers and helped not only to guide the guests down the aisle but to calm the nerv ous bridegroom. Beaming and radiant the happy couple cut the first piece of wedding cake, then took off for a honeymoon in Chicago. Crowds throng lo hear Bill Ball, field engineer in the New York Division, tell about Ethyl at the Carney's Point Community Fair held this Fell. So that people connected with the Chambers Works might realize what an important contribution they are malting to the war eiiort. Bill pointed out that nearly 80% of the Ethyl Fluid made there goes to war. ETC 07561 $ i Adding insult to injury in the isce oi the current poultry shortage. Harold Berg, our Kan sas City Division Manager, blithely sends in this picture irom some happy bunting ground in the middle west. Fresh fish for dinner -- fresh off the hook of Nemoure Bayne (left) and his brother. A. B. Bayne. Nemoure is an Ethyl operator at Baton Bouge and his brother was home on leave'from the Merchant Marine. ETC 07562 Then it will take time to teach people to run them. The complexity of the controls makes the operation of a helicopter .far from simple. In addition, the cost of production and operation in the early stages will be too high for the average pocketbook." Hold Off on Thai Helicopter Don't expect to be taking off from your own backyard in your own pri vate helicopter any time soon, said William Horn, an authority on this drdhm plane of tomorrow, speaking before the Detroit Ethyl Society at they' monthly meeting in November. John Capinjola, president of the Society, presided at the meeting and Tom Risk, acting head of the refin ery division, Technical Service Department, introduced the guest speaker. "No other article has been lacked around so loosely by adver tising men and postwar dreamers as the helicopter, so we decided to get Somebody who really knows to come 'over and give us some straight in formation on the subject," said Tom in introducing Mr. Horn, veteran of the Stout Research Division staff of Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation. More Work Ahead We won't reach the stage of pri vate ownership of helicopters for at least five or ten years, Mr. Horn predicted. "In the first place," he ex plained, "there are still some bugs that have to be worked out of it. Mr. Horn showed a War Depart ment Training Film made at Wright Field called "The Story of the Heli copter," Punch Pfundstein acting as projectionist. The movie traced the history of this amazing winged ma chine, showing the contributions made to its development by various inventors in Russia, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and America. . Wartime Uses The American-made Sikorsky XR4 stands unrivalled in successful performance, Mr. Horn said, and is being used by our Army to great advantage in waging war against our enemies. Because of its superior control and maneuverability, it is especially useful in protecting con voys, transporting supplies over dif ficult terrain, and carrying wound ed from the battleground. The serious part of the meeting over, strains of sweet music filled the air--an innovation, courtesy of George Thomson, of the Chem Lab, who brought' over his phonograph and Pat Corrigan, of the Test Lab who brought some records. Bonnie Colbridge, who keeps things pop ping at the Test Lab, tried to get the bashful males onto the floor to swing and sway. Peck Peckham, whose wife, Helen, is a cohort of 26 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 07563 Bonnie's at the Test Lab, took Bon nie up on the suggestion and swung her onto the floor. Shortly, more brave souls joined--Tom Risk and Jewel Ahonen, Dick Scales' secre tary, and Jim Hinkamp and Bonnie McDonald, of the Chem Lab. Re freshments -- delectable and deli cious--wound up the evening's ac tivities. Bridge Bout at Baton Rouge The Baton Rouge Ethyl Family recently entered its first duplicate bridge tournament after four years of conversation on the subject. The newly formed Anti-Knock1 Indus trial Athletic Association gave the go-ahead signal and offered to fur nish a generous number of tickets for the Georgia Tech-L.S.U. game to the winning teams. Most of the Ethyl entries were our Development Section engineers and chemists, who found out that in spite of those lunch-hour bridge sessions their wives were able to keep up with them. Tillie Thomas and his wife, Eleanor, carried away the honors as north-south winners of the duplicate event. In the open event the winners were two Ethyl gals, Frances Rob inson and Dot McCarroll. Runner-, up was B. T. Karns, who had not entered the tournament, but just dropped around to kibitz and heckle his fellow Ethyl Chloride Lab workers. He was Shanghaied into the game when N. A. Weaver's part ner failed to show up and, in spite of the handicap of never having played together, they placed sec ond. Benny is still heckling the lab experts. Dot McCairoII That the committee did a pretty fine job on the tournament is evi denced by requests for the Athletic Association to sponsor one such event each month. "Pretty soon we should be challenging you Deep water and Detroit people," writes prize-winning Dot McCarroll, chair man of the committee in charge. BULLS etc 07 564 Harry James Kuhe, young son of lie Harry Kuhes of Seattle, thinks nothing of haring his picture made, seriously concentrates on lie antics of tie cameraman. His fatier is our Seat tle Division Manager -- and a most unusual lather. It took Aili Jtosiela. our Bulletin Board correspondent, a year to extract tiis picture of Jimmie, as his mother calls him. or Harry James. as his iather calls him. from tie proud but ex tremely modest lather. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes We have it from a usually reliable source that certain insurance com panies and the Larchmont Police Department are keeping close watch on the movements of two potential Westchester firebugs. The Colvins and Yaegers, bitter rivals at ping pong and bridge, have recently ex tended their competition to the field of combustion. Several weeks ago Chuck Colvin initiated the new activity with a modest early morning blaze on his side porch. The garden hose was sufficient to discourage any ambi tions the fire may have had. After a period of deliberation and careful planning, Bud Yaeger countered with a roof fire and had the added attraction of the ministrations of the local fire fighters. While neither event had more than minor consequences, the Yae gers' house-warming was better at tended and it must be considered that Bud has a definite lead in the series to date. Incidentally, if you have a can of good paint remover, you can make a swell trade for a slightly used blow torch or a few asbestos shingles will get you some dandy light kindling wood. Address sealed bids to the two above men tioned gentlemen. 28 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07565 Lt. Col. James E. Boudreau Returns to Ethyl Jim Boudreau, for the past two years an executive officer of the Sixth Service Command, has been released from military service and has rejoined the Ethyl organization. His new headquarters will be New York, where he assumes the position of Advertising Manager. Jim was commissioned a captain in the Army in November 1942. At the time of his release he was serv ing as director of the control divi sion on the staff of Major General Henry S. Aurand, commanding gen eral of the Sixth Service Command with headquarters in Chicago. Before going into the service Jim was manager of our Chicago Divi sion. He came with the company in 1930 and for a time represented us in the eastern part of New York with headquarters in Albany. He was later transferred to the Metro politan District and in 1932 was ap pointed manager of the New York Division. He continued in this capa city for four years and then went to the Windy City to run the Chicago Division. Jim is a graduate of West Point, class of 1925. After serving in the Lt Col. James E. Boudreau Army a year he resigned to gj^ to work for the Munson Steamship Company. While with them he trav eled extensively in South America and other foreign countries. He left Munson to come to Ethyl in 1930. The Boudreaus -- Jim and Madolyn, their six-months old son, Mas ter James E. Boudreau, Jr., and four dogs--will move from their home in Northbrook to New York. As Advertising Manager, Jim will be on the staff of Ralph C. Champlin, Director of Advertising and Public Relations. Bevan Visits U. S. T. R. A. Bevan, Managing Direc tor of the Associated Ethyl Com pany, Ltd., of London, England, ar rived in New York early in Novem ber for a short stay in the United States. It was his fourth trip since the war started. He returned to England the middle of December. Pelicans Enjoy Little Lawrence Marino thinks he'd like to take the reins from Pop Bob Asbury making an equestrienne out ot his young daughter Two Baton Rouge groups took to the woods for al fresco fun in the late Louisiana Fall. The office and laboratory group of the Production Section had a chicken fry at Fridge's Camp, and the Develop ment Section went to Riverside Park for a beef barbecue. They were both gala family af fairs, with husbands bringing wives or wives bringing husbands as the case might be, and even the children came to the Development Section barbecue, which started early on a Sunday. The Production group gathered on a cool, crisp evening and the cheery log lire crackling away in the huge fireplace was a welcome sight. The chicken was fried on the spot by 70-year-old Mammy Lou, whose cooking made such a hit last year. She enjoyed herself as much as the Ethyl folks enjoyed her chicken and when she heard they were plan ning another outing this year wild horses couldn't keep her away. Be sides the chicken she served potato salad and all the trimmings, cold drinks and coffee. A new game, described by Ber nard Manuel as "one of the wildest card games imaginable," was intro duced to the group by V. M. Fon tenot. It's called booray and is im- ETC 07567 the Great Outdoors ported from southwest Louisiana. Bridge and dancing were the other diversions of the evening. "Tinker" Harrell and Bernard ^ Manuel were busy being congratu----lated on the success of the party which they planned this year as last. "Oh, shucks," said they, "the people who come to the party are the ones 1 who make or break it." Enjoying outdoor games and sports at the Development Section barbecue were 110 mamas and pa pas and 35 children. They fished, played volley ball, went horseback riding. The motor boat was busy all af ternoon. Ditto the canoe. Dancers danced to juke box rhythms, while card sharks tore their hair and tried to concentrate. A softball game got in the grove and horseshoes clinked under the trees. Despite the fun they were having nobody put up an argument when the signal was given to come and get it. They got barbecue sand wiches, potato salad, cokes and beer and ate "hearty," happily ending f the day. Pictures of the picnickers shown here are courtesy of J. T. Stephen son, editor of The Anti-Knock, who v took his camera along and got some good action shots. Waiting for a ride Ed Kurt and Marilynn Breidenbach cutting the rug Dan Whiffy gives Julian Dorsky's son a ride on Dobbin. Julian looks on from the left while Louis Snyder, Bob Sharbaugh and Bob's chil dren watch from the right ETC 07568 ns Reflected beautY -- When Dorothy Shu man visited her sister in Des Moines, Iowa, re cently, the Register sen! a photographer out to take her picture. Luckily, Ray Wyrick, of the Los Angeles Division, where Dorothy heips handie safety work, saw it and sent it to the Bulletin Board. Geodby to Gwen - When Gwen Barr, secretary to Ralph C. Champlin, Director of Advertising and Public Relations, left to make a full time fob of keeping house for her husband. Lieutenant Ed Bergin, her friends in the New York ottice toasted and iarewelied her at the Town Nouse. The Army doing the same for a departing Colonel on the other side of the room, came over to JooJc on while (he girls were having their picture made. Around the tabie from left to right they are: Dot Locke, 34th floor receptionist. Marguerite McDonald, Order & Shipping, fluth Macdonald, Manufactur ing, Mary DumviiJe. Advertising and Public Relations, Millie Roberts, ditto, Lillian Johnson, secretary to Dr. Graham Edgar, Gwen. Emmie Koster. secretary to Coard Taylor. Pat Watson, formerly secre tary to Jack Martin, Bea Farrell, Manufacturing, and Hazel Anderson, Secretary's office. Gwen left the party with a big beribboned box containing a silver bowl and tray and sterling silver sugar tongs -- farewell gilt from friends at the office. Inset: Lillian Johnson, Gwen Barr and Emmie Koster looking happy about the whole thing. Don't Forget to Write Two more Ethyl men--both from Baton Rouge--are now wearing uni forms, one Navy blue and the other Army khaki. Willie I. Gillespie is stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky _et the Armored Reception Training Center. Hudgins A. Blouin, now an Apprentice Seaman in the U. S. Navy, is in San Diego at the Naval Training Center. Both were in the Production Section at our Baton Rouge plant. Here are new addresses for some of our men in the service. How about writing to them? You won't forget will you? W. C. Clancy, SF 1/C N. A. Tra. Base A and R Dept. Bks. 676 Pensacola, Florida Capt. James F. Bessire, 0-390966 H. & S. Co., 257th Engr. C. Bn. APO 655, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Capt. Joseph A. Hobart, A.C. P. O. Box 1151 554th A.A.F. Base Unit # Municipal Airport T Memphis 2, Tennessee ' Capt. Irwin Trowbridge Office of Chief Ordnance 3s- Development Division Union Guardian Bldg. Detroit 32, Michigan ;,T/Sgt. Adam L. Brooks Co. B, 428th Sig. Cons. Bn. APO 493, New York, N. Y. Pvt. Joseph Laethem 350th Co. A, Engineer Reg. G. S. Camp Clairborne, La. Tech. Sgt. Robert C. Lambert, Jr. 2189 Broussard Street Baton Rouge, La. Pvt. Eddie Asbury, 38499897 387 Service Group 602 Eng. Squadron Daniel Field, Ga. 2nd Lt. William W. Dunnam 1716 Hills Avenue Tanlpa, Florida A/S Wilbur H. Paulk, 38616053 Section I-O.L.T. Box 1438 Luke Field, Phoenix, Arizona A/S Edward J. Kukla, 36130536 6th Squadron, 1st Division 3510th A.A.F. Base Unit (T.S.) Yale University New Haven, Conn. * Major F. D. Williams, C.E. 127 General Hospital APO 511, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Sgt. Dayton C. Bolin 1306 North Kentucky Street Roswell, New Mexico Lloyd G. Boyles, M.M. 2/c U.S.S. L.S.T. 795 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. ETC 07570 33 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY Sgt. Henry Miller ' 422 A.A.F. Base Unit Sqd. F. Tonopah, Nevada ____ Pvt. Isidore P. Belanger, 38496392 27th Ordnance Co. APO 201, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Tech. Sgt. Herbert Holdridge 34150127 744 Ordnance Co. (LM) APO 44 c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. S/Sgt. W. F. Zachariah, 18134112 674 Bomb Sqd., 417 Bomb Group ArO 704, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Cpl. Phebus N. Hotard, 34154515 APO 13162-24 c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Pvt. David C. Whittington 38200122 Co. A, 777 Tank Bn. Fort Knox, Kentucky 2nd Lt. H. F. Sanders Class 43-14-7 San Marcos, Texas M/Sgt. D. F. Hayes, 37304185 Eastern District A.T.S.C. 67 Broad Street New York, N. Y. A/C James M. Fauver, 38500364 Section "M" Cadet Detachment C.A.A.F. Carlsbad, New Mexico 34 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY Archie L. Tillsotsen, St. M3c U.S.S. Mauna Loa (AE8) Fleet Post Office New York, New York Lt. Col. M. A. Kinley, 0292703 IG Section MTOUSA APO 512, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Pvt. James P. Prettyman, 32950266 Co. A, 55th Med. Tng. Bn. A.S.F.T.C. Camp Barkeley, Texas Lt. A. S. Brown 18623 Lamont Ave. Detroit 12, Michigan 1st Sgt. Winifred W. Duddy 305248 WAC Det. Hq. Co. Z APO 887, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Major J. Robert Greenwood 17th Co. 1st Student Training Regt. Fort Benning, Georgia Julian J. Gibbens, A.S. Co. 44-548 U. S. Naval Training Center San Diego 33, Calif. Pvt. Willie I. Gillespie, 38618918 Co. B, 7th Bn., ARTC Fort Knox, Kentucky Lt. Torbin F. Yates, USNR E-ll, No. 3, c/o Navy 60 Rec. Ship F. F. Tran. Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. ETC 07571 Capt. Franklin E. DeVore '12 N. First Street "5 Independence, Kansas Pfc. Dan E. Renshaw, 12218956 C.O.L., 3rd Battalion, 12th Inf. APO 4, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Jess J. Carmichael, 1st Lt. C.E. 0-921765 Laboratory Officer 945th Q. M. Petroleum Products Lab. (Mobile) APO 759, New York, N. Y. Lt. William H. Sievert, Jr. H31, Gore Hall John Winthrop House Harvard University N.T.S. Cambridge, Mass. Lt. Walton Carlson American Bridge Shipyard Ambridge, Penna. Lt. John B. Link, 0-409675 885th Bomb Squad.--Hvy.-Sp. APO 520, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Capt. Daniel A. Hirschler, 0-854346 I t 17th Photo Recon. Squadron APO 719, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. Sgt. Everett L. Clough 4609 S.U. 175 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago 4, Illinois T/Sgt. Edward J. Staffel, 32965747 929th Q.M. Petroleum Prod. Lab. APO 565, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. i Sgt. William H. Thompson 32755706 Battery "D" 115th AAA Gun. Bn. APO 654, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Major John F. Wallis, 0-361337 Hq. 33rd, C.A. Bn. APO 244, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Pfc. Lynn A. Wilmot, 32361201 S. C. U. 1986 Med. Det. Birmingham General Hospital Van Nuys, California John L. Ebell, A.R.T. 1/c Radar Training Detachment Cape May, New Jersey Pvt. Edward Earle Cooper, 42082023 Co. M, 16th Inf. APO 1, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Cpl. Frank S. Neal, 18134333 1571 Engr. Hv. Shop Co. APO 920, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Hudgins A. Blouin, A/S Co. 44-590 U. S. N. T. Center San Diego 33, Calif. Capt. L. R. Fleck, 0-299456 Hdqs. 556th A.A.A. A.W. Bn. APO 339, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Sgt. Leonard E. Massey, 38200219 556 S.A.W. Bn. Co. A APO 595, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. ETC 07572 35 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY Luncheon in Century Room Seventeen girls from the New York Office attended a farewell luncheon in the Century Room of the Commodore Hotel on November 30 for two lovelies who are leav ing--Judy Berglin, of Safety, and Mary Marshall, of Order and Ship ping. 1 Both girls received lovely white corsages and parting gifts--Sirocco perfume for Judy, and aquamarine earrings for Mary. The men in the Safety Department for whom Judy has worked during the past several years presented her with a Parker fountain pen. We shall miss Judy andfMary and our very best wishes g{^ 'ith them. Hurricane Wins Honors The Hurricane, employee maga zine edited by Bill Murk for the Texas Division of Ethyl-Dow, won national honors at the annual meet ing of the Southwestern Associa tion of Industrial Editors held in Dallas this Fall. - The magazine was awarded cer tificates of merit for improvement in editorial content, production and appearance. The Hurricane is a member of S.A.I.E., which has about 350 members in nine states. One hundred and twenty-nine magazines were entered for awards. The certificates are given for im provement by the individual maga zine during the year. Leave 11 to Tully f .pervising lank cleanings is a outine matter for our safety engi neers but leave it to a division man ager, one Alan Tully (Atlanta) in particular, to make an adventure out 'of the job. Twice in the past two years he has gone to Savannah, Ga. f for a bit of tank cleaning and both > times has come back with a wild ani\ mal story, which Florence Liebers' muth, veteran secretary in the di. vision, finds a little puzzling in view of the fact that "these things seem to happen only to Mr. Tully." Our j; safety men, she observes, frequently cover tank cleanings at the Savannah River Terminal, and just as fre quently turn in "the most routinish J of reports." You may remember that last year's Tully tale was of a large alligator who ambled onto the scene of the tank cleaning--an interested audi ence of one. This year he brings back the story of a quick, gray fox, who wasn't quite quick enough. They saw him disappearing into the dark ness one evening as they were leav ing the terminal, gave hot pursuit, ran down and shot the curious cus tomer. The area used to be an extensive rice plantation along the Savannah River, and is now overgrown with wild rice and tall reeds in which game of all kinds abounds. "A swell place for a long, long tank cleaning some day," observes huntsman Tully. 36 BULLETIN BOARD-JANUARY ETC 07573 Home On The Range Jack Cole, Seattle Division safety engineer who makes his headquart ers in Casper, Wyo., recently pur chased a ranch which, judging from the accompanying pictures, looks like an easterner's dream of a real home on the range. Jack is reported to be taking his ranching seriously and finds time between tank cleanings to keep everything running smoothly. Unsuspecting geese which will soon grace tbs dinner table The Coles and their three stalwart sons Rancher Cole bottle feeds two "bum lamI*C which have been deserted by their mammi j. Are milk bottles brown out in Wyoming, Jack?. Pride ot the ranch is Shomont, a white pedi greed collie reported by Jack to be almost human. Each night he herds chickens, geese. end lambs to their quarters. ETC 0T574 Katherine Gaffney of the Safety Depart ment. New York, is a native New Yorker and has lived in the city all her life, yet her chief interest is in farming and she owns a farm in Vermont. Katherine attended Hunter College and worked for Newsweek before joining Ethyl. Ralph Pierson is a new addition to our Pubiic delations staff in New York. For several years he was publicity director of the Seaboard Railway and was responsible for the promotion of their streamJined trains. More recently he was director of the Tampa. Florida News Bureau. A writer and a photographer, his stories and pictures have been published in such maga zines as the Saturday Evening Post, and his pictures have been shown in national salons. Ralph is a Yale graduate and a descendant of the first president of Yale. Abraham Pierson. He likes tennis and has won a couple of club titles in Bronxville, where he lives with his wife, Jean, and two children, Peggy, 9, and Ralph Jr., 9. Helen Schaefer, who has joined Bill Turnley's New Products Division, is a native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Columbia Teachers College. She majored in fine arts and taught in the New York City high schools for fen years, resigned in 1940 to stay at home and keep house for her husband. The war interrupted that when he joined the Red Cross and went overseas, so Helen went back to work -- this time at the Traphagen School of Fashion, where she handled their placement service. Helen looks like a fashion plate, thanks to her knack with a needle. She makes most of her clothes and spends the rest of her spare time painting, mostly decorative designs in tempera. ETC 07575 DISTAFF SIDE RINGS THE 20-YEAR BELL Corinne Hill, whose picture adorns this month's cover, is the first girl in the Ethyl Corporation to chalk up twenty years of service. On Oc tober 20 she received a 20-year pin from her boss, President Earle Webb and twenty beautiful red roses from the girls on the 35th floor of the Chrysler Building, where she spends her days looking after the interests of our chief ex ecutive. Corinne, who started at Ethyl only three months after the com pany was organized, is not given to reminiscing and spoke only in a vague way about the early days at 25 Broadway. The girls--all six of - them -- worked in a big room re ferred to as the general office. They did all the typing and filing and stenographic work and nothing was very highly specialized. Mostly they typed bills and that was what she did at first. Then, after she had , learned shorthand in night school she started taking dictation from . the various men in the office. S' "It was so different then," she 2 remarked. "Nobody worked for any& *T body in particular, and it was very informal." After about three years, she be gan to do Mr. Webb's work, but her desk remained in the general office with the others. Things changed when the company moved its offices up to the Chrysler Building. She got a nice, big private office and "really became a secretary." Mr. Webb moved into the southwest corner office on the 35th floor, and she moved into the office next door. They have stayed right there--ever since that day in 1930 when the moving men carted in the furniture. Practically everybody else in the organization has been shifted, in the course of expansion, first to one place and then another, but the President and his secretary remain, a symbol of stability, in their sunny corner suite. Corinne was born on Manhattan and went to school in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut. She now lives out in Rockville Cen ter on Long Island with her father and her sister. For pastime she likes to read historical novels, adventure ETC 07576 39 BULT.ETTN BOAPI) -- mi!' mv Art Sortman stories and mysteries. When Ail Sortman celebrated his anniversary in November he be came the tenth member of Ethyl's 20-year club. November was a big month for him--on the 8th he cele brated his 20th aniversary with the company, on the 13th he celebrated his 64th anniversary on the earth. Art was hired in the long, long ago to superintend the operation of the first Ethyl manufacturing plant, located in Moraine, Ohio. It was then a part of General Motors Chemical Company, forerunner of Ethyl. In 1926 the Manufacturing De partment transferred its operation to Deepwater, New Jersey, but Art, a native of Ohio, didn't like the idea of leaving his home state, so they left him behind to expedite the man ufacture of some blending pumps for the company. After that he trav eled about the country setting up demonstrator engines and equip ment for the early Ethyl meetings. Soon after the Engineering Re search Department moved from Yonkers to Detroit Art was sent out there to become maintenance superintendent of the lab. In 1938 he went to San Bernardino to super vise the installation of electrical and other equipment at the lab then under construction and when it was completed became maintenance su perintendent, which position he now holds. Art started his business career as an apprentice machinist for the Brownell Engine Company in Dayton, and worked successively for the William Todd Engine Company in Youngstown, the National Cash Register Company, Dayton Metal Products Company, Dayton Wright Company and General Motors Re search Corporation before joining Ethyl. He has pleasant memories of frequent association during those early days with "Boss Ket,'' head of G. M. Research, and the late Thomas Midgley. Although Art and his wife have strong ties in Ohio, where they reared a family of ten before head ing westward, they have settled down and bought a home in Muscoy and are beginning to act like Cali fornians. Art is now raising chick ens, to the great delight of everyone at the lab, who get their fresh hen fruit from him at below ceiling prices. Art, who always enjoys a session with the boys, usually loses at five 40 "TTT. T.FTTV FOARD -- JANUARY ETC 07577 ard draw, then makes a double B>meback in a game of galloping /ominoes. Lately he has displayed w hidden talent -- organizing and promoting social functions at the ^^b -- this also to the delight of his ^ICthyl friends. ^The 15-year clubis growing fast Twith five more being added this month -- Marguerite McDonald, New York, Dr. Leslie J. Schradin, Cincinnati, Miles McGraw, Detroit, Harold Mehler, Yonkers and Alice Wygand, Deepwater. Marguerite, like Corinne, is so busy with current activities that it is quite a chore to get her to stop and think back to the days when she first came to Ethyl. She remembers that the offices were still at 25 Broadway and how delighted she was when they moved up to 42nd . Street, right across from Grand Central Station. Then all she had to do was get on the train in Tuckahoe, get off at Grand Central and step over to the Chrysler Building, elim inating all the wear and tear of struggling with subway crowds to ; get to the Battery. '' When Marguerite started with v-<the company she worked for Lou -^Volz, who at that time was handling ^payroll, bonus and insurance. Later *she became secretary to Julian GonJ^zalez and worked for him until Jay CGoux was put in charge of export in a|july 1937, at which time she became 5his secretary. At first they handled *11 exports with ease, then as the ['company grew and business inIcreased Mr. Goux's staff increased [and developed into the Order and Shipping Department, which now Marguerite McDonald numbers eight. As his secretary, Marguerite's re sponsibilities were many and varied and included handling all the docu ments required for each export shipment, placing the insurance, checking shipments with the plants and corresponding with the various consignees. Recently her work has become more specialized. Her sole responsibility now is taking care of orders -- and that is quite a job. It means that from the time an order arrives in the New York office -- whether by wire, phone or mail -- she is the gal who handles it from start to finish. First, she clears it through the department, which in volves checking various records -- contracts, type of installation and credit -- then she transmits it to the plant and follows through to see that the proper material is sent ac cording to the customer's type of ETC 07578 41 BULLETIN BOARD--TANUARY Mitet McGtaw installation, to the proper place at the requested time. At any point along the line the customer may have a change of mind -- want the delivery date ad vanced or delayed or the shipment canceled. This, too, comes under the head of Marguerite's business. All of which keeps her hopping and in variably wondering when five o'clock comes where the day has gone. On weekends she relaxes and re covers -- skiis in the winter, swims in the summer and plays golf when ever wind and weather permit. Miles McGraw, better known to his friends at the lab as "Mose," started to work at the Detroit Gaso line Testing Lab way back when his addition to the staff raised the complement to four. Many and var ied are the ways that "Mose" makes himself useful around the lab. Spe cifically speaking, he checks in and tags all the samples, keeps the lab and all the equipment spick and span, makes hurry-up trips to the post office or railroad station to de liver or pick up packages, and on oc casion serves as chauffeur speeding departing guests or members of the staff to the airport or depot. Gener ally speaking, "Mose" just helps everybody do everything. He was born in Vincent, Alabama, ventured north in 1920 and settled down in the Motor City. Now he's beginning to think about how nice it would be to retire to some sunny spot where winter winds never blow --that is, after about fifteen more years when he has added three more diamonds to his pin. Harold Mahler, Assistant Man ager of the Yonkers Laboratory, started with Ethyl fifteen years ago as a chemist in the old Yonkers Lab, a far cry from the modern es tablishment he now helps to run. After a while he was transferred to the now extinct Omaha Laboratory and from there he went to Kansas City for a short spell, winding up down in Tulsa, where he worked for three years. Since then he has been at the Yonkers Lab most of the time except for brief sojourns in Detroit. Harold was born in Brooklyn, spent his childhood in Lynbrook, Long Island, returning to Brooklyn for his high school education at Brooklyn Technical High. He then attended Pratt Institute in New York City. His first job was with Charles Pfizer and Company, man- 42 BULLETIN BOARD -- JANUARY etc OTS79 Dr. Leslie J. Schradin, of out Medical Department, who cele brated his fifteenth anniversary with Ethyl on October 1, is a prod uct of the University of Cincinnati Medical College, and the Cincinnati General Hospital where he was a member of the staff for several years after completing his intern ship there. Leslie was born in New London, Ohio and attended public schools there, then took an A.B. from Miami University. At the Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology in Cincinnati, "Les," has been helping Dr. Robert A. Kehoe in the work of the Medi cal Department ever since he joined the company fifteen years ago. He is loathe to talk about himself and his work, so we learned about the important job he is doing from his boss, who writes: "The work of the Medical De partment of Ethyl is carried out in all parts of the country, as well as in Canada and Alaska. The medical supervision includes not only all of the members of the field and labora tory staffs of the Corporation, but all of the oil company personnel en gaged in mixing Ethyl fluid with gasoline. On this account regular visits are paid by physicians of the Harold Mahler r medical staff to most of the gaso line refineries, large and small, in North America. "During the past fifteen years Les has spent the large proportion of his time in this work, in the course of which he has developed a broad acquaintance with refinery people and refineries, as well as Ethyl representatives and their families in many parts of the coun try. Furthermore, he has acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of all the transportation facilities in North America. "In tribute to one of his most out standing personal qualities, it should be said that despite the dif ficulties and petty irritations of this type of professional life, especially during the war, few, if any, of those most intimately associated with him at home or en route have ever seen any lapse of his good humor. That ETC 07580 43 BULLETIN BO A.RD -- JANUARY * %V - 3a Skr this characteristic good humor does not derive from an easy-going ap proach to the day's work can be at tested to by any of the safety engi neers who have accompanied him on local tours." "Doc" is married and has two children, a four-year-old daughtei Lynne, and a three-month old sor Leslie J. Schradin, Jr. Alice WYgand is the first girl a the Deepwater plant to hit the IS year mark. Back in September 192 when she started to work for Ethyl she was the only girl, save one, it the Deepwater Division. Her job ii those days consisted mainly of han dling drum records and preparing shipment papers. She continuer with this work until 1937 when shi took over the handling of sales or der records and payment of freigln bills, which still keeps her bus; throughout the course of her work ing day. After hours Alice goes in for golfing and swimming, is one of the belles at the local dances. In addi tion she manages to keep up with the best sellers. Her Victory Gar den in Penns Grove, where she lives with her mother, was the envy of all her friends and neighbors last sum mer and she plans to have an even better one this year. Alice was born in Philadelphia but migrated to the South Jersey shore when she was very young and settled down with her family in Penns Grove. After graduating from the St. James High School, she attended Goldy Business College in Wilmington. Ben Brewster, Engineering Re search, Detroit has just rounded out his tenth year, while four more have passed the five-year mark -- Ru dolph Horstmann, Dorothy Rogan and Marjory Smith, all of New York Finance, and Melvin Hudgins, of the ELA plant at Baton Rouge. 44 i BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07581 Two for San Berdu Ouch! Who took the top oi my heed off? Margery Susan Way poses for a picture and papa Gil has a little trouble getting it Margery, born in August is the latest addition to the Way family, which includes a sister, Valerie, and a brother. Andy, now in the Army overseas. Their father is a research engineer at our San Berdu lab. member of the San Berdu re* *rch family is Robert Lyon Stinson, born Oc- !9. Here he is at three weeks with his father, Larry, one of our research engineers. 1 As this goes to press, word reaches us that their efforts in wrangling rock bottom prices on quantitie of Pablum, cod liver oil, nipples safety pins and laundry soap havi been successful. Stork Club The Kellers of Baton Rouge have a new baby girl, Diane Marie, born November 4. Guy is a member of our Testing Lab staff and a four time father. He and Bea now have two hoys and two girls--Jimmie, 11, Gwi . 8, Ronnie, 4, and month-old Dian* Marie. The Rife's invoice shows that oni wee miss, having a shipping weighof eight pounds and one-half ounce an overall length of 21 inches, am completely equipped with souih was delivered at high noon, Novero ber 9, 1944. Her inventory tag read: Roberta Evelyn. Her arrival raise the tally at the Rife's to two girls The Souter's invoice lists ont William McCracken, chemical operator at our Detroit Pilot Plant, became the proud father on Novem ber 5, of a dark-haired, handsome son, checking in at seven pounds, husky rascal of eight pounds anc five and one-half ounces, also 21 inches. His tag is Carl Frederick and Wilson becomes Pappy for the first time. ti one and one-half ounces. Bill has completely recovered from the or deal of welcoming his first child, and the mother and little William Douglas are doing fine. We're Talcing Orders New 'k Purchasers Wrangle Delivery Without Priorities Detroit Purchasing Depart ment is all aglow these days. Ross (I'll get it for you) Rife, the Pur chasing Agent and Wilson (no dis count) Souter, his able cohort are mighty proud and happy over the Bound volumes of the 1944 issues of either or both of our company magazines are yours for the asking --plus $1.95 for the Bulletin Board and $2.30 for the Ethyl News. The Bulletin Board will be bound in blue buckram, the News in red, and yout name will be imprinted in gold on the cover. If you want these neat volumes containing the news of the year latest offerings of Mr. Stork. The fact both became proud fathers in almost the same breath, certainly about your friends, your company and your industry, please let us know pronto. Just make your check indicates that the sound philosophy payable to the Ethyl Corporation of mass buying is conscientiously and send it with your order to the followed in our purchasing section. Publicity Department. 46 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY etc 07583 ETC 07584 VR Hitt A j rM ** wo!? '*0"r *4cr 22 "Z?9EtP*ATt ETC 07587 GI Joe's Message to You I was a 3-star general who oke, but the message came from ( million GI Joes as Lieutenant eneral Brehon Somervell, Com^landing General of the Army Serv ice Forces, praised the manufac turers and workers of America for the great production job they have done and urged them to re-dedicate themselves to further production to . meet the urgent demand for critical equipment at the fronts. General Somervell, speaking be fore the War and Reconversion Congress of American Industry in New York early in December, told the men responsible for the coun try's productive output that short ages caused by rapidly shifting bat tle conditions and over-optimistic manpower seeking jobs outside es sential industry were adding time *to the war and names to the casualty tlists. Everything II Takes Lieutenant General Somervell Lauding the magnificent achievevtnent of the manufacturers and the war workers, General Somervell said that we have lived up to our promise to the men we sent; to war hat they would have an overpower ing weight of everything it takes o win. "We have had a half million casualties to date," he said. "Thank God not one has been caused by short production. But if we fail to throw the weight of extra produc tion into the scales now, right now, e may have to risk lives tomorrow hat we should never risk." General Somervell said the whole American strategy adds up to "more materiel equals fewer casualties and a shorter war." Eisenhower's forces, MacArthur's men, McNarney's soldiers and Richardson's GI's are using some parts of the reserves we were able to build before the fighting reached its present intensity faster than we can re place them, the General stated, pointing out that the tempo is quickening and our men are using sup plies faster. Taking the fighting on the German front for his text to illustrate i r t \ 1 t f ETC 07588 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY f! the enormous quantities of materiel now in action, he cited the mortar shell as typical. He said American forces in North Africa expended 42,000 rounds a month, and that in France between September 20 and October 20 the 1st, 3rd, and 9th armies alone fired more than 1,300,000 rounds. "They fired more mortar ^shells every day than were used in 'a month in Africa," he summarized. "And there are four other armies fightihg on this same front." Biggest War Ahead . We have supplies at the front right now, the General said, but we npist provide for the immediate fu ture. "The war against the Jap alone will be the biggest war this country or this world ever fought before the present war," he declared. "You may be looking toward VDay in Europe as a day of let-down, a time to relax. Burn this thought into your minds. It takes more tons, hauled more miles by far, to destroy a Jap than it takes to destroy a Nazi. "It will cost us $71,000,000,000 ; year to fight the Jap after German; is defeated. This is greater than thi value of all goods manufactured ii the country during its busiest peace time year, 1939." The General further stressed thi gigantic task ahead when he statei that we have more ahead of us toda; in the war against Japan than w> faced in the whole of World War in Europe. "We will have to ship a least four tons to the Japanese fron for every ton we shipped to Europ< in World War I," he said. Earnestly stating the case for th< American people and the men whi fight for them on every front, Gen eral Somervell concluded: "American industry and Ameri can workers must re-dedicate them selves, here and now, to an upsurge of production on the home front si that our forces on all fronts shall b limited in their use of materiel onl; by our ability to get it to them am by elbow room on the fightin; fronts in which to use it." Yuletide at Yonkers The lab at Yonkers shut up shop a little early the Friday before Christmas and Santa Claus, alias Walter Bauer, came around and started a party rolling by passing out amusing gifts for which he ex acted a kiss from each of the ladies. Fortified with a good spaghetti dinner, they launched into an eve ning of games beginning with Swe dish Handshake. Then they played something referred to as Pinchii Winchie with George Gier acting as fall guy. Highlight of the eve ning was watching their boss, Clif ford Pope, throw himself into thi spirit of Eggs on the Sidewalk They all tried dropping a penci into the mouth of a milk bottle fron nose height, which turned out to be a difficult feat for everybody bm Merritt Collins who never missed. 4 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY i ETC 07589 * r aptain Jack Is on a the Beam 1 ery much on the beam" is the y his squadron newspaper de- ibed Captain Jack Pruitt, erst- ile assistant manager of our Day- 1 Division, who is now busy man aging an Army squadron in New -Guinea. [ -. Jack went overseas as Petroleum t Supply Officer early last Fall, but is acting in that capacity only on a consulting basis as his responsibili ties as Commanding Officer of his squadron keep him well occupied. > Testifying to the fact that he is do ing a good job are the following words of praise from the Squadron Sentinel: "The spirit of the squad ron is better than it has ever been ... Hustle bustle around the area is credited to Captain Pruitt and his aides ... General squadron spirit is reaching unprecedented heights." Captain Pruitt at his desk in New Guinea in on both supply and maintenance work, handle aviation petroleum supplies, the group photographic * In a letter to his former boss, Harry Mack, who runs our Dayton Division, Jack told something of the work he and his men are doing. He said in part: work, and furnish control tower op erators, gunnery instructors, run engineering supply, and a lot of odd jobs." Commenting upon this Harry "Normally, a headquarters outfit such as mine does no line work, but F we have a different set-up and kick writes: "It just shows that Jack is using his good old initiative that made him so valuable here." ' Toward a Shorter War To sponsor and promote war ef ^Congratulations to Johnny Cap- fort activities, the Ethyl Steering r^injola, Louise Hennessey, Herb ^IPoehle, John Murphy, Florence Committee has set up a sub-group headed by Jim Hinkamp and Chick 1 ^Sorensen, Dick Sneed, Joe Weaver Sortman. They will handle all War i ;f and Late Willans for pushing their Bond sales, Red Cross subscriptions jfciJJetroit bond drive over the top. and other activities directed toward ^They exceeded their quota of helping our service men and women ^$19,275 by seven percent. and shortening the war. ETC 07590 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Or. Leslie Schradin Alice Wygand this characteristic good humor does not derive from an easy-going ap proach to the day's work can be at tested to by any of the safety engi neers who have accompanied him on local tours." "Doc" is married and has two children, a four-year-old daughter, Lynne, and a three-month old son, Leslie J. Schradin, Jr. Alice Wygand is the first girl at the Deepwater plant to hit the 15year mark. Back in September 1929 when she started to work for Ethyl, she was the only girl, save one, in the Deepwater Division. Her job in those days consisted mainly of han dling drum records and preparing shipment papers. She continued with this work until 1937 when she took over the handling of sales or der records and payment of freight bills, which still keeps her busy throughout the course of her work ing day. After hours Alice goes in for golfing and swimming, is one of the belles at the local dances. In addi tion she manages to keep up with the best sellers. Her Victory Gar den in Penns Grove, where she lives with her mother, was the envy of all her friends and neighbors last sum mer and she plans to have an even better one this year. Alice was born in Philadelphia but migrated to the South Jersey shore when she was very young and settled down with her family in Penns Grove. After graduating from the St. James High School, she attended Goldy Business College in Wilmington. Ben Brewster, Engineering Re search, Detroit has just rounded out his tenth year, while four more have passed the five-year mark -- Ru dolph Horstmann, Dorothy Rogan and Marjory Smith, all of New York Finance, and Melvin Hudgins, of the ELA plant at Baton Rouge. 44 BULLETIN BOARD-- JANUARY ETC 07591 Two for San Berdu Ouch! Who foot the top of my head off? Margery Susan Way poses tor a picture and papa Gil has a little trouble getting it. Margery, born in August, is the latest addition to the Way family, which includes a sister, Valerie, and a brother, Andy, now in the Army overseas. Their father is a research engineer at our San Berdu Lab. member of the San Berdu rea#*rck family is Bobert Lyon Stinson, born OcJ^*r Here he is at three weeks with his one of our research engineers. & ETC 07592 As this goes to press, word read us that their efforts in wrangli rock bottom prices on quantity of Pablum, cod liver oil, nippl safety pins and laundry soap ha been successful. Stork Club The Kellers of Baton Rouge have a new baby girl, Diane Marie, born November 4. Guy is a member of our Testing Lab staff and a fourtime father. He and Bea now have two boys and two girls--Jimmie, 11, Gw. 8, Ronnie, 4, and month-old Dianr Marie. The Rife's invoice shows that o wee miss, having a shipping weig of eight pounds and one-half oun an overall length of 21 inches, a completely equipped with sou; was delivered at high noon, Novei ber 9, 1944. Her inventory tag rea Roberta Evelyn. Her arrival rais the tally at the Rife's to two gir The Souter's invoice lists oi William McCracken, chemical operator at our Detroit Pilot Plant, became the proud father on Novem ber 5, of a dark-haired, handsome son, checking in at seven pounds, husky rascal of eight pounds a: five and one-half ounces, also . inches. His tag is Carl Frederic and Wilson becomes Pappy for tl first time. one and one-half ounces. Bill has completely recovered from the or * deal of welcoming his first child, and the mother and little William Douglas are doing fine. We're Taking Order: Now Purchasers Wrangle Delivery Without Bound volumes of the 1944 issue of either or both of our compan magazines are yours for the askin --plus $1.95 for the Bulletin Boat Priorities Detroit Purchasing Depart ment is all aglow these days. Ross (I'll get it for you) Rife, the Pur chasing Agent and Wilson (no dis count) Souter, his able cohort are mighty proud and happy over the and $2.30 for the Ethyl News. Th Bulletin Board will be bound in blu buckram, the News in red, and you name will be imprinted in gold o the cover. If you want these neat volume containing the news of the yea latest offerings of Mr. Stork. The about your friends, your compan- fact both became proud fathers in and your industry, please let u almost the same breath, certainly know pronto. Just make your checi indicates that the sound philosophy payable to the Ethyl Corporatioi of mass buying is conscientiously followed in our purchasing section. and send it with your order to thi Publicity Department. li ;j 46 ij BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY ETC 07593 ETC 07 594 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Ed: Published by the Ethyl Cozp., 4OS Lexington Are.. New York, N. Y./ arie W. Webb, president; Percy L. Griffiths, vice-president end treasurer; Julian C. Gonssles, secretary. ETHYL-DOW HONORED ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY PAGE 6 */NS *Dai 1 /o NEW GENERAL MOTORS CLUB OFFICERS PAGE 20 0'1* *TM*t Tn ,KC *fP0r PAGE 22 ZTno,T ETC 07597 GI Joe's Message to You was a 3-star general who oke, but the message came from nyllion GI Joes as Lieutenant meral Brehon Somervell, Comnding General of the Army Serv- Forces, praised the manufacrers and workers of America for e great production job they have [one and urged them to re-dedicate ^themselves to further production to eet the urgent demand for critical Equipment at the fronts. s General Somervell, speaking be- ore the War and Reconversion ^Congress of American Industry in iNew York early in December, told ^|he men responsible for the coun try's productive output that short ages caused by rapidly shifting bat j^le conditions and over-optimistic .'.manpower seeking jobs outside es sential industry were adding time Sto t( he war and names to the casualty fsts. Everything It Takes lieutenant General Somervell Lauding the magnificent achieveent of the manufacturers and the rar workers, General Somervell id that we have lived up to our romise to the men we sen^ to war that they would have an overpowerg weight of everything it takes |to win. "We have had a half million sualties to date," he said. "Thank God not one has been caused by short production. But if we fail to throw the weight of extra produc tion into the scales now, right now, we may have to risk lives tomorrow that we should never risk." General Somervell said the whole American strategy adds up to "more materiel equals fewer casualties and a shorter war." Eisenhower's forces, MacArthur's men, McNarney's soldiers and Rich ardson's GI's are using some parts of the reserves we were able to build before the fighting reached its pres ent intensity faster than we can re place them, the General stated, pointing out that the tempo is quick ening and our men are using sup plies faster. Taking the fighting on the Ger man front for his text to illustrate ETC 07598 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY the enormous quantities of materiel now in action, he cited the mortar shell as typical. He said American forces in North Africa expended 42,000 rounds a month, and that in France between September 20 and October 20 the 1st, 3rd, and 9th armies alone fired more than 1,300,000 rounds. "They fired more mortar . ^shells every day than were used in a month in Africa," he summarized. "And there are four other armies fighting on this same front." Biggest War Ahead ;We have supplies at the front right now, the General said, but we n^ist provide for the immediate fu ture. "The war against the Jap alone will be the biggest war this country or this world ever fought before the present war," he declared. "You may be looking toward VDay in Europe as a day of let-down, a time to relax. Burn this thought into your minds. It takes more tons, hauled more miles by far, to destroy a Jap than it takes to destroy a Nazi. "It will cost us $71,000,000,000 ; year to fight the Jap after German; is defeated. This is greater than the value of all goods manufactured it the country during its busiest peace time year, 1939." The General further stressed the gigantic task ahead when he state* that we have more ahead of us todaj in the war against Japan than wt faced in the whole of World War in Europe. "We will have to ship ai least four tons to the Japanese front for every ton we shipped to Europe in World War I," he said. Earnestly stating the case for th< American people and the men whe fight for them on every front, Gen eral Somervell concluded: "American industry and Ameri can workers must re-dedicate them selves, here and now, to an upsurge of production on the home front sc that our forces on all fronts shall b< limited in their use of materiel onl> by our ability to get it to them anc by elbow room on the fighting fronts in which to use it." Yuletide aft Yonkers The lab at Yonkers shut up shop a little early the Friday before Christmas and Santa Claus, alias Walter Bauer, came around and started a party rolling by passing out amusing gifts for which he ex acted a kiss from each of the ladies. Fortified with a good spaghetti dinner, they launched into an eve ning of games beginning with Swe dish Handshake. Then they played something referred to as Pinchie Winchie with George Gier acting as fall guy. Highlight of the eve ning was watching their boss, Clif ford Pope, throw himself into the spirit of Eggs on the Sidewalk They all tried dropping a pencil into the mouth of a milk bottle from nose height, which turned out to be a difficult feat for everybody but Merritt Collins who never missed. BULLETIN BOARD -- FEBRUARY ETC 07599 Japtain Jade Is on the Beam fery much on the beam" is the iy his squadron newspaper deribed Captain Jack Pruitt, erstpile assistant manager of our Day- Division, who is now busy manpaging an Army squadron in New ^Guinea. Jack went overseas as Petroleum Supply Officer early last Fall, but is acting in that capacity only on a consulting basis as his responsibili ties as Commanding Officer of his squadron keep him well occupied. Testifying to the fact that he is do ing a good job are the following words of praise from the Squadron Sentinel: "The spirit of the squad ron is better than it has ever been ... Hustle bustle around the area is credited to Captain Pruitt and his aides ... General squadron spirit is reaching unprecedented heights." c:In a letter to his former boss, Harry Mack, who runs our Dayton Division, Jack told something of the rwork he and his men are doing. He said in part: "Normally, a headquarters outfit such as mine does no line work, but we have a different set-up and kick Captain Pruitt at his desk in New Guinea in on both supply and maintenance work, handle aviation petroleum supplies, the group photographic work, and furnish control tower op erators, gunnery instructors, run engineering supply, and a lot of odd jobs." Commenting upon this Harry writes: "It just shows that Jack is using his good old initiative that made him so valuable here." * ^Toward a Shorter War - Congratulations to Johnny CapX^ihjola, Louise Hennessey, Herb |pPoehle, John Murphy, Florence ^Sorensen, Dick Sneed, Joe Weaver * and Late Willans for pushing their ^Detroit bond drive over the top. ggfThey exceeded their quota of j-f*9>275 by seven percent. Tj sponsor and promote war ef fort activities, the Ethyl Steering Committee has set up a sub-group headed by Jim Hinkamp and Chick Sortman. They will handle all War Bond sales, Red Cross subscriptions and other activities directed toward helping our service men and women and shortening the war. ETC 07600 e BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ClOW Hamtony -- The male sextette entertains with popular melodies. From left to right ti are Rudolph Jarrell. Ralph Jarrell, Emory Grubbs, Ralph Horton. R. M. Pedrick and Bill Tolson Ethyl-Dow Plant Celebrates Tenth Anniversary Slcuxtimer--Glenn Cantwell, plant manager, turns musician and strums the accompaniment lor Bud Tisdale, while he gives out with har monica medleys Presentation of the National S< curity Award to the plant, and sen ice emblems to the employees, roast turkey dinner and special er. tertainment by home talent mad the tenth anniversary celebration o the Kure Beach plant a gala occa sion for employees and their guest who gathered at the parish house o St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wil mington early in December. G. F. Dressel, vice president oi ETC 07601 e Dow Magnesium Corporation, Louis J. Poisson, chairman of the d former manager of the Kure New Hanover County Defense ach plant, presented service emb- Council, introduced Mr. MacMillan s to the 42 employees who have and thanked the Kure Beach em record of ten years continuous ployees on behalf of the Council for Ace. G. E. Cantwell, who is now their support of its program, in serv nager of the plant, presented five ing as air raid wardens, instructors ar emblems to the 41 employees and in various other capacities. lifying for that award. H. T. Paterson, superintendent of main tenance, acted as toastmaster. i*The National Security Award of J.E.D. Clark, superintendent of transportation at the Kure Beach plant, accepted the award on behalf of the company. As chief air raid the Office of Civilian Defense, won warden at Kure Beach, he has been the Kure Beach plant for the a leader in the civilian defense pro -high standard of plant protection gram since its inception. :%aintained during the war, was pre- This is the seventh national award aented to Ethyl-Dow by R. L. Mac made to the plant and its employees Mitll. an, state director of the OCD - North Carolina, who came from since the war started. Other awards which they have won are the Treas t.leigh to attend the dinner and ury Minute Man and the Treasury make the presentation. In his talk, "T" for war bond purchases, the he praised Ethyl-Dow for their ac Army's Plant Guard Guidon for out tive participation in the Civilian standing achievement of the plant Defense program of New Hanover guard force, two stars for the Guid gunty, as well as for the plant pro- on, and the Army-Navy "E" for ex ction facilities which they have cellence in the production of war intained. materials. -- The speaker gets rapt attention irom the gathered throng. In the foreground from lelt rhf are Hilary Humble, Vincent Thorpe, Charlie Smith, Jesse Croom, office supervisor, and Jordan. Those broad shoulders facing the camera belong to Jack Dooher, assistant to the 'aaf Treasurer Jim Hyland. Boss /Ket/ Pays Tribute to Midgley In ''An Appreciation" of his friend and long-time associate the late Thomas Midgley, Jr. published in the December 22, 1944 issue of Science, Charles F. Kettering, head of General Motors Research, pays high tribute to our former vice president, whose death last Novem ber marked an irreplaceable loss to our organization. "In the passing of Thomas Midg ley, Jr., on November 2," he writes, "the American Chemical Society lost its president and the long-time chairman of its board of directors, and the nation lost one of its most creative men. Also those of us who were fortunate enough to know him personally lost a friend who held the highest place in our affection and esteem. "Although only fifty-five when he died, Midgley had crowded into his lifetime an immense amount of ac complishment, and the achievements he left behind are an important leg acy to the world." He cited four particularly note worthy contributions of Midgley and his associates: the discovery of the chemical antiknock agents, con ceiving and demonstrating the pos sibility of extracting bromine from the sea, the invention of Freon, the non-toxic, non-inflammable refrig erant, and his researches on rubber. How it happened that Thorn Midgley, Jr., a man trained not chemistry but in mechanical enj neering, came to make all these it portant advances in chemistry, says Mr. Kettering, one of the u usual stories in modern research. In telling of Midgley's many a complishments, Mr. Kettering d ' scribes some of the attributes whit enabled him to achieve such ou standing success. "Having bet blessed with initiative and driv and being unhampered by preo dent, he soon became one of the be: informed among chemists, and or of the most productive as well. Fo tunately, he had that measure of ir telligent ignorance--ignorance tha the thing undertaken could not b done--which is so often needed fo success in pioneering research." "The period of Midgley's re searches covered only twenty years But into these twenty years he com pressed an immense amount of ac tivity. Even after an attack of polio myelitis in 1940 had made him i semi-invalid, he continued his in terest and activity in the field of re search, as well as his large service as an executive officer of the Ameri can Chemical Society and of other organizations. And this was in en tire keeping with the intensive and remarkably useful life he lived." 8 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 07603 Adele Baldwin, who helps keep things clicking in the New York Payto11 Section, moved to New York City irom Old Greenwich. Con necticut. where she worked for the Electrolux Corporation. It was her first job following grad uation from the Port Chester High School in Port Chester. New York, where her family mi grated from Newport, Rhode Island. That is where Adele first saw the light of day. The light in her eye shines for a certain Navy flier to whom she devotes most of her time when he's in town between ferrying flights -- that is the time that isn't devoted to working or going to night school where she is learning how to stenofype. A horn musician, Adele is an ac complished pianist and loves to spend hours at the piano playing both classical and popular music -- especially popular with good friends gathered 'round to sing. JWwn Miriam Andrade, new member of New York Finance, came to this country from o. Egypt a year ago, she was one of seven passengers on a freighter that was the 13th in convoy of 152 ships. The other passengers included three diplomats, two Turkish women, nd one American girl - Cairo Miriam worked for the Medical Sta tistical Service. Everyone over 17 has to do *oni kind of war work, and in addition all the girls serve at canteens and service men's clubs. Miriam well remembers the day the boys came from the battle of El Alamein -- she served op 400 ice cream sodas. She worked at the British Ministry in New York City before com* fag to Ethyl ETC 07604 Lieutenant Commander Luke Wins Bronze Star Ray Luke, formerly of our Atlanta Division, won a Bronze Star Award for meritorious service last Fall, news of which comes courtesy of his wife Dorothy, who writes that the Commander finally got around to Pin-up honors go to Ray when Commander Crain pins on the Bronze Star. telling her about it only because "h knew darn well if he didn't tell m before I saw it in the papers, I woul pin his ears back, but good." Ray received the award for tb outsanding job he did as Executiv Officer of a Naval Amphibious Bas in England. The citation read ii part: "In the name of the President o: the United States of America, igives me great pleasure to aware this Bronze Star to Lt. Commandei R. H. Luke, for Meritorious Service as Executive Officer of his base, in preparing facilities of a Naval Am phibious Base on the English Chan nel coast for its part in the invasion of France, despite damage to his ships and docks by enemy bombing raids before D-Day." Ray, an Annapolis graduate, class of 1925, was commissioned a Lieu tenant (sg) shortly after Pearl Har bor and was stationed in New Or leans for about a year, following which he was sent to Panama City, where he was Commanding Officer of the Base before going overseas. In England he has established and maintained several bases as Execu tive and Commanding Officer. Last Spring he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. This Spring he hopes to get a leave and a trip back to Birmingham, his home base in peacetime. Aboard an invasion craft at a Naval Amphibious Base in England, Lieutenant Commander Luke and some ot his fellow officers, pose for a picture. Speech Without Notice Surprise for the Mid-Continent Section of the SAE was their prin cipal speaker at the December 22 meeting in Tulsa -- Jane Jordan -- almost as much of a surprise as it was for Jane, herself. On December 21 she was sitting quietly in her of fice in Detroit pursuing her duties as Technical Assistant of the Refii ery Technology Division when To Risk, Acting Head of the Divisio; ambled in, said he hoped she dido have any pressing plans for the in mediate future because she was o her way to Tulsa. He was schedule to give a paper down there the nei day on "Factors Affecting the Ant Knock Value of Post-War Gasc line," but couldn't make it -- dot tor's orders. "This is so sudden," said Jam grabbed her toothbrush and was o her way to the airport. Next night she was standing be fore the assembled members of th SAE in Tulsa. About 100 men, most ly from oil refineries in Tulsa am the surrounding territory, wen present. After they had recoveret from the shock of seeing the younj and attractive Miss Jordan rise tc give the principal speech of th< evening, they sat back and listenec with-interest, then joined in a livelj discussion following her talk. Pinch-hitting Jane picked up the ball that Tom Risk pitched her at the eleventh hour and carried it with flying colors, according to all reports. Evidence of the success of the meeting were the many favor able comments regarding the pro gram received by our Tulsa Divi sion Manager, Lou Shank. Reflected Glory Florence T. Sorensen of the Detroit Testing Lab, is proudly dis playing the Air Medal on her desk where all may see. It was presented to her at Selfridge Field, Army Air Base, Michigan, early in December in behalf of her husband, a B-17 pilot, who was shot down over Ger many last March. Durward, and all but three of his crew, are prisoners of war somewhere in Germany. 12 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY ETC 07607 Tribute to Martin and Perry >ng the many expressions of Sympathy that we have received Unce the tragic death of Jack Mar lin and Phil Perry in an Army plane rash at Memphis, Tennessee last )ecember 17 was a letter to PresiSent Earle Webb from Colonel ove, Deputy Commander, Head quarters Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command in Cincinnati. The thoughts so splendidly ex pressed in his letter printed below, serve as a source of comfort and in spiration, and give those of us who remain a new and redoubled sense of responsibility. ?&/ cX.. .AC* ,Vr Mr. E. W. Webb, President Ethyl Corporation Chrysler Building New York, N. Y. Dear Mr. Webb: I wish to extend to you and your organization a sincere expression of sympathy on the loss of your two valuable associates, Mr. John G. Martin and Mr. Philip M. Perry. These two gentlemen have made the supreme sacrifice for their country, and those of us who remain are determined that they shall not have died in vain. May the thought that they gave their lives so that the lives of others might be spared be of some com fort to you who knew them and worked with them. Sincerely yours, (signed) Robert M. Love Small World ^ iten Jim Baldwin, New York ^Division safety engineer, registered ^at a hotel in Montreal recently, the ^pianager registered surprise upon ^looking at the Buffalo address Jim j|fchad given. It seems that he thought '^omebody else lived there. Jim as- him that he was wrong, he guessed he knew where he lived and it was at 737 Crescent Avenue in Buffalo. "No cause for offense, old boy," said the inquiring manager, "I used to live four houses down the street, and I was just wondering what happened to the doctor who used to live in that house." ETC 07608 13 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Winter wonderland - What the well dressed Eskimo is wearing this season, as mod eled by our Seattle saiety engineers Ben Pen rose and Paul Harris. Or is it Paul Harris and Ben Penrose? Anyway the four-legged animals are Huskies, modeling Nature's own creations. Ben and Paul made their acquaintance the week before Christmas when they were up at White horse in the Yukon territory. They flew up to see that Santa got started on schedule and. in cidentaiiy. to do a little work at Standard's Whitehorse refinery. Reported life at the North Pole to be rugged, what with the thermometer registering 20 degrees beiow and no heat in their plane. Newcomer to the San Bernardino Test Lab, Helen Horn's motors in from Muscoy, where she and her hushand and daughter lire, happily looking after their farm. Mrs. N. says that her hobbies incfude "raising horses and training them to do frichs. and gardening." i Here comes the first slice of the wedding cake cut by the happy bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. hang. She is the former Anne Braddy, of New York Purchasing. Became Mrs. Lang on January 11 at a Nuptial Mass per formed at St. Philip Neri Church in The Bronx in which her sister, Mary Agnes Draddy was maid of honor, and the groom's brother, William Long was best man. The picture was token at Mayer's Parkway inn in The Bronx, where the reception was held. The bride and groom went to Atlantic City on their wedding trip. They are now back in New York and Anne is with us again, pursuing her duties in a happy haze. ETC 07609 Milestones Go By * ' Knhe, our Seattle Division j;Manager, sailed past his fifteenth " ^birthday with Ethyl on December =f/27 without even realizing that he 4was marking off another milestone. 'fOne of Seattle's busiest citizens he ^doesn't have time to stop and think '{about these matters of historical ^'significance. V* Harry is vice-chairman of the ^Northwest Section of the Society of J. Automotive Engineers, and former ly served as chairman of the pro gram committee. He is also vicepresident of the General Motors ^Club in Seattle, and a rooting Ro.^tarian. These activities keep him ^pretty well occupied and any time J that's left over he devotes to his { hobbies, chief of which is his year*old son, Harry James, whose pic- 5^ure yu saw *n last issue of the Harry Kuhe Bulletin Board. Papa is very handy a^with a hammer and proved it by rfinishing off their playroom with cedar paneling. Since the war, he I^Jias also taken up gardening, which leaves him practically no time at all took his degree in Chemical Engi neering at the University of Wis consin in 1925 and completed his education in Europe. Harry's Ethyl days began in Chi ffor fishing -- a favorite Kuhe sport. cago. He worked out of the Windy Before coming with us Harry was City as a field representative for a l^a design engineer with the Strom short while before moving his head ji. - Ballbearing Company in Chicago. quarters to Indianapolis. He con to that he had worked as a biochemical engineer for the Con- tinued there until 1932, when he was transferred to Tulsa as assistant **nental Paper and Bag Company manager of the Tulsa Division. Okonto Falls, Wisconsin. He His stay in the southwest con- 0H' . ETC 07610 ,, BDT.T.FTT*! ROAFD -- tinued until 1938, when he was sent to Mexico City as manager of Ethyl activities in that country, but these operations were abruptly termin ated by President Cardenas' expro priation of the oil industry. So Harry returned to Tulsa and oper ated out of there doing special jobs which took him to all parts of the country. In January of 1940, Harry went to Seattle to take charge of the newly organized Seattle Division as manager and still carries on in that capacity. New possessors of ten-year serv ice pin awards are Rose Lipsitz, Detroit Aeronautical Research, Lowell Mason, Baltimore Division, Roy Monahan, Baton Rouge, and Mike Remondino, Detroit Engi neering Research. Rounding the five-year bend are Percy L. Breeden, Baton Rouge, Edna Freeman, Baton Rouge, Jane Jordan, Refinery Technology, De troit, Bill Katz, Chemical Research, Detroit, Charlie Phillips, Baton Rouge, Bill Polachek, Chicago Di vision and Freydis Tugwell, Baton Rouge. I ! Carl Bartholomew Shifts to Sales Carl Bartholomew, who for the past 11 of his IS years with Ethyl, has been manager of the Tulsa Test Lab, has been transferred to the Sales Department. His first assign ment will be in the Tulsa Division helping Lou Shank, while Lou's right hand man, Len Huxtable, is out on sick leave. Carl started with us in Detroit where he helped develop and oper ate a one cylinder air cooled engine for testing aviation fuels and worked on the Series 30 knock test ing engine. In 1930 he was sent to the New Orleans and Kansas City Labs to explain the operation of the ` Series 30 engine. When the lab was built in Tulsa he was sent there to help install equipment and in 1933 was appointed manager. Len, who has been away from the office since November, is on the road to recovery. After a little more rest and relaxation at his suburban home in Tulsa he hopes to be back in the harness, filled with vim and vigor. Pardon My Southern Accent Patricia Watson who had been secretary to the late Jack Martin for almost seven years at the time of his tragic death last December, now has a new job and a new boss. She is secretary to George Krieger, who recently returned from an executive post on the War Production Board, to take charge of rural marketing and special development work as assistant to Sales Manager Julian Frey, with headquarters in New York. Under the influence of the Virginia-born tractor expert's southern accent, Pat's Alabama brogue is blossoming into full bloom. 16 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY ETC 07611 $: Welcomer, or fechnicaiiy speaking, recep tionist, at our Tulsa Division office, is Mildred Erickson Grimshaw, better known aa Dee Dee. She was educated at Monte Casino in Tulsa and Oklahoma University at Norman. Her entrance into this world was made in Des Moines, Iowa. Her first fob was with the Refinery Equipment Company, which she left to travel with her husband Bill before he went overseas. Now much of her time is devoted to writing V-mail letters. Her hobby is collecting demitasse cups and spoons. of the Los Angeles Division Office, t Kubiak. who presides over the switchend acts as receptionist, came to L.A. from Detroit. Following her graduation from Joseph Academy there, she worked tor the Ordnance Department in the Civilian onnel Division before coming (o C&liiornis. i songbird at heart she likes to vocalise. Also gypsy inclinations -- likes to hit the high [road end go places and see things when there 1 gas to he had. _ Christmas Party in Detroit Peek -- That's Viola Stromback peeping oat from behind the girl in white, while the smiling profile (extreme right) belongs to Johnnie Capinjola, Detroit Ethyl Society president COIBered -- Squared oit on the corner be tween Mrs. Chuck Hawley and Mrs. Jack Tay lor, Frank Fricker, business manager of the Engineering Lab, takes a (ling at the foodstuffs. That's the top of Chuck Hawley's head, seen over Mrs. Hawley's head and across from him is Mrs. Fricker Detroiters staged their second an nual Christmas Party December 16 in the ballroom of the Belcrest Ho tel where about 150 Ethyl folk and their guests buffet-suppered and danced from early evening until early dawn. Dinner plans went awry with the chefs' strike but the situa tion was happily worked out on a buffet basis. Christmas decorations -- a tree, wreaths, pine boughs, miniature sleigh and reindeer, red ribbon, candles, and mistletoe--gave a gala holiday air to the ballroom and ad joining lounges. Ten Army Ord nance officers, who were special guests of the Society, added a mili tary note of distinction. Music was provided by Joe Stark and his musi cians who ground out a mixture of slow, melodious numbers and boogie-woogie tunes. Committee members responsible for the success of this party were George Robinson, Ruth Munro, Jane Jordan and Charlie Kass, pro gram; Ruth Munro and Bonnie Colbridge, decorations; and Mike Remondino and Bob Kalkitis, pub licity. Clide--Diverted from their major diversion by the cameraman, Carl Bartholomew. Engineering Lab boss (right looking at you) and his iriends. pause while he snaps them. Lett to right they are Mrs. Idas Flaa and Captain Flaa, formerly of the Chicago Division, now an Army Ordnance inspector in Detroit. Mrs. Bartholomew and BussBurroughs ETC 07613 Standing Room Only -- Pat Harding and i. cigar pay a standing visit to Gene Batzold (holding --can it be?--a pack of cigarettes), i`` and Marie Genca and her friend, the CorporaI C^Tnmabotll-Mrs. flugg, who runs the cafeterla at the Detroit Lab, and is usually responsi- ja.hle lor refreshments at all their parties, thorsSet-oughly enjoys being a guest at this one SiridlY Feminine Ethyl girls in Detroit had a Christ mas celebration on Wednesday, De cember 20 in the Lab cafeteria, which was festive in Yuletide dec orations provided by the Technical Service girls. They also made ar rangements for the dinner prepared by Mrs. Rugg and her able assistants --a turkey dinner that will not soon be forgotten. Forty girls gathered 'round for the fun which started with the quaf fing of some hot mulled cider, blended and brewed by Jane Jordan and poured by Jewel Ahonen. Fol lowing the cider and the dinner the girls sang carols and exchanged gifts which ranged from cigarettes to war stamps. Mrs. Rugg and her culinary cohorts were rewarded with boxes of choice chocolates. Finale was a round of applause for the girls who put the party on-- Faye Kelly, Jewel Ahonen, Jane Jordan and Phyllis Jones. It was such a success the girls are planning to make it an annual affair. * Why Work? Work was invented because human beings made up their minds that they preferred the conveniences and 1 comforts of life to leisure. They bal anced one value against another and decided that the things they wanted were worth the effort necessary to get them."--C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors. ETC 07614 Miss Florence Gels Revenge Florence Llebermuth, who keeps the Bulletin Board posted on ;1 all the latest news in the Atlanta Division, when last heard from was recovering from a week's vacation in New Orleans, most of which was devoted to eating. She says she didn't miss a bar--oyster, of course. And it sounds as if she made all the famous restaurants in the French Quarter -- Antoine's, Arnaud's, Court of Two Sisters, Galatoire's and La Louisiane. Here are the mouth-watering de tails, in Miss Florence's own words, of the dinner she had at Antoine's: "We had oysters Rockefeller, then poulet aux champignons frais (chicken with mushrooms to you) and a salade -- something a la. Un accustomed as I was to sazerac Ethyl Me cocktails, I was a bit befuddled but succeeded in dissecting the poulet Gene; and with a morsel (aux champi gnons) had navigated the beam to my mouth when -- suddenly, the lights went out and I had to chart my course all over again. After this had happened so many times I was beginning to wonder if the poulet was ever going to reach my stomach, I summoned courage to ask a bus Newly elected officers of C eral Motors Clubs include six Et men, who will help to guide the tivities of their local, organizati throughout 1945. Four of them hi the official roster as president, two are vice-presidents. boy why the saving in electricity Those in the top position ai and he replied it was the crepes su- Doug Jeppe, safety engineer in t zettes -- they always turned out the Tulsa Division, who steers t lights so you could feast your eyes Oklahoma City, GM Club; Geor on the leaping blue flames of the Pearce, Held engineer in the Dayt brandy and liqueurs. I looked Division, at the helm of the Loui around and saw others `unaccus ville GM Club; Dick Scales, Ma tomed' as I -was. So, I had my re ager of the Technical Service D venge. I orcTefed crepes suzettes and partment, who heads the Detro wished the sauces happy landings." GM Club; and Tom Tennent, fie! 20 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY ETC 0T61& XTop left to rigic Frank Cronin. Dick Scales, `^George Pearce. Right center, Doug Jeppe, lower fright, Tom Tennent. r- id Officers of irs Clubs % -ip ^engineer in the Atlanta Division, r^who guides the Jacksonville GM Cl5ub. Frank Cronin, Manager of our Baltimore Division, is vice-presi dent of the GM Club in his town. Harry Kuhe, Seattle Division Man ager, is vice-president of the Seat tle GM Club. Elections were held during De cember. The new officers took over at the January meeting. ..' Pictures of all of them except Harry Kuhe are shown here. You'll .find his on page 15 "where you may also read about his fifteen years with Dan Hlzschler (Detroit) has cast aside his two bars for a gold oak leaf and is getting used to the sound of Major Hirschler. He re cently made a trip to the Nether lands East Indies area, which he found just like the rest of the South west Pacific -- "same old coconuts and jungles that I feel so much at home in by now." He was pleased with his tent location there, how ever. It was only ten feet from a nice beach. "In that respect at least the life lives up to the grossly exagger. ated tropical paradise tradition," he writes. He received a nicely-timed leave to Australia over the Christ mas holidays^ which he enjoyed but hopes his next leave will give /. him a chance to see Detroit. Jim Hughes (Detroit) with the American Red Cross in Europe has quite a collection of Italian, Ger man and English carburetors and has been doing a lot of research on his own. His car has a compression ratio of about 5 1/2:1, is designed to operate on 65 octane fuel and is a "pre-igniting fool." By borrowing a bit of 100 octane aviation fuel and blending it in a crude way with a highly leaded 80 octane standard fuel he carries out numerous ex periments which he finds "quite en lightening." But all of his time, of course, is not devoted to experiments. For the past two months he has been doing forward work and has had a couple of "tight squeaks." "One time I was out with a patrol Jerry happened to spot. We were forced to get the heck out of there in a big hurry be cause Jerry wasn't fooling when he made our departure even more hur ried by sending a few bursts of Spandu slugs and a couple of mortar shells in our direction. Another 22 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 07617 time, I was returning to an advanced dressing station with a patient when one of Jerry's shells landed 50 feet from the rear of my car. Shrapnel perforated the rear of the car but managed to find an exit without first encountering either the patient, or me. Believe me, it is no fun." Captain L. R. Fleck (Tulsa/ who writes this month from Holland, snapped with his wife, Marjorie, way back in 1944, when he was an instructor in the Anti-Aircraft School at Camp Davis, North Carolina Captain Van Fleck (Tulsa Di vision), who went overseas last Fall with an Automatic Weapons Bat'talion, was in Holland when last heard from and found it a welcome change after Normandy. By way of explanation he writes: "The apple trees grow apples that can be eaten instead of little round things that are a possible source of alum. The people hold their hands out here just as they did in France but there is a difference. Here they are offer'ing us a token--in FrJhte they were looking for us to give them some thing." Another difference which, says Van, prejudices the doughfoots in favor of the Netherlands, is the fact that they can get beer, "even though it is of questionable quality." It is now Major Web Downer (Tulsa Test Lab), who writes from the South Pacific that it's quite ironical that every Hollywood sailor who is marooned on a South Sea island finds himself in a tropi cal paradise and surrounded by lovely native girls, "while my time in the area is spent on an island of natural beauty but completely de void of anything even remotely re sembling a beautiful native." As for his work he says he is fighting a "wad of red tape in the capacity of Battalion Executive of an organi zation operating the local Motor Base." The fact that the Base has been highly complimented upon its work he attributes to the efficient and skilled personnel. Web visited a petroleum testing laboratory recently, was surprised to find it so thorough and complete, and to learn that gasoline testing has embodied some new principles since his last contact with it. The operators were graduates of the Quartermaster Petroleum School held at our Tulsa Lab, and brought Web up to date on what was going on in the way of new procedures. Captain Frank DeVore (Tulsa Division), who has been attending Supply and Maintenance School at Robins Field, Georgia, found that classes from 7:45 A.M. until 6:00 P.M. gave him a pretty full day. He is still qualified for overseas, has ETC 07618 23 BULLETIN BOARD -- FEBRUARY been alerted for a year and a half and has everything he needs for service from the North Pole to the Equator. Dan Guy, of our Techni cal Service Department in Detroit, and Alan Tully, Atlanta Division Manager, were in Macon while Frank was at Robins Field and he went in and had dinner with them one night. Frank says he keeps running into men in the Army who have attended Ethyl meetings of various sorts and is impressed with how much they have gotten out of the meetings. He tells about two in particular: "One of the important officers at San Ber nardino Air Service Command came to a meeting at Normoyle when he was an enlisted man at Kelly Field. And one of the fellows here, a Lib erator pilot who had two engines shot out over Raboul and finally landed in the ocean (with a skull fracture where he left via the canopy) heard an `E' talk at Cimar ron Field as a Cadet. From his de scription, I am sure Doug Jeppe gave the talk. The thing that im pressed me is how much stuck. For example: the pilot described the flame tube in detail and explained to a group of us here one night what it all meant. He even remembered a lot of the `patter.' And the Major certainly took the Clinic home with him, as he described some of the demonstrations in detail." Major Howard, husband of Doro thy Lamour, who is at Robins Field, is a good friend of Frank's and Frank says that Lamour is even bet ter looking in real life than she is on the screen and is very well liked. Lieutenant Lee Larison (Bt ton) reports from the South Paci that he has just taken on the job nursing two PT squadrons for t duration. He says he likes it for . though there is lots of work wi plenty of headaches the times do fly. "It is 7:30 now and I am hittii the sack," he writes in signing o Captain Ham Greenup (L Angeles), has been sent to the Arr Air Field at Lemoore, California organize a set-up for the manufa ture and assembly of Training A Devices for all bases in the Four Air Force. He says the work h proved interesting with somethir new arising every day. Before r ceiving this new assignment he d some special work for Headquarte Fourth Air Force in the course ( which he traveled throughout tl West Coast area. He was in San Fra: cisco when Dick Murphy held h conference there and says it we grand to get to see the Ethyl fellow: "I suppose it's no military secret, he writes, "to say that it will be grand old day when all of us in th> service can once again put on civil ian clothes and join the Ethyl fam ily." Ham, one of the lucky grouj who got Christmas leave, has jus returned from spending the holi days with his family in Lexington Kentucky and is "suffering fron the relapse that follows a leave." Corporal John Miller (Deep water), writes that he is still doin| the same work he was trained forinstructing in Celestial Navigatior and operating a trainer for the pur pose at Davis-Monthan Field ir Tuscon, Arizona. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 07619 Captain Emerson Blair (the man on the cover), sends photographic evidence that the Bulletin Board has a reader. "Believe it or not, this is an unposed picture," writes the Cap tain. Emerson, who used to work for us in Dayton and Detroit, also writes the following message to "Dear Whoever Reads This "Am dropping you just a few lines to let you know I'm still right side up and am receiving the Post yarns, cartoon leaflets, and the Bul letin Board fairly regularly. And let me say right now, thanks a mil lion, and if possible, please keep them coming. "How about passing on to every one, through the medium of the Bulletin Board, my best regards and my hopes that in the not too far dis tant future all this damn mess will be over with and we can all come home and pick up the threads of a normal happy life again." Literary Light Discovered in Atlanta Rose O'Neal, down in our Atlanta Division, recently gained fame and added to her fortune by writing a prize-winning short story for The Think Tank, fortnightly paper pub lished in Atlanta. The story, a short short titled Wedding in the Deep South, is printed below for your amusement and enlightenment. Geraldine's wedding didn't make the society column, but it was one I'm glad I didn't miss. (Geraldine was my friend's colored maid and she married Walter, the delivery boy at the corner drug store.) Reverend Jones used no book. He did holcTthe license in his hands, and began by reading from that, explaining how the license made their union right with the law, and his presence and the cere mony made it right with God. That, he expounded, was the difference between being married and just "staying to gether." "Amen," said all the brothers and sis ters gathered for the occasion. Reverend Jones prayed, invoking bles sings on the couple to be joined. After this, he spoke to Geraldine. "Geraldine, do you want this man for yo' husband? Will you love him, help him, and stay with him''til death do you part?" "Yassuh," cooed Geraldine. "Walter do you want this girl for yo' wife?" "Yas-Suh," declared the smiling bride groom. "Then," continued Brother Jones, "take her for yo' wife, but if ever the time comes when you don't love her no mo', and you think you want to go traip sin' off with some other gal, you bring her right back here where you got her, without a scratch on her." Amens came in loud voices from all parts of the yard. "I now pronounces you husband and wife. Walter, you may now salute yo' bride." At this, the grinning Walter planted a loving kiss on the beaming Geraldine. ETC 07620 ,, BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY Maxine Sergeant John McMasters, formerly of New York Finance, who is looking forward to a spring furlough from this South Pacific island with waring palms, where he has been stationed for the past year. Joan Nugent, trim and tailored in Nary blue, dropped into the New York office the other day to see her friends in the Mailroom, where she used to work before joining the Wares last Norember. She went through Boot Camp at Hunter College and is now training lor communications work in the Port Director's of fice in New York City. Head in the clouds and feet on the ground, the crew of Party Girl line up for a picture -- it was sent to us by Lt. Ed Minnock "straight from the wilds of exotic China." Ed. formerly of our Engineering Research Lab in Detroit, is the fully clothed man standing fourth from the left. ETC 07621 Ethyl's GIs Express Thanks The Christmas gift packages that the company sent to all em ployees in military service really hit the spot they say. Their letters tell what a wonderful treat the food delicacies were and how much they V'enjoyed the books and games. .* To give you an idea of the cause f of their enthusiasm here's a list of the taste ticklers they received: . boned chicken, turkey pate, lobster, ^ liverwurst, deviled ham, olives, egg -nog, fruit cake, hard candy, melba J toast and honey spreads. For whil% ing away any leisure time they may i have, they got a couple of books, some playing cards and a magic race game. In addition, on the very practical, universally usable and ? hard-to-get side, razor blades were .` included in the package. The many letters of appreciation ^that have come in showed the boys ^were well pleased with their pack!, ages. To quote from a few -- Captain Redg Bushell, for- r.;merly New York Division, now with :^'the Army in North Carolina: "It %was a source of constant amazement opening the Christmas box. Who mever selects the items which go to make up the contents certainly de serves a lot of credit. Everything is so good and is such a* delicacy that - each item, in itself is a worthy gift. It makes one forget for a few min utes that there is a-war going on." Captain Tom Mixon, formerly ' of Baton Rouge, now with the Air Corps in Nebraska: "The articles contained seem to have been chosen with a high degree of knowledge as to the desires of a fellow who is away from home." Pharmacist's Mate Philip King, formerly of New York Mail- room: "I wasn't able to do much hoarding as appetites went sky high when the tasty delicacies arrived." Lieutenant Colonel Howard Hudiburg, formerly Chicago Di vision, now with the Army in Bel gium: "The thought of having been remembered as well as the contents of the boxes made receipt of the fine Ethyl Christmas boxes something to place a touch of warmth and brightness in a Christmas season that otherwise was very unpleasant and one that I don't care to re member." Staff Sergeant Bob Acker man, formerly Detroit, who is at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland: "I should like to express my sincere thanks for your best wishes and gift package this Christ mas Season. They both brought back so many fine memories of the months spent with Detroit, San Bernardino, New York and Balti more that a mere note such as this, once again, only feebly expresses my appreciation for everything." Lieutenant (jg) Christopher Bruhl, formerly Yonkers Test Lab, currently at Annapolis: "It's funny but you get a warm feeling when you receive things like that. Of course the mystery stories kept me up late a few nights but I'm used to that." Lieutenant Lee Larison, for merly Boston Division, now with the Navy in the Pacific: "Needless to say the eggnog has made me the most popular man on the ship and already two different parties have called me into a huddle to make suggestions on how that eggnog can be diluted so that more benefits can be derived. There have been many comments about what a swell company Ethyl must be to work for and it wouldn't surprise me if you were Hooded with applications after the war." * vember 28, 1944. He is number fiv on Theda and Ed's growing list o little Clouds, whose ages range fror two to eight. Art and Anna Sortman, who ar resting on their laurels after rearinj nine sons and daughters, collecte< their 24th dividend on these earl; investments when grandchild Pau Arthur Biehler was born on Novem ber 30, 1944. The mother is Art' youngest daughter, Mrs. Phylli: Biehler. The father is now servinj overseas with the U. S. Navy. Art who recently celebrated his 20th an niversary with Ethyl, is mainte nance superintendent at San Berdu We believe that he has established some sort of a record among Ethyi families, being a 24-time grand father. If there is any evidence tc the contrary, we'd like to hear it. Stork Club Filz and Marge Bridges have a new daughter, their second, born December 18,1944. Fitz, formerly of our Seattle .Division, now Lieuten ant Bridges of the U. S. Army, is an instructor at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. He and Marge have named the baby Sara Lynn, call her Sally for short. Ed Cloud, test driver at San Ber nardino, has a new addition to his family, Thomas Eugene, born No- The Shanks Are Five Susan Katherine Shank arrived January S weighing 6 lbs., 14 oz. and mother and daughter are doing fine, writes papa Lou, our Tulsa Division Manager. He also writes that he won his fifth bet from Ed Hendrick. Gazing into his crystal ball Lou called, and we quote, "both of Ed's girls, my own two boys, and this girl." Susan's brother Warren is now four and Stephen was a year old in December. A man who knows when to quit, Lou firmly states: "I'm going to re frain from any more baby betting and retire to rest on my laurels. Five for five is a good batting aver age in any league." 28 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY ETC 07623 I Housing Note _To provide the necessary elbow krooni for his fast growing clan, Ed Cloud recently acquired a two-and- !a-half acre tract in Muscoy and ^started putting up a homestead. I^Faced with double trouble caused #by shortage of both labor and lum;ber, Ed rolled up his sleeves and twent to work piling concrete blocks on top of each other. Now he has .^limself a house -- almost. All it Sneeds is a roof. jg Expansion, when and as needed, *will consist of adding rooms onto Tthe back, which process could go on ^indefinitely with 600 feet of ground . to expand on. And a good thing, too, *$t would seem. Mescher Mixes | Maples iBob (Ole 99) Mescher, lead-off 'man on Ethyl's League team, broke /into the news December 11, 1944 when he rolled a classy 671 to take yer the league's high three game eries. In accomplishing this envi able score for an amateur, Bob tied ames of 210,218 and 243. With a 700 .Cscries in sight he missed the last /frame and had to be content with the Cmere 243. . Wj The Ethyl Refiners League team Jjjs bowling against stiff competition. fThe-averages are considerably above . those scored in the regular Ethyl ^League. Besides Bob and Wally, Joe ^Weaver, Merrill DSughty, Claude CHoffman, and Bill Deemer try to ^keep Ethyl's banner near the top. -)ju Bob's able teammate, Wally Sher man, paced him all the way and wound up with a 625 series. *** Deepwater Keglers Win Mid-Season Honors Top honors in the Central Wil mington Bowling League for the first half of the season were carried off by our Deepwater team, who won 39 out of 56 games with 35,344 pins, an 841.5 average, high series of 2,737 and 996 for high three. Champion is Ed Herbert with high game of 237, individual high for three games of 651 and average of 189.8. Pete Jackson and Charlie Remsburg are nip and tuck, with Charlie in second spot for high game with 230 and Pete third with 225. Pete takes over second place for high set with 619 as against Charlie's 611. The "team total" of the six high averages was 167.3. Pete rolled sec ond high with 173.8, Charlie third with 167.0, Bud Johnson fourth with 166.4, Army Armstrong fifth with 156.6 and Charlie Wasserman sixth with 150.1. ** It would take a train of tank cars 1500 miles long to carry the highoctane gasoline used by the Army Air Forces in the first two years of the war -- and requirements from now until Victory have been greatly stepped up. ETC 07624 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Kathryn Green, Michigan born and Michi gan bred, came into the world at Highland Park, took her degree at the University ot Michigan. School of Chemical Engineering, and is now putting knowledge gained there to use at our Chem Research Lab. Before coming to us she worked for General Motors in Detroit. Kay's favorite sports are swimming and fencing. A Navy wife, her husband is an Ensign on a destroyer "somewhere in the Pacific/' Si New Faces aft Eft Bonnie Mae Colbridge is the new sec retary tor the chairman of the O.P.A. Ration Board, and in addition helps keep Detroit news flowing to the Bulletin Board. Bonnie was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and is about the only member of her family still in the vicinity. Her husband, a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, is stationed in the Gulf of Mexico; her father is a field director for the Red Cross in China; her brother is in the Navy Medical Corps, where abouts unknown. Bonnie's favorite pastime is horseback riding, which isn't unusual since she comes from a family of equestrians -- father. mother, brother and sister all go in for the sport. Bill Curran, bach from the fighting front to put his shoulder to the wheel on the industrial front, is a veteran of the Army Air Corps, having seen action sn the Hawaiian Islands and in New Guinea. Bill is a native PennsyJvanian and foined our Lab staff in the Chem Research Divi sion shortly after coming to Detroit a few months ago. He enjoys "the more rugged sports." (And P.S. girls--he's single). ETC 07625 Jeanette Schmidt/ newcomer to the Engi neering Lab, is a native Detroiter. Alter gradu ating from the Detroit Commercial Coiiege she worked tor N. A. Woodworth Company lor a time before coming with us. Jeanette spends most of her spare time writing letters to a cer tain member of the U. S. Army Air Corps with whom she'll middle-aisle it alter the war. Margaret McCulloch, who has charge of the ailing house at the Detroit Lab, administers aspirin and other helpiul treatments to com plainants, who make their way to her neat and well equipped office. This Scotch lassie was born in Glasgow, came to Detroit when she was eleven and has lived there ever since. She took her training at the Detroit Providence Hos pital, where she met her fiance, a captain in the Army Medical Corps, who was captured at Bataan and is now a prisoner-of-war in Tokyo. Mac's favorite sports are horseback riding and swimming. Judson Fisher, of the Chemical Research Lab, came to us from the Aluminum Company of America. He was born in Ohio, took his de gree at Wooster Coiiege and did post graduate work at Ohio State University. favorite sport is baseball. Now and then he bowls with the boys. He sang a mean second tenor in the Coiiege Glee Club and still loves to harmonize on any and all occasions. ETC 07G26 Rec to Our Ba Marvin H. Owens, F 2/C. who em the service in July has completed his trai at Camp Peary. Virginia, and is now staitent Rhode Island Joseph E. Andre, S 2/C. stationed at Diego, California, who used to be an opei in the Production Section Flight Officer George W. Chavt wrho entered the service in July 1942, i with the Air Transport Command, formerly Ethyl Chloride operator ETC 07627 * r Captain Hubert N. Wax, formerly head f our Personnel Section at Baton tfouge, now *iih the Eighth Service Command in Texas ETC 07628 Former Editor Describes Life on the Farm Frank Adriance, former editor of -- to use his own words -- "this dandy little magazine," who took leave of his editorial duties and all the annoyances of the big city to go rural in the hills of Columbia County, at last writes that long awaited letter telling us about life on the F.V.V.A. farm. East Chatham, N. Y. January 21, 194S Ethyl Bulletin Board, Ethyl Corporation, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. Dear Bully Board: Your new boss, Marceline Marquis, recently sent me a note in which she in formed me that 1 was a "gentleman" farmer. Every time I read that descrip tion I get a big laugh, albeit not a very merry one, so I thought I would write in to correct Marceline's faulty idea and, incidentally, to let you know how your old pappy is doing. One week after I arrived here, I canned my hired man. If he had ever heard the old saying, "You can't bum the candle at both ends," he didn't believe it a-tall. Every night right after supper he would don his glad rags and hit the highway for town, arriving back from these nightly forays in the wee small hours. As a result, I had to call the road superintendent to send a derrick to get him out of bed for five o'clock milking. Work and he were two things that just didnlt mix, so one evening after he had snoozed in his bedroom all day, I up and got mad and I s^ys to him, says I, "Har old, pack your spare celluloid collar and see how sudden you can disappear over yonder hill." So from that moment on I took over the complete job of operating this farm, and it is about as far from being a gentle man's job as a pig is from manners. All I have to handle are ten milch cows, three heifers, a bull, a team of horses, two pigs, and thirty chickens. My bull is a purebred Holstein and his $64 name is Segis Inka Ormsby Gerben. I call him Ormsby for short, except when I get mad at him, which is often. Then I get real formal and call him Gerben, with maybe a few caustic prefixes tacked on the front. Don't let anybody tell you farming in winter is a time of rest and relaxation, because 'tain't. I think it is tougher than farming in the good old summer time. At least its a lot more monotonous. If you don't believe me, take a look at this daily schedule which includes Saturdays, Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New Year's. At five a.m. the alarm clock clangs, sending me bounding out of my warm bed into a dark and icy room. I pour coal on the stoves -- farmhouses don't have furnaces, pally, unless they belong to gentlemen farmers--and then I go out into the sub-zero night on my way to the cowbarn, where the soft-eyed but vile smelling bossies await me. I feed the cows, the horses, and the pigs, and then I milk ten cows. At 7:30 Bus O'Connell's truck rolls over the hill to pick up my milk and take 34 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY ETC 07629 It to the shipping station. Bus and I dis cuss the general situation for a few minjites before he goes on his way and I go lo feed and water my hens. That gets me lo the breakfast table at about eight b'clock. trary backs. I decided at last that this was too expensive a method of chastise ment and didn't do any good anyway, so I managed to control myself for a while. But a few days ago I forgot myself and broke a good hoe on Ormsby, who was acting up. My breakfast consists of fruit, cereal (with heavy cream onto it, three eggs and Ibacon, three slices of toast, and three cups of coffee. That would give most of [you city slickers indigestion but it just* [begins to take the edge off my appetite. After breakfast I return to the barn, [where I spend about an hour in that de lightful winter chore of shoveling a 24[hour accumulation of cow and horse [manure outside onto a wagon. The ma[nure must then be taken out and spread Ion the land before it freezes, which is a [cold job even on a moderate day. By | that time the morning is all shot to [pieces. After lunch X do necessary farm work I such as chopping wood, repairing build ings and equipment, fixing fences, etc., I until four o'clock, when it is time to | start the chores, feeding and milking, all over again. I finish up about six-thirty, [ which makes a long, long day any way | you look at it. It is rugged work, folks, i and it has peeled the city acquired blub ber off'n me until now I am about the ' consistency of rawhide. My life centers around cows, which are my bread and butter, and cows, my friends,- are just about the .most ornery animals on four legs. During my early weeks here I broke several pitchforks and two good shovels over their con- Typical of the cow mentality is the following incident, which lingers in my memory : I had opened a gate wide against a fence so the cows could go to water. I had left only a tiny space between the fence and the gate, but one bovine, whether motivated by sporting instincts or not I wouldn't know, decided that to go through the wide open gate was too easy, so she wedged herself into the nar row space and then tried to jump over the gate. She didn't quite make it, and as more than half a ton of Holstein is a fair amount of cow, I had, instead of a serviceable gate, a neat little pile of kindling wood, all split up and ready for the fire. The next most ornery thing to cows is the weather. A week ago Sunday we had a whistling blizzard. We had just dug our way out of it when on Tuesday a worse one struck, spreading a blanket of about 24 inches of snow over the landscape. Fortunately, my farm is on a hard road, which the snowplows opened quickly so Bus O'Connell could pick up my milk every day. But Joe Kelly, my neighbor who lives a half mile up a dirt road from me, had to bring his milk down to the hard road in a horse drawn sleigh. ETC 07630 35 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY . : rfl M I Since early December Old Man Win ter has really been bearing down, and almost every morning when I go down to milk, the mercury is at the zero mark or below. It's right cold in them thar Columbia County hills) Yet despite all these hardships, you couldn't drag me back to New York. Fact is, I don't think there are many places this side of hell which are worse than New York. I probably would never have left Ethyl if I hadn't been working in a New York office. But I just couldn't stand being cooped up in that goshawful city any longer, so here I am, a real hand painted hick--nor a gentleman farmer! I won't write any more now, because it is getting on toward nine o'clock, which is my bed hour. But before I sign off, I want to send my best to all my friends in Ethyl, in the Chrysler Building and elsewhere. A lot of swell people work for Ethyl, and if any of 'em would like to spend a real country week-end, we have extra beds in the house here. Best regards, (signed) Frank Adriance Schaefer Speal af Baton Roue; John Schaefer, Vice Pr and General Manager in Ch. the Manufacturing and Tra) partments, was the principal er at the December meeting Ethyl Corporation Profe Employees Association in Rouge. In his talk he told about ti tory of the company, its org tional structure, the relationsl tween Ethyl and duPont and and concluded with a forec future operations. Followin speech questions and answer; tossed back and forth, during Vice President Schaefer she* ther light on subjects of part interest to the audience. WUh below zero temperatures. breaking blizzards and the fuel shortage mg spine-chilling headlines, we though: good ole summertime pictures might enab to forget the frigid blasts and conjure up r of bright and balmy days. Next summer the mercury is soaring we'll whip out guaranteed-to-mabe-you-shiver snow seen Holding up the ten-gallon hat and the pound bass is Bud Johnson's son. Paul. that string of three-pounders is displays Army Armstrong's boy, George. Their help make the wheels go 'round at our . water plant. The youthful anglers hauled in catch at Alloway Lake near the Armstrong tage. while their elders were desperately ing all over the lake in rain. Only comment the boys had to make < interviewed was. "Uncle Chuck, please n It seems that Chuck Colvin, of New York N. facturing, has spent many a long hour tryi: pull out just one small member of the t tribe and they don't want him to give up. ETC 07631 [Major William W. Downer, 0-389626 I Hqs. 69th Ordn. Bn. [APO 50*2, c/o Postmaster | San Francisco" Cailf. [Cpl. C. C. Eiswirth, 3838029$ ( 807th AAF BV, Sec. C ] Bergstrom Field I Austin, Texas S/Sgt. Wilford E. Frazier, 34028799 11th Hg. & Hg. Detachment ACSPEC 4th Army Camp Hood, Texas Pfc. James D. French-38498253 Reg. Station Hospital Det. of Patients AAFTAC Orlando, Florida Sgt. John P. Giffing 164th A.A.A. Operations Detachment c/o Hq. 204th Group San Diego, California Capt. Hamilton B. Greenup, 0-314384 Hqs. 461st AAFBU AAF, Lemoore, California Major Benjamin D. Harrison Box 715, Area "A" Headquarters, ATSC Wright Field Dayton, Ohio Major Daniel A. Hirschler, 0-854346 Hq. 4th Photo Group, Recon. APO 719, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Capt. Robert C. Kendrick, 0-392453 513 Parachute Inf. Company C 17th Airborne Division APO 452, c/o Postmaster New York, New York A/S Edward J. Kukla, 36130536 2nd Squadron, 27th Division 3510th AAF Base Unit (TS) Yale University New Haven, Conn. ETC 07632 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Lt. (jg) Lee H. Larison U.S.S. Wachapreague AGP 8, Fleet Post Office San Francisco, California F. J, Lewis, Sc 3/c U. S. Naval Hospital Santa Margarita Ranch W-23 Oceanside, California Lt. Com. R. H. Luke Navy 916, c/o Fleet Post Office New York, New York Sgt. James B. Marshall Hq. Co. 907th A.B.S. Bn. APO 650, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Major Arthur H. Middleton FA 0-378767 Hq. 94th Inf. Div. ARTY APO 94, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Capt. Leo A. Miller, 0-365147 5307 Provision Composite Unit APO 487, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Lt. Cooper Mills Activity 12 Navy Advance Base Unit #4 Fleet Post Office San Francisco, California f 2nd Lt. John R. Montgomery, 02051259 Kennedy General Hospital Memphis, Tenn. R. H. Murphy M/2c. 27th Naval Const. Bn. Camp Parks Oakland, California Cpt. Frank S. Neal Co. C. 563rd EBM Bn. 3rd CAB APO 704, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Lt. (jg) D. E. Neunherz Naval Training Schools (Diesel Eng.) Cornell University Ithaca, New York Noble Joe Nikon, B. M. 2/c c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Ensign B. A. Owen, Jr., USNR P. O. Box 465 Princeton, New Jersey Marvin H. Owens F 2/c USS Shelby Detail NTS Newport, R. I. Sgt. Andrew Pallay Hq. Co. 14th Repl. Depot APO 583, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Capt. W. H. Phipps c/o San Antonio A.S.F. Depot San Antonio, Texas Lt. Col. Edward E. Rothman 0-4842 Hqs. IX Air Force Service Commat APO 149, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Lt. Col. W. W. Sweeney 8th Service Command Dallas, Texas Sgt. William H. Thompson 3275570 Battery "D" 115th A.A.A. Gun Bn. APO 403, c/o Postmaster, New York, New York Capt. Hubert Wax 4233 Lemmon Ave. Apartment D Dallas 4, Texas Pfc. Lynn A. Wilmot, 32361201 Plat 3 321st Gen. Hospital Fort Lewis, Washington Pvt. George W. Wisener, 38498399 G-FRS Repl. Pool APO 153 c/o Postmaster New York, New York 38 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY HTTP ETC 07633 ETC 07634 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD :7j by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marqu Published by the Ethyl Corp., 405 Lexington Are., New York, N. YEerie W. Webb, president; Percy L. Griiiiths. vice-president and treasurer; Julian C. Goasales, secretary. KURE BEACH WINS I SECOND AWARD PACE 9 4 tqn KOu mbs He*o PAec to CARL STAGES SHOW at SAN BERPO PACE n "SKSSS page 14 News froai r *O0*B THt wou i6 ETC 07637 Red Cross Activities Keep Ethyl Folk Busy While the Red Cross worker ' overseas ministers to the suffering f and wounded, cheers the lonely and ; despondent, feeds the undernour; ished and the starving, the Red Cross worker here at home, thou sands of miles from the field of battle, serves in the great civilian : army of mercy. People of every race ' and creed, in every walk of life, are contributing to the giant Red Cross program to help those in need, both at home and overseas. Many Ethyl people are taking an active part in this work -- serving as Nurse's Aides, driving in the Motor Corps, giving blood, canvassing for funds, and helping in other ways. They don't say much about it but by ask ing a few direct questions the Bul letin Board found out some of the things that some of them are doing. Attention this month is centered on the Red Cross War Fund. May Mason, wife of Lowell Mason, of the Baltimore Division, is Chairman of the booth division of the cam paign down in Charlotte, North Carolina. She arranged to have booths placed in a number of con venient business places so that per sons who wish to make their con tributions in that way may do so. Dick Murphy, of Sales, and Chuck Colvin-, of Manufacturing, are su pervisors in--Larchmont, New York. Dick went out one rainy night and rounded up seven solicitors; Chuck had fourteen, one of whom was Bud pYaeger, of Manufacturing. Both May Mason, who heads the Booth Division for the Red Cross drive in Charlotte, N. C. Dick and Chuck had raised their quota before the end of the first week. Marjorie Reese, of the Secre tary's Office, is a captain, and Vir ginia McGuire, of the Legal De partment, is a canvasser in Yonkers. Mrs. Richard Page, wife of our Counsel, is helping on the drive in Larchmont. Andy Anderson, of Manufacturing, is helping in Eastchester. New York. Bill Schulze, Manager of the San Bernardino Engineering Lab, al ways serves on the drives. Last year his team took honors in San Bernar dino, exceeding its quota by 40%. At Deepwater, Ed Holton, head of the Accounting Department, is ETC 07638 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH Folding surgical dressings at Red Cross headquarters on Filth Avenue are left to right. Betty Beach, Helen Reed, Anne Daul, and Helen McGoldrick from New York Finance one of the guiding lights in the Salem County Red Cross program. As a member of the Executive Board and the Finance and Steer ing Committee he devotes a lot of time and effort to the work. Two of the girls at the Deepwater plant are members of the Motor Corps. As a Sergeant in the Pennsville Unit of the Salem County Chapter, Dot Featherer shows the same organizational ability that has made her a popular social leader of the South Jersey shore. Lorraine Hahn, who will soon complete her preliminary course in motor mech anics in the same unit, has her eye on the insignia that Dot is wearing. Two New Yorkers, Mildred Macleod, secretary to Art Stover, and ETC 07639 4 tot Featherer (middle), ol Deepwater, who is a Sergeant in the Pennsville XJnit Motor Corps, oses for a picture with two oi her fellow workers. ffUdred Madeod prepares solution for a wet dressing--she's secretary to Art Stover, our mpioyee delations Director. i i ETC 07640 Marjory Smith, of Finance, and Alma Brasure, of Deepwater, don their Nurse's Aide uniforms at least one night each week. Mildred works at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York City. Marjory does her work at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey and Tilton General Hospital at Fort Dix. When Alma completed her course in Janu ary 1944, Admiral Halsey was guest speaker at the capping exercises. A number of girls in New York and Deepwater spend spare time folding surgical dressings -- Corinne Hill, secretary to President Earle Webb, Betty Beach, Anne Daul, Helen McGoldrick and Helen Reed, of New York Finance, and Mary Daugherty, Bunny Ayars and Eleanor Hinton of Deepwater. Mary's husband, Charles E. Daugh erty, B.M. 1/C, is in the South Pa cific and Bunny's husband, Lt. (jg) David M. Ayars, is on the West Coast awaiting orders for off-shore assignment. Eleanor is the leader of her church group in meeting the surgical dressing quotas. Eleanor's husband, M/Sgt. Joseph N. Hinton, is with the Engineers on the wes tern front. Mrs. Richard Page, wife of our Counsel, spends two days a week at the Larchmont Red Cross folding surgical dressings. Lois Ball, wife of Bill Ball, of the New York Divi sion, spends much of her time sew ing for the Red Cross. She sews with a group who make clothes for the Armed Forces and for war victims. Bill Ball- helped the cause along by lecturing to leaders of the Motor Corps Units in New England, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, D ware and Pennsylvania on veh maintenance and the handling road failures. Out in San Bernardino, B< Rankin, wife of Test Lab Manaj Charlie Rankin, devotes ev Thursday morning to the Red Cr< She deposits her four - year daughter, little Miss Rosalind R kin, at a nursery school and ta her turn at a typewriter in the Ho Service Department from nine twelve. Husband Charlie is usua invited not to come home for lui on these days. Margaret Adams, wife of S Bernardino Test Lab Chemist E Adams, is on the Home Service I partment staff of the San Bern dino Red Cross. Her work as an vestigator requires many visits the homes of service men in ad tion to a lot of office detail, whi keeps her hopping from nine to f. six days a week. She is on call tw* ty-four hours a day except on alt* nate weekends. Among those who knit for t Red Cross are Zoe Schulze, wife San Berdu's Engineering Lab Ms ager Bill Schulze, Adden Gray, sc retary to Office Manager Cary He ris, of the New York Office, Err Harris, our receptionist on the 36 floor of the Chrysler Building, FI rence Liebermuth, secretary Alan Tully in Atlanta, May Masc whose work on the drive was me tioned earlier, and Midge Croni wife of Baltimore Division Ma ager Frank Cronin. Midge is al: taking the Red Cross Home Nursir Course. 6 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 07641 Ethyl people in Detroit and Dayton seem to visit the Blood Bank most often. Nine Detroiters are now members of the Gallon Club and have received a Red Ribbon and a pin in recognition of their eight trips to the Blood Bank and their eight pints of blood. They are: Gene Betzold, Frank Fricker, Don Pullyblank, Charlie Kass and William Gilpin, of Engineering Research, Jim Hinkamp, Bill Katz and How ard Pearsall of Chemical Research, and Fred Gillig, of Aeronautical Research. A1 Bingham, of the Dayton Division, is a member of the Gallon Club in Cleveland and Mil dred Godbey, wife of Dayton Divi sion's fleet engineer, Roy Godbey, belongs to Cincinnati's Gallon Club. Frances Macrae, of New York Fin ance, will join the Gallon Club after her next donation, and Corinne Hill, secretary to Mr. Webb has three to go before she becomes a member. Ralph Champlin, Director of Ad vertising and Public Relations, and Marian Ewins, of the San Bernar dino Engineering Lab, are both four-time donors. Others who have started going to the blood bank more recently and are now shooting for membership in the Gallon Club are Sock Smith, Lorraine Hahn, Eleanor Hinton and Alma Brasure of Deepwater, Genevieve Corcoran, secretary to Harry Kaley, Adden Gray, secretary to Cary Harris, Mac McCooley, Frank Stablein and Bill Ball, of New York. Bill, incidental ly, celebrated his birthday on Febru ary 12 with a trip to the blood bank. Ruth Judd, of New York Finance, is one of a group of girls in Engle wood, New Jersey, who make regu lar trips to Camp Shanks hospital to spread cheer among the boys, who have returned from overseas. Lt. Com. Straub Sees Plenty of Action Lieutenant Commander Paul Straub, who was a research engi neer at San Bernardino before he joined the Navy in 1941, is back in this country after two years of over seas service. He dropped in to see his friends at the lab recently, while on his first leave since his return, and told them something about his experiences. He saw plenty of 'action while serving on a submarine in the Pacific theater. On three combat cruises Paul's sub got its share of Jap shipping. The sub had some narrow escapes and was badly shaken by depth charges. Paul was Engineering Officer on the early cruises and Executive Officer on the last cruise. He says that some of the operations were carried out "mighty close to the Japanese shore." While overseas Paul was sta tioned ashore in Australia. He is now located at the Mare Island Navy Yard in San Francisco and his wife and baby daughter are with him. ETC 07642 , BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH Right Side up and rorin' to go. Betty Jane Mason starts down a slope in the Pocooos. Betty, who keeps track o1 sales orders at our Deepwater plant, made tracks in the snow last month when vacationing at Onawa Lodge in Pennsylvania. Happy birthday - Mary Louise Fallon plants a kiss on William Peter McLennan on his second birthday as A1 flarenna. of the Hew York World Telegram, clicks his camera and gets a picture ior the photography column oi his paper. Mary Louise is the granddaughter oi Bill Tumley, oi our New Products Division, and the daughter oi Mary Tumley Fallon. Mary Louisa's father. Roy. who was with the Marine Corps in the South Paciiic. saw her ior the first time when he came home on furlough last December. Engaged--Irene Johnstone, better known friends in Hew York Mailroom as Johnee. now wearing a ring, fourth linger, leil hand, came ail the way irom Midway from West MacLean, Seaman i/C in the Seabees, and w presented to Johnee by Papa MacLean w. said, "If I were twenty years younger id be p ting it on you ior myselt." ETC 07643 5 Hie Kure Beach plant of Ethyl 's Dow received its second Army- Navy Production Award last month, " and an added star on the "E" flag which has flown over the plant since last July. Notification was received in a letter from Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War, commend ing the men and women of the plant for meritorious service on the production front. r The plant's original production award, presented July 26, 1944 at an ; elaborate ceremony, was the first to be given to any firm in the Wilming ton area. Glenn Cantwell, plant man ager, acknowledged the second award in a letter to Undersecretary Patterson. No presentation cere mony was held. On behalf of the employees and management of the plant, Glenn ex pressed pride and appreciation of this further recognition. "You may be assured," he wrote, "that we feel an obligation and a stimulus to continue our efforts to do our part in the successful prose cution of the war." In an editorial which appeared in the Wilmington Evening Post, Feb ruary 8, the plant received high praise as a fine example of a peace time company expanding for war production. Its excellent record was attributed to "a management picked for efficiency and production squad chosen for its enthusiasm and de termination to produce conscien tiously the utmost and the best." School Days--Pontiac dealers learned about Tune-Up end Diagnosis at the recent Pontiac Service School held lor dealers in the Cincinnati zone. The 31 meetings were attended by 2S3 men repre senting 88% o1 the dealers in the zone. Here are a lew of them looking under the hood of a Pontiac. Hoy Godbey, our Dayton lleet engineer who cooperated in putting on the school, is at the extreme right. Next to him is Riley Miles, instructor tor Pontiac. The man in the shop coat is Joe Bree, oi Sun Manufacturing Company. Engrossed in Sergeant Wise's story this group at the Ethyl Change House hears bis message. Louisiana Hero Visits Baton Rouge Plant Staff Sergeant Homer L. Wise, Louisiana hero who won the Con gressional Medal of Honor for val- SfH Sergeant Homer Wise, Louisiana hero and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, arrives at the Baton Rouge plant with his fiancee. Miss Madolyn DiSesa, of Stamford, Connecticut and his host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Crunk. orous action in the Italian cam paign, toured the Baton Rouge plant February 8 and told the men and women there, who are working for victory on the home front how important their work is to the men on the battlefront. Said Sergeant Wise: "It takes fourteen men on the home front to furnish the materials needed by one fighting man. When one of you is absent G. I. Joe is not getting the stuff he needs to save his life and help win the war." It is of vital importance, he said, to the successful prosecution of the war, that every man and woman be on the job every day in order to maintain continued capacity pro duction. The Sergeant, who is a Baton Rouge boy, won the nation's highest honor for his part in the Italian cam paign. On June 14, 1944, while in the vicinity of Magliano, Italy his platoon was pinned down by enemy 10 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 07645 Small arms fire from both flanks. Sergeant Wise left his position of bomparative safety and assisted in tarrying one of his men, who had been seriously wounded and was ly ing in an exposed position, to a point where he could receive medi cal attention. The platoon resumed Bits advance but was again stopped by frontal fire. A German officer and two enlisted |men armed with automatic weapons threatened the right flank. The SerIgeant exposing himself to their fire, (moved to a position from which he [killed all three with his sub-machine I gun. He went back to his group to I obtain an M-l rifle and a sub-ma chine gun, then took a position from which he could deliver accurate fire, holding up the enemy advance. As the battalion moved forward it was again stopped by enemy frontal and flanking fire. Wise procured an automatic rifle and advancing ahead of his men neutralized an enemy ma chine gun. When the flanking fire became more intense he ran to a nearby tank and, exposing himself on the turret, restored a jammed ma chine gun to operating efficiency and used it so effectively that the enemy fire from an adjacent ridge was materially reduced, thus per mitting the battalion to occupy its objective. (Admiring audience -- On the Sergeant's right an Margaret Addison and Helen Bliss; on ilia | left Ann White. Opposite from back to iron! are Saily Van Anda, Winnie Dugas, Phennetta Corley. I Rose Worsham and Ruth Eiswirth. a e ETC 07646 11 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH Double Feature Bill at San Berdu nourishing a pyiex tube in the air CarJ demonstrates knocking combustion. Audience approval oi the show is registered by iront row onlookers -- the Gishes and the Allreds. Rollin Gish, lelt, is the Bulletin Board correspondent at San Bernardino. The smiling lace over his shoulder belongs to Pauline Gamble. Behind Florence Gish you see the top oi Anna Sortman's head. The white haired gentleman behind Virgil Allred fright end manl is Art Sortman. and next to him is Stan Jones. Muddled up under fbe topcoat are Mrs. Car/ Abe/ (center/ and Virginia Rice (right). That's Belle Rankin, wile of Test Lab Manager Charlie AanJcin, on the left. San Bernardino folk got together recently for an evening of entertain ment and enlightenment provided by Carl Abel and the Ethyl Corpo ration. They saw two company mov ies -- courtesy of Ethyl, and heard something about the operation of the company--courtesy of Carl, vet eran Ethylman. Bob Adams, of the San Berdu Test Lab, introduced Carl, who came over from Los Angeles to show the movies, and Mrs. Carl, who came along for the ride. Carl discussed the organization of the company and the operation of its various de partments before showing the films. First picture on the double fea ture bill was The Long Road, first company movie ever made. It was followed by our latest film. Old MacDonald Had A Farm. The new one, as many of you know, is de signed to show the farmer how to overcome his manpower shortage by making use of the extra power in his tractor for odd jobs around the farm. After the movies Ethyl wives were shown through the laborator ies. After that everybody was shown to refreshments. Rollin Gish, ace Bulletin Board correspondent of San Berdu, and Bob Adams were in charge of ar rangements for the party. Rollin says that although Bob did most of the work, he rendered valuable as sistance by accepting the thanks of departing guests. The pictures, which you see here, are courtesy of Gil Way, who went right out and bought a book on flash photography. ETC 07647 Crack Crew--These ten filers have totalled nearly 4S0 missions over enemy targets. Pilot is former Ethyiman, Captain Ray M. Brown, who is second from the left in the front row. Captain Ray Brown Pilots Record Breaking Crew Captain Ray M. Brown, Jr., who was a field representative in the Seattle Division before he joined the Air Force, is winning medals and praise for his heroic efforts in sustained combat operational flying. Ray, pilot of the fortress "Yankee Gal," has made 27 daylight high-alti tude missions on Germany and enemy-occupied territory and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with Three Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters (in lieu of addi tional medals). As pilot of a crack lead crew of the 91st Group, Ray. has several times led his division into combat over Germany, and one time led the entire Eighth Air Force. The Captain ancT his "Yankee Gal" crew are setting a new record for the 91st Bombardment Group for total accumulated missions for one combat team. The ten fliers have totalled nearly 450 missions over enemy targets. Working together as a lead flying fortress crew these former civilians -- one a printer, another a roofing applicator, another a production planner and some students--are de stroying German oil storage plants, supply lines, industrial centers, air craft plants and transportation cen ters. Ray came to Ethyl in July 1940 following his graduation from Stan ford University. He pursued his duties as field man in the Seattle Division, headquartering in Port land, Oregon, until July 1942 when he joined the A.A.F. He was com missioned in November 1942 and was sent to England May 25, 1944. ETC 07648 13 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH Happy over the athletic outlook lot the coming year, the new board elected to direct the activities oi the Anti-Knock Industrial Athletic Association at the Baton Rouge plant lines up for a picture. They are, left to right; Ashiord Simes (Ethyl). Louis Bourke (Du Pont), Bill Morriss (Du Pont), H. S. Tillman (Ethyl), Dan Sutton (Du Pont), Cleve Broussard (Du Pont), Bill Bertolette (Du Pont) and Clarence Harvey (Ethyl). Pirates Take Top Spot in Baton Rouge Bowling League The Antiknock Industrial Ath letic Association Bowling League in Baton Rouge recently finished the first half of the season with the Pirates declared midway winners. At the end of the season, which will wind up on May 14, they will com pete against the top ranking team in the second half to determine the league championship. Carl Skrintney rolled the highest game during the first half of the season with 226 pins. Individual high for three games was won by George Johnston with 602. Gil Moore had high individual average with 170.74. There are twelve teams in the A.I.A.A. League, with du Pont and Ethyl men bowling together on all of them. In order to divide the skill evenly among the teams a question naire was sent out before the season began, asking for averages. The captains then met and chose their teams according to the aver ages. The bowlers were broken down into groups of twelve which were ranked from top to bottom. The captain with the lowest average then selected a man from the first twelve names. The captain with the next lowest average got second choice and so on up the line. The average of the captain and the first member of his team was then com puted, and the captain with the lowest average got first choice from the second list of names. This pro cedure was followed until the teams were completed with seven members on each. In addition the teams were further equalized by the use of a 14 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 07649 landicap system. Each man has a landicap, which varies from week to week, based on 70% of the dif ference between his average and 180. The handicaps are added to the scores. The resulting gross scores determine the winners. Ham to the hams -- Consolation prize -- a ham not in evidence in this picture -- went to visiting firemen, Ed Enoch (left) of Advertising and Public Relations and Chuck Colvin, of Manufacturing, New Yorkers who were outbowled by the bowling Pelicans. The pause that refreshes from head to foot -- emphasis on the latter in the case of Eric Breidenbach (right) whose shoes you see in the foreground. Eric. Development Section Engineer, is secretary of the men'a bowling league. That's the top of his wife's head barely visible on the left between Randal Laporte and Word Day (du Pont's mustachioed gentleman with pipe). Word, happily relaxing from his efforts as chairman of the War Effort Committee is apparently sharing a joke with Bernard Manuel, of the Data Group, one of the Bulletin Board's star reporters. Strength for more strikes -- Renewing their energy with liquid refreshments are, reading clockwise beginning extreme left Dot Goodman, (just in the picture by an eye). Ethyl Chloride Lab, Mema Conway, Development Lab, Dot McCartoll. Lew Barnum's secretary. Pearl Leltwich, Develop ment Lab, Winnie Dugas, Purchasing, Francis Robinson, Development Lab and Mary Walsh, Bob Ashbury's Secretary. Francis is setting the pace for Ethyl's women bowlers and has a 220 league game to her credit. ETC 07650 I VICTORY MAIL * Off to the Pacific, back from the Pacific, on duty in this country and overseas, Ethyl men write about what they are seeing, doing and thinking in far places and here at home. The following excerpts from their letters reveal the highlights and sidelights of their life in the service. Gerry Forsdick, Chief Specialist (Gunnery), is back from the Pacific and stopped in the New York office for a brief visit with friends and former associates in the Safety De partment before going to Virginia Beach where he is now stationed. In a letter written from his new quar ters to Oscar Lewis, he says he is "amid the sand dunes of a typi cal `chunk' of tidewater Virginia coastline at the beginning of the Great Dismal Swamp." He describes the job of getting from there to any direct means of transportation to New York or Washington as "very vexing and time-consuming" and thinks he'll probably stay put for a while. Elmo Lee McMorris (Baton Rouge), who has just gone to the South Pacific, writes that he "can see what a big part Ethyl fluid is doing overseas." He also says he would like to get some mail from his good friends at the plant. Staff Sergeant Kingsley Jones (Detroit), looking back over the year that he has been overseas, observes that he's seen many things and been very lucky. In a letter from Italy he writes: "Flying the At lantic in a fortress was not exactly comfort but it was a thrill. Then seeing Tunis, Africa, moving to Italy, my first mission over enemy territory, furloughs in Naples and on the Isle of Capri, seeing Cairo, the Suez Canal, the Nile, all are memories that carry a thrill." He feels that out of it all has come a real understanding of America 16 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH etc 0T651 and a new pride in being an Ameri can. "When I see these young Amer ican boys," he writes, "18, 19 years old, come over here, calmly go about their deadly job--no heroics, just go out and do it--yet never knowing what may come, whether they will get it today, or tomorrow--rand see the compassion and understanding they have for one another under | critical conditions, the responsibil ity they quietly assume--my admir ation is unbounded--America need I never fear for her future with youth [like hers." The Sergeant's prime work now [is training the new crews. He is sta[tioned at the most northern heavy Ibomber base in Italy "in the middle of an ex-wheat field, now a quag|mire of mud." Living, he says, is primitive--tents, outdoor plumbing, :h mud knee-deep all winter. Stall Sergeant Kingsley Jones is pic hired here with tellow crew members of the id3rd Bombardment Group in Italy. Kingsley, formeriy of our Finance Department, is the mid He man in the back row. The ship in the back ground with the art interest on the nose is 'Joanne." She was shot down Christmas Day. Lieutenant Charles Tower? (Chicago) is now at Room 640 Free Press Building in Detroit and would like any old Ethyl friends to drop around and pay him a visit. Lieutenant (sg) Lee Larison (Boston), who went in on the Lingayen Gulf operation writes that it is "quite a sensation to see a `Bogy' directly overhead slip into a vertical dive and have it smash in the water and explode." Among his souvenirs is a small piece of aluminum that was blown aboard from a Jap plane. Besides the job of being PT Task Unit repair officer, Lee has to main tain and allot small craft. One day he had six Jap suicide boats to put in commission. "They have a ply wood hull one-eighth of an inch thick," he writes, "with Jap-made Chevrolet engines of a very inferior type." Regarding Ethyl's part in the war Lee says, "If you could just see the amount of 100 octane that is used out here you would surely realize why so much is needed." David McNeil, Electrician 2/C, formerly of Baton Rouge, is back in this country after two years over seas, stationed at Camp Bradford in Virginia, where he is waiting to be assigned to an LST crew. He was attached to an LCT flotilla and was in five amphibious landings in Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. David tells of the warm reception they got in Salerno while unload ing gasoline from a liberty ship. "Our barge was being loaded on the port side while two others were ETC 01652 loading from the starboard side. The ship was hit by a dive bomber and the two starboard barges and part of the Merchant Marine crew were lost. We didn't lose any time getting away from there but came back and picked up survivors. "The next day we took on a load of high test gasoline to be taken to a nearby strip for our fighter planes. I never worked so fast helping un load that gas but it gave me a good feeling just to know what good it would do once our boys had the op portunity to use it and to know that Ethyl is doing its share in winning the war." Lieutenant (jg) George Burcal (Detroit), brags that he has be come "pretty salty." He has been at sea for 14 months and has yet to ex perience the discomforts of seasick ness. He is in the South Pacific and reports that the islands are quite beautiful from a distance, and that the climate is ideal. lieutenant Jim Mason (De troit), is now at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia where he is working in the Aeronautical Engine Labora tory mostly on aircraft gasoline. He has run detonation tests on both sin gle and multicylinder airplane en gines, and done a lot of paper work trying to correlate them with tests from outside laboratories and flight tests. Although he finds it very in teresting, he says he'd like to be b&ck in Detroit right now. Lieutenant Ed Kukla (De troit).. after "sweating out" his pre- technicai training at San Ant( Texas, was sent up to Yale whei could "cool off a bit in the New I land winter." It was the first wi in about four years that he had : snow instead of the warm suns'of Hawaii. Ed's course at Yale was of twe. four weeks' duration and covi most of the basic subjects to qua him as an Engineering Officer, graduated in January with the class to go through Cadet Train at Yale, as a 2nd Lieutenant in Army Air Corps, and is now Berry Field in Tennessee. He pects to be sent to another field s< for a 90 day on-the-line period training. Ed says he doesn't kn what type of planes he'll have work on, but "being in the t Transport Command I can exp most anything." Sergeant Frank Hayes (Nt York Division), who is current stationed in Buffalo, visited Ji Baldwin (our safety enginethere) and his wife recently. Ji reports that "he is the same o Frank and married life certain hasn't hurt him. He hopes to be Buffalo long enough for his wife come up from Kansas and set t housekeeping. Frank says in a so of wistful manner that he is lookir forward to civilian life with Eth; again." Captain Redgnald Bushel (New York Division), brings us u to date on his activities in a lette to Roy Goltz. "So far the limit o my travels has been within th 18 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 07653 I ^limits of the United States," he i writes. "One three-day trip took me tto Cuba but that was more of a vaca tion flight than work. "After approximately two years jon the west coast, orders brought ^me east in June to Chicago and sub sequently to the southeast. From Vjune until November, a group of | three officers and I traveled as a 'technical consultant team on ;weather problems. It was extremely interesting and educational. We had ,an opportunity to see a lot of the southeast including Florida, and al though I wouldn't particularly want fto live there, it was nice to see at ` least once. Of all places we visited, our headquarters city, Atlanta, Georgia, is the best of all. "Early in November 1944 orders brought me to Asheville, North Carolina and it seemed that foreign duty in the China-Burma-India theater was in the offing. However, it developed that I was to assist in running training programs. Our work is concerned with practically every phase of training offered to men in the weather service whether here or abroad." Pacific he feels like a native, and observes that things have drastic ally changed since civilization has moved in. "I remember the days when we wound through narrow roads with our lowest gears moan ing at the meanness of the coral mud, as I breeze along on the hard surface of salt-water-treated live coral pavement. Then it was `K' and `C' rations and now it's good food even though dehydrated. It was tents then and now it's a steel hut. Hospital personnel includes nurses and we marvelled at the sight of the opposite sex although her uniform ed severity warned of the omnious import of her duties as an Angel in White. Things are getting mighty civilized--here before my eyes is the last inning--a bright and spar kling new '42 De Soto, just like Stateside." Lieutenant Colonel Miles A. Kinley as he looks in an overseas cap. Miles, former]/ of file Ciiicago Division, is now with the Army somewhere in Italy and had this picture made in i?onze. It. S. J. Linstromberg (De troit), writing from the Philippines reports that they have been "very busy." He was busy, he explains "blasting the Japs out of cover and pill boxes." "The most difficult part of it," he said, "is spotting them. From there on it's easy." Lieutenant Toxhin Yates (Chicago), finds that after ten months on an island in the South Manning Turns Mechanics Prof "More power is squeezed out ol this higher dome on the high compression piston." explains Prolessor Manning (left) to the interested young sters, who are helping their parents overhaul tractors and other farm machinery at the Milwaukie (Oregon) night school. Harry Manning has climbed into coveralls and turned mechanics teacher to show the grass roots farmers out in Oregon how to high compression their tractors. They come to night classes at the Milwaukie (Oregon) high school, where Harry spends two nights a week helping them to overhaul their trac tors. This work of our Portland tractor man is part of the current Farm Pro gram designed to show the farmer how to get maximum power from old equipment through high com pression. Theme of the tractor work in the class is "Make every overhaul a `power booster overhaul.' " Harry (the man in white) sheds light on the intricacies of the tractor engine. New New Yorker George Rieger was transferred on February 1, 1945 from Deepwater to the New York office of the Manu facturing Department. He started to work with Ethyl on January 17, 1941, in the Development Section at Baton Rouge and was transferred to our Deepwater office in October 1943. Much of his time in recent months has been spent in connec tion with plans for the manufacture of Ethyl Cleaner. As soon as George can locate suit able living quarters, he will move his wife, Thelma, 15-month-old daughter, Judith Kay, and his pro lific Irish Setter from Wilmington to New York. 20 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 07655 i f I Muriel Acker came to the Detroit Finance Division from the accounting department of General Mills, Inc. She is a graduate oi Lansing High School and Cleary Business College. Muriel enjoys all outdoor sports, especially goll and tennis. She likes flowers and spends a good deal of time cultivating them in her back yard. Postwar plans point toward a career in aviation and unrestricted travel throughout the west. Elizabeth Thomas is one Michigander who thinlcs that sunny California would be a lovely place to live and has her plans all made to go there "some day." At present, however, she is content to be a gasoline technician in our De troit Testing Lab. She came to us from the pur chasing department of the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit. Betty is a graduate of Royal Oak High. Tastes run to bowling, dancing and music. Marilyn Fox, new chemist at our Detroit Lab. is a graduate of Michigan State College. Before coming to us she was in charge of catering at the Michigan Bell Telephone Dining Service. She is a tine pianist and a fair bowler. Her ambi tion is to see the world--particularly Switzerland and Scotland. Then she'll be willing to settle down--perhaps with that flier who is now fight ing the war in the China-Burma-lndia theater. ETC 07656 Estelle Caldwell, who helps keep the liles straight in New York Manufacturing, is a native oi Holland. She was bom in Amsterdam and came to this country with her family in 1915. She finished high school in Amsterdam, but went to evening schooi in Brooklyn and learned, among other things, our language. Later she took a course in filing at Columbia University. She says that her hobbies are "home and gar dening." Home is in the Bronx where she lives with her husband and 17-year-old son. Robert. Everard Edward Lawrence, better known as Jack, has come to New York bringing with him a lot of personnel experience which will come in handy in his new job as assistant to our Employee Relations Director Art Stover. He has interviewed thousands of people for thousands oi jobs in Denver, Salt Lake City and Cincinnati tor Remington Arms and Brunhoft Manufacturing Company. He left there in Janu ary ot this year to come to Ethyl. He has found a house out in Ozone Park. Long Island for his family, which consists of his wife, Shirley, and his JS-month old son, Steve. They were de lighted to find that George Rieger, of Manufac turing, who ;usf came to New York from Deep water, has taken the house next door. Jack was born in Denver, attended Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, Stanford University and Denver University. He received a BS in Commerce at Denver in 1940. Kay Williams, who recenfiy joined fhe New York Purchasing Division, was born on Manhattan, and attended Aquinas Hall High Schooi in the Bronx. Alter her graduation she got a job in the adjustment department at Rich ard Hudnut's. Then, as she puts it, "going from one odor to another," she went to work tor Krait Cheese in fheir traffic deparfmenf. Kay likes to bowl and swim by way oi sports, and go to the theater by way oi culture, but spends most of her aiter hours keeping house for her husband--a Distribution Specialist at Birds-Eye. ETC 01657 ON LOVERS LANE News of the marriage of J. W. Emery, Tulsa Division Safety Engineer, has just filtered in. He married Gertrude Eugenia Young last October and the couple are living in Dallas, Texas--on Lovers Lane. VVV Stork Club Paul Arnold Nelson, first-born of Arnold and Ruth Nelson, arrived February 11, weighing 7 lbs. 15J4 oz. The baby was born at St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken, New Jersey. His father is a member of the Ac counts Payable Section in New York Finance. VVV Facts of Life from Deepwater Patricia Marcy, one of the girls in the laboratory, was married on January 22 to Harry Catts. The ceremony was held at the Cathedral Church of St. John in Wilmington at one o'clock. Harry is an electri cian with the Pennsylvania Rail road in Wilmington. Sally Ann Holton was born on December 25, weighing 7 lbs., 13 oz. Her father is head of the Account ing Department at Deepwater. The Holtons have two other daughters -- Jane and Virginia. Emily Clayton Madden was born on January 27, weighing 6V2 lbs. Her dad is a member of the De velopment Section. She has a little brother named Michael. Waaah! It's Universal Lynn Phillips, three-time father, writes a play by play description of father's condition pending arrival of child No. 3, a daughter born Feb ruary 2 at American-British-Cowdray Hospital in Mexico City, weighing three kilo, four hundred and twenty grams (seven and a half pounds). Lynn reports: "Father lost con siderable sleep, as usual, having been aroused at approximately 2:00 A.M. on two previous occasions. He smoked vast numbers of cigarettes (various brands) against all hospital rules while passing the longest in terval of time that occurs in the lives of fathers. Was as usual the `forgotten man' during said inter val, everybody from the superindentent down to the janitor avoid ing him like the plague, and didn't become at all popular until time to pay the bill." Now about the other parties in volved : mother and daughter are do ing fine. Daughter has been named Judith Susan and "can cry just as lustily at 8000 feet as previous ones did at low altitudes." Previous ones are Lynn, Jr., 11, and Sylvia Anne, 6. Father, who looks after Ethyl's in terests in Mexico, says that since the baby cries in English all is well South of the Border. ETC 07658 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH Milestones Go By *** Jay Goux, who runs our Order and Shipping Department, leaned back and smilingly recalled the day twenty years ago when he started to work for Ethyl down at 25 Broad way. His job was to keep the cash book and journal and general ledger -- the latter a book so big that it lapped over the. edge when it was spread out on his desk. A book also that was usually in the red. When ever the situation was otherwise i was cause for celebration. Thi weekly pay day was not pay day un til and unless the checks came ir from our founding fathers -- Gen eral Motors and Standard Oil. Jay continued to keep books untii 1935 when he started handling for eign shipments, and later he took over the domestic shipments. "It used to be a simple matter -- or at least it seems so now, although it didn't at the time. We would get a cable from London one morning, call up the steamship company and arrange the booking, call the plant and the shipment would be deliv ered to the steamer the next morn ing at 8:00 A.M. Now, with all the wartime Government regulations, it takes at least three weeks to get a license permitting us to make the shipment." When the Ethyl Export Corpora tion was organized. Jay became As sistant Secretary, which position he held until the company was dis solved in 1939. He then became agent for the Associated Ethyl Company, Limited of London. Somewhere along the line, he doesn't quite remember just where, he became Assistant Secretary of the Ethyl Corporation. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 07659 Jay was born and reared in Conecticut. After graduating from the [otchkiss School in Lakeville he >ok and passed the entrance exams or Yale, which turned out to be a >t of work for nothing because he idn't go there after all. Instead he tudied law at Georgetown Univer ity in Washington and later atended Pace and Pace in New York. Jay's first job was as Station Vgent and Telegraph Operator for fie Central New England Railroad n BrinckerhofI, New York. After jeven years at that he came to New STork and got a job with the Elder Steel Steamship Company. He later joined Elder and Mittnacht, Inc., adhere he was Traffic Manager for 6ve years before coming to Ethyl, j At heart Jay is a farmer. He de motes all of his spare time--summer ind winter--to his 30-acre farm up n Dutchess County. This year's Ileavy snowfall broke a 25-year rec ord in his section and kept him busy rith a shovel clearing the driveway or exit. He exits by the light of the noon on winter mornings to make :he 68 mile trip to the office. He spends about four hours a day in xansit. But he likes to work in his Vic tory garden in the summer and he likes to eat the stuff that grows in it --peas, corn, lima beans, tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries, huckle berries and peaches. Last summer he put 145 packages of food into his freezing unit in the basement. "Yes, I spend a lot of time traveling, but it's worth it," said Jay, licking his lips. Then he pulled out his watch, grabbed his hat and ran for the train. Florence Llebeimaih, who sends in all those good stories from the Atlanta Division, has just cele brated her fifteenth anniversary with the company. As Atlanta cor respondent, she was asked to inter view herself on this auspicious occa sion. Here's what she had to say to herself about herself: "Fifteen years ago the Atlanta Di vision of the Ethyl Corporation was just being formed. I remember Mr. George Warren, who was the Divi sion Manager, signed a lease for of fices in the Healey Building and en gaged me as secretary the same afternoon, then promptly left town for three weeks. "My first job was to furnish the office completely, arrange for tele phone. etc., with one exception -- ETC 07660 25 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH Mr. Warren was to select the ash trays himself (I think he had visions of something hand-painted). I went about my first assignment with some misgivings. After all, what did I know about Mr. Warren -- or the Ethyl Corporation for that matter? I was buying a lovely premium mo tor fuel called Blue Streak, colored the most adorable shade of heavenly blue and had not even heard of Ethyl Gasoline. So, everything I bought had what was practically a cancellation clause attached. "Letters began to arrive and hav ing no one to consult, I sent out prim little replies advising that the inquiry would receive immediate at tention upon Mr. Warren's return. I am happy to say my selection of furniture was approved. In due time my salary check arrived, and from that day on, my faith in Ethyl has been firm. At first we had only one representative but others were added and soon we began to func tion as a Division. "As for me,personally, I was born in Atlanta and live with my sister. My education carried me through the public and high schools, with a secretarial course at the Southern Business College. I am fond of good music and enjoy any activity out of doors -- swimming, hiking, golf. I like to cook and to sew. Lately, most of my spare time has been given to the Red Cross -- chiefly knitting. I am proud of my service pin and my certificate, framed, hangs upon the wall." Three more are up at the tenth milepost -- A1 Francis, New York Finance, Fritz Schroeter, Technical Service, Detroit and Elmer Mille: Deepwater. Three more also have breezed b the five year mark -- Winnie Duga and Eric Breidenbach of Bato Rouge and Marina Vega, of Techm cal Service, Detroit. * ** Carl Wins Medal Corporal Carl Cyriax, formed; of New York Finance, has receivei the good conduct medal, awardei for more than one year of activ military service, marked by "exem plary behavior, efficiency and fi delity." He is an information and educa tion clerk on duty with Col. Law rence E. Shaw's anti-aircraft auto matic weapons group. He has server with the Coast Artillery forces ir Panama since February 1944. What the Well Dressed Men Will Wear Merritt Collins arrived at the Yonkers Lab in the drizzly fog of a dreary Friday morning last month, buckled to the hilt in bad weather gear. When he came out from under his assorted protection against the elements, he was a sight for sore eyes. Off came his hat, raincoat, umbrella and gloves. Off, too, came his trusty rubbers. Only then, when he was all through shedding, did anyone notice the shoes he was wearing. The left shoe was brown, the right shoe -- you guessed it -- black. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 07661 Mary Ellmbrth Chittenden is a well known figure at the Detroit Engineering Lab, where she busses around all day with inter office mail--picking it up and putting it down. "Some tun/' says Mary. She attended tfighiand Park High School and Alma College in St. Thomas, Canada, where she learned all about how to decorate and furnish a house correctiy. Mary is a femaJe Wiiiiam Tell--likes to shoot arrows at the buii's eye. She aiso iiices to ride horseback, and collect symphonic records. Her heart interest is in the South Pacific--a Marine she's been exchanging Valentines with since sixth-grade days. i RUI Hansen, comely new member of rork Purchasing, spends her days taking f the Purchase Orders. She came here be Metropoiifan Life Insurance Company. that she worked in the office at-Abraham rauss in Brooklyn. Thelma was. horn in yn and graduated from Girls Commercial chool there. She is an accomplished pian>ys both ciassicai and jazz, which maices popuiar hostess at the Lutheran Service Canteen. She likes to swim and to sew. m. Sunny Side Up Roth Munro, comely chemist at the Detroit lab, won $5.00 and a carton of chewing gum for a human interest story about a serviceman which was used by a Chicago broad casting station on a program called "Hello Sweethearts." The story she sent in was about a Captain in the Marine Corps, who is stationed somewhere in the South Pacific. He reached a point where powdered eggs were almost as re pulsive to him as the Japs. He remedied the situation by acquiring -- nobody knows where or how -- a hen. Hiawatha -- that's what he named her -- was somewhat slow in acclimating herself to her new and constantly changing surroundings, but after a while got into produc tion. Each day she lays an egg for the Captain -- and it's the Captain who crows. P.S. The Captain is Ruth's brother. *** Ed Rothman Wins Army Award Lieutenant Colonel Ed Roth man, who used to work on Ethyl advertising out in Detroit, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in Normandy with the Ninth U. S. Air Force. Ed was cited for his competence as supply officer for the Ninth and for "brilliant planning and pains taking efforts which contributed materially to the success of the in vasion and reflected the highest credit on himself." Snowbound It was brrrr cold. The snow was drifting clear up to the sky and Gel Howell, field engineer of the New York Division, was driving home from a farm meeting in north eastern Pennsylvania. But he was a long way from his hometown of Warren when he got stymied be hind a state snowplow that was stuck in a drift. He bad a lot of com pany-- and so did the farmers in the vicinity. They were besieged with guests who had neither wired, phoned nor written for reservations. San Wagner Elected Saa Wagner, who runs our Los Angeles Division, has been elected a director of the Lane-Wells Com pany, maker of oil well tools. San is one of two new directors. And a Fourth Term for Mack, Too Harry Mack, Dayton Division Manager, has been reappointed to the boxing commission out there. He has just rounded out his twelfth year as a member of the commission and will serve four more. *** Mistaken Identity--This is to re port that the misdirected finger that hit a "C" instead of an "E," writing Carl instead of Earl Bartholomew in a picture caption last month has been duly chastised. 28 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 07663 Don,t Forget to Write The Army, the Navy and the WAC have each gained a recruit from the Ethyl Corporation recently. Harold Patin and Sam Smith, formerly of Baton Rouge, are now Private Harold Patin, of the Infantry, and Able Seaman Sam Smith, of the Navy. Harold is at Camp Robinson, Arkansas and Sam is at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois. Helen Organ, who used to work in the New York Mimeograph Department, put in her last day there on February 23, before leaving to join the WAC. Pfc. Eddie Asbury, 38499897 387th Service Group 602nd Eng. Squadron Freeman Air Field Seymour, Ind. Lt. (jg) G. J. Burcal U.S.S. Y.M.S. 362 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Capt. R. D. Bushell, A.C. Headquarters Weather Wing Asheville, N. C. "1 do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance . . and another Ethyl girl answers the call to the colors. Helen Organ, who used to help Emily Whitfield in the New York Mimeograph Department, is sworn into the WAC by Lt, Mildred Norgaard at Grand Centrai Palace in New York City. Helen is the sixth Ethyl girl who has gone into the service. Becoming too -- Private Organ tries on her new uniform and gives a smiling salute. She is now a member of the new General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. WAC Company. Most of its mem bers will be assigned as medical or surgical technicans to help care for the wounded in Army General hospitals. That ring on Helen's finger is a farewell gift from Emily. "iis ETC 07664 Lt. William F. Cory, 0-859578 485th Bomb Sqd. Harvard AAF Harvard, Nebr. Lt. James M. Mason, Jr. USNR NAES-AEL Navy Yard Philadelphia 12, Pa. Capt. Franklin E. DeVore Box 213 San Bernardino Army Air Field San Bernardino, Calif. Claude B. Ezell, A.M.M. Box 16 M.A.S. Jacksonville, Fla. Gerald Forsdick, C. Sp. (G) CATU Virginia Beach, Va. Lt. Col. Benjamin Fridge, 0-365107 Air Inspector Langley Field, Va. Pvt. Willie I. Gillespie, 38618918 Co. B 13, 4th Reg. Ft. Knox, Kentucky Capt. Joseph A. Hobart, 0860934 1254th. AAF BU ATC APO 622, c/o Postmaster Miami, Florida Edward J. Kukla, M/Sgt. 0878318 508th AAF Base Unit (Trng. Sqd.) Berry Field Nashville, Tenn. Elmo L. McMorris, S 1/c U.S.N.R. 977-88-06 GRO--PAC--11 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. S/Sgt. Gerald Meyer Prisoner of War #3912 Camp Stalag, Luft 3 Subsidiary Camp Stalag Luft 4, Germany via New York, N.Y. Kenneth G. Morse, S.C. 1/c 646 - 76 - 57 USS PCE 897 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Ens. B. A. Owen, Jr., 381310 Co. G, CASA Ft. Ord., California Capt. S. T. Pruitt, 0-262578 455th Service Squadron APO 713-1, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. Capt. J. M. Rollins 2368 Victory Parkway Cincinnati 6, Ohio Lt. Charles D. Towery, USNR c/o Inspector of Naval Material Room 640 Free Press Bldg. Detroit, Mich. Lt. Col. S. J. Warner, Jr., 0-272217 Oise Section Hq. QM--Pol. Div. APO 513, c/o Postmaster New York, New York David H. McNeil, E/M U. S. Navy Camp Bradford, Va. Corp. E. Arnold Webb, 12193378 Co. A., 103rd Bn., 26th Regiment Camp Maxey, Texas 30 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 07665 A ETC 07666 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Editor Published by the Ethyl Corp., 405 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.; Eerie W. Webb. president; Percy L. Griffiths, vice-president and treasurer; Julian C. Gonxalex, secretary. GALLIVANTING GAT REPORTS FACl 6 A*mv sKSajiIts meet the MAN who Mruns the SODIUM PLANT PACEIO ""'"Mr.,,, s Kill ,VM KAd NOW we make it Wer it ETC 07669 YL WELCOMES THE SODIUM MAKERS t May 1st, we welcome into the hyl family, the employees of the iium manufacturing unit in BaI Rouge. On this date, manage;nt and operation of the sodium it are transferred from E. I. du mt de Nemours to Ethyl Corration. All employees in the Ethyl plant Baton Rouge, both in units opered by du Pont and units opered by Ethyl, were notified of the snsfer on April 9th in letters jned jointly by H. H. Fisher, resi st plant manager for du Pont, linton W. Bond, resident plant anager for Ethyl, and William J. ass, manager of sodium operations. All employees in the sodium manracturing operation were offered bs with Ethyl comparable in comsnsation to what employees of du 6nt received. With the transfer, ich employee, according to the Eint announcement, will carry with in the Ethyl Corporation his II service credit with E. I. du Pont t Nemours and Company, as the ithyl Corporation will recognize jrmer du Pont service credit for rticipation in its industrial relans plans covering group life inrance, hospitalization, disability, acations and other Ethyl employee {ograms. J. H. Schaefer, Vice President in charge of Manufacturing Clint Bond. Resident Manager for Ethyl at Baton Aouge ; ETC 07670 Mercury arc rectifier used to transform high tension alternating current to lower voltage D.C. power For instance, the normal threemonths' waiting period required for new Ethyl employees before they can participate in group insurance will not be required of du Pont em ployees transferring to Ethyl Cor poration provided they have been working for du Pont for at least three months. Eligibility for service pin awards and all accompanying seniority rights will be based upon the period since the date of employ ment by the du Pont company. The transfer will not affect du Pont employees in the TEL oper ations nor in other units of the Ethyl plant now operated by du Pont. Transfer of the sodium operation to Ethyl increases our manufactur ing organization by 280 people. This means an aggregate of about 920 Ethyl men and women in Baton Rouge, including employees of our four ethyl chloride plants, the hy drochloric acid plant, administra tion and finance offices, develop ment section and maintenance staff. From now on, of course, the Bul letin Board will keep a microscopic eye on the sodium unit and as soon as we have a correspondent there to keep us informed of sodium activi ties, we'll begin to report them in forthcoming issues along with any pictures of sodium personnel we can beg, borrow, or steal. So this is a special sort of welcome to our new sodium "subscribers," a very important group of new read ers. We hope you'll adopt the Bulle tin Board as your own and add it to your "must" list of reading from now on. V ETC 07671 GREETINGS FROM PRESIDENT WEBB May 1, 1945 To All Employees in the Sodium Operation Baton Rouge, Louisiana Greetings: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to welcome you to the Ethyl organization. I hope that you will like your association with us as much as those who have grown up with our business. On our part, I should like to say that we are very glad to have you join us. Naturally there are many of you whom I don't know. However, I have known Mr. Ross for a num ber of years and because of this I feel, to some de gree, that I know the sort of men who have worked with him at Baton Rouge. I have been proud of the sodium operation and of its performance in the past. It has been a very important part of the job that Ethyl has done in supplying Ethyl fluid for the war effort, a job that has given us a great deal of satisfaction because it has been exceedingly well done. We of the Ethyl organization feel you have been part of our team for a long time, so it is a real pleasure to me to welcome you into the immediate family. Very truly yours, Earle W. Webb ' - President ETC 07672 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL \ Across the World With Gulliver Gay Errol Gay, back from his fourth trip overseas as a technical consult ant to the United States Army, has hit the Chatauqua circuit. Armed with candid shots, kodachromes and color movies he has in recent weeks addressed audiences in Detroit, New York, St. Louis and Kansas City, giving them a first hand ac count of conditions in the ChinaBurma-India theatre of war, as he found them during the two-and-ahalf months that he was there. His lecture tour started in the Motor City when the Detroit Ethyl Society persuaded him to speak at its February meeting. Glowing re ports of an entertaining and infor mative evening flowed to the New York Office, and Ralph Clark, our Publicity Manager, arranged for him to come down and put on his show for the Gothamites. They turned out 200 strong, filling the Texaco Theatre on the 16th floor of the Chrysler Building on the after noon of March 9. A group of Ethyl people from the Yonkers Lab and some invited guests also came to hear about Errol's latest mission. At the request of Major General W. E. R. Covell, Commanding Gen eral of Services of Supply, IndiaBurma, Errol and two other techni cal experts were sent to help solve some problems concerning fuels and lubricants in that theatre. EFrol, who is head of our Commer cial Engine and Fleet Division, was loaned to the"Army early in the war as a technical consultant and his four overseas' trips in this capacity Errol reports on his lstest trip have now taken him to all the com bat theatres outside the Pacific area. Since June of 1943 his work has been primarily for the Fuels and Lubricants Division of the Army. He has concentrated his efforts on the many problems involved in the operation of army transport and combat vehicles in regard to the use of the Army specified fuels and lu bricants. His first trip abroad was made in January of 1943 when he went to North Africa on an inspection tour to observe the operation of equip ment under field conditions. He then made two trips to England, one in the Fall of 1943 for the 6 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 07673 Army/Navy Petroleum Board, and one just prior to the invasion to help modify Army engines and equipment in time for the D-Day operation. He was awarded the Army Serv ice Commendation for Meritorious Civilian Service, an honor that few civilians have ever received. The accompanying citation praised his work which, it said, resulted in much simplification of the supply of petroleum products and contain ers to Overseas Theatres of Opera tion, and more efficient and eco nomical use of fuels and lubricants. On his most recent mission he was accompanied by Commander C. J. Livingstone, formerly of Gulf Research and Development, now Assistant Chief of the Technical Branch, Fuels and Lubricants Divi sion of the Army, and Captain W. A. Howe, formerly Standard Oil of New Jersey, now in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Washing ton, D. C. They took off from Miami in a Douglas C-54 and 57 hours and 9000 miles later were in New Delhi. By ship this trip would take from 35 to 60 days. Their mission took them by plane, truck and jeep over the BurmaLedo Road, which carries gasoline, food, ammunition and other sup plies to the Chinese theatre of war. Errol paid high tribute to the in genuity of American engineers and doughboys, who built this vital sup ply route, calling it an engineering feat that has no parallel in military history. Vehicle operations along the Burma-Ledo Road, which in parts follows the twisting combat trails dating back to Genghis Khan, pre sent many difficulties. Truck en gines that give thousands of miles of satisfactory operation in the United States wear out in 4000 miles on these roads, where grades are as great as 25% in some places. Loud and long was the applause that Errol received from his New York audience, who realized after hearing him why the Detroiters were so enthusiastic in their praise of what they called "Errol's $5.40 show." He was similarly received by the St. Louis and Kansas City Sec tions of the SAE, where he spoke later in the month. He has since been busy turning down invitations to speak before various groups about the country. "Business is business," says Errol. Between the Army and the Ethyl Corporation he has plenty of it, and little time left for anything else. ** Baton Rouge Credit Union Elects Officers A. R. Chaney has been elected president of the Dupet Federal Credit Union. Other officers chosen to serve with him are R. J. Williams, vice president, Celina Neumann, secretary and Viola Varnado, treas urer. E. A. Rachal, E. L. Crunk and J. J. Bridges, Jr., were elected to the board. The credit union, organized six years ago, offers to plant employees the opportunity of making a sound investment as well as a source of obtaining loans at a reasonable rate of interest. Loans are made in amounts up to $100 on the borrow er's signature for 1% a month. Sums up to $300 may be borrowed with two endorsers, and more with proper collateral. Interest bearing stock, which sells for $5 a share, may be bougnt on the installment plan for as little as 25c a week. About 20% of the employees are enjoying the advan tages of membership in the union. New officers and board members of the Dupet Federal Credit Union are, from leit to right: E. A. Rachel. E. L. Crunk, A. R. Chaney, president, Viola Varnado, treasurer, J. J. Bridges, Jr,, R. JWilliams, rice president, and Celina Neumann, secretary. ETC 07675 Milestones Go By Three Ethylmen in Detroit, New York and Houston have joined the fifteen year veterans club. They are Emil Gillig, of the Detroit Engi neering Research Laboratories, Ed Downs, of New York Sales, and Jake Balzer, of the Tulsa Division. Emil Gillig, head of the Instru ment and Electronic Section of the Detroit Engineering Research Lab oratories, is pictured here casually leaning against a Gillig brain child. It is one of the 18 dynamo meter and engine control panels which he designed and installed at our Lab on West Eight Mile Road. That may give you a rough idea of the kind of projects to which Emil has devoted his time during the fifteen years he has been with us. He designs and builds electronic Emil Gillig equipment, new gadgets and special instruments for the Engineering Laboratories. Latest Gillig creation is an automatic photoelectric ac celeration device for a 150 H.P. elec tric chassis dynamometer. "This new robot," Emil says, "will dupli cate the acceleration performance of a road test car operating on either a grade or level road." He first joined Ethyl back in 1928 but after wearing out two Chevrolets running a triangular course from Ann Arbor to Detroit to Pon tiac he married his co-ed sweet heart who taught school in Pontiac and moved to Ann Arbor to com plete hisengineering course. Armed with a B.S. in Aeronautical Engi neering he returned to Ethyl in 1931. (Continued on page 15) ETC 07G76 Close-Up of William J. Ross William J. Ross, manager of so dium operations, came to Baton Rouge in 1938. A native of Dublin, Ireland, he attended Blundell's School in North Devon, England, before entering Trinity College at Dublin Univer sity where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900 and the B.A.I. degree in 1901. Mr. Ross started his professional career as engineer for Ross and Walpole, Ltd. in Dublin in 1901 and after five years he came to the United States to accept an offer as works manager of the Susquehanna "Smelting Company of Lockport, N. Y. From 1910 to 1912 he was assis tant engineer of the Union Carbide Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y. In 1912 he became chief engineer of the Niagara Electric Chemical Com pany, Niagara Falls, remaining there for twenty years. For six years, from 1932 to 1938, he was assigned to various special projects for the R. and H. Chemicals Department of E. I. du Pont de Ne mours and Company, including the designing of the Downs cell instal lation sodium plant for Imperial Chemical Industries at Billingham, England. Mr. Ross came to the Baton Rouge plant of the Ethyl Corporation in 1938 as manager of the Electrochem icals Department for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Mr. and Mrs. Ross live at High land Road, Baton Rouge. Their son, William B. Ross, age 21, is a flight officer in the Army Air Corps. 10 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL ETC 07677 New Unit at Baton Rouge Nears Completion A new process for the manufac ture of ethyl chloride developed by jour Manufacturing Department will :go into operation in June when the :$7 50,000 unit now being built at Ba ton Rouge goes "on stream." Ethyl men, who contributed to the project jhave, in finding a new method of [producing this important chemical used in the manufacture of tetrajethyl lead, helped to overcome seri ous war shortages of basic chemi cals. The process yields ethyl chloride by reacting chlorine with waste [products from one of the present [ethyl chloride units at Baton Rouge. |It was developed by our chemists i and engineers in view of the "tight" supplies of both alcohol and ethy lene, which are used in the produc tion of ethyl chloride by the two present processes in operation at Baton Rouge. Although ethyl chloride is used for many things from an anesthetic to a refrigerant, its principal use is in making tetraethyl lead. An alloy of lead and sodium is combined with ethyl chloride to make tetraethyl lead, which comprises about twothirds of Ethyl fluid and does the work in taking out the "knock" in gasoline. Because of the enormous amounts used in making tetraethyl lead, our % TL* V fl. N. Ciothier, Manager, Production S These Men M by Develop In the face of wartime shortage of raw materials these men in ou. Development, Production, Con struction and Maintenance Sections of our Manufacturing Department, have turned their talents to a search for ways and means of overcoming B. . Parkins. Jr., Operating Superintendent, Production Section rtime Problem ew Process them. Their most recent project was the development of a new process for the manufacture of ethyl chlo ride by using waste products from a present ethyl chloride unit, in place of the two critical materials .now used -- alcohol and ethylene. M. C. Hudgins. Maintenance Engineer. Con struction Sc Maintenance Section ETC 07680 company is the world's largest pro ducer and consumer of this chemi cal compound. The two methods now in opera tion at Baton Rouge for making ethyl chloride are based on the hy drochlorination of two critical ma terials--alcohol and ethylene. In the Frei process, ethyl alcohol va por and hydrochloric acid combine in the presence of a catalyst to form ethyl chloride and water. In the two ELA units, ethylene gas is mixed with hydrogen chlo ride gas in the presence of a cata lyst. The two gases first are passed through a reactor where hydrochlo rination occurs, and later through a "flash drum" which distills off the lighter ethyl chloride fractions, leaving the heavier polymer frac tions. The ethyl chloride then is purified by fractionation. The production of ethyl chloride has presented many problems since the rise of wartime shortages of raw materials used in its manufacture. Before the war, we made chlorine by the electrolysis of salt and bought additional quantities in the open market. When war came, bringing not only increased demands for tet raethyl lead but for chlorine as well, Ethyl met the situation by overpro ducing sodium and storing the sur plus in order to produce sufficient chlorine to take care of its own needs and discontinue outside pur chases. As the war progressed and pro duction demands became greater, the nationwide chlorine shortage grew critical, and Ethyl solved the problem this time by expanding plant facilities, both at Baton Rouge and Deepwater, to substitute hydro gen chloride for chlorine. A plant was built at Baton Rouge in 1943 to produce an adequate supply of hy drogen chloride for our needs from sulphuric acid and common salt. But then other raw materials, be sides chlorine, became scarce as war time uses increased. One of the larg est wartime demands occurred in ethyl alcohol which is used to pro duce butadiene for synthetic rubber and to make detonating powders. Construction of a second ELA plant at North Baton Rouge for the production of ethyl chloride helped to relieve a "tight" supply situation in ethyl alcohol. With the continuously increasing demands for ethyl chloride for the manufacture of Ethyl fluid, supplies of ethylene in the Baton Rouge area became inadequate. Another prob lem. Another solution--sought and found by the men in our Manufac turing Department working togeth er toward a common goal -- sur mounting all odds that stan^p the way of production for ^ctory. With the new plant in operation they expect to meet all increased requirements for ethyl chloride for tetraethyl lead without additional drain upon available supplies of al cohol or ethylene. The Rex Lundy's have a new daughter, Marta Kay, who arrived on March 15, weighing six pounds and two ounces and topped with a full head of black hair. Rex is our safety engineer in Corpus Christi. Texas. 14 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 07681 (Continued from page 9) When not designing instruments for the Lab, Emil likes to "monkey around with radio." Other extra curricular activities include bowl ing, fishing and pheasant hunting. He organized the Detroit Ethyl Bowling League and was its presi dent for two years. Emil's ambition--which he hopes to satisfy after the war--is to own a small airplane and fly with his wife and daughter, Carol, up to his old fishing haunts in Canada -- Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provin cial Park, to be specific. He is now working on his pre-solo certificate in a Pipe Cub J-3 at the Detroit City Airport, and cordially invites his colleagues to come out and watch him bounce over the wind sock on his first solo landing. Ed Downs came to Ethyl fifteen years ago from A. Schrader's Son, Inc., Brooklyn manufacturer of diving suits and auto accessories. He started to work there handling the sale and repair of diving suits, later transferred to the advertising de partment and was assistant adver tising manager for four years. He came with us as assistant to Lucien Locke, who was then Advertising Manager. Following Lucien's death he worked with Harry Kaley, who succeeded him and later with Paul McElroy. About two years ago he switched from the Advertising to the Sales Department to work with Jack Martin and Dick Murphy. Ed's most thrilling experience came when he was with Schrader's handling diving equipment. Follow ing the disastrous sinking of the Hudson River excursion boat, the Ed Downs Washington Irving, Ed was on hand for the salvaging to check on the operation of the diving equip ment and made his first diving ex pedition. He decided to go down "to see what he could see." So he buckled on the diving gear -- shoes weighing 10 pounds each, a lead belt that weighed about 75 pounds, a 25-pound helmet and the suit--and went overboard. When he hit bottom he kept right on sinking until he was knee-deep in mud--and couldn't see a thing. The strong light that he carried was to no avail. The inky blackness remained inky. Ed was born on Long Island, at tended grade school in Laurelton and graduated from Jamaica High. He received his Bachelor of Com mercial Science degree at New York University, where he majored in Business Administration. He lives in Freeport, Long Island with his wife, Elizabeth and his 14year-old son, Edwin. Sailing on Long Island Sound with "Son" is his favorite pastime. 15 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL ETC 07682 Jake Balter Jake Balzer, safety engineer who lives in Houston, is too far from Tulsa for Glenis Dickerson the Bulletin Board correspondent down there to interview him, but she appended a few notes to his own report on the life and times of Balzer, provided upon request. "I was born way back when, on a farm in southern Ohio. I sold papers and worked nights at a newspaper in Springfield, Ohio, where I fin ished high school. After that I worked a year in Springfield, and then left, purely because I didn't like the state of Ohio. "I attended the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, and while I did not graduate I still feel like I am educated. I realize, how ever, that that statement might get a lot of argument from various mem bers of the Ethyl Corporation. I piled up a lot of hours, but in vari ous courses. Tbok some chemistry, mechanical and civil engineering, business and advertising, and like every youngster who tried to play a little football I took some educa tion courses thinking I might some day be coaching -- and I am glad that I am not. "Extra-curricular activities were somewhat curtailed as that was back in the days when it didn't make any difference if a guy was out for ath letics. If he was working his way. he found himself washing dishes, firing furnaces, jerking sodas, and sweeping the library floor. "After my sophomore year I worked with the City Engineering Department, and one of the kicks I get out of visiting out there is going by the City Engineer's office and looking over some of the old field notebooks still on record. One of the things I am proudest of is a lot of work I did when a kid in school. It had to do with the city condemn ing a lot of property, and the stuff stood up legally. "I was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and am now a life mem ber. I shot in the National Rifle matches at Camp Perry as a member of the New Mexico State team. "After I left school I worked some at the City Engineer's office at Albuquerque and had just left and gotten a job in El Paso with the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company when I was ac cepted by Ethyl. My first job was as a field representative. I was transferred to the Safety Depart ment in 1936 when that department was organized. "As for hobbies, I like to fool around trying to do anything. Be- 16 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ' ETC 07683 ing an original member of the Safety Department, I have given up golf, and if anybody wonders why just ask Dr. Kehoe or Len Huxtable. Still I like a set or two of tennis, but principal diversions (if and when) in recent years, have been bowling, hunting and fishing." Glenis adds the following obser vations : "Mr. Balzer is very modest about all of his accomplishments, has a grand sense of humor, and can talk for hours about his beautiful blonde wife and his two children, Elizabeth Ann and James Howard." Detroit and San Bernardino have each added two members to the ten year club--Wesley Price and R. C. Beaubier in Detroit's Engineering Lab, and Rollin Gish and Miner Gamble at San Berdu. Those who have chalked up five years of service with Ethyl are: John Heard, Baton Rouge, Gladys Jensen, Advertising, New York, Millicent Roberts, Publicity, New York, John Stefan, Detroit Engi neering, L. S. Trowbridge, Detroit Gas Testing, and Glenis Dickerson, Tulsa Sales. You're a Fool from Trouble Your brakes -- and the other fel low's -- are often all that stand be tween safety and tragedy in traffic. To help make it safe instead of tragic, to save passenger cars from the scrap heap and to maintain ade quate transportation for war work ers, the nation's police are conduct ing a brake check program, which began April 15 and will last until June 1. Sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the program is expected to accomplish a great deal in conserving cars and reducing accidents. More than 5,000 chiefs of police and sheriffs will participate. Traffic officers will check passen ger cars involved in accidents, in traffic violations in which cars are moving, and cars operated in a man ner indicating faulty brakes. No ad ditional manpower is required as the brake check takes only a minute, and will supplement routine work. The Association points out that to make your car last, brakes and other vital parts must be kept in the best possible condition.They should be checked frequently and repaired whenever necessary. F. V. V. A. --Second Edition Incidentally, Francis V. V. Adri- ance, Jr., was born December 11, at St. Luke's Hospital, Pittsfield, Massachusetts--a fact which Frank forgot to mention in his last letter. That makes two boys and two girls ranging down from five years of age for the former B. B. editor. ETC 07684 17 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL SODIUM--Out of Salt Wells The manufacture of sodium is one of the most interesting opera tions at the Ethyl plant in Baton Rouge. Sodium is a temperamental, hardto-handle metal that misbehaves in air and sputters all over the place when it comes in contact with wa ter ; it has to be stored in closed ves sels, or in some inert medium. It is produced along with chlorine in the sodium plant by passing an electric current through molten salt. The salt -- ordinary salt just like the salt you sprinkle on potatoes-- is made from brine, piped in from the Solvay Company's salt wells twenty miles away. The operators in the salt area control the flow of brine into storage tanks where they introduce certain chemicals to re move impurities. After this is done, the brine is filtered and is then ready for drying. To get dry salt, it is necessary to remove the water. Operators in this area feed purified brine to evapora tors in which the water is boiled off under a high vacuum. This opera tion requires careful attention in 18 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 07685 jrder to do it at all, let alone ecolomically. As the water is boiled off, :he salt crystalizes out to form a lurry, or, as it is called in the plant, i magma. This magma is continu ously pumped from the evaporators :o filters which separate the salt from the liquor, which in turn is returned to the evaporators for fur ther concentration. The salt leaving the filters passes into gas-fired dry ers where the last traces of water are removed. It is then delivered by conveyors and elevators either to the salt storage bins or directly to the cells. By this time it is even more pure than the salt in your shaker at home. Salt, known to chemists as sodium chloride or NaCl, is broken into its component parts (sodium and chlor ine) by electrolysis. Water-cooled It pours--Conveyors deliver the dry salt to storage bins cells constitute the chemical "elec tric chair." The salt is made molten with heat, fused at a temperature approaching 1500 degrees Fahren heit. Electrodes immersed in the cells carry a low-voltage direct cur- Instrument panel lor control ol complicated cJiemica1 processes ETC 07686 rent; the positively charged sodium atoms, released from their union with the chlorine atoms, are pulled to the negative electrical pole and . are there drawn off through a heated pipe. The liquid sodium is tapped into containers which are periodically removed by the operators, dumped into filters for removing impurities, and then drawn into tanks where it is weighed and delivered by pipe line to the sodium storage tanks. Chlorine, being a gas, bubbles up from the mixture and goes off the 20 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL ETC 07687 jp through conduits leading to the hlorine pumping areas. It is then ither pumped as a gas to the ethyl tiloride plants or is liquefied by `frigeration in the chlorine area. When liquefied, it is often loaded nto tank cars for shipment to an tutside company. The operators in his area control not only the renoval of chlorine from the cells but .Iso its distribution and liquefacion. The amount of electric current ised in the electrolysis of salt is normous. A lion's share of all our 3aton Rouge plant's electrical enrgy goes to the sodium process, iqual to five times the total daily and (omestic needs of Baton Rouge citi zens. This power is received as high tension alternating current, and is transformed to lower voltage D. C. power by the use of mercury arc rectifiers. This operation, controlled by substation operators, is a 24-houra-day job, every day in the year. To make lead-sodium alloy, oper ators at the melt pots first melt pig lead in large pots and pump this liquid lead to a scale tank on the second floor of the Alloy Building. Liquid sodium, either directly from the sodium plant or from the storage tanks, is drawn by vacuum up to a sodium scale tank nearby. The alloy operators then mix the two liquid metals in the proper, ratio and the liquid alloy is pumped to large ob- Stacks ot the ventilating system are silhouetted against the sky long oil-cooled boxes called casters where the alloy is allowed to "freeze." When it has solidified, the caster operator discharges it through crushers into coolers. It then has the appearance of shiny coal, about pea size or smaller. This ground alloy is fed into tightlysealed hoppers for transferring to the TEL buildings where it will be reacted with ethyl chloride, to make tetraethyl lead. Any excess sodium is pumped to storage tanks where it cools and hardens. To prevent reaction with air the sodium in each tank is blank eted with inert gas. This reserve supply is a "bank" for holding any surplus. Whenever it is necesasry to draw on the reserve supply, the sodium is heated to a liquid. Luck ily, sodium melts at a low tempera ture-- 97V* degrees Centigrade -- below the melting point of solder, or the boiling point of water. Theoretically, you could melt up a piece of sodium in a double-boiler in your kitchen--but you'd probably burn down the kitchen in the at tempt. For sodium is so active chem ically that it can break into water, combining with part of it and set ting hydrogen gas free. And the heat of the reaction will set the hy drogen gas on fire. Making water "burn" with a tiny piece of sodium is a favorite trick of amateur chem ists. Control boards for power rectifying equipment ETC 07689 EVERY PROP OF ETHYL COUNTS ETC 07690 Ethyl BULLETIN BOARD MAY, 1945 `- ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Editor Published by the Ethyl Corp.. 405 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.; Earle W. Webb, president; Percy L. Griffiths, vice-president end treasurer; Julian C. Gonzales, secretary. SELLING SAFETY PACE 4 IN THE KNOW PACE 6 s'GPosT S**V!Ce *4r 7 SAN SNINPIC PA I* CApTAlN dan au~ PlGTIN' ?3t TM 16 whiff.WHA rRo/r PACE 24 ETC 07693 Calingaert On Overseas Bombing Survey The latest Ethyl expert to be called by the Army for special front-line work, Dr. George Calin gaert, Director of Chemical Re search, is now in Europe serving as an operations analyst for the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. As a member of the rubber and chemical industries section. Dr. Calingaert's responsibilities will be to study the effect of aerial bombing of enemy industrial centers. Survey recommendations are expected to help improve bombing techniques, thus eventually shortening the war in the Far East. Dr. Calingaert's special qualifica tions that should make him of sin gular value to the survey include linguistic ability (he speaks French, Flemish, Dutch, German, and Ital ian) and extensive travel over much of the territory now feeling the full fury of Allied bombs. To enable him to carry out his war assignment, ex pected to last from three to six months, the company granted him a leave of absence. While he is away, the Chemical Research Department will be in charge of Dr. Harold Beatty, As sistant Director, who now has the responsibility of running the Chem Lab efficiently, safely, and smoothly as always, as well as maintaining necessary outside contacts. Because of the short time allowed Dr. Calingaert before his departure it was impossible for members of the Chem Lab to give him the sendoff they had planned. Instead, they are making plans for a royal wel come when he returns from his spe cial assignment. New Braid Resplendent in dark Navy uni form with a new half-stripe, Lieu tenant Commander Ray R. Faller, former "dean" of the Training School in Detroit, stopped in for a brief visit with his former associ ates last month. Ray, who earned his latest promo tion in February, is now stationed at the Naval Ordnance Plant at Cen ter Line, Michigan. Safety Program on Tour Again Doug Jeppe, of our Safety De partment, Captain John Thackston and Sergeant I. E. Weiss, of the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, have started a tour of Ferrying Division installations throughout the United States with a new gasoline demonstration and safety program, carrying on with the work begun by Jack Martin and Phil Perry, who were killed en route last December. Sergeant Weiss, the only remaining member of the original show, has been work ing closely with Doug in develop ing and completing the new pro gram, which originated with Col onel Ralph Williams, head of the Services & Supply of the Ferrying Division. Oscar Lewis, Ethyl's No. 1 safety man, has been called upon frequently for advice and counsel since the inception of the program. The program, which started its tour at Nashville, Tennessee the lat ter part of April, will be taken to every Ferrying Division installa tion in the United States, and in cludes on its itinerary such widely divergent points as Long Beach, California, Great Falls, Montana and Homestead, Florida. It will be shown at Army Post Theatres to an estimated audience of 20,000 en listed personnel and officers. The program includes two movies followed by demonstrations which clarify and substantiate the facts brought out in the films. The first movie dealing with the cause and prevention of fires contains an in troduction by Brig. General Bob E. Nowland, Commanding General of the Ferrying Division. The second film tells about engine operation and the necessity for cor rect octane ratings in the fuel used. The demonstration explains in Army vernacular the various uses of all grades of aviation fuel, with emphasis on safe handling. Cluck! Cluck! Private Hugh Macy (Detroit En gineering), broke into print in the Detroit Free Press recently as the result of meeting a Yankee hen in an East Indies jungle. Here's what happened as recorded in the paper: Hugh Macy, of Dearborn, moved into the Dutch East Indies with an Army unit which took up headquarters in a jungle spot never before reached by Yank troops. Second day in the base, a jungle patrol ran across an authentic American hen, on a nest of five eggs under a palm tree. Tenderly, the GI's moved nest and hen back to camp, and shortly five lusty chicks popped out. Hugh claims his outfit is the only one in the service that's offi cial godfather to five Plymouth Rocks. (Nobody knows how a Yankee hen got to the East Indies.) 4 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY ETC 07695 to a dynamometer Inside a Tractor with Wally Distler School is out for Professor Distler, who has been helping Professor G. W. McCuen, head of the Depart ment of Agricultural Engineering at Ohio State University, conduct a Tractor School, and Wally has left campus life behind to pursue his duties as tractor engineer in the Dayton Division in the usual man ner. The current Tractor School in cluded one to three day courses held for the following customer oil com panies: Cities Service, Sinclair, Gulf, Pure and Ohio. Wally shows Sohio's Barnhart water condensa tion in a dogged breather cap. Sohio men learn how a clogged air cleaner can aiiect performance and reduce tractor efficiency Information Please New employees at the Yonkers Test Lab are now "in the know". They've been learning about lots of things like octane, combustion, compres sion ratio, catalysts and bouncing pins. They've also been learning about the Ethyl Corporation, its products and its service to the oil industry. This enlightenment is the result of staff meetings held every morning for the past month, at which Hudson Kellogg, Merritt Collins, Elmer Mahlke, Harold Mehler and Julian Frey shed light on various subjects pertaining to the company and its business. Hudson Kellogg opened the course with a talk on the history of the Gasoline Testing Division. Then Elmer Mahlke, who went to Yonkers after completing the train ing of Army personnel in Tulsa, took over for the technical sessions. Using slides, strip films, movies and charts he gave a short course covering the use of tetraethyl lead, the various gasoline tests that are made in our laboratories, and the fundamentals of engines and their operation. Harold Mehler, Assistant Man ager of the Yonkers Lab, discussed office procedures, and explained the filing system that has been devel oped and standardized for use at all the test labs. Julian Frey, General Sales Man ager, went up from the New York office and told them how the Sales Department with its staff of techni cal experts functions to serve our customer companies and the oil and automotive industries in general. He also discussed some of the com pany's personnel policies and the various governmental regulations in effect as a result of the war. Merritt Collins spoke on the prep aration and use of gasoline quality surveys compiled from the test data gathered by our six gasoline testing laboratories. Ethyl films which give an insight into the history of the company, and tell about its current programs were shown. Hudson Kellogg rounded out the course and brought it to a close with a discussion of the devel opment of benefit plans in industry, our own A.I.S. plan, the organiza tional structure of the company, and the place of the employee both in Ethyl and in society as a whole. Ship Ahoy and Aloha For dark and smiling Phyllis Jones, of Detroit Technical Ser vice, it's anchors aweigh to become Apprentice Seaman Jones, U. S. Naval Reserve. She and Elizabeth Shippy, who has resigned from the Engineering Department to become a lady of leisure, were guests of hon or at a party given by Ethyl girls from the Lab. Thirty-five of them were on hand at Adrian Cotter's Tavern on March 27 for the farewell festivities. The guests of honor were presented with gardenia corsages and lovely gifts. 6 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY ,, ,,,, ETC 01697 Celebrating their fifteenth anni versaries with Ethyl last month were Mac Mclniire, Manager of the North Kansas City Gas Testing Lab and Harold Ritchie, of the Yonkers Lab. You've heard of the man without a country. Well, Mac is a man without a state. He was born in the wilds of Indian Terri tory back in 1903. If he had been born four years later he would have been an Oklahoman. Mac went through school at Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma Junior College there in 1922. In the summer months he worked in the oil fields at all kinds of jobs ranging from roust abouting to drilling. He continued his college education at the Univer sity of Oklahoma where he took an A.B. in chemistry in 1924. He re ceived further and specialized train ing at the Doherty' Engineering School of the Empire Oil and Refin ing Company at Bartlesville, Okla homa. There he obtained experience in oil refining, natural gasoline pro duction and chemical research in petroleum in a training course that lasted eighteen months. He then started to work in Empire's engi neering department helping with the design and construction of a gas pipeline from Texas to Missouri. H. L. Mclntire ETC 07698 In 1928 Mac returned to the Uni versity of Oklahoma and enrolled in the Petroleum Engineering School. This time he came away with a B.S. in Oil Field Management and an Engineer of Mines degree. He is a member of Alpha Chi Sigma and Sigma Tau. When Mac came to Ethyl in 1930 new gasoline testing laboratories were being built in Kansas City, Tulsa and Baton Rouge. He was Manager of the Tulsa Lab until 1933 when he was transferred to Kansas City to take charge of the Lab there and has continued as its Manager ever since. A civic-minded man, Mac is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Ad Club. For three years he was secretary of the North Kansas City Kiwanis Club and served two years as secretary of the Wood Hill Golf and Country Club. His favorite pastimes are dancing and golf but he hasn't spent much time at them recently "due to more pressing wartime activities." Upon sending his photograph to the Bulletin Board, the Kansas City Lab Manager made some disparag ing remarks about it, adding that of course the photographer could not be blamed for the "homely picture." Members of his staff upon hearing about it rose up in arms and sent the following P.S. unbeknownst to him: "We of the laboratory staff wish to refute Mr. Mclntire's state ment. We appreciate working with him and think he is swell. We believe we had better buy him a 15-year present -- a new mirror." The note was signed by Deane Birkes, J. B. Marshall, James M. Terrell, N. Irving Fay and Frances C. Hunter. When Harold Ritchie knock- test engineer at Yonkers, passed the 15-year mark he became the eighth man at the Yonkers Lab to join the Harold Ritchie, knock test engineer at Yonkers, gets his 15-year service pin irom Lab Manager Hudson Kellogg ETC 07699 veterans group, with Walter Bauer, George Gier, John Hallay, Larry Hunt, Hudson Kellogg, Harold -Mehler and Clifford Pope already members. It was on April 14, 1930, that Harold came to Ethyl. He had worked for American Telephone and Telegraph and for f-the Locomobile Corporation in * Bridgeport, Connecticut, before C coming to us. Before that he was on the high seas with the U. S. Navy transporting troops to France. That was during World War I and Har old was just out of high school when he went into the service. He drew the job of Navy cook. When the war was over and he got married, he had a fine time teaching his wife her way around a kitchen. "Now," he says, "she's almost as good as I am -- after all I taught her." Harold was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and attended high school in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He and his wife live in Hartsdale, New York, where they are ring lead ers of the Cobeleigh Club. Harold is chairman of the badminton commit tee and is now in the process of help ing to build two courts. When they are finished he will complete plans for the club's initial badminton tour nament. A favorite sport at the Co beleigh Club is the old English game of bowling-on-the-green and Harold goes in for this, too. In fact, he goes in for all the activities around the club--swimming, tennis, dancing, ping-pong. All of which he says keeps him "trim and happy." Two Detroiters rounded out ten years of service with Ethyl on April 1 -- Reginald Broquet, of Aero nautical Research and Charles Smith, of Technical Service. Ten people in Baton Rouge, Deep water and Detroit have chalked up their first five years of service -- John Capinjola, Chem Research, Detroit; Robert Loser, Engineering Research, Detroit; Leonard Seglin and Harold Madden, Deepwater; Louis Watkins, Frank Patton, Viale Fontenot, Duffy Pinell, Henry Wall and McGee Owens, in Baton Rouge. ON THE ROSTRUM Vice president Graham Edgar has traveled from one end of the country to the other during the past month in answer to the call of Mich iganders and Texans to speak before employee groups. In Michigan it was the Detroit Ethyl Society where he spoke on March 20 about the postwar activities of Ethyl. In the Lone Star State he was principal speaker at the regular meeting of the Texas Dow Institute held in Freeport on April 10. The members had asked the originator of the octane scale to come down and tell them about high octane fuels and how they get that way. Remember -- when you buy War Bonds you help to pay for the tanks and ships and planes which are de stroying the Japs. You are helping to pay the cost of preserving your own freedom. That is something which is cheap at any price. Buy an EXT *4ond. ETC 07700 9 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY  May 7th in New York ** * * * * There was joy and there was sor row. There were tears and there was laughter, as the news of victory in Europe came over the air on Mon day morning, May 7. Shouting and throwing paper, dancing and toot ing horns, the people of New York, after three and a half years of war, let themselves go in revelry that de fied restraint, despite the fact that the announcement was not official. Throughout the morning Ethyl executives on the 35th floor of the Chrysler Building carried on busi ness as usual, while in other quar ters there was less restraint. In the Mailroom on the 36th floor and the Accounting Department on the 34th for example, excitement filled the air and a holiday spirit reigned. Desks were deserted while everyone hung out the windows to watch cele brants in nearby buildings and to contribute their share to the clouds of confetti fluttering in the breeze to the street below. One note, underlying and con stant, beating firmly in the hearts of all, was that of grateful thanks. Thanks to the boys who achieved the hard-won victory. Thanks to the boys who marched in our victorious armies. Thanks to the boys who slugged it out in foxholes and trenches, on the sea and in the air. On Tuesday, the official V-E day, Ethyl's busy beavers were all on the job. That afternoon some of them toasted the momentous occasion in Jimmy Hyland's office at a spur-of- the-moment open house. Before he knew it, it was bulging with people from the Finance Department and Jimmy, disguised in miner's helmet, sat behind his desk and welcomed all comers. It is lamentable, indeed, that this picture was not recorded for posterity, but all efforts to ob tain a photographer were in vain. Jack Dooher, who assists Jimmy in looking after the financial matters for Ethyl-Dow, talked glibly of Jimmy's recent return from the magnesium mines. Girls in the New York Office, who have husbands, fiances and brothers in Europe, seemed to feel a joy that was only ephemeral and was quickly tempered with the sobering thought that the war is not over. They were happy that the first phase of it is over, but fully aware that the time for a real celebration is yet to come. Here are the reactions of some of the girls who were asked how they felt on V-E day: Marie Burch, chief telephone op erator, whose best beau, Corporal Alexander E. Anderson, is in Gen eral Patch's 7th Army with the 100th Infantry, recipient of the Presidential Citation: "I had a good cry for myself, but I was glad. Everything can be back to normal soon again, we hope, but I think the worst is yet to come." Anne Marie Lovett, of Stenogra phic, whose husband, Dick, is a cor poral with the 104th Infantry: "Well, I was feeling pretty good for 10 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY ETC 07701 p little while, but then I realized lhat he'll just be going on over to Ihe Pacific." I Edna Blakley, secretary to Tom Konan, who is waiting for the return of a certain Charles Camp, Technician Corporal with the 9th Army in Germany: "I don't expect him back now, but I feel wonderful. II think the fact that the fighting is lover over there is certainly something to be thankful for." I Muriel Homer, of the Finance De partment, who has a brother in the I Quartermaster Corps in France, two [brothers in the Navy and one who [was killed on a Navy aircraft carpier in March: "I don't feel too [much like celebrating. I'm waiting for V-J day." I Edith Mahoney, of Finance, whose husband. Technical Sergeant Cornelius J. Mahoney, is in the Air Service Command, and has been sta tioned in Rome for the past fifteen : months: "I'm very happy, but I still feel that we have a long way to go and I don't expect him home until it's all over." These expressions are typical of the sentiment voiced by the girls who have men folk in Europe, and include the following: Eleanor Helmrich, whose brother. Staff Ser geant Edward Helmrich, is with Patton's Army in Czechoslovakia; Eleanor Queitsch, whose fiance, Ser geant Bill Maloney, is with the Fifth Army in Italy; Helen McGoldrick, whose husband, Al, with the Aviation Engineers of the 9th Air Force in Germany, has been over seas for thirty-four months; Helen Reidy, whose husband. First Lieu tenant John Reidy, is with the Army Medical Corps on a troop ship in the Atlantic; Betty Bampton, whose fiance, Charles Reid, a Phar macist's Mate in the Navy, has been serving on an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic for the past year and a half; Dorothy Hashman, whose husband, Lowell, a Chief Petty Officer in the Coast Guard, has been on sea duty in the Atlantic for almost three years; Dorothy Callahan, whose husband, Sergeant Frank Callahan, is stationed at a Quartermaster de pot in Germany; Helen Reed, whose brother, Bob, is in Germany; Kay Williams, whose brother, Private Timothy Doyle, is with Hodges' 1st Army in Germany -- he is a combat engineer in the outfit that captured Cologne; and Anne Lang, whose brother, Corporal Joseph Draddy, is an M. P. in France. All of these girls are members of the New York Fi nance Department. In the Publicity Department, Millie Roberts, whose brother, Bob, is with the Quartermaster Corps in France, summed up the feeling of most of them when she said, "I'm happy because at least he's out of danger for a while." The consensus was that the an nouncement of V-E day came as an anti-climax. They had been expect ing it for so long they couldn't get very excited when it did at last come. As Mary Marvin, of Steno graphic, whose brother, Staff Ser geant Chuck Pate, is a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division, put it: "I was disappointed in my self--I didn't cry, or shiver, or any thing." ETC 07702 11 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY San Berdu Celebrates 10th Anniversary To celebrate the tenth anniver sary of the west coast Engineering Laboratory the San Bernardino em ployees and their families gathered at the Edgehill Club on March 9 for dinner and dancing. About fifty Ethylites came, each family con tributing a part of the menu for the pot luck dinner. Diversions in addi tion to eating and dancing included a game played with polka dot horse shoes and silver stakes. The party broke up in the early hours of March 10 -- the real anniversary of the ar rival of the "pioneers". On that day ten years ago the cara van of trucks and passenger cars car rying test equipment and personnel arrived from Detroit. It had battled its way through snowstorms in Wyoming and Utah, hostile tax col lectors in Nevada, and the bars and roulette wheels of boomtown Las Vegas, where Boulder Dam was be ing built. The group included nine em ployees -- engineers, test drivers and mechanics and their families. They were headed by Bill Schulze, who is now Manager of the San Berdu Engineering Lab. They were greeted at the old building on "E" Street by Chuck Hawley, who had arrived earlier to set up headquar ters for conducting a series of road tests. The location proved to be ideal for road test work and the tests orig inally designed to last six months 12 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY ETC 07703 stretched into three years. In 1938 the laboratory was built and the group settled down to stay, forming the nucleus for the current organi zation which has tripled in size. Of the original group, two are still there -- Bill Schulze and Miner Gamble. Four of them -- Mike Remondino, Dick Beaubier, Wes Price and John Wintringham -- are now at the Detroit Lab. Though not a part of the "pio neering nine" Rollin Gish, Ed Lind say, Dick Rice, Ray Seymour and Art Stahlhaber consider themselves oldtimers as they joined the com pany shortly after the arrival of the original group, and were on hand to see that the occasion was celebrated in proper fashion. Box Adams and Gil Way were all over the place with camera and flash bulbs and came up with this picture -- the only one that turned out not to be a blank. Adden Gray? former secretary to New York Office Manager Cary Harris, got a tarewell gift and an orchid from friends and associates the day she left. Some of them are shown here watching Marielie Jacobson, head of Steno graphic. put on the sterling silver bracelet bearing the Prince of Wales Coat of Arms which | they gave her with earrings to match. They are left to right: Mary Marvin, Steno graphic, Gladys Jensen, secretary to Buss Weston, Lucile Titlar, Salety, Jean Stanley, secretary to Ed Downs, Betty White, Stenogra phic. Millie Roberts, Publicity, Marguerite Mc Donald. Order and Shipping, Evelyn Christo pher. Stenographic, Dorothy Norton, who is replacing Adden as secretary to Cary Harris. Justine Bilcely. secretary to Oscar Lewis. Erma Harris, 36th floor receptionist and Clem Parchen, Manufacturing. About 40 girls attended a party tor her at the Commodore Hotel the evening of April 2, which would have been her eleventh anniversary with Ethyl. She left to accept a position as secre tary to the director of the Buckley School on East 74th Street, where vacations stretch over a six-week period in the summer with a week at Christmas and Easter thrown in. Adden. with her boundless enthusiasm and sparkling su perlatives, will be missed very much by her friends at Ethyl. l< I' iii I. i i Frey Speaks in Baton Rouge Julian Frey/ General Sales Mana ger, was the principal speaker at the Ethyl Corporation Professional Em ployees Association meeting held in Baton Rouge on March 14. Approxi mately SO members and guests at tended the dinner and business meeting at the Heidelberg Hotel. Our No. 1 salesman told how his department operates to serve, not only our customer oil companies, but the automotive and petroleum industries at large. He outlined the company's methods of maintaining high standards in fuel treated with Ethyl fluid and discussed the possi bility of developments encompass ing new fields of activity. Julian's talk, which was enthusi astically received, stimulated a lively round table discussion of postwar problems and prospects which brought the meeting to a close. It ended a busy day for our Gen eral Sales Manager, as the dinner meeting was the second speaking engagement on his day's calendar. At noon he was guest speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon. In his talk before the Rotarians he described the part Ethyl Corporation is play ing in the war effort and the vital role of the Baton Rouge operation. Zing Goes the Arrow! Genevieve Corcoran became Mrs. James J. Murphy in a wedding ceremony performed at St. Helena's Church in Manhattan on April 7. After a short wedding trip to A lantic City the newlyweds return* to their home in the Bronx, an Genevieve continues as secretary t Vice President Harry Kaley. *** Some You Haven't Heard Ethyl, as all the world should kno- is a trademark name. Sometime though, it seems that Advertisir and Public Relations still have set a few people straight on tl facts. At Fort Des Moines, Iowa, there actually a WAC whose name (d spite rather pointed and repeat! ribbing) remains ETHEL GASS. Atlanta Safety Engineer E. Muller arrived in Jackson, Mis: one day having wired ahead f< reservations. "Name?" the cler asked. "Muller," was the repl; whereupon the clerk looked pu: zled. "Oh yes," he finally admitte "We have the reservation, but e were expecting a WAC. You s< the name on the .telegram is `Cor Ethyl Muller'." (The telegraf company had abbreviated the sign ture to E. E. Muller, Ethyl Cori then evidently just dropped t! E. E.) The Atlanta Division recently r ceived one of those miniature aut mobile license plates addressed "Miss Ethel Carp, 405 Lexingt* Ave., N. Y." (Sounds like a fi: story to us.) r Marvin looks up from the list she is [09 to smile for file cameraman. Mary, r a newcomer to the New York Stenograiepartment, misses the wide open spaces inesota, her home state, and pians to 90 here after the war. At the moment howshe's content to be in the crowded conof Manhattan island, as her husband is ed on Long Island at the flockaway Coast I Marie Dragonelte, secretary to Joe Cos tello in New York Manufacturing, came to us from the Lombard Governor Corporation. She is a product of the Union Hill High School in her native town of Union City, New Jersey and Katharine Gibbs. Marie lives with her parents in North Bergen and spends her spare time helping to entertain the hoys at local canteens, playing tennis and horseback riding. 1 a etty Jane Hockey, of the Detroit Chemj- I Research Lah, is a graduate of Albion Col?e where she majored in Home Economics. e spends her. days pursuing her duties as emist for Ethyl and her after hours playing anis, swimming, and writing V-mail letters. ir affections seem to be divided between a rtain Marine and a certain Lieutenant in the rmy, both of whom are overseas. ETC 07706 Dan Hirschler Spearheads for the 13th AAF Technical talk - Captain Dan Hirschler (right) and T/Sgt. Marshall Hill inspect an air craft engine at a lorwaid base in the Philippines Now for the first time it can be told -- the important part played by the photo reconnaissance unit of the 13th AAF in the recapture of the Philippines. Serving with that unit is Captain Dan Hirschler, formerly of our Detroit Lab. Captain Hirschler is an aircraft technical inspector in the recon naissance unit that brought back the first aerial photos of the Jap strong holds and airstrips knocked out by the 13th AAF before the infantry landed on Leyte Island, central Philippines. While pilots flew their P-38 Light nings through the zero-filled Phil ippine skies to take the vital pic tures, ground men and laboratory technicians battled equipment short ages, heat and enemy bombing, to turn out the photographs that guided the "Fightin' 13th's" fighters and bombers to the targets. Moving into position for the Phil ippine assignment Captain Hirschler's unit landed on a Dutch East In dies island where Japanese troops still fought and nightly air raids made sleep and rest difficult. The ground crew mechanics prepared their planes for flight despite fre quent bombing and strafing of the airstrip. 16 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 07707 Laboratories were set up before tents and put on a 24-hour schedule. When a water shortage threatened to hold up production, the men gave |ip their showers and used extra water to turn out more pictures. - It was the toughest mission yet undertaken by the unit, veteran of Guadalcanal, the Northern Solo mons, Rabaul and Balikpapan. In the latter campaign, the camera planes paved the way for the recordbreaking 2,500-mile flights of the 13th AAF bombers, which struck major blows at the Borneo oil cen ter, source of 35 percent of Japan's wartime fuel. High ranking officers of the i "Fightin' 13th" declared this mis sion, accomplished under extreme hardships, played an important part in the successful invasion of the Philippines. Dan, one of Ray Faller's boys of 1940, went into the Army in Feb ruary, 1941. He was a radio tech nician for the First Signal Company at Fort Custer, Michigan prior to entering Officer Candidate School. He took his officer's training with the Aviation Cadet Detachment at Chanute Field, Illinois. He has been overseas for 26 months. His wife, Evelyn, is living with her parents in Ashland, Kansas, for the dura tion of the war. Winnie in Paree Paris in the spring is truly wonder ful, says Winifred Duddy, former-, ly of our Deepwater plant, now a Master Sergeant in the WAC. She enlisted in February of 1943 and was sent to England in March, where she was stationed for six months. Then, to her great delight, she was sent to Paris. "I remember reading and hearing about Paris in the spring, but little did I dream that I would ever actu ally be here," she writes. "It's some thing I shall always remember." Your War Bond purchase may save the life of that nice kid next door. Lay it on the line to help the Seventh War Loan. Buy an EXTRA Bond. ETC 07708 17 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY .1 ;i Errol in the Orient Ethyl people in Detroit and New York who were fortunate enough to hear Errol Gay tell about his recent trip to the CBI theatre as a technical consultant to the United States Army, saw many beautiful pictures of the countries which he visited. For those of you who did not get to see them these pictures will give you a rough idea of what Errol saw and did on his trip to the Orient. Out authority on modern vehicles does a little research on more ancient modes of travel Errol visits the Taj Mahal at Agra. Built by Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife it took 20,000 men 22 years to complete it etc 07709 A group of Ordnance and petroleum experts pause /or a picture a/ter a meeting at an Ord nance installation in the Assam Valley. They are /rom le/t to right, as identi/ied by Ethyl's representative, "a guy named Gay," Lt. Col. Cooke, Capt. Howe, Maj. Belknap, Col. Berlin, Maj. Stewart and Col. Taylor Pagoda detail -- Errol and his friends snapped in front of a pagoda in Calcutta Home of Hindu. Muslim, Buddhist and many religious sects. India is a land of temples ETC 077 10 BULLETIN BOARD -- HAT Bob Bums, assistant head of the Payiol Section, Sew York Finance Department, got royal send-off when he lelt to join tie Narlast month. Above ore some of his colleague: who honored him with a farewell dinner at tie Winthrop Hotel on March 22. They ore, seatec Irom left to right. Carlos de Estrada. Ruth Wheelon, Heyward Kinard. Payroll Section head. Bob. Mary O'Brien, Ellen Svendsen. Loretta Hogan, Dorothy Hogan, John Palmer. standing. Gertrude Melloh. Edith Andrade. Lil lian Kraker, John Findc. AdeJe Baldwin. John Robertson and Herbert Case. Left. Heyward presents his departing right hand man with a Service Man's watch, one oi those super models, gift of friends throughout the company. Ed Aeiwofdt, talented artist in tie Finance Department, made him an album containing (heir names and humorous nautical sketches. Bob joined the company in J936 working in the Administration Department until October, 1938 when he was transferred to Payroll. He studied accounting at Columbia and N. Y. U. He was inducted March 26 and is now train ing at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station as a radar technician. His wife and two sons. Tommy, one, and Jetty, three, live in Oceanside, New York. 077 1 1 Look What Spring Brought ns spring and that bird is on the ing paying visits to the homes of le following Ethyl folk in Detroit nd Dallas and leaving the followig mementoes: I Elizabeth Jane at the Arthur felts on March 3. Pop is an aeroautical research engineer on Sam leron's staff. Elizabeth has a rother, Steve, four years old. I Wendy Jacqueline at the Stephen Iroeges on March 16. She is the irst-born in the Droege home. Her lad is a 15-year Ethylman on Dave Javidson's staff at the Detroit Test <ab. ) Marcella Elaine at the Herbert Neals on March 20. She broke some sort of a record by putting in her appearance on a Tuesday. The other three Neal children -- Herb, Jr., twelve, James, nine, and Susan, two, all arrived on Sunday. Papa Neal is a veteran member of the Chem Re search Lab. 9 Lief Soroos at the Harold Soroos' on March 28. Harold, a chem re searcher, is a three-time father. Young Peter is four; Kathy is two. 9 Mary Elizabeth at the Harry Cot trells on March 27. Harry, field man in the Tulsa Division, insists that she looks just like him. The Cot trells live in Dallas. Lieutenant and Mrs. W. P. Hastings--She is bet ter known at Ethyl as Jane Jordan. This picture was tairen at the Little Church Around the Cor ner. where she and the Lieutenant were mar ried on March 3. They are living in Jersey City, where Bill is doing special work lor the Chemical Wartare Division oi the Army. Jane, Technical Assistant in our Refinery Technology Division, is now commuting to the New York office, where she is working on a special as signment for the Sales Department. Jane Jordan Jamboree--In honor oi the brideto-be. 30 oi Jane's friends at the Detroit Lab had a dinner party for her before her departure tor New York. i I |l ETC 07712 l Alice Heslln has recently joined the Advei Using and Public Relations stall to work in th office of Ralph Champiin, head of the depar: ment. Alice was born in Woodbury. Connect cut but is a full-fledged New Yorker as he family moved to Manhattan when she was ver young. Her iirst job was in the sales office c a carpet manufacturer. Later she worked a statistician and secretary for a Wall Stree brokerage firm. Greatest enthusiasm is her doc Honey--a Great Dane, whose daily diet consist of a pound and a half of meat, buttered toas a quart of milk, Gaines dog food and misee laneous vegetables Katherine Horvat, with the help ol th bookkeeping machine, posts the accounts pay able and writes the checks that are due. Kati erine has only been in New York a short tim and is impressed with the number ol taxicab she sees on New York's streets, women wit baby carriages and dogs on leashes. She hail from Denver where babies and dogs play ir their own back yards and people ride in thei own automobiles. In Denver Katherine worker for the American Medical and Dental Associa tion. Favorite pastimes are dancing and reac ing. She loves music ol all kinds and likes to c to the opera Rose Adamec came to New York live years ago, liked its bright lights and stayed. She came to Ethyl a month ago and we hope that she'll like our company and slay. When she first came to New York she found the hunt lor a job an exciting adventure, so she went from one temporary job to another--all for the fun of the bunt. Finally she settled down at the American Metal Company. Ltd., where she stayed lor three years before coming to the Chrysler Building to work in our Finance De partment. Bose, a native ol Connecticut, was an honor student at Windham High in Willimantic. She lives in Brooklyn with her sister ETC 07713 ohn Higgins Killed in Action e death of PFC John Higgins, rmerly of the New York office, has st been reported to the Bulletin oard. He was killed in action on ctober IS, 1944, while fighting !th the 9th Army in Belgium. He s 22 years old. John came to work at Ethyl shortly ter graduation from high school 1941. He started in the Mailroom d was later transferred to the Fince Department. He went into the rmy in December, 1942, took his eliminary training at Fort Myers, irginia, then transferred to Fort enning, Georgia, where he trained r the infantry. He went overseas st June. John was born on August 1, 1922, New York City. He attended St. homas Apostle and Sacred Heart rade schools and graduated from t. Simon Stock High. He was a ember of St. Simon Stock Church. He is survived by his parents, Mr. nd Mrs. John Higgins, and a sister, 'argaret Higgins, of 2342 Ryer venue, the Bronx. We at Ethyl ex- PFC John Michael Higgins tend to them our sincere sympathy. John is the fifth Ethyl man who has made the supreme sacrifice, and our eighth war casualty. Two of our boys are prisoners-of-war and one is missing in action. //--Everything 1 Could// mortally wounded Texas boy tood up for IS minutes and mowed own attacking Germans. After he ad driven off the Nazi, he slumped o the ground, turned to a comrade d whispered: "Write to my wife, ell her I did everything I could or her and my country." This Medal of Honor soldier did ore than write to the hero's wife. He wrote to you, too. Can you sin cerely answer: "I am doing all I can for my country?" Not unless you are doing your share in the Mighty 7th War Loan. Your maxi mum War Bond purchase of any of the war loan is needed the most now as this Texas soldier's com rades head for the Pacific for the final round of the world struggle. ETC 07714 23 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY Champions Fred (Never Mias-A-Shot) Dykstra. left, and Gus (Boiler-Maker) Ligeti right, bat a few with their extra size prize paddles Goofy Gossima aft ifts Goofiest By Barney Jones Editor's Note: When a research en gineer comes out of the realm of science and into the world of sports to cover a ping-pong tournament you have something. To find out what happens when a scientific brain is turned loose on an innocent par lor game, read the following report of the Detroit ping-pong tourna ment by Barney Jones. The writer has never been to a ping-pong tournament before, never was remotely interested in this par lor game. Therefore, we were not backward in expressing our apathy towards the Second Annual Detroit Research Laboratories Lunch-Time Men's Doubles Ping-Pong Elim ination Tournament Finals, and to wards the Ditto Ditto Ditto Wo men's Ditto Ditto Ditto. But the cogent enthusiasm drew us to the basement to witness the Men's Fi nals, in spite of ourself. That was the first mistake. The second mistake was one of judg ment. For while the others sat around and enjoyed the game we foolishly recorded on a chart the errors made by the contestants. Per haps one gets into the habit of doing this in a research laboratory. Data, data, data. Tables, charts, and curves. This got us into trouble. For right after the game Fritz Schroeter, the guy who should really write up this darned tournament, button-holed us in the lobby, wedged us in a corner, pinned us down, fenced us in and said: "You kept the data so you write up the tournament." All pro tests were completely disregarded. It was obvious that we were stuck with the assignment. So we said to ourself, "What is the first thing that any good research man does in tackling a problem? And right off the bat we answered, "Why some research, of course. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY ETC 07715 That gave us our first clue and we decided to delve into the history of ping-pong. Boy, what a laugh! The game is hardly out of diapers yet. Fact is, the game was not even legal ized in the United States until 1933. And of course it's official name is not ping-pong at all. It is really table tennis. But originally the game was called gossima. This didn't last though, for the early pursuers of the celluloid ball tacked other fanciful names such as whiff-whaff and klickklack on this innocuous sport. Men's Doubles Now to get to the tournament. The men's doubles were fought with breath-taking display of speed and skill. Inter-departmental rivalry was at its zenith in the finals. The Chem Lab was represented by Fred (Never Miss-A-Shot) Dykstra and Gus (Boiler-Maker) Ligett. Pitched against this clever, cunning and cau tious team was the intrepid but in effectual Engineering combination of lithe, lissome and limber Dick (Dead-eye Mortimer) Sneed and stolid, stocky and staunch Clarence (Cap Five-in-a-Coupe) Hall. Score in the first game, favor of Chem Lab. In the second, Dick and Cap equalized with a 21--18 round. But the forceful offensive of Ligett complimented by the Stalingradlike defense of Dykstra, completely routed their opponents in the third game, which ended in a brilliant whirlwind of matchless perform ance, 21--13 favor Chem Lab. The fourth game saw the heat of the battle raised to fever pitch as the gladiators from the Department Singles Champions In the singles tournament (which was not covered by Ace Sports Writer Jones) Bill Katz came through a field of 30 con testants to cop the title from run ner-up Gordon Wilcox. Both are Chem Researchers. Mya Silberg, also of the Chem Lab, took three out of five games from Kaye Donahue, of the En gineering Lab, to win top spot in the Girl's Singles. BUI Katz, champion of the men's singles, sends a fast one over the net Gordon Wilcox, runner-up in the singles, keeps his eye on the ball, ready tor action ETC 07716 of Minor Adjustments and Repairs (the Garage) called forth every ounce of energy to bring the match score even. But, alas, to no avail. Steadiness of nerves and the un daunted coolness that comes of long experience under actual combat stood the men from the Department of Stinks in good stead. Fearlessly and with articulate ad miration from the gasping hysteri cal female audience, Fred and Gus clinched the match with a 21--19 game and a 3--1 match. Heinie Mueller and Punch Pfundstein (of Technical Service Engine Develop ment, who had been previously elim inated), presented the Chem Lab champs with huge wooden paddles "Emblematic of the 1944-45 PingPong Championship." Saroyan on Ping-Pong Lest the Road Test boys become too humiliated at their crushing de feat and lest the Stink Lab boys be come altogether too overbearing, puffed up and haughty about their great victory we will cite Wil Saroyan's opinion of ping-pong ping-pong champions. He wi and we quote: "No one has ever admired a p pong champion . .. No one can be expected to care a great about ping-pong people ... Thej over-comfortable people who without imagination and have real function." Women's Doubles Now this was a match. Male s tators were obviously present. < Kaye (Blondie) Donahue, dre in form-fitting mechanics ove and attractive, athletic Ph; (Helen Wills Moody) Jones ' the program favorites with thr five and seven to ten odds quote the ringside by calculating C< Pitted against the favorites ' two good-looking, healthy and sonable babes from the Chem L; apple-cheeked Mya Silberg smiling Ruth Thomas. Utterly dainful of the bobby-socked, sac Dick (Dead-eye Mortimer) Sneed rounds the corner tor a conference with the opponents. P in hand and ready for action Jus partner, Clarence (Cap Five-in-a-Coupel Hall stands bee. waits for the next one. Leaning against the wail and cheering them on with hearty applet Bulletin Board correspondent Fritz Schroeter ETC 07717 Runners-up in the women's doubles wete Ruth (All Smiles) Thomas, left and Mya (Apple Cheeks) Silberg, right. Mya is the winner oi the women's singles shoed athletes who opposed them, they played in street clothes and French heeled shoes. As soon as the match got under way the spectators realized that they were to see an exhibition of speed and deftness unparalleled in the his tory of Detroit klick-klack. First game went quickly to Mya and Ruth 21--17. Kaye and Phyllis turned the trick in the next, 21--18. In the third, the score went to deuce, and after a brief but heated contest, the girls from the Test Tube Depart ment won 22--20. In the fourth, Kaye nimbly flitted around the table like a ballerina in tights and dis played a nice form (of klick-klack you rats!). She and Phyllis made a winning combination and equalized the match by coming up with a 24-22 victory in another deuce game. The final bout was almost too much. Spectators gasped, groaned, and grunted while the contestants fought relentlessly in a do-or-die display of skill. For the third time the score went to deuce and although Mya and Ruth returned some aston ishingly difficult shots the breaks were against them and the KayePhyllis team won the game 23--21 and the match 3--2. To crown their hard-won glory they were presented with the championship prize -- a fresh pineapple. Undoubtedly William Saroyan is right. No one ever takes a whiffwhaff champion seriously. But be tween you and me, and as a novice at the sport, any time the girls want to play a whiff-whaff tournament, we'll be more than happy to attend. Phyllis (Helen Wills Moody) Jones, left, end Kaye (Blondie) Donahue, right, carried away the honors is the women's doubJes. Looking on at ieft are Jewel Ahonen, secretary to Dick Scales and Auth Mumo, Chem Researcher TenftlO Hinder*, Detroit boro and Detroit bred, has joined the staff of chemists at our Chem Aesearcb Lab in the Motor City. She received her scientific training at Michigan's School of Chemical Engineering in Ann Arbor. While waiting for her fiance to return from the South Pacific where he is on submarine duty for the Navy, she keeps her self busy brushing up on her bridge technique, which is already something to cope with. She aiso goes in for golf and swimming. Florence Dibble, another comely additi to our Detroit staff, is a laboratory assistant the Chemical Research Lab. She has spent me of her life in Detroit, having arrived there fn California at the tender age of three. She w educated in the Detroit schools and is a grac ate of Royal Oelc High. Her favorite sports < bowling and swimming. Her favorite beau a husband-to-be is with the Army Medical Cor somewhere in France. Joan Springer, having just returned from her appointed rounds in the Detroit Engineering Department, is ready to start a11 over againfilling those clean cubbyholes with incoming mail, then talcing it out to malce the rounds again. As if this weren't enough exercise, her favorite pastime is roller skating which she finds "more fun than a barrel of monkeys Janie, short tor Joan, was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. She is married to a member of the U. S. Army Services of Supply, who is some where in Belgium. They have an 18-month old baby boy--"the cutest you ever did see," says the doting mother. ETC 07719 Don't Forget to Write Baton Rouge, Detroit and lew York more Ethyl people have left plant, laboratory and desk to serve in the Armed Forces of the Jnited States. Allie Lavigne and Ossie Marrs, of ^he Baton Rouge plant, are now ith an Infantry Training Battal ion at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas. Isiah Lang, of Baton Rouge is with a Quartermaster Training company at Camp Lee, IVirginia. Phyllis Jones, who was secretary [to Errol Gay in Detroit, has been [inducted into the WAVES. Bob [Burns, assistant head of New York [Payroll, is now a member of the jU. S. Navy. Both were feted by their [colleagues at farewell parties re ported elsewhere in this issue. Several Ethylmen already in the [service have been promoted since [last heard from. Charles H. Mathis, I formerly of our Baton Rouge Ethyl [Chloride operation, is now a Lieu[ tenant (jg), and John Miller, forImerly of the Deepwater plant, is [ now a Sergeant. If you haven't written to one of [ our boys in service recently, remem- J ber there's nothing you could do f that would be more appreciated. For your convenience, the latest changes of address are printed be low. The Bulletin Board will be happy to furnish the address of any Ethyl folk now in service. [ Pvt. Edwin G. Adams, U.S.M.C. : Co. C., 1st Amph. Trn. Bn. F.M.F., c/o Fleet Post Office | San Francisco, Calif. Pvt. Eddie Asbury, 38499897 602nd Eng. Sqdn. 387th Ser. Grp. A.A.F., Columbus, Ind. Capt. Ray M. Brown, Jr. 556th A.A.F. Base Unit 6th Ferrying Command Long Beach Army Air Base Long Beach, California Robert C. Burns, Seaman lst/C (RT) USN Training Center Great Lakes, 111. Sgt. Everett L. Clough, 32071539 4609 S.U. 175 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago 4, 111. T/5 Carl E. Cyriax, 32994821 6th A.A.F. -- Base Unit 3rd National Bank Building Dayton, Ohio A/C James M. Fauver, 38500364 Cadet Detachment, Section M. & N. LJAAF, La Junta, Colorado Lt. Col. Benjamin W. Fridge, 0-365107 2539 Air Force Base Unit Langley Field, Va. Lt. Edgar W. Gates, 0-763839 548th N.F. Sqdn. APO 86, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Lt. Glen D. Grant 1512 West 12th Spokane, 9, Washington Major J. Robert Greenwood, 0350514 19th Battalion 5th Training Regt. Camp Gordon, Ga. S/Sgt. James N. Johnson, 38262018 384 Q. M. Truck Company APO 72, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Phyllis K. Jones,--Appr. Seaman WR -- USNR -- 8696 Dumbarton Rd. Detroit, 4, Michigan ETC 07720 29 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY T/Sgt. L. C. Juban, 18151266 363 Engr. Regt. APO 824, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Pvt. Isiah Lang, Sr., 38621173 2d QM TNG CO. 1st Bn. Camp Lee, Va. Lt. Lee H. Larison CTU 70.1.6 PT Adv. Base 6 Fleet Post Office San Francisco, California Pvt. Allie J. Lavigne Co. A, 102d ITB, 81st ITR IRTC Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas Pfc. Charles L. McKnight, U.S.M.C. Hdq. Co. 2nd Bn. 5th Marines First Marine Division c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Pvt. Ossie W. Marrs, 38622175 Co. "A," 104th ITB, 75th ITR Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas Lt. Robert R. Mead 1120 N. 24 Blvd. Boise, Idaho 2nd Lt. John R. Montgomery, 02051259 APO 9286, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. S/Sgt. George B. Noland, 34045692 Company ,L. 4213 U.S.A. Hospital Plant APO 640, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. 2nd Lt. R. E. Oesterling 0-840126 Sqn. H., BAAF Fort Myers, Fla. Pvt. Helen Organ Co. 3, 21st Rgt. 3d WAC TC Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Pvt. James P. Prettyman, 32950266 Inf. Co. "A," 2nd Platoon APO 15779, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Charles B. Roberts, S 1/C Bks. 3, N.A.J.J.C. Ward Island Corpus Christi, Texas Pvt. Wilbert J. Templet, 38618369 Btry. "C" 3rd Pit. APO 15793, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Archie L. Tillotsen St. 3/C U. S. S. Mauna Loa AE 8 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. Lt. A. D. Treloar 5508 Chestnut Street New Orleans, Louisiana Capt. A. E. Vallier, Jr. Ordnance Dept. 2512 Marion Lansing 10, Michigan Pfc. Lynn A. Wilmot, 32361201 Co. "B," 144th Trg. Bn. A.S.F.T.C. Fort Lewis, Washington Pvt. Lloyd M. Winborn, 44045141 MP Pit. 8th Arm'd. Div. APO 258, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Lt. Henry K. Wright 5th Bomber Group H. 72nd Sqd., APO 719 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California S/Sgt. W. F. Zachariah, 18134112 674 Bomb Sqdn. 417 Bomb Gr. APO 321, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California 30 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 07721 EVERY DROP OF ETHYL COUNTS i3 * ' Ji --- -7"___ ETC 07723 Mnttd in lit* U. S. I ETC 07724 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, E PufrUxiiod by the Ethyl Corp., 40$ Lexington Awe., New York, N. Y.; Eerie W. Webb president; Percy L. Griiiiths, rice-president and troeMoiot; Julian C. Gonsales, secretary. ,N Europe Thousands See Ethyl Exhibit at Army Air Corps Show ii I I rowds gather 'round to watch Bill Mundinger's demonstration with the single cylinder engine at e Ethyl exhibit ot the Army Air Forces show held recently in Baton Rouge. Our exhibit was in e same tent with Standard Oil's, whose sign is visible at the right thyl's story was effectively told > thousands of spectators at the irmy Air Forces' "Shot From the ky" exhibit of captured enemy quipment presented at Baton touge, May 5 and 6 and in New )rleans, May 11, 12, and 13. The exhibit, which is touring the iation, was sponsored by local chambers of Commerce and War Vgencies for the purpose of recruitng war workers, combating absen:eeism and boosting the sales of War Bonds. All local industries were invited to present displays. The Ethyl display was the com bined result of a number of ideas. Bill Mundinger, field engineer of the Atlanta Division and Herb Baron, of the Baton Rouge Service Section, originally undertook the job of arranging something of gen eral interest for the exhibit. Using the old flow chart originated years' ago, they started building from that. Ideas were tossed around like bombs over Tokyo and then Ed Enoch of New York Advertising and Pub lic Relations, popped in. He came through with some helpful sugges tions and they went into action. A rough drawing was submitted ETC 07726 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE to the Construction and Mainte nance department. Bill Henry, Sec tion head, and his assistant, M. C. Hudgins, had a few words of advice and the battered but improved draw ing was turned over to Foreman Harry Butler. He got "Red" Allen to do the painting, "Red" Vernon the electrical work, and Carpenters Bailey and Bennett the balance. The resulting display was well worth the combined efforts. Seven thousand people at the Baton Rouge showing stopped to look at it and watch the demonstrations put on by Bill Mundinger and M. J. Mouton, Baton Rouge Service. A. D. Hubbs and Eimo Valega, both members of the Service Section, were on hand at the information desk at the Baton Rouge showing to answer any queries about Ethyl Plant employ ment and to issue applications to prospective employees. Despite bad weather in New Or leans, ten thousand more persons were attracted by the display there. The total of seventeen thousand spectators is an accurate count. Casual passers-by were not included Army officers in charge of the Air Forces show were extravagant in their praise of the Ethyl exhibit Some of them declared it to be the most attractively executed and best built on the grounds and one of the best they had seen since the show be gan its tour. The main display, a flow chart ten feet long and four feet wide, showed the flow of materials to the finished products -- premium Ethyl motor gasoline and aviation gaso line. The chart points out that six of Millard Mouton, of the Baton Rouge Plant's Purchasing Office, shows two WAC visitors It our booth how Ethyl makes a motor purr. Flow chart at the right, ten feet long' and four feet wide is illumined with fluorescent lighting ETC 07727 the eight raw materials that go into the manufacture of Ethyl Fluid -- natural gas, lime rock, sulphur, salt, molasses and petroleum -- are Lou isiana products. Actual samples were attached to the chart, which was recessed six inches and bor dered with fluorescent lights. "Shot from the Sky," a five-acre exhibit, largest of its type in the country, is efficiently handled by sixty returned combat veterans and forty three WACs who are respon sible for unloading, placing and re loading all equipment. In addition the WACs lecture throughout the show on the planes, guns, etc. As a stimulus to War Bond buy- KOREA, FORGOTTEN Under the stimulus of Errol Gay's report on his world travels, the Detroit Ethyl Society is going in for global thinking. Recently they prevailed upon Mr. Harry Whang, a native Korean, to discuss the history of his country, a small peninsula centrally located between the three big eastern powers. . Little about Korea reaches the headlines of our daily press. Yet the stubborn little country of some 23 million people, about the size of our state of Kansas, may soon figure in the war. Located geographically in the center of the three great eastern powers, Korea is but 120 nautical miles from the Japanese mainland. From Japan, Korea's shores are the nearest point on the Asia mainland. Korea's history dates back through forty-two centuries. Its civ ilization in the third century, ac- ing, rides in a Link trainer, battle field souvenirs and portraits and silhouettes by soldier artists are awarded purchasers. Among the five hundred ton col lection of captured equipment are flyable German and Jap planes, enemy aircraft instruments and parts, uniforms, liferafts, rifles, helmets, canteens, bicycles and hun dreds of other items. War department combat and pro duction films were shown continu ously in the large Victory Theater tent and two stage shows, featuring local and Exhibit personnel talent were presented each day. AND OF THE PACIFIC cording to the speaker, was the most advanced of any of the nations. Ko rea has seen much oppression and suffering at the hands of Japan, whose domination in modern times, however, dates back to 1910. Following World War I, Wil son's fourteen points in 1919 gave Korea new hope, and gave impetus to a national uprising aimed at throwing out the hated Japanese. The movement was put down after some 23,000 men, women and chil dren were imprisoned. However, an exiled government was set up in China and is still operating, its loca tion subject to the movement of the China-Japanese Armies. At present, Koreans pin their hopes to the decision of the big Three at the Cairo conference in 1943 that Korea would again become an independent nation. ETC 07728 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE etc 07729 Earl Ellis has joined the Ethyl fol Bernardino as a test driver. A native Ca he was horn in Little Rode in the hee peach country, and grew up in High, orange belt center near San Bernardino of the lures of this agricultural environ urge to tinker with machinery led his dustry. He picked a trade that matchet pound physique, and spent several yet Santa Fe shops taking apart and rebuilc motives. Later, he drove trucks and hi the San Bernardino Army Air Dept, coming with us. he was a boilermaker a metal worker at faiser's Fontana Stee Earl is married and has a three-a year-old son. He likes to hunt, fish a. by way of recreation. Occasionally, he roller skates and shivers the timbers of rink. Although the accompanying photograph of Earl suggests homiddi there is a friendly, good natured dispor hind that threatening look Ed Rothman Returns from Battlefront Ed Rothman has taken the silver oak leaves off his shoulders, put his uniform in mothballs and stepped back into civvies. He is now back at his home in Detroit and back with us as Director of Public Relations for our Detroit Research Laboratories after almost three years in the Army Air Corps. Winner of the Bronze Star Award for meritorious work during the invasion of France, he was also active in the desert cam paign in Africa and participated in the air support for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. He went into the Army as a Cap tain in August of 1942 and was as signed to the Overseas Supply Sec tion of the Headquarters Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Ohio. On January 1, 1942 he flew to Cairo, Egypt, where he was assigned to the Supply and Maintenance Section of the 9th Air Force Service Command. This was the Command behind the 9th throughout the Desert Cam paign and the invasions of Sicily and Italy. Because they had the experience of fighting a mobile warfare, the 9th Air Force was chosen for the Nor mandy invasion and late in 1943 they moved their headquarters to Eng land. By D-Day it had been built into the largest air force in the world. Ed went to Normandy on D-plus2-Day as officer in charge of Supply for the 9th Air Force Service Com mand. He continued in the wake of the invasion forces through France, Belgium and Luxemburg. Now back from the wars, Ed re turns to his home town, the Motor City, where he was consultant on advertising and public relations with headquarters in our Research Laboratories before going into the service. *** Grandpappy Beams Again Sleb Slebenlhalei, veteran Ethyl man of the Dayton Division, has be come a grandfather again. Young David Harrison Altick, Jr., who was born on March 20, is his second grandchild, and he's just as proud as if it had never happened before. ETC 07730 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE Ethyl Professors Tell It to the Navy To make the most of what war has taught their men about fuel opera tions and to better equip those who are going out to take charge of gas oline operations at advance base air stations, the Navy recently started a school at its Naval Supply Opera tional Training Center at Bayonne, New Jersey. The oil industry is co operating with the Navy in provid ing technically trained men whose knowledge is seasoned with years of experience, as teachers at the school. Two Ethyl men from our New York Division -- Del Ritchie and Bill Ball -- have stepped into the professorial staff there to tell the men what they know about the safe handling of leaded gasoline and tank cleaning methods. There is an impressive array of gold braid at the Naval Supply De pot where the Training Center is located. A Rear Admiral with forty years of service in the Supply Corps --E. D. Stanley--is in command of the Depot. Commander H. Helpern A Nary lieutenant models what the best dressed man will wear when be goes into a tank. That's New York Division's Dei fiitchie buckling on his tace piece with airline is Officer in Charge of the Training Center. Executive Officer is Com mander Carl F. Faires, Jr., a vet eran of the Philippine campaign who wears the Navy Cross, an Armi Unit Citation for Navy Personnel ii the Philippines, and pre-Pearl Har bor, Philippine Defence and Asi atic-Pacific ribbons. Chosen to attend the class are met who have come into the Navy fron various branches of the oil industry -- producing, refining, marketing and distributing. The Army is alsc taking advantage of the opportunity to give further training to some o: their Quartermaster and Transpor tation officers. They are sending tc the class men who are returning from overseas for administrative work in the states and men who are being sent overseas for advanct base duty. The purpose of the course, as ex plained by Commander M. M. Ros ser, who is Operations Officer, is to bring these men up to date and give them the Navy system. "Many of the Supply Officers went out and got punch drunk trying to do a job, so we are trying to bring these men back and let the students in the classes reap the benefit of their ex perience in the Pacific along with that of top flight men in industry." The curriculum was planned by two young lieutenants (jg)--Martin Kantor, of Wichita, Kansas and H. W. Pattison, of Cleveland, Ohio -- who have become specialists in the organization of training programs. ETC 07731 After a careful study of naval fuel operations and consultation with ex perts in the petroleum industry, they developed a four weeks' course which covers every phase of fuel operations from the chemical and physical properties of petroleum products to fire fighting. Classes are limited to twenty so they are not too cumbersome for field trips and laboratory work. Lec tures are supplemented by field trips to nearby refineries -- Stand ard, Tidewater, Texas Company. On days scheduled for our Ethyl men to take over, Del and Bill arrive at the classroom bag and baggage with demonstration and tank clean ing equipment in tow. They unload gas mask, fresh air blower, airline hose, rubber boots, lucite tank, pans, slides, projector, pyrex tube and all the rest of the paraphernalia they lug around to give specific and dra matic emphasis to their words. In his session, Del Ritchie covers safety in tank cleaning--protection of personnel and conservation of material. He explains the fire, explo sive and health hazards presented by petroleum products and points out the precautions that should be taken. Step by step he explains the prac tical problems involved in handling a tank cleaning job, takes them through the whole routine from de termining the number of men re quired for the job to disposing of the sludge. He describes the proper tools, equipment and clothing, all of which he has on display in the front of the room. Bill Ball's lecture includes a dis cussion of the general characteris tics of gasoline with emphasis on those that create hazards* and the Lieutenant Martin Kantor, one oi Che teachers at Che Training Center, shows how an airblower is used to steam out tanks and rid them of vapors. At the extreme left is a Combustible Gas Indicator used to determine whether vaporair mixtures are combustible. Gasoline sapors must be between i % and 6% of the total volume before the mixture will burn This fire was caused by gasoline vapors which flowed down the tube from a gasoline soaked cloth. The sapors were ignited by a match at the bottom of the tube, the flame flashed back and started the blaze at the top, which was im mediately put out when Bill Ball, officiating, covered it with a tray. This demonstration illus trated the hazard created by gasoline vapors and the ease with which a fire can be extin guished if you don't lose your head nature and advantages of Ethyl fluid. He uses slides and demonstrations to illustrate the points. Many new demonstrations devel oped specifically for this program have been added to the old stand-bys of the pyrex tube and engine with which you are familiar. They show what happens ... to lubricating oil viscosity when you get a little bit of gasoline in the oil... to the asphalt on landing strips when gasoline is repeatedly spilled on it... to rubber when it comes in contact with gaso line ... to the flash point of diesel fuel when it is contaminated with the slightest amount of gasoline ... to an engine powered by gasoline that has been contaminated with diesel fuel... to an engine powered by a mixture of two grades of gaso line. In each case the hazard created is graphically sent home to those who see the demonstration. Bill and Del spend a day at the Training Center with each class that goes through the school. Their most recent session was held on May 22 with the men in the third class, who completed the course early in June. Roy Gollz, New York Division Manager, wel comes a returned veteran -- Major Don Williams -- whose distinguished service record from Dieppe to the invasion oi Holland is represented by the "fruit salad" on his chest. Don was one of the few American Hangers to return un scathed from the Dieppe raid. Later he took part in the occupation oi Madagascar, the in vasion of North Africa, the landings on Pantelleria, Sicily, Salerno, Ansio, and Corsica, and raids on the coast of France. He landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy with the invasion troops and last saw action in Holland, with the 82nd Airborne Division. Wounded in action four times, the Major wears the Purple Heart and the Croix de Guerre and was awarded a citation by the British Government. Don and his wile, Ann, are now oo a pro tracted fishing trip in Michigan, and upon their return we hope to give you a fuller report on his life at the front. Before going to war Don was a fleet engineer in the New York Division *** VICTORY MAIL December in May/ close shaves, long awaited furloughs, recovery from wounds are the things the boys are talking about in their letters to the home team this month, excerpts from which are printed below. Master Sergeant Al Basye (Kansas City Division), on May 12 wrote to say "thanks for a very Merry Christmas." He had just re ceived his Christmas packages from the company, which were mailed from New York last Fall. Al is in the Philippines where, he says, "we are dishing out a lot of our own product--would like to tell you just how much we handle in one day, but if I did this letter would prob ably not reach you." Pfc Dan Renshaw (New York Office), who is in Germany, has been hit twice but is now "feeling quite fit." He is in the infantry and says they do lots of things but the thing they do the most of is--walk. Lieutenant (ig) S. N. Hall (Deepwater), in the thick of things in the Pacific, gives the following account of what he's seen of the J apanese war: "Mr. Winkle went to war and so did I. This was my first action. If the way to learn to swim is to jump overboard in deep water and start for shore then this was a good way to get initiated. We got the works: mines, planes, subs, PT's and shore batteries; singly and in all combina tions, day and night. We don't make the headlines, they are made after our main job is done. "The sweeps hit the area a week or ten days ahead of D-day and com mence to clear the beaches for the invasion. Being as we are the small est of the sweeps we draw the in shore assignments. We also draw the most fire from the beach. We have been so close to the beach on several occasions that we came un der mortar and small automatic weapons fire from infantry units and fought a running battle with machine guns, rifles and pistols. ETC 07734 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE "The Japs really go for this sui cide stuff too. All the planes I have seen either were shot out of the sky, crashed or attempted to crash a ship. None of them ever seem to come in, attack and depart to attack again. How they can afford 100% losses I can't figure. These small PT's of theirs have the same idea. "Of it all, the mines are the worst. They completely demolish a ship of this size. I saw a couple go up. It was pretty bad. After the invasion starts we take up anti-submarine patrol, screening or convoy assignments and start in all over again. "There are lots of odd jobs thrown our way, some of which turn out to be quite exciting, if you like excite ment. Still in all I am very lucky for I am still inside a whole skin." Lieutenant John Link (Detroit Training School), after completing fifty missions over German territory as navigator of a Flying Fortress, is now back in the United States tak ing a refresher course in navigation at Ellington Field in Texas, and writes: Medal Of honor--(he Distinguished Flying Cross--goes to Lieutenant John Link at a presen fatioA ceremony in Italy, where he completed 50 missions as navigator on a Flying Fortress "It seems to me that my last letter to you was written from `sunny' Italy. The term `sunny' as applied to Italy is used in the same category as the words `liquid sunshine' in de scribing the fogs in California. "About Christmas time of 1944, the mission that I had been looking for so long was completed--number fifty. And I was ready to return to the U.S.A. "The trip from Naples to New Rollin Gish, Bulletin Board correspondent at San Berdu, interviewed John when he vis ited the lab and reports that al though he wore a double row of ribbons on his chest repre senting many grueling experi ences he looked healthy, happy and none the worse for wear. His unit, operating from a base in Italy, bombed German territory from southern France to Romania. His plane was hit by flak many times, but due to a streak of good for tune none of the crew was ever injured seriously. They had a close shave over a heavily de fended target in Germany when an anti-aircraft shell struck an engine and sent them down, out of control. The ship fell 10,000 feet before the pilot finally righted her. Badly crip pled and wide open to attack by enemy fighter planes, she limped off towards home. Our fighters kept off the Luftwaffe, while the boys came in on a wing and a prayer. ETC 07735 York was delightful and the `old lady' in the harbor looked mighty good. I got a thumb-nail sketch of New York from our radio operator, who was from Brooklyn, and never tired of recounting its virtues. "I spent my furlough in Los An geles and Santa Monica. While in the vicinity my wife and I visited the San Berdu laboratory. It was good to talk to the Ethyl fellows there and brought back many pleas ant memories that I am sure Ed Minnock and Charley Ehrhardt share with me." Ensign Tom Smith (Tulsa Test Lab), brings us up to date on his activities: "I was commissioned an Ensign on March 10, 1944, and pro ceeded from Pensacola, Florida, to join Composite Squadron Thirteen with whom I have served since July 1944.1 have been flying the TBF and TBM torpedo bomber involving carrier duty in the European thea ter of war. Our primary duty was to rid the Atlantic of the German sub marine. Just recently our squadron has been transferred to the Pacific theater." Captain Howard Hesselberg (Detroit Engineering Research), who was stationed in the United States during part of last year is now back in Europe, and has been promoted, to the rank of Captain. Of his sojourn in this country he writes: "After almost two years in Alaska and the Aleutians, the States were really wonderful, and I really enjoyed getting acquainted with my daughter, who was almost sixteen months old before I got to meet her. "During the time I was in the States, I was in hopes that during one of my changes of station I would get close enough to Detroit or San Berdu to say hello, but the Army didn't see eye to eye with my wishes. I attended several service schools, served one tour with my Battalion as school troops at Fort Benning, and then before we knew it we were on the way again. "Although my Battalion has been redesignated, it is still basically the same outfit that I went on duty with in '41, so we have been together for a long time, and that makes things a lot more pleasant in many ways. "So far, this theater has proved much better than the Aleutians and I even managed to get a few days in Paris about a month ago. Although the city itself hasn't been harmed much by the war, you can tell by the prices and the scarcity of most things that there is a war on, and I don't think that it is like the city the tourists raved about before the war. "Every once in a while I hear, in directly, from Joe Chipolla, but seem to have lost track of most of the old gang that entered `Faller's College' in June of 1940. If any of them care to write I would be glad to exchange letters." Pfc Merlyn Beane (Detroit), when last heard from was still in England and wrote: "Being a truck driver delivering vital war material for the last two years here in Eng land, I speak not only for myself ETC 07736 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE but for the entire gang in our com pany when I say we really appreci ate the Ethyl fluid that goes into our motor transport fuel." Lieutenant (|g) Reynolds Collins, better known to his friends in Baton Rouge as Rip, writes that he is still in Norfolk, and considers himself very fortunate to get to stay in one place so long. The Lieutenant (jg) in front of his name represents a recent promotion and he is now what is called Outgoing Draft Offi cer. That consists, he explains, of transferring all crews and personnel that have completed their training and are being sent to their ship to put it into commission. As for his other activities he says: "I'm playing baseball with the Training Station team. I'm pitching but quite wild. I sure feel sorry for the batters because they have to be very good `jitter-bugs' in order not to get hit." Captain Bob Kendrick (Baton Rouge), writing to Roy Clothier says: "I received your letter while in the hospital in England. Thanks a million. Mail is the most appreci ated thing in any theater of opera tions. I am completely recovered from my wound. I was very lucky. I wasn't disabled in any way. I'm scarred up a little but with my clothes on no one can tell. The slug was through the big part of my leg. I had a good rest in England for three months. Germany is sure torn up. I saw Hitler's stadium a few days ago. I am on my way to rejoin my outfit but at present am a long way off." MORE MILITARY ADDRESSES Ruffin J. Dayries, who departed from the Ethyl ranks at Baton Rouge to become a Leatherneck for Uncle Sam, is the only new recruit we have to report this month. He was sent to the Recruit Depot at Parris Island, South Carolina. With the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard always on the move, addresses of our people in the service are always changing. The latest changes are listed below. Mail from home is more than a fighting man's privilege. It is a mili tary necessity. It is vital to his morale. Bright, cheerful letters, they say, give a lift that nothing else can. V-Mail gets first claim to space on planes bound for the war fronts, and takes only a three-cent stamp. How about writing a V-Mail letter today? Joseph E. Andre, S 1/c U.S.N.T.C. Supply Dept. San Diego 33, California M/Sgt. A. T. Basye, 3753801S Det. 783, Eng. Pet. Dist. Co. A.P.O. 70S, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Lt. Northrop Clarey, Jr. USS LST 21 Fleet Postoffice New York, New York 14 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE g-pg 0 7 7 3 7 Pvt. Ruffin J. Dayries, 1004677 4th Recruit Battalion Recruit Depot, Marine Barracks Parris Island, South Carolina Allen J. Dessell, S 2/c S.M.P.T.S. Naval Training School San Diego, California M/Sgt. Winifred W. Duddy, A-305248 PRO Section Hq. Com. Z A.P.O. 887, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Lt. Glen D. Grant Marine Barracks Klamath Falls, Oregon Capt. Howard E. Hesselberg 0-390135 HQ 521st FA Bn. A.P.O. 408, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Cpl. Phebus N. Hotard, 34154315 Hq. 20th Ferrying Gp. Nashville, Tennessee Phyllis K. Jones, A.S. Platoon 711, Building "B" Naval Training School (W.R.) Bronx 63, New York F. J. Lewis Sc 3/c Beach Bn., ATB Oceanside, California Lt. John B. Link, 0-409675 Box 1623, Branch 3 Building 851 Ellington Field, Texas Capt. Robert R. Mead Technical Branch Fuels & Lubricants Division Office Quartermaster General Washington, D. C. Lt. Col. A. D. Miller 476th AAA AW Bn. A.P.O. 705, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California 2nd Lt. John R. Montgomery 0-2051259 165 Sta. Hospital A.P.O. 321, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Cpl. Frank S. Neal, 18134333 14630 Engineer Maint. Co. A.P.O. 704, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, California Noble Joe Nixon, B.M. 2/c U.S.N.T.C. Boat Docks San Diego 33, California Pvt. Homer E. Sanders, 18159058 8--AAFGU, Statistical Control Winston Salem, North Carolina Pvt. Auber F. Shows, 38622176 72nd Q.M. Tng. Co. 9136 TSU, QMC, ASFTC Camp Lee, Virginia Lt. Comdr. Paul E. Straub Mare Island Navy Yard San Francisco, California Pvt. Wilbert J. Templet, 38618368 Battery A, 273 F.A. Bn. A.P.O. 403, c/o Postmaster New York, New York ETC 07738 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE 'If- Deepwater Keglers Win Leag Tenpin kings of Deepwater, these Ethyl bowlers rolled their way to top spot in the Central Wilmington heague. Lett to right they are; iron! row--Bud Johnson, Charlie (Pinochle) Remsburg, Charlie Wasserman; second row -- Eddy Herbert, Pete Jackson, Army Armstrong Ethyl bowlers at Deepwater walked off with the championship of the Central Wilmington League, defeating their opponents for the title three out of five games in the roll-off on April 23. The Ethyl team won the first half of the season's tournament, but couldn't seem to get going in the second half and wound up in fourth place. In the roll-off with the winners of the second half, our men were in tip-top form and carried away the prize money. The tenpin crown for the season returns to Ed Herbert, veteran champ, who last year was displaced by Pete Jackson and Pete drops to second place. Ed hung up an aver age of 184 and Pete a 173. Bud Johnson gets the title of high game king for knocking down 267 pins. Champ Ed comes up second in this category with 237, and Pete third with 232. All was not lost for Pete when his high average title went by the boards, for he won a new one -- monarch of the high set. This came about because he rolled a corking 657. Ed came up second there with a 651. Charlie (Pinochle) Remsburg came in third with 611. Season's averages of the six man team in addition to the champ and the runner-up are: Bud Johnson, 165, Charlie (Pinochle) Remsburg, 162, Army Armstrong, 159 and Charlie Wasserman, 150. 16 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 07739 ampionship Here they are in action -- the bowlers whose prowess brought glory to the home team Pete Jackson -- high set winner Milestones Go By Dr. Lester W. Sanders has joined our growing group of veterans who have rounded out twenty years of service with Ethyl. Dr. Sanders who is a member of the staff of the Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology in Cincinnati, is in charge of all medical matters at the Detroit Lab. He started with Ethyl at the Ket tering Laboratory after receiving his degree in medicine from the University of Cincinnati. He took the first two years of his pre-med work at Miami University in Ox ford, Ohio. Then World War I and the call to arms interrupted his edu cation and he spent a year and a half in the Army. Upon his return from the Army he entered the University of Michigan, where he won his A.B. Dr. Sanders is married and has two sons, Whitlock and Paul. He is very much interested in photog raphy and his favorite sport is trout fishing. Louis Warren Shank was a May day present to Ethyl fifteen years ago. He started with us on May 1, 1930 working as a field representa tive in the state of Virginia. In the Fall he was transferred to Baltimore as automotive contact representa tive, and in January of 1935 he be came Baltimore Division Manager. Later that year when Oscar Lewis was transferred to New York as As sistant Sales Manager, Lou was made Baltimore Division Manager. He held this position until the Spring of 1939 when he went to Tulsa to succeed Tom Ronan as head of that division. Lou is a product of Baltimore-- was born there on August 21, 1900, and was educated in its citadels of higher learning -- Baltimore City College and Johns Hopkins Univer sity "from which I graduated with out honors in 1922 finishing 213th in a class of 212." Honors or no honors he received an A.B. in Chemistry and thus equipped got himself a teaching position at Baltimore City College. English and Latin were the subjects on which he enlightened his students. After living on a teacher's pay for two years he decided against a peda gogical career and went into the lab oratory supply business. Thence to Ethyl. When he had progressed to the position of Division Manager, he took the queen of Baltimore teach ers--Lillian Margaret Swift--to the altar. That was June 26, 1936. Now the Shank family consists of Lou and Lil, Warren, five, Stephen, a year-and-a-half, and Susan, five months. Lou's favorite pastimes are fish ing and cards--win, lose or draw. He doesn't get to fish much because, "I live too far from Houston and when ever I go down there it rains--(Jake Balzer, please note)." George Krieger, of the New York Sales staff, in charge of rural mar keting and special development work, celebrated his fifteenth anni versary with Ethyl on May 28. George, who returned to Ethyl about six months ago from Wash ington, where he was successively Director of the Farm Machinery and Equipment Division, and Spe cial Assistant to the Chairman of the War Production Board, origi nated the company's farm program. According to his story, he got the bright idea while riding on a train from Baltimore to Detroit reading John Erskine's Ladies in Hades. When he got back to Baltimore he started pouring his sales story into Oscar Lewis' ear--Oscar was at that time Baltimore Division Man ager and George's boss. Whether he sold him on the idea or just wore him down -- he kept him up until George Krieger ETC 07742 five o'clock in the morning expound ing on the possibilities of develop ing a rural market--is a moot ques tion. Anyway George and Oscar boarded a train for New York and presented the brain child to the ex ecutives, who gave George the green light, and he set to work de veloping his idea. Through long and careful contacts with Washington, studying statis tics and the national picture, he for mulated a national plan which in volved raising the fuel standards of the farm equipment industry, so that tractor operators and tractor manufacturers would use fuel, not because it was cheap but because of its power. For ten years he worked on a com bination of engineering develop ments and sales presentations. Fin ally the first tractor manufacturer adopted high compression for leaded gasoline fuel. Others fol lowed suit and the movement had gained such widespread acclaim among both manufacturers and farmers by 1941 that it received na tional recognition when thousands of farmers gathered at Kaneville, Illinois to honor Clarence L. Dauberman because he was the first farmer to high compression his trac tor. The ceremony was heard from coast-to-coast over the National Farm and Home Hour broadcast. George's grasp of engineering problems combined with the con structive imagination of a talented sales promoter and a colorful per sonality have won for him the re spect and friendship of executives, engineers and production men throughout the farm equipment in dustry. He has held important posts in the American Society of Agricul tural Engineers, the Society of Au tomotive Engineers, and is an hon orary life member of the American Agricultural Editors' Association. When he graduated from Vir ginia Polytechnic Institute in 1926, he was the first man in America to receive a degree in what is now pro fessional agricultural engineering. His first job was with Standard Oil of New Jersey doing engineering work in connection with the con struction of service stations and bulk plants. When that work was finished he was transferred to Standard Oil Development Com pany, which was at that time just being organized, as a research engi neer in the fuels and lubricants lab oratory of the Bayway refinery. He came to us from Standard, starting as a field representative in the Bal timore Division. Eddie Paige, another fifteen year man who started under Oscar Lewis in Baltimore, recalls that the motto Ed Paige ETC 01743 of a field man in those days was-- "Join the Ethyl Corporation and see the world through a dirty wind shield." Before coming with us Eddie had done engineering work for the Standard Lime and Stone Company in Baltimore, the city of his birth. He went through grade and high school there and then at tended the University of Maryland, where he received his Civil Engi neering degree in 1928. He spent his first two years with us working as a field man, then be came a fleet engineer. In 1935 he was transferred to the New York Divi sion with headquarters in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He held forth there un til 1940, when he went to Detroit where he still carries on in the Com mercial Engine and Fleet Division of Technical Service. He and his wife live in Franklin, one of the Motor City's many sub urbs, where Eddie spends his spare time dabbling in photography. Two men at the San Bernardino Lab--Art Stahlheber and Ed Lind say--received ten year service pins and certificates last month. . Five year awards went to Marcus Batte, Percy LeCates, George Owston, Shirley Joffrion, George Kirby and Drury Snyder at Baton Rouge and to William Flanigan at the Detroit Engineering Lab. Two Veterans Still on duty--J. S. Brown, of plant protection at the Kuie Beach operation of Ethyl-Daw, shares a ride in his Model T Ford with a group of men who rattle back and forth to work in it every day. He bought this Lizzy back in 192B, has been driving it ever since and has never had an accident Tarty metis prepared under the direction of an experienced dietician will be served in this dining room for die convenience of Ethyl iolk who may eat here in air-conditioned comfort Ethyl to Build New Cafeteria for Employees Good old southern style cooking will be served in a new, quarter mil lion dollar cafeteria to be built at the Ethyl plant in Baton Rouge. The proposed cafeteria, modern in every respect, will even permit em ployees to eat in air-conditioned comfort. Dryden Qulst, who will run the new cafe teria at Baton Rouge Approval to build the cafteria has been given by the War Production Board, and it will probably be in op eration before the end of the year. Construction will begin this month, it is expected, as soon as building contracts have been awarded. The building, designed by Bodman and Murrell, Baton Rouge architects, will be 90 feet by 160 feet and will be constructed of red brick. A large dining room with two service counters is planned for a seating capacity of 280. This room will be arranged and equipped so that it may also be used as an audi torium. A smaller dining room for colored employees will have a seat ing capacity of 60. In addition, there will be two small dining rooms that may be used for special committee meetings or the entertainment of plant visitors. A cafeteria serving hot, nutritious meals prepared under the direction of a trained dietician will fill a long-felt need, as there are no fa cilities at the plant for the prepar ation of food. The kitchen, de signed for efficiency and compact ness, will have the best equipment it is possible to secure. Tasty, varied and nourishing meals will be served under the di rection of Miss Dryden Quist, who has been named manager and dieti cian of the proposed cafeteria. To most women, cooking is a business. But with Miss Quist, it's a profession. Miss Quist, who has two college degrees, majored in Institution Management. She holds active membership in the American Home Economics Asso ciation and in the American Die tetic Association. She is experi enced in the management of cafe terias and restaurants and has spe cialized in the operational plan ning and development of new insti tutional establishments. Because there are few eating places within several miles of the plant, all employees either had to bring their own lunches with them or buy food through vendors who deliver only outside the plant gate. Furthermore, providing meals to employees who had to work over time during emergencies presented another problem. But with a modern cafeteria offering service for all shifts, everyone can be served well prepared food, either in the cafete ria or from the mobile unit. . As part of the cafeteria service, a mobile unit will carry food to those working in areas from which it would be inconvenient to come to the cafeteria. In addition to the usual shelves and cabinets for staple supplies and groceries, the storage facilities will include walk-in refrigerators for meat, dairy products, fresh fruits and vegetables, and bottled bever ages. Finally, there will also be a room for frozen foods. On the Town Recent visitors to the New York Of fice included three of our men now in the service, former members of the Finance Department--Yeoman 3/c George Roberts, who came up from New Orleans where he is sta tioned, to spend his furlough with his wife and two children on Long Island . . . Marine Staff Sergeant Johnny McMasters, back from six teen months in the Pacific as a para chute rigger with a fighter squadron of the Fourth Marine Air Wing, based in the Ellice and Marshall Islands, wearing the Presidential Unit Citation and the American and Asiatic theater ribbons with two stars . . . T/5 Carl Cyriax, who has been stationed in Panama for the past year and proceeded to Dayton, Ohio to become a member of the 6th Army Air Force following his fur lough in New York. * "I hear the war's practically over --back home," said one Marine to another in an Okinawa foxhole. The war's not over for him, nor for the millions who will fight this bloody mess to the finish. It's still our war, too. Just as they must keep fighting, so must we keep buying and buying and buvin<r Bonds. ETC 07746 23 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE  GigUotU snapped at her desk at thi Yonkers Lab. where she taices care oi the con tinuous record reports of sampie test data. Be fore coming to the Lab. Ann worked for the Wa Manpower Commission in New York City sac before that for a medical laboratory in Mas hattan. She was horn and reared in New Yoti City and graduated from Wadieigh High Schoa where she took a commercial course. Ann. bride of last December, lives with her busbars --a veteran with a medical discharge irom th< Army--in Yonkers. Swimming and dancing an her favorite pastimes nimhath Bampton, who recently joined the New York Finance Department, comes to us irom the yorlr Safe and Loch Company, where she worked as a secretary. It was her first job iollowing graduation from the Aidgewood (New Jersey) High School in 1943. Betty commutes from Paramus. New Jersey, where she lives with her parents. Much of her leisure time is devoted to writing letters to a certain Pharma cist's Mate, whose ring she is wearing. They plan to be married in the late summer when he gets that 30<iay leave they're waiting for. Meanwhile. Betty is embroidering things for the home they'll have one day Katherine Lamb, another newcomer the Yonkers Lab, came to Ethyl from the Nott American Phillips Company in Dobbs Fern She had previously worked for General Motor in White Plains. Kay was born in Yonkers an graduated irom the High School of Commero where she took a secretarial course. Her hu; band, who is a member of the Army's MJ3.. stationed at present in Trenton, New Jerse) Kay's favorite sports are bowiing and hots' back ridir~ ETC 07747 Mr. Stork Delivers the Goods May 7th was almost too much for Earle Currier, head of the Accounts Payable Section of our Finance De partment, what with the news of our victory in Europe in the morning and the arrival of his first-born in the afternoon. The little brunette, who has been named Joan Marie, ar rived at 3:50 weighing 63/ pounds. Candy and cigars were on Bob Fless at the Yonkers Lab on May 16 when he breezed in and announced: "It's double trouble at our house." Beth Ann and Rose Marie Fless ar rived that morning, weighing 4 lbs. 12 oz. and 4 lb. 11 oz., respectively. Mother and daughters are now at home and doing nicely. Father, who is a chemist at the Yonker's Lab, is about to recover, too. Lieutenant Jim Mason, Detroit, has a new daughter, Marilyn, who, he says, "looks just like all other babies except that she's better look ing." Mrs. M. and Miss M, he says, are doing fine, and he's looking for ward to the time when the eating, sleeping stage is over and they can really have some fun together. The Masons are now living in Wayne, a suburb of Philadelphia, where Jim has been stationed at the Navy Yard for the past year. Banter at the Barclay - Pat Watson, tor- mar secretary to George Krieger. who is now pursuing her fortune at Fortune as secretary and research assistant to the Agricultural Editor, was feted by some of her Ethyl friends on May 18. They are shown here at the Barclay where they gathered for cocktails before proceeding to the Ships Grill for dinner. Left to right they are: Genevieve Corcoran Murphy, secretary lo Harry Kaley, Evelyn Christopher (Sales), Dorothy Norton, secretary to Cary Harris, Jerry Linder (Publicity), Edythe Kimball (Order & Shipping), Julie Sweeney, secretary to Ralph C. Champlin, Marceline Marquis, Bulletin Board Editor, Sea Farrell (Manufacturing). Pat. Marguerite McDonald (Order St Shipping), Millie Roberts (Publicity) and Mabel Gerster (Finance) ETC 07T48 The Bombardiers -- Champions ol the Baton Rouge Girls' Bowling League lor 1944-45 are standing Irom left to right Joyce Weysham <du Pont). Captain, Donna Hayes, Dot Goodman and Dot McCarroll: tront row. Pearl Leltwich and Elizabeth Sheppard <du Pont). This picture was taken at the picnic held on False River which wound up the season's activities Teitpxnners Take to the Woods U was a beautiful day--bright sun team in the league were guests of shining, soft breeze blowing, writes honor and duly crowned with news Dot McCarroll, when the Baton paper dunce caps. Members thus Rouge Girls' Bowling League went honored were Joyce Weysham (du out to Jim Jarreau's place on False Pont), Captain, Elizabeth Sheppard, River for an all day picnic to wind Pearl Leftwich, Donna Hayes, Dot up the season's activities. Goodman and Dot McCarroll. Fishing, chief pastime of the day, Joyce Weysham carried away turned out to be mainly an exercise both High Average and High Series in rowing, as the total catch was -- honors. She received a bowling ball one crawfish, fondly referred to as that wouldn't knock down anything Oscar. A matter of no importance to but paper tenpins, but inside was an the picnickers, who insist that sun, interesting piece of green paper, air and exercise was all they were good at anybody's store for $20 interested in anyway. worth of merchandise. For being the Highlight was the fish and chicken league's Most Improved bowler, dinner at which the annual awards Jean Smith won an old fashioned were made. The Bombardiers, top dressing table lamp. Francis Robin- 26 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 07749 Comely Captatam-The team captains har ing a conflab under the trees are Joyce Waymhnm (du Pont). Sarah Moffeft, Betty Cooper and Rosemary Lilly, (du Pont) son who rolled high game with 220, received a pig-skin wallet chosen right out of the pages of Vogue. Consolation prize of a set of glasses with bowling scenes depicted on them went to Rosemary Lilly on whose head rests the title of Least Improved bowler. The Navigators, mid-season champions, who lost to the Bom bardiers in the final roll-off, received attractive wooden bar pins with a tenpin and bowling ball design. Members of the team were Syble Palmer, Francis Robinson, Betty Cooper, Winnie Dugas and Mary Walsh. For her work as President of the league and for making all the ar rangements for the al fresco fiesta, Doris Bowman was given a rousing vote of thanks. Dot McCarroll, Sec retary of the league, who acted as impromptu master of ceremonies, was given a bottle of Blue Grass per fume in appreciation of her service during the year. Bomper Beauties -- Officers of the Girls' Bowling league relaxing on an unoccupied bumper are Dot McCarroli. Secretary. Elisabeth Sheppard, fdu Pont), Treasurer and Doris Bow man, President S*r- Watchdog of School Funds Art Deverill is now working over partment to use and on May 1 time for the cause of education. Citi elected him a trustee of the Board zens of Tarrytown decided to put of Education. At the first meeting his talent for figures and his experi Art was promptly appointed chair ence in our New York Finance De man of the Finance Committee. ETC 07750 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNK OUR TRAVELING SALESLADY Jane Jordan, of our Technical Service Department, whose last speaking jaunt took her on a flying trip to Tulsa, has just returned from another speaking engagement in the middlewest -- this time Wichita, Kansas. Jane was one of the prin cipal speakers at the tenth annual petroleum meeting of the Wichita Section, American Chemical So ciety. In her talk she discussed the chemical composition and road anti knock performance of possible post war fuels. She used colored slides of the borderline knock curves of the fuels to illustrate their road per formance. Newlyweds-- The cameraman had no trouble at all getting a smile from Charles Risso-Gill and bis wife, Nancy, when he took this picture of them on their wedding day in Montevideo -- March 10. The bridegroom is representative tor Associated Ethyl in South America Send-off for a Seaman-Giris at the De troit Lab gave a farewell party for Viola Hoff man, who is now Seaman Third Class Hoffman, before she left the stenographic section of the Dynomometer Department to don the Navy Blue, In the picture below are the girls, the guest of honor and the lovely presents they bestowed upon her. They are. seated, ieft to right Mary Kupiec, Kay Donahue. Viola Hoffman, Dorothy Paget, Evelyn Ryan and Margaret McCulloch: standing, Mary Sauinier. Jeanette Schmidt. Elisa beth Shippy, Bonnie Colbridge, Jewel Ahonen. Marian George, Marie Genoa, Thelma Friend. Dorothy Gleason and Louise Hennessey ETC 07751 Calingaert Reports and information from our ` George Calingaert, head of ical Research, who is overseas (the United States Strategic `jing Survey, gives a picture of :pe today. The following letter s written on May 7, from "Somehere in Germany": The trip turned out to be fully as in festing as I anticipated. This type of rk is new to all of us, and therefore 1 the more enjoyable. I think I can, `thout disclosing any military secret, y that our mission will make a definite ntribution to the art of modern warre. May we have no further use for it ter the conclusion of the Japanese "pter. My first and most striking impression that we are not strictly speaking traving in Germany, but we are moving ut in a strictly American network, perimposed upon the German land"pe and the German nation. We ride eps, running on Ethyl gasoline, eat food eked in Battle Creek, and sleep in bags de in New York. The impression is eally weird for one who usually tries to are the life of the country. Incidenally, "traveling American," is very conenient, and almost comfortable, proided one starts physically and mentally quipped for a good camping trip. My at is off to the versatile jeep, and to its rother in the blood, the bulldozer, which clears a path through the ubiqui tous rubble. Our mode of travel brings us in con tact with many Army outfits, because we "top almost anywhere along the roadside to "scrounge" (Army vocable for "pro cure") a meal, some gasoline, or a night's lodging. The U. S. Army in 1945 is unlike any Army I have come in contact with during the last war. I have found very little tendency to either brag or dispar age, rather the even spirit of one confi dent of its own powers. A lot of this is based, no doubt, in our vastly superior equipment and organization. I also at tribute a great part of it to the remark ably well balanced relations between offi cers and men, where democracy prevents the establishment of a trench, without in any way decreasing the true prestige and ascendancy of the officers--a little more on the order of what we find in our in dustrial organizations (I hope). I will long remember one Captain who was our host for two nights. His cook served us --and the whole company--the best dinner I have had since I left home. We all ate together, and the Captain explained that he always shared the life of his men. He has refused a well deserved promotion in order to stay with his outfit. He told us that he left the States with his boys and expects to bring them back home. He belongs to that type which makes an Army which the Germans will never un derstand--nor equal. My work brings me in contact with many Germans, high and low in the social scale, as well as far apart geographically. It is too early to say much about their attitude, and I still want to clarify my own thoughts on the subject. On the whole I think we have a big job on our hands, but a job we can handle, if we only refrain from fumbling the ball. England has been 100% at war. London is battle-scarred, its people have held on, as everybody (except the Germans) knew they would. As far as the superficial ob server can tell, the general level of health is quite satisfactory, and they should suf fer no permanent set-back, except of course that caused by loss of man-power. It will, however, take some time to make up for the gaping holes in the building ETC 07752 29 BULLETIN BOARD --JUNE line along London streets, and for the patched up and threadbare clothing one sees everywhere. Paris presents a very different aspect with its buildings unscarred, its charm ing spring weather, and the knack of its women to appear neatly dressed with substitute textiles, saved-up ribbons, and wooden clogs, the first impression is al most that of "same as ever." Closer ob servation, however, shows a general run down condition, evident in the appear ance of the buildings, the clothing of the men, and, alas, in the looks of the chil dren. Undernourishment must have been serious, and its ravages can scarcely be alleviated. In addition, food supplies are still scarce, the black market flourishes, and what few things one can buy are out rageously high, even in dollars. Prunier offered a dinner for $2.50, consisting of potato soup and two vegetables, without meat or fish--oysters could be had on the side at $10 a dozen. A basket of straw berries, one half the size of our pint size, is marked $4 at the neighborhood store, and a 14 lb. can of meat $9.50. With butter at $8, that means that the rich man liter ally eats his house, and the poor man goes hungry. Brussels looks better than Paris, but I think that in general the food situation in Belgium was similar to that in France. I must confess to gorging on Belgian strawberries at $2 a basket, and I would gladly pay that price in Detroit for strawberries that good. Just one more picture: the D. P.'s (Displaced Persons), Hitler's slaves from all countries, who found themselves suddenly freed, but hundreds of miles from home with no one looking after them. They have taken remarkably little revenge over their former jailers; quite a few remain at the assembling points, awaiting organized transportation, but many trek back along Hitler's autobahn, in "liberated" trucks, or bicycles, or on foot, carting a small wagon. Each group carries a home-made flag, and it is a heart-gripping sight to see those new pilgrims. They, too, are outside of our American network, and I cannot help feeling sorry for them when I think of how many hard days it will take them to cover the road I cover in one or two com fortable days. I had the good fortune to be able to visit my brother in France shortly after my arrival, and my sister in Brussels more recently. I found them all well and in good spirits, and was pleased and re lieved to learn how well they had man aged to weather the storm, by a com bination of thrift, ingenuity, and (some times) rather lavish spending. I cannot close without mentioning that our Detroit-designed modification of the Army kitchen stove is now standard, and that I have heard nothing but praise for our contribution to this important piece of equipment. As far as we can tell now, our mission will be completed on schedule, and, bar ring new leads to work on, I am hoping to be back not later than July 1. One point for Ralph Champlin -- the Army has caught on to the idea of insti tutional advertising and we read signs such as: "You are now entering Germany, courtesy of the 7th Army" . . . "You are crossing the Rhine by courtesy of the 97th Engineers Battalion." I have not forgotten that the final de feat of Germany was announced today. (We got the news on a pontoon bridge on the Rhine.) We had a little celebra tion, but very mild. I am glad, but I can not help keeping my eyes on the tough job of crushing the Japs and the ever more delicate job of building the peace. Unfinished Business ... JAPAN Buy An Extra War Bend 30 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 07753 ETC 07754 ETC 07756 Reorganization of the Sales De partment, insuring wider and better service to customer oil companies, is an indication of Ethyl's aggres sive policy for promoting postwar business. The new organization headed by J. Coard Taylor, Vice-President, and Julian J. Frey, General Sales Manager, was developed as a result of a three-month survey in which all division managers participated. Field conditions in every state and customer relations at every level of our contacts with oil companies were included in the survey, which was conducted by Jim Boudreau. This survey resulted from a tenmonth study by the Sales Depart ment to determine postwar require ments of customer oil companies. Under the new plan, the field opera tions of the Sales Department will be divided to conform to the four principal gasoline marketing areas. To every Ethyl employee the new plan signifies that the Corporation is taking another step forward to prepare for our postwar business. Just exactly what postwar pro duction requirements of tetraethyl lead will be is a question no one is rash enough to try to answer now. However, the Corporation is con stantly studying the market and Ethyl representatives have had nu merous conferences with customer oil companies about their postwar plans for sales of leaded gasoline. The management is confident, as a result of its studies, as well as its conferences with customers, that ETC 07758 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY-AUGUST -i there is a sound postwar future for the activities of Ethyl Corporation our product. But the management is sales divisions operating in his area. realistically conscious also that bus Under the reorganization, the line iness must be sought aggressively up of divisions is as follows: and that the spearhead in the drive for old and new business must be an efficient, hard-hitting and alert Eastern Area: New York and Philadelphia Divisions. sales staff set up to operate in the Central Area: Kansas City, Chi most effective manner possible with cago and Dayton Divisions. our customers. The four marketing areas of the -il reorganized Sales Department will be known as the Eastern, Central, Southern and Western areas. A Southern Area: Tulsa and Atlanta Divisions. Western Area: Los Angeles and Seattle Divisions. sales manager has been appointed for each. They are Dick Murphy, Eastern Sales Manager; Jim Bou The Eastern Sales Manager will have his headquarters in New York, the Central Sales Manager in Chi dreau, Central Sales Manager; Har cago, the Southern Sales Manager old Berg, Southern Sales Manager and San Wagner, Western Sales Manager. In addition to the four area sales managers, George Krieger has been named to the new post of Special Assistant to the General Sales Man ager to coordinate programs affect ing more than one of the four prin cipal areas and to supervise certain services to customers which can be handled adequately only on a na tional basis. Major objectives of the new plan of reorganization are: in Tulsa, and the Western Sales Manager in Los Angeles. Don Flynn, formerly Assistant Manager of the Kansas City Divi sion, has been promoted to Manager of the Division to succeed Harold Berg, Southern Sales Manager. San Wagner will retain, for the present, his position as Manager of the Los Angeles Division while serving as Western Sales Manager. Mat Taylor, former Manager of the Boston office, has been ap pointed Manager of the newly-cre ated division in Philadelphia. The 1. Coordination of services throughout each customer's marketing territory. 2. Superior service to customer companies by giving a wider scope to specialists in the sales organization. 3. Closer liaison between custom ers and Ethyl sales divisions. services formerly rendered by the Boston office have been transferred to the New York Division. Although designed as a postwar measure, the reorganization is effec tive immediately to enable the Cor poration to take preliminary steps which will give the maximum ser vice and assistance to customers in their readjustment of operations Each sales manager will supervise from a war to a peacetime basis. 4 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY-AUGUST ETC 07759 Harold Berg, newly appointed Southern Sales Manager, has been in charge of our Kansas City Division for the past fifteen years with the exception of one year spent in the New York office on special assign ment. He came with Ethyl on Au gust 28, 1928 from Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was operations manager. He was assigned to the Chicago Division and worked around the Windy City for several months. He was then given Minnesota and the Dakotas as his territory with head quarters in Minneapolis. Later he returned to Chicago as Assistant Division Manager but had been there only a short while when he was sent to Kansas City to take over as Division Manager. Harold was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and attended the University of New Hampshire, graduating in 1927 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He was a Gamma. Now he belongs to the local Cham ber of Commerce, the Safety Coun cil, the Oil Men's Club, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Gen eral Motors Club and the Kansas City Club. In 1941 he served as chairman of the SAE. Harold is married and he and Helen have one son, Harold Roger, Jr., who is now eleven. His hobbies of fishing, hunting and golf have been converted to victory gardening for the duration. Jim Boudreau, Central Sales Manager, returned to Ethyl last De cember after his release from duty ETC 07760 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST in the Army as Lieutenant Colonel with the Sixth Service Command. A West Point man of the class of '25, he had served in the Army for a year following his graduation, and was called back to active duty in November of 1942 and given a Cap tain's commission. At the time he entered the service Jim was Manager of our Chicago Division. He started with Ethyl in 1930 as a field man in the eastern part of New York state with head quarters in Albany, was later trans ferred to the metropolitan district and in 1932 was appointed Manager of the New York Division. After four years he was sent out to Chi cago to head that division. Jim lives in Northbrook, just out side of Chicago. His wife and yearold son, James E. Boudreau, Jr., and an Irish setter round out the Bou dreau household. Dick Murphy, Eastern Sales Man- ager, started with Ethyl back in 1929 in the Baltimore Division, where he was kept busy conducting meetings for Standard of New Jer sey. Later the same year when Standard of New York began to market Ethyl, he was sent to New England to hold meetings for their sales personnel. After that he jour neyed south to help the Atlanta Di vision with a Pan American Oil Company campaign. That job finished, he was as signed to cover the western part of New York state and in 1931 was brought into the metropolitan area. He became Assistant Manager of the New York Division in 1935 and Manager of the division in 1936. In 1941 he was appointed Western Re gional Manager for the five divi sions in the West and Midwest, comprising Chicago, Kansas City, Tulsa, Seattle and Los Angeles. Dick was born in Olean, New York, went through grade and high school there, and then attended Cor nell University. He spent a year in Wall Street with the National City Bank before joining Ethyl. The Murphys -- Dick and Mary and their three children live in sub urban Larchmont. The oldest daughter, Shelby, is nine, and the twins, who caused such a flurry of excitement when they arrived, are are now seven. Dick, one of Larchmont's prize gardeners, says he spends all of his time turning the ground over, spad ing and picking tomatoes and corn. He belongs to the Larchmont Yacht Club and the Cornell Club. 6 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY-AUGUST ETC 07761 San Wagner, Western Sales Man ager, is an Ethyl man from way, way back, having started with us in 1926. After graduating from Rensse laer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1912 he set out for Florida and a career in farming. That career lasted about four years and then he decided to transfer his attention from soil to oil and joined the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. After ten years with Standard, he joined our company to initiate the sale of Ethyl gasoline on the Pacific coast with headquarters at Los An geles. He was among the first di vision managers to be appointed, and has held that position until he received this new post. San lives on a fruit ranch near Co vina with his wife and two daugh ters. He belongs to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Ro tary Club. His favorite sports are deep sea fishing and hunting. George Krteger, Special Assist ant to the General Sales Manager, recently celebrated his fifteenth an niversary with Ethyl, having re turned this year after a two-year leave of absence with the War Pro duction Board. He served as Direc tor of the Farm Machinery and Equipment Division and later as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the W.P.B. George started with us in 1929 as a field representative in the Balti more Division. He originated and developed our farm program and at the time he left to go to the W.P.B. was in charge of our Agricultural Division, headquartering in Detroit. Born and reared in Virginia, George attended Virginia Poly technic Institute and graduated as an agricultural engineer in 1926. He went to work for Standard of New Jersey and did engineering and re search jobs for them until 1929 when he came to Ethyl. TC 07762 7 i BULLETIN BO ARD--j u i-*-AU OUST i \ Donald Flynn, who succeeds Harold Berg as Manager of the Kansas City Division, moves up from the position of Assistant Di vision Manager which he has held for the past six years. He started with Ethyl in 1931 as a field man in northern New England, with head quarters in Portland, Maine. He transferred from Portland to Provi dence, Rhode Island in 1932. Mean while the Boston Division had been organized and in 1935 Don was brought into the Boston office as Assistant Division Manager. Don was born in Providence, graduated from Technical High there and then attended Brown University where he took a Civil Engineering Degree in 1930. He worked for six months as a student engineer at Standard's Bayway re finery before joining Ethyl. Back in his college days Don be longed to Phi Sigma Kappa. Hit current affiliations include the Kan sas City Chamber of Commerce, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Oil Men's Club of Kansas City and the Blue Hills Club. Don is one of the more active members of the SAE and served as chairman of the Kansas City Section in 1943. He is interested in Cub Scout work and is a committeeman for Pack 76 in K. C. Don married a girl from his home town of Providence in February of 1933 and they have two sons, Dick, eleven, and Doug, eight. Doing Business at a New Stand To make room for the expansion of some departments in the Chrysler Building, Roy Goltz and his New York Division staff and Ralph Clark with his Publications and Publicity Departments, including the edi torial staff of the Ethyl News and Bulletin Board have moved from the Chrysler Building to 11 West 42nd Street. Their new headquarters are on the 29th floor overlooking the New York Public library. On the Cover -- Hank Ball, safety man in Tulsa, took this month's picture of Ethyl's cover girls in front of the National Bank of Tulsa Building, where our offices are located. Lou Shank's beauties are from left to right, Dee Dee Grimshaw, Mary Gunn, Glenis Dickerson and Helen Marie Robinson. 8 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY-AUGUST ETC 07763 watery knock testing will be ier and faster from now on be- ! of the work of two Ethyl men ^`John Clifford Pope, head of our soline Testing Department and Sverett N. Garnsey, formerly of that department, now in Chemical Research. Many unsuccessful at tempts have been made to improve - upon the original Midgley bouncing ^in, which has been used ever since ^he late 20's for measuring knock in aboratory engines and for testing jfthe antiknock quality of motor gasoflines. Although it left much to be de| tired, improvement upon this pin &has defied engineers for many years. |-The main difficulty was caused by Ithree springs which control the ac tion of the bouncing pin and which ire difficult to adjust. Early in 1942 Cliff and Ev, after | good deal of research on bouncing pin behavior, discovered that its per formance could be greatly improved by means of a slight mechanical [change. By the addition of a "shoul der suspension" the bouncing pin was made more stable, more sensitive and easier to maintain. With this im provement the bouncing pin, while less sensitive to spring adjustments is at the same time almost three times as sensitive to knock. It has also been found that bouncing pins with this added feature require less servicing. The Bureau of Standards in Washington has just announced af ter a statistical analysis of extensive tests made with the new bouncing John Cliitord Pope They look alike but there's quite a ditterence be tween the old bouncing pin, left, and the new one on the right. Most apparent is the dial ior adjusting the shoulder feature on the new one Everett N. Garnsey ETC 07764 pin that the fuel ratings it gives agree with those made with the standard bouncing pin. The stand ard pin is the only instrument au thorized by the Cooperative Fuel Research Committee and the Ameri can Society for Testing Materials for use in determining laboratory octane numbers of motor gasoline. Now that the test work is complete proving that there is no variance, the shoulder suspended bouncing pin will become part of the stand ard equipment in test laboratories throughout the country, and knock test engineers across the land will go more happily about the business of measuring knock. Safely Party Oscar Lewis' annual shindig for the people in his department was held on June 22, and according to all reports, everybody had a fine time. They drove up to the Larchmont Yacht Club for a little tennis and swimming, then went to Oscar's home in Larchmont for a picnic supper. Oscar and his young son, Barney, were the chefs of the evening and served up juicy and sizzling hot dogs and hamburgs, hot off the out door grill in his back yard. Mrs. L's baked beans were a super side dish. After supper the guests amused themselves with some rousing games of table tennis and whiffle. They topped off the evening with a little close harmony to the piano accom paniment of Lucile Titlar and Ellis Locher. Taldng that* ease in the sun at the Laxehmoot Yacht Club are from lett to right Mrs. Lewis, Jill Lewis, Justine Bikely, Jane Byan, Erma Harris. Lucile Titlar and Glenace Feeney t.: i -jS,.-.. -a ETC 07765 SSl' I! Julian FreYr our General Sales Manager, welcomes Lieutenant Colonel Bill Hubner back from 'he front and back to Ethyl. Julian and Bill both used to bang their hats in the Detroit Lab in the days before the war when Julian was Manager of the Technical Sales Department and Bill was fbaad of the Refinery Technology Division Lieutenant Colonel Hubner Returns to Ethyl 'lieutenant Colonel Bill Hub, ner bounded into the New York f office the other day all set to go back to work for Ethyl after three years f of overseas duty in the Army Air Forces. He had just returned from the Southwest Pacific Theatre, where he was Deputy Chief of Main tenance and Engineering for the Far East Service Command, and partici pated in the Papuan, New Guinea and Philippine campaigns. He arrived in Florida from Aus tralia on May 2 and spent two weeks lolling on the beach at Miami wait ing for word from the Redistribu tion Center there as to whether or not he was going to be discharged. It appears that for the next several months he will remain on the Army lists but is free to resume his civilian job with Ethyl. Bill is now back at his old stomping grounds in the De troit Lab. He has no assignment at present except to catch up with what has been going on in the com pany and in the industry while he was away. Before entering the Army, Bill was head of the Refinery Technology Division in Detroit. Bill went into the Army on March 19, 1942 as a Major in the Air Corps and was sent immediately to Mel bourne, Australia as Petroleum Offi cer for the United States Army Air Services in the Southwest Pacific ETC 07766 11 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST Theatre. This meant that he super vised the supply, distribution and handling of all material and techni cal matters pertaining to petroleum products. After working from fif teen to twenty hours a day in the jungles of New Guinea for several months, he contracted malaria and was sent to Brisbane for hospitali zation. Upon his return to active duty he became Special Projects Officer for the Fifth Air Force Service Com mand. In that capacity he handled technical petroleum problems and represented the Air Force on a num ber of Service committees on tropicalization. These committees developed methods of preventing corrosion and protecting aircraft engines and all types of Air Force materiel from deterioration caused by mildew, fungicides, etc. One of Bill's speci fic contributions was the develop ment of a procedure for cleaning en gine parts during overhaul by blast ing them with pellets of wheat. As Deputy Chief of Maintenance and Engineering for the Far East Air Service Command -- the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces -- Bill supervised the maintenance of all Air Forces materiel -- air frames (airplanes without the engines), aircraft engines and accessories. Technical reports of some 200 repre sentatives of aircraft factories working in that theatre were under Bill's jurisdiction. He also worked closely with the technical staffs of Vacuum, Shell and Atlantic-Union out there, as well as members of the Scientific Liaison Bureau. While still in uniform. Bill had his picture taken to send back to his wife, Ailsa, who remains behind in Australia waiting for transporta tion. In case you don't remember, Bill and Ailsa were married last August in Brisbane, and he is anx iously awaiting her arrival. Deepwater Wins Third Production Award Men and women of our Deepwater plant have again been honored for their tireless effort on the produc tion front. On June 23 they received their third Army-Navy Production Award. In his letter informing them of the award, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson praised the men and women at the plant for main taining the fine record which first brought them distinction and for setting an inspiring example to their fellow Americans. This second renewal adds a sec ond White Star to their Army-Navy Production Award flag. Commend ing the men and women at the plant, the Under Secretary wrote that the flag stands as a "symbol of your great and continuing contribution to the cause of freedom." 12 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST ETC 07767 lere are the peopie whose good work on tiie Baton ftouge P/ant Transpor^abon Committee won a overnment Citation. They are from left to tight, front row: H. B. Hunt, Alms Parker, B. F. Manuel; aek row, S. A. LeCroy, T. R. Dupuy, B. G. Jenkins, L. D. Pendergrass, L. M. Burley and J. J. tridges. Louie Marioneaux is not shown in the picture Baton Rouge Transportation Committee Wins Citation For conservation of essential transportation, the Baton Rouge Plant Transportation Committee re cently received a Government Cita tion. The presentation was made at a meeting of the Plant's War Effort Committee by Gilbert J. Fortier, District Director of the O.P.A. Members of Management, and past as well as present members of the Transportation Committee at tended the meeting. Accompanying Giibert J. Fortier. District Director of the OJ>.A,, preseats a Government Citation to H. fi. Hunt of our Baton Rouge Transportation Committee ETC 07768 Mr. Fortier were P. H. Griffith and L. U. Babin from the local O.P.A. Board. In commending the Committee, Mr. Fortier said: "I am proud of the opportunity to express the Govern ment's appreciation of your splen did work in the conservation of gas, tires and automobiles." H. B. Hunt accepted the citation for the Transportation Committee and assured the O.P.A. officials that the same fine work would continue. He explained the functions of the group -- car pooling and the ration ing of tires and gasoline. He pointed out that the Baton Rouge Ethyl Plant's car pooling average of 3.6 passengers is far better than the na tional figure. Other members of the Transpor tation Committee are: J. J. Bridges, F. B. Manuel, S. A. LeCroy, L. D. Pendergrass, L. M. Burley, Alma Parker, Louis Marioneaux, T. R. Dupuy and B. G. Jenkins. Bronze Star Medal Awarded to George Noland Stall Sergeant George B. Noland Staff Sergeant George B. No* land, who was a member of the Baton Rouge Plant's Production Section before entering the Army in April of 1941, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meri torious service. He is a member of the 47th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in the Fifth Armored Di vision. The citation commended George for distinguishing himself by meri torious service in connection with military operations in France, Bel gium, Luxembourg, the Nether lands and Germany from August 2, 1944 to May 4, 1945. It read in part: "Staff Sergeant Noland was often under fire with the forward elements of this organiza tion giving assistance to both the Reconnaissance Officer and the Bat tery Commander. At various times his coolness under fire has inspired his section. Staff Sergeant Noland's alertness on the job has, many times, brought artillery fire quickly and ac curately on targets." Buy An Extra War Bond 14 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST ETC 07769 Milestones Go By avoid Gibson, one of the real pioneers of the Detroit Engineering Research Lab, started with us fifteen ' pears ago when the staff could be counted on your two hands. That was in the days when the Series 30 `"knock test engine was being devel oped and he did a lot of experimen tal development work on it. He also ^worked on and helped develop the ;ifirst supercharger, all of which leans that he is a research engineer rho knows what he knows from a lolid background of experience. He came to Ethyl directly from the campus of the University of Michigan where he won his M.S. de cree in 1930. While there he was a itudent assistant in the automotive laboratory. He wears the key of ligma Xi, honorary scientific relearch society. Although Harold has spent most >f his time in the laboratory, his Euel research, instrumentation stud ies and fuel testing methods investi gations have brought him in contact rith many people in the petroleum tnd automotive industry. He is a lember of the Planning Analytical and Contact Staff at the lab, as Co ordinator of Research on Knock ing, Base Fuels and Non-Antiknock Fuel Additives. He is the company's representative for the Motor Fuels Division on the Coordination Fuel Research Committee of the Coordi nating Research Council, and has served on other C.F.R. Committees. Harold, who measures six feet four in his stocking feet, is an "en gineer's engineer," well liked by those who work with him. He lives in Royal Oak with his wife and three children--James, 11, Arlene, 9, and Louise, 6. He spends most of his leisure time doing things with his children -- collecting stamps, gardening, attending Cub Scout meetings. He is secretary-treasurer of the local Cub Scout group. When he has any time left he shoots a little golf. He is handy with a movie cam era and has a fine album (in cellu loid) showing the three little Gib sons and how they grew. The other fifteen year man this month is Jim Boudreau, Central Area Sales Manager. You can read about him on page 5. Harry L. Hinnershitz, of Baton Rouge, is now sporting a ten-year pin, and the following Baton Rouge Ethyl folk have five-year pins: Jim Sigrest, Dot McCarroll, Louis Wilford and Luke Governale. Earl Cur rier, of New York Finance, has also joined the five-year club. ETC 07770 15 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY-AUGUST Robert Young on the rostrum at Baton Rouge spurs on (he "Mighty Seventh" Hollywood Actor Boosts Bond Sale at Baton Rouge Debonair Robert Young of movie fame boosted the Seventh War Loan quota in the Baton Rouge Plant to the tune of about $4000.00 in war bonds. Appearing informally June 14 at a War Effort Committee rally of employees with William R. Gol den, Tour Manager representing the Hollywood Victory Committee, and T. W. Stephenson of the War Finance Committee, the screen fav orite caused plenty of feminine hearts to flutter. Young's suave manner and easy patter won bond purchases right and left. He apologized for not being a speechmaker but thoroughly belied the statement with his appeal for the "Mighty Seventh". Getting to meet the famed actor and receive his per sonal autograph was a big induce ment to war bond purchasers. On the platform with him were Roy Broussard, Judson Ourso, and D. J. O'Banion, representing labor: and R. S. Asbury and W. W. Day, representing management, all mem bers of the War Effort Committee. G. A. Laidlaw, permanent chair man of the Industrial Division of the War Finance Drives for Baton Rouge, accompanied the actor. 16 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST ETC 0777] Ahoy! Beckwith, of the Philadeli|W Division, announces with de the "Launching of the S. S. 1 Elizabeth," his second daughwhose little sister, Bonnie, is two. * The following information was listed in the very nautical bulletin which he sent out, regarding said launching: Date May 30, 1945, Port of Registry -- East Orange, New Jersey, Ordered by--Bonnie Beck with, Built by--June Beckwith, De signed by--Jim Beckwith, Overall length--19", Beam--5", Net tonnage -- 9 pounds, Hull number -- 2, Launched at--186 William Street. It's a Girl Lieutenant (jg) Doug Black* burn and his wife, Fran, are the fproud parents of a seven pound, two i ounce baby girl, Dolores May, born fMay 17. Doug, who started with [Ethyl in 1939 as a member of Ray jrFaller's first class, later worked in the Chicago Division and the Deftroit Engineering Lab before join ing the Navy. He is now stationed in Norfolk, Virginia and his family is there with him. Little Okie Susan Taylor Cornwell, born June 9 at 3:11 A.M., weighing 6 pounds and 6 ounces is the first Okie in the Cornwell family. Her father is an Ohioan and her mother is a New Yorker. Jim and Anne are now living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he promotes Ethyl's New Products. Papa wanted and fully expected her to be a redhead like her mama. She fooled him and turned out to be a brunette with blue eyes, but it's perfectly all right with him because "she is a beauty." Mrs. Griffiths Dies We at Ethyl extend our deep sym pathy to Vice President Percy L. Griffiths, whose wife, Mrs. Nellie Griffiths, died suddenly at their home in New York City on June 15. Mrs. Griffiths was a native of Lon don, England, and their only child, a pilot officer of the R.A.F., was killed in action in Syria in June, 1941. Roll Out the Barrow-GayJe and Bobbie HuxtabJe and two of their numerous pets get set for a ride. The taJre-off looks questionable, as we see no evidence of any power behind the wheel, Gayle and Robbie are the children of Len Huxtable, our Assistant Division Man ager in Tulsa, who unfortunately has been ill tor some time ETC 07772 17 BULLETIN BOARD --J ULY-AUGUST The Fateaggs, winning men's team, are. left to right, standing, George Boyle. Bed Felt, Ferd Gillig: sitting, Eddy Girard, George Vaughn and Chick Sortman Merrill Doughty, Detroit's bowl 'A. / $1 'Mo, ing champion, still retained his title as tenpin king when the season wound up this year, leading the league with a 175 average. He also CkKl i rolled the highest single game with 263 and the highest single series with 668. Ed Johnson had the second high est average for the season--170, and Harry Prince was third with 168. .3 Frank Fricker and Cap Hall feel the need of Walter Sherman rolled the second a little nourishment after an evening of tossing the J6 pound sphere around highest single game of the season ETC 07 77 3 The Fire-Gala., gals' team that won top honors, are, left to right, Bita Adams, Maxine Acre, Helen Donovan and Kay Donahue with 235 and Martin Alspaugh the third with 232. Runner-up in the single series was Durward Rossman with 627. Leon ard Smith rolled the third highest single series with 605. The winning men's team were the lads from Aeronautical Research who sailed through the season un der the fateful name of Fateaggs. The Spares came in second. Winning girls' team was a group that called themselves the Five- Gals. The Pin-Ups were runners-up. Heading the list of feminine bowl ers was Edith Bryant with a 154 average. Next in line was Maxine Acre with a 148. Individual high for three games was a 526 rolled by Florence Dibble. Ruth Munro rolled a 210 for high single game. New president of the men's league elected to serve for the 1945-46 sea son is Ferd Gillig. Joe Weaver was reelected secretary and Ross Rife was reelected treasurer. The girls take a breather* They aie from lett to right: Elise Deyo, Dorothy Christian, Betty Crist, Fay Schroeter, Ruth Munro, Dorothy Moss and Dorothy Rhoades ETC 07774 Bob Mescher (left), president of tbs bowling league, presents the cup to George Vaughn, ol the winning Aero team. Mrs. Vaughn looks happy about the whole thing The radiant smile belongs to Bonnie Colbridge, who helps Fritz Schroeter report Detroit news to the Bulletin Board. That's the top ol Fritz's head behind Bonnie, and next to him is bis wile. Fay. At the end ol the table is Kay Wintringbam and that's Johnnie Wintringham looking at you out ol the comer ol his eye The Detroit Ethyl Society scored another grand slam with its 1945 spring party when about 150 anti knock folk gathered at Bonnie Brook Country Club on Saturday, May 26, for a luscious chicken din ner and evening of fun and frolic. Although the rustic old English Country Club atmosphere made for extremely pleasant surroundings in itself, the addition of many flower bedecked silhouettes for table cen terpieces made dining an event. The silhouettes of baseball players, box ers, and bowlers were made of masonite and stood twelve inches high, giving a sporting atmosphere to the party, which has come to be known as the sports banquet. Bonnie Colbridge and Ruth Munro, decora tors deluxe, were responsible. Highlight of the evening was the presentation of the bowling cup to George Vaughn, of the winning Aeronautical team, by Bob Mescher. The party, as all good Ethyl part ies in Detroit do, wound up around the piano after someone dragged re luctant Ross Rife to the keyboard. Ring leader of the melody makers, as usual, was Auctioneer Betzold. The Monday morning quarter backs all checked in on time, were fluent in their reworking of the af fair. Evelyn (Badge-please) Ryan, speaking from her own point of view, neatly summarized the feel ings of all when she said, "After months of wrong numbers, broad casting for lost souls and sitting on the inside looking out, that was sure fun. What a party!" ETC 07775 ETC 07776 Prisoner-of-War Returns When the S. S. Hermitage steamed into New York Harbor on June 17, loaded with returning serv icemen, among the happy warriors was Staff Sergeant Jerry Meyer, formerly of New York Finance. Jerry, who was a turret-gunner on a B-17, was shot down while on a mis sion over Germany last September 30, and for the next seven months was a prisoner of the Nazis. Friends in the Accounting De partment, who had been concerned over Jerry's fate at the hands of the Hun, were reassured when he walked into the office the other day, looking hale and hearty and sport ing a newly acquired moustache. He lost about 25 pounds living on Ger man prisoner-of-war rations but gained most of it back after return ing to the custody and cuisine of the U. S. Army. Jerry had been in England for about two months, flying on mis sions over continental Europe when his plane was hit by flak and caught on fire. They were headed for Mun ster and when the crew bailed out they found themselves in the street of a nearby town. Only the pilot and copilot were injured. They were all picked up by Ger man soldiers and taken to a local prison. From there they went to Stalag Luft No. 4 in East Pomer ania, where they remained until February when, in the face of the advancing Russian army they were sent to Stalag Luft No. 1 in Barth on the Baltic. It was early in May when the Russians reached and lib erated them there. About two weeks later they were flown to Normandy in B-17 bombers. Jerry is a member of the 8th Air Force and participated in three campaigns in the European theatre. He holds an Air Medal for meritori ous achievement, a Presidential Ci tation, and a good conduct ribbon. Following his 60-day furlough which he is spending with his fam ily on Staten Island getting ac quainted with his two-year-old daughter, Mary Ellen, he will report to Atlantic City for reassignment. Shift The Manufacturing Depart ment's New York staff was recently augmented by the transfer of Har old J. Madden and Frank J. Sergeys from the Development Division. Hal Madden, whose transfer be came effective July 1, spent the past three years at the Deepwater Plant. Frank Sergeys, transferred as of June 24, comes to New York from Baton Rouge where he has worked since December, 1940. Hal's wife and two children and Frank's wife are sitting tight in their respective present dwellings while their husbands comb the met ropolitan area for houses and apart ments. They report that $40,000 houses and $5,000-a-year apartments are fairly easily obtainable but that there are long waiting lists for benches in the more desirable parks. You don't happen to have a place for rent, do you ? 22 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY-AUGUST ETC 07777 Symbol of Service More and more of these Honor able Service Emblems are appearing ifin the lapels of more and more returned veterans as they come back ' from Europe and the Pacific to take nup where they left off when the bat tle cry of warring nations interfelrupted their lives. When you see "this emblem you know the man who % wearing it answered the call to =Xolors, served our country, and has ^$een honorably discharged. j.7 Over a million war veterans are now back and many of them have re sumed their places in offices, on pro duction lines, and on farms. With the same aim still in view, they're still plugging away for victory but on a different front. Back on the home front again pitching for Ethyl are fifteen war veterans, who have returned to their jobs in Baton Rouge, San Bernar dino, Tulsa, Chicago and Detroit. They are: Winifred Dugas, Percy Breeden, Bill Le Feaux, Warren Hendry, Russell Mahan, Dick McCraine, Elmo McMorris, Bob Nor wood, Joe Reed, and Allen White, in Baton Rouge; Jim Boudreau, newly appointed Central Sales Man ager, Chicago; Bill Hubner and Ed Rothman, Detroit; Walter Rantanen, San Bernardino and Sam Rady, Tulsa. Although their service under the stars and stripes is over, their serv ice for their country goes right on. In doing their part to keep the wheels of Ethyl rolling, they are helping to keep the necessary high octane gasoline on its way to the Pacific to power our attacks against the wily Jap. There are still 243 Ethyl people in service. We are looking forward to the day when they can all be back with us again. Meanwhile the Bulle tin Board extends a hearty welcome to you who have returned. ETC 07778 23 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST VICTORY MAIL From Lieutenant (sg) Mac McCulloch (Kansas City Divi sion) skipper of an LCI in the Pa cific comes word via Harold Berg about the boredom and the fright that is war. He says: "General Montgomery once said that war is 90% boredom and 10% intense fright. Except that he might have better qualified the 90% by the addition of a few more unpleasant nesses, he couldn't have stated things more accurately. I have spent weeks on end lying at anchor in some super-heated tropical harbor with nothing more to do than devise means of keeping the men busy enough to prevent their going nuts. For the first time in my life I have known Boredom with a capital `B'. And then on the other hand, and also for the first time in my life, I have been most thoroughly frightened. Not once, but many times. "Although I do not believe that anyone in his right mind ever be comes caloused to the dangers of battle, I suppose one always remem bers his first combat most vividly. I know I shall never forget mine. We were in convoy passing through hotly contested waters, and the Jap Air Force found us about eight in the morning. They pounded us in almost continuous waves from then until dark at about 1800. We'd been in plenty of air raids before, but nothing like this. They had to stop us if they could, and they did their damndest. Fortunately it was not good enough, but they dished out plenty of hell. I was so tense that my leg muscles ached for days after, and I was amazed to find no bruises on the insides of my knees. You know you can't dig a foxhole in steel deck plates nor find a bomb-proof shelter beneath the surface of the sea. One simply has to stand there, BULLETIN BOARD -- J ULY-AUGUST ETC 07779 ing much nakeder than if he in Times Square with no les, and try to keep the ship in tion and hope to God your iers don't miss the nasty little of heaven who picks you for his get. /A ftrafer comes in and you watch the ragged seam of 50 caliber stitch es he sows close along your star board side. And your sigh of relief t he has missed turns into a gasp you see a 100 pounder arcing at fou from up high. It misses both you nd the nearby destroyer. And then or a moment you are able to forget 'bout yourself in watching the magificent sweep of a dog-fight far ead. Only to be jerked abruptly ck by the racket of your own guns a torpedo plane comes in low on e port hand. And this keeps on our after hour until the din of guns id planes and bombs is part of your ching skull and the bitter taste of ear has dried and cracked your ngue and your eyeballs burn and ere's a coldly writhing knot here you used to think your guts ere. Then, finally, it is all over, d you realize that you have been st about as mad as you were scared. You remember with satisfac tion the hits your gunners scored and you gloat a little over the fifty odd enemy planes you saw smacked down. You find yourself even wish ing a little that a couple more would come over so you could get a few more shots or watch our fighters take them. But you hastily suppress this wish for fear it might come true. "I think I mentioned some time ago having seen the Japs do some utterly fantastic stunts in the name of bravery. One of these has now been talked of in the papers: the Kamikaze, or Special Attack Corps, of the Japanese Air Force. These gallant fellows come out in their planes with the sole intent of crash ing them into a ship or whatever tar get they can find! Deliberately they dive their planes into their chosen target, deliberately they destroy themselves in the misguided notion that they thus gain sanctification, whatever that is! I don't know why it effects me so strongly but it actu ally makes me sick to watch them at work. They don't bother with such small fry as an LCI, so I haven't had to deal with one personally, but I've watched them many times. To me there is nothing at all brave or cour ageous about a thing of that sort. It is sheer madness." Captain Jack Pruitt (Dayton Division), writes from the Pacific that during the entire time he's been in the Air Corps he's never heard a complaint on gasoline. "We've run out of gasoline and had all our fuel burned up--we've had our pipelines broken by earthquakes and blown up --but no difficulty on the quality as far as I know." The Captain says he's been play ing a lot of baseball recently and pitched a couple of games, winning both, one 13 to 2, the other 7 to 1. One member of their squadron -- the 455th Air Service Engineering Group--is Tony Mancuso, cousin of the famous Gus Mancuso, and him self a former member of the Newark Bears, so it's almost big league ball. ETC 07780 BULLETIN BOARD --JULV-AUGUST Captain Ray M. Brown at eue-rbii snapshot was made of the Captain while he was risiting his family in Fullerton, California, after returning from combat duty with the Eighth Air Force in Europe. When last heard from he was at the Santa Ana Air Base in Long Beach waiting for reassignment Lieutenant Lee Larlson (Bos ton), is now at an advance base where things have quieted down so that he hardly knows there's a war on. "Life is really quite pleasant," he writes. "Two of us are in a tent with built-in bunks, air mattresses under our regular mattresses, an electric fan, a radio and a front porch from which you could dabble your feet in the ocean at high tide. "I've had a chance to see some of the country around here, getting a look at Manila and seeing the `battle of the water works' from the nose of a B-24. "About the most interesting part of my job now is bartering with the Army for it always seems that we have surplus where they have short age and vice versa, so it really works out to the advantage of both of us. "Prices for native things are very high here, and there seems to be a lot of money around. A carton of cigarettes will sell for twenty pesos (ten dollars) and for some sugar you can get anything they have. It is getting to the point where the na tives are reluctant to work because there is nothing for them to buy with their earnings. "This base is really getting quite civilized. We can get four bottles of beer a week and a carton of cigar ettes. We have also been getting fresh meat three times a week and eggs about once every two weeks. "Already the Philippines are get ting back to normal with bus lines and railroads operating on schedule. An American who was a prisoner out here has started a bus company and he isn't going to return to the States for there is money to be made here, the shortage of all items being what it is. There are quite a few 1940 and 1941 cars around here but there is a market for many. Prac tically any kind of business you could imagine should thrive out here and those who get in on the ground floor should make out well and it is surprising how many Amer icans who were prisoners are just going to stay out here to establish business." 26 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST ETC 07781 ETC 07782 Nice Bail--Best fish story ot the year: Harry Maiming (Seattle Division tractor engineer) says he used these lor bait! He caught them in Ore gon in the Siletz River with a "Ford Fender" plug--some bait for bait. What we'd like to know is what Mrs. Manning used tor bait. She is the champion fisher in the family, having caught 1 1 salmon, trout and cutthroat on the trip IT'S OPEN SEASQ The Luck of the Fishers Nine-Deep water fishing enthusiasts opened the season with a day's sport at Fortescue. New Jersey. Here are the people and here's the equipment but where oh where ere the fish? The gals are from left to right: Jane Bennett. Bose Mangint Jennie Norton and Dot Featherer; behind them are Budy Williams, Charlie Wasserman, Bud Johnson. Ed Herbert and Bob Sharbaugh Beach BeauBes-Eima Russell and Louise Fries, who are, respectively, the present and erstwhile secretaries of Harry Mack, sun them selves on the sands of Hollywood Beach in Florida. Elma was vacationing and Louise, who is now a Wave at the Hollywood Naval Training Station, was playing hostess ETC 07783 Trout Bowaro -- And they did when these three fishermen from our Detroit Lab went up on the north branch of the Au Sable for the opening of Michigan's trout season. Punch Pfundstein, who elicited the camera, went along for the fresh air. Their iaclc of success in luring the wary trout to bite -- despite beautiful Hies, tied by Mike and Fritz, and despite nice, fat worms, used as a fast resort, against the better Instincts of these confirmed tly fishermen--was due, they say, to sharp winds, coid water and freezing lines ETC 07784 Kenneth Hubbard at work in the Chem Research Lab in Detroit where he is a newcomer to the start. Ken's hobby is designing, building and racing bobsleds and ii you catch him in a reminigenf mood he has lots oi breath taJdng experiences to tell. Ken is married and has two sons, thirteen and two. His own family was somewhat larger as he has five brothers-- three of them now serving in the Pacific. He likes to spend spare time working in his garden r ft Janet Terry, of the Chemical Research Labo ratory, Detroit, came to the Motor City from California, where she worked for the Shell Deveropment Corporation. Janet was born in Peoria, Illinois and educated there except for a year when she was living in Berlin and at tended school there. While on the Continent she traveled extensively in Russia, Holland. Germany and France. She took her college work at Northwestern University, where she obtained her degree ETC 07785 Rose Wanders rough Wonderland peacetime, when it's azalea le in Charleston thousands of surists from all over the country go liere to see the beauties of its hisric gardens. This year, of course, lings were different but the flowers *-were not born to blush unseen. We , know of at least one visitor who saw ^and admired them when they were | at the height of their beauty. Rose O'Neal from our Atlanta office man aged to get up there for a weekend, and, furthermore, managed to get some film and take some pictures, a I few of which you see below. Rom amid the azaleas in Magnolia Gadou where she rambled through 25 acres ot whit; lawns with blossoms on all sides, towering and cypress draped with Spanish moss, and inky lakes to relied the views Shadows on Stolls Alley, fashionable remdenliai section ol Charleston. Built about 1740, it was barely wide enough to accommodate the beruHled, hooped and bustled ladies who strolled down its cobblestone path I Pickaninnies a-plenty appear irom all di- I rections when a car lull ol tourists approaches I --They sing, dance, roll their big eyes, and I hopefully await their reward i*. 'f t-SSS. J Reflections on dark waters, which Rose toured in a small boat paddled by negro boys-- Dotting the lake are many fiower covered islands linked with rustic bridges under which the boats may pass -Mi Under the spreading oaic tree Rose and her friends pause for a picture as they wander through Middleton Place Gardens--Dating back to 1740, they are the oldest formal gardens In the United States ETC 07786 I* More Military Addresses I t -* A ei i t Tie Gold Dust Twins -- Lippy Wilkinson and Harold Fauchez. inseparable pals, who worked together as boiler operators in our Detroit Lab, are now separated lor the duration. Harold leit recently to join the Nary, and the Detroit lads and lassies presented him with this identification bracelet which hippy is shown putting on his wrist ie military still calls. Five more Bthyl people have gone into service, ree from Baton Rouge and two Kam3 Detroit. Kay Donahue, mighty midget of |he Road Test Section in Detroit, pp and joined the lady Marines. Her (nany friends gave her a big send-off at Redford Inn on June 27, and pre sented her with an identification bracelet and a neat little bundle of folding money. Harold Faucher, another Detroiter, who went into the Navy, received ditto send-off and ditto presents, i Floyd Morris, formerly of the Sodium Plant in Baton Rouge, is now in Uncle Sam's Army at Camp Lee, Virginia. Lee Snowden has left the Sodium Plant to become a sailor at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland. Paula Stogner, who used to work at the Ethyl Chloride Plant in Baton Rouge is now Private Paula Stogner, of the U. S. Marine Corps and is currently stationed at Parris Island, South Carolina. Pvt. Earl E. Allen, 38617349 HQ Co. 1st Bn. 474 Inf. Regt. APO 403, c/o Postmaster New York, New York Capt. K. L. Armstrong, 0-864632 1348th A.A.F. Base Unit--Sqdn. B A.P.O. 218, c/o Postmaster New York, New York ETC 07788 33 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST 1 t el9k * i i*t Hudgens A. Blouin, A/S Class 53, Sec. A Diesel School, U. S. Naval Training Center Gulfport, Mississippi James F. Bridges, M.M. 1/c U.S.S. Reading P.F. 66 c/o Fleet Post Office New York, New York Earl P. Broussard Co. 45-224 4 U. S. Naval Training Center .3 San Diego 33, California Robert C. Burns, S 1/c (RT) U. S. Naval Training Center, Co. 538 Great Lakes, Illinois Lt. R. S. Charlton, U.S.N.R. Navy 3256 c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, California Sgt. Everett L. Clough, 32071539 6th Bn. FAS Det. Fort Sill, Oklahoma S/Sgt. Wilford E. Frazier, 34028799 Co. "B" 1346 Engineers "C" Bn. A.P.O. 18867, c/o Postmaster J San Francisco, California A/C James M. Fauver, 38500364 a Sqdn. "I", Sect. M & N H.A.A.F. Hobbs, New Mexico Harold Faucher, A/S U. S. Naval Training Center, Co. 870 Great Lakes, Illinois Pfc. James D. French, 38498253 Squadron F Davis-Monthan Field Tucson, Arizona Lieut. William K. McCulloch U.S.S. LC 1 (1) 749 Fleet Post Office San Francisco, California BULLETIN BOARD--JULY-AUGUST Buy An Extra War Bond ETC 07789 ETC 07790 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Edit( PubiiiJted by tbe Ethyl Corp., 405 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.; Eerie W, Webb, president; Percy L. Griitiths, vice-president end treasurer; lulien C. Gonxa/es, aecretery. ETHYL FAMILY GROWS PAGE 7 NEW PRODUCT AND NEW DEPARTMENT PAGE 12 N*Ws Of n frolic oh the green PAGE I* ^Acr 34 ETC Earl Bartholomew Appointed General Manager of Research Laboratories j Jack Macauley Takes engineers and researchers over a Post as Director of Engineering Research S period of more thin 20 years. He comes to Ethyl from Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford, Connecticut where he has been, for the past two years, Director of Ap plied Research. Previously, he was associated with the Chrysler Cor poration in Detroit, serving most of the time as Director of the Engine Laboratory. John B. Macauley, better known throughout the automotive industry as "Jack" Macauley, has been ap pointed Director of Engineering Research for Ethyl effective this month. He succeeds Earl Bartholo mew, who has been promoted to the newly-created post of General Man ager of Research Laboratories. Jack Macauley is widely known for his contributions to the coordi nation of fuel and engine research, and has worked closely with Ethyl Jack was born in Washington, D. C. on April 2, 1896. He went to the University of Illinois as a mem ber of the class of 1918 but inter rupted his studies with the outbreak of World War I by enlisting in the Marines, serving in France as Ma rine Gunner with the First Marine Aviation Force. Upon returning to this country, he attended Packard Apprentice School in Detroit and later worked for the Lincoln Motor Car Company and the American Brake Shoe Company. In May 1923, he joined the engineering depart ment of the Maxwell Motor Cor poration, which became the nucleus of the Chrysler Corporation. He was in charge of the high compres sion program which led to the mar keting of the famous Chrysler Red Head. During his service with Pratt and Whitney, Jack made his home in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He was ETC 07794 3 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER married on June 17, 1922 to Julia Cutler of Detroit. They have two children, Dwight, 21 and Julie, 18. Dwight, who has just returned from a year's European service in the in fantry of the Army, worked for Sam Heron in the summer of 1942 at the Ethyl Aeronautical Research Labo ratories in Detroit. Julie is entering Vassar College this fall. Jack is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Ameri can Society of Mechanical Engi neers, American Society for Testing Materials, and the American Asso ciation for Advance of Science, and from 1941 to 1944 was chairman of the War Advisory Committee of the Coordinating Research Council. Earl Bartholomew has been with Ethyl since 1926 when he joined the Engineering Research Laboratory in Yonkers, New York. When the Enginering Research Laboratory was moved to Detroit the following year, Earl moved to that city to be come its director. A native of Norman, Oklahoma, Earl attended the University of Oklahoma, where he received his B.A. degree in 1921, his B.S. degree in 1922, and his M.S. in 1923. During his college career, he was elected to the honorary societies of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Tau. In 1922 and 1923, he was instructor in mechani cal engineering at the University of Oklahoma and from 1923 to 1926 he occupied a similar position at Har vard University. As a result of his work in the de velopment of the automobile engine for the utilization of better fuels, Earl is regarded as one of the top- ranking automotive engineers in the country. His new position as Gen eral Manager of Research Labora tories will give him more time to work both with the petroleum and the automotive industries in the de velopment of better engines to make use of better fuels. The Worm Turns Last summer when the best gaso line was still fighting, a motorist down in Florida came up with the following story, which ex-Ethylman J. R. McKenna (now with East ern Air Lines), read in the Miami Herald, and sent to Alan Tully in Atlanta. "The other night a motorcycle policeman overhauled me for doing 40 on the causeway. I didn't realize I was going that fast and I said as much humbly. "Then with a start I realized why I had been going at that speed. I had just been lucky enough to buy some Ethyl gasoline and there was no holding my crate. "I blurted out this thin alibi to the policeman, and, miracle, he was tremendously impressed. No ticket was forthcoming and all I had to do was listen to him discourse for a few minutes on the fine points of Ethyl gasoline. "Before he pulled away he asked me, in a slightly pleading tone, where I had bought the gas. With the air of a man revealing the name of a grocer who has eggs for sale, I told him. He thanked me and as he left I had the smug feeling that I had done him a good turn--not him me." 4 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 07795 Costello Praised lor Work at PAW (Dip (Bnilril States of Ararara rj*.a/{ .iA/AK.pxjtufi .ihl/fpmt fin6HQ )lHHtryt -dj/f x#t .tmtiff/retj. Joseph %<Co9Xc\\o of Jfcw yoHc i/itt ju*J i*t tmmfaf fkt/Jr/ttJ/t} a tea'' t-'/f mtit ^JA* -ttftfiAmtm tbSmn*t/.eifrba* //'*/ '//eta 1mm| It. tMl fleirk )l, tH* 'Jtaea *mde mf daadtad A 'Jr*/ */ T/t J/Aa/taae Oy '/JmeeaAt/eHGaUa U|/{(*/f0*|/ /A* ->'/ *md */ A >mdf.ad/mee */ A (Aa/tdJUA/ Me fit MUi< stUfiUU. ^. 7*4 mi.-cct--i-Li Joe Costello, Assistant General Manager of Manufacturing, who was on leave of absence from Ethyl serving as special assistant to the Director of Refining in the Of fice of the Petroleum Coordinator for two years immediately follow ing our entrance in the war, re cently received a certificate stating that he "has served his country 1 faithfully and well." The certificate |is signed by Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator and A. P. Frame, Director of Re fining. We at Ethyl are very proud of Joe's record of service and of his contribution to the war effort. The letter from Mr. Frame which accompanied the certificate highly praised the work of our Ethyl ex pert. It said in part : "The knowledge that you brought with you to the Petroleum Admin istration on the tetraethyl lead situ ation covering raw materials, manu facturing facilities, manufacturing procedures, and distribution, was largely responsible for the satisfac tory supply situation that has ex isted throughout the war. Your ac tivities with the various groups in the Services interested in the utili zation of tetraethyl lead, and with the individuals in the War Produc tion Board concerned with alloca tion of raw materials, was always most effective. "You have every reason to be very proud of the contribution that you have made to the success of the Petroleum Industry in meeting quantity and quality requirements of the Military for motor fuel and at the same time placing the Indus try in a position to meet civilian demands for quality motor fuels with the least possible effect upon their operations." ETC 07796 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETHYL CORPORATION CHRYSLER BUILDING 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YORK I i September 15, 1945 To All Employees at Baton Rouge 1 Greetings: `l I take pleasure in addressing a message of welcome to our new employees in Baton Rouge. We have long con sidered you, as members of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, a very important part of the organization behind Ethyl. Now that the war is over I am gratified with this opportunity to say "well done" to the new as well as the old employees of Ethyl who have contributed to the task of supplying our Army and Navy and the Armies of our Allies with Ethyl Fluid. It was a Job in which all of us should have considerable pride. You may rest assured that all of you who have helped in this work have made a real contribution \ to victory. I 1i Ur. Schaefer, Mr. Bond, and my other associates in Ethyl most heartily join me in welcoming the new members of our organization to the Ethyl family. Very truly yours, 6 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 07797 Baton Rouge Operations Consolidated Vice President John Schaefer an nounced that the Manufacturing Department has taken over the management of all Baton Rouge perations formerly under the du Pont Company effective September 15, 1945. Officials of both the du Pont Company and the Ethyl Cor poration acting in accordance with their contractual relationship de cided that this was the opportune time to consolidate the operations of the Baton Rouge plant under one management. At the time of this announce ment, it is expected that substan tially all of the duPont employees, both supervision and labor, will have voluntarily transferred to Ethyl, who offers substantially the same terms and conditions of employment to these men as they enjoyed under the duPont Com pany. These men carry with them a rich knowledge of industrial prac tices gained under the able tutelage of the duPont Company. H. H. Fisher of the duPont Company and Part of sodium aJJoy area from the water tower Looking along TEL row showing wash houses at end oi each TEL building certain members of his staff will re main at Baton Rouge as long as necessary in an advisory capacity to lend the newly organized plant their able assistance and support. The operations involved in this transfer, following the sodium plant take-over which became ef fective last May, embrace the tetra ethyl lead plants, the alloy plant, the blending plant, shops and main tenance organizations which served these facilities; laundries, change houses, general plant facilities in cluding sub-stations; water facili ties including the new river water treating plant; broad gauge railroad, plant patrol system, and all func tions of the plant formerly operated under the management of the duPont Company. Approximately 1,100 employees are involved in this latest transfer, about 85% of whom are wage roll and the balance of 15% supervisory and salary roll employees. This brings the total Ethyl employment at Baton Rouge up to a round figure of about 2,100 men and women. For some time this change has been studied and anticipated, and the Manufacturing Department has been working for nearly a year to prepare a single organization cap able of handling the entire respon sibility. Many changes will be made in the general pattern of the organ ization and as of this announcement complete details as to all the per sonnel involved have not been con firmed. The Manufacturing Department organization at Baton Rouge has been streamlined to provide maxi mum efficiency. The newly-created organizational setup is of the type known as a line-and-staff organiza tion, in which the line organization embraces all operations and has as its sole function the operation of 8 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 07799 plant production units, while the staff organization comprises all de partments which can contribute and provide the various types of services to the operating groups. The entire organization heads up locally to Clint Bond as Resident Manager, who in turn reports to John Schaeferand Joe Costello at New York. A new position of Assistant Resident Manager has been created to share and assist in the large responsibility of operating the plant and help Clint Bond carry the large load at that point. Bill Irwin, with long experi ence and background with duPont, will ably fill this position. Roy Clothier, who has been with Ethyl at Baton Rouge since the start, will have the direct respon' sibility as Operations Manager for all of the operations. These are di. vided into three main units -- the tetraethyl lead and blender opera: tions, with Harry Wheeler as super intendent; the sodium operations, [with Glenn Hayes as superinten dent; the ethyl chloride operations and supplementary Mannheim plant | for production of HC1, with Wally Armstrong as superintendent. In the staff organization there will be the following Sections: Development Section, with Ed Kurt, manager, to render technical service to the operations and other sections as required and to develop improved utilization of materials, processes, etc. Engineering and Maintenance Section, with Bill Henry, manager, to maintain all equipment in good, safe operating condition according to a planned maintenance program, provide engineering service so that all equipment is up to date and con stantly improved, provide service for proper presentation of all re quired operating projects for capital investments, major repairs, and con struction service. Industrial Engineering Section, with Ben Harrison, manager, to pro vide procedure and analysis of all phases of manufacturing costs, pro vide means for time study where re quired to determine standards of operating units, provide means for organization study and analysis and position classification and many other important functions. Production Planning Section, with Berly Perkins, manager, to schedule all production in accord ance with the Corporation's plans and programs, to determine require ments and see that materials are available and provided in accord ance with the Company's contracts, maintain inventories of both raw materials and finished product, pro vide means for analyzing daily pro- Lead recovery buildings where sludge is put into smelters tor recovery of the lead ETC 07800 duction data, scheduling and clear ance of all customer orders. Industrial Relations Section, with Marion Pettegrew, manager, to advise in the formulation, adop tion, coordination and execution of policies affecting and dealing with employees and their representa tives, to provide adequate and pro per service in securing, interview ing, hiring and separation of em ployees, to provide means for or ganization and supervising em ployee training programs, to pro vide means for establishing all safety, plant protection, employee welfare activities and programs, and many other important func tions. Service Section, with Lew Bar num, manager, to see that propei service and facilities are providec in the administrative offices, tc supervise plant purchasing anc many other general programs re quired at the plant. Later a Traffic Section will be added. The plans for this are now being made by our Traffic Manager, Ed Gresslin, and will be completed shortly. Bill Ross, special consultant on sodium operations and related problems, will continue in that position at Baton Rouge as a mem ber of Clint Bond's staff. In addition there will be two other departments represented at Blender operators at weigh tanks -- the linal step ot the manufacture of Ethyl fluid Baton Rouge. The Medical Depart ment will be responsible to our Med ical Director, Dr. Bob Kehoe, to pro vide for all the necessary medical services required in such a plant. The Finance Department will also maintain an organization there to provide for the complex accounting requirements and to assist the Man|. ufacturing Department in obtaining ' all the necessary cost data for the in formation of those responsible for p the economic operation of the plant. This organization will report to Percy Griffiths, Vice President, Finance Department. These latter itwo groups will also serve on the staff to advise Clint Bond in order that they may assist the Manufac; turing Department, know its prob lems, and interlace their work at Baton Rouge cooperatively with that of the operating groups. The Bulletin Board expects to be able to give more details about the people in the Baton Rouge organ ization in the next issue. Greetings to our new readers. We hope you like the Bulletin Board. Extra! This Bulletin Board--extra fat and extra newsy--brings you up-to-theminute news of Ethyl people, pro grams and progress. Much has hap pened in our Company since the last issue. The end of the war brought many changes and new de velopments. Rather than go to press with out-of-date information, we skipped the September issue in or der to bring you the very latest. Here 'tis. John Pauli Returns to Sales John Panli, of Detroit Engineer ing, will move to Harrisburg, Penn sylvania, in August, where he will take care of fleet and tractor activi ties in that area of the Philadelphia Division. He is returning to the Sales De partment after a three-year assign ment in the Detroit Lab. John started as a tune-up engineer on Clinics in the New York and Chi cago Divisions and was a field en gineer in the Chicago Division at the time of his transfer to Detroit. FRANK NEAL DIES Pic. Frank Neal, former Ethyl operator, died on Tarkaran Island off Borneo August 10 of a fractured skull. His widow, the former Etta Mae Edney, who makes her home at Wilson, La. and a twenty-onemonth-old son, Frank, Jr., whom the father had never seen, survive. It is understood that Neal was on his way to the States to receive his discharge. Frank was employed by Ethyl in August, 1938 and entered military service in July, 1942 with the Am phibious Engineers. Overseas 25 of 37 months in the Army, Frank had served on New Guinea, the Netherlands East In dies, the Straits of Malacca, Borneo and New Britain. We, at Ethyl, extend our sincere sympathy to his family. ETC 07802 11 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER New Organization for Ethyl Cleaner Fifteen Salesmen In New York for Training Session Tom Sterck An important Ethyl post war project is now slipping into high gear with the knockless perform ance that is traditionally Ethyl. Ethyl Cleaner (announced in the June 1944 Bulletin Board) has grown beyond the testing stage and will now be put on the market na tionally in a series of sales territory expansions. The tests, which were started in July, 1944 in six cities, indicated a ready acceptance of the product and a steadily increasing demand. Surveys among users and prospec tive users proved that this new product merited an aggressive pro gram of marketing as quickly as war restrictions would permit. In addition to the original six cities, the expanded marketing areas Bill Tumley will include the Atlantic seaboard states from Maine to Florida (ex cept New York City) and terri tory as far west as Kansas, includ ing New York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, (ex cept Chicago), Missouri, and Michi gan. Present plans calls for the set ting up of twenty district areas, with 12 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBEK etc 07803 ales headquarters established in fbe leading cities of those districts. In order to meet the requirements f this program a new department been formed . .. the Packaged oducts Department, which is leaded by Thomas R. Sterck as General Manager and William M. Turnley as Assistant General Man ager. Ed Enoch has transferred from Ethyl's Advertising Depart ment to handle advertising and sales promotion for Ethyl Cleaner. Tom Sterck comes to us from the Polaroid Corporation with whom, as a special representative, he was manager of the sub-contracting de partment and manager of Vetcograph Film sales. He has a wide ex perience in sales and advertising work with Westinghouse, Jam Handy Organization and two promi nent advertising companies. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, claims Washington and Jefferson College as his alma mater and foot ball as his favorite sport. Since var sity days he has concentrated on golf. Tom has moved his family to Colonial Heights, New York, and says he used 100 gallons of Ethyl Cleaner solution in the process, every drop of which sold him com pletely on the merits of his new "baby." Bill Turnley is an Ethyl veteran of 13 years' standing. Most of that time has been spent in sales and service work in the United States and in Canada. In 1939> he was brought to New York, where he continued to handle the company's Canadian contacts along with spe cial work for the New York Divi Ed Enoch sion. Since early last year Bill has devoted most of his time to Ethyl Cleaner, and has carried the ball in the development of the sales test from the start. Bill was born in Texas and reared in Alabama, graduating from Ala bama Polytechnic at Auburn with a BS in both mechanical and elec trical engineering. He was one of Phi Delta Theta's star athletes. Ed Enoch, who has been working on Ethyl Cleaner advertising and promotion since the start, joined our Advertising Department in January, 1943. He came to New York from Springfield, Massachu setts, where he was Advertising and Sales Promotion manager for the Gilbert and Barker Manufac turing Company. Ed was born and reared in Philadelphia and attended the University of Penn sylvania. He is a veteran of World ETC 07804 13 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER War I and active in the American Legion. His favorite sport is base ball, though he admits his game isn't as fast as it used to be. Ed and his family live in New Rochelle, New York. Many other people in the com pany, of course, participated in the planning and development of Ethyl Cleaner and the studies that led to the corporation's decision to manu facture and market this product. More than three years ago our chemists in the Detroit Research Laboratories were testing and de vising alternate formula to make the most of the basic detergent dis covery. Fleet engineers in the sales department made one of the first market investigations soon after wards when they called on large fleet operators throughout the country to determine their reac tions to such a product. The Fi nance and Manufacturing Depart ments have been involved since the start and a number of Manufactur ing Department men cooperated in setting up the manufacturing pro cedures. George Rieger in particu lar has spent a great deal of time developing Manufacturing Depart ment plans for the new product. The original sales force of three has been increased to fifteen, all of whom assembled in New York during the week of September 17 for a sales meeting covering all phases of operation of the new de partment. After the meeting the various men set out for their vari ous territories to start the battle against Old Man Sales Resistance. Ethyl Cleaner was created to make available to the American Motorist a car wash better and speedier than any previously obtain able. It performs equally well on all parts of a car -- painted surfaces, glass, upholstery, chrome, tires and canvas tops. Almost from the first, Mrs. America discovered that hub by's new cleaner was just as effi cient and speedy for many cleaning tasks in the house. This increased the sales potential tremendously and distribution was expanded to include hardware, drug, grocery and department stores, all of which report immediate acceptance and steadily mounting sales. With millions of new cars start ing down the production lines and additional millions of housewives seeking more scientific methods of lightening their household tasks, the future of the Packaged Prod ucts Department looks attractive. * The Absent Minded Doc Lester Sanders, veteran medico from Cincinnati, threw Charlie Kass' garage at the Detroit Lab into an uproar recently by bringing in a "foreign" car. Doc drove a com pany conveyance down to the Wardell Hotel one evening, as is the custom of visiting dignitaries. Next morning when he arrived at the Lab, he was driving a car that looked just like it -- but wasn't. It belonged to an out-of-state tourist, who had also left his car in the Wardell garage. Fixer-upper John Murphy took the matter in hand and arranged a switch. .14 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 07805 Han aha Is -- Olive Dvpuy, most valuable player on the Baton Rouge girls' aoltball team, receiving an award from Clave Broussard, president ot the Antiknock Industrial Athletic Association. Cheering from the sidelines are Ruth David and Sarah Moffett on the left and Annie Belle Dubose, Roy Burkholder. Dot Dupuy and Sue Carbo on the right Baton Rouge Girls Play Ball Members of the girls' softball team at Baton Rouge were guests of honor at an outing on False River on Sunday, July 1, to cele brate the end of the season. A group of men from the plant who are interested in the activities of the team planned the party. Cleve Broussard, president of the Antiknock Industrial Athletic As sociation, was on hand to present Olive Dupuy an award for being the most valuable player on the team. Although the girls won only one game last season their enthusiasm remains undampened, and they are looking forward to a bigger and better season next year. Their com petition was stiff, most of their op ponents being seasoned players while many of their own team were rank beginners at the sport. Next year, with this season behind them, they'll be in better form. They have already showed great improvement. One member, Dot Dupuy, was awarded a berth on the All-Star Team when city league honors were handed out. Olive Du puy, Sarah Moffett and Joyce Weysham received honorable mention. Other members of the team are: Mae Bell, Margaret Bailey, Doris Bowman, Annie Belle DuBose, Sue Carbo, Mamie B. Johnson, Yvonne Litton and Adelaide Young. Their activities were guided by several men from the plant, who acted as coaches. They were Roy Burkholder, Randal Laporte, Gas ton England and Bill Morris. ETC 07806 IS BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER  VICTORY MAIL Most of the letters in our Victory Mail this month were written be fore Victory came, but Lieutenant Colonel Arthur D. Miller (Tulsa Division), writing on August 19 from "somewhere on Mindanao, P. I.," sounded the current keynote queston--"When do we go home?" The card arrived on the heels of a letter written by the Colonel on June 7 in which he tells about re ceiving three Christmas presents from the Company only a few days before. He said they were most wel come, the fruit cake was still in good condition, and it made him feel good to be remembered at Christmastime even though the mails were a little slow. Writing about his experiences as Commanding Officer of the 476th AAA AW Battalion, Dale says: "Just prior to joining this unit I had gone in with the assault troops at Wake, Dutch New Guinea, where I spent three uncomfortable days. Then I went with my present organ ization on the landing at Biak Is land, Schouten Island Group, Neth erlands East Indies. Much to my surprise I landed at the beach ob jective with a small group of .50 Cal. AA machine guns some thirty min utes ahead of any other troops. For tunately, we encountered only small resistance and were able to emplace our weapons without loss. The cam paign was rough, though, during the days and weeks that followed. ETC 07807 "Early this year my battalion was suddenly alerted for operations in *the Philippines and immediately loaded aboard ships for the move. We were expecting to go into Ma nila from the south, but the advance was well under control by the time wp reached the Philippine waters and we were given another mission. As Task Force Antiaircraft Defense Commander I have had some inter esting experiences, both in making preparations for the amphibious op eration and in carrying them out. All AA units here are either as signed to my battalion or attached for complete control. I am happy with my assignment and proud to have been given the task. "While on Owi Island, near Biak Island, I met Lieutenant Colonel Ben Fridge and enjoyed a few vis its with him prior to his return to the States. It was rather unusual for two Ethylmen to be stationed on the same very small island. Guess he is enjoying life now in the U.S. Think I should like to settle down there myself, though I have no idea when I will have an opportunity. "Two weeks ago I returned from a trip to Australia, where I spent three weeks in Brisbane -- officially on duty, though I had considerable time to recuperate from this jungle life. It was certainly a pleasure to eat steak for breakfast as well as dinner. I spent two weekends on the beach at Southport, where the atmosphere was most pleasing--and I'm not referring to the weather, either. We flew back via Manila, which certainly received undescribable destruction. m- And here's the house that Dale liras in "somewhere in the Philippines." He is Com manding Officer of the 476th AAA AW Bat talion. That's the CO in the middie "The achievements of the 476th in shooting down Jap planes at Biak were rewarded in April of this year, when we received a Presidential Unit Citation. I am proud to com mand such a fine organization." Last we heard of Lieutenant Joe cipolla (Detroit Lab), he had just reported aboard the destroyer Charles F. Ausburne for duty as ex ecutive officer. He had spent 32 months aboard the destroyer USS Eaton, and gone through campaigns in the Solomons, Marshalls, the Ma rianas, Borneo, and the Philippines as gunnery officer, first lieutenant and torpedo officer. ETC 07808 17 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER , Corporal A1 Ramsey (Detroit), wrote on July 17: ' - "The last of April I unexpectedly was notified I had a furlough; a couple of hours later I was on my way to the good ole U.S.A. Arrived ;rbere May 12, went home to see the '^Folks in Oklahoma, turned around a couple of times and my furlough was over. Reported back to the Santa Ana Air Base for reassign ment, where I spent two hectic weeks after which I was sent to Eglin Field in Florida. Haven't been here long enough to get half way acquainted with the place, but I don't like the heat and humidity. Suppose I'll get reacclimated in time." Lieutenant Torbin Tales (Chi cago) was still in the Pacific when last heard from and wrote: "You sure haven't let me down because I feel like I'm still a mem ber of Ethyl through all of your efforts. My Ethyl News gets here Lieutenant Torbin Tales, formerly o1 our Chicago Division, emerging irom a J. J.-- Jap Jeep--which had had a pretty rough going over by our Marines. Oar hoys put it in running order after taicing it over, hut found the front seat, designed for iittie yellow men, uncomfortahie for iong-iegged Americans late but always welcome. Still the News makes better time than the B.B. for some reason. The poorest service I got was my Christmas presents which started coming six months after they were mailed and the last of them (their remains) came nearly eight months late. Nevertheless it's good to know people were remembering as they did. "Since writing you last I've added a new bit of work to my day's sched ule. I'm still skipper of my unit and along with my regular duties, I've been doubling in title by being Flag Secretary. This brings in a host of new experiences such as sitting as senior member on a rating board, heading up boards of investigation, defending a man in a Court Martial (I'm sure thankful for my legal edu cation, too), inspecting ships, at tending funerals, taking official pic tures, sampling gasoline to check on storage, being consultant motor transport officer and staff engineer ing officer for the island. * ** It's Space You've Won, Mr. Ormsby Ralph Omsby, of our Chicago Division, helped stage a golf tour nament at the Twin City Petroleum Marketers Club recently and acted as M. C. at the banquet which fol lowed. When they started* to hand out the door prizes Ralph's name was called and he had won--space --$115 worth of it in the Northern Automotive Journal. He devoted it to a Victory Bond ad. ETC 07809 George Vaughn. Claude Hoffman (the barefoot boy), Harry Prince and George Boyle took their goli seriously Detroiters' Day Out From the time Gene Betzold pitched his second golf shot into the small building identified as "Ladies" until the last scrap was picked up in Springdale Park, events happened thick and fast for the 75 Ethyl folk who attended this year's basket picnic. A committee headed by George Robinson con ducted a blind-bogie golf tourna ment, some tennis and shufReboard matches, tug-of-war and many other games. Winners carried home some good loot by way of prizes. Barney Jones emceed the show and did a beautiful job, keeping a continuous stream of rules, advice, idle chatter and wit flowing over the'^.A. all afternoon. George Rob inson, Willie Hancock, Trevor Jones and others arranged the games for boys and girls from six to sixty. Thelma Reusch supervised the nursery and conducted the games for the tots. The egg-throwing contest for boys was one of the highlights. Wally Prince and Bobby Taft toss ed the egg successfully up to 50 feet before it broke. Peggy Betzold, Judy Thibodeau, the Fricker and the Reusch children were consist ent winners in the other contests but there were prizes for all and none was disappointed. Clara Alspaugh won the golf tournament while George Boyle nosed out her husband for low net. Bob Thibodeau turned in a snappy 73 to bring up the rear. Claude Hoffman and George Boyle fell into the river (anything to retrieve a ball), logging one of the day's many humorous incidents. That ditty about, "the engineers, the brawny steers," proved apt, as Earl Bartholomew's men won the tug-of-war in a walk. The indefatig able Pat Harding, who held down anchor position in the contest, went on to win the stout-man's race. The picnic lunches were spread out shortly after six, and the day was brought to a fine finish feasting and chinning. Those present scored the party a whale of a success -- another feather in the bedecked hat of the Detroit Ethyl Society. f* ETC 07810 19 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ) ! ! li j ETC 07811 Barney Jones interviews the children alter the race ETC 07812 Last minute conference -- Before taiung off for overseas the men got a few more pointers from Ethy-fs No. 1 safety man. Oscar Lewis. From left to right they are: seated -- Harry Cottrell. Doug Jeppe. Bill Trelease. Oscar Lewis and Dolly Dollahan; standing, Cpl. Aubrey Savage. Cpi. Bob Cranna, Sgt. Eddie Weiss and S/Sgt. Bay Satola Ethyl Men Take Safety Program Overseas Four Ethyl men chosen to carry the message of safety in handling gasoline to the Air Transport Com mand around the world, took off last month for the four corners of the earth, and are, despite the end of the watr1 continuing their mis sions as planned. Lieutenant Gen eral Harold L. George, head of the ATC, which in the past four years has developed into the largest air transport and ferrying system the world has ever known, anticipates the saving of countless lives and millions 6f dollars because of this educational program. Oscar Lewis and our Safety De partment have been cooperating with the ATC during the past year in putting the program on for the Ferrying Division in the United States. As you know, two Ethyl men -- Jack Martin and Phil Perry, and an Army Officer -- Captain James K. Harrison, were killed in a plane crash last December when the group first started on tour. Doug Jeppe, safety engineer in our Tulsa Division, was assigned to carry on the work. Together with Sergeant Eddie Weiss, only re maining member of the original program, he developed and com pleted a new program, which they took to 26 ATC bases in this coun try, covering 14,000 miles and 22 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 07813 ETC 07814 is a non-commissioned Army offi cer. They were hand picked from a long list of qualified motion picture projectionists and then instructed by Sergeant Weiss for this job. On their shoulders rests complete re sponsibility for handling, operat ing and maintaining all the techni cal equipment. They are: Corporal Aubrey M. Savage, of Georgia, who is with Doug Jeppe; Corporal Bob Cranna, of Louisville, Kentucky, who is with Bill Trelease and Staff Ser geant Ray Satola, of Alden, New York, who is with Dolly Dollahan. Sergeant Weiss is traveling with Harry Cottrell. Harry and Eddie went up the North Atlantic route via Greenland and Iceland to the British Isles and will cover France and Italy. Dolly and Ray took off from San Francisco, after covering some U.S. bases on the West Coast, for the South Pacific. Bill and Bob are scheduled for two tours -- one to the north and one to the south. On the first trip they went to Alaska via Canada. Their second jaunt will take them to the Carribbean and points in South Alfterica. Doug and Aubrey took off from an East Coast airport for North Africa, Iran, India and China. When the men reached their first division headquarters, they were met by a liaison officer, who intro duced them *to the Commanding General there. They then planned the details of the tour within the division. The program they are giving is similar to the one that Doug gave in this country. It includes two movies followed by demonstrations which clarify and substantiate the facts brought out in the films. The first movie dealing with the cause and prevention of fires contains an introduction by General George in which he stresses the importance of such educational work. The liaison officer when introducing the film, commends the Ethyl Corporation for making the program possible. According to present schedules the men will be on this assignment for about three months. Each team will cover between 20 and 50 sta tions, the exact number of lectures to depend on the Commanding Gen eral of each area. They will cover approximately 100,000 miles. Arch Vattier Gets Gold Leaves Arch Vallier has climbed another rung on the military ladder, having moved up from Captain to Major. This is his third promotion since he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in May 1941. Arch has been in charge of the Lansing regional office of the De troit District since it was estab lished in October 1941. It covers a large area including Lansing, Bat tle Creek, Jackson and Adrian. Branch offices are maintained at Jackson and Battle Creek. The Lansing office has a personnel of approximately 600 persons and is re sponsible for all Ordnance produc tion and inspection in the region. In prewar days Arch was a trac tor engineer for Ethyl in Detroit. 24 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 0T815 ers of the Kansas City Diviheld a new kind of shotgun when they gathered on July say goodbye to their boss, Id Berg, as he left to become lern Sales Manager. Every!y in the laboratory as well as the sales office were on hand for the pre sentation of their farewell gift--a 12 gauge Remington Sportsman Automatic shotgun, a leather gun case and half a case of shells. That night Harold was given a farewell dinner at the Town Royale by mem bers of the Sales Department. High light of the send-off was the pre sentation of this testimonial: Because circumstances have prevented the undersigned from joining together in a fitting and proper "Get-Rid-OfBerg" party, we your fellow employees in the Kansas City Division, take this opportunity to express our sincere appre ciation for the able leadership, friendly interest and under standing, and close personal relationship we have all enjoyed during our part of your fifteen years' service here as division manager. With the knowledge that we will be out of your firing range on your new assignment, and with complete disregard for the safety of the Atlanta and Tulsa Division personnel, we take pleasure in presenting this automatic shotgun as a token of appreciation. With it we trust you can relieve the meat point situation in the South successfully, and in spite of our customary caution and safety training, hope that you can return often to demonstrate your hunting skill to us. Hearty congratulations on your promotion and best wishes for continued success on your new assignment. pw/jr appointed Southern Safes Manager, Haro/d Berg, boards a piane at the Tulsa airport for his Fat visit to the Atianta office following his appointment Dan Guy Heads Agricultural Division Dan Guy has been appointed man ager of the agricultural division of the Technical Service Department. His headquarters will be at the En gineering Research Lab in Detroit. Dan has been in Detroit since 1942 when he was transferred from the Tulsa Division to the agricul tural division of the Technical Ser vice Department. He was associated with George Krieger in working with the tractor manufacturers in connection with developments in the proper utilization of fuels in tractors. As you know, George, former manager of the agricultural division, has been appointed special assistant to General Sales Manager Julian Frey. Dan was born in Columbus, Ohio and is a graduate of Georgia Mili tary Academy and Georgia School of Technology. He joined Ethyl as a field representative in the Tulsa Division in January of 1931, and in 1935 became a tractor engineer in that division, where he continued until his transfer to Detroit three years ago. The newly appointed agricultural division manager and his wife, Lou ise, live in Grosse Point, Michigan, where they are bringing up three young Guys--Dan, Jr., fourteen, Margaret, twelve, and Tom, three. ** Bond Helps Run Civic Affairs Clint Bond, Ethyl's Resident Manager at Baton Rouge, is now serving on the board of directors of two civic organizations in Baton Rouge, helping the city fathers to look after its citizens' interests. He was recently elected to serve a three year term on the Community Chest Board. He is also a director of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, representing the large industries group, and a member of the executive council of the Istrouma chapter of Boy Scouts. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 78i7 Milestones Go By Peters, a product of the southwest, joined Ethyl fifyears ago, caine to New York [and started to work at the Yonkers Lab but gravitated to the west and [is now handling safety Work in them California. Before getting the Golden State he worked at my jobs in many states between. [ jKe started as a chemist and after period of training under' GraEdgar and Cliff Pope at Yonleaming the operation of the Series 30 Knock Test Engine, td how to analyze gasolines for id, gum, sulphur, etc., he went to the North Kansas City soline Testing Lab. He only wb Peter* worked there a few days pending the completion of the Tulsa Lab, then went on down there and pur sued his job as chemist for two years. Then he talked Ed Walter into letting him transfer to the field, and was sent, after further training, to Denver, Colorado, where he helped Jack Durham and the other old Denver Division boys pioneer Ethyl in the Rocky Moun tain states. When that Division was dissolved he was transferred to the Tulsa Division to cover New Mex ico and part of West Texas with headquarters in Albuquerque. His regular duties were interrupted-by a special assignment in 1936 when the Texas Centennial was held in Dallas. Herb was put in charge of the Ethyl Exhibit in the General Motors Building. The fair over, he was assigned to cover northern Louisiana and northeast Texas with headquarters in Shreve port. After a year he was trans ferred to Amarillo, Texas, when Louisiana became a part of the At lanta Division. In 1939 Herb was assigned to the Safety Department and moved back to Albuquerque to handle safety work in New Mexico and West Texas. The following year he was transferred to the Los Angeles Division working in south ern California until the first of 1944' when he was moved to San F*ancisco to handle safety in the- north ern part of the State. / i ETC 07818 27 BULLET BOARD --OCTOBER Herb was born in Dallas, Texas, attended grade and high school in Waxahachie, Texas. He majored in chemistry at Trinity University, graduating in 1928 with a B.S. He then attended the University of Oklahoma where he took post grad uate work in petroleum refining en gineering and received his M.S. Herb's current hobby is numisma tics, in which he says he has devel oped a "very amateurish interest," and he is collecting U. S. coins. Now that the war is over he plans to brush up on his golf and fishing, which he has been too busy to in dulge in these past few years. New member of the fifteen year club from the Gasoline Testing De partment is Bob Adams, who started with us as a chemist in the Yonkers Lab. He was transferred to the Detroit Test Lab, where he Sob Adams worked for eight years before going to his present position at the San Bernardino Lab. Bob was born in Elyria, Ohio and attended grade and high school there. His higher education he pur sued at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, where he obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. During school days Bob's favor ite sport was baseball. Now he goes in for fishing, hunting, bridge and poker. The Adams--Bob and Margaret --live at 3232 "D" Street in San Bernardino. They have a daughter, Janet, who is sixteen. Twelve people have chalked up five years of service: George Beste, Jim Jones, Mary Walsh, and Bill Edwards at Baton Rouge; Bill Wil kinson, Chemical Research, Tom Risk, Technical Service, and Arthur Felt, Aeronautical Re search, in Detroit; Yolanda Poggioli, John Farnham, and Dick Page, of New York Administration; Bill Ludt, of Gasoline Testing, Tulsa; and Larry Stinson, of the San Ber nardino Engineering Lab. Research engineer John Wintringham, another recent addi tion to the exclusive Ethyl Fifteen Year Club, has built up an enviable background of research experience on fuels and engines during his years with Ethyl. After joining the Research Laboratories in 1930, he was assigned to the Dynamometer Department where he conducted re search programs on engines and fuels until 1934. He was then trans ferred to the road test section and 28 BULLETIN BOARD -- b,-x0BER ETC 07819 participated in preparing a fleet of trucks and cars for the San Ber nardino tests. The equipment and tests were developed in Detroit so that research data could be obtained ; while enroute to the coast. From early 1937 through 1938 he con ducted the tractor program at Muroc Dry Lake, California. Some where along the line he was made assistant manager of the San Ber nardino Laboratory. Following the outbreak of World War II when the Research Labora tories began extensive research in cooperation with the Military, John was recalled to the Detroit Labora tory to take charge of a project relating to the development of an aircraft engine used exclusively by the Army and Navy. In April 1944 he was appointed to the Planning, Analytical and Con tact Staff of the Engineering Re search Laboratories as Coordinator of the Development of Antiknock Fluids. John was born in Millerton, New York. Although he ranges up to six feet two inches, his three brothers are all taller. He attended Harvard University where he earned a Bach elor of Science Degree, Magna Cum Laude. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Delta Upsilon, the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Lion's Club. John and Kay (Mrs. W.) live in Birmingham, Michigan. His extra curricular activities swing toward model airplanes, ten nis and swimming. However, his answer when asked about his in terests was, "It's all interesting," and that pretty much sums up Johnnie who seems to see the in teresting side of everything. Gilbert "Tommie" Matthews has been going around the Detroit grounds since VJ-Day wearing a smile a yard wide, looking forward to the day when his son Melvin will be coming home from the Pacific. The smile goes, too, for the dia mond pin he so proudly wears as an emblem of his fifteen years of serv ice in the Research Laboratories. Tommie started to work for Ethyl in the Chemical Department. That was way back in the days when the Research Labs were in their old quarters on Milwaukee Avenue. When they moved to the ETC 07820 29 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER modern, streamlined buildings on West Eight Mile Road, Tommie was transferred to the staff of the Engineering Lab to work in the carpenter shop. Born in Musgrave, Newfound land he has some tall tales to tell about deep sea fishing for cod and salmon, and travel in the rugged sections of the Canadian wilds. In addition to Melvin, now in service, Tommie has two daughters, Gloria, fifteen and Gwynnyth, sev enteen. Upon reaching the retirement goal, he hopes to hit the road for California. Li. CoL Howard Hudiburg Wins Bronze Star Medal Lieutenant Colonel Howard Hudiburg, serving with the Coast Artillery Corps, 31st AAA Group in Europe, has been awarded a Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service. The Citation read in part: "Lieu I t tenant Colonel Hudiburg, in his capacity as group executive officer, was responsible for staff activities in connection with the organization and conduct of antiaircraft de fenses of a vital area. His thorough technical knowledge and outstand ing organizational ability were in valuable. He anticipated and solved the numerous problems constantly arising because of changing tactical situations and the interference of enemy long range weapons." Howard was formerly a safety engineer in the Chicago Division. 30 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 07821 ' George and Paul at work in nature's laboratory behind Ethyl's laboratory, visible through the trees Ah Wilderness Ethyl folk in Detroit may, if they so desire, step right from the mod ern laboratory buildings where they pursue the problems of fuels and en gines into nature's own laboratory just outside the door and research the wild life of Michigan. The lab oratories are located in a beautiful and heavily wooded grove. Feeding stations and shelters are maintained for the birds and animals in order to preserve as much of the natural beauty and wild life as posisble. In the area, which covers only about two city blocks, 336 species of flowers. Of the 124 known families of flowers in Michigan 76 are repre sented on the Ethyl grounds. They range from the common dandelion to rare varieties of orchids and gen tians. They have found ten kinds of wild asters and fourteen kinds of goldenrod. Included on the list are dozens of tree types, many unusual mosses and addition lots of trees, shrubs and flowers have been planted to make the wilderness even more dense. Two of our Chem Researchers -- George Thomson and Paul Thomp son-- who spend their lunch hours both winter and summer wandering through this jungle and making a study of what lies therein have dis covered an amazing number of flower species. They have found in lichens and a dozen varieties of ferns. They have identified twentyfive kinds of grasses alone. "The explanation for the large number of flower types,'' Paul ex plains, "is the variety in the type of soil. West of the main building along Eight Mile Road, there is open, sandy ground with creeping plants such as wild strawberries. North of this is open oak forest, where woodland flowers locate. East of this is open prairie with field flowers--and here and there are scattered patches of ground that have been cultivated in the past, in troducing domestic plants like to matoes, squash and perennial flowers that can survive in the wild state. Then there is a marshy area near Pinecrest Road. Each area has markedly different types of plants." The marsh area, which is fed by underground water, is now being filled in. It is in this area that many of the rare species of wild flowers are found. Among these are the giant lobelias and copper colored St. Johnswort. There are also the rare grass pink and snow white ladies tresses--both members of the orchid family. The most interesting natural ex hibit is an area which, during the Fall blooming season, was solidly filled with hundreds of deep blue fringed gentians, and their cousins, the bottle gentians. These flowers are so rare that they are protected by law in midwestern states, and nowhere else in southeastern Michi gan is there such a display of these blooms. As for the birds in the area, George and Paul have forty-nine Extra-curticulai research varieties in their log, which includes the rosebreasted grosbeak, scarlet tanger, white breasted nuthatch, ori oles and many other species common to the section. The changing sea sons with their ever changing exhib its of bird, plant and animal life hold a fascination for George and Paul who always have their weather eye cocked for a new specimen to add to their list. ** The Latest on Love . . . Margaret Robinson of New and European Theatres as a member York Finance was married recently of the 12th Air Force. to Captain Gene Barbaras in the ... Betty Beach/ also of New York Presbyterian Church tin Cranford, Finance, was married to Lieutenant New Jersey. The bridegroom is Warren E. McChesney, U.S.N.R., home on leave after 27 months over on July 21 in the First Baptist seas in the African, Mediterranean Church, Freehold, New Jersey. 32 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 07823 fjBe Shoulda Stood **' in Bed I happened at a General Motors outing in Atlanta. Our Alan ly and Ed Muller were there. passed up the sports events, ring sad memories of a sprained tgame'nt suffered in his last softball game, and was quite surprised to hear his name called when the awards were being handed out. The chairman of arrangements, fter making all the regular awards, mounced a special one--from Mr. Iloan. A surprised murmur buzzed irough the crowd. "Darn nice of Sloan," they said. The chairman Mitinued, "As I said this is a very pecial award and Mr. Sloan wants ; given to the man who played softall and shouldn't have. I take great pleasure in giving this award to f Alan C. Tully." And with a flourish he handed him a bottle of Sloan's iniment. ** To the Rescue -Ruth Munro helps rescue 'oast Guardsman. No details have rrived on the rescue of Ev Garnsey fend a companion whose canoe over turned while they were paddling on the Huron River near Ann Arbor, but it is reported that Ruth Munro was on the spot and the heroine in the case. Ruth and Ev are both members of the Detroit Chem Re search Lab. Ev is a member of the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve (t) and spent about twelve hours a week cruising up and down the Detroit River before restrictions were lifted. Honors for Miles A Citation for the Legion of Merit was awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Miles Kinley on August 29, 1945 at Allied Force Headquarters in Caserta, Italy, for "exceptionally mer itorious conduct in the perform ance of outstanding services." The Citation praised Miles for his contribution as Assistant In spector General, Headquarters Mediterranean Theater of Opera tions, to the efficient administra tion, discipline and economy of operations of the Armed Forces throughout the Theater. Miles was formerly in our Chicago Division. Harry Kuhe Runs SAE Harry Kobe, our Seattle Division manager, elected last summer to head the Northwest Section of the SAE as 1945-46 chairman, called the engineers together for their first meeting of the season September 15. They started off with a bang with an all-day affair and Harry was busy for weeks ahead getting it lined up. Two other Seattle Division men are serving on SAE committees. Fred Naylor, assistant manager, after working hard as program chairman last season got an easier job this year on the placement com mittee. Harry Manning, fleet and tractor engineer with headquarters in Portland, has been appointed to the meetings committee, which plans the weekly luncheons and monthly meetings. ETC 07824 33 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER On the aix-Leo and a 20th Air Force pilot, talk about the power Ethyl fluid gave to the planes that knocked our ene mies into unconditional sur render. They were heard orer CBS on Weapons lor Victory, Army Service Forces Show on August 23rd 4' A' Ethyl Plant Man Broadcasts on Nationwide Radio Program Leo Devall, ethyl chloride oper ator at Baton Rouge, who broadcast from New York last month on a na tionwide radio program of the Army Service Forces, spent a busy three days in Manhattan. He visited the home office, toured the city, and shopped for souvenirs, but the main event on his program was his radio debut on "Weapons for Victory." The show, heard from coast-tocoast over the Columbia Broadcast ing System, dramatized the impor tant part Ethyl fluid played in the winning of the war. It was broadcast on Thursday, August 23 at 5:00 P.M. (EWT) from CBS Playhouse No. 5. One of a series telling how the weapons produced here at home brought victory to the men who used them on our fighting fronts, the show was directed by Major Andre Baruch, of the Army Service Forces. The story, presented by an able cast of professional actors, told how gasoline and Ethyl fluid helped us win the war -- brought out the fact that the U. S. Air Forces alone used over 500,000,000 gallons of high octane gasoline a month -- that every gallon con tained about a thimbleful of Ethyl fluid. It brought out the fact, too, that when you talk about the end of gas rationing you should remem ber that freedom is a hard bought thing, that "there are memories in your gas tank; memories and the voices of a million dead -- urging you to continue fighting for the things they fought for." Following the dramatization came the interview in which Leo participated. He and a 20th Air Force B-29 pilot were presented in an informal discussion. The pilot. Captain Lon Kappell, asked Leo about his job turning out Ethyl fluid, and praised it as "powerful 34 BULLETIN B O A R-D -- OCTOBE R ETC 07825 tuff," without which they couldn't lave taken off. "Without Ethyl," fee said, "our entire supply of avia gasoline would have kept only ie bomber squadron aloft." The bombardier of Captain Kap il's crew was Lieutenant Roy during, son of John Mehring, who has charge of the Baton Rouge Finance Department. Roy, the Cap tain said, was the only bombardier in the 73rd Wing, consisting of 500 planes, who could pilot a B-29. & Leo answered all of the flier's questions, then asked him some |P>out his 35 missions over Tokyo, d before they knew it their time ,s up, the show was over, and they ere congratulating each other on gi good performance and a job well ,|(one. The next day Leo returned to aton Rouge laden with presents his wife and little girls, whom fee hopes to bring along on his next ip to the big city. Leo was chosen by the Baton Rouge War Effort Committee to represent the company on the pro gram. They formulated a list of seven qualifications which were used as a basis for selecting the candidate. His record is one of the best in the plant. He has been off only five days during his four years of ser vice, and has a good safety record. He has cooperated on plant War Effort activities, having served on many War Bond, Red Cross and Community War Chest drives. Leo has a brother and a brotherin-law who served in the Army overseas. He has two other brothers who have been working in Baton Rouge war plants, and his father works at the Standard plant there. Leo is married and has two daughters -- Jackie, 6, and Jan, 4. They live in Monte Sano, a suburb of Baton Rouge. ^ Devall, ethyl chloride operator at the Baton Rouge plant, is welcomed to New York by H. Sciiaeier. Vice President in Charge of Manufacturing ETC 07826 All lor Fun, Sport and Friendship "To encourage, promote, finance, and carry on recreational activities, to be participated in by the employ ees of both sexes and all ages, to promote mutual acquaintances and cooperative spirit among its mem bers and the entire body of the plant"--this is the objective as out lined in the constitution of the Anti-Knock Industrial Athletic As sociation at the time it was organ ized a little more than a year ago at the Baton Rouge plant. Today, with a membership of more than half the eligible employ ees at Baton Rouge, the success achieved may best be determined by a review of the first year's activities. The A.I.A.A. sponsored three basketball teams in the U.S.O. In dustrial league and one All Star team which was sent to the A.A.U. tourney in New Orleans. Contests for members included fishing, deer hunting and a bridge tournament. At the beginning of the softball season two men's teams and one girls' were entered in the city leagues. Men's and women's bowl ing teams were also under the or ganization's wing. Currently an in traplant softball league with ten teams entered is in full swing. In addition, open house is held once a month at the Y.M.C.A. for members and their families. On the calendar for the near future are a gun club, a turkey shoot, badminton tourneys, a horseshoe-pitching con test, tennis tournaments and volley ball teams. Steering the organization is a board of directors, including four officers elected from the board. AllA~A. open houses held each month at the "Y" ere tun for everybody. They otter retied types of amusement as shown in the accompanying picture* Cleve Broussard, president, is from maintenance; Dan Sutton, vicepresident, represents construction; Clarence Harvey, secretary, devel opment ; and William deBertolette, treasurer, service. Other members of the board are Nelson Hart, sodi um; Wallace Mixon, maintenance; James A. Looper, production; and Louis Bourke, operators. The board is elected from the membership and dues are $1.00 per year. Members agree that it is well worth the fee. The A.I.A.A. gives them an opportunity to meet and get acquainted with the other folks working at the plant. The sports ac tivities keep them physically fit. Besides, they have a lot of fun meet ing, mingling and playing, and are looking forward to more of the same in the months to come. All on the Chase -- and No Interest Dick Morphy's recent promotion to Eastern Sales Manager brought him not only a bigger and better job but occasioned a special celebration in his honor in the private dining room of the Chase National Bank. Frank Totten, a vice president of the bank, invited a number of Dick's Larchmont friends and neighbors, among whom was Oscar Lewis, to lunch and presented them all with a six verse poem which wound up thusly: This luncheon and poem Are for our friend Dick, For in Ethyl and him Is no knock and no kick! ETC 07828 J. Jubilant over the news that the Japs had sued /or peace, these hache/or wires awaiting the return o/ their husbands in service, had their picture taken on that fateful August JO. when peace negotiations began. The girls, who help keep the wheels ol our Baton flouge Finance Department roiling, are from left to right Marie Daria, Dot Dupuy, Marjorie Ham mond, Jeanne Wesley and Nell Starks Winifred Sdrafts shows her husband. Arthur, how she helped to win the war, doing a job at the Sodium Lab in Baton Rouge. It's old hat to the Sergeant, who used to work in the Sodium Plant himself before the Army tapped him on the shoulder in March 1944. He is now stationed at Camp Lee, Virginia No more business -- The War Eliott Com mittee which did such a bang-up job toward furthering the war effort at Baton Rouge, held their final session on August 22, voted to dis band and turn their thoughts to happier high ways. From left to right they are H. B. Hunt, R. S. Asbury, Vernon Cagle, Ward Day, chair man, Marvin Phenix, Dennis O'Bannion and Henry Solar Our Visitors in Uniform It is now lieutenant Colonel leotge Rosser. The former as- ~tant manager of our Atlanta Dilion stopped in the New York ice recently for a brief visit with 'ends in the Sales Department. He was still in Washington, serving as an executive officer in the Ordnance Department. < That long arm of coincidence brought a couple of Ethyl men to gether on board the Queen Eliza beth returning from the ETO. Lieutenant Joe Williams had just gone on deck when he spied in >the milling crowd his former cohort ,of the Atlanta Division Lieuten ant Commander Ray Luke. Joe reported this incident when he and Mrs. Williams visited the Atlanta Office recently. Joe is now at Kelly Field in jTexas, where he was assigned fol lowing his thirty-day leave. Ray is in Philadelphia as Fourth Naval District Civil Adjustment Officer. - Private Dan Renshaw, look ing well and jolly as ever, stopped .in the New York Office while on a thirty-day furlough before report ing to North Carolina for reassign ment. After leaving the Finance Department, Danny joined the In fantry and fought through four Eu ropean campaigns. He was injured in action twice -- in the Hartgen Forest in November of 1944 and at Prum, Germany in February of 1945. He has a Presidential Citation, the Purple Heart, an Oak Leaf Cluster, and a Good Conduct Rib bon, besides four campaign stars. Eddie Goller, and Gene Zuires were recent visitors to the Detroit Lab. Eddie, who used to be a dyna mometer operator, is now a Marine and dropped in for a brief visit fol lowing his boot training. The rugged life had removed thirtythree pounds and put him in fine physical condition. The going, he said, was a little tough, but he likes it. Lieutenant Zuires, who left the Research Engineering Lab to join the Navy, has been stationed in the Research Laboratories at Annapolis. He reported that his experiences have been varied and interesting. He has been transferred, at his re quest from one engineering lab to another and has picked up "loads of valuable knowledge.'' Lieutenant Colonel Jack Warner, back in this country on leave due to severe headaches and a generally nervous condition, has visited his friends in the Atlanta Office several times. He is at a Government Hospital at Thomasville, Georgia but is not restricted to the hospital, as he is getting bet ter fast. "It's no wonder," says he. "All I really needed was America's sunshine and home." Marine Staff Sergeant John ny McMasters, formerly of New York Finance, visited his friends in the Chrysler Building on August 20 with his bride of two days on his arm. Johnny, you remember, spent sixteen months in the Pacific with the B,iirth Marine Air Wing. ETC 07830 39 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER Just in ease you don't recognize the prof it's Emil Gillig, head oi the Instrument and Electronic Section ot the Detroit Engineering I Lab. He made bis first solo flight at the Detroit City Airport on August 11, and this sketch re cording the momentous occasion was made by Bonnie CoIbridge AI Fresco Fun One recent Monday morning when girls of the New York Divi sion arrived exuding an unusual -B amount of vigor and vitality, it de veloped that they had been guests of Frank Stablein and his family in Rockville Center, Long Island the day before. He had taken them to Jones Beach where they soaked up a lot of sun and returned to the city glowing with health. Their day was rounded out with games in the Stablein's well equipped playroom, an inspection of Frank's thriving garden, and a picnic supper. Brisking in the sun end breathing in the fresh air of Texas, Leslie Schradin, of our Medical Department, was snapped atop Guadalupe Pass by safety man John Watt, while they were enroute to El Paso recently ETC 07831 Blessed Events .Bad Martin, Chemical Research , Department, became a proud pappy July 19, 1945 with the coming of Laureame. Little Kay took her sw tipping the scales at exactly t and one half pounds. Also handing out candy and ci gars was Gene Betzold, Office Man ager of the Engineering Lab, whose family is now four. Jane Frances made her debut in the early evening , of August 22 wearing a crown of red hair and weighing a dainty four pounds, seven ounces. Anxiously awaiting her arrival at home are , Peggy, ten, Gary, five and Ann, i fourteen months. !.... Edith Elaine Emery at the J. Wallace Exnerys' on July 6. Wallace is our Dallas territory ; safety engineer. It was a girl at Lieutenant and Mrs. Ed Bergin's on August 25. The mother, you will remember as Gwen Barr, former secretary to Ralph Champlin. The baby, who was born at the South Side Hospital in Bay Shore, Long Island, has lots of curly dark hair--"not quite enough to braid," writes Gwen. Madeline Rose, of New York Fi nance, was married to Elmer Chellborg, former Ethyl Purchasing Agent, on the afternoon of August 31. Madeline was guest of honor at a party at Dot Locke's East 57th St. apartment attended by twentyeight Ethyl girls the evening be fore. The couple honeymooned in Maine, Madeline's native state. They will live in Staten Island. Dozi/t Forget to Write Now that the war is over those in the service who yearn to be heading | home so they can get started back , on the road to normal times with the rest of us, need the encourage ment and cheer that your letters give them. So -- don't forget to write. Several of our people have just recently entered the armed forces --Joseph R. Major, of Baton Rouge is now Private Major and is sta tioned at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. George La Charite, who used to be a member of Charlie Hass' Road Testers in Detroit, left the Lab late in July to join the Marines. A main stay of the ball club and one of their star pitchers, George will be missed. Capt. Emerson B. Blair 1505th AAF BU, WCW, PD-ATC Mather, Calif. Robert C. Burns S 1/c Co. E, Plat 1 Battery 23, USNTS EE & RM, Gulfport, Miss. F/O George W. Chavers, T 64308 561st AAF BU (1st OTU) St. Joseph, Mo. Lt. Joseph A. Cipolla, U.S.N.R. U.S.S. Charles Ausburne (DD 570) c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. ETC 07832 41 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER Major William W. Downer, 0-389626 Hqs. 69th Ord. Bn. A.P.O. 73, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. A/C James M. Fauver, 38500364 Sqd. "H" cl. 755 Fit. "A" ,2509 A.A.F.B.U. Big Spring, Texas Capt. Hamilton B. Greenup Casual Sqd. A-l A.P.O. 13435, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Lt. Lou D. Hill U.S.S. Rudderow (DE 224) c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. Capt. Robert W. Hogan 1791 Lanier PI. Washington 9, D. C. Sgt. Phebus N. Hotard, 34154315 1402nd AAF Base Unit ETO-ATC A.P.O. 741 c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Pvt. Isiah Lang, 38621173 3247 Service Co. A.P.O. 22158, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. Lt. John B. Link, 0-409675 P.O. Box 72 FWAAF, Ft. Worth, Texas Lt. Comdr. R. H. Luke Fourth Naval District Civil Adjustment Officer Civilian Adjustment Officer Pvt. Joseph R. Major, Sr., 38741798 Unasgd. Co. B., Reception Center Camp Chaffee, Ark. Major A. H. Middleton, FA 0-378767 Weyanoke, Louisiana Lt. Col. A. D. Miller 467th AAA AW Bn. A.P.O. 717, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. Capt. Jack E. Minnock, 0862420 Hq. 58th Bomb Wing A.P.O. 247, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. 42 but. T. F t t n BflUD-nCTOUtS Capt. W. H. Phipps, 0-237876 Hq. TSFET, Signal Section A.P.O. 887, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Pvt. Harold J. Patin, 38621084 ASFTC Signal Sec. Camp Crowder, Mo. Cpl. Albert W. Ramsey, 36513018 610 A.A.F.--B.U. Sqd. I (Elect. Sec.) Elgin Field, Fla. Charles B. Roberts, ART 2/c Radio Materiel USNAS, Grosse lie, Mich. Capt. J. M. Rollins 1611 Clio Ave. Cincinnati 30, Ohio Samuel L. Smith, S 2/c 978-992 NT Sch. (Storekeepers) Hampton Institute Hampton, Virginia Pfc. Wilbert J. Templet, 38618369 Battery A 273rd F.A. Bn. A.P.O. 513, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Lt. Col. S. J. Warner, Jr. 3130 Peachtree Drive NE Atlanta, Ga. Lt. Joseph Williams c/o Operations Hotel Kelly Field, Texas Lt. T. F. Yates NAB Navy 60 Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Calif. ETC 07833 ETHYL bCLLETn BOABO correspondents ATLANTA.... Florence Liebermuth BATON ROUGE. Herbert B. Baron Bernard Manuel John L. Ward CHICAGO........... .. Marie Brand CINCINNATI........... lola Sheppard DAYTON....................Susan Ackley DEEPWATER. .Rudolph F. Williams DETROIT.................... Frit* Schroeter Bonnie Colbridge FREEPORT..................William Murk GJ^OLINE TESTING DIVISION............. John Clifford Pope KANSAS CITY....................Blanche Ash JNEW YORK..............Judson T. Biehle ' Bayard D. Browne Walter Cosgrove Anne Daul Ethel Dieckman Jack Dooher Loretta Hogan Karin Holm Lillian Johnson Madge Lofthouse Helen McGoldrick Thomas W. Redigan PHILADELPHIA........... Yvonne Guertin SAN BERNARDINO. . Rollin E. Gish, Jr. SEATTLE............................. Aili Koskela TULSA......................... Glenis Dickerson WILMINGTON.................... Jim Thomas etc 7834 wn the gangplanks of ships of sizes and kinds walk thousands : jubilant soldiers, sailors, and ma: lines. The scene is repeated in nu ll serous seaports, where the fighting jf sen are coming home. They have `finished their job, and theirs is the honor and glory. The hardships they have endured, . the dangers they have faced, the sac rifices they have made for the cause of liberty call for everlasting gratiitude from all freedom-loving people I throughout the world. At home--the men and women of industry, in offices, shops, and pro duction lines can also take a bow. They have made the weapons of Victory in such volume and of such quality that it exceeded the coun try's highest expectations. And they have bought War Bonds--not mil lions, but billions of dollars worth. THE BOYS HAVE DONE IT Bat the fob is not quite fin ished, and the Victory Loan is dedicated to finishing the job. There is still much to be paid for; moreover, numerous post-war ac tivities will require additional financing. Some of these are: bring ing our boys back home quickly and safely; mustering-out pay; vet erans' benefits, including "The G. I. Bill of Rights"; and the rehabilita tion of the wounded; the cost of reconversion; and the cost of main taining occupational forces in the liberated countries. To cover those expenses, the V; tory Loan Drive is expected to or ;, eleven billion dollars. It is our finci supreme effort, a fitting climax to the greatest job of financing in hu man history. We can do the job only if every American gets behind the Victory Loan with the same energy and determination that made Vic tory a reality instead of a hope. Let's all pun together and make this final loan the greatest in our country's glorious history. Bay Victory Bonds ETC 07838 ',, BULLETIN BO ARD --NOVEMBER I I Ethyl's Baby Goes to Market who will be added to the staff. The first group, which met in all day sessions throughout the five days of the training school, were given a bird's eye view of the com pany, a history of the development of Ethyl Cleaner, a description of the manufacturing process and a discussion of the sales promotion and advertising plans. They learn ed about the company, the cleaner and their jobs from company execu tives, agency men and our own men who have been in on the develop ment of the new product from the start. Ed Enoch, advertising and sales promotion man for the Pack aged Products Department, emceed the meeting. Vie* President Harry Haley bids the men welcome and good luck, tells them about the company they have come to work tor First speaker was Vice President Harry Kaley who welcomed the men to our company, told them Makes light work of housework about its origin and growth and . . . cleans as easy as 1-2-3 .. . takes present operations. He began by work out of car washing . . . these telling them about Tom Midgley, are a few of the things that the four and his discovery of tetraethyl lead, teen salesmen who gathered at the showed pictures of the filling sta ? Lombardy Hotel in New York the tion in Dayton, Ohio where Ethyl week of September 17 learned about fluid was first sold, and of the ga our new baby -- Ethyl Cleaner. rage in Yonkers which was the home These men are now scattered from of our first research laboratory. Maine to Missouri singing the Then he showed photographs of praises of Ethyl Cleaner in the ears some of the Company's present of merchants, dealers and jobbers, properties including our $50,000,000 who are putting it on their shelves plant at Baton Rouge, the bromine to hit the market in the fii;st of a plant at Kure Beach, the new knock series of nationwide sales expan test lab at Yonkers, and the Engi sions. Similar training courses will neering Research laboratories in be held in New York and Chicago San Bernardino and Detroit. in January for additional salesmen Harry described the organiza- 4 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 07839 set-up telling how our rech, sales and technical staffs ion to serve the oil and autove industries, and how they gained the good will and the Acceptance of these industries. The rt of our sales curve, which he Aowed. gave graphic and impres sive evidence of that good will and acceptance. Having the way so well paved and having the firm financial backing feat Ethyl with its business in tetra- yl lead affords, Harry pointed ,t that the new department has od possibilities, and offers an exllent opportunity to the men who ntribute to its growth and devel opment. The next speaker, our Advertis ing and Public Relations head. lph Champlin, mainspring in the development of the new depart ment, told about the birth of our Rfw baby. He started by telling out the men who made Ethyl Cor poration's decision to market Ethyl Cleaner -- men who, like those to efrhom he spoke, think Ethyl Clean- presents a good business oppornity. `'dBHe cited first of all, our Board of Directors, which includes men with outstanding business judgment such as Alfred P. Sloan, Chairman of the Board of General Motors; Donaldson Brown, Vice Chairman of General Motors; Charles Ketter ing, father of the research program that led to the discovery of Ethyl gasoline and Vice President in charge of General Motors Research; John Thomas Smith, Chief Counsel for General Motors; Ralph Gallag her, Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil Company (NJ), Frank Howard, Director and formerly head of Standard Oil Development; Orville Harden, Vice President; Ralph Champlin, head ot Advertising Public Relations, tells bow our new baby was born Robert Haslam, formerly professor at M.I.T., now Vice President in charge of Sales, Advertising and Public Relations for Standard Oil; R. P. Russell, President of Standard Oil Development; and the President of Ethyl, Earle W. Webb. Ralph traced the history of the cleaner, which started with the idea of selling a packaged product under the trade name ETHYL. "An exten sive study of our sales and adver tising operation made in 1941," he said, "showed that we had an excel lent opportunity to use the name ETHYL on another product, since ETC 07840 i BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER the name was highly regarded by the American public as the result of long association with the highest quality gasoline and millions of dol lars spent advertising Ethyl over a period of 20 years. "We looked at or discussed a number of possibilities without get ting anything very definite, until, in the summer of 1942, we learned about a revolutionary chemical dis covery of a detergent made from petroleum. This detergent seemed to meet our Number One require ment for our new product, which was that it be the best in its field. We set to work to find out more about it." Later, when Ralph was discuss ing further findings with Mr. Webb, he got the go ahead in a brief and simple statement--"Ralph, I would get right after that one." Ralph did. That was in November of 1942. With the help of John Schaefer, head of our Manufacturing Depart ment, Sam Harned, Vice President of our advertising agency, (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), at first and later others, the product was analyzed further and the market surveyed. A sales test was proposed to the Board of Directors on January 5, 1944, and approved. Then the wheels started rolling. Bill Turnley was borrowed from the Sales Depart ment to manage the tests, and about the same time Ed Enoch got into the picture on advertising. Ralph described how, in the year that followed, they tried the prod uct out, "checked and double check ed it 40 ways to Sunday." When the Ton Starck, No. 1 salesman oi the Packaged Products Department gives the men pointers, teJis them about sales policies, terri tories. quotas sales tests were completed, he said, there was no question about the fact that we could secure adequate na tional distribution for Ethyl Clean er. "We received complete endorse ment from the Board. They told us to get going as soon as we could and I think little time has been lost be tween then and now." Following Ralph's talk, Tom Sterck, General Manager of the Packaged Products Department, whom Ralph described as "a man who wants to go places and knows how to get there," introduced the men whom he had chosen for his original sales staff. It was with a good deal of pride that he presented each member of his "hand-picked crew" telling about the background and fine selling record of each. Tom pictured for them the oppor tunity they have with us in the BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 07841 tmly formed department and out a challenging statement. ^ analyzing the success of any lainess," he said, "you find that it ipends on men, money and merMtndise. The merchandise we have the rest is up to you." Later in the week, Tom spoke in dual capacity of General Man ner and Sales Manager about the lies policies, territories to be cov;ed, and present and future quotas, j* then gave an illustrated inspironal talk. Others who appeared on the pro ram and the subjects they dis used are: Bill Turnley, Assistant lanager of the new department, on Seports, Expense Accounts, Sales ats, Order Forms; Bob Cowlishaw, Sill Turnley discusses the sales tests made n six cities which indicated acceptance of the iroduct Bob Cowlishaw explains what happens to a sales order after the salesman gets it and sends it in to be filled nance Department, on Insurance Facts You Should Know; Ed Enocli, on Advertising and Sales Promo tion; Don Gillespie, of BBD&O, on The Plan and Why of Your Adver tising, and Walter Cosgrove, of the Employee Relations Department, on Ethyl Plans for the Benefit of Its Employees. On the last day of the meeting, Bill Turnley and Jim Cornwell, who has been working on ETC 07842 7 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER the sales tests for some time, put on a sales demonstration. At the final session, A1 Erichson, speaking for the new men, express ed their appreciation for the fine way in which they had been wel comed into the organization at this meeting, and their feeling of satis faction and pleasure over their in itiation into our company. Thanking Tom Sterck, as head of the new de partment, A1 pledged the untiring efforts of all present toward the realization of the objectives set forth at the meeting. Tom's re sponse, wishing each of them good luck and Godspeed, brought the meeting to a close. Don Gillespie, of BBDtcO. presents the ad- vertising program, which includes newspapers and radio 'ariaciiHii* II Might As WeU Be Spring Seoop-of'the-month: George Krieger, Special Assistant to the Central Sales Manager and Millicent Roberts, of Publicity are to be married on December 15. George is well known throughout (he company, having been with Ethyl for the past 15 years. He was head of our Agricultural Division with headquarters in Detroit at the time lie went to Washington with the War i'roduction Board in 1942. When he returned to Ethyl last year he was brought into the New York office n.nd here met his bride-to-be. Millie came to Ethyl five years ago, working first in Stenographic, then as a receptionist, then in Order ind Shipping, and for the past two years in Publicity. We hate to lose the effervescent Miss Roberts. Dale Wins Star Lieutenant Colonel B. D. Mil ler, whose experiences as Com manding Officer of the 476th AAA AW Battalion, you read about in last month's Bulletin Board (page 16), has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in con nection with military operations against the enemy on Palawan Island, Philippines. Dale, first man called to service from the Tulsa Division back in March of 1941, entered as a First Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery, and was wearing the gold leaves of a Major when he was assigned over seas in March 1943. He has partici pated in campaigns from the Solo mons through New Guinea and the Philippines. Buy Victory Bonds 8 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER etc 07843 Mis Bloom .. , with headquarters in Balti more he covers part oi Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and West Virginia ,. . before coining with us he was a machine operator with Union Switch & Signal Company in Pittsburgh, Penna. !. . , before that had wide selling experience with ft. J. Reynolds, Colgate-Palmolive Peet, and Mars Candy Company ... a sports fan espe cially when it comes to football and baseball Efnto Reed . . . covers western New Yotk and part of northwestern Pennsylvania . . . headquarters in Buffalo . . . graduated from North High School in Syracuse . . . was a sales man with Syracuse Buici Company and Under wood iiiott Fisher before going into the Navy . . . received his discharge in July ... is mar ried and has three children . . . chief diversion is fishing Packaged Products Staff A] Erickson . . . covers Delaware and the southern part of Pennsylvania and New Jersey willt headquarters in Philadelphia . . . before cominc/ with us was a personnel counselor lor Curtiss Wright in Buttalo. betore that was a salesman lor William Simon Brewery and be fore that introduced Scotch tape for the Minne sota Mining Company covering 14 states . . . : lives with his wife and son Tom, aged 14 Frank SUleck . . . covers southern T. ichi- gan and part oi Indiana and Ohio wi`- ' -'adquarters in Detroit . . . following are fuation tron high school in New Rochelle, Hew Y^r, became a sales representative for the Hirsh Chocolate Corporation . . . before joining ?<; y, he end his wife made their home in t/iic: Ni-' York . . . extra curricular activities include list ing and gardening El'c 07844 Fred Baifllny . . . covers southeastern Ohio and part of West Virginia with headquarters in Cincinnati . . . first job was with the National Biscuit Company in Cincinnati as a production clerk, then promoted to driver-salesman, then to supervisor of salesmen at the bread unit . . . later worked tor the fiubei Baking Company in Cincin nati . . . served three and a half years in the Army both here and in the ETO . . . was a First Staff Sergeant when he received his dis charge ... he and his wife, Mary, have a twoand-a-halt year old son, James Jim Cornwell . . . covers most of Kansas and part of Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska . . . graduate of Parker School and attended Harvard University . . . has sold for flapid Copy Service, Eye Catchers, inc. and In visible Glass Company . . . just prior to joining Ethyi in March 1944 was an inspector for the War Shipping Administration . . . before that was in the Army for a year . . . likes hunting, fishing and photography ... is married and lives in Tulsa. Oklahoma Le* BraidWood . . . covers all of Michigan north oi Kalamazoo and Jackson with headquar ters in Detroit . . . came with Ethyl in February of 1944 and has helped conduct the sales tests on Ethyl Cleaner . . . prior to that was a sales man for James B. Berry Sons Company . . reared in Perth Amboy. N. J. L6fl Boyce . . . covers eastern part of New York State, part ot Vermont and Massachusetts with headqruarters in Albany . . . comes from Cherry Valley, New York where he learned the three R's . . . has worked tor General Elec tric in Schenectady, the Grand Union Grocery Company both as supervisor and sales manager and the Taylor Wine Company as New York I state representative . . . likes to play golf, fish 4 and hunt but his main diversion during the spring and summer is his garden ... the Boyce ^ family numbers five--Lee and Doris and three 'children A f Ralph MlUtfO . . . covers New England with headquarters in Boston . . . lives in Bev erly, Mass. . . . graduated iron) Beverly High School . . . was a Held supervisor lor Lever Brothers *in Cambridge, Mass., where he has worked tor the past 16 years ... is married and has one child Malic Snyder . . . covers eastern Pennsyl vania with headquarters in Philadelphia . . . before coming with Ethyl was assistant man ager oi the Colonial Lila Insurance Company in Syracuse. New York . . . lived there with his wile and 8-year-old son, Mark Anthony . . . alter his graduation from high school in WilkesBarre he covered several states for the Pal Blade Company and for P. Ballantine & Sons ... is a veteran o1 World War I . . . likes base ball, football and bowling Hal Ashcraft . . . covers Kentucky. West Virginia and central Tennessee with Cincin nati as his headquarters . . . was a salesman tor Hershey Chocolate Corporation in Ohio for five years and before that for Francis H. Leggett Company in Pittsburgh. Penna. . . . since 1942 he has worked for the Government in Cincin nati. first as an investigator and later as r> price specialist . . . attended Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity . . . lives with his wife and 19-year-old daughter in Cincinnati . . . active in church af fairs and local Masonic Order Paul Sprague . . . covers southwestern In diana. part of Illinois and Missouri with head quarters in St. Louis . . . has wide selling ex perience with H. J. Heinz and Kroger Grocery as a salesman and with Borden Technical Food Products as sales supervisor . . . before joining Ethyl he and his wife lived in Perrysville. Pa. 12 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER Mac Murdock . . . special sales representa tive and contact man for the oil industry and automobile manufacturers . . . has been with Ethyl since 1933, first as field representative and later as clinic manager in the New York Division, became assistant manager of the Los Angeles Division in 1940 and was transferred to Chicago where he was No. 2 man until join ing the Packaged Products Department. . . born in Melrose, Mass. . attended high school in Olean, New York and graduated from Cornell University in 1928 . . . lives with his wife and two children in Evanston, III. ETC 07847 Margaret Martin . . . secretary to Ed Enoch . . . born in Charleston. S. C. . . . reared in Madison. N. J. . . . attended Limestone Col lege in Gaffney. S, C. . . . worked for R. W. Greet & Company before joining us Jest year . . . /ikes to horseback ride and swim Dorothea Held . . .secretary to Bill TurnJey . . . came to Ethyl in 1936 as a secretary in the New York Division . . . born in Manha tan and rearea in Boston . . . after finishing business college started to work for an investment firm and was transferred to New York . . . likes to play golf, dance and go to the theater Margaret Crawford ... secretary to Tom Sferck, takes a letter from her boss . . . born and reared in Riverdale. N. Y. . . . a product of the Packard Business School . . . was social secretary to Mrs. William F. Carey before com ing to Ethyl . . . before that was secretary to a chaplain in the Maritime Service . . . likes to spend weekends "on a horse" Helen Sinclair . . . handles Ethyl Cleaner orders . . . Brooklyn born and Brooklyn bred . . . first job at Macy's handling orders for the furniture department . . . came to us from JVaphagen School of fashion, where she was in charge of tiles and stock . .. likes to roller skate, dance and go to the theater 7849 ETHYL GASOLINE SALES HIGHEST YET Just how much motorists appre ciate Ethyl gasoline -- after their . long dry spell during the war -- is - -shown in reports from all over the country that sales of Ethyl are at the highest percentage in the his tory of the oil business. Compared f. to normal averages of ten to fifteen percent Ethyl before the war. Ethyl sales are running at about 40 per cent of all gasoline sales in most of the country and in several sections the percentage of Ethyl sales is over 50 percent. No one at Ethyl will venture the prediction that this high percen tage of Ethyl sales, which began when rationing went out the win dow, will keep up indefinitely since it is a much higher percentage than past history shows and substantially higher than was expected either by the Ethyl Sales Department or the oil companies' marketing men. Denied the use of high quality gasoline for several years as a result of restrictions imposed by the PAW to assure sufficient high qual ity motor fuels for military use, civilian motorists evidently "sold themselves" very thoroughly on the advantages of using good gasoline. Ever since they threw their ration books away and the PAW removed restrictions on the octane rating of gasolines, they have been making up for the wartime dearth of Ethyl gasoline. On the basis of recent reports from our nine sales division mana gers and current samples analyzed in the testing labs it is clear that octane numbers of Ethyl gasoline have reached and passed prewar quality. And again Ethyl gasolin : shows a spread of six to seven oc tanes over average regular gasoline. Samples from the field during the second week of October showed these average octane ratings: ETHYL GASOLINE All regions of United States No. of Samples 91 REGULAR GASOLINE All regions of United States 78 Motor Octane Research Octane No. Average No. Average 81.0 74.4 A:1 Even from these early reports, it is evident that nearly half of the American motorists have adopted the slogan: "Ask for Ethyl." The first report on postwar business is good. ETC 07850 15 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER New Director lor Aeronautical Research Laboratories Robert V. Kerley/ who has been a civilian engineer with the U. S. Army Air Forces at Wright Field since 1932, was recently appointed Director of Aeronautical Research for Ethyl. He succeeds S. D. Heron who is retiring from active super vision of the department, but who will remain with Ethyl as a special consultant to advise on some of the problems which lie ahead in the ex panding fields of aircraft fuels and aeronautical research. Having been at Wright Field during a most significant period of aeronautical progress -- beginning with the Martin B-10 bomber which flew on 91 octane gasoline up to the present huge B-29 which operates on gasoline of 100/130 performance number -- Mr. Kerley brings to Ethyl's Aeronautical Research De partment the experience of close as sociation with current developments in the use of fuels for modern highly developed airplane engines. Since the spring of 1936, when the specifications for 100-octane gasoline- were first adopted, Mr. Kerley has been closely associated with the>standardization of specifi cations for aviation grade gasoline. During the war he worked on fuels as high as Grade 100/145. Mr. Kerley also devoted much time and study to the development of cooling liquids, corrosion preventive com pounds, lubricants, fuels and knock indicators. In all of this research Robert V. Kerley program he was closely associated with aircraft engine manufacturers and refiners of aviation grade fuels. Mr. Kerley was born in Helix, Oregon, a little town of 250 people that lies north of Pendleton. After attending grade and high school in Helix, Mr. Kerley enrolled in Ore gon College, from which he was graduated with a B.S. in mechani cal engineering in 1931. While in college he belonged to the honor ary scholastic fraternities of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, and Phi Kappa Phi. He also belonged to Alpha Kappa Psi and Scabbard and Blade. Joining the Engineering Divi sion of the U .S. Army Air Forces at Wright Field, Ohio on Novem- 16 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ,,,,,,_ _ ETC 07851 ber 9, 1932, Mr. Kerley started as a junior test engineer on aircraft en gines. Later he was promoted to project engineer specializing on Pratt and Whitney engines. Then, in May, 1936, he went over to the Fuel and Oil Branch in the Power Plant Laboratory of the En gineering Division. Three months later he was named chief of that branch, succeeding Captain Frank Klein, who had succeeded Mr. Heron when he came to work for Ethyl. Mr. Kerley held that posi tion until he joined Ethyl as Direc tor of Aeronautical Research. During his service with the Fuel and Oil Branch, Mr. Kerley was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Sub- committee on Fuels and Lubricants. " He also served for two years as chairman of the Southern Ohio Section of the SAE. j; J Last February, Mr. Kerley was [ : sent to the China-Burma-India * 'theater to aid in setting up quality j control of petroleum products. ' While taking off one morning from Casablanca, his plane crashed and burst into flames. Thirteen of the ; ^30 persons aboard were killed. Mr. Kerley suffered injuries which kept him in the hospital for three weeks. Mr. Kerley was married in 1935 to Elaine Anderson of Portland, Oregon. They have four children-- Joyce Ann, seven; John, six; Thomas, two; and Linda, three months. Their home is now in Bir mingham. a suburb of Detroit. Mr. Heron, who was born in Eng land, first came with Ethyl in 1927 on a temporary assignment, but re turned later to the U. S. Army Air Forces, serving at Wright Field in the position filled for the past nine years by Mr. Kerley. For the past 11 years Mr. Heron has directed Ethyl's aeronautical research, and has made many con tributions to technological prog ress in the aviation field. Under this new set-up he will be able to devote more time to specialized research problems. * This Is Going Too Fur Ed Downs of the New York Sales staff writes us of a new use for Ethyl Cleaner which should prove invaluable to all pet owners. "Sev eral weeks ago my son purchased a `deodorized' skunk to add to his collection of pets. When the skunk arrived, we had strong doubts about the success of the operation. When the oil sacks were removed, some of the fluid must have found its way into the skunk's fur, making him unfit for human companionship. We then decided to give the Ethyl Cleaner a most rigorous test to re move the skunk's aroma. We fol lowed the directions on the bottle . . . and when the ordeal was over . . . he smelled just like new mown hay." Ed adds, "the skunk is now thoroughly deodorized, thanks to Ethyl Cleaner." And that's not all. Firmly con vinced that all that smells is not hopeless, Ed has given a generous sample to one of his son's friends to use on his pet goat! General view of (he Lower Compound, showing the Chancery, center, which waa hit by a bomb. It waa here (hat the American Hag was raised Here's the room where the historic meeting between MacArthur and Hirohito took place, when the Emperor, wiriiout invitation and shat faring all precedent, came to call The Ambassador's resi dence, now occupied by General MacArthur ETC 07853 Report From Alar Owe four flying safety men who set out for far away places to hold meet ings for the Air Transport Com mand keep Oscar Lewis's mail bag filled with reports bearing interest--ing stamps and news of weathering icy gales, lolling on tropical sands and riding ocean waves. Their shows, they say, are well received and well attended. Harry Cottrell and Sergeant Eddie Weiss traveling north to p Labrador, Crystal 1 and 2, Green land and Iceland ran into a gale that grounded them at Crystal 1. The entire staff there turned out for the Cottreli-Weiss show marking the first time a training program had ever pulled in 100% attendance. Doug Jeppe was the first to reach foreign soil. He went to Casablanca and from there to Lagos, Nigeria, Liberia, Dakar, and back to Mo rocco. When next heard from he was in Karachi, India, working out his schedule in that division with two .Captains who had been assigned to iim. He found the ocean on a Sun day "just perfect--big waves, grand sun and beautiful bathing beauties." Dolly Dollahan, writing from Hawaii, reports a fine trip over the Pacific in a C-54. "There was a full moon above those white fleecy clouds and we were high above them." The letter was written on September 20 and he had just ar rived the day before. He expected to be there about three weeks, putting on the safety program before 6,000 or 7,000 people. He thinks he will go to Tokyo before returning to the States early in December. The tag line of Dolly's letter was: "Ethyl gasoline returned to the is land the same day I arrived. Purely coincidental!" Bill Trelease has completed the Alaskan leg of his tour, and has now headed south for the Carribbean and points in South America. He held 23 meetings in Canada and Alaska with a total attendance of 2,400. North Goes South Lieutenant (jg) North Clarey, Jr., former member of Ethyl's Publicity staff, wrote an article for Ethyl News last year which came to tne attention of Lewis and Gilman, ad vertising agency in Philadelphia. They wrote they'd like to get in touch with the author of the article if and when he were available for a job. When North got out of tl Coast Guard one day last month ht called on Lewis and Gilman to see what was cooking. And to throw a P.S. into this story at the wrong place we report "he got the job." We just wanted a few tag lines here to say that we wish North all kinds of good luck in his new ven ture. We are sorry to lose h.:.n as an associate and a crack writer. But we hope he'll keep on sending us copy for the Ethyl News and will con tinue to hit the big-time magazines like the Saturday Evening Post, Cornnet. and others. ETC 07854 19 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER Powwow for Pennsylvania Refiners The Ethyl party for western Pennsylvania refiners on October 10, brought this group of oil men to gether with Ethyl as host for the first time since 1941, and marked the renewal of a custom that is fast be coming a tradition. The affair, sixth of its kind, was held at the Wanango Country Club near Oil City with executives, refinery superintend ents, plant managers, and technical men from the Pennsylvania field at tending. They were invited to the Club for an afternoon of golf followed by dinner. Paul R. Beck, President of the Pennsylvania Refining Com pany, carried off all golfing honors, winning the prize for best score and also the Kickers' Handicap. Vice President Coard Taylor pre sided at the dinner as master of cere monies. Julian Frey, General Sales Manager, gave a talk presenting the advantages of displaying and adver tising the Ethyl trademark. The purpose of these gatherings, in general, is to give our sales execu tives an opportunity to renew ac quaintance with members of the Pennsylvania oil industry. This year the specific purpose was to in troduce Julian Frey and Mat Taylor to the group. Julian has been ap pointed General Sales Manager since the last party was held, and Mat has gone down to Philadelphia to head the newly formed Philadel phia Division. Coard also introduced Tom Sterck, head of the new Packaged Products Department, and Bill Hubner, who has recently returned to our Technical Service Division after three years in the Army. Al though they needed no introduc tion, having had many years of as sociation with the group, Roy Goltz. New York Division Manager and Harry Mack, Dayton Division Man ager, were called upon to take a bow. Dick Murphy, an old hand in the territory and a native son of Penn sylvania, was attending the affair for the first time as Eastern Re gional Manager. Jim Krick was presented with his fifteen year service pin at the din ner. Gel Howell, field representative who covers western Pennsylvania, was in charge of arrangements. Pipes, tanks and a safety engineer -- This picture oi Wallace Emery, Dalles terri tory seiety man. was taken in Helena. Arkansas recently when he was there working on a spe cial blending project with Tuls*. division man ager Lou Shank and saiefy man Jake Balzer Bad MWI to aches and pains, good news to those who have them, is this diathermy ma chine, recently completed hy the instrument and electronic section oi the Detroit Engineering Lab. Mac McCulloch, the girl in white with a dimple and a smile, is the machine's boss. An experienced x-ray technician and tluoroscopist, she regulates the flow of electrons that ease the aches and pains of grateful Detroiters. with a few twists of the wrist. Designed by Bill Gilpin and Emil Gillig, this 300-watt output, radio frequency, vacuum-tube oscillator, built for Leslie Sanders oi Ethyl's Medical Department, is capable of broadcasting a 23-megacycle carrier wave clear to China. Bill Spence, cabinet raaJcer par excellence, is respon sible tor the attractive exterior Guiding lights of the Detroit Ethyl Society, these members have been elected to serve on the steering committee for the 1945-46 season. Seated, left to right, they are; Mel Deer, civic activities committee, Louise Hennessey, secretary-treasurer and fJower committee. Mike Aemondino. chairman, fiufh Munro, and Art Felt: standing. Punch Pfundstein, Gus Ligett. Gene Betzold. sports committee. George Bobinson. social committee. Trevor Jones, glee* club, Jim Hinkamp, publicity committee Stanley T. Crossland Named Comptroller Stanley T. Crossland/ one of the leading figures in the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation, has been aopointed Comptroller of Ethyl. He ar^i^d i:: New York from Wash ington on October 1 to take up his new post with us on the staff of P. I. Cirih'ths, financial Vice Presi dent ai.d Treasurer. Stan, as he is familiarly known, was executive director of RFC's Of fice of Rubber Reserve, Vice Presi dent of the War Damage Corpora tion and special assistant to the Board of Directors of the Recon struction Finance Corporation, at the time he left Washington. He went to the capital in 1940 when the Rubber Reserve Company, a sub sidiary of the RFC, was created, and was one of the principals in the for mation and operation of the Gov ernment's synthetic rubber pro gram. He also participated in the negotiations for the purchase and stock piling of natural rubber. In 1942 Stan organized the War Damage Corporation, formed for the purpose of providing war risk insurance. A most successful insur ance program, it piled up a net profit of over $200,000,000. Our new Comptroller was born in Blue Island, Illinois (twenty miles south of Chicago), went to public school there and at Valparaiso, In diana. He received his business training at the University of Illi nois' School of Commerce, and gained his first experience in the handling of money, credit, and mat ters of finance as a bank examiner with the Chicago Clearing House Association. During those boom days of the late 20's he was very busy, but when the crash came and the nation went into the depression he was even busier. The Government then or ganized the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation and Stan became an examiner on its newly formed staff in Chicago. His job was to re organize the banks that had been closed, make loans on real estate and loans to industry. He remained with the RFC in this capacity until 1940 when he went to Washington. Stan is living at the Essex House pending the time when he can find a home for his family in the over crowded metropolis. He has a wife and two children -- Kenneth Lee, eight, and Lynda Lee, four -- who are still in Washington. His favorite pastime is golf and he plays what he terms "a business man's game." The typical optimistic golfer, he insists that the weather is always fine at the golf course -- it never gets too hot, too cold, or too wet, or too dry. DEEPWATER WINS HIGHEST SAFETY AWARD g The Deepwater plant, working ` for more than five-and-a-half years without an accident, has established a safety record that marks an alltime high in the Manufacturing De^ partment's history. They have won if', the President's Prize, highest award granted under Ethyl's Safety : Award Plan, and are the first group ever to achieve this honor, p Completing their 2792nd day without an accident on September *_ 21 they became eligible for the j award. A significant accomplishment, it means a perfect safety rec, ord since way back in January of 1938, maintained in spite of steppedup work schedules and wartime pressures. This is the third safety award that the Deepwater plant has won. In April 1941 they won the Plant Man ager's Prize, awarded upon the com pletion of 1160 no-accident days, and each employee was given a pres ent chosen from a list of useful arti cles. In October 1942, having com pleted 1718 days without an acci dent, they won the General Mana ger's Prize and were all given war stamps. Appropriate prizes, yet to be selected, will be given for this last accomplishment. Commending the Deepwater group for their fine record, both President Earle Webb and Vice President John Schaefer, manufac turing head, wrote them letters of congratulations. Mr. Webb's letter is printed below: "It gives me great pleasure to ex tend to you my heartiest congratu lations upon the completion of your third consecutive no-accideut safe ty record which ent.tl-- vou to the President's Priz^, h:,;i: -st award made under our Safety At urd Plan. "This is a most s.g iiy^nt achievement especially > waj accomplished in spite of th= strain engendered during the re~.at war years, and should prove n inspira tion of the highest order to the rest of us. May you concinue the good work." ETC 07858 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER i Bass Weston. Bill Ball and some sales promotion material Bill Ball Rolls Along Bill Ball has been selected from the New York Division and the gen eral sales staff, to join Advertising where he is now helping Russ Weston promote sales. Bill, who joined Ethyl eight years ago after three years with one of the large oil companies, brings to the job wide experience in field activities. He began as a field representative in New York City and Westchester Counr.y, later worked as an automo tive engineer on the New York di vision clinic, then as a tune-up en gineer. During the war he was a fleet engineer and spent much of his time conducting training courses on en gines and fuels for the Army, Navy and Air Corps. With Bill's help and his intimate knowledge of field operations, Russ plans to bring to the men in the field a wealth of new material for sales promotion. They will develop pro grams in whatever way seems best, preparing printed material, cards, slides, etc. They will serve also to coordinate the sales program and make avail able to the entire field staff in pack aged form the best ideas for nation wide use. All of which adds up to a coordinated and well integrated plan for promoting the sale of Ethyl gasoline and improving still further our relations with our customers and with the public -- Russ and Bill at your service, men. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER 07859 Madeleine Johnsion, ot the Setety De- partment, came to us from American Air Lines. Before that she worked tor the Metropolitan Lite Insurance Company, which was her first job after finishing high school. She was horn on Manhattan, and reared in Mineola, Long Island. She is a talented artist, spends spare time sketching and painting in water coiors. She also designs and makes all of her clothes ETC 07860 Mary Jana Rich/ new secretary in the Philadelphia Division, came to Ethyl from the Army Ordnance oiiice in Philadelphia, where she met her tiance, Lieutenant Vincent L. Fisher. Their engagement was announced on September 8, which turned out to be a very busy day ior Mary Jane. She announced her engagement, celebrated her birthday and acted as oificial hostess ior the United Air Lines 2Sth anniversary celebration oi the first air maii route--she was born on September 8. 1920. the day oi the original ilight. Mary Jane, along with a group oi city dignitaries greeted the pilot oi the ilight at the airport at 8:21 a.m. and was in a whirl oi activity the rest oi the day. winding up with the announcement oi her en gagement in the evening BUI Splaine, who has joined the tax sec tion oi the Finance Department, came to Ethyl from the New York Stock Exchange, where he was assistant manager of the accounting divi sion. He started to work there IS years ago as a messenger. Bill was born in Maywood, New Jersey. He and his wiie are now rearing thejr two children--Billy,- five and Mary Ann, twoin the house where he was born. Bill is an outdoor man at heart and likes to track through the woods hunting deer when it's open season and the air is brisk ETC 07861 Harry Mack Sinks 220 Yard Spoon Shot By Gel Howell Special Correspondent Our Harry Mack's golfing prow ess was the sensation of the West Virginia Petroleum Association's 1945 Convention. Making a trium phant farewell appearance, Harry formally turned the West Virginia territory over to Mat Taylor, in whose Philadelphia Division the State is now included. Harry Mack had challenged F. G. Bannerot, Jr., West Virginia State Amateur Golf Champion and Ex ecutive Vice-President of the Elk Refining Company to a match on the Kanawha Country Club course near Charleston, West Virginia. Ralph Lowe, Sales Manager of Elk, and Wayne Shidaker of the Ohio Farm Bureau made up the foursome. , The match was a titanic struggle between Mack and Bannerot, filled with superb shooting throughout. -But the high-spot and pivotal point Jof the game was the play on the four teenth hole. This is a par five, 541 - ^yard dogleg to the right with a nar row fairway and much terror for all golfers. Harry Mack outwitted his opponent right at the start by play ing his tee shot over to the seventh fairway, two fairways over to the left, to a spot only 500 yards from the cup. Mr. Bannerot unimagina tively proceeded to hit an ordinary 300 yard drive straight up the nar row fairway. Harry's second shot was a bril liant 280 yard brassy into the rough which left him 220 yards from the pin. Mr. Bannerot, sure of victory, played his next shot up short of the green. Then Harry threw the rockcrush ing blow. Disregarding his caddie who handed him a five iron to get out of the rough, Harry bit off his cigar and full of self-confidence, pulled out his number three wood. Then, although he had a rather dif ficult lie in the rough, he swung smoothly but powerfully and easily sank his 220 yard spoon shot for an eagle. The ball hit just short of the green and trickled on, under perfect control, right into the cup. His opponent's birdie ' i thu'j completely ineffectual--am with the opposition s; .bvious'y out classed Harry went ;n to tahe the match with easy par ^>11. The Ethyl suite, during t v re mainder of the conveitio" wae the scene of much exch.jnen,. New paperme.: interviewe's an a photog raphers came ,.nd went in. a stream. Harry remained modeniv unim pressed and maintained that there was no degree of luck invol* e l as tie had been aiming at the cu{ vhen he shot. Harry has been approached by all the better sporting '.i.ir-'s to en dorse their warer anc h is rumored that the Chamber of Commerce is going to erect a bronze tablet to mark the spot from which the shot was launched. ETC 07862 27 BULLETIN BOARD --..OVEMBER ETC 07863 WELCOME BACK On the cover: Lieutenant Colonel Stonewall J. Warner, Jr., better known to Ethyl folk as Jack, is wel comed back by Dick Murphy, East ern Sales Manager. After three years in the European Theater of Operations and a period of convalescence in the Army hos pital at Thomasville, Georgia, Jack came to New York for a brief visit before returning to Atlanta to get back in the groove selling Ethyl in the Atlanta Division. As a POL officer, serving first in England and later in France, Jack played an important part in keep ing fuel supplies rolling to the front. Arriving in England on June 8, 1942, Jack was the first oil man with any technical training on the scene. How the Army set up strate gically located depots for the stor age of gasoline for the continental invasion, operated "the biggest fill ing station in the world," and sup plied fuel to the U. S. Army ground and air forces in their final sweep across France and into Germany will be told in the next issue of the Bi ulletin Board. Look who else is home! Ethyl also extends the hand of welcome to the following servicemen now sporting the homing pigeon in their lapels. From the Coast Guard where he attained the rating of Boat swain's Mate second class comes Donald Forsdick, now working in the Packaged Products Depart ment (see page 13). Don's brother, Gerald has returned from the Navy where he was Chief Specialist (avia tion free gunnery) to the role of Safety Engineer in the New York Safety Department. Gerry was in the Navy for three and a half years, of which two were spent overseas in the Pacific. He holds the Good Conduct Medal* Expert Pistol Shot and Expert Rifleman's Medals. On September 8, Gerry was married in Stamford, Connecticut. He and Mrs. F. are now living on Staten Island. Also from the Navy comes Ro land Ostrander who has returned to the Engineering Research Lab in Detroit. After completing a four months' training course at Anna polis, Rollie was assigned to the Marine Engineering Department at Annapolis as an instructor. Eighteen months later he was as signed to the Navy Training School (Fleet Diesel) at San Diego, Cali fornia, where, among other du ies, he planned a layout for a new engi neering lab. From the European theater comes Jim Hughes who served jr a year and a half as a volunteer wLh the American Field Service attached to the British Eighth Army in Italy and later to Montgomery's 21st Army Group in the Low Countries. Jim is once again a research engi neer in the Detroit Lab. Frank Hayes, has returned to the New York Division after three years in the Air Force. He entered the service as a private back in 1942 and ETC 07864 29 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER i following training courses at both engine and propeller schools he landed in the middle of Kansas. There he became a Master Sergeant and depot engineering chief in charge of major maintenance and overhaul at one of the key B-29 bases. He also said, "I do," to a tall, attractive blonde, native of the Sun flower State. The Hayes are now living in Albany, where Frank, as field representative for eastern New York, makes his headquarters. Calingaert Speaks on Europe Recently returned from Europe where he has been on a special as signment for the War Department -ervir.g as an operations analyst for th; united States Strategic Bomb ing Survey, Dr George Calingaert, Dir; ctot of Chemical Research, st ae on his observations before the Detroit Ethyl Society at their fils meeting of the season. Study ing ae'Oc.l bombing effects on industii;.l ccn .:;rs. Dr. Calingaert's work took him E-igland, France, Bel gium, Hollar a and Germany. Dr. Caiingaert k =ynoted his dis cussion on Germany with the attitude of the pe-v'e, their acceptance of defeat a iJ their efforts toward reconstruction. The average Ger man is easily hd. Dr. Calingaert said, and readilv accepts orders. De spite h; lack r * responsibility, how ever the average German's desire to work and improve regardless of ex isting conditions, Dr. Calingaert believes, will probably restore Ger many to its prewar standard sooner than other countries. Discussing the effects of bomb ing, Dr. Calingaert cited as a test for the degree of destruction, the ability of a city to come back. Frankfort was restored in three weeks. Cologne showed no progress after three months' effort, he said. Dr. Calingaert illustrated his talk with many candid camera shots which he had taken--concentration camps near Leipsig, the effects of bonfires in which 326 people per ished, U. S. Army life in Europe, and the destruction of cities wrought by bombing attacks. Dr. Calingaert also gave this talk before the Engineering Society of Detroit at their November meeting. Beste on Bombing Survey George W. Beste, a Supervisor in the Development Section at our Baton Rouge plant, is a member of the United States Strategic Bomb ing Operational Committee now in Japan to study the effects of Amer ican bombing raids upon Japanese industrial plants. George left this country early in October as a mem ber of a group of civilian experts to make the studies and to report to government authorities on their findings. * Bay Victory Bonds 30 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 07865 ETC 078G6 Technical Writer Joins Detroit Staff Coming to the Ethyl Corporation after 11 years at the General Motors Proving Ground, Joseph N. Ulman, Jr., is to serve on the central staff of the Research Laboratories at De troit. He will assemble and analyze information from the different lab oratories, and will write technical reports on the material. In planning its postwar activities, Ethyl Corporation has recognized the fact that gasoline engines, fuels and lubricants are complexly and inseparably related, and that effec tive progress in the development of any one can be made only through close coordination with the others. The Corporation therefore, is re designing its research organization to increase the activity and effec tiveness of the grouj which organ izes and reports jBujjrmation ob tained in its laborafgras to the tech nical departments^Tffvatitomotive and oil companie^pillf. Ulman will participate in this work. Mr. Ulman is a native of Balti more, where he graduated from both the liberal arts and the engi neering colleges of Johns Hopkins University. Following his gradua tion in 1934 he joined General Mo tors where he worked in the Engi neering Test Department at the Proving Ground except for short periods when he was loaned to the New Devices Section and the Prod ucts Study Division in Detroit. From 1940 to 1943 he was assistant head of the Proving Ground Tech nical Data Section; then became Joseph N. Vlmaa. Jr. head of Engineering Test Analysis and Report Editor. During the war the Proving Ground, with its staff expanded to almost three times normal size, tested Army vehicles for the Ord nance Department, and Mr. Ulman reports that he still feels about as much at home behind the steering levers of a tank as at the wheel of an automobile. P.S. He prefers the latter, and is looking forward to having a part in the role Ethyl will play in the automotive progress of the future. * "The winning of the peace might be defined as the development of ways and means to insure over the years to come our economic, poli tical and personal freedoms." -- Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of General Motors. 32 BULLETIN BOARD --NO VEMBER ETC 07867 tiling at YOU over the tiles is Jane Marie 'an, who helps keep tiles straight in the New >rk ottice. A songbird at heart, she is up on ! the latest tunes, and what's more knows aii a lyrics, too. She was born on Staten tsiand, it her family moved to Baldwin, Long Island hen she was six and she went through school ere. Following graduation trom high school a got a job with Kirkman & Son in Brooklyn, here she worked as a secretary for a year 'tore coming to Ethyl. Jane likes to bowl. Her skate and see Van Johnson movies ETC 07868 Merrill Craig, writer in the Publicity De portment, is a Texan who came to New York two years ago and got himself a job reporting tor the Brooklyn Eagle, then joined the Petro leum Industries Committee as assistant director ot publicity, thence to Ethyl. He was educated in Europe and in Texas, mostly in Texas. He attended a school tor boys in Nice, France tor a year, graduated irom Jefferson Hi in San Antonio, took a BJL. and an M.A. from the Uni versity ot Texas. He is a member ot Delta Theta Phi and Pi Sigma Alpha. Likes sailing, deep-sea fishing, tennis and golf Margaret Pacacha, Lab, came to ua from Cam o x.ic. in Jrafehers where she operated a sewmg machix^Surning out sleep ing cases, insect field bars and surgical gowns tor the Aimy. Before that she worked for du Pont in Parlin. New Jersey inspecting film. Margaret was born in Yonkers, and following her graduation from Gorton High, attended Villa Sacred Heart n Pennsylvania She hires music and is an accomplished pianist ETC 07869 Orange Blossoms and Arrows Betty Bampion was married to Charles E. Reed, Pharmacist's Mate Third Class, on September 22 at the First Presbyterian Church in Palisades Park, New Jersey. Betty is a member of the General Account ing division of New York Finance. Eleanor Queitseh became en gaged to Sergeant William Ma loney on September 16. Eleanor is secretary to Ed Acker, of New York Finance, and her fiance is an ETO veteran of 28 months. John Capinjola, organic chem ist in the Detroit Lab, depleted the staff of the Chem Lab by one when he married Shirley Peck and she took over the full time job of run ning their home at 19795 Imperial Highway, Redford, Michigan. Punch Pfnndstein and Mary Jane Hetrick were married in the First Lutheran Church at Leechburg, Pennsylvania on September 27. Following the ceremony they flew to Detroit and continued from there by car to Houghton Lake, about 200 miles north of Detroit, where they spent their honeymoon. 'All of this was carefully planned and carried out without the assist ance, or interference of friends at the Detroit Lab, where Punch is an automotive engineer on the Tech nical Service staff. He threw them off the trail by spreading misinfor mation as to their whereabouts. They are now at home at 809 Hen rietta in Birmingham, Michigan. Edna Mnldoon was married to John S. Reburn on August 14 in the Pullman Heights Methodist Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas. At the time the wedding plans were made, they didn't know that Jack was going to be released from service, giving them double cause for celebration. Jack served in the Navy for two-and-a-half years as a Pharmacist's Mate First Class, and was in the Southwest Pacific most of that time. A reception for the wedding party was held at the Jack Tar Hotel. The couple have returned to Wilmington, Delaw e, where they will make their home, and Edna is back at work in our Deepwater plant. '-; .* * Animal Talk Florence Uebennnth, Bulletin Board correspondent for the At lanta Divisiontjjpfeports the follow ing encounters with a saleslady: "The other dajr. I bought a pair of gloves that' vwhre ju;t about `tops' in sportswear. '"Doggie,' f said, a' miringlj^Ph, no,' the salenlr dy re torted, `pigskin.' '' a Recenfjnsltor to 'hi Nev ^ ork Finance pifice was ex-Stah Sergeant Kingsley loans, formerly with the Army Air Forces. Kingsley is a veteran of 78 missions over Earope, wears the Bronze Star, Distin guished Flying Cfiss. Air Medai with Oak Leaf Cluster, and Presi dential Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster. Kingsley's immediate plans center about a hunting trip in Min nesota. ETC 07870 35 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER Rath Bowers . . . bora in Wilmington, Dela ware . . . graduate oi Penns Grove High . . . ijgoes in tor sports Seven Lively wcomers to the distaff side of Deepwater plant are these seven elies, who are helping with the rk in the office. Five of them are fives of New Jersey and two are "n Delaware. All are June gradu- and started their business eers with Ethyl. Pauline Morris . . . born in Salem. New Jersey . . . graduate oi Salem Hiah . . . favorite pastimes are dancing and roller skating ETC 07871 ETC 07872 fSffiSSW` * . f? Two New Movies Released by Ethyl Two new motion pictures have re gen, phosphorus, and potassium cently been released by Ethyl as that growing crops take out. part of its sales promotion program in the farm field. One of the movies -- This Is Our Land -- vividly por trays the importance of soil con servation to every American. The other film--The Job Ahead--is de signed to help farm equipment deders in their plans for future business in both sales and service. The film points out that new, high-compression, gasoline-power ed tractors are important allies in carrying out the necessary meas ures which will save this land of ours. The use of power is an essen tial part of efficient soil manage ment. Conservation farming and power, together, mean more work in Whv soi conservation is so sig nificant to rhis nation is shown in the --This is Our Land--which ha. bee .^claimed by the Depart less time. They mean bigger yields, more profits, better crops--with soil on the land where it belongs and not in the air or in rivers. ment of \gricultur<f*|as a motion * The Job Ahead, is presented as picture `-'-at ` has something impor ' "A Report to a Veteran". The scenes tant to say to everyone -- men, are built around a typical employee, ind children--in city and now a returned veteran, who has country alike." Afagr come back to his old job with a farm >Jpquipment dealer. Because of the wartime practice ol "mining the oil* to produce more i o j for the war effort ther^T has :n a great amount of soilero<4!on and deple*' )-! durinj^.the^past *'|few ycaso. Uniesi vigorous steps are taken to stop this situ$tji we Crs When Bill Adams, the ex-soldier, ^ reports to his boss on the first day Setback he has brought with him many v- mew ideas about the farm machin ery business, and finds that his em ployer, too, has been thinking and may see the same kind of dpastation that occur ed in )B&5si30's when Dust Bowl tarms ing all over the United planning and that great strides have been made in farm equipment re tailing. The movie shows some of the improved methods of doing business which progressive farm In order to prevent farther'ero sion of soil by wind and rain, the equipment dealers are putting into practice. movie adv .cates such progressive These two films, produced for conservation measures as strio cropping, land contouring, rotation Ethyl by Audio Productions, Inc., carry worthwhile messages to the of crops, and replacing essential nutrients in the soil such as nitro farm equipment retailers and other rural and civic groups. 38 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 07873 ETC 07874 SC ''Jr \ *> Ii0BIs Mih1<Y LflOHBTllf design ungiixini at our Detroit Engineering Research tab. reeived his degree in Chemical Engineering at the University oi Michigan. Although his first choice was chemistry, his talent for design, art and engineering make mechanics1 engineering bis iorte. If your postwar plans include build ing, you should see Louis. He has wondeful ideas about equipping homes with prefabri cated fixtures, movable walls to fit your every mood, and all the latest gadgets. He also has some valuable tips on the up and coming trend in upholstering. Louis' interests vary from sail ing to photography. His most frequent picture subjects are his wife and his daughter. Marianne rft. Tred Siewntng, in describing him self says, "I'm just a bloomin' bloody blought by birth." He has come to our Detr j,< Lab 'o help trrn th: wheels that make lor progress in Chem,ra! nrarch. Before join .g us . r was a dotor Ma chinist witt. < : . J. Na.al..mpbibiotu: Forcesin the 'I-.diterranean. ;J'. vrasover"' them tut twenty-two months i-osi of life time V Irene. The repair sh *o icro he ..uiat* was something of a 3 Alit, g been converted froi a famasea LT Cne of ,rred's uniorgei ab'e memories v.i.- m.y he landed. . as arsgnd , r'-e Jerries didn't ere- -.'--hUn . .-.----- - f0 unpgcjfc, which jo d>sr:pif /MSI .n considerate. And, o' cours . hjj I. 1 ;.i. ij... where the shelters e<e, bnt- ii cl : l. ir" him long to out. Wlnr. Fred came down with malaria he was hospitalized and returned to the States. He was not the only member of his family to know the terror of war, as he has a sister who was in a concentra tion camp in Denmark and another who had to taire shock treatment as a result of the blitzes in England. 40 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 07875 5*., Milestones Go By Ethyl's 15-year club has three new members--BUI Mundlnger, Louis Schaefer and Joe Wea ver. Ray Seymour, of the San Bernardino Engineering Lab has rounded the 10-year bend, and six more have received their five-year service pins. They are: John Killgore, Charles Long and Daniel McDonald, of Baton Rouge, Bud Yaeger, of New York Manufac turing, Jim Southwick, of New York Finance and flwood SeChrist, of Aeronautical Research in Detroit. The presentation of Bill Mundinger's 15-year service pin took him completely by surprise. He was at tending a luncheon in New Orleans''given for Harold Berg. The whi `who of the petroleum industry been invited to meet the newly a|S^ ^pointed Southern Sales Manager, and Alan Tully, who runs therAt lanta Division and was also running ithe party, took advantage oLlSui ^ opportunity to pay tribute to B1 fine record of service, and present him with his pin. Bill, writing his own story begins by telling us that he was born "way back yonder" in the city of New Orleans. "My father and mother looked at me and hoped I would not turn out a city slicker so picked up and moved the entire family ten miles out of Baton Rouge on a plan tation in hopes of making me an honest country boy. I'm still a feii/ Muadmgor county boy, I believe, because my brotlie^snd I bought a six hundred i consisting of two Jiunof tung oil trees and the pme timber. This has kept "Weing a very pjor golfer sends. tfpre coining to Ethyl I workifc sixteen years for a sugar jpjation *n Cuba, and'`by con,'Eihyl was something most inThe work I had been ac ted to, that of superintendent Sr manufacturing plants, wa-: ling very tangible ann n ^everyday driving job of turnlillions of pounds of sugar with a conglomerate crew of many nationalities. So I came to Ethyl, and after two weeks in Yonkers, with the help of Lew Roberts I got the Ethyl story, a trip to Tulsa to pick up a car, then on to Louisiana ETC 07876 41 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER with instructions to keep out of consisted of a handful of fellows trouble if possible for a year. and a few girls. Pop, together with "After that I could go out and Army Armstrong, Bud Johnson, make speeches on Ethyl to automo and Charlie Remsburg .had the job tive and oil company groups, and of looking after the blender opera for that matter to anybody else who tion. One of his main duties was would listen to me. I'm still here supervising the activities of a labor doing just that, am still keeping out crew, and as one old-timer recently of trouble and it has been a wonder said, "Lou sure knew how to pick fully pleasant job.'' and get work out of his men." Bill is a product of Baton Rouge As the organization grew the educational institutions, having need was felt for someone to follow gone through grade and high school up maintenance repairs and opera there and attended Louisiana State tional charges. In 1937 Pop was University, where he took a special transferred to the office to handle sugar engin'.-.rmg course. In his the job. He is now a member of co.,,-ge days ne was a Pi Kappa Al Deepwater's Finance group and pha, now belongs to the Rotary ^helps Bob Bloodwell get the cost Club, the Free and Accepted sheets out on time. Masons and is a past president of Pop's chief hobby seems to be the Louisiana Automobile Club. making friends and he is affection Bill and Mrs. Mundinger live in ately known as the "grand ole guy" Baton Rouge. Their two sons, Dan, by the Deepwater group. He also 20, and John, 18, r.. } enrolled in likes to spend quiet evenings at Naval training programs. T horne with Mrs. Schaefer tuning in ' on football and baseball broadcasts. Lowis 3. (Pap) Schaefer was. Sports have always been a hobby born in Buffalo way back wheu the " with him and he gets out to see the horse and buggy was the moderr bays in action whenever he can. me*, of getting place. He liketl the town so well that he decided to stay there for about ao years. After finishing school, he ani his two bro thers established tk Schaefer Sons Malt Company. His outness travels took him to Wilmington on ^occa sion and it was on one of these trips that he met Mrs. Schaefer. Later he moved to Wilmington, and except for a several years' stretch basking in the Florida sunshine he has lived there ever since. Pop joined Ethyl back in 1930. In those days the group at Deepwater ETC. 07 87 7 Kure Beach Plant Wins Third Award Elhyl-Dow7S Kure Beach plant, with two production awards to their credit, received still further recognition for their part in the win ning of the war when they won for the third time the Army-Navy Pro duction Award "for high achitvement in the production of wat ma terial." Robert P. Patterso 1, Secretary o:: Joe Weaver War, notified the men and women at Kure Beach of their last award in Weaver/ Engineering Tech- a letter written September 8. He ician in Detroit, started in the praised them for their fine record eneral Service Department and a... for the inspiring example they ix months later found himself pro- set for their fellow Americans on toted to the position of Durward the production front. tossman's assistant. With the shift i the Milwaukee Avenue labora- Thegtlant received its first award, pry to its new quarters on Eigh. f'ile Road, Joe took on the respon- bilities of purchasing engine parts td the preparation of material for PIgine endurance tests. the. Alpy-Navy "E" pennant on July 25, 1944 and the two subse. quer.i awardr adding two white sfeirs'Vto the pennant, at the recom ;e.nCation of the Air Technical Service Command of the Army Air ! As Engineering Technician, Joe Forces. Glenn Cantwell, manager of hd his two assistants have the re- ytlie plant, 1 as been in close contact ponsibility of inspecting all valves, with'.the AAF since the beginning jearings, piston rings and spark. of the war. The plant's production lugs used on the endurance tests of ethylene dibromide, essential in- a the dynamometer lab. gredia^ of Ethyl fluid, helped keep In his free time Joe is active in he Ethyl Bowling League, having erved as its secretary for several easons. His other indoor activities san toward drawing the case ace supplies of high octane aviation gasoline -- one of the most impor tant factors in the winning of the war -- rolling to the front. nd double pinochle. Joe, Mrs. Weaver and daughter * ean, live in Ferndale. Buy Victory Bonds ETC 07878 43 BULLETIN BOARD -- NO VEMBER fl VICTORY MAIL News this month is of Charlie Ehrhardl's (Detroit Lab) promo tion to the rank of First Lieutenant. Charlie writes from Baer Field, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where "rumor has it I am only here to d& processed, after which I am going into a Troop Carrier Group, to replace some lucky fellow who ii getting out. It looks as though the Arm; still has the say about my future, and will have for a long time to come. How ever, this job of aircraft mainte nance is one of the be.,. spots in the Army I think, so nc one will.have to feel particularly sorry for me.- "While I was down in /Texas, Johnny Link and I had a little time togethe:, but he's ihe only Ethyl man I've seen in a long time." r\ . BUI Ryan York Division) writes from overseas: "If I recall, my last effort in your direction was written in Iceland. Our transfer to England and later to North Ireland was like coming to the Promised Land. It was. in this last mentioned place I paoed with the Infantry ... the O^d lance wanted someone to do carburetor work and back to Eng land I went. "I was ushered into a rather large shop, and my guide led me to a re mote corner, where a few individu als were repairing just as many carburetors. `Now over here,' said mine guide, `is where you will re claim Diesel engines.' At this point the guide left and I found myself in charge of the injector, governor, electrical, etc. section. At the time we were working under the direc tion of the Navy, and the work proved to be very interesting dur ing,the year I remained. In fact, just when I was about to get married and make a home of the place, the Quartermaster Corps wanted some one with a vague knowledge of ^gasoline engines, and another trans fer took place. "The Quartermaster gave me a nice desk, complete with telephone and a stack of manuals on engines. Said manuals were to be checked for technical errors. The first three that I picked up had on the cover page `Prepared by Errol Gay of the Ethyl Corporation.' I never knew work could be so easy. That is for about a month, for soon I was shown 44 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 07819 itto the office of the C.O. `Get to don't ask him to step out. It's prob ormandy,' said he, `and see how the ably the undersigned." Bill adds the ipment is holding up.' A day interesting P.S. "Regarding the girl later I was looking for a comfort I left in England, we were married able foxhole. The only maintenance some seven months ago." I took any notice of was on the negative side and directed at the German artillery. After working with both the First and Third Army for some time, I was sent to Paris and later on to Reims. "While in this last mentioned city, it was decided to do the engine rebuild work for the Quartermaster Corps (motor generator sets, gaso8ne pumps, etc.) at that location. Just Arrived Robert William Banes at the home of Bill ?nd Christine Bauer on October 5.1.ittie Robert William is their first chil l end father beamed with pride as he prised cigars and candy to his associates in the cost section of our Finance Department. Accordingly, the Renault Automo- A baby daughter for Gene and e people were contacted, and Karin Klemens, born on Navy Day work was started in their local October 27. Karin, better known to plant. A Corporal and myself were Ethyl folk as Karin Holm, secretary the American staff sent to organize to Paul Monahan, of New York Fi d direct the work. The labor was nance, is Buiit. tin Board corre 111 French. The only words I knew spondent for the Cost Accounting in that language were not printable group and was right on the job re t the time, and the Corporal was a porting thr event as soon as our word or two behind me. That was doors opened for business or Mon about a year ago. Today after some day ftiorninp following the Satur- thousand vehicles and double tl?t ^rda^V-ival. &: e called from Beth in motors, we have some five huj^.I<n^ Hospital, where sne and the dred men on the production JJ.'}jibys were uoing fine--baby at that ^nd are operating through some four sub-jobbers. The sub-jobbers. Incidentally, are manufacturing great number of our parts--piston rings, bearings, etc. t. .ppjijyinntt ui nnamed because "she took us ^ t ^surprise -wo were expecting a ' She weighed in at 5 pounds M ounce--:, and was 19 inches Jfcng. Jier father, a Captain in the "Today the Corporal and I spend Army, came up from Washington our spare time counting up our for the occasion. points, or if not that, trying to figure the system out. It says in this Dennis Charles Gibbs at the morning's paper that I am not here, home of John J. Gibbs, blender op in fact I have been wearing tweeds erator at the Deepwater plant. Den for a long time. At any rate, if a nis arrived on July 28 f nd is the character with a slightly foreign fourth little Gibbs. He has a brother accent shows up one of these days, and two sisters. MORE MILITARY ADDRESSES S/Sgt. Robert Ackerman, 32594411 Det. D. Bks. T-432 Proving Ground Detachment Abert ten Proving Ground, Md. Pfc. Earl E. Allen, 38617349 Hq. Co., 1st Bn. 474th Inf. Regt. A.P.O. 544, c/o Postmaster New York, N[ Y. Capi. L. H. iilatchford, 0905606 Ho. 193rd Ltbor Sup. Center P.O. 3:. o Postmaster New o!Li. Y. Jirr.cs V Bridget, M/M 2/c c/o O-i . the Port (Secondary) C.G. Gran/ ayLa. fgt. T-:*. Bridges, 18133685 ..9th Bas' Un:\ (FPTS) Section A ", box 519 Strother Amy rt.rfield VvOnfield, Ken. T/ogt. Adam I.. Brcoks Co. B. 428th Sig. 3r. A.P.O. 218, c/o Pustn.?>'>r New York, N. Y. Heury Clemons, U. S. .ca&t u ''r'd 1712 ljtb Strc Oakland. C?.'. l/ Allen j. Le-si, A/S Co. 44-4CS L'iNTC San Qiego. Cal. Harol.. T:. F tch> Cq. 870 USNTC Great Lakes. S Sg`.. Joan P. Gi^164th A.A.A. C crat'ons Detachment P.O Box 1552 San Fiancisc . 19. Yai. -'vt. E. S. Goller oth Tng. Fn. MTC Inf. Platoon 4 Tent Camp Canu> Lejeunt, N. C. Lt. S. N. Hall, USNR USS YMS-302 Fleet Post Office . San Francisco, Cal. Cpl. Ellis L. Hogan Site 3, Trailer 291 45th Street -- Ave. S. Galveston, Texas Lt. Col. Miles A. Kin.ey 1234 N. Typer Street Dallas 8, Texas Lt. Lee H. Larison, USNR Com. Phil. Sea Frontier PT Base 17 Fleet Post Office San Francisco, Cal. F. J. Lewis, S 3/c ATB Commissary Dept. Oceanside, Cal. T/Sgt. Thomas A. Mitchell, 38312735 370th A.A.F. Bu. Kessler Field Biloxy, Miss. 1st Sgt. George B. Noland, 34045692 Battery A., 47th Armd. F. A. Bn. A.P.O. 255, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Pfc. James P. Prettyman, 32950266 Special Service Section Hq. Seine Section A.P.O. 887, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. George A. Roberts, SK 2/c Naval Personnel Separation Center Supplies & Accounts Camp Wallace, Texas Capt. William J. Ryan, 0340458 64th QMBD A.P.O. 513, c/o Postmaster New York, N. Y. Pvt. Paula Stogner, USMCR (WR), 1004745 9th Tng. Bn. Co. E Tent Camp ITR Camp Lejeune, N. C. Sgt. William H. Thompson, 32755706 Battery D 115th A.A.A. Gun Bn., A.P.O. 513 c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Pfc. Lynn A. Wilmot, 3261201 Sec. 2 Ward 15 Madigan General Hospital Fort Lewis, Wash. 46 U-'LLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD CORHESPONDENTS ATLANTA. . . .Florence Liebermuth BATON ROUGE. .Herbert B. Baron Bernard Manuel John L. Ward CHICAGO.................Mary Hughes CINCINNATI..........lola Sheppard DAYTON................... Susan Ackley DEEPWATER. . Rudolph F. Williams DETROIT............. . . Fritz Schroeter Bonnie Colbridge FREEPORT................. William Mi rk GASOLINE TESTING DIVISION.............John Clifford Pope KANSAS CITY................... Blanche Ash LOS ANGELES..................... Carl Abell NEW YORK............... Judson T. Biehle Bayard D. Browne Walter Cosgrove Anne Oaul Ethel Dieckman Jack Doohor Loretta Hog* n Louise Jensen Liliian Johnson Madge Lafthouse Helen McGoldrick Thomas W. Redigan PHILADELPHIA...........Yvonne Gwertin SAN BERNARDINO. Roilin E. Gish, Jr. SEATTLE............................Aili Koskela TULSA....................... Glenis Dickerson WILMINGTON................... Jim Thomas ETC 07885 <*> m Here are Ethyl's Managers and Assistant Managers o1 Sales Divisions: Lett to right, Ted tjatAAt San Francisco ottice; Don Flynn, Manager, Kansas City; Roy GoIts, Manager, New York; Barry Kiihe, Manager, Seattle; Harry Mack. Manager, Dayton; Julian Frey, General Sales Manager; Bob JoiLan. Manager, Chicago; Alan Tally, Manager; Atlanta; Mat Taylor, Manager, Philadelphia; Fred HaWor. Assistant Manager, Seattle; Guy Donohue, Assistant Manager, New York; Ray Wyrick. Assistant I Manager, Los Angeles; Lou Shank, Manager, Tulsa Division Managers Meet in New York ^Managers and Assistant Man agers of Ethyl's sales divisions were [called to New York for a four-day ^conference during the week of Oc tober 21 to discuss sales policies and [Ho set their sights for postwar busi ness. Most of the time during the all day sessions was given over to dis cussions of the best methods of co! ordinating the activities of the Sales Department under the new reorgan ization effected a few months ago with the appointment of four area sales managers and the re-alignment : of division territories in accordance with the four principal oil market ing areas of the country. As the meetings went along there i was no lack of optimism over pros pects for the future business of the company but tempering this atti\ tude of confidence was a realization of the responsibility of the Sales Department in the difficult days ahead as the nation changes from c war to a peace time economy. The high percentage of sales of Ethyl gasoline which began after V-J Day and has continued through out the country, was a major topic of discussion and study. The re sponsibility of the Sales staff in helping to maintain a high ratio of Ethyl gasoline sales was accepted as a challenging opportunity by the area sales managers and the division managers. Plans were developed during the sales conference for the resumption of'many services which had been necessarily curtailed or suspende 1 by the Sales staff during the war. An enlarged program of activities for Ethyl's fleet engineers was ap proved, and programs of consider able scope in the farm tractor field as well as in passenger automobiles ETC 07886 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 07887 etc 07888 President Earle W. Webb, center, baa a chat with Hod Banks, at lelt. and Jack Macauley. be fore the dinner; Rod, formerly secretary of Ethyl Export Corporation, is now Air Commo dore with the H.A.F. and upon retirement from active duty will return to Associated Ethyl in England to resume his post in charge of aero nautical activities were outlined. Plans have been de veloped already for closer coopera tion between the Sales staff and the automotive manufacturers and trac tor manufacturers to assi .he better utilization of lead-treated gasolines. With che return of men from mil itary service during the coming months the manpower shortage which has plagued the sale.; divi sions will be eased, and this will make it possible to accelerate the tempo of activities throughout the sales divisions. J. Coard Taylor, Vice-President in charge of Sales, and Julian Frey, General Sales Manager, alternated in presiding at the various sessions of the conference. Among those who appeared be fore the meetings to discuss postwar plans for increased activities in sales and services were Ralph Champlin, Director of Advertising and Public Relations; Dave Danforth, Vice-President of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, and Account Executive for Ethyl ad vertising; Russ Weston, Sales Pro motion Manager, and his new as sistant, Bill Ball; Dick Scales, Man ager of Technical Service; Jack Macauley, Director of Engineering Research; Oscar B. Lewis, Manager of the Safety Division; Joe Costello, Assistant General Manager of Man ufacturing; Julian Gonzalez, Secre tary of the Corporation; Walt Resler, Statistician; Cliff Pope, Man ager of Testing Laboratories; Tom Sterck, General Manager of the Packaged Products Department; Art Stover and Walter Cosgrove, of Employee Relations. A feature of one of the meetings was an address by Arthur "Red" Motley, Publisher of the American Magazine, who gave a dynamic ad dress on "Sales and Salesmanship." A dl.iltAr brings together the Sales Division Managers and Department Heads ETC 07889 Norman Siebenthaler, Pioneer Ethyl Man, Dies The death of Norman Siebenthaler on November 12 marked the passing of one of Ethyl's most respected and best liked men, whose loss will be keenly felt by his many friends throughout the company and the in dustry. Norm was one of the original group of Ethyl employees, having been with Delco and the General Motors Research Corporation. He was chief inspector of General Mo tors Research when Ethyl had been developed to stand on its own feet and was one of those who was trans ferred to General Motors Chemical Company in 1923 to give the new product its start. As with most of this group, he handled practically all phases of company field work in cluding sales promotion and safety. While most of his career with the company has been safety work in the Sales Department, he was asso ciated with the Medical Depart ment for several years. A lifetime resident of Dayton, Norm attended schools there, study ing mechanical engineering at night in the local YMCA. Before joining Delco he worked for the National Cash Register Company and the Stoddard-Dayton Automobile Com pany. Services were held at the Whitmer Brothers Funeral Home in Dayton, and were attended by his many local friends, the members of the Dayton Division and their wives, as well as several Ethyl men from the New York office, Chicago and the Kettering Laboratories. Ethyl extends srncerest sym pathy to those members ci Mr. Siebenthaler's family who survive: hit widow, Erma; a daughter, Mrs. David Altick, both of Dayton ; a son, Major William A., at Patte-.son Field; a brother, Grover; a sister, Miss Nora Siebenthaler, both of Dayton, and two grandchildren. ETC 07890 BULLE^TN BOAiD- - DECEMBER * This Chrysler, tut-id with special high compression ratio head, and a Buict from our Betinery Division's fleet of test cars, were used to put the gasoline samples through their paces on Michigan's iong stretches of level road Today's Tests--Tomorrow's Gasoline Ethyl played host to representa tives of 10 oil companies recently when it sponsored a series of road tests in the beautiful lake country of northern Michigan. The program was held for the purpose of testing adaptations of aviation gasoline base stocks for their possible use in postwar motor fuels. Tom Risk, of the Technical Service Department, Detroit, was in charge. Privately billed as an "Annual Meeting of the Pool and Poker Club," the road tests brought to gether many friends and acquaint ances among the automotive engi neers who came. In cooperation with customer oil 'omDanijf. .nr men rc:.J tested--in jassenger cars equipped with high compression engines -- gasolines which never before had been used in an jf.ti'.mobile engine. They were ex perimental motci' fuel base stocks produced by ad.tntation of the refin ing units so recently employed 100 per -.ent in the manufacture of com bat grade aviation fuels. Informa tion gained from such road testing is of great value to oil refiners -- help ing them to adapt their new aviation gasoline capacity to motor fuel re quirements, helping them to develop continually improved grades of gasoline. Cooperating in such en deavors and initiating them, is a fundamental part of Ethyl's re search work. Eleven oil companies cooperated in furnishing test fuels for the pro gram. They included the Atlantic Refining Company, Cities Service Oil Company, Gulf Refining Com pany, Phillips Petroleum Company, Pure Oil Company, Sinclair Refin ing Company, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil Company (Ohio) and the Texas Company. Representatives of 10 of the 11 com panies came to participate directly in the tests. Gathering at the Detroit Lab, the j ; I 3 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 07891 party motored some 200 miles up into northern Michigan, famous for its farms and lakes and many pic turesque oil wells. The group stopped at Houghton Lake, Michi gan's "largest and most beautiful" inland lake. They arrived just as the duck and deer hunting seasons were getting under way, which made it a little hard to keep their minds on road testing. The excellent accom modations there and the long stretches of fiat level road nearby made it an ideal spot for this kind of road testing. Some 80 gasoline samples, each in a five-gallon can, were put through their paces. They were tested clear and with 0.5,1.5 and 3.0 ccs. of Ethyl fluid per gallon. The cans were taken up in an Army type six by six truck borrowed from General Motors, and which served as an im promptu service station for the cars. Two of the Refinery Division's fleet of test cars were used, a Buick and a Chrysler, each of them fitted with special high compression ratio heads for the purpose. The cars also carried road testing equipment, which indicated speed (in rpm's), spark advance, and engine tempera tures. If an ordinary motorist were par ticipating in these road tests, he would probably think they should be run off like the Indianapolis races. He would want to see, most naturally, how fast the gasolines would make the test cars run. But the test engineers are con cerned with the performance of a gasoline at all driving speeds. This quality is measured by determining the imou of spark ao . ce t fuil will tolerate without k-.-.r.- >ig at a given speed. Ti e Bordt ilic fZnock Method of test, which was use l (and which measures antikr ick per_ormance by means of a curve inst ,;d 6f an octane number), requires a an average, 11 separate test rui.f on each samp! .. Every ,ar mr Je ^be tween 30 and 50 tests a day -- with many samples being tested several times over to obtain an idea of die accuracy of the results based on re producibility. Ethyl's two, two-man test teams consisted of Martin Alspaugh and Dale Thompson, in the Chrysler, and Jack Fuller and Wes Price, in the Buick. It took them more than four weeks of patient, hard work to complete the tests. Besides their main job of road testing, Ethyl men were kept busy doing many other necessary jobs-- playing nursemaid to the test cars which repeatedly went on the blink from the constant abuse suffered in road testing; scouting around for Smiling through it all, Ethyl men PL I lour weeks oi patient, hard work to comf e the tests--iron! row, lelt to right. Dole Thom on and Tom Risk; back row. Jack Fuller, ` fes Price and Martin Alspaugh j -ep^ir parts, ot arringinr to have them shipper up from Detroit; loadirg and unloading .^eii traveling s ,`rvice static i the Army six by :;*x. And ft 1 go:. ' measure, they pitched in at u:tht on the paper wo. k, ranr.tcrring the road test data.to graphs and plotting the borderline knock curves which formed the basis for d'jcussion. But there were times for fun and frolic, too. One evening, Tom Risk and Jack Fuller put into practice a sure-fire system for winning at bridge. They lost $4. One of the oil company men proved, to everyone's astonishment, that he could drink a glass of beer while standing on his head. Natives of the region took a great interest in the road tests. Many a motorist stopped his car, cast a curious eye at the Army truck with its cans out front -- and asked what ihey were selling. Frequently the same motorists came back later seek ing profession'll advice about cars Road testing equipment indicates speed (in tpm'si, spark advance and engine temperature. Here you see Wes Price recording kneek-dieout point and fuels. There was usually a daily visit from members of the local State police station. These men took a great interest in the work and were very helpful in furnishing emer gency equipment and garage facili ties. The information obtained as a re sult of these tests, it is believed, will be of material assistance to refiners in their development work. And the benefits of such cooperative re search work will eventually be seen in still greater heights of fuel and engine performance. Aimy six by six (ruck (JefiJ, borrowed from GM, was (heir traveling service s(a(ion. The men and their equipment brought curious gazes from passing motorists ETC 07893 4 For Want of a Shoe... Luciie Titlar and her snoe reuniisd -- Tbis is the shoe that caused a traffic jam in Grand CentraJ station on the morning of November 23 when Luciie Titiar, of Lafety, arriving on the 7:45 from Ossining, lost \ on the tracks. People stared, trainmen tore f^'ir hair, tS conductor held up the train, while Luciie stood -- cne shoe on and one shoe oil. 1 iaJly a m&i. with a flashlight appeared, fou .he missing shoe a*d Luciie hi'.d herself to the Chrysler Building. The train pulled, out with the conductor groan ing "Shoe-Shoe, Baoyl" Alter three-and-a-half years with the Detroit Labs. Mike Bemondino has deserted them for sunny California and is now doing engi neering research in San Bernardino. While in Detroit. Mike was active in sports and Detroit Ethyl Society affairs. This year he was elected Chairman of the Society ETC 07894 Chuck Hawley and Jack Taylor Promoted i Chuck rfaw/ey Charges O. 21 mle^ and : n -3. Taylor, Ji., have been promoted to new jobs at the Detroit La ior tori' Chuck has been selected by Ea.l Bartholomew, General Manager of Detroit Research Laboratories, to be Assistant to the General Manager, and Jack has been picke ' by Jack Macauiuy, Director of Engineering Research, tv be Assistant Director of Engin.cring Research to succeed Chuck. The new appointment of Chuck Hawley continues a business asso ciation tb-.t started more than 20 years age, when he graduated aa a mecnimica' engineer at Oregon State University and went to- Har Jack Taylor vard to do graduate work and to teach. In Harvard's halls he met Earl who was then instructor of mechanical engineering. A year or so after Earl joined Ethyl to become Director of Engi neering Research in the laboratories at Yonkers, N. Y., Chuck joined him in the summer of 1927 to take an interim job as an engineer. At the end of the summer, however, Chuck decided to stay with Ethyl as one of Earl's engineering staff. Pirns were then being made for moving the Ethyl Research Laboracories to Detroit and Chuck was given much of the responsibility for their establishment at the location 12 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 0J895 on Milwaukee Avenue. With the move to Detroit he became Assis tant Director of Engineering Re search under Earl. In the growth and expansion of the Research Labo ratories Chuck has been instru mental in the establishment of sup| plementary facilities at San Bernar dino, Calif, and the present Re search Laboratories at 1600 West Eight Mile Road. The ability with which Chuck has applied the fundamentals of Engi neering and thermodynamics to aid in guiding research has helped to establish Ethyl's reputation for the quality of its research throughout the automotive and petroleum ir- (dustries. Early applications oi this ability were evident in many fea, tures of the Ethyl-designed-and- built series 30 knock testing engine t which in early years was widely used throughout the world for de termining the antiknock values of fuels. ' For years the basic principles have been applied so that engineer ing research under the combined guidance of Messrs. Bartholomew I and Hawley was directed toward a useful end product. Under their i guidance, advance analysis of vhe problem, planned procedure, a high degree of thoroughness in investiga tion and a direct approach, resulted in high quality research that has contributed to the benefit of every one concerned. Through knowledge of the com pany and an interest in all its prob lems. Chuck Hawley's objective thinking has been manifest in sub jects other than engineering re search. He has played an impor tant pare in <h-: Ethyl p.cvadurf. cl re porting research and the maintain ing of a usable research report li brary. His guidance n technical subjects has helped portray the irinciples and advantages of high compr'^sion ev., ines through Ethyl a river* ;i; %, Tht icw assignment as assistant c- Earl Bartholomew now places him . i a position where he will be Healin' ./ith all phases of the - rpanded p: qrams in the inter dependent research on engines, fuels and lubricants. Throug1 fifteen years' association with the Corporation. Jack Taylor is tk' "cughly familiar wjth all phases of the. inter->'ela'lonsh;p be tween creines. fuels ana^ubriccrts and theii interdependence in tha fields of res.eurch. Starting wit^j the Baltimore Di vision in lC?n an engineer he dealt with many i.':cd applications of: fuels id luoricants. In 1934 and the folio "mg years he -verked with the Technical Service Divis.on for more -flicitmt ^operation of vehicles in fleet sendees, later becoming active in the development programs which resulted in the e..:option, by manu facturers. of high compression en gines for farm tractors. Working directly with the Engi neering Research Laboratories since 1939, he has been responsible in re cent years, as coordinator, for re search to improve the durability of engines and lubricants, devoting much time to development and re search programs conducted a-: the request of various tranche = Jf the armed services. ETC 07896 , BULLETIN BOARD -- DECEMBER This is Bill Irwin When Bill Xrvrin mwed over i-* Ethyl. Corporate. us .A si.iant Resident Manap r in \.e r1 .r reorganizati- ;i m migemeri- at .he Ethyl fluid manufac iring pi .t in Baton Rouge, he bro .gtn witu him 12 yenrs of exnerience with du 1 ont including work in 1943 j-,d l1' >-4 on the "top secret" atomic bom', pro jects at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington. He is widely and popularly known to everyone at the Ethyl plant be cause of his work as Field Project Manager in supervL..u consfuction operations from 1936 to 941 and as du Pont Works Engi '"er since May 1944 until the mar ce ment and operations of the entire plant were transferred to the Ethyl Corporation last September. Bill's first job with du Pont 12 years ago at the Deepwater, N. J. Chambers Works, then known as the Dye Works, was Assistant Con struction Superintendent. After his five-year hitch at Baton Rouge from 1936 to 1941, he went to Wilming ton, N. J. as District Superintendent of General Construction. During the war he engaged in con struction work and supervised building activities at several ord nance plants. In June 1943, he began to devote all his time to the con struction of the atomic bomb pro ject at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and altnough he remained in Wilming ton, 'e supervised all construction at Oak Ridge until this plant went into operation late in 1943. Early in 1944, he was assigned to special wori. at the atomic bomb project in Hanford, Washington. In May 1944, he came back to the Ethyl plant in Baton Rouge to be Works Engineer for the Organic Chemica.s Department of du Pont. Bill was graduated from Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania High School and received his B.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 1922. Later he studied finance and eco nomics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Ensign in the U. S. Navy during World War I seeing action in European waters and in France, Germany and England. He is married and has one son, William K. aged 17, who entered L. S. U. this year. 14 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER i ETC 07897 .assssffiSfiSiSl^^^ Milestones Go By 15-year veterans this month in clude one girl--Irene Buckley of the Yonkers Lab. Irene, who is a laboratory technician, started ncr career with Ethyl as a secretary after graduation from high school. She was born in Yonkers and at tended schools there. Irene is a member of Omega Phi Alpha soror ity. Her many interests include dancing, ice skating, bowling, horse back riding and swimming. James S. Krlck, safety engin ier in Western Pennsylvania, was ' nr:, in Pittsburgh, Penna. He /"vu-ed his degree in Civil Ex.gin..x.ig from Lafayette College, vhcre he was a member of Chi Phi frate-uity and went out for football wrestling. Before joining Ethyl in 1930, Jim worked for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Jim says his hobbies are ,,c'f " f Jim Krick Irene kle * siJphn* test ; nd when 1 ge-: a chance to plat," st3rr- ', an i p x' sr. He is a m*rrx'.-er of to i University Club of Pitts. burgh the Baitlett Country Club c id ,, j Club of Olean, N. Y. where he ::nd his vi'fe and daughter, Martha, make their home. Sd NJe-ser, of the Now York Fin nee I 'garment Stafr, came to thy.1 ! i years ago from the St' oard Oil Company of New Jer.-y. LC graduated from Rich mond Hill High School, where he walked off with top scholastic honors. While working with Ethyl ETC 07898 Ed NLeser verities *n invoice he has take-, courses in iccounting and taxation from Frank Froaker, Columbia 'university and the Social Security St-'fii-tict! Corporation Ed is t. es^u.-er of tii Valv rne Park-Civ.i. Association. Malvern. Park, Long Island: ?*t. and V>= Niescr and their rv; chile '>n " ten, ahd Fr /ard . , eit o their benir in jc w- ^ "My hobb'.V, nvp.esei "are my h->r-. nd *" . d, t ae ^native of S./cei ... .ra., Tom J.Hol ails jo. ted tb = Dp Engineering Aesear A T in*1930. Prior >*. that t,, . employ'd in the Exp^rims1 chine shop at General Mo', search. Tom' A ari ardent ' fan during the<secsor seFom let ting a vs""tk go by wif...At d? .Aiding at least one game. His gr .t Ait-Aest stems from h's own playing ' when he vas a member of the - nal professi oral Columbus 'su Handler. Tom's other interests are bowling, fishing and impromptu ringing. Known as the ".schoolboy soprano" lie is actively supporting a move ment to d -velop a Detroit Glee Club. Tom has one son. Bud, who is a Seahee Chief s Mate 1st Class in the Pacific. Outstanding among the recipients of the 10-year award is Wally Distier in our Dayton Sales Divi.:on. Wally has had a perfect record of attendance ever since coming to Ethyl. Others who have received : leir Certificates are Dorothy Featherer and Edward J. Gresslin, Deepwater, Martin McCooley of th New York Division, and Robert ttichardson of the Philadelphia Di- l-ion. Tn the five-year award group are ' :i Campbell, Clinton A. Causey, , se Hall, Robert Herzog, Jasper uawrence Mathews, Oliver Robert, Robert E. Sceroler and 1 home., M. Smylie, Jr., all of Baton Rougt; Wallace Emery and Cliffo-a I.enington of Tulsa; George Geiger of New York; Nettie Rose O'i cf Atlanta, and Dean Painter c Sar. Cernardino. Tom Roberts ETC 07899 The Chuckwagon "If I employ you," said the grocer to a boy who had applied or wort, "I suppose you will d. as I tell you?" "Yes, sir." "If I told you to say the sugar was high grade when it was not, what would you say?" The boy did not hesitate a mo ment. "I'd say it." "If I told you to say the dry bernc were clean and a new crop and you knew there were pebbles in th em, and some of last year's stock, wr-' would you say?" "I'd say it," was the prompt i sponse. "If I told you to say that t -- ' was fresh, when you knew r -'c; old and rancid, what would you say?" "I'd say it." The merchant was nonpltised. stood staring at the boy. Then he asked, "How much .salfu-y uld you want?" "One hundred dollars a week, but I shall have to think about it awhile," answered the boy in a ln_. . ness-like tone. "One hundred dollars a v,*r-k!" exclaimed the grocer in suryv-'i e. "With a percentage aftc * ti.. ; <' week," said the boy cooly. "You sa .. ' first-class lying is a bad :ob, ant; you'll have to pay the price. C tlierwise I'll work for white''er you have been paying." The grocer was caught at his own game, and the boy took the position. One >f the greatest prize fighters was : nee a* ked before his cham pionship bout. "Wh.?t are your ciiar.cs to * in? And he replied "The only man in thi world who c.m lick me is myse'f." ... he was nght. He became the world's heavy- >e'g't cf ampion. * of course, that a diamon s juJt a hunk of coal that lies to its joo. jorA -'vers*eep if /ou want your .tarns ti come true. * , * Porch Heas New S'Uety Son icil "wr* E.h/1 men have 1 n chosen o help gin^e the newiy organized r ' cour.wi. in Bator* Rouge , s fir sai rf ctivify. At ar*_ za*: ee in* leld early * . Ml rc;i '3S elected or-. ^ m *h- cor'-"!1, and E. J. tl p* jgram com mit ee. .Oth o .- of Safety De- pai er at o * Uatoi Rouge plant. 1 i# ' 'L r ..ose of `.he council, gr- ~an', b> renrestut-tives of Baton r'Gi. business and industry, is to pr; *. ,? worth?* nil' safety move ment.*, ' ncourage safety education and i k> with mode'"' safety mct..*.<*s. Til, council v-ij, include . I'-.me interested in the promotion o; - .1 ty on the highway, in indus- rv , in schools and in the ihome. Buy Victory Ronds ETC 07900 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER Anne Coyne, busily working on ledge* . -pauses for a picture. She runs ti e. Under* oc . Elliott Fisher bookkeeping machine in the back* ground. keeping ledgers posted and accounts straight. Anne was born on the island of Man hattan and attended Ursuline Academy ir. 4 he Bronx. Following her graduation from the Academy, she went to business school, 'kcn got a job a. the Bradley Mahony Coa1 Co n an /. where she worked for nine years before co.rur., to Ethyl Claire Roberts, who co. it r> us fw* lj - New York Life 1'vjrance Crnp'nj, is a afc've of RidgetieId Park, New Je. Sh\ ; endfd school there and in Jam a. Long Islaxiu, ..ere she graduate 1 from hi~ school .n 1931. ov Claire studicc three nig. f> wrek the -<cc Institute and hopes in six more /ears to be a CJ>.A. She is active in the Yc y Pecpie's Society of the Fi fr A/enue Presbyterian Church. Spends leisure tir 2 olaying .he piano knitting and sewing Grace Gregna admits to being born, reared and cduca'ed tn Brooklyn. After high school he went to business school, then took a job with an optical company prior to joining the N+w York Finance Department at Ethyl. Grace knits, enjoys the movies and likes to curl up with a good book by Du Maurier New Faces in N Depo! kJain imstrom, newcomer to the Ac- mtir /.vision of New York Finance, did person work at Sperry Gyroscope during the u nefore that she was receptionist and switch! d operator for a wholesale food firm. Jhine as born in Brooklyn and reared in rjresf P;il$. Long Island, where she now lives 'itb Kr Jy. For pastime Jie likes to ice sk fe and jketch in pastels ETC 07901 Virginia Alamian is a native Manhat tanite who has lived here ail her life. Upon graduation from high school she went to a secretarial school before beginning her busi ness career. She came to Ethyl from an opticai company. Virginia lives with her family and spends her tree time dancing and swimming Harold Woods was born ' Astoria, N. Y. He graduated from high school in Brooklyn and Joined Ethyl after working as a purchasing agent for the W. S. Rockwell Co. Harold has twr young sons, Dennis and Harold Jr., who occupv most of his leisure time. The* re>i is spent wood carving, reading mystery .nones and taking cor respondence school courses York Finance lent Catherine Klein/ w.i.; handles the til .b in New York Payroll. ir- the proito mother o. two small girls, Barbara and /fence. who occupy most of her leisure hcu.rs. Other in terests are sports, especially roller skating, reading and sketching. Catherine w^s w P < for Sperry Gyroscope before she c.*me to E Catherine is a native New York born n Brooklyn ' r* again Ethyl lays out the Welcome Home mat for our return ing servicerr.t 1 and extends sincere thanks f^r a job well done- From the Detro''- Research Labs comes word that Jack Bailie is back. Jack, first from the Lab to go, spent seven m lnths with the Infantry at Fort Custer, .Michigan, before being as signed, as a civilian, to the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Washington, D. C There, Jack worked on the desif and development of projectile fui is. Fot his contributions, he re- avy's Meritorious Civilir . Service .v ard. j'he switch from Army life to a pot. . Engineering Research is just one v : <e major changes for former Secor 1 T ''eutenant Ed Kukla. The i'"Tv trom the Hawaiian Islands, vb< ie served three years in the Division Artillery and the rivbean v.-h*re he put in his last yeai. to a Detroit winter, is really a change wh;i h Ed says he is quite bapr ro e. th has returned after .. y.ar.- of driving a six by six, v's shari '".P. and guard- Feeding >r. top to lodom, Jack Bailie. Joe Lae: n. 3iU Fn ittt. Jxm Mason and Ed Kukla \ ETC 07903 Walt ResJer weJcomes JorporaJ Sown-'/ George Geiger ETC 07904 ing forty-thousand Krau sin France and Germany He has two battle Stars and the Meritorious Wreath. James ML Mason, Jr., out of the Navy where he helc a Lir-'tenant Commander's rank, ' . now back at his duties in Engineering Itcjjearch jim spent his Navy carf r at the Nav-il Air Station. Js . onville, Florida and at the Aeronautical En gine Laboratory at Philadelphia. His work included teaching, aircraft fuels resrarch and industrial corrcli.-tation. in the Analytical Section of the Detroit Lab is the f<- -mer Aviation Cadet BUI ShowSI, USNR. Bill trained in Florida, Oklahoma and Iowa, and while at Iowa pre-flight was a member of the Seahawks box ing team. Also bach. in Engineering Re search is the former Lieutenant Ralph J. Wabrenbror'c. Ralph was af<t engineer for two years at the Experimental Station. Annapolis. Following this, he was assignee, to the repair ship, USS Achilles which traveled through out the Factfc, touching New Guinea, the Adit u uilie, Mollucas. the Philippines and dorneo. Over at Deepwate three far uliar faces are back--Jthn EbeLl, .* >ble Nixon and John Wallis. John ?oell was an Aviation Radio Technician 1st Class in the Navy. His thr.-e years of service were sp.nt in tr'-country where he w;>.s an instructo in radio and radar maintenance and operation and installed radio and radar equipment in all types of Navy planes. John he ids the Ameri can Defense Service Medal and the XI at John EbeJI Gooa Conduct Medal. Before join'ng the service, John was in the "-mg Department, but now is work.'- g as a blender operator. Another blender operator is the former Boatswain's Mate-?nd Class. Noble Nixon. Nobl^?C.fho spent ^3 months overseas in the Pacific islands and served on. four different Noble Nixon BULLETIN BOARD -- DECEMBER ETC 07905 ; types of ships, was awarded the ; American Defense Service Ribbon, : the American Theater Ribbon, the ! Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon, the I Good Conduct Medal, and a Presi dential Unit Citation. In the Chem Lab, John Wallis is working with his test tubes hav ing served with the Army for four j years in the Coast Artillery Corps. I John, who was a Major, spent 43 j months overseas in the Pacific. He won the Asiatic-Pacific Theater John Wallis Ribbon with three Bronze Stars ana one Bronze Arrowhead, tl Ameri can Defense Service Ribbon, the American Theater Ribbon and the Bronze Star Medal. Ben Hanison, back v. - El 1 after three years and nine months in the Army Air Corps, is now Man ager of the Industrial Engineering Section at Baton Rouge. Before en tering the service in January of 1942 he was special assistant to the head c Manufacturing, John Schaefer in New York. Ben war a Second Lieutenant in the Reserve whan he put on his uni form a-d a Major when he put it in moth balls. A, er six months at the Recept o.i Center at Fort Niagara N Y,, he vas assigned to the Main tenance /ision of the Air Service Command and sent to the Middletown Air Depo; at Middletown, :-*enna. Follow1 ng 10 months there he was assigned to Wright- Field. Dayto::, Ohio, where he served for two and-a-half years. Most of his time was dev ted to work in che contro1 section relative to the de velopment of organization and me tagement procedure of the Mainte nance Division. Ben hrs renced a house overlook ing the Gulf at Pass Christian, for his wife and two children, Reed, five-and-r-half, and sevev.-monthsold Bobby, pending the tinwhen he can find a home lor the- Car. on Rouge. He gets down there for weekends. Catherine Rownuy, in uni form, but wearing her honorable discharge butt-'i: irom the WAC was a surprise visitor in the New York offices th s month. Catherine was he first girl ic, leave the com pany for military service, reporting for active duty on May 3, 1943. After basic training in the States, C 'therinc was sen* to Cairo to work : 'i the engineering section of Con struction Division Headquarters for the African Middle East Theater. Corporal Rowney, who wears the Good Conduct Ribbon, Service in the V/AAC Ribbon, American 23 BULLETIN BOARD -- DLCilMTEF ETC 07906 V L.v :/! i i Theater Ribbon,. Vi 1 orv Ribbon nd the AMET Ribbon, -"a*., rv*i seas 13 mo:i' hs. She is now hack with ` Ethyl in New York St? istical. .V Back in the New York off. : a>'. George Geiger and John r..:c Master. George har left the Ms:.' room which he used to ht.ad ana now works in the Purchasing Seo tion 01 the Finance Department. Ae a Co'-porai. Georg** was overseas, over a year in Italy and France with the Transportation Corps attached to the 5th Army. He joined t he serv ices in December of 1942, and the following March took iimt out 'o get married. George and li s wife are now living in Brook:yn: Former Staff Serg ant MrMaster saw overseas set .-ice it. the Central Pacific for 18 months. He was with the 4th Marine Division and won tie Presidential Unit Cita tion, ihe Navy Citatim and two Batiie Stars on his Pacific Theater Ribbon. John is now with the Ac counts Favable Section in the New York Finance Departme it. He was married last August and lives in Carteret, 11. J. with his wife. Knew thyself! "TNe ftabit of seeing ou , Tves in our Sunday-bcst while our fellowmen see u's in our lorig-handl^-i 'inderwear has reached the point wh! re it is time to take a check on our selves," taid Daniel L. Beck, speak ing before the October meeting of the Detroit Ethyl Society. Mr. Beck, who is Managing Director of the Execulive Selection and Training Institute of Detroit, talked on "Scientific Selection of Personnel." He cited methods that'can be used to determine relative capabilities of employees and their fitness for the V..s they are doing. By means of a complete personnel analysis execu tives are enabled to see 4very em ployee in a broader light and fre quently can recognize^iidden quali ties brought to light bj^the analysis. Highlight of the ,' -"ifjning came when the audience participated in various tests. Bill Hubner, recently a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Corps and now back in the Techni cal Service Division, scored 64 in an emotional stability ^est. Charlie Kass, head of, Road Testing, scored 93, Zi:. 1 Mrs. Charlie 87. Mr. Beck, who had stressed the importance of being honest in answ^ing the questionnaire, pointed out the significance of the results. "Those of you having a score in the range of 55 to 65," saidrhe, "are in the upper third in emotional sta bility 85 to 100 -- fooling yourself -- you're not actually that good; 90 to 100 -- phoney -- nobody's that good." With this information revealed, Bill Hubner came out with, "What's the matter Charlie, you and your v :5e foolin' one another?" The meeting proved highly enter taining as well as informative and provided conversational material for many days. Everybody went around analyzing themselves and all their coworkers -- all in fun, of course. 24 BULI.E'riK BOARD --DECEMBER ETC 07907 * May SuzuJri Japanese for Jones "ITs as' common as `Smith' ot `Jones' in Japan, and we've no con nection wl atsoever," says May Su zuki, newcomer to our Dayton Divi sion, when questioned about the similarity in names between Pre mier Suzuki of Japan and May Su zuki of Ethyl. In fact, so many peo ple have asked the same question of late, that May is seriously consider ing having her husband. Hank, have the name changed -- to Jones! May, who was born in Montana, went to high school in Seattle and graduated from Woodbury College in California, was in Los Angeles on December 7, 1941. She was sent to a relocation camp in Poston, Ari zona by the Government and wnile thert wn ked as secretary to the Chief Aaministrative ''llcer where she handl; l all matter? pertaining 'o administration of agriculture, Mr- , education, finance, e*e. M..y feels definitely th?.t it was tong tc send the Japanese-Ameri cans to ch * relocation camps for they ue Amer .an citizens, sincere in i?ir desire to work and fight for America as s,.own by the magnifi cent record of the 100th Infantry Battalion in Europe. This Battalion, composed of soldiers with Japanese parentage fought in Italy and Geri 'any The Battalion lived up to its slogan, "Go for Broke"--which is Hawaiian for "shoot-the-works" by emerging from the war as one of the most decorated units in the Army. May rxrne to her job in Dayton, where sue helps with Safety work, from the Chicago branched the De partment of interior. She has many interests, dancing, music--both classical and swing, and bowls a 130 average. Her main interest, however, is traveli g. She hopes to explore Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee shortly. If's ' 2Snv bee! It'S a baby girl at the Boudroaus. She w-,. Dorn on November 20, and Jim ami Madolyn have chosen the n,,;.e of Ann for their new daughter. T ey have one other child. James E.; Jr., who is now a year-and-a-half. Jim is Central Sales Marager. and he and his family live in North brook, suburb of Chicago. ETC 07908 . BULLETIN BOARD --DECEMBER $ d r U at tint you don't succeed -- bring your mother along, is Rene Lord's advice to all brides-to-be. Rene, who is a stenog with the Publicity Department, was refused a marriage license in Sew York City because the c/erk di 'n't believe she was 18! She was compelled to bring her mother in to testify as to her birth day before the clerk obliged. Rene, nee Leventhai, was married to Dick Lord on November 24 rt the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Chu- j. Dick. . he has just been released from service, was au . lviafion Machinist's Mate 3rd Class in the Navy and served in the Southwest Pacific for a year-and-a-hali. Rene, who is a newcomer to the Corporation, and who will continue working tor Ethyl came with us directly from secretarial school. Her main interest, other than her new apartment in the city, is making her own clothes. Farewell party -- Present for Mi"'c Roberts, of Publicity, and George Krieger, oi Sales -- now Mr. and Mrs, -- was presented to Mi..ia at a luncheon given by her triends in the Publicity Depart ment at the Three Crowns Restaurant on East S4th Street on November 30. Ralph Clark, head oi the Department, made the presentation speech in humorous vein, in the picture are, back row, 1. to r.. Margery Russell, Ralph and Millie, Jerry Linder, and Bene Lord; front row, Grace Male and Alice Heck Others present were Man . .mvilie, Marceline Marquis, Merrill Craig and Chris Vogel. h. i.iie -as also guest oi honor at a cocktail oarty in the Sat1re Room oi the Sheraton Hotel on Friday afternoon. 19 Ethyl girls were or. hand to fete the bride-to-be and present her with a beautiful de canter. O'" 'ha committee >n charge were Marguerite McDonald and Edith Kimball oi Order & Ship ping :d Elinor O'Connor, 35w `loot receptionist in the Chrysler Building. Entertainment was provided by Bea Farrell, oi Manufacturing, who played the piano. George and Millie were main- d at Brandywine Lodge, the estate oi Mrs. Percy Chandler in Pocopson, Fa-.na. at three o'clock December IS. Following a three weeks' trip to Florida they will be at home in New York City. .. - r? ETC 07909 Oh Texas-- What Big Eyes Yen. Have! i \ i First there's Texas. And then-- rounded by Texans, sent in the map there's the rest of the United States. shown her$. Just ask any Texan. He suggested to Lou Shank, who To prove the point, Ed Hendrick, runs the Tulsa Division, that it tractor engineer of the Tulsa Divi- ^should be of "great value in pen sion, who lives in Dallas, and is sur- " ning postwar field activities." ETC 07910 BULLETIN tOARD-DECEMKL'R A i ii  V--ictoiry MAIL V--lctf-'y aaJ this month brings us <\rv. j from '.DoT,\ Dollahan who s cv irse'Ji with A7 , and the Ethyl .are!/ program, "ieems that all we v-.-ar ou- here is about strikes every where," he writes from Iwo Jima. Ion t anyone satisfied with his job? They should be it out here for awhile, then I'm sura thty would appreciate anything brck hoijne." Descri.ung Iwo, DoCv writes: `Arrived or. this drea--, .s*and Sun day afternoon. It is truly a volcanic island and about the only point of interest is Mt. Suribachi. It rises soma 580 feet right out of the ocean and when you look at it you wonder how anyone could scale it even on a hiking trip--and when you think of our men climbing it under hre you cannot help but marvel at their courage. "The Seabees built a road to the top of lAt. Suribachi in ten days under fire. Some of the Jap generals watched them building this road and made bets among themselves that it could not be built. The Japs only had a foot path, all their guns were brought up with block and tackle. "Saw the caves that you have read about. They go back in solid rock several hundred feet. There are still Jap bodies back in there. The stench is not too inviting. "It is very cool here and much un like the tropics. Wear my jacket at nigh:. Rains very little and the sun is quite warm during the day. Weather is really ideal--but there is no redeeming feature on the island!" "The big news that I want to get off my chest right now," writes Captain Emerson Blair (Dayton Div.), "is that I'm back in the States, glory be, and my present ad dress is 1505th Air Base Unit, Mather Field, California." Blair, who spent two years tour- 25 2aULC TIN EOARD -DECEMBER ETC 0791J ing the Pacific adds, "Work is non existent and I'm just sitting around chewing the fat, my finger nails, etc., waiting until the Army gets around to releasing me. With 70 points in the sock, that shouldn't be 1 too far away--I keep saying to my self at the bar every night. "Since this letter seems to have degenerated into I,I,I,I might as well continue along the same vein for a while longer and drop the news > that I celebrated my 29th birthday j yesterday. A very nice time was had by all. We went golfing, swimming and drinking; and in the evening had a barbecue chicken dinner with ripe olives, celery, etc., unin hibited." Also in the mail came belated-- but good--news of Chris Christy's promotion to the rank of Lt. (jg) USNR. Chris, formerly of our Baton Rouge plant, writes that his new address is 427 Peachtree Blvd., Baton Rouge 9, La., and that he ex pects to be "back or the old job shortly after the first of the year." 3 And from the Philippines comes word that Jack Pruitt is a Major. He also expects to be home around the first of the year. Jack has been over in the Pacific for many months now and hopes the following ad dress will be his last APO-- Major S. T. Pruitt 0-262578 1035 Air Material Sq. 570 Air Service Group XIII Bomber Command APO 719--c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal. *** Goodyl Goociues From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, from ti c White Cliff r < f Dover to Dottie Lamour's trop:.;-- island paradise-- wherever servicemen of Ethyl Cor poration art this Christmas. they'll be receiving not one--but two largr boxes of Christina:, .tilts rent to them with ou. greetings and sincere wishes for a speedy return stateside. And the boys still in uniform on the home front will also receive their box of remembrances. To the more than 400 boys still in service. Ethyl has sent approximate ly ten pounds of good things to eat --turkey, lcbster, fruit cake, deviled ham, chicken, melba -ast, olives, jam, coffee, hard candy and mixed nuts. Playing cards, razor blades ana two pocket-sized books are also included in the gaily wrapped boxes! ETC 07912 BULLETIN -BOARJ) -- DECEMBER I tr BATON ROUGE BEAUTIES Making its bid for the plantthe-most-glamour. Baton Ron sends us these pictures -- and ds anyone to challenge its title. Deeply absorbed in me u:Ja*in Board are Margaret Bailey, Jewel Black, Doris Miscar and :aa Hayes Glamour in coveralls -- Modeling Ora latest in laboratory attire are Wanda Garrott Virginia Hartley and Josephine Prerost Grinning at the "birdie" are Ann Wilbert Virgin Rodrigues, Marie Crochet and Joyce Weysharx Over the - shoulder glances come iron Madge Aub:r. Dot Dupuy, Maxine Flowers anc Sue Carbu ETC 07913 SANTA'S COMING! Grinx&iltr, gieefully in anbdpatioi of Oli Nicies expected arrival are thes members SthyJ's younger set; (fop i. to rJ Warren, Susan and Steve Shank. the three chiidren of Louis Shank, our Tulsa Division Manager, and (below) Jan and Nicky Pearce, sons oi George Pearce, Kentucky field engineer, ldentifying the picture George writes. "Jan has his mother's looks and she is trying to get some of his curiy hair. Nicky is not smc^ng a cigar -- jhaf is a piece of wood from a boa; l.e w'r building. The mutt in the cv'er is the only member who tooVs like the ci4 man" J * * I i* .^ ^ . * ETC 07914 D v/ii Vitd^ene Ts IJy Max'! i ike, or Ethyl Comp Vd.,. ^us- t.^lia, ai in t late in i` - :mber ,7,. - . ;,ie .y froi. ,0 ,, -on ct ,.j . .ton -'tiv in- facturers re^ari*.:."' *1 i-'r pos. /ar plans ftr ni'^ketin '- r. car? :r. Australia. 'Awhile in . .ed States 1- ; ummer when ei ' t Englant . he ....died safety n lods vmn Oscar Lew1., head of ur Safety Division. He a's- visi' 1 Ethyl's Detroi I. quorate ss ar;'. svc-nr seme t:r:e there stud, irg current re search pr-jects. When last seen he was awaiting plane Ua:np'r:ta.,ncr. to Melbourne, which be hoped would come through (or Uec'Woer 13, ..j he could be hom" for Cb.iitmas with his wife and . wo >hiHren. From Alaska and Harry Manning (Seattle Division fleet and tractor engineer) in Juneau studying diffi culties experienced by boat opera tors, comes the following report: "Rain has been falling ever since I arrived and snow has blasted in the mountains around the town. Temperatures have dropped considerably and the icy wind howls like a banshee. How the small float planes manage to come in through the clouds which are nearly down to the water is a mystery to me. One of the small planes took off for Anchorage a few days ago, but had :o return because of a heavy fog which made it impossible to lo cate the town. He ran out of gas and made r forced landing -- splitting -men a. pontoon on the rough sea. Fortunately, the Coast Guard res cued both pilot and passenger be*cre the plane turn-d over and sank. "The dependable operation of the engines m the boats cannot be too jtro.:f!y stressed, because engine c.lure may mean.'oss of life, fishing . <" wrecking of the boat on jagged rocks which line the meis, bays, or shore lines of the wide country.' The ideal fleet man for . lis work would be a fellow about three reet tall, six inches wide an*1 not over two inches thick, so .hat he could get down around the engines. I might also add that he should be equipped with a heated Mae West and a good waterproof underwater flashlight. The water here is plenty cold." L*Buy Victory Bonds al i t is> o 32 BULLETIN BOARD -- DEL tMBER ETC 07915 Dorothy Taylor, who helps tu.n out the work in the Secretary's office, was born in Watertown, N. Y., and after graduation from Walton High School went to Gaines Business School. She was employed by the Shellmai Products Company beicre cornice fo T'hyf. Dorothy can be found haunting C<u uegie Hail when she is not hiking or horseback riding When Qeanor Sehreyer :s not vatiL. in the Stenographic Department of Bth^i she is busy riding horses or writing u a certain Navy Petty Officer in Norfolk, Va. Elcanoi born and educated in Gien flock, N. J., nd r1 for the Watson-Flat, j Machine C ompany t* coming to Ethyl Margaret Ctnlglia is ?pr busy working in Stenographic a.vi .--'Ivrrng nr. 'he switch board. Born in Marr. jrcnecs., Margaret graduated from the WesfcPv'*.er Cor:nerc:a! Business School and starter >er bus.near c - ee/ with an export concern twe years sgj. `'.its? Ethyl hours sne i$ kept busy singing .xr \"pJdincs and special occasions which c ji: :^r- a /oveiy so prano voice ETC 07916 Ralph Swings the Gavel Ralph c. Champlln, Ethyl's Ad ;1 vertising and Public Relations Di rector, presided at the third Na tional Public Relations Conference held under the auspices of NAM in i' ew York City on December 4 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The all day meeting, which preceded the Golden Anniversary Congress of American Industry was attended by more than 400 of the nation's lead ing public relations men. i Ralph was chairman of the 35- man sponsoring committee in charge of the conference. His public 4 relations committee work also ex tends to the American Petroleum .m i 3 / Institute, where he serves on the Scriaeri r sad public relations advisory subcom i Cm. tVilllamR ' r, who has l wi missing ?n a- :ior ce April mittee and is chairman of a sub committee on surveys. ' 2,19+, -:m] tns o`her ii.ni rsn* his r B-?4 bcmu jr t*w who f . re< turn to the-, base fter ra. :ver Hurree! Hasrree! i Austria, have beer o'l-cJal _ de- While they last, bound volumes dared Je_ i by the V- '+ 'Wrtment. * th? 1945 issues of either or both Bill, fori..r m ' helper first E ,,J5 magazines are yours for class in ? Tt /I ^riinde Area, - c lg--plus $2.05 for the Bulle- left E:liyl ` jo' rvices in Soard and $2.40 for the Ethyl Octc.-. r 1942, .ately one N . These volumes which contain year af* ci out Baton i-l the news fit to print about your Rouge plant to Besides his t her, ivlrs. C , " Cline of Aus '.n Texas. Bill friends, your company and your in dustry .re bound in buckram, blue for the BB and red for the News. ? f a widow an-i year-old sen, V uliam Your name will be imprinted in gold Jr., who li\e ;n Baton Rou^c. We, on the cover. i at Ethyi, e::rend to them our sincere sympathy. Want one? Simply make your check payable to the Ethyl Corpo ration and send it with your order Di y Victory Ronds to the Publicity Department, 11 West 42nd St., New York 18, N. Y. ..............c . mm 34 `BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 07917 \ ETHYL muni* boud coubpohderts ATLANTA.... Florence Liebermuth BATON ROUGE. .Herbert B. Bar. n v Bernard Mi .iwi John L. Word CHICAGO................Mary Hughes CINCINNATI...........lola ShepponJ DAYTON...................Susan Ackley DEEPWATER. .Rudolph F. Williams DETROIT...................Fritz Schroeter Bonnie Colbrldge SASOLINE TESTING DIVISION.......... John Clifford Pope KANSAS CITY. ... .......... Blanche Ash LOS ANGELES.. ...............Carl Abell NEW YORK... ... . Judron T Bie' Bayard D. Bra Walter Cosj, ve Anne b j Ethel Dieckman Jack Dooh? i Geosge Ge. * Loretta Hc&. Louise Jen e Lillian Johns- . .*>"af Loft^ouse He.ei. McGoldrick PHILADELPHIA.......... Ywine Guoiiin SAN BERNARDNO. .".olin F Oish, Jr. SEATTLE...........................Aiii . >>ske!r TULSA.......................Glenis Dir.'tefi.n.